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Issue of September 9, 2012 – September 22, 2012 The following items are condensed. For the complete articles, please read the print edition of The Catholic New World. To subscribe, call (312) 534-7777.
News Update
Praying for peace at sunrise:
Faithful participate in a sunrise service at Rainbow Beach on the city's South Side to pray for peace and non-violence during the upcoming school year. The annual event was one of six simultaneous services hosted by the Black Catholic Deacons along Chicago's lakefront on Aug. 25. Brian J. Morowczynski / Catholic New World
Leonard Richardson blesses Father Matt O'Donnell following the service. Brian J. Morowczynski / Catholic New World
Looking for Crusaders
When you were growing up did you sell subscriptions of the Catholic New World to raise money for your school? Were you a member of the Children's Crusade? We are doing a story about the effort for our 120th anniversary edition and would like to hear from you. Send us an email about your experience to editorial@catholicnewworld. com or call Joyce Duriga at (312) 534-7577.
Clergy helping veterans
Hines VA Hospital Chaplaincy will hold a community clergy outreach seminar on Sept. 14 at the hospital chapel in Hines, Ill. The daylong seminar will cover such topics as treatment of anger and post-traumatic stress disorder, suicide prevention, concerns unique to female veterans and more. For information, contact Karen at (708) 202-2531 or karen.root@va.gov.
News Digest
Pope, at audience, says Christians must not compromise Christ's truth
Marking the feast of the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians must not bow to the pressure of the powerful who demand a denial of Christ or of the truth he taught. "The truth is the truth and there is no compromise," the pope said at his weekly general audience Aug. 29, the day the church remembers St. John the Baptist's beheading.
Pope Benedict is first person signed up for WYD Rio 2013
Germans are known for being punctual, so perhaps it should be no surprise that Pope Benedict XVI was the first person signed up for World Youth Day 2013.
Registration officially opened Aug. 28, and, according to organizers, the pope was the first pilgrim to be registered for the event, which will be held in Rio de Janeiro July 23-28. Organizers said that more than 220 groups of young people from five continents signed up in the first 24 hours after registration opened. Pilgrims from the United States, Canada, Australia, China, Aruba and the United Arab Emirates were among the first of the early registrants.
When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Lebanon Sept. 14-16 — assuming spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria doesn't force a last-minute cancellation of the trip — his purpose will be above all pastoral; and, as usual for papal trips, most of his remarks will focus on the spiritual. Yet as the Syrian conflict exemplifies, the concerns of Christians in the Middle East are in many respects inseparable from politics; and however diplomatically the pope may word his statements, some will inevitably touch on the region's political struggles and tensions.
For pope in Lebanon, the pastoral is political
When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Lebanon Sept. 14-16 — assuming spillover from the civil war in neighboring Syria doesn't force a last-minute cancellation of the trip — his purpose will be above all pastoral; and, as usual for papal trips, most of his remarks will focus on the spiritual. Yet as the Syrian conflict exemplifies, the concerns of Christians in the Middle East are in many respects inseparable from politics; and however diplomatically the pope may word his statements, some will inevitably touch on the region's political struggles and tensions.
Cardinal George names Father Grogan vicar for health care
Cardinal George has appointed Father William Grogan to the archdiocesan role as vicar for health care. The appointment formalizes work Grogan was previously doing as the cardinal's delegate for hospitals and chair of the archdiocesan bioethics committee. In this role, Grogan will represent the archbishop on all matters related to health care. Also, he will continue to act as his chief advisor on ethical issues in hospital ministry and other related fields.
Ordained in 1976, Grogan is a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and has ministered in a variety of parish, academic and health care assignments. He currently serves as director of organizational and clinical ethics for the Illinois-based Presence Health, a 20,000 employee Catholic healthcare system of 12 hospitals, senior service arrangements and related ministries.
Archbishop calls hurricane's timing 'eerie'
On the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina Aug. 29, Archbishop Gregory Aymond offered prayers for people in the Archdiocese of New Orleans impacted by slow-moving Hurricane Isaac.
The storm dumped more than 15 inches of rain on southeast Louisiana and caused widespread flooding but spared New Orleans from major damage.
Seniors can finish year at St. Scholastica's
This school year, the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago are sponsoring a senior academy for 26 young women from the closing St. Scholastica Academy, 7416 N. Ridge Blvd. Classes began on Aug. 22 in part of the former high school. "The Senior Academy allows this group of young women to complete their high school program here together," said Lynne Farmer, the newly appointed head of school.
St. Scholastica Academy announced March 14 that it would close its doors at the end of the school year. The school, sponsored by the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago for the last 146 years, is succumbing to a growing budget deficit and declining enrollment. The remainder of the building will be rented out to the United Neighborhood Organization, which will open a new charter school in September for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
