June 7, 2004 Personnel Transfers • Summer, 2004 Effective July 1, 2004 Nick Baxter, who has just been reinstated to the priesthood, will move from Mission Espada Friary in San Antonio to Holy Family Parish in Bayfield, Wisconsin, where he will serve as parochial vicar of that parish. He will be affiliated with Our Lady of the Lake Friary in Ashland. Gary Bernhardt will leave his ministry in Bayfield, Wisconsin, to assume the pastorate of St. Thomas Parish in Ruston, Louisiana. Ed Boren, who has been assisting with Hispanic Ministry in the Diocese of Knoxville, has agreed to become the pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Houston, Texas. He will be affiliated with Mission San José Friary. Johnpaul Cafiero is moving from Holy Spirit Friary in Chicago to Holy Evangelists Friary, also in Chicago, where he will continue his ministry of preaching and parish missions with outreach to the Hispanic community after he completes four months on intensive Spanish study. Doug Collins will enter into the final phase of formation by spending his Supervised Time in the Province. He will assist in the ministry of Franciscan Connection in St. Louis and will reside at La Verna Friary. Michael Cusato is now officially affiliated with St. Anthony of Padua Friary in Cleveland while continuing his work at the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University. Lou Davino will move back to Holy Spirit Friary in Chicago after spending the past year at St. Joe's in Hyde Park assisting with the interprovincial post-novitiate program. He will now supervise only the priesthood formation program. Mario DiCicco will move from St. Peter's Church in Chicago to Berkeley, California, where he takes over as president of the Franciscan School of Theology. He will remain affiliated with Saint Peter's Friary in Chicago. Frank Folino will be leaving Holy Spirit Friary in Chicago to carry out his Deacon Internship at Our Lady of the Lake Parish in Ashland, Wisconsin. Mike Fowler has completed his sabbatical program at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley and will move to St. Joseph Friary in Hyde Park in Chicago where he will be part of the interprovincial post-novitiate formation team and serve as Guardian. Donatus Grunloh is retiring as pastor of St. Francis Parish in Calhoun, Louisiana, and will reside with Sylvano Pera at Our Lady of Help of Christians Parish in Green Creek, Illinois. He will be affiliated with St. Francis Friary in Teutopolis. Albert Haase has returned to the United States from China and will move to Holy Cross Friary in Quincy, Illinois, where he will serve on the faculty of Quincy University. Charlie Hart is leaving his position of Chaplain Supervisor at the Detroit Medical Center and will move to St. Anthony Friary in St. Louis where he will function as the CPE Supervisor at Forest Park Hospital. Frank Kordek has completed his sabbatical and will assume the pastorate of Sacred Heart Parish in Indianapolis. José Martinez Valenzuela, newly-ordained, will leave St. Paschal's in West Monroe, Louisiana, and step into the role of Parochial Vicar at St. John's in Joliet. Arturo Ocampo is completing his ministry as pastor of St. Alphonsus Parish in San Antonio and will move to Sacred Heart Friary in Indianapolis where he will serve as pastor of St. Patrick's Parish in Indianapolis. Paul Paré moves from his service in the Franciscan Vocation Office to the position of pastor of Cross in the Woods in Indian River, Michigan. José Antonio Posadas is completing his service as interim administrator of St. Thomas Parish in Ruston and is moving to Mission San José in San Antonio where he will pursue advanced studies in social work at Our Lady of the Lake in San Antonio. Frank Probst is completing his service as interim pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Indianapolis and will become part of the Border Project, the emerging interprovincial new ministry project in the Diocese of El Paso, Texas. Fred Radtke is moving from Holy Evangelists Friary in Chicago and his ministry at St. Peter's to St. Joseph Friary on Hermitage in Chicago where he will became part of the team of the Franciscan Vocation Office. Juan Carlos Ruiz Guerrero will move from Holy Spirit Friary in Chicago and will undertake his Deacon Internship at Holy Family Parish in Bayfield, Wisconsin. Harry Speckman completes his service as Pastor of Cross in the Woods in Indian River, Michigan. He will remain living there while he works to establish a Catholic radio station in the area. Michael Luke Ubben is leaving St. Joseph Friary in Hyde Park in Chicago to carry out his Deacon Internship at St. Vincent Parish in Nashville, Tennessee. Last Call ... ... to send in contributions from friaries as well as individual friars in support of Project Linkup in Kentucky. Donations should be sent to the Secretary of the province by the end of the week. Requests from Benet ... Benet Fonck, coordinator of communications, urges those friars coming to the Provincial Assembly who have a digital camera to bring it along and use it and to share the photos taken with the office of communications for a photo bank. He requests that friars inform him whenever they have a book or article published. Also, he asks any friars who have personal websites to register them with the communications office so that a link can be made through the provincial website. Finally, he again requests any comments or ideas for the new SPF Journal be sent to him by June 9 (fonckbenet@aol.com or 314.655.0503). Q.U. News .... When the Board of Trustees of Quincy University met last month, it changed its by-laws to state that presidents of the university no longer need to be a Franciscan. Lucinda Awercamp was chosen as the first-ever woman to chair the board. Kurt Hartrich is the new vice chair. Bill Schulte's term on the board was renewed. One of the new trustees is province benefactor, QU graduate, and member of the Provincial Advisory Committee for Development, Sarah Pleban. Provincial Services Mission Statement . . . The Staff of Provincial Services has approved a new mission statement for their operation: We are the Provincial Services of the Sacred Heart, a team of friars and laity working in collaboration to support the administrative infrastructure in light of the Five Priorities of the Order through a variety of offices with specific competencies. In the spirit of Francis and Clare of Assisi, we serve the Provincial Administration and the friars of the Province through spiritual, administrative, fiduciary, philanthropic, archival, formational, and program development activities. New Croatian Council ... The Chapter of the Croatian Custody of the Holy Family based in Chicago elected its new Council when it met in early May. Marko Puljic was re-elected as the Custos. His new councilors are Jozo Joe Grbes, Joseph Nenad Galic, Nicola Pasalic, and Matthew Ruyechan. The Order Continues to Grow ... During its recent intensive meeting, the Order's General Definitorium approved the establishment of a new province in Ukraine under the patronage of St. Michael the Archangel. The new province was previously under Poland's Immaculate Conception Province. The General Council also established the autonomous Custody of St. Clare in Mozambique, separating it from the Province of Portugal. This will officially come to pass in mid-2005. Also, a new mission foundation in Namibia will be entrusted to South Africa's Our Lady of Peace Province, and a mission foundation in Sudan will become the responsibility of the Province of Egypt. In Brief: Alex Dowey of the Province of St. Benedict the Black in Brazil will be temporarily residing at Villa West in Sherman, IL for medical recuperation. Affiliate of the Province Jerry Grosskopf of Harbor Springs MI died on June 4th. Mary Hahn, sister-in-law of Bernadine Hahn, died in Omaha on May 26th. Ralph Herz, brother-in-law of John and Gil Ostdiek and cousin of Herb Rempe, died on May 29th in Hastings NE. Please Keep in Your Prayers: Antonio Franjic, the General Vicar of the Order, is currently hospitalized with pancreas problems. Barry Schneider is continuing to receive therapy for his stroke, although it seems likely that there will be some permanent paralysis. He has had to resign from his pastorate because of this. Joe DiSanto is currently hospitalized in Cleveland with a urinary infection. However, he hopes to be well in time to attend the Assembly. Gilberto Cavazos had surgery to correct a deviated septum a few days ago. We assume that he is well on the mend. Lou Davino is undergoing tests to determine the nature of a growth on his lung. He will be getting the results within the next few days. Bob Behnen's brother Adrian has found out that he did not respond to aggressive chemotherapy and radiation for a brain tumor, but rather that the tumor has grown. The doctor feels that Adrian has only a few weeks left to live. Obviously, this is a very stressful time for all the family. Please keep all these people in your prayers!