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WORLD ■ Poland remembers its WWII hero Catholic family Wiktoria Ulma with six of her children. | ULMA FAMILY MUSEUM Polish Catholics marked the anniversary of the killing of a Catholic family by the Nazis for sheltering Jews during World War II as their cause for sainthood advances. Known as the “Good Samaritans of Markowa,” Józef and Wiktoria Ulma provided refuge to eight Jewish people for two years at their home in southeast Poland. On March 24, 1944, they were discovered and executed by a Nazi patrol. Their seven children, the oldest 8 years old and the youngest still in the womb, were also killed. “Their gift of life is a sign for us, that sometimes we have to sacrifice our lives to save other people,” said Archbishop Adam Szal of Przemyśl, Poland, at a March 24 Mass on the anniversary of their deaths. Prayers were also offered at the Mass for the couple’s beatification, the step before sainthood. Their case now awaits further investigation by the Holy See. ■ Despite Catholic efforts, euthanasia legalized in Spain Spain became the fourth European country to legalize assisted suicide last month despite pleas from Catholic leaders. The measure to legalize the practice, which will go into effect in three months, passed the country’s parliament in a 202 to 141 vote March 18. It will allow people 18 or older to end their lives in response to illness or psychological suffering. “Unfortunately, they’ve tried to find a solution to avoid suffering by inducing the death of someone who is suffering,” said the secretary general of the Spanish bishops’ conference, Bishop Luis Argüello. “It’s dramatic that there are 60,000 people who every year die in Spain suffering, when this could be remedied with an adequate policy of palliative care.” The country’s Catholic bishops have publicly denounced the measure for months, and even met with Pope Francis last September to discuss it. ■ New Dead Sea Scrolls discovered Israel’s “Cave of Horror,” an archaeological site where 40 human skeletons were excavated in the 1960s, is now home to a less horrific discovery — roughly 80 new fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls. These are the first fragments of the two-millennia-old biblical scrolls to be found in more than 60 years. They include Greek translations from the books of Zechariah and Nahum. “When we think about the biblical text, we think about something very static,” Joe Uziel, head of the Israel Antiquities Authority’s Dead Sea Scrolls unit, told The Associated Press. “It wasn’t static. There are slight differences and some of those differences are important.” According to Father Eugenio Alliata, director of the Museum of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, the scrolls are significant because they “bear witness to the spread of Greek translations in Jewish circles.” El Santo de El Salvador — With COVID-19 restrictions in place, lay Catholics gather in smaller groups around the tomb of St. Oscar Romero at the cathedral in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, the 41st anniversary of the Salvadoran saint’s martyrdom. | MARVIN RECINOS/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES 4 • ANGELUS • April 9, 2021
NATION Matriarch of madness — Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt, longtime chaplain of the Loyola University Chicago Ramblers men’s basketball team, watches the first round of the NCAA Tournament March 19 at Hinkle Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Sister Schmidt, a member of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, was once again turned to as a good-luck charm for the Ramblers, who made it to the Sweet 16 before falling to Oregon State March 27. For more on Sister Schmidt and her Los Angeles roots, visit the LA Catholics section of AngelusNews.com. | CNS/ALTON STRUPP, INDYSTAR, USA TODAY SPORTS VIA REUTERS ■ New York: Dorothy Day takes the ferry A new ferry that will transport commuters between Manhattan and Staten Island will be named after a woman being investigated for sainthood, the mayor of New York City announced. One of three new ferries being built in Florida will bear the name of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. It will be the third Staten Island ferry to be named after a woman. “Day loved Staten Island,” de Blasio said, “and this naming will allow others to learn of her inspiring work as a brave activist and journalist.” “How appropriate that a ferry transporting people would honor a believing apostle of peace, justice, and charity who devoted her life to moving people from war to peace, from emptiness to fullness, from isolation to belonging,” commented New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Day was born in Brooklyn but moved to Staten Island in the 1920s. In 1927, she was received into the Catholic Church at a parish in Staten Island. ■ Officer, father of seven among Boulder’s dead A Catholic father of seven was among the 10 people killed in a Colorado store shooting March 22. Authorities said Boulder police department Officer Erik Talley was the first to be killed after 21-year-old Officer Eric Talley. | BOULDER Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa POLICE DEPARTMENT began opening fire inside a King Soopers grocery store. “We do know that Officer Eric Talley was Catholic and has been described as a man of character and strong faith, a loving father to seven children, a husband who cared deeply for his family and a soldier for Christ,” said Denver Archbishop Samuel Aquila after the shooting. The archbishop also noted that Talley was known to attend St. Martin de Porres Church, located across the street from the store where he died. A funeral Mass was celebrated March 29 for Talley at Denver’s Catholic cathedral. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in 2014. | LAUREN GERSON/WIKIMEDIA ■ Can Carter save Hyde? A group of pro-life Democrats are turning to an unlikely figure to support their cause: former President Jimmy Carter. Democrats for Life of America took to social media March 22 to ask the 39th president to publicly support the Hyde Amendment, which has restricted federal funding of abortion since 1976. “We are asking President Jimmy Carter (who signed Hyde into law) to please help us in saving it,” the group said in a March 22 tweet. “We are so grateful for your humanitarian work and for everything you did for women and families in office.” Though the amendment was passed before Carter took office, the former president signed multiple funding bills which included Hyde. The Democratic position on abortion has shifted dramatically since Carter’s presidency, with the 2020 party platform calling for repeal of Hyde. President Joe Biden backed the amendment for most of his political career, but has backed its repeal since entering the 2020 presidential race. April 9, 2021 • ANGELUS • 5
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