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Yesterday the Holy See published the list of participants in the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the family. Of course, there are the usual suspects: the heads of the Roman Curia departments, the standing members of the Synod and the presidents of the world's bishops' conferences, with the latter being default participants in an Extraordinary General Synod, which this one is. Pope Francis has had a personal touch in the selection of several participants; noteable among those are Cardinal Kasper, to all appearances a theologian much appreciated by the Holy Father, but also the vast majority of cardinals he created in his first consistory of last February.
A breakdown per country also shows Pope Francis' fairly strong focus on both the southern half of the globe and the Middle East. When looking at the members personally appointed by the Pope, as well as the lay and professional participants and auditors, we see that, while 35 participants come from Europe (19 of whom are based in Rome or other parts of Italy), 15 participants come from Asia (5 of them from the Middle East), 12 from Central and South America, 9 from Africa, 4 from Oceania and 4 from North America. Add to those the bishops' conference presidents and not least the fact that two of the three President Delegates come from outside Europe, and you get a distinct non-western picture.
From a local point of view it is interesting to see that no less than four participants come from Belgium, while there is only a single one from the Netherlands and a mere two from Germany. Belgium sends Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard,which was expected as he is the president of the Belgian bishops' conference, but also his predecessor, Cardinal Godfried Danneels (pictured), as well as Father George Henri Ruyssen of the Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome. Additionaly, Metropolitan Athenagoras, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgium, attends as a "fraternal delegate".
From the Netherlands comes the archbishop of Utrecht, Cardinal Wim Eijk, as the president of our bishops' conference, and Germany sends Cardinal Reinhard Marx, not a stranger in Rome, and Berlin's Professor Ute Eberl.
And of course the list has been criticised, not least today by Fr. Thomas Reese. His argument that the presence of heads of the Curia is a bad thing, and an indication that Pope Francis' intentions of overhauling and streamlining the workings of the Curia is doomed to fail, is plainly ludicrous. He argues that the prefects and presidents of the Curia are merely staff members and not policy makers, and should therefore be merely attending, not speaking or voting in the Synod, which is an extreme oversimplification. By that reasoning the presidents of the bishops' conferences should not be there as participants either. The members of the Roman Curia are the closest collaborators of the Pope. They meet with him on a weekly basis and he is generally kept up to date on whatever is going on in the various department. But the Pope is one man, so the prefects and presidents not only have the leeway to make their own decisions, that is also their mandate. They are also not random clerics appointed on a whim, but experienced in their own field of work. They are far more than staff. Their experience, knowledge and mandate are enough to give them not only the right and duty to attend the Synod, but also to contribute and decide. Cricitism like that of Fr. Reese seems mostly motivated by a deeply ingrained fear and mistrust of the Curia, which has created an artifical opposition between individual faithful and the institutional Church.
Anyway, the Synod is still a couple of weeks away. Let's give it the chance it deserves and not let it die a quiet death once the delegates have returned home.
Below is the full list of participants, as published yesterday:
- Pope Francis
- Lorenzo Cardinal Baldiserri
- André Cardinal Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France
- Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines
- Raymunda Damasceno Cardinal Assis, Archbishop of Aparecida, President of the Bishops' Conference of Brazil
- Péter Cardinal Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Bishops' Conference of Hungary, President of the Concilium Conferentiarum Episcoporum Europae (CCEE).
- Archbishop Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy
- Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture
- Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina
- Patriarch Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak, Patriarch of Alexandria of the Copts, President of the Synod of the Catholic Coptic Church
- Patriarch Gregorios III Laham, Patriarch of Antioch of the Greek-Melkites, President of the Synod the Greek-Melkite Catholic Church
- Patrirach Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patrirach of Antioch of the Syrians, President of the Syriac Catholic Church
- Patriarch Béchara Boutros Cardinal Raï, Patrirach of Antioch of the Maronites, President of the Synod of the Maronite Church
- Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, President of the Synod of the Chaldean Church
- Patriarch Nersos Bedros XIX Tarmouni, Patrirach of Cilicia of the Armenians, President of the Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church
- Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, President of the Synod of the Ukrainian Catholic Church
- Major Archbishop George Cardinal Alencherry, Major Archbishop of Ernakulam-Angamaly, President of the Syro-Malabar Church
- Major Archbishop Baselios Cleemis Cardinal Thottunkal, Major Archbishop of Trivandrum, President of the Synod of the Syro-Malankarese Church
- Major Archbishop Lucian Cardinal Muresan, Major Archbishop of Făgăras şi Alba Iulia, President of the Synod of the Romanian Church
- Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Archbishop of Addis Abeba of the Ethiopics, President of the Council of the Ethiopian Church, President of the Bishops' Conference of Ethiopia and Eritrea
- Archbishop William Charles Skurla, Archbishop of Pittsburgh of the Ruthenians, President of the Council of the Ruthenian Church in the United States of America
- Archbishop Ján Babjak, Archbishop of Presov of the Slovaks, President of the Council of the Slovak Church
- Bishop Benoît Comlan Messan Alowonou, Bishop of Kpalimé, Togo
- Bishop Oscar Omar Aparicio Céspedes, Military Ordinary of Bolivia
- Archbishop José María Arancedo, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz, Argentina
- Bishop Anders Arborelius, Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
- Raymundo Damasceno Cardinal Assis, Archbishop of Aparecido, Brazil (see also above)
- Angelo Cardinal Bagnasco, Archbishop of Genova, Italy
- Bishop Gervaise Banshimiyubusa, Bishop of Ngozi, Burundi
- Bishop Michael Dixon Bhasera, Bishop of Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- Archbishop Ricardo Blázquez Pérez, Archbishop of Valladolid, Spain
- Bishop Anthony Fallah Borwah, Bishop of Gbarnga, Liberia
- Bishop Jean-Claude Bouchard, Bishop of Pala, Chad
- Josip Cardinal Bozanic, Archbishop of Zagreb, Croatia
- Archbishop Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Cape Town, South Africa
- Bishop Markus Büchel, Bishop of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland
- Archbishop Paul Bùi Van Doc, Archbishop of Thành-Phô Hô Chí Minh, Vietnam
- Archbishop Luis Augusto Castro Quiroga, Archbishop of Tunja, Colombia
- Archbishop Ignatius Chama, Archbishop of Kasama, Zambia
- Archbishop Louis Chamniern Santisukniran, Archbishop of Thare and Nonseng, Thailand
- Archbishop Joseph Coutts, Archbishop of Karachi, Pakistan
- Archbishop Patrick D'Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- Archbishop John Atcherley Dew, Archbishop of Wellington, New Zealand
- Bishop Nicolas Djomo Lola, Bishop of Tshumbe, Congo-Kinshasa
- Bishop Basílio do Nascimento, Bishop of Baucau, Timor-Leste
- Archbishop Paul-André Durocher, Archbishop of Gatineau, Canada
- Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, Netherlands
- Péter Cardinal Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary (see also above)
- Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas, Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador
- Ricardo Cardinal Ezzati Andrello, Archbishop of Santiago, Chile
- Bishop Emmanuel Félémou, Bishop of Kankan, Guinea
- Bishop Oscar Gerardo Fernández Guillén, Bishop of Puntarenas, Costa Rica
- Archbishop Ruggero Franceschini, Archbishop of Izmir, Turkey
- Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, Archbishop of Poznan, Poland
- Archbishop Dionisio Guillermo García Ibáñez, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
- Archbishop Zef Gashi, Archbishop of Bar, Montenegro
- Bishop Catalino Claudio Giménez Medina, Bishop of Caacupé, Paraguay
- Bishop Andrej Glavan, Bishop of Novo Mesto, Slovenia
- Archbishop Roberto Octavio González Nieves, Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
- Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India
- Archbishop Jan Graubner, Archbishop of Olomouc, Czech Republic
- Bishop Mario Grech, Bishop of Gozo, Malta
- Archbishop John Ha Tiong Hock, Archbishop of Kuching, Malaysia
- Archbishop Denis James Hart, Archbishop of Melbourne, Australia
- Bishop Eugène Cyrille Houndékon, Bishop of Abomey, Benin
- Archbishop John Hung Shan-Chuan, Archbishop of Taipei, Taiwan
- Archbishop Ignatius Ayau Kaigama, Archbishop of Jos, Nigeria
- Bishop Peter Kang U-Il, Bishop of Cheju, South Korea
- Archbishop Samuel Kleda, Archbishop of Douala, Cameroon
- Bishop Franjo Komarica, Bishop of Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Archbisop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev, Belarus
- Bishop Patrick Daniel Koroma, Bishop of Kenema, Sierra Leone
- Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz, Archbishop of Louisville, United States of America
- Archbishop Vincent Landèl, Archbishop of Rabat, Morocco
- Chibly Cardinal Langlois, Bishop of Les Cayes, Haiti
- Bishop Mathieu Madega Lebouakehan, Bishop of Mouila, Gabon
- Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
- Archbishop Gerard Tlali Lerotholi, Archbishop of Maseru, Lesotho
- Bishop Felix Lian Khen Thang, Bishop of Kalay, Myanmar
- Patriarch José Macário do Nascimento Clemente, Patriarch of Lisbon, Portugal
- Bishop Soane Patita Paini Mafi, Bishop of Tonga, Tonga
- Bishop Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé, Laos
- Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, Archbishop of Dublin, Ireland
- Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of München und Freising, Germany
- Archbishop Angelo Massafra, Archbishop of Shkodrë-Pult, Albania
- Bishop Juan Matogo Oyana, Bishop of Bata, Equatorial Guinea
- Archbishop Gabriel Mbilingi, Arcbishop of Lubango, Angola
- Bishop Smaragde Mbonyintege, Bishop of Kabgayi, Rwanda
- Archbishop Thomas Meram, Archbishop of Urmya, Iran
- Archbishop Mieczyslaw Mokrzycki, Archbishop of Lviv, Ukraine
- Bishop Lúcio Andrice Muandula, Bishop of Xai-Xai, Mozambique
- Archbishop Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda, Archbishop of Windhoek, Namibia
- Bishop Benjamin Ndiaye, Bishop of Kaolack, Senegal
- Bishop Tarcisius J.M. Ngalalekumtwa, Bishop of Iringa, Tanzania
- Vincent Gerard Cardinal Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, United Kingdom
- John Cardinal Njue, Archbishop of Nairobi, Kenya
- Bishop Rimantas Norvila, Bishop of Vilkaviskis, Lithuania
- Archbishop Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Archbishop of Bangui, Central African Republic
- Archbishop John Baptist Odama, Archbishop of Gulu, Uganda
- Archbishop Peter Takeo Okada, Archbishop of Tokyo, Japan
- Bishop Arnold Orowae, Bishop of Wabag, Papua New Guinea
- Bishop Joseph Osei-Bonsu, Bishop of Konongo-Mampong, Ghana
- Archbishop Paul Yembuado Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Archbishop Diego R. Padrón Sánchez, Archbishop of Cumaná, Venezuela
- Bishop Franghískos Papamanólis, Bishop of Syros and Santorini, Greece
- Albert Malcolm Ranjith Cardinal Patabendige Don, Archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Bishop Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez, Bishop of Nuestra Señora de la Altagracia en Higüey, Dominican Republic
- Archbishop Tomasz Peta, Archbishop of Mary Most Holy in Astana, Kazakhstan
- Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, Archbishop of Mother of God at Moscow, Russia
- Bishop Maurice Piat, Bishop of Port-Louis, Seychelles
- Archbishop Patrick Christopher Pinder, Archbishop of Nassau, Bahamas
- Archbishop Salvador Piñeiro García-Calderón, Archbishop of Ayacucho, Peru
- Archbishop Georges Pontier, Archbishop of Marseille, France
- Bishop Louis Portella Mbuyu, Bishop of Kinkala, Congo-Brazzaville
- Bishop Christo Proykov, Apostolic Exarch of Sofia of the Bulgarians, Bulgaria
- Francisco Cardinal Robles Ortega, Archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico
- Archbishop Ioan Robu, Archbishop of Bucharest, Romania
- Óscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras
- Bishop Sócrates René Sándigo Jirón, Bishop of Juigalpa, Nicaragua
- Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Wien, Austria
- Archbishop Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel, Archbishop of Addis Abeba of the Ethiopics, Ethiopia (see also above)
- Archbishop Zbignev Stankevics, Archbishop of Riga, Latvia
- Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, Archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia
- Archbishop Philip Tartaglia, Archbishop of Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Bishop Jean-Baptiste Tiama, Bishop of Sikasso, Mali
- Archbishop Alexis Touabli Youlo, Archbishop of Agboville, Côte d'Ivoire
- Archbishop Fausto Gabriel Trávez Trávez, Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
- Archbishop Désiré Tsarahazana, Archbishop of Taomasina, Madagascar
- Patriarch Fouad Twal, Patriarch of Jerusalem
- Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta, Archbishop of Panamá, Panama
- Bishop Rodolfo Valenzuela Núñez, Bishop of Vera Paz, Guatemala
- Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas, Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan, Philippines
- Bishop Rodolfo Pedro Wirz Kraemer, Bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este, Uruguay
- Gabriel Cardinal Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Khartoum, Sudan
- Bishop Joseph Mukasa Zuza, Bishop of Mzuzu, Malawi
- Archbishop Stanislav Zvolenský, Archbishop of Bratislava, Slovakia
- Father Adolfo Nicolás Pachón, Superior General of the Society of Jesus
- Father Mauro Jöhri, Minister General of the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor
- Father Mario Alegani, Superior General of the Congregation of Saint Joseph
- Pietro Cardinal Parolin, Secretary of State
- Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
- Leonardo Cardinal Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches
- Angelo Cardinal Amato, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
- Marc Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops
- Fernando Cardinal Filoni, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples
- Beniamino Cardinal Stella, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy
- João Cardinal Bráz de Aviz, Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life
- Zenon Cardinal Grocholewski, Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education
- Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Major Penitentiary
- Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura
- Stanislaw Cardinal Rylko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity
- Kurt Cardinal Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, President of the Pontifical Council for the Family
- Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
- Robert Cardinal Sarah, President of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum"
- Antonio Maria Cardinal Vegliò, President of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People
- Archbishop Zygmunt Zimowski, President of the Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers
- Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts
- Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue
- Gianfranco Cardinal Ravasi, President of the Pontifical Council for Culture (see also above)
- Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation
- Domenico Cardinal Calcagno, President of the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See
- Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, President of the Prefecture of the Economic Affairs of the Holy See
- Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, United States of America
- Péter Cardinal Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary (see also above)
- Archbishop Bruno Forte, Archbishop of Chieti-Vasto, Italy (see also above)
- Oswald Cardinal Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, India (see also above)
- Laurent Cardinal Monsengwo Pasinya, Archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo-Kinshasa
- Wilfrid Fox Cardinal Napier, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa
- George Cardinal Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy
- Odilo Pedro Cardinal Scherer, Archbishop of São Paulo, Brazil
- Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Archbishop of Wien, Austria (see above)
- Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc, Ukraine (see also above)
- Bishop Santiago Jaime Silva Retamalas, Auxiliary Bishop of Valparaíso, Chile, Secretary General of the Episcopal Council of Latin America (CELAM)
- Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, Archbishop of Manila, Philippines (see also above)
- Donald William Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, United States of America
- Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace (see also above)
- Archbishop Salvatore Fisichella, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting the New Evangelisation (see also above)
- Angelo Cardinal Sodano, Dean of the College of Cardinals
- Godfried Cardinal Danneels, Archbishop emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium
- Walter Cardinal Kasper, President emeritus of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
- Angelo Cardinal Scola, Archbishop of Milan, Italy
- Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, Italy
- Lluís Cardinal Martínez Sistach, Archbishop of Barcelona, Spain
- André Cardinal Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris, France (see also above)
- Jonh Cardinal Tong Hon, Bishop of Hong Kong, China
- Orani João Cardinal Tempesta, Archbishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Adrew Cardinal Yeom Soo-jung, Archbishop of Seoul, South Korea
- Philippe Nakellentuba Cardinal Ouédraogo, Archbishop of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
- Fernando Cardinal Sebastián Aguilar, Archbishop emeritus of Pamplona y Tudela, Spain
- Elio Cardinal Sgreccia, President emeritus of the Pontifical Academy for Life
- Giuseppe Cardinal Bertello, President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State
- Archbishop Giovanni Tonucci, Archbishop of Loreto, Italy
- Archbishop Edoardo Menichelli, Archbishop Anciona-Osimo, Italy
- Archbishop Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Tlalnepatla, Mexico, President of the Episcopal Council of Latin America (CELAM)
- Archbishop Anil Joseph Thomas Couto, Archbishop of Delhi, India
- Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández, Rector of the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (see also above)
- Bishop Alonso Gerardo Garza Treviño, Bishop of Piedras Negras, Mexico
- Bishop Edgard Amine Madi, Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Líbano em São Paulo of the Maronites, Brazil
- Bishop Enrico Solmi, Bishop of Parma, Italy, President of the Commission for Life and Family in the Italian Bishops' Conference
- Monsignor Pio Vito Pinto, Dean of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota
- Father Francois-Xavier Dumortier, Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University Gregoriana
- Father Antonio Spadaro, Editor of the magazine "La Civiltà Cattolica"
- Father Manuel Jesús Arroba Conde, Professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical Lateran University
- Bishop Fabio Fabene
- Fr. Tony Anatrella, psycho-analist. Specialist in social psychiatry. Consultor to the Pontifical Councils for the Family and for Health Care Workers. France.
- Fr. Gérard Berliet, professor of Sacred Scripture at the provincial seminary in Lyon. Head of pastoral care for divorced and remarried faithful in the Archdiocese of Lyon, France.
- Fr. Bruno Esposito, professor of Canon Law at the Pontifical University St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome.
- Fr. Alfonso Fernández Benito, professor of Moral Theology and the Sacrament of Marriage at the Hugher Institute of Theological Studies "San Ildefonso", director of the Institute for Religious Sciences Santa Maria di Toledo, Spain.
- Fr. Arul Raj Gali, National Director of "Holy Cross Family Ministries in India".
- Dr. Jeffrey Goh, professor of Systematic Theology at the archdiocesan seminary and judge of the Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Kuching, Malaysia.
- Fr. Maurizio Gronchi, professor of Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical University Urbaniana in Rome, consultor for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
- Dr. Rodrigo Guerra López, general director of the Centre for Advanced Social Research, Mexico.
- Dr. Jocelyne Khoueiry, member of the Episcopal Commission for the Family of the APECL, Lebanon.
- Dr. Helen Kyung Soo Kwon, member of the executive committee of the "Helen Kim Scholarship Foundation at Ewha Womans University", South Korea.
- Fr. Sabatino Majorano, professor of Systemic Moral Theology at the Alphonsianum, Italy.
- Mr. Christopher Laurence Meney, director of the Center for life, marriage and family of the Archdiocese of Sydney, Australia.
- Professor Giuseppina de Simone, extraordinary professor of philosophy at the Theological Faculty of Southern Italy in Naples. Married to ∨
- Professor Francesco Miano, professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", president of Catholic Action, Italy. Married to ^
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In the run-up to the previous consistory, we've heard often that one of the duties of cardinals is to aid the pope in all manner of Church-related affairs. Exactly how that takes shape became clear yesterday, as the new cardinals have been appointed to seats on various congregations, tribunals, councils and committees. Here follows a list of the dicasteries and the new cardinals that were assigned to them.
- Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: Cardinals Alencherry, Filoni and Coccopalmerio
- Congregation for the Oriental Churches: Cardinals Alencherry, Dolan, Muresan, Filoni and O'Brien
- Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments: Cardinal Vegliò
- Congregation for the Causes of the Saints: Cardinals Monteiro de Castro and Abril y Castelló
- Congregation for Bishops: Cardinals Monteiro de Castro, Abril y Castelló, Bertello and Versaldi
- Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples: Cardinals Tong Hon, Abril y Castelló, Bertello and Calcagno
- Congregation for the Clergy: Cardinals Eijk and Braz de Aviz
- Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life: Cardinals Duka and Versaldi
- Congregation for Education: Cardinals Collins, Eijk, Betori, Woelki, Filoni, Braz de Aviz and O'Brien
- Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura: Cardinals Coccopalmerio and Versaldi
- Pontifical Council for the Laity: Cardinal Vegliò
- Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity: Cardinals Woelki and Coccopalmerio
- Pontifical Council for the Family: Cardinal Vegliò
- Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace: Cardinals Duka and Bertello
- Pontifical Council "Cor Unum": Cardinal O'Brien
- Pontifical Council for Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People: Cardinal Monteiro de Castro
- Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Health Care Workers: Cardinal Calcagno
- Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue: Cardinal Tong Hon
- Pontifical Council for Culture: Cardinal Betori
- Pontifical Council for Social Communications: Cardinals Collins and Dolan
- Pontifical Council for the Promotion of the New Evangelisation: Cardinal Dolan
- Pontifical Committee for the International Eucharistic Congresses: Cardinal Braz de Aviz
All the Church's cardinals under the age of 80 (and some over 80) have one or more functions within the dicasteries of the Roman Curia. This is in addition to their regular duties as diocesan bishops or curial prelates. In practice it means that they'll have to be in Rome a bit more often than before.
Our own Cardinal Eijk has been appointed to the Congregations for Clergy (responsible for all secular priests and deacons) and Education (seminaries and Catholic schools). He will than be in Rome for up to four times a year, as these dicasteries meet. Cardinal Eijk will not be needed in Rome for the day-to-day affairs of the Congregations and, even then, he will of course be able to do a significant amount of work from Utrecht.
These appointments form one of two steps that fully integrate new cardinals into the curia. The other step is the official taking possession of their title churches. This can take some time, sometimes up to a year after the consistory in which a cardinal was created. Of the latest batch, only Cardinals Filoni and Grech have done so. Cardinals Becker, Monteiro de Castro and Tong Hon will take possession of their churches today, and Cardinal Coccopalmerio will follow on Thursday. The dates for the other cardinals are not yet known.
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Last week, I tried to predict which title churches and deaconries the new cardinals would be getting. While much was guesswork, I did succeed in making a few reasonable guesses: Sant' Atanasio might go to Cardinal Muresan or Cardinal Alencherry; Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario to Cardinal Dolan or Cardinal Collins; San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello to Cardinal Eijk; San Bernardo alle Terme to Cardinal Alencherry; San Giuseppe all' Aurelio to Cardinal Woelki; San Gerardo Maiella to Cardinal Duka; Santissimo Redentore e Sant' Alfonso in Via Merulana to Cardinal Dolan or Cardinal Collins; Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio to Cardinal Ries. I also suggested to San Patrizio would remain vacant and that San Teodoro would go to a cardinal with some link with the Orthodox Churches.
Well, in the end I guessed right three times: Cardinal Allencherry did get San Bernardo alle Terme, Cardinal Dolan got Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario, Cardinal Muresan got Sant' Atanasio.
Here is the full list of new cardinals with their title churches and deaconries
- Fernando Cardinal Filoni, Cardinal-deacon of Nostra Signora di Coromoto in San Giovanni di Dio
- Manuel Cardinal Monteiro de Castro, Cardinal-deacon of San Domenico di Guzman
- Santos Cardinal Abril y Castellò, Cardinal-deacon of San Ponziano
- Antonio Maria Cardinal Vegliò, Cardinal-deacon of San Cesareo in Palatio
- Giuseppe Cardinal Bertello, Cardinal-deacon of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia
- Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio, Cardinal-deacon of San Giuseppe del Falegnami
- João Cardinal Bráz de Aviz, Cardinal-deacon of Sant' Elena fuori Porta Prenestina
- Edwin Frederick Cardinal O'Brien, Cardinal-deacon of San Sebastiano al Palatino
- Domenico Cardinal Calcagno, Cardinal-deacon of Santissima Annunciazione della Beata Vergine Maria a Via Ardeatina
- Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi, Cardinal-deacon of Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
- George Cardinal Alencherry, Cardinal-priest of San Bernardo alle Terme
- Thomas Christopher Cardinal Collins, Cardinal-priest of San Patrizio
- Dominik Cardinal Duka, Cardinal-priest of Santi Marcellino e Pietro
- Willem Jacobus Cardinal Eijk, Cardinal-priest of San Callisto
- Giuseppe Cardinal Betori, Cardinal-priest of San Marcello
- Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan, Cardinal-priest of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario
- Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki, Cardinal-priest of San Giovanni Maria Vianney
- John Cardinal Tong Hon, Cardinal-priest of Regina Apostolorum
- Lucian Cardinal Muresan, Cardinal-priest of Sant' Atanasio
- Julien Cardinal Ries, Cardinal-deacon of San Antonio de Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
- Prosper Cardinal Grech, Cardinal-deacon of Santa Maria Goretti
- Karl Josef Cardinal Becker, Cardinal-deacon of San Giuliano Martire
As you will have noticed when comparing this list to the one in my previous post, there are five new deaconries and one new title church on the list. The Holy Father is free to create and abolish such churches as he sees fit, of course, but it's interesting to wonder why some titles remain vacant as new ones are created.
Cardinal Eijk's title church is San Callisto, located in Trastevere. The church itself dates from the 17th century, although there has been a church dedicated to Saint Pope Callistus I since the 8th century. The holy pope himself reigned in the 3rd century and was martyred and buried on the site where his church now stands. As cardinal-priest of this church, Cardinal Eijk succeeds Corrado Cardinal Ursi, the former archbishop of Naples who died in 2003. The later Popes Pius VII (pope from 1800 to 1823) and Gregory XVI (1831 to 1846) also held this title church.
It is a fairly small church, as Roman churches go, with a single aisle and chapels on either side.
In essence, a cardinal will have little to do with his title church or deaconry, although some are tasked with the financial upkeep of their assigned church or deaconry. All such churches, though, will prominently feature the coat of arms of their cardinal-protector on the facade.


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In terms of the future of Common Core, Gates said, "I believe ten years from now– kids' confidence in math, kids' scores in math can be improved a lot…where [students] feel like, 'Yes, I get this, I'm not discouraged,' it is so important. And, you know, these standards are the foundation for that…I think this is going to be big win for education."
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Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College Announces 2013 Pilot Project Mini-Grant Recipients
The Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College is pleased to announce the 2013 awardees for the Pilot Project Mini-Grant Program. Faculty members from Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt University have been awarded a total of $100,000 in funding. New pilot project investigators receive $20,000, and previously funded mini-grant recipients who have successfully completed their initial 18-month projects receive $40,000 to continue and expand their work. The 2013 recipients include Derek M. Griffith, PhD; Robert S. Levine, MD; Maria C. Mejia de Grubb, MD, MPH; Manish K. Sethi, MD; and Tawana Ware, DDS, MSD.
New Connections Holds Seventh Annual Symposium
New Connections held its Seventh Annual Symposium June 12–14, 2013. The symposium co-chairs were James Jackson, PhD, and Debra Joy Perez, PhD. Princeton University served as the host institution for the symposium on Thursday, June 13. Over 100 attendees heard Jackson's plenary address, "Individual Behavior and Population Health Disparities: The Affordance Framework," and participated in scientific sessions such as Applied Longitudinal Data Analysis. Attendees also learned about funding opportunities from representatives from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health. Selected attendees participated in Speed Mentoring sessions during the Thursday reception. Also, New Connections Cohort 6 grantees were honored during an award ceremony.


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Hey Guys,
My 4yr old DD would like to know how the doctor got her baby brother out of my belly. What do I tell her?
The truth (without the gory details if there are any).
It comes in spurts and sometimes out of thin air. We'll be in a situation where I think "now the questions will come and I am ready to answer" and she is oblivious or disinterested. Other times we're riding along OTW home from school/work and she'll ask a question and I'm like "WHERE DID THAT RANDOM THOUGHT COME FROM??"
DD has always had a ton of questions about everything. Sometimes.....well, a lot.....I have to Google for answers. She's just a curious child. When she has questions I see her trying to put the pieces together. If something doesn't fit she asks about it. The difficult part about the 'how babies are made' talk for her to get was the sperm travel part.
Bazinga! ~ Sheldon Cooper
Ah, ok. Well, if she asks again I'll do my best to answer it... It's just hard to know what to say to a 4 year old sometimes. I don't want to seem like I'm hiding info from her, but I wish there were some things we didn't have to talk about yet.
And yeah, she read the word in the stall. She was a very early self-taught reader. I usually keep the newspapers away from her, because her ability to read things is way higher than her emotional maturity. Again, not trying to shelter her exactly ... but I don't know what 4-year-olds need to know all the world's problems yet.
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* DD1 (6) * DD2 (3) * DD3 born June '14 * Love my 3 daughters! *
Other times we're riding along OTW home from school/work and she'll ask a question and I'm like "WHERE DID THAT RANDOM THOUGHT COME FROM??"
^^ This is DD. I think she needs time to process and kind of construct the idea in her head. If she can't figure it out on her own she asks about it.
Bazinga! ~ Sheldon Cooper
Jill - LOL Buy a basic anatomy book for him so you're prepared the next time he asks to "see" where babies come out. Sometimes it's just easier to point then try and verbally explain so that a child can understand.
Thank you, I have since bought a book to show him when he asks again (some "Its not a Stork book" recomended here). I said "Ryan I cant show you the hole because it is in mommy's private area" but I promise you it is there. He was like all upset "ok, then" so he would appreciate a picture
Jill...mommy to Ryan ♥ 2-26-07
"Penises do not just meander on their own, in search of a hole to call home" - Clutehomestead
I got pregnant with my third child when my girls were 5 & 3 so we had a few conversations about how the baby would get out. If you keep your explanation simple and straight-forward, don't act embarassed, they will pick up that attitude from you. I explained how most babies came out through the mother's vagina, but some got stuck along the way and then the doctors cut them out (this is what had happened with the 3-year old). They were completely ok with that and it was no big deal at all.
My 4 year old had the nurse at my midwifes office cracking up. She said mom soon I will have a baby sister and you will PUSH her out like this and she proceeded to start grunting. Yeah I told he the truth and she has seen me watch baby shows on TV.
Erin-Mama to Hadleigh (5), Kenna (10) and Cambree 6/13/2012
I get the most "deep" questions at night when I'm lying in her bed with her while she falls asleep. They will come out of nowhere, seemingly. I don't know if she saves them up all day or what.
Kate, babycenter community moderator
Love FUN? Come play SECRET SNOWFLAKE!
* DD1 (6) * DD2 (3) * DD3 born June '14 * Love my 3 daughters! *


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Good deeds in unforgiving place
Al Sokaitis making difference on Alaska's North Slope
No one shows up on the North Slope of Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, by accident. Basketball brought Al Sokaitis to the Slope, and basketball was what earned him trust and acceptance.
Passion is what keeps bringing him back.
Back to one of the most remote places in the country. Back to one of the harshest environments in North America. Back to a place where hope, for too many, can seem in short supply.
The statistic is startling. In 2008, 11.2 out of every 100,000 people in the U.S. took their own life. In Alaska, the state with the highest suicide rate, the number was almost double, 20.3. On the North Slope, it was more than double that again, 47.6, according to the Alaska Suicide Prevention Council.
Blame it on long, cold, dark winters. Blame it on alcohol and drug abuse. Blame it on a clash of cultures as one of the oldest civilizations on the continent adjusts to the intrusions of modern life.
Sokaitis, the new men's basketball coach at Waterbury's Post University, was unaware of those statistics six years ago when a friend, Mike Hajdukovich, asked if he was interested in forming a business running basketball clinics in the villages on the Slope.
At the time, Sokaitis had just ended a successful eight-year run as head coach at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and was a mini-icon in the state.
The villages they'd be visiting were as small as a few hundred people, more than 500 miles away from Fairbanks, the nearest city, and accessible only by small aircraft. It meant long days and rustic accommodations, but it also meant teaching basketball, Sokaitis' passion. He accepted.
"We get up there and we start looking at the problems," remembered Sokaitis. "I said, 'Hey, Mike, let's do more than basketball. Let's start getting in the classroom.'"
Their business venture turned into a nonprofit, the Challenge Life Youth Foundation (although Sokaitis and Hajdukovich do earn salaries as co-directors), and their focus expanded beyond basketball.
They brought artists and musicians to village schools to perform for students. They helped kids publish their own magazine written in the native Inupiat language. They fostered mentoring programs.
"We set up a basketball league where the high school kids teach the 8- and 9-year-olds," said Sokaitis. "I told them if you do this and you do a news report on it, I'll donate $1,500 to your senior trip. That's better than a bake sale."
To combat obesity, Challenge Life organizes family basketball tournaments in which moms and dads compete alongside sons and daughters. They preach in school assemblies about the importance of diet and exercise, and the dangers of smoking, drugs and alcohol.
"It's about finding your passion," said Sokaitis, 59. "If you don't have a passion, if you don't have music, art, basketball, what do you do?"
"Whatever we can bring to get people excited to get out of bed in the morning is what we bring," said Hajdukovich, 38, a former player at UAF who lives in Fairbanks. "Basketball is still the thread that keeps everybody's attention."
The Inupiat are descendants of people who came to Alaska 2,000 years ago to hunt whales. While preserving much of their simple lifestyle and time-honored customs, they've also embraced aspects of Western culture, such as the Internet, cell phones and, with great passion, basketball.
Considering the elements, that's not surprising. During winter, when temperatures dip as low as 50-below and the sun barely peeks over the horizon, school gymnasiums become the focal point of the community.
"They keep the gym open every day, so that's what we do, go to the gym and play ball," said Ruth Nash, a former All-State player for Tikigaq High in tiny Point Hope, Alaska.
Basketball also gives them something to do besides drugs and alcohol, which are outlawed on the Slope yet still available. "That's a really big problem. People get it in there and they sell it," said Nash. "Kids try it out; some get addicted, especially to (marijuana). Al doesn't like that. He wants everybody to be drug-free and have a life."
Nash is now a freshman playing for Grays Harbor College in Aberdeen, Wash. She's the first girl from her village of 764 residents to play college ball and says she's considering a nursing career. It's an opportunity that wouldn't have come along without Challenge Life, which sponsored a college tour of the Pacific Northwest for players from Alaska last spring. On that trip, Nash's ability caught the eye of the Grays Harbor coach and landed her a scholarship (along with a Challenge Life grant).
"I wouldn't have ended up here. I'd be back home working," acknowledged Nash, one of four players who earned scholarships because of that trip.
Stories like Nash's are one reason why Challenge Life is welcomed into the villages.
"We see our kids actually playing college basketball and going to college," said Rex Rock Sr., the Tikigaq boys basketball coach who recently retired after 22 years and back-to-back state championships. "We want to see them have those opportunities, and (Sokaitis) provides that."
Another reason is that while Sokaitis and Hajdukovich want to broaden kids' horizons, they try to be respectful of the local culture.
"Through my eyes, it's not cosmetically nice: no lawns, no flowers. I think, 'Why would you want to stay here?'" Sokaitis said. "But a kid told me one time, 'Coach, this is my home. I can hunt, I can fish. This is what I do.' I had to step back and say, I don't want to impose my values."
Challenge Life's budget has grown in six years from $20,000 to $750,000, according to Sokaitis. It is funded largely by the North Slope Borough Mayor's Office and the Arctic Slope Regional Corp., a native-owned resource and construction company, of which Rock was recently elected president and CEO.
But Challenge Life requires more than money. It runs mostly on passion.
Story No. 1: Hajdukovich was holding a basketball clinic in Kaktovik, a hamlet east of the Prudhoe Bay oil fields. On the day he arrived, it was spring and snow melt was dripping off building roofs.
The next morning, a blizzard hit with a sledgehammer's wallop. Snow drifts climbed over 10 feet tall during the four-day storm, which knocked out the town's power. Hajdukovich and others had to be rescued from the school, climbing out a window and over a massive snow berm to reach a warm shelter down the street.
"I couldn't see where I was going," he remembered. "But the older kids were walking around town taking rations to the seniors. People for the most part just hunkered down and waited out the storm."
Hajdukovich was eventually airlifted out by the National Guard.
Story No. 2: Sokaitis was organizing a tournament in Point Hope. The out-of-town teams arrived early, but the referees couldn't make it after the temperature dropped to 48-below, grounding their plane. Sokaitis, who was scheduled for toe surgery the next week, was asked to fill in.
"So I ref all the games on my one good foot," he related. "That night, I'm getting ready to go to bed (at the school). The local custodian says, 'Hey, Al, make sure you leave that door open a little.' I say, why? He says, 'There are a couple of polar bears in town. That's in case somebody has to get out of their way.'"
Hearing those stories, the question that pops to mind is, indeed, why? Why keep going back? Why endure such trials? Why does Sokaitis plan to continue as co-director of Challenge Life when his new job at Post is in his native Connecticut, thousands of miles away?
Sokaitis, who led a trip to the Slope in August that included his daughter Amy and Post assistant coach Edmund Saunders, knows his role will, by necessity, be more limited now. But he wants to stay involved because it is a passion.
Growing up in a New Britain neighborhood he calls "pretty tough," Sokaitis said he stayed out of trouble mostly because of the role models, in particular his father, present in his life. As an adult, he has a desire to do the same.
"At the end of the day," he said, "it's about trying to make a difference in the lives of the people on the Slope."
And vice versa.
"If you ever get depressed ...," he noted, "when you walk into a school and 20 kids pile out of a classroom to give you a hug, you're good for another two villages."
Coming Tuesday: What does whale meat taste like? Former UConn star Edmund Saunders knows after his trip to Alaska.
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Tickets are $20. Purchase your tickets at: Artistic Florist, The Boutique, Carren's, Heart and Soul, RadioShack, alumni office at Harding or at the door of each home on tour.
All proceeds benefit need-based scholarships at Harding University.
Founded in 1965 as a Christian service organization, Women for Harding has a rich heritage in providing need-based scholarships for freshman men and women at Harding. Each year, volunteers throughout the country work together on numerous projects to fund these scholarships. Scholarship applications are available below.
How Can I Help?
The purpose of our various projects is to support Harding University and its students by contributing money to the Women for Harding Scholarship Fund.
Spirit Pearls
With football season in full swing, we have the perfect accents to wear for the game, fresh water pearl jewelry designed for Harding University and your favorite high school, college, or professional teams. Every strand is hand strung on silk thread and individually knotted with a rhodium plated silver clasp. Each item comes in the colors to match your favorite team. Items available:
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Over 800 Delicious and healthy recipes collected from Women for Harding and President's Council members.
The Third-edition is currently available for $15.
Cookbooks are available in the Harding Bookstore as well as the Alumni Office and History House. You may call 800-477-4312 Ext 1 as well.
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Send a little happiness from home to your student during the school year and help Associated Women for Harding raise money for its scholarship fund. All packages include discount coupons from local merchants. There are four ways to let your student know you are thinking about him or her:
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Profile: ConnectOne Bancorp Inc (CNOB.OQ)
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ConnectOne Bancorp Inc, formerly Center Bancorp, Inc., incorporated on November 12, 1982, is a one-bank holding company of Union Center National Bank (the Bank), its principal subsidiary. The Bank offers a range of lending, depository and related financial services to commercial, industrial and governmental customers. The Bank has full trust powers, enabling it to offer a variety of trust services to its customers. In the lending area, the Bank's services include short and medium term loans, lines of credit, letters of credit, working capital loans, real estate construction loans and mortgage loans. In the depository area, the Bank offers demand deposits, savings accounts and time deposits. In addition, the Bank offers collection services, wire transfers, night depository and lock box services. The Bank offers a range of consumer banking services, including interest bearing and non-interest bearing checking accounts, savings accounts, money market accounts, certificates of deposit, individual retirement account (IRA), automated teller machine (ATM) accessibility using Star Systems, Inc. service, secured and unsecured loans, mortgage loans, home equity lines of credit, safe deposit boxes, Christmas club accounts, vacation club accounts, money orders and travelers' checks. The Bank, through its subsidiary, Center Financial Group LLC, provides financial services, including brokerage services, insurance and annuities, mutual funds and financial planning. The Bank offers various money market services. It deals in the United States Treasury and the United States Governmental agency securities, certificates of deposit, commercial paper and repurchase agreements. On August 1, 2012, its wholly owned subsidiary, Union Center National Bank, acquired Saddle River Valley Bank. In July 2014, Center Bancorp Inc merged with ConnectOne Bancorp Inc.
Lending Activities
The Bank's loan portfolio consists of both retail and commercial loans, serving the diverse customer base in its market area. As of December 31, 2011, total loans amounted to $756.0 million. The Bank's commercial loan portfolio includes, in addition to real estate development, loans to manufacturing, automobile, professional and retail trade sectors, and to specialized borrowers, such as operators of private educational facilities. Loans to individuals include personal loans, student loans, and home improvement loans, as well as financing for automobiles. Such loans averaged $363,000 during the year ended December 31, 2011.
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As of December 31, 2011, the total investment portfolio amounted to $486.7 million. At December 31, 2011, the principal components of the investment portfolio were the United States Government Agency Obligations, Federal Agency Obligations including mortgage-backed securities, Obligations of the United States states and political subdivision, corporate bonds and notes, and other debt and equity securities. The Company owns two pooled trust preferred securities (Pooled TRUPS), which consists of securities issued by financial institutions and insurance companies.
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As of December 31, 2011, the Bank's total deposits amounted to $1.121 billion. Total non-interest-bearing deposits were $167.2 million at December 31, 2011. Time, savings and interest-bearing transaction accounts were $954.3 million at December 31, 2011. The Company's principal short-term funding sources are Federal Funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase. Short-term borrowings, including Federal Funds purchased and securities sold under agreements to repurchase, amounted to $0 during 2011. Long-term borrowings consist of Federal Home Loan Bank of New York (FHLB) advances and securities sold under agreements to repurchase that have contractual maturities over one year. Long-term borrowings amounted to $161.0 million at December 31, 2011.
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9/11 Memorial and Museum
Tuesday, October 7
An educational and historical institution honoring the victims and examining 9/11 and its continued global significance.
Lunch at Katzs Deli (not included) then onto the museum for a one hour guided tour.
- Leave the jcc 10 am
- Arrive home approx. 4:30
- $65 includes Coach Bus and tour of the museum
Must register by September 30.
Medium Tricia Woods
Thursday, October 16 | 7:00pm
Patricia Woods is a working Spiritualist Medium. A Medium is someone who is able to communicate with those people who have crossed over from human existence to their spiritual life. Ms. Woods will be conducting a question and answer period as part of her program. There will also be readings from the audience conducted.
- $25/person in advance
- $30/person at door
NYC Jewish Museum Program Cancelled
"Meeting Hate with Humanity: Life During the Holocaust"
Thursday, Oct. 30 | 10:00am
Examine the impact of World War II and the Nazi genocide on Jewish lives and communities in Europe. Participants will explore issues of continuity of cultural identity, responsibility to community and decision-making. This tour also includes an investigation of the ways in which individuals and nations responded, or failed to respond, to the crisis. Discussion of key events in this catastrophic period is preceded by an introduction to Jewish heritage and concludes with a conversation about social justice. Leave the JCC at 10am and return approximately at 5pm. Enjoy a 90-minute guided tour plus 60 minutes on your own to explore the museum. Coach bus and box lunch included.
- $60/person
- No refunds given on purchased tickets.
"The Ride"
Stage Show on Wheels
Sunday, Nov. 2 | 11:00am
The show starts on the bus! This is a new and fun, family friendly way to see New York! Ride on a comfortable bus where seats face out to the street stadium style. Two hosts will narrate the trip. While on "The Ride" enjoy entertainment just for you along the city streets! Award winning singers, dancers and musicians bring the 75-minute production to life! Lunch will be on your own in the City before "The Ride".
- $75/person includes a Coach Bus and the show.
- No refunds given on purchased tickets.
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder" - Tony Award Winning Show on Broadway!
Wednesday, Nov. 12 | 2:00pm Matinee
Leave the JCC by Coach Bus at 10am and return at approximately 6:30pm. Enjoy lunch in NYC on your own and then meet up at the theater.
- Orchestra Seats $140/person
- No refunds given on purchased tickets.


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Land Bank Study
This report contains three case studies of the effectiveness of the use of land banks and how local governments can enable productive use of foreclosed properties.
Land Bank Q's & A's
This discusses questions resulting from HERA amendments limiting use of land banking to foreclosed properties.
Land banks are governmental or nongovernmental nonprofit entities that focus on the conversion of vacant, abandoned properties into productive use. The following resources provide examples of how some state and local governments and organizations are addressing the problem through creation and operation of land banks.
This report examines the concept of land banking and discusses barriers and solutions to the successful implementation of land banks. The report includes case studies that provide an in-depth view of the operating procedures and accomplishments of three land bank authorities: Genesee County, Michigan; Baltimore City, Maryland; and Fulton
County/City of Atlanta, Georgia.
Local Initiatives Support Corporation Guide for creation and operation of local land bank public authorities to efficiently acquire, hold, manage, and develop foreclosed property.
Summarizes the findings of the research and identifies those practices in land bank operation in the United States that define the models of operation and point to the best policies and practices in use today.
The City of Dallas' Urban Land Bank Demonstration Program acquires unproductive, vacant and developable lots for affordable single-family housing development. The Land Bank helps to both reduce unproductive expenditures and increase local government revenues. This process is being implemented by means of tax foreclosure.
The Genessee County Land Bank has 10 programs: Planning and Outreach, Brownfield Redevelopment, Development, Adopt-a-Lot, Clean and Green, Demolition, Housing Renovation, Sales, Side Lot Transfer and Foreclosure Prevention. Similar land banks exist in other Michigan cities and counties.
The Indy Land Bank acquires abandoned, tax delinquent and other problem properties within Marion County and makes them available to non-profit and for-profit developers. Through rehabilitation and redevelopment efforts, these troubled properties are returned to productive and viable use and contribute to improved quality of life in Indianapolis neighborhoods.
The Louisville Landbank Authority acquires, manages and sells distressed properties and vacant unimproved parcels to responsible developers who can affect increased property values and stimulate the tax base.
San Diego City-County Task Force proposed creation of a land bank funded largely by private investment. Structural characteristics under consideration include formation of a quasi public non-profit with a for-profit subsidiary and a long term land trust as permanent entity.Overview | Business Plan | Acquisition & Disposition Matrix
Includes information on vacant properties registration ordinances, access to State Policy Toolkit: State Land Bank Enabling Legislation prepared by Restoring Prosperity Initiative, information systems, home repair programs, and code enforcement. www.vacantproperties.org/strategies/tools.html