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3 DENVER CATHOLIC | APRIL 18-24, 2015 www.TheCatholicFoundation.com giving@thecatholicfoundation.com Jean Finegan | 303.867.0613 Giving for the Kingdom of God ® Planning Your Will and Special Gifts WHERE THERE'S A WILL … GIVE IT A WAY. Personally – Leave a legacy of what matters to you most. Financially – Wisely manage the assets that God has entrusted to you, in full compliance with the doctrine of the Catholic Church. Spiritually – Strengthen our parishes and our Catholic community through your charitable giving. The Catholic Foundation of Northern Colorado is here to help you plan your Will, including the opportunity for special gifts that you may not be able to create on your own. As Catholic faithful, we believe our earthly treasure is a gift from God, and we can give it a way to serve the greater good. Give alms. Provide money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven. LUKE 12:33–34 By creating a Will, you can … Give it a way. " Deeply saddened by the immense and tragic loss of life caused by the recent attack on the Garissa University Col- lege, the Holy Father sends assurances of his prayers and spiritual closeness to the families of the victims and to all Kenyans at this painful time." This was conveyed in the telegram sent to Cardinal John Njue, president of the Kenya Conference of Catholic Bishops on the pope's behalf. The pope also commended the souls of the deceased to God and called on authorities to bring an end to violence. His message was in response to four gunmen's attack at the Garissa Univeristy College Campus in Kenya that claimed the lives of 148 people. According to the country's government, the gunmen asso- ciated with the Islamist militant group al- Shabaab strapped themselves with explosives and took Christians hostage. Sources say that when the terror- ists asked those on the campus if they were Christians, they were shot if they responded "yes." The massacre has been widely con- demned by the international community, including the United States, which has oŸ ered Kenya help in fi ghting the terror- ist group. SOURCE: ZENIT.ORG US priestly ordinations on rise The total number of potential ordinands for the class of 2015 at 595 is up from 477 in 2014 and 497 in 2013. The 2015 class of men expected to be ordained to the priest- hood in the United States report that they were, on average, about 17 when they fi rst considered a vocation to the priest- hood and encouraged to consider a vocation by an average of four people. Seven in 10 say they were encouraged by a parish priest, as well as friends (46 percent), parishioners (45 percent), and mothers (40 percent). On average, they lived in the diocese or eparchy for which they will be ordained for 15 years before entering sem- inary. The Georgetown University-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) gathered the data for "The Class of 2015: Survey of Ordinands to the Priest- hood." SOURCE: ZENIT.ORG Kansas fi rst to ban 'dismemberment abortion' Kansas became the fi rst state April 8 to ban abortions by a proce- dure known as "dilation and evacuation," which is common during sec- ond-trimester abortions and is called "dismember- ment abortion" in the law. Local pro-life advocates say the legislation is an opportunity to save the unborn from a horrifi c procedure, while pro- viding a model for other states. The procedure is used in about 600 abor- tions in Kansas annually, about nine percent of all abortions performed there. The Unborn Child Protection from Dis- memberment Abortion Act bans physicians from "knowingly dismembering a living unborn child and extracting such unborn child one piece at a time from the uterus through the use of clamps, grasping forceps, tongs, scissors or similar instruments ..." SOURCE: CATHOLICNEWSAGENCY.COM Bishops appeal against bombing death penalty As convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev stood trial, the Catholic bishops of Massachusetts asked that he not receive the death penalty. "The defen- dant in this case has been neutralized and will never again have the ability to cause harm," the bishops stated. "Because of this, we, the Catholic Bishops of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, believe that society can do better than the death penalty." Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston, Bishop Edgar da Cunha, S.D.V. of Fall River, Bishop Mitchell Rozanski of Springfi eld, and Bishop Robert MacManus of Worcester all signed an April 7 statement voicing opposition to the use of the death penalty. Tsarnaev, 21, was found guilty in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and could face either life in prison or the death penalty. SOURCE: CATHOLICNEWSAGENCY.COM NEWS IN BRIEF Pope condemns brutality at Kenyan university Cardinal John Njue at Nairobi's Chiromo mortuary. PHOTO COURTESY OF WAUMINI COMMUNICATIONS KCCB DENVER CATHOLIC Vatican Notes

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