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• Priests for Life director visits SJU
• Parishes need be wary of endorsing or opposing candidates as election looms
• EDITORIAL: The Heart of the Mystery
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Meet, and pray for, our Seminarians
Joseph Backowski
St. Paul Seminary
Parents: Mary & Robert
Parish: Holy Family, Belle Prairie
Pastor: Fr Nick Landsberger
Year: Pre-Theology 1
Birthday: May 23
Daniel Crain
St. John Vianney Seminary
Parents: Sheila & Joseph
Parish: St. Mary, Milaca
Pastor: Fr James Remmerswaal
Year: College 1
Birthday: July 11
Matthew Crane
St. Meinrad School of Theology
Parents: Debra & Curtis
Parish: St. Andrew, Elk River
Pastor: Father Joe Korf
Year: Theology 1
Birthday: January 13
Omar Guanchez
St. Paul Seminary
Parents: Petra and Ramon
Parish: Pelican Rapids and Waite Park
Pastors: Fr Rich Walz and
Fr Ralph Zimmerman
Year: Theology 2
Birthday: March 28
John Knopik
St. John Vianney Seminary
Parents: Marlene & Robert
Parish: Our Lady, Little Falls
Pastor: Fr Mark Innocenti
Year: College 4
Birthday: December 23
Ben Kociemba
Mundelein Seminary
Parents: Denise & Ernest
Parish: St. Mary, Melrose
Pastor: Fr Vince Lieser
Year: Theology 2
Birthday: July 28
Joseph Koczur
St. John Vianney Seminary
Parents: Mary & James
Parish: St. Mary, Upsala
Pastor: Fr Dale Ettel
Year: College 1
Birthday: July 17
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Priests for Life director visits SJU
by Joseph Young
Visitor Interim Editor
COLLEGEVILLE — Father Frank Pavone compared oranges to oranges Oct. 16 during a conversation with about 25 students and staff members of the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph and St. John’s University in Collegeville at Sexton Commons on the SJU campus.
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Students and staff from St. John’s University and the College of St. Benedict discuss abortion, and the politics of abortion, with Father Frank Pavone, fourth from left. (SCV photo by Joseph Young) |
“We are people who have united around a very simple cause, that every single human life should be treated with dignity,” said Father Pavone, national director of the New York City-based Priests for Life (www.PriestsForLife.org). Father Pavone, who was invited on campus to speak by the CSB/SJU Students for Life Club (www.clubs.csbsju.edu/studentsforlife), said more than 80 percent of U.S. citizens believe human life begins at conception.
Parishes need be wary of endorsing or opposing candidates as election looms
by Sue Schulzetenberg
Visitor Staff Writer
ST. CLOUD — You’ve heard the term caveat emptor (buyer beware). But have you heard the term caveat ecclesia (church beware)?
As election day draws nearer, churches — as well as other 501(c)3 (non-profit and tax-exempt) organizations — need to exercise a bit of caution, being wary not to endorse or oppose candidates who are running for political office, lest they lose their tax-exempt status.
For 501(c)3 organizations — the Catholic Church, for example —such endorsing or opposing of political candidates is not allowed. Doing so would risk their tax-exempt status, said Tom Janson, a St. Cloud-based attorney who represents the St. Cloud Diocese.
All employees of a 501(c)3 organization, when acting within their roles as employees, cannot endorse or oppose candidates.
They can, however, endorse political candidates when not acting within their roles in the organization, Janson said.
EDITORIAL: The heart of the mystery
I claim to be a Catholic, but I must admit that there are many things about the Catholic Church that I just don’t understand.
St. John Vianney, for example.
St. John Vianney is the name of a seminary in St. Paul, temporary home of four seminarians studying to be priests of the St. Cloud Diocese. That, I understand.
St. John Vianney is also the name of a popular French parish priest who died in 1859 and was canonized in 1925. In 1904, when the saint’s body was exhumed because of his impending beatification, his body was found to be undecayed (see story, page 4). His heart and body were soon separated and encased in separate glass reliquaries where they have remained ever since. The saint’s heart has recently been on tour and display in New York and Massachusetts where thousand-fold throngs are queuing up to view and pray before the incorrupt relic — his heart. That, I don’t understand.
My sentiments are summed up by Maria Gilmore who is quoted in the story as saying, “I thought everybody turned to dust, but I guess not.”
I guess I’m confused. The Catechism of the Catholic Church says “in death ... the human body decays ...” (paragraph 997), and “bodies of the dead must be treated with respect ...” (2300).
Well, St. John Vianney’s human heart and body apparently have not decayed. But neither are they being treated with respect. Digging up a body, removing the heart and putting it in a glass box is not respectful treatment —at least not where I come from.
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Meet, and pray for, our Seminarians
Deacon Glenn Krystosek
Sacred Heart School of Theology
Parents: Evelyn & Gene
Parish: Our Lady, Opole
Pastors: Fr Mark Stang and Fr Jerry Mischke
Year: Theology 4
Birthday: June 10
Deacon Aaron Kuhn
Pontifical N. American College
Parents: Mary & Gregory
Parish: Christ the King, Cambridge
Pastor: Fr James Hahn
Year: Theology 4
Birthday: March 10
Matthew Kuhn
Pontifical N. American College
Parents: Mary & Gregory
Parish: Christ the King, Cambridge
Pastor: Fr James Hahn
Year: Theology 1
Birthday: January 7
Scott Pogatchnik
Pontifical N. American College
Parents: Judith & Daniel
Parish: St. Benedict, Avon
Pastor: Fr Blaine Wasnie
Year: Theology 1
Birthday: March 24
Carl Reibestein
Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary
Parents: Barbara & Frank
Parish: St. Edward, Princeton
Pastor: Fr Jerome Nordick
Year: College 4
Birthday: August 22
Matthew Schaefer
St. John Vianney Seminary
Parents: Mary and Mark
Parish: St. Paul, Sauk Centre
Pastor: Fr Todd Schneider
Year: College 3
Birthday: April 2
Jeffrey Schmitt
Pastoral Year
Parents: Mary & Harvey
Parish: Holy Spirit, St. Cloud
Pastor: Fr Virgil Helmin
Year: Theology
Birthday: April 22
Deacon Peter Vanderweyst
St. Paul Seminary
Parents: Linda and Myron
Parish: St. Stephen, St. Stephen
Pastor: Fr Bob Harren
Year: Theology 4
Birthday: November 18
Mathew Walz
Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary
Parents: Jean & Raphael
Parish: Mary the Immaculate Conception, Rockville
Pastor: Fr Tony Oelrich
Year: College 2
Birthday: January 23
Michael Wolfbauer
St. Paul Seminary
Parents: Patricia & Frank
Parish: St. Andrew, Elk River
Pastor: Fr Joe Korf
Year: Theology 1
Birthday: July 10
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