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IN SERVICE TO ONE. IN SERVICE TO ALL.

The Ministry of Pope John Paul ll 1978 - 2003

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COLUMBIA

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SEPTEMBER 2003

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NUMBER 9

IN THIS ISSUE OPENING ODE

2 The Answer, My Friends BY TIM S. HICKEY PLUS The Pope’s Prayer Intentions

BUILDING A BETTER WORLD

3 The solid foundation of the Church today. BY SUPREME KNIGHT CARL A. ANDERSON

Apostle, prophet, teacher, evangelist and pastor.

BY SUPREME CHAPLAIN BISHOP THOMAS V. DAILY

THE MINISTRY OF POPE JOHN PAUL II 1978 • 2003

PERSPECTIVES

4-6 Vatican: A High-Energy Papacy BY GREG BURKE

A series of special articles highlighting Pope John Paul II’s service to the Church and world over the past 25 years, and how the Knights of Columbus has been in solidarity with him and his pontificate.

BY PHILIP PULLELLA

A PRIEST FOREVER

John Paul has repeatedly urged priests to rediscover and respond to their own vocation. BY FATHER ANTONIO LÓPEZ, FSCB

WHOLLY FAMILY From the early days of his life as a priest to today , John Paul has championed the family as the fundamental building block of society. BY ELIZABETH FOX-GENOVESE

‘BE NOT AFRAID’

Family: Celebrating Family Life with the Pope BY MONICA AND BILL DODDS

The Time of Our Lives: Timely and Timeless BY BERNARD CASSERLY

OUR FOUNDER

Men of Action: The Pope and Father McGivney

BY DOMINICAN FATHER GABRIEL B. O’DONNELL

M E D I TAT I O N

30 Raise High the Flag of Right Living BY FATHER BILL McCARTHY, SMA

20 PAPAL GALLERY

Artistic and historical treasures in the Knights of Columbus Museum highlighting the Order’s solidarity with Pope John Paul II.

KNIGHTS

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22 2003-04 SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS The Supreme Council awarded more than $1 million in scholarships for the current academic year.

In his writings and teachings, John Paul has helped the Catholic laity to realize their unique call to holiness in the world.

26 2002-03 STAR COUNCIL AWARDS

PATH TO PEACE

32 PHOTO FINISH Photos of Knights in

BY DAVID S. CRAWFORD

BY RUSSELL SHAW

PILGRIM POPE

John Paul has traveled the world over preaching the Gospel. On many occasions his visits have changed history.

Washington: Friend and Faithful Critic

John Paul has spent 25 years in ser vice to the truth of the Beatitude: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers.’ BY STANISLAW GRYGIEL

The past fraternal year’s outstanding councils and the grand knights who led them. Action from Around the Order.

COVER: CNS PHOTO BY ARTURO MARI TOP: CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

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OPENING ODE

Knights of Columbus Publisher

Supreme Officers Carl A. Anderson

The Answer, My Friends

n my boyhood home we had a picture of Pope John XXIII hanging in our dining room. And later , Pope Paul VI. Both, most likely , were given to my dad by the Knights of Columbus. I’m embar rassed to admit it, but there isn’t a photo of Pope John Paul II in my house now. There is one, however, in my office. It’s a photo taken six years ago this month of a very nervous-looking Bob Dylan greeting the Holy Father after a concert held in conjunction with the 23rd international EuchaTIM S. HICKEY ristic Congress in Bologna, Italy. When visitors to my office ask about the photo, and they almost always do (“Is that really Bob Dylan with the pope?”), I tell them it’s a photo of my two heroes. Dylan played three of his classic songs for the pope that night: “Knockin’ On Heaven’ s Door,” “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and the ver y prayerlike “Forever Y oung” (“May God bless and keep you always/ May your wishes all come tr ue/ May you always do for others/ And let others do for you.”). In a way , these songs could almost be considered spirituals. The pope referenced Dylan’ s “Blowin’ in the W ind” (“How many roads must a man walk down…”) in his talk to the more than 300,000 youth attending the eucharistic congress. “On the road of music this evening, Jesus met you,” the pope said. Dylan, he continued, “said on your behalf that the answer is blowing in the wind. Yes, it is true. But not on

Supreme Knight

Most Rev. Thomas V. Daily, D.D. Supreme Chaplain

the wind that scatters ever ything in a whirlwind of nothing, but on the wind that is the voice and breath of the Holy Spirit.” The world is full of roads that lead man nowhere, the pope said. These “easy and attractive roads,” he said, lead modern man into the “valley of flat conformity.” There is an answer to the restlessness and directionless seeking expressed in Dylan’ s question “How many roads must a man walk down?”. The one tr ue road, the pope said, is Jesus Christ. “I am the way , and the truth and the life,” the Lord tells us. Think, too, of the Lord greeting the disciples on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection: “He was known to them in the breaking of the bread.” This special issue of Columbia celebrates the 25th anniversar y next month of Pope John Paul II’ s pontificate. The ar ticles highlight what the pope has done to renew and reinvigorate the Church. W e’re concentrating on five major areas: the laity , the priesthood, the family, evangelization and world peace. For a quarter-century the pope has led the Church and the Knights of Columbus down the one true road. He has carried high his crosier, which has on it a crucifix, so that all can see the way and not get lost. The pope’s first words to the world and to the Church upon his election were “Be not afraid!” If we follow the pope and let ourselves be guided by his teachings, we will not get lost. We will not wander aimlessly or get stuck on dead-end roads. ■

HOLY FATHER’S PRAYER INTENTIONS — SEPTEMBER

Deputy Supreme Knight

Charles H. Foos Supreme Secretary

Deacon Kenneth N. Ryan Supreme Treasurer

Paul R. Devin

Supreme Advocate

Editorial

Tim S. Hickey, Editor 203-752-4303 tim.hickey@kofc-supreme.com Brian Caulfield, Managing Editor 203-752-4209 brian.caulfield@kofc-supreme.com Jim Skowronski, Senior Editor 203-752-4400 jim.skowronski@kofc-supreme.com Gerry Brunelle Greg Burke Bernard Casserly Monica and Bill Dodds Rev. Gabriel B. O’Donnell, OP Russell Shaw Most Rev. Donald W. Wuerl, S.T.D. Contributing Editors

Arthur F. Hinckley Jr. Art Director

Father Michael J. McGivney (1852-90) — Apostle to the Young, Protector of Christian Family Life and Founder of the Knights of Columbus, Intercede for Us.

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As a show of our continued solidarity with Pope John Paul II, throughout 2003 we are reprinting his monthly prayer intentions.

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G E N E R A L That the countries that are suffering because of war, terrorism and violence may find the way of reconciliation, concord and peace. M I S S I O N That the Christian communities of Central Asia, who live among other religious traditions, may be committed to spreading the good news of the kingdom through the active testimony of their faith.

Jean Migneault

MOVING?

Notify your local council. Send your new address and mailing label to: Knights of Columbus Dept. of Membership Records PO Box 1670 New Haven, CT 06507-0901 CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

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BUILDING A BETTER WORLD

n 1962 Karol Wojtyla wrote a poem entitled “Marble Floor.” One of its verses says, “Peter , you are the floor, that others may walk over you…not knowing where they go. You guide their steps.” For 25 years, SUPREME KNIGHT Pope John Paul II, as Peter , has been CARL A. ANDERSON the solid foundation that has guided the steps of the Church. In no area has this been truer than in his ministry to families. Institutional advancements have been many and profound — the Pontifical Council for the Family; the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (now with campuses around the world, one of which in Washington, D.C., we support); four W orld Meetings of Families with the pope; and historic documents on the dignity and rights of the family including Familiaris Consortio, the Letter to Families and the Char ter of the Rights of the Family. This enhanced concern for the welfare of families comes at a moment in histor y in which families are under unparalleled attack not only from legal changes regarding abor tion, divorce and mar riage, but also from economic and tax treatment of families and the diminished role of parents in the education and moral upbringing of their children. Pope John Paul II’s key insight is that concern for the family must be at the center of the new evangelization. While this has been a consistent theme to pastors of the Church, in too many places more still needs to be done to give “priority” to the care of the family. Recently, the pope again emphasized “the need to rediscover the truth about the family as an intimate communion of life and love.” This tr uth, of course, is that the community of the family finds its source in the divine communion of life and love that is the Trinity. The family is truly the primary model for all human associations including the larger society itself. The Christian family becomes a unique mir ror of the T rinity that radiates through neighborhood, city and country. It is the first school of faith, love and community. It teaches the lessons that make society possible. The pope is right when he says that the future of humanity passes through the family. And he is right to say the family must have the highest priority in the Church’ s pastoral mission. John Paul II means this in two ways. First, the family must be an “object” of evangelization — families must be given greater pastoral assistance at ever y level. Second, the family must also be a “subject” of evangelization — families must

The family must have the highest priority in the Church’s mission.

themselves take up the mission of evangelization regarding their own members as well as of their neighbors. And so we should say with the pope that the whole Church (ordained and lay) is meant to ser ve the family. One sure place to begin is by taking to heart the pope’s message in Familiaris Consortio and the Letter to Families, both now available from our Catholic Information Service. In this way, the “marble floor” that is Peter will go on guiding our steps for years to come. Vivat Jesus! ■

n this issue of Columbia, we celebrate the 25th anniversar y of the pontificate of our Holy Father , Pope John Paul II. W ith this in mind, it is impor tant for us to recall the words of Pope St. Leo: “Out of the whole world one man…is chosen to BISHOP THOMAS preside at the calling of all nations V. DAILY and to be set over all the Apostles and all the Fathers of the Church.” Our dear Holy Father is “this man,” for he is Peter and only through Peter has Christ willed to bestow on others what he has shared with him. We firmly believe: Peter is the first to confess his faith in the Lord and thus, is first in rank among the Apostles. He is called “Blessed” because he is Peter , the “Rock” of the Church against which no power can prevail. Peter , whom no chains can bind and whose words are the words of life for those who listen and profess them. W e further believe that our dear Holy Father is Peter! Pope John Paul has interest only in being “the servant of the ser vants of God.” As his heraldr y indicates in his episcopal motto, Totus Tuus, his life has been given over totally to God through Mar y. He teaches us to do the same. In Scripture we read that Christ gave apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers roles of ser vice for the faithful to build up the body of Christ, until we become one in faith and in the knowledge of God’ s Son, and for m that perfect man who is Christ come to full stature. For 25 years, who better, dear brother Knights and families, has filled these roles than the present Holy Father who in word and action seems ever conscious in forming that “per fect man” Christ come to full stature? We salute Pope John Paul II with love and respect. We are inspired by his fearless preaching of Gospel truth. We are ennobled by the example of his total dedication to fulfill God’s will. We rejoice with the whole Church on this the 25th anniversary of his pontificate and pray that he will always be the visible center and foundation of our unity in faith, in hope and in love, through Christ our Lord. Ad multos annos, Holy Father! ■ columbia/september 2003 3

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PERSPECTIVES VATICAN

A High-Energy Papacy

One reporter’s notebook on the travels and triumphs of John Paul’s pontificate.

arrived in Rome for John Paul II’ s 10th anniversary, so actually we’ll be celebrating together this October. He’ll be marking 25 years in the Eternal City, and for me it will be a much more

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modest 15. As I look over those years, I see that there was a lot I missed in the first decade of a high-energy papacy . A colleague told me that on a gr ueling papal voyage 20 years ago, the press corps in the back of the pope’ s plane actually sent a note on a cocktail napkin to the first-class section asking if they could have the following day off. They didn’ t get it. I have enjoyed a front-row seat for a good part of this pontificate. My highlights are cer tainly quite personal, and others will see things differently. I don’t mean to make a historical review of the past 15 years, but simply to point out some moments, trips and experiences I found compelling. World Youth Day in Santiago de Compostela in August 1989 was an eyeopener. About a half-million youth from all over Europe descended upon this beautiful town in nor thern Spain. There were music, late nights and lots of fun. It was a combination pilgrimage, sock-hop and retreat. Just about 20 years after W oodstock, the pope was showing he could draw crowds of youth searching not for free love but for one love. Later that year , I saw the pope receive Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the V atican. That was histor y happening. I’m still waiting for John Paul to go to Russia, but that looks like a tall order these days. I won a bottle of wine betting against the pope with a colleague who was sure John Paul would make it to Russia in 2002. But putting limits on his travels is usually not a winning wager. This pope tends to surprise you. I’ve made several overseas trips with John Paul, including a 10-day tour

in 1995 that took us to the Philippines, Papua N ew Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka. I always call it the “Thrilla in Manila” because of the size of the Mass in the Philippine capital, where some 5 million people gathered. Cuba in 1998 was also a great trip, with Fidel Castro and company tr ying their best — but not ver y successfully — to use John Paul to their advantage. The pilgrimage to the Holy Land during the Jubilee Y ear 2000 had to be one of the most moving of John Paul’ s 100-plus voyages. His visit to this hot spot had a lot of political repercussions, but it was above all a personal pilgrimage. He asked for extra time to pray at the grotto of the Nativity and the Holy Sepulchre. On the world political front, I was impressed when John Paul jumped into the fray before the 1994 U.N . Conference on Population and Development in Cairo. It was a battle largely about abortion and population control, with the pope denouncing a “totally individualistic” view of human sexuality . Although he did not attend the conference, he did make several statements leading up to it in an effort to shape the debate and sent a top-notch delegation. It was a sign that the Holy See would not be on the sidelines during some of the great moral debates of the day. I was able to attend one of the pope’s private Masses with my father one morning, and I did the first reading. That was a spiritual high. As John Paul knelt alone in front of the chapel before Mass you could sense the intensity of his prayer and the weight on his shoulders. A couple of years ago 14 jour nalists each wrote one of the Stations of the Cross for Good Friday , and we were able to greet the pope at the end of the ceremony. You never know what to say on these occasions — at least I don’ t. I just introduced myself and mumbled something about having written the Fourth Station. He just smiled and said, “Thanks, Greg.” That made my day , and made my Easter. Greg Burke writes fr om Rome, where he is the Vatican correspondent for FOX News.

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BIRMINGHAM, ALA. “Whenever the words freedom, liberty, liberation are used in sacred Scripture, they mean freedom from evil. It is not liberation from family life; it is not liberation from the Commandments; it is not liberation from the boundaries of human sexuality; it is not liberation from morality. … People of this world and the secular culture turn liberty around and make it freedom from good, from morality and from decency.” — Bishop David E. Foley of Bir mingham, writing in the July 4 edition of the diocesan newspaper One Voice.

COLOGNE, GERMANY “We have come to adore him!” — Theme of W orld Youth Day 2005, scheduled for Cologne, Aug. 16-21. Logo shown above. INDIANAPOLIS “I am inspired by the Holy Father ’s witness of suffering and his example that, in the midst of trials and difficulties, you put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ, look toward the cr ucifix to find hope and salvation, and walk forward with hope, faith and joy because it is in that cross that we find everything.” — N ewly ordained Father Jonathan Meyer after his ordination Mass, as repor ted in The Criterion archdiocesan newspaper.

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WASHINGTON

Friend and Faithful Critic

Pope John Paul II has praised the United States for its principles y et opposed some of our practices.

elcome to our country, our new friend!” President Jimmy Carter exclaimed. The date was Oct. 6, 1979, the place the South Lawn RUSSELL SHAW of the White House, the new friend Pope John Paul II, who at the time had been pope for less than a year . It was indeed the start of a notewor thy relationship, though not perhaps quite as President Carter expected. When a definitive histor y of our times is written, the interactions of John Paul II with American chief executives from Car ter on will make a fascinating chapter . The account will shed significant light on the papacy and the presidency in an era of momentous change. It won’t be a tale of unbroken harmony. On that day back in 1979 Jimmy Carter spoke of himself and John Paul as world leaders “striving together for a common future of peace and love.” But the relationship between Rome and Washington since then has been a great deal more complex than “peace and love” alone suggest. So far in this pontificate, the convergence of interests between the Holy See and the White House probably was greatest in the Reagan years. Then the president and the pope shared an interest in combating the “evil empire” (Reagan’ s words) called the Soviet Union. Some commentators go so far as to suggest de facto cooperation of a sort in pursuing anti-communism. However that may be, John Paul II and Ronald Reagan unquestionably both got what they wanted. In one version of events, the key role in the unraveling of communism was played by Reagan’ s military buildup, while in another the revolution of the spirit touched off by John Paul’s visits to his Polish homeland was the deciding factor . Whichever version you prefer , the bottom line is a historic fact — the

liberation of Easter n Europe, the collapse of the Soviet empire and the Soviet Union itself, the end of the Cold War. By contrast, the biggest clash between the pope and an American president came over Bill Clinton’ s pro-abortion policy, which John Paul stoutly opposed. The str uggle

view the world’ s only superpower , from things already on the record it isn’t difficult to guess. During his October 1995 visit to the United N ations and the United States, the pope often reminded Americans that their countr y exerts an enormously powerful influence — military, political, economic, cultural, and moral — throughout the world. In that context, he called on the United States to live up to its best traditions of ordered liber ty, grounded in faith in God and in the moral law, and expressed in its founding documents. “Democracy cannot be sustained without a shared commitment to certain moral tr uths about the human person and human communicame to a head at the United ty,” John Paul declared at a Mass in N ations’ world population conferBaltimore. “Freedom consists not in ence in Cairo in September 1994. Early in the year, the pope sent a doing what we like, but in having the letter to every head of state warning right to do what we ought.” N ow, that’s the sor t of thing that the pro-abortion position of the draft document prepared for the con- you’d expect a real friend to say. ference, along with other anti-fami- Russell Shaw writes fr om Washington for the Knights of Columbus and serves as a consultor ly, anti-life provisions, threatened “a moral decline resulting in a seri- to the Pontifical Council for Social C ommunious setback for humanity .” He fol- cations. lowed that with a series of talks over the summer defending family rights and opposing abortion. At Cairo the U.S. and V atican FAMILY delegations slugged it out. (The American delegation was led in its Celebrating Family Life early days by V ice President Al with the Pope Gore.) A significant number of Follow the pope’s example and mak e Third World countries backed the events in the life of y our family days of Holy See. The result was at least a qualified victory for John Paul. The praise and thanksgiving. conference backed off from extreme ote the date and positions on population control and celebrate! That’s abortion supported by the Clinton Pope John Paul II’ s administration and its friends. advice for your famiJohn Paul’s relationship with the ly. administration of George W . Bush The pope has been has had its ups and downs. celebrating in this Following the 9/11 ter rorist attacks manner for the last on the United States, the V atican MONICA AND quarter century. His supported the American militar y BILL DODDS visits, speeches, homresponse in Afghanistan as selfilies and encyclicals frequently have defense. But the pope publicly and repeatedly opposed the Iraq war, just coincided with an anniversar y, such as he had opposed the Gulf W ar as the death of a saint, the bringing launched against Iraq in 1991 by the of Christianity to a countr y, or a feast day on the liturgical calendar. first President Bush. In an era when it’ s easy to get Unlike some of those who took caught up in the present and to fret this stand, John Paul carefully avoided an anti-American tone. And about the future, the pope has reminded us to stop and remember although he has never said in so the men and women who have gone many words exactly how he does

The pope has often called the United States to live up to its best traditions.

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before us — who they were, what they faced, what they did. And he invites us to recall and mark significant events in our own lives. Certainly, the greatest example of his “par ty planning” were the years leading up to 2000, when the pope published a variety of documents and made many statements to prepare the Church for the Great Jubilee. But how do you apply this type of planning to your family? What — and how — can you celebrate? Why should you celebrate? Every family has a heritage. Individuals have gone before us who have made our lives possible. Remembering them and the good things they did helps us in our lives today. Children need to hear the stories to learn of their roots. We all do. As Catholics, we believe in the communion of saints, including the souls in heaven and in purgator y who continue to love us and pray for us. Those who have passed away are not truly gone. A family anniversary is an oppor tunity to teach this lesson, and to recall this comfor ting truth ourselves. There are other family events worth celebrating: baptisms, first Communions, confirmations, the feasts of saints for whom family members are named. And the parish family should certainly come together to celebrate anniversaries of ordination or religious profession. Some family events, however , aren’t so much celebrated as commemorated. There are times to remember and reflect. A death, a catastrophe, a car accident, a home fire, a flood, an earthquake — marking these events appropriately may afford opportunities to grieve, pray and heal. Every family has a history. Every family has triumphs and tragedies, deep joys and cr ushing sorrows. There’s no better way to begin a family celebration or commemoration than by joining in prayer , and especially by attending Mass together. Pope John Paul has taught us that, too. Monica and Bill Dodds ar e the editors of My Daily Visitor magazine. Their Web site is www.BillDodds.com. Bill’s latest book is Your One-Stop Guide to the Sacraments (Servant Publications).

THE TIME OF OUR LIVES

Timely and Timeless

Twenty-five years of teachings from the Holy Father.

like religious books, and in par ticular ones about the Catholic faith. I treat my books lovingly . I don’t bend down page corners to mark my place. But I confess to BERNARD one very bad habit. I CASSERLY write in books. I underline great and memorable facts or comments. And I index these selections, listing subject and page number up front. Y ou can tell a book I treasure by the number of references listed.

I probably have more books on my shelves both by the pope and about him. I’m writing about my love affair with books not just because school days are here. Pope John Paul II, who became pontiff 25 years ago next month, brings me to the topic. I probably have more books on my shelves both by and about him than I have books regarding any other living person. I have indexed 23 selections from one book, Prayers and Devotions (Penguin), which offers 365 daily meditations from Pope John Paul. The book sits beside my computer, where I can dip into it while waiting to log on or download. I have selected a few items for your consideration that were written early in the pope’ s reign but have application to today’ s hot issues. Consider same-sex mar riage. “Consequently, sexuality — through which the man and the woman give themselves to each other by means of acts proper and exclusive to spouses — is actually not something purely biological but concerns the intimate core of the human person as such. Sexuality is realized in a purely human way only

if it is an integral par t of the love with which the man and the woman commit themselves to each other until death” (p. 316). Consider the European Union. “N o political experiment, no for m of democracy may sur vive, if there be no appeal to a common, basic morality. No written law is enough to guarantee human society unless it draws its inward strength from a moral foundation. … Such ‘popular culture’ is largely that of the Christian faith and that of education given by the Church over the centuries” (p. 338). Consider the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on sodomy . The Church “is profoundly convinced that only through acceptance of the Gospel can ever y hope which man rightfully places in matrimony and the family find full realization. Matrimony and the family were willed by God together with creation itself; they are interiorly ordained to being accomplished in Christ. They need his grace for being healed of the wounds of sin and brought back to their ‘principle,’ that is, to original full consciousness and integral accomplishment of God’s design” (p. 357). Consider couples living in sin. “Virginity and celibacy for the Kingdom of God’s sake do not contradict the dignity of matrimony but presuppose and confir m it as well. When there is no esteem for matrimony, neither can consecrated virginity exist” (p. 373). Families take heed. “The family’s social function is also expected to be expressed in political intervention. This means that families must be the first to busy themselves so that the state’s laws and institutions not only shall not offend, but shall also positively sustain and defend the family’s rights and duties. In this sense, families must grow in awareness of being the foremost actors in so-called ‘family policy’ and take on the responsibility of transforming society. Otherwise families will be the first victims of those evils which they limited themselves to watching with indifference” (p.376). Bernard Casserly is editor emeritus of The Catholic Spirit, newspaper of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, and a member of Hennepin Council 435 in Minneapolis.

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OUR FOUNDER

Men of Action

Pope John Paul and Father McGivney’s shared vision for the laity

hey lived in different centuries, but they are amazingly close in thought and attitude. Pope John Paul II and Father REV. GABRIEL B. Michael J. McGivney O’DONNELL, OP — champions of the dignity of the human person and the sanctity of Christian family life. From the beginning of his long pontificate John Paul has systematically developed a theology of the human person. Created by God with the supernatural destiny of the vision of God in eternity, the human person can only become tr uly “human” in becoming tr uly godly, he explains. Thus, life is the most sacred and precious gift possible. Fostering the “culture of life” is not simply about pro-life activities. It is the recognition of the most fundamental truth of our existence: Life itself is a gift from God. Each moment, from the first to the last, is sacred and must be protected from any influences that would diminish or destroy it. The culture of life, John Paul II reminds us, is set against the culture of death. Father McGivney wrote no theological tracts. He left no texts of ser mons for us to study. Yet his actions proclaimed his reverence for life. His ultimate concer n was always to bring those he met to the tr uth of the Gospel. He wanted all men and women to become more truly “human” by drawing closer to God. He saw all works of charity as leading others to their real purpose and goal in life — salvation in Jesus Christ. Pope John Paul insists that the sacredness of life is a lens for seeing the true meaning of Christian marriage. Matrimony is the sacrament that celebrates and consecrates this

instinct for life. In spousal love, life is honored and reverenced; new life is begotten. The family is the sanctuary that protects and nur tures human life. Our founder’s concern in establishing the Knights of Columbus was the preser vation of the family . Good men will make good fathers and husbands. And when the father is lost to the family through death, the Knights must provide the spiritual and material suppor t needed to keep the family strong and unified. Our Holy Father ’s theology of the person and the family has led to a great emphasis on the role of the laity in fur thering the mission of Christ on earth. The call to sanctity is not reser ved for priests and religious. It is the proper vocation of all Christians. The new evangelization depends upon the acceptance of this call to holiness by ordinary men and women if the leaven of the Gospel is to counteract the forces of darkness and death on our cultural and religious horizons. We are all called to become saints. Father McGivney’s legacy is not found in his preser ved writings but in his record of action. This record suggests an almost identical vision with John Paul II. Father McGivney was an apostle of Christian family life. Such apostolic zeal can only endure if based on a profound sense of the beauty and dignity of the human person. He entrusted the work of Catholic family action to the laymen in his pastoral care. This was at a time in history when the unique contributions of the laity to the life and growth of the Church were not recognized. It is not Father McGivney’ s preserved words that reveal his attitude toward marriage and the family, but his apostolic works. The Ser vant of

God, destined to found the Knights of Columbus to car ry on his work and vision, was always sensitive to the sufferings of those around him. He was determined to do something to alleviate that suffering. His Knights were to be knights of Christ. To reach out to widow or orphan, to work for better education, to provide care for the sick and imprisoned, meant that a response to the human need was to prepare the neighbor for the advent, the touch of God. A better life meant a life more disposed to the gift of faith. The intertwining of faith and charity formed the first principles, the first two “pillars” of Father

Father McGivney’s works reveal his attitude toward marriage and family. McGivney’s fraternal benefit society. The development of the Order and its subsequent expansion can only be understood by retur ning to these fundamental tr uths. It was faith in God as the source of all human life and our destiny to share his life in heaven that provided our founder with his convictions about the person and the role of the family in society at large. T o value and protect life was for him an act of faith. To desecrate or destroy life was to deny God. As we rejoice in the blessing of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II we rejoice as well in the gift of our founder who was a great forer unner of the culture of life. Father McGivney, intercede for us. ■ Dominican Father Gabriel B. O’Donnell is postulator of the cause for canonization of Father McGivney. Use the coupon on page 31 to enroll in The Father McGivney Guild.

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JOHN PAUL HAS TRAVELED THE WORLD OVER PREACHING THE GOSPEL. ON MANY OCCASIONS HIS VISITS HAVE CHANGED B Y P H I L I P P U L L E L L A HISTORY.

t was a blistering June day in Banja Luka, the capital of the Serb Republic par t of divided Bosnia-Herzegovina. The worst heat wave in many decades had enveloped the whole continent, from Moscow to the east to the Portuguese island of Madera to the west. Inside Banja Luka’ s modern cathedral, the faithful waited for Pope John Paul II. It was the last stop of an intense 10-hour visit to the city that was one of the scar red symbols of the Balkan wars of the early 1990s. Soon the r umble of car engines and military helicopters above was heard. The pope had ar rived. As he sat on a wheeled mobile throne, aides drenched with sweat pushed him from the main entrance to a side altar. They had expected him to

pray before the taber nacle while remaining seated on the “papal trolley.” But he gave them a sign. He wanted to kneel before the Blessed Sacrament just like in the old days, before his right leg gave way to crippling arthritis and hip problems. As they helped him rise and then lowered him ever so gently onto a priedieu, the man once known as “God’s athlete,” who climbed mountains and kicked soccer balls, was reduced to pitiful helplessness by a gesture as simple as kneeling. The day trip to Banja Luka was the pope’s 101st foreign pastoral visit. Even years ago, when he was still healthy and vigorous, people often asked: “Why does the pope travel so much? Why doesn’t he just stay at home?” The simple answer , then as now , is that there are Catholics outside of the Vatican. Perhaps more than anything else, foreign trips have been the hallmark of John Paul’s papacy. In the case of Banja Luka, the purpose of the trip was to beatify Ivan Merz, a 20th century layman who dedicated his life to religion. It was also to launch another appeal for reconciliation in Bosnia, a country that had

the grim distinction of entering and exiting the 20th centur y soaked in the blood of war. John Paul could have beatified Merz in the grandeur of St. Peter ’s Basilica or the embracing splendor of St. Peter’s Square, as his predecessors would have done. Instead, he chose to do it in a dusty field on the edge of a monaster y bombed and razed during the last war . Thus, he added more urgency to his message and more poignancy to his preaching than any Renaissance master ’s backdrop could have provided. John Paul likes to create saints and blesseds within sight of the houses where they lived, the churches where they prayed, the battlefields where they were killed and the cemeteries where they were buried. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF PETER By leaving the V atican for far-flung places, John Paul II honors local churches and gives people there models who can inspire them and help shape their lives. But most of all, he makes all these trips to remind people that they , too, are a part of the Church. He does it to show them that he is humble enough to come to them, even if it is half way around the world. Last June 12, the pope held a special audience in the V atican’s frescoed Sala Clementina for the 50 or so reporters who were aboard the papal plane for his 100th foreign trip, a five-day visit to Croatia that had ended three days earlier . His address offered a rare glimpse into the mind of Karol Wojtyla, a personal answer from him to us to the question “Why do you travel so much?” The pope told those assembled: “From the day of my election as bishop of Rome on Oct. 16, 1978, the command of Jesus echoed deep inside of me with particular intensity and urgency: ‘Go to the whole world and preach the Gospel to every creature.’ I felt the duty to imitate Peter the Apostle…to confirm and consolidate the vitality of the Church in fidelity to the W ord and the ser vice of tr uth, to tell

Young people cheer as Pope John Paul II arrives for a celebration in Madrid during a May visit to Spain. Typical of recent pastoral trips, the pope’s itinerary included a canoniz ation Mass, a meeting with young people and addresses to national leaders on world peace. w w w. ko f c .o r g

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everyone that God loves them, that the Church loves them, that the pope loves them and to receive from them the encouragement and example of their goodness, of their faith.” So, the pope told repor ters, his trips have been a give-and-take. He is rejuvenated by them, and feels as refreshed and grateful as his listeners. The pope’s most recent trips, such as those to the Balkans in 2003, are equivalent to a follow-up medical exam. He is checking up on what has transpired in the Church there since an earlier visit. Those in the first half of his papacy were more like shock treatment or emergency room triage. CHANGING HISTORY’S TIDE Historians have ample material to show that in a number of cases, early papal trips had a direct effect on events that changed the course of history. The most obvious example is Poland and the consequences events there had for the rest of Eastern Europe. It is impossible to overstate the significance Poland had on the life of the pope and equally impossible to overstate the significance he has had in moder n Poland. He was the main suppor ter of the Solidarity union when the Gdansk shipyard strikers, led by an electrician with a walr us moustache, sent shock waves throughout the Soviet bloc. The Polish pope backed Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and the strikers from his powerful world pulpit in Rome. His support was unflagging. It did not bend even in the dark days of martial law, when Washington was getting weak-kneed about events in Poland, fearing they would unsettle relations with Moscow . The pope saw things differently . The man who had lived under N azism and communism saw that the time was ripe and never took his eye off the prize — a Europe free of totalitarianism and the ar tificial divisions of Yalta. Almost exactly nine years after the start of the Gdansk shipyard strikes, the Iron Cur tain — whose northern end W inston Churchill had envisioned star ting precisely at Gdansk — was no more. What transpired in Poland star ted a domino effect that no one could stop. Walesa LEFT: CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

became the Polish president and won the N obel Peace Prize. The unthinkable had happened. Just as in Czechoslovakia, a man who had been jailed by the Communists was now occupying the nation’ s highest office. Many people believe it would not have happened if the pope had not been elected when he was and if he had not made his first triumphant trip to Poland in 1979. Walesa would later write: “The pope showed us how numerous we were and showed us the strength and power we had if we joined together as one.” In later trips home, the pope expressed disappointment that his countrymen were using their newfound freedoms in ways he believed were wrong. He lamented galloping materialism, deep social divisions

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rights, freedom of religion, and selfdetermination of peoples. Bishop Carlos Belo was the leader of the repressed Catholic community when the pope visited in 1981 and the territory was still under the grip of Indonesian rule. Bishop Belo won the N obel Peace Prize in 1996 and helped lead East T imor to independence in 2002. The pope taught Bishop Belo to keep his eye on the prize too. CASTRO’S CUBA Fidel Castro is one dictator who has yet to fall as the result of a papal visit and a resulting wave of people power. The pope’ s historic visit to Cuba in 1998 went well for Castro. The ruler shed his militar y fatigues in favor of a double-breasted gray suit, starched white shir t and gold

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Count Enrico P. Galeazzi presents Pope John Paul II with sets of books documenting a scholarly meeting on the Common Christian Roots of the European Nations. Some 1,500 sets of the books were published by the Knights of Columbus. According to some historians, the 1981 meeting of scholars, the publication of their findings and the dissemination of the books behind the Iron Curtain helped lead to Europeans rediscovering their spiritual unity and the downfall of communism. Count Galeazzi was the Knights’ representative in Rome for the greater par t of the 20th century.

and cracks in basic traditional values that had come hand-in-glove with capitalism. IMPACT IN ASIA While Poland is perhaps the most emblematic case of the pope’s effect on history, other areas have changed as a result of papal trips. He first visited the Philippines, Asia’s only predominantly Catholic countr y, in 1981. The visit helped galvanize the local Church’s courage to continue its peaceful opposition to dictator Ferdinand Marcos and his wife Imelda. In 1985 and 1986, Cardinal Jaime Sin of Manila and his bishops, using the Church’ s Radio V eritas network, virtually stage-managed the “people power” revolution that led to the ouster of Marcos. Elsewhere in Asia, the pope visited East Timor and spoke of human

cufflinks. He attended papal events looking like a meek grandfather at a family wedding. The bearded elder statesman of Mar xism gave the Church concessions before and during the trip — including reinstating Christmas as a national holiday for the first time since the 1959 revolution. Dissidents were allowed to have their say during the trip. Astonishingly, cries of “Freedom, Freedom” were heard during the pope’s Mass in Revolution Square, where a mural of Christ was put up on one building to stare down an image of Che Guevara on another . The pope, who lent Castro a hand during the trip by condemning the U.S. embargo, said later he hoped that his visit would inspire opponents of communism as his first trip to Poland had in 1979. It has not yet happened. Five years after the hiscolumbia/september 2003 9

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toric visit, the V atican expressed concern that reforms had not moved ahead quickly enough in Cuba, and, in some cases, things seemed to be moving backward. The pope’s seven trips to the United States, and his many trips to other highly developed nations such as Canada, Australia and the “postChristian” countries of W estern Europe, have always been a par ticular challenge for him. He reminds Americans that they have been blessed with many things, including the privilege of being the standardbearers of freedom. Hoping his pronouncements could have long-ter m positive effects, he has pulled no punches in war ning Americans to beware of the deep decay in moral values that often accompanied prosperity. He aired par ticular distress

about how a society as wealthy as that of the United States could have so much social inequality and poverty within its borders. INTO AFRICA One place that changed little in the past 25 years of papal visits is Africa. The continent is still mired in the same grinding pover ty, backwardness, civil strife, war and corruption that the pope began denouncing in 1980, when he made the first of his 12 visits there. Still, he has never stopped speaking about Africa’ s problems before an inter national community that often considered the continent beyond repair. The Vatican likes to issue numbers every time the pope travels. At the end of his trip to Croatia in early June — his 100th overseas — we

were told he had visited 129 countries at least once; had traveled 720,800 miles or the equivalent of 29 times the circumference of the earth and more than three times the distance between the Ear th and the moon. He had spent 575 days and 12 hours — a whopping 6.4 percent of his pontificate — outside Italy. But the numbers meant little to the 4 million people who turned out to see him in the Philippines in 1995, or to the fewer than 200 Catholics in all of Kazakhstan, where he visited in 2001. For them, the important thing was that he came. Philip Pullella, a correspondent for Reuters in Rome, is associate editor and lead writer of the recent book Pope John P aul – R eaching Out Across Borders, published in the United States by Prentice Hall. He has traveled on 79 of the Holy Father’s 101 trips.

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JOHN PAUL HAS REPEATEDLY URGED PRIESTS TO REDISCOVER AND RESPOND TO THEIR OWN VOCATION. B Y

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“Let us consider our call, brethren” (1 Cor 1:26). Let us remember and discover who we are!

his is the impassioned and persistent invitation Pope John Paul II has made to his brothers in the priesthood since his first Holy Thursday letter in 1979. In this ongoing dialogue with his brother priests, the pope urges rediscovery of the greatness of the mysterious gift of the priesthood by looking to the eter nal priest: Jesus Christ, incar nate Son of the Father born of the Virgin Mary.

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Today more than ever the priest runs the risk of embracing the mentality that an individual’ s stature is measured only by his accomplishments. How easy it becomes for us to think that a priest is just a replaceable administrator of spiritual goods. Or that he is a Church bureaucrat. Or that his identity depends on the opinions of his foes and his friends. Aware of the dangers in thinking this way, the pope has spent his 25 years of papacy , and almost 57 of priesthood, communicating the beauty of being a priest, and helping priests to live that mission which constitutes them (Catechesis on the Creed, 304).

COMMUNICATING THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S LOVE The pope’s own life is a moving witness that the identity of the priesthood derives its greatness from the priesthood of Christ, which has its roots in the myster y of the T rinity (Gift and Myster y, 75). The Father , rich in mercy, did not abandon man to his own misery. He sent his onlybegotten Son to offer that per fect sacrifice which is able to restore the friendship between God and man. Christ, the redeemer of man, returns the love of the Father by giving back to him the whole of creation in that unique and complete offer of himself on the cross. Christ’s loving exchange allows the unfathomable love of the Father to reach every human being through the Holy Spirit, who is the bond of love between the Father and the Son, and their unlimitedly rich fruit. In Jesus of Nazareth, the one sent by the Father, through the Holy Spirit, man can encounter, experience and intimately participate in that divine love without which man remains incomprehensible to himself (Redemptor Hominis, 10). Christ accomplishes his mission to communicate the myster y of the triune God by imitating the Father , that is to say, by generating communion and friendship (John 5:19; 15:15). Jesus of N azareth chose w w w. ko f c .o r g

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some men and made them his friends. He offered them such a unity with himself that he gave them his ver y mission. T o encounter them was to encounter Jesus Christ and the Father who sent him (Matt 10:40). They became his “sacramental representation” (Pastores Dabo Vobis, 15). The identity of the Apostles, and of the priests after them, derives from the love of the Father given in Christ, to whom they are sacramentally united through the power of the Holy Spirit. As the pope persuasively recalls, even before what he manages to accomplish, the priest prolongs the presence of Christ because he is alter Christus or “another Christ” (Catechesis of the Creed , 304). THE PRIEST AND MARY The Father, who gives us his Son through Mary, also in Christ gives his being to the priest through Mary, mother of the Redeemer and mother of the Church. “Mar y leads us to Christ ... and Christ leads us to his Mother” (Gift and Myster y, 28). In the same way as Christ took his humanity from Mary, his first tabernacle (Ecclesia de Eucharistia , 55), the priest is also called to nur ture the Marian dimension of his own being. The pope tells us that when at his ordination the priest lies prostrated to receive the Holy Spirit, he re-echoes Mary’s fiat (“Thy will be done”). To imitate her availability and to bring for th the same presence, the pope encourages priests to pray the Angelus and the rosary. The priest’s existence is called to be a permanent magnificat, praising God’s deeds, and continuously meditating on God’ s Word. As Mar y’s gladness was able to embrace Simeon’s prophecy that a sword would pierce her hear t (Luke 2:35), the priest, cer tain of Christ’s resurrection, is called to welcome the cross. He is, in fact, sacerdos et hostia, priest and sacrificial victim. The priest is to welcome the Virgin Mary as his mother , as John did at the foot of the cross. This gracious act implies lovingly accepting the labor of allowing Christ to take flesh in the ear th of one’s own existence and of educating into the faith those whom the Father gives him. The priest becomes fr uitful when, CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

Several men prostrate themselves before the altar of St . Peter’s Basilica during their ordination last May 11, the World Day of Pr ayer for Vocations. Pope John P aul II presided at the service, calling on new priests to model their lives af ter Christ, the good shepherd.

like Mary, he retur ns Christ’s love for him with a virginal, undivided heart. In our overly sexualized Western culture, which has forgotten the meaning of human love, the pope’s defense of the celibate priesthood is also prompted by his awareness that it is through the flesh that Christ shows that he alone is the ultimate fulfillment of man’ s desires. It is only when the priest does not experience the fullness of love which Christ brings that his life peters out and is no longer a consoling sign of Christ’ s beauty. The priest is called to give ever ything of himself to Christ because Christ gives himself completely and personally to the priest — so much so that the priest’s very being changes. Aware of man’ s weakness, the pope invites priests to give all of themselves to Christ through Mar y for the sanctification of ever y man. This is indeed what his motto, Totus tuus (“All Yours”), proclaims ( Gift and Mystery, 30). The pope’ s desire that all of the daily existence of his brother priests be configured to Christ and be spent for the salvation of man led him to re-propose the French priest St. John V ianney (1786-1859) as an incomparable model of life and priestly ser vice (“Letter on Holy Thursday ,” 1986). The pope’s closeness to the Mother

of our Redeemer has allowed him to educate priests and seminarians by showing the fundamental importance of the Marian dimension of the priesthood. STEWARD AND PROPHET The priest’s relation to Christ is a treasure given not only for the priest to enjoy, but also for him to share. Christ brings some men into communion and friendship with him because he desires that through them everyone be par t of the Father’s merciful love. For the pope, the priest is a steward, one who is being brought into the dwelling place of God to distribute his riches. He gives what has been given to him, the sacramental presence of Christ, and he speaks of Christ, the one in whom and for whom ever ything is made. The priest cannot communicate Christ without giving his ver y self, and he does it with and through all of his humanity. This is why , for the pope, the priest is not only ordained to celebrate the Eucharist. His whole life is to be eucharistic. Ever y Holy Thursday the pope reminds his priests with moving words that, in the Upper Room, the priesthood and the Eucharist are bor n together and that this unity is a sign of what they are to be and to give to others “to the end.” c o l u m b i a / s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 3 11

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John Paul II’ s numerous trips, meetings, audiences and celebrations are his response to a tremendous need. In a world over flowing with words, images and slogans people need to encounter the humanity of Christ. Man is interested in participating in the communion with Christ only after he has seen that Christ makes man’s life beautiful. In John Paul II we can see that Christianity is communicated only in an encounter , person to person. He shows that the priest is a prophet; that is to say, someone who proclaims through his own flesh that Christ is present, that he is the fulfillment of man’ s desires. The priest is not to repeat ready-made phrases or confine himself to the rectory. He is to meet the human family one by one, there where each one is — humanly and culturally speaking — and to extend to ever y one friendship and communion with Christ. Men and women of any culture and age throng to meet him because he communicates what the human heart is thirsting for, Christ. The priest is not left alone to live his vocation. His ordination places

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Pope John Paul II presides at the blessing of a chapel dedicated to SS. Benedict, Cyril and Methodius in the grottoes of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. The Order underwrote the construction of the chapel. With it, the pope re-emphasized the common Christian roots of Europe in a chapel dedicated to the co-patrons of that continent. The chapel features a bronze celebrant’s chair, a bronze bas-relief of the three saints and a Carolingian cross, all sculpted by Tommaso Gismondi. Replicas of the latter two were given to the Knights; the cr ucifix hangs at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven and the sculpture in the Knights’ Museum.

him within that “sacramental brotherhood” formed by the bishops and priests in union with the pope (Catechesis on the Creed, 378). This fraternity, integral to his being, sustains him and allows him to grow in sanctity. N evertheless, since the ordained priesthood flourishes from the sacrament of baptism, the priest also shares a brotherhood with all the baptized. He needs Christian families to become what they are, a sign of God’s triune love (Familiaris Consortio, 17). How often a priest’ s

faith is sustained and refreshed by the witness to Christ given by the people he is called to ser ve! As the pope often recalls, priests need the company and friendship of the laity to rediscover and to respond to their own vocation: to witness to Christ’s mercy. Father Antonio López is a member of the Priestly Fraternity of the Missionaries of St . Charles Borromeo. He is assistant professor of theology at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and F amily in Washington, D.C.

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ot long since, most people took the concept of family for granted even when they did not necessarily take it to signify the same set of human relations. Today, however, the family ranks as one of the most hotly contested of concepts, and debates about its nature and function evoke heated passions in all quarters. The ver y existence of the debates points to far-reaching and portentous changes in the most fundamental understandings of the

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human condition, notably the relations between the individual and the community; the claims of sexuality and desire; the proper understanding of women’ s nature and vocation; the relationship between men and women, and the mutual relations and responsibilities of parents and children. No one has been more conscious of and attentive to the possible implications of these changes than Pope John Paul II. From the early days of his pastorate in Poland until his most recent reflections upon the challenges of the new millennium,

he has urged Catholics to understand the family as the necessar y grounding and context for the human person. This concern for the family as the fundamental custodian of life amid an encroaching Culture of Death has always figured at the center of Pope John Paul II’ s theology, philosophy, psychology, anthropology and social teaching. Commitment to the strengthening of families in a world that tends to tear them apart has always ranked high among his sense of pastoral responsibilities. As papal biographers have noted, the conditions in the Poland of Karol W ojtyla’s youth, young manhood and early clerical career continuously reminded him of the importance of family both as protection against the onslaughts of Nazism and communism, and as the w w w. ko f c .o r g

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core building block of any decent and humane — any tr uly Christian — society. In this respect, the pope’s dedication to the ideal and the practical reality of family constitutes a foundational element of his understanding of the meaning and mission of Catholicism during the closing decades of the second millennium and the beginning of the third. THE CHURCH’S VISION OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY As an archbishop and an active participant in the Second V atican Council, he played a major role in the drafting of Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Moder n World). Gaudium et Spes emphasizes the ways in which the moder n world offers man unprecedented oppor tunities and unprecedented dangers — new forms of freedom and new forms of slavery. With the dramatic triumph of industrial life over r ural life, “the human race has passed from a rather static concept of reality to a more dynamic, evolutionar y one,” and this transition has confronted us with a daunting ar ray of new problems — problems that must ultimately be understood as a crisis of humanism (GS, 5). Emphasizing the impor tance of marriage and family as the bedrock for people who attempt to respond to this crisis, the document also acknowledges that the “excellence” of marriage as an institution “is not everywhere reflected with equal brilliance, since polygamy , the plague of divorce, so-called free love, and other disfigurements all have an obscuring effect” (GS, 47). Marriage and the family have suffered innumerable pressures and have often — some would claim more often than not — failed to realize their highest mission. N othing in John Paul II’ s writings, before or after his ascension to the papacy, suggests that he is naive about the multiple variations in marriage and family throughout the history of the world. He nonetheless insists, with Gaudium et Spes, that the “intimate par tnership of married life and love has been established by the Creator and qualified by his laws and is rooted in the conjugal covenant of ir revocable personal consent.” Thus, he leaves no CNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

An emotional Pope John Paul II prays at the graves of his mother and f ather in a cemetery in Kr akow, Poland, during his August 2002 visit to his homeland.

excuse for misunderstanding: “God himself is the author of matrimony , endowed as it is with various benefits and purposes” (GS, 48). THREATS TO MARRIAGE AND FAMILY From Wojtyla’s early years as a priest, he had an immediate grasp of the social and political forces that threatened the solidity of mar riages and family life. Initially , he recognized the threat in the Communist intervention into family life, and especially the Communists’ hostility to the sacramental character of marriage. Subsequently, however, he has become increasingly sensitive to the ways in which the wealth some nations have and the globalization of the economy are threatening the integrity of mar riage and family life. In different ways and at different rates, both secularism and fundamentalism have contributed to what Pope John Paul II has designated the Culture of Death — a culture that holds human life cheaper and cheaper until it drains it of all intrinsic value, a culture that transforms people into objects or even obstacles. This is not a self-por trait that appeals to the affluent denizens of the developed world, who reject the very notion of the Culture of Death, and even more the view of themselves as its purveyors. Caught

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up in a world overflowing with commodities and ar med with a science that promises to extend and create every human life, they find it easy to take their unprecedented material prosperity as the standard for human fulfillment. N or do the prophets of traditional religion view themselves as reactionary and ignorant. Throughout the globe, multinational corporations are drawing people out of traditional families and communities, binding some individuals to the prospects of new possibilities, while condemning their kin to the dustbins of the cities or the dust bowls of the villages. The greatest — and most awesome — power of the global economy lies in its ability to touch ever ything. In this respect, it acts as the ultimate solvent of the bonds that shape and guarantee our humanity — our intrinsic worth and dignity as persons. The for midable challenge of our times, as John Paul II demonstrably understands, lies in the defense, reconstitution and adaptation of these bonds to confor m to the valuable aspects of globalization, without succumbing to its destructive tendencies. WOMEN AND THE FAMILY The 20th centur y included significant changes in the status and opportunities of women, and most of them were long overdue. Nowhere is it written that men and women’s specific natures entitle men to beat, enslave, exploit or otherwise abuse women. Our understanding of women’ s talents and capabilities changed radically during the past centur y, as has our understanding of the employments for which women are suited. T oday, however, we confront a dangerous polarization that pits traditionalists, who condemn all change in women’s situation, against radicals, who insist that the ver y notion of a distinct female nature is a repressive fiction. The worst consequence of this confrontation is that it has drowned out the voices of those who regard most of the changes in women’s situation as beneficial, while continuing to accept the significance of women’ s embodied being with the unique capacity to bear and nurture new life. c o l u m b i a / s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 3 13

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Feminists rage at the pope’ s claims that “women’s singular relationship with human life derives from her vocation to motherhood”; that “the mater nal mission is also the basis of par ticular responsibility”; or that “the woman is called to offer the best of herself to the baby growing within her ,” since “it is precisely by making herself ‘gift’ that she comes to know herself better and is fulfilled in her femininity” (1995 Angelus address). Many deplore his insistence that women’s employment must always respect the “fundamental duty” of the “most delicate tasks of motherhood” (Dignity of Women, 27). Most do not like the notion that women’s rights include any binding duties at all. Rejecting the pope’s vision of the responsibilities that accompany women’s rights, feminists promote an unrestricted freedom that disconcertingly resembles equal membership in the Culture of Death. The crux of the difference between the feminists and the pope lies in their respective understandings of women’s nature and mission. Feminists dismiss injunctions to service, binding obligations and loving self-sacrifice as so many hypocritical pieties designed to perpetuate women’s subordination to men. The pope, in contrast, views them as fundamental Christian precepts that require the compliance of men as well as women. SERVICE TO THE FAMILY AND SOCIETY The experience of recent years has

blindingly exposed the agonizing difficulty of attempts to combine responsibility to a family, especially children, with a professional fast track, or even with full-time employment. The pope is effectively arguing that wives and mothers have a moral obligation to put their families first. Feminists argue that women have no greater obligation to do so than men. Unfor tunately, when parents str uggle over who should be freer to do less, the children get less and less — with ominous consequences for the human and moral fabric of society as a whole. N ormally, few would fault the pope’s quiet insistence that the abundance of love and peace in the world ultimately depends upon the personal education each child receives in the family . Such education, however, depends upon service — the service of parents, frequently mothers to children — and upon willingness to forgo or postpone acquisition of the signs of status most valued by the world. The pope’s recurring demand that the world accommodate women’s needs as wives, mothers and workers, like his insistence upon women’s rights to equal dignity and oppor tunity, testifies to his understanding of the difficulties and the pain. But he insists that, to surmount these conflicts, women must cultivate the peace of hear t that frees them to be teachers of peace: “Inner peace comes from knowing that one is loved by God and from

the desire to respond to his love,” he said in his message for the 1995 World Day of Peace. For Christians this injunction applies as much to men as to women, but Christian teaching has traditionally held that it applies to them differently. John Paul II seeks to reaffirm the difference while he combats the oppressive and exploitative uses to which it has been put. In a cor rupt world, his admirable vision remains elusive and formidably difficult to realize. Women will understandably continue to wonder how much they can afford to sacrifice without the assurance of suppor t for themselves and their children. These legitimate worries admit of no easy answers, but, in facing the risks, we might profitably reflect upon the pope’ s essential message: namely, that the rising tide of the Culture of Death will not be stayed until individuals, one by one, begin to repudiate its claims upon their souls. Elizabeth Fox-Genovese is the Eleanor R aoul Professor of the Humanities a t Emory University in A tlanta, where she has been a member of the history faculty since 1986. A noted historian, she has done significan t research and writing in the area of women ’s studies. This essay is adapted fr om a paper delivered at the 2000 F ellowship of C atholic Scholars convention and prin ted in the book, John Paul II — Witness to the Truth, Kenneth D. Whitehead, ed. (St. Augustine’s Press, South Bend, Ind., 2001).

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world. But the words also represent a kind of key to John Paul’ s pontificate and its encounter with man in his everyday life. This proclamation therefore seems par ticularly central to his understanding of the character and task of the Church’s laity. MAN’S EVERYDAY CONDITION What is the source of the pope’ s “overriding concern” with the human person, situated as he is “in the world”? And of what, more specifically, is this human person “afraid”? In answering the first of these questions, it should be noted that even before he became pope, Karol Wojtyla had shown par ticular interest in man’ s everyday condition. In his writings, he touched upon married and family life, man’s working life, his problems, joys and sufferings, his str uggles with faith and the dangers that threaten him. Wojtyla was concer ned with the implicit “danger” and “fear” entailed in these human relations and in their historical circumstances. This early focus on man’ s everyday circumstances continued when he became Father Wojtyla. He was well known for his work with young people and couples, newly married or contemplating mar riage. As a bishop, his writings on sexuality earned him renown. Of special note is his contribution to the drafting of the Second V atican Council’s Gaudium et Spes (Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World). As the opening words of his inaugural homily indicate, John Paul’s focus on the human person in everyday life has also car ried over into his pontificate. One sign of this is his continued and deepened reflections on marriage and the family. Similarly, he has emphasized social ethics and the Church’ s role in bringing to society a tr uly Christian sense of liberty and political relations. It is in these contexts that the pope responds to the question concerning the source of modern man’s fear. He is afraid of “alienation,” of becoming a mere political or economic or sexual “object.” He is, at times, afraid of the Church and of placing himself under the guidance of its teaching. He is afraid of truly giving himself away and the possibility of his own fr uitfulness,

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IN SOLIDARITY WITH JOHN PAUL II: THE NEW EVANGELIZATION

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For more than 30 years the Knights of Columbus has collaborated with the Pontifical Council for Social Communications on telecasts from the Vatican and around the world. Through the Order’s satellite uplink program the costs for transmitting papal events to a global audience are underwritten; the costs for downloading the transmission in mission countries is also paid. Pope John Paul II is shown blessing a mobile production van donated by the Knights to Centro Televisivo Vaticano.

of being “per fect” as the heavenly Father is perfect. He is, in fact, afraid of the encounter with God. THE LAITY’S TASK But who and what are the laity in John Paul’s teaching? What is their task in the Church and in the world, and what are they to do about this modern fear and confusion? In answering these questions, we have to understand the fundamental importance for the pope of what Vatican II had called the “universal call to holiness” or the “per fection of love” ( Lumen Gentium, 39-42). Certainly, the Church has always held that all are called to holiness,

The layman accomplishes his vocation by living an authentic secular life. to be “per fect as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48). What was new in V atican II’s “universal call to holiness” was its emphasis on the teaching’ s centrality for the Church’s very self-understanding. The call to per fection was seen by Vatican II to be rooted, not only in the “religious state of life” (that is to say, the state of those taking the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience and living in a religious order), but in Christian life as such. Therefore holiness was to be sought in all Christian states of life, including the lay state and its nor mal fulfillment in the sacrament of matrimony and the Christian family. John Paul’s most impor tant teaching on the role of the laity is Christifideles Laici, his 1988 apos-

tolic exhortation on “The Lay Members of Christ’ s Faithful People.” Christifideles Laici gave a positive sense of who and what the laity in fact are. They are not just those who are not ordained priests or members of religious orders. They are members of the Church in the fullest sense. In Christifideles Laici, the pope emphasizes two characteristics of the laity that may at first glance seem to be in tension. First, he highlights that, by virtue of baptism and the other sacraments of initiation, the lay members of the Church are above all else precisely that — members of the Church. “Only from inside the Church’s mystery of communion,” the pope tells us, “is the ‘identity’ of the lay faithful made known and their fundamental dignity revealed” (8). He also stresses that, along with priests and religious, the laity make up the whole Church, the body and bride of Christ. So the first characteristic of the laity is that it is par t of (indeed, the largest par t of) the people of God, which is Christ’ s “Body and Spouse” (14). The laity, like priests and religious, are called to live a holy existence. Their very lives should be an answer to the call given by and in Christ, namely the call to leave everything behind and “follow me.” In the first chapter of Veritatis Splendor, his 1993 encyclical on moral theology, for example, the pope uses the Gospel stor y of the rich young man (Matt 19:16-30; Mark 10:17-31; Luke 18:18-30) — a story that had often been associated exclusively with the call to the religious life or to the ordained priesthood — to describe the central point of Christian morality itself, that is to say the fundamental moral task of c o l u m b i a / s e p t e m b e r 2 0 0 3 15

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all Christians without exception. All Christians, including the laity , must be characterized as those who are called to leave — and indeed are those who by definition have already left — “everything behind to follow Christ,” each according to his particular conditions and state of life.

directed (or should be directed) to the realization of the lay state; each of the “things” required by the lay person must be exclusively ordered within the vocation itself. When the pope speaks of the “secular character” of the lay state, he does not, of course, mean “secularist,” or “secular” in the negative sense. In this latter “bad” sense of LIVE IN AND TRANSFORM THE WORLD “secular,” God is alien to this world. At the same time — and this is The result is that the encounter where the “tension” would seem to between God and man (and finally arise — John Paul emphasizes the between man and man) necessarily secular character of the laity . What appears as a threat to human liberty, defines the laity is their living “in producing the type of fear and confuthe world” or , as it is sometimes sion experienced in moder n culture. Rather, the Holy Father means “secular” in the positive sense of the “world” considered precisely as the place in which the drama of human history, the human recognition of God as both origin and end, unfolds. This seeming “tension” means that the laity ser ve a unique function in the Church. W ithout losing their character as most fundamenput, in the “secular order.” The laity tally members of the Church, the have jobs and raise families. They laity are called to realize their are part of secular activities and Christian vocation in and through organizations. The laity par ticipate their specifically secular character fully in the political, economic, legal and activities. Having been “taken and social orders. They live in, for m up into” — belonging to — Christ, and transmit culture. Thus, if all the layman constitutes, in his ver y Christians are called to leave ever y- person, a concrete realization of the thing behind by the ver y nature of relationship between God’s gracious what it means to be a Christian, this gift of himself (in and through the reality has to be squared with the mediation of the Church) and the actual lives of the laity. world. Of course, the lay faithful require Christ himself straddles all of the “things,” such as homes and autostates of life: He is both priest and mobiles and various types of person- layman (he spends 30 years in famial possessions, to fulfill their “voca- ly life and as a common carpenter!); tions” to mar riage and family life he is both virgin and spouse. He and to pursue their work in the takes into himself all of the states of world toward building the kingdom life and incorporates each as a vital of God. But all of this is “left organ of his body, the whole Church. behind” in the sense that it is all As such, Christ takes the layman

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Pope John Paul prays in the renovated chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Czestochowa in the Vatican Grottoes. The Polish chapel, which dates from 1958, was enlarged in 1982 with financial suppor t from the Knights. The icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa was used in the Order ’s Marian Hour of Prayer program in 198687. This current Marian Hour of Prayer, which concludes this Sept. 8, was dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosar y and for the intention of world peace.

and all of his activity into himself through the sacraments and gives the layman back to the world as an image of himself and of the T rinity he reveals. The pope explains this theological reality through the image of the layman’s participation in Christ’ s threefold mission as “prophet, king, and priest.” According to this teaching, the layman shares in Christ’ s mission as “prophet,” since he “bears witness” (primarily by simply living it) to the Gospel; as “king,” insofar as he is called to reorder and ready the str uctures of the world for the coming of the kingdom; and as “priest,” since he is called, Christ-like, to lay down his life as a sacrifice for others. THE ROLE OF THE FAMILY This interior reality of the lay life is particularly well reflected in the vocation to Christian mar riage and family (Familiaris Consortio, 11). The Church teaches that mar riage must always be open to God’s freely given fruitfulness — children. The Church has often reaffir med the sacred character of mar riage and family. They are not simply secular realities of this world, and indeed John Paul tells us that they will find their fulfillment — as will all that is redeemed — in God’ s kingdom. At the same time, the family is characterized by both V atican II and Pope John Paul as the “fundamental unit of society.” The family and the layman are called to “be the Church” (Christifideles Laici, 9) in the ver y structures of the world, of society and culture, thereby transfor ming them into an authentic “communion of persons” from within. It goes without saying that the human person loves only with great difficulty. And the basic elements of life in the world pose difficulties and potential dangers to the beginnings of this love, dangers that could be the source of “fear.” Authentic married love, which the pope constantly reaffirms is grounded in self-gift, could be a source of this “fear .” By implication, then, so could our ver y relationship with God and all others. The laity’s role then, in a way that is similar to the other Christian states of life, is to show a way w w w. ko f c .o r g

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beyond fear. And this is to be accomplished most fundamentally by “living the Church” in the midst of the world, by “doing the tr uth” (John 3:21; 1 John 1:6). By being what they most fundamentally are, lay persons bring faith, hope and love and the spirit of the

Beatitudes to the very workaday settings that in themselves seem to pose so many dangers. In shor t, the layman accomplishes his vocation by living an authentic secular life, a life that in its ver y worldliness sees God, not as a threat to human liberty and dignity , but as “all in all,”

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THE POPE HAS SPENT 25 YEARS IN SERVICE TO THE TRUTH OF THE BEATITUDE: ‘BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS.’

n May 22, 2002, Pope John Paul II declared, “I have come to Azerbaijan as an ambassador of peace. As long as I have breath within me I shall cry out: ‘Peace, in the name of God!’ And when word joins word, a chor us is bor n, a symphony, which will spread to every soul, quench hatred, disar m hearts.” For John Paul II this is fundamental: Peace comes from truth and from the love of tr uth. This tr uth and the love for it is now and must always be a source of unity among people and never a sign of division. Truth is one and the same for everyone, or it does not exist at all. If there is no universal tr uth, but only opinions imposed by the strong on the weak as if they were tr uths, then there is only a “so-called” peace maintained by the power ful, and the dream of peace shared by the weak. We know what political peace means, whether it be Pax Romana, Pax Germanica, Pax Britannica or Pax Americana. We know little about the peace proclaimed to all people by the angel who appeared to the poor shepherds and announced the truth shining from the baby lying in a manger. JOHN PAUL’S FIGHT FOR PEACE For John Paul II, peace is a gift of truth, to which all people are entiCNS PHOTO FROM REUTERS

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together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other” (Ps 85). Love, therefore, must also know how to suffer . The road to tr uth, freedom and peace leads through the Beatitudes, the blessings of the Sermon on the Mount. The attacks on the W orld Trade Center and the Pentagon two years ago this Sept. 11 remind us that we live not in peace but in a state which St. Augustine called the “shadow of peace” (umbra pacis). It is the peace of evil men ( pax iniquiorum). This “shadow of peace” affects the lives of individuals and societies. It functions as if it were the peace that people dream of and desire. But this “shadow” becomes longer as men

In this Sept. 14, 2001 photo, Pope John Paul II prays for the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo. The attacks prompted the pope to host an interfaith prayer service in Assisi in January 2002.

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move farther from the “sun” of truth, freedom, love and justice. In the process they alter the ver y meaning of these concepts, severing their connection with reality . Men become dependent on personal interests and, without much resistance, mere opinions come to r ule their lives. W ithin such a society , any opinion can function as if it were truth, any judgment can be deemed just, and any manipulation of another can be defined as love. Some may insist that when men repeatedly call a lie the truth, the lie becomes the truth. That this way of thinking is a source of war is apparent in the ascendancy of the N azi regime in Ger many. But peace can occur only where all men look toward the same tr uth — a tr uth that unites them as one pilgrim nation. The tr uth of each person exists within that person and shapes the drama of his or her identity and personal history. This unique personal truth meets the tr uth of all other persons in the consciousness of God. As such, each human life and human destiny is present to God who is ordering it into a meaningful and beautiful whole. In this divine landscape, everything aims to the One. As St. Thomas Aquinas wrote, “The ultimate end of the universe is T ruth.” From this tr uth derives all duties and rights of man — and especially the duty to seek peace. John Paul II understands that wars are conceived inside of us. The man who would create peace must fight for it especially within himself. That is why peace is so difficult. When a man is defeated in this fight within himself, he becomes an ally of the strong who continue to wage war, using arms as well as the “shadow of peace.” If the defeated seeks revenge, he too becomes unjust because he does not treat the winner as a human being, that is, he does not forgive him through love. From this injustice, from this lack of love, are planted the seeds from which a new war will arise. It is difficult to be free while living under the oppression of the winner , but it is even more difficult to do so and not to seek to cr ush the winner out of a desire for revenge. Abraham and the prophets were looking for witnesses of tr uth, who

IN SOLIDARITY WITH JOHN PAUL II: MASS AT AQUEDUCT

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During his pastoral visit to the United States in 1995, Pope John Paul celebrated a Mass at Aqueduct in New York. The event was hosted by the Knights of Columbus and the Diocese of Brooklyn. More than 75,000 Knights and families welcomed the Holy Father to the papal Mass. In his homily, the pope urged Catholic parents to “form their family as a ‘domestic church,’ a church in the home…where God is honored.”

were just men who sought this difficult freedom. Only the witnesses and martyrs of tr uth can help tr uth save the world from destr uction. They are the “salt” that preser ves the world; they are the “yeast” that allows men to develop in a meaningful and harmonious way (see also Matt 5:13; Luke 13:21). These martyrs of tr uth do not lose all hope because they sense like St. Augustine the anxious hear t in every man. “Our heart, O Lord, cannot be quieted till it finds repose in You” (Inquietum est cor nostr um, Domine, donec requiescat in T e). This anxious hear t leads man to God. The anxious hear t points man in the direction toward tr ue peace. Therefore, the problem of peace is not a problem that we can solve by ourselves. The problem of peace is the problem of the mystery of man’s belonging to God who is present in the truth of every man. Peace is the mystery of our personal identity . And mysteries are not solved the way problems are solved; mysteries can only be lived. God alone can solve the mystery of man’s anxious hear t. He does so by giving himself to man. Peace is such a gift. The problem of peace is that man has not yet lear ned to accept it as a gift of God. “If you only knew what God is offering and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me something to drink,’ you would have been the one to ask, and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10). The gift of peace cannot be identified with a specific object, one that can be reproduced and owned. Peace happens within man when he cares for the tr uth that appears within him and within other men. Peace per meates the man who seeks truth. But asking for the gift of peace, without also

demanding truth, only brings us further away from tr ue peace. In other words, peace has a moral character . Man has not only the right to peace, but also, and perhaps above all, the duty to take care of peace. BE VIGILANT John Paul II has spent the past 25 years asking us to be vigilant about peace. The urgency of his message has increased in recent years. For him, everyone has the duty to care for peace. Peace demands a great responsibility. “Blessed are the peacemakers!” John Paul II emphasized this in his 1982 W orld Day of Peace message when he said, “While peace is a gift, man is never dispensed from responsibility for seeking it and endeavoring to establish it by individual and community effort, throughout history. God’s gift of peace is therefore also at all times a human conquest and achievement, since it is offered to us in order that we may accept it freely and put it progressively into operation by our creative will.” It may seem that John Paul II has the task of being a fireman of sor ts, whose mission is to travel from continent to continent to extinguish fires. It is a difficult task because these fires star t in man’s heart and conscience, and it is there that they have to be extinguished. John Paul II, pilgrim for peace, speaks to the hearts and consciences of all. Peace is truly the essence of John Paul II’s mission as pope. For him, the truth of peace is Christ while the sign of this peace is the Church. As he explained in his 1986 encyclical on the Holy Spirit: “Since the way of peace passes in the last analysis through love and seeks to create the civilization of love, the Church fixes her eyes on him who is

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the love of the Father and the Son, and in spite of increasing dangers she does not cease to trust, she does not cease to invoke and to ser ve the peace of man on ear th” (Dominum et Vivificantem, 67). John Paul II knows ver y well, as he noted in his Jan. 1 message in 1984, that peace and human justice are fragile. “Peace is fragile, and injustice abounds.” In 1986 he said: “Peace…is threatened in so many ways and with such unforeseeable consequences that we must endeavor to provide it with secure foundations.” Ten years later, he noted that even if “at times peace appears a truly unattainable goal…we must not lose heart.” The pope in particular does not lose hear t. Wherever he senses and sees fear , he repeats the words of Jesus, “Peace I bequeath to you, my own peace I give you, a

peace within himself cannot further peace among others. Peace is each person living for the other . For John Paul II, the person of Christ is a peace of all living for all. Where this communion of persons is not present, no one can be sure of another , and no nation can rely on another . When John Paul II says, “Open up new doors to peace. Do ever ything in your power to make the way of dialogue prevail over that of force,” he asks politicians to guarantee the right as well as the duty of citizens to seek the tr uth. He asks them to cultivate politics, and hence he asks them to pursue a politics of a culture that leads to peace. He also tells us that peace happens only where man’s conscience is respected. “If you want peace, respect the conscience of ever y person.” If you want peace, live accord-

If we forget the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, we may not even notice when we will start hurting others. peace which the world cannot give, this is my gift to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid” (John 14:27). Peace takes place among men who are at the “ser vice of tr uth.” Everyone has the duty to ser ve truth. We can ser ve truth by living in a dialogue with others. T o learn how to do this, it is not necessary to study textbooks. St. Francis of Assisi and Mother T eresa of Calcutta, who are cited by John Paul II as examples, lived in dialogue with others because they opened themselves to the tr uth of the Gospel. In this way they were able to reach human hearts. We are all responsible for peace. The motto of St. Benedict written in the prologue to his Rule — “Seek peace: pursue it!” — is directed to us all. John Paul II observes: “Peace can be decided by a few men,” but it “presupposes a joint work of all.” The solidarity required for peace requires each person to create interior peace. The person who is not at

ing to your conscience, that is, live in freedom! “To be free is to be able to choose and to want to choose; it is to live according to one’ s conscience.” Politics that do not respect freedom of conscience and of religion result in a denial of the foundations of peace and, therefore, ultimately lead to war. PEACE: OUR PROMISED FUTURE The politics of peace are difficult. In his Angelus message on Jan. 20, 2002, John Paul II said, “Following

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the tragic attack last Sept. 11, always present in your memory, and given the risk of new conflicts, believers are aware of the urgency to intensify their prayer for peace, because this is, above all, a gift of God.” But to tr uly pray for peace is not easy. St. Stephen created peace when he asked God to forgive those who were stoning him. Only by forgiving can we hope that we also will be forgiven. But to forgive does not mean to forget. If we forget the tragic day of Sept. 11, we may not even notice when we will star t hurting others. Those who forget Auschwitz or the Siberian camps risk building them again. But memory alone is also dangerous. During Mass at the site of the N azi concentration camp at Birkenau on June 7, 1979, John Paul II said: “I go down on my knees in this Golgotha of today’s world.” We have to remember the Golgothas of every murder while on our knees. Any other type of memor y can be a source of war . A prayer ful memory is born in hear ts that are rooted, as the Holy Father says, “in a spirit that believes in the possibility of reconciliation and in peace.” Peace is our promised future. W e work toward it in times of war , following in our hope the words of the prophet: “They will hammer their swords into ploughshares and their spears into sickles. N ation will not lift sword against nation, no longer will they learn how to make war. But each man will sit under his vine and fig tree with no one to trouble him” (Mic 4:3-4). “For God is a God not of disorder but of peace” (1 Cor 14:33). ■ Stanislaw Grygiel is a pr ofessor at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Rome.

IN SOLIDARITY WITH JOHN PAUL II: HEROES OF THE FAITH

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According to the Vatican press office, Pope John Paul II has beatified more than 1,310 individuals and canonized more than 460. On April 24, 2002, the pope granted Supreme Knight Anderson a private audience at which the cause for canonization of Father McGivney was discussed. The Holy Father sees in Father McGivney a model of a good and holy priest that today’s priests can turn to for intercession. A sculpture of Father McGivney was presented to the pope.

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(Above) The centuries old copper-clad wood cross that once graced St. Peter’s Basilica given to the Knights by the pope in appreciation of the Order’s renovation of the basilica’s facade in the 1980s. The cross is displayed in the museum’s atrium. (Top right) The Papal Gallery features items dating from the late 19th century to today. (Right clockwise ) A replica of the crucifix from the top of the papal crosier; the mitre shown in this photo is from the pope’s Jubilee Year pilgrimage to the Holy Land; a bronze sculpture of Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski kneeling in respect; a papal peace lamp used at the gathering of world religious leaders in Assisi in 2002.

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The Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven proudly displays many artistic and historically important pieces that highlight our relationship with the Vatican, popes of the 19th and 20th centuries, and especially Pope John Paul II. Featured here are several items given to the Knights by Pope John Paul or the Vatican.

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(Left) The papal chair used by Pope John Paul II in his 1995 Mass at Aqueduct Race Track was commissioned by the Knights. (Above) A bronze and marble replica of St. Peter’s Basilica commissioned by the Order to commemorate the restoratioon of the facade; a gilded bronze version was given to the pope.

(From left) A sculpture made for the 20th anniversary of his pontificate shows the pope’s embrace of the world’s peoples through his travels; Christ is depicted as the ‘Suffering Redeemer’ at the court of Pontius Pilate in a sterling relief used for the 1983 Extraordinary Jubilee of the Redemption; the painting ‘Doctor of the Church’ marking the release of the pope’s first encyclical.

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Supreme Council Grants College Scholarships Totaling More $1 Million

For the 2003-04 academic year , the Knights of Columbus has provided grants totaling nearly $1.3 million. More than 600 students are receiving scholarship assistance from the Supreme Council this year . Most recipients are the children of Knights or Knights attending Catholic colleges in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Christopher J. Hummel, a member of St. Clement (Mo.) Council 1928, said that K of C scholarships have become a tradition in his family . He attended college with the help of a grant from the Missouri State Council. Now his daughter, Megan, attends Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Mich., on a Pro Deo and Pro Patria Scholarship. “It definitely helped to make it possible for her to go to this college,” Hummel said. “W e’re very happy too, because it’s an unabashedly Catholic college. The faculty takes the faith seriously, just like the Knights do.” According to the 2002 Sur vey of Frater nal Activity, state and local units repor ted awarding $5.6 million in scholarships. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FOURTH DEGREE PRO DEO AN D PRO PATRIA SCHOLARSHIPS A total of 239 U .S. students received the Fourth Degree Pro Deo and Pro Patria Scholarships of $1,500 each. These scholarships were awarded on the basis of academic e xcellence to incoming freshmen in bachelor’s degree programs at Catholic schools. The recipient must be a Knight or Columbian Squire, the son or daugh ter of a Knigh t in good standing, or the son or daughter of a Knight who was in good standing when he died. Based on sa tisfactory academic performance, scholarships are renewed to a total of four years. This academic y ear, 62 new scholarships were awarded and 177 were renewed. The following recipients are enrolled at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.: Larisa A. Abel, daughter of Lawrence P. Flick of Holy Innocents Council 12562 in L ouisville, Ky. Jason M. Beck, son of Brian J. Beck of Msgr . Michael A. Carey Council 6650 in Cary, N.C. Margaret E. Berrio, daughter of Joseph A. Berrio of Cr ozier Council 3973 in New ton Centre, Mass.

Justin W. Ciktor, son of Frederick Ciktor of Middlese x Council 857 in Woodbridge, N.J. Theresa C. DiSipio, daughter of Nicholas J . DiSipio of St . Peter the Apostle Council 13290 in Libertytown, Md. Daniel J. Gorecki, son of John H. Gorecki of Calvert Council 7870 in North Beach, Md. Regina A. Hughes, daughter of E dward J. Hughes of St . Edwards Council 6546 in Richmond, Va. Andrew N. Riel, son of Michael A. Riel of Catholic University of America Council 9542. Caitlin M. Smith, daughter of Kevin P. Smith of Dover (Del.) Council 4182. Bernadette M. Snyder, daughter of John W. Snyder of Bishop Kenrick Council 2256 in Ardmore, Pa. Vanessa N. Tendick, daughter of James H. Tendick of All Saints Council 9485 in Mesa, Ariz. Nikolai A. Wajda, son of Peter J. Wajda of Fort Belvoir K of C Parish Council 11170 in F ort Belvoir, Va. Attending the University of Notre Dame in Notr e Dame, Ind., are: Thomas A. Barr, son of Stephen M. Barr of St . Michael

Council 4548 in Newark, Del. Rocco G. Galizio, son of Leonard J. Galizio of South Akron Council 3410 in Akron, Ohio. Danielle M. Hildebrand, daughter of P eter J. Hildebrand of St. Peter Chanel Council 13217 in Roswell, Ga. Daniel P. Keough, son of William F. Keough of Holy Family Council 6099 in Cha ttanooga, Tenn. Mary E. Koch, daughter of Daniel J. Koch of St . Patrick Council 10154 in Wentzville, Mo. Ashley J. Larson, daughter of Creighton A. Larson of Msgr . Cornelius George O’Keefe Council 8250 in West Point, N.Y. Luke E. Olson of F ather James H. Grady Circle 4410 in Wautoma, Wis. Cassandra E. Papak, daughter of Brian L . Papak of Bishop Dwenger Council 1881 in R ensselaer, Ind. Mark K. Solarz, son of Edward D. Solarz of P ope John XXIII Council 5671 in Exton, Pa. Attending the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas, are: Peter N. Ascik, son of Thomas R. Ascik of Father Joseph Maule Council 8923 in Ar den, N.C. Allison L. Conces, daughter of Robert G. Conces of Sain t Thomas Council 7153 in Huntsville, Texas. Lisa M. Mata, daughter of Joseph N. Mata of St . Bridget’s Council 4330 in Loves Park, Ill. Attending the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio, are: Andrew W. Moeder, son of John D. Moeder of C oldwater (Ohio) Council 1991. Melissa A. Tierney, daughter of Mark A. Tierney of St . Robert Bellarmine Council 11646 in Cortland, Ohio.

Scholarship Recipients 2003-04

Adam D. Uhlenhake, son of Daniel F. Uhlenhake of St. Mary’s (Ohio) Council 1592. Attending Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., are: Steven L. DeBartolo, son of Leo J. DeBartolo of Immacula te Conception Council 9021 in Norwood, N.J. Jeffrey T. Peloquin, who with his father Thomas C. Peloquin is a member of F redrick Harrington Council 7863 in Marysville, Wash. Attending The Franciscan University of Steuben ville in Steubenville, Ohio, are: Allison C. LeChevallier, daughter of Mark W. LeChevallier of Cherr y Hill (N. J.) Council 6173. Angus D. McDonald, who with his father Alan R. McDonald is a member of Sts. Andrew and Clare Council 10947 in Clif ton, Va. Attending Providence College in Providence, R.I., are: Isaac B. Walsh, son of Cr aig C. Walsh of St . Francis Council 3272 in Metuchen, N.J. Christopher M. Wegemer, son of Christopher C. Wegemer of Dover (Del.) Council 4182. Attending Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., are: Sarah J. Giuliano, daughter of Joseph T. Giuliano of F ather Hussion Council 2968 in Old Saybrook, Conn. John T. Solomon, son of Michael J. Solomon of St . John Beloved Council 11796 in Wilmington, Del. Attending Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., are: Kathleen T. Adach, daughter of Ernest T. Adach of Memorare Council 3476 in Seaford, N.Y. Timothy M. Curley, son of John J. Curley of Bar on De K alb

VOCATIONS SCHOLARSHIPS BENEFIT KNIGHTS, SONS OF KNIGHTS

The Supreme Council administers two scholarship programs for men studying for the priesthood: the Father Michael J. McGivney Vocations Scholarship and the Bishop Thomas V. Daily Vocations Scholarship. Each program grants numerous $2,500 annual scholarships. The Father McGivney scholarships are awarded on the basis of need, while the Bishop Daily scholarships are merit-based. For the 2002-03 academic year, 40 new Father McGivney scholarships and 15 new Bishop Daily aw ards were given to seminarians in their first four years of theology. An additional 73 scholarships were renewed. Of the new recipients 45 are Knights or sons of Knights in councils in the United States and Canada.

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Council 1073 in Brooklyn, N.Y. Attending Xavier University in Cincinnati are: Sara K. Rowell, daughter of Patrick J. Rowell of St . Joseph Council 2039 in Randolph, Ohio. Megan T. Shapiro, daughter of Robert M. Shapiro of R egina Coeli Council 2274 in Easton, Md. Attending Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., are: Julie K. Briggs, daughter of James M. Briggs of F ather Charles P. McColgan Council 11713 in Westville Grove, N.J. Katie E. McLaughlin, daughter of John E. McLaughlin of St . Mark Council 10488 in L ondonderry, N.H. Attending the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., are: Anne C. Bainbridge, daughter of Thomas Bainbridge of Father John Manning C ouncil 7294 in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. Amy M. Gleason, daughter of Henry L . Gleason of Solomon Juneau Council 2770 in Mauston, Wis. Other new recipients are: Anna C. Borys, daughter of Douglas J. Borys of St . Luke Council 7197 in Temple, Texas, and a studen t at the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minn. Benjamin J. Broxterman of St. Matthews Council 13012 in Topeka, Kan., a student at Newman University in Wichita, Kan. Melissa L. Buchheit, daughter of K evin M. Buchheit of Lebanon (Ore.) Council 3184, and a student at the University of Portland in Portland, Ore. Jennifer M. Buyske, a student at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., and daughter of Marc G. Buyske of F ather Timothy Werner Council 2860 in Cut Bank, Mont. Benjamin J. DuMontier, a student at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wis., and son of Bruce J. DuMontier of Boon ville (Mo.) Council 1061. MacKenzie J. Ferris, a member of Dr . Lawrence J. O’Rourke Circle 4726 in Oak Grove, Ky., and a student at the College of St . Scholastica in Duluth, Minn. Joseph L. Heink, son of Philip J. Heink of John A. MuellerBluegrass Council 762 in L exington, Ky., and a studen t at Bellarmine University in L ouisville, Ky. Nicole E. Henke, daughter of Joseph A. Henke of St. Philip the Apostle Council 9884 in Lewisville, Texas, and a studen t at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. Adam S. Lammly, son of Robert T. Lammly of Mother McAuley Council 3424 in

Ravenna, N.Y., and a studen t at St. Anselm College in Manchester, N.H. Caitlin A. Mahoney, a student at Loyola College in Baltimore, Md., and daughter of Kevin J. Mahoney of Cr anford (N.J.) Council 6226. Matthew T. Martin, a student at St. John’s University in Jamaica, N.Y., and son of William F. Martin of Immacula te Conception Council 11449 in Astoria, N.Y. Elizabeth M. McGlinchey, a student at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and daughter of Thomas L. McGlinchey of St. Anne’s Council 2429 in Queens Village, N.Y. Natalie M. Mergler, daughter of Michael C. Mergler of Dayton (Ohio) Council 500, and a student at St. Louis University in St. Louis. Alicia C. Mikolaycik, daughter of Bruce Mik olaycik of Our Lady of P erpetual Help C ouncil 13007 in Lak eside, Calif., and a student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Erica F. Reinig, daughter of Allan A. Reinig of Msgr. Joseph Sondag Council 12193 in P ortsmouth, Iowa, and a studen t at Creighton University in Omaha, Neb. Scott D. Schlosser, son of David G. Schlosser of St . Benedict Council 12290 in Anchorage, and a studen t at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Wash. Sarah A. Tragarz, a student at Christian Brothers University, Memphis, Tenn., and daughter of Robert B. Tragarz of Germantown (Tenn.) Council 7449. Christopher M. Wadle, a student at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Mich., and son of Charles V. Wadle of St . Anthony’s Council 12482 in Des Moines, Iowa. Elizabeth A. Wier, a student at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va., and daughter of Dennis R. Wier of C olumbian Council 6192 in Bellevue, Neb. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS FOURTH DEGREE PRO DEO AND PRO PATRIA (CANADA) SCHOLARSHIPS A total of 49 studen ts (12 new and 37 r enewals) received this academic-based $1,500 scholarship for the current academic year. The scholarships are for students entering the first year of study at colleges or universities in C anada. Additional requirements regarding Knights of Columbus membership ar e the same as listed abo ve. Since

SISTER THEA BOWMAN FOUNDATIONK OF C SCHOL ARSHIPS

In December 1996 the Order’s Board of Directors partnered with the Sister Thea Bowman Black Educational Foundation to establish a four-year grant in the amount of $25,000 per year to support deserving AfricanAmerican students pursuing a Catholic college education. Recipients of these scholarships are not necessarily the sons or daughters of Knights. Sister Thea Bowman, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, was the granddaughter of a slave. Prior to her death in 1990 she became a noted educator and evangelizer. The five students who each received the initial $5,000 annual scholarship in 1997 graduated in May 2001. In March 2001 the board approved continuation of the program to provide scholarships to five new recipients, all of whom are continuing their studies for the 2003-04 academic year.

the inception of this program, 245 students have received assistance. New recipients are: Mark A. Baker, son of Gregory J. Baker of Our Lady of the Assumption Council 9093 in West Chezzetcook, N.S., and a student at Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B. Kara E. Barfett, daughter of Kevin D. Barfett of St. Pius X Council 10561 in L ondon, Ont., and a studen t at the University of Western Ontario in L ondon, Ont. Peter T. Buijs, a member of St. Joseph’s College Council 10060 in Edmonton, Alta., and a student at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Julie A. Daigle, a student at the Université d’Ottawa in Ottawa, and daughter of Denis Daigle of St . Jerome’s Council 8682 in Windsor, Ont. Giselle D’Souza, a student at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ont., and daughter of Ronald L. D’Souza of Cr edit Valley Council 8661 in Streetsville, Ont. Rémi A. Dupont, a student at the University of St . Boniface in St. Boniface, Man., and son of Jacques R. Dupont of Pine Falls Council 4244 in Pine Falls, Man. Amy L. Kelly, daughter of Leonard J. Kelly of Mor ell (P.E.I.) Council 7617, and a studen t at the University of Prince E dward Island in Charlottetown. Daniel P. McKay, son of Serrik P. McKay of Our Lady of Perpetual Help C ouncil 3742 in Stephenville, Nfld., and a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland in Corner Brook. Rachel Rioux, daughter of Marc-André Rioux of Des Aulnaies Council 10116 in St Roch-des-Aulnaies, Que., and a student at Université Laval in Sainte-Foy, Que. Mary K. Trainor, a student at the University of New Brunswick in St. John, N.B., and daughter of Joseph Trainor of Bishop Lawrence S. McMahon Council 937 in St. John. Juliana Vandergugten, a

student at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby , B.C., and daughter of John Vandergugten of Port Coquitlam (B.C.) Council 9125. Amy T. Velichka, daughter of the late Richard T. Velichka of Our Lady of L ourdes Council 9713 in Rama, Sask., and a student at the University of Saskatchewan. JOHN W. MCDEVITT (FOURTH DEGREE) SCHOLARSHIPS This scholarship pr ogram was established in 1998 in honor of the Order’s 11th supr eme knight. Recipients must be enrolled at a Catholic college or university in the United Sta tes and be a Knigh t, the wife of a Knight, or the son or daughter of a Knight. Widows and children of Knights who died in good standing also ar e eligible. In addition to the 36 new r ecipients listed below, 98 scholarships ha ve been renewed. The following students are enrolled at the University of Notre Dame: Erin R. Brogan, daughter of Michael P. Brogan of R ahway (N.J.) Council 1146. Adam P. Cummins, son of Kurt P. Cummins of C olumbian Council 2191 in Batavia, Ill. Daniel P. Henebery, son of John K. Henebery of F ather Francis J. Diamond Council 6292 in Fairfax, Va. Bradley K. Jenkins of Our Lady of F atima Council 5396 in Nicoma Park, Okla. Lorraine M. Kwiatkowski, daughter of Thaddeus J. Kwiatkowski of St . Brigid of Kildar e Council 19863 in Dublin, Ohio. Nathan D. Munson, son of David L. Munson of Sacr ed Heart/St. Agnes Council 13144 in Hackensack-Walker, Minn. Stephen A. Patton, son of Robert A. Patton of Msgr. John C. Seidenschwang Council 11836 in Garden City. N.Y. Jeffrey E. Spieldenner, son of Edward J. Spieldenner of St . Lawrence Council 11343 in Sugar Land, Texas. Kenton J. Villano, son of Glen

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J. Villano of Alber t Cardinal Meyer Council 5751 in Elk Gr ove Village, Ill. Andrew J. Zwers, son of John F. Zwers of Father Dodge Council 7827 in Woodruff, Wis. Enrolled at the College of the Holy Cr oss in Worcester, Mass., are: Patrick M. Gavin, son of John V. Gavin of Nor wood (Mass.) Council 252. Elizabeth A. Rhatigan, daughter of James E. Rhatigan of Floral Park (N.Y.) Council 2345. Enrolled at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia are: Michael P. Bowers, son of G. Roger Bowers of St . Joseph the Worker Council 4215 in Levittown, Pa. Julie A. Fox, daughter of Jeffrey W. Fox of Father Joseph P. Keeney Council 8530 in Horsham, Pa. Enrolled at Xavier University in Cincinnati are: Elizabeth A. Carver, daughter of Terry L. Carver of Henderson (Ky.) Council 1320. Mary F. Phillips, daughter of Richard Phillips of Dayton (Ohio) Council 500. Other new recipients are: Meaghan E. Ahern, daughter of James E. Ahern of Columbus Council 116 in Dorchester, Mass., and a student at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn. Tara L. Banda, daughter of Alex Banda of Dalhar t (Texas) Council 2776, and a studen t at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas. Michael J. Beckstrand, son of Philip G. Beckstrand of Queen of Peace Council 5296 in Elk Riv er, Minn., and a student at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn. Timothy J. Donovan, a student at Providence College in Providence, R.I., and son of William J. Donovan of E dward Douglass White Council 2473 in Arlington, Va. Vanessa R. Emming, a student at Newman University in Wichita, Kan., and daughter of Joseph L. Emming of St. Patrick’s Council 9699 in Wichita. Catherine E. Gagnon, daughter of Geor ge R. Gagnon of Padre Pio Council 10754 in Great Falls, Va., and a student at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas. Emily P. Griswold, daughter of Scott W. Griswold of Thomas D. Reilly Sr. Council 10668 in Hilton Head Island, S.C., and a student at Christendom College in Front Royal, Va. Jennifer M. Howard, daughter of Michael S . Howard of Bishop J. Soenneker Council

10725 in Owensbor o, Ky., and a student at Bellarmine University in Louisville, Ky. Dennis D. Karl, a student at Duquesne University in P ittsburgh, and son of Da vid T. Karl of Star of the Sea Council 4245 in Hollidaysburg, Pa. Jason E. Mathieu, a student at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass., and son of Edward P. Mathieu of F ather Patrick Hayes Council 3172 in Do verFoxcroft, Maine. Patrick J. McCadden, a student at Loyola College in Maryland in Baltimore, and son of John P . McCadden of The Twelve Apostles Council 5001 in Garden City, N.Y. George M. McColgan 3rd, son of Geoge M. McColgan of DeTriana Council 199 in Southbridge, Mass, and a studen t at the University of San Diego in San Diego. Catherine M. Palid, daughter of Michael J . Palid of Marinette (Wis.) Council 719, and a studen t at St. Norbert College in DePere, Wis. Colleen M. Parker, daughter of John W. Parker of New Albany (Ohio) Council 10941, and a student at DePaul University in Chicago. Andrew J. Schulze, son of Gary J. Schulze of St . Remy Council 38990 in R ussia, Ohio, and a student at the University of Dayton in Dayton, Ohio. Nicholas R. Taylor, a student at Loyola University in Chicago, and son of R obert Taylor of Damon-Hildebrand Council 650 in Addison, Ill. Amethyst T. Trowbridge, a student at Dominican University in Riv er Forest, Ill., and daughter of William S. White of Thomas J. O’Neill Council 1204 in Harvard, Ill. Kathleen A. Wakeham, a student at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and daughter of James B . Wakeham of Henry Stolzenthaler Council 1675 in Staten Island, N.Y. Matthew L. Willis, son of Keith A. Willis of Charles C arroll Council 701 in O’Neill, Neb., and a student at Creighton University in Omaha. Haley M. Woods, daughter of John P. Woods of Fr. Englebert M. Axer Memorial Council 8102 in Redmond, Wash., and a student at the College of St . Catherine in St. Paul, Minn. PERCY J. JOHNSON, FRANK L. GOULARTE AND ANTHONY J. LABELLA ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS This academic y ear, four new scholarships and 12 wer e

BADGES OF HONOR B EN EFIT FRANCIS P. MATTHEWS AND JOHN E. SWIFT EDUCATIONAL TRUST

The Francis P. Matthews and John E. Swift Educational Trust offers full scholarships to children of members who are killed or permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty while serving with the armed forces during a period of conflict or as a result of criminal violence while performing their duties as full-time law enforcement officers or full-time firefighters. The scholarship covers tuition, room and board, books and fees at a Catholic college or university. A total of 779 children have been recorded as eligible for benefits from the trust funds through June 30, 2003. Thus far, 335 eligible children have chosen not to use the scholarships, three have died and 117 who began college either discontinued their studies or fully used their scholarship eligibility before graduating. There are 44 future candidates for college. To date, 266 students have completed their education through the Matthews and Swift fund. The one student to receive a degree since June 30, 2002, is Razelle P. Collantes, daughter of the late Rogelio T. Collantes of Mandaue Fatima Council 7101 in Mandaue City, Visayas, who graduated from the University of San Carlos in Cebu City. During the 2002-03 academic year, 15 students pursued undergraduate degrees through the Matthews-Swift program. Of these, seven were renewals, including the one who graduated, and the remaining eight were first-year students. Students working toward their degrees are: Jason N. Baker, a student at Seton Hall University in South Orange, N.J., son of Frederick W. Baker of Council 2572 Wildwood, N.J. Minerva B. Balanay, a student at Centro Escolar University in Manila, Luzon, daughter of the late Angel A. Balanay of Council 10583 Tyrone John B. Balanay, a student at De La Salle-Araneta University in Metro Manila, Luzon,

son of the late Angel A. Balanay cited above. Brian J. Callahan, a student at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Conn., and son of the late Liam D. Callahan of Our Lady of the Lakes Council 3359 in Denville, N.J. Roger P. Collantes, a student at the University of San Carlos, and son of the late Rogelio T. Collantes cited above. Daniel M. Cudnik, a student at John Carroll University in University Heights, Ohio, and son of the late Hilary S. Cudnik of Brooklyn-Parma Council 2803 in Cleveland. Caitlin P. Fuentes, a student at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass., and daughter of Alfredo N. Fuentes of George W. Hudson Council 3701 in Woodside, N.Y. Matthew A. Fuentes, a student at Providence College in Providence, R.I., and son of Alfredo N. Fuentes cited above. Sean P. O’Callaghan, a student at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., and son of William J. O’Callaghan of Heart of the Island Council 7262 in Farmingville, N.Y. Gelee Suclad, a student at St. Paul University in Cagayan, Luzon, and daughter of the late Rolando Suclad of Loyola Council 6219 in Bulanao, Luzon. Ryan T. Thorstad, a student at Quincy University in Quincy, Ill., and son of the late Thomas P. Thorstad Father Gilbert G. Wirtz Council 5929 in Chesterton, Ind. Michelle J. Urbanozo, a student at St. Paul University in Cagayan, Luzon, and daughter of the late Orlino P. Urbanozo of St. Hyacinth Council 12651 in Cagayan. Beginning studies this year are: Angelica B. Balanay, a student at Adamson University in Manila, Luzon, daughter of the late Angel A. Balanay cited above. Antonio J. Gomez, a student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and son of Javier A. Gomez of St. Matthew’s Council 8895 in Arlington, Texas. Joseph R. Guditus, a student at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., and son of Timothy Guditus of Bridgewater (Mass.) Council 488.

renewed from the Percy J. Johnson Endowed Scholarship Fund. The scholarships f or young men a ttending a U .S. Catholic college are made possible by a 1990 bequest from Percy J. Johnson, a member of Seville Council 93 in Br ockton, Mass.

First-time recipients are: Zachary J. Bader, who with his father Lee belongs to Father Clarence A. Ferring Council 8227 in Jessup, Iowa, is a studen t at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. Matthew A. Medlock, a student at the University of Notr e Dame and son of the Rev. Scott

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A. Medlock of St. Patrick Council 11745 in Anchorage. Kale L. Roberts, son of Terrill M. Roberts of Kirk sville (Mo.) Council 3375, and a studen t at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Dominic J. Sloma, son of John L. Sloma of Eliz abeth Ann Seton Council 5798 in Reedsville, Wisc., and a studen t at Marquette University. In 2000, Knights of C olumbus Charities Inc . received a $100,000 donation from Frank L. Goularte, an honorary life member of San Benito C ouncil 1792 in Hollister, Calif. The Frank L. Goularte Scholarship F und was established to provide $1,500 in need-based gr ants that are administered, in general, according to the rules governing Pro Deo and Pr o Patria Scholarships. One new scholarship was awarded for 2003-04 and one was renewed. The new recipient is: Mariel M. Ott, a student at Carroll College in Helena, Mont., and daughter of John W. Ott of St. Anthony of P adua Council 9838 in Wickenburg, Ariz. From 1995 to 1997 bequests totaling almost $200,000 were received by Knigh ts of Columbus Charities Inc . from the estate of Anthony J. LaBella. In his will, LaBella remembered the kindness shown to him by Knights while he was an orphan in Farmingdale, N.Y. The bequest has been used by the Knights to establish a scholarship fund in LaBella’ s name. Earnings from the fund provide scholarships f or undergraduate study in acc ordance with the rules and pr ocedures of the Pro Deo and Pr o Patria Scholarships. For the 2003-04 academic year, two new scholarships were awarded and fiv e renewed. First-time recipients are: Tarina R. Aumiller, daughter of Thomas R. Aumiller of McPherson (Kan.) Council 5222, and a studen t at Loyola University in Chicago. Rachel H. Goertemiller, daughter of Thomas S. Goertemiller of St . Pius X Council 3433 in Indianapolis, and a student at the University of Notre Dame. DR. ARTHUR AND ANNA BATTISTA ENDOWED SCHOLARSHIPS In 1997 Knigh ts of C olumbus Charities Inc . received a bequest from Dr. Arthur F. Battista to establish scholarships for graduates of the Cornwall (Ont.) Collegiate and

Vocational School. These $2,000 annual scholarships ar e awarded on the basis of academic excellence, financial need, community service and e xtracurricular activities. Preference is given to Knights and the children or gr andchildren of members, students recommended by the Ontario State Council, and students bound for Catholic colleges or univ ersities. For the 2003-04 academic year, 30 new scholarships were awarded and 30 were renewed. New recipients are: From Cornwall: Allison Alguire, Meagan Boileau, Natalie Bouchard, Katherine Boulerice, Heather Cracknell, Sheena M. Earner, Candice K. Glive, Andrea Hamel, W. Rhonda Horn, Henry Lam, Emily Hughes, Serena F. Lacosse, Joy Legroulx, Bailey Lepage, Todd MacDonald, Brendan Mason, Eric Moise, Natalie Pelletier, Thivisa Rajagopal, Melanie Webb, Kailha Winter and Jessica Wooding. From Long-Sault: Meaghan Alguire, Stacey Cayer, Ashley Froats, Patrick Guindon, Francine Hart. Other first-time recipients are: Justine Paquette and Erin Seale, both of Mar tintown, and Katie McMillan of Ottawa. PHILIPPINE SCHOLARSHIPS Nine new scholarships were awarded for the current academic year; an additional 27 were renewed. First-time recipients are: Judy S. Briones, a student at the University of San C arlos in

G R A D U AT E FELLOWSHIPS Two Catholic University of America Fellowships for students at the Graduate School of The Catholic University of America were awarded for the 2003-04 academic year, and one fellowship was renewed. The new recipients are Anna Mathie of Toronto and G.D. Miller of St. Louis. Full-time students in a master’s degree program for classroom teachers of people with mental disabilities are eligible for the Bishop Charles P. Greco Fellowship, named for the former supreme chaplain. One new fellowship was awarded for the 2003-04 academic year to Michelle Comuniello of Franklin Square, N.Y., a student at the C. W. Post Campus of the Long Island University in Brookville, N.Y.

Cebu City, Visayas, and daughter of Adolfo P. Briones of Our Lady of Lourdes Council 12874 in Cebu City. Elvira P. Canao, a student at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City, Luzon, and daughter of E dano G. Canao of Loyola Council 6219 in Bulanao , Luzon. Lotus Marie C ancer, a student at Central Luzon State University in Nueva Ecija, Luzon, and daughter of Jimm y S. Cancer of C LSU Council 5204 in Nueva Ecjia. John Michael Cuepo, son of Severino A. Cuepo of Immaculate Conception Council 12549 in Mangahan, Luzon, and a student at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. Ava Gwynne Dimacali, daughter of Lorenzo A. Dimacali of Sariaya Council 6300 in Quezon City, and a studen t at St. Louis University in Baguio City, Luzon. Ilyn G. Jaravata, daughter of Carlito C. Jaravata of Dao Council 5550 in C apiz, Visayas, and a studen t at West Visayas State University. Ciel Jhun K elvin Padillo, a student at South Western University in Cebu City, and son of Celieto A. Padillo of St . Vincent de Paul Council 6518 in Bislig, Mindanao. Ritchester C. Renacia, a student at San Pedro College in Davao City, Mindanao, and daughter of R odrigo D. Renacia of Father Paul Gravel Council 8835 in Davao City. Christine L. Templa, a student at Xavier University in Cagayan de Oro, Mindanao, and daughter of F elix M. Templa of San Guillermo de Iponan Council 10059 in C agayan de Oro, Mindanao. MEXICO SCHOLARSHIPS For the 2003-04 academic year four new scholarships were awarded and 12 wer e renewed. First-time recipients are: Isabel Campos-Elizondo, a student at Universidad Juárez del Estado de Dur ango in Durango, North Mexico, and daughter of Benjamín C amposChávez of F ray Diego de la Cadena Council 2367 in Durango. Arnulfo del Bosque-C astellanos, a student at the Instituto Tecnológico de P arral in Chihuahua, North Mexico, and son of Arnulfo R. Del Bosque of Padre Antonio de F igueroa Council 3898 in Chihuahua. Jesús Falomir-Morales, a

student at the Universidad Autónoma de Baja C alifornia in Baja California, North Mexico, and son of Mario F olomirFonseca of F ray Junipero Serra Council 3752 in Baja Ensenada, North Mexico. Lucia G. Masquef-Argaez, a student at Centro de E studios Tecnológicos Industriales in Campeche, Central-South Mexico, and daughter of Mario A. Masquef of San F rancesco de Campeche Council 11770 in Campeche. PUERTO RICO SCHOLARSHIPS New scholarships w ere awarded and 12 wer e renewed. First-time recipients are: Luis A. Garcia-Dominicci, a student at Pontifical Catholic University in P once, and son of Juan L. Garcia-Torres of San to Cristo de La Salud C ouncil 13014 in Peñuelas. Jennifer Quiñones, a student at Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce, and daughter of José A. Quiñones of Antonio Rodriguez Menendez Council 7045 in Yauco. Gerald D. Toucet-Santiago, a member of La Inmaculada Concepcion Council 13154 in Guayanilla and a studen t at Pontifical Catholic University in Ponce. Mitchell Valentin-Rodriguez, a member of Santo Tomas de Aquino Council 13061 in Mayaguez, and a studen t at Pontifical Catholic University in Mayaguez.

FOR MORE I N F O R M AT I O N Scholarship applications for the Knights of Columbus Fourth Pro Deo and Pro Patria Scholarships and Canada scholarships are available from the Supreme Council office after Oct. 1 for the next academic year. They must be completed and returned no later than May 1. For more information, contact the Director of Scholarship Aid, Knights of Columbus, 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, CT 06510-3326 or call 203-752-4332.

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KNIGHTS

Star Councils Awarded

A total of 1,270 councils ear ned the Star Council Award for the 2002-08 frater nal year. The award recognizes excellence in volunteer frater nal and charitable activities, membership recruitment and insurance promotion. These councils, led by the grand knights listed here, conducted at least 20 charitable and fraternal programs — four each in the five “Surge…with Service” areas (Church, Community, Council, Family and Y outh). The councils also achieved their membership and insurance quotas. Grand knights listed here will receive an appropriately engraved plaque from the Supreme Council in recognition of the council’s accomplishments. Additionally, 3,624 councils ear ned the Columbian Award for excellence in programming; 3,194 attained the Father McGivney Award for meeting their membership quota; and 2,126 won the Founders’ A ward for meeting their insurance member quota. ALABAMA 4083 Carmen J. Telerico 7213 George V. Laubenthal 8551 Kerney R. Lewis 8740 Larry P. Saxon 10354 Paul W. Townes III 11215 Joe W. Eiland 11480 Melvin P. Yanik 11672 Robert L. Hickman Jr. 13151 Doroteo C. Zabala ALASKA 1760 Timothy J. Mooney 9581 Donald R. Campbell 10798 William J. McCarron Jr. 11745 Donald D. Lederhos 11816 Randal W. Cler 12290 John C. Tibor ALBERTA 1184 Rene F. Jones 3131 Edward C. Miller 3437 Raymond E. Cyre 4957 Rene V. Paquin 6994 Joseph Herauf 7183 Kenneth W. Cheryba 7432 Pierre P. Roy 8034 Nicholas C. Motkoski 8146 Kevin K. Tetreau 8870 Dan C. Metun 10014 Bradley M. Cody 10060 Lino M. Ramirez 10065 Donald R. Phillips 10519 Dr. Eugene L. Ewanyshyn 10986 Ronald J. Schuster

12353 12419 12446 12457 12658 12904 13064 13226

Clarence W. Hoscheit Giuseppe Rende Leonard E. Mendes Johannes C. Beke Roger J. Gelinas Sr. Vicente R. Reyes Paul A. Weisenberger Richard W. Wheatley

ARIZONA 1032 Ronald F. Konecky 3419 James Hodges 5542 Robert L. Hamill 7465 Richard Rodriguez 8077 Richard D. Preciado 9485 Romeo F. Lemieux 9800 William J. Landry 10062 Joseph A. Fullmer Jr. 10441 C. M. Plattner 10540 J. Robert DeForge 10762 Joseph J. Keaney 11738 Robert E. DeChance 11999 James W. Sells 12313 Arnold J. Miller 12708 Richard P. Garrison 12851 Brian J. Byrnes 12856 Daniel E. Simpson 13278 Richard J. Von Siegel ARKANSAS 812 Jim G. Limbird 5099 John W. Eckart 5209 Alan E. Hoelzeman 5725 Charles E. Plugge 6615 Steven K. Myers

ACTION 6834 7353 10167 10208 10908 11604 12458 12778 12875

Douglas A. Kent George Pastove Jr. William J. Herman William T. Patterson James E. Beck John R. Hertzog Brian J. Swisher Bernard J. Clark Charles L. Ketter

BRITISH COLUMBIA 4253 John Robert Keith Powell 5566 Carl J. Foley 8520 John E. Currie 9508 Garry J.L. Wourms 10681 John D. Pearce 10889 Lorne D. Lachance 11916 Jose L. Ong 13072 Renato M. Delos Santos CALIFORNIA 874 Remson C. Gaetos 1311 James M. Paguyo Jr. 1375 Dan Dostal 1875 Jacques Monette 2475 Luis I. Arellano 3162 Richard J. Sharp 3436 Rudolph A Baldini 3487 Manuel M. Coito 3589 Francisco R. Durazo 3629 Gregory A Taylor 3726 James F. Jones Sr. 3772 Walter F. Kummetz 4305 Steven Eyberg 4488 Frank J. Weiler 4540 Gary R. Magonigal 4901 Alfonso W. DeJesus Jr. 4958 Robert R. Schleigh 4970 Patrick M. Sullivan 5140 Alex A. Costes 6020 Eduardo G. Galvan 6066 Patrick C. Castonguay 7142 Leo M. Norton 7390 Michael D. Brault 7412 Timothy E. Scheffer 7519 Marc A. Pizzolo 7864 Rodolfo S. Roldan 7985 Mark G. Monaghan 8397 Kevin G. Mason 8627 Frank D. Lavadia 8879 Ronald L. Norys 8899 Guadalupe M. Sanchez 9076 Pedro B. Danga 9111 Mark D. Tomlinson 9195 Gary J. Murray 9202 Frank X. Taylor 9590 Patrick T. McGowan 9665 William F. Betts 9740 Albert J. Barbiero 10180 Raymundo R. Tanjoco 10287 Walter G. Hill 10379 Casey J. Haas 10644 James P. Ortman 10667 Gerald L. Padgett 10693 Eugene H. Marx

10802 11137 11393 11400 11439 11465 11632 11804 12085 12221 12394 12451 12587 12719 12749 12805 12834 12853 12887 12975 13007 13036 13111 13124 13179 13180 13223

Lawrence A. Tritschler Gil P. Pena Marvin J. Hayes Jesus P. De La Paz Mark N. Gernandt Thomas H. Pickles Hugh D. Largey Joel P. Mungari Richard F. Rekart Mario T. Arguelles Jerome L. Fischer Raymond P. Russomanno Nicholas C. Suarez Jr. Fred J. Ansolabehere Jr. William B. Dutton Victorino R. Mercado Robert O. Ruiz Michael A. Yambra W. Jackson Willoughby George W. Yen Robert B. Moran Jr. Walter L. Ogle Christopher J. Gonzales John M. Fox Harold F. Skillman Jorge Monterrojas Franco B. Mamerto

COLORADO 557 James L. Cisneros 1183 Richard F. Bryant 1214 John Douglas Wree 2731 Robert J. Schmalz Jr. 3115 Daniel R. Westhoff 3285 Cesar J. Espinoza 3543 David J. Poss 4844 Robert H. Kelley 7880 James F. Prestel 9349 Joseph O. Marquez 9993 Anthony Lisula 10122 Philip G. Gillis 10937 Joseph M. Nickels 10961 James Green 11514 Robert T. Burns 12336 Anthony J. D’Angelo 12800 Joseph W. Weniger 12979 Gregory D. Collette 13131 Gerard R. Roy 13205 Kurt N. Schueler 13221 James I. Von Feldt CONNECTICUT 33 Philip L. White 40 Frank P. Morris 47 David W. Campbell 2533 Robert J. Falkevitz 3992 Thomas K. Sherk 5066 Joseph R. Ruggiero 5780 Anthony F.Denello 7054 F. Joseph Murphy Jr. 7124 Thomas F.Budd 10705 John P. McGann 11077 Paul James Jennings 11245 Anthony A. Decaprio 11913 James J. Baker 12615 Michael F. Basso 12968 Gregory A. Horan

2002-03

Star Council Winners

DELAWARE 2856 Brian J. Matt 3182 John Buckley 4182 William T. Nisbet 4425 Felix M. Spitelle 6543 Leon J. Gratkowski 7297 Russell G. Allen 7990 Peter J. Fitzgerald 11285 Lewis G. Conn 12842 David J. Olkowski DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA 11302 Peter A Gabauer FLORIDA 648 Steve T. Toomey 2505 Paul R. Berthiaume 3521 Gary J. Seamans 3746 Gerald F. Grillo 4357 David L. Wecker 5131 Donald Mulholland 5357 Robert W. Zbikowski 5618 Thomas Fusco 5845 Timothy J. O’Toole 5960 Mark A Nuetzi 6125 Robert W. Link Jr. 6168 Robert C. Medley 6274 Charles J. Dolan Jr. 6391 Thomas E. Pilkington 6569 Marcus Friedel 6584 Richard Eppolito 6624 Paul C. Salisbury 6800 Kenneth J. George 7027 Robert A. Walsh 7399 Raymond A.Wittenauer 7667 Laurence P. Van Houten 7968 Richard C. Walcheck 8037 Armando Lobeto 8791 Robert A. Kindergan 8877 John C. Ruehl 10498 John F. Baker 10757 Gerald A. Merola 10850 Jacques Aubertin 11138 Walter C. Atzert 11177 Russell J. Summerton 11211 Robert B. Hutchinson 11220 Patrick H. Heck 11281 James Gary Ray 11317 Harold L. O’Brien 11348 Frank P. Cossentino 11419 John C. Bielunski 11553 Thomas C. Hinger 11669 John T. Hunt 11680 Joseph A. LaGuardia 12110 Robert S. Williams 12146 Gerald L. Haynes 12155 Michael M. Healy 12165 Frank H. Gassler 12178 Benoit H. Charland 12235 Ronald Lindsay 12376 Joseph S. Licari 12544 Eugene J. Flinta 12664 Danny R. McIntyre 12929 Paul M. Wilford 12956 Terry L. Wood 13097 S. Charles Garofalo 13209 Allan J. Thompson 13240 Paul J. Gonzales

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GEORGIA 631 Mark D. Corrigan Sr. 4358 Donald R. Kimble 4599 Herman E. Lewis 8081 Thomas W. Gruschow 8495 Robert M. Hoeppel 9792 Rodney E. Spence 10579 Franklin E. Spell Jr. 10632 Charles J. Langgood III 10633 Kenneth L. Brooke 10821 Frank H. Moran 10866 Royce H. Gerngross 12386 William G. Simmons 12580 Paul D. Bleess 12942 Stanley J. Rapciewicz 12984 Mike J. Gozdick 13217 Farris A. Shaheen IDAHO 1363 Richard A. Nimtz 11548 Raymond W. Bell ILLINOIS 537 Emilio S. Scalzitti 634 Michael C. Driscoll 650 Michael V. Provinzino 730 Daniel C. Froelich 735 Rodney G. Snyder 776 Daniel P. Cooney 854 James R. Nolan 887 Ramon J. Ferrer 1057 John Wetzel 1098 Walter L. Bruch 1282 Gregg W. Jensen 1444 Brendan C. Farrell 1775 Joseph L. Bernardoni 1899 Alfred A. Loverde 2782 Lucas P. Volkman 3738 Leo R. Foertsch 3755 Darryl W. Tabernacki 3788 James G. Lasak Jr. 3880 Mark Daniel 3954 Timothy M. Oâ€™Leary 4024 John E. Coyle 4194 Joseph F. Riederer 4400 Patrick M. Cernyar 4483 Raymond J. Check 4688 Gerard A. Mattix-Wand 4836 Henry E. Jarosz 4977 Michael J. Schroeder 5918 Leonard A. Lux 6498 Michael T. Tellman 6521 Steven P. Orzech 6710 Mark G. Spiotta 6993 John C. Hoffman 7372 Daniel C. Day 7580 Allen C. Hahn 8214 Joseph T. Imburgia 8229 Robert A. Loughran 8365 Charles F. Klein Jr. 8596 Frederick P. McCarthy 9167 Jerome R. Tomaselli 9689 John P. Boos 9770 David A Hartley 10678 Louis K. Gaffney 10884 Thomas A. Kryger 10958 Rene Valdez 11027 Michael J. Moore 11091 Edward J. Henning 11092 Michael P. Mcguire 11112 Kenneth E. Novick 11223 William M. Gunderson 11666 Michael L. Williams 11874 Murl T. Melton 11981 Paul A. Bisek

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12005 12302 12497 12824 12882 12926 13034 13216

James R. Donnelly Francis W. Scichowski Jr. Michael G. Safranski Patrick M. Halloran James L. Martin James M. Ardovitch James C. Mancini Walter R. Jones

INDIANA 738 Walter L. Martin 1014 Timothy A. Godfroy 2957 Michael J. Campbell 5929 Mark S. Borowiak 6323 Anthony S. Cordes Sr. 6955 Norman T. Mills 7053 Mark S. Buehner 8052 Rich G. Smith 10811 Joseph F. Deakin Jr. 11044 Victor A. Johnson Sr. 12149 Alfred J. Klinger Jr. 12307 Vidal B. Gasca 12540 Thomas M. Albert 12671 Paul A. Malecki 12951 John Geyer 13142 Andrew J. Wyss IOWA 619 1457 1791 2818 4167 4516 5043 5660 8227 10464 11222 12334 12350 12482 12487 13159

Owen M. Fox Leon J. Leinen Jeff C. Fliehler Stephen J. Parsons Dennis A. Amoss Eldon F. Hayes Richard P. Kibbie Brian D. Hansen Richard F. Becker Peter J. Houska Sr. Michael R. Bormann Gene L. Schmitz Chad T. Lingenfelter Michael J. Sullivan Clarence J. Topf Joseph A. Ramirez

KANSAS 643 Paul E. Attebery III 657 Michael L. Muller 862 Leonard A. Kaiser 902 Francis J. Brockish 1029 Mark L. Vanhoesen 1046 John J. Busse 1163 John D. Meyer 1383 Raymond F. Mitchell 1521 Jerry L. Morgenstern 1539 Richard A. Broz Jr. 1661 Joseph G. Kippenberger 1913 Dennis M. McGuire 1993 Brent A. Wood 1999 Eric Stenberg 2289 David L. Kramer 2614 Richard D. Ramirez 2773 Loren J. Stephens 2987 William A. Roth Jr. 3218 Michael L. Dixon 3381 Jerry J. Garten 3677 Rory E. McCandless 4708 Nathan K. Stanley 4713 Thomas McClurg 6055 James M. Decker 6618 Jerome K. Ricke 6671 Lawrence L. Heinen 6673 Donald A. Mayer 6761 Wayne A. Gile 7279 Michael J. Rajewski 7441 Jesse A. Smith 7486 Charles D. James

8411 8488 8491 8893 9350 10211 10841 10932 11534 11661 11687 11779 12858 13012 13087

Daniel J. Vargas Terry L. Gugle Steven K. Barrett R. Barry Staton John J. Keenan Patrick L. Schmidtberger William H. Harper III Charles Roger Denesia Kenneth R. Voorhes Brian A. Wagner Harold L. Dorzweiler Belino D. Iway Lloyd W. Henning Christopher A. Olson Linus W. Lierz

KENTUCKY 1004 Michael H. Greenwell 1320 Charles R. Buchanan 1367 Kevin R. Ferguson 1483 Daniel B. Bruning 1487 James L. Leggett 2459 Carl W. Kohlbecker 4665 Richard D. Arnold 5453 Gregory L. Meier 12562 Gary D. Miller 13053 Greg M. Gitschier LOUISIANA 1437 Louis A. Grossimon 2012 Curley L. Faulk 6326 Peter J. Giarrusso 6746 Brent M. Smith 6870 Francis J. Connelly 7350 Lionel J. Parria Sr. 7557 Kenneth P. Boudreaux 8906 Jerome P. Benoit 9247 Vince A. Whittington 9260 Frank J. Monahan 9973 David J. Lemaire Sr. 10178 Joseph Hanewinkel Jr. 10455 Andies E. Kelly 10612 Dean T. Eschete 11814 Wayne A. Mones 11857 Richard G. Reulet Jr. 12072 Garland Berryman 12529 Henry C. Russell Jr. LUZON 3696 3713 3748 3749 3817 3887 3913 3939 3951 4105 4267 4278 4318 5018 5183 5377 5533 5617 5622 5708 5774 5922 5937 5973 6060 6116 6154 6155

Ernesto M. Yee Doroteo V. Garcia Herminio S. Panotes Victorio D. Gilo Ricardo R. De Guzman Jorlando E. Tigas Rostico F. Morales Francisco B. Garcia Vicente C. So Vicente G. de Jesus Carlos A. Anacta Edilberto Q. Sugay Pederito L. Gamboa Manuelito L. Datoc Roberto V. De Asis Alberto D. Laborte Angel M. Gutay Daniel A. Vasco Orlando L. Lejos Rustico R. Rey Feliciano I. Lazarte Gerardo C. Soliman Dionisio E. Bascuguin Fergentino P. Valiente Samson B. Turingan Alejandro P. Llanillo Jr. Edwin L. Caronan Fernando L. Santos

6178 6185 6238 6303 6620 7147 7421 7618 7631 7653 7757 7806 7813 7844 8205 8256 8395 8412 8565 8581 8626 8751 8942 8987 9057 9071 9119 9160 9440 9491 9582 9588 9591 9926 9934 10358 10399 10550 10639 10695 10734 10971 11050 11156 11322 11444 11754 11847 11859 11931 12009 12125 12204 12205 12318 12341 12342 12351 12405 12442 12443 12461 12513 12561 12584 12714 12726 12759 12770 12787 12794 12810 12878 12890 12892 13020 13234

Antonio B. Fidelino Jonathan J. Puno Jose C. Alcantara Rosario B. Naya Orlando C. San Pedro Renato M. Bernabe Jaime L. Riesgo George D. Lapat Faustino G. Adamos Macario C. Manansala Roger T. Vinarao Ernesto Bulaong Patricio T. Tenedor Panfilo F. Bondoc Felipe V. Fernando Edgar R. Navarro Rodolfo L. Bacayon Ernesto G. Bituin Victor B. Santos Carlito T. Cabral Florencio B. Mallo Guillermo Gatdula Jr. Domingo Omaramara Romeo M. Dizon Fernando S. Laxamana Rodolfo L. Follero Antonio I. Claveria Renato V. Martirez Emmanuel J. Alarilla Francis L. Suacito Sr. Amar B. Salvador Doroteo T. Dy William P. Moraleda Pascual A. Limcolio Rolando G. Ramos Jonathan S. Yabut Alfredo D. Niduaza Aniceto R. Liwanag Catalino C. Beltran Vene B. Artienda Wilfrido A. Ocampo Mario B. Estepa Roque C. Gajo Mario R. Bautista Trestan E. Nubla Jr. Jaime R. Garcia Crizar N. Tuazon Jose I. Autencio Jr. Estelito B. Ornido Florencio P. Lucio Ricardo C. Garcia Florencio J. Amparo II Nestor F. Manzano Eleazardo S. Kasilig Edwin A. Dimaculangan Alex L. Pompanes Pedro M. Magsino Victor V. Mesina Elmer B. Manahan Bernardo G. Gamayao Leandro R. Sisante Jr. Jose B. Pilar Francisco B. Agudong Rodolfo F. Rasco David S. M. Siquian Prudencio G. Bernabe Jorge T. Tosoc Marvin G. Balasan Aurello G. Santiago Arsenio G. Perillo Jr. Reynato C. Andaya Jaime E. Manalad Bernard E. Lopez Carlos C. De Guzman Roberto I. Rosales Jose T. Tibubos Rolando S. Luciano

MAINE 1753 8868 10259 11940 12941

George J. Pelletier Gerard J. Cote Jeffrey T. Ouellette Gary E. Smith Richard R. Palardis

MANITOBA 3538 Edward Santiago 6885 Denis A. Beaudry 13185 Ronald S. McGavin MARYLAND 205 Vernon A. Kelly 1365 Gorman V. Palmer 1384 Frank J. Cisneros 1470 Thomas A. Cavanaugh 1622 Joel B. Tootill 1965 James A. Campbell 1976 William J. Frost 2293 Denis P. Morhiser 2323 Theodore H. Virts 2427 F. Stephen Eichler Jr. 2452 Terrance M. Brennan 2521 Samuel P. Orlando 4011 John C. Gramling 4714 W. Wayne Davis Jr. 5058 Robert E. Frey 5263 Michael N. Mercurio 5450 Stephen P. Kara 5482 Phillip L. Cyr 5687 Richard J. Lewandowski 7025 John J. Glas 7612 Joseph B. Hegarty 7914 Charles E. Widmayer 7941 Mario V. Rossi 8251 Charles R. Fink 9053 Carroll W. Wagner 9127 James E. Moore 9302 John F. Jenkins 9774 Thomas J. Schneider 9808 Frank P. Klem 9968 William F. Butler 10100 Stanley T. Markowski 10525 Vincent M. Naples 10966 Jack L. Fowler 11024 Warren W. Pfister 11171 Donald D. Faust 11341 Richard W. Meyer 11372 Michael S. Georgulas 11484 Kenneth E. Gantt 11615 Shawn T. Ruby 11618 Howard L. Johnson 11703 Peter J. Kelling 11815 John J. Przybocki 11898 David C. Stephan 12054 Frank E. Spray 12127 Norman E. Wyatt 12128 Mark E. Black 12796 Raymond J. Farkas 13073 John C. Beutgen 13091 James J. Cooney Jr. MASSACHUSETTS 79 William J. Frazier 80 Harry L. Pond 85 Herman J. Millet 133 Daniel R. Arsenault 250 Denis L. Merchant 376 William J. Connolly 396 Brian P. Bourgeois 2911 Francis K. Ward 5188 Frank J. Kelly 5724 Thomas J. Boland 6064 Paul B. Thompson 7673 Justin M. Pelletier 9275 Michael J. Chalsen

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MICHIGAN 521 Elwood L. Brown 692 Dennis J. Borst 744 Antonio Del Villano 791 John Pietrangelo 856 Larry J. Nichols 1546 Dennis J. Stacer 2198 Shaun J. O’Grady 2804 Jerry B. Kinnunen 2890 Gary L. Schafer 2934 Vern A Miron 2966 Paul L. Seeley 2975 William D. Gibson 3027 Tim Koenigsknecht 3111 Richard Allen Conley 3221 Francis R. Reilly 3224 John A Merz 3823 Raymond J. Weber 4036 Scott D. Franzen 4693 Anthony C. Morell 5981 George E. Pliska 6223 Robert L. Padley Jr. 6447 William R. Gagnon 6534 Joseph D. Chin Jr. 6593 Kevin C. Sherman 6657 Lawrence E. Miller 6687 Michael J. Hazeres 6742 Martin E. Lomasney 6824 Kenneth R. Henley 7018 Anthony J. Nardozzi 7172 Steven W. Seely 7200 Lawrence T. Grabowski 7237 Robert J. Gwizdala 7329 Robert D. Venable 7545 Francis S. Kolasa 7571 Lawrence J. Fuhrhop 7688 Thomas J. Ellenberger 7717 Martin J. Nowosad Jr. 7761 Joseph A Jernigan 7869 Joseph N. Lynch 8042 Douglas G. Grates 8071 Tony W. Feldpausch 8117 Harvey A. Cosgrove 8284 Kenneth W. Pietryga 8392 Ronald F. Gollakner 8659 Del J. Beauchamp 8695 John A. Bogdziewicz 8710 Richard W. Hohenthaner 8892 George S. Frank 8902 Ralph A. Wenski 9182 James S. McEwan 9305 Charles J. Kurtansky 9962 Jeffry J. Cypher 10006 David J. Lowe II 10170 Raymond L. Letourneau 11117 Angus J. McDonald 11432 John W. Howison 11581 Brian M. Leale 11658 Michael J. Pasqual 11664 Dennis J. Rathnaw 11811 David P. Bergeman 11875 Robert L. Dove 11957 Joseph A. Abbate 12121 Edward C. Roney III 12186 Lee W. Wendt 12295 Gary W. Kinneer 12408 Francis C. Roche Jr. 12423 Francis S. Cieszlak 12660 Ty A. Hansen 12850 James D. Chapin 13035 Jeffery A. Johnson

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MINDANAO 3108 Orlando O. Romero 3504 Guilbert D. Simene 4165 Axel L. Maestrado 4639 Gabriel D. Munasque 5121 Juan M. Lamayo 5339 Rolando D. Quezon 5465 Gabriel C. Dayondon 5863 Elmer J. Manganar 6591 Juanito M. Ibasan 6713 Livi L. Quidet 6823 Leo R. Galindo 6835 Jose C. Alfanta 7510 Pedro P. Marcelo 7643 Alberto C. Aying 7690 Domingo A Banaag 7892 Sheldon L. Calonzo 7994 Juanito F.Matutino Jr. 8006 Teresito P. Lopez 8167 Nepthalie B. Real 8278 Randolph P. Makinano 8330 Danilo O. Macansantos 8824 Jovencio M. Lara 8835 Rodrigo D. Renacia 9157 Andres G. Cagalawan 9867 Benjamin S. Alimbullo 10202 Nemesio D. Tecson 10262 Romeo A Manzan 11055 Arnulfo A Alfonso 11723 Salvador Labang 11863 Nicolas Y. Pameron Jr. 11970 Jimmy D. Yee Jr. 12284 Hernani C. Pastolero 12550 Heracleo B. Gacasan 12723 Adrian L. Nagac 12977 Angelito A Casimiro 13107 Chito B. De Lara 13121 Julian C. Alcala Sr. MINNESOTA 1223 Leo J. Niehus 1841 Robert A. Penas 3278 John J. Zinniel 3657 Kevin E. Van Sloun 4374 Michael J. Schilling 5569 Milbert S. Meier 6608 Tony F. Daniels 6772 Thomas Dalton 7604 Ronald S. Brophy 8571 Ronald R. Toberman 10138 Paul A. Follmer 10172 Patrick Anderly 11856 Charles J. Fischer 12581 Cecil J. Hensel Jr. MISSISSIPPI 1908 John D. Krumpos 9409 Richard L. Belvel 10216 Philip N. Jabour MISSOURI 527 John R. Cannon 831 Jim A. Bremer 876 Herbert P. Kennedy 1185 Todd J. Milner 1270 Kenneth J. Fennewald 1335 John A. Painter 1529 John D. Sullivan 2027 Gregory J. Muenks 2241 Scott E. Gough 2273 Richard Foeller 2353 Robert L. Shirkey 2440 Richard Aman 4838 Raymond F. Koenigsfeld 4858 Ricky G. Hofstetter 5898 Steve G. Seiler 6018 Robert L. Parson

6405 6550 6780 7442 7588 8400 8887 8920 9272 9478 9522 9981 10136 10690 11139 11146 11635 12332 12631 12992 13113

Leonard G. Beussink Joseph C. Flemington Dennis A. King James X. Joerger Tommie R. Powers Mark A. Lueckenhoff Mark L. Hubert Vincent Wood Richard J. Boyle Jr. John H. Widmer Vincent S. Skau Gene J. Grotegeers Richard M. Schmidt David L. Luebbert Cliff J. Koch Joseph A. Hejnal Sam L. Simler Mark A. Trolinger Greg A. Baldwin Albert H. Rush Howard D. Burbach

NEBRASKA 1126 Stephen G. Conroy 1336 Robert L. Morehead 1717 Kenneth J. Polacek 1861 Jack C. Gabel 2388 James R. Franssen 2716 Edward J. Neesen 5439 Kevin R. Brester 5881 Ralph A. Olberding 6429 Michael T. Leick 7021 Romeo F. Serranzana 7699 Gerald L. Albracht 7740 Robert W. Brown 8469 Edward A. Svoboda 8579 Michael E. Pieper 8889 Kevin E. Behne 9563 Larry E. Peterson 9771 Russell P. Mandel 9939 Kevin R. Connot 10160 Patrick J. Rupp 10285 Leonard J. Scheppers 10895 Paul H. Catlin 10923 Duane B. Chromy 10965 Walter M. Conrad 11001 Joseph J. Erion 11312 Daniel J. Reisdorff 11700 Dennis M. Humphrey 11800 Michael R. Shramek 11810 Arlis H. Kinning Jr. 11879 Robert R. Carda 13015 Scott E. Rieker 13080 Daniel J. Sobetski NEVADA 1340 Robert W. Zehr 4928 Marvin D. Cochran 9899 Robert McNamara 12845 Timothy Bunting 12877 David D. Lee NEW BRUNSWICK 6595 Joseph L. O’Leary 8364 Jacques Y. Godbout NEWFOUNDLAND 3742 Baden L. Clouter 5904 Ronald J. Penney 7127 John Power NEW JERSEY 570 Thomas G. Moore 783 Rudolph Ferentchak 1082 Paul R. Cynewski 1736 Joseph J. Antonacci 2188 Walter P. Kelly

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John C. Hencinsky Rocco Conforti Michael P. McGloin Russell J. Van Luvender Michael P. Ferrante Anthony P. Fiorillo Louis X. Schnackenberg Peter N. Oprysko Robert A. Ver Nooy Peter J. Donchak William E. Bellars Joseph P. Leahy Steve H. Szabo Leo T. Flaherty Romualdo C. Buerano Robert Diszler Ernie T. Lindain Carl R. Whisler Ronald J. O’Shea Brian E. McLaughlin Emmitt Worthy Jr. John H. Williams Raymond C. Sands Edward P. Delaney Albert J. Leschinski Leo J. Frey III V. John Truglio Michael A. Rocco Leon A. Sarao Gerard A. O’Malley Rev. Joseph J. Orlandi

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GOD’S VISION OR OURS? Raise high the flag of right living by father bill mccarthy, sma

ardly any American, or God-fearing person of died on the cross not only to redeem us from our sins any nation, fails to remember where they but to save us eternally in heaven. The worst becomes were on the fateful morning of Sept. 11, 2001. the best. The United States was str uck by ter rorism On Sept. 11, 2001, America was shaken to its core. and the shock waves reverberated worldwide. From the president to the mayor of N ew Y ork, from Some people think that in some way God caused the governor to the policemen and firefighters on the this. Some readings of the Old street, we saw people at prayer . Testament, particularly the earlier Churches, mosques and temples were books, could lead us in this direction. crowded with millions of people driven But, as we read on, our image of God to their knees. And wherever people grows clearer and becomes deeper still as gathered, and not just in the United we hear Jesus say to Philip, “Have I been States, prayerful people joined hands and with you for so long, and yet you do not sang “God Bless America.” Intuitively , know me? He who has seen me has seen Americans realized that the United the Father” (John 14:9). W e, then, come States is a nation under God and that it to the question, “Did God cause this cacannot survive without his providence. tastrophe or any other disaster?” St. God has indeed blessed America. Augustine answers the question by sayOver the last 200 years — under his proving, “God does not do evil, but does idence — the United States has risen to cause that evil should not become levels of achievement attained by no worse” (Soliloquies, 2). other nation in history. Yet, ironically, in Almost everybody realizes that, as a nation once distinguished for its faith horrendous as the devastation was, it and made great by people of faith, we could have been much worse. As many have in recent years regressed to the as 50,000 people could have died if it had point where public expressions of tradihappened just an hour later , or if the tional faith are now viewed as a threat. World Trade Center’s towers had fallen During his last visit to the United sideways, or if the nor mal flow of States in 1995, Pope John Paul II chaltourism had taken place. Obviously , it lenged each of us to work to fulfill the would have been ter rible enough if just destiny of our nation by fidelity to A 50-foot U.S. flag wafts high one person had died, but God prevented America’s founding principles and from the Knights’ Tower of the evil from becoming worse. the Basilica of the National through faithful witness to our Christian Shrine of the Immaculate The Twin Towers had thousands of faith. He issued a clarion call for ever y Conception in Washington, people working in them, and, by the Christian and person of goodwill to stand Sept. 11, 2002. The flag w as grace of God, most of them got out safeup and be counted. That is our God-given placed there courtesy of the ly. There were many firefighters, police privilege and responsibility. Knights. officers and emergency workers who did The pope has stated clearly that manage to survive. One firefighter miraculously rode Christ’s words “Put out into the deep” are addressed an elevator down the collapsing building from the to each of us. W e must be willing to make the differ84th floor and sur vived with two broken legs. Stories ence. We must be willing to pay the price through perof heroism and miraculous escapes multiplied, as have sonal involvement. We must be willing to risk ever ystories of people who, by some providential cause, thing, to raise high the flag of right living. Then, the were prevented from being in the T win Towers or at worst of Sept. 11 will become the best. ■ the Pentagon or on the airplane that crashed in Pennsylvania. Yes, “God does not do evil, but does Father Bill McC arthy is a member of St . Bridget of Kildare Council cause that evil should not become worse.” 9358 in Moodus, Conn., and a 42-year Knight. He is the author of God It can also be said that God causes good to come Bless America: God’s Vision or Ours (Queenship Publishing, 1-800-6479882), from which this essay is adapted. A member of the out of evil. The worst thing that ever happened on this Missionaries of Holy Apostles , he is f ounder and c o-director of M y planet Earth was that mankind, through our sins, cruFather’s House r etreat center in Moodus. Columbia readers can cified the ver y Son of God. What, then, is the best obtain God Bless America at a special disc ount rate by calling thing that ever happened? The answer is that Jesus Queenship Publishing.

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G A Grand Knight Leon A. Sabourin of St.

Stephen’s Council 2284 in Winooski, Vt., presents Father Richard G. Lavalley, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Parish, with a $25,000 donation for the new Sister Imelda Caissie Early Education Center at St. Francis Xavier School. Looking on are students Stephanie Johnston and John Valentovic.

Denis Levesque of Ste-Rosalie (Que.) Council 9803 gave his council this portrait of Pope John Paul II, which will be displayed in the council home. Shown are Warden Yvon Beaudry and Grand Knight Sylvain Morin.

C Lethbridge (Alta.) Council 1490

invested more than 1,000 manhours and $4,500 rehabilitating Our Lady of Carmel Church in Waterton Lakes National Park. Other councils in southern Alberta contributed $3,500 to the project.

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H with Grand Knight Anthony L. Marshall of James C. Fletcher Council 11422 in Landover, Md., at a Blue Mass the council hosted at St. Joseph Church. The Mass honored police officers, firefighters and EMTs who took part in rescue efforts after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bishop James E. Walsh Assembly provided the color corps.

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Chelmsford-Westford, Mass., sponsored an afternoon of bowling for children with disabilities. More than 30 children and family members attended.

Jason Polaski, who has been blind from birth, shows Grand Knight Daniel J. Flanagan of T. J. McGee Council 2612 in Nantucket, Mass., and Field Agent Tom Keogh how his new state-of-the-art Braille and speech note taker works. Council 2612 and the Massachusetts State Council purchased the $6,000 device for the ninth-grader.

G Dennis G. Galusha of Father William

Tyrrell Assembly in Tampa, Fla., presents $200 to Shirley Smith, president of Friends of Military Families, while Master Sgt. Connie White, readiness NCO at MacDill Air Force Base, looks on. Friends of Military Families supports families of military personnel who have been deployed to the Middle East.

Mid-Island Council 3842 in Nanaimo, B.C., built an addition to the home of a teenager who sustained brain damage in a highway accident. The addition provides space where the youth can work with therapists.

Jerald B. Russ and Frank A. Jarvis, right, of Stella Maris Council 3772 in San Clemente, Calif., congratulate U.S. Marine Sgt. Stanley F. Lambrecht after he took his First Degree March 23 in Irvine. Sgt. Lambrecht was among 43 candidates who took their First Degree, among them Auxiliary Bishop Jamie Soto of the Diocese of Orange and three priests. F. J.J. GONSON/THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD TIMES

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For more than two years Southwest Council 3910 in Houston have been on “Bagel Patrol.” Daily members pick up an average of 110 pounds of baked goods from two bakeries and deliver them to area food pantries and soup kitchens.

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