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13 DENVER CATHOLIC | MAY 28-JUNE 10, 2016 Congratulations to our incoming 2016 Catholic high school graduates. ARRUPE JESUIT Elijah Ahmad Esmeralda Chavira Gabriela Medina Esmeralda Huizar Esmeralda Acosta Trujillo Trinh Do Samuel Guerrero Jose Martinez Porras Jorge Giner Jocelin Padilla Cecilia Nunez Robles Amalia Bustillos Saucedo Rene Flores Javan Pasillas Elisia Medina Virginia-Elizabeth Lucero Samantha Piña BISHOP MACHEBEUF Louis Orzolek HOLY FAMILY Shannon Langfield Kennedy Phillips Nicholas Larson Nataly Lopez-Portillo Kyle Seifert Getzemani Martinez Elizabeth Williams Andrea Spengler Emily Richardson Geo‰ Zolkos MULLEN Alexis Vanek Evan Sanchez Cecilia Carrico Anna Marcoux Shannon Clark Matthew Lafond Caleb Rueth REGIS JESUIT Donovan Adrian Harmony Maradiaga Mary Weinstein Madilyn Emerson Morgan Stevens Alexandra Mata Katie Schilmoeller Kelsey Hayes Sydnee Prack Elizabeth Maas Abigail Figueroa-Juarez Jessica Menjivar Emma Netzel Alejandra Pineda ST. MARY'S ACADEMY Ahtziri Rodriguez Pena Rosa Flores-Torres ST. MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL Zoe Jumper WELCOME NEW RANGERS! June 13-22 8-Day Individually Directed Silent Retreat June 24-July 3 8-Day Individually Directed Silent Retreat July 5-14 8-Day Individually Directed Silent Retreat August 15-24 8-Day Individually Directed Silent Retreat September 21 Day of Prayer (9:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.) Sep. 30-Oct. 2 Weekend Retreat (Men & Women) 4801 North Highway 67, P.O. Box 185, Sedalia, CO 80135 Phone: 303-688-4198 ext. 122 (information/reservations) Website: www.sacredheartretreat.org 59 agents of change. 59 graduates. $7.6M in merit awards for college. more than 3,500 community service hours this year. Congratulations to the St. Mary's Academy Class of 2016 also able to promote the sharing of best practices in these fi elds and par- ticularly to help countries with fewer resources. The second area we are currently developing is the training, education, and formation programs. Over the past year, we have provided programs to bishops' conferences in the Philip- pines, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland, Poland, New Zealand, Oceania and Central America, and in the coming year we plan to begin working with the Symposium of Episcopal Confer- ences of Africa and Madagascar, the Consejo Episcopal Latinoamericano, and the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. Our third primary goal is to estab- lish a foundation to provide resources for developing churches, especially in Asia, Africa and Latin America. In addition to soliciting private dona- tions, we will be applying for qual- ifying grants from child protection institutes and programs. DC: What can other organizations learn from the Church's approach to preventing sex abuse? RO: The work of our commission extends to all children, not just those in Catholic families. As is becoming well known, the rate of the sexual abuse of children around the world is devastating, perhaps as many as 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 9 boys. Over the past 30 years, the Cath- olic Church has learned a great deal about child protection, and we have successfully implemented policies and programs that make a real diŸ er- ence. Around the world, we are now cooperating with a wide variety of religious, government, and non-gov- ernmental organizations. We are able to learn from them and to share with them the things that we have been doing which do indeed work, as well as the things we tried in good faith but which were less successful. There is much to be learned together and in cooperation with one another.