Angelus News | February 24, 2023 | Vol. 8 No. 4

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LOCAL Sister Maribeth Larkin greets Pope Francis during a Jan. 20 private audience in Vatican City. | VATICAN MEDIA ■ Local religious sister part of private audience with Pope Francis A Los Angeles-based sister was one of 10 members of the Sisters of Social Service received by Pope Francis in a private audience last month to mark the beginning of the order’s 100th jubilee year. Sister Maribeth Larkin, general director of the Los Angeles branch of the Sisters of Social Service, described the half-hour meeting in the library of the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace as “a powerful, intimate connection.” “As Christians, we are brothers and sisters to everyone,” said Sister Maribeth, describing the conversation with the pope, which touched on his latest encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” (“Brothers All”). “We don’t get to pick and choose who we’re going to be charitable towards or who we’ll give service to.” Founded in 1923 in Budapest, Hungary, by Sister Margaret Slatchta, the Sisters of Social Service are committed to service, charity, and improving social systems to better help the poor and disenfranchised. A cathedral gets its crypt — Bishop Kevin Vann of Orange speaks at a Feb. 1 media day event for the St. Callistus Chapel and Crypts project, located below Christ Cathedral in Orange Grove. The space will include a chapel that can hold 250 people, sacred artwork, and 40 burial spaces for generations of bishops. It is named after the parish and school of St. Callistus in Garden Grove, which was lost as part of the land swap that turned the Crystal Cathedral into Christ Cathedral. The Diocese of Orange will begin construction this March and hopes to finish by December. | DREW KELLEY/DIOCESE OF ORANGE ■ LA Catholic school kids asked to put on their thinking caps A new initiative underway aims to turn LA Catholic school students into real-world inventors. The Archdiocese of LA’s C3 Thinker Tank has partnered with entrepreneurship program Lemelson-MIT and 12 local schools this year for the initiative, titled “Thinker Tank: Invents.” It aims to generate “natural curiosity” and “a creative and inventive mindset” among students and encourage them to produce inventions that solve problem(s) affecting “their family, community, or even people around the world.” Student teams will work on their invention prototypes and presentations in the coming weeks to qualify to enter the “Regional Invention Convention” event, to be held March 25 at St. Dominic Savio School in Bellflower. Organizers hope that winners will be selected to participate in the state, national, and global “Invention Conventions” that will follow later this year. ■ Special collection for Turkey and Syria quake relief Parishes around the archdiocese have been invited to hold a special second collection for victims of the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. “In solidarity with our suffering brothers and sisters, Archbishop Gomez has asked all parishes to consider conducting a nonmandatory special collection during the weekends of Feb. 18-19 and Feb. 25-26, 2023,” read a Feb. 12 letter to parishes from Vicar General/Moderator of the Curia Father Brian Nunes and Msgr. Terrance L. Fleming, Executive Director of the archdiocese’s Mission Office. A similar appeal launched by the Mission Office last spring to help victims of the war in Ukraine raised more than $2 million. Y 6 • ANGELUS • February 24, 2023
V IN OTHER WORDS... Letters to the Editor Wellness doesn’t have to be pricey In reference to the article “Medicine with meaning” in the Jan. 27 issue of Angelus, the author focuses a lot on more exotic (and expensive) forms of wellness rather than focusing on the simpler aspects of a person’s “whole lifestyle — their diet, work habits, stress, relationships, and physical activity,” as espoused by Dr. John W. Travis. Our bodies are a temple of the Holy Spirit, and we cannot neglect that aspect of our overall health. As for diet, the Standard American Diet (SAD) is an affront to God. We need to do a better job eating healthy and exercising more. This is something we all can do. — David Walter, Downey Correction A Nation news brief on Page 5 of the Jan. 27 issue incorrectly characterized the Born-Alive Act, which mandates medical care for infants who survive abortion procedures, as having “passed Congress.” To be clear, the bill passed the House of Representatives but not the Senate. Y Continue the conversation! To submit a letter to the editor, visit AngelusNews.com/Letters-To-The-Editor and use our online form or send an email to editorial@angelusnews.com. Please limit to 300 words. Letters may be edited for style, brevity, and clarity. Nothing robotic about school spirit “People are not just being censored in terms of what they can say, but what they can think in certain zones.” ~ Father Sean Gough, a UK priest fighting a legal battle against abortion “censorship zones” in England, in a Feb. 10 interview with The Pillar. “Newsrooms aren’t interested in shattering narratives they already believe.” ~ Clemente Lisi, in a Feb. 7 Get Religion article, “Death of old-school journalism may be why Catholic church vandalism isn’t a big story.” “There is no writing quite like this in medieval literature.” ~ Alex Ross of The New Yorker, in a long-form essay on medieval nun and doctor of the Church St. Hildegard of Bingen’s contributions to early musical history. “The future of humanity depends on people opening doors to the transcendent, rather than sealing themselves into materialism and despair.” ~ Ross Douthat, in a Feb. 1 New York Times op-ed, “Be Open to Spiritual Experience. Also, Be Really Careful.” Students at Notre Dame Academy Elementary in West LA cheered on a robotics tournament held last month to kick off this year’s Catholic Schools Week, during which the school’s classes could choose a service organization to support via the “Buck-a-Stuff” dress-down day fundraisers. | SUBMITTED PHOTO View more photos from this gallery at AngelusNews.com/photos-videos Do you have photos or a story from your parish that you’d like to share? Please send to editorial @angelusnews.com. “Bishop Álvarez has not been condemned. It is they who have condemned themselves.” ~ Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Baez of Managua, Nicaragua, currently exiled in Miami, criticizing the Ortega regime’s 26-year prison sentence for fellow Nicaraguan bishop Rolando Álvarez after refusing exile to the U.S. February 24, 2023 • ANGELUS • 7
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