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7/7/02
Updates
Boston church cutting budget
The Boston Archdiocese announced June 27 that it is slashing its central operating budget by one-third, from $24 million to $16 million, in the new fiscal year.
The same day it notified 15 chancery employees that their positions were being eliminated. An archdiocesan news release said several factors forced cost-cutting measures to reach a balanced budget. They included the nation’s slow economy since Sept. 11 and fund-raising difficulties because of the clergy sex abuse scandal that has rocked the archdiocese for the past six months.
According to the press release, top members of Cardinal Bernard F. Law’s Cabinet began last November, before the clergy sex abuse scandal broke, to work on plans to reduce operating costs by 30 percent over the next two years.
New Milwaukee leader sees ‘vigor’
Newly named Milwaukee Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan said he foresees the U.S. church rising out of its current crisis with new vigor and vitality.
In an interview, he said increased lay leadership will be an important element, but there is also a great need for more priests.
Bishop Dolan succeeds Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, who turned in his resignation when he turned 75 on April 2 as required by canon law. In May his resignation was accepted by Pope John Paul II following disclosure of a financial settlement of a sexual harassment case brought against him.
Archbishop Dolan, 52, was named an auxiliary bishop for St. Louis last year following a seven-year stint as rector of the North American College, the U.S. national seminary in Rome. He is to be installed Aug. 28 in Milwaukee.
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Three new schools currently enrolling students
Three new Catholic schools will open in Chicago this fall and are enrolling students.
The archdiocese’s Office for Catholic Schools announced the opening of the new schools in January, at the same time it announced that 14 others would close. Since then, two more schools were added to the closing list.
Scholars debate Escriva’s thought
The centenary of the birth of Blessed Josemaria Escriva brought about 50 participants to an academic symposium on his thought to Evanston June 27.
Escriva founded what is now known as the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, a movement that counts roughly 80,000 members in some 81 countries. He is to be canonized Oct. 6.
The symposium, sponsored by the Shellbourne Conference Center and the American Public Philosophy Institute, featured a series of papers around the theme of “The Teaching of Blessed Josemaria Escriva: Implications for a New Millennia” and responses to them from a variety of scholars.
Neighborhood changed; he didn’t
St. Martin de Porres parishioner, 90, still ‘does it all’
Justin McCarthy, who was to celebrate his 90th birthday July 6, doesn’t really want this newspaper story about him. He doesn’t see why anybody would read it, he said.
But McCarthy’s friends at St. Martin de Porres Parish and his children disagree.
“I have two heroes,” said his son J.D. “And he’s one. My son is the other one.”
Pope says prayers give him strength in suffering
Amid continuing speculation that he one day might resign, Pope John Paul II said the prayers of millions of people give him strength even when he is suffering.
“Every day I experience that my ministry is sustained by the unceasing prayer of the people of God, of many people who are unknown to me, but very close to my heart, who offer the Lord their prayers and sacrifices for the intentions of the pope,” he said June 30 during his midday Angelus address.
Preaching by example
A group of students from 31 Dominican high schools around the United States found out first-hand what it means to serve God in Dominican style. The 90 students and 40 mentors met at Dominican University June 22-27 for the fourth annual Dominican High Schools Preaching Conference.
Dominican orders were founded to preach the Gospel, explained Dominican Sister Pat Brady, conference director.
“There are many ways to preach. We preach not only by what we say and how we live, but by who we are,” she said.
World Youth Day’s cheerleaders
World Youth Day-Mecca, Woodstock, the Rapture, or something completely different?
Most of the 350,000-plus young people and adults who will converge at more than 200 event sites around Toronto July 23-28 and in the city’s Downsview Park for the papal Mass don’t know what to expect.
But two local World Youth Day “veterans” are packing up and moving out in the spirit of St. Paul the communicator to meet the throngs.
Pauline Sisters Michelle Halm and Anne Flanagan from the Daughters of St. Paul Convent in Chicago will connect with teens and young adults from all over the world and hope to make their WYD an even more meaningful experience.
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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Who sez you can’t plan fun? — When St. Lambert Parish (Skokie) hosted the Our Lady of the New Millennium statue last month, it gave Father Joe Szabelski an idea. A former associate at the parish, and now chaplain at Mount St. Joseph, a retirement center in Lake Zurich for the Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, Father took six of the residents to visit St. Lambert’s. After praying before the Madonna, they accepted an invitation to meet the school’s kindergarten students and preschoolers. The treat looks mutual.
Hats off! — Ensign Tim O’Connell who grew up in Queen of Martyrs Parish (Evergreen Park), is now serving on a frigate with 300 shipmates. Before he left for duty at sea he visited his mentor, pastor emeritus Father William P. Murphy, 86, to present him with the officer’s hat that withstood O’Connell’s symbolic “toss” at his June graduation from Annapolis!
Kudos to Catherine — Catherine Vincus, executive director of PHD, a  non-profit group in Palatine that provides pregnancy help and education, was honored in May by Illinois Citizens for Life. Vincus of ? Parish ( ) received the “Lifeline Award” for her compassion for the over 3,000 clients she serves every year and her commitment to PHD’s abstinence education program, “Independence Highway,” presented to over 4,000 high school teens yearly. PHD serves 75 local communities with sound counseling and support services.
Gotta precious baby? — Lake County Right to Life will once again have a booth near the cafeteria at the Lake County Fair in Grayslake, July 23-28. A big attraction is its “Precious Baby Photo Contest.” Send one photo only (no larger than 5x7) of your under-two-year-old baby to Lake County Right to Life, 718 Meadow Lane, Libetyville, IL 60048. Deadline is July 20. Show name,address and phone on reverse side. Call (847) 223-7022 for more info. Ballots ae $1 each during the fair, or send $-votes by mail to the above address. Like Cook county, “vote often.” Prizes go to 10 babies with the most votes.
Culture coup d’état — Part of the Vatican Museum is visiting Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum now until Aug. 11 bringing more than 100 artifacts. The rare exhibit (many appearing for the first time outside Italy) is entitled “Images of Salvation: Masterpieces from the Vatican and other Italian Collections.” The culture coops coincides with World Youth Day festivities in Toronto in July.
Back to the days of yesteryear — When the Catholic Guild for the Blind’s Children’s Forum Seminar series visited the Museum of Broadcast Communications recently they got an ear-full. Located in the Chicago Cultural Center on Randolph Street, their tour included the crash and bang of Fibber McGee’s closet and Jack Benny’s creaking vault. Old time radio, where everything takes place in the “theater of the mind,” was the ideal medium for these vision impaired kids.They heard one of President Roosevelt’s fireside chats from World War II and re-enacted a script from “The Shadow” radio program. Each child’s role was written in braille or on a large print script. Museum staffers directed the show and cued sound effects. Each family got a taped copy of the day’s program to take home.
Life goes on — The 109th annual Italian Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel will be celebrated at her church at 1101 N. 23rd Ave., Melrose Park on July 14. For information on banner and rose presentations, the solemn novena, street festival, bocce tournament and Our Lady’s statue, call the rectory at (708) 344-4140. . . . The World’s Largest Block Party will take the spotlight for the umpteenth year (who can count?) as the major fundraising event of Old St. Pat’s (W. Adams). Visit www.oldstpats.org for da facts. . . . The Illinois Academy of Family Practice Physicians has honored Dr. John Sage as Family Physician of the Year. A member of St. James Parish (Arlington Heights), he helped create Rainbow Hospice as a non-profit community agency and was its first medical director. Sage is a graduate of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine.
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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