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Celebrating April 8-21, 2012 12 0 years Newspaper for the Archdiocese of Chicago Passing on traditions Grandmother explains Palm Sunday procession to granddaughter See second photo, Page 22 Vol. 120, Issue 8, 28 pages www.catholicnewworld.com Chicago was dear to pope, maestro says Page 5 $1.25 Two young women share paths to church Page 15 Catholics join in walk to end violence Page 28 life 10 catholic 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. J 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. For more information, visit www.archchicago.org/peaceandjustice. The Lumen Christi Institute presents A Concert of Sacred Music featuring Schola Antiqua of Chicago M A A D Music of the Hours F, A , : R M C U C S W A C, IL S, A , : S. C C W D P C, IL S, A , : S. I J W F S H, IL Tickets available at door: $25 general, $10 students/seniors. w w w. lumenchri st i . org SUMMER INSTITUTE 2012 NOURISH YOUR SOUL, EXPLORE YOUR FAITH, DEVELOP A MINISTERIAL SKILL Come study with us at CTU’s Summer Institute June 11-15; 18-22; and 25-29 Courses include: Donald Senior, CP Acts of the Apostles Robin Ryan, CP Jesus and Salvation Scott Alexander Christian-Muslim Relations Richard Fragomeni Pastoral Care for the Sick Diana Hayes Black and Womanist Theologies Catherine Dooley, OP Challenges in Contemporary Catechesis Leslie Hoppe, OFM Biblical Archaeology for Beginners All courses can be taken for credit or for audit. For a complete list of courses and their descriptions, as well as how to apply, go to www.ctu.edu or contact: Sallie Latkovich, CSJ, at 773.371.5436 or [email protected]. www.ctu.edu 5401 S Cornell Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60615 Preparing effective leaders for the Church spirituality 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 S U B S C R I B E ! ( 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. 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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. H “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.” 13 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. CARMELITE GIFT SHOP LOCATED WITHIN THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF ST. THERESE Coming soon...new artifacts of Saint Therese from Lisieux, France! 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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 See Page 26 evangelization APRIL 8-21, 2012 15 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. S A Christian: First walked into a Catholic church in early May 2011. 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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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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 explores Catholic spiritual, intellectual and cultural traditions as a means to produce leaders better educated and formed in Catholic For a schedule of upcoming talks, visit www.lumenchristi.org. On April 24 at 7 p.m. at the University of Chicago Ian Ker of Oxford will speak about “G.K. Chesterton on Humor.” ORDER YOURS TODAY! 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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. Read full interview at www.catholicnewworld.com. For over 60 years the Diocese of Green Bay has offered a Magnificent Island Paradise at Holy Name Retreat House on Chambers Island in Door County, Wisconsin 70 acres of serenity located on a spectacular isthmus Watch the Sunrise over the Bay and the Sunset over the Lake Individual & Group Silent Retreats N Now ow featuring featuring FFirst irst C ommunion & Confirmation Confirmation gifts. Communion gifts. 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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 In this issue: Cardinal’s column, Page 3 The Update, Page 4 Spirituality, Page 11 5 Min. with Father, Page 19 Church Clips, Page 21 Around the Archdiocese, Pages 22, 24 Media & Culture, Pages 17 & 23 Business Guide, Page 25 Obituaries, Page 27 More reading 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 On the cover: 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 New World For information about photos published in the Catholic New World, call (312) 534-7577 or e-mail [email protected]. The Catholic New World proclaims the Good News as it supports the Archbishop of Chicago in his role as leader, teacher and evangelizer. The Catholic New World tells the stories of faith of the believing people of the Church of Chicago. It serves the larger Church, providing news, information and teaching; it is an agent of evangelization and a reflection of ministries of the Cardinal, his bishops, clergy and people. The official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago CARDINAL FRANCIS E. GEORGE, OMI • PUBLISHER COLLEEN DOLAN • Associate Publisher, Director of Communications and Public Relations DAWN VIDMAR • General Manager, New World Publications 040812 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. 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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- Offerings for Our Infant King Sponsor a flower or a candle Be Visible advertise IN PRINT | ONLINE The Catholic New World in WWW. I NFAN T K ING.COM 773-363-7409 312 534-7777 ested in converting, he would have been the first to have been 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 man of faith. He was brought up in Wadowice with Jews. Wadowice was a town that was one-third Jewish. ... Jews 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 is a powerful message that he lived in his life and radiated in everything that he did. The Jewel of the South Shore St. Philip Neri Church & School Centennial Mass & Reception 1912 – 2012 Come celebrate with us! Sunday, May 20th 2012 10:00 am Mass with His Eminence Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I. Reception following the Mass in the School Gym 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,” which is on the top-10 hit parade 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 better about the world from having known John Paul in their lives, in the memory and also the in living nature of his spirit and the music that we perform that encapsulates and encompasses that spirit. Faith – Community – Education Builders of Hope & Promise Centennial Plaque Join in Remembering A Family Member or Friend Diamond Sponsor: $1,000 Gold Sponsor: $500 Silver Sponsor: $300 Bronze Sponsor: $100 For more information contact the Parish office. We look forward to Welcoming You! 2132 E. 72nd Street – Chicago, Illinois, 60649 773-363-1700 • [email protected] www.stphilipnerichgo.org protect her future Secure your Income Do both with a CHARITABLE GIFT ANNUITY from CRS. Contact CRS today: E crs.org/annuities c 1-888-277-7575, ext. 7324 m [email protected] The official international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. church clips APRIL 8-21, 2012 21 Start Your Easter Season with a Spring in Your Step!! Come Join the Catholic Citizens of Illinois for our April Luncheon where you will hear an inspiring talk by acclaimed writer and professor, Anthony Esolen Professor Esolen of Providence College, Rhode Island, is author of numerous books including, "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization" and "Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child." He has appeared on EWTN, and given lectures at Georgetown University, Yale University, University of St. Thomas, Christendom College, and King's College. BY DOLORES MADLENER use help sorting and hanging donated clothing on Monday and Wednesday afternoons at their Chicago, Evergreen Park or Des Plaines sites. Call Jackie at (773) 794-8807. . . . Misericordia is calling all candy can volunteers for 2012’s Candy Days, April 27-28. Because of Illinois’ budget mess, Misericordia has to raise $12 million this year to pay operating costs. Jelly Belly candy is the reward for motorists donating to the red-aproned volunteers. Call Tessa at (773) 2732768 if you can help for an hour or two. Choose your corner. Date: Friday, April 20, 2012 Time: 11:45 am Location: Union League Club, 65 W. Jackson Blvd. in Chicago. Tickets are $35.00. Business attire. For reservations call Maureen at 708-352-5834 Visit us online at www.catholiccitizens.org. It isn’t trivial pursuit: If the “CatholiRelevant Radio is taking to the streets to get “more traffic” on their 950 AM and 930 AM dial. $2695 $2495 $2395 $2295 $1995 $1995 $ 275 $ 275 Saint Michael The Archangel Roman Catholic Church • South Shore Drive HOLY WEEK & EASTER SCHEDULE April 6th Good Friday Celebration of the Lord’s Passion 3:00 pm (English) — 7:00 pm (Spanish) April 7th Holy Saturday Easter Vigil 11:00 am Blessing of Easter Baskets 7:00 pm Easter Vigil Mass (Bilingual) No confessions and no 5:00 pm Mass April 8th The Resurrection of the Lord Easter Sunday Masses 8:00 am, 9:30 am (English) — 11:00 am (Spanish) REGULAR SCHEDULE Sunday Masses Sat. 5:00 p.m. Sunday 8 & 9:30 a.m. (English) ll:00 a.m. (Spanish) Daily Mass Mon. – Thurs. 6:30 a.m Wed. 6:30 & 8 a.m. Adoration Chapel Thurs. & Fri. 7 a.m.– 7 p.m. Bible Study Wed. 7 p.m. Founded 1892 The architecture & expansive interior is gothic. The main altar reredos is constructed of butternut & birds eye maple wood, as are the 2 side altars. The central statue of St. Michael, the 2 incensing angels & the statues on the side altars were sculpted & painted by hand. The beautiful & rare communion rail is carved in oak with a white marble top. Seating for approximately 2000. 8235 South Shore Dr. • Chicago, 60617 773-734-4921 www.saintmichaelchicago.org Rev. Robert Perez • Pastor Taking it on the road — (Catholic) Relevant Radio (950 AM or 930 AM) has gone billboard! You can’t miss the one on I-294 (TriState Tollway) just south of O’Hare at Wolf Road. It’s 60 feet by 20 feet. Father Rocky Hoffman says it will be seen 10.5 million times in 90 days. He’s hoping it moves the needle. ‘Da Bears’ — Chicago Bear Brian Urlacher will receive the Ed Block Courage Award at Maryville Academy Gym April 10 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, 3525 S. Lake Park Ave., Chicago, IL 60653; email [email protected]; 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.” the archdiocese 22 around APRIL 8-21, 2012 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. AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE Free listing for Catholic events in the Archdiocese of Chicago. n Include time, date, place, address and contact phone number. n Column space determines what will be included. n Information will be listed at least one issue before the date of the event and must be received at least two weeks before publication. Upcoming issue dates April 22 & May 6, 2012 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. Mail your notice to: AROUND THE ARCHDIOCESE g LECTURES The Catholic New World 3525 S. Lake Park Ave. Chicago, IL 60653 FAX: (312) 534-7310 E-Mail: [email protected] 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 [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. 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, See Page 24 media & culture APRIL 8-21 2012 Movie shines light on campus life 23 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 24 around april 8-21, 2012 From Page 22 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 [email protected]. 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 S E E O U R A D O N T H E B AC K PAG E 708-449-6100 • 708-449-2340 Español • www.CatholicCemeteriesChicago.org sports APRIL 8-21, 2012 25 Joyfully Celebrating Our Community’s Faith-based Heritage St. Joseph Village of Chicago, our residents enjoy Mass and other services in our beautiful and peaceful chapel. As a faith based, not-for-profit organization, sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago with their 115 years of experience in serving seniors, our spiritual wellness program nicely complements our whole person approach to physical, social and intellectual wellness. Our chapel also exemplifies our Franciscan history dating back to 1894, when our foundress Mother Mary Theresa Dudzik was moved to action by the great need she saw among the city of Chicago’s aged, infirm and poor. Today, built on the values of respect, service, dedication, stewardship and joy, St. Joseph Village of Chicago helps seniors and their loved ones experience the fullness of life. Call (773 ) 328-5500 today to visit our wonderful senior living community and see for yourself why our residents enjoy our beautiful chapel. Ask about our Respite Care program. ST. 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Above all, their departure highlights how the church must offer a “fresh explanation of the Eucharist,” said Jesuit Father William Byron, professor of business and society at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, pointing out that those who leave the church separate themselves from the celebration and reception of the Eucharist. Byron conducted the study (“Empty Pews: Survey of Catholics Regarding Decrease in Mass Atten- dance”) last fall along with Charles Zech, professor of economics and director of the Center for the Study of Church Management at Villanova University’s business school. They surveyed 298 non-churchgoing Catholics in the Diocese of Trenton, N.J. They presented their results March 22 at The Catholic University of America in Washington. 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Plastering Free Estimate Fully Insured 773-283-6182 Piano Tuning Missionary Sisters of Christ the King walk during a eucharistic procession following a Mass for religious liberty on March 29 at St. Constance Parish. Karen Callaway/Catholic New World bers of all the St. Constance organizations, including deacons, priests, the Missionary Sisters of Christ the King for Polonia and other parishioners participated. They were joined by members of other parishes such as St. Hyacinth, Holy Trinity Polish Mission and St. Thomas Becket in Mount Prospect. Piano and Organ Tuning By Catholic News Service 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; C 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 Dominican Father Kevin O’Rourke CNS photo 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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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 Join Your Chaplain s! Fr. Gerre 12 Days Holy Ghost Parish, South Holland (1983-1988); health program director for the Archdiocese of Chicago (1989-1990); acting director of personnel services for the archdiocese (1990-1991); interim 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 VICAR FOR RELIGIOUS School Sister of Notre Dame James Marie (Julia Mary) O’Connor, 91, died at home at Notre Dame Convent in Rockford, Ill., on Feb. 29. A native of Gary, Ind., Sister James Marie entered the School Sisters of Notre Dame in Milwaukee in 1942 and made her first vows in 1944. She was a teacher and principal in Wisconsin and Michigan beSr. James Marie fore becoming O’Connor principal of St. Benedict, (1964-66). She then served in her congregation’s leadership before becoming vicar for 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 Providence Sister Alice Louise Potts, 87, died March 8 in Terre Haute, Ind. A Chicago native, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence in 1943 and professed final vows in 1950. Sister Alice Louise ministered in education for 23 years in Indiana and Illinois. In 1968, she was elected to congregation leadership, serving on the provincial team in Chicago for seven years. 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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 given during a stop at Daley Plaza. Several Catholic parishes and groups took part in the event. Photos by Karen Callaway, Photo Editor Left, participants make a stop at Daley Plaza. The Catholic Church encourages the burial of Catholics in a Catholic Cemetery. It is our faith that guides us to a Catholic Cemetery for proper Christian burials. The Catholic Cemeteries recommend that you consider this matter now when your selections can be made calmly and prudently. Imagine how painfully difficult it may be when decisions can no longer be postponed. Follow your faith and your heart to a Catholic Cemetery and pre-plan your burial arrangements. NAME ADDRESS CITY/STATE/ZIP TELEPHONE E-MAIL ADDRESS BEST DAY TO CONTACT CALL 708-449-6100 OR 708-449-2340 ESPAÑOL TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE CATHOLIC CEMETERIES “FINAL WISHES” BOOKLET! PARISH CEMETERY OF INTEREST (Personal information including e-mail address will be kept confidential and used only for responding to inquiries) 1400 S Wolf Road • Hillside, IL 60162-2197 www.CatholicCemeteriesChicago.org our shepherd APRIL 8-21, 2012 3 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 D CARDINAL GEORGE’S SCHEDULE April 8: 11 a.m., Easter Sunday Mass, Holy Name Cathedral April 9: 5 p.m., Emmaus Gathering, St. Michael Church, Orland Park 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 Religious Life National Meeting, University of St. Mary of 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 Policy Forum, Breakfast@65West, Union League 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 Advisors Meeting, St. Joseph 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 Keep in touch with the cardinal g Watch “The Church, the Cardinal 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. and You” every Sunday at 1 pm in Chicago, the suburbs on Comcast Channel 100 and Friday at 7 p.m. on Chicago Loop Cable Channel 25 g Follow the cardinal on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ FrancisCardinalGeorgeOMI g Sign up for cardinal’s e-mail network at www.archchicago.org g Read past columns by the cardinal at www.catholicnewworld.com g View the cardinal on YouTube at www.youtube.com/user/CatholicChicago 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. Morowczynski/Catholic New World Brian J. 4 news APRIL 8-21, 2012 Disclaimer: The Catholic New World newspaper and www.catholicnewworld.com are the official publications for news and events of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Other websites use similar names but are not affiliated with the archdiocese. The Update Family Room What makes success? 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 [email protected]. 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. Twitter On Follow the Catholic New World at twitter.com/CathNewWorld. news APRIL 8-21, 2012 5 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. S 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 STAND UP and SUPPORT RELIGIOUS FREEDOM Fight the Federal Health & Human Services (HHS) Mandate* that I would be doing to use music in a way that he thought was very powerful to bring people together. That is what the Chicago concert is about — bringing people together in the spirit of John Paul. See Page 20 Marytown Catholic Gifts & Books WE ARE CHURCH We are CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE We are CATHOLIC EDUCATION We are CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES 65 East Wacker Place, Suite 1620 Chicago, Illinois 60601 Phone: 312-368-0011 www.il-cha.org *The Federal Health & Human Services (HHS) Mandate requires that all employer health plans including Catholic organizations cover contraception, sterilization, and abortion inducing drugs as preventive services in their health plans regardless of moral objections. The Administration’s later "accommodation" (after the huge public outcry against this mandate) indicating that only the insurer would have to provide and pay for the coverage does not resolve the issue. Many Catholic facilities are self-insured and many Catholic ministries are not considered sufficiently religious to qualify for this "religious exemption." Many Catholic facilities may be forced to close... WHAT CAN YOU DO? Get active - make your voice heard! For information from the U S Conference of Catholic Bishops go to www.usccb.org Open Seven Days a Week 1600 W. Park Ave. • Libertyville, IL 60048 847-367-7800 • www.marytown.com 6 news APRIL 8-21, 2012 New resources for immigrant-to-immigrant ministry By Michelle Martin staff writer I 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.” The University of St. Mary of the Lake Mundelein Seminary April 19, 2012 Revereend Robertt E. Barron o Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Wi Winn i Cardinal George, O.M.I., His Eminence Francis Car dinal Georg e, O .M.I., Rev. Msgr. Boardd of Advisor Advisorss Re v. Msg M r. Dennis JJ.. L Lyle yle and the Boar of University Maryy of the Lak Lake/Mundelein Seminaryy The Uni versity of Saint Mar e/Mundelein Seminar Cordially Cor dially invite in nvvite yyou ou to attend An Ev Evening vening ening of o TTribute Tribute Tri i honoring honor ing Mr.. and Mr Mrs. C.. W Winn Mr s.. Michael Mich C inn Cardinal Georgee “Chr “Christo Gloria” Award 2012 Francis Car dinal Georg isto Glor ia” A ward and An Evening of Tribute Reverend Robertt E.. Bar Barron Reverend Rober ron Cardinal Bernardin Award 2012 JJoseph oseph Car ward dinal Ber nardin “As Those Who Serve” Serve” A Thursday, April Thursdaay, Apr ill 19,, 2012 .m. Reception 5:30 pp.m. Dinner 6:30 pp.m. .m. Featuring performance Feeaturing a musical musical perf foormance by by Rich Rich Daniels and The City Lights Orchestra Orchestrra Sheraton Chicago Hotel and T Towers owers – 301 East North North Water Water Street Street Business Attire Attire event Study The proceeds from this ev ent will benefit the “Holy “Holly Land Stud dyy Pilgrimage” Pilgrimage” mage”” and other needs at Mundelein Seminarryy. ein Seminary. For information For further further inf foormation please call 847.970.4830 orr www.usml.edu www w..usml.edu news APRIL 8-21, 2012 7 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.” Happy Easter from Catholic New World Let Nothing Be Preferred to the Work of God. $VPRQNVZHOLYHDKLGGHQOLIHRISUD\HUDQGVLPSOLFLW\:HWU\WRGR*RG·VZRUNHYHQZKLOH $VPRQNVZHOLYHDKLGGHQOLIHRISUD\HUDQGVLPSOLFLW\:HWU\WRGR*RG·VZRUNHYHQZKLOH Z ZHODERULQRXUVDFUHGPLQLVWU\RIKDQGFUDIWLQJFDVNHWV HODERULQRXUVDFUHGPLQLVWU\RIKDQGFUDIWLQJFDVNHWV 5 ((&(,9( & ( , 9 ( $ ) ) 5(( 5 ( ( . . ((36$.( ( ( 3 6 $ . ( & & 55266 266 :+(1 :+(1 1<28 <285(48(67 5(48(67$& &$7$/2* $7$ 7$/2*72'$< 72'$< _ _ ::: : : : 7 7 5$33,67 5$33,67&$ $6.(76 6 . ( 7 6 &20 &20 8 commentary APRIL 8-21, 2012 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 T 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 W 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. T 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. 9 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. 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