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Dominican Sisters of Peace:
a new name and an evolving mission
2 Catholic Times
August 2, 2009
The Editor’s Notebook
Servants of Christ
By David Garick, Editor
As I was working on this week’s
edition of Catholic Times I happened across the text of the homily
that was given this week by Bishop
Joseph Cistone at his installation as
Bishop of the Diocese of Saginaw,
Michigan. He drew his message
from the wonderful Gospel account
of the wedding at Cana.
Out of all the players in that story,
he focused on the servants, or waiters,
at the wedding. Clearly stressed out
by the demands of the wedding guests
and the expectations of their master,
the bridegroom, they were beside
themselves because they had run out
of wine. Their problem was quickly
resolved when Mary, our Blessed
Mother, appealed to her Son Jesus
and then told the servants “Do whatever he tells you.” Bishop Cistone’s
point was that we are all called to be
servants -- servants of Christ. All believers, from His Holiness the Pope,
to the bishops who shepherd our local
churches, to the solitary, soft-spoken
lady who always sits at the far end
of the third pew at your parish, must
heed the call from Our Lady to, “Do
whatever he tells you.”
The subjects of our cover story this
week clearly understand this vital
commission. The Dominican sisters
understand what it means to truly
serve Our Lord. Taking on the vocation of religious life, these sisters
clearly understand that our lives are
not our own. Our lives exist to be
used to further the will of God. In
their calling to religious life, these
sisters receive a wonderful gift of
spirituality that enables them to live
out that commission.
While we are
not all called
to a vocation
of religious
life, we can
all benet from the spirituality of
these women who have received this
special calling. As you read the story
that begins on Page 10, you will get a
glimpse of how this call to be servants
of Christ is being lived out by the
Dominican sisters. We see it in their
roles as educators, teaching not only
the wide range of worldly knowledge,
but also the knowledge of God’s love.
It is apparent in their care of the elderly and the inrm, both in the care
of their bodies and their souls. It is
clearly part of their works of charity that help not only to sustain the
lives of the impoverished, but to lift
their spirits. And it is fundamental in
their roles as missionaries to carry the
Word of God and the Love of God to
all corners of the earth.
But most of all, these sisters present
us with models for our own spiritual
life. Spend a little time with any of
these sisters and their abundant spirituality will spill over into you. Those
of us living our routine, pressure-lled
lives often lose track of who we really
are, in a spiritual sense. We are like
those harried waiters at the wedding
in Cana. We need direction and we
need spiritual assurance that everything can be resolved. It is in these
troubled times that we can draw from
that well of spirituality that springs
from all of these sisters. In them we
hear the voice of Our Lady telling us,
“Do whatever he tell you,” and our
course becomes clear.
Front Page photo:
Sister Margaret
Ormond, OP (left),
prioress, and
Sister Anne Kilbride, OP, of the
Dominican Sisters
of Peace
CT photo by Jack Kustron
Catholic Times 3
August 2, 2009
U.S. Bishops Urge Congress to Observe
Respect for Life, Access for All in
Health Care Legislation
“Genuine health care reform that
protects the life and dignity of all is a
moral imperative and a vital national
obligation,” said Bishop William F.
Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.,
as he outlined the policy priorities
of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the
issue of health care in a July 17 letter
to Congress. The letter supported efforts to pass health care reform, but
warned against inclusion of abortion.
Writing on behalf of
the bishops as chairman of their committee on domestic
justice and human
development, Bishop Murphy said the
bishops have advocated comprehensive
health care reform
for decades and recommended four
criteria for fair and just health care
reform: respect for human life and
dignity, access for all, pluralism,
and equitable costs.
“Two of these criteria need special
attention as Congress moves forward
with health care reform,” Bishop
Murphy said.
On respecting life and dignity, he
said, “No health care reform plan
should compel us or others to pay
for the destruction of human life,
whether through government funding or mandatory coverage of abortion. Any such action would be
morally wrong.”
After citing protections from pub-
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Bishop Murphy added, “Health
care reform cannot be a vehicle for
abandoning this consensus which
respects freedom of conscience and
honors our best American traditions.
Any legislation should reect longstanding and widely supported current policies on abortion funding,
mandates and conscience protections because they represent sound
morality, wise policy
and political reality.”
On the issue of access
for all, Bishop Murphy said, “All people
need and should have
access to comprehensive, quality health
care that they can afford, and it should
not depend on their
stage of life, where or
whether they or their parents work,
how much they earn, where they
live, or where they were born. The
Bishops’ Conference believes health
care reform should be truly universal
and it should be genuinely affordable.”
He went on to say that, even after
the implementation of health care reform, some families, including many
immigrants, will not be covered. He
urged Congress to adequately fund
clinics and hospitals that serve as a
safety net for these people.
The full text of Bishop Murphy’s
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The Single Parent Family Fair has become a major summer event in the city of Newark, with an outpouring of support and volunteers from area churches providing needed assistance for
families in need. There is always a large line of people waiting for the doors to open at Blessed Sacrament Church
Photos by Deacon Patrick Wilson
ANNUAL SINGLE PARENT FAMILY FAIR MOBILIZES
NEWARK COMMUNITY
By Deacon Patrick Wilson
W
hen we give glory
and praise to our
God, and truly trust in
Him, it is amazing what
we can accomplish. One
such example of this
is alive and well at the
Church of the Blessed
Sacrament, in Newark,
Ohio, where the parish is about to hold its
fourth annual Single
Parent Family Fair, an
event that has supplied
free school supplies
for families who are in
need. The idea came
about when a small
group of women of the
parish met together and
asked one another what
they could do for single
parents who were struggling to meet the needs
of their school children
as another school year
approached.
What emerged was a
day that is festive, inviting, and encouraging,
made up of a variety
of persons helping and
assisting in a variety
of ways. It is an ecumenical and community
event, targeted toward
single parent families,
but actually available
for any family that is nancially, emotionally or
spiritually challenged,
enabling families free
access to a wide variety
of resources intended to
help alleviate some of
their short and long term
burdens with the immediate focus of getting
single parent families
ready for school in August and September.
The parking lot and
gymnasium annex of
Blessed Sacrament is
used to set up displays
from organizations offering aid such as book
bags lled with school
supplies; mechanics on
site providing oil changes or other services; free
haircuts being offered to
those who needed them;
free hot dogs and drinks
for everyone; persons on
hand with displays of
their services available;
eye doctors and dentists giving free exams
to those who could not
afford them; as well as
games for the children,
referrals for adults to social service agencies who
needed additional services; and spiritual conversations and follow-up
available for persons of
all faiths provided by the
Pastors of the Churches
of the community who
were invited to participate in the event.
The project is supported by volunteers from
several churches, and
many donations from
parishioners at Blessed
Sacrament, St. Francis
deSales, and St. Leonard Catholic churches, as
well as donations from
area businesses. The rst
two years of the event,
strong nancial support
was provided by one of
the community churches
participating, the Trinity Episcopal Church of
East Main St., Newark.
Last year and this year,
we have received help
from grants provided by
the Catholic Foundation
to purchase the many
school supplies needed
to keep this event going
and growing. The rst
year of the event, a total
School supplies are always a summertime challenge for families in need. Here, parents can receive a new book bag and a
wide assortment of school supplies for their students
of 350 lled school book
bags were given away.
That number grew to
nearly 650 lled book
bags in the second year,
and just last year, over
1,050 book bags lled
with school supplies were
provided. Each year, the
event, held on the second
Saturday of August from
10AM – 2PM provides
the fun and games it was
envisioned, with door
prizes provided by many
donors, and many happy
volunteers from the area
participating.
This event has also
brought together many
other persons in the life
of the parish – other
groups such as the Holy
Name Society, the Marian Club, the Youth
Group and the Boy
Scouts sponsored by the
parish have assisted with
serving meals, providing
clean up, packing book
bags, and volunteering
free car washes for those
as they wait to receive
school supplies.
With the economic strife
felt by many people in
our country, all who are
involved with this year’s
planning of the event are
concerned that as many
as 2,000 book bags may
be needed to fulll the
needs of our local community. Remembering
that with God, all things
are possible, we place
our trust in Him who can
accomplish all things,
and turn to Him in prayer
and thanksgiving, knowing that this year’s events
and those to come will
be met with success and
many blessings.
The fair will be held
on Saturday, Aug. 8, at
the Blessed Sacrament
Church Annex, 411 E.
Main St., Newark, from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. It features fun for the kids,
food, door prizes, and
book bags lled with
school supplies for the
children’s rst day of
school as well as certicates for free services for
the families, as well as
community and professional resources.
For more information,
or if you are a business
or organization wishing
to donate goods or
services for this event,
please contact Kathy
Wilson at Blessed
Sacrament Church,
740-345-4290.
4 Catholic Times
August 2, 2009
PRACTICAL
By Rick Jeric
Catholic Times 5
August 2, 2009
Parishioners at Columbus
St. Mary Magdalene Church
honored Father Stan Benecki
(center, wearing black)
celebrating his 25th year as a
priest, on Sunday, July 19,
at the annual picnic
commemorating the feast
day of the parish’s patron
saint. An afternoon lled
with food, fun, and fellowship
began with a prayer service
in church
STEWARDSHIP
Eucharist
Did you spend one hour, outside of Sunday
Mass, meditating on God and Jesus Christ as the
constants of our Faith? Last week was likely full
of summer fun, including vacations, golf, the pool,
picnics, and whatever else we do to get the most
out of our summer. As we meditate and work
on increasing our faith, we realize how critically
important it is to get the most out of our relationship with Jesus Christ.
We nd Him in our summer fun. He is present in each one of us. We
nd Him in His Word of the Gospel. Most important, we nd Him in
the Eucharist. Hopefully, we have taken the time to include Jesus and
our faith in our summer fun. An extra Mass during the week, a family
rosary, or a family visit to the Blessed Sacrament are all simple ways in
which we can include Jesus in our summer family plans. Re-charging
our lives and our families with a summer vacation is necessary and a
wonderful thing. Re-charging our souls and our faith with extra effort
and time with Jesus is also necessary and a wonderful thing.
Eucharist. This is the center of our Faith. This is our reason for living.
This is what sets us apart as Catholic Christians. This is everything for
us. We gather as individuals to approach the Eucharist. We gather as a
Christian family to love and embrace and become Eucharist. We gather
as a Church to be Eucharist for one another. We are nothing without
the nourishment of life that this real presence of Christ provides. Eucharist. We are truly one for all, and all for one. Eucharist gives us the
one and only thing we truly need – for all of us. In turn, all of us live and
act for Eucharist – for one kingdom of God. Eucharist means eternal
life for us. Can we ever really, fully grasp what that means? Faith! We
have our faith, and we express it in the deepest and most profound
way each time we stretch out our hands and respond, “Amen” to the
offer of, “The Body of Christ”. This most personal encounter, becoming
one with Jesus, takes great faith, but it also requires a very conscious
realization and acceptance of something that is beyond our comprehension. When we say, “Amen”, we must say it with the most profound
faith, hope, and love that we can possibly muster. This is our faith for
eternity.
Next time you are at Mass, or this Sunday, pay close attention to the
words and actions of the priest just prior to Communion. As he breaks
off a very small piece of the Host and drops it in the chalice, he will
quietly say, “May the mingling of the Body and Blood of our Lord, Jesus
Christ bring eternal life to us who receive it”. This is our prayer, too.
Say it along with the priest. This small prayer says it all. Our goal is
eternal life. Our mission is to evangelize the rest of the world by our
daily, public living of the Gospel. As the priest elevates the Body and
Blood of Christ and proclaims how happy we are to be called forward,
we say, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you”. Of course we are not
worthy. We are sinful humans. Thank God for the mystery of being a
part of this sacrament. “But only say the word, and I shall be healed.”
This profession of faith makes us “worthy”, thanks to the healing power
of God. Eucharist is one for all, and all for one.
Our practical challenge this week is twofold, again. First, pray for the
strong faith that we need through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin
Mary. Pray at least one rosary as an individual, and then as a family. Second, receive the Eucharist one extra time other than Sunday Mass. Go
a little out of your way, and think about that “Amen” at Communion.
Receive the Eucharist, and then be Eucharist for one another each day
of your life.
Magdalene did.
Jeric is director of development and planning for the Columbus Diocese.
Pictured Back row, left to right -Rev. William A. Metzger, Natalie McComas, James Dickson, Bishop James A. Grifn,
Salvatore Carfagna, Ashley VanHorn, Deacon Felix Azzola. Front row, left to right – Bryan Gronski, Mary Vitullo,
Edina Reo, Anna Maria Bitoni, Gina Mussio, Chelsea Stevenson, Caroline Conte
Photo by Sandy Bonneville
Photo provided by St. John the Baptist Parish
Scholarship Winners
August 7th & 8th
The 2009 Marrapese Scholarship Winners and the DiNardo Scholarship Winner
were honored at St. John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church, June 28, 2009. The
thirteen students are a highly successful group of young Italian-Americans who
have spent the past four years learning, contributing and leading at their respective
high schools. They provided countless hours of volunteer service, excelled in their
academics, showed talent on sports elds and served their parish churches. This
year’s scholarship program is the 29th year St. John’s has provided support to high
school seniors entering higher education.
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Mary of the Annunciation, Holy Redeemer, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady
of Lourdes, Holy Trinity, St. Monica,
and St. Peter in Chains churches made
the decision to “spiritually” adopt unborn babies by uniting themselves as a
deanery in an effort to help to save the
lives of the most innocent in our society through prayer, and to provide an
opportunity for our parish communities to take positive steps to increase an
awareness of the abortion issue.
Each person who spiritually adopts
a baby prays that an unknown child’s
life be spared from abortion, and then
continues to pray for that child and
mother throughout the course of the
pregnancy.
To help accomplish this, it is recommended that an individual say the following daily prayer for a period of nine
months…
“Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I love you
very much. I beg you to spare the life of
the unborn baby that I have spiritually
adopted who is in danger of abortion.”
The deanery church community started this prayer last September 24, 2008
in coordination with the 40 Days for
Life Campaign. The gestation period
of a nine months pregnancy ended on
June 24, 2009. The deanery at that time
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celebrated the births of the unknown
children’s births they adopted with a
deanery wide baby shower. The money and baby items that were collected
were presented to the local Pregnancy
Crisis Center C.R.A.D.L.E.
Cradle Pregnancy Center is a nonprot Christ-centered ministry serving
the moms, babies and families in need
and brings together volunteers from
churches throughout the community.
The deanery also participated in the
Fourth Annual Walk-For Life held Saturday, June 27, 2009 in Portsmouth.
Proceeds from this event went to benet Cradle as well.
Some of the services C.R.A.D.L.E.
provide include free pregnancy testing,
a 24-hour hotline, biblical counseling,
post-abortion counseling, post-abortion
healing, maternity and infant clothing
and supplies, and abstinence education.
Televised Mass receives
endowment support
The James and Naomi Curtis Memorial Endowment fund of The Catholic Foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Columbus has distributed $1773 to
the diocesan Communications Ofce to support the
Televised Mass. The funds will assist in paying airtime costs for the broadcast of the Mass on four television outlets in the Diocese of Columbus.
The Televised Mass is broadcast on Sundays on
WWHO-TV in Columbus at 7:30 a.m.; at 7 a.m.
on WHIZ-TV in Zanesville; on Cable Channel in
Marion and Tuscarawas counties at 11 a.m. and
on Cable Channel 20 of Adelphia Cable in Scioto
County at 11 a.m.
The Catholic Foundation is a charitable organization that solicits and manages endowments that
provide funds for a wide variety of communitybased projects and the people they serve in the 23county Diocese of Columbus.
6 Catholic Times
A quick note from:
OFFICE OF LITURGY
ADORATION / EXPOSITION OF THE HOLY EUCHARIST
“The solemn exposition of the holy Eucharist offers the opportunity to the people of God for prayerful reflection on their
call to a deeper devotion to the Holy Eucharist and a more
faithful living of the Christian life. It provides them with an
opportunity to become more aware of Christ’s presence with
his people and invites them to a spiritual communion with
him.” (Order for the Solemn Exposition of the Holy Eucharist,
#3). Our devotions before the Blessed Sacrament should always
bring out the meaning of Eucharist
both in its correlation with our Eucharistic liturgies and as the source
and culmination of our Christian
life. Christ’s true presence calls us
to prayer and to Christian action.
We reserve the Blessed Sacrament for those who are sick within
our communities and for those
who are unable to join us in the
celebration of the Eucharist. It
is only because we reserve the
Blessed Sacrament for this purpose
that we would pray whenever we are near the reserved sacrament - thus we have adoration.
Adoration is any time spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. Adoration can take place any time the church is open to
the community. Several churches have their tabernacle located
in a Eucharistic chapel with specific hours available for individuals to pray before the sacrament in the tabernacle. Some
churches even have access to the Eucharistic chapels around
the clock every day of the week with individuals present every
hour of every day. This is referred to as perpetual adoration.
Not only is it reserved for the sick and dying of the community and for those who cannot be present for our celebration
of the Eucharist, the reserved Sacrament is a gift to the entire
community. The community can celebrate the presence of the
reserved sacrament through a liturgical celebration of Exposition.
Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, in contrast to adoration,
refers to the public display of the Blessed Sacrament in either a
monstrance or a ciborium. Throughout the celebration of this
ritual, there must always be members of the faithful present.
The liturgical book: Order for the Solemn Exposition of the
Holy Eucharist, contains the rituals which provide a beginning
and a conclusion to the exposition. Since there is a beginning
and a conclusion, exposition cannot be perpetual without
special permission of the bishop, usually given only to religious
orders which have as one of their practices, continuous prayer
before the Blessed Sacrament. Throughout the public display
of the Blessed Sacrament there should be periods of music,
readings from sacred scripture, preaching, intercessory prayer,
and silence. The ritual concludes with a special blessing of the
faithful present.
Solemn Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament involves an
extended period of time which would take place once a year;
for instance, during the Feast of Corpus Christi or a parish’s
multiple day devotion (similar to the 40 hour celebrated years
ago). Here, again, there must always be members of the faithful
present. Throughout this extended period of exposition, there
should be periods of music, readings from sacred scripture,
preaching, intercessory prayer, and silence. The ritual concludes
with a special blessing of the faithful present.
August 2, 2009
‘We’ or ‘I’ believe? How many disciples of Jesus?
Q
. In the creed at
Mass we say “We
believe.” But the Latin is
“I believe.” Why the shift
from a personal afrmation of faith using the rst
person singular form?
(New Jersey)
. The revision of the
Roman Missal after
Vatican Council II changed
the words of the Nicene
Creed to “We believe” because this was the original
authentic form of that profession of Christian faith.
The rst ecumenical
council at Nicaea promulgated the major portion of
the creed in the year 325.
Fifty-six years later the
second ecumenical council
of Constantinople revised
the Nicene Creed, particularly adding the nal part
regarding the Holy Spirit.
This is the creed we normally proclaim at Mass.
In both of these formulas
the text reads “we believe”
in the original Greek (“pistoiomen”) and in Latin
(“credimus”). Apparently
the intent was to emphasize that the faith being
professed was not essentially a personal matter but
the faith of the entire community of believers. Only
some time later was the
singular “I believe” introduced for liturgical use.
The tentative new revision of the missal presently under discussion would
return to “I believe.”
The Latin and Greek
texts of these two fourthcentury creeds may be
A
QUESTION & ANSWER
by: FATHER DIETZEN
Catholic News Service
found in the “Enchiridion
Symbolorum” (Denzinger-Bannwart-Umberg) 54,
86.
. Can you provide
us with information
about the followers of Jesus? The impression we
always received was that
Jesus and the apostles
were always together and
alone. In our Bible studies,
however, we read of other
followers, including some
women. Who were those
others? (North Carolina)
. We need to note before all else that the
Gospels themselves are
not very clear about matters like this. They were
not written as biographies
or to answer curiosity
questions but to proclaim
the good news of the
presence of God’s kingdom as revealed in Jesus
Christ. The rest is more
or less incidental.
That said, the answer isn’t
that complicated. First of
all, many of Jesus’ followers or disciples did not accompany him on his journeys from town to town.
They stayed home, pursued their daily business,
but supported and cared for
him when he came around.
They were acquaintances,
even close friends. Among
Q
A
Blessed are they who mourn, for they will be comforted.
many examples in the
Gospels, perhaps the most
obvious is the family of
Martha, Lazarus and Mary
in Bethany, just outside
Jerusalem. It’s clear they
and Jesus loved each other
intimately, but seemingly
they were not in his daily
entourage.
Another group seems to
have accepted personally
and immediately Jesus’
invitation to “follow me,”
and traveled with him.
Luke (10:1) speaks of 72,
though likely not more
than a few of them at most
were with him all the time.
Astonishingly, as you
indicate, his close companions included a number of women. By Jewish
custom of those days the
dignity and credibility of
religious leaders did not
allow them to relate to
women publicly, include
them as disciples or use
them as carriers of important instructions.
Jesus was not constrained
by these restrictions. We
read in the Gospels of
women who accompanied him at least part of
the time, people whom he
taught and, at least on one
most notable occasion related in all four Gospels,
used to convey the news
of his resurrection to the
apostles (John 20:17-18,
Luke 24:9-10, Mark 16:7,
Matthew 28:7-8). As we
might expect of good
Jewish men of the time,
they thought the women’s
message was nonsense
(Luke 24:11).
Finally, of course, there
was the core group of the
Twelve, those the Gospels
describe as a specially chosen inner circle. That this
number was symbolically
important is indicated by
the fact that after the death
of Judas the remaining
11 felt obliged to choose
someone to take his place
(Acts 1:26).
This latin derivative is applicable for all
of us – in work, in play, in friendship,
and in fellowship as we go forward.
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Women who have had abortions suffer mental health consequences
By: JOSH SPIERT
The debate over abortion saturates
American society. It’s central to most
religious groups and political campaigns. What may get lost in all the legal and moral quarreling is the effect of
abortion on the parents themselves.
Studies conducted by Dr. Priscilla K.
Coleman and others have begun to show
the impact of abortions on the mental
health of women and girls who undergo them. “We can denitively say now
that abortion does cause depression and
an increased risk of suicide ideation or
thoughts and behavior,” she said.
Coleman gave a presentation about
the mental health effects of abortion at
a conference sponsored by Bethesda
Post Abortion Healing Ministry at Columbus Christ the King Church.
She received a doctorate in life-span
developmental psychology from West
Virginia University in 1998 and works
as an associate professor of human
development and family studies at
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published her rst study on the mental
health aspects of abortion 14 years ago.
“I had met many women who suffered
from (having an) abortion,” she said.
“But the scientic literature didn’t seem
to reect their pain.”
love or afraid to let go depends on her
individual personality.
Coleman discovered from her studies
that the main mental health outcomes
of abortion on women include depression, anxiety, sleep problems, suicide
ideation, suicide, and substance abuse.
Coleman criticized several aspects of
the report. She said it was “politically
driven, as opposed to being scientically derived from an extensive peerreviewed literature.” She said the APA
shifted to a pro-choice stance when it
adopted the concept of abortion as a
civil right in 1969.
The presentation highlighted a 2006
study conducted by David Fergusson
of New Zealand. It concluded that by
age 25, 42 percent of the women experienced depression, 39 percent had
anxiety problems, 27 percent had suicide ideation, and almost 7 percent had
developed alcohol dependency.
Substance abuse has been one of the
most prevalent outcomes seen throughout the studies.
“Alcohol is widely available in our
society and it’s an easy way to dull
some of that pain, so it makes a lot of
sense that women who are suffering
from an abortion would be resorting to
substance abuse,” Coleman said.
Research suggests that all women are
not affected equally. Adolescent girls
are most likely to suffer mental health
consequences from abortion.
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Coleman said this is probably because
they’re pressured into it by parents or
boyfriends. They might also abort for
social reasons, to avoid embarrassment,
or to hide the fact that they have been
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As could be expected, economic status plays a major role. “Poor women
are also more likely to be adversely affected,” Coleman said. “It’s likely due
to the fact that they may feel they have
no choice but to abort due to their nancial situation and the costs involved in
raising a child.”
Research also has shed light upon the
impact of abortion on a woman’s relationships later in life. Spousal and parental relationships can be strained as a
result of the emotional damage of having an abortion. Two prominent outcomes reveal two ends of the spectrum.
A mother might become overprotective
of her child, or a mother might remain
detached from her child.
Whether a woman becomes afraid to
Coleman spent much of the presentation arguing that the American Psychological Assocation had shown a prochoice bias in its 2008 task force report
on abortion and mental health.
In Coleman’s view, the APA provided
insufcient information on its methods
of conducting the task force. She was
one of the reviewers selected to read
the report before it was released, but
considered herself in the minority because “by and large, the weight of the
bias was on the pro-choice side.”
To create a more scientic and balanced report, Coleman said the task
force should “include committee members with pro-life and pro-choice political views, or choose members who
don’t have strong views on the issue,
examine all relevant literature, apply
the same standards to critique each
study, and offer a more objective, quantitative analysis.”
Deanie Dodge, who works at the Vineyard Church of Columbus and with the
organization HEART (Healing the Effects of Abortion Related Trauma), has
dealt with women who used the “abortion pill” instead of undergoing the traditional procedure.
“What I’m nding now is that they’re
coming in and having really bad psychosis,” Dodge said. “They have to be hospitalized and then they come in to seek
help, but they can’t even get that far.”
Most of the women who come to HEART
do so a year or more after their abortion,
but those who have used the pill seem to
have more psychological problems in a
shorter time. Dodge theorized that being alone at home and seeing the results
of the pill could be a major factor.
The Catholic Church’s view on abortion is clear: Life is sacred and should
be valued. While the focus of the abortion debate has been on the innocent life
that is lost, Coleman’s studies show the
terrible toll abortion takes on the women who make that tragic choice.
8 Catholic Times
August 2, 2009
The Year of the Priest
‘We’ll never forget you’:
Fr.Thomas Shonebarger
ByTim Puet
Father Thomas Shonebarger said the inuence of
St. Pius X changed his life.
He was a Trappist monk for 13 years at Gethsemani
Abbey in Kentucky, where he served as an associate of the well-known Trappist author Thomas Merton. But a growing desire for a more active religious
lifestyle led him to request permission to leave the
abbey and study for the diocesan priesthood.
Once permission was granted, he studied theology at Mount St. Mary Seminary in Cincinnati for six months before being
ordained on Aug. 23, 1969, his 33rd birthday, at Lancaster St. Mary Church,
his home parish.
“I had been thinking for some time about leaving the abbey, and it was a
really hard inner debate whether to stay or go,” he said. “Then I read a book
on St. Pius, who was canonized while I was in high school. His activity as a
parish priest seemed to t into my thinking of what a priest’s life should be,
and that helped me work the decision out.”
He served as a teacher, diocesan vocations director, and director of the scholastic program for ecclesiastical students before becoming pastor at Grove City
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in 1977. He was pastor there for 10 years,
at Newark Blessed Sacrament for eight years, and at Columbus St. Timothy
for 10 years before his health forced him to leave the active priesthood.
He retired on Aug. 26, 2006, and lives at the Mohun Health Care Center
in Columbus.
“I’ve never been disappointed in my assignments,” he said. “I originally had
wanted to be a parish priest when I was a young boy, and it’s been a great privilege to be there for people when they needed God’s help. One of the great satisfactions of the priesthood continues to be the friendships I made at all three
parishes and the notes I get from people saying, ‘We’ll never forget you.’”
Father Shonebarger, 72, was stricken with a combination of heart failure and
kidney failure on Dec. 19, 2005, at St. Timothy’s. He was taken unconscious to
a hospital, and has lived at the Mohun center for the last 3 1-2 years. He can
walk with the assistance of a walker and receives dialysis three days a week.
“Once I realized that my condition was likely to be permanent, it dawned on
me that this is what God has called me to do,” he said. “I didn’t choose it, but
it’s his will, and if this is what God wants me to do, then I’m happy to do it.”
He said his last concelebrated Mass about eight months ago. He said his
health prevents him from doing that again, but he continues to hear confessions and anoint sick people.
He was the fth of ve boys in a family of 11 children and said his rst inspirations to become a priest came from his rst cousin, the late Msgr. Dan
Kirwin of the Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va., Diocese, and two rst cousins who
were Religious sisters. Another of his rst cousins is Father Richard Snoke,
pastor of Danville St. Luke Church.
While at Gethsemani, Father Shonebarger was assistant master and Merton
was master of novices. He also served as Merton’s typist.
He recalls Merton as being “a very lively person. He had a lively gait when he
walked, and a tremendous smile. He lectured every day to 80 or 90 novices,
and no one ever fell asleep at his lectures because they were always so good.”
Faith
Formation for Prison Ministers
By Deacon Larry Koebel
Jesus was a convicted felon! If that
shocks you, stop and think about it.
He was arrested, locked up, tried—not
once, but twice—sentenced to death
and executed between two others on
“death row.”
The diocesan Ofce of Ministry
Formation, in cooperation with the
Diaconal Council’s Subcommittee on
Prison Ministry and the Ofce for Social Concerns, is offering a four-week
course for people interested in exploring prison ministry as a volunteer. The
program will meet from 9:30 a.m. to
12:30 p.m. at Columbus St. Elizabeth
Church, 6077 Sharon Woods Blvd., on
four Saturdays: Sept. 12, Oct. 10, Nov.
14, and Dec. 12.
No prior training is necessary. All that
is required is a willingness to show up,
listen, and share some time and faith.
The four sessions will offer a well-
rounded view of prison ministry presented by people with years of experience as ministers or staff members at
correctional institutions. Presentations
also will be given by former inmates,
family members of those who are incarcerated, and victims of crime.
Many people seriously reevaluate their
lives when locked up. Prison ministers
walk the journey of searching with the
inmate and witness to the Gospel.
Prison ministry is a valuable way to
evangelize as a minister among the poor.
To visit the imprisoned is a corporal
work of mercy and recognizes the dignity of human life. Through its multifaceted prison ministry, the Church is
present not only to inmates, but also to
their families and victims.
For more information, contact Sheila
Murphy, Ministry Formation Ofce,
197 E. Gay St., Columbus, OH 43215,
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LIVING
Grace is sufficient when dollars are short
Baited by the prospect of $1 million, she turned
down $172,000 and then wound up with $5.
“You know, Howie, money doesn’t make me happy,”
the defeated contestant told the host of NBC’s Deal or
No Deal. The audience cringed and clapped.
Whenever I catch a rerun of this retired reality show,
I cannot ip the switch until the nal briefcase is
opened and the verdict revealed.
I am fascinated by the quick calculus of risk and
reward. Does the chance of luxury override the
certainty of comfort? Does the possibility of a
mansion trump the elimination of a mortgage? For
many contestants, yes.
They are prodded by the deafening chorus, “No deal!”
Even the parents and spouses – the ones you expect
to inject a little common sense, the ones who actually
will be affected by the outcome – join the mob.
“I’m the most conservative person when it comes to
this game,” a husband donned in khakis and an argyle
sweater tells his pregnant wife, given the nal offer of
$561,000. “But I have to agree with your mom on this
rare occasion and say ‘no deal.’”
When the queasy contestant cooperates, the
audience voices its approval, cheering on the
audacity and the lunacy.
Money has a way of making us all a little crazy.
Our money, our neighbor’s, a stranger’s. The gain,
Twenty Something
Christina Capecchi
the loss, the sheer idea of it. We imagine the power
it would wield, the delights it would invite and the
problems it would solve.
“Money doesn’t buy you happiness,” Johnny Depp
recently told Vanity Fair. “But it buys you a big
enough yacht to sail right up to it.”
I caught that quote on Twitter, and it made me think
of my penny-pinching, job-hunting friends, trying to
keep their heads up in a down economy. Here we are,
twenty something and saddled in debt, toting master’s
degrees our alma maters called valuable in a market
that doesn’t seem to care.
The headlines make us dizzy and doubtful. As we
negotiate risk and reward, we can hear the public
chanting, “No deal!”
It’s easy to relate to this month’s readings from St.
Paul. Early in his ministry, he is feeling discouraged,
comparing himself with other “superapostles” – such
a modern term and temptation!
“Three times I begged the Lord,” St. Paul writes,
“but he said to me, ‘My grace is sufcient for you,
for power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore,
I am content with weakness, insults, hardships,
persecutions and constraints for the sake of Christ; for
when I am weak, then I am strong.”
We, too, are early in our ministries and feeling a
bit uneasy, which is OK – good, even, if it helps us
recognize the sufciency of God’s grace.
This recession can be a rener, an overdue prompt to
readjust our priorities, to launch careers for love, not
money, and to seek simple pleasures: Redbox movies,
root beer oats, Catchphrase. We can help each other
nd the hilarity and the hope. We can discover that
profound paradox: weakness clearing space for power,
humbling and honing us to better serve Christ.
The early apostles also made tough calculations,
sizing up the crowd of 5,000 and their sparse resources.
“Two hundred days’ wages worth of food would not be
enough for each of them to have a little,” Philip says.
Then Jesus perfects power in weakness, and
everyone is fed.
So are we.
Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from Inver
Grove Heights, Minn. Email her at christina@
readchristina.com.
B l e ssi n g o f a Bad Da y
By Sarah Reinhard
Sometimes a bad day sneaks up on
you. You are going along, minding
your own business, and WHAM. Not
even a chance to say thanks or take
a breath. Just a bad day, dumped out
of the sky.
I had one of those recently. It had
all the elements of a humdinger—lack
of sleep, lack of hygiene, lack of nutrition, proliferation of loud banging
and clanging, and an overcast sky. I
got out of the wrong bed on the wrong
foot and was limping around with a
chip on my shoulder.
Yeah, I was ticked. Just what did I do
to deserve this?
Well, hey, we all have bad days,
right?
What made me think I was exempt?
What I always forget when I’m at the
beginning of what I dub a bad day—you
might say the unsuspecting day lives up
to my expectations—is that God often
has something else in mind. There I go,
calling it a bad day before it even has a
chance to get properly started.
Looking back on how the day actually
turned out, I wonder if I would have noticed the shower of blessings? Would
I have appreciated the four angels who
helped me before 9 AM? Would I have
been thankful for the productivity that
resulted, if all had started out peachy?
Sometimes, it seems like the deck
is stacked against me. Sometimes, it
seems like a bad day is inevitable. But
maybe I need to change my perspective,
and think about the opportunities a bad
day presents. There are the opportunities to recognize God’s grace in my everyday life. There are the opportunities
to see God at work in the people around
me. There are the opportunities to offer
God my suffering and let him give me
back the peace.
Most of all, I nd that a bad day reminds me to pray. I don’t usually have
a better option, and while it may not
be a magic elixir—the day may still
be bad after I’ve prayed—it does help
me to let go and let God. It does help
me to focus on the bigger picture and
not become so caught up in me—MY
worries, MY problems, MY bad day. It
does help me to remember that I don’t
have to be perfect, which means I won’t
have perfect days all the time. And I’m
not alone.
When a bad day sneaks up on you,
may you have the courage to stop and
pray, giving your bad day to God. And
even when the bad day continues its
course, I pray that you will nd the wisdom to recognize the blessings that are
nestled beneath the pains.
Reinhard is a parishioner at Plain City
St. Joseph and writes online at snoringscholar.blogspot.com.
10 Catholic Times /August 2, 2009
August 2, 2009 /Catholic Times 11
The Motherhouse of the Dominican
Sisters of Peace in Columbus serves as administrative headquarters for the newly
formed congregation CT photo by Jack Kustron
An employee and a sister praying at
the Mohun center, which the Domincan
Sisters of Peace have operated since the
1950s Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
Dominican Sisters unite to preach truth with a new fire
Sister Anne Kilbride, OP (left), and Sister Margaret Ormond, OP, prioress of the newly
formed Dominican Sisters of Peace, at a peace pole outside the new congregation’s
Motherhouse in Columbus
CT photo by Jack Kustron
Sister Diane Kozlowski, OP (standing), assists Sister Venard Kessler, OP, with a craft
activity at the Mohun Health Care Center, one of several ministries of the Dominican
Sisters of Peace in Columbus
Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
BY TIM PUET
Reporter, Catholic Times
Few similarities exist
between the world as St.
Dominic viewed it in 1206
and as it is seen today by
the sisters and other Dominicans who trace their
congregational origins to
the community he founded
in that year.
But the need he saw then
to boldly preach the truth of
the Catholic Faith in an often hostile world remains as
strong as ever, if not more
so. That’s the reason why
the Columbus-based Sisters
of St. Mary of the Springs
joined six other Dominican congregations from the
Midwest and South earlier
this year to form the Dominican Sisters of Peace.
The chapter commitments
adopted by the new congregation on April 20 say
its principal mission is “to
preach truth – with a new
re.”
“Our preaching ows from
our contemplation and is
embodied in our prayer,
study, community, and ministry,” the document continues. “Rooted in the heritage
of the Order of Preachers
(the Dominican order’s formal name), we witness to
the living presence of the
Risen Christ.”
“Just as St. Dominic refuted the heresies of his day
in a loving and intelligent
way, we plan to look at the
heresies of today, such as
materialism, individualism,
consumerism, sexism, racism, and the abuse and destruction of the planet, and
contend with them in a way
that radiates the goodness
of Jesus Christ,” said Sister Margaret Ormond, OP,
prioress of the new congregation and a former prioress of the St. Mary of the
Springs sisters.
The process of forming
the Sisters of Peace has
taken most of this decade.
Sister Anne Kilbride, OP,
another former St. Mary of
the Springs prioress, said it
began around 2000 with a
discussion between the Columbus-based congregation
and the Sisters of St. Dominic of the Immaculate Heart
of Mary, based in Akron.
Quickly joining them was
the New Orleans-based
Dominican Congregation
of St. Mary. Eventually, a
second New Orleans-based
Dominican congregation,
plus others from Kentucky,
Kansas, and Michigan
joined the discussion. “The
congregations come from
various backgrounds – Slovakian, Irish, German, and
American – but had a common history of collaboration for some time because
of their location in the middle of the United States,”
Sister Anne said.
In 2007, the seven congregations overwhelmingly
voted both as units and individually to petition the
Vatican to form a new congregation. The ofcial decree from Rome accepting
the petition was received
this spring, and the congregation was ofcially formed
on Easter Sunday, April 12.
A founding event took
place two days later in St.
Louis, with simultaneous
celebrations in Columbus
and six other cities. It was
followed by the rst congregational meeting of the
Sisters of Peace, known as a
general chapter. During that
event, the sisters adopted
founding documents, determined areas of commitment
for the coming years, and
elected their rst leadership
team, consisting of a prioress and four councilors.
Members of the team will
be installed on Saturday,
Aug. 8, at the Martin de
Porres Center in Columbus.
The newly united congregation has its administrative
headquarters in Columbus
and consists of 653 sisters
serving in 38 states, Honduras, New Zealand, Nigeria, Peru, Puerto Rico, Tanzania, and Vietnam. They
work at 33 congregationally founded ministries and
in individual areas including education, health care,
parish service, ecology, retreats, social services, spiritual direction, pastoral care,
chaplaincy, prison ministry,
counseling, campus ministry, and the arts.
They are aided by more
than 500 lay and clergy Associates who are partners
with the sisters and have
pledged to share their mission in everyday life. About
190 Associates live in Ohio,
including about 75 in the
Columbus diocese.
The sisters have ve ministries in the Diocese of
Columbus, the oldest and
probably the best known
of which is Ohio Dominican University, formerly
St. Mary of the Springs
College, in Columbus.
The Sisters of Peace are
the university’s sponsoring
congregation, the prioress
or her representative is on
the executive committee of
the ODU board of trustees,
and the university’s rules
require that one-third of the
trustees be members of the
congregation. In addition,
some sisters continue to
minister there.
Adjacent to the congregation’s Motherhouse near the
university are the Mohun
Health Care Center and the
Martin de Porres Center.
Mohun is a fully licensed
and certied nursing home
providing short-term, longterm, and skilled care to
vowed and ordained Religious, including priests, sisters, and brothers who belong to the Dominican and
other orders, as well as diocesan priests and deacons.
It has a capacity of 72 residents, with 69 people currently living there and cared
for by about 120 employees
and 80 volunteers.
The De Porres center was
established in 2004 as a
place for spirituality, education, and the arts. It is
named for a Dominican
saint who was known for
his compassion and service
to the poor in Peru. It offers
monthly programs in spirituality and the arts, meeting
space for other non-prot
groups with comparable
missions, and exhibit space
for visual arts.
Its most recent outreach is
the Institute for Maturing
Spirituality, which presents
regular programs designed
to help older adults in
their search to grow closer
to God and nd their spiritual identity.
Another of the sisters’ local
ministries is the Dominican
Learning Center, located in
the former Corpus Christi
School in the German Village section of Columbus.
The sisters established it
in 1994 in response for the
growing need for literacy in
central Ohio among longtime residents and those
who have moved here from
other nations.
It offers programs in literacy, English as a Second
Language, high school
diploma equivalency, citizenship, math, and basic
computer skills at multiple
locations. Since its opening, it has served more than
3,000 people from 52 na-
See SISTERS, Page 13
Prioresses of the congregations which joined to form the Dominican Sisters of Peace take part in a unity ceremony at the congregation’s
founding event in St. Louis in April. Sister Anne Kilbride, OP, of Columbus is in the blue jacket
Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
12 Catholic Times
August 2, 2009
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August 2, 2009
SISTERS, continued from Page 11
Pictured (from left) are 60-year jubilarian Sisters Mary Jo Fox, Melita Bearinger, Anne White, Cora Minnaji, and Raymunda Brooks Photos/Sisters of Peace
Dominican Sisters of Peace marking 50th anniversaries are (from left) Sisters Marlene Dimmerling, Patricia
Gavaghan, de Chantal Lorenz, Melinda Burkhart, Catherine Malya Chen, Rosalie Graham, and Anne Rutledge
FourTeen Dominican Sisters of Peace celebrate jubilees
Fourteen Dominican Sisters of Peace
who were professed in Columbus as
Dominican Sisters of St. Mary of the
Springs are having jubilees this year.
Sister Edwina Devlin celebrates 75
years as a Dominican sister. She is a
visitor to the sick at the Mohun Health
Care Center in Columbus. She taught
in three states before serving for nine
years in Chimbote, Peru. She later was
CCD and RCIA coordinator in Zanesville, retirement coordinator for the St.
Mary of the Springs sisters, and notary
of the Columbus diocesan Tribunal.
Five sisters are marking their 60th
jubilees. One of them is Sister Melita
Bearinger. who taught at Columbus
St. James the Less and Somerset Holy
Trinity and was principal at Columbus
St. Gabriel. She serves the congregation
chiey as a licensed consultant, proofreader, and member of the task force.
Sister Raymunda Brooks’ teaching
assignments included Columbus St.
James the Less, Bishop Watterson High
School, and Newark Catholic High
School. She was principal at Lancaster
Fisher Catholic High School, assistant
director of the Dominican Learning
Center in Columbus, and director of internal communications for St. Mary of
the Springs. For the past 15 years, she
has served on the Columbus diocesan
Tribunal and as RCIA director at Newark Blessed Sacrament.
Sister Mary Jo Fox, formerly Sister
Mary Nicholas, served at Columbus
Our Lady of Peace, Christ the King,
Holy Spirit, and St. James the Less, and
Somerset Holy Trinity. She also was on
the Ohio Dominican University faculty.
She is a volunteer at the Mohun center.
Sister Cora Minnaji’s only assignment
in the Columbus diocese was at Colum-
bus St. Philip. She serves the sick and
aged in the Pittsburgh diocese.
Sister Anne White, formerly Sister Cyrilla, taught at Columbus St. Francis of
Assisi and elsewhere. She is a licensed
practical nurse and ministered for more
than a decade at the Mohun center. She
serves the sisters as a staff volunteer.
Sister Melinda Burkhart is one of
seven sisters celebrating their 50th anniversaries. She taught at Lancaster St.
Mary, Columbus Our Lady of Peace and
St. Thomas, Coshocton Sacred Heart,
Newark Blessed Sacrament, and Somerset Holy Trinity. She ministered as a
home visitor at Somerset Holy Trinity
before joining the prayer ministry as a
Mohun center resident.
Sister Catherine Malya Chen comes
from Shanghai, China. She served as a
staff nurse at the Mohun center and at a
Cincinnati hospital. She was a nurse in
Chimbote for seven years, then became
assistant director of nursing at Mohun,
where she is director of resident life.
Sisterr Marlene Dimmerling, formerly
Sister Marie Damian, taught at Columbus St. Thomas, Christ the King, and
Our Lady of Peace, and was pastoral
minister at Zanesville St. Thomas Aquinas and director of religious education
at Gahanna St. Matthew. She is director of a parish in Luxemburg, Wis.
Sister Patricia Gavaghan has managed
kitchens, households, transportation,
and supplies in various locations. She
works in the central supply department
at the Mohun center
Sister Rosalie Graham has taught
at Columbus St. James the Less, and
Coshocton Sacred Heart and Newark
Catholic high schools. She served as library director at Ohio Dominican. She
was secretary to the major superior at
the congregation’s Motherhouse and
secretary-bookkeeper at the Columbus
diocesan missions ofce. She is now
librarian at the Motherhouse.
Sister de Chantal Lorenz taught math
and physics and was vice principal
at Watterson. She was diocesan consultant for the Columbus secondary
schools, chair of the business administration department at Ohio Dominican,
and a certied pastoral care director at
Mother Angeline McCrory Manor.
Sister Anne Rutledge, formerly Sister
Kenneth Marie, served at Columbus
Holy Name, St. Thomas, and Christ the
King schools, and was school administrator at Columbus Our Lady of Peace.
She currently is transportation coordinator at the Mohun center.
Celebrating her 25th jubilee is Sister
Susan Leslie, who has served in Chimbote since 2004. She taught religion at
Columbus DeSales High School, and
was a physical therapist and vice president of system mission at Mount Carmel St. Ann’s Hospital in Westerville.
A gathering of the Turning Leaves and Tea Leaves book club, which meets at the Martin de
Porres Center on the second Wednesday of every month Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
One Family In Mission
“We can only pay him
$3.52 a month but he is
like a priceless gift to
our people.”
So says Bishop Joseph
Willigers of Jinja,
Uganda, about
Mathias, one
of his catechists.
There are close to
200 full-time and about 600 part-time
catechists in Jinja. Each is willing to give of
themselves because, as one catechist put it, “We
love Jesus Christ and know that but for our work
of making Him known many of our people would
not be reached at all with the ‘Good News.’”
tions, including more
than 600 in the 2008-09
academic year.
“This and our other Dominican learning centers
offer more than literacy
programs,” Sister Anne
said. “They improve life
and provide a place for
people to gather, encourage each other, and share
their dream of productive citizens.”
Shepherd’s Corner is a
working farm and ecology center on 160 acres
in far eastern Franklin County. It provides
an island of serenity surrounded by urban
sprawl, giving people
a chance to reconnect
A program on the photos of the late Trappist monk Thomas Merton attracted about 50 people recently at the Martin de Porres Center in Columbus Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
with the environment,
one another, and God.
It includes a prayer
labyrinth, pastures with
farm animals, a meditation trail, and a farm with
three acres producing
organic vegetables each
summer. At least onethird of what the farm
produces is sent to food
pantries, with much of
the rest sold at a roadside
stand on the property.
The efforts of a small
staff are supplemented by
hundreds of volunteers,
most of them young people, who donated more
than 1,500 hours of service last year.
“Sisters have always
Won’t you help catechists in the Missions as they
continue to bring the “Good News” of Jesus Christ
to those most in need of Him?
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been on the cutting edge was somewhat of a culturof spiritual life,” said al thing. In that era, it was
Sister Anne, who made very culturally accepted
her nal profession of to be a sister. Today, that
vows as a Dominican in same decision is more of
1967. “Their interest in a countercultural choice.
ecology is a current ex- “What’s also happened
ample of this, but it goes in the past 40 years or so
back to the days of St. is that sisters now nd
Dominic when his idea themselves performing a
of having brothers and much greater variety of
sisters in the same reli- roles, with teaching as
gious family was quite a one of many options.”
radical thing to do.”
It now is recommended
“Historically,
sisters that women interested in
have lled the needs of becoming sisters nish
their times,” said Sister college before becoming
Margaret, whose profes- pre-candidates, who get
sion was made in 1965. to know members of a
“For much of the 20th congregation by visiting
century, sisters began them and discussing Retheir training much ear- ligious life.
lier and their numbers
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Benedict XVI and the truth about charity
Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Cycle B)
The Bread of Life feeds body and soul
Father
Lawrence L. Hummer
Exodus 16:2-4,12-15
Ephesians 4:17, 20-24
John 6:24-35
Among many themes in
the Book of Exodus, one
recurs above others: the
constant grumbling of the
Israelites. In Sunday’s
reading, they complain
against Moses about the
lack of food, forcing the
Lord to intervene again in
their deliverance by providing food for them.
The complaint is that
of people in every generation who generally are
never satisfied. While in
Egypt, they were slaves
who craved freedom.
Now that they are in the
desert (and free), they
crave food. Later on, they
will grow weary with the
menu and they’ll begin to
complain about the manna. But throughout this
section, the Lord remains
eager to please them and
care for them.
The Psalm response to this
incident has a different
take on things. The verses
used in Sunday’s responsorial simply mention the
incident in the desert, but
later verses indicate that
God grows weary of their
complaints and kills the
strongest of their warriors and the young men
of Israel in their prime.
The Psalm therefore is
more concerned with an
image of God who can
only be pushed so far and
no farther.
So it is with Israel down
through the ages, and so
it is with all peoples
who claim a relationship
with the Lord. Dissatisfaction with the terms of
the covenant eventually
leads to grumbling, rebellion, and the need for
reconciliation.
The Gospel story of the
feeding of the multitude
is the only “miracle story”
found in all four Gospels.
John’s Gospel calls what
happened “a sign.” John’s
presentation is somewhat
less dramatic and more
theological than the Synoptic Gospels. Having
reporting the actual sign
in last week’s Gospel, we
now begin the lengthy
post-event reflection by
John on the meaning of
the sign.
Every question posed
by “the crowds” in John’s
Gospel leads to an unexpected answer. Thus the
crowds ask “Rabbi, when
did you get here?” and
Jesus answers that they
should work for food that
endures for eternal life. In
turn, they ask what they
must do to accomplish
the works of God, and he
answers that the work of
God is to have faith. They
then ask “What sign can
you show us that we may
believe?” They have just
been part of the feeding,
but saw nothing.
The feeding last week
took place in a deserted
place. Yet the crowds
point out what Moses had
done in the desert long
ago. Jesus says it was not
Moses but “my Father”
who not only gave bread
from heaven, but who also
gives it now.
Again, the crowds fail
to understand, leading
to the point of the reading here: “I am the bread
of life.” Coming to Jesus
means there never will be
hunger or thirst again on
the part of those who not
only come to him but who
also come to believe in
him. The power of one’s
faith removes both physical and spiritual hunger
and thirst.
I am amazed how often
Catholics lose touch with
this basic reality about
the Eucharist as the food
and drink of faith, which
sustains us in our journey.
Catholics who grow distant from the “Bread of
Life” allow their faith to
starve to death. When the
Church requires weekly
participation in the Eucharist, it is not for discipline. It is as basic to faith
as food is to the body.
Without food and drink,
the body dies. Without
the Bread of Life, the
faith dies on the
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Bible Readings
MONDAY
2 Corinthians 9:6-10
Psalm 112:1-2,5-9
John 12:24-26
TUESDAY
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Deuteronomy 32:3-4,7-9,12 (Ps)
Matthew 18:1-5,10,12-14
WEDNESDAY
Deuteronomy 34:1-12
Psalm 66:1-3,5,8,16-17
Matthew 18:15-20
THURSDAY
Joshua 3:7-10a,11,13-17
Psalm 114:1-6
Matthew 18:21-19:1
FRIDAY
Joshua 24:1-13
Psalm 136:1-3,16-18,21-22,24
Matthew 19:3-12
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Psalm 45:10bc,11-12ab,16
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Pope Benedict XVI’s
social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate [Charity
in Truth], is a complex
and occasionally obscure
document, replete with
possible implications for
the future development of
Catholic social doctrine.
Sorting those implications out will take much
time and even more careful reection. Along the
information superhighway, however, careful reection hit a few potholes
in the early going, as sundry partisans sought to
capture Caritas in Veritate
as a weapon with which
to bolster the Obama administration’s economic,
health care, and social
welfare policies.
Thus in the days immediately following the
encyclical’s July 7 release, we were treated
to the amusing, if somewhat ironic, spectacle
of self-consciously progressive Catholic magazines, bloggers, and freelancers, many of whom
would have preferred to
eat ground glass rather
than see Joseph Ratzinger as Bishop of Rome,
blasting those who dared
raise questions about the
encyclical’s intellectual
provenance and some of
its formulations. Where
were these stout-hearted
crusaders when the going
was tough – when, for
example, the Pope was
under re for his Regensburg Lecture on Islam, or
for attempting to reconcile four excommunicate
Lefebvrist bishops to the
Church? But that was before we entered the new
Messianic Age.
In any event, there is an
important theme in Caritas in Veritate that, were
all Catholics to take it
seriously, might have a
measurable impact on the
American culture wars
and on the U.S. Church’s
internal struggle to dene
Catholic identity – and
that is the encyclical’s
insistence, repeated several times, that the life
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Father Lawrence L.
Hummer, pastor at
Chillicothe St. Mary,
can be reached at
hummer@hotmail.
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Dear Editor
It was with great sadness
that I read today’s (7/18/09)
article in the Columbus
Dispatch about budget cuts
to both public and private
schools. This measure will
assuredly inuence the
Catholic School System diocesan wide and also at the
parish level. Given the current nancial environment,
it is time for Catholic parishes to renew their commitment to Catholic education
in their own communities
and in the broader diocese.
As a principle, Catholic
education should be kept
available and affordable.
But, especially in today’s
distressed nancial environment, if it is to remain available it must remain affordable. How is this going to
happen? The commitment
must come from Catholic
parishioners who contribute
to the vocation of Catholic
Schools (already operating
on “shoestring budgets”),
which primarily exist to
form the sons and daughters
of the Church in the total,
integral, vision of the human person proclaimed by
the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This will happen under the
principle of distributive justice. This principle has the
aim of using resources given
by all and applying them to
those who are most in need.
Right now, Catholic schools
and the pupils they serve are
in need and that need will
become dire if we continue
to be dependent upon state
funds for the fundamental
demands of education. (I
acknowledge that Catholic schools have a right to
THE CATHOLIC
DIFFERENCE
George Weigel
issues are social justice
issues, so that Catholic
social doctrine includes
the Church’s defense of
life from conception until
natural death.
This teaching began
with John Paul II’s 1995
encyclical, Evangelium
Vitae [The Gospel of
Life], in which John Paul
warned that democracies
risk becoming “tyrant
states” if moral wrongs
are legally declared
“rights.” Then-Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger went a
step further in his homily
at the Mass for the Election of a Pope, on April
18, 2005. There, Ratzinger warned against a “dictatorship of relativism”
in which coercive state
power would be used to
enforce the by-products
of a culture skeptical
about the human capacity
to know the moral truth
of anything: by-products
such as abortion-on-demand, euthanasia, and
“gay marriage.” Now, as
Benedict XVI, Ratzinger
has moved the discussion
further still, teaching that
the defense of life is crucial to building the “human ecology” necessary
to sustain just economic
practices and protect the
natural environment.
Caritas in Veritate has
now put Catholic legislators and politicians on
notice: you can’t duck
the life issues, or vote the
wrong way on the life is-
sues, by hiding behind an
alleged commitment to
the Church’s social justice
agenda. Catholic social
doctrine and the Church’s
commitment to the right
to life ow from the same
source: the Catholic conviction about the inalienable dignity of every human life. A robust culture
of life, the Pope proposes,
is essential for economic
justice and environmental
protection; it is also necessary if we are to avoid
the dehumanization of a
brave new world of stunted and manufactured humanity, the slippery slope
to which is paved with
misconceived compassion and embryo-destructive stem cell research.
Caritas in Veritate
thus reminds the whole
Church that there is neither justice nor charity
without truth. No society
can claim to be promoting justice or solidarity
if its law denies the truth
of others’ humanity. That
is what Roe v Wade and
Letters to the Editor
public funds insofar as they
contribute to the good of
society, but we have to deal
with the fact of decreased
support from the state.) If
we are to become much less
dependent on state funds,
we must take up the cross of
nancial responsibility and
pull together, as a Catholic
community, to give (time,
talent, and treasure) to our
local Catholic schools (elementary and secondary).
To accomplish this I would
encourage a new model of
parish involvement at both
the elementary and secondary levels. I suggest re-evaluating parish budgets with
a view to making support of
Catholic education of primary importance. Everything we spend money on is
an indication of the fact that
those things are important to
us as a community. In many
cases, we will nd that everything the parish spends
money on is of prime importance. When this results,
the challenge must be put
to parishioners to “buy-in”
to the fundamental importance of Catholic education.
Many have reaped the benets of Catholic education
and many of their children
have beneted from Catholic education. It is no argument to say, “I don’t go there
anymore or I don’t have
children there any more.”
Our commitment as a community must remain steadfast if Catholic education
is to endure. To those who
have received much, much
will be expected. We have
all received “grace upon
grace” and now is the time to
seriously examine our com-
its judicial progeny have
done in the United States;
that is why laws protective of life from conception until natural death
are an imperative of social justice; and that is
why “common ground”
efforts to lower the incidence of abortion, while
welcome, are inadequate
from the point of view of
Catholic social doctrine
– the moral equivalent
of saying, in 1955, “OK,
let’s see if we can’t get
you black folks into one
or two segregated restaurants in every county.”
Catholic legislators have
been forcefully reminded
of all this by the new
Benedictine encyclical.
The results in the U.S.
Senate, the U.S. House of
Representatives, and our
state legislatures should
be instructive.
George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and
Public Policy Center in
Washington, D.C.
• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
mitments for the sake of our
children and our neighbor’s
children! The state will pass
away, of this we are sure, but
it is a tenet of our Faith that
the Catholic community will
not. Our commitment to the
mission of Christ must extend to every aspect of our
lives and, owing from that
commitment, we are called
to will that which is truly
good for others even if it
means sacrice on our part.
The “others” in this case
are our sons and daughters,
both biological and spiritual.
Catholic parishes must take
a long, hard, self-examining
look at themselves in light
of the present crisis. To be
complacent or remain “business as usual” can mean
nothing but the demise of
Catholic education in our local communities.
Joe Holbrook
Lancaster
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Pray for our dead
ALLEN, Arnold C., 81, July 15
Ss. Simon and Jude Church, West Jefferson
KELLNER, Beverly D., 76, July 22
St. Mary Church, Marion
BLANCO, Oscar F., 39, July 20
St. Pius X Church, Reynoldsburg
KNIES, Lucetta, 87, July 24
Corpus Christi Church, Columbus
BRADLEY, Jean C., 94, July 7
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
MERCURIO, Marie R., 91, July 24
St. Paul Church, Westerville
BROWN, Glendon C., 84, July 21
St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Zanesville
MURNAHAN, Ruth C., 82, July 17
St. Mary Church, Portsmouth
CLAY, Elizabeth N., 77, July 23
St. Peter Church, Columbus
OSWALD, John F., 86, July 23
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
COGNION, Harold E., 86, July 19
Sacred Heart Church, Coshocton
PADAMADAN, Dev, 31, July 19
St. Brigid of Kildare Church, Dublin
DETTWILLER, Ruth A., 90, July 10
St. Mary Church, Portsmouth
PAVOLINO, Amelia M., 82, July 24
St. Paul Church, Westerville
DeVINE, Raymond C., 94, July 20
Our Lady of Peace Church, Columbus
PELGRINO, Nicky A., 83, July 18
St. Christopher Church, Columbus
DREESE, Martha J., 72, July 26
Immaculate Conception Church, Columbus
RYBSKI, Vernon A., 87, July 18
Church of the Resurrection, New Albany
FARKAS, Martin S., 75, July 14
St. Andrew Church, Columbus
SHIMP, Carolyn J., 45, July 22
St. Agatha Church, Columbus
GUYER, Andrew J., 83, July 24
Immaculate Conception Church, Columbus
STUART, Patricia L., 72, July 20
St. John Church, Logan
HEADD, Mary L., 96, formerly of Columbus,
July 27
TRUMP, Jeannine L., 79, July 21
St. Cecilia Church, Columbus
JOHNSTON, William L., 62, July 14
St. Nicholas Church, Zanesville
WORDEN, John W., 88, July 21
St. Ladislas Church, Columbus
Televised Mass for Eighteenth
Sunday in Ordinary Time
James Burns
Funeral Mass for James Burns, 78,
who died Sunday, July 5, was held
Friday, July 10, at Westerville St. Paul
Church.
He was a 1949 graduate of Delaware
Willis High School.
Mr. Burns was employed by the
St. Paul Church and also served 10
years on the Columbus Police Department and retired from the General Electric Co.
He was a fourth-degree member of the
Knights of Columbus.
He was preceded in death by one
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Survivors include wife, Barbara; son,
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Ruthie Burton, Edith (Harold) Johnson, Lodi Mooney, and Mike Mooney;
ve grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren.
Sister Anne Miriam Hunt, CSC
Funeral Mass for Sister Anne Miriam Hunt, CSC, who died Thursday,
July 9, in St. Mary’s Convent at Notre
Dame, Ind., was held Saturday, July
11, in the Church of Our Lady of Loretto at Notre Dame.
Burial was at the convent cemetery.
She was born in New York City in
1919 to the late Bert and Bessie Hunt.
She received degrees from Dumbarton College and the Catholic University
of America, both in Washington, D.C.
She spent 27 years as a nursing ad-
ministrator and supervisor, mostly at
Mount Carmel Hospital in Columbus,
where she was head nurse from 1947
to 1951.
In 1972, she began a career in retreat
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parishes in the United States, Guyana,
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August 2, 2009
From the Diocese of Columbus
The Sunday Mass with the Passionist
Fathers can be seen at:
7 a.m. on WHIZ 18
7:30 a.m. on WWHO 53
11 a.m. on Cable Channel 2
(in Marion) 11 a.m. on Cable Channel 20
(on Adelphia Cable in Scioto County)
The televised Sunday Mass also can be
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Veneration of Relic of St. John Vianney at Cathedral
St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 E. Broad St., Columbus. A relic
of St. John Vianney, patron of the 2009-2010 Year of the
Priest, will be exposed and venerated on the altar of the
Terce Chapel after all Masses. Sponsored by diocesan
Vocations Office and cathedral vocations committee.
2, SUNDAY
Compline at Cathedral
9 p.m., St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 E. Broad St., Columbus.
Chanting of Compline.
614-241-2526
3, MONDAY
Aquinas Alumni Luncheon
11 a.m., TAT Ristorante, 1210 S. James Road, Columbus.
Columbus Aquinas High School alumni luncheon.
Spanish Conversation Class at Christ the King
6:30 to 8 p.m., Christ the King Church, 2777 E. Livingston
Ave., Columbus. First session of summer Spanish conversation class for beginners. Class will be offered on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in August. 614-833-3784
4, TUESDAY
PIME Missionary Celebrates Mass at Retreat Center
11 a.m.., Ss. Peter and Paul Retreat Center, 2734 Seminary
Road S.E., Newark. Mass celebrated by Father Adriano
Cadei, a member of the PIME missionary order, at the former PIME seminary.
740-928-4246
Catholic War Veterans Monthly Meeting
7:30 p.m., American Legion Post 239, 708 Morning St.,
Worthington. Catholic War Veterans Post 1936 Meeting.
For those who served three or more months, were honorably discharged or are on active duty. 614-221-7601
6, THURSDAY
Job Fair at St. Paul
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., St. Paul Church, 313 N. State St., Westerville. Job fair sponsored by church’s ministry to the unemployed.
614-882-2109
7, FRIDAY
St. Cecilia Adoration of Blessed Sacrament
St. Cecilia Church, 434 Norton Road, Columbus. Begins
after 8:15 a.m. Mass, continues to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Monthly Adoration of Blessed Sacrament
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Church, 5225
Refugee Road, Columbus. Begins after 9 a.m. Mass;
continues through 6 p.m. Holy Hour.
All-Night Eucharistic Vigil
Holy Cross Church, 205 S. 5th St., Columbus. 7:30 p.m.
Mass; Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament; prayer until
11:30 p.m.; private prayer until 7:30 p.m. Saturday.
Fatima USA Celebration at Maria Stein
7:30 p.m., Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365 St. Johns
Road, Maria Stein. Fatima USA celebration, with Mass
followed by lighted rosary and candlelit procession.
419-925-7625
All-Night Exposition at Our Lady of Victory
Our Lady of Victory Church, 1559 Roxbury Road,
Columbus. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament from
9 p.m. until Mass at 7 a.m. Saturday, sponsored by
church’s Knights of Columbus council and Serra Club
of Columbus.
8, SATURDAY
Bishop Hartley Alumni Association Golf Outing
8:30 a.m., Cumberland Trail Golf Club, 8244 Columbia
Road S.W., Pataskala. Annual Bishop Hartley Alumni Association golf outing, benefiting association’s sholarship
and tuition assistance fund.
614-237-5421
Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City
9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City.
Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and
confession.
614-565-8654
St. Matthew School Reunion
6 to 9:30 p.m., St. Matthew School, 795 Havens Corners
Road, Gahanna. Reunion of all school’s classes from 1970
to 1999. Proceeds to Betty Sanderell Scholarship Fund.
9, SUNDAY
Seton Youth Choir, Handbells
9:30 a.m., St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, 600 Hill Road
North, Pickerington. Church’s youth choir and handbell
groups sing and ring bells at Mass.
614-833-0482
Catholic Faith Rally at Maria Stein
7:30 p.m., Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365 St. Johns
Road, Maria Stein. Catholic faith rally with Father
Jim Trick.
419-925-7625
10, MONDAY
Annual All-Ohio Priests Golf Outing
11:30 a.m., Kinsale Golf and Fitness Club, 3737 Village Club
Drive, Powell. Annual All-Ohio Golf Outing for Priests,
followed by social hour and dinner. 1-800-282-5106
Bethesda Post-Abortion Healing Ministry
6:30 p.m., support group meeting, 2744 Dover Road,
(Christ the King Church campus), Columbus.
614-718-0277, 614-309-2651, 614-309-0157
Our Lady of Peace Men’s Bible Study
7 p.m., Our Lady of Peace Church, 20 E. Dominion Blvd.,
Columbus. Bible study of Sunday Scripture readings.
614-459-2766
10-16, MONDAY-SUNDAY
Reconciliation Retreat at Maria Stein
Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365 St. Johns Road, Maria Stein. Retreat presented by Father Joe Nassal, CPpS,
on “From Here to Hope: Six Degrees of Reconciliation.”
Registration deadline July 31.
419-925-7625
11, TUESDAY
Bishop Griffin Center Dedication at Ohio Dominican
5:30 p.m., Ohio Dominican University, 1216 Sunbury
Road, Columbus. Dedication of Bishop James A. Griffin
Student Center.
Healing Mass at Maria Stein
7:30 p.m., Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365 St. Johns
Road, Maria Stein. Healing Mass with Father Jim Trick.
419-925-7625
12, WEDNESDAY
Turning Leaves and Tea Leaves
2 to 3:30 p.m., Martin de Porres Center, 2330 Airport
Drive, Columbus. Turning Leaves and Tea Leaves book
club with Dominican Sisters Marialein Anzenberger and
Colleen Gallagher.
614-416-1910
14-16, FRIDAY-SUNDAY
Journaling Workshop at Maria Stein
Spiritual Center of Maria Stein, 2365 St. Johns Road, Maria
Stein. Workshop on “Journaling your Personal and Spiritual Journey” with author and editor Wendy Hart Beckman.
Registration deadline Aug. 7.
419-925-7625
15, SATURDAY
Life and Mercy Mass in Plain City
9 a.m. Mass, St. Joseph Church, 140 West Ave., Plain City.
Saturday Life and Mercy Mass, followed by rosary and
confession.
614-565-8654
St. Charles All-Class Reunion
3 p.m., St. Charles Preparatory School, 2010 E. Broad St.,
Columbus. All-class reunion, featuring classes of 1949
and five-year intervals from 1959 to 1999. Campus tour,
followed by Mass at 4:30 p.m., celebrated by alumni
priests, group photos, reception, buffet dinner and presentation by principal Dominic Cavello. 614-252-9288
16, SUNDAY
Praise Mass at Seton Parish
11:15 a.m., St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, 600 Hill Road
North, Pickerington. Praise Mass with contemporary
music by parish’s small musical groups. 614-833-0482
St. Padre Pio Secular Franciscans
2:30 to 5 p.m., Parish center, Holy Family Church, 584
W. Broad St., Columbus. Franciscan Crown Rosary and
Chaplet of Divine Mercy, followed by Evening Prayer,
meeting and formation.
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614-275-4960
St. Catherine of Bologna Secular Franciscans
2:30 to 5 p.m., St. Christopher Parish Center, 1420
Grandview Ave., Columbus. Rosary followed by general
meeting, ongoing formation and social.
Elizabeth Bowen
614-276-1953
Central Ohio Stampede Tryouts
St. Francis DeSales High School, 4212 Karl Road, Columbus. Tryouts for 2010 Central Ohio Stampede girls fastpitch softball program. 2:30 p.m., U10 and U12 teams; 5
p.m., U14 team.
614-202-0577
18, TUESDAY
‘Praying With Art’ Program at Museum
10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Columbus Museum of Art, 480 E. Broad
St., Columbus. “Praying With Art” program sponsored
by the Martin de Porres Center, with Sister Ruth Caspar,
OP, and Tina Butler exploring ways of transforming the
viewing of art into prayerful contemplation.
Diocesan Senior Citizen Celebration at St. Brigid
10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. Brigid of Kildare Church, 7179
Avery Road, Dublin. Annual diocesan celebration honoring senior citizens, including Mass celebrated by Bishop
Frederick Campbell, and lunch.
614-241-2540
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August 2, 2009
NEWS IN PHOTOS FROM AROUND THE WORLD
ART
focus on
BOOK REVIEW
A TASTE OF HEAVEN
A guide to food and drink made by These hidden gems of the food world?
They’re monasteries and convents.
monks and nuns
By Madeline Schlerb
“Beer is proof that God loves us and
wants us to be happy.”
— Benjamin Franklin
Any foodie worth their sea salt has a
list of “secret” hotspots, be it a hole-inthe-wall pizzeria, an easily-missed taco
truck, or the next great place to grab a
microbrew. They scour Chowhound and
perk up their ears any time a stranger on
the street mentions the great cup of coffee she just had at you’d-never-believewhere. But there is a place—a whole
slew of places—producing delicious,
mouth-watering food and drink that are
largely unknown.
These vintners, brewers, specialty
farmers, bakers and candy makers?
They also go by “Brother” or “Sister.”
Part cookbook and part travel guide,
A TASTE OF HEAVEN: A Guide to
Food and Drink Make by Nuns and
Monks by Madeline Scherb is a purely delicious tour through some of the
most overlooked kitchens in the United
States and Europe. It details the history
(Charlemagne was rst given bloomy
rind cheese by a monk); the process (the
nuns at the Abbey of Saint Hildegard
do everything by hand to make their
lovely Riesling); and suggests touring
itineraries for the monasteries open to
the public (a dozen of which are in the
United States).
These retreats are open to secular visitors, provide lodgings alongside unforgettable meals, and—for those who
are unsure of how to behave in such a
setting—there’s a handy guide to Mon-
astery Etiquette in the back of the book.
Can’t make it to Conyers, Georgia or
Piffard, New York? Scherb helpfully
includes a shopping guide to all the
products available to order online, and
the stores across the nation that carry
them. As an added bonus, she includes
more than 30 tested and tasty recipes
using these very products, some contributed by monks and nuns at the various monasteries and others provided by
well-known chefs such as Charlie Trotter and Danilo Zecchin.
So whether your enlightenment comes
in the form of silky chocolate fudge
spiked with alcohol-soaked peaches, a
foamy Trappist beer, or a quiet day full
of contemplative time in a monastery
guesthouse, A TASTE OF HEAVEN
opens readers’ eyes and palettes to the
wonders found within these hidden
sanctuaries.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A journalist, a devout Catholic, and a
culinary enthusiast, Madeline Scherb
has written for several newspapers,
magazines, and radio programs
around the country.
She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
PRAYING WITH ART
at the Columbus Art Museum
Presented by Ruth Caspar, OP, Ph.D. and Tina Butler, Ph.D.
August 18, 2009, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Using images from the Museum’s collection, participants explore ways
to transform the “seeing” of art into prayerful contemplation.
Required and non-refundable registration fee of $25.00 must be received
by the Martin de Porres Center by August 2. Includes box lunch prepared
by the Museum’s Palette Café.
Send registrant’s name and a check payable to “Martin de Porres Center”
to the Center at 2330 Airport Drive, Columbus, OH 43219
For additional information call 614.416.1910 or
go to www.martindeporrescenter.net
Pope Benedict XVI waves during his Sunday Angelus prayer while on vacation in Les Combes, Italy, July 26
Catholic Bonita Digal and two of her
daughters walk at the Saliasahi slum in
Bhubaneswar in India’s Orissa state. They
are among the thousands of Christians
who were forced to ee their homes last
year during anti-Christian violence
CNS photo/ Anto Akkara
A fourth-century image of St. Paul the Apostle
that Vatican archaeologists believe is the
oldest in existence is seen on a wall in the
Catacombs of St. Thecla in Rome in this photo
released June 29. Experts of the Pontical
Commission for Sacred Archaeology made the
discovery June 19
CNS photo/Pontical Commission for Sacred Archaeology
CNS photo/L’ Osservatore Romano via Reuters
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August 2, 2009
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lowed by two years as a novice, with
the rst year (the canonical novitiate)
spent in St. Louis living and studying
the vowed life, and the second year (the
apostolic novitiate) combining study
and service.
On completion of the novitiate, women make their rst profession of vows,
followed by renewal or nal profession
after three years.
“The process of becoming a sister is
much more deliberate today, but it has
resulted in having more mature candidates with a greater diversity of experience,” Sister Margaret said. “With
so many more ways to communicate, Sister Jo Ann Lamantia, OP (right), instructs a client at the Dominisisters are nding more ways to share can Learning Center in Columbus
their stories. Besides going to colleges
Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
and appearing on radio and television,
we’re developing Web sites and getting
vice to God, the Religious life is always going to
onto Facebook and Twitter.
provide a welcoming atmosphere for fulllment
“As traditional ways of communication are be- of that need.”
coming less effective, we’re continuing to adapt, “When I was trying to determine the path of my
as sisters always have.”
life, I felt so captivated by the idea that God loves
“One thing that hasn’t changed is that the most me that I began to ask ‘If God loves me so much,
important quality for anyone who wants to be- how do I share that love?’” said Sister Margacome a sister is love of God. If you don’t have ret. “Becoming a sister was the best response for
that, it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to pro- me and can answer that question for many other
ceed. But if you have a great desire to be of ser- young women of faith.”
Sister Jane Belanger, OP (right), who has moved to Kansas, sells items
at the Shepherd’s Corner farm stand Photo courtesy Dominican Sisters of Peace
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