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Lost in space?
Does the size of the universe
mean we don’t matter?
C AT H O L I C V O I C E S
The true meaning
of freedom
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A S K FAT H E R
Did Pope Francis
contradict church
teaching?
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F E AT U R E S T O R Y
DEL OBISPO
Helping homeless
veterans
La Iglesia está
siempre en crisis
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In this issue
Keri Hake
ADVERTISING SALES MANAGER
Ross Brownell
ADVERTISING SALES REPRESENTATIVE
Sarah Bartel | Father Cal Christiansen |
Janet Cleaveland | Bishop Eusebio Elizondo,
M.Sp.S. | Dan Lee | Phil Lenahan | Mark
Markuly | Mauricio I. Pérez | Mark Shea
CONTRIBUTING WRITERS
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FROM THE ARCHBISHOP
Praying for the dead, who
also pray for us
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SAINTS OF THE MONTH
A Hungarian princess and
Vietnamese martyrs
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FAITH AND FINANCES
Pay the Lord first, then save
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YOUR FAMILY MATTERS
Simple ways to build a
culture of life
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A CATHOLIC HOME
Giving thanks for family
traditions
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Religion and the true
meaning of freedom
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ASK FATHER
What does the church teach
about war?
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A CATHOLIC VIEW
Remembering the strange
goodness of things
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La Iglesia está siempre
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WINNING SPIRIT
Jim McLaughlin, UW
volleyball coach
SEMILLAS DE LA 27PALABRA
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Sta. Isabel de Hungría y
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Most Reverend J. Peter Sartain
Archbishop of Seattle
en crisis
Cuando un amigo
se va al cielo
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FROM THE ARCHBISHOP
( E N E S PA Ñ O L : PÁ G I N A 2 4 )
Prayer gives
voice to our
longing
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hirty-five years ago, Mike
was on my list of First
Friday Communion calls. He
lived near the parish, and I
usually scheduled a stop at his
house toward the end of the
day. A visit with Mike was
filled with sweetness and faith,
the kind that would brighten
anyone’s day.
Mike and his
beloved Marie,
who had died
just a few years
earlier, never had
children, and
their lives had
been marked by
single-hearted
devotion to one
ARCHBISHOP
J. PETER SARTAIN
another, and
together, to God.
Entering their home meant taking a
step back in time. The house was quiet
and still, but sunlight flooding through
open curtains warmed the silence with
peace. Figurines collected over many
years were displayed lovingly
on shelves and mantels; photographs
of parents from another country
covered the walls. The place was
immaculately clean, and lace doilies
protected chair backs and tabletops.
These were simple, working-class
people, typical of so many in that
parish; they had worked hard, and
when several plants employing
thousands in the area closed, they
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Not only do we pray for
the living and the dead,
they pray for us
grieved their neighbors’ misfortune.
Mike dressed in his Sunday best
for my monthly visits, welcoming the
presence of the Lord with a reverence
I have never forgotten. Invariably,
after he received holy Communion we
would look at photographs. Mike was
a musician, and he was particularly
proud of the pictures of his Catholic
high school band, featuring a young
Mike proudly holding his French
horn in a lineup of early-20th-century
teenagers dressed in suits and feathered
alpine hats. After high school, Mike
had played French horn for the Army
during World War I.
After Marie died, Mike was
heartbroken and lost. He kept the
house as tidy as ever, but without
Marie he spent more time away from
home — at church, with friends,
shopping. He tried heroically to fill
the void opened by her death, and
parishioners went out of their way to
look after him with kindness.
‘Communion of all the faithful’
When I was transferred to another
parish, I lost track of him for several
years. One day after a funeral, I
decided to spend a few extra moments
at the cemetery visiting my father’s
grave, and I caught sight of Mike
standing in prayer next to Marie’s.
We enjoyed a pleasant conversation,
catching up on the latest news. And
we made a promise.
From then on, whenever either of
us was at the cemetery, we would visit
each other’s family graves and say a
prayer. I have tried to be faithful to
that promise, and I have no doubt he
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was. When Mike himself died a few years
after Marie, a visit to their graves would
make me smile all over again, as I recalled
our monthly Communion calls and
their faith-filled love. Just a few months
ago, when I was home in Memphis for
vacation, I visited the cemetery and again
kept my part of the promise.
In his Credo of the People of God,
Blessed Pope Paul VI (who was beatified
Oct. 19) wrote: “We believe in the
communion of all the faithful of Christ,
those who are pilgrims on earth, the dead
who are attaining their purification, and
the blessed in heaven, all together forming
one Church; and we believe that in this
communion the merciful love of God and
His saints is ever listening to our prayers.”
Just as we pray for the living, so do we
pray for the dead, and they pray for us.
Our prayer is an expression both of our
union with Christ and our longing for
that union to be brought to perfection
for everyone.
United with one another in Christ
Soon after I arrived in Seattle in late
2010, Rosemary, who had been my
secretary in the Diocese of Joliet, died
after a brave battle with cancer. We
spoke on the phone several times as death
approached, and one day I thanked her
for all she had done for me during those
four years.
She responded, “Well, I hope I can
be of even better help after I die.” She
was referring to words of St. Thérèse of
Lisieux, her favorite: “I want to spend my
heaven in doing good on earth.” Death
does not place any barrier among the
members of the Church that cannot be
bridged easily by prayer and love.
During November, we remember our
beloved dead, including souls undergoing
God’s cleansing mercy in purgatory.
Christians have prayed for their dead
from the earliest days, because we long
to be united with one another forever in
Christ. Our longing is the result of our
love! Prayer gives voice to our longing.
We should not forget that the souls in
purgatory pray for us, too.
The gifts I received from Mike, Marie
and Rosemary did not cease when they
died. Since what they shared with me
during life came from Christ, I have every
reason to believe that we still “exchange”
those gifts today.
May their souls, and all the souls of the
faithful departed, rest in peace.
Send your prayer intentions to Archbishop
Sartain’s Prayer List, Archdiocese of Seattle,
710 Ninth Ave., Seattle, WA 98104.
SAINTS OF THE MONTH
( E N E S PA Ñ O L : PÁ G I N A 2 5 )
St. Elizabeth
of Hungary
King’s daughter
was devoted
to the poor
and sick
Sr. Miriam James
Heidland, S.O.L.T.
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Advent Retreat
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1207–1231
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November 17
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Elizabeth’s short life
was nonetheless full; she
had a happy marriage and children, was a secular Franciscan, and was so devoted to the poor and sick that she
gave away royal robes and founded hospitals. The daughter of a Hungarian king, Elizabeth married a nobleman
of Thuringia, Louis, at age 14. He complained about the
expense of her many charities until he witnessed a miracle
involving Elizabeth, bread and roses. After he died during
a Crusade, she became a Third Order Franciscan at Marburg, Germany, where she founded a hospital to care for
the sick. Elizabeth, who was declared a saint in 1235, is
the patron of bakers, young brides, widows, those falsely
accused, countesses and secular Franciscans.
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St. Andrew Dung-Lac
and companions
we listen.
Vietnamese
martyrs
endured torture
for their faith
When you speak,
18th–19th centuries
Feast day:
November 24
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Andrews Dung-Lac was
among the 117 Martyrs of
Vietnam killed by government officials during persecutions
to suppress European ideals and religious values in the 18th
and 19th centuries. The groups consisted of 96 Vietnamese
and 21 foreign missionaries (11 Spanish and 10 French);
the martyrs were bishops, priests and laypeople, including
a woman. They endured horrible tortures in prison before
being beheaded, crucified, quartered or burned alive for
refusing to deny their faith. Andrew, a Vietnamese educated
in Catholicism, became a catechist and priest. He was
arrested and imprisoned with his companion, St. Peter
Thi; they were beheaded in 1839.
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FA I T H A N D F I N A N C E S
Shut
terst
ock
Use ‘reserve funds’ to save for the future
Some simple calculations can help you save for your goals
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roverbs 21:20 says,
what I call “reserve funds.”
What are reserve funds and
“Precious treasure
how do they work? They
and oil are in the house
are savings or investment
of the wise, but the fool
accounts used to fund future
expenses over a period of
consumes them.” One
time. What types of future
of the most common
expenses should you use a
financial mistakes
reserve fund for? Here are
PHIL LENAHAN
several — you
people make is spendmay think of others:
ing all of their current
• Emergency and rainy
income on today’s needs and
day funds
• A replacement automobile
wants, while failing to build
• A down payment on a house
in savings for near-term and
• A home improvement fund
long-term obligations. As a
• College funding for the children
• Children’s weddings
result, they find themselves on
• Retirement funds
the financial edge, often using
Today, many people borrow to pay
unproductive debt to pay for
for such things as replacement vehicles
things that should have been
and home improvements, but it wasn’t
always that way, and it’s not smart
funded through savings.
There is a better way. Many financial
planners speak of “paying yourself
first.” That’s not quite right, since as
Catholics we should develop the habit
of paying the Lord first through our
charitable giving. We should give from
our “first fruits.” (Proverbs 3:9)
However, once we do that, it does
make sense to pay yourself second,
using your remaining income for
regular living expenses. Building
savings for both near-term and
long-term obligations into your
financial plan will revolutionize
your financial life.
How can you best manage saving
for multiple goals? I recommend using
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money management. How do reserve
funds work? Here is an example. Let’s
say you expect to replace your car in
three years. You anticipate spending
up to $15,000 on a low-mileage used
vehicle. You get paid every two weeks.
That’s all the information you need in
order to know how much you’ll have
to save if you want to pay cash for your
next car. The calculation goes like this:
Anticipated timing of purchase:
3 years
Estimated purchase price: $15,000
Annual savings required: $5,000
Paycheck frequency: biweekly
(every two weeks)
Amount to be direct-deposited into auto
reserve fund every pay period: $192.30
By following this simple approach,
you’ll have set aside the $15,000 you
need to replace your next car. And
you’ll be debt-free!
I recommend keeping your emergency
and rainy day funds in one money
market account. You can keep your
auto and housing funds in the same
money market account or in CDs with
maturities that match more closely
with the timeframe of your purchase.
Through the use of a simple spreadsheet, you can track the balances and
activity of each of the funds that make
up the one money market account.
When it comes to funding college
expenses for the kids and your
retirement, you’ll use separate
investment accounts since you’ll
most likely be taking advantage of
tax-favored investments. As you saw
with the automobile example, it’s
fairly straightforward to know how
much you need to set aside for your
emergency, rainy day, automobile
and housing needs.
College and retirement planning get
more complicated, but the power of
the Internet makes figuring it out a
whole lot easier. Use the calculators at
www.veritasfinancialministries.com
to help you determine how much you
need to save today in order to meet
your goals tomorrow. God love you!
Phil Lenahan is president of Veritas
Financial Ministries and author of
7 Steps to Becoming Financially Free.
Contact him at
www.VeritasFinancialMinistries.com.
YO U R FA M I LY M AT T E R S
What can you do to build
a culture of life?
Help bring St. John Paul II’s vision to fruition
through everyday acts of service
as Jesus does.
If you were in Denver for World
Youth Day in 1993, you might have
heard St. John Paul II use this phrase. In
an encyclical letter published two years
later, The Gospel of Life (Evangelium
Vitae), he wrote about how our Christian faith makes us a people “of life
and for life.” In the face of the growing
forces of the “culture of death,” which
legitimize and promote contraception,
sterilization, abortion, infanticide and
euthanasia, we Christians bear the good
news that all human life is precious,
infinitely valuable, beloved of God and
possessing great dignity.
Everyday ways to play your part
This happens in ordinary, everyday
life. As ordinary as: making peanut
butter sandwiches — with a smile! Patiently potty training. Patiently teaching your teenager to drive. Putting the
kids to bed — when it’s not your night
— so your spouse can rest. Teaching
your children to share, to treat others
with respect, to write thank you notes,
to be thankful people.
Families can also build the culture
of life outside themselves. Like the
Seahawks family, they can support
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Every human life
ne evening
bears God’s image
around this time
We believe that God created
last year, our doorbell
us for an eternal destiny with
rang. With my newhim, and that he died for us
to make that possible.
born daughter tucked
We believe that every huin one arm, I opened
man life, at every age, stage
our front door to
and level of ability, bears
SARAH BARTEL
God’s image — even those
discover an entire
who are less than “perfect,”
family — mom, dad
or who are suffering and near the end
and two school-aged children,
of life, or who are so tiny they are only
visible under a microscope. As Dr.
a boy and a girl — all dressed
Seuss eloquently put it, “A person’s a
in matching Seahawks jerseys,
person, no matter how small.” St. John
standing on our front stoop.
Paul II urgently called all people to
“respect, protect, love and serve life,
Seahawks Mom held a giant
every human life!”
lidded Tupperware bowl full
Families have a part to play in this
of chili, and Seahawks Dad was effort.
carrying a grocery bag with
A huge part, actually. “The role of
the
family in building a culture of life
tortilla chips peeking out the
is decisive and irreplaceable,” St. John
top. Seahawks Son carried a
Paul II wrote (he really liked italics).
plate of cookies. They were from Formed by the fertile, sexual love of
man and woman, husband and wife,
the parish meal-train ministry,
family has a life-giving mission to
and they had signed up to bring the
“guard, reveal and communicate love.”
us dinner that night to help us
Husbands and wives transmit the gift
of human life by becoming dads and
out after the birth of our new
moms, having children and raising
baby. Their much appreciated
them to know life as a gift. Parents
act of service is one great
model and teach their children how
to live in true freedom, which is found
example of how families can
in giving yourself in love to others —
help build the “culture of life.”
families in the parish who have new
babies with meals. (Thanks, guys!)
They can shop together for layette
items to contribute to a parish “baby
shower” that gathers supplies for moms
in need. They can visit a nursing home
and volunteer at Special Olympics.
I’ve seen families peacefully praying
in front of abortion clinics during 40
Days for Life prayer vigils. Our girls
are really good at reminding us to say
the little “spiritual adoption” prayer
written by Archbishop Fulton Sheen
as part of our family night prayers. Parents can join associations which engage
the political process to advocate for the
sacredness of human life, as St. John
Paul II encouraged us to do.
“The family is summoned to proclaim, celebrate and serve the Gospel
of life,” he wrote. The family, the
“sanctuary of life,” nurtures human
life, born of love. One diaper at a
time. One meal at a time. Day by day,
through the seasons of the year and
the seasons of family growth strung together with all our little acts of prayer,
care and service, both within our own
families and beyond.
Oh, and Seahawks family? That chili
was delicious. And … I still have your
Tupperware bowl.
Sarah Bartel, a member of St. Andrew
Parish in Sumner, holds a doctorate in
moral theology and ethics from The
Catholic University of America, where
she specialized in marriage, family,
sexual ethics and bioethics. Her website
is www.drsarahbartel.com.
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A C AT H O L I C H O M E
Rachel Bauer
GIVING THANKS
FOR FAMILY TRADITIONS
Eucharistia is Greek for ‘thanksgiving’
T
hanksgiving is almost here, and in the
Cleaveland household, the small details about
the holiday make me happy as I remember close
family moments and traditions.
As a nation, we gather around a
Thanksgiving table laden with good
food. We remember the kindness of
the Native Americans who helped the
Pilgrims survive. We give thanks for
our families and blessings. Indeed, the
national holiday ties in well with our
Catholic faith, Eucharistia being Greek
JANET
for thanksgiving.
CLEAVELAND
I’ve been cooking Thanksgiving
dinner since 1975, the year my motherin-law handed it off to me. I wasn’t overwhelmed, but I was
anxious that I wouldn’t live up to the family’s traditions.
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I shouldn’t have been so worried.
I’ve forgotten details of the dinner, but I am still acutely
aware that God was in our midst. Dorothy Cleaveland was
dying, and I was eight months pregnant with our third child
— yes, a time for sadness, but also a time to reflect on God’s
plans for each of us.
So I incorporated Cleaveland family traditions with
my take on the holiday. In particular, I took my motherin-law’s recipe for turkey stuffing made with dried bread
cubes, butter, onions and tart apples, but I jettisoned the
usual pumpkin pie and made eggnog pie from a recipe I
had acquired from our landlady in the early days of our
marriage.
Over the years, that eggnog pie has become a family
tradition alongside the dressing, fruit salad, green beans,
homemade yeast rolls and turkey — so predictable, yet so
full of the memories that bind the family.
Janet Cleaveland is a member of the Proto-Cathedral of St.
James the Greater in Vancouver.
Eggnog pie
• Standard single pie shell,
baked and cooled
• 1 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 3 egg yolks, separated from
the egg whites
• 2 egg whites
• 1 unflavored gelatin packet
• 2 tablespoons cold water
• 2 tablespoons rum or vanilla flavoring
• 1 tablespoon butter
• nutmeg to sprinkle on top
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Scald milk in a double boiler.
Combine sugar, cornstarch and salt. Add to
milk and cook until thick and smooth. Stir constantly for about 5 minutes.
Beat the egg yolks. Add a small amount of
the creamed mixture to the eggs and then
reverse, slowly pouring the eggs into the hot
creamed mixture and always stirring with a
wire whisk. Cook for a minute or two. Remove
from heat.
Dissolve the unflavored gelatin in the water.
Add it to the hot creamy mixture and stir
with the whisk so the gelatin is distributed
throughout. Then add butter and rum or vanilla. Put the mixture in the refrigerator
so it can cool, but check on it from time to
time, again stirring with the whisk.
Beat a cup of whipping cream and two egg
whites in separate bowls. The egg whites
should form stiff peaks. (For a long time, I
worried about raw egg whites and salmonella.
Now I wash and dry the eggshells before
I crack them open. Most of the bacteria live
on the shell, and I never use an egg that has
the slightest break in it when I take it out of
the box. Or use pasteurized egg whites. They
won’t form the stiff peaks as well, but they
will keep you safe from salmonella. If you use
pasteurized whites, add 1/4 teaspoon cream
of tartar.)
By now you should have three bowls: the
whipped cream, the beaten egg whites and
the cooled creamed mixture with the rum.
Fold the whipped cream and the egg whites
alternately into the creamed mixture. Pile the
resulting mix into a cooled pie shell. Sprinkle
with nutmeg and park in the refrigerator for at
least three hours. Overnight is better.
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C AT H O L I C V O I C E S
Religion and the yearning for freedom
Healthy religious belief and practice can truly set us free
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F
reedom is a cry that echoes down the
canyons of human history. One of
the best metaphors for this echo in the
human heart comes from Emma Lazarus’
sonnet “New Colossus,” which is inscribed
at the base of the Statue of Liberty: “Give
me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled
masses yearning to breathe free.”
as the so-called “new atheists,” who believe
religion can only oppress human freedom and
subjugate it to the narrow demands of clerical or
authoritarian rule. They would argue that what
is great in the human spirit withers before the
altar of religious belief and practice. I would argue that healthy religion liberates
us like no other source. It can free us from the
internal demons that haunt us, and from the
MARK MARKULY
impediments to self-actualization that prevent us
from growing into our fullness of character and
personality. More importantly, it frees us from the fear of
All of us yearn to breathe free about something. Many
children bear the academic year with the dream of breathing suffering and death.
The liberty brought by healthy religion produces humans
the freedom of summer vacation. Teenagers live in anticipawho are confident and courageous, and yet compassionate
tion of the freedom of their driver’s licenses. And someone
and humble; serious and willing to walk into confrontation,
in a dead-end job lives in hope of the release brought by anand yet joyful and committed to peace; grounded in the here
other job offer. We want freedom in our personal lives, and
and now, and yet also citizens of the “not yet” and the future.
we want it in our collective existence as well, and we want
Anyone seeking to change the world needs a working
it so powerfully that we can almost breathe it. The quest for
theory of freedom — why we yearn for it, what are its
liberty is one of our strongest human instincts.
objects, why we are attracted to them, and what part of ourThe most important freedom
selves remains incomplete when freedom is denied us. They
Of all the freedoms essential to a flourishing life, religious
also need a special skill-set for practically applying their
freedom is arguably the most important. There is a raging
theory to the real-life dynamics of humans seeking liberty.
debate on this point throughout the Western world, with
This includes maturing through three “prepositions” of libreligion often seeming to lose the argument. The importance erty — evolving through “freedom from” and “freedom to,”
of religious freedom contradicts the thoughts of many, such
to arrive at “freedom for.”
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Freedom to surrender our lives
“Freedom from” is a liberty that releases us from things
that hinder us — the restrictions of youth or a job, the real
or perceived repression or oppression of others, or the injustice of a policy or practice.
“Freedom to” is the kind of liberty that allows us to pursue what we want or desire. We can smoke, drink, drive, buy
a house or other consumer good, travel or stay home, go to
school or drop out, begin a relationship or end one.
For those educated and formed by healthy religious traditions, however, the most important freedom is ultimately
“freedom for.” You don’t need much experience to realize
that “freedom from” and “freedom to” can lead as much
to destruction as to construction. But a healthy, integrative
religion excels at strengthening our capacity to surrender our
lives for something much bigger than casting off the limitations of our oppressors or pursuing our wants and desires.
“Freedom for” empowers us to sacrifice our lives for a
greater cause and to do so with joy and peace, bearing any
cost, carrying any burden, and embracing any suffering in
pursuit of a righteous goal. We can take on suffering in order to lessen the suffering of others, in the ultimate Christic
act of solidarity.
One of the great blessings of this moment in history is
that an increasing number of people are recognizing religion
as a liberating force and are coming to realize that healthy
religious belief and practice, when lived reflectively and
within communities of vibrant faith, can truly set us free.
Mark Markuly is the dean of Seattle University’s School of
Theology and Ministry. Contact him at [email protected].
POPE FRANCIS: ‘AUTHENTIC RELIGION
IS A SOURCE OF PEACE’
Speaking in Albania Sept. 21, Pope Francis told
leaders of different religious communities that
“religious freedom is not a right which can
be guaranteed solely by existing legislation,
although laws are necessary.”
“Rather religious freedom is a shared space …
an atmosphere of respect and cooperation that
must be built with everyone’s participation, even
those who have no religious convictions,” he said.
“Authentic religion is a source of peace and not
of violence!” the pope added. “No one must use
the name of God to commit violence! To kill in the
name of God is a grave sacrilege. To discriminate
in the name of God is inhuman.”
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A S K FAT H E R
Did Pope Francis contradict
church teaching on war?
Is the use of military force ever morally justified?
Q
A
Thank you for your question! It is a good one and on
many people’s minds these days: For Catholics, can the
use of military force ever be seen as licit or just?
governments are obliged to
Pope Francis was
work for the avoidance of
responding to a question
war.” (CCC 2308) But while
regarding the U.S. military
we seek peace, there are
response to ISIS’ military
times when military action
aggression in Iraq. Pope
cannot be avoided. When
Francis was asked, “Do
the pope said “it is licit to
you approve of the U.S.
stop the unjust aggressor,”
bombing in Iraq?” He said,
he meant that the church
“In these cases where there
does foresee times when
is unjust aggression, I can
FATHER CAL
military action is called for,
only say that it is licit to
CHRISTIANSEN
as with
stop the unjust aggressor.
the situation in Iraq.
I underscore the verb ‘stop’; I
Underneath
the surface of Pope
don’t say bomb, make war — stop
Francis’ answer is what is called “just
him. The means by which he may
war” doctrine. This is the set of prinbe stopped should be evaluated.”
ciples (first formulated by St. Augustine
Many have taken this to mean that
and further developed by St. Thomas
Pope Francis was somehow going
Aquinas) that the church uses to figure
against the church’s commitment
out when conflict is just (licit) and
to peace in the world and approving
when it is unjust (illicit).
of war. While in a sense he was
condoning war in some cases, he was
most certainly not going against church Four strict conditions for war
The church teaches that governments
teaching. He was, in fact, applying it.
and people cannot be denied the right
to a lawful self-defense if, and only if,
Obliged to work for peace
all peaceful efforts have failed. According
Through our baptisms, each of us
to just war doctrine, defense by military
has been commissioned to help build
force is morally legitimate only when
a peaceful and just world and to help
four strict conditions are met:
bring about the kingdom of God here
First, the damage inflicted by the
on earth. We do this by first seeking
aggressor on the nation or community
to create peace in our hearts and then
of nations must be lasting, grave and
working outward in concentric circles
certain. Second, all other means of
to our families, friends, places of work
putting an end to it must have been
and ultimately the world. This includes
avoiding war and not breaking the fifth shown to be impractical or ineffective.
Third, there must be serious prospects
commandment.
of success. And lastly, the use of arms
As the Catechism of the Catholic
must not produce evils and disorders
Church states, “All citizens and all
CNS/Paul Haring
I recently read Pope Francis’ interview from his flight
back from South Korea, and I am confused about
something he said about the situation in Iraq: “It is
licit to stop the unjust aggressor.” In saying this, isn’t the
pope going against what the church teaches, that killing is
always a sin? The pope seems to be contradicting what we
believe as Catholics.
more serious than the evil to be
eliminated. The power of modern
means of destruction weighs very
heavily in evaluating this condition.
(see CCC 2309)
These are the traditional elements
that make up just war doctrine.
The responsibility for applying these
principles to real-world and real-time
situations belongs to the prudential
judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good, such
as national governments.
In his answer, Pope Francis was supporting the use of violence and military
force if, and only if, the situation passes
the test of just war doctrine.
May God’s blessings be with you
today and always!
Father Cal Christiansen is pastor of St.
Pius X Parish in Mountlake Terrace.
Send your questions for “Ask Father”
to [email protected].
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In a Sept. 29 address to
the United Nations, Vatican
Secretary of State Cardinal
Pietro Parolin expanded on
Pope Francis’ comments,
arguing that “it is both licit
and urgent to stop aggression
through multilateral action
and a proportionate use of
force.” Read his full address
at www.zenit.org/en/articles/
cardinal-parolin-s-address-to69th-session-of-un-generalassembly.
A C AT H O L I C V I E W
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A Washington Thanksgiving
Home movies of Thanksgivings past stir up memories
of a more magical world
I
am from Western Washington, so for me
Thanksgiving will always array itself in the
color of rain — a good color, a color of warm
socks, of drops trailing down
panes of glass, of steam rising
from a pot on our kitchen
stove. Looking at the home
movies from my childhood
taken during a whole succession
of Thanksgivings in the early
’60s I feel again the beauty of
MARK SHEA
the rain in the mingling of my
memories with the shadows on the screen.
There’s my brother Rick, 12 years older than me,
coming in from the perpetual iron-gray weather. His jacket
is sopping. He’s been out on his paper route but is home
in time for Thanksgiving supper. Somehow I can smell the
odd metallic smell of the November rain on his red jacket.
There’s Mike, my other brother, who is nine years older
than me. His newly formed Adam’s apple protrudes from
his neck as if he’d swallowed a ball point pen and he is all
elbows and bones. Outside, the big raindrops pelt hard
against the window while he makes a funny face and
kisses Mom.
Now Mom brings out the varnished turkey and waves for
the camera. She and my dad smooch. You can’t see the rain
now because it’s dark and the cold window is steamy from
the big supper bubbling just off screen. Over the rattle of
the projector I can almost hear their voices.
A larger and more limitless reality
Seeing these pictures reminds me of the reality of a world
which is much larger and more limitless than I am told to
expect by TV and the daily small talk of the Internet. When
these pictures were taken I had a much livelier awareness of
the strange goodness of things.
Wonders were under every rock, needing only an
appreciative lover like a 4-year-old to bring them out
into the daylight. At the time these movies were made
I still suspected my brother Mike was a god. He could say
magic words and, according to everyone in my family, make
me invisible. Similarly, my mother kept me in a state of
permanent tantalized curiosity about how she got potatoes,
which I hated, inside french fries, which I loved.
Nothing was as it seemed and whole new universes
were around every corner. If I could have articulated it,
I would have said God lived, not on a cloud (as adults so
patronizingly think children believe), but behind things —
behind the sky, behind the wall, behind what I could see.
This perhaps has something to do with the rising, the
gladness, I feel watching my dripping brother Rick come
home from that paper route again. Once more, I feel for
a moment the gladness of being 4, a gladness bound up with
Rick home, with Mike and his amazing tricks, with parents
who smooched right in the middle of the day for nothing,
even when the camera wasn’t on, with the rain
on the carport roof. It is a gladness rooted in the sense that
I am very small, that dinner smells heavenly and that the
steamy black window conceals some wild, violent joy out
in the wide autumn world — or behind it.
My dad picks me up and I squirm to get free, so he
squeezes me tighter and lets me go. I sit here wishing I could
get behind the screen, just to thank him for the squeeze and
the letting go. I wish I could go behind the shadows into the
reality and say thank you to all of those people, unaware of
me as I watch them again with my 4-year-old eyes.
It will probably rain for Thanksgiving again this year.
When I go to Mass, I will meet Christ behind the bread
and wine to bless my parents’ memory, to thank him for my
family and to ask that the gifts I have been given be given also
to my own boys. When the wild weather rattles against the
stained glass, I will feel again the joyful mysteries behind that
black kitchen window, black as this dark room, and speak
thanks to the One behind the shadow and the reality.
Mark Shea is a member of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Seattle.
His blog “Catholic and Enjoying It!” is at www.patheos.com/
blogs/markshea.
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WINNING SPIRIT
UW coach
Jim McLaughlin brings fa
Interview by Dan Lee
Jim McLaughlin, the head coach since 2001 of the University of Washington women’s volleyball team, is one of the most successful and respected coaches in the country. The only head coach ever to win NCAA
titles in both men’s and women’s volleyball, McLaughlin has been recognized by his peers as the 2004 American Volleyball Coaches Association National Coach of the Year, and Pac-12 Coach of the Year in 2002,
2004, 2005 and 2013.
Under McLaughlin, the Huskies have produced one national championship, four Final Four appearances, three national players of the year and
three Pac-12 Conference titles.
Courtesy
UW Athl
etics
With his wife, Margaret, and their three daughters, McLaughlin is a
member of Holy Family Parish in Kirkland.
You have three hats that you have to wear:
You’re a husband, a father and a
successful Division I volleyball
coach at the University of
Washington. What role does
your Catholic faith
play in those three
areas?
It’s huge. To be very
direct and honest, I
couldn’t do it without
my faith. If you’re everywhere in life, you’re nowhere.
And the three things that have come
to me over the course of my life that
are really important are my faith, and
then being a great husband and being a
great dad. Those are the most important
things to me. And I continue to work in that
direction every day of my life. I’m far from
being what I should be. But my faith is what
guides me in everything I do.
How does your Catholic faith impact
what you do as a coach?
Well, if you really are doing this job right, it’s
a job of service. It’s a job of paying attention to
ATHLETES OF
THE MONTH
SHAYNE
MCPHERSON
aith to the volleyball court
your players and knowing how to help your players. It’s just a game, and at some
point this game is really not important. But the lessons you can learn will stay with
these kids the rest of their life. It’s not just a four- or five-year deal. It will impact
them for 40, 50 years if you do it right.
And I think that’s the most important thing: the different lessons they can learn,
in terms of making a commitment, in terms of the intangibles of life, how to work
hard and get a return for your work, how to treat people right, how to
be a teammate — teammates who say and do things that make each other better.
So I go to Mass and I like to listen to Father [Kurt] Nagel a lot. He gives an unbelievable sermon — I don’t know how he does it, but it’s a gift. I’ll take little notes. I’ll
use them. It applies to what I do every day of my life with these young kids.
Your approach to coaching seems to be characterized by three words:
preparation, learning and improvement. Would you say that those
words also describe how you approach your Catholic faith?
Absolutely. Every day you get a little bit better. Every day you can get a little
closer to Christ. And you see things better. You hear things better. One of the
things we talk about is you hear things, but are you really listening? And you look
at things, but it’s not what you look at, it’s what you really see. And I just know
with me — and I’m far from getting it right — but when I’m connected, and I’m
thinking the right thoughts, and I put it into God’s hands, I see things better. It’s
hard. There’s nothing easy about it, but it is great.
How would you say that God inspires you each day?
He gives me the courage to do the stuff that I got to do. I know that I’m not the
smartest guy in the world. And I don’t think I have a ton of talent. I just think God
has put me in a situation to do what I do. He gives me this ability. It’s hard for me
to understand. But I know during the season, I need him. So I’m talking to him a
lot. And somehow, he helps me do it.
If you had one last message to leave to the people who are most
important to you, what would that be?
You just have to believe. You got to have faith. You got to just put the thing in
God’s hands and do the best you can. And somehow, if you do the right thing, it’s
going to work out. I can’t explain it. If you just do it, the way he wants you to do
it — not that I always know how he wants me to do it — but if you just believe in
him, and just have that faith that he’s in charge and that things happen because
of him, and there’s no coincidences in life, somehow things are going to work out.
My dad used to tell me that: Just do the best you can and things will work out. But
have your faith. Believe. There’s no magic to this thing. It’s his deal. It’s hard for
me to stay on track, but it’s the most important thing that I have to hold myself to
every day.
John F. Kennedy
Catholic
High School
Junior - volleyball
Despite being the smallest player on
the team, Shayne has become a leader
and mentor, serving as captain. She
maintains a 3.8 GPA, volunteers at a
local food bank, and frequently leads
volleyball clinics for younger players,
including at Holy Rosary and Our Lady
of Guadalupe schools in Seattle. She has
verbally committed to play both indoor
and sand volleyball at the University of
Washington.
MATT
PHILICHI
Bellarmine
Preparatory
School
Senior - football
A team captain and the most prolific
kicker in school history, Matt carries
a 3.93 GPA and is being recruited by
several Division I schools. A member of
St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Tacoma,
Matt co-founded Digging Deep for
Ethiopia in 2012 with his sister. They
raised over $75,000 and installed a
well in Kersa, Ethiopia, last year.
Each month, N orthwest C atholic will feature
two high school Athletes of the Month. These
athletes are nominated by their schools and
selected by a board with members from CYO
athletics, Catholic schools and the Fulcrum
Foundation. In June, two of these athletes will
be selected as Athletes of the Year and receive
$1,000 scholarships. These athletes are chosen
based on their achievements on and off the
field, and in their communities.
To sponsor this page or learn more about
this program, visit www.seattlearchdiocese.
org/advertising, call 206-382-7313 or email
[email protected].
Dan Lee is a freelance journalist and a member of St. Barbara Parish in Black Diamond.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
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COV E R STO RY
Lost in space?
By Kevin Birnbaum
T
he night sky, in its vastness and beauty, has always had a way of getting to people — filling us
with awe, making us feel small, and prompting us
to question our place in the universe. Such reactions
are evident in the Book of Psalms, where the psalmist
says to God: “When I see your heavens, the work of
your fingers, the moon and stars that you set in place
— What is man that you are mindful of him, and a son
of man that you care for him?” (Psalm 8:4-5)
The discoveries of modern astronomy seem to heighten the sense of disorientation, revealing a cosmos
much older and larger than our minds can fathom.
As far as scientists can tell, the universe is 13.8 billion
years old and contains something like 100 billion galaxies and perhaps a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000) stars.
So what are we supposed to do with this information?
Most people seem to intuit that the mindboggling
magnitude of the cosmos must mean something —
but what?
Some see the immensity of the universe, and Earth’s
relative tininess, and conclude that we are utterly insignificant and that there is almost certainly no God.
As Stephen Hawking has been quoted as saying: “We
are such insignificant creatures on a minor planet of a
very average star in the outer suburbs of one of a hundred thousand million galaxies. So it is difficult to believe in a God that would care about us or even notice
our existence.” Rather, everything boils down to the
laws of physics, we are the products of mere chance,
and both the universe and human existence ultimately
have no meaning.
The English writer G.K. Chesterton amusingly derided
“this contemptible notion that the size of the solar system ought to over-awe the spiritual dogma of man” in
his 1908 book Orthodoxy. “Why should a man surrender his dignity to the solar system any more than to a
whale?” he wrote. “It is quite futile to argue that man
is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always
small compared to the nearest tree.”
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On the other hand, a Christian may look at the universe and see a reflection of God’s infinity and creativity. This is the approach of the psalmist: “The heavens
declare the glory of God; the firmament proclaims the
works of his hands.” (Psalm 19:2) It is also the approach
of Chris Suberlak, a Ph.D. student in astronomy at the
University of Washington — but it wasn’t always.
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COV E R STO RY
Stephen Brashear
Chris Suberlak studies light that was emitted before the Earth formed.
‘Science wouldn’t make sense without God’
imply the existence of God.
“Science wouldn’t make any sense without God,” he said.
Suberlak has loved science since childhood, when his father
“It wouldn’t, very simply, because God made the universe
would bring home astronomy books and show him the stars
through binoculars. “I’ve always seemed to be a scientist,” he out of love. If he made it out of love, therefore he made it
ordered. … This order brings certainty that if I am looking
said. “I always was inspired by looking at the night sky.”
for some intrinsic laws of the universe, they should exist.
He was not, however, always a believer. The Catholicism
That’s a huge axiom that people assume, but if there is no
of his native Poland struck him as hollow, and although
God, why should they assume that? The universe doesn’t
he received the sacraments, by high school he considered
have to be ordered at all. It could be that in one part of the
himself an atheist.
universe the laws are completely different
In 2008, he moved to Great Britain to
than elsewhere.
study physics at Oxford University. To
“I’ve always seemed
“So the homogeneity of the natural laws
practice his English, he visited a Christian
of
physics is a huge assumption,” he said,
café, where he ended up engaged in debates
to be a scientist.
“and for me, only with God it makes sense
about faith. He argued with everything the
I always was inspired to assume that they are everywhere the
Christians said, but eventually some of their
same.”
arguments started to make sense.
by looking at the
“I ended up being asked this question: Do
Praising God by studying creation
you consider a universe which has matter and
night sky.”
Suberlak began attending an evangelical
is ruled by natural laws a better explanation
church, and throughout his studies at
to your life than a universe that is filled with
Oxford he also poured himself into studying the Christian
matter and natural laws and also a spiritual component?”
faith. After graduating with his master’s degree in 2012, he
The question got to the heart of Suberlak’s “existential
started a Ph.D. in atmospheric sciences at Oxford, but he
crisis” over the apparent pointlessness of life in a Godless
was dissatisfied because he wasn’t doing what he loved.
universe, and he realized that an atheistic, materialistic
“I felt that the vocation that [God] called me to is
worldview couldn’t answer life’s inescapable questions:
astronomy
— to praise him by studying the beauty of his
“Why should you love? What does it mean to love? What
creation,” he said. He dropped out of Oxford in December,
does it mean to exist?”
moved back to Poland and started applying to Ph.D.
As Suberlak continued to debate and study, he came to
programs in astronomy.
believe that some of the foundational assumptions of science
While working in Warsaw in early 2013, he also felt
— that the universe is consistent and intelligible — actually
JUST HOW BIG IS THE UNIVERSE?
Scientists say the universe may contain a septillion
(that’s a 1 followed by 24 zeros) stars — more stars
than there are grains of sand on Earth. And those
stars are really, really far apart.
At Lake Sacajawea Park in Longview, there’s a model
of our solar system — the sun and the planets that
orbit it — that shrinks everything down to about 1-to2.3 billion scale, so that the sun is 2 feet in diameter
and the Earth is less than a quarter of an inch wide —
about the same size as in the illustration at right. But
in the scale model, that tiny Earth is more than 200
feet from the sun, and you have to walk more than 1.6
miles to get from the sun to Pluto (which in 2006 was
“demoted” to dwarf planet status).
And don’t forget, the Milky Way is just one of 100
billion galaxies in the universe.
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But that’s nothing: The next nearest star would be
11,000 miles away — in India. And even on such a
miniature scale, traveling from one end of our Milky
Way galaxy to the other would require the equivalent
of more than 10,000 trips around the world.
Our solar system — sizes and distances not even close to scale.
the pull back to the Catholic Church, drawn in part by
have what we need, and God made the universe for us to
the church’s openness to science. After sorting out his
have what we need. Isn’t that great?”
evangelical objections to Catholic doctrine, he went to a
He added: “My point of view is that the vastness of the
Dominican parish during Holy Week and made his first
universe points to the greatness of God, and it just makes
confession since before high school. Receiving absolution for
God more and more and more, myself less and less and less,
his sins “was very powerful,” he said, and he started going
and it makes me more and more grateful for the fact that
to Mass every day.
God chose us to save us — he sent his only Son to die for us.
That September, Suberlak came to Seattle to study
So the bigger the universe is, the bigger our gratefulness.”
astronomy at the University of Washington. He was
Suberlak’s study thus strengthens his faith, and his faith also
welcomed by the Dominican priests on
makes him a better scientist, helping him to
campus, who invited him to stay at the
grow in the patience necessary for his work.
“My point of view is
Newman Center and the priory at Blessed
Unraveling the mysteries of the universe is rarely
Sacrament Church while he looked for
as glamorous as it sounds. His research consists
that the vastness of
housing.
largely of sitting in front of a computer, reading
Suberlak’s research at UW focuses on
scientific papers, writing computer programs and
the universe points
quasars, members of a class of objects called
analyzing data.
to the greatness of
“active galactic nuclei” that produce jets of
“Perhaps it’s going to involve days of trying
highly energetic particles bright enough to be
to focus on just one tiny bit of information,
God.”
detected across the universe.
and God gives me grace to go for it,” he said.
The quasars he studies are so distant that
“At the moment I’m trying to understand the
their light has taken up to 5 billion years to reach us, he
variability of quasars, the variability of these jets that are
said, “which means it was emitted before Earth formed.”
pointed toward us. The intensity fluctuates, and we don’t
really know why.”
‘The more you know, the more beautiful it is’
The work may be tedious, but every new scientific
Such massive spans of time and space drive home the fact
discovery “makes our perception of the world richer, and
that humans “are even tinier than we thought we were,”
therefore it makes us appreciate the beauty of creation in a
Suberlak said — but that doesn’t mean we don’t matter.
deeper sense,” Suberlak said.
“I know there are people who would claim that the fact
“The more you know, the more beautiful it is.”
that we are so tiny … means that we are insignificant, but
you can look at it from another perspective and think: We
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IS THE CHURCH ANTI-SCIENCE?
WHAT ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS?
Far from it. In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic
Church extols the value of scientific research:
Are we alone in the universe? Or could there be
other intelligent life out there, dwelling on planets
orbiting any of the countless stars in our galaxy or
beyond? It’s an irresistible question.
“Basic scientific research, as well as applied
research, is a significant expression of man’s
dominion over creation. Science and technology are
precious resources when placed at the service of
man and promote his integral development for the
benefit of all. By themselves however they cannot
disclose the meaning of existence and of human
progress. Science and technology are ordered
to man, from whom they take their origin and
development; hence they find in the person and in
his moral values both evidence of their purpose and
awareness of their limits.” (CCC 2293)
In May, Pope Francis speculated about what would
happen if an expedition of Martians — “green, with
long noses and big ears, just like children draw
them” — came to Earth and asked to be baptized.
While scientists have found no signs of
intelligent life on Mars (or anywhere else, for that
matter), Vatican astronomer Jesuit Brother Guy
Consolmagno has written about his “hunch” that
there are other intelligent creatures somewhere
out there: “I am not the first astronomer, nor
the first religious believer, to see the amazing
panoply of the stars in the sky at night and
intuit that God’s fecund creativity couldn’t
possibly just stop with us.”
THE CHURCH AND ASTRONOMY —
BEYOND THE ‘GALILEO AFFAIR’
Ask most people about the Catholic Church’s
history with astronomy, or science more broadly,
and one name is sure to pop up: Galileo. In 1633, the
astronomer was found guilty of “vehement suspicion
of heresy” by the Roman Inquisition for
arguing that the Earth moves around the
sun — not the proudest moment in the
history of church-science relations.
Just contemplating the possibility of
extraterrestrials can enrich our understanding
of our relationship with God, he said:
“Appreciating God as the Creator of a
universe big enough to contain those
billions and billions of galaxies and
stars makes us realize just how
immense God’s infinity
must be. Asking what it
would take for an ‘alien’ to
have something like a ‘soul’
forces us to confront just
what we mean when we use that
word. Speculating on how Christ’s
salvation could apply to other beings is a
wonderful way to appreciate anew what that
salvation means to us humans.”
But, as Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno,
an astronomer at the Vatican Observatory
(yes, there is such a thing), has written,
“the painful, and well-acknowledged,
mistake that the Church made in trying to
silence Galileo is all the more stark when
contrasted with the many more numerous
times and places where Church-supported
astronomers did get it right.” He highlights a
few of the Catholic Church’s contributions to
astronomy:
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“Pope Gregory XII used astronomy to reform
the calendar in 1582. Seventeenth-century
Jesuits invented the reflecting telescope and
the wave theory of light. In the 18th century
they ran a quarter of all the astronomical
observatories in Europe, and their missionaries
ran most of the observatories outside Europe:
their measurements helped determine the size of
the solar system. In the 19th century, the Jesuit
priest Angelo Secchi was the first to classify
stars and planets by their color spectra, turning
‘astronomy’ into ‘astrophysics.’ And it was the
20th-century priest (though not a Jesuit, he
was quick to point out!) Georges Lemaître who
suggested that the universe began in a kind of
cosmic explosion that came to be called the ‘Big
Bang’ theory. Modern astronomy is fundamentally
based on Church-supported astronomy.”
So, are there extraterrestrials out there?
And if so, what would that mean for
Christian understandings of original sin, the
Incarnation and Christ’s redemptive act?
At this point, we just don’t know — the
questions remain open to speculation.
Source: Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic
belief and the search for extraterrestrial intelligent life,
available at www.vofoundation.org/books-and-media
But, said Brother Consolmagno, our
speculation must be bounded by two
facts: “First, whatever is out there, it is
the creation of a loving God. And second,
regardless of what God may or may not do
with the rest of creation, nothing out there
can contradict what we know He has done
here for us.”
Source: Intelligent Life in the Universe? Catholic
belief and the search for extraterrestrial
intelligent life, available at www.vofoundation.
org/books-and-media
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not homeless
Helping fellow veterans
find homes is the ‘best
medicine’ for Catholic
Community Services
case manager
By Jean Parietti
O
ne hot day last July, Dave
and Shannon Angwin
found themselves unexpectedly
homeless: While waiting for
Dave’s veterans benefits to kick
in, they were kicked out of the
house that friends had been letting them use rent-free.
“We just kind of put ourselves into a situation where we
depended on the wrong people,”
Shannon said. She and Dave,
who served two tours in Iraq
with the Army, spent a night
in their small SUV with their
big dogs, Lucy and Lenny.
They were facing the possibility
of two weeks without a place
to live.
“You’re pretty desperate and
you’re feeling terrible about
your decision-making skills,”
Shannon said.
But the next day, the Angwins
found hope.
At the local Veterans Administration
office, their troubles were overheard by
a coworker of Cesar Morales, a case
manager with Supportive Services for
Veterans Families, a program of Catholic Community Services of Western
Washington. They should drive right
over to Morales’ office in Olympia, the
coworker said.
“He was so incredibly welcoming,”
Shannon recalled of that first meeting
with Morales, who insisted they bring
Lucy and Lenny out of the 90-degree
heat and into the office. “He got a
big water bowl for the dogs,” she said,
then went to work helping the couple
find housing and resources to get back
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on their feet. “He definitely had a talent for focusing on
what we needed,” Shannon said.
Morales quickly found them temporary lodging, and
within a week they moved into a modest one-bedroom
apartment they could afford, with a security deposit paid
by the CCS program.
Passion, networking are key
Morales, one of five case managers in the five-county
program, is passionate about helping veterans, a carryover
from his nearly 23 years in the Army that took him to
conflicts around the globe, including Iraq, Kuwait and
Somalia. As a command sergeant major at Arizona’s Fort
Huachuca, home of the Army Intelligence Center, “I was
so involved with the families,” he said. “I learned a lot
about connecting them with civilian agencies there, being
creative with solving problems.”
Those networking skills, a degree in psychology and
his own experience with a service-connected disability
are among the tools Morales brings to help “his” veterans.
“I’m in heaven because this is my best medicine. I miss
the military,” said Morales, who retired in 1998 from
Fort Lewis and attends St. Mary Parish in Centralia.
“I get to work with the people who need the most right
now. I feel needed.”
Morales and other case managers help veterans of all
ages and walks of life with everything from VA benefits to
medical treatment and marriage counseling, if they need
that. “I make sure they get every benefit coming to them,”
Morales said.
He drives some veterans to their medical appointments or
shows them how to use the bus system. He links his veterans
with community-based organizations that can provide additional help, and meets with landlords to pave the way for
veterans needing a place to live. And when housing has been
secured, Morales helps veterans and their families find jobs.
“Cesar is dedicated to helping end homelessness for veterans in Western Washington,” said Patti Spaulding-Klewin,
veterans programs supervisor for CCS. “He believes in
the mission of Catholic Community Services; he is committed to assisting veteran households struggling with poverty,
housing, employment and reintegration to civilian life
post-service.”
‘Just a miracle’
For the Angwins, moving from Fort Hood, Texas, to
the Puget Sound area was part of a long-term plan for their
future, and the offer of rent-free housing in Yelm
made it possible.
David enrolled at South Puget Sound
Community College to complete his
training as a welder and Shannon lined
up a job as a barista. “They were
expecting payment of his VA disability benefits, and once he enrolled in
school, he would receive an additional stipend for rent,” Morales said.
But it takes about six weeks for
Cesar Morales
meets with a
veteran seeking
assistance
from the CCS
Supportive
Services for
Veterans
Families
program.
Stephen Brashear
Stephen Brashear
Lenny the pit bull has played an important role in Dave Angwin’s recovery from post-traumatic stress and a panic
disorder resulting from two tours of duty in Iraq with the Army.
that money to come in, Shannon said, leaving the couple
stranded when their housing evaporated: They could afford
rent or security deposits,
but not both.
When they met Morales, he linked them with the local
Wounded Warrior Project,
which paid for gas, groceries
and six days in a motel while Morales helped them find an
apartment. The search was “a bit of a struggle,” Shannon
said, because of Lucy, 12, a boxer-Rottweiler mix, and
Lenny, 11, a pit bull.
Lenny has been important in Dave’s recovery from posttraumatic stress and a panic disorder. “When I got back
from my second tour in Iraq, mentally I wasn’t doing very
well,” Dave said. “Any time that I was starting to have a
panic attack, [Lenny] was right there. He seemed to be able
to sense that something was wrong with me.”
So Morales helped the couple get Lenny certified as an
emotional support dog. “That definitely opened doors,”
Shannon said, and saved the couple $500 on pet deposits.
When the Angwins found an apartment, CCS paid the $880
rental deposit.
Morales also helped get them on food stamps, obtained
vouchers from other agencies for job-interview clothing, sat
down with the couple to review their budget, and connected Dave with job-search resources.
The Angwins are grateful to Morales and CCS
for opening a pathway out of a bad situation.
“We didn’t have the scope of vision to see
where we should begin,” Shannon said.
“CCS helped us formulate a plan and
put it into action. They didn’t do the
work for us, they didn’t swoop in
and solve our problems; they showed
us what steps we needed to take to
stabilize our living situation.”
For veterans like the
wAngwins, Morales said, “this
program is absolutely, totally,
just a miracle.”
Supporting veterans and their families
Helping veterans like the Angwins who are
homeless, or at risk of being homeless, is the mission
of the Supportive Services for Veterans Families
program. The focus is on rapidly finding veterans a
place to live under their own lease, then providing
case management and connecting them with
support services to maintain that housing.
Funded by an annual $800,000 grant from the
Veterans Administration, the “housing first” program
is helping veterans in King, Kitsap, Pierce, Thurston
and Snohomish counties. In October, Catholic
Community Services began receiving an additional
$1.5 million over three years to assist veterans in
Pierce County, said Alan Brown, housing services
director for CCS’ Family Housing Network in
Tacoma.
The program helped more than 230 veterans in
the past year, but the need is much greater, said
Patti Spaulding-Klewin, supervisor of CCS veterans
programs. CCS uses 60 percent of its grant to end
actual homelessness, with the rest going toward
homeless prevention services.
Veterans mainly get help with housing deposits
and rents, but assistance can include things like
furniture, utilities, transportation and child care.
The program includes a housing stability plan, with
veterans working on issues such as mental health,
employment or benefits.
“For many of the folks we work with, this is the first
time they’ve been homeless and they don’t know
what to do or how to access resources,” SpauldingKlewin said. For chronically homeless veterans,
the focus is reconnecting them with the VA and
“realizing that the VA is committed to helping them.”
Other ways CCS helps veterans
• Michael’s Place transitional housing in Seattle
• Beds earmarked for veterans at the CCS adult
shelter in Tacoma
• Services in Snohomish County, including
transportation, a navigator and housing
programs
To donate or connect with CCS veterans programs,
visit www.ccsww.org/homeless_vets.
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D E L A R ZO B I S P O
( I N E N G L I S H : PA G E 4 )
La oración
expresa
nuestros
anhelos
H
ace 35 años, Miguel estaba
en mi lista de llamadas
para comulgar los viernes
primeros de cada mes. Vivía
cerca de la parroquia y de
ordinario yo programaba una
visita a su casa hacia el final
del día. La visita a Miguel es
taba llena de fe y dulzura,
de esas que iluminan el día.
Miguel y su amada Marie, que
había muerto pocos años antes, nunca
tuvieron hijos y en sus vidas estuvieron
devotamente
dedicados el uno
hacia el otro y
juntos hacia Dios.
Entrar en su casa
era como retroceder
en el tiempo. La
casa era tranquila
y llena de quietud,
pero las cortinas
ARZOBISPO
abiertas permitían
J. PETER SARTAIN
al sol inundarla
cálidamente con
silencio y paz. Figuritas de porcelana co
leccionadas a través de los años podían
ser vistas cariñosamente expuestas en
repisas con manteles; fotografías de sus
padres venidos de otro país cubrían
las paredes. El lugar estaba inmacu
ladamente limpio y mantillas cubrían
los respaldos de las sillas y las mesas.
Gente sencilla de clase media, típicos de
aquella parroquia; trabajaban muy duro
y cuando las grandes plantas de trabajo
cerraban y desempleaban a miles en la
región, se compadecían de la suerte de
sus vecinos.
Miguel vestía con elegancia para mis
visitas mensuales, recibiendo la presencia
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Oramos no solo por
los vivos y los difuntos,
ellos también oran
por nosotros
del Señor con una devoción que nunca
he olvidado. Invariablemente, después
de recibir la Comunión mirábamos
fotografías. Miguel era músico y
estaba muy orgulloso de las fotografías
de la banda de la preparatoria donde
él tocaba la tuba con el grupo de
adolescentes, con trajes y sombreros
de pluma al estilo alpino francés.
Después de la preparatoria, Miguel
tocó la tuba en el ejército durante la
Primera Guerra Mundial.
Después de la muerte de Marie,
Miguel se sintió descorazonado y
perdido. Mantuvo la casa tan limpia
como siempre, pero sin Marie, pasaba
mucho tiempo fuera, en la iglesia,
con los amigos o de compras. Intentó
heroicamente llenar el vacío que le
dejó su muerte, y los parroquianos se
esmeraban en tratarlo con amabilidad.
‘La comunión de los fieles’
Cuando fui transferido a otra
parroquia, perdí contacto con él por
muchos años. Un día, después de un
funeral, decidí pasar un rato más en la
tumba de mi papá y vi a Miguel de pie
junto a la tumba de Marie.
Disfrutamos de un buen rato de
conversación, poniéndonos al día de lo
vivido. E hicimos una promesa: De ahí
en adelante, cuando cualquiera de los
dos estuviera en el cementerio, visitaría
mos la tumba de los familiares del otro
y diríamos una oración. He intentado
cumplir con esa promesa y estoy seguro
de que él también lo hizo. Cuando unos
años después de Marie también Miguel
murió, visitar sus tumbas me hacía son
reír nuevamente, pues me hacía recordar
las llamadas mensuales para la Comu
nión y su fe llena de amor. Hace unos
meses, cuando estuve en casa en Mem
phis para vacacionar, visité el cementerio
y cumplí mi parte de la promesa.
En su Credo del Pueblo de Dios,
el Beato Pablo VI (beatificado el 19
de octubre) escribió: “Creemos en la
comunión de todos los fieles cristianos,
es decir, de los que peregrinan en la
tierra, de los que se purifican después
de muertos y de los que gozan de la
bienaventuranza celeste, y que todos
se unen en una sola Iglesia; y creemos
igualmente que en esa comunión
está a nuestra disposición el amor
misericordioso de Dios y de sus santos,
que siempre ofrecen oídos atentos a
nuestras oraciones”.
Así como oramos por los vivos,
también oramos por los difuntos y ellos
oran por nosotros. Nuestra oración es
una expresión tanto de nuestra unión con
Cristo como de nuestro anhelo de que
esa unión sea perfeccionada para todos.
Unidos el uno con
el otro en Cristo
Poco después de mi llegada a Seattle
al final de 2010, Rosemary, quien era
mi secretaria en la Diócesis de Joliet,
murió después de una dura batalla contra
el cáncer. Hablamos varias veces por
teléfono al acercarse su muerte y un día le
agradecí todo lo que había hecho por mí
en esos cuatro años.
Me respondió, “Espero ser de más ayuda
después de mi muerte”. Se refería a las
palabras de Sta. Teresita del Niño Jesús, su
favorita: “Quiero pasar mi cielo haciendo
el bien en la tierra”. La muerte no presenta
ningún obstáculo para los miembros de
la Iglesia que no pueda ser franqueado
fácilmente por la oración y el amor.
En noviembre, recordamos a nuestros
difuntos, incluidos los que están reci
biendo la misericordia de Dios en el
purgatorio. Los cristianos hemos orado
por sus difuntos desde el principio, porque
anhelamos ser reunidos el uno con el otro
eternamente en Cristo. ¡Nuestro anhelo es
fruto de nuestro amor! La oración expresa
nuestro anhelo. No debemos olvidar que
las almas del purgatorio oran también por
nosotros.
Los regalos que recibí de Miguel, Marie
y Rosemary no se acabaron cuando
murieron. Dado que lo que compartieron
conmigo en vida, venían de Cristo. Tengo
todos los motivos para seguir creyendo
que seguimos “intercambiando” esos
regalos hoy en día.
Que las almas de los fieles difuntos
descansen en paz.
Envíe sus intenciones de oración a la
Lista de Oración del Arzobispo Sartain
a la Arquidiócesis de Seattle, 710 Ninth
Ave., Seattle, WA 98104.
S A N T O S D E L M E S ( I N E N G L I S H : PA G E 5 )
Sta. Isabel de
Hungría
Hija del rey
dedicada a los
pobres y los
enfermos
1207–1231
Fiesta:
Noviembre 17
CNS
Isabel vivió una vida
breve pero plena; tuvo
un matrimonio feliz e
hijos, fue franciscana seglar y tan dedicada a los pobres
y enfermos que les donaba sus ropajes reales además de
fundar hospitales. Hija de un rey húngaro, Isabel contrajo
nupcias a los 14 años con Luis, hombre de la clase noble
de Turingia. Él se quejaba de los gastos que hacía Isabel
en sus muchas obras de caridad hasta que fue testigo de
un milagro en que los panes de la canasta de su esposa
quedaron convertidos en rosas. Tras morir su esposo en
una cruzada, Isabel se unió a la Tercera Orden Francis
cana en Marburgo, Alemania, donde fundó un hospital
para los enfermos. Isabel fue declarada santa en 1235. Es
patrona de los pasteleros, las novias, las viudas, los acusa
dos falsamente, las condesas y los franciscanos seglares.
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Sn. Andrés Dung-Lac
y compañeros
Cuando tú hablas,
nosotros
escuchamos.
Mártires
vietnamitas
soportaron la
tortura por su fe
Siglos XVIII y XIX
Fiesta:
Noviembre 24
CNS
Andrés Dung-Lac fue
uno de los 117 mártires
de Vietnam muertos por oficiales del gobierno durante las
persecuciones para suprimir los ideales europeos y sus valores
religiosos en los siglos XVIII y XIX. Los grupos consistieron
de 90 vietnamitas y 21 misioneros extranjeros (11 españoles y
10 franceses). Los mártires eran obispos, sacerdotes y laicos,
incluyendo mujeres. Soportaron torturas horribles en prisión
antes de ser decapitados, crucificados, descuartizados o
quemados vivos por rehusarse a renegar de su fe. Andrés, viet
namita formado en el catolicismo, fue catequista y sacerdote.
Fue arrestado y encarcelado con su compañero, Sn. Pedro
Thi; fueron decapitados en 1839.
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DEL OBISPO
( I N E N G L I S H : W W W. N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
La Iglesia está siempre en crisis
Los períodos de crisis que nos llevan a la conversión y a la santidad
L
os creyentes en Cristo Jesús y bautizados en Su nombre, formamos la Iglesia. La fe de nuestros padres y padrinos
fue la que inició ese proceso en nuestras
vidas al regalarnos el sacramento que
planta la semilla de la vida divina en
nuestro interior. De ahí en adelante cada
una de nuestras palabras y acciones serán
la manera concreta de hacer crecer o no
esa maravillosa semilla, que se fermenta en
nuestra libre voluntad.
cuando le permitimos a Dios llevarnos más
allá de nosotros mismos para alcanzar nuestro
ser más verdadero”. Cuando le permitimos a
Dios encontrarnos, Su presencia amorosa nos
desestabiliza y nos hace buscar siempre más
la verdad sobre nosotros mismos, sobre los
demás y sobre toda la creación. Su presencia nos
hace estar en crisis permanente, en un cambio
continuo que finalmente muestre ante los demás
OBISPO EUSEBIO
el potencial personal latente en la semilla de la
ELIZONDO, M.SP.S.
vida y de la fe que nos fueron dadas.
Tanto la vida física como la vida de fe son
regalos. Los regalos son expresiones externas del amor
gozoso del dador. Los regalos no se merecen. El recipiente
de los mismos, simplemente se dispone a recibirlos. Esta
De la misma manera en que un bebé empieza a construir
disposición es la que genera una relación con el dador y por
una relación con su madre, mezclada con el impulso natural
lo mismo un cambio en nuestra existencia para siempre.
de saciar su hambre, o satisfacer alguna otra necesidad, así
también desarrollamos nuestra relación con Dios mezclada
Crisis que conduce a la conversión
con tantos otros impulsos.
Ese libre proceso es lo que suscita una crisis, una converEl Papa Benedicto XVI decía que: “No se comienza a ser
sión, una transformación incesante e interminable.
cristiano por una decisión ética o una gran idea, sino por el
Si constatamos a nuestro alrededor en la sociedad y en el
encuentro con un acontecimiento, con una
mundo tanta división y distancia entre los hupersona, que da un nuevo horizonte a mi
manos es porque el Creador de todo y de todos
Para mí, la fe es
vida, y con ello una orientación definitiva”.
adornó nuestra vida y nuestra relación con Él
Esto sucede, diría yo, gradual e incesantecon el Don inigualable de la libertad. El verla respuesta libre
mente en nuestro trato con nuestros papás,
dadero amor no puede ser impuesto, no puede
y gozosa a la
hermanos, amigos y por supuesto con Dios.
ser forzado, tiene que responder por atracción,
El encuentro con todas estas personas se
por la dulce seducción de Su presencia.
experiencia personal
purifica continuamente, sufre una “crisis”,
Si bien es cierto que este proceso crea tenes decir se desestabiliza, prueba, corrige y
sión
y crisis en la Iglesia, también es cierto que
de ser encontrado
aprende de acuerdo a los aciertos y fracasos
debemos alegrarnos al ver los miles de homvividos en el proceso.
por alguien que me bres y mujeres que alcanzan diariamente ese
La palabra griega crisis significa desestabipunto de relación con el amado y consagran su
lizar, poner a prueba, es decir, madurar. Cada considera digno de existencia felizmente al servicio de los demás,
una de nuestras pequeñas y grandes decisiohaciéndose eco de esa alegría.
ser amado.
nes genera una crisis, una maduración perLa historia de la Iglesia está llena de miles
sonal, que se refleja en el resto de la Iglesia;
de esos incansables creyentes en crisis que
así es como nuestra fe se transforma en vida.
nos han dejado una herencia de feliz santidad. Otros muchos miles están hoy en torno nuestro siendo
Una respuesta libre y gozosa
desestabilizados, probados, madurados, para seguir perfecPara mí, la fe es la respuesta libre y gozosa a la experiencia cionando al ser humano haciéndolo más que humano al ser
personal de ser encontrado por alguien que me considera
movido por Dios.
digno de ser amado. Esta respuesta personal es por supuesto
Las cuerdas de una guitarra solo producen buena música
paulatina, hasta llevarme a un abandono total y confiado
cuando están bien afinadas. Permitámosle al Maestro que
en esa persona, como consecuencia de la alegre libertad que
temple las cuerdas de nuestra vida para que bajo su dirección
genera su presencia en mi vida.
ejecutemos una armoniosa melodía con nuestras vidas.
Expandiendo la reflexión del Papa Benedicto citada con
María nos da siempre la pauta.
anterioridad, el Papa Francisco decía que: “Llegamos a ser
Eusebio Elizondo, M.Sp.S., es obispo auxiliar de Seattle y vicario
plenamente humanos, cuando somos más que humanos,
para el ministerio hispano.
S E M I L L A S D E L A PA L A B R A
( I N E N G L I S H : W W W. N W C AT H O L I C . O R G )
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Cuando un amigo
se va al cielo
El cristiano ante la pérdida de un ser querido
E
n noviembre recordamos a los difuntos y también a todos los
santos. Santo no es quien tiene una aureola y su nombre en el
calendario: Santo es todo aquél que ha entrado al cielo. La Iglesia
los celebra a todos el 1 de noviembre. No todo el que muere entra
al cielo. Muchos deben purificarse en el purgatorio. Así, el 2 de
noviembre celebramos a los difuntos y pedimos a Dios por ellos,
para que puedan entrar al cielo.
Qué bendición
saber que los
santos no solo
se encuentran en
una estampa. Hay
santos de carne
y hueso viviendo
entre nosotros.
Son difíciles de
MAURICIO I. PÉREZ
encontrar, porque
no tomamos en serio nuestro cristianismo. Si lo hiciéramos, conoceríamos
muchos santos.
Conocí a Jaime en la preparatoria.
Compartíamos nuestra fe como con nadie más. Soñábamos con ser hermanos
maristas. Dios tenía otros planes para
nosotros. Formamos nuestras familias,
pero siempre nos dedicamos al apostolado. Él era jovial y afectuoso, buena
gente hasta con sus enemigos. Cuando
uno vive su fe a pecho descubierto, sin
querer se encuentran enemigos. Pero
Jaime sabía tratar a quien lo atacara
con una afabilidad irresistible.
Hace unos años, enfermó. Con el
tiempo agravó. Tuvo que dejar de
trabajar y pasaba mucho tiempo en
cama. Hace unos meses fui liquidado
y tuve que buscar trabajo. Luego de
12 entrevistas precisaba de un trabajo
urgentemente. Jaime me llamó desde
México. Quería que supiera que me
acompañaba en mi difícil situación.
“Llevo meses en cama y cada vez me
siento peor. Tú sabes, la cruz pesa,
pero solo hay dos opciones, como los
ladrones del calvario: Te quejas y haces
de tu cruz una maldición o le sacas
provecho y haces que sea una cruz de
bendición. Quiero que sepas que estoy
ofreciendo todos mis dolores porque
pronto encuentres trabajo. ¡Que valga
la pena estar enfermo!”
Al día siguiente, Jaime empeoró y fue
hospitalizado. Me sentí fatal. Pero ese
mismo día, ¡me ofrecieron empleo! El
sacrificio de Jaime había sido acogido
por Dios y había respondido dándome
el trabajo que tanto necesitaba.
Hace unas semanas envió una nota:
“No quiero preocuparte, pero necesito
que reces por mí con más fuerzas que
nunca”. En la catedral pasé una hora
ante el Santísimo pidiendo por su salud.
Pedí a Dios que Jaime no perdiera las
fuerzas y menos, la alegría. Tomé fotos
con mi teléfono y se las envié. Me aseguró sentirse reconfortado.
Dos semanas después, Jaime murió. Justo el 8 de septiembre, día del
Nacimiento de la Virgen. Y seguro
estoy, que fue llevado al cielo de la
mano de María. En Jaime se cumplió la
promesa de Sn. Marcelino Champagnat, fundador de los maristas: “A Jesús,
por María”.
Jesús dijo que “Nadie ama más que
quien da la vida por sus amigos”. (Juan
15,13) Jaime ofreció sus dolores por mí
y Dios lo escuchó. He sido amigo de
un santo cuya fiesta es el 1 de noviembre. Y me ha dado el ejemplo de que se
puede. Se puede en vida, ser santo.
¡Apasiónate por nuestra fe!
Mauricio I. Pérez, miembro de la
Parroquia de Sta. Mónica en Mercer
Island, es periodista católico. Su sitio web
es www.semillasparalavida.org.
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Look for
archbishop’s
Advent booklet
Courtsey Seattle Prep
A collection
of Adventthemed reflections by Archbishop J. Peter
Sartain will be
made available
free of charge
to Catholics
in Western
Washington.
The archbishop is distributing the
48-page booklet, entitled
An Advent Pilgrimage:
Preparing Our Hearts for
Jesus, to parishes in the
Archdiocese of Seattle.
The booklet, published
by Our Sunday Visitor,
includes columns the archbishop has written over
the years for the diocesan
publications of Little Rock,
Arkansas; Joliet, Illinois;
and Seattle.
The new Our Lady of Montserrat Chapel at Seattle Preparatory School was blessed
Sept. 19 by Jesuit Father Scott Santarosa, provincial of the Oregon Province of the
Society of Jesus.
BY THE NUMBERS
72%
of Americans think
religion is losing influence in American life,
up from 52 percent in
2002, according to a
recent poll by the Pew
Research Center.
QUOTABLE
“Happy families
are essential for
the Church and
for society.”
POPE FRANCIS, in
an Oct. 3 tweet
from his Twitter
account,
@Pontifex.
For more on
the Synod of
Bishops on
the family,
held Oct. 5–19
in Rome,
visit www.
NWCatholic.
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EBOLA OUTBREAK
Pope urges prayers,
aid for those hit by Ebola
Pope Francis called for prayers and concrete help for
the thousands of people affected by the deadly Ebola
virus. “I hope the international community may provide
much-needed help to alleviate the sufferings of our
brothers and sisters,” he said in an appeal at the end
of his general audience in St. Peter’s Square Sept. 24.
The day before, the pope had highlighted the
church’s valuable work in helping deal with the disease, during an address to bishops from Ghana. “May
God strengthen all health care workers there and bring
an end to this tragedy,” the pope said in the written
address. You can donate to Catholic Relief Services’
response at www.crs.org.
CONSECRATED LIFE
Year of Consecrated Life
starts this month
A special year dedicated to consecrated life begins
Nov. 29. The churchwide Year of Consecrated Life was
announced by Pope Francis and marks the 50th anniversary of Perfectae Caritatis, a decree on religious life,
and Lumen Gentium, the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church. The purpose of the
yearlong celebration, according to a Vatican statement,
is to “make a grateful remembrance of the recent
past” while embracing
IN MEMORIAM
“the future with hope.”
Franciscan Sister Donna
Those in consecrated
Fread, Sept. 6
life include religious
St. Joseph of Peace Sister
Anita Heeran, Sept. 14
sisters, religious brothers and religious priests,
Providence Sister Katherine
Markel, Sept. 13
as well as consecrated
Please remember recently
virgins and hermits. The
deceased priests, deacons,
Year of Consecrated life
sisters and brothers in your
will conclude Feb. 2, 2016.
prayers.
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Palisades to offer silent,
mother-daughter retreats
Nov. 30 is the First Sunday of Advent, a season of
preparation for Christmas and for Christ’s second coming at the end of the world. The Archbishop Brunett
Retreat Center at the Palisades (4700 S.W. Dash Point
Road, Federal Way) will host two Advent-themed retreats.
The first, Dec. 5–7, is a traditional silent retreat led by
Father Jim Northrop, pastor of St. Brendan Parish in
Bothell.
The second, Dec. 12–14, is a retreat for mothers and
daughters (13 and up) led by Sister Miriam James
Sister Miriam
Heidland of the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy
James Heidland
Trinity.
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person (double room), and includes eight meals and two nights in a room
with private bath. Scholarships are available. For more information, call
206-748-7991.
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The event, which benefits Providence Senior and Community Services, raised $1.2 million last year.
Families are invited to attend the
free Christmas Carnival Dec. 1 from
12–8 p.m. The carnival includes live
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trees, with themes including “It’s a
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Nov. 1 is the solemnity of All Saints, which honors all those in heaven.
Though it is normally a holy day of obligation, Catholics are not required to
attend Mass since it falls on a Saturday this year.
The next day, Sunday, Nov. 2, the church marks All Souls’ Day, commemorating all the faithful departed who are now being cleansed in purgatory
before entering into heaven. In your prayers, please remember these priests,
deacons and religious sisters who have died in the past year (Sept. 1, 2013,
to Aug. 31, 2014):
St. Joseph of Peace Sister Elizabeth Ann Brennan, Deacon Fred Cordova,
Holy Names Sister M. Rose Theresa Costello, Father Charles Crosse, Father
Robert Dell, Benedictine Father Urban Feucht, Franciscan Sister Donna Fread,
B.V.M. Sister Patricia Galhouse, Father William Gallagher, St. Joseph of Peace
Sister Eleanor Gilmore, Jesuit Father William Hausmann, Holy Names Sister Eleanor Holkenbrink, Benedictine Sister Nathalie Karels, Dominican Sister Anna
Kosenski, Holy Names Sister Agnes Marie
Krieg, Father William Lane, Providence Sister
Scholastica Lee, Franciscan Sister Elizabeth
Rae Lewis, Father Lester “Jerry” McCloskey,
Father Brian McGovern, Franciscan Sister
Agnes McLoughlin, Father Patrick O’Brien,
Deacon George Peterson, Jesuit Father
Robert Rekofke, Sacred Heart Sister Joanne
Reynolds, Franciscan Sister Martha Joseph
Rooney, Dominican Sister Maureen Rose,
Father Michael J. Ryan, Holy Names Sister
Virginia Maria Shelton, Holy Names Sister
M. Jane Snodgrass, Holy Names Sister Mary
Spangler, Father Brian Snyder, Jesuit Father
Joseph Stocking, Redemptorist Father David
Tobin, Father Anthony Ton, Father Michael
Tucker, Deacon Ted Wiese, Deacon Howard
Wilson, Jesuit Father Charles Albert Wollesen.
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Praying to, and for, the dead
We Remember and We Give Thanks
During the month of November
we are called to meditate on the Communion of Saints –
all who have died and those of us still on the journey.
We invite you to set aside time for prayer
to remember those who have died.
Mass will be celebrated at the Archdiocesan
Catholic Cemeteries throughout the month:
Saturday, November 1
All Saints/All Souls Day
Calvary, Gethsemane and Holyrood Cemeteries
10:30am Mass in English
Gethsemane and Holyrood Cemeteries
Masses in Korean and Vietnamese
(contact the cemetery for times)
Calvary Cemetery –
10:30am – Mass in English
Gethsemane Cemetery –
Holyrood Cemetery –
10:30am – Misa en Español
Gethsemane Cemetery –
10:30am – Misa en Español
Holyrood Cemetery –
Saints of God, come to their aid!
Hasten to meet them, angels of the Lord!
Receive their souls and present them
to God the Most High.
May Christ, who called you, take you to himself;
may angels lead you to the bosom of Abraham.
Receive their souls and present them
to God the Most High.
Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May the souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God,
rest in peace. Amen.
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