Knights partner with actor Gary Sinise to help veterans
By MARY REZAC
Orlando, Fla., Aug 22, 2014 / 02:02 am (CNA/EWTN News) - Actor Gary Sinise's respect and admiration for military men and women goes far beyond his role as Lieutenant Dan in the popular 1994 film, “Forrest Gump.”
For generations, members of his family and his wife's family have served their country, which inspired Sinise to support veterans for years and ultimately start the Gary Sinise Foundation in 2011.
This past year, the Knights of Columbus donated $200,000 to help build a “smart home” for U.S. Army Corporal Kyle Hockenberry, who lost three of his limbs in combat.
Deacon Dwaine Lampe: 
From hurricane hunter
to rodeo clown
By DAVID MYERS
Southwest Kansas Register
Deacon Dwaine Lampe must have had nerves of steal.
His wife, Louise, on the other hand, must have had nerves of pure titanium.
Shortly after they were married on Dec. 29, 1958, Deacon Lampe began completing his final year serving in the U.S. Navy, where he was a third class petty officer assigned as a radio operator aboard a plane that flew directly into hurricanes.
“The squadron was VW-4, ‘hurricane hunters,’” Deacon Lampe said from his Spearville home. “Our job was to follow the hurricane and fly into the eye to determine which direction they were going.”
Prayer a stronghold in life, death of Catholic journalist James Foley
By ADELAIDE MENA
Manchester, N.H., Aug 20, 2014 / 07:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News) - Prayer not only served as a source of strength for Catholic journalist James Foley – who was allegedly killed by militant Islamic State forces – but is now a foundation for his family and community.
Foley's bishop, Peter A. Libasci of Manchester, N.H., told EWTN Aug. 20 that the news of the journalist’s death is “very, very troubling,” but that the family and community have been “praying for him and for news of his whereabouts” since Foley's disappearance in Nov. 2012.
“It's been a family that has continued to pray,” the bishop said, adding that the community has also offered its support and prayers since Foley went missing.
“You just know that the reality of faith is what’s holding them right now.”
The gift of our seminarians
‘It was not you who chose Me, but I who chose you.’
-- John 15:16
Seminarians for the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City, Tylan Ricketts and Jacob Schneider, took time to answer some questions for the Southwest Kansas Register. Due to an SKR computer error, seminarian Juan Salas did not receive the questions in time to respond by deadline. The SKR will include his remarks in the next issue.
Jacob Schneider
Jacob Schneider was born in Great Bend, the son of Bob, a mechanic, and Kathy, a nurse. He has one sister and four brothers.
Southwest Kansas Register: When did you first feel the call to enter the priesthood?
Jacob: I guess you could say when I was a kid, but I really think I began to realize that God might be calling me to be a priest in college. It took really three years until I filled out the ap-
plication for seminary.
'Demography is destiny,' Archbishop Chaput tells Latino Catholics
Houston, Texas, Aug 19, 2014 / 05:15 pm (CNA/EWTN News) - The Church in the U.S. should not and cannot ignore the ever-increasing Latino population, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia said Saturday, because they are the future of the Church in America.
Before launching into his full Aug. 16 address to the Catholic Association of Latino Leaders national conference in Houston, the archbishop paused to remember and to pray for the young undocumented immigrants on the southern border who “are stuck in an ugly kind of limbo.”
“There’s simply no excuse for the suffering of children and families,” he said. “I hope each of us will find time today to pray for the young people caught in our immigration mess, and also for the officials who need to deal with this reality quickly and humanely.”
Pope Francis asks prayers for relatives killed in car accident
Vatican City, Aug 19, 2014 / 12:00 pm (CNA/EWTN News) - The Holy See announced Tuesday that Pope Francis has asked that the faithful join him in praying for the repose of the souls of three members of his family who have been killed in a car accident.
“The Pope was informed of the tragic accident in Argentina involving some of his family, and is profoundly saddened,” Fr. Federico Lombardi, Holy See press officer, said Aug. 19.
“He calls upon all who share in his grief to be united with him in prayer.”
Pope Francis' nephew, Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, 38, was returning to Rosario from a weekend with his family in the mountains near Cordoba, in central Argentina.
Their Chevrolet Spin hit a truck carrying corn.
Emanuel is in the hospital of Villa Maria in critical condition. His wife Valeria Carmona, 39, died, along with their children, Jose, 2, and Antonio, 8 months.
The Pope's nephew is the son of his late brother, Alberto.
Bishop celebrates pro-life Mass in Washington D.C.
before joining local group in Topeka for rally
Dozens of youth and adults from the Catholic Diocese of Dodge City joined Father Wesley Schawe for an early morning bus trip to Topeka where they took part in the annual pro-life rally Jan. 23.
Bishop Brungardt joined the group after having attended events in Washington, D.C. Jan. 21-22 to commemorate the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. On Jan. 21, he celebrated Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
Following is a complete text of the bishop’s homily at the Mass:
Seminarian Juan Salas:
Celebrating God, His people, and chocolate
Seminarian Juan Salas was born in Aguascalientes City, Aguascalientes, Mexico to Alfredo Salas Candelas -- retired and serving a part job as art professor in a cultural institute -- and Bertha Alanis Tavira, a homemaker. He has one sibling, a sister, Anabertha Salas.
When did you first feel the call to enter the priesthood?
I first felt the call to enter the priesthood when I was a child; I was about eight or nine years old. I think that being an altar boy awakened that feeling.
Who influenced you along the way?
The person who influenced me the most was the pastor I had in my childhood. I used to see him as a great person, somebody who was active the whole day; celebrating Mass, talking with people on the streets, exercising, attending parishioners at his office, visiting houses, but most of all, I saw him happy. I just wanted to be like him. Nevertheless, my family raised me as a Catholic and always supported me choosing this path. I can say they influenced me, too.
How did your family react to your decision to enter the priesthood?
St. Louis archbishop urges prayer in face of Ferguson violence
St. Louis, Mo., Aug 19, 2014 / 05:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News) - Following more than a week of protests after the death of an African-American teen, the Archdiocese of St. Louis is asking Catholics to offer special prayers for peace in the coming days.
“We are all aware of the turmoil and tragedy our St. Louis community is experiencing. The residents of Ferguson, Missouri, are struggling to find peace in the chaos. As people of Christ, we are struggling to find direction in the unrest,” said Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis in an Aug. 18 letter.
“In all circumstances, but especially in these difficult times, we are all called to be instruments of peace through our words and actions.”
Appealing for peace, the archbishop announced he will be celebrating a Mass for Peace and Justice at the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, on Wednesday, Aug. 20, and will host a special collection “to assist food pantries and parishes in the Ferguson area that offer assistance to those who have been affected by the looting and destruction of property.”
Pope Francis backs intervention in Iraq to stop 'aggressor'
By ALAN HOLDREN and KEVIN JONES
Aboard the papal plane, Aug 18, 2014 / 12:07 pm (CNA/EWTN News) - Pope Francis supports international intervention in Iraq and is willing to go to there personally if it will help end the violence against Christians and other religious minorities.
“In these cases where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” Pope Francis told reporters.
“I underscore the verb 'stop.' I don't say 'to bomb' or 'make war,' (but) 'stop it.'”
Speaking to journalists aboard the Aug. 18 plane flight back to Italy from South Korea, the Pope noted the Holy See's diplomatic efforts to end the violence in Iraq, especially against Iraqi minorities.
In response to the question on Iraq posed by CNA and EWTN News Rome bureau chief Alan Holdren, Pope Francis said that a papal visit to Iraq was “one of the possibilities.”