The Catholic New World - News Digest 11/05/00

11/05/00

This week, The Catholic New World features its monthly Faith & Education section, focusing on how Catholic high schools are getting involved in the presidential election.

News:

A cultural experience:
Pilgrims to have full itinerary

The centerpiece of the planned pilgrimage to strengthen ties between the archdioceses of Chicago and Mexico City will be Dec. 12 as Cardinal George and Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera will celebrate Mass in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe at the basilica named for her.
The Chicago delegation, composed of archdiocesan officials, business and community leaders and other pilgrims, will have a five-day itinerary full of activities. Full text available.

Pope gets kick out of soccer game
Rome’s Olympic Stadium played host to the highlights of the Oct. 28-29 Jubilee for Athletes: an Oct. 29 Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II, followed by a soccer game between the Italian national team and foreign stars who play in Serie A, Italy’s premier league.

Archbishop Crescenzio Sepe, secretary of the Vatican’s jubilee committee, said the last soccer game Pope John Paul saw before the Holy Year face-off was a televised 1982 World Cup match between Poland and Italy.

Features:

Faith & Education

Ministry burnout: Author tells how pastoral ministers—and others—can rekindle energy

Joe Paprocki in his new book, “Renewing Your Ministry: Walking with Jesus in All That You Do,” touches on a subject that most everyone can relate to—coping with the peaks and valleys of daily life. While the book is directed to a specific audience-pastoral ministers—it is one that anyone needing renewal in their life will find useful.

High school open house listings

A listing of upcoming open houses for Catholic high schools in the archdiocese.

Commentary

Augustinian Father John Paul Szura of the Catholic Conference of Illinois writes:We are both citizens of earth and members of Christ. And within these two aspects of our life, we ought to think very seriously about the coming November elections.

As citizens of earth, we must be concerned about the direction earthly society takes. Our choices of political leaders at election time greatly impact the everyday lives of countless people. These choices determine whether we will reduce poverty in our nation and world. They determine whether our nation becomes more selfish or more just. Our votes literally mean the difference of life or death for thousands or even millions of people.

Briefs:

Dinner to honor interreligious work

The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions will host a dinner honoring the Rev. Stanley L. Davis, Jr., executive director of the National Conference for Community and Justice, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 12 at the Chicago Hilton and Towers, 720 S. Michigan Ave. The theme will be “Walking Together in the Light of Peace.” Archbishop Samuel Ruiz, bishop emeritus of San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico, will deliver the keynote address. Tickets are $100 each. Call (312) 629-2990 for reservations.

Parish Pride:

St. Irenaeus Church
Indianwood Blvd. & Orchard Drive, Park Forest

Park Forest, one of the first and largest of the planned neighborhoods that developed after World War II, is also one of three successfully integrated communities in the Chicagoland area. It is a characteristic that makes this parish supremely proud. Their motto comes from its patron saint: “Humankind fully alive is God most truly glorified.” A wonderful modern triptych window of leaded stained glass, by artist Richard Sendzik of Orland Park, commemorates the first Mass in this church on Christmas Eve, 1964.

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Only in Ireland — Ireland will embark on proposals to build its first new city in over 500 years. Located near the Knock Shrine, where Our Lady is said to have appeared in 1879 and the site of a papal visit in 1979, it will be known as the City of the Sacred Heart.

Noreen Heron

People and places — Noreen Heron, former publicist for Candlelight Dinner Theater in Summit, has turned entrepreneur. Now with her own public relations firm, Noreen Heron & Associates, the St. Michael (N. Cleveland) parishioner has a big promo coming up. “Holidays in the City,” Nov. 24-26 will be a family festival of winter fun at Hyatt Regency’s Riverside Center on Wacker—storytelling, carolers, Santa, costumed characters in a winter fairyland. Admission is $5 for adults and kids over three, to benefit Easter Seals. If you present your Jewel Osco preferred card at the door your second admission ticket is free. For info, call (312) 645-9550. . . . Nurse, wife and mom Judy DiFilippo of Queen of Martyrs Parish (Evergreen Park) is the new president of the Association of Rehabilitation Nurses. ARN has nearly 7,000 professional nurse members in 46 states, Canada and other countries who care for people with disabilities and chronic illness. DiFilippo is administrator of Evergreen Healthcare Center in Evergreen Park. . . . Deacon Dan Dutkiewicz of St. Stanislaus Bishop and Martyr Church (Posen) recently received the Catholic of the Year Award from the Catholic War Veterans’ Samuel Cardinal Stritch Post #1811 of Posen.

Note-worthy — When St. Vincent de Paul Parish (W. Webster), one of the older parishes in the arch, celebrates its 125th anniversary with a special concert at 2 p.m. Nov. 5, it will benefit the restoration of its 56-rank pipe organ. According to experts it is “one of the largest remaining Lyon & Healy instruments of its kind whose pipe work remains unaltered.” For ticket information, call (773) 327-1113. . . . St. Gall Parish (S. Sawyer) celebrated its 100th anniversary last month and one of its “treasures” was captured on professionally recorded cassette tapes and CDs. “St. Gall at 100” features its folk, traditional, children’s and Spanish choirs singing English, Irish, Polish, Spanish and Christmas music, accompanied by organist John Bryant. Also included is a composition composed by Bryant for the event. The cost is $10-$15 plus shipping. Call (773) 737-3113.

Oak Park Connection — A Trappistine nun of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance left Iowa for Norway a while back. A few months ago she contacted a college friend, Peg Benson, and commented on the high cost of herbal tea in Norway. Benson asked her brother, Tom Gull, business manager of Ascension Church (Oak Park) if the parish could help supply the new abbey with herbal tea. Shortly after a bulletin notice appeared, parishioners brought boxes of tea (over 1,000 tea bags) and a dozen compact disks of the order’s favorite composer, J.S. Bach, and shipped them all to the fjords.

On his way — As the cause of canonization for Blessed Juan Diego moves forward, more is being discovered about him as a historical figure. Give yourself an “A” if you knew he was the Indian visionary of the Virgin of Guadalupe’s apparitions in Mexico. A team of archaeologists and anthropologists have written their findings in a book called “The Virgin’s Messenger” that even reconstructs Diego’s family tree. It goes back as far as 100 years after Christ and includes 900 relatives. All the documentation on this Indian grandson of Nezahualcoyotl was presented to Pope John Paul II last month.

Junior Clips — De La Salle High School (S. Wabash) doesn’t mind “nickel and diming” its daily mission collection that’s been ongoing since the 1940s. For the ‘99-2000 school year, students and staff contributed $15,227.68. A Christian Brothers school in Eritrea, Africa, received $6,276 and the rest was divided among other charities. In the last 10 years, the school has collected more than $134,000. . . . Carmel High School (Mundelein) junior Kevin Horton recently won first place in Irish dance competitions in Illinois and Indiana and

placed eighth in the North American Championships held in San Francisco last summer. He’s qualified many times at world meets in Ireland.