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A BORDO DEL VUELO PAPAL DESDE BRASIL (CNS) — Desde su vida personal de oración y espiritualidad hasta el rol de la mujer en la iglesia y el cuidado pastoral de los divorciados, el papa Francisco respondió a varias preguntas acerca sobre la enseñanza y el ministerio de la iglesia el 28 de julio, cuando se reunió con periodistas en su vuelo desde Río desde Janeiro hasta Roma.

Sobre la posibilidad de que la Iglesia Católica ordene sacerdotisas, el papa Francisco dijo: “La iglesia ha hablado y dijo ‘no'” y la forma en que el beato Juan Pablo II lo declaró era “una fórmula definitiva”. El beato Juan Pablo dijo que debido a que Jesús escogió solamente hombres como sus discípulos la iglesia no puede ordenar mujeres.

Sin embargo, dijo el papa Francisco, la Iglesia Católica todavía tiene mucho que hacer en el desarrollo de una verdadera teología que explique la importancia de la mujer en la iglesia y cómo sería imposible que la iglesia cumpliera su rol de madre y esposa sin la contribución de las mujeres.

“No basta con tener servidoras del altar, lectoras ni mujeres como presidentas de Caritas”, él dijo. “Las mujeres en la iglesia son más importantes que los obispos y los sacerdotes”, igual que “María es más importante que los apóstoles”.

Al preguntársele sobre la posibilidad de que la Iglesia Católica comenzaría a permitir que reciban los sacramentos los católicos que se han divorciado y recasado solamente civilmente, el papa Francisco dijo que quería dejar claro que los católicos divorciados pueden recibir los sacramentos. Los problemas comienzan cuando se casan por segunda vez sin anular su primera unión.

On July 29, 2013

Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

El papa dice a jóvenes que jueguen en equipo de Cristo, ayuden a edificar la iglesia

RÍO DE JANEIRO (CNS) — El papa Francisco dijo a los jóvenes que Dios pudo haber estado intentando comunicar algo al obligar el cambio de lugar de la vigilia de la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud de un campo enorme a una larga y estrecha franja de arena y mar.

Dirigiéndose a tantos como 3 millones de jóvenes, y no tan jóvenes, en la playa de Copacabana en Río el 27 de julio, el papa Francisco dijo que había preparado una reflexión que habría usado el lugar original, un espacio bautizado “Campus Fidei” o “Campo de la fe”, como punto de partida.

“¿No está el Señor pidiéndonos que digamos que el verdadero campo de la fe, el verdadero Campus Fidei, no es un lugar geográfico sino que somos nosotros mismos?” dijo el papa ante la multitud que había comenzado a congregarse en la playa 12 horas antes que él llegara.

La playa, que también fue sede de los eventos con el papa y los peregrinos de las dos noches anteriores, se convirtió en el lugar de la vigilia y la Misa de clausura de la mañana siguiente después que varios días de inusualmente intensa lluvia convirtieran el Campus Fidei en un campo de fango y agua estancada.

On July 29, 2013

Catholic News Service

Cracovia, Polonia, será anfitriona de juventud mundial en 2016

RÍO DE JANEIRO […]

On July 28, 2013

Chris Lee

Sister Mary Catherine Ann Dahmen dies

BRIDGETON, Mo. — A funeral Mass was celebrated August 1 in the The Sarah Community chapel in Bridgeton, MO, for Sr. Mary Catherine Ann Dahmen, a Franciscan Sister of Mary for 56 years who provided housekeeping and dietary help for the sisters. Sister Mary Catherine Ann died July 28, 2013 at The Sarah Community. She was 103. Her burial was in Resurrection Cemetery, St. Louis, MO.

Born on Easter Sunday in 1910, in Springfield Township, Wis., she left school after the sixth grade to help her mother care for the home and the children. She worked as a housekeeper until her father’s illness in 1952 brought her home to be with her mother. She then worked at St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, Wis., where she met the Sisters of St. Mary. She entered the community in 1957 and received the name Sr. Mary Catherine Ann. She professed final vows on February 11, 1965. (In 1987, the Sisters of St. Mary of St. Louis and the Sisters of St. Francis of Maryville, Mo., reunited as the Franciscan Sisters of Mary.)

On July 25, 2013

Jane Lepeska Grinde, For the Catholic Herald

Catholic women from diocese meet in Belmont


	Officers of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women include, from left: Carol Rogers, secretary; Rosa Ropers, president-elect; Coreen Marklein, president; Barbara Agasie, treasurer; and Carol Brennan, immediate past president. (Photo by Kathy Loy)

BELMONT — Hosted by the Grant Vicariate, the 59th annual meeting of the Madison Diocesan Council of Catholic Women (MDCCW) focused on the theme of “Uniting Women of Faith” and brought together women from throughout the 11-county Madison Diocese to the Belmont Convention Center recently.

MDCCW President Coreen Marklein, Baraboo, presided at the convention. Jeffrey Arrowood, Somerset, founder and director of From the Abbey, gave the keynote on “Take Control of Your Life.” He also led a shareshop on evangelization.

Another shareshop was presented on foster care and resulted in more than 100 backpacks and personal items donated by MDCCW to foster children.

Individual membership approved

Women may now join the MDCCW as individual members whether or not their parish is affiliated with MDCCW as a result of action taken at the convention.

Marklein thanked the members for voting unanimously to change the constitution and by-laws to allow individual membership. Because fewer parishes have councils that provide for membership in MDCCW, the change gives all diocesan women “an opportunity to unite and share our spirituality, leadership, and service with other women of the council in the Madison Diocese.”

As a result of the change, the website for the diocesan council, www.mdccw.com, includes a new brochure and membership form.

On July 25, 2013

Chris Lee

Hope Haven consolidates programs and services

MADISON — Catholic Charities has announced that Hope Haven, a Catholic Charities company, will be consolidating their programs and services from three facilities to two, effective on July 31 of this year.

The Hope Haven program, located at 425 W. Johnson St. in Madison, will be relocated to 3602 Memorial Dr., the current location of the North Bay Lodge program.

On July 25, 2013

Noah teDuits, For the Catholic Herald

Local teens make pilgrimage to Rio

Journey is a poor word to describe our pilgrimage to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, for World Youth Day. The better way to describe it would be to call it a quest. A quest in which the forces of light battle the hordes of darkness. However, in this case the darkness is inside of us. This darkness is the thought that we are alone in our fight against evil, that Church is weak, diminishing, powerless against the aggressive advances of the devil in our world.

On July 25, 2013

George Weigel

Continuing to fight for marriage

Responses from right-minded marriage proponents to the Supreme Court’s June 26 decisions in two cases involving the (re)definition of marriage seemed to come in three waves.

The immediate reaction, influenced no doubt by a partisan press, was that the friends of marriage had suffered a severe, and perhaps lethal, blow when the court first struck down the key provision of the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and then denied standing to those challenging the judicial overturn of California’s “Proposition 8,” an initiative that restored the classic meaning of marriage to California law.

On July 25, 2013February 15, 2022

Mary C. Uhler, Catholic Herald Staff

Virtual World Youth Day: Join with Pope Francis and young people in prayer

Even though most of us can’t be in Rio De Janeiro this week, we can still join Pope Francis and hundreds of thousands of young people in prayer as they gather for World Youth Day (WYD).

As a “friend” of WYD on Facebook, I’ve been receiving updates and countdowns to the big event for many months. I almost feel like I’m making the trip myself!

I would encourage interested persons to follow WYD on its Facebook Page (World Youth Day Rio 2013). Of course, the Catholic Herald’s own Facebook Page (Madison Catholic Herald) as well as our website (www.madisoncatholicherald.org) and Twitter (@CHMadison) will be carrying coverage of WYD. Our website will include updates from Catholic News Service in English as well as in Spanish.

Sacrament of Penance: examination of conscience

By Abbot Marcel Rooney, OSB

This is the second in a series of articles examining the theology and spirituality of the Sacrament of Penance/Reconciliation.

We have seen, in the first article about this sacrament, that three things are necessary for its valid celebration: contrition for the sins one has committed; confession to a priest of all serious sins; and satisfaction of the penance which is asked of the penitent.