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CatholicWitnessThe Newspaper of the Diocese of Harrisburg

By Jen ReedThe Catholic Witness

Standing before diocesan em-ployees and members of the lo-cal media gathered at the Bishop Connare Center in Greensburg, Pa., on April 24, Father Edward C. Malesic said he will bring hope, faith, joy, love and kind-ness to his Episcopal ministry there.

Bishop-Elect Malesic, 54, who has served as a priest of the Diocese of Harrisburg for 28 years, was appointed by Pope Francis as bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg. He will succeed Bishop Lawrence Brandt, who submitted his let-ter of resignation to Pope Francis last year when he reached age 75. The announcement of Bish-op-Elect Malesic’s appointment was made in the Harrisburg Diocese by Bishop Ronald Gainer on April 24.

Currently, Bishop-Elect Malesic serves as Ju-dicial Vicar of the Diocese of Harrisburg and pastor of Holy Infant Parish in York Haven.

“I am both greatly honored and deeply hum-bled by the decision of Pope Francis to appoint me as the fifth bishop of the great Diocese of Greensburg. This is an office that I never strove for nor expected – thus my shock,” Bishop-Elect Malesic said during the press conference.

“But now that reality is setting in, I must thank God who has blessed me so much in this life and

in the priesthood,” he said. “It has been quite a journey so far and I suppose there is much more to come – and the people of Greens-burg are going to be a huge part of my journey from now on. I am grateful to Pope Francis for plac-ing his confidence in me. I do not feel deserving of it, but I am ac-cepting of it. I love Pope Francis, and the way he has asked us all to examine and deepen our personal relationship with God. I give him my loyalty and devotion.”

The Mass of Ordination and In-stallation will take place on Mon-day, July 13, 2015, at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Greens-

burg. His Episcopal motto, which comes from the beginning of Psalm 100, will be “Serve the Lord with gladness.”

“This is truly a joyous day for the Diocese of Greensburg as we celebrate that unbroken con-tinuation of God’s care for our diocese through Pope Francis, the 265th successor of St. Peter and shepherd of the universal Church,” said Bishop Brandt. “We are deeply grateful for this provi-dential sign of the Holy Father’s solicitude for the Church of Greensburg in appointing Bishop-Elect Malesic as our new chief shepherd.”

“I personally have been deeply moved and im-pressed during my more than 11 years as Bishop of Greensburg by the faith of the Catholics in our four counties of southwestern Pennsylvania,” he

Pope Francis Appoints Father Malesic as Bishop of Greensburg Diocese

Bishop Gainer’s Statement on Appointment

I know that all of us in the Diocese of Harrisburg re-ceive with great joy and gratitude the announcement that Pope Francis has chosen Father Edward Malesic to serve as the next Bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg. By call-ing one of our own priests to the Episcopal Order and to shepherd this Pennsylvania diocese, our Holy Father has honored all the faithful – clergy and laity alike – in our local church. The Harrisburg Diocese is proud that just in four years two of our diocesan priests have been chosen for service as bishops.

I have known Father Malesic years before I came to Harrisburg as Bishop through our mutual service as canon-ists, especially in Tribunal ministry. Personally, I have the deepest respect and admiration for him as a priest, close collaborator and friend.

Father Malesic has served his home Diocese of Harris-burg with exceptional dedication and fruitfulness as the Judicial Vicar and as pastor of Holy Infant Parish in York Haven. Over the years, he has served the bishops of the diocese in a variety of advisory roles. He has earned the affection and respect of all who have been touched by his priestly life and ministry. When he leaves us for the Dio-cese of Greensburg, we will face a significant challenge in needing to provide for the offices he will vacate. We will all miss him, his quick wit, and his exemplary commit-ment to the mission of the Church. Father Malesic goes to Greensburg with our deepest gratitude and the support of our continued prayers and friendship in Christ.

EMILY M. ALBERT, THE CATHOLIC WITNESSA student from Lancaster Catholic High School portrays one of the 1 million Jewish children killed during the Holocaust, his story re-enacted along with the lives of several other children during the one-act play, “I Never Saw Another Butterfly.” The drama club’s pre-sentation was part of a daylong program at Lancaster Catholic to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day, and included presentations from a concentration camp survivor and liberator. See page 2 for coverage.

Remembering the Holocaust

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By Michelle Martin and Joyce DurigaCatholic News Service

Cardinal Francis E. George was fond of re-minding people that their relationships with God and with each other are what endures and everything else “goes to the grave,” Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain told worshippers at Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago during the cardinal’s funeral Mass on April 23.

“The only thing we take with us when we die is what we have given away,” Archbishop Sartain quoted Cardinal George as often say-ing.

Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., nine American cardinals and 65 bishops and archbishops attended the Mass, including Chicago Archbishop Blase J. Cupich.

The funeral was the culmination of three days of services, which included an all-night vigil attended by lay ecclesial movements. Cardinal George died April 17 after a long battle with cancer.

Archbishop Sartain spoke of the cardinal’s great faith and the way his suffering from po-lio when he was 13 and cancer later in life formed him to the cross. It was the cardinal’s request to be buried with his leg brace, which he wore for more than 60 years.

“He offered a life joined to the cross of Christ,” said Archbishop Sartain, who was selected by the cardinal to be the homilist. “The crosses of Francis George transformed him both exteriorly and interiorly into a man of compassion for all who suffered, no matter the cause. It was with the Lord’s own love, poured out on the cross, that he loved us.”

Cardinal George’s faith was expressed through a “brilliant mind in love with God,” giving his talks and writings a foundation of clarity, creativity and the “natural interplay between faith and reason,” the archbishop said.

“I console myself with the fact that even though I could never have written the books he wrote or prepared the talks he gave, I could understand them,” Archbishop Sartain joked.

But, he added, sometimes the afterthoughts, the off-the-cuff responses Cardinal George of-fered could be just as eloquent and incisive.

“What did Cardinal George offer to the Lord, what did he give away?” Archbishop Sartain

Cardinal George Remembered for Close Relationship with God

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On April 29, 1945, 16-year-old Ernie Gross was standing in line with other gaunt prisoners being ordered to enter the gas chambers at the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany. He knew death surely awaited him.

It had been a year since Hungarian occupiers had deported Ernie, his par-ents and his seven siblings from their home in Romania, first to a cramped ghetto, and then on to Auschwitz, where his parents and younger siblings were gassed and cremated.

Ernie and two older brothers were put to labor at Auschwitz for nearly a year, barely surviving on potatoes, bits of bread and meager soup before being shuttled to Dachau.

Crammed into unsanitary conditions on a Dachau death train for several days, where he watched as some pris-oners died of starvation, exposure and exhaustion, Ernie had been scheduled to arrive at the gas chamber on April 28. However, heavy fire from Allied Forces in the area caused the train to be delayed. A day later, as Ernie stood

‘Tell Others What You’ve Heard’Concentration Camp Survivor and Liberator

Share Horrors to Remember Holocaust

By Jen ReedThe Catholic Witness

“…we ask all Christians to join us in meditating on the catastrophe which befell the Jewish people and on the moral imperative to ensure that never again will selfish-ness and hatred grow to the point of sowing such suffer-ing and death. Most especially we ask our Jewish friends, whose terrible fate has become a symbol of the aberra-tions of which man is capable when he turns against God, to hear us with open hearts.” (We Remember: A Reflec-tion on the Shoah)

The Holocaust Remembrance Day program hosted by Lancaster Catholic High School on April 16 allowed the entire school community and guests to give pause for re-flection on the atrocities of the Shoah, and the Church’s response to it.

The captivating and emotionally-charged program opened with the drama club’s performance of “I Never Saw Another Butterfly,” a one-act play based on the lives of several children and their teacher who survived living conditions in the ghetto at Terezin, where they spent time before most of them were sent to die at Auschwitz.

In-class sessions on the Holocaust presented by Lan-

caster Catholic’s Christian service classes bookended the day, which featured a catechetical session by Bishop Ronald Gainer on the Church’s response to the Holocaust and anti-Semitism, a presentation from the Anti-Defama-tion League, reflections on St. John Paul II, a prayer ser-vice and a choral selection.

Bishop Gainer, during his presentation, spoke of the question frequently asked during times of catastrophe: Where was God? It’s a question often asked during dis-cussion of the Holocaust, he said.

“I would say, from our Christian lens, that God was on those trains. God was in those barracks. God was with the people when they walked into what they told were show-ers but were gas chambers. God was with the dead in those ovens,” Bishop Gainer said. “God was there. That’s who our God is: present to us in our suffering, present to us in our death.”

The bishop read excerpts from Nostra Aetate, the Church’s declaration on its relationship with non-Chris-tians. This document of the Second Vatican Council denounces hatred and persecution aimed at the Jewish people, condemns the false idea that the Jewish people were responsible for Jesus’ death, and promotes serious dialogue with the Jewish people to build a communion

of fraternity.He also read passages from “We Remember: A Reflec-

tion the Shoah,” a 1998 document by the Catholic Com-mission for Religious Relations with the Jews, which calls on Catholics to remember the atrocities and to re-pent for past errors.

“Why do we have to remember? If we forget, if we hear people say it didn’t happen, if we don’t keep alive the facts before ourselves and the world, then the fear of repetition becomes more and more real,” Bishop Gainer remarked.

The Holocaust Day of Remembrance was generated in large part from the desires and ideas of Lancaster Catho-lic students, noted Deb Waters, Director of Campus Min-istry. The program also offered catechesis and reflection for those who will visit Auschwitz next summer as part of the diocese’s World Youth Day pilgrimage.

In the days after the program, “The students continued to react to the raw honesty of the speakers,” Mrs. Waters said. “They were captivated by real people speaking to them about their real experiences. There have been many conversations about forgiveness and how you are able to offer forgiveness in the face of such an atrocity, and of our responsibility for our fellow brothers and sisters.”

The Catholic ResponseBishop Ronald Gainer greets Holocaust survivor Ernie Gross, center, and Dachau camp liberator Don Greenbaum, right, after the duo’s presentation to observe Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 16.

Ernie Gross, a Holocaust survivor, shows a sample of a cup that carried daily food rations – perhaps thin soup or half of a potato.

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in line for the gas chamber, American troops stumbled upon Dachau and lib-erated an estimated 32,000 prisoners there.

“It happened so fast,” Mr. Gross said of the liberation, and the realization that swept over the prisoners here.

“We had waited in line for hours to go in and be gassed, and soon we came near it. I figured in another half hour, I would be dead. But I didn’t care, be-cause I was too tired and too hungry.”

With genuine openness, Mr. Gross, now 86, shared his story of persecu-tion, terror and heartache with students and guests at Lancaster Catholic High School on April 16, Holocaust Remem-brance Day.

The genocide of an estimated six mil-lion Jews at the hand of the Nazi re-gime occurred between 1941 and 1945. Historians also estimate the killings of five million non-Jewish people, includ-ing those who sympathized with the Jews, those who were prisoners of war, and those who had a physical or mental disability.

As he took the stage at Lancaster Catholic to recount his story of surviv-

al and liberation, Ernie Gross was not alone. He was joined by his friend and co-presenter, Don Greenbaun, a mem-ber of the Third Army, which helped to liberate young Ernie and some 32,000 other prisoners at Dachau.

The two didn’t meet on April 29, 1945; it would be some 60 years af-ter the liberation that they would make a connec-tion, on the heels of a newspaper article that Mr. Gross – who now lives in Philadel-phia – read about the military ser-vice of Mr. Green-baum – who lives on the outskirts of the same city.

Today, the duo offers presenta-tions at schools, churches and syn-agogues to share their stories.

“All we ask is that you listen to our stories and tell others what you’ve heard,”

Mr. Greenbaum told the crowd at Lan-caster Catholic. “I’m 90 years old. In ten years, none of us will be left to tell our story.”

‘I Don’t Even Have a Name’As the ten members of the Gross

family prepared to disembark the train at Auschwitz in May of 1944, they watched as other prisoners were split into two lines – one veering to the left, and one veering to the right.

Ernie, 15, watched as his parents and younger siblings before him were sent to the left. Then, an older prisoner asked Ernie his age. The prisoner ad-vised Ernie to tell the Nazi guard that he was 17, so that he could go with his older brothers into the line that split to the right.

“If you say you’re 15, you’re going to go with your parents and younger siblings,” Mr. Gross recalled the pris-oner’s words. “They’re going to be put into an empty building, they’ll take off their clothes, and they will be gassed and immediately they will die. Then they will be shoved into the cremato-rium.”

Young Ernie looked up at the sky then. It was completely obliterated from the smoke pouring from the cre-matorium.

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Death camp survivor and liberator shareexperiences with LCHS studentsBy EARLE CORNELIUS | Staff Writer writer | Posted: Friday, April 17, 2015 6:15 am

Dachau concentration camp survivor Ernie Grosshanded out four gold coins to Lancaster Catholicstudents Thursday.

The coins were rewards for those who answeredquestions he asked about his talk.

What is remarkable is that 70 years ago, Grosswouldn’t even give a crumb of bread to his cousin.

Number 71366, as he was known to his Nazi guards,said the first lesson he learned in concentration campwas to look out for himself. “To survive,” he said,“You had to be selfish.”

Ironically, it was his cousin who taught him thatlesson.

Gross, 86, was joined by Dachau liberator DonGreenbaum, 90, as part of Lancaster Catholic’s firstHolocaust Remembrance Day.

'Vow never to forget'

The day, said Bishop Ronald W. Gainer, who spoke after Gross and Greenbaum, is “to remember, tolearn and to vow to never to forget,” what happened during what he called this “catastrophic momentin human history.”

Gross and Greenbaum both live in Philadelphia. They met four years ago and have been speakingabout their experiences ever since through the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Centerin Philadelphia.

Battle of the Bulge

Greenbaum enlisted in the U.S. Army 10 days after his senior prom. Wounded in November 1944, hewas sent back into action at the Battle of the Bulge less than a month later. On April 29, 1945, justnine days before Germany surrendered, members of the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion were orderedto attack a supply depot near Munich. Several miles from their objective, they smelled something

Death camp survivor andliberator share experiences withLCHS students

Jim Rogers,chairman of the Religiondepartment at Lancaster Catholic H.S.,introduces the speakers at a remembranceday promgram on Thursday.

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horrible. Then, he said, “We came upon 15 box cars filled with dead bodies.”

As they got closer to Dachau, the first concentraion camp built by the Nazis, black smoke from thecrematories filled the air. And they encountered emaciated prisoners.

“We couldn’t feed them,” he said. “They would have died from (regular) food.”

It is a sight that Greenbaum still has a hard time fathoming. These were men, he explained, whotucked their children into bed, ate dinner with their wives and, the next day, resumed their task ofkilling innocent people.

“To this day, I can’t accept that this happened.”

For years, Greenbaum kept the horrible memories to himself. Then, while watching a TV program,he heard a person claim the Holocaust never happened.

At that moment, he said, “I decided, I’m going to tell my story.”

He will tell it again next weekend when a German history TV program flies both he and Gross backto Dachau for the 70th anniversary of the camp’s liberation.

And he said he will remind people that genocide continues today in Iraq, in Africa and other parts ofthe world.

'Retrain my brain'

Gross knows all too well that the Holocaust occurred. He lost five members of his family inconcentration camps. He was 15­years­old when he was transported by train to the first of severalconcentration camps. In fact, if not for a fellow Jew who was cleaning out trains for the Nazis, hisstory would never be known.

“He said, ‘When you face the Nazis, tell them you are 17,’ ” he recalled.

When he asked why, he was told that old men, women and youths under 17 would be told to movethe left. Others would be told to follow a path to the right.

He asked what was on the left. The man pointed to the smoke from the crematories.

“That’s going to be your parents in a couple of hours,” he was told. “I went to the right with my(older) brother,” he said.

Gross, who is Romanian, was shunted to various camps, including Auschwitz. There, most prisonershad numbers tattooed onto their skin.

But that process took several weeks, and Gross was moved to another work camp before he could betattooed. His number — 71366 — was attached to his shirt.

“I’m now a person without a name,” he explained.

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Gross was extremely weak on the day the camp was liberated. He had consigned himself to dyingwhen someone told him that American soldiers had come.

At war’s end, Gross’ surviving brother, Abraham, found him in a convalescent home.

Gross came to this country in 1947 and eventually moved to Philadelphia, married and had children.

Initially, the lessons of the camp remained with him. He would not share food or money, even withhis wife. “My brain told me not to share,” he said. “I had to retrain my brain.”

Eventually, he said, he decided that was no way to live. He joined an organization where you had topay dues. And he would buy flowers from street vendors to force himself to reach out to others.

His life experiences have taught him to share and to forgive.

After speaking to a group several years ago, a German who was visiting this country asked him whathe thought of Germans.

“I said, ‘It has nothing to do with you.” He told the visitor he loves all people. In response, theGerman gave him a hug.

After their talk Thursday, the students at Lancaster Catholic gave them a prolonged standing ovation.

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Does your school district have its own app? Hereare 5 ways to use it

| Posted: Friday, July 25, 2014 3:35 pmBy KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer

When snowstorms hit repeatedly last winter, ShannonStriggle didn't have to get out of bed to check if herkids' school was closed.

She had an app for that.

Using the Hempfield School District mobile app,parents and faculty can get instant notifications abouta delay or cancellation.

But that's not all the app's good for.

Striggle uses it to follow district news and generally"keeps things organized" — no small task for a momof twins entering fourth grade and another boy goinginto first grade.

Hempfield launched its mobile app for Android andiOS devices in August 2013. This year, eightLancaster County districts and schools plan to followsuit.

CV spokesman Adam Aurand said offering an app has become a necessary part of schoolcommunications. Almost half of all traffic to CV's website comes from smartphones and tablets.

"(People) are telling us how they like to hit our website. We should provide a platform for that,"Aurand said.

CV, along with Penn Manor and Pequea Valley, is slated to launch an app in August. School Districtof Lancaster released one this month.

Officials at Lancaster Catholic, Elizabethtown and Solanco expect their apps to be out by winter.

At Lancaster Mennonite School, student Cameron Andrews is building an app with an undeterminedlaunch date.

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Hempfield led the pack on school apps lastyear. Now several other schools arefollowing suit.

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Mobile users can download the apps for free. To maintain them, schools pay tech companies annualfees ranging from $650 at Lancaster Catholic to nearly $10,000 at CV and Hempfield, where the costis tied into the price of the traditional emergency notification system.

While some district websites adapt automatically to mobile formats, those sites still can't doeverything that an app can do. Here are five ways to use your school's mobile app when it arrives.

1. Check cafeteria menus

Food menus have consistently been the most popular section of Penn Manor’s website, according toIT director Charlie Reisinger. With a school app, finding out what's for lunch will be just a fewswipes away.

2. View athletics and extracurricular schedules

Can't remember if your daughter's swim meet is home or away? Check the app. Bonus: you candownload events to your phone's calendar.

3. Monitor student grades

Wondering how your son did on the latest Spanish quiz? Many district apps will be connected toparent and student portals for checking grades.

4. Receive weather alerts

No need to get out of bed to find out if school has been delayed or closed. App users will get amessage as soon as administrators decide. Same goes for emergency alerts.

5. Locate schools and staff

If you're hunting for directions to a school on the go, the app will have your back. You can also findteacher email addresses in the staff directories.

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Lancaster Catholic golfers "Putt for dough"DAVE SOTTILE LNP CORRESPONDENT | Posted: Monday, January 5, 2015 7:07 pm

Lancaster Catholic High School’s golf team finishedthird in the District Three Class AA Tournament thispast fall after a second­place performance at theLancaster­Lebanon League tourney.

Strong showings, for sure, but the Crusaders are mostproud of what their success meant for others.

As part of the “Birdies for Schreiber” program,Catholic golfers helped raise more than $11,000 forthe not­for­profit Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center,which provides physical, occupational and speech­language therapy and educational/recreationalprograms for nearly 4,000 children in LancasterCounty.

Crusaders golf coach Jay Filling said the team wantedto help give back to the community as part of its 2014season. Senior Richard Riva and his younger brotherWill suggested Schreiber as a potential benefactor,and things took off from there as Catholic playerscarded 77 birdies all the way through the PIAAChampionships.

“It’s amazing what a couple of teenage boys can do, because it was all their idea,” said JamesDeBord, president of Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center. “Richard and Will took on the endeavor, andmembers of the Catholic golf team just stepped up for us, as did all the people who pledged theirsupport.”

In addition to those who promised to make a financial donation per birdie, ranging from $1 to $20,others made flat monetary donations to Schreiber in honor of Lancaster Catholic’s efforts. DeBordsaid they ranged from $500 to $1,500.

“These were just humble kids who wanted to help others,” Filling said. “The Rivas alreadyvolunteered at Schreiber as a family and James (DeBord) is my brother­in­law, so it was just sort of anatural fit. And with how it turned out, I couldn’t be more proud of the kids on our team.”

Lancaster Catholic golfers raisefunds for Schreiber PediatricCenter

As part of the “Birdies for Schreiber”program, Lancaster Catholic High Schoolgolfers helped raise more than $11,000 forthe not­for­profit Schreiber Pediatric RehabCenter. Pictured are, from left, RichardRiva, Will Riva, Sean McNamara, KenBerkenstock and R.J. Van Tash.

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Richard Riva said the amount of money donated to Schreiber could have been greater had the effortstarted sooner and the team performed better.

“To be honest, 77 birdies is not a lot for the whole team for the whole year,” he said. “Some of thebigger teams in the state probably had double the amount we had.

“I’m graduating and my brother will be running the program next year, but it will keep giving ourplayers the incentive to perform well. I think a pretty good number would be 100 birdies. Had wedone that, we might have raised another $5,000 for Schreiber.”

Will Riva, a sophomore at Catholic, said giving back to children in need was a rewarding experiencethe team hopes to build on come fall.

“It’s just a good thing for the community,” he said. “We’ll spread the word even more next year,reach out to all our contacts and do whatever we can to make sure this thing will flourish throughoutmy years at Lancaster Catholic.”

That type of commitment puts a smile on the face of DeBord and bolsters Schreiber’s staff, whichhelps children living with congenital and acquired disabilities and developmental delays as well astypically developing kids through a PA Stars 4­Star early learning center for children ages 12 monthsto 5 years.

“I told the kids that because of the money they raised to help make the services available here atSchreiber, it is very likely that some day years from now one of the young people receiving theseservices will be able to walk down a fairway or stand on their own by a green to watch their own sonor daughter play high school golf,” DeBord said. “In the end, the value of that is most certainlybeyond priceless.”

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Lancaster Catholic High School announceshomecoming courtSUBMISSION | Posted: Friday, October 10, 2014 3:47 pm

Lancaster Catholic High School has announced themembers of its homecoming court.

The homecoming queen will be named duringhalftime of the home football game Friday, Oct. 17,against Lampeter­Strasburg. The winner will beselected in a random draw.

The members of the homecoming court are: GraceAsuncion, Suzanna Flick, Bryce Hession, Erin Holt,Christina Kizeik, Lily Schumacher, Erica Shoesmith,Julia Stengel, Marianna Torres and Sophia Wnek. Lancaster Catholic High School

homecoming court

The Lancaster Catholic High Schoolhomecoming court includes: Top row, fromleft: Bryce Hession, Lily Schumacher, JuliaStengel, Sophia Wnek and Eric Shoesmith.Bottom row, from left: Suzanne Flick,Marianna Torres, Christina Kizeik, ErinHolt and Grace Asuncion.

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Lancaster Catholic senior competes for $150,000in national science contest

| Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 2:38 pmBy KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer

A Lancaster Catholic High School senior is in therunning for a national science award that could earnhim big bucks.

Matthew Campagna, 17, was named as one of 300semifinalists earlier this month in the 2015 IntelScience Talent Search, a program of the Society forScience & the Public.

On Wednesday, the program will announce its 40finalists. Those students will sent on all­expense­paidtrips to Washington, D.C. in March to compete forthree $150,000 prizes.

Campagna's entry into the contest was the roboticelbow brace that also

at the Lancaster County science fair last year. Hewent on to

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won him the grand championtitle

place fourth in the Intel InternationalScience & Engineering Fair with the project last May

A Lancaster Catholic spokesman said Campagna hasbeen working since last spring on improvements to therobotic brace, which can aid rehabilitation of arm injuries.

As a semifinalist in the Intel Science Talent Search, Campagna earned a $1,000 award for himselfand $1,000 for his school. Semifinalists were selected from a pool of 1,800 applicants.

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Lancaster Catholic High Schoolsenior Matthew Campagna is a semifinalistin the Intel Science Talent Search. Hisentry was a robotic elbow brace that can aidthe rehabilitation of arm injuries.

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By KEVIN FREEMAN | Sports Writer

The length and breadth of the sports represented byLancaster Catholic's athletes signing a Letter of IntentWednesday harkens back to a certain Saturdayafternoon TV show on ABC.

"Spanning the globe to bring you the constant varietyof sport ... .''

From football to women's lacrosse to track and field,five athletes are to go from Crusaders to Nittany Lionsto Wildcats to Warriors and more.

Two Lancaster Catholic athletes were on hand to signa Division I Letter of Intent. One is Kelly Daggett,who will play women's lacrosse for the Nittany Lions.

Daggett, a midfielder, was named to the U.S. High School All­America First­Team after last seasonwhen she accumulated 97 goals, 29 assists and forced 25 turnovers.

"Penn State is like the hometown Division I school,'' said Daggett, talking about what made PSUattractive.

Keegan Sheedy, who played offensive tackle and defensive end for the Crusaders, is headed toVillanova, which plays in the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision, formerly D I­AA.

"We at Catholic High run a similar offense to what I'll see at Villanova,'' Sheedy said. "I think I'll beprepared to play.''

Willie Burger, who has completed his high school studies and is in Florida preparing for D­Ibaseball, is also headed to Penn State to play baseball. He projects to being an infielder for theNittany Lions.

In two seasons at Catholic, he hit .394 with nine homers and 49 RBIs.

Carly Wood is headed to Division II Pace University to play field hockey. A centerback, Wood wasnamed to the L­L League Section Three All­Star First Team.

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Lancaster Catholic Signing Day. Left toright, Carly Wood, Hannah Knowlton,Keegan Sheedy and Kelly Dagget.

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"I love the location, being able to go to (New York) the city,'' she said. "I liked their school ofeducation and the way it was unique from the other schools I saw.''

Hannah Knowlton, who takes part in the long jump and triple jump, is set to join the track and fieldteam at East Stroudsburg. She recorded a 35­5 in the triple jump in last spring's L­L League meet anda 36­3 at the District Three meet at Shippensburg.

"I'm not sure what I'll jump at East Stroudsburg but I'm willing to compete anywhere,'' she said.

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Remembrance Day raises profound question

| Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, April 17, 2015 2:00 pmBy EARLE CORNELIUS

Where was God during the Holocaust? Dachausurvivor Ernie Gross asked Bishop Ronald W. Gainerduring lunch Thursday.

That simple yet profound theological and spiritualquestion is hard for humans to answer, acknowledgedthe bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese ofHarrisburg, speaking at Lancaster Catholic HighSchool’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Gainer referenced “On Heaven and Earth,” a book co­written by Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio — the manwho became Pope Francis — and Rabbi AbrahamSkorka.

Skorka asks the same question in the book. Bergoglioanswers that there are questions on earth that can onlybe answered in heaven.

From his own perspective, Gainer said, “God was onthose trains; God was in those barracks; and God was with the people when they walked into whatthey were told were showers and they were gas chambers. God was with the dead in those ovens.God is present to us in our suffering, present to us in our death.”

Gross, who is 86 this year, was joined at Thursday’s presentation by Dachau liberator DonGreenbaum. The two Philadelphians met four years ago and have been speaking about theirexperiences ever since through the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center inPhiladelphia.

Next weekend, they will travel to Dachau, the first German concentration camp, to mark the 70thanniversary of the camp’s liberation.

They were there

Greenbaum, who turns 90 this year, was a member of the 283rd Field Artillery Battalion that was ona mission to destroy a supply depot near Munich. Before the soldiers reached their target, they

Remembrance Day

Bishop Ronald Gainer speaks withHolocaust survivor Ernie Gross, middle,and Dachau liberator Don Greenbaumduring a Remembrance Day program atLancaster Catholic High School onThursday.

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smelled “an odor we could not identify.”

Then they came upon boxcars filled with bodies, saw the smoke from the crematories, and stumbledacross emaciated men too weak to walk or eat.

When he returned to the United States, he buried those memories for 40 years until he saw a TVnews program featuring claims that the Holocaust never occurred.

At that moment, he said, he decided to speak out.

Gross knows the Holocaust occurred because he lived through it, though five members of hisRomanian family died in it.

He told the students that, to a starving person, a dirty potato can taste better than a pizza with extracheese. And he spoke of the older Jew who, while cleaning out a train for the Nazis, saved his life bytelling him to lie about his age. Gross was 15 at the time.

The man told him old men, women and youths under 17 would be ordered to go to the left; otherable­bodied persons would be told to go to the right.

When Gross asked him what that meant, the man pointed to the smoke coming from the crematories.

“That’s going to be your parents in a couple of hours,” he was told.

“I went to the right with my (older) brother,” he said.

After the war, Gross never spoke about the horrors he endured. But after his first wife, a Czech whoalso survived the death camps, died of cancer, he realized he knew nothing of her past. Nor did histhree sons know anything about his past life.

He first spoke about the Holocaust four years ago, with his sons in the audience. He has beenspeaking out, and wondering about God’s presence, ever since.

Church reaches out

Gainer told the gathering about the church’s efforts to reach out the victims of violence, beginningwith the Second Vatican Council in 1965 that established a relationship with non­Christians.

He cited the landmark publication, “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah,” in which Pope JohnPaul II expressed hope that the declaration of repentance by the Vatican about Catholic shortcomingsin dealing with the Holocaust would “help to heal the wounds of past misunderstandings andinjustices.”

And he read Pope Francis’ prayer at Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial to the Holocaust. The popeoffered it during last year’s visit, noting that those made in God’s image and likeness did this to oneanother.

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Gainer, who has visited several concentration camps, pointed out that some Catholic priests spokeout about the Nazis’ racist views in the years prior to the war’s outbreak, many doing so at the cost oftheir own lives. The largest priest cemetery in the world, he noted, is at Auschwitz.

Remembrance Day, he said, is a way to understand what happened, to feel the pain suffered by thosewho went through the experience, and to question why these attitudes continue to exist.

“What we have done today,” Gainer said, “is one way of our being in a real communion with the 6million Jewish men, women and children who were exterminated.”

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Tax credit programs provide a boon to LancasterCounty Catholic schools

| Posted: Monday, February 2, 2015 4:10 pmBy KARA NEWHOUSE | Staff Writer

Two Pennsylvania tax credit programs are providing aboon to Lancaster County's seven Catholic schools.

Kristopher Nolt, a spokesman for Lancaster CatholicHigh School, said his school and its six partnerelementary schools received more than $887,000 fromarea businesses for next school year. The money, forwhich the contributors get a tax credit, goes to studenttuition scholarships.

The schools celebrated the contributions in a rally atLancaster Catholic High School on Mondayafternoon.

Bishop Ronald W. Gainer, of the Harrisburg Diocese,said at the event that more than $3 million would go toCatholic school scholarships within his diocese nextyear through the state's tax credit programs.

The Educational Improvement Tax Credit, whichbegan in 2001, allows businesses to get tax credits fordonations made to scholarship organizations ornonprofits that provide grants to schools.

The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit program was created in 2012. It allows businesses to earntax credits for contributing to scholarships for students at low­performing public schools to attendprivate schools or neighboring public schools.

Nolt said that about half of Lancaster Catholic High School students receive tuition assistancethrough the programs, and the amount of support has been growing. This school year, the school'stotal funds from the programs were $517,341. That's more than double what it received in 2013­14:$236,164.

For 2015­16, Lancaster Catholic will get $550,000.

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Bishop Ronald W. Gainer, of theHarrisburg Diocese, speaks to students andbusiness representatives at LancasterCatholic High School. The high school andits six elementary partners on Monday helda rally to celebrate $887,000 donated tostudent scholarships through Pennsylvania'seducational tax credit programs.

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"It's a huge home run. It's totally win­win for the businesses and the school," said Joseph Sahd,Lancaster Catholic's business relations manager.

The bulk of contributions to the school come from the Educational Improvement Tax Credit, which isthe less restrictive of the two.

The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit specifies that funds be used to help students from schools inthe lowest 15 percent of scorers on the state's math and reading tests.

For the 2014­15 opportunity scholarships in Lancaster County, that included 12 schools in SchoolDistrict of Lancaster and two in Columbia Borough School District. There are 32 local private andparochial schools registered to receive scholarship money for students from those schools.

Public schools also are eligible to receive students through opportunity scholarships, but no LancasterCounty districts have signed up to do so.

To be eligible for an opportunity scholarship, students must come from a family with an annualincome of no more than $75,000, plus $15,000 for each dependent.

Scholarships can be a maximum of $8,500 for regular education students and $15,000 for specialeducation students. At Lancaster Catholic, this year's tuition rate was $7,750, according to the stateDepartment of Education.

Under the state's 2013­14 budget, Educational Improvement Tax Credits were capped at $100million, and opportunity scholarship credits were capped at $50 million, according to the Departmentof Community and Economic Development.

At the rally Monday, Lancaster County Commissioner Scott Martin praised the programs and voicedhis support for broader school choice — a political term that encompasses a range of alternatives topublic schools, such as publicly­funded vouchers for students to attend private schools.

Martin is a 1990 graduate of Lancaster Catholic High School.

"What was very important to my parents is that I had the opportunity through St. Anne's and throughLancaster Catholic not only to get a world­class education that was going to prepare me for thefuture, but also one that was going to be rooted in faith," he said.

The bulk of contributions to the school come from the Educational Improvement

Tax Credit, which is the less restrictive of the two.

The Opportunity Scholarship Tax Credit specifies that funds be used to help students

from schools in the lowest 15 percent of scorers on the state's math and reading

tests.

For the 2014-15 opportunity scholarships in Lancaster County, that included 12

schools in School District of Lancaster and two in Columbia Borough School District.

There are 32 local private and parochial schools registered to receive scholarship

money for students from those schools.

Public schools also are eligible to receive students through opportunity

scholarships, but no Lancaster County districts have signed up to do so.

To be eligible for an opportunity scholarship, students must come from a family

with an annual income of no more than $75,000, plus $15,000 for each dependent.

Scholarships can be a maximum of $8,500 for regular education students and

$15,000 for special education students. At Lancaster Catholic, this year's tuition rate

was $7,750, according to the state Department of Education.

Under the state's 2013-14 budget, Educational Improvement Tax Credits were

capped at $100 million, and opportunity scholarship credits were capped at $50

million, according to the Department of Community and Economic Development.

At the rally Monday, Lancaster County Commissioner Scott Martin praised the

programs and voiced his support for broader school choice — a political term that

encompasses a range of alternatives to public schools, such as publicly-funded

vouchers for students to attend private schools.

Martin is a 1990 graduate of Lancaster Catholic High School.

"What was very important to my parents is that I had the opportunity through St.

Anne's and through Lancaster Catholic not only to get a world-class education that

was going to prepare me for the future, but also one that was going to be rooted in

faith," he said.

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