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Bishop
da Cunha installs new pastor of St. Leo, Irvington
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Fr.
Beaubrun Andouin |
Bishop
Edgar M. da Cunha officiated last month at the installation of Father
Beaubrun Ardouin as pastor of St. Leo Parish, Irvington.
Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Father Ardouin, 45, graduated from
Instituto Lope de Vega in the capital city where he mastered the
Spanish language and literature.
Father Ardouin moved to the United States in 1980. He attended Rockland
Community College and Columbia University, both in New York, where
he majored in pre-med. He worked with the mentally handicapped at
Letchworth Village Development Center, Thiells, NY, until 1988 when
he entered the seminary.
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Students,
parents explore options for high school
By Ward Miele
With an abundance of curiosity
and questions, students and parents filled the Archdiocesan Center
auditorium earlier this month at the first of six High School Information
Nights.
The first session in Newark attracted a cross section of participants
from throughout the Archdiocese. The remaining dates are April 22,
Queen of Peace Elementary School, North Arlington; April 27, Annunciation
Parish Hall, Paramus, and April 29, St. Helen Parish Center, Westfield.
All programs are from 7 to 9 p.m.
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challenge and the choice
By Andrew Kaczynski
The word “stewardship” sometimes carries considerable
baggage. Very often stewardship is equated with simply giving money.
But the U.S. Catholic bishops had something much more broadly encompassing
in mind when they wrote the Pastoral Letter, Stewardship: A Disciple’s
Response.
In the introduction to that document, they spell out what they mean
by stewardship and the understandings that are the basis of their
definition.
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| Priest
feels blessed
MILWAUKEE (CNS) — At 5:30 a.m. five days a week, Father John
Kolanko can be found at a local YMCA where he walks a 20-minute
mile on a treadmill.
A former runner who once qualified to compete in the National Senior
Olympics, he recently celebrated his 90th birthday with a celebration
at Our Lady of Good Hope in Milwaukee, where he has been an associate
pastor for 23 years.
Ordained in 1940 with 24 other men from St. Francis Seminary, Father
Kolanko is one of three still living. In his apartment, he keeps
a picture of his classmates on the wall and commemorates their deaths
with gold crosses on their pictures.
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'Respect'
Miss America's theme at Bergen Catholic High School
Erika Harold, Miss America 2003, spoke recently at Bergen Catholic
High School on topics ranging from bullying to harassment.
The Urbana, IL native won the national pagent after being crowned
Miss Illinois two years ago.
Having won more than $80,000 in Miss America scholarship money,
she is touring the country to promote the platform, “Empowering
Youth Against Violence: ‘Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself.’”
As a national spokesperson and advocate, Miss Harold travels approximately
20,000 miles a month speaking to diverse audiences in an effort
to increase awareness and promote the importance of providing support
to victims of crime.
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Dance
team captures national attention
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Coach
Rick DeLillo |
The 2003-2004 Don Bosco Preparatory School (DBP) varsity dance team,
comprised of students from the Academy of the Holy Angels, Demarest,
placed fourth in the nation in pom and eleventh in hip hop at the
National Dance Team Championships at Disney World in Orlando.
This is the largest and most competitive dance competition of its
kind. In the past five years, the DBP team has finished four times
in the top five of the nation in pom, fifth place in 2000, third
place in 2001 and fifth last year.
The team, New Jersey State pom champions for 10 out of the past
11 years and Canam international champions in pom and hip hop, competed
in two categories. The Bosco team was the only New Jersey team to
advance to the finals. It did so in both categories. The other three
categories are jazz, high-kick and prop.
The team’s preliminary performance was so outstanding that
it advanced directly to finals, bypassing semi-finals. There were
92 teams in the “small”—fewer than 16 members—pom
category, the largest category at the competition.
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