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APRIL 8-21, 2012
Justice Month aims
to inspire youth
By Michelle Martin
STAFF WRITER
ustice Day wasn’t enough.
Neither was Justice Week.
So in this Year of Teens and
Young Adults, the archdioceses’s
Office of Peace and Justice is
sponsoring “Justice Month” in
April, featuring activities planned
in each of the six vicariates.
Tom Howard, who is in charge
of justice education, has been
helping peace and justice teams
from each vicariate plan their
events, which will be aimed at responding to the needs and concerns of young people.
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Surveys helped
Surveys of teens in each vicariate helped the teams — who include parish peace
and justice representatives — decide what social
sins to address in
each area, Howard
said.
In Vicariate I,
which includes
Lake County and
the northwest suburbs of Cook
County, surveys
showed that teens are hesitant to
express their beliefs in civic life.
Organizers there are planning a
daylong event April 28 focused
on rights and responsibilities,
which will include discussions,
skits and information about how
people of faith can participate in
the public square.
Young people in Vicariate II,
which spreads north from downtown Chicago through the North
Side to the north suburbs of Cook
County, were excited by the idea
of caring for God’s creation. Social justice teams from the vicariate have already participated in
four sessions on different aspects
of ecology, ranging from water
quality to pollution. A group of
young people representing different parishes is planing an Earth
Day activity on April 22 for their
peers from the whole vicariate.
In Vicariate IV, which includes
the far Northwest Side and the
west Cook County suburbs,
young DREAMers — undocumented immigrants who came to
the U.S. as children and now are
unable to attend college because
they are not eligible for financial
aid — are organizing pilgrimages
on April 29, the feast of St.
Catherine of Siena, from three
mostly English-speaking parishes
in Oak Park and River Forest to
Dominican University, where
there will be a presentation on
“Peace and Justice through the
Eyes of St. Catherine of Siena.”
The focus is on sharing Catholic
social teaching on immigration,
Howard said.
Surveys in Vicariate V, which
includes the Southwest Side and
southwest suburbs, showed that
young people have become disconnected from the idea of work
as vocation, as something that develops and affirms the dignity of
the worker. “The kids there are
very, very skeptical of their
prospects of even getting jobs,”
Howard said. A full-day event is
planned for April 21 to explore
Catholic teaching on the role of
the economy and the dignity of
workers.
Vicariate VI leaders plan to organize an event for young people
around the topics of teen violence
and a loss of hope among young
people, with a date to be determined. Vicariate VI includes the
South Side and
south suburbs.
Plans also are
still being made
in Vicariate III,
which runs from
the near Southwest Side to the
near Northwest
Side.
Howard, who
has worked on
the project for
months, said that involving teens
in meaningful social justice work
is important for both their development and the church’s. Social
justice is one of three components of the formula — along
with inclusion in parish affairs
and a spiritual conversion experience — that help young people
grow into adults who practice
their faith.
Offices collaborating
Up until now, however, there
had been relatively little collaboration between the Office for
Peace and Justice and the Office
for Catechesis and Youth Ministry, Howard said. The archdiocesan strategic plan, with its
first-year emphasis on teens and
young adults, helped break down
barriers within the archdiocese,
leading different offices to collaborate and to offer a more coherent presence to the wider
community, he said.
The effort will not end as April
turns to May. Each group will
come up with a follow-up plan to
continue their work, and Howard
and the Office for Peace and Justice will began planning the next
Justice Month.
“As long there is racism and
sexism and classism and poverty
and any of the other social sins,
there will be a need for Justice
Month,” he said.
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www.archchicago.org/peaceandjustice.
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APRIL 8-21, 2012
What might our ‘resurrection’
faith look like during the week?
Second Sunday of
Easter, Divine Mercy
Sunday: April 14
Acts 4:32-35, 1 Jn 5:1-6, Jn
20:19-31
n American politics, when
someone advocates sharing the
wealth in more just ways, or
claims that the worker, not the
bottom line, is the most important
element in the economic picture,
you can bet some glib critic will
cry out “socialism” or worse,
“communism.”
Those misinformed disciples of
unbridled free enterprise might be
surprised to discover that it’s really “Christianity” in action.
Today’s first reading from Acts
I
Perspectives
on the
Scriptures
Father Patrick O’Malley
presents us with a picture, albeit
ideal, of what life was like for
those first followers of Jesus living in community. They shared
everything in common. Why? Because they believed Jesus had
risen from the dead and would
soon return again to effect the
final judgment.
Though they were mistaken in
their timing of that return, they
had the right idea. They lived in
practical harmony, even though,
as we shall see, they had organizational problems. Resurrection is
like that, a powerful incentive to
live life in a meaningful and simple way.
In the Gospel, we get a hint that
some of those early believers had
misgivings about Jesus’ resurrection. Thomas, for one, doubted; as
such, he is a figure of others who
had a hard time accepting the
“fact” of resurrection.
Thomas’ doubts were put to rest
when the risen Christ shows up
and confronts his dubious apostle.
That was easy enough, and
Thomas was man enough to admit
he was wrong. His response, “My
Lord and my God” is an astounding jump in faith.
When we pray the Creed together at Mass, we are saying,
like Thomas, “My Lord and my
God!” The kicker comes after the
Creed, and after the Mass, when
we leave the “upper room” and
move out into the world around
us. What does our faith look like
after Mass? What effect does the
resurrection of Jesus the Christ
have on our day-to-day living?
Some of us — maybe most of
us — might be ashamed to admit
that, though it is one of the formative beliefs of our religion, it
means practically nothing. To an
objective onlooker, it would appear that we are followers of
Jesus in name only.
So, again, what might our “resurrection” faith look like from
Monday to Saturday?
Recognizing that each of us
would have our own ideas on that
subject, here’s what I picture a
“resurrection” weekday might entail. My day would begin and end
with prayer, however brief it
might be. Throughout the day, I
would revert to short interjections
of prayer, like: “Lord, help me”
especially when there were decisions to be made; I hope my moments of prayer would influence
those decisions.
I would try to listen better, not
jump to conclusions, be more tolerant, thank God — and others —
often, share whatever I have with
others, not take myself too seriously. Even as I write, I can see
the list getting longer and longer.
John says today, God’s “commandments are not burdensome.”
He adds that “Who indeed is the
victor over the world, but the one
who believes Jesus is the son of
God.” There’s a world out there
needing to be conquered; the true
believers may be the ones to do it.
confessions would probably tell
you that, while people can accept
the fact of forgiveness from God,
they often cannot forgive themselves. They are a little bit like the
disciples in the upper room in
today’s Gospel passage.
Jesus comes among them bringing peace, but “they were startled
and terrified.” The Lord then has
to prove he is really there, that he
is not a ghost. He invites them to
touch his hands and feet. Then he
asks for something to eat. The
piece of baked fish turns the tide.
It’s somewhat ironic how hard
Jesus has to work to convince his
followers that it is really he, the
one who walked and talked with
them along the way.
The Lord often has to work hard
to convince us that we are his forgiven brothers and sisters. We esteem our sins and value them
greatly. Otherwise why would we
hold on to them?
Perhaps we think they are so
heinous that even the all-powerful, all-merciful Lord must blanch
and recoil from the evil we perpetrate. Again, most experienced
confessors will tell you that they
The Lord often has to
work hard to convince
us that we are his
forgiven brothers and
sisters. We esteem
Third Sunday of Easter:
our sins and value them
May 22
greatly. Otherwise
Acts 3:13-19, 1 Jn 2:1-5, Lk
24:35-48
why would we
hold
on to them?
“Jesus Christ, the righteous one
… is expiation for our sins, and
not for our sins only, but for those
of the whole world.”
Those encouraging words from
the second reading today are for
everyone. Not just for Christians
or for the pious but for everyone.
Even for those who either ignore
Jesus or deny his essence as Son
of God.
I recall with delight that story of
the homeless man who went
about with a ragged sign proclaiming “You are forgiven!”
Some passersby laughed, some
nodded in approval, and some got
absolutely irate. Who is this man
to be saying I am forgiven? How
dare he do so.
Jesus would have gotten a kick
out of that story as well. But the
sign was accurate. We are forgiven even before we ask for forgiveness. And all because of the sacrificial death and rising of Jesus
Christ.
You are forgiven! How does that
make you feel?
Most priests who have heard
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( 3 1 2 )
rarely hear anything completely
new. When you’ve been around
the block, as I have in 55 years of
hearing confessions, you pretty
much have the lay of the land.
If this is true for a simple priest,
how much more does God know
and understand our sinfulness.
And still, God forgives and forgives and forgives.
One time Peter asked Jesus how
often he should forgive his brother; he thought maybe seven times
would do the trick. Jesus must
have smiled as he went on to top
Peter by suggesting an even bigger number: 77 times, a number
that speaks of infinity. Seventyseven is a good number, one that
we should all take advantage of in
our relationship with God.
O’Malley is a faculty member of
the University of St. Mary of the
Lake, former vicar for priests and
pastor emeritus of St. Celestine
Parish.
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APRIL 8-21, 2012
Pope Benedict XVI carries his pastoral staff after celebrating Mass in
Revolution Square in Havana March 28. During the service the pope
called for full religious freedom and greater respect for human rights in
Cuba. CNS photo/Paul Haring
Pope, at Mass, calls
for full religious
freedom in Cuba
By Cindy Wooden
CatholiC News serviCe
avana — Preaching at
Mass in Havana’s Revolution Square, location of
the headquarters of Cuba’s Communist Party, Pope Benedict XVI
called for full religious freedom
and greater respect for human
rights on the island.
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“In Cuba steps have been taken
to enable the church to carry out
her essential mission of expressing the faith openly and publicly,”
the pope said during his homily
March 28. “Nonetheless, this
must continue forward.”
With President Raul Castro
seated near the altar platform, the
pope said, “I wish to encourage
the country’s government authori-
ties to strengthen what has already
been achieved and advance along
this path of genuine service to the
true good of Cuban society as a
whole.”
People started gathering for the
Mass before 6 a.m. They prepared
for the liturgy with songs and by
listening to priests and a catechist
explaining basic church teaching
on baptism and the Eucharist, the
role of the pope in the church and
Pope Benedict’s biography.
The Mass began at 9 a.m. under
a clear blue sky with a light
breeze blowing. As at the papal
Mass in Santiago de Cuba March
26, thousands in the crowd were
dressed in white T-shirts and
baseball caps.
A priest led chants once the
pope arrived and made his way in
the popemobile through the
crowd. One of the priest’s louder
inventions was “Benedicto, Benedicto, confirmanos en Cristo,”
(“Benedict, Benedict, confirm us
in Christ”).
In his homily, Pope Benedict
said that faith in God and Jesus
Christ is the key to salvation, true
happiness and authentic freedom,
and that the daily lives and work
of committed Catholics can benefit the whole society.
The truth about the human person created in God’s image and
saved from sin by Jesus is the
foundation of an ethical code that
all reasonable people of good will
can share, he said.
The ethical code “contains clear
and precise indications concerning life and death, duties and
rights, marriage, family and society, in short, regarding the inviolable dignity of the human person,” he said.
“Cuba and the world need
change,” he said, but that will
happen only if each and every
person “is in a position to seek the
truth and chooses the way of love,
sowing reconciliation and fraternity.”
The Catholic Church is not asking for special privileges in Cuba,
but for the recognition of the
basic right to religious freedom
and freedom of expression, which
includes expressing one’s faith in
concrete acts of charity and service to society, the pope said.
To carry out its obligations to
proclaim and live the Gospel, he
said, the church “must count on
basic religious freedom, which
consists in her being able to proclaim and to celebrate her faith
also in public, bringing to others
the message of love, reconciliation and peace.”
Catholics want to be witnesses
of love and respond to evil with
good, he said. “Let us walk in the
light of Christ, who alone can destroy the darkness of error. And
let us beg him that, with the
courage and strength of the saints,
we may be able — without fear of
rancor, but freely, generously and
consistently — to respond to
God.”
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After papal
request, Cuba
makes Good
Friday 2012 a
national holiday
Vatican City (CNS) — The
Vatican spokesman praised
Cuba's decision to accept
Pope Benedict XVI’s request
to make Good Friday a
national holiday this year.
“It is certainly a very positive sign,” Jesuit Father
Federico Lombardi, the
Vatican spokesman, said
April 1.
During the pope’s private
with
Cuban
meeting
President Raul Castro in
Havana March 27, the pope
asked for further freedoms
for the Catholic Church in the
communist nation, including
the declaration of Good
Friday as a holiday.
The Cuban government
the
proposal
accepted
March 31 after the pope's
March 29 return to the
Vatican.
Only Good Friday 2012 has
been made a public holiday;
the
government
hasn't
decided whether it will
become a permanent celebration, news reports said.
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APRIL 8-21, 2012
Citizens fill Federal Plaza for religious freedom rally
By Catholic New World and
Catholic News Service
n March 23, people of
faith and concerned citizens filled Federal Plaza
in downtown Chicago to near capacity to participate in the “Stand
Up for Religious Freedom” rally
held at noontime.
The rally was one of 143 nationwide organized by the ProLife Action League in Chicago
and Citizens for a Pro-Life Society, based in Michigan. About
55,000 people participated all together, Catholic News Service reported.
People gathered in front of U.S.
courthouses, state capitols and
historic sites to support religious
freedom and protest a federal
mandate that violates freedom by
requiring most religious employers to provide no-cost contraceptive coverage even if it is contrary
to their beliefs.
In Chicago, Catholics, Protestants and Jews took to the stage
amid rain showers to call for a reversal of the HHS mandate,
which forces employers, including religious ones, to provide
coverage of contraception/sterilization in their health plans.
Christiana Yep attended the
rally with her husband, Thomas,
and their two children.
The Old St. Patrick’s parishioner is a Canadian citizen and
said her family in Canada is
“shocked” that Americans have
accepted an action like the mandate.
“My family is surprised this is
happening and nobody is mobilizing, It’s a country that is supposed to be for freedom,” Yep
said.
A group of around 100 people
O
Left, Natalie Schurolak from St. Peter Parish in Volo, Ill., and Therese
Seybert from St. John Cantius Parish in Chicago pray during the rally at
Federal Plaza on March 23. Above, participants nearly fill Federal Plaza.
Below, a group from St. John Cantius Parish brought balloons strung
together to form a rosary. Karen Callaway photos/Catholic New World
from St. John Cantius Parish, 825
N. Carpenter St., walked more
than two miles from the church
to Federal Plaza in the rain while
singing songs and chanting.
Many of the group wore yellow
T-shirts with the word “life” in
black letters printed on them.
They also carried yellow balloons
strung together in the shape of a
large rosary that floated up several stories. The balloons also bore
the word “life” in black letters.
Kathleen Dietz, from Holy
Cross Parish in Batavia, walked
with the group and brought along
her five children.
“I think it is ridiculous that the
government thinks they could put
their nose in our business,” she
said of the mandate. Dietz works
as a nurse and said that requiring
contraception coverage is “not
healthcare.”
“It’s anti-healthcare because it
is killing the unborn,” she said.
All U.S. citizens should be concerned when the government
starts taking rights away, she said.
“I’m doing this for my kids because I want my kids to grow up
in a country that is free,” she said.
St. Constance Parish holds vigil for liberty
By Alicja Pozywio
Staff writer
bout 800 people participated in
a March 29 eucharistic procession organized by St. Constance Parish, to pray for the “Protection of Religious Liberty and for a
Culture of Life in Our Country.”
The procession followed Mass and
wended its way through the neighborhood around the church at 5843 W.
Strong St. Participants offered prayers
in both English and Polish on the eve
of March 30, the day the U.S. bishops
A
Left, Father Maciej Galle leads a
Eucharistic procession following a Mass
to pray for the protection of religious liberty. The group processed in the neighborhood surrounding St. Constance
Church, 5843 W. Strong St., on March
29. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
called on Catholics and “all people of
faith” to observe a day of
prayer and fasting for religious freedom and conscience
protection.
“We can’t be good Americans by being bad Christians,”
said Father Maciej Galle, associate pastor at St. Constance, during his homily.
“Bishops, pastors and priests
are concerned not only with
the protection of all the
church’s institutions, but with the care
of the souls of individual faithful.”
Galle also summarized the statement
of the U.S. Catholic Conference of
Bishops on religious liberty that was
published March 14.
The idea to organize a eucharistic
procession came from parishioners
Richard Kehoe and Tad Morun.
Kehoe, a member of the St. Constance
Parish Pastoral Council, said the council wanted to pray and educate. “When average
Catholics express their
feelings and thoughts to
the legislators and politicians, that will put more
and more influence on
them,” said Kehoe.
Morun said that everyone he spoke to in the
parish about the procession was very supportive.
“All you can do is hope, pray and put
pressure on the lawmakers. If they see
that there are enough of us out there
then something will be done,” said
Morun.
Father Ryszard Gron, administrator
of St. Constance, was very happy with
the turnout. “We have been educating
and informing people that religious
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More than 1,000 will enter local church this Easter
t’s a tradition and part of the rites in the Catholic Church that those
wanting to join the faith receive the sacraments of initiation (baptism,
Communion and confirmation) during the Easter Vigil Mass. This year,
more than 1,000 people will enter into full communion with the church on
April 7. In this Year of Teens and Young Adults, two young women share
why they are choosing to enter the Catholic Church.
I
Martia Bradley
feeling well.” And my personal favorite “I
University of Chicago
do not need to go to church to have a relagrew up surrounded by religion. My tionship with God.” Yes, I believed in God,
mother is a lapsed
and yes, I respected and
Catholic. One of my aunts
practiced what one calls the
is the wife of a Baptist minGolden Rule, but I never reister; another one of my
ally knew who God was,
aunts is a Buddhist. My best
how to speak to him or, more
friends are members of a
importantly, how to listen.
Pentecostal church and I
The summer before my
have many Jewish friends,
first year of college two of
who I met while attending a
my close family friends died.
Presbyterian elementary
I did not know how to deal
school. One could say my
with such loss. I remember
life is in fact a patchwork of
feeling completely abanreligions.
doned and hopeless and I
Surprisingly, while I recarried those feelings with
spected and appreciated my
me into college.
friends, their religious lives
I struggled my first year of
did not really appeal to me.
college with depression
I was Goldie Locks with the St. Augustine is a well- homesickness and self-esThree Bears’ porridge say- known convert to the teem issues. I was bombarding “That’s not quite right.” Catholic faith and a doctor of ed with a world full of alcoI longed to share my faith the church. CNS file photo
hol and “hooking up,” and I
with a community, but I did
knew immediately there was
not really have an idea what faith was.
no solace to be found in that world for me.
After a while, I began to recite excuses
With no other options and not wanting to
about why I could not attend services with ruin the college experience of my peers, I
friends. “I have too much work.” “I am not focused all my energies on classes. Instead
I
I began my second year of school, determined to pull myself out of depression. I
found myself wandering around campus, in
search of something to do, something that
would not involve being so isolated, and
found myself wandering into Mass. I don’t
know why I decided to attend Mass that
day, or what compelled me to enter that
building that looked nothing like a church
to me.
One day, I crept into Mass, feeling like I
was intruding on a private party. But I spotted someone who I knew from classes and
sat next to her, and she gave me a warm
smile and gave me an overview of what to
do. I left Mass feeling the bleak cloud of
loneliness begin to lift.
I attended RCIA the very next Sunday
and knew that I was home. I had been led
to a community full of people who welcomed me with open arms and gave me a
new motto to always remind me that I am a
child of God: “You are glorious in the sight
of God and he, your Creator, loves you!”
By the numbers
The following are the numbers of people who were received into full communion with the chuch in the archdiocese over the past 10 years:
Children Adults
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
914
848
994
1262
676
595
662
424
240
396
892
726
768
755
765
640
594
606
660
812
Total
1806
1574
1762
2017
1441
1235
1256
1030
900
1208
Source: Office of Research and Planning
Rachel Grubb
of going to church, I went to therapy. I
woke up every morning and went to class
and returned to my dorm to switch out my
books and kept mostly to myself. Even my
weekends were filled with long library
stays. I was very lonely, especially watching my peers join in communities that
seemed to fit them so well.
Every day on my way to classes I passed
a building called Calvert House, which I
found out later was the Catholic Student
Association, ironically right next to the
building that housed my therapist office.
Northwestern University
he is: A graduate student studying orchestral conducting (and violin) at
Northwestern University. Music Director of
the Chicago Merit School of Music’s Junior Orchestra. Violinist in the Missouri
Symphony Orchestra. Born and raised in
Knoxville, Tenn., in the Episcopal Church.
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tian by the grace of God two
weeks later.
My story: Looking back, I see
so many arrows from God pointing to where I am today: completing RCIA and a few short weeks
away from receiving the Eucharist
and officially entering the
Catholic Church in Rome!
I moved to Evanston a year and
a half ago to study at Northwestern and was a staunch ignorer and
avoider of God. However, a few
persistent friends coaxed me into
a fantastic Bible study group and
planted a few seeds in just the
right places. These seeds came in
the form of questions: Is the Bible
the Word of God? Can it be
backed up with science and history? Is Jesus who he says he is?
A hardy scientific method approach will yield the results of
“yes” to these questions. After a
few months of Bible study and casually attending a Lutheran
church on campus, I decided to
take the 10 Commandments seriously and really see what that
would do for my life, Sabbath included.
One Sunday, I was doing a
“hard core” Sabbath day off, with
no cooking, lights or homework.
Five walks, three naps, two
church services, a book, and lots
of quiet time later, I was walking
past the Sheil Catholic Center at
Northwestern right before the 9
p.m. student Mass. I decided to go
in and see what this church was
all about. (Since, in music schools
we study the Mass for its music
history.)
What I found there — the miracles that night and the truth of the
faith — blew my mind. When I
sat down and was listening to the
readings, I felt God saying very
clearly and repeatedly, “Rachel,
this is where you are supposed to
be.”
The homily given by Father
John exactly answered the question I had been asking God for
some months, and many other
amazing things happened that
night. And what a surprise to find
out that Catholics have daily
Mass.
So, I went everyday for two and
a half weeks and had the same experience: “Rachel, this is where
you are supposed to be.” and Father John’s homily exactly answering a question I had asked
God that day. It was astonishing.
So, I decided I should stop arguing with God and join his church.
About a week later, I decided to
follow Jesus Christ, too.
With the grace of God: This
summer, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend World Youth
Day with the pope and 2 million
of my closest friends. As one
priest put it: It was my welcome
into the Catholic Church. God has
no limit to what he will do in your
life if you welcome him on in. I
will be entering the one holy
Catholic and apostolic church
with confirmation and first Eucharist this Easter Vigil in Rome.
My challenge: I challenge you
to really know your faith, because
it’s so beautiful. Every “hard”
topic has a wealth of love, inspiration from God, rich scholarship,
and human insight from 2,000
years of making saints backing it
up. I challenge you to “learn why”
for your hard topics.
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Lumen Christi explores Ayn Rand and Catholic ideals
Professor says
Rand’s works run
counter to basic
Catholic tenents
By Daniel P. Smith
ContRibutoR
uthor and philosopher Ayn
Rand boasts a following
few can match.
Rand’s signature work, the
novel “Atlas Shrugged,” has sold
more than 7 million copies and
spurred a deep collection of loyal
followers in the U.S. and abroad
subscribing to her philosophy of
objectivism, thinking rooted in the
dogged pursuit of one’s own happiness.
While the continuing popularity
of Rand’s works, even among
Catholics, reveals her standing as
a pop culture heroine, the influence of her thought on the role of
individual, community, state and
religious principles in modern society continues to spark debate.
The compatibility — and even
clash — of Rand’s work with
Christian beliefs was the topic at a
luncheon attended by more than
50 people at the Union League
Club of Chicago, 65 W. Jackson
Blvd., on March 23.
A
Seeking a closer look at Rand’s
philosophical, moral, economic
and
political
thoughts, Donald
DeMarco, professor
emeritus at St.
Jerome’s University
in Waterloo, Ontario,
and currently adjunct
professor at Holy
Apostles College
and Seminary in
Cromwell, Conn.,
offered his take with
a program titled “A
Critical Look at Ayn
Rand.”
The Lumen Christi
Institute, a University of Chicago-based
organization that seeks to advance
Catholic thought and dialogue,
hosted DeMarco’s hour-long presentation.
Rand’s influence
While DeMarco acknowledges
the phenomenon of Rand, who
passed away in 1982, he said
there is a gaping disparity between her popularity and the actual quality of her contribution.
“You can’t avoid [Rand]. She’s
out there, but she weaves fables
and enchants with a magic flute,”
said DeMarco, the author of 22
books, including “Architects of
the Culture of Death” and “The
Heart of Virtue.”
Rand’s works and philosophy,
DeMarco said, run
counter to basic
Catholic tenets.
Rand, an atheist
who discarded religion, compassion
and the Golden
Rule in favor of a
devout focus on the
self, once called
faith “a negation of
human reason.” She
even questioned if
individuals needed
morality at all.
As a pro-choice
advocate, Rand
failed to concern
herself with the consequences of
such choice, DeMarco said. Rand
opined that most people aren’t
worth being loved and shunned
any connection between economic, civil and moral forces. She
also rejected altruism and volunteerism, both of which squelched
individualism.
“Rand would say, ‘We’re all individuals and need to be individual,’” DeMarco said.
Ignoring realities
DeMarco said the world of Ayn
Rand deals in simplicity and cartoons, ignoring the realities.
While, yes, people are individu-
als, they are also individuals worthy of being loved and members
of a collective as well.
“As one matures … and realizes
that life is one of the cross, then
they put Ayn Rand away,” said
DeMarco, who is a corresponding
member of the Pontifical Academy for Life as well as a founding
member of the American
Bioethics Advisory Commission.
“At some point, we all have to
reach for something more substantial.”
Unlike the philosophy of Pope
John Paul II, Rand’s outlook, DeMarco stressed, is unconnected to
reality. She ignores justice and
love and distanced herself from
the human qualities of empathy
and generosity. Her single truth
was self-fulfillment.
“She was correct that we all
have value and the ability and
right to follow our own destinies,
but those are incomplete ideas,”
DeMarco said. “Real truth requires balancing and shaking and
questioning of the complex,
which all takes time.”
DeMarco said the world
of Ayn Rand deals in
simplicity and cartoons,
ignoring the realities.
faith and thought.
Lumen Christi programs have
included discussions of law and
culture, Catholic social thought
and the economy, religion and
secular culture, school choice,
Catholic education, and, now, the
works of Ayn Rand.
Lumen Christi co-founder and
executive director Thomas Levergood said a critical investigation
of Rand’s work, one inspired by
the suggestions of various luncheon attendees, helps Catholics examine the American version of
freedom and its many dimensions.
“The real question we need to
critically consider is the American
ideology of the individual and
personal liberty, whether it’s coming from the political right or left,
and how that interacts with
Catholic life,” Levergood said.
Lumen Christi hosts
As an academic and scholarly
center, the Lumen Christi Institute
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means to produce leaders better
educated and formed in Catholic
For a schedule of upcoming
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He says ‘It’s always a great day for running’
Running the good race: He ran track
both in high school and at Loyola University. His cross-country and track students at
Quigley still recall his favorite slogan, “It’s
always a great day for running.”
“Now that I’m older, I continue to run four
to six miles several times a week.” In the
Chicago Marathon, his personal best was
three hours and 36 minutes. “I was in my
30s!” He now limits himself to half
marathons.
By Dolores Madlener
STAFF WRITER
He is: Father Dennis Ziomek. He became
pastor of St. Barbara Parish in Bridgeport
just in time to celebrate its centennial last
year. Was faculty member at Quigley South
and Archbishop Quigley for 23 years. Ordained by Cardinal Cody in 1978.
Growing up: “I had two younger sisters,
Roxie and Jackie. Jackie died on All Saints
Day 2006. It’s been sad but also special to
celebrate the funeral Masses for my parents
and my sister, and for other uncles and
aunts.
“Dad described himself as a ‘pencil pusher.’ A humble man — he was an accountant
at USI Clearing from the time he got home
from WWII until he retired. My mother,
who was very involved in parish life, would
gather us kids before bedtime and we’d
kneel down and pray before the statues of
Jesus and Mary in our living room. Dad
would always say, ‘I can pray from the
kitchen chair.’
“I went to kindergarten at St. Barbara,
where I am now pastor, and spent my early
years just two blocks away. In Bridgeport
my parish was Immaculate Conception on
31st Street (now the Monastery of the Holy
Cross). We’d go to the old Mark White
Park and swim at 12th Street Beach. We
later moved to St. Symphorosa, near Midway Airport, where I was confirmed.”
Vocation: “My vocation started at home,
with the support and prayers of my family.
Father Dennis Ziomek, pastor of St. Barbara Parish, 2859 S. Throop St., shows the congregation a vestment he was given by the Daughters of Isabella for the celebration of the
parish’s 100th anniversary on Oct. 24, 2010. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
I knew good priests at my parish and in the
seminary who helped me aspire to priesthood.
“As I went through Quigley and Niles
College of Loyola University, I thought
about other vocations, but there was always
that urge toward priesthood.”
He got his nickname “Zi” from a Latin
teacher at Quigley South who couldn’t pro-
nounce his Polish name.
After his first assignment at St. Gall’s, he
was teacher, coach and spiritual director at
Quigley South, and after it closed, at Archbishop Quigley until 2007, teaching alongside some of his former professors. “It was
a humbling experience.”
In 2009, he was named an Archbishop
James E. Quigley Distinguished Alumni.
Spirituality: “I enjoy celebrating Mass,
leading people in prayer and preaching, but
to do that I
have to be a
person of
personal
prayer.
Every summer I go to
Stritch Retreat House
for a silent directed retreat and try to make
the vicariate-preached retreat.
“I went to Poland last May as a guest of
my associate, Father Andrzej Beltowski. I
concelebrated Mass at St. Mary Church in
Krakow, the Basilica of Divine Mercy and
at the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa.”
Leisure: “Most recently I reread Father
Dom Grassi’s ‘Still Called By Name, Why
I Love Being a Priest.’” He’s into technology big time and is webmaster for his parish
bulletin: www.StBarbaraChicago.org.
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APRIL 8-21, 2012
Pope to Mexico:
Trust in God to help
change society
By Francis X. Rocca
CatholiC News serviCe
ilao, Mexico — Celebrating
Mass in the Catholic heartland of Mexico, Pope Benedict XVI told a nation and a continent suffering from poverty,
corruption and violence, to trust
in God and the intercession of
Mary to help them bring about a
“more just and fraternal society.”
“When addressing the deeper
dimension of personal and community life, human strategies will
not suffice to save us,” the pope
said in his homily during the outdoor Mass at Guanajuato Bicentennial Park March 25, the second
full day of his second papal visit
to Latin America. “We must have
recourse to the one who alone can
give life in its fullness, because he
is the essence of life and its author.”
Citing the responsorial psalm
for the day’s Mass — “Create a
clean heart in me, O God” — the
pope said that evil can be overcome only through a divinely inspired change of the human heart.
The pope made note of the
monument to Christ the King visible atop a nearby hill and observed that Christ’s “kingdom
does not stand on the power of his
armies subduing others through
force or violence. It rests on a
higher power that wins over
hearts: the love of God that he
brought into the world with his
sacrifice and the truth to which he
bore witness.”
That message was consistent
with Pope Benedict’s frequently
stated objections to strategies for
social progress that blend Christian social doctrine with Marxism
or other secular ideologies.
“The church is not a political
power, it is not a party,” the pope
told reporters on his flight to
Mexico March 23. “It is a moral
reality, a moral power.”
In his Silao homily, the pope
S
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Obituaries, Page 27
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Read about the pope’s visit
to Cuba, Page 13.
did not specifically address any of
Latin America’s current social
problems, but after praying the
Angelus following the Mass, he
recited a litany of ills plaguing
Mexico and other countries in the
region: “so many families are separated or forced to emigrate ... so
many are suffering due to poverty,
corruption, domestic violence,
drug trafficking, the crisis of val-
“The church is not a
political power, it is not
a party,” the pope told
reporters on his flight
to Mexico March 23.
“It is a moral reality,
a moral power.”
ues and increased crime.”
Speaking in the central Mexican
state of Guanajuato, which was a
stronghold of the 1920s Cristero
Rebellion against an anti-clerical
national regime, Pope Benedict
recited the invocation that served
as the Cristeros’ rallying cry:
“Long live Christ the King and
Mary of Guadalupe.”
But reaffirming his message of
nonviolence, the pope prayed that
Mary’s influence would “promote
fraternity, setting aside futile acts
of revenge and banishing all divisive hatred.”
The presidential candidates
from Mexico’s three main political parties attended the Mass,
along with President Felipe
Calderon and his family.
The Vatican said 640,000 people attended the Mass. Some
Mexicans took long trips just to
see Pope Benedict on his first trip
to the country since being elected
in 2005.
The journey was not easy for
many. Thousands of the faithful
walked more than three miles
from parking lots in the town of
Silao, 220 miles northwest of
People cheer as the popemobile carrying Pope Benedict XVI makes its
way through the city of Guanajuato, Mexico, March 24. The pope was on
a six-day pastoral visit to Latin America with stops in central Mexico and
Cuba. Below, the pope greets the crowd gathered for his arrival at
Guanajuato International Airport in Silao, Mexico, March 23. CNS
photos/Claudia Daut, Reuters/Paul Haring
Mexico City.
“This is nothing too difficult,”
quipped Jose Trinidad Borja, 81, a
retired hardware store owner from
Queretaro who boasts of having
participated in the annual eightday diocesan pilgrimage to the
Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico
City for 65 straight years.
An army of vendors hawked
water, coffee and tamales along
the route in addition to Vatican
flags and photos of Pope Benedict
and his predecessor, Blessed John
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Stanislawa Ochwat and her granddaughter Zuzanna (Ochwat) watch a
procession begin outside of Holy
Trinity Polish Mission, 1118 N. Noble
St. Parishioners from parishes across
the Archdiocese of Chicago joined
members of Holy Trinity to pray the stations of the cross in Polish on Palm
Sunday, April 1. Karen Callaway/Catholic
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Paul II, who, with his five visits,
became one of the most beloved
figures in an officially secular
country.
“With Benedict, I feel something indescribable,” said
Guadalupe Nambo Gutierrez, a
retired secretary from Guanajuato
City, who saw the pope in the
colonial town March 24 and attended the Mass the next day.
Getting a ticket was another
matter. Nambo won a raffle for
some of the tickets the Archdiocese of Leon allotted to St. Joseph
and St. James the Apostle Parish.
Others simply decided to try their
luck by showing up — and many
could be seen outside the Mass
site behind barricades guarded by
federal police officers.
Bishop Raul Vera Lopez of
Saltillo said his diocese only received its allotment of 2,500 tickets 10 days before the Mass, making it difficult for parishes to plan
trips for churchgoers. Still, all the
tickets were claimed and more
than 6,500 requests were made.
Most of those coming from
Saltillo, in northern Mexico, traveled overnight and were expected
to return immediately after the
Mass. Some parishes opted not to
send people to the Mass because
of concerns about security along
the route.
“We hope that things calm a little after this visit,” said Silao resident Jorge Morales as he walked
to the Mass.
The previous evening, after a
brief appearance before a crowd
in Guanajuato’s main square,
Pope Benedict privately greeted a
group that included eight people
who have lost relatives to violence, much of it drug-related,
which has killed nearly 50,000
Mexicans over the last five years.
Addressing his remarks there
particularly to local children, the
pope called on “everyone to protect and care for children, so that
nothing may extinguish their
smile, but that they may live in
peace and look to the future with
confidence.”
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CNW: Can you talk a little bit
about the relationship between
music and faith and God?
pain she had witnessing 40 of her
relatives murdered by the Nazis.
He really saved her in the profound sense that one can be saved
as a human being. He brought
peace to her as if she were his
aunt or his sister. He just had that
incredible power to reach into our
souls and bring out
the best that is in us.
I felt that is what
he did with me. I
certainly had looked
forward to a wonderful career as a
musician. I was already very successful in that before I
went to Krakow but
he brought out
things in me that I
didn’t even know
were there. He did
that for many people.
Levine: If you think about
where music came
from, music first
became part of
Western culture in
Gregorian chant. It
was to give voice to
prayer. Obviously
not all music is sacred but it comes
from that root, it
comes from that
wish on our part to
express the power
of our spirit in
some form other
than words.
What John Paul Sir Gilbert Levine
believed was that
CNW: How did
music could transcend words, that knowing him change your life or
where words failed because they strengthen your faith?
can be misconstrued, music can
unite and give us that sense of
Levine: Well that’s the weird
combined, united spirit of what I thing because when I went to
would call at-onement, literally Krakow we were reformed Jews.
being at one with each other. I We were adherent to the notion of
think that is a powerful role that our Jewishness and not very much
music has had for centuries, and to what it really meant to be Jewstill has today.
It can have that, even, for instance, in a work like the “Eroica” [John Paul] celebrated
symphony by Beethoven, which is people’s faith. If your
not on its surface a sacred work,
but expresses the height of the faith was strong,
spirit of the world, of the spirit of that was what
mankind. That’s why it is on the was important.
concert program. It was described
by a great Italian philosopher as
being a description of one who ish. But over the course of those
describes the spirit of the world. I 17 years we became Orthodox
can think of nobody in my under- and we attend an Orthodox synastanding of history who exempli- gogue and light Shabbat candles.
fied that more than John Paul.
He loved that. He gave us a
An incredible thing about John menorah that had been given to
Paul was that he was that before 2 him by a rabbi. He said, “I undermillion people at Mass in the stand the rabbi’s meaning by givopen air and he was that person in ing it to me. He’s sharing a totem,
person. His caring for human be- an item, of his faith. But you,
ings was incredibly powerful. He maestro, will use it with your
cared for my children. He was in- family. You’ll light these candles.
terested in them as if they were You’ll celebrate. You’ll use this
his grandchildren.
menorah for it’s real purpose.”
He cared for my mother-in-law
He celebrated people’s faith. If
who was a Holocaust survivor and your faith was strong, that was
whom I really believe he soothed what was important. I assure you,
the soul of after the incredible if I had indicated that I was inter-
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proud to do it. But he felt and
knew that my faith and my adherence was to Judaism and he was
so proud of that — that I was a
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He was brought up in Wadowice
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were completely normal people.
When the Holocaust came he really lost deeply meaningful friends.
So, for him, the relationship between Catholicism and Judaism
was, as he said, as our elder brothers in faith, as he called them.
They were brothers. And what he
believed was that we could agree
to disagree agreeably. I think that
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CNW: Will this concert be accessible to people who may not
go to the symphony regularly?
Levine: I think that’s the special thing about it because they
will come and they will understand, even better than people
who go to the symphony, what the
real meaning behind these pieces
is — what Bach was thinking
when he wrote the “Magnificat.”
He wasn’t just writing this beautiful piece of music, he was setting
a prayer. And he was Lutheran
and he set the prayer in Latin,
which was just amazing.
They will listen to “Eroica,”
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of all classical music. Those people who come to Symphony Hall
for the first time will experience it
maybe with a degree of understanding of the spirit of the work
that Beethoven had when he
wrote it. Beethoven was a devout
Catholic.
I think people who come will be
surprised and amazed at how this
amalgamation of John Paul and
classical music raises them up
also. They will walk out feeling
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at the Ed McCaskey scholarship lunch. Other
Bears’ players and coaches will be on hand to
sign autographs.
Parish potpourri — St. Mary of Celle
(Berwyn) invited parishioners for a two-hour
class on how to weave palm crosses on March
29. . . . Pat Lade and Phil Smith at St.
Thomas More Parish (S. California) create a
simple, elegant decoration with two palm
branches and purple ribbon on a tall floral pick
for placement at a grave site or in the parish
memorial garden on Palm Sunday. They take
orders and then sell them after Palm Sunday
Masses. . . . It’s a tradition at St. Richard’s (S.
Kostner) to have a bishop bless their Easter
baskets on Holy Saturday. This year they welcomed Bishop Andrew Wypych. . . . The
Men’s Kairos Retreat team of St. Thomas of
Villanova Parish (Palatine) will minister to 42
residents at the Stateville Correctional Facility shortly after Easter. . . . Immaculate Conception Parish’s (W. Talcott) school secretary
is retiring after many years. The sign has just
gone up on Oconto Street: Honorary Phyllis
Levard Way. . . . Our Lady of the Snows
Parish (S. Leamington) is planning a pilgrimage to the shrine in Belleville, Ill., of Our
Lady of the Snows, May 18-19. Call Joan at
(773) 767-4532 to learn more.
‘Help! Help!’ — The Women’s Center
(pro-life outreach that gives real help to desperate moms) needs volunteers to sell flowers after
Masses for their annual sale on Mother’s Day
weekend, May 12-13. Other times they can sure
Send your benevolent gossip to Church Clips,
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or phone (312) 534-7479.
cism” series has taught us anything, it’s that
most of us need a refresher course in our faith.
“Catholic and
Cornered —
Answers to
C o m m o n
Questions
About Your
Faith,” just
landed on my
desk. It’s not
bad. There are
all kinds of
good books on
apologetics,
from Matthew
Kelly’s “Red i s c o v e r A starter book to help us
Catholicism” cram for the finals.
to “The Catechism of the Catholic Church” and beyond.
But this little paperback by Kenneth L. Parker,
a convert who became a Benedictine monk for a
while and now teaches historical theology at St.
Louis University, is a starting point for $10.99,
plus shipping. These are the kinds of questions
we may have been afraid to ask, or, when confronted by a non-Catholic or a sulky teenager,
we were afraid to answer. Parker’s explanation
about the sign of the cross will make the gesture
more meaningful. What do we mean by “transubstantiation”? One of the 65 questions deals
with women’s ordination, another on what the
church says about miracles. The author makes
clear what is dogma and what are widely accepted practices among Catholics and even some
popes, but are not official teaching. Parker’s own
story of conversion in the introduction shows
God’s grace at work in people’s lives. From
Liguori Publications, (800) 325-9521.
Junior Clips — St. Barbara School (S.
Throop) has its 10th annual student art exhibit
April 24. Works range from fantasy, storytelling,
environment to culture. This year’s theme is
“Transformation.” . . . St. Barnabas School (S.
Longwood) has a four-minute presentation on
YouTube.com to make a great first impression.
. . . Anthony Catalano, with Boy Scout Troop
690, a student at St. Celestine’s (Elmwood
Park), received Scouting’s Eagle Scout award
March 4.
Happy Easter — “Christus
Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus
Imperat.”
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St. Peter’s Auctioneer Night:
Roaring ’20s theme for 20th anniversary, April 21, doors open
5:30 p.m., dinner, silent/live auctions, tickets $20, St. Peter School,
900 St. Peter St., Antioch, call Jill
for tickets or to donate, (847) 8381246.
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g JOB MINISTRY
“Tell the Story Behind the
Story”: April 14, 9 a.m.-noon, led
by a career coach, hosted by St.
Hubert Job and Networking, at
Community Presbyterian Church,
407 N. Main, Mt. Prospect, (847)
925-6005.
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g ANNIVERSARIES
Taking Stations of the Cross to the street: Parishioners from parishes across the
St. Wenceslaus Parish: celebrating centennial April 15, 4:30
p.m. at a banquet at La Villa
Restaurant, 3632 N. Pulaski,
RSVP to Salomea, at (773) 5882668 weekdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii: marking 101 years at Mass
April 14, 5 p.m., with Fr. Richard
Fragomeni, followed by Shrine
Expo 2012, 1224 W. Lexington,
(312) 421-3757.
St. Philip Neri Parish: marking
100 years with jubilee Mass, May
20, at 10 a.m. with Cardinal
George concelebrating, at 2132
East 72nd St., call the rectory at
(773) 363-1700 for information.
St. Casimir Academy/Maria
High School: all years centennial
reunion Mass with Cardinal
George, April 21, 1 p.m., at Nativity of our Lord Church, 653 W. 37th
St., celebration continues 3-7
p.m., with hors d’oeuvres, cash
bar, buffet dinner, DJ and St. Rita
High School Jazz Band, $60/person, at 6727 S. California, call
(773) 925-8686, Ext. 114 to RSVP.
Incarnation Parish: in parish’s
50th year, “Afternoon of Reflection
and Renewal of Wedding Vows” for
married couples who have lived in
the parish, April 22, 2 p.m., author
Frank Hanigan, “How Little
Changes Can Make a Big Difference in Your Marriage,” in
Bernardin Center, 5757 W. 127th
St., Palos Heights, renewal of marriage vows and refreshments,
RSVP to (708) 371-3180.
20, hosted by Catholic Charities
Lake County Services, events include a Southern high tea at Royal
Melbourne Country Club in Long
Grove, vendor shopping, house
tours, $55/person, for more info on
other events, call Mar y Ellen
Mason at (847) 782-4115.
Sisters of Providence: luncheon, April 22, 12:30 p.m., $75/person, at The White Eagle, 6839 N.
Milwaukee, Niles, call Sr. Sue at
(773) 463-2478.
St. Joseph Seminary: “Festa
Italiana,” April 22, 3-8 p.m., familystyle dinner, silent auction, Lexington House, 7717 W. 95th St., Hickory Hills, for tickets, call (773) 9739722.
Mamre, Inc: dinner-dance, April
22, 6-10:30 p.m., $60/person, supports Spred, special religious development for kids and adults, at
Drury Lane, Oakbrook Terrace,
RSVP to Bonnie at (312) 5400265.
Catholic Charities: Blossoms
of Hope brunch, silent auction,
April 29, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., $60/person, $15/children, benefits LOSS
program, emcee Monica Pedersen
of HGTV, at Drury Lane, Oakbrook
Terrace, RSVP to Ashley, at (312)
655-7912.
g BENEFITS
g DEVOTIONS
Friends of the Poor: hosted by
Society of St. Vincent de Paul,
April 15, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., $75/person includes champagne brunch,
silent auction and entertainment
by Fr. Ken Baker and “Padres on
Parade,” at Drury Lane Oakbrook
Terrace, call Frieda at (312) 6557181.
“Legal Lifelines”: cocktail reception, April 26, $85/person, supports Catholic Charities Legal Assistance program, at Union
League Club, 65 W. Jackson,
RSVP to Dave Gardner, at (312)
655-7907.
Long Grove Housewalk: April
Divine Mercy Devotion: daily
novena April 6, 5 p.m., April 7-14,
3 p.m.; weekly novena Thursdays,
April 19, 8:30-11:30 a.m., with exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
and Benediction, at St. Matthias
Church, 2310 W. Ainslie, (773)
315-7159.
Shrine of Our Lady of Pompeii: Easter Vigil Mass, April 7, 9
p.m., rector’s reception follows;
Easter Sunday, April 8, Masses
8:30 a.m. and 11 a.m., 1224 W.
Lexington, (312) 421-3757.
“Pray and Sing”: the Divine
Mercy Chaplet with organ accompaniment, April 15, 3 p.m., Divine
Archdiocese of Chicago join members of Holy Trinity Polish Mission, 1118 N. Noble St., to pray the stations of the cross in Polish on Palm Sunday, April 1. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
Mercy Sunday, at St. Vincent Ferrer Church, 7525 W. North, River
Forest, (708) 366-7090.
Divine Mercy Mass: April 15, 3
p.m., with Fr. Michael O’Connell,
chaplet follows, refreshments, at
Our Lady of the Woods Church,
10731 W. 131st St., Orland Park,
(708) 460-6021.
Divine Mercy Devotions: April
15, 2:30 p.m., exposition of the
Blessed Sacrament, chaplet in
song, at Queen of the Rosar y
Church, 750 Elk Grove, Elk Grove
Village, (847) 437-0403.
g DINNERS/DANCES
New Beginnings Dances: April
21, 7:30-11 p.m., $8/person, and
each month on third Saturday, at
St. Matthew Hughes Center, 1001
Schaumburg Road, Schaumburg,
call Joan at (847) 397-9643 for
more info.
Seton Academy: “An Evening of
Seton Stars,” April 20, 5:30 p.m.,
$50/person, cocktails and dinner,
at Seton Academy, 16100 Seton,
South Holland, RSVP by April 13,
to Kathy Dujsik at (708) 339-8959.
g ENTERTAINMENT
“Memories of the King”: with
Dave “Elvis” Thomas, April 21,
doors open 6 p.m. for three-hour
performance, $15/person, BYO
beverages, appetizers, St. Laurence High School, 5556 W. 77th
St., Burbank, for tickets and info,
call Joe at (708) 425-1276.
Teen Choir Fest: performance
of first-ever teen choir, day of
prayer, speakers, master teachers
and more, April 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.,
hosted by Office for Divine Worship, at St. Nicholas Parish, 806
Ridge, Evanston, call (312) 5348011 for more info.
William Ferris Chorale: concert
chorus directed by Paul French,
celebrates 40th year with season
finale, April 28, 7:30 p.m., “Showstoppers and Premieres,” featuring
world premiere of early choral
work by William Ferris, his “Te
Deum,” and Widor’s “Festival Alleluias,” with other works and a
tribute to late American composer
Lee Hoiby, at Loyola University’s
Madonna della Strada Chapel,
1032 N. Sheridan, for tickets call
(773) 508-2940, discounts for
groups, students and seniors.
“Barrio Grrrl! A Musical”:
urban pop musical, DePaul’s
Chicago Playworks for Families
and Young Audiences, for ages 7
and up, now-May 12, $8/person, at
DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theatre, 60
E. Balbo, for time, days, tickets,
call box office at (312) 922-1999.
“The Rivals”: 18th-centur y
comedy of manners, April 13-22,
DePaul University’s Showcase Series, $15, also discounts, previews
April 11-12, at DePaul’s Merle Reskin Theater, 60 E. Balbo, call
(312) 922-1999, for days, times
and tickets.
g FASHION SHOWS
St. Philip Neri Parish: marking
100 years with a jubilee awards
luncheon and fashion show, raffle,
April 22, noon, $60, at Dynasty
Ballroom, Hammond, Ind., call
rectory at (773) 363-1700 for tickets.
Fenwick High School: April 26,
boutique shopping at 10 a.m.,
luncheon 11:30 a.m., $65/person
also special raffle, at Drury Lane
Oakbrook Terrace, RSVP to Anne
at careyfour@comcast.net.
St. Bonaventure Parish: April
21, 11:30 a.m., $30, at Poretta's
Banquet Hall, 3718 North Central,
call Gerry at (773) 736-1932.
g GAMES PARTIES
Card & Bunco Party: April 17,
10 a.m., hosted by Little Flower
Circle for men and women, in St.
Hilary Rectory, 5600 N. Fairfield,
benefits local shelter, call Joyce at
(773) 594-9001 for more info.
World Catholicism Week 2012:
“Real Presences: Eucharist, Society, and Global Catholicism,” April
16-20, free, open to public, for
schedule and list of themes, speakers, films, from “Eucharist & Society,” to “Working Catholic Spirituality
Into My Schedule,” at DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield, register at worldcath2012.depaul. edu,
or call (773) 325-4158.
Institute on Religious Life: national meeting, April 13-14, speakers include Fr. Douglas Martis,
Scott Hahn and others, award recipient and banquet speaker Fr.
Cassian Folsom, OSB, free Saturday session for ages 13-25, lunch
included, at Marytown Center, 1600
W. Park, Libertyville, call (847) 5738975 for more info, or email irlstaff@religiouslife.com.
Catholic Citizens Forum: “What
Happened to a Boy’s Life,” speaker
Anthony Esolen, April 20 [date
change], 11:45 a.m., luncheon $35,
at Union League Club, 65 W.Jackson, RSVP to Maureen at (708)
352-5834 by April 17.
Siena Center Lecture: “Dr.
Frankenstein’s Footsteps: A Critical
Look at Some Key Films,” with
Daniel Dinello, professor of film and
video, April 19, 7 p.m., free, in
Bluhm Hall of Parmer Hall on Dominican University Campus, 7900
W. Division, River Forest, for more
info, call (708) 714-9105.
Interfaith Discussion: “Doing
Business in the Global Economy:
Christian and Muslim Perspectives,” April 11, 6:30-8 p.m., free,
hosted by Center for Global Peace
Through Commerce at Dominican
University, in Parmer Hall on campus, 7900 W. Division, River Forest,
(708) 714-9105.
St. Catherine of Siena Lecture:
April 24, 7 p.m., Susan Ross will
examine evolution of feminine language in the church and laity and
more, at Dominican University Priory Campus, 7200 W. Division, River
Forest, (708) 714-9105.
Book Presentation: “Leave Your
Tears in Moscow,” by the late Barbara Armonas, 20-year ordeal behind the Iron Curtain, her son and
daughter-in-law will read excerpts,
April 21, 7 p.m., $5, part of Hope &
Spirit Exhibit which closes April 30,
at Balzekas Lithuanian Museum,
6500 S. Pulaski, call (773) 5826500 for more info on this and upcoming events.
Faith and Reason Symposium:
April 13, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., keynoter
Fr. William Stoeger, SJ, at Benedictine University, 5700 College, Lisle,
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APRIL 8-21 2012
Movie shines light on campus life
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Movie at a glance
“The Hunger Games”
By Sister Helena Burns FSP
Dystopian adventure tracking two teens (Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson) as they
participate in the titular event, a televised
tournament in which youthful combatants
from oppressed districts are forced to battle
one another until only one remains alive for
the entertainment of their society’s decadent
urban elite. Director and co-writer Gary Ross’
version of the first volume in Suzanne Collins’
best-selling trilogy of novels is an effective
combination of spectacle and emotional drama
during which humane values are pitted against
Darwinian moral chaos. Sensibilities are not
spared in the portrayal of the grim contest, so
parents need to weigh carefully whether to
allow teens to attend. Possibly acceptable for
mature adolescents. Considerable hand-tohand and weapons violence and graphic images of bloody wounds. The Catholic News
Service classification is A-3, adults.
contributor
here’s a new kind of film coming
to a cinema near you: a film that is
Christian, made by Christians, but
(proudly) not part of the “Christian film
genre.” “Blue Like Jazz” is rated PG-13
but was almost rated R because of its “realness” with regard to campus life. Lots
of language and mature themes. Director
Steve Taylor won’t let his own 15-yearold daughter see it yet.
“Blue Like Jazz” is about a young
Christian man, Don Miller (Marshall Allman), who, for various reasons, is disgusted with his Christian faith, and opts
for a wild, radically secular party college
far from home where he hides his faith
and tries to assimilate. Isn’t this the path
so many young people take?
If someone is unaware of what regularly transpires on today’s college campuses, or has never seen a “college campus”
movie, “Blue Like Jazz” might be shocking. Otherwise, it’s the same old debauchery with the reality of God and
faith added, for the first time.
Catholics may be offended by the
heavy use of Catholic imagery, but we
shouldn’t be. It’s actually honoring our
symbols and bringing them to life, albeit
in a very unorthodox way. It shows the
hunger young people (and our world)
have for God, religion, ritual, etc.
Contemporary sexual issues are dealt
with in a fragmentary way. They are
more like a sad, true-to-life backdrop.
T
Marshall Allman plays Don Miller in “Blue Like Jazz.” Photo by Jonathan Frazier
Classifications
There is no “resolution” to the sexual
stuff, so this is not a theology of the body
movie. “Blue Like Jazz” concerns itself
with the “Does God exist?” question.
Is the crudeness in “Blue Like Jazz”
lowering the bar and capitulating to the
corrupt culture? No. I think it’s rather
going there to shed some light.
How might “Blue Like Jazz” actually
help young people?
1. Preparation. “Blue Like Jazz” takes
a young Christian through the college experience and raises lots of questions that
would be good for young people to get a
handle on before heading off to college.
Wrath of the Titans....................................A-3
Mirror Mirror............................................ A-2
The Deep Blue Sea....................................... L
October Baby............................................ A-2
21 Jump Street..............................................O
A Thousand Words .................................. A-3
John Carter .............................................. A-2
Silent House ............................................ A-3
The Lorax ............................................... A-1
2. Christians showing their “dark side.”
I’m not sure when Christianity became
all about saving face and not about saving grace, but spiritual progress requires
that we be realistic (at least to ourselves)
about our individual and communal failings as a church. We Christians are the
only ones that have the solution to sin —
the atonement, sacrifice, mercy and forgiveness of Christ, most especially in the
sacrament of reconciliation.
3. Faith and reason. We must encourage our Christian young people to think.
They must be allowed to ask the Big
Questions so they can own the answers.
Classifications used by CNS are: A-1, general patronage;
A-2, adults and adolescents; A-3, adults; L, limited adult
audiences, films whose problematic content many adults
would find troubling; O, morally offensive. For more information, visit www.usccb.org/movies.
Retreats
April 13 – 15, 2012
Divine Mercy Preached Retreat
Theme: “The Message of
Divine Mercy Reveals
the Power of Prayer.”
Presenter: Fr Jim White, C.Ss.R.
April 27 – 29, 2012
Mother & Daughter Retreat
Theme, “Listening, Praying &
Sharing Together.” (Not a silent retreat.)
May 1 – 3, 2012
Mid-week Women's Retreat
Theme, “Brother Lawrence
teaches the Practice of the
Presence of God.”
Presenter: Jennifer Christ
Explore consciously staying in God’s
presence while doing ordinary things.
May 4 – 6, 2012
Inner Healing Retreat
Theme, “Overcoming Unhealthy
Behaviors.”
Agnes A. Pamper, 79, of Des Plaines, IL and Chicago,
Presenter: Fr Jim White, C.Ss.R.
IL, at peace with God March 7, 2012.
Overcome with God’s grace.
May 18 – 20, 2012
8th Annual
Spring Retreat for
Alcoholics Anonymous
and Al-Anon
Contact: Br Gerry Patin, C.Ss.R.
(Not a silent retreat.)
Discussion meetings covering some of the twelve steps &
corresponding topics.
Time to enjoy the area & fellowship.
To register or for more information
Redemptorist
Retreat Center
1800 N Timber Trail Ln
Oconomowoc, WI
262-567-6900
www.redemptoristretreat.org
A devoted daughter, sister, aunt, cousin and friend.
Agnes was a dedicated and much admired
Archdiocese of Chicago employee from 1967-2008, in
the office of teacher personnel. Agnes will always be
remembered for her generous, selfless spirit.
Donations in Agnes' name may be made to either:
Misericordia, 6300 N. Ridge, Chicago, IL 60660,
https://www.misericordia.com/
donations/donate_online.aspx or
Greater Chicago Food Depository,
4100 W. Ann Lurie Pl., Chicago, IL 60632,
http://www.chicagosfoodbank.org. Private burial.
the archdiocese
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g RUMMAGE SALES
for more info call (630) 829-6250.
St. Francis Borgia Parish: April
13, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. and April 14, 8
a.m.-3 p.m., 8025 W. Addison, in
parish center, (773) 625-1118.
St. Louise de Marillac Parish:
April 14, 8 a.m.-noon, 1112 Harrison, LaGrange Park, for more info,
call Sue at (708) 485-2000.
g RETREATS
Caregivers’ Afternoon of Reflection: led by Fr. Gregor y
Helminski, CR, on challenging
mission of caring for another, April
28, 1:30-4:15 p.m., Mass follows,
at Chicago Cenacle, 513 Fullerton,
RSVP to (773) 528-6300.
Arusi Marriage Retreat: April
28-29, with Andrew and Terri Lyke,
$50/person, hosted by Office for
Black Catholics, at Hilton Garden
Inn, Tinley Park, call (312) 9129951 to register.
“Joyful Again”: for widows and
widowers, April 28-29, St. Edward
Parish, 4350 W. Sunnyside, call
(708) 354-7211 for more info and
to RSVP.
g REUNIONS
Josephinum High School:
April 18, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.,
$65/person, at Michigan Shores
Club, Wilmette, RSVP by April 13
to Morgan, at morgan.henington@josephinum. org.
St. Anthony Alumni Sunday:
April 29, 8:30 a.m. Mass, continental breakfast follows, 11533 S.
Prairie, (773) 468-1200.
Alvernia Alumnae: luncheon
April 22, for alums and anyone
once affiliated with Alver nia,
www.alverniaalumnae.org or call
Kathy Bunce at (708) 442-1479.
Leo Alumni: April 27, 6:30 p.m.,
honoring class of ’62 and ’87, at
Lexington House, 7717 W. 95th
St., Hickory Hills, call Gene Earner at (708) 636-8827.
Resurrection High School:
Mass, dinner, reception April 21,
family day April 22, 7500 W. Talcott, call Stefanie at (773) 7756616, Ext. 127 for more info.
Immaculate
Conception
Parish Homecoming: April 29,
10 a.m. Mass with Msgr. Kenneth
Velo, reception, part of 165th year
celebration of Catholic heritage, at
770 Deerfield Road, Highland
Park, RSVP to (847) 433-0130.
Queen of Martyrs Parish/
School: 60th anniversary, April
21, 4-8 p.m. $40/adults, $35/seniors, dinner buffet, beverages,
entertainment, raffles, at Bourbon
Street, Merrionette Park, call
(708) 712-2729.
g SPIRITUAL GROWTH
West Suburban Serra Club:
speaker Father Artur Sowa, April
11, 7 p.m., club prays for/encourages vocations to priesthood and
religious life, at Holley Court Terrace, 13th floor, 1111 Ontario, Oak
Park, for more info, call Sean at
(708) 386-2173.
Earn a Degree in Liturgy: summer study program to refresh the
soul and renew the Church, June
11-July 20, at the Liturgical Institute, 1000 E. Maple, Mundelein,
(847) 837-4542 or www.liturgical
institute.org.
“Accessing Your Inner Wisdom”: April 27, 9 a.m.-noon, $30,
a morning of soul exploration, at
The Well, 1515 W. Ogden, LaGrange Park, (708) 482-5088.
During this time many of the roads
in the cemetery were laid out to
accommodate automobiles. Irrigation
and drainage systems were installed
and cemetery lots were surveyed and
mapped in a systematic fashion.
g POTPOURRI
Southwest Archdiocesan Singles: brunch April 22, noon, at
DoubleTree Hotel, 5000 W. 127th
St., Alsip, basic cost $17.95, call
Kim at (630) 739-3797 by April 20.
Trivia Night: April 28, doors
open 6 p.m., games at 7 p.m.,
$15/person, beverages will be
sold, BYO snacks, St. Gerald
Parish Hall, 9320 S. 55th Court,
Oak Lawn, for more info, call (708)
422-2194 or e-mail development@stgerald.com.
Maryville Parent Resource
Fair: free, April 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.,
kids’ fun, games and prizes, balloon release at 2:30 p.m., at Merrimac Park, 6343 W. Irving Park for
more info, call (773) 205-3600.
Run4Unity 2012: for youth ages
9-17, to join with others across the
world May 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. and
pass a virtual baton through the
time zones, to say “Yes” to life, to
family, creation, solidarity, peace,
responsibility and a just economy,
hosted by the Young for Unity, $10
fee, or $12/at door, starts at Timothy Christian School, 188 W. Butterfield, Elmhurst, register at
www.midwest.focolare.us.
Resurrection Cemetery was established to serve the
Polish, Czech, and Slovak Catholic communities of
Chicago. Fr. Adalbert Furman of St. Casimir Church,
located at 22nd and Whipple in Chicago acquired the
first 20 acres of land that were blessed by him in 1904,
that was to be Resurrection Cemetery. The first burial
was of a parishioner from St. Casimir on January 18,
1904. There were 347 more burials that year, mostly
from three parishes, St. Casimir, St. Mary of Perpetual
Help, and St. Joseph on 48th and Hermitage. In those
early horse and buggy days, many funerals came on the
“C & J”, the Chicago and Joliet Electric Railroad.
Fr. Furman was succeeded by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Bona,
in 1912 who oversaw many of the improvements
that were made to the cemetery. During the 1930’s
additional land was added and the wooden office
building was replaced with the current office building.
George Cardinal Mundelein, dedicated the office
building on September 18th, 1932. This “modern
example of cemetery architecture” had an exterior of
Barre granite, marble wainscoting and floors, a bronze
lion head fountain and a Celesta-Vox amplified carillon
that was to be used for funerals and special occasions.
The Holy Family Shrine Section
built in 1955, was the first of many
shrine sections to follow that
enhanced the religious beauty of the
cemetery grounds. In 1969 the
Millennium Shrine was dedicated by
Pope John Paul II, who at that time
was known as His Eminence Karol
Cardinal Wojtyla, Archbishop of
Crakow. This shrine commemorated a thousand years
of Polish Christianity. Today the cemetery has over 20
shrines honoring different saints and other facets of
the Catholic faith. These shrine sections provide a
dignified identity to those sections where someone can
pray or meditate while visiting the cemetery. The
newest shrine, “The Ascension” was added to the
cemetery in 2004.
The Resurrection Mausoleum, which was
dedicated in 1971 not only had 10,500 crypt spaces,
but also was known as the world’s largest faceted glass
windows. 2,600 pieces of 3’x3’ sections, using 120 tons
of glass were used to create the 40 foot high walls of
the Resurrection Mausoleum. The “History of Man’s
Salvation” is vividly portrayed in the glass windows.
On the first floor of the mausoleum, recognition is
given in various art forms to the “Adventure in Grace”
of Polish Christianity. In 1985 the Resurrection
Garden Mausoleum was opened.
Today Resurrection Cemetery has grown to 420
acres and making over 2,000 burials annually from over
200 different parishes.
ST. JOSEPH Round Lake 1921
ALL SAINTS Des Plaines 1923
SACRED HEART Palos Hills 1872
ASCENSION Libertyville 1928
ST. ADALBERT Niles 1872
ST. JOSEPH Wilmette 1843
ASSUMPTION Glenwood 1952
ST. ALPHONSUS Lemont 1870
ST. MARY Evergreen Park 1888
CALVARY Evanston 1859
ST. ANNE Park Forest 1865
ST. MARY Freemont Center 1869
CALVARY Steger 1925
ST. BEDE Fox Lake 1873
ST. MARY Highland Park 1908
GOOD SHEPHERD Orland Park 2005
HOLY CROSS Calumet City 1893
ST. MARY Lake Forest 1885
ST. BENEDICT Crestwood 1885
ST. MARY Waukegan 1873
ST. BONIFACE Chicago 1863
ST. MICHAEL Orland Park 1868
HOLY SEPULCHRE Alsip 1923
ST. CASIMIR Chicago 1903
MARYHILL Niles 1961
ST. MICHAEL Palatine 1958
SS. CYRIL & METHODIUS Lemont 1888
MOUNT CARMEL Hillside 1901
ST. PATRICK Lake Forest 1840
MOUNT OLIVET Chicago 1885
ST. GABRIEL Oak Forest 1913
ST. PATRICK Lemont 1849
OUR LADY OF SORROWS Hillside 1923
ST. HENRY Chicago 1863
ST. PATRICK Wadsworth 1849
QUEEN OF HEAVEN Hillside 1947
ST. JAMES Sag Bridge Lemont 1837
ST. PETER Skokie 1863
RESURRECTION Justice 1904
ST. JAMES Sauk Village 1847
ST. PETER Volo 1885
SACRED HEART Northbrook 1900
ST. JOSEPH River Grove 1904
TRANSFIGURATION Wauconda 1873
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hicago (CNS) — Dominican Father Kevin
O’Rourke, a canon
lawyer who was one of the
leading Catholic voices in
health care ethics, died March
28 at age 85.
His death was announced
by the Neiswanger Institute
for Bioethics and Health Policy at Loyola University
Chicago Stritch School of
Medicine, where he had
taught since 2000. The announcement did not give a
cause of death. A funeral
Mass was held at St. Vincent
Ferrer Church in River Forest
on April 3.
The author of more than a
dozen books and hundreds of
articles, Father O’Rourke was
perhaps best known as the coauthor, with Dominican Father Benedict Ashley and Sister Jean deBlois, of “Health
Care Ethics: A Catholic Theological Analysis.” The fifth
edition of the textbook was
published in 2006 by Georgetown University Press.
Born David O’Rourke on
March 4, 1927, in Oak Park,
he attended Fenwick High
School and served in the U.S.
Navy during World War II.
He attended the University
of Notre Dame for a year before entering the Dominican
order in 1947, taking the religious name Kevin. He took
solemn vows in 1951 and was
ordained a priest in 1954.
Father O’Rourke earned a
licentiate in philosophy from
Aquinas Institute of Philosophy in River Forest in 1952; a
licentiate in theology from
Aquinas Institute of Theology
in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1954;
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and a doctorate in canon law
from the Pontifical University
of St. Thomas Aquinas in
Rome in 1958.
He began his career as an
academic bioethicist in 1958
at the Aquinas Institute in
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Dubuque, serving as dean
there, 1969-72.
After the U.S. Supreme
Court’s decisions in Roe v.
Wade and Doe v. Bolton lifted most state restrictions on
abortion, Father O’Rourke
went to work for the Catholic
Health Association, helping
to formulate possible responses if, as feared, the federal government were to require that Catholic hospitals
offer abortion services in
order to receive Medicaid
funds. No such requirement
ever materialized, however.
He also helped to develop
applications of the theological “principles of cooperation” so that Catholic health
care providers could implement safeguards to keep
themselves at an appropriate
moral distance from the performance of ethically questionable actions.
In a 1974 talk to the Cali-
fornia Conference of Catholic
Health Facilities, he said people in health fields must
move beyond the academic
and scholarly to change antilife attitudes in society. He
urged health care leaders to
unite with various movements
that promote “respect for
life” of the poor, the unborn,
the aged and the infirm to become politically active.
Father O’Rourke was
founding director of the Center for Health Care Ethics at
St. Louis University, 197999. From that post, he consulted in several high-profile
cases, including that of
Nancy Beth Cruzan, whose
case before the U.S. Supreme
Court established the legal
right of patients to refuse all
medical treatments, including
artificial feeding and hydration.
He joined in a 1989 friendof-the-court brief in the
Cruzan case that said, in part,
“The legal presumption
should require the provision
of life-sustaining treatment.
This presumption can be
overridden only when one has
an adequate objective basis to
show that such treatment
would be futile or unduly
burdensome to the patient.”
Father O’Rourke’s view
that church teaching allowed
for patients who were terminally ill or on a clear trajectory toward death to decline potentially death-delaying
treatments, including respirators and artificial feeding and
hydration, led to some criticism of the priest by pro-life
advocates.
He earned the Catholic
Health Association’s lifetime
achievement award in 2004.
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Gron, who is also associate
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Archdiocese of Chicago’s
Polish-language newspaper,
walked through the neighborhood holding up the monstrance with the Blessed
Sacrament. In doing so, he
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tool of transformation and
change.”
He added that praying the
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Fr. Paul Cullen
PASTOR
Servite Father Paul M. Cullen, 72,
died suddenly Feb. 10 at Annunciata Priory.
A native of Ireland, he entered
the Servite Order in 1957 in Benburb, Co. Tyrone, Ireland, and
made his solemn profession of
vows in 1963 at the Servite International Seminary in Louvain, Belgium. He was ordained a priest in
1965 in Brussels.
In the Archdiocese of Chicago,
Father Cullen was a teacher at St.
Philip High School; associate pastor and pastor at St. Domitilla
Parish, Hillside; pastor of Our
Lady of Sorrows Basilica; pastor
of Assumption Parish (Illinois
Street); and for the last 10 years,
pastor at Annunciata Parish.
Sr. Kathleen Buechele
ADMINISTRATOR, PASTORAL
MINISTER
Adrian Dominican Sister Kathleen
(Marie Aquin) Buechele, 78, died
on Feb. 27 in Adrian, Mich.
A Chicago native, she graduated
from Aquinas High School. She
spent 19 years ministering in education Michigan and Florida and
25 years in pastoral ministry in Illinois and New Mexico. She also
was the personnel and health program director for two years for the
Chicago archdiocese.
In the Archdiocese of Chicago,
she served as pastoral minister at
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director of the Office of Placement
Services, Chicago (1991-1992);
pastoral associate at St. Mary of
Celle Parish, Berwyn (1993-1997),
pastoral associate at Divine Providence Parish, Westchester (19972004); and office assistant at the
Dominican Midwest Chapter office, Burbank (2005-2006).
Sister Kathleen is survived by
two brothers, Donald and James.
Sr. James Marie O’Connor
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religious for the Diocese of Rockford in 1975, a post she would
hold for 30 years.
She is survived by her sister,
Therese “Tess” J. O’Connor.
Sr. Alice Louise Potts
TEACHER, PROVINCIAL LEADER
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A Chicago native, she entered
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Providence in 1943 and professed
final vows in 1950.
Sister Alice Louise ministered in
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final profession in 1949. She
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year after she became ill. Prior to
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Walking to end violence: Left, on
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Bonnie Perry, rector of All Saints Episcopal
Church, and (right) Bishop Wayne Miller of
the Metropolitan Chicago Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in
preparing to bless 600 people participating
in Crosswalk, a four-mile Holy Week procession across the heart of the City of Chicago
to remember murdered youth and to pray
for an end to violence. Presented by the
Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, the procession began with a blessing of participants at
5:15 p.m. It traveled through the Loop to a
stop at Daley Plaza and proceeded to Old
St. Patrick’s Church at Adams and Des
Plaines ending at Stroger Hospital.
Members of Our Lady
of Guadalupe Parish
on Chicago’s south
side listen to testimonies from parents
whose children were
killed by gun violence.
The testimonies were
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Through private suffering to public glory
eath and Resurrection, the story
of Holy Week, is everyone’s
story, a universal story. It is a
story at all because Jesus, truly God and
truly man, died to deliver from their sinfulness all those who would come to believe in him, and win for them eternal
life. Our death will probably not be like
Jesus’ death; crucifixion is no longer
used to impose the death penalty, which,
thank God, is now abandoned in Illinois
and more and more rarely imposed anywhere. Our resurrection, however, will
be very like his, although delayed until
he returns in glory to judge the living
and the dead.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German theologian who was hanged for participating in
a plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler,
preached, 12 years before he was killed:
“No one has yet believed in God and the
kingdom of God, no one has yet heard
about the realm of the resurrected, and
not been homesick from that hour —
waiting and looking forward to being released from bodily existence. … How do
we know that dying is so dreadful? Who
knows whether in our human fear and
anguish, we are only shivering and shuddering at the most glorious, heavenly
blessed event in the world? Death is hell
and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But this is just what
is so marvelous, that we can transform
death.”
Those who accompany the dying, as
did Jesus’ mother Mary, her sister, and
Mary of Magdala and St. John at the foot
of Jesus’ cross, escort them to the gates
of eternity. Praying at the bedside of the
dying, especially praying the rosary after
the formal litany and commendation of
the departing soul to the mercy of God,
is a work of love. At this time of year, we
should renew our gratitude to those in
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April 8: 11 a.m., Easter
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April 9: 5 p.m., Emmaus
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April 11: 9 a.m., Cardinal’s
Convocation with the Leadership of Religious Communities, St. Giles Parish, Oak
Park
April 12: 9 a.m., Society
for the Propagation of the
Faith Board Meeting, Meyer
Center
April 13: 7:15 p.m.,
Keynote Address, Institute on
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the Lake, Mundelein
April 14: 4:30 p.m., Mass,
Rededication of Our Lady of
the Angels Mission
April 16: 7:30 a.m., Public
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Club; 12:15 p.m., Board of
our hospitals and nursing homes, to the
hospice workers and the many family
members who have prayed and sung
those who die in Christ across the threshold of this life to the next. Funeral directors who place Christ’s cross over the
casket of a dead person while they help
to comfort a grieving family should also
be thanked; and we should renew our
own prayer for the grace to die a happy
death.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in
prison, and Christ’s grave was a prison
from Friday to Sunday. Easter is a time
to think of prisoners and those who minister to them. Most prisons in the State of
Illinois are in the southern third of our
state. The Cook County prison is fortunate in having its inmates served by Father Arturo Perez of Kolbe House at Assumption Parish. With Father Perez are
several deacons and volunteers. Their
prison ministry is exemplary and effective. They, and those who minister in the
Lake County prison, accompany the imprisoned along their own way of the
cross, help them to rise when they fall
and give them the hope that is born when
someone reaches out in love.
A great witness to our belief that death
can be transformed is our Catholic cemetery system. Our cemeteries are directed
by Msgr. Pat Pollard and expertly managed by Roman Szabelski. Catholic
cemeteries are a beautiful witness to our
faith in a world that often either plays
with death or tries to forget it. This ministry also serves beyond the church when
experts from our Catholic cemeteries are
called upon to help other cemeteries in
trouble or when the county makes use of
our cemeteries to bury unclaimed bodies.
Every corpse is treated with respect and
dignity not only because it has been a
temple of the Holy Spirit in this life, but
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College Seminary; 5:30 p.m.,
Opening Plenary Session,
World Catholicism Week
2012, DePaul University
April 17: 1 p.m., Administrative Council Meeting,
Meyer Center
April 18: Address and
Mass, Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States,
Miami, Fla.
April 19: 10 a.m., Episcopal Council Meeting, Residence; 5:30 p.m., Mundelein
Seminary’s An Evening of
Tribute, Sheraton Chicago
April 20: 7 p.m., Conversation with Young Adults, DePaul University Lincoln Park
Student Center
April 21: 9 a.m., Keynote
Presentation, Mayslake Ministries Lecture Series, DoubleTree Hotel, Downers
Grove; 1 p.m., Centennial
Mass, St. Casimir Academy/Maria High School, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin
Mary Church; 6 p.m., Casa
Jesús 25th Anniversary Banquet, The Palmer House,
Hilton
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also because its destiny is to rise at the
last day.
The resurrection of the body is comprehensible only if one is able to see the
beauty of creation and appreciate the
mystery of the incarnation of the Eternal
Son of God, who assumed our very
flesh. It is hard to see beauty in suffering
or to recognize glory in dying. Suffering
is private, because we cannot literally
feel another’s pain. Glory is public and
can be shared, like the joy of families at
a wedding party or the excitement of
fans at a World Series game.
Christ transformed the ignominy of
death on a particular cross on a small hill
called Calvary 2,000 years ago into universal glory for all those who come to
believe in him. The church, which
spends her days glorifying God, is used
by Christ to extend the effects of his
death and resurrection throughout creation, in every place and in every time.
In our place and our time, there are some
who boast of their hatred of God and
others who speak with disdain of the
church. There’s nothing new in that, but
it does call for new imagination on our
part in order to speak in ways that give
the Gospel a chance to be heard by
everyone, and it does call for courage to
live publicly a faith that many would like
to see reduced to a private belief.
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Christ’s resurrection from the dead
makes a private faith impossible; of its
nature, our faith is public. Like Christ
from the tomb, faith breaks forth in unexpected ways and transforms human
history.
Before entering into his suffering and
death, Jesus prayed: “Now glorify me,
Father, in your presence, with the glory
that I had with you before the world
began” (Jn 17:4-5). The Father has glorified his Son and, with him, all those who
recognize that Jesus is Lord. May the
blessing of the risen Christ and the joy of
Easter be intensely shared by your families and friends.
Sincerely yours in Christ,
Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I.
Archbishop of Chicago
Celebrating 100 years of ministry: Flanked by members of the Knights of Columbus, Cardinal George
celebrates a centennial anniversary Mass in honor of St. Joseph Parish in Round Lake on March 24.
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By Michelle Martin
Seminary tribute
dinner
The University of St. Mary of the
W
Lake/Mundelein Seminary will host
its annual Evening of Tribute at the
Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers,
301 E. North Water St. on April 19 at
5:30 p.m.
Father Robert Barron, Francis Cardinal George Professor of Faith and
Culture at Mundelein Seminary and
host and creator of the Catholicism
project, will receive the Joseph Cardinal Bernardin “As Those Who Serve”
Award. Mr. and Mrs. Michael C.
Winn will be honored with the Francis
Cardinal George “Christo Gloria”
Award.
For information, call (312) 5532000.
Assistance
ministry
workshop
The archdiocesan Office of Assistance Ministry is offering a half-day
workshop for loved ones of victimssurvivors of sexual abuse on April 21.
For more information and to register, contact Kathleen at (312) 5345268 or kleggdas@archchicago.org.
Fellowship
available
The Big Shoulders Fund, a nonprofit founded in 1986 that supports 93
inner-city Catholic schools in Chicago, seeks college students and recent
graduates for a marketing/communications fellowship this summer.
Candidates should be motivated to
support the mission of inner-city
Catholic education by working to
build enrollment in schools throughout Chicago under the direction of the
Big Shoulders Fund and local school
staff. Required qualifications include:
excellent communication skills,
strong organizational and time-management skills, and an innovative and
creative approach to tasks. Some
evening and weekend hours required.
For more information on the Summer Fellowship Program, visit
www.bigshouldersfund.org.
Looking for host
families
The ecumenical community of
Taizé, founded by Brother Roger in
central France in 1940, is organizing a
gathering for young adults ages 18 to
35 at DePaul University May 25-29.
The gathering is part of Taize’s “Pilgrimage of Trust on Earth,” which
began more than 30 years ago to
“foster trust and reconciliation in
e hosted families from Frank’s hockey team at our house last weekend, a
get-together following the parentscoach vs. player game that marked the team’s
last official event.
The game — a non-serious affair in which I
ran the scoreboard for the last part of the game
and was under orders to make sure it ended in a
tie — was fun, and the kids seemed to have a
blast running around outside afterward.
The only really remarkable thing to me was that
everyone who was at the
parent-player
came
over — that was 10 out of
12 families, a great
turnout for a weekend
sandwiched between
weeks when different
schools were on spring
Michelle Martin
break.
Some couldn’t stay long because they had
other places to go, but they came and had a
hamburger or a bowl of chili. Some came with
just a parent and a player from the team, but
most came as families, which was good, because after spending some time together nearly
every weekend from September to March, the
siblings seemed to know each other pretty well,
too.
The thing was, if you were looking at wins
and losses, the team didn’t have a successful
season. They lost every game in the pre-season
tiering round, and then every game the first
two-thirds of the regular season.
It sounds awful, I know. It sounds miserable
to drag your kids to game after game, only to
watch the other team exchanging hugs and
high-fives at the end. But the thing was, our
team was improving steadily. With 12 kids —
small for a hockey team — every player
played, and played a lot. Not a single one of
our team’s players had played a season of travel hockey before this year, and many had only
been playing for a couple of years. When the
season started, they had a lot of catching up to
do.
And they did it. There was a brief period toward the end of the season when they had not
yet been eliminated from their division playoffs
when they were hoping against hope to make
it; they didn’t, but played on, with their heads
held high, and won their last game. Then they
went to an out-of-town weekend tournament
and went 2-2 against teams that played in higher divisions than they did, ending the season
with a win and their best hockey so far.
Along the way, they learned to work hard, to
play not only to their own strengths but those
of their teammates, to listen and to learn and to
keep trying.
It’s the kind of effort St. Paul wrote about
when he used the metaphor of running a race
for our efforts to follow Jesus. “Do you not
know that in a race the runners all compete, but
only one receives the prize? Run so as to win
it,” he wrote in first Corinthians (9:24). In Hebrews, he wrote, “let us rid ourselves of every
burden and sin that clings to us and persevere
in running the race that lies before us.”
Frank’s team did not have a winning record,
true. But they played so as to win the more important prizes that they can get from hockey or
any other sport.
Pinwheels for abuse prevention: Joe Keenan, a fourth-grader at St.
Mary of the Woods School in Chicago, plants a pinwheel in the archdiocese’s
Healing Garden, 1080 W. Roosevelt Road, to launch Child Abuse Prevention
Month. During April communities across the country work to increase awareness
of child abuse and its prevention. To launch the campaign, the archdiocese’s Office
of Assistance Ministry and Safe Environment Office planned a Prevent Child Abuse
Prayer Service and Pinwheel Planting for Prevention at the Healing Garden. Karen
Callaway/Catholic New World
today’s world.”
Three Taizé brothers from the small
French village of the same name are
living at DePaul and coordinating
preparations. They are seeking local
parishes that can offer accommodation with families for the young adults
coming from outside the Chicago
area.
For information on hosting, email
chicago2012@Taizé.fr. For information about the event, visit www.taize.
fr/en.
Cardinals
Mass
Cardinal George will be the main
celebrant and homilist at a Mass with
U.S. cardinal-archbishops at Holy
Name Cathedral, State and Superior,
on April 27 at 3:45 p.m.
The cardinals will attend the 23rd
American Cardinals Dinner later in
the evening, a private event for the
benefit of The Catholic University of
America, located in Washington, D.C.
For information about the dinner,
visit cardinalsdinner.cua.edu.
Mourning
miscarriages
To assist those that have experienced
the human heartbreak of a miscarriage,
the Catholic Cemeteries of the Archdiocese of Chicago reaches out with a
burial program of care, compassion
and support.
The selection of a grave in the cemetery baby section at a minimal cost that
includes the interment fee allows for a
dignified, timely and respectful burial.
The child’s name is recorded in the
cemetery database and the opportunity
for one to place a grave marker on the
individual grave for permanent memorialization is also available.
For information on miscarriage burials or general cemetery questions, call
(708) 449-6100 or visit www.Catholic
CemeteriesChicago.org.
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Maestro: John Paul believed music could heal
ir Gilbert Levine had a one-of-a-kind
relationship with Pope John Paul II.
He partnered with the pope on historic concerts whose intent was to heal and
bring peace.
Levine, who is Jewish, first met John
Paul in 1988 when the former was conducting the Kraków Philharmonic in Poland.
The two men formed a bond that spanned
17 years.
On April 23, Levine will conduct “Peace
Through Music,” a one-time concert celebrating the first anniversary of John Paul’s
beatification and will feature the Lyric
Opera of Chicago Orchestra, the Chicago
Symphony Chorus and a quartet of international vocal soloists.
Through this concert Levine hopes to
continue the work he started with John
Paul. He spoke with editor Joyce Duriga
about his relationship with the pontiff and
the April 23 concert.
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Catholic New Word: You’ve said in interviews and in your book “The Pope’s
Maestro” that Pope John Paul II was the
third priest you ever met.
Sir Gilbert Levine: The first one was the
cardinal archbishop of Krakow. It’s not surprising because Poland is such an incredibly Catholic country. And Krakow was
ruled in 1987 by the Communist Party, or
so they thought. But an equally important
body was the church.
Cardinal Franciszek Macharski (then
archbishop of Krakow) felt it was very important to him to meet this new American
conductor coming to Poland in the depths
of the Cold War. I was under constant surveillance by the Communist Party and by
the Secret Police. Cardinal Macharski
opened his study to me, sat me down and
really made me feel at home.
At the end of that interview he told me
“You must tell all that you told me to the
Holy Father.” I had no idea what he was
talking about. It was inconceivable to me.
Then I came back from Christmas vacation that year and found on my desk a note
telling me basically, not asking me, to go to
Rome and to call a priest. I was given two
names. One didn’t answer and the other
was Msgr. Stanisław Dziwisz, the pope’s
private secretary. He was the second priest I
ever met in the Apostolic Palace.
The third priest was the pope. What was
astonishing about that was I was warned
that if I ever did get to meet the pope it
would be a wonderful occasion. I was admonished “Don’t prepare anything, there
won’t be anything to say. The whole encounter will be 10 seconds long.”
Instead of that, breaking all protocol, the
pope had me into his private library for
what’s called a tête-à-tête, just the two of
us. It was such a remarkable encounter.
But again I thought that was the end of it.
I thought that was an extraordinary experience for a lifetime. He had other things in
mind and the relationship grew and lasted
17 incredible years during which I conducted concerts for him, both at the Vatican and
around the world, all to foster the notion
that we are all brothers, that all men are
brothers, and that what divides us is so
Concert
details
What: “Peace Through
Music: In the Spirit of
John Paul.” A concert in
honor of the first anniversary of the beatification
of Pope John Paul II
When: April 23 at 8 p.m.
Where: Orchestra Hall at
Symphony Center, 220
S. Michigan Ave.
Who: Lyric Opera of
Chicago Orchestra, the
Chicago Symphony
Chorus and soloists
Amanda Majeski, Sara
Mingardo, Antonio Poli
and John Relyea under
the direction of Sir
Gilbert Levine
Tickets: www.cso.org or
(312) 294-3000
Pope John Paul’s image hangs from St. Peter’s Basilica on May 2, 2011, the day of his
beatification. CNS photo/Paul Haring
much less important than what unites us.
That was the motivating force of what he
thought it was that music could do.
I did concerts in Munich, Paris, London,
Seoul, Korea, for the Eucharistic Congress
of Asian bishops. I was doing things that
never in my wildest imagination did I think
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New resources for immigrant-to-immigrant ministry
By Michelle Martin
staff writer
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Booklets for the Pastoral Migratoria program
were blessed at the Cardinal Meyer Center,
3525 S. Lake Park Ave., on March 15. Karen
Callaway/Catholic New World
“Pastoral Migratoria starts with formation, it starts with evangelization, it starts
with our faith, it starts with our call to conversion,” said Elena Segura, director.
The seven booklets — one each for six
sessions of formation and reflection and another collection of prayers — are scripturally based and invite participants to observe,
Karen Callaway/Catholic New World
mmigrants who minister to other immigrants now have a new set of tools to
form themselves in Catholic social justice as they do their work.
The Archdiocese of Chicago’s Office for
Immigrant Affairs and Immigration Education has released a new formational curriculum for participants in its “Pastoral Migratoria,” or immigrant-to-immigrant ministry.
judge and act, Segura said.
The sessions include the call to Pastoral
Migratoria; the reality of immigrants’ lives;
the dignity of the human person; the rights
and responsibilities of children of God and
residents of communities; the dignity of
work; solidarity and the building of the
kingdom of God.
The curriculum was blessed by Bishops
John Manz and Alberto Rojas in front of
more than 100 Hispanic lay leaders at the
Cardinal Meyer Center on March 15. Since
then, the office has begun working through
the curriculum with Pastoral Migratoria
leaders at several parishes.
The resources are the culmination of two
and a half years of work on the part of the
office in collaboration with the National
Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry, the
Hispanic Ministry Resource Center of
Claretian Publications and a team of theologians including Holy Cross Father Daniel
Groody of the University of Notre Dame,
Dominican Sister Barbara Reid at Catholic
Theological Union and Alicia Marill at
Barry University.
The Claretians are translating the curriculum into English, for people working to educate members of predominantly non-immigrant parishes about immigration and the
church’s teaching about it.
The archdiocese started Pastoral Migratoria in 2009, and it is now active in more
than 40 Hispanic parishes. More than 200
lay leaders participate. It expanded to include six Polish parishes with 45 active
leaders in 2011.
“It seems we started backwards because
Remembering immigrants: Members of Sisters and Brothers of
Immigrants held a vigil in front of Holy Name Cathedral on March 19. The vigil, held
on the Feast of St. Joseph, the patron saint of immigrants, called for an end to the
policy of detaining and deporting noncriminal immigrants, as well as the need for
comprehensive immigration reform. Pictured are Kathlyn Meyers, Dominican Sister
Patricia Stark, Living Word Sister Mary Ann Zrust, Sisters of Christian Charity
Margaritis and Susanne Kullowitch, (back row) Dominican Sister Judith Hilbing and
Holy Spirit Sister Rose Therese Nolta.
we didn’t have a complete, systematic way
of connecting life with faith,” Segura said.
The Pastoral Migratoria leaders have always
been taught to reflect on the connections between their lives and the lives of other immigrants and their faith.
Each leader receives a Bible when he or
she is formally commissioned.
“We didn’t know how many of them were
really using their Bibles,” Segura said.
“Now, with this, they can look up the Scripture passages and really reflect on it.”
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Above, Scalabrinian sisters (clockwise) Ruth Marostica, Bertila
Scola, Aurelia Bordignon and Laura Migliorini hold a sign while
attending the vigil in the backyard of their home. Right, more
than 500 people came together for a prayer vigil and march to
protest the opening of a strip club near the Convent of the
Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo in Melrose Park on
March 22. At press time “Get It” strip club had not opened. Karen
Callaway/Catholic New World
Sisters protest against adult club opening nearby
Scalabrinians say
club will degrade
community, put
children at risk
By Michelle Martin
Staff writer
he Missionary Sisters of St.
Charles Borromeo hosted
about 500 of their neighbors March 22 in a prayer vigil in
hopes of stopping the planned
opening of a strip club on Lake
Street adjacent to their property.
The club, to be named “Get It,”
would feature alcohol and partially nude dancers on a site that was
formerly a factory.
The sisters say the club will degrade the community, depress
property values and create danger-
T
ous situations for children who
sometimes play in the alley that
runs along the property.
It will also further harm the reputation of the community of just
under 5,000 people, which already has at least five adult entertainment venues, according to a
community group calling itself
Neighbors United for a Better
Stone Park.
“It goes against the Christian
values of the neighborhood,” said
Scalabrinian Sister Noemia Silva.
“Residential homes are all over
the place. There will be more violence, more drunk driving, who
knows, even human trafficking.
We want a healthy Stone Park,
without another strip club.”
The club had not opened as of
April 3; Sister Noemia said the
sisters heard it might open on
Good Friday, and planned to
protest if that turned out to be true.
Participants in the vigil gathered
in front of the convent under
threatening skies early in the
evening of March 22; processed
around the block in quiet, peaceful prayer; and returned to the
convent parking lot for testimonies, music and speeches.
Father Larry Dowling, pastor of
St. Agatha Parish on Chicago’s
West Side, read a letter from Cardinal George to the participants.
It read in part: “A strong community is one where families and
neighbors see their shared paths,
become engaged and directly involved, and seek to build the communities they desire: healthy, safe
and united communities, where
families are respected, where children can be safe, where we can
converse as neighbors and as
brothers and sisters in the Lord.
“I pray that as a community,
with your leaders, you find the
courage and perseverance to stand
for what is just and what is
right — for yourself, your families and your town.”
More than 100 people, including the sisters, who object to the
club attended a Stone Park village
board meeting March 12, but received no relief. Stone Park earlier turned down the club owner’s
petition to rezone the property, but
reversed course in 2010 after the
owner, Bob Itzkow, sued.
The village settled and later approved the project.
The sisters, whose property
straddles the border of Melrose
Park and Stone Park, say they
never got notification of the proposed rezoning, although village
officials say they did post notices
in local newspapers. A courtesy
letter — not required by law —
was apparently sent to the wrong
address and never received.
Meanwhile, the Thomas More
Society, a Chicago-based legal
group, said they will challenge the
village’s approval of the club because they believe it violates a
state law that imposes a mile-wide
buffer zone between adult entertainment facilities and houses of
worship.
Because the convent property
includes chapels in addition to
housing for active sisters, novices
and retired sisters, it should qualify, according to a statement from
Thomas More Society executive
director Peter Breen.
If the sisters and other neighborhood residents are able to stop
it, Sister Noemia said she can
think of other things the building
could be used for.
“Stone Park doesn’t have its
own library,” she said. “That
would be a good thing for that
building.”
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Passion Sunday Scriptures demonstrate Jesus is Lord
he texts that Christians typically read
on Palm Sunday have become so familiar to them that they probably don’t
sense their properly revolutionary power.
But no first-century Jew would have missed
the excitement and danger implicit in the
coded language of the accounts describing
Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem just a few days
before his death.
In Mark’s Gospel we hear that Jesus and
his disciples “drew near to Jerusalem, to
Bethphage and Bethany on the Mount of
Olives.” A bit of trivial geographical detail,
we might be tempted to conclude. But we
have to remember that pious Jews of Jesus’
time were immersed in the infinitely complex world of the Hebrew Scriptures and
stubbornly read everything through the lens
provided by those writings.
About 500 years before Jesus’ time, the
prophet Ezekiel had relayed a vision of the
“Shekinah” (the glory) of Yahweh leaving
the temple, due to its corruption: “The glory
of the Lord went out from the threshold of
the house (the temple) and stopped above the
cherubim. The cherubim … rose from the
earth in my sight as they went out. …They
stopped at the entrance of the east gate of the
house of the Lord; and the glory of the God
of Israel was above them” (Ez 10: 18-19).
This was one of the most devastating texts
in the Old Testament. The temple of the Lord
was seen as, in almost a literal sense, the
dwelling place of God, the meeting-place of
heaven and earth. Thus even to imagine that
the glory of the Lord had quit his temple was
shocking in the extreme However, Ezekiel
also prophesied that one day the glory of
God would return to the temple, and precisely from the same direction in which it had
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Jesus was not only
the glory of Yahweh
returning to his
temple; he was also
the new David
left: “Then he brought me to the gate, the
gate facing east. And there, the glory of the
God of Israel was coming from the east; the
sound was like the sound of mighty waters;
and the earth shone with his glory” (Ez 43:
1-2). Furthermore, upon the return of the
Lord’s glory, Ezekiel predicted, the corrupt
temple would be cleansed, restored, re-built.
Now let’s return to Jesus, who, during his
public ministry, consistently spoke and acted
in the very person of God and who said, in
reference to himself, “you have a greater
than the temple here.” As they saw him approaching Jerusalem from the east, they
would have remembered Ezekiel’s vision and
would have begun to entertain the wild but
thrilling idea that perhaps this Jesus was, in
person, the glory of Yahweh returning to his
dwelling place on earth.
And in light of this, they would have understood the bewildering acts that Jesus performed in the temple. He was, in fact, another Ezekiel, pronouncing judgment on the old
temple and then announcing a magnificent
rebuilding campaign: “I will tear down this
place and in three days rebuild it.” Jesus, they
came to understand, was the new and definitive temple, the meeting-place of heaven and
earth.
And there is even more to see in the drama
of Jesus’ arrival in the Holy City. As the
rabbi from Nazareth entered Jerusalem on a
donkey, no one could have missed the reference to a passage in the book of the prophet
Zechariah: “Rejoice greatly, O daughter
Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem!
Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and
victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” (Zec 9:9).
A thousand years before the time of Jesus,
David had taken possession of Jerusalem,
dancing before the Ark of the Covenant.
David’s son Solomon built the great temple
in David’s city in order to house the Ark, and
therefore, for that brief, shining moment, Israel was ruled by righteous kings. But then
Solomon himself and a whole slew of his descendants fell into corruption, and the
prophets felt obligated to criticize the kings
as thoroughly as they criticized the temple.
The people began to long for the return of
the king, for the appearance of the true
David, the one who would deal with the enemies of the nation and rule as king of the
world. They expected this new David to be,
of course, a human figure, but something
else rather surprising colored their expectation, namely, that through this human being,
God would actually come to rule the nation.
Here are just two passages, chosen from
dozens, that express this hope: “For I am a
great king says Yahweh of hosts, and my
name is reverenced among the nations”
(Mal 1:14); and “I will extol you, my God
and King, and bless your name forever.
…Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and your dominion endures throughout all
generations” (Psalm 145).
So to draw these various strands together,
we might say that the Biblical authors expected Yahweh to become king, precisely
through a son of David, who would enter
the holy city, not as a conquering hero, riding a stately Arabian charger, but as a humble figure, riding a young donkey. Could
anyone have missed that this was exactly
what they were seeing on Palm Sunday?
Jesus was not only the glory of Yahweh
returning to his temple; he was also the new
David, indeed Yahweh himself, reclaiming
his city and preparing to deal with the enemies of Israel.
He fought, of course, not in the conventional manner. Instead, he took all of the
dysfunction of the world upon himself and
swallowed it up in the ocean of the divine
mercy and forgiveness. He thereby dealt
with the enemies of the nation and emerged
as the properly constituted king of the
world.
And this is why Pontius Pilate, placing
over the cross a sign in Latin, Greek, and
Hebrew announcing that this crucified Jesus
is King of the Jews, became, despite himself, the first great evangelist!
And so the message, delivered in the wonderfully coded and ironic language of the
Gospel writers, still resonates today: heaven
and earth have come together; God is victorious; Jesus is Lord.
Directive ‘a glimmer of hope’ on conscience rights?
By Dennis Sadowski
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
ashington — A little publicized
policy directive from the U.S.
Agency for International Development is getting a closer look from religious
freedom advocates and promoters of conscience protections in federal law.
Months in development, the directive offers one of the broadest and most inclusive
conscience protections to faith-based organizations funded by USAID to operate AIDS
treatment and prevention programs and other
health care programs around the world,
Catholic observers said.
Specifically, the directive bans discrimination against faith-based and other organizations that decide not to engage in activities
that violate religious or moral principles,
such as condom distribution and education
in their use.
Advocates of religious freedom see the
language in the agency’s acquisition and assistance policy directive as a model that
could be implemented in all government
programs, contracts and grants with minor
changes depending on the programs individual agencies oversee. Such language could
pertain to federal programs ranging from
health care reform to assistance to human
trafficking victims.
The directive implements the conscience
protection mandate that was included in the
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Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United
States Global Leadership Against
HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008. The law authorized
up to $48 billion over 5 years to combat
malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS. It includes
funding for the widely lauded President’s
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief program,
known as PEPFAR.
The law, which expires at the end of fiscal
year 2013, passed handily in both houses of
Congress, both then under the control of Democrats: 308-116 in the House and 80-16 in
the Senate. President George W. Bush
signed the bill July 30, 2008. For the record,
President Barack Obama, then a U.S. senator from Illinois, did not vote on the measure.
“(The directive) we feel expresses quite
well what we would have wanted to see, and
we are pleased with the constructive process
we went through with them and they went
through with us,” said Bill O’Keefe, vice
president for government relations and advocacy at Catholic Relief Services.
“It’s very important obviously because the
church’s global health network is critical to
addressing the problem of AIDS in many
countries. That was recognized in the legislation and now is recognized explicitly in
this guidance so we can at least compete
fairly. We’re not asking for any preferential
treatment. But as the law specified we wanted to be able to compete fairly without dis-
It’s very important
obviously because the
church’s global health
network is critical
to addressing the
problem of AIDS
in many countries.
crimination because of our teaching,” O’Keefe said.
He acknowledged that CRS played the
leading role in the directive’s development.
The agency has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for AIDS
services around the world since 2004.
While CRS was unable to provide details
on how much funding it received from
USAID under PEPFAR, it has received $740
million for its AIDS Relief program from
the federal government since 2004. The program has provided care and treatment to
nearly 700,000 people in Ethiopia, Guyana,
Haiti, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South
Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
The directive affects not just CRS but all
faith-based agencies that receive funding
under PEPFAR.
The directive was welcomed by the U.S.
Conference of Catholic Bishops, which is
embroiled in its own dispute with the
Obama’s administration over religious freedom issues and conscience protections on a
number of fronts, particularly health care reform.
“This (directive) incorporates the purpose
of the statute into implementation,” said
Richard Doerflinger, associate director of
the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life
Activities. Doerflinger remained cautious,
however, telling CNS the directive is limited
to specific programs funded by one government agency. He said only the fact that the
law reauthorizing PEPFAR and other health
services included specific conscience protections was why the directive was as broad as
it was.
When the programs are up for reauthorization in 2013, faith-based groups will
have to renew their push to preserve the
nondiscrimination wording they support, he
said. Officials at USAID did not return calls
seeking comment on the drafting of the directive.
As the reauthorization law was being debated in Congress in 2008, the U.S. bishops
took a particularly active role in ensuring
that the final wording included the language
protecting religious freedom, explained
Stephen Colecchi, director of the bishops’
Office of International Justice and Peace.
“They understood the Catholic Church
and the ties with Catholic institutions,
which are very significant in many countries that suffer from the epidemic,” he said.
commentary/news
APRIL 8-21, 2012
Missing from shipwreck still inspire
his month we mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, and the luxury liner buried
two and a half miles below the Atlantic
bobs to the surface once again.
But I keep circling back to the shipwreck of 2012, the cruise liner Costa
Concordia that struck a reef off the Italian
island Giglio one Friday night in January.
Of the 32 casualties, only two Americans
remain missing, a retired couple from
Minnesota: Barb Heil, 70, and her husband, Jerry, 69, parents of four and devout Catholics.
They waited their whole lives to take a
cruise like this one, having paid for years
of Catholic school tuition and medical
bills from a bout with cancer. Finally,
their chance came — time to see Vatican
City and Tuscany’s rolling hills.
Four days after the shipwreck, a reporting assignment brought me to Barb and
Jerry’s parish, St. Pius X in White Bear
Lake, a mile and a half from their blue
ranch-style home. Their fingerprints were
everywhere.
As I pulled up to the church, the maintenance guy, Randy, was changing the
marquee sign on the front lawn, removing
the words “school book fair” and loading
the message “Barb - Jerry prayer service.”
In the front entrance I passed boxes of
raffle tickets for the parish festival three
weeks away. Barb and Jerry’s envelope
was not there. They must have retrieved it
before leaving on their trip.
A little further in, sign-ups for volunteer positions were taped on a table. On
It’s not showy or
pious, it’s just who
you are — Catholic,
through and through.
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the second sheet, Barb had written her
name in loopy cursive, committing to a
kitchen duty to be fulfilled Sunday, Feb.
12: “hot dogs 10:45 a.m.-1:45 p.m.”
The small eucharistic adoration chapel
tucked behind the sacristy was occupied
by four parishioners. Jerry and Barb attended daily Mass and weekly adoration,
and now that chapel was being filled in
their honor. I flipped through the register,
a three-ringer binder marked with arrivals
and departures at every hour, overlapping
five or 10 minutes. Outside the chapel
door, a turquoise Mead notebook held petitions for Barb and Jerry scrawled in
black ink. “Peace,” someone wrote, “closure for their family.”
One of the parishioners in adoration
was Dennis Bechel, 71, who belonged to
the same Knights of Columbus council
Jerry had served on.
“It’s a shock,” Dennis told me. “You become almost like a second family when
you’re involved in a church community
like St. Pius.”
I learned that Jerry taught adult faith
formation and had helped set up the
church’s first website. Barb, meanwhile,
was an active volunteer at the Dorothy
Day homeless shelter.
One month later I was back at St. Pius
attending the memorial Mass for Barb
and Jerry.
We sang “Be Not Afraid,” and during
his homily the priest addressed the scenario playing out in all our minds. He
gave us the words we want to believe: “I
can imagine them very calmly allowing
others to get ahead, not pushing others,
probably figuring it was going to be OK.”
Surely, he said, Barb and Jerry were praying as they waited their turn.
When I reviewed all my reporting
notes, it was hard to find anything unrelated to Catholicism. As a 20-something
imagining what the rest of my life will
look like, that inspired me.
For me that’s the takeaway, that’s the
testimony: to be so wholly Catholic that
there is nothing outside your faith, nothing untouched, nothing walled off, nothing hidden. It’s where you begin and end
and where you dwell all day. It’s not
showy or pious, it’s just who you are —
Catholic, through and through.
Capecchi is a freelance writer from
Minnesota. She can be contacted at
www.ReadChristina.com.
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Vatican approves
blessing rite for
unborn children
ashington (CNS) — Just in time for
Mother’s Day, U.S. Catholic parishes
will be able to celebrate the new Rite for the
Blessing of a Child in the Womb.
The Vatican has given its approval to publication in English and Spanish of the new
rite, which was
approved by the
U.S. bishops in
November 2008,
the U.S. Conference of Catholic
Bishops
announced March
26. The blessing
will be printed in
both languages in
a combined booklet.
CNS file photo
The blessing was
prepared to support parents awaiting the
birth of their child, to encourage parish
prayers for and recognition of the gift of the
child in the womb, and to foster respect for
human life within society. It can be offered
within the context of Mass as well as outside of Mass, and for an individual mother,
a couple or a group of expectant parents.
The blessing includes intercessions “for
our government and civic leaders that they
may perform their duties with justice and
compassion while respecting the gift of
human life” and “for a safe and healthy
pregnancy for all expectant mothers and for
a safe delivery for their children.”
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