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18 OCTOBER 28-NOVEMBER 10, 2017 | DENVER CATHOLIC Around the Archdiocese ABUSE/NEGLECT REPORTING CHECKLIST □ Suspicion of abuse/neglect is all that is necessary to report. □ Reports are confidential. □ You will be asked to describe your concerns about the child/ adult and it will be helpful if you can provide the person's name, age, address, gender, school, and names of parents. □ Is there immediate danger? • YES-CALL 911 • No-call 1-844-CO-4-KIDS or local law enforcement □ Did I get the name and contact of the person I made the report to? □ Did I contact the Archdiocese Victim Assistance Coordinator at 720-239-2832? □ Did I file the abuse reporting form with the OŒce of Child and Youth Protection? □ Did I notify my supervisors? □ Is any other action necessary? 2017 DENVER CATHOLIC Christmas GIFT GUIDE All ad prices include 4-color: �/�6 th Pg: $�60 �/4 th Pg: $ 575 �/8 th Pg: $320 �/3 rd Pg: $960 �/6 th Pg: $480 �/2 Pg: $�,�00 Full Page: $2,000 To reserve your ad, call your advertising rep today or contact Mike O'Neill at (303) 7�5-3253 or email: michael.oneill@archden.org PUBLISHING: SATURDAY, NOV. 12 RESERVATIONS: MONDAY, NOV. 1 AT 10AM • MATERIAL DUE: MONDAY, NOV. 6 AT NOON S E E I N G I S B E L I E V I N G Visit our beautiful 200-acre campus in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia to discover the transformative power of our time-tested, authentic Catholic liberal arts education and find out why Pope St. John Paul II said that "Christendom is doing a great work for the Church." There's no better way to believe in our unique educational experience than to see it for yourself. christendom.edu/visit > F R O N T R O YA L , V I R G I N I A SPECIAL OFFER Any high school senior, who has never visited campus before and visits this year, can choose between a $100 travel reimbursement check or a $500 scholarship. Saints with a rough past: Never too far gone BY THERESE BUSSEN N o one is ever too far gone for a change of heart — and there are several saints to prove it. From the mur- derers, the promiscuous, the thieves, the atheists and even a Satanic priest, conversion is always pos- sible, as is sainthood. Here's a list of some of the saints who prove the saying attributed to St. Augustine, "There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future." ST. AUGUSTINE DIED 430 A.D. FEAST: AUG. 28 You may know that St. Monica, his mother, helped her son experience conversion through her prayers, but he really was a wild child before that hap- pened. St. Augustine was a partier and drinker, and he had a mistress and ille- gitimate son, both whom he abandoned. But even after his conversion, it took him some time to embrace a renewed way of living his life — giving us another famous quote, "Lord, give me chastity but not yet." Once he finally did change his life, however, he became a priest, bishop, a famous writer, a founder of religious and one of the greatest saints and Doctors of the Church. ST. OLGA DIED 969 A.D. FEAST: JULY 11 Olga was married to Prince Igor of Kiev, Russia. She was a cruel woman, who, after her husband's death, brutally killed his murderers and then proceeded to hunt down and kill hun- dreds of their followers. But she was later baptized and converted to Chris- tianity. Her grandson, St. Vladimir, was influenced by her faith, but he too followed suit of living a wild life — he was a murderer and had many pagan wives — before embracing a Christian way of life. Because of his conversion and his rule in Kiev, much of the city also converted. ST. MARY OF EGYPT DIED AROUND 421 A.D. FEAST: APRIL 2 Mary left her home at the age of 12 and for about 17 years, she led a life of seeking sexual conquests. One day, a pilgrimage to Jerusa- lem stopped through her town and she joined — not with the intention of making the pilgrimage, but rather as a challenge to seduce everyone aboard the ship. Once they arrived in Jerusalem on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, she joined the crowds. When she reached the church, she found herself unable to enter. She realized that her lifestyle was the cause of her exclusion and she immediately repented She entered the church and she went on to live the life of a hermit. BL. BARTOLO LONGO DIED 1923 FEAST: OCT. 5 Bartolo Longo was raised a Catholic. But from the time his mother died at 10 years old, he grew so distant in his faith that by the time he studied in uni- versity, he was an atheist who began dabbling in the occult. He attended séances, experimented with drugs and orgies and eventually became a Satanic priest. But like St. Augustine, the prayers of his family aided in his conversion and with the help of a Dominican priest, he came back to the Church, fully cleansed. He fell in love with the rosary. and he founded schools and orphanages for the poor. HONORABLE MENTIONS: St. Mary Magdelene, had seven demons cast out of her; St. Paul killed Christians until Christ appeared to him in a vision; St. Moses the Ethiopian, was the leader of a gang; and St. Olaf, tried to convert his country by force and went into exile with a mistress and illegitimate son, abandoning his wife and daughter. All con- verted and became saints!

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