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Canon law
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As a pastoral ministry of
justice, canon law serves the
wider Church.
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de justicia, la ley canénica
sirve a la Iglesia entera.
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for the archdiocese
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Archbishop Kurtz’s message, a
report on accomplishments
and financial statements are
in the Archdiocese of
Louisville’s 2009
Accountability Report.
Pope calls food
a ‘fundamental right’
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Pope Benedict XVI says that
access to food is “a
fundamental right of every
person and all peoples.”
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Anglican communion
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in full communion with the
Roman Catholic Church while
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BUILDING A FUTURE OF HOPE
St. Edward parish celebrates its past and future
Jeffersontown parish
will celebrate its 125th
anniversary Oct. 24
and is part of capital
campaign’s third wave
By GLENN RUTHERFORD
Record Assistant Editor
One hundred and twenty
five years ago, 30 families
established St. Edward
Church in a log building at
the corner of Taylorsville
Road and what was then the
more aptly-named Watter-
son Trail.
This Saturday, the parish
will celebrate its history
with a 4 p.m. Mass with
Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz
that will fill the church to
overflowing. After Mass,
the people of St. Edward
will sit down to a catered
dinner — 400 of them in the
parish gymnasium, another
500 or so in a tent erected
nearby, and another 100
people wherever they might
find a seat.
Record Photo by Glenn Rutherford
Some of the people who have helped plan St. Edward Church’s 125th anniversary celebration and its
participation in the Building a Future of Hope campaign posed with Father Joseph Graffis, pastor, (third
from right) in the parish office earlier this week. Pictured are, from left to right, Donna Ulmer, Susan
Jones, John Ulmer, Father Graffis, Betty Deerwester and Jim Bell. The anniversary celebration will
begin with a Mass held Oct. 24 at 4 p.m.
It’s a dinner for 1,000,
said Father Joseph Graffis,
the parish pastor since 2002.
Hispanic members of the
parish will dance, a quartet
will sing, a disk jockey will
provide additional music,
“and Edward the Confessor”
will be there, too.
The 1,400 or so families
of the parish on Sue Helen
Drive will spend the better
part of Oct. 24 looking back
over the paths their parish
has already trod. They'll
remember the first log cabin
church, the 58-foot by 18-
foot school that was opened
in 1906 under the direction
of two Mount St. Joseph
Ursuline Sisters, and every
incarnation of the church
buildings since. There have
been four.
They'll spend the week-
end steeped in history,
Father Graffis said, and
then they'll turn their atten-
tion to the future.
St. Edward Church is one
of the parishes taking part
in wave three of the Arch-
diocese of Louisville’s Build-
ing a Future of Hope capital
campaign. So, as the plans
have come together for
this weekend’s anniversary
celebration, the parish has
also been readying its effort
to plan for, and secure, its
future.
“We're looking backward
to look forward” is the way
Father Graffis explains it.
Doing both things at
once — preparing the an-
niversary celebration and
launching the Building a
Future of Hope campaign —
has proven to be a dramatic
undertaking, the pastor said.
“The workload has been
unimaginably difficult,” he
said.
And those parish repre-
sentatives sitting with him
at a meeting earlier this
week didn’t disagree. They
included Donna and John
Ulmer, who headed the
See ST. EDWARD, Page 14
Local Hispanic pastoral plan to be developed
Deacon Frank Villalobos, new director of
Hispanic ministry, to chair task force on plan
By MARNIE MCALLISTER
Record Staff Writer
Archbishop Joseph E.
Kurtz has announced that
the Archdiocese of Louisville
is beginning development of
a Hispanic pastoral plan to
be used throughout the
archdiocese to better serve
Hispanic Catholics.
The initiative was
prompted by the 2009 Arch-
diocese of Louisville Stra-
tegic Plan that was approved
Oct. 8 by Archbishop Kurtz
with the support of the
Priests’ Council. Goal three
of the plan calls for the arch-
diocese “to embrace the di-
versity of culture in respond-
ing to God’s love,” and one
action step is to develop and
implement a pastoral plan
for Hispanic ministry.
“We have a long and
distinguished tradition of
providing pastoral services
to our multicultural popula-
tions in this archdiocese,”
said the archbishop in a
press release announcing
the Hispanic pastoral plan.
“This area of ministry was
established by (retired)
Archbishop (Thomas C.)
Kelly in the 1980s. We are
excited to build upon this
strong foundation as we seek
to focus and define new
directions for outreach to our
Photo Special to The Record
Deacon Frank Villalobos is
the new director of Hispanic
ministry in the Archdiocese
of Louisville Office of Multi-
cultural Ministry.
Latino brothers and sisters.”
Deacon Frank Villalobos,
who was ordained a deacon
in 2008 and serves as pas-
toral associate at Church of
the Annunciation in Shelby-
ville, Ky., will lead the
development of the pastoral
plan as the new director of
Hispanic ministry in the
archdiocesan Office of
Multicultural Ministries.
Deacon Villalobos, a
native of San Luis Potosi,
Mexico, said he hopes to
offer Hispanic Catholics
“what most dioceses have —
resources to help them grow
in their faith and become
involved in the archdiocese.
“Because of the resources
available to the Hispanic
community right now, it’s
hard to invite the people to
participate in the church,”
he noted. “There’s a lot of
energy in the Hispanic
community. They want to
be involved in ministry in
the archdiocese, to take
ownership.”
But to do that, Hispanic
Catholics must be invited
into formation, prepared to
take part in ministry and
helped to take ownership in
their faith communities, he
said.
At Annunciation, Deacon
Villalobos noted, a class for
teenagers interested in
receiving the sacrament of
initiation was started with
just two young people. A
month later, there were
eight students, and six
months later, 30 had joined
the class.
Now, he said, “every week
more than 55 (high school)
kids are involved in sacra-
mental preparation. It’s a
wonderful blessing. We give
them the resources, we pre-
pare them, and they will go
See HISPANIC, Page 16
Death penalty put ‘on trial’ by new video effort
Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty is putting videos on You Tube channel
By MARNIE MCALLISTER
Record Staff Writer
Ruth Lowe’s brother,
Charles Clarence Brooks,
was murdered. And she
thinks about it frequently.
“T think about what a
good man he was and what
an awful way he died. And I
think about his murderer,
too. He was a young man. He
didn’t seem to understand
the value of my brother's life.
I hated him for a long time.
I wished for him the worst
possible life.”
Lowe relates this personal
story at a slow, even tempo
with a quiet conviction.
She’s seated in a green resin
chair on a small, neat lawn
with a gray vinyl-sided
home in the background.
Birds chirp incessantly, but
they’re not distracting.
She’s being recorded by
asmall, digital, point-and-
shoot camera. And the
photographer is a member
of the Kentucky Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty
(KCADP). The video is a
part of the organization’s
campaign to put “the death
penalty on trial” and to call
“Kentuckians as witnesses,”
as Father Patrick Delahanty
puts it.
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People protested the death penalty at a vigil last Nov. 21 in down-
town Louisville. The vigil was held the night that convicted killer
Marco Allen Chapman was executed in Eddyville, Ky. Chapman
was the first death-row inmate executed in Kentucky in nine years.
In the video, Lowe goes
on to say, “I’m learning to
forgive.” The execution of her
brother’s murderer “would
do nothing for me. It would
do nothing for the rest of my
family. ... To take his life
would make no sense.”
Lowe’s video is one of
more than 30 now available
for viewing on KCADP’s
YouTube channel. They
can be found by going to
the coalition’s Web site —
kcadp.org — or by searching
www.youtube.com for
KCADP videos. The “chan-
nel” was created with the
help of KCADP volunteer
Zach Everson, who also has
started a Facebook fan club,
Twitter account and updated
the group’s Web site.
Father Delahanty, chair
of the KCADP board of
directors, recorded most of
the videos himself.
As witnesses in this trial
of sorts, KCADP records the
general public, people who
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125th anniversary celebration
committee; Susan Jones, prin-
cipal of St. Edward’s 458-stu-
dent-strong school; Jim Bell,
one of the tri-chairs of the
parish capital campaign (along
with Jeff Bunch and Rhonda
Buttleman), and Pastoral Asso-
ciate Betty Deerwester.
The work has been difficult
but gratifying, they all agreed.
Acknowledging the past, what’s
been overcome and accom-
plished by predecessors, often
provides a dramatic insight
into the responsibilities of the
present and future, the parish
leaders said.
“There is a lot of enthusiasm
in this parish; always has
been,” said Jones, the principal.
“Whether we’re working with
sports teams (they have 130 in
various sports) or youth groups
from the schools, we always try
to emphasize that a sense of
community is what this parish
is so much about.”
The Ulmers, in addition to
helping organize the weekend
anniversary celebration, are
also writing a history of St. Ed-
ward. It’s a history of a parish
in motion, they said. One that’s
evolved to include 100 min-
istries today. One that’s been
willing to change and adapt
over the years in ways that rep-
resent responsible stewardship,
too.
“We have seven generations
of families still here,” John
Ulmer noted. “And this is one
of those places where you can
say from the very beginning,
parishioners built it all. Many
of the families who were
working back then to get the
parish established are work-
ing now.”
For instance, the parish has
a carpentry crew and an electri-
cal crew made up of parish-
ioners, and Father Graffis said
those workers have saved St.
Edward a fortune.
‘Tll bet the electrical crew
alone has saved us $100,000
since I’ve been here,” he noted.
“Doing things as they could
was part of the parish history,”
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Susan Jones said the parish is
proud that it’s still that way.
“We do things as we can afford
to do them, and we do them asa
community,” she said.
For instance, when the 30
families that started the parish
a century and a quarter ago
wanted to get it going, it took
them three years to save the
$700 needed to buy that first
plot of ground.
Now the parish sits on 11
acres of ground. It’s a land-
locked campus that is in need of
some modernizing.
“We have a very 1950s-look-
ing school,” Father Graffis said.
“We need to update it; we need
a new entrance for the school
and we need to be more energy
efficient.”
All of that, and much more,
is part of the parish’s Building
a Future of Hope goals. Be-
cause of the significant need for
additional facilities and mod-
ernization, St. Edward has
what capital campaign leaders
call a “stretch goal,” one that
goes a bit beyond the usual one
and a half times annual parish
collections.
In this case, St. Edward
parish hopes to raise $3.2 mil-
lion — $2,557,050 for the needs
of the parish and $642,950 for
the needs of the archdiocese.
For their $2.5 million, the
people of St. Edward Church
would get a significant number
of improvements and renova-
tions. The major parish goals
are:
HM Replacement of windows
and roofs on the school and
parish office buildings. The
windows, Father Graffis noted,
are single-pane glass from the
60s and ’60s — windows that
just bleed expensive heat in the
winter and cold air in the hotter
months. Utility bills for the
year are close to $100,000, Fa-
ther Graffis noted, and the im-
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and windows would lower that
number. The cost of the project
is $247,000.
HM Renovation and realign-
ment of the parish school would
cost $948,500. That project in-
cludes eliminating the need for
modular classrooms that have
been used since the 1990s; cre-
ating two classrooms in the
space currently occupied by the
school library; and building a
new media center at the front of
the school. The new library and
expanded computer space
would be used by the entire
parish.
New administrative offices,
including counseling offices,
would also be built, and a new
covered school entrance would
be constructed between the
Media Center and Administra-
tion Offices.
M@ Consolidation of the
parish’s spread-out Child De-
velopment Center (CDC) and
renovation of the parish hall
and gymnasium would cost
$947,000.
Father Graffis said the CDC
covers four distinct programs
(one for three- and four-year
olds in day care, the pre-school,
the after-school care and the
summer program). Those pro-
grams are located in five differ-
ent buildings on the 11-acre
campus. “Parents are always
having to wander all over the
place to pick up their children,”
he said.
This goal would create a two-
story addition in front of the
gymnasium that would house
all CDC programs. Other as-
pects of this goal involve reno-
vation of the Hamilton Hall
gymnasium restrooms, dress-
ing rooms, kitchen and conces-
sion areas and the building of a
CDC kitchen.
HM The fourth Building a
Future of Hope goal is develop-
ment of a Spirituality/Forma-
tion Center at a cost of
$245,000. This involves renova-
tion of the current rectory
building to create a deck at its
rear and addition of a semi-cir-
cular meeting space on the back
of the building — room enough,
Father Graffis said, to accom-
modate 70 adults.
A fifth goal is creation of
a “contingency fund” of
$169,550 to cover additional ex-
penses that might arise from
interest or other costs over the
next three years. This goal was
suggested by the parish finance
council.
Jim Bell, one of the chairs of
the parish campaign, said that
the response of St. Edward’s
people so far “has been great.
“People are getting on board
with the idea, and as we get
more information out to people
— the letters, the phone calls —
they’re being really support-
ive,” he added.
Father Graffis said the re-
sponse he’s heard so far “hasn’t
included any negatives.
“People are intimidated by
the numbers, but that’s to be
expected,” he said. “Others
have said, ‘If we can do all that
for $2.5 million, that is really
quite a big bang for our bucks.”
Death penalty placed
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have relatives on death row
and people who have had a
family member murdered. Most
videos are short, one or two
minutes. The subjects may tell
a story about their experiences
with capital punishment or
simply state their reasons for
opposing the practice.
The video that’s drawn the
most hits also was the first
recorded. It features Wendell
Berry, Kentucky farmer and ac-
claimed writer. Berry narrates
as photos of death row inmates
appear on the screen.
“We are putting the death
penalty on trial. Our witnesses
are Kentuckians,” said Father
Delahanty, who is also sacra-
mental moderator of St. Augus-
tine Church in Louisville and
associate director of the Catho-
lic Conference of Kentucky, the
public policy arm of Kentucky’s
bishops. “Every one of these
stories is different.
“This could be useful for
people doing RCIA (to teach)
forgiveness and mercy,” he
said. “I could see it used in any
kind of setting — high schools.
I can see really creative teach-
ers doing good things with
this.”
Father Delahanty said he’d
like to have at least 100 videos.
“It would be an incredible
wealth of testimony,” he noted.
“Tm looking for anyone who
would make a brief statement
to convince people we have a
broken system here. It’s not
about anybody ‘getting off or
‘being soft on crime.’ We all be-
lieve people who have killed
need to be severely punished.
But not by killing them. This is
our behavior.”
The video campaign is just a
small part of the coalition’s
larger plan to “ramp-up” its ef-
forts to bring an end to capital
punishment in Kentucky. And
the coalition “has adopted a
strategic plan to do just that,”
said Donald Vish, the coali-
tion’s director of education and
advocacy.
Vish, an attorney who prac-
ticed non-profit, corporate law
for 37 years, came on board
with the coalition in January as
its only full-time staff person.
His position was made possible
by a capital campaign to raise
$245,000 to support the coali-
tion’s efforts. The three-year
campaign began in April 2008,
and about two-thirds of the
funds have been raised, said
Father Delahanty.
Vish said the coalition has
identified four goals in the
strategic plan.
The first is to identify what
has worked in other states that
have abolished the death
penalty and what strategies are
likely to work in Kentucky. As
part of that goal, a new public
opinion poll regarding the use
of capital punishment is being
planned.
The second goal relates to fi-
nances and organizing — build-
ing financial resources through
the capital campaign and build-
‘on trial’
ing volunteer support.
The third goal aims to create
and implement an education
program “to influence public
opinion where we can,” said
Vish. “To counter myths that
surround the use of the death
penalty.”
The video campaign falls
under this goal, as does a plan
to set up tables at fairs and fes-
tivals where volunteers hand
out brochures and postcards for
people to send to their legisla-
tors.
The final goal aims to create
a “statewide organizational
structure,” said Vish. He said
the coalition wants to recruit
students on college campuses,
representatives in faith com-
munities and voters around the
state who could talk intelli-
gently about the issue and par-
ticipate in postcard campaigns
targeting legislators.
“We would have people in
Paducah and Pikeville and Cov-
ington and Hopkinsville that
we could rely on,” said Vish.
“We are not approaching
these four goals leisurely or
lightly,” he said. “This is seri-
ous business. We have law stu-
dents engaged at two cam-
puses” who are conducting re-
search and developing amicus
(friends of the court) briefs.”
The National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty will
be holding its annual meeting
this January in Louisville. Indi-
viduals may visit the KCADP
Web site for more information
and to view videos.
Faith communities urge creation of green jobs
Catholic News S
As the economy begins its
slow recovery from the reces-
sion, a nationwide coalition of
faith groups is calling on policy-
makers to ensure that the new
jobs being created give people
the chance to become self-suffi-
cient.
The call for jobs that provide
a living wage, comprehensive
benefits and safe working condi-
tions came during a nationwide
conference call marking the sec-
ond Fighting Poverty with
Faith initiative Oct. 14-21.
New jobs, especially those
connected to the rapidly grow-
ing economy revolving around
vice
energy conservation and pollu-
tion reduction, must provide
laid-off workers and low-income
families the opportunity to shed
the title of working poor by hav-
ing a well-paying job, said Fa-
ther Larry Snyder, executive di-
rector of Catholic Charities
USA.
“As people of faith we can
make a difference to develop and
shape a new American economy,
one that provides a living wage
and one that provides the bene-
fits where people don’t have to
rely on government benefits,”
Father Snyder said.
The conference call high-
lighted efforts around the coun-
try that focus on the develop-
ment of so-called green jobs.
Among those cited were the
Green Pathways program in St.
Louis, sustainability programs
coordinated through Sustain-
able South Bronx in New York,
and a wide-ranging campaign
involving low-income communi-
ties, labor, government, busi-
ness and faith-based social serv-
ice agencies in California’s Sili-
con Valley.
Rabbi Steve Gutow, presi-
dent of the Jewish Council for
Public Affairs, said the Fighting
Poverty with Faith initiative is
grounded in the biblical call to
care for creation.
