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Catholic leaders pledged to continue their defense of religious liberty in the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on health care reform. The June 28 ruling upheld a controversial provision of the Affordable Care Act, often called “Obamacare.” The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, while consistently advocating comprehensive health care reform to benefit the poor and vulnerable, nonetheless opposed passage of the act for several reasons. The USCCB laid out the reasoning in a June 28 press release and called the legislation “fundamentally flawed.” Dr. William Chavira, a Phoenixbased obstetrician-gynecologist, was troubled by the Supreme Court decision, for some of the same reasons cited by the U.S. bishops. “We have a lot of confusion and — See supreme court page 12 ▶
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Miguel Andujo comforts his daughter Gema. She and her sisters live in constant fear of their parents being deported.
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Fear lingers in wake of Supreme Court SB 1070 decision By J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
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is five daughters don’t like it when he goes out. Juventino Franco is an undocumented immigrant. His family lives in constant fear of his deportation.
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The U.S. Supreme Court struck down most of Arizona’s controversial crackdown measure, SB 1070, in a June 25 decision. Yet the so-called “show me your papers” provision remains. This provision requires local law enforcement to determine the legal status of anyone stopped, detained or arrested
if there is reasonable suspicion that the person is in the United States unlawfully. “In a way, nothing’s changed,” said Franco, who’s been in the country since 1997. “A policeman would have asked for my papers before because I didn’t have a license.”
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Seeing the face of Christ in the poor
Fourth of July observances looked a little different this year. Catholic Americans added prayer and fasting to their traditions of picnics, barbecues, parades and fireworks. Many saw it as a necessary step to honor martyrs who remained faithful despite political persecution. They found it equally important to gather at church to pray for the welfare of the country. The nationwide Fortnight for Freedom, a 14-day vigil that ended July 4, marked only the latest chapter in an ongoing struggle for religious freedom. “Today more than ever, all persons of faith need to be aware of how our federal and state governments are encroaching upon our religious freedom,” Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares said during a July 4 Mass at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral. “The federal government wants to redefine religious freedom to be freedom of worship. That means free to practice the faith as long at it’s in church.” That would be a huge loss to Christians and the countless underprivileged they serve, the bishop said. For it is by Christian charity that eternal judgment is based, the bishop reminded a full cathedral. It’s that same charity for which Christian missionaries have died in recent years for living their faith outside of church walls. But the persecution isn’t only overseas. In Mississippi and Alabama, the bishop said, it is now — See catholics unite page 13 ▶
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Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and the diocesan Office of Marriage and Respect Life Issues invite married couples, especially those celebrating 25th, 40th and 50th anniversaries and beyond, to a special bilingual Mass and luncheon this fall. Catholic Marriage Expert Daniel Jurek will give a talk, “The Lord of Our Rings,” during lunch. Seating is limited to 150 couples. Download a registration form at www.ourcovenantoflovephx.org and click on “initiative.” New board members The Catholic Community Foundation’s board of directors elected new members and a new executive committee effective July 1. Chris Hoffmann, an attorney and a St. Francis Xavier parishioner, is now chairman of the board for the year. Five new board members starting their three-year terms include Roger Bollard, from San Francisco de Asís Parish in Flagstaff; Alexander Cudewicz and Ryan Suchala, both parishioners at St. Patrick in Scottsdale; and David Sherf, parishioner at Our Lady of the Angels Conventual Church at the Franciscan Renewal Center in Scottsdale. Dr. Vincent Sheridan, principal at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe, fills the board position designated for a principal. He fills Sr. Mary Norbert Long’s spot. Sheltering families St. Benedict Parish offered a few families a safe place to spend the night together earlier this month. It’s the first time the Ahwatukee parish teamed up with Family Promise of Greater Phoenix,
an emergency shelter program that helps families during the day to get back on their feet and transports them to area churches for the night. The parish provided evening meals and serves as overnight. Some 70 percent of families in the program become independent or secure transitional housing within 60 days. St. Benedict is one of three Catholic parishes that partner with Family Promise. Steubenville TUCSON — Teenagers from 21 parishes across the diocese will spend July 20-22 at the University of Arizona where LifeTeen’s Steubenville West conference will be held. The packed schedule features talks about virtue, holiness and sacramental spirituality plus time for Mass and confession. All told, nearly 475 local youth will count themselves among the crowd. Ike Ndolo, a Catholic musician with roots at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Tempe, will lead music for some 2,000 teens in what’s often described as a life-changing event. Melanie Pritchard, who works with local right-
to-life efforts, is among the speakers. American stories Internationally published author and Catholic Sun columnist Chris Benguhe is on a mission to change the world. He’s teaching others to value their lives by writing about them. The compilation book will be called “Writing Your Life: American Stories.” Benguhe says everyone has a story to tell, especially that of living the American dream. His “Writing Your Life” project starts in Phoenix, where he’s looking to feature five locals. He’ll then travel to 10 other American cities and find and work with five writers in each to create their own short story. To learn more or to support the project, go to: www.thehumanityprojects.com/ projects-in-action SunWise winner Joseph Cereska, a parishioner at Most Holy Trinity, won a recent video contest sponsored by SunWise, a sun safety curriculum promoted by the Arizona Department of Health Services. His two-minute video
July 19, 2012 features a variety of settings and people including the SOLT sisters at Most Holy Trinity and St. Joan of Arc preschoolers. It was judged on content, creativity and number of views. He won $1,000. View the video at www.catholicsun.org. Olivia Castrichini, a second grader at St. Thomas the Apostle and Johnny Wentworth, a fourthgrader at St. Francis Xavier, were among 50 semi-finalists in a related poster contest.
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Arizona executes fourth death row inmate this year The Arizona Department of Corrections executed Samuel Villegas Lopez June 27, three days before his 50th birthday, for the brutal rape and murder of Estafana Holmes in 1986. The night before his execution, more than 70 people gathered on the state Capitol lawn — including Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares — to pray for his soul, Holmes’ family and for the end of the death penalty. The next vigil is scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 7, on the eve of Daniel Cook’s execution. ▶ For full story: bit.ly/executions-071912
Local Catholics pursue religious vocation The diocesan Office of Vocations expects to welcome eight men who will begin formation for priesthood in August. Religious orders across the country are also forming local men and women for a life of service in the Church.
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Seeing the face of Christ in the homeless and poor By Joyce Coronel The Catholic Sun
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fter 23 years as a Teamster working in the roughand-tumble environment of local warehouses, Jerry Castro discovered an employment opportunity with the St. Vincent de Paul Society. As manager of the Society’s food services, Castro directs and oversees the five local dining facilities and coordinates food reclamation efforts. It’s a big job. The central kitchen prepares 3,500 meals Monday through Friday for five dining rooms and 13 other non-profits. As a lifelong member of Sacred Heart Parish, Castro has been deeply affected by the spirituality of the Franciscan friars. “I grew up with the Franciscan priests, their piety and poverty and chastity,” Castro said. “All they owned was maybe two pair of pants and a couple shirts.” He remembers one friar who used to ride a bicycle to church and wanted to begin a youth ministry. Castro was a freshman in college and attended an organizational meeting. “After a while he looked at me and said, ‘What’s your name? Jerry? You’re my new youth minister.’ It’s all in divine providence,” Castro said. He’s motivated by the writings of St. Vincent de Paul, the 17th century French priest who is the inspiration for the St. Vincent de Paul Society. “He talked about always being humble and gentle with everybody and having a zeal for souls, every soul, it doesn’t matter who they are,” Castro said. “And that’s whom we serve — the homeless, the ill… we have to have love for everyone.” He’s also thought a lot about the saint’s emphasis on mortification: “If you’re not dying at least three times a day, you’re not serving the Lord,” Castro said. He puts in long hours, often beginning before sunrise and not letting up until after home visits in the evening. The work, he said, is a blessing. “We’re open on Christmas and it’s beautiful,” Castro said. “People say, ‘What did you do for Christmas?’ And I’ll say I was with a thousand of my best friends enjoying Christmas Day.” He remembers one guest, a homeless man named James, who repeatedly turned down efforts to place him in a shelter. Castro finally discovered why. James was a Vietnam vet who suffered from flashbacks. He often awoke during the night and would be threatened the next day by other residents.
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Castro was able to get assistance for him and today James is living in his own apartment and working. Something Franciscan Father Luis Baldonado once said in a homily touched Castro’s heart and has stayed with him for years. “He said, ‘There’s a very great sin you can commit and that’s being indifferent when something comes up. That’s a terrible sin.’ And I remember that because I can’t just be indifferent,” Castro said. “I just want to do His work.”
Faith in a nutshell: Love and compassion are needed for our homeless guests because they are persons. They are souls that will be greeted in heaven by our Heavenly Father just as my soul will be. There’s only one judge and that’s God.
What he loves about being Catholic: To me, what I love is going to Mass, to take Jesus with me and being able to receive Him… just knowing that Jesus is there, that He just gave Himself to us and that He made a promise to us to be with us always.
Take away: A person may be homeless but they are still a person. We have to remember that these are our neighbors, our brothers and our sisters, and we can’t look at them as something that’s a throwaway. There’s nothing that’s a throwaway. ✴
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Willie Bloomquist: D-Back brings his Catholic faith to work By Gina Keating The Catholic Sun
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he wallet Willie Bloomquist stuffs into his back pocket contains a special gift that reminds the Arizona Diamondbacks player just how far he has come in Major League Baseball. From his hometown Little League games in Port Orchard, Wash., to his college playing field at Arizona State University, his St. Rita medal is a silent, guiding force. “She is the patron saint of impossible dreams, and sometimes I feel like I’m living an impossible dream,” Bloomquist said. “It’s a one-in-a-million shot to make it in the pros, so to me it was next to impossible.” Bloomquist has played every position but pitcher and catcher in a major league career that began in Seattle in 2002. He has since played for three more ball clubs, signing with the Diamondbacks in 2011. Although Chase Field may have seating for nearly 50,000 baseball fans, Bloomquist said he plays for an audience of one. “Before I play, I take a few minutes to give thanks to Jesus. He knows my heart, and selfishly I want to play well,” he said. “In the
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end, I ask Him to use my abilities to the best of my abilities.” As the youngest of four growing up in a Catholic family, he absorbed his faith while seated in the wooden pews, but it wasn’t always in the forefront of his life. Not unlike most college students, while attending ASU in the 1990s he was lukewarm when it came to attending Mass.
Life experiences eventually led Bloomquist closer to God when he realized his current path was on a dead-end street, and he had a bigger purpose. “Everyone has problems and struggles and I realized I needed God in my life. Period,” he said. “You can have fame and fortune, but if you don’t have God around you, you don’t have a leg to stand on.”
If the balance of professional athlete with that of husband and father was the impetus for Bloomquist finding solace in his faith, he isn’t saying. However, he does acknowledge he didn’t take it as seriously as he felt he should have earlier in his career. And he isn’t afraid to share his personal struggles using idioms like “rat race,” and “smell the coffee.” With two young daughters at home, Bloomquist is motivated to teach his children about the Catholic Church, and give them a strong foundation. His hopes and dreams for his family mirror those of any parent; to be a good example and make church a priority every Sunday. “I want them to understand who He is and what He did for us,” Bloomquist said. “I want my kids to get to know Jesus.” The glamour of the game and its lifestyle is a bit of a misnomer; it can take a toll on a family, especially the traveling, but Bloomquist credits his wife, Lisa, for their strong marriage. “Her faith is tremendous, and she keeps us strong as a family. She’s the reason our marriage is what it is; she’s the foundation here on earth and makes everything go,”
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he said. Bloomquist’s focus on being the best father to his children parallels his desire to be the best ballplayer for his teammates. He is driven, focused and intense, to the point where the television camera has caught some expressive words coming out his mouth. “I’ve gotten called out on that, and I would just like to apologize now,” Bloomquist said. “I struggle and I’m not perfect. It’s not easy.” It’s the times in his life when he feels he falls short that he remembers the story of St. Paul and his conversion. It does his heart good to know that for all the atrocities St. Paul committed against Christians, he was forgiven and began a new life in Christ. “Nobody is too bad to know Christ,” Bloomquist said. “That’s not to say put things off and get grace when you take your last breath. It’s a matter of striving to be better, and it’s never too late.” Bloomquist said he wants to be remembered, first and foremost, as a Christian man that loves his wife and children and is an all-around good person. As D-backs player #18, “That I was respected by teammates and viewed as playing the right way. Then, at the end of the day, I’m happy.” ✴
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“We’re ready to fight this, but it’s sad for our children,” said Gricelda Garcia, mother of Franco’s children and his common-law wife. They haven’t gotten married because it would mean re-filing pending immigration paperwork. Their 10 and 11-year-old daughters are particularly aware of the threat, knowing classmates whose parents have been deported. When their father is out, they constantly ask, “Is papi coming back soon?” Franco’s residency request is pending review, but if it’s granted, he’s afraid he won’t be able to afford the fee. Garcia received her residency last month. The process took 21 years. She petitioned through her father, who is a legal resident, and who brought her into the United States when Garcia was 3. Garcia’s brother, Jaime, is currently being detained while his case is reviewed. Her brother entered
the country when he was 2, Garcia said. “His son cries himself to sleep,” Garcia said, adding that her nephew keeps a photo of her brother under his pillow. “Children cry every night because they miss their parents.” Human dignity The Arizona bishops were quick to respond to the decision, issuing a statement through the Arizona Catholic Conference, the public policy arm of the state’s four Catholic dioceses. They said the remaining provision “might separate families, create the possibility of racial profiling even if unintended by the law, heighten fear in the immigrant community, jeopardize community policing, and not fix the federal immigration policy, which many across the political spectrum have said is broken.” In her statement, Arizona
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Juventino Franco, an undocumented immigrant who’s been out of work for years, is comforted by his daughter, Karimeh, 5. While his older children are worried he may be deported when he leaves the house, Karimeh and her younger sister, Carina, are too young to realize the risk. Franco said the Supreme Court decision to uphold SB 1070’s so-called “show me your papers” provision means many undocumented immigrants will continue to be fearful of leaving their houses. J.D. Long-García/CATHOLIC SUN
Governor Jan Brewer called the Supreme Court decision a “victory for the rule of law” and said law enforcement officers would not racially profile those they encounter. “Law enforcement will be held accountable should this statute be misused in a fashion that violates an individual’s civil rights,” she said, adding that the safety of Arizonans was a chief concern. In an interview with The Catholic Sun, Auxiliary Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares said the U.S. bishops also recognize the urgent need for the United States to defend its borders. While there is “reason to rejoice” that much of the SB 1070 was struck down, “our work isn’t over,” he said. Security, the dignity of the human person, the unity of the family and promotion of comprehensive immigration reform are at the heart of the Church’s position on immigration, Bishop Nevares said. Ron Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, said time will tell what lasting impact SB 1070 will have on the community. “The one thing for certain is that we’re going to see lawsuits in the future and challenges to SB 1070,” he said. “We have to see how it’s going to be implemented.” Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, said the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down most of the law “reaffirms the strong role of the federal government in regulating immigration.” “Humane enforcement of our nation’s laws are part of any solution,” he said, “but enforcement by itself, unjustly administered, only leads to abuses and family breakdown.” ‘Very much afraid’ Joel Navarette, a parishioner at St. Augustine and a former youth leader, said young Catholics are concerned about what will happen to their parents. President Barack Obama recently announced a policy halting deportations of undocumented young
adults brought to the United States as minors. It has relieved some of the tension, Navarette said. “The young adults don’t fear for themselves because they can’t be deported,” he said. “But older Catholics — their parents — are very much afraid.” Jennifer Andujo, 13, fears for both her mother and father. “Sometimes I cry when my mom and dad leave in the morning,” she said. “What if they don’t come back? What are we going to do?” Her parents brought her and her two sisters into the United States more than 10 years ago on tourist visas. Those visas have since expired. “My friend’s mother got deported when she was going to California,” Jennifer said. Her friend has since moved back to Mexico with her father and her siblings. Jennifer’s younger sister, Gema, 11, said she sometimes has nightmares that her parents will be deported. Gema doesn’t feel comfortable speaking in Spanish and none of the children want to return to Mexico. Their mother, Margarita Jaquez said their fears and hopes are for their children. They don’t want to leave them alone — they moved here to provide a better future for them. “They don’t know anything about Mexico,” Margarita said of her children. Their father, Miguel Andujo, said they have a skeleton action plan in case one or both of the parents get deported. The children know whom to call and where to stay. Both Miguel and Margarita attended classes and know that, for example, a Mexican passport is an acceptable form of identification in their area. They need only provide the police with their name. After that, they can keep silent and wait to speak with their lawyer. Undocumented immigrants also have to be vigilant against so-called legal assitants that promise legal status, according to Joe Rubio, lead organizer for the Valley Interfaith Project. Some try to take advantage of the Obama administration’s new policy toward undocumented young adults brought to the United
States as minors — which has yet to be clearly defined, he said. Local police will enforce SB 1070 differently from one town to the next, Rubio said. So the exact implementation of the “show me your papers” provision is unknown. “It’s going to be an act of courage to report crimes,” he said. Much domestic abuse, drug dealing and gang activity has gone unreported in the undocumented community. Victims and witnesses fear their own deportation. “Police don’t like that either,” Rubio said. “It has to be a partnership.” Valley Interfaith Project organizes immigration classes at parishes throughout the Phoenix Diocese to help undocumented immigrants protect themselves and know their rights in case they are stopped by police. “We pray to God that this won’t happen,” Miguel said. “When I leave the house in the morning, only God knows if I’ll return. But I have to keep going out because I need to work.” Miguel works in construction while his wife picks up jobs where she can cleaning offices or houses. Work has been slow since employer sanction laws took effect, they said. The family has had to stay with friends — moving from house to house, sometimes in the middle of a school year. “Faith is the last thing that one loses,” Miguel said. “We must wait and see what comes next.” Franco, father of five daughters with another on the way, hasn’t had steady work in years. “We came here because of need,” he said. “We’d go back to Mexico if only we’d be assured of work.” Garcia, who serves as a catechist at St. Louis the King Parish, said many children are without one or both of their parents. She and Franco regularly lead the family in rosaries and novenas. “The Holy Family were also immigrants and they were also persecuted,” Garcia said. “So we ask la Virgen to intercede for us. She understands what we’re going through.” ✴
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Year of Faith calls Catholics to rediscover joy of believing By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
The Year of Faith is an opportunity for Catholics to experience a conversion — to turn back to Jesus and enter into a deeper relationship with Him, according to the U.S. bishops. The year, which Pope Benedict declared would begin Oct. 11, will mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II and the 20th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The pope said it’s in response to “a profound crisis of faith that has affected many people.” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted briefly prepped the diocese’s 238 deacons for the Year of Faith earlier this year. He outlined the Church’s recommendations for observing the year. The Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelization posted pastoral recommendations online June 28. The observance is designed to incorporate television, radio, social media and other online resources to better connect — or reconnect — Catholics with their faith, according to Catholic News Service. Local Catholics can join in liturgies opening the Year of Faith Oct. 7. Masses will be held at both Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral — which is regularly televised and streamed live online — and Immaculate Conception in Cottonwood. The diocesan Department of Family Catechesis is helping promote the year locally and plans to launch a related website in October. A forthcoming pastoral letter from Bishop Olmsted is also expected to have practical ideas for families to rediscover the joy of the Catholic faith. That letter will coincide with the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Phoenix. The Year of Faith is meant to counter secularism and help Catholics recommit to the call they received at the Second Vatican Council, said Ryan
Hanning, director of parish leadership support for the diocese. “It’s important that there’s a collective theme that we focus on,” he said. “The big antithesis to the Christian faith is a lack of faith. Greater Europe and the western world and especially the U.S. have an overall lack of faith.” Hanning echoed the bishops’ and the pope’s words that the Year of Faith is designed to be a time for rediscovering the joy of the faith. That means the joy of having a personal relationship with God, the joy of expressing the faith communally through the liturgy and the joy of God’s mercy through reconciliation. It will also be a time for families to recommit themselves to praying, eating and spending time together to study the faith. Laity will have the opportunity to rekindle their love for and knowledge of the faith through diocesan celebrations at least monthly through March 2013. Those who attend the springtime Catechetical Symposium will find a focus on the anniversary of the Catechism. Scott Hahn, a popular Catholic apologist, author and speaker, will deliver the keynote talk. He will also address those gathered for the men’s conference. Both will serve as the days of study of the catechism that the pope called for. And the first diocesan marriage conference debuts in September. Liturgies will conclude the Year of Faith in November 2013. Bishop Olmsted said the Church encourages pilgrimages during the Year of Faith to places like St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, the Holy Land and shrines dedicated to Our Lady. Pope Benedict will canonize saints in October and will lead World Youth Day next summer, among other observances. “Introduction to the faith,” a series of books designed to help all Catholics live out the Year of Faith, should be out by fall. Pope Paul VI also declared a Year of Faith in 1967. ✴
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Indianapolis, Msgr. Paul Tighe, secretary of the pontifical council for social communications and Deacon Greg Kandra, who blogs “The Deacon’s Bench,” joined in. Philadephia Archbishop Charles Chaput delivered the keynote address. He said that the clergy sexual abuse scandal “has caused terrible suffering for victims, demoralized many of our clergy, crippled the witness of the Church and humiliated the whole Catholic community” in that region. It also left the archdiocese with an expected $17 million shortfall. The following day, the archbishop announced a reorganization of administration which will eliminate 40 jobs and close the 117-yearold archdiocesan newspaper. Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, gave
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hree weeks into his new assignment, Fr. Brady Williams, SOLT, thanked Most Holy Trinity parishioners — on Father’s Day — for his warm welcome. This marks his first parish assignment, having spent the last eight years with seminarians, at a Colorado mission and at the University of Dallas. Fr. Williams’ appointment is one of 32 new priest assignments across the Phoenix Diocese in recent months. That includes two which will become official next month. Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted makes priest assignments throughout the year as pastoral needs arise. The decision factors in a priest’s particular gifts and parish needs. The assignment can often help bring about a spiritual renewal, said Fr. David Sanfilippo, vicar for priests. “Our priests have responded to the growing needs in our diocese with great generosity. They have gladly said yes to the call of the Lord to serve,” he said. The Apostles of Jesus will now serve in a second parish in the diocese. Fr. John Ssegawa, AJ, became pastor of St. Helen July 1. For Most Holy Trinity parishioners, it marked the second new pastor in three years. The same is true for the more than 2,100 families who call St. Vincent de Paul Parish home. Fr. Kilian McCaffrey took over in 2009 after Vincentian priests left. He moved to Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale July 1 and left a “Do not be afraid. Just have faith” note to St. Vincent de Paul parishioners. “Nobody likes change. However, it is inevitable. God will take care of things if only we let Him into our lives and into our hearts,” he wrote. Both the new parochial administrator and the new parochial vicar are new at the parish. Additionally, Fr. Paul Sullivan, director of vocations for the diocese, is now in residence and will offer weekend assistance. For Fr. Jesus Lopez, the new parochial administrator, this marks his first leadership role since his ordination in 2008. Fr. Joji Balasamy Nagineni, the parochial vicar, just
arrived from India. So far, it’s been a smooth beginning, Fr. Lopez said. He met with parish and school staff before his arrival. Once moved in, he introduced himself at every Mass. “People started greeting me and thanking me for being here. I’m looking forward to getting to know them,” Fr. Lopez told The Catholic Sun. It’s simple greetings like that which can help make a newly assigned priest feel at home. He admitted it can be hard for priests to move around so much, but knows it’s part of their call to go where they’re needed. Fr. McCaffrey agreed, pointing out the words “Thy will be done” from the Our Father. He is scheduled to discuss his transition from St. Vincent de Paul to OLPH in Scottsdale on The Bishops’ Hour radio show at 11 a.m. July 23 on 1310AM. “God’s will works in our lives. All we have to do is take the pride out of the way and let the humility take over,” Fr. McCaffrey told the show’s host, Michael Dixon. His new assignment carries on a strong tradition of Irish pastors. He took over for Msgr. Thomas Hever, who retired June 30. The new pastor built an immediate bridge with his new parishioners. His letter in the bulletin was written in front of a newly purchased image of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. He wrote it from Knock, a place in Ireland where the Blessed Mother appeared in 1879. “I always make a little pilgrimage to a special place dedicated to the patron of the parish I am going to as pastor before I start my work. I think everything should begin with prayer,” Fr. McCaffrey wrote. He also mentioned that his father is from a village not far from where Msgr. Hever is from. Fr. Raul Lopez, who became parochial vicar at St. Mary Mediatrix in Yarnell and Good Shepherd in Congress, sent a text message to Fr. Sanfilippo after his first Mass. He said it went well, that the people are great and they even welcomed him with a cake. Fr. Sanfilippo said when priests serve with a shepherd’s heart, “the people of God see Christ’s love for them through their priests. When they welcome their priest, they know that they welcome Christ and His Gospel.” ✴
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Fr. Alphonsus Bakyil*, SOLT, pastor, St. Frances Cabrini, Camp Verde Fr. John Ssegawa, AJ, pastor, St. Helen, Glendale Fr. Victor Yakubu, parochial vicar, St. Helen, Glendale Fr. Jose Jesus Lopez, parochial administrator, St. Vincent de Paul Fr. Joji Balasamy, parochial vicar, St. Vincent de Paul Fr. Paul Sullivan, weekend assistance and live in residence at St. Vincent de Paul (additional role) Fr. Brady Williams,* SOLT, pastor, Most Holy Trinity Fr. Emile “Bud” Pelletier,* canonical pastor, Our Lady of Fatima Mission (additional role). Assisted by Msgr. Maron Sadei Toma from the Syriac Catholic community Fr. Kilian McCaffrey, pastor, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Scottsdale Fr. Steve Kunkel, canonical pastor, St. Margaret, Tempe (additional role) Fr. Eric Houseknect,* parochial vicar, St. Thomas Aquinas, Avondale Fr. Bruce Downs, parochial vicar, St. Gabriel the Archangel, Cave Creek Fr. Dan Vanyo, parochial vicar, Queen of Peace, Mesa and chaplain at Seton, Chandler Fr. Benjamin Lwin, parochial vicar, St. Mary Parish, Chandler Fr. Jesus “Jess” Ty, parochial vicar, San Francisco de Asís, Flagstaff Fr. Reynaldo Clutario, parochial vicar, San Francisco de Asís, Flagstaff
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Fr. Kilian McCaffrey is the new pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Scottsdale. Fr. Kenenth Walker,* FSSP, parochial vicar, Mater Misericordiae Church Fr. Gregory Rice,* interim parochial administrator, St. Joseph Fr. Joseph Knoll,* MJ, parochial vicar, St. Daniel the Prophet, Scottsdale Fr. Nicholas Floridi, parochial vicar, St. Joachim and St. Anne, Sun City Fr. Camilo De Villa, parochial vicar, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Tempe Fr. Raul Lopez, parochial vicar, St. Mary Mediatrix Mission, Yarnell and Good Shepherd of the Desert Mission, Congress Fr. Ernesto Reynoso, weekend assistance and in residence at Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral Fr. Benjamin Pantas,* fulltime Judge and Defender of the Bond in the Office of Tribunal and in residence at St. Theresa Fr. Robert Bolding, rector, St. Mary’s High School and in residence at St. Thomas the Apostle Fr. Michael Accinni-Reinhardt, fulltime chaplain for St. Jude Hospice
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Fr. Benedict Onegiu, AJ, parochial vicar, St. James, Glendale
Fr. Daryl Olds, CMF, pastor, Sacred Heart, Prescott (Aug. 1)
Fr. Lawrence Merta, LC, parochial vicar, Christ the King, Mesa
Fr. Will Schmid, parochial administrator, St. Mary Magdalene, Gilbert (Aug. 9)
Fr. Greg Menegay,* parochial vicar, St. Joan of Arc
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CDA surpasses $8 mil goal By Ambria Hammel The Catholic Sun
Because of the generosity of donors, the 2012 Charity and Development Appeal exceeded the overall financial goal for the first time in five years. Catholics helped the CDA push past its $8 million goal last month. The annual appeal supports more than 70 educational, charitable and spiritual organizations which counsel, feed, clothe, house, educate and comfort those in need throughout the four counties in the Phoenix Diocese. Nearly half of the diocese’s 92 parishes and 23 missions met or exceeded their financial goal. “We appreciate the partnership of pastors in all aspects of the CDA, from setting parish goals to the CDA message,” said Fr. Greg Schlarb, vicar of stewardship and pastor of St. Paul Parish. The laity also stood out with their “never-ending work,” weekend after weekend. Ushers, money counters, CDA coordinators and other volunteers all played pivotal roles in promoting the annual appeal and processing financial and prayerful pledges. “We really tried to focus on impact, so people knew where their donations are going,” said Missie D’Aunoy, director of the Office of Stewardship, which oversees the Charity and Development Appeal Overall participation ended up at 31.7 percent, with a total amount raised of over $8.1 million. The average gift was $185.35. Cynthia Scheller served as cochair of this year’s CDA with her husband, Matthew. She grew up at Sacred Heart Parish in Prescott and is now at St. Thomas Aquinas in Avondale. Their four children have supported the CDA with part of their birthday money for the last five years. Supporting the Church through the CDA doesn’t always have to involve money though, she said. Praying for those involved and those affected or sharing a talent helps too. “It’s not about when you have the time. It’s not about when you have the money. It’s every day you do something,” Scheller said. “If everyone were to do a small amount, then so much could be done locally and on a diocesan level,” she said. Local Catholics already accomplished a lot with recent CDA funds and other means of support. It was “Because of You,” as the CDA theme touted, that 290 homeless clients at St. Joseph the Worker gained meaningful employment in the last fiscal year. It was also “because of you” that 13,000 students received a Catholic education — as did 25 seminarians. Maggie’s Place, a community of homes that supports preg-
nant women and their infants who would otherwise be homeless, assisted its 500th mother since opening its doors in 2001. “That’s really how we measure the distinct impact that the Charity and Development Appeal has,” Fr. Schlarb said during a wrap-up cel-
ebration at the Diocesan Pastoral Center June 20. “So many wonderful things can happen for our diocese when we have the financial support — when the rubber hits the road.” Planning is already underway for the 2013 Charity and Development Appeal. ✴
‘BECAUSE OF YOU’ The Charity and Development Appeal supports more than 70 educational, charitable and spiritual organizations which counsel, feed, clothe, house, educate and comfort those in need throughout the four counties in the Phoenix Diocese. This year, the CDA raised more than $8 million to support charitable organizations like Paz de Cristo, parishes, evangelization, clergy and diocesan offices. To learn more about the CDA, visit the web: www.diocesephoenix.org/cda
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fear and some of it is the reality of what could happen,” Chavira said. “I think the two biggest issues that are not addressed are protection of conscience for health care companies and institutions and especially for people like myself, OB-GYN Catholic physicians who wish to practice according to the teachings of the Magisterium. I think it really threatens our livelihood.” Chavira said he’s discussed the uncertainty of what will happen to his practice with his family. “I don’t know where we will be especially if the current administration is re-elected, what that will do to the reality of my practice and putting what I do at risk,” Chavira said. About 40 percent of Chavira’s practice consists of care for the indigent, many of whom rely on statesponsored health insurance plans. If certain health care plans dictate prescribing contraceptives, sterilizations and abortions, Chavira said he “couldn’t take care of the poor and indigent” that participate in such plans. He will not violate his conscience, he said, and cash payment isn’t an option for these patients. “They rely on Medicaid and AHCCCS systems and if these things are required, if you have to offer these services, I could not be a provider in that system,” Chavira said. “Do I quit? No, but those of us who practice in this manner, we
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will have to join together and pray for conversion of heart not only for our president, but of Congress.” Beyond that, he said, the health reform act “does nothing to address care of immigrants,” a concern also noted by the U.S. bishops. Chavira said that while he hasn’t filed a lawsuit yet, he is considering his options. “We should have a protection of who we are, of what our conscience is,” Chavira said. “I don’t think that we should just sit around and take it.” End of round one Nikolas Nikas, president and general counsel for the Bioethics Defense Fund, a public-interest law firm that advocates on behalf of human life, emphasized what the Supreme Court ruling meant — and more importantly, what it did not mean. “We call it a tax on pro-life conscience,” Nikas said. “The effect of this is that there’s still a tax. The only issue that was decided was whether you can force people to buy insurance whether they want it or not.” The religious freedom issues, Nikas said, were not touched upon by the June 28 decision. “Had the whole thing been struck down, all the bad mandates threatening religious liberty would have gone down,” Nikas said. “Because this was upheld, and
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because none of the issues decided by the court affected the question of… conscience, it all remains to be seen. This is going to end up back at the Supreme Court.” The 20 lawsuits filed against the Affordable Care Act are moving forward, he said. “While we’re disappointed that the threats to religious liberty did not evaporate with the whole law going down, the religious liberties issues will now have a full day in court,” he said. “This is round one in a long fight.” Mike Phelan, director of the Office of Marriage and Respect Life Issues for the Diocese of Phoenix, offered a similar take. “The HHS mandate is still in place and it has to be resisted,” Phelan
said. “We actually have a good shot through the courts at that one.” The health care reform act, Phelan said, was riddled with multiple other problems, among them, a provision for a one-dollar contribution to pay for abortions in most insurance plans. That little-known fact was discovered by Dorinda Bordlee, vice president and senior counsel for the Bioethics Defense Fund. A thorough reading of the 2,800 page health care bill led to her discovery of the compulsory contribution to elective abortions. “There is a strong culture-ofdeath understanding of medicine in the legislation itself, the HHS mandate, which defines pregnancy as a disease, contraception as a
cure, including abortifacient contraception,” Phelan said. “It’s just one indicator — a major one the bishops are most concerned about — of the mentality behind much of the legislation itself.” Phelan said he was concerned about the general lack of understanding among Catholics about the Affordable Care Act. “We’ve allowed health care to be defined this way, in many cases by not speaking up, by some health care professionals being quiet when they need to speak up, and by a lack of sanctity among Catholics,” Phelan said. The Supreme Court’s ruling, Phelan noted, was a “tremendous wake-up call.” The health care issue, while complicated, he said, clearly needs to be addressed. “Whatever the solution is, it can’t undermine our ability to participate in health care as Catholics and it can’t undermine the definition of health care which is first, do no harm,” Phelan said. “[That includes] providing for the dignity of the person, including the unborn person, the elderly, and persons who can provide no measurable production for society, including the handicapped person or unborn person.” The recent Supreme Court 5-4 decision held that while the health care act exceeded Congress’s authority under the commerce clause, the individual mandate in the 2010 health care act was an exercise of Congress’ power to tax. The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and Ave Maria University are among many that filed more than 20 lawsuits against the Affordable Care Act, which they see as a threat to religious liberty. ✴
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a crime to harbor or transport undocumented immigrants. So Christian churches can’t send out buses to bring them to worship on Sundays. Nor can they transport undocumented immigrants to the doctor, hospital or school. Catholic Charities in California, Massachusetts and Illinois ended their adoption and foster care programs rather than comply with state rules to allow same-sex and cohabiting couples to participate. Other local governments are stepping in too. A New York City rule bars small churches from renting public schools on weekends for worship services. Nonreligious groups remain unaffected. If that were the case locally, St. Henry parishioners in Buckeye would have to find a new spot for Sunday Masses. Three other parishes would have had similar trouble in recent years. The struggle for religious freedom will soon grow tougher for some employers. The Health and Human Services mandate will require all employers — except a narrowly defined group of religious employers — to include contraception, sterilization and some abortion-inducing drugs under its health plan. It won’t matter if the employer is morally opposed to such services. That’s a hard pill to swallow for many Catholic Americans, especially Manny Yrique. He was the driving force behind the Rosary for the USA, which followed Mass. “I love my country more than I can ever express,” Yrique said, fighting back tears. What he doesn’t like is the nation’s divisiveness. It’s his hope that praying a rosary for the country and its leaders consecrates the nation to the patroness of the Americas and restores the nation under God. Each Hail Mary was dedicated to one of the country’s 50 states. “We’ve been promised by the president change. But the hope and change we’re looking for can’t be found in men and women. It can only be found in Jesus Christ,” Yrique said. He challenged those gathered to make the rosary a heartfelt prayer — first individually and then as a family. Yrique also encouraged the crowd to prayerfully consider its citizen responsibilities — such as the right to vote. “We can no longer stand idly by because it’s a personal attack,” Yrique said. Local Catholics heeded his message, even if they didn’t directly hear it. Parishioners at Sacred Heart in Prescott offered the Prayer for the Protection of Religious Liberty at every Mass during the fortnight. They also offered a Novena for religious freedom. Other Catholics spent time in eucharistic adoration. St. Joan of
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Parishioners from St. Henry in Buckeye were among hundreds of local Catholics who filled Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral July 4. Bishop Eduardo A. Nevares celebrated Mass concluding the Fortnight for Freedom followed by a Rosary for the USA.
Arc Parish held a special bilingual devotion nightly during the Fortnight for Freedom. Christine Accurso and her family twice counted themselves among the crowd. The St. Mary Magdalene parishioners made the trek from Gilbert and found other ways to make the fortnight a family affair. The family of five prayed the rosary for the United States nightly together and spoke to and wrote their elected officials, including the president. “God provided it,” Accurso said. “If we saw them, we talked to them. If we ran across their email, we emailed them and we wrote some.” Accurso blogged about her efforts. Entries included a providential craft project at a local hardware store. The kids, ages 6 to 12, made and decorated a wooden vehicle. They dubbed it the “Fortnight for Freedom mobile.” Each wheel said “act” with front and back plates reading “pray” and “study.” They drew a bishop in the driver’s seat. “It has heightened our awareness that if you rally people together with prayer and public witness, that people really can cleanup the conversation,” Accurso said. She later blogged about how moved she was singing “America the Beautiful” during the liturgy’s opening procession. “There is always something special about Americans gathering to sing that song, but as we united together as Catholics to celebrate the highest form of worship, in this trying time in our country, the song was sung with a strong sense of prayer, not just patriotism,” she wrote. Earlier chapters There was a similar feeling at St. Steven Parish in Sun Lakes July 3. Roughly 100 parishioners of all ages gathered for a freedom rally and rosary. They sang patriotic songs between each mystery of the rosary that was offered specifically for the Supreme Court and various levels of government.
Like the rosary at the cathedral, they also prayed specifically for the souls in each state. The Lamb of God prayer group through Catholic Renewal Ministries, which played a key role in the rally, has been offering a patriotic rosary for more than a year. Ed Orillo from the Lamb of God prayer group at St. Anne in Gilbert gave a short talk on the importance of protecting religious freedom. He reminded those gathered of Pope Benedict XVI’s caution against “radical secularism.” It threatens the core values of American culture, the pope warned U.S. bishops visiting him in January. Orillo also cited the film, “For Greater Glory,” to remind fellow Catholics that earlier chapters in recent history also feature those who gave their life for the faith. The film portrays Mexico’s persecution of Catholics in the 1920s. Leonardo Defilippis delivered an all-too-real performance of “Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz.” St. Luke Productions debuted the multimedia, one-man drama at Mount Claret Retreat Center July 2-3. He performed to a nearly full house both nights drawing some 600 people. “It’s dealing more comprehensively with all the issues we’re talking about,” Defilippis told The Catholic Sun. There’s an underlying theme in both the drama — which ends in a concentration camp — and the HHS mandate that immoral activities are being forced upon the populace, he said. That leads to the corruption of morals. “We’re really seeing the attack against the tenets of society. The Church can’t genuflect to what will allow you not to serve God,” Defilippis said. He hopes the drama and the fortnight inspired Americans of all faiths to have the courage to follow their convictions and unite in one voice. On the vigil of the feast of St. Thomas More, Bishop Nevares
delivered a homily about men who died for their convictions. The June 21 liturgy at St. Thomas More in Glendale opened the Fortnight for Freedom. St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher died in the 1500s for defending the indissolubility of marriage. “Our struggle to defend religious freedom is not a new phenomenon,” the bishop said. “In every age, in one way or another, people of faith have been persecuted and, at times, given their lives in defense of their religious beliefs.” He challenged Catholics to pray that the Holy Spirit pour its gifts upon the nation and its civil leaders. Mary Ann DeLuca, a parishioner at Our Lady of Lourdes in Sun City West, attended the opening Mass. She said she was doing her part through prayer, action and fasting to change the heart of others. “You have to bring the love of Christ to all you meet. It could be a smile. It could be a handout,” she said. “Make sure there’s always a smile. A smile says everything. You have a smile and it brings joy to people.” Fr. John Lankeit, rector of Ss. Simon and Jude Cathedral, called St. John the Baptist “a perfect example of speaking the truth in charity without fear,” during a June 24 Mass celebrating his feast day. “The time is coming when the people will not endure sound teaching,” Fr. Lankeit said. He echoed Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori’s com-
ments during the opening Mass for the Fortnight For Freedom at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption. Archbishop Lori said that some call the Catholic Church a primary obstacle that stands in the way of creating a secular culture. “We must never tire of speaking the truth about freedom and the dignity of life as a human person,” Fr. Lankeit said. Even if others ignore it, the truth still speaks to them at some conscious level, he said. “It’s not a question of success. It’s a question of faithfulness,” Fr. Lankeit said. It’s that faithfulness to the Church and America’s other liberties that many Catholics remember their ancestors seeking as immigrants. Mark Shoban and his daughters spoke briefly to a small crowd of fellow parishioners at St. Steven during a July 3 freedom rally. His great-grandfather emigrated from Lithuania in 1902. “His greatest gift of all was the love of our faith. He gave us love of country and love of religious freedom. There are no places to go after this,” Shoban said, fighting back tears. His pre-teen girls also spoke. One of them explained how she chose Michael as her confirmation name because she knew she’d have to fight evil like he did. The other said in earnest that her great-great grandfather came to America to protect his Catholic beliefs. “If we lose our religious freedom, we will be forced to flee the U.S. just like our ancestors,” she said. Fr. Pierre Hissey, their pastor, stressed the importance of standing in solidarity with the bishops, their own conscience and Church teaching. “We must pray for that change of heart to that mandate to which we cannot follow in good conscience,” he said. And Catholics will. Accurso, who participated in many Fortnight for Freedom activities with her family, called the fortnight the “springboard for all of us,” especially as election season nears. U.S. bishops also asked that the solemnity of Christ the King — a feast born out of resistance to totalitarian incursions against religious liberty — be a day specifically employed by bishops and priests to preach about religious liberty, both here and abroad. ✴
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Ministry for mothers celebrates 20 years of prayerfully serving women By Gina Keating The Catholic Sun
For the past 20 years, thousands of women throughout the United States have benefited from a ministry geared specifically toward their sacred role as mother. Ministry of Mothers Sharing is a national women’s prayer group sponsored by the Benedictine
Sisters of St. Paul’s Monastery in St. Paul, Minn. A 20th anniversary benefit and celebration at St. Patrick’s Church in Scottsdale, Sept. 8, is expected to draw hundreds of women for an afternoon of stories, speeches and memories. Past, present and interested mothers are invited to the party, which begins at 2:30 p.m. The $20
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‘The ministry’ The 20th anniversary benefit and celebration of Ministry of Mothers Sharing will take place 2:30-4:30 p.m., Sept. 8, at St. Patrick Parish in Scottsdale, in Fenlon Hospitality Center. The $20 registration fee may be sent to: St Patrick Catholic Community, 10815 N. 84th St., Scottsdale, AZ, 85260, or call Mary Jo McLaughlin at (602) 9578949.
ministry open to any mother; stepmothers, widows, grandmothers; mothers of adopted children; mothers of young children and mothers of adult-age children. “Women need to experience, in a faith community, the kind of hospitality that goes beyond coffee and doughnuts. They need to know they belong,” Hoyt said. “They need to know that in their parish a community of people genuinely care about them, will support them, can pray with them, and will be there if there is a need. This ministry provides that.” The eight-week program seeks to help women with their spiritual identity while building self-esteem. Participants form a network of
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spiritual support where they can easily share, pray and minister to each other while learning how to communicate and use prayer rituals in their families. Sr. Paula said parish communities benefit as a result of offering the ministry because family spirituality grows, and participants of the program move on to other parish ministries, or train to lead a new group of women entering the program. After completing her initial training, Mary Carrillo facilitated a group in 2005 at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Avondale as a way to support friendships. Delighted with her experience, she also helped St. Clare of Assisi in Surprise form a ministry. Carrillo experienced herself how the ministry references the sacredness and value of each mother, builds trust and support among members and leads to deeper understanding of their faith. “We can see other women at church, but we don’t get to know them until we sit across from them, in a safe and intimate space, and hear their fears and struggles,” Carrillo said. “It’s a powerful opportunity to be loved and love one another.” For the past four years, Carrillo, along with the support of several Valley parishes, has done an outreach ministry at The Michael House in Glendale, which serves pregnant, homeless mothers and their babies. “The sacredness of motherhood crosses all kinds of boundaries. We can relate to these women because we are all mothers, and they don’t have to be Catholic to understand we care,” she said. “Because of the relational aspect, bonds are created in this ministry. It’s a support system of Catholic mothers, and you can never have too many Catholic moms.” ✴
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Science teacher recruits self for global Green Boot Camp By Ambria Hammel
SAN DIEGO — A Scottsdale teacher is one of 68 worldwide getting hands-on training for teaching green and sustainable topics to middle schoolers. Honeywell selected Karl Oschner, an earth and physical science teacher at Blessed Pope John XXIII, for its first global Green Boot Camp July 16-20 in San Diego. The city is home to 700 clean technology companies and a test market for Cars 2 Go, a car sharing program with a fleet of 300 electric cars. Green Boot Camp is an assignment for
which Oschner recruited himself. He is excited to learn about “the latest and greatest” in green technology and experience 21st century learning skills. Teachers will collaborate to design and build a solar house and wind turbine as one of their projects. Oschner and the other teachers, including three from Arizona, will take home curriculum and lesson plans to share their experience with junior high students. Oschner is well-known at Blessed Pope John XXIII for innovative experiments, such as an ongoing quest to keep prairie dogs away from the school’s sustainable vegetable garden. He
hopes to discover new tips during Green Boot Camp. “It’s not just a workshop. It’s a corporation that has done the research,” Oschner said. According to Honeywell, if its current energy-efficiency technologies were immediately adopted, the U.S. could reduce energy demand by 20-25 percent. Honeywell’s Green Boot Camp includes on-site learning at the California Center for Sustainable Energy and San Diego Gas and Electric’s Energy Innovation Center. Oschner was also excited to get an international perspective on going green. He said it’s important
to make the world truly green, not just a buzzword. European countries, especially Germany, lead the way in solar panels, he said. Back at home, the Scottsdale school is already updating its green efforts. Grant money is allowing LED lights to replace fluorescent bulbs in the classroom. The new lights use half the energy, Oschner said. The measure also requires two fewer lamps. Students in upper grades will begin learning with and testing on iPads in August. The school is on track to go paperless. ✴
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Xavier students are traveling to Ecuador, Nicaragua and France this summer through the school’s new International Studies Program. Fr. Chad King, chaplain, celebrated a farewell Mass for them June 27. He also blessed and distributed medals of St. Francis Xavier, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Our Lady of Lourdes for each of them. Eleven Brophy students took a month-long immersion trip to Argentina. Read their blog: brophybroncos.org/sites/argentina2012. Earlier trips included El Salvador and Peru.
playoff appearances among other accolades, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame of the National High School Athletic Coaches Association July 24. Farrell has been in the school hall of fame since 2003 and the Arizona Coaches Association Hall of Fame since 1998. Gatorade Player of the Year honors for boys track and field in Arizona went to Devon Allen at Brophy College Preparatory. He is the first from Bophy to earn the recognition. Allen, a junior hurdler, won the 110-meter race at state leading the Broncos to a second pace team finish in the Division I meet. He also holds two state records in hurdles and took home two second place finishes at state level. Tyler Kertson, an incoming
senior, competed in the Junior World Golf Championship last week and is in the USGA Junior Amateur Championship this week. Amanda Benson, an incoming senior at Xavier, was one of 23 players selected to the U.S. Women’s Junior National Volleyball Training Team.
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BRIEFS Congratulations! Heartfelt congratulations to all the students graduating from eighth grade and high school at Catholic schools throughout the Phoenix Diocese. The diocese engages in the faith formation of the young through Catholic schools by leading them to an encounter with the living Christ and by integrating faith throughout an educational process that promotes academic excellence, moral values and lifelong service. For more information, visit www. catholicschoolsphx.com.
Free for teachers The Musical Instrument Museum invites Arizona elementary and high school teachers to check out some 5,000 instruments and artifacts from across the globe during July or during one of three Educator Preview Days. They can enter for free with a school ID and will leave with ideas on what students will learn during a school group tour. Pre- and post-visit curricula come with school tours. Educator Preview Days are July 28-29 and Aug. 25 and include a preview of a new school tour option available Aug. 1. Seating is limited with registration available online under “workshops and lectures” at www.themim.org.
Kino Teens The Kino Border Initiative has official Teen Groups including a Brophy chapter. Some of its members spent July 13-15 at an old ranch house between Nogales and Patagonia, Ariz. for Kino Teens’ Border Days. They’ll serve the poor and live in community.
Athletics Pat Farrell, a St. Mary’s alum who went on to coach and lead the Knights to four state football championships and 22 of 26
Building excellence Xavier’s Petznick Field and McGroder Athletic Building which were dedicated in November, is highlighted in Athletic Business’ 25th annual Architectural Showcase. The 93,000-square-foot artificial field is permanently lined for soccer, lacrosse and softball. Ten winners will be chosen as a Facility of Merit in December. ✴
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Olympics Six Brophy alumni, including two who just graduated, counted themselves among those competing at the Olympic Swim trials this summer. Alex Lendrum was a semifinalist in the 200-meter backstroke and Austin Thompson a semi-finalist in the individual medley. Both graduated in 2009. A Xavier graduate also competed. Former Judo Olympian Marcelline Mkpegue, held several one-week sessions teaching the martial art form in June. Seventeen kids attended the first two weeks. Mkpegue has won two U.S. titles and one world championship. Students at Ss. Simon and Jude had an early introduction to the Olympics. They competed in their own games April 30-May 1.
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guestcommentary Best legislative session ever for pro-life, religious freedom issues
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n May 3, the Arizona Legislature adjourned sine die at 8:25 p.m. after spending 116 days in session. While there were many items of historical significance this year, including the celebration of Arizona’s Centennial, perhaps the most significant item is that the 2012 legislative session can be called the best session ever for pro-life and religious freedom issues! The Arizona Catholic Conference is appreciative that Gov. Jan Brewer has signed into law an important measure we initiated (HB 2625) pertaining to religious liberty. While there were many distortions from our opponents about this bill, HB 2625 simply exempts religious employers from being coerced by the government to pay for abortifacients and contraceptives in their insurance plans if doing so violates their faith. With the passage of HB 2625, Arizonans will now be better able to assert their rights by suing the federal government over the HHS contraceptive mandate, and if it is overturned, religious freedom in Arizona will be much better protected. The ACC is most grateful to Rep. Debbie Lesko for sponsoring HB 2625 and her unwavering support in the face of the tremendous national attention garnered by the bill. In addition to HB 2625, a number of very substantial religious liberty and pro-life bills were also passed into law this session, including conscience protections for various professionals (SB 1365); a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy (HB 2036); and a prohibition on any taxpayer funding passing through the state to abortion providers (HB 2800). Similarly, the ACC initiated another very important bill (SB 1009) that became law and is aimed at keeping abortion providers out of public and charter schools. Under SB 1009, any discussion of abortion during class time must present childbirth and adoption as the preferred options. The ACC is particularly thankful for the great efforts Senator Nancy Barto made in sponsoring this bill. Huge school choice victories Pertaining to school choice, there was a huge victory when SB 1047 was signed into law by Gov. Brewer. Essentially, SB 1047 doubles the amount of the tuition (scholarship) tax credit so that individuals and married couples can now get a tax credit for donations up to $1,000 and $2,000 respectively. In order to further help save the state money, the new money will be primarily targeted to those switching from public to private schools. It is expected that an even larger number of needy students will now be able to attend the school that best fits their needs under this law. Additionally, the Empowerment Scholarship Account program enacted into law last year for disabled students is now expanded under HB 2622 to include primarily students from failing public schools. Under this program, students leaving a public school are allowed to take 90 percent of the funding that was allocated for them and use it for other educational purposes, including tuition at private schools. Problematic bills for immigrants, vulnerable defeated Similar to last year, all of the problematic bills with regard to vulnerable populations were defeated. Included among these measures was an effort to deny birthright citizenship to undocumented immigrants from Arizona, as well as bills requiring hospitals and schools to inquire about the citizenship status of those that they serve. Efforts to eliminate or suspend tax credits for people donating to charitable organizations serving the working poor were also thankfully defeated as were efforts to eliminate tuition (scholarship) tax credits primarily benefiting low income children. Last, but certainly not least, was the defeat of very problematic bills relating to the provision of morning-after pills and violations of conscience rights. Conclusion The ACC is grateful to House Speaker Andy Tobin and Senate President Steve Pierce for their assistance this session as well as all of the people and groups who supported our efforts through prayers and e-mails. We look forward to always continuing our work on the issues of greatest importance to the Catholic Church. ✴ Ron Johnson is executive director of the Arizona Catholic Conference, the legislative arm that represents the Dioceses of Phoenix, Tucson and Gallup, N.M. as well as the Holy Protection of Mary Byzantine Eparchy of Phoenix.
The blessing of a fruitful life Part four: Dealing with infertility
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he 25th of this month of July will mark the 44th anniversary of one of the most prophetic documents in the history of the Church, Pope Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae (Of Human Life). Paul VI, in the face of enormous pressure from both outside and inside the Church, reiterated in this historic encyclical the constant teaching of the Church that every act of marital intercourse must remain open to the possibility of a new life from God. In this fourth and final part of my series on “The blessing of a fruitful life,” I want to emphasize the importance of protecting the dignity of every child, even prior to that child’s conception. This duty resides especially with wives and husbands, and is exercised when they carefully discern, aided by the teaching of the Church, what means are ethical and which are not when seeking to welcome a child into their marriage. Unitive and procreative At the heart of Humanae Vitae is the teaching that the marital embrace, the act of intercourse, is given by God to the human race as a great good. This good has two natural, God-given purposes: it is procreative (babygenerating) and unitive (spouse-bonding). These two purposes, which naturally result from the marital act, can never be separated without a resulting injustice. A separation of the two, e.g. engaging in the sexual act while attempting to remove the possibility of a child’s conception through contraception, is an injustice to God and His plan for marriage, as well as an injustice to the meaning of spousal love, an injustice that harms one’s spouse. On the other side of the coin, it is also gravely wrong to seek to conceive a child by means that are separated from the marital embrace of his or her parents, as some Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) do. Some infertility interventions are legitimate, but those that bypass the marital embrace are gravely illicit. In vitro fertilization and artificial insemination are two such examples. What about ‘test-tube’ babies? Tragically, when a technologically advanced civilization accepts sexual intercourse without babies, it will also ignore the moral concerns of producing babies without intercourse. In a historical irony which I believe is no coincidence, Louise Brown, the first “test tube” baby in human history, was born on July 25, 1978 in Oldham, England, the precise 10-year anniversary of the promulgation of Humanae Vitae. Is the Church saying that Louise Brown, or the thousands of other children produced since then by such technological interventions, are somehow less than human, lacking in human dignity? Absolutely not. On the contrary, it is precisely their innate human dignity, born of the noble fact that they bear the very image of God, which causes the Church to calmly and strongly insist, as does the Catechism of the Catholic Church (#2378): “A child is not something owed to one, but is a gift. The ‘supreme gift of marriage’ is a human person. A child may not be considered a piece of property, an idea to which an alleged ‘right to a child’ would lead. In this area, only the child possesses genuine rights: the right ‘to be the fruit of the specific act of the conjugal love of his parents,’ and ‘the right to be respected as a person from the moment of his conception.’” The suffering caused by infertility is often intense for both husband and wife. “What will you give me,” Abraham asks of God (Gen 15:2), “for I continue childless?” and Rachel exclaims to her husband Jacob (Gen 30:1), “Give me children, or I shall die!” In her recent book The Infertility Companion for Catholics, Angelique RuhiLopez writes of the temptations she and her husband
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faced, even as devout Catholics, when their infertility became apparent (p. 24): “I often felt like treatments like insemination or ART were like a carrot being dangled in front of us while we plodded along the seemingly endless road… ‘There’s always insemination, but I assume you would choose not to do that.’ My husband and I both said no because we knew the Church was against it (and so did my doctor), but the question that came to mind was ‘why not?’” The “why not?” question is one we must all try to answer — clergy, religious, laity, medical professionals, husbands and wives — with an answer that is informed, faithful and wrapped in true compassion, and an answer which puts no human being’s life or dignity in jeopardy. Medical developments faithful to God’s design What can husbands and wives struggling with infertility do, then, that does not violate the dignity of their own relationship and that of the child they hope to have? Thanks be to God, more sound medical interventions are available all the time, due not to the profitseeking bent of the majority of “infertility specialists” but to the faithful work of excellent scientists such as Dr. Thomas Hilgers of the Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha. Dr. Hilgers has painstakingly analyzed the root causes of infertility and developed treatments that are not only faithful to the teaching of the Church but, not coincidentally, more effective than ART in helping couples conceive. We must be especially grateful to God also for the growing number of physicians and other medical professionals in our diocese who, like Paul VI and other heroes of the faith throughout the history, have the patience, perseverance and zeal to seek the truth, abide in the truth, and not simply follow the fashionable trends which fail to be authentic “progress” because they violate human life and dignity. In this way, they stay faithful to that foundational phrase in the Hippocratic Oath, “First, do no harm.” Locally, these physicians include OBGYNs Lori Carillo, William Chavira, Michael Czerkes and Clint Leonard as well as Dr. James Statt and Dr. Deidre Wilson. They also help bring about a renewal of the culture of life in health care, a courageous and sacrificial renewal desperately needed in our time. For an example, see the wonderful accompanying article from Lisa McDaniel, P.A. on the next page. And if all licit treatments fail? For all of us, it is only through the acceptance of God’s Divine plan in our lives that we will find true freedom and joy. In a mysterious way this interior freedom and joy often arise from the uniting of our own sufferings with those of Our Blessed Lord. Only in the Christian view of life can one find a tradition of fruitfulness mysteriously connected to human suffering. Couples who, despite great desire for children and seeking all licit means to overcome their infertility, still find themselves facing an empty crib and a feeling of incompleteness in their married lives, need not, indeed must not, give in to despair. God is the “Giver of good gifts” at all times; moreover, a child is not the only gift He is able to give married couples. ✴
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A murderer’s dignity?
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Re: “Cruel and unnecessary” (Letters, The Catholic Sun, June 21), Ruth Zemek wants us to focus on the dignity of all of life. I find it hard to believe that the life of a murderer has the same “dignity” as that of an innocent person. Furthermore, if there were no capital punishment society would in effect be saying, “go ahead and kill anyone you want to and we won’t take your life because your life is worth more than the person you murdered.” She also wants us to believe that capital punishment is intrinsically evil. Pope John Paul’s words about it are his opinion but do not constitute Church doctrine. Furthermore, in saying that the current position of the Church is that capital punishment is intrinsically evil doesn’t make sense. Does that mean that it’s intrinsically evil now but wasn’t in the past? Finally the statement is made that the taking of a person’s life deprives that person of repenting. That’s true, but it’s also true of the victim whose life is taken suddenly. Also, repentance is more likely if a person knows he’ll die on a certain date. That’s more warning than most of us have. Jim Hrovat Peoria
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just that. But NaPro is not just highly successful in treating infertility, it also treats diseases like endometriosis, PCOD (polycystic ovarian disease), postpartum depression, PMDD (premenstrual dysphoric disorder) as well as correctable hormonal imbalances that cause symptoms like painful periods, acne, PMS and ovarian cysts. Currently, many of these are “treated” with a Group One Carcinogen we know as Combined Oral Contraceptive pills, or “The Pill”.1 While birth control may temporarily alleviate some of these symptoms, it does not treat any of these problems, does not identify the underlying source of the disorder, nor does it “regulate” a woman’s cycle. Rather, it highjacks ovarian function and the placebo or “sugar pills” at the end of the pill pack cause a sudden drop in progesterone levels, leading to a withdrawal bleed, not a true period. There is literally no gynecological problem that should be treated with birth control. There is always a better option with NaPro Technology, and there are four NaPro specialists in Arizona ready to help. Another life-altering disorder NaPro treats is postpartum depression, currently treated as a psychiatric disorder with anti-depressants and antipsychotics. But in actuality, it is caused by low progesterone, which I have seen corrected in my patients in less than an hour with an in-office injection of progesterone, not unlike getting the flu shot. Women deserve to be healthy. They deserve to have their problems discovered and treated properly, not covered up. For more information on NaPro, check out www.naprotechnology.com. To find a NaPro specialist in your area, search for “Medical Consultant” at www.fertilitycare.org (U.S. only) and www.fertilitycare.net (outside of U.S.). To find local NFP-only medical providers, check out www.onemoresoul.com. Caution: Side effects of NaPro Technology include self-knowledge. ✴ Lisa McDaniel is a Physician Assistant in Family Practice, specializing in NaPro Technology. 1. Sept 2005. World Health Organization. http:// www.who.int/reproductivehealth/topics/ageing/cocs_ hrt_statement.pdf
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‘Catholic Difference’ too partisan I find that George Weigel’s column is too partisan to appear in a Catholic periodical (“The Catholic Difference,” Views, The Catholic Sun). He infers by his lack of balance in his critique of our government that the Democratic administration is the problem and not the Republicans in Congress. One has only to listen to Mr. Romney’s stump speeches and the Republican debates of the past several months to see many examples of where conservative values contradict Catholic teaching as much, if not more, than liberal Democratic positions. Clearly Democratic values fall short in the area of life issues and freedom. Unfortunately, the Republican Party has many weaknesses in the life and freedom areas as well. This came out all too clearly during the current election cycle. My heart aches for a candidate from either party who holds the values I believe are core to who I am as a Catholic. Sadly, even Catholic politicians in either party rarely hold these values. Some areas where Republican positions differ from Catholic teaching are immigration, capital punishment, rights to collective bargaining, universal health care, preemptive war, federal minimum wage increase, and welfare for poor families. Weigel’s vision is 20-20 when it comes to seeing the hostility of the current administration toward religious freedom and support of the unborn. Unfortunately he seems blind to his fellow conservatives hostility to the poor, the undocumented, the men on death row, and the hourly workers of America. It is time for our Catholic faith to make the difference when our party affiliation does not. Deacon Paul Hursh Mesa
‘Calles did not have a goatee’ I wanted to express how pleased I was to read Joyce Coronel’s recent column, “Media elite promote trash while trashing the good stuff” (Views, The Catholic Sun, June 21). Indeed, when I heard that Rotten Tomatoes gave a bad review of “For Greater Glory,” I took it to mean that it must be a film worth watching. This way of viewing people, places and things in our pagan society is what I refer to as the diabolical reversal. As an American of Mexican descent, I’m proud to say that my mother, and her mother as well, were backers of the Cristero Rebellion. Not only did they shudder at the mention of Plutarco Elias Calles, but my Nana likewise abhorred the memory of Benito Juarez himself. For it was he who instituted the Masonic anti-clerical constitution. I am a minority of minorities because I steadfastly oppose illegal immigration, since we all know deep inside that Mexico would never tolerate Americanization being imposed upon her. However I can only wonder if in God’s viewpoint, the United States is deserving of the mojado invasion because it looked the other way when the Mexican Catholic Church so desperately needed American assistance during the Calles regime. Incidentally, although I found “For Greater Glory” particularly inspiring for American Catholics, Calles did not have a goatee! To portray the tyrant so would be like portraying Abe Lincoln without a beard. Gonzalo Martinez Celaya Phoenix
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Fortnight for Freedom — religious liberty and its enemies
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ndependence Day concluded the Fortnight for Freedom mandated by the U.S. bishops, a two-week period of reflection and prayer on the defense of religious liberty that began on the vigil of the liturgical memorial of St. Thomas More. In July 2012, we may be grateful that none of us faces the headsman’s axe, as More did in Tudor England. But neither should we be indifferent to, or flippant about, the 21st-century threats to religious liberty that surround us. They have yet to bring anyone to today’s equivalent of the scaffold on Tower Hill, but they are already putting severe pressure on both believers and religious institutions. That pressure is more subtle than it was in More’s day, and it involves a kind of governmental pincer movement. The first arm of the pincer aims to reduce religious liberty to a privacy right: a permission slip from the government to engage in certain recreational activities considered matters of personal taste. The second arm of the pincer — embodied in the Obama administration’s contraceptive/abortifacient mandate (which many Catholic entities are challenging in court) — aims to conscript religious institutions so that they become virtual departments of the government. Between the two arms of the pincer, religious liberty is being subjected to a slow but steady wasting disease. Recognizing that disease is essential; so is an accurate diagnosis of its causes. What are the sources of this new assault on religious freedom in full? The pressure comes in part from a newly aggressive American secularism that is sadly similar to its counterparts in 21st-
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century Europe. There, secularism is not benign, tolerant and pluralistic, asking only that secular views have free play in the public square. Rather, 21st-century European secularism is intolerant, hegemonic and anti-pluralistic. It demands the entire public square for itself and tries to use the coercive power of the state to drive religious conviction to the far margins of society and public life. It is, in the pungent term deployed by the international legal scholar Joseph H. H. Weiler (himself an Orthodox Jew), “Christophobic.” That this new form of bigotry has at least something to do with ancient animosities over the Church-state alliances of Old Europe, no one should doubt. Yet that is why its translation across the Atlantic is somewhat odd: for there is no “established Church” in American constitutional history against which 21st-century radical secularists can wave the bloody shirt. Nonetheless, contemporary American secularists of the sort found in prestige law schools and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are quite like their European counterparts: they do not seek an open public square in which all points of view
are welcome; they demand secularist hegemony in public life. And they are quite prepared to throw some sharp elbows in getting what they want. How has this new cultural phenomenon gotten a beachhead in our public life? In part, by surfing waves created by over six decades of confused Supreme Court rulings in First Amendment cases — rulings that have unbalanced “free exercise” and “no establishment” in matters of religion and public life. The Framers of the Constitution did not intend that their proscription of a national church (“no establishment”) should create a radically secular American public square; they intended “no establishment” to serve the cause of “free exercise.” The United States would build a hospitable and civil public space where differences could be engaged intelligently and tolerantly, and where all points of view were welcome. “No establishment” was the means; “free exercise” was the end. Sixty-five years of Supreme Court rulings, however, have turned this inside out, such that “free exercise” has been reduced to a set of exceptions or exemptions within the overwhelmingly secular public space the federal judiciary has created since 1947. Wittingly or not, the Supreme Court has often aligned itself with the hegemonic secularists and the anti-pluralists, bringing its moral authority into play on their side of the debate. The Fortnight for Freedom has now concluded and some serious work is before us: serious cultural work, serious legal work and serious political work. ✴ George Weigel is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.
Medjugorje: no verdict yet, but faith, conversions abound
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very generous benefactor found out that after 10 years of writing for the Catholic press, I’d never been to Medjugorje, the site of purported Marian apparitions. The next thing I knew, a travel itinerary was delivered to my inbox. Just before departing, a devout Catholic friend told me I should be visiting Fatima or Lourdes instead. He questioned the authenticity of the apparitions in the former Yugoslavia. Another dear friend, a priest, forwarded an anti-Medjugorje article from Crisis Magazine that featured a picture of a wolf in sheep clothing. Recalling my late parents’ admonition to ‘never look a gift-horse in the mouth’, I decided to check out Medjugorje for myself. I knew even before making sure my seat was in a fully upright and locked position — it took five planes and a twohour van ride to reach our destination — that the Church has neither officially condemned nor approved the activities at Medjugorje, other than saying that parishes or dioceses should not sponsor pilgrimages. The late Blessed John Paul II was reportedly a supporter of the Medjugorje visionaries. Allow me to cut to the chase: I did not see the Blessed Virgin Mary during my week-long visit. The links on my rosary beads did not turn to gold, nor did I see the sun spinning. What I can say is that I was absolutely stunned by the outpouring of faith and heartfelt devotion I encountered. Our visit took place during the 31st anniversary of what the reputed visionaries say was their first encounter with Our Lady back on June 24, 1981. The village was inundated with
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thousands of pilgrims from all over the globe. Indisputable fruits Every day there were long lines for confession, where priests heard penitents tell their sins in more than a dozen languages, some I’d never even heard of before. Masses were jammed and reverent. Every night at 10 p.m. the amphitheater was packed with over 15,000 pilgrims who came to adore the Eucharist. Even with such an enormous crowd, there was utter silence as the King of Kings was venerated. We knelt there in the gravel and I felt myself overcome with emotion. In the midst of such a huge crowd, packed with the sick and infirm, pilgrims of every age, and religious sisters from around the world dressed in their various habits, it seemed I was just a tiny speck, entirely insignificant in this vast sea of faithful. It was then that I felt the Lord whisper a word of love to me that I — I who am so undeserving — am indeed precious
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to Him. A love beyond understanding filled my heart as tears streamed down my cheeks, so that even now as I write these words, I am brought back to that moment of profound peace. Our God loves us in spite of ourselves. I saw fellow pilgrims climb barefoot up a 1,700-foot peak, praying the Stations of the Cross, oblivious to the sharp rocks they trod. One man was missing a leg and was making the climb using metal crutches. I met a pediatrician and her dentist husband, who met during the Bosnian war in the 1990s when they both worked to save the children coming out of the refugee camps. They are sponsoring one of the dozens of kids who live in Medjugorje’s orphanages. I listened to former drug addicts who live in a community dedicated to helping men and women break free from the bondage of addiction. Theresa Burke, the founder of Rachel’s Vineyard, a ministry that helps women wounded by abortion, received her inspiration from Medjugorje. The message of Medjugorje is simple. It’s a call to conversion: Pray the rosary daily from the heart. Fast on bread and water on Wednesdays and Fridays or perform some other penitential act. Read the Bible. Receive the Eucharist frequently and go to confession monthly. If more Catholics lived that way, we would surely have more peace, stronger families and an increase in vocations. I’m all for that. ✴ Joyce Coronel is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun.
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For Cardinal Burke, restoring tradition is a work in progress By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY — Five years after Pope Benedict XVI lifted most restrictions on celebration of the Tridentine Mass, a senior Vatican official says that much work remains to make the traditional liturgy fully accessible to the faithful, and to bring its influence to bear on the form of the Mass most Catholics attend. “There’s no question that there remains in certain places a resistance to what the Holy Father has asked, and that’s sad,” says Cardinal Raymond L. Burke, prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura and a former archbishop of St. Louis. “It’s sometimes even an expression of disagreement with the Holy Father’s discipline and even an expression that this is harmful for the Church.” With his apostolic letter “Summorum Pontificum,” issued July 7, 2007, Pope Benedict allowed priests to offer the Tridentine Mass without special permission from their bishops. The decree also provided for the establishment of “personal parishes” dedicated to the traditional liturgy, which had passed out of use amid the modernizing changes that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965. “What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful,” the pope wrote at the time in a letter presenting his announcement to the world’s bishops. Pope Benedict made it clear that he was acting in part to promote reconciliation with the disaffected traditionalists of the Society of
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St. Pius X, who had broken from Rome to protest some of the teachings of Vatican II and subsequent changes to the liturgy. Last month, following three years of on-again, off-again talks, the Vatican announced that the traditionalists had been offered formal terms of reconciliation. Though the SSPX has warned of persistent “doctrinal difficulties” that could prolong negotiations, Cardinal Burke has told Catholic News Service that he believes a reunion will ultimately take place. But satisfying the demands of the traditionalists was not Pope Benedict’s only purpose in issuing “Summorum Pontificum.” The pope wrote that he acted in order to “preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place. In the same letter, the pope also affirmed that the older and newer versions of the Mass could be “mutually enriching.” For Cardinal Burke, such mutual enrichment is part of the so-called “reform of the reform,” the process of repairing the deficiencies of the liturgy introduced under Pope Paul VI. The reform of the Roman Missal
During an interview, U.S. Cardinal Raymond L. Burke discussed the fifth anniversary of “Summorum Pontificum,” which relaxed restrictions on the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass. Cardinal Burke is pictured in the chapel of his residence at the Vatican June 6.
in the period following Vatican II was “too radical,” and “went beyond, and in some senses perhaps not completely coherently with, what the council fathers had set forth,” the cardinal says. “There was a stripping away, a changing of the form of the rite that in my judgment was too much,” he says. “You can’t take a living reality, the worship of God as God has desired that we worship Him, and tamper with it without doing violence and without in some way damaging the faith life of the people.” The use of Latin was far from the most important loss, the cardinal says, noting that even the newer form of the Mass is still regularly celebrated in the Church’s universal language. Among the other elements of tradition that Cardinal Burke hopes the Church eventually will restore to the Mass in its newer version are the opening prayers at the foot of the altar, which he says provide an “immediate tie-in” to the liturgy’s Jewish heritage: the psalms once sung by the high priest as he entered the temple in Jerusalem. Other features of the Tridentine Mass that the cardinal would welcome in the newer liturgy include the priest softly reciting the prayers
before Communion, a period of near-silence that, he explains, “draws our attention to this most sacred part of the Holy Mass”; and the closing recitation of the prologue of the Gospel of St. John, a “hymn to the redemptive incarnation” that “sets in your mind once again the great reality which you have encountered and in which you have participated.” On the other hand, Cardinal Burke says, the practice of reading scriptural passages in modern languages has been a “tremendous gift” of the post-Vatican II liturgy that should be incorporated in the Tridentine Mass. And he said that the newer version of the Mass, in which the priest typically faces the congregation, can encourage a deeper appreciation of the “transparent devotion” with
which priests should celebrate both forms of the liturgy. Of course, for the two forms of the Mass to enrich each other, both must be available. But after half-century of neglect, the cardinal notes, there is a shortage of priests with any knowledge of Latin, not to mention experience with the older liturgy, a problem which he says calls for revising seminary curricula. In the meantime, the cardinal counsels patience to traditionalists who feel “embattled” when wellmeaning bishops cannot satisfy their demands quickly enough. “It would be improper and even offensive to our Lord,” he says, “to have someone offering the Mass who doesn’t know what he’s saying or doesn’t even know how to say it.” ✴
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Book Review
‘Wing Tip’: Sure to be a Catholic classic Reviewed by Robert Curtis The Catholic Sun
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t’s a good bet that people always want to know the future to bolster their sense of certainty, especially in an uncertain world. Fortune-tellers, seers, and prophets — in the non-Biblical sense — have always been among our favorites. As Catholics, however, we do know the ultimate future because eternal life awaits those of us who believe and do God’s will, and that is the definition of certainty. Aside from death and taxes, however, here’s one more thing that is cer-
tain in this life: Sherry Boas’s new novel, “Wing Tip,” will be a classic of Catholic literature. It’s not only that Boas has interesting characters — which she does —or even plot twists that keep a reader interested — which she also does — but it’s that this novel is very much like reading all of Catholic Church teaching in a realworld setting. Characters stand for that teaching by the way they live their lives, despite all failings, and among events that mirror the very real issues embroiling Catholics and other Christians today. The genius of this novel is that the teaching and issues will suddenly
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jump out because of an action of one of the characters. The main character is Fr. Dante DeLuz, a diocesan priest, and always a good choice for a Catholic novel; but don’t let the priest’s everyman name escape your notice — Dante, of Inferno fame, and DeLuz, or, “Of Light.” Allegories abound. Fr. Dante is a compassionate and charitable person, taking his vows and beliefs seriously and using almost every waking moment to evangelize. He even faces a moment of political-correctness, which he properly diverts and turns into evangelization, a skill we all could use in our everyday lives. One day, after his mother, Elina, passes, his fellow priest hands him a note from her written days before her death, a kind of deathbed confession that she could not reveal to Fr. Dante prior. The letter details the secrets of her youth, particularly that she was the only heir to a family fortune worth some $13 billion and that she gave it all up for love. In this, she mirrors other saints
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Local Catholic author Sherry Boas holds up a copy of her latest book, “Wing Tip,” which focuses on the transformative power of the mercy of God.
born into nobility or wealth: St. Francis of Assisi, St. Dominic de Guzman, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Albert de Groot (the Great), and St. Catherine of Siena. Their love was for God and Elina’s was for a gentle God-fearing man named Mateo, who saved her. Fr. Dante thought Mateo was his own father, but the letter reveals the second startling secret: Mateo was not Dante’s biological father. Instead, Fr. Dante’s father was a man who became as rich as Elina’s own family. Armed with this information,
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Fr. Dante desperately seeks out the man mentioned in the letter. He finds him and, through a great deal of persistence and compassion, makes his way through the levels of secretaries and administrative assistants to finally meet him. Fr. Dante tells the story of his mother and soon the man realizes that he might be Fr. Dante’s father. Naturally, however, the man is skeptical and cynical — what person who serves mammon as his only master wouldn’t be — but when he is diagnosed with a genetic heart condition, he has the DNA test done confirming his relationship to Fr. Dante and tells him about the heart problem. The main flow of the story and all the back stories, sub stories, sideline stories, and stories in passing, is the movement from ignorance to enlightenment as Fr. Dante wins some of his battles and loses a few. His real goal becomes the lifting of his father from the depths of secular ignorance to the heights of salvation. Loss highlights the twists and turns of the story, loss of friends, family, and other loved-ones who point us ever toward the cross, the passion, and redemption in Christ. Instead of the tone being depressing or negative, the tone is triumphant, bolstered by Catholic teaching that creates a unified worldview and a way of life filled with hope that takes us thoroughly beyond the mundane. The title, not about doves as we might expect, refers to the shoe lost by Mateo and found by Elina, ala reverse Cinderella. Instead of a princess with a fairy godmother, however, we have faithful Catholics who find salvation as the fact of their lives. Magnificent read, highly recommended. ✴ Robert Curtis, a life-professed Lay Dominican, is the author of 17 books, holds a master’s in creative writing, teaches composition at the University of Phoenix and creative writing at Rio Salado College.
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Film Review
‘The Amazing Spider-Man’: Good, but too soon
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rom time to time a really terrific film comes along, whose characters present an important message through an exciting story. Audiences remember those films. Apparently Colombia and Sony are hoping our memories don’t span more than a decade. Just 10 years after the release of “SpiderMan” (Columbia) they released “The Amazing Spider-Man” (Colombia) — same characters, same premise, same major plot points... different villain. The original “Spider-Man” film was terrific, and “The Amazing Spider-Man” is also great. The acting is nuanced, the story is entertaining, the effects are spectacular — but the remake came too soon. It is impossible to watch “The Amazing Spider-Man” without remembering how the first film presented the same issue, relationship or character trait. That said, “The Amazing SpiderMan” is an interesting take. It does plenty of things better than the original — portraying high school romance and adolescent irresponsibility, spectacular special effects that not only include watching SpiderMan leap from building to building, but also flying through the air from Spider-Man’s perspective. The characters at the heart of the Spider-Man comic, Peter Parker, played by Andrew Garfield, and in this version of the film, Gwen Stacey — instead of Mary Jane — played by Emma Stone, are in high school. The film lets the leads be high school students. This is what a typical high school student would do if he suddenly gained these superpowers. The best scenes involved Garfield, as Parker, interacting with Stone, as Stacey, in a way that feels authentic. Garfield in particular does a wonderful job being an anti-
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he following film has been evaluated by Catholic News Service according to artistic merit and moral suitability. The Amazing Spider-Man (Columbia) The CNS classification is A-III — adults. The Motion Picture Association of America rating is PG-13 — parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13. Catholic Sun rating Message: Strong Artistic merit: Very strong
superhero. He uses his powers to torment a bully, shows off for his girlfriend and eventually discovers why he should be a hero. He is more selfish than selfless for most of the film — which pulls the audience in more deeply. The film comes up a bit short in terms of a clear moral message. There are several attempts — particularly since the “Spider-Man” quote “With great power comes great responsibility” has been a mantra since 2002 — but nothing sticks. A scientific discovery is hidden from the general public for fear of immoral use. This is the heart of the battle with the villain — a mild-mannered scientist, Dr. Curt Connors, played by Rhys Ifans. Dr. Connors is taken over by his scientific discovery and turned into a lizard that is not mild-mannered at all.
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Andrew Garfield in “The Amazing Spider-Man.”
The message here is the priority of human life and wellbeing over scientific discovery. The Catechism of the Catholic Church addresses this issue saying, “Science and technology are ordered to man, from whom they take their origin and development; hence they find in the person and in his moral values both evidence of their purpose and awareness of their limits” (2293). The limits of scientific inquiry, particularly when such discoveries could be used to harm or improve lives, requires serious consideration. “The Amazing Spider-Man” presents the problem, but does not explore it. “The Amazing Spider-man” is a great film, with more than a handful of wonderful vignette-like scenes. It felt like a more authentic take on the Spider-Man series — a little less superhero and a little more amateur. In 10 more years, it could have been “amazing,” but at least for this critic, it was a little too soon to move on. ✴ Media critic Rebecca Bostic is a regular contributor to The Catholic Sun. Comments are welcome. Send e-mail to letters@catholicsun.org.
How do you define “healing” in terms of end-of-life care? At Saint Jude Hospice, it’s a matter of bringing families together to honor someone they’ve loved for so long, to bring a spirit of peace to them all. And love? For that we simply turn to the words of Jesus Christ: “Love one another as I have loved you.” That, above all, is our mission. We adhere to Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services.
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Adult Care Grandview assisted LivinG, located
st. FranCis CeMetery, Resurrection
near St. Bernadette's Parish, 60th Street/ Bell. Owned and operated by a Catholic. Beautiful home, private rooms, excellent care. Call (602)349-7638.
Mausoleum III, corridor 110, companion niche, tier 5, $6,285. Two single niches, tier 3 each $3,440 open and close prepaid, near St. Peter bronze statue. Call (602)841-2315.
MaMa Mary assisted LivinG. Licensed
st. FranCis CeMetery, true companion
for 10 residents, 10 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms. ALTCS provider, affordable rates. Located at 8207 W. Cactus Rd., Peoria, S/E corner of 83rd Avenue and Cactus Rd. Call (623)776-2942 or (623)340-0480. Mary's Care HoMe. Assisted living, state
licensed, RN owned and managed. Located at 310 W. Muriel Dr., Between 3rd Ave./Bell Rd. Call (602)548-2230 or (602)574-6435.
Counseling MarriaGe, FaMiLy or individual counsel-
ing by marriage team; psychotherapist and educational consultant. Metrocenter area. Visit www.santacruzcounseling.com or call (602)843-4003. Jim Santa Cruz, M.C., L.P.C., and Jane Santa Cruz, M.A.
st. Mary's CHristian CounseLinG.
Individual, marriage, family and teen counseling. In-home counseling anywhere in the Valley. Visit www.smchristiancounseling.com or call (602)319-9177. Ty Weckerly, MA.
Hospice CatHoLiC
HospiCe approved by the
Diocese of Phoenix. Americare Hospice and Palliative Care is owned and operated locally by a Catholic family of registered nurses. We believe human life is sacred, for every person, at every moment. End-of-life care, Catholic priest for sacraments. Medicare certified, Valley wide. Call (480)726-7773 or visit www.americarehospice.com.
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st. FranCis CeMetery, section 720, plot 11, row 2, spaces 1 and 2, $2,750. Call (951)672-1089.
CareGivers needed now, one-on-one
st.FranCis CeMetery, companion space,
sold-out St. Joseph Shrine premier area. Plot 42, row 1, space 3. Includes vaults, marker, vase and extra lettering. $7,000 o.b.o. Call (602)828-1042.
La Paz Funeral Home Now Buying Cemetery Spaces
(602) 266-5558 or
(602) 743-1000 www.lapazfh.com
Cemetery Plots space 4, $4,500. Call (928)637-9971.
HoLy Cross CeMetery, sold-out St. Luke section 14, plot 15, row 2, spaces 4 and 5, $2,000 o.b.o. Call (480)473-9733. HoLy redeeMer CeMetery, companion
burial plot, includes two concrete boxes, one upright marker, $7,500. Call (602)403-5737 or email kdavison@specmkting.com.
HoLy redeeMer CeMetery, Two single
spaces, section 5, plot 59, row 1, spaces 3 and 4. Includes marker and vase, $4,500. Call (586)648-6537. Queen oF Heaven CeMetery, mau-
soleum 3, area 263. row 2, tier 2. Single niche includes urn, vase and emblem. Valued at $1,550 will sell for $1,100 o.b.o. cash. Call (480)895-5155. Queen oF Heaven CeMetery, compan-
ion niche, St. Timothy section, wall A, tier 5, niche 3. Valued at $3,950, will sell for $3,500. Call (480)861-4636.
Queen oF Heaven CeMetery, single
crypt in mausoleum, tier 6, crypt 225, $3,000. Call (623)695-0032.
st. FranCis CeMetery, section 802, plot
19, row 2, space 2, $2,950. Call (602)999-0443.
st. FranCis CeMetery, companion plot
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crypt. Corridor 207, row 2, space 8187. Includes memorial, vase and maintenance, $8,500. Call (731)796-5910.
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Miscellaneous Cars Wanted we Buy Junk Cars with titles and good running vehicles at a reasonable price. We also remove junk cars at no charge. Call (623)388-7241 or (623)936-3621.
Networking we are your LoCaL CatHoLiC Business. Our mission is to build the Catholic
community by incorporating our Catholic beliefs into our business practice and encouraging the Diocese of Phoenix community to support such businesses. Need a business? Search Us! Got a business? Join us! Visit www.FindACatholicBusiness.org. CCNA: Your local 501©(6) non-profit business association.
Vacation Rental san dieGo Condo right on the beach.
Sleeps 4, dishes, linens, hi-speed internet, cable. Very nice gated community next to harbor/pier with many restaurants, fishing boats, etc. Near the wine country and family attractions. Don't miss fall grape harvest and Lucy grape stomping festival. Off season $550-650 per week. www.sandiegobeachcondo.us, (480)380-3688.
Caregivers homecare, full/part-time, flexible schedule, rewarding, benefits, bonuses. Northwest Valley, (623)209-3080.
Experienced Ironer experienCed person to iron in my home
two to four hours every other week, $10 per hour. Call (602)788-6698.
Live-in Caregiver Live-in needed For Lady. Cooking,
doctors appointments, general duties. References. Room and board plus $1,000 per month, (480)368-9887.
Living Kraków Cultural Pilgrimages A Living Krakow Cultural Pilgrimage™ offers interaction with local people and culture — an experience some have called “life changing.” Pilgrims walk in the footsteps of the likes of Blessed John Paul the Great, St. Faustina and St. Maximilian Kolbe as they visit Marian sanctuaries. Living Krakow is an apostolate of Mike Richard, a Christ the King parishioner. In 2005, his son Greg returned from John Paul II’s funeral, having met many Polish pilgrims. Mike would visit Poland at least once a year
ees in local area cemeteries. Excellent earnings of $40 to $50k plus in commission is legitimate income potential for the first year. Training salary first 30 days then draw plus commission. Medical, life, dental, optical, prescription, 403b and pension plan etc. are some of the many perks our employees receive. Excellent opportunities for women and men interested in sales career and helping people. Advancement opportunities available for hard-working, focused individuals. Must be willing to work some evenings and weekends when our client families are available to see us in their homes. This is a full-time “Plus” sales/service position for dedicated professionals. Please fax your résumé to (602)267-7942 attn: Mr. White or email to tvarela@diocesephoenix.org.
Los CeMenterios CatóLiCos y Mortuorios solicita a aprendiz de ventas en
cementerios locales. Ganancias excelentes de $40k a $50k más comisión, es el sueldo potencial durante el primer año. Salario de entrenamiento más la comisión durante los primeros 30 días. Seguro médico, de vida, dental, óptico, recetas, 401K y plan de pensión, etc. son algunos de los beneficios que reciben nuestros empleados. Oportunidad excelente para mujeres y hombres interesados en carrera de ventas y ayudando al pueblo. Oportunidad para avanzar para personas trabajadoras y enfocadas. Deberá estar dispuesto a trabajar algunas noches y fines de semana cuando podemos ver a nuestros clientes en sus casas. Este trabajo es de tiempo completo más las ventas/posición de servicio para profesionales dedicados. Por favor envíe su currículo por fax a (602) 267-7942 Atención: Mr. White o por correo electrónico a tvarela@diocesephoenix.org
Prayers Prayers tHank you For prayers answered to St. Joseph, St. Jude, St. Anthony of Padua, Infant of Prague, Mary Undoer of Knots, Fr. Engelmar Unzeitig, St. Therese, Poor Souls and Divine Mercy. M.L.C.
Living Krakow formed a partnership with a 26-year-old pilgrimage company. This partnership enables Living Krakow Cultural Pilgrimages, inspired by the life, teachings and travel of Blessed John Paul II, to travel to any of the 140 countries where he traveled as pope. Information: Mike Richard (602)819-7473 Mike@LivingKrakow.com
www. LivingKrakow.com
Sales CatHoLiC CeMeteries and Mortuaries have openings for Sales Train-
and after reading the late pontiff’s Redemptoris Missio, began discerning bringing others to the pope’s homeland.
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tHank you, Jesus and my sweet St. Jude,
for hearing my prayers for all my family and job. Cosa
tHank you, Jesus, Blessed Mother and St.
Computer CoMputer saLe and serviCes. Great
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Anthony for prayers answered. R.G.
tHank you, st. rita and St. Jude for
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training, wireless networks, data backup, virus/spyware removal. Business and residential. Parishioner and choir member. Scottsdale Technology Solutions, (480)607-5854.
Brokerage/Sales your CatHoLiC reaLtors! Buying or
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port Conversions, Doors, Springs, Openers, Remotes. Marc Anderson, (480)874-4142 Lic. ROC#201259. Bonded/Insured.
Hauling Service PETE'S HAULING. (602)565-4268. Garage
clean-outs, appliance removal, yard debris, remodeling, clean-ups. Reasonable rates, free estimates.
CASTING CALL Show your faith. Share your faith. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, Charity and Development Appeal would like to invite all parishioners to audition for the 2013 CDA “Year of Faith” video. Please note the casting decisions will be made mid August with the shoot dates scheduled for the 2nd week of September.
Roles to Cast: English & Spanish mother with daughter Mom - Age: 30-40 Daughter - Age: 4-7
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Moving AZ ELITE MOVING a better choice, top
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Roofing MONSOON ROOFING, INC. Free inspec-
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Shutters & Blinds SELECTIONS SHUTTERS, BLINDS AND CUSTOM DRAPERY supplies all types of
window coverings for residential and commercial projects. www.selectionsinc.com, Lic.# ROC189078. Call (602)274-1310.
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El temor permanece tras la decisión de la Suprema Corte sobre la ley SB 1070 Por J.D. Long-García The Catholic Sun
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sus cinco hijas no les agrada cuando él sale. Juventino Franco es un inmigrante indocumentado. Su familia vive constantemente temiendo su deportación. La Suprema Corte de EEUU rechazó la mayor parte de las controversiales medidas del régimen de la ley SB 1070, en
una decisión el 25 de junio. Sin embargo, la provisión “muéstreme sus papeles” prevalece. Dicha provisión requiere que la ley de ejecución local determine el estatus legal de cualquier persona mandada a parar, detenida, o arrestada, si hay sospecha razonable de que dicha persona está en los Estados Unidos ilegalmente. “En parte, nada ha cambiado,” expresó Franco, quien ha estado en el país desde 1997. “Un policía
La Bendición de una vida fructífera Cuarta parte: Enfocando la infecundidad
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l 25 de este mes de julio se conmemorará el décimo cuarto aniversario de uno de los documentos más proféticos en la historia de la Iglesia, Humanae Vitae (de la Vida Humana) del Papa Pablo VI. Pablo VI, ante enorme presión tanto fuera como dentro de la Iglesia, reiteró en esta encíclica histórica la enseñanza constante de la Iglesia que cada acto sexual marital debe permanecer abierto a la posibilidad de una nueva vida procedente de Dios. En esta parte final de mi serie sobre la Bendición de una Vida Fructífera, quiero hacer hincapié en la importancia de proteger la dignidad de cada niño, incluso antes de su concepción. Este deber reside especialmente entre esposas y maridos y es ejercido cuando ellos disciernen cuidadosamente, ayudados por la enseñanza de la Iglesia, cuales medios son éticos y cuales no, al prepararse a recibir a un niño dentro de su matrimonio. Unitivo y Procreativo
En el corazón de Humanae Vitae se encuentra la enseñanza que el abrazo conyugal, el coito, es dado por Dios a la raza humana como un gran bien. Este bien tiene dos propósitos naturales, dados por Dios: la procreación (generación del bebé) y la unificación (vinculación del cónyuge). Estos dos efectos, que naturalmente resultan del acto, no pueden ser separados sin que el resultado sea una injusticia. Una separación de los dos, por ejemplo, el participar en el acto sexual con la intención de eliminar la posibilidad de la concepción de un hijo a través de métodos anticonceptivos, es una injusticia contra Dios y contra Su plan para el matrimonio, así como una injusticia en contra del significado del amor matrimonial, una injusticia que perjudica a su cónyuge. Por otro lado, también es gravemente erróneo tratar de concebir un hijo por medios que están separados del abrazo conyugal, como algunas tecnologías de reproducción asistida (TRA) practican. Algunas intervenciones en contra de la infertilidad son legítimas, pero aquellas que pasan por alto el abrazo conyugal se consideran gravemente ilícitas. Dos ejemplos de este tipo son la fecundación in vitro y la inseminación artificial. ¿Qué pasa con los bebés de probeta?
Trágicamente, cuando una civilización tecnológicamente avanzada acepta relaciones sexuales sin bebés, también
antes podía pedirme mis papeles porque yo no tenía licencia.” “Estamos listos para pelear esto, pero es triste para nuestros hijos,” dijo Gricelda García, madre de los hijos de Franco, quién vive con él. No se han casado porque esto conllevaría volver a depositar documentos de inmigración pendientes. Sus hijas de 10 y 11 años están muy al tanto de la amenaza, ya que tienen compañeros de escuela,
cuyos padres han sido deportados. Cuando su papá está fuera, preguntan constantemente, “¿Papi regresará pronto?” La solicitud de residencia de Franco está pendiente de revisión, pero si es otorgada, teme que no podrá pagar la cuota. García obtuvo su residencia el mes pasado. El proceso tomó 21 años. Ella la pidió a través de su padre, quien es residente legal, y quién la trajo a los Estados Unidos cuando García
Obispo Thomas J. Olmsted Jesus Caritas catholicsun.org/bishopolmsted.html
ignorará las preocupaciones morales que implican el producir bebés sin relaciones sexuales. En una ironía histórica que creo que no es una coincidencia, Louise Brown, el primer bebé de “tubo de ensayo” en la historia humana, nació el 25 de julio de 1978 en Oldham, Inglaterra, precisamente el día del décimo aniversario de la promulgación de la Humanae Vitae. ¿Está la Iglesia diciendo que Louise Brown, o los miles de otros niños producidos desde entonces por dichas intervenciones tecnológicas, son de algún modo inferiores a un ser humano, que carecen de dignidad humana? Absolutamente no. Al contrario, es exactamente su dignidad humana innata, que sale del hecho noble que ellos llevan la misma imagen de Dios, que promueve a la Iglesia a insistir, tranquila y fuertemente, como señala el Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica (#2378): “El hijo no es un derecho sino un don. El ‘don más excelente del matrimonio’ es una persona humana. El hijo no puede ser considerado como un objeto de propiedad, a lo que conduciría el reconocimiento de un pretendido ‘derecho al hijo.’ A este respecto, sólo el hijo posee verdaderos derechos: el de ‘ser el fruto del acto específico del amor conyugal de sus padres, y tiene también el derecho a ser respetado como persona desde el momento de su concepción.’” El sufrimiento causado por la infecundidad es frecuentemente intenso tanto para la esposa como para el esposo “¿Qué me vas a dar? Abraham pide de Dios (Gen 15:2), “¿Voy a morir sin hijos?” y Raquel exclama a su marido Jacob (Gen 30:1), “¡Dame hijos porque si nó, muero!” En su reciente libro “The Infertility Companion for Catholics” (“El Compañero de la Infertilidad para los Católicos”), Angelique Ruhi-Lopez escribe sobre las tentaciones que ella y su esposo enfrentaron, aún siendo devotos Católicos, cuando su infertilidad se hizo aparente (p. 24): “A menudo sentía que tratamientos como la inseminación o TRA eran como una zanahoria colgada delante de nosotros mientras caminábamos a lo largo de una carretera interminable... ‘Siempre hay inseminación, pero supongo que no elegirías hacerlo.’ Mi esposo y yo dijimos que no porque sabíamos que la Iglesia estaba en contra (al igual que mi médico), pero la pregunta que venía a la mente era ‘por qué no?’” La pregunta de “por qué no?” es una pregunta que todos debemos tratar de contestar — clero, religiosos, laicos,
tenía 3 años. El hermano de García, Jaime, está actualmente detenido mientras su caso es revisado. El entró al país a la edad de 2 años, dijo García. “Su hijo se duerme llorando,” dijo García, añadiendo que el niño conserva una fotografía de su papá debajo de su almohada. “Los niños lloran cada noche porque extrañan a sus padres.” — Ver lA iMporTANCiA página 25 ▶
profesionales médicos, esposos y esposas — con una respuesta que es informada, fiel y envuelta en verdadera compasión, y una respuesta que no pone la vida o dignidad de ningún ser humano en peligro. Desarrollos Médicos fieles al Diseño de Dios
Entonces, ¿qué pueden hacer los maridos y las esposas que luchan con la infecundidad, que no viole la dignidad de su propia relación y la del niño que ellos esperan tener? Gracias a Dios, las intervenciones médicas más sólidas están siempre disponibles, no debido a la ganancia que busca la mayoría de los “especialistas de infecundidad,” sino al trabajo fiel de excelentes científicos tales como el Dr. Thomas Hilgers del Instituto Papa Pablo VI en Omaha. El Doctor Hilgers ha analizado minuciosamente las causas primordiales de la infecundidad y ha desarrollado tratamientos que no sólo son fieles a la enseñanza de la Iglesia, pero, no fortuitamente, más eficaces que el TRA para ayudar a parejas a concebir. Debemos ante todo estar agradecidos a Dios también por el ascendiente número de médicos y otros profesionales en medicina en nuestra diócesis que, como Paul VI y otros héroes de la fe a través de la historia, tienen la paciencia, la perseverancia y el celo para buscar la verdad, permanecer en la verdad, y no simplemente seguir las tendencias de la moda que fracasan como “progreso” auténtico ya que violan la vida y la dignidad humana. De este modo, ellos permanecen leales a aquella frase integral en el Juramento Hipocrático, “Ante todo, no perjudicar.” Localmente, estos médicos incluyen a los ginecólogos obstetras Lori Carillo, William Chavira, Michael Czerkes y Clint Leonard así como también los doctores James Statt y Deidre Wilson. Ellos también ayudan a crear una renovación de la cultura de la vida en el campo de la medicina, una renovación valerosa y sacrificada que se necesita desesperadamente en nuestro tiempo. Como ejemplo, lea el maravilloso artículo de Lisa McDaniel, PA, en la página 17 de esta publicación. ¿Y si todos los tratamientos lícitos fallan?
Para todos nosotros, únicamente a través de la aceptación del plan divino de Dios en nuestras vidas encontraremos alegría y verdadera libertad. De una manera misteriosa esta libertad interior y alegría a menudo surgen de la unificación de nuestros propios sufrimientos con los de nuestro Santo Señor. Sólo en la visión cristiana de la vida se puede encontrar una tradición de fecundidad misteriosamente conectada al sufrimiento humano. Las parejas que, a pesar del gran deseo de tener hijos y que buscan todos medios lícitos para superar la infecundidad, y que todavía se encuentran frente a una cuna vacía y a un sentimiento de insatisfacción en su vida conyugal, no deben caer en el desánimo. Dios es el “dador de buenos regalos” en todo momento; además, un niño no es el único don que El es capaz de dar las parejas casadas. ✴
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La importancia de la familia ▶ Continuado de la página 24
La Dignidad Humana Los obispos de Arizona respondieron rápidamente a la decisión, emitiendo una declaración a través de la Conferencia Católica de Arizona, que es el brazo político público de las cuatro diócesis Católicas del estado. Declararon que la provisión permaneciente, “podría separar familias, permitir que la práctica de ejecutar perfiles raciales sea posible — aún sin esto ser la intención de la ley, aumentar el temor dentro de la comunidad inmigrante, poner en peligro la política de la comunidad, y no reparar la política inmigratoria, quienes muchos a través del espectro político, han señalado está quebrada.” En su declaración, la Gobernadora de Arizona, Jan Brewer, llamó la decisión de la Suprema Corte, una “victoria de la regla de la ley” y dijo que los agentes oficiales no ejecutarían perfiles raciales a aquellos con quienes se encuentren. “Los agentes oficiales serán considerados responsables si éste estatuto es impropiamente empleado en una forma que viole los derechos civiles de un individuo,” dijo, añadiendo que la seguridad de los ciudadanos de Arizona era la preocupación principal. En una entrevista con el Catholic Sun, el Obispo Auxiliar Eduardo A. Nevares dijo que los obispos de EEUU también reconocen la necesidad urgente que tiene los Estados Unidos de defender sus fronteras. Mientras hay “razón para regocijo” porque mucho de la ley SB 1070 fue derrocado, “nuestro trabajo no ha terminado,” dijo. La seguridad, la dignidad del ser humano, la unidad de la familia y la promoción de una reforma inmigratoria comprensiva están en el corazón de la posición de la Iglesia acerca de la inmigración, dijo el Obispo Nevares. Ron Johnson, director ejecutivo de la Conferencia Católica de Arizona, dijo que con el tiempo sabremos cuán impacto permanente tenga la ley SB 1070 sobre la comunidad. “Lo que es seguro es que en el futuro vamos a ver demandas y retos a la ley SB 1070,” dijo. “Vamos a ver como va a ser implementada.” El Arzobispo de Los Angeles, José H. Gómez, presidente del Comité de los Obispos de EEUU sobre Inmigración, dijo que la decisión de la Suprema Corte de rechazar la mayor parte de la ley, reafirma el papel fuerte que juega el gobierno federal en cuanto a la regulación de inmigración se refiere. “La ejecución humana de las leyes de nuestra nación son parte de toda solución,” dijo, “pero la ejecución por sí sola, administrada injustamente, únicamente conlleva
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Gricelda Garcia y Juvenito Franco se sientan junto con dos de sus cinco hijas el 10 de julio. La familia vive preocupada que Franco será deportado.
a abusos y al rompimiento de familias.” ‘Muy temeroso’ Joel Navarette, un parroquiano de la Parroquia de San Agustín y quien fue previamente dirigente juvenil, dijo que los jóvenes Católicos están preocupados por lo que pueda pasar a sus padres. La ley recientemente anunciada por el Presidente Barack Obama, poniendo un paro a la deportación de jóvenes indocumentados traídos a los Estados Unidos siendo menores, ha ayudado con la tensión, dijo Navarette. Llamó la ley “un respiro, no un alivio.” “Los jóvenes adultos no temen por sí mismos porque ellos no pueden ser deportados,” dijo. “Pero sus padres sí tienen miedo.” Jennifer Andujo, de 13 años, teme tanto su padre como su madre sean deportados. “A veces lloro cuando mi mamá y mi papá salen por la mañana,” dijo. “¿Y si no regresan? ¿Qué haremos nosotros?” Sus padres la trajeron a ella y a sus dos hermanas a los Estados Unidos hace más de 10 años con una visa de turista. Esas visas están ya vencidas. “La mamá de mi amiga fue deportada de camino a California,” dijo Jennifer. Su amiga ha ya regresado a México con su papá y sus hermanos. Gema, la hermana menor de Jennifer, de 11 años, dijo que a veces tiene pesadillas de que sus padres van a ser deportados. Gema no se siente cómoda hablando en
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Español y ninguno de los niños quieren regresar a México. Su madre, Margarita Jaquez, dijo que sus temores y esperanzas son para sus hijos. Ellos no quieren dejarles solos — se mudaron para acá para proveerles un mejor futuro. “No saben absolutamente nada acerca de México,” dijo refiriéndose a sus hijos. Su padre, Miguel Andujo, dijo que tienen un plan por si acaso uno o ambos de los padres son deportados. Los niños saben a quién llamar y en donde quedarse. Tanto Miguel como Margarita asistieron a clases y saben que, por ejemplo, un pasaporte Mexicano es un documento de identificación aceptable en su área. Necesitan proveer a la policía su nombre. Luego, pueden permanecer en silencio y esperar hasta hablar con su abogado. Inmigrantes indocumentados también deben de cuidarse de los llamados asistentes legales quienes prometen conseguirles un estatus legal, según Joe Rubio, el organizador principal del Valley Interfaith Project. Algunos tratarán de aprovecharse de la nueva ley de la administración de Obama referente a los niños que fueron traídos siendo menores — lo cual aún debe de ser claramente definido. La forma de ejecutar la ley SB 1070 por la policía local variará entre una ciudad y otra, dijo Rubio. De modo que la implementación exacta de la provisión de “muéstreme sus papeles” no es conocida.
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“El reportar un crimen va a ser un acto de valentía,” dijo. Mucho abuso doméstico, venta de drogas y actividad de gangas han dejado de ser reportados dentro de la comunidad de indocumentados. Las víctimas y testigos temen su propia deportación. A la policía no les gusta eso, tampoco,” dijo Rubio. “Debe de haber un compañerismo.” El Valley Interfaith Project organiza clases sobre la inmigración en parroquias a través de la Diócesis de Phoenix para ayudar a los inmigrantes indocumentados a protegerse a sí mismos, y a conocer sus derechos en caso de que sean detenidos por la policía. “Pedimos a Dios que eso no pase,” dijo Miguel. “Cuando salgo de la casa en la mañana, solo Dios sabe si regresaré. Pero tengo que seguir adelante porque necesito trabajar.” Miguel trabaja en construcción y su esposa recoge trabajos donde puede, limpiando oficinas y casas. El trabajo ha estado lento desde
que las leyes de autorización para empleadores tomaron efecto, dijeron. La familia se ha estado quedando con amigos — mudándose de casa en casa, a veces a mediados del año escolar. “La fe es lo último que uno pierde,” dijo Miguel. “Debemos de esperar a ver lo próximo que viene.” Franco, padre de cinco hijas con otra de camino, no ha tenido trabajo fijo por años. “Vinimos para acá por necesidad,” dijo. “Regresaríamos a México si estuviésemos seguros de conseguir trabajo.” García, quien sirve como catequista en la Parroquia San Luis Rey, dijo que muchos niños están sin uno o ambos de sus padres. Ella y Franco regularmente rezan con su familia rosarios y novenas. “La Sagrada Familia también fueron inmigrantes y también fueron perseguidos,” dijo García. “Así que pedimos a la Virgen que interceda por nosotros. Ella comprende por lo que estamos sufriendo.” ✴
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An ongoing look at parishes in the Phoenix Diocese.
THE LATEST The parish’s Women of Hope group sponsored a July 14-15 back-to-school drive to gather supplies for local Catholic schools. St. Timothy now offers the only Catholic infant and toddler daycare center in the East Valley.
St. Timothy M E SA
WHAT’S UNIQUE? The church’s dual-level seating arrangement incorporates below-ground worship space for climate control. Sign language interpreters are available at the 8:30 a.m. Sunday Mass. There’s also a looping system so the hearing impaired can fully engage in liturgies and sacred music, which are at the heart of the parish. — Joyce Coronel
QUOTABLE UPCOMING A five-week apologetics series begins July 30 to equip Catholics to effectively discuss their faith with others. A free, six-week class, Seven Habits of Highly Effective Catholic Families: “Finding Your Family’s Identity in Christ” begins Aug. 6. “Changing the Culture One Woman at a Time” is an Oct. 20 seminar open to women from throughout the diocese.
Founded: March 1, 1978 Founding pastor: Fr. Ronald P. Simon Address: 1730 W. Guadalupe Road., Mesa Phone: (480) 775-5200 Pastor: Fr. Charlie Goraieb Number of families: 3,222
“I give heartfelt thanks to God for allowing me to serve in this wonderful and Spirit-filled parish. Every day I ask the Lord for the wisdom and grace to carry on the work of the New Evangelization at St. Timothy Catholic Church where we bear joyful witness to the name, person and mission of Jesus Christ.” — Fr. Charlie Goraieb, pastor of St. Timothy
Diocese of Phoenix CATHOLIC CEMETERIES and mortuaries (602)267-1329 In remembrance of those individuals interred in our Catholic Cemeteries for the month of June
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Ronald Stanley Bayers Joe Bedia Michael Anthony Benavidez Irene D. Bolduc Sylvia Boydell Robert Phillip Charo Josephine Conti Violet Daniels Enedina Mendez Duarte Mary Adame Flores Amalia Cristobal Gacula Mary A. Gano Samuel O. Garcia John Joe Garza Amelia Gutierrez Vincente Augustine Keahey Nora Lawlor Johnny Vindiola Linares Patricia Mariscal Eloisa Jiron Medina Mary Kuzell Niznik Mary Ellen O’Brien Elaine R. Preisel Barbara Rhodes Michael Joseph Riordan Juana Loza Sanchez Angeline Mary Sandstedt Fenway Strigler Roy R. Torres Phillip Matthew Turkovich Patricia Mary Urias Rosemary Vincelette Kathy Louise Williams Anna T. Zepezauer
Alex Anthony Aldana Gilbert Alday Sergio Ramos Amador John Edward Anderson Carlos O. Barrera Evelyn Brogdon Corinne Evelyn Callahan Evelyn Carcara Elizabeth Carranza Celestino Contreras Eradessa Ludin Correa Roger Ronald Davis Juana Galvan de Munoz Felicia Acosta de Santiago Benita Dominguez Izabella Alaina Escalante Lillian Figueroa Donald Foley David Robert Ford Manuel Montes Gomez Leah J. Herring Eva D. Hidalgo Angela Irazaba Chester Marion Kaminski Rosalia J. Kasprzak Lawrence C. Lettiere Frederick Lopez Mary A. Madrid Dana J. Milo George R. Montoya Lois Ann Moore Omar Ismael Roman Murillo Miguel Angel Padilla, Jr. Rafael Rios Adela Ramirez Rubio Virginia Barraza Saenz
Mary Bernadette Sordia Victoria Vitalievna Stepanova Maria de Jesus Verdugo Donald Charles Waitman Carol Camill Wedge
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Cemetery and Mortuary 1500 E. Baseline Rd., Mesa Miracle Noel Abernathy Silvano Aguilar Maximilliano Jaquez Alvarez Lola Ruiz Barajas Loren James Bemis Arthur John Berendt Lilah Grace Bowers Jose Canez Canez Lorenzo Juan Carrillo William Chapp Eulalio C. Cruz, Sr. Sofia Ponce de Cisneros Herman Franklin Eaton Henry J. Fernandez Gary Herbert Foisy Silvestre Galvan Donna Jane Godzik Regna Capua Henson Aaron Antonio Hernandez John T. Howard Ronald Janowski Wanda Lee McIntyre Maria del Rosario Mendoza-Sanchez-Rangel Maximiliano Kolbe Moron Richard Lee Murphy Alice J. Nelson Thai Nguyen Lucinda Ines Nido-Rubio Melody Ann Olson Raquel Delia Phillips Rose Ripp
Francisco Javier Juarez Rodriguez Frances Joan Rygiel Vito Salamone Glennon V. Schwent Charles Herbert See Mary Teresa Smith Tillie Jo Antoinette Swiszcz Jesse Ransdell Taylor Theresa Patricia Thomas Manuel Lemos Tristan, Jr. Jean Patricia Waddell Lucile A. White Lorene Ruth Williamson
Holy Redeemer Cemetery 23015 N. Cave Creek Rd., Phoenix Joseph Cudia David Arthur Goolsby Craig Alan Gossett Anna Maria Margarella Michael McVeigh Elizabeth Mosio Yoshiko Nakagawa Regina L. Niccum Joseph Portanova Agatha Przywara
Calvary Cemetery 201 W. University, Flagstaff Dorothy M. Gomez Edna Ilzarbe Carol Evangeline John
All Souls Cemetery 700 N. Bill Gray Rd., Cottonwood James T. Simonson
Correction: Mary Ann Miley was incorrectly listed as having been interred at Holy Cross Cemetery. She is interred at Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
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Meetings and Classes
Altar Server Training, 2-4 p.m., Aug. 6, 3-5 p.m., Sept. 10, 1:15-3:15 p.m., Sept. 14. Your altar servers, liturgy coordinators, sacristans, and MCs are welcome. Info: call Chris Mincolla at (602) 242-1300 ext. 146 or email cmincolla@simonjude.org. “Tears Speak…But Spirits Soar,” 7 p.m., Aug. 14, Mount Claret Retreat Center, 4633 N. 54th St., is a support group for women who have lost a child(ren) to abortion and wish to heal the pain and loss. For confidential discussion, call Patty at (480) 838-7474. Dominican Spirituality formation begins Sept. 8; if you are contemplating a way to consecrate yourself to God, consider the Dominican Laity through our four pillars of prayer, study, community and service. We dedicate our lives to seeking the truth and serving the Church and humanity. Info: contact Sandy LaChance at (602) 740-0503 or sandra_lachance2002@yahoo.com. Pray the rosary for the unborn, the ones that cannot speak for themselves, 9:15 a.m., every Saturday at Planned Parenthood, 1250 E. Apache Blvd., Tempe. All caring faithful and clergy are welcome. Info: call Ray at (480) 820-2553 or Dick at (480) 253-7118. The Benedictine Oblates meet the second Saturday of each month at Mount Claret Retreat Center, 4633 N. 54th St. in Phoenix. Please join us for prayer and study of the Holy Rule of St. Benedict. Info: email Patty at benedictine@cox.net. Third Order Carmelites meet once a month at St. Anne Parish, 440 E. Elliot Road, Gilbert. You are neither a priest nor a nun, but Our Lady and the Carmelite saints will bring you closer to Jesus through prayer, study, and practice of the Carmelite Spirituality. Info: call or text to (480) 420-7729. Schoenstatt Spirituality, Cardinal Dolan said, “It’s a great gift of the Church, Eucharist-centered, enhances family life, sense of joy, God is present through Schoenstatt, Covenant of Love, Movement with Mary and Jesus.” Come pray and study with us. Info: call Sally at (480) 945-6190.
The Secular Order of Discalced Carmelites meets on the third Saturday of each month. Participation in prayer and formation following charism according Teresian Carmel. Focus of study is Rule of St. Albert and Carmelite saints. Info: call Candida at (602) 481-6028.
Retreats
Marriage Mini-Conference with Katrina Zeno, 8 a.m.-noon, Oct. 6, St. Mary Magdalene Parish 2654 E. Williams Field Road, Gilbert. Cost: $15 per couple, breakfast included. Info: call (480) 788-3052. Registration: http:// marriage_conference.eventbrite.com Worship
St. Peregrine Mass of Anointing with Rev. Thomas J. Hallsten, KHS., 7 p.m., July 17, Holy Spirit Church, 1800 E. Libra Dr., Tempe. For all those afflicted with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Info: (480) 838-7474. Singles
Arizona Catholic Singles, Dinner Social, 5:30-8 p.m., July 20, Cucina Tagliani Italian Restaurant, 8349 W. Bell Road. Info: call Darlene Pierrot at (623) 934-8040; Mass and Brunch, 11 a.m. Mass, July 29, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, 2121 S. Rural Road, after Mass; Applebee’s, 909 E. Broadway Road, Tempe. Info: call Patrick at (480) 898-7424 or (480) 371-8856. Single Souls; “A Catholic Christian in the Workplace” presented by Robert Roeder, 7 p.m., July 21, St. Joseph Parish, 11001 N. 40th St. How we can apply our faith in the secular workplace and make our way in culture often apathetic and hostile to faith. Info: call Dan at (480) 941-5952 or Karen at (602) 332-1737.
Entertainment
Dinner, Dance, Bingo, 6 p.m.; Mass at 5 p.m., July 28, Queen of Peace Parish, Madonna Hall, 141 N. Macdonald St., Mesa. Sponsored by Catholic Renewal Ministries. Cost: $15 couple; $10 adults; $3 children. Info: (602) 276-9100 or (480) 201-6691. Fifth Annual Friends of the Cathedral Open Golf Tournament, Sept. 28, JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa. Save the date. Register at www.friendsofthecathedral.org. Saturday Night aLive with Catholic Charities, 6-10 p.m., Oct. 6, Steele Indian School Park, Memorial Hall, 300 E. Indian School Road, Phoenix. Tickets are $100 per person and include, food, bar and riotous entertainment. Reservations: drodgers@cc-az.org or (602) 650-4827.
This and That
Casting Call 2013 CDA “Year of Faith” video needs participants in both English and Spanish languages for each category: mother age 30-40 with daughter age 4-7; grandparents age 60-70; father age 35-45 with son age 5-8; businessman on the street, age 45-55; male construction worker, age 20-30; female driver age 18-21, woman, age 38-55; and man, age 20-30, tattoos preferred. If you or your family fit the casting specifications above, please email your contact info and current picture to CDACasting@randymurrayproductions.com. The casting decisions will be made mid August with the shoot dates scheduled for the second week of September. Pre-Kindergarten Now Enrolling, full-day, D.E.S. approved, child must be 4 years old by Sept. 1, before and after school care available, St. Louis the King Catholic School, 4331 W. Maryland Ave., Glendale. Info: (623) 939-4260. Aid to Women Center’s Fall Gala Fundraiser, “Fruits of His Grace” with Shari Rigby, birthmother in “October Baby” sharing the fruits of His grace in her life, 6 p.m., Sept. 29, St. Bernard of Clairvaux in Scottsdale. Info: (480) 966-1902, for table sponsorship or reservations. Society of St. Vincent de Paul
Summer volunteers needed to fit your abilities and interests. Info: call Volunteer Services at (602) 261-6870 or (602) 261-6886 (Spanish) or visit www.stvincentdepaul.net. St. Vincent de Paul accepts cars, boats, motor homes, trailers and motorcycles. To process a car donation, call 1-800-322-8284. Leave a legacy by including St. Vincent de Paul in your will or estate plan. There are many options and plans available. Info: call Shannon Clancy at (602) 261-6814 or visit www.stvincentdepaul.net. Cleaning out your closet and getting organized? Call us to pick up your gently used clothing, furniture and household items. To schedule a pickup, call (602) 266-HOPE (4673). The Casa
All events held at the Franciscan Renewal Center, 5802 E. Lincoln Dr., Scottsdale. Information, (480) 948-7460. “The Process of Forgiveness: A Silent Retreat” coming this fall with Fr. William Meninger, OCSO, Nov. 9-11. Forgiveness is the heart of the Christian life. It is simply love that needs repair with true knowledge of the process of forgiveness whereby we can be brought to the heart of Christ where all things are possible. Fee per person including meals: $130; with lodging $215 single, $165 double per person. Registration required.
Spiritual Spa Weekends with Pam Bork, July 20-22, Aug. 10-12, Aug. 2426. Fee per person: $125, includes all meals, private room and program. Optional Amenities: Massage and gentle touch will be provided at a low cost to be paid directly to the providers. No credit card services for amenities. The Beatitudes with Father Joe Schwab, OFM, 6 p.m., dinner 7 p.m., July 27, reflection; the foundation of Christian spirituality and ethics. Fee per person: $20 includes dinner. Registration required.
Private Retreats provide time away in a peaceful place for anyone seeking solitude, rest, renewal and prayer. Check our summer rates at www.thecasa.org Casa Men’s Spirituality Retreat, 5 p.m., Aug 10-1 p.m., Aug. 12, a retreat for all men regardless of where they are in their lives to renew your spiritual passion and help you pause for reflection and renewal. Fee per person; commuter, $75; single, $200; and double, $125. Scholarships available.
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