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Issue of August 15, 2004
UPDATE: Charities plans 4 health fairs Catholic Charities will conduct four free Health Fairs for adults and children in Cicero and on Chicago’s South and West Sides this summer and fall. Fairs will be held Aug. 20 at St. Frances of Rome School Hall, 1401 S. Austin Blvd., Cicero; Sept. 18 at Holy Cross/Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, 4541 S. Wood, Chicago; Sept. 25 at Our Lady of Tepeyac School Hall, 2414 S. Albany, Chicago; and Oct. 9 at Our Lady Help of Christians, 832 N. Leclaire, Chicago. All fairs are from 8:30 a.m. until noon. Health-related screenings and services are offered by medical personnel from each area’s health care facilities. Spanish interpreters will be available. For information, call (312) 655-7136.
Big Shoulders grant for school The Big Shoulders Fund is making a $4.4 million grant to St. Stanislaus Kostka School to fund a major facelift and improvements. Big Shoulders is an independent not-for-profit fund founded in 1986 by Cardinal Bernardin to help support inner-city Catholic schools with scholarships, equipment and improvements.
NEWS: Archdiocesan lay ministers honored, supported Three years ago, Tim Dodd felt that God had definitely closed a door in his life. Now, Dodd said, he sees the hand of God in that letter. At loose ends in Minnesota, he came to Chicago. After working again in the corporate world, he found full-time service in ministry at St. James Parish (Wabash Ave.) and will begin his second year of work towards a master’s degree in divinity at Catholic Theological Union. He also will start his second year as part of the Together in God’s Service program, the archdiocese’s effort to form lay ecclesial ministers such as pastoral associates and directors or religious education. And he is engaged to be married, to a fellow CTU student from Poland.
‘Battle of sexes?’ Vatican restates God’s plan for men, women The battle of the sexes and, particularly, the subjugation of women are the result of original sin and not of God’s design for creation, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Attempts to advance the cause of women by seeing men as enemies to be defeated or by claiming that no real difference exists between male and female have had “lethal effects,” particularly on the family, the congregation said.
Vote ‘like the 10 Commandments’ Members of the Confraternity of Catholic Clergy meeting in Chicago called on Catholics “to take seriously their personal responsibility before God to vote in accord with the Ten Commandments, the natural moral law and the teachings of Christ.” The call was contained in one of five resolutions unanimously approved by the 700-member organization July 15.
New Hispanic ministry director hopes to find unity in diversity Father Claudio Diaz sat in shirtsleeves in his office on a muggy August day, as a window air conditioner struggled with the heat and humidity outside. A Bach concerto played on a portable stereo as Diaz spoke of the challenges facing Hispanic ministry in the Archdiocese of Chicago. Two weeks into his new position as director of the Office for Hispanic Catholics, Diaz, 41, had been too busy fielding phone calls and invitations to serve on various committees and attend events to finish moving into the office.
Working for justice starts on the streets Brian Reichart gave some change to a panhandler on the L this summer—and then turned around and registered him to vote. Michael O’Connell found himself getting kicked out of a festival in Northbrook for asking people to register. The two University of Notre Dame juniors spent the summer trying to register voters and work with congregations of various faiths on social justice issues as Catholic Social Teaching interns at the National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice in Chicago.
Chaotic times: opportunities for social justice The Catholic Church is in chaos and American society is awash in greed, Father Andrew Greeley told a group of Catholic social justice workers gathered in Chicago July 30. “Our church is a mess, society’s a mess, everything’s a mess,” Greeley said in the closing presentation to the six-day Social Justice Summer institute. “What a wonderful opportunity. In a chaotic church, in a greedy country, social action remains challenging and often frustrating. But, gentle souls, it never has been, and never will be, dull.” Creator of TV’s ‘Joan’ likes to raise questions Inspired as a child by St. Joan of Arc, Barbara Hall grew up to create and produce the acclaimed CBS television series, “Joan of Arcadia,” a contemporary drama about a teenage girl’s visits from God. The show was both “jinxed and unstoppable,” Hall said in a talk at St. Paul the Apostle Church to members of Open Call, an entertainment industry spirituality group.
Young ‘Therese’ star looking to film’s national debut Lindsay Younce was a Quaker teenager on her way to morning Mass in Vancouver, Wash., when she first made the acquaintance of St. Therese of Lisieux. As a 16-year-old on the road to conversion, she did not know that she would portray the saint known as the Little Flower in a major motion picture, “Therese.” The film, which was previewed in Chicago, is scheduled for national release Oct. 1.
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amazon.com or maybe your neighborhood Blockbuster, from $18 to $30. It has English subtitles and the VHS is available with Spanish subtitles. . . . If you don’t just want to “go to the movie,” but would like to go and see where the movie was made, call St. Norbert parishioner Lena Locasio at (847) 564-4790. Father Don Woznicki is leading a pilgrimage to the site—the ancient, caved city of Matera, Italy, as well as sites like Padre Pio’s monastery, Assisi and Rome from Sept. 13-23.