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Anglican
ordinariates
and celibacy
Second in a series
My dear friends,
I wrote last week about Anglican ordinariates and left off at the question of celibacy.
According to the document issued by Pope Benedict XVI:
• “Those who ministered
as Anglican deacons, priests
or bishops, and who fulfill
the requisites established by
FROM THE
ARCHBISHOP canon law” may be accepted
John C. as candidates for priesthood in
Favalora the Catholic Church.
• Unmar r ied ministers
must submit to the norm of clerical celibacy.
• Married men will be admitted to the
Please see ARCHBISHOP, Page 2
Ordinariatos
anglicanos y
el celibato
Segundo en una serie
Mis queridos amigos:
La semana pasada, escribí sobre los ordinariatos anglicanos, y me quedé en el tema
del celibato. De acuerdo con un documento
emitido por el Papa Benedicto XVI:
“Aquellos que han ejercido el ministerio de
diáconos, presbíteros u obispos anglicanos,
que responden a los requisitos establecidos
por el derecho canónico” pueden ser aceptados como candidatos para el sacerdocio en la
Please see ARZOBISPO, Page 2
Daniel SoÑÉ | FC
Father Jordi Rivero, pastor of St. Timothy Parish in Miami, celebrates the Eucharist.
Never miss
Mass again
Traveling is no excuse, as Web
site offers Mass, confession
schedules for nearly half the
churches in the world
ANA RODRIGUEZ-SOTO
Florida Catholic staff
MIAMI — Traveling to Yellowstone National Park and wondering if you will be able
to attend Sunday Mass while visiting Old
Faithful?
As the commercial says, “There’s an app
for that.”
Actually, it’s an Internet site — www.masstimes.org — where you can search for the
Mass times at 117,337 Catholic churches, chapels and missions in 205 countries around
the world.
HOW TO SEARCH — Go to
www.masstimes.org. Call 410-676-6000
The site lists Mass times, confessions and
devotional services, as well as linking to
maps that tell visitors where the church is located. Visitors can search by diocese, city and
state or country. They can search in different
languages and search for Masses celebrated
in a particular language.
For those who own iPhones, there is an
“app” as well that uses GPS technology to find
you and locate the nearest church.
The Web site grew out of Bob Hummel
Please see MASS, Page 4
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ARCHBISHOP
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priesthood “on a case-by-case
basis.”
• Married Anglican priests
who previously were ordained
as Catholic priests may not make
use of these new regulations.
• Anglican priests who are in
“irregular marriage situations,”
such as those who have been divorced and remarried, will not
be ordained as Catholic priests.
I think we need to address
that issue because there are people who say, “Why are we letting
Anglican married priests come
into the Church and not some of
our own priests who have gotten
married? Why can’t they come
back and serve the Church?”
The answer is simple: The
Catholic Church is making an
ARZOBISPO
From A1
Iglesia Católica.
• Los ministros solteros deben
someterse a la regla del celibato
clerical.
• Los hombres casados serán
admitidos al sacerdocio “en base
a cada caso”.
• Los sacerdotes anglicanos
casados que previamente fueron
ordenados como sacerdotes católicos, no podrán utilizar estas
nuevas reglas.
• Los sacerdotes anglicanos
que se encuentran en “situaciones maritales irregulares”, como
los que se han divorciado y vuelto
a casar, no serán ordenados como
sacerdotes católicos.
Me parece que debemos mencionar dicho asunto, porque hay
personas que preguntan: “¿Por
qué permitimos a los sacerdotes anglicanos casados venir a la
Iglesia y no a algunos de nuestros
propios sacerdotes que se han casado? ¿Por qué no pueden regre-
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exception here for the sake of
these men’s faith. They want to
come into full communion with
the Catholic Church because
they totally believe what the
Church preaches and teaches,
and they are willing to accept the
fact that, in the future, they will
have no married clergy because
the Roman church does not allow that.
That is different from men
who were ordained priests in the
Catholic Church, fully knowing that celibacy was expected
of them when they took holy
orders. In their case, it is not a
matter of their faith but of their
convenience. As far as their salvation is concerned, the Catholic
Church offers them dispensation
— a release from the obligations
of the priestly life which frees
them to enter marriage — so that
their eternal salvation will not be
jeopardized by living contrary to
the vows they professed.
In the future, those who study
for the priesthood in the Anglican ordinariate will have to profess the same Roman discipline
regarding celibacy. In the meantime, a married Anglican bishop
will not be allowed to lead an
Anglican ordinariate.
This is done in accord with
our Eastern Catholic tradition
that says only unmarried or celibate priests can become bishops.
This tradition dates back 2,000
years, long before the Roman
church instituted the discipline
of celibacy for its priests.
The fact is that celibacy has
a long tradition in the Church,
a tradition that many critics do
not know or do not want to understand. I will say more about
that in my next column. n
sar y servir a la Iglesia?
La respuesta es sencilla: la Iglesia Católica hace una excepción
en este caso por el bien de la fe de
estos hombres. Ellos desean estar
en plena comunión con la Iglesia
Católica porque creen absolutamente en lo que predica y enseña la Iglesia, y están dispuestos
a aceptar el hecho de que, en el
futuro, no tendrán clérigos casados porque la iglesia romana no
lo permite.
Esto es distinto de los hombres
que fueron ordenados sacerdotes
en la Iglesia Católica, quienes, a la
hora de tomar el Orden Sagrado,
entendían perfectamente que se
esperaba el celibato de ellos. En su
caso, no es asunto de fe, sino de su
conveniencia. En lo que respecta
a su salvación, la Iglesia Católica
les ofrece una dispensa — la cual
les libra de las obligaciones de la
vida sacerdotal, lo que les permite entrar en el matrimonio — de
manera que su salvación eterna
no esté en peligro por vivir de
manera contraria a los votos que
profesaron.
En el futuro, los que estudien
para el sacerdocio en el ordinariato anglicano, deberán profesar la misma disciplina romana
del celibato. Mientras tanto, a un
obispo anglicano casado no se le
permitirá dirigir un ordinariato
anglicano.
Esto se hace de acuerdo con
nuestra tradición católica oriental, que determina que sólo los
sacerdotes solteros o célibes
pueden convertirse en obispos.
Esta tradición data de más de
2,000 años, mucho antes de que
la iglesia romana estableciera la
disciplina del celibato para sus
sacerdotes.
El hecho es que el celibato tiene una larga tradición en la Iglesia, una tradición que muchos
críticos no conocen o no quieren
entender. Ofreceré más información en mi próxima columna. n
Newsbriefs
Barry announces
award recipients
Barry University will be
busy handing out awards this
January: one to a Dominican
theologian, two to couples
who serve as community leaders, and a third to a young man
who is a leader in efforts to cure
paralysis.
Dominican Father Donald
J. Goergen, author, theologian
and currently prior of St. Dominic Priory, House of Studies, in
St. Louis will receive the Yves
Congar Award, given annually
for theological excellence.
Father Goergen will receive his award and speak on
Sunday, Jan. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in
Andreas Building, Room 111,
on the university’s campus,
11300 N.E. Second Ave., Miami
Shores. The award is presented
by Barry University’s department of theology and philosophy. For more information, call
305-899-4887.
Barry also will present its
Faith and Freedom Award and
Laudare medals during its 2010
Founders’ Ball, set to begin
Saturday, Jan. 16, 6:15 p.m., at
the Doral Golf Resort and Spa.
The ball marks the 70th anniversary of Barry’s existence.
Dr. Suzanne and Brian Keeley will receive the 2010 Faith
and Freedom Award in recognition of their personal and
professional dedication to the
ideals of Catholic social justice.
Brian Keeley is president and
chief executive officer of Baptist Health South Florida; Suzanne Keeley, a psychologist,
is president and founder of the
Melissa Institute for Violence
Prevention and Treatment.
The Laudare Medal, an
expression of the university’s
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COMMUNITY
EVENTS
Archbishop Curley Notre
Dame Art Gallery, 4949 N.E.
Second Ave., Miami, 305-7518367, ext. 29; www.acnd.net,
or [email protected]:
• Opening Thursday, Jan.
14, 7-9 p.m.: “Haitian Women
Artists,” featuring artists from
a women’s cooperative in Jean
Rabel, Haiti.
• Opening Tuesday, Jan.
26, 7-9 p.m.: “Young Artists
Exhibit,” featuring works from
student artists in Catholic
middle schools of neighboring
parishes, in collaboration with
Catholic Schools Week.
White elephant bazaar,
Jan. 15-17, St. Mary Magdalen,
17775 N. Bay Road, North
Miami Beach. Books, toys,
jewelry, homemade items,
dishes, puzzles, much more.
305-931-0600 or gschmitz@
surfandbuy.com.
St. Vincent flea market,
Friday, Jan. 15, 1-4 p.m.;
Saturday, Jan. 16, 8 a.m.-2
p.m., 6350 N.W. 18 St.,
Margate. Drop off items Jan.
11-13, 9 a.m.-3 p.m.; no TVs,
VCRs, computers, monitors, or
printers. For pickup of heavy or
large items, call 954-972-0434.
Yves Congar Award,
Sunday, Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m.,
Barry University, 11300 N.E.
Second Ave., Miami Shores,
Andreas Building Room 111.
Winner is Dominican Father
Donald J. Goergen, author,
theologian, currently prior
of St. Dominic Priory, House
of Studies, St. Louis. 305-8994887.
St. Vincent Council of
Catholic Women monthly
meeting, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 7:30
p.m., De Paul Center, 6350
N.W. 18 St., Margate. New
members welcome; annual
dues: $10. 954-531-2096 or
954-972-0754.
St. Rose of Lima carnival,
Friday, Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m.11:30 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 23
and Sunday, Jan. 24, 11:30
a.m.-11:30 p.m., 415 N.E. 105th
St., Miami. Rides, games, food,
cash raffle, silent auction,
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entertainment, fun for the
whole family. 305-758-0539.
Magnificat ministry
luncheon, Saturday, Jan. 23,
11:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Blue
Banquet Hall, 1001 S.W. 86
Court, Miami. For Catholic
women, to renew or establish
a relationship with Christ
through the Holy Spirit. 305205-5599.
Fun fest, Sunday, Jan. 24, 10
a.m.-8 p.m, St. Francis de Sales
Parish, 621 Alton Road, Miami
Beach. Fun for the whole
family. 305-672-0093.
St Andrew family
carnival, Jan. 28-29, 5-10
p.m.; Jan. 30-31, noon-11
p.m., 9950 N.W. 29th St., Coral
Springs. Rides, games, food,
cakewalks, raffles, vendors and
performances by local talent.
954-258-8023.
Chaminade-Madonna
College Preparatory’s 34th
Founders’ Dinner Dance,
Saturday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m.,
Signature Grand, 6900 State
Road 84, Davie. Honorees are
Archbishop John C. Favalora,
William “Pops” and Rose
Stierele, and Nancy Sullivan.
Information, reservations:
www.cmlionsden.org/founders,
954-989-5150, ext. 140.
Schott Communities,
Monday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m.,
presentation by the Broward
County Family Success
Administration on the
numerous services offered
to the community. 6591 S.
Flamingo Road, Cooper City.
954-434-3306, ext. 102.
CONCERTS
St. Martha-Yamaha
Concert Series, 9301 Biscayne
Blvd., Miami Shores. Tickets
include after-concert reception
with artists. $10 general
admission; $20 Blue Circle.
www.saintmartha.tix.com
or 305-751-0005: Saturday,
Jan. 23, 7:30 p.m., violinist
Alexander Markov performs
with pianist Paul Posnak.
FAITH
EDUCATION
Religious education
classes, sponsored by
archdiocesan religious
education department,
305-762-1107 or religedu@
theadom.org: Principles of
Christian Morality, Mondays,
Jan. 11-Feb 8, 7-9:15 p.m., St.
Kevin School, 1225 S.W. 42
St., Miami. Taught by Michele
MacEachern. Registration: $35;
textbook, Catechism of the
Catholic Church. R.S.V.P.: 305223-2469.
Biblia: San Lucas y los
Hechos de los Apóstoles, 12
de enero-20 de abril, 7:30 p.m.,
Southeast Pastoral Institute
(SEPI), 7700 S.W. 56 St., Miami.
Profesor: Padre Oscar Alonso,
SchP. 305-279-2333, www.
sepimiami.org.
“Living Pentecost:
A Process of Spiritual
Growth,” Saturday, Jan. 23,
9:30 a.m., English; 11 a.m.,
Spanish, St. Catherine of Siena,
9200 S.W. 107 Ave., Miami.
Adult formation for parish
ministers. 305-274-6353.
SCHOOL EVENTS
Deadline for
Calendar listings
The Florida Catholic
welcomes calendar items of
parish/organization events
that are open to the whole
archdiocese. There is no
charge but items must be in
the Miami office at least six
weeks before the event. To list
an event both on the Web site
and in the newspaper, go to
www.miamiarch.org, click on
the banner “announce your
event for free” and follow the
instructions. Notices may
be sent by e-mail: arsoto@
theadom.org; fax: 305-7621132; mail: The Florida
Catholic, 9401 Biscayne
Blvd., Miami, FL 33138.
Chaminade-Madonna
College Preparatory open
house, Tuesday, Jan. 12,
6:30 p.m., in the café, 500
Chaminade Drive, Hollywood.
Entrance exam on Saturday,
Jan. 30. Must preregister
at www.cmlions.org under
“Admissions.” 954-989-5150,
ext. 136; or cmanzella@
cmlions.org.
Archbishop Curley
Notre Dame entrance
exam, Saturday, Jan. 30, 8
a.m., 4949 N.E. Second Ave.,
Miami. Register at http://
www.acnd.net/Admissions/
EntranceExamApplication.htm.
All Saints School open
house, Sunday, Jan. 31,
10 a.m.-2 p.m., 10900 W.
Oakland Park Blvd., Sunrise.
Applications for new students
accepted beginning Feb. 1.
954-742-4842.
Jesus the Center of our
Lives,” series of talks in
preparation for Lent, St.
Gregory Parish, 200 N.
University Drive, Plantation.
Talks by Franciscan Father Jude
L. Winkler after the 8:30 a.m.
daily Mass and evenings at 7
p.m.: Monday, Jan. 25: “The
Lord Healing Our Brokenness”;
Tuesday, Jan. 26: “The Lord
Forgiving Our Sinfulness”;
Wednesday, Jan. 27: “The Lord
Calling Us to Service.” 954473-6261, ext. 167; or javerell@
cherubim.org.
Wedding Anniversary
Mass, for couples celebrating
25, 50 and each year over 50,
Saturday, Feb. 13, 10 a.m., St.
Mary Cathedral, 7525 N.W.
Second Ave., Miami. Organized
by the archdiocesan Family Life
department. Call your parish
before Feb. 8 to register. 305762-1140/1148/1157.
MASSES /PRAYER
SESSIONS
SAFE
ENVIRONMENT
Songs and prayer in the
spirit of Taizé, Tuesday, Jan.
12, 7:30 p.m., Barry University,
Cor Jesu Chapel, 11300 N.E.
Second Ave., Miami Shores.
Chant, Scripture, silent
reflection, intercessory prayer.
305-899-3650 or 305-458-9919.
Impacto, Saturday, Jan.
16 and Sunday, Jan. 17,
8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. each day,
in English, Mother of Our
Redeemer, 8455 N.W. 186 St.,
Miami. Enrichment retreat for
the whole family. Designed
for couples with children ages
3-11. www.impactos.org or
305-571-7111.
“Conversion: Making
Virtus workshop: To help
parents, teachers and anyone
who works with children
recognize signs of sexual abuse
and spot abusers: Saturday,
Jan. 16, 9 a.m., St. Jerome
School, 2601 S.W. 9th Ave., Fort
Lauderdale. Free. 305-762-1250
or [email protected].
VOCATIONS
Discerning a vocation to
the priesthood? Meeting
Monday, Jan. 18, in English and
Spanish, Pastoral Center, 9401
Biscayne Blvd., Miami. 305-7621137 or vocations@theadom.
org.
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BRIEFS
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gratitude and appreciation to
outstanding members of the
south Florida community,
will be bestowed upon Roberta and David Lawrence,
and Marc Buoniconti.
David Lawrence is former
publisher of The Miami Herald and president of the Early
Childhood Initiative Foundation. Roberta Lawrence is
a Barry University graduate
with a master’s degree in social work.
Buoniconti, who suffered
a spinal cord injury while
playing college football that
left him paralyzed below the
neck, is president of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
and its fundraising arm, the
Buoniconti Fund. For more information,
visit www.barry.edu/foundersball.
Father Richard
Rohr to speak
at St. Thomas
Father Richard Rohr, a
Franciscan priest of the New
Mexico Province who serves
as founding president of the
Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque,
will speak Friday, Jan. 29, 7
p.m., at St. Thomas University, 16401 N.W. 37 Ave., Miami
Gardens.
Father Rohr is an international speaker and retreatgiver whose themes include
the integration of action and
contemplation, communitybuilding, peace and justice
issues, male spirituality,
eco-spirituality, and the cosmic Christ. He is author of
“Things Hidden: Scripture
as Spirituality.”
For more information,
contact Joan Reisinger at [email protected].
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MASS
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and his wife’s desire to attend daily
Mass.
“We were going to daily Mass
and we couldn’t find Masses when
we were traveling,” said the retired
businessman and Pensacola resident.
The search for Mass times and
locations led him to create a Web
site that welcomed nearly 4 million
unique visitors last year. Those visitors, in turn, conducted about 57
million church searches, according
to statistics shown on the site itself.
“We have approximately onehalf of all the Mass times of the
world on our Web site,” said Jim
Adair, president of the Catholic
Tour Company, who houses the
site in his Ohio offices as a favor to
Hummel, a longtime friend.
The site began in 1994 as a tollfree 800-number that provided
Mass times for Catholic parishes
in the United States. It moved to
the Internet in 1998 and began
publishing Mass times of churches
worldwide in 2002.
Initially, the toll-free number
received between 200,000 and
300,000 calls a year. “That’s kind
of what told me that there is quite
a pent-up demand for that type of
information,” said Hummel.
Almost 25,000 calls still come
into the phone line, even though it
is no longer toll free.
“The volume got to the point
where it was costing about $18,000
a month for the phone bill and I just
couldn’t afford that anymore. That
caused me to get serious about the
Internet,” said Hummel, who personally pays for about two-thirds
of the Web site’s annual $300,000
cost. The other third is raised by
ads and donations.
Hummel began amassing the
names, locations and Mass times of
churches by requesting the printed
directories of every diocese in the
U.S. The first year, he received 150
of 176 diocesan directories.
“I just hired people to start
entering them into the database.
That took another year or so,” he
said.
He still brings in seminarians once a year to help keep the
listings current, and said he has
about 1,000 volunteers who help
out during the year. But what is
really helpful is when parishes
update their own information on
the Web site itself.
That is always the most difficult part, said Adair. “We even
have a contest each year. We have
a drawing of everyone who has
done their own updates and give
them a trip for two to Rome.”
Hummel said he is retooling his database so that it can be
shared with companies that provide services to parishes.
“We’re all trying to join together. I think we’ll have about
14,000 of the churches covered by
people who do bulletins and software like ParishSoft. That way the
information will be kept current,”
Hummel said.
He estimated that Mass times
lists information for nearly 22,000
U.S. parishes, missions and chapels, as well as nearly 100,000
churches in about 3,300 dioceses
around the world.
“Fourteen percent of people in
the U.S. are actually looking for
churches outside the U.S.,” Hummel said. “The most loyal users
are really daily Mass people. It’s
much easier to find weekend
Masses than it is daily Mass.”
Masstimes.org also lists the
times for confession and adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
“We do get a good number of
inquiries about that. But clearly,
Mass times is where most of
the action is. It goes up around
Thanksgiving and Easter and
Christmas, and in the summers
and on weekends,” Hummel
said.
A running counter allows parishes to view the number of people who have searched for their
church, and the site allows people
MASS OBLIGATION
The Catholic Catechism states:
• No. 2185: On Sundays and other
holy days of obligation, the faithful
are to refrain from engaging in work
or activities that hinder the worship
owed to God, the joy proper to the
Lord’s Day, the performance of the
works of mercy, and the appropriate
relaxation of mind and body. Family
needs or important social service can
legitimately excuse from the obligation
of Sunday rest. The faithful should see
to it that legitimate excuses do not lead
to habits prejudicial to religion, family
life and health.
Canon law says:
• No. 1247: On Sundays and other
holy days of obligation the faithful are
bound to participate in the Mass; they
are also to abstain from those labors
and business concerns which impede
the worship to be rendered to God,
the joy which is proper to the Lord’s
Day, or the proper relaxation of mind
and body.
• No. 1248:
1. The precept of participating in
the Mass is satisfied by assistance at a
Mass which is celebrated anywhere in
a Catholic rite either on the holy day or
on the evening of the preceding day.
2. If because of lack of a sacred
minister or for other grave cause
participation in the celebration of the
Eucharist is impossible, it is specially
recommended that the faithful take
part in the Liturgy of the Word if it is
celebrated in the parish church or in
another sacred place according to the
prescriptions of the diocesan bishop,
or engage in prayer for an appropriate amount of time personally or in a
family or, as occasion offers, in groups
of families.
to search for Masses in specific
languages.
Hummel admits he was not
the first to come up with the
idea, and other Web sites, such as
CatholicWeb and CatholicOnline,
also list Mass times.
But “none of them take the time
and effort and investment to keep
it as current as we do. That’s what
makes our site more used than
the other people’s,” he said.
The bottom line, said Adair:
“There’s no reason to miss
Mass.” n