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11/11/01
Updates
‘Tis the season: Charities drive
Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Chicago is ready to once again hold its Toy Shower, a program which last year helped brighten the holidays of more than 25,000 Catholic Charities clients.
New, unwrapped gifts can be dropped off once again at Catholic Charities or Insure One offices throughout Chicago and the suburbs from Nov. 15 to Dec. 15. Donors also may contact Catholic Charities to sponsor a family. For information, call the Toy Shower Hotline at (312) 655-7214, or visit www.toyshower.org
In Lake County, Catholic Charities will work with 45 other social service agencies in the Christmas Gift program, which last year brought presents to more than 7,000 needy people. For information on how to participate in the Lake County program, call Jim Wogan at (847) 782-4126.
Millennium effort earns three awards
Materials produced by the archdiocese’s Stewardship and Development Office have won three awards of excellence from the International Catholic Stewardship Council. The council recognized materials used in stewardship education initiatives, the planned giving program and the Millennium Campaign, “Sharing Christ’s Gifts.”
Meanwhile, Catholics in the pilot program and the first wave of the Millennium Campaign have pledged $81 million to their parishes and the archdiocese, said Ray Coughlin, director of stewardship and development. Parishes in the second wave are doing the campaign, with the third and fourth waves scheduled for next year.
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Anthrax victims’ lives celebrated
The lives of two Catholic anthrax victims were celebrated at their funerals, where clergy tried to find a way to highlight the good that can come out of evil.
Washington Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who presided over the Oct. 27 funeral Mass of Joseph P. Curseen, said that perhaps people will benefit from the example the 47-year-old postal worker set.
“Maybe the Lord let this happen so everyone would see such a good man,” Cardinal McCarrick said at the Mass at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church.
U.S. bishops to gather; updated pro-life plan, elections on agenda
Three major documents face the U.S. Catholic bishops when they meet in Washington Nov. 12-15: A call to solidarity with Africa, an updated pro-life activities plan and a statement on the growing Asian and Pacific presence in the U.S. church.
The bishops will elect a new president and vice president for the next three years, as well as a treasurer-elect and 22 new committee chairmen.
Cardinal George and other Chicago bishops are expected to attend the meeting.
Abortions on out-of-state residents boost total in Illinois
Catholic pro-life leaders were saddened last month by Illinois Department of Public Health figures showing there were 47,250 abortions performed in the state in 2000, up from 45,924 in 1999.
The surprise 2.9 percent hike came after three years of declines.
“The trend has been downward, so any time you see a tick upward, it’s sad,” said Nora O’Callaghan, director of the Respect Life Office for the Archdiocese of Chicago. “It’s tragic.”
Weary Bethlehem clears rubble after troops leave
Bethlehem, West Bank (CNS) - After the Israeli military withdrew from Bethlehem Oct. 29, the three-square-block area near the entrance to the city looked more like Beirut than the star of the Palestinian millennial celebrations two years ago.
The Paradise Hotel, where Israeli soldiers had set up camp against the Palestinian gunmen, was a burned-out, shattered shell. Stores had been bulldozed; light poles knocked over by tanks lay askew; and several cars riddled with bullets lined the streets.
Synod: Bishops challenged to live among poor
Calling an October Synod of Bishops “almost a new beginning” for the church, Pope John Paul II urged bishops to courageously promote church teaching and work for church unity.
The pope praised the “climate of communion” he said characterized the month-long bishops’ meeting and said “the church’s strength is her communion; her weakness is division and internal strife.”
Pope beatifies eight, decries hunger, violence
Those who dedicate their lives to prayer, sharing the Gospel message, helping the poor and defending human rights are living signs of God’s love, Pope John Paul II said.
Beatifying eight priests and religious Nov. 4, the pope said those who live holy lives give witness “to the eternal and unconditional love of God for every creature.”
Fox TV host credits Catholic schools for values, success
Bill O’Reilly, host of “The O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox network, credits his Catholic education for helping him get where he is today-and to stay there.
“Catholic education taught me a number of things I use now to be successful,” O’Reilly said at a dinner for Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe. “All that focus on tasking which I have to do every day was instilled in me in Catholic schools. I even recommend them to non-Catholics.”
Praying for the holy souls
Book offers powerful antidote to modern ideas about death
Among all the beautiful teachings of the Catholic Church, two of the most beautiful concern purgatory-the place where the saved soul is finally purified before its entry into the heavenly presence of God-and the concomitant doctrine that we may pray for the souls in purgatory.
Recipes for success-and for Italian favorites
Anyone looking for a formula for overnight success won’t find it in restaurateur Nella Curatolo’s autobiography. Instead, they will learn about the long hours of struggle, determination and just plain hard work that turned a little hot dog stand into a thriving restaurant, take-out and catering business.
The basic ingredients for Curatolo’s “recipe for success” were nurtured in Italy where the young Nella Ruffolo helped her father grow “just about every vegetable there is” and helped her mother cook for their family of 11.
WB: 1drama, 5 comedies
The WB network is offering an ambitious slate of new programs: five sitcoms, a drama and two reality shows. Losing “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer” may hurt the network but could also prove advantageous to the second season of the family drama, “Gilmore Girls,” which will air in Buffy’s time slot.
The Family Friendly Forum’s script development fund was involved in the genesis of “Gilmore Girls” and its second effort, “Raising Dad,” which will also air on WB as a new sitcom on Friday evenings. One can only hope it will do better than the sitcoms that rely solely on sexual innuendo for cheap laughs, such as the deplorable “Men, Women & Dogs” and “Off Centre.”
UPN: relying on young men
The UPN network continues to rely on its wrestling franchise and appeal to young males, with its new entries of the “Star Trek” prequel “Enterprise” and a sitcom about a Lothario suddenly faced with single-dad responsibilities.
The network also hopes to draw the audience away from the WB by acquiring WB’s hit series, “Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.”
Catholic mothers remember founding of La Leche League
At a church picnic 45 years ago, two young mothers did a radical thing that would revolutionize American parenting-they breast-fed their babies.
When other mothers at that Christian Family Movement picnic in suburban Chicago gathered around with questions, they decided to form a neighborhood chat group. From that gathering of seven mothers, all Catholic, in October 1956, La Leche League International was born.
One view of this edifice tells the awesome story of the Apocalypse in “the largest stained glass window east of the Mississippi”. Go to story
The statue of Our Lady of the New Millennium will be at St. Mary Star of the Sea Parish, 6435 S. Kilbourn Ave., Chicago, Nov. 11-18. For more information, call (773) 767-1246.
Other sites scheduled are: Nov. 18-25: St. Nicholas of Tolentine, 3721 W. 62nd St., Chicago, (773) 735-1121; Nov. 25-Dec. 2, St. Turibius, 5646 S. Karlov, Chicago, (773) 581-2730; Dec. 2-9, Maria High School, 6727 S. California Ave., Chicago, (773) 925-8686; Dec. 9-16: Our Lady of Good Counsel, 3528 S. Hermitage Ave., Chicago, (773) 523-3917.
Movies at a Glance
Capsule reviews of movies from the U.S. Catholic Conference's Office for Film and Broadcasting, judged according to artistic merit and moral suitability. Go to reviews
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a column of benevolent gossip
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September 11 — De La Salle Institute (S. Wabash) showed concern for fellow Christian Brothers’ students at La Salle Academy in NYC recently. Chicago students and their Christian Brothers Community raised nearly $1,000 for the academy located two miles from Ground Zero in Manhattan which lost 92 of its student-sponsors in the World Trade Center disaster. . . . A group of 45 pilgrims—deacons, their wives and some friends from the arch, were visiting Ireland and attending a prayer service at the moment the 9-11 disasters struck. They say on 9-14 Ireland held a national day of mourning, with local travel curtailed, shops, pubs and tourist attractions closed.
Note-able work — The charcoal pencils of celebrated Illinois artist-reporter, Franklin McMahon of St. Patrick Parish (Lake Forest) rarely rest. Now he’s caught the Chicago Symphony Orchestra with bows raised in a festive mood for an original design on the holiday card offered by the symphony’s Women’s Association. McMahon’s unique body of work stretches from scenes of Vatican II to presidential campaigns and has earned him the Renaissance Prize of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Milestones — While Columbus Hospital is closed, Mother Cabrini’s national shrine is still open and will observe the celebration of an 11:30 a.m. Mass Nov. 13 to mark the saint’s feast day. In 1946 Mother Cabrini became the first United States citizen saint and four years later received the title “Patroness of All Immigrants.” . . . Fox Sports beams a few Loyola University Ramblers’ basketball games, but all their Saturday and Sunday day games (about a dozen) will now be broadcast over WJJG-AM 1530, starting with Loyola vs Marquette, at 1 p.m. Nov. 17. The radio station is owned by loyal ’46 Loyola alum Joe Gentile, aka The Baron of Barrington.
Sister’s scissors — If you grew up enjoying the silhouettes of the paper-cutting nun, Sister Jean Dorcy, OP (1914-1988), you had lots of company. As a young, woefully inept novice, she discovered her artistic gift when the superior told her to copy an Austrian cutting. She surprised herself doing it effortlessly and over the years became the No. 1 artist-nun in the country. She resurrected a 6th century art form devised by the Chinese, which was later “Christianized” by the Swiss and Germans. Some of Dorcy’s work, and her protégé’s, artist Daniel Thomas Paulos, will be on exhibit until Nov. 28 at St. Xavier University Gallery, 3700 W. 103rd St. Call (773) 297-3081 for hours and days. (They say Dorcy used her Wiss scissors for 36 years without a single sharpening!)
Missions medley — Do you know what to do with old clocks, pocket and wristwatches that work—or don’t? They can help the Franciscan Missions. The monks can also use fabric, thread and sewing supplies; silver or gold coins and chains, pendants, old musical instruments, coins and collections, baseball cards, as well as church supplies like altar linens, sacred vessels, rosaries, pixes, statues or vestments. Things can be sent via U.S. mail or UPS to Fr. Sereno Baiardi, OFM at 940 N. Brown’s Lake Road, Burlington, WI 53105. . . . Matt Dwyer, the high-stepping drum major from St. Rita High School (S. Western), class of 1980, is now Brother Isaiah. He joined Mother Teresa’s Missionary of Charity Brothers and after spending the last two years in a home for lepers in Calcutta, will be working with the poor and sick in Bogota, Colombia.
Their story — A year before the U. S. Constitution was ratified in Philadelphia, St. Dominic’s Order of Preachers began ministering on our shores. Sister Nona McGreal, venerable Dominican historian, has just completed Vol. I “A Family History, Dominicans At Home in a Young Nation: 1786-1865.” The welcome mat is out to mark the event with an Evening Prayer and Social, 7 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Dominican Conference Center, 7200 W. Division, River Forest. RSVP to Sister Mary Ellen O’Grady at (708) 771-0909.
Send your benevolent gossip to Church Clips, 721 N. LaSalle St., Chicago, IL 60610 or via e-mail to: [email protected]
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