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The Christendom College Update Instaurare (vt. to restore, strengthen, renew)

October 2002 Volume X, Number III

INSIDE THIS ISSUE . . .

Crusaders Get New Coach – page 2

NDGS Graduation page 3

Library Gets Off the Ground Christendom Grads Stay Focused page 4 page 5

Christendom in Spain – page 3 September 11th Tribute – page 4 High School Summer Program – page 7 Administrative Changes – page 7 Students Do Missionary Work in Banica – page 8

Ninth Consecutive Record Enrollment at College

Semester in Rome, New Library, and Academic Rigor Draw Students from Across America

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When Christendom College opened its doors on September 14, 1977, twenty-six students saw the vision of Dr. Warren Carroll and enrolled in the College. Now, 25 years later, the College has a total of 360 undergraduate students and its ninth consecutive record enrollment.

The increase in the student body this year is partially due to the recently introduced Semester in Rome Program, beginning this fall semester. On September 19, half of Christendom’s Juniors began studying just a few minutes from St. Peter’s. They are lodged at the Domus Mariae, a beautiful facility with classrooms, a dining room, study halls, and a chapel dedicated to the Blessed Mother.

Accompanied by Christendom College chaplain Rev. Anthony Christendom’s entire faculty takes the Oath of Fidelity annually, Mastroeni and Philosophy Professor Doug Flippen, the students the only college in the US to do so. are continuing in the core curriculum with classes in philosophy, theology, and English literature. Italian art and architecture and language classes will round out their schedules.

Bishop Paul S. Loverde celebrated the Opening Mass of the Holy Spirit on August 25, 2002.

see TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR, page 6

Summer Institute Helps “Build the Civilization of Love”

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This year, while many Americans traveled to sunny beaches for the Independence Day weekend, over 250 faithful and devoted Christendom College Summer Institute participants spent their holiday weekend in the splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah River learning how to Build the Civilization of Love.

scale of values: the primacy of being over having, of the person over things. Such a civilization answers the spiritual and moral needs of the human person and promotes his fulfillment. It represents the goal of the Church’s social teaching, the task given to mankind to be carried out with the help of divine grace.

Christendom College’s Fourteenth Annual Summer Institute, “Building the Civilization of Love,” was held in its St. Louis the Crusader Gymnasium on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, July 5-7, 2002. The program featured renowned speakers and teachers Scott Hahn, Jeff Cavins, Timothy O’Donnell, William Luckey, Tim Gray, John Janaro, and Curtis Martin.

“The Civilization of Love” refers to a culture that, according to Pope John Paul II writing Dr. Scott Hahn at Christendom’s Summer in Evangelium Vitae, has as its basis a correct Institute.

On Friday night, Jeff Cavins, host of EWTN’s Life on the Rock, spoke on the topic of the family and its prophetic voice. He explained that the family today has a prophetic voice that can change society and that marriages should reflect the love of the Trinity.

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“The role of the family today can take on prophetic dimensions as we challenge people to be obedient to Church teachings,” he said. “A married couple can be a witness of God’s love and faithfulness. Marriage should Dean of the Summer Institute Tim Gray. not be seen as simply a symbol of Christ’s love for

see CIVILIZATION OF LOVE, pages 4-5

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Whatever Happened to Hating the Sin?

The old Catholic moral maxim, reaching back to the time of St. Augustine, which had been impressed on every student who attended Catholic school before the turbulence of the late 1960s, was “love the sinner and hate the sin.” The two parts e Timothy T. O’Donnell, STD, KC HS of this simple maxim of Catholic wisdom are worthy of serious reflection in our present cultural milieu.

The first part of the injunction, to “love the sinner,” seems to be the larger half, so to speak, and it seems to be appreciated in today’s world. One reason for this is that all the virtues of the Christian life have been reduced to “niceness” in the modern era. We do not ask whether an individual is a good person, but whether he is “nice.” It does not much matter whether the person is a fornicator, perjurer, etc. The important thing in life is that he is nice. Love, which even in the insipid music of the 1960s, was described as “a many splendored thing,” has now been reduced to niceness. To be a loving person is to be a nice person. And, of course, a nice person is someone who is never mean, insensitive, or judgmental. This contemporary understanding of love would be better spelled “luv.”

C.S. Lewis, in his excellent little book on the Problem of Pain, pointed out what a great contrast there is between kindness and love. Kindness, which today would be understood more readily as the quality of niceness, always involved a certain indifference to the object. Whereas love, particularly as it is found in Christian Revelation, is a most exacting and demanding affection. There are many ways in which the love of God is communicated in Scripture, but probably the highest and most exacting form is the image of spousal love.

Those who would speak today of the importance of lov-

ing the sinner are stating a very important truth. But a proper Christian understanding of the meaning of love must include a fierce attentiveness to the good of the person. Love, as our Holy Father has stated repeatedly, cannot be divorced from truth. A true and genuine love for a sinner would necessarily include one of the spiritual works of mercy: to admonish the sinner. The example of Christ should suffice to illustrate this point. No one loves sinners more than our Lord and He, Who was innocent, paid the ultimate price for our sinfulness. Our Lord was never one to mince words when it came time to call people to conversion and to recognize the fact that they were sinners. It was His stinging dialogue with the Jewish authorities that led to His sacrificial death on the cross. He never flinched a moment as he spoke of their hypocrisy and deceit. We cannot be indifferent to the true good of the person.

Therefore, in the act of loving them, we must seek to bring them to a deeper appreciation and love for the good and for the One Whom they have offended.

We cannot expect to elevate the moral level within the Church and society unless people deeply committed to Jesus Christ have St. Paul’s courgae to speak forcefully and powerfully of their hatred of sin.

This leads us to the second half of the maxim: “to hate the sin.” This latter half seems to be virtually forgotten today. Some Christians who talk about “love the sinner and hate the sin” and then condone alternative life styles or speak with rapture about the newfound sensitivity as silly sit-com figures step out of the closet forget this latter half of the maxim. Whatever happened to hating the sin? At a recent march defending “homosexual rights” a number of individuals carried signs that read “Love the Sinner, Love the Sin.” In today’s confused world, we need fervent preaching of the Word of God reminiscent of St. Paul. The great Apostle of the Gentiles, in a pagan world, would often speak out against certain types of sins which “ought not even to be named among you.” St. Paul, despite the claims of militant feminists and deconstructionists, was truly inspired by the Holy Spirit. The great Apostle, who reflected the love of the Heart of Christ, exhorts us in his epistle to the Romans to “Let love be genuine; hate what is evil, hold fast to

Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Weekend Celebration Christendom College began celebrating its 25th Anniversary year with many festivities over the weekend of September 13-15, 2002.

On September 13, the College community gathered in the Crusader Memorial Gymnasium to attend an Academic Convocation at which Jan Cardinal Schotte, Secretary General to the World Synond of Bishops, was given an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, and US Ambassador to the Vatican James Nicholson was awarded the College’s Pro Deo et Patria Medal for Distinguished Service to God and Country.

The highlight of the celebration weekend was the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Benefit Gala Dinner Dance held at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Tysons Corner, VA, on Christendom’s actual anniversary date, September 14.

Although not in attendance that evening, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, served as the Chairman of

what is good. . .” (Rom 12:9). How frequently in his epistles does he give us powerful catalogues of sins which sadly exclude individuals from the Kingdom of God. How frequently does he list moral evils in contrast to the

the Honorary Dinner Committee for the event.

Emceed by EWTN news anchor, Raymond Arroyo, the evening included a ten-minute video presentation of the history of Christendom College, with remarks given

by Board Chairman Donna Bethell, Founding President Warren Carroll, Jan Cardinal Schotte, Ambassador Nicholson, and College President Timothy O’Donnell.

On Sunday morning, Jan Cardinal Schotte celebrated a Solemn Mass of Thanksgiving at Christendom’s Chapel of Christ the King The weekend concluded with a spectacular fireworks display and a dance at the College, featuring the seventeen-piece swing orchestra, For Dancers Only.

Full coverage of the weekend will be featured in the December issue of this publication.

fruits of the Holy Spirit. “Now the works of the flesh are plain: immorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal 5:19-21). In contrast to the sinful works of “the old man,” he writes of “the new man”: “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law” (Gal 5:22-23). (For similiar references from St. Paul, please see also Col. 3:5-10; 12-14; I Cor 6:9-10; Eph 5:3-13) We cannot expect to elevate the moral level within the Church and society unless people deeply committed to Jesus Christ have St. Paul’s courage to speak forcefully and powerfully of their hatred of sin. Ultimately the inability to point out the great malice and evil of sin stems from the tepidity of our love for God and for His only Son Whom He sent to us to save us from sin. The price He paid was not silver or gold. These sins are an offense against God, and if we downplay them or believe that they are really not so bad, it is only because our love for Him Who is offended has grown cold. Recalling that our sins caused the crucifixion of our Blessed Lord, we should think of the cruel scourging, of the carrying of the heavy cross, and of the nails riveting His torn and broken humanity to the wood of the cross. Perhaps the time has come in our jaded culture to bring back the full glorious significance of this often quoted but misunderstood maxim to truly “love the sinner.” To truly have compassion for the sinner is to love him as Christ would love him. This leads us to hate the sin, to hate that evil which breaks down and destroys the friendship which our Lord and Savior came to establish between God and man and purchased at the price of shedding His Precious Blood.

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Christendom Graduates Twelve from its Notre Dame Graduate School

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On August 2, twelve men and women joined the ranks of the alumni of the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College (NDGS).

After completing all required coursework, and passing both the written and oral comprehensive examinations, the graduate school students received their Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Rev. William Saunders, past-Dean of the Graduate School, in the Chapel

Argauer (Systematic Theology), Sr. Martha Corona, P.C.I. (Systematic Theology), Sr. Raphaele Goebel, F.S.G.M. (Catechetics), Cheryl Heinz (Catechetics), Andria Klucinec, (Systematic Theology), Daniel Klucinec (Systematic Theology), Stephen Pimentel (Sacred Scripture), Barbara Key Powell (Systematic Theology), Thomas Ricks (Systematic Theology), Cecilia Rollins (Spirituality), Clare Rowan (Catechetics), and Beverly Ward (Spirituality).

As an interesting side note, Dan and Andria Klucinec became the first married couple to graduate on the same day from the NDGS. They had met at the graduate school in June of 2000, and subsequently married in November of 2001. Additionally, Beverly Ward joined her husband, Bob, and her son, James, as a graduate of Christendom College. Bob graduated from the NDGS in 1999, and James from Christendom College in the same year.

NDGS Graduating Class of 2002 (front-l to r): Prof. Sal Ciresi, Dr. Kristin Burns (Dean of NDGS), Cecilia Rollins, Beverly Ward, Sr. Martha Corona, P.C.I., Cherly Heinz, Clare Rowan; (back) Prof. Fr. Kenneth Rodger Hunter-Hall, Prof. Fr. Paul deLadurantaye, Daniel Klucinec, Timothy Argauer, Stephen Pimentel, Andria Klucinec, Thomas Ricks, Sr. M. Timothy Prokes, F.S.E., and Fr. William Saunders (past-Dean of NDGS). Missing from the photo: Sr. Raphaele Goebel, F.S.G.M. and Barbara Key Powell.

of Christ the King on Christendom’s Front Royal, VA, campus.

Following the Baccalaureate Mass, Fr. Saunders conferred the Master of Arts degrees on Timothy

After Graduation, the students and their families joined the NDGS faculty for a luncheon, catered by Christendom Chef Ron Steckman and his staff.

During the luncheon, Timothy Argauer presented a check to Fr. Saunders in the amount of $1265.00. The money was raised as a “Senior Gift” by the NDGS graduating class of 2002 and will go toward the operational expenses of the graduate school.

Hola Espana! Christendom College Travels to Spain Under the guidance of Christendom Professors Dr. Jonathan Reyes and Dr. Christopher Blum, 40 people participated in Christendom’s Study Abroad Program: Christendom in Spain.

From May 26 to June 15, the group traveled throughout Portugal and Spain, beginning in Fatima and visiting such great Spanish cities as Avila, Toledo, Segovia, Burgos, Madrid, and Salamanca.

The directed tour included lectures on Spanish cultural and political history. The participants were able to read one of the greatest plays of the Spanish Golden Age of Literature beneath the Roman and medieval walls of Avila. They viewed the works of Velasquez, El Greco, and Murillo at the Prado Art Museum in Madrid, and saw the Valle de los Caidos, the great monument built

by Francisco Franco to honor the Spanish Civil War dead. They attended Mass in the Incarnacion Monastery, where St. John of the Cross heard St. Teresa of Avila’s confessions, and they spent a night in the Plaza Mayor of Salamanca, the greatest and oldest university town in Spain.

“The trip was not simply a religious pilgrimage, but was

Thomas Ricks receives his Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Rev. William Saunders, past-Dean of the Notre Dame Graduate School. Ricks is currently enrolled in the Church History doctoral program at The Catholic University of America.

rather a pilgrimage for the sake of Catholic culture,” said Dr. Johnathan Reyes. “At the heart of the trip, as at the heart of Catholic culture, was the Catholic Faith itself, experienced in the Cathedrals, monasteries, graves, Fatima, and so many side shrines, iconography, and deep symbolism that was present everywhere we went.”

Built on this Faith was also the great legend of The monastic palace of San the noble El Cid, and Lorenzo de El Escorial. the monastic palace of El Escorial constructed

by Philip II. All of this whispered to the group of the power and majesty of two thousand years of passionate history and culture that must continue today in them. Being there, they could see how the glory of the Catholic Faith and the beauty of truth and sainthood can permeate a society, and how it can and should permeate society today.

“The history in those two countries overwhelmed me. The entire trip was exciting every day because every place that we visited provided a totally new experience of culture and beauty. It was my first time going to Europe, and Portugal and Spain gave me an incredible introduction to the history of the modern world and the Catholic Faith that we enjoy here in the States,” remarked Lauren McCool, a Christendom College junior from Alpharetta, GA.

Timothy Argauer gives Fr. Saunders a check for $1265 as part of the Class of 2002’s Senior Class gift.

Christendom Professor John Cuddeback Makes Academic Contributions An article by Dr. John A. Cuddeback, Associate Professor of Philosophy, titled “Truth and Friendship: The Importance of the Conversation of Friends,” will be published in a collection of essays titled Truth Matters.

The book will come out from The Catholic University of America Press in 2003.

Dr. Cuddeback also will present a paper at the American Maritain Association Conference at Princeton University this fall. The paper is titled, “Yves Simon on How to Will the Common Good.”

Rice Participates in ISI/Liberty Fund Colloquium Dr. Robert C. Rice, Chairman of Christendom’s English Department, was one of sixteen participants in the ISI/Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Liberty, Society and the Individual in the Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver,” which took place in Savannah, GA, May 23-26, 2002. The invited participants were former Richard M. Weaver Graduate Fellows and other Intercollegiate Studies Institute Alumni.

The colloquium focused on 34 of the 126 essays of the late Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Chicago published recently by Liberty Fund in “In Defense of Tradition: Collected Shorter Writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963”, edited by Ted J. Smith III (Indianapolis, 2000, 813 pp.). The general topics addressed in six sections were: The Critique of Modernity; Education; Rhetoric, The Humanities, Literature and Language; Politics; History; and The South.

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Campaign for Christendom Advances in Stormy Weather Administration Says Farewell Since launching Christendom’s first capital campaign in the spring of 2001, the College now reports that it has raised just under $11,400,000 in cash and pledges towards its ultimate goal of $12,000,000.

“With confidence in God’s Will,” says John F. Ciskanik, Vice President for Development at Christendom, “Dr. O’Donnell and the entire Christendom College faculty and staff is committed to accomplish its Campaign for Christendom mission and, more importantly, to remain faithful to the vision which gave the College its purpose.”

These encouraging fund raising results have been

accomplished by the grace of God and by the generosity of the College’s many benefactors – despite the traumatic experiences of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent weakness in the financial markets.

Throughout the life of the campaign, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has dropped as much as 35% with some benefactors experiencing more drastic losses.

Christendom’s needs remain. With enrollment tripling over the past decade, student financial aid requirements have grown tenfold. Financial aid currently defrays well over $1,000,000 in educational expenses for currently enrolled Christendom students. Additionally, even as Christendom’s Sean O’Reilly Memorial Library has over 50,000 volumes on the shelves, an additional 36,000 sit in storage. While the College has been pleased by the continued generosity of donors of library books, it has been a substantial burden to maintain a real library and a “second” library in cold storage.

Supported by the fund raising results to date, the College has moved forward with important campaign objectives. Specifically, it has completed one 68-bed student residence, St. Catherine’s Hall; it has injected over $800,000 into the student financial aid program; and it has begun construction on the much-needed St. John the Evangelist Library project, which includes classroom space.

to Rev. William Saunders

Reverend William P. Saunders, Ph.D., recently stepped down from his position as Dean of the Notre Dame Graduate School, and was replaced by Christendom College founding faculty member and NDGS philosophy professor, Kristin P. Burns, as acting dean. Plans are underway to hire a permanent dean within the year.

Saunders has been the Dean of the NDGS for the past five years. Prior to that, he served as President of the then-Notre Dame Institute (NDI) since 1992.

As a token of appreciation for the time and effort he has given to the graduate school, the administration held a dinner in his honor at which a check for $10,000 was presented to him for the graduate school. The money came as a gift from numerous NDGS supporters in response to a letter written by Dr. Timothy O’Donnell in July.

“On behalf of the many current and future students who will benefit by the Campaign for Christendom, I thank all who have followed Dr. Carroll’s lead, have remained faithful to Christendom College and have supported us over the years with prayer and purse. To those who have been watching from the shore, I invite you to come aboard,” says Ciskanik.

Patty Rodgers, Fr. Saunders’ long-time secretary, makes a toast to Fr. Saunders at the recent dinner held in his honor.

Though the $12,000,000 finish line has proven elusive,

CIVILIZATION OF LOVE... the Church, rather it is a participation in it: a participation in the love of the Trinity. Is the world a different place because of you, your family, and your children?

I pray so,” he concluded.

Saturday morning began early with a presentation by Dean of the Summer Institute and noted Scripture scholar Tim Gray. Gray spoke on the proper understanding of freedom in building the civilization of love. Today, many people have a false understanding of freedom, he explained. When freedom is detached from truth and reality, it tends to lead to self-love and contempt of God. “Catholicism is not opposed to freedom,” said Gray. “We must properly understand true freedom. Many false senses of freedom arise from a skewed idea of God and a skewed idea of reality.

Many believe that freedom is simply freedom to choose whatever one wants instead of the freedom to choose the good, as St. Thomas Aquinas defines it. There is no freedom apart from God because all freedom must be ordered to truth, and God is Truth.”

Christendom College’s Chairman of the Political Science Department, Dr. William Luckey, followed Tim Gray’s presentation by focusing on the role of the

individual in building the civilization of love. He said that in order for society, culture, and civilization to change, individual followers of Jesus must reflect the teachings of Christ and His Church both in word and action.

“Everyone is called to sanctity. Everyone has received the universal call to holiness. This call to holiness is a call from Jesus to have a personal relationship with Him. How do we get this personal relationship? Through prayer, not simply saying prayers, but a real conversation with God. Pray from the heart. Confide in God. Thank Him for all of His blessings.”

After Luckey’s talk, the Most Reverend Robert C. Morlino, Bishop of the diocese of Helena, MT, celebrated Mass in Christendom’s Chapel of Christ the King.

Following Mass, lunch, and a booksigning, Dr. Scott Hahn, noted author, Scripture scholar, and former Protestant minister, delighted the conference participants with a presentation on the family as the blueprint for the civilization of love.

He began by explaining that many people have different concepts of the term family. In order to understand the real meaning of family, Sacred Scripture must be consulted. According to the Bible, the notion of family is a little different than what we ordinarily think. The family, according to Scripture, was comprised of all the descendants of a Patriarch, which included many tribes; even distant cousins were considered siblings.

Scott Hahn and Jeff Cavins sign books on Saturday afternoon at the Summer Conference.

“The family was a religious community above all else,” said Hahn. “Religion was generally a regional or family phenomenon. To marry into a family meant to accept the religious ideas and duties of that family. The entire family was in a sacred bond with the past and future

members of that extended family or trustee family.”

Hahn continued to explain that as large as these tribal trustee families might have been, God always intended to have an even larger, unlimited, universal family. “The problem with the ancient tribal families was that they were too small. God only wants one family and that family is the Catholic Church.”

Dr. Timothy O’Donnell, President of Christendom College, gave an insightful talk on the kingship of Christ. O’Donnell began by stating that in 1899, Pope Leo XIII wrote that the entire human family needed to be consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and that the entire human race owes allegiance to Christ, Who reigns over all Catholic nations, all Christians, and all deprived of the faith.

He continued by explaining that in 1925, Pope Pius IX instituted the Feast of Christ the King in order to counteract the many evils of secularism that were prevalent in that day. If this feast was necessary in 1925, so much more today, what must it mean to us in 2002? Peace will come when the empire of Christ is acknowledged by the whole world. The public acknowledgment of the Reign of Christ can happen, but only if we evangelize people about this, said O’Donnell.

“Let us stand with our crucified king and not be ashamed of being Catholic. Stand with the Pope. Defend the

The conference participants join in a candlelight Eucharistic Procession following Curtis Martin’s Saturday evening talk.

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NDGS Summer Session Students Stay FOCUSed Great Success after Graduation From June 24 to August 2, a very diverse group of students made one more step toward reaching their goal of a Masters Degree in Theological Studies. They attended the 2002 NDGS Summer Session held on the Front Royal campus. The group, ranging in age from 21 to 71, arrived on Christendom’s campus from ten different states, the Netherlands and Canada.

Members of the Fathers of Mercy, including Brother Tony Stephens (Christendom Class of ‘99), the Order of Carmelites, and the Sisters of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart also comprised part of the NDGS summer group.

The graduate students studied a wide range of theological topics during the six-week program. They were challenged by a rigorous schedule, including Deacon Handal’s instruction of the Johannine Gospels and The Mystical Life; Moral Theology taught by Fr. Paul deLadurantaye; Dr. William Fahey’s introduction to Latin and Greek; Philosophical Errors and The Virtues according to St. Thomas presented by Dr. Kris Burns; and Prof. John Janaro and Sr. Timothy’s teaching on Recent and Contemporary Spiritual Classics.

Although the NDGS students were committed to their studies, they were able to find time to engage in recreational activities while in the Shenandoah Valley, including a hike on Old Rag Mountain in the Shenandoah National Park, a Fourth of July cook-out, and a pleasant evening at Dr. Timothy O’Donnell’s house.

The Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) held its annual seven-week training session at Christendom College over the past summer.

Curtis Martin, President of FOCUS, believes that far too many Catholic students fall away from the Faith during their formative years away at college. The goal of FOCUS is to teach and train missionaries who will, in turn, go out and teach and train others to pass on the Faith with confidence.

“In FOCUS’ work of evangelization with university students, we have found no better place to recruit new staff than Christendom College. The graduates have an evangelistic fire and the intellectual formation to proclaim the faith with great effectiveness.”

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dignity of the person, the dignity of marriage and the family. Pledge loyalty to Christ our King and then, and only then, can we say that we have tried to build the Civilization of Love.”

Curtis Martin’s Saturday evening presentation stressed the importance of evangelization in today’s world, especially on college campuses.

Martin is the founder of FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) and author of several books.

He talked about how, when he was in college, he left the Church because he didn’t know how to defend nor explain the “hard” teachings of the faith. He gave the conference participants some pointers on how to evangelize. “Impart not only the Gospel, but your lives as well,” he said. “Invest your lives in them. Win people to Jesus, build them up in their Faith, and send them out.”

Following Martin’s talk, Bishop Robert Morlino led an outside candlelight Eucharistic Procession, starting at the Gymnasium and ending in the Chapel with Benediction.

the civilization of love will be restored and that a new Christendom will be created.

“In building the civilization of love, Christians must take the lead. They must work to bring all people to Christ and teach the Gospel,” concluded Janaro.

“It is important that each of us becomes committed to the New Evangelization that the Holy Father has called for. College campuses are important places of formation for today’s youth,” said After morning Mass Martin. “They can either grow on Sunday, celebrated in the Faith, or oftentimes, lose once again by Bishop Professor John Janaro explains the relationCurtis Martin of FOCUS. the Faith. When young people Morlino, Christendom’s ship between the Holy Spirit and the renewal fall away from the Faith today, there’s no indication Chairman of the Theology Department, of civilization. that they are ever coming back! Young people need to Professor John Janaro, spoke on the role be taught the Truth, as happens here at Christendom of the Holy Spirit in renewing the civilization of love.

College. If Jesus Christ were the center of their lives, He began by saying that the personal character of the decisions would be much different. We have to win Holy Spirit is love and that this love is at the core of the hearts and minds of young people in order to build any civilization of love. the civilization.”

He explained that if everyone endeavored to love one another with the true love of the Holy Spirit, society and civilization would be affected. Cooperating with the actions of the Holy Spirit in the life of this world is how the civilization of love will be built up, said Janaro.

Dr. William Luckey addresses the audience on the role of the individual in Building the Civilization of Love.

The Holy Spirit has been raising up new ecclesial movements and groups today, continued Janaro. Each of these apostolates has a charism, a special grace of the Holy Spirit that embodies a certain style or manner of living. They are all marked by a zealous love and obedience for the Holy Father. They desire to bring people into a real relationship with Jesus. Because of these charisms and apostolates, there is a real hope that

Next year’s conference is planned for the weekend of July 11, 12, and 13, 2003. Audio tapes of the conference may be obtained through Christendom Press (www.christendompress. com or 1-800-698-6649).

Summer Institute Volunteers: Maria Bissex ‘02, Jaime Berger ‘03, Sarah Norcross (FOCUS), Sherry Spring ‘02, Elisabeth Boever ‘00 (FOCUS), and Sarah Akers ‘00 (FOCUS).

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Christendom Pays Tribute to Victims of September 11th On September 11, 2001, the entire Christendom College community, along with the rest of the world, was shocked and horrified by the terrorist attacks which took place in New York, Washington, DC, and in Pennsylvannia.

freedom to have homosexual unions or pornography.

Rather they died for the many freedoms which make America the great country that it is: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Following the talks, O’Donnell led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegience, after which the Betsy Ross Flag was lowered to half mast for the remainder of the day.

One year later, as the country continues to heal from these devestating attacks, Christendom offered a requiem Mass for the victims and their families and held a flag raising ceremony.

During the ceremony, College chaplain Rev. Seamus O’Kielty led the student body in prayer; Dr. Warren Carroll spoke on the foundations of the United States; and Dr. Timothy O’Donnell addressed the crowd on the topic of freedom.

During his address, O’Donnell recalled a visit he had made to the beaches of Normandy where so many white crosses stand and mark the graves of the countless individuals who died for God and country on D-Day: June 6, 1944.

O’Donnell stressed that those who died on D-Day died for freedom, but not all types of freedom. They did not die for the freedom to choose, said O’Donnell, or the

TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR...

Pfc. Carl Schmitt, Christendom Senior Sgt. Dominic Luckey, and Freshman Pfc. John Williams (all US Marines) take part in the flag raising ceremony held on September 11, 2002, at Christendom College.

Continued from Front Page Christendom College is the only college whose entire faculty takes this oath annually.

In his homily, Bishop Loverde compared the founding and beginnings of Christendom College to the disciples in the upper room on the night of Pentecost.

ban II, which stand outside of Crusader Memorial Gymnasium. Although the statue of St. Louis IX arrived a year and a half ago, in May of 2001, the statue of Pope Urban only arrived at the end of the summer. Taking almost a year to finish each statue, Fr. Nevin Ford (the uncle of Mrs. Cathy O’Donnell) hand-sculpted the beautiful six foot three inch statues from Yule marble from the Rockies.

“In 1977, a small group of lay men and women gathered...to found an institute of higher learning that is unabashedly faithful to the Church’s Magisterium, is committed to reinstating the two millennia of Catholic academic teaching and thought that has been cast aside by many of toChristendom students come from 44 US states and four foreign countries. day’s colleges and universities, and is determined Blessed Pope Urban II to educate and form young men and women to There are new domestic projects as well. Christendom be apostles of the third Christian millennium,” began recently began building a new 39,000 sq. ft. library.

Bishop Loverde. “Indeed, how similar this small lay The St. John the Evangelist library will be nestled in the group was to those in the Upper Room! woods of Christendom’s campus above a scenic bend in the Shenandoah River. The planned neo-colonial “Those gathered in the Upper Room on Pentecost were style library will accommodate 125,000 volumes of not to remain there. The gift of the Holy Spirit and books, and provide for much needed study space for the various particular gifts which the Spirit manifests the students. With the architecturally inspiring design in different individuals are meant for your benefit to supplement the wisdom found within, the library and the benefit of others,” he continued. will serve as the academic center of life at Christendom College.

“In your education here at Christendom, you have been given a great gift – utilize it! Let Christendom Both the construction of the new library and the introCollege come to be known to the ends of the earth duction of the Rome Program are drawing students from because of the example of your holy and enthusiastic 44 States and four foreign countries to the College, with lives. Allow yourselves to be transformed by the Holy the average SAT score of this year’s incoming freshmen Spirit, and allow Him to use you, as He did those being a phenomenal 1240. first disciples in the Upper Room, to evangelize the world bringing all to the loving embrace of the Father These students gathered for the opening of Christenthrough His Son Jesus Christ in the power of this dom’s 26th academic year at a Mass of the Holy Spirit same Holy Spirit,” concluded His Excellency.

Outside Crusader Gymnasium, Bishop Paul S. Loverde blesses the offered by His Excellency Paul S. Loverde, Bishop of statues of Blessed Pope Urban II and King St. Louis IX of France.

Arlington, on August 25. During the Mass the entire Following the Mass, Bishop Loverde blessed two He. is assisted by Christendom’s newest chaplain, Reverend Robert faculty took the Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium. statues, St. Louis the Crusader and Blessed Pope Ur- Ruskamp (right).

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INSTAURARE, October 2002

High School Students Play Freshman for Two-Weeks

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For two weeks in July, 50 high school students from around the country had a taste of college life as part of Christendom’s yearly High School Summer Program.

Students from 23 different states participated in the program from July 7-19. Ten students and alumni of Christendom led the program that was organized by Christendom Admissions office.

where the group attended Mass at the National Basilica and then toured various cultural museums, including the John Paul II Cultural Center. They also loaded into the Christendom vans for a trip to Baltimore, MD, where they spent time in the Inner Harbor before making their way to Camden Yards for a Baltimore Orioles baseball game. Evening activities on campus included swing dance lessons, a talent show, and a barn dance at the home of Dr. O’Donnell.

Twenty-Sixth Year Brings Changes in Administration

With their minds and hearts engaged in the classroom and in recreation, the students came to a deeper love and understanding of their Catholic faith. Along with daily Mass, students gathered nightly for Rosary and

Dr. Gregory M. Townsend comes to the College as Associate Professor of Mathematics and Science from the University of Akron. Born in New Zealand, Professor Townsend holds his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Townsend also completed his undergraduate work at Victoria, receiving a Bachelor of Science in Physics, a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, and a Masters in Physics with distinction. Additionally, he received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and an M.A. in Religious Studies from the Notre Dame Apostolical Catechetical Institute. Before joining the Christendom faculty, Dr. Townsend was a Visiting, then Assistant, Professor of Physics at the University of Akron since 1996. He is a member of the American Physical Society and also the American Association of Physics Teachers. Dr. Townsend and his wife Anita live in Front Royal with their seven children.

The daily schedule was packed with edifying and fun events, including classes in the mornings, attendance at daily Mass, and a variety of afternoon activities. The students were able to explore Ethics, the Moral Imagination in Literature, American Political Thought, and Faith and Reason. In their classes, taught by Christendom’s own faculty, participants delved into the works of Plato, Aristotle, and Thomas Aquinas. They discussed famous works of literature by Edgar Allen Poe and Catholic High school students attending Christendom’s summer program enjoy a relaxing break from writer Graham Greene. classes at the Inner Harbor in Baltimore.

And they examined writings by great American political thinkers. Finally, Christendom President Dr. Benediction; this awakened a strong desire in them to Timothy O’Donnell and alumnus Fr. Tom Vander cultivate their own spiritual lives. These convictions Woude led the students in discussions about the Cathowere reinforced in the numerous budding friendships lic faith in which they read apologetical works and the that arose as they aided each other in the pursuit of Gospel of John.

Truth. As expected, the participants desire to continue these friendships in the environment in which they Their mornings were spent engrossed in studying the began, and hope to enroll in the four-year program at Truth under the tutelage of excellent professors; their Christendom, where they may fully experience what afternoons and evenings were filled with recreation. they have this far received only a taste of for two weeks Students toured local attractions of the beautiful during the summer of 2002.

Shenandoah Valley, such as Luray Caverns and Skyline Drive; attended a professional musical production at Shenandoah University; and canoed the Shenandoah River. Longer trips included a trip to the Nation’s Capital

VanderWoude to Lead Crusaders and Careers Mr. Thomas VanderWoude is not new to Christendom Crusaders basketball. He has watched four of his children play hoops for the Crusaders over the past eighteen years. And now, as a recently retired commercial airline pilot, Coach VanderWoude will have the opportunity to coach not only his son, Patrick, but the rest of the Crusaders.

Dr. Christopher Blum has been appointed Chairman of the History Department. He is privileged to be following Dr. Warren Carroll, who retired last Spring. Dr. Douglas Flippen, Academic Dean for the past twelve years and Chairman of the Philosophy Department since 1990, will be Dean of Students at Christendom’s newest campus in Rome. Dr. Anthony Andres has become Chairman of the Philosophy Department and Dr. Patrick Keats Academic Dean.

After 22 years of service as Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Robert Rice has stepped down. Dr. Jonathan Reyes is the new VP. Dr. Rice will remain Chairman of the English Language and Literature Department.

In this regard, Tom VanderWoude is looking for assistance from both alumni and friends of the College.

Anyone willing to speak to the current students about a specific profession, or anyone knowing of available positions, whether part-time, full-time, or internships, that would be suited to Christendom students, should contact Tom at (800) 877-5456 ext. 270 or career@ christendom.edu.

There have been changes in Christendom’s newest academic department, Classical and Early Christian Studies.

Dr. William Fahey will now serve as Department Chair.

Former Chairman Patrick Duffy will remain Assistant Professor in this department. Adjunct Professor Edward Strickland is now a full-time Associate Professor in the Classics Department.

VanderWoude is not the first, nor will he be the last, Christendom College parent (or past parent) to work for the College.

Besides teaching Mathematics for Christendom

Mr. Eric J. Jenislawski is a Ph.D. candidate for Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of America and will begin teaching at Christendom as Adjunct Instructor in Theology. Mr. Jenislawski received his Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Philosophy from Yale University, Johnathan Edwards College, and his Masters in Religion from Yale University Divinity School. Before coming to Christendom, Mr. Jenislawski was an Adjunct Professor in Philosophy of Religion and also in Calculus at Tunxis Community-Technical College in Connecticut. Prior to that, he served as Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Mathematics at Capital Community-Technical College, also in Connecticut.

Over the course of the summer months, due in part to recommendations from the accreditation team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), a number of administrative changes have been made.

Professor John Janaro replaces Fr. Anthony Mastroeni as Chairman of the Theology Department. Fr. Mastroeni is now the Director of the new Rome Program.

Additionally, VanderWoude will fill the position of Career Development Officer held by Mr. Jack Hayes for the past two years.

Dan Schneible, a retired Naval Officer, has sent five children to Christendom over the past sixteen years, with his youngest daughter, Ann, currently enrolled.

In this year of great growth for the College, with enrollment soaring and the Rome program beginning this fall, two fine teachers have been added to the College faculty.

Mr. Tom VanderWoude assumes the roles of Athletic Director and Career Development Officer.

throughout the 1990’s, Schneible was very involved with many of the Christendom Players’ productions, especially set design.

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INSTAURARE, October 2002

Christendom Students Bring Hope to Banica

NDGS Graduate Gonzalez Goes to Rome

From May 21-30, students, alumni, and faculty from Christendom College ventured to the ends of the earth to bring hope to the “poorest of the poor” in the Arlington Diocese’s mission territory of Banica, in the Dominican Republic.

Avelino A. Gonzalez has been selected to continue his seminary training for the priesthood at the North American College in Rome. A 2001 NDGS graduate with a concentration in Sacred Scripture, Gonzalez entered the Immaculate Conception Seminary (ICS) in South Orange, NJ, in fall of 2001. He was one of the first four seminarians studying for the Archdiocese of Washington to be sent to study at ICS by His Eminence Theodore Cardinal McCarrick.

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In 1991, then-Bishop of Arlington, John R. Keating, sent the first missionary priest from the Diocese of Arlington to Banica. Prior to that, the people of Banica, Pedro Santana, and the surrounding campos were without a priest for a period of twenty years. Fr. Patrick Posey has been the resident priest in Banica for the past seven years, with Fr. Jack O’Hara joining him for the last two years. Both Frs. Posey and O’Hara have been extremely welcoming and receptive to the Christendom missionaries that have come to the Dominican Republic.

Posey’s missionary territory includes the Church of St. Francis in Banica, the Church of St. Joseph in nearby Pedro Santana, and over 72 villages called campos that stretch for miles over the mountains in the center of the island of Hispaniola. Many of these campos are only reachable on foot or by mule and can be as much as an eight-hour trip for Fr. Posey. Needless to say, he can only get to these villages once a month to say Mass or to bring food and supplies. The people there are subsistence farmers, growing just enough to get by, and they live in houses made of raw materials, without the benefits of electricity or running water. Visiting and aiding the people in the campos has been a major project of each Christendom missionary trip to the Dominican Republic over the past three years.

While in Banica, the Christendom missionaries focused more on the spiritual needs of the people, than their material needs. They helped to purchase materials and supplied the majority of the labor for the construction of a new chapel in the community of El Fondo. The previous structure was a mere thatched roof on a frame

To the delight of the people of the Dominican Republic, Christendom alumnus, Frank O’Reilly (third from left) - who was the contractor and builder of Christendom’s Chapel of Christ the King - helps the student missionaries build the new Chapel of St. Isabel.

without walls. Christendom students completed a new solid structure with concrete walls which will serve as the new chapel of St. Isabel, where Fr. Posey will soon be able to regularly celebrate Mass for his people.

In addition to building the Chapel, Christendom students visited several of the campos which Fr. Posey is unable to visit very often. Bringing food and basic supplies, the students prayed, sang, talked, danced, and ate with the people there, many of whom are extremely poor. Visiting these people in the mountains of the Dominican Republic gave the missionaries a real sense of the true meaning of Christ’s Church and its universality.

This was one thing that Fr. Posey continually stressed to Christendom students as he celebrated daily Mass for them and gave spiritual guidance.

All Saints Day (no classes)

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Major Speaker: Prof. Robbie George

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Fall Play: Fiddler on the Roof

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Thanksgiving Break December

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Classes Resume

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Immaculate Conception (no classes)

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Christmas Break

In August, Gonzalez began his first year of theological studies in the shadows of the Vatican and St. Peter’s Basilica. “To study in this great city of martyrs is a blessing beyond words — we indeed serve an awesome God.”

“One of my goals over the last seven years as pastor has been to show our people here in the mission parishes of the Dominican Republic that we are truly united in the belief that we are one family,” said Posey. “When one person is in need, the other responds with generosity and love. I have been blessed and inspired to see the youth of the Diocese of Arlington responding to this call to care for one another as brothers and sisters in the Lord.”

This latest trip in May was the second of two planned mission trips to the Dominican Republic this year sponsored by the College.

Christendom established its mission program in the summer of 2000. Organized by Michael Brown, Dean of Student Life, the mission trips have proved to be beneficial not only for those they serve, but also to the student missionaries themselves.

Earlier this year, during Spring Break, the first group, comprised of 13 students and 2 alumni, went to Banica where they worked on a project called tzedakah or “good work.” This project aids the people in the campos by giving them a Some local children discuss the benefits of gardening and planting brussel “push start” so that they can become self-reliant. sprouts with Christendom College Theology professor Ray O’Herron.

Over the past eight months, Christendom students fund-raised to earn, not only the necessary money to send them to Banica, but also enough capital October to completely fund all the projects they planned and 11-13 Homecoming Weekend executed while there. The group purchased goats and seeds, and distributed them to the various mountain 19-27 Fall Break villages, in hopes that the people might yield a good harvest for the year and thus achieve self-dependancy.

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Gonzalez worked for the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Carderock, MD, as a mechanical engineer while he studied theology at NDGS. “I first heard of NDGS through an ad in ‘This Rock’ magazine and started to take courses in Scripture to better my understanding of the Bible,” said Gonzalez. “I would have never thought I would eventually graduate with an MA degree in theology and surely never would have imagined entering the seminary.” Over the years, however, he became aware that God was calling him to the priesthood. “I now know the Lord was preparing me for this awesome and noble task while I studied at NDGS.”

“When Christendom College started coming to Banica back in the year 2000, there formed a bond of caring and support. We hear so often of how the youth of today are more concerned about themselves than others,” said Fr. Posey. “With these youths, I have found that not to be true. What I have seen is a willingness to give and to reach out to others. They demonstrate to our people that the people of the Diocese of Arlington do care, and their reaction is that they care for us as well.

We are truly one family.”

Avelino Gonzalez graduated from the NDGS in August of 2001. Now, he is in his first year of theological studies at the North American College in Rome.

Bishop Assigns New Chaplain to Christendom

On June 26, Arlington Bishop Paul S. Loverde appointed Reverend Robert L. Ruskamp as Chaplain of Christendom College.

Ruskamp replaces College Chaplain Rev. David Rahn who unfortunately, just prior to his arrival at Christendom in June 2001, contracted a serious illness which caused him to withdraw from his position as Chaplain.

Fr. Ruskamp was born and raised in Nebraska, the third of fourteen children. He studied for the priesthood at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in PA and was accepted into the Diocese of Arlington by Bishop Thomas J. Welsh. He was ordained in 1985 by the second Bishop of Arlington, John R. Keating.

Ruskamp credits his mother (a convert) and father for his vocation to the priesthood. They planted the seeds of his vocation at an early age, but he accepted it personally and made it his own after leaving high school.

Prior to coming to Christendom, Fr. Ruskamp served as Pastor of St. John in Woodstock, VA, and St. Agnes in Arlington, VA, where he had Christendom alumnus, Fr. Thomas VanderWoude, as Parochial Vicar.