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The family of the Cursillo Movement of South Mississippi grew by 34 women the weekend of June 26-29 when Dedeaux #251 was held at the Diocesan Retreat Cen-
ter at Sacred Heart Parish, Dedeaux. The new Cursillistas are: Kellie Black, St. James, Gulfport; Cathy Chapay, Sacred Heart, D’Iberville; Ivy Cole, St. Joseph, Gulfport;
Regina Cooper, Sacred Heart, Dedeaux; Teresa Davis, Immaculate Conception, Laurel; Sharon Dedeaux, St. Joseph, Gulfport; Lisa Easterling, St. Thomas, Hattiesburg;
Lauren Fairey, St. James, Gulfport; Trish Favre, Our Lady of the Gulf, Bay St. Louis; Deborah Frederic, Sacred Heart, Pascagoula; Alex Gieger, Immaculate Conception,
Laurel; Phyllis Graves, St. Elizabeth Seton, Ocean Springs; Linda Gregory, St. Alphonsus/St. Elizabeth Seton, Ocean Springs; Ursula Harris, Our Lady of Fatima, Biloxi;
Rosi Healey, St. James, Gulfport; Brandi Kozemski, St. James, Gulfport; Aundrea Ladner, Sacred Heart, Dedeaux; Carrie Largilliere, Our Lady of Victories, Pascagoula;
Susan, LeBatard, Our Lady of Fatima, Biloxi; Angie Lee, St. Thomas, Hattiesburg; Jessie Macias, St. Elizabeth Seton, Ocean Springs; Charlene Mattina, St. Joseph, Gulfport;
Christine McCummins, St. Thomas, Long Beach; Shelby Miserendino, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Lumberton; Tracy Morales, Immaculate Conception, Laurel; Yvonne
Moumas, Our Lady of the Gulf, Bay St. Louis; Stacy Necaise, Most Holy Trinity, Pass Christian; Karen Parker, Holy Trinity/St. Thomas, Pass Christian/Long Beach; Karly
Richardson, St. Mary, Gautier; Joanie Seymour, Sacred Heart, D’Iberville; Julie Seymour, Sacred Heart, D’Iberville; Carol Soriano, St. Thomas, Hattiesburg; Kathy Wagner,
St. James, Gulfport; and Sandra Warren, St. James, Gulfport.
The presenting team was made up of Cursillistas: Dean Craft, St. John the Evangelist, Gulfport; Michelle Fleming, St. Thomas, Long Beach; Holly Ford, St. James, Gulf-
port; Mary Frances Ford (Rectora), St. James, Gulfport; Sharon Gentile, Our Lady of Fatima, Biloxi; Michelle Gibbs, St. Thomas, Hattiesburg; Congetta Gieger, Immaculate
Conception, Laurel; Roberta Hosler, St. James, Gulfport; Laura Mattina, St. James, Gulfport; Terry Nause (Co-Rectora), Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg; Darlene Previto, St.
James, Gulfport; Mary Ann Rust, Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg; Juliana Skelton, Nativity BVM, Biloxi; and Susan Taylor, Our Lady of Fatima, Biloxi. The Spiritual Directors
for the weekend were Deacon Karl Koberger, St. Joseph, Gulfport, and Fr. Mike O’Connor, Our Lady of the Gulf, Bay St. Louis.
Upcoming events for the Cursillo Movement of South Mississippi include: Married Couples’ Return weekend held at St. Augustine’s William J. Kelly Retreat Center in
Bay St. Louis July 18-20; golf tournament (fund raiser) August 23; Co-Ed Return weekend at Dedeaux, September 5-7; next Men’s Cursillo weekend, September 25-28 (Rec-
tor: Tyrone Necaise, Sacred Heart, Dedeaux); Co-Ed Arise weekend, October 24-26; next Women’s Weekend, December 4-7 (Rectora: Marie Gombos, St. Michael, Biloxi).
For more information about Cursillo, visit
or write: Cursillo Movement of South Mississippi; P.O. Box 7450; D’Iberville, MS 39540 or contact
the Co-Lay directors: Mary Ellen Lee and Larry Grant, (601) 261-9962 (Sacred Heart, Hattiesburg) or visit us on Facebook.
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It will come when the church recognizes “how com-
promise and insensitivity and wrong decisions have
damaged the witness of the church,” he said, and when
its members have their own personal healing, becoming
more humble and journeying close to those who are lost
and hurting.
“We are not there to tell the survivors what they
have to do, but together to find new ways of interacting
with respect and care,” and not hoping the problems go
away, but seeking them out for reconciliation, he said.
Archbishop Martin said the abuse of children by
clergy “should never have happened in the church of
Jesus Christ.”
People can argue how abuse is commonplace
throughout society and that the church shouldn’t be sin-
gled out or how the incidence of abuse by clergy is no
higher when compared to others, he said. But there can
never be “comforting statistics” because “Jesus himself
tells us that children are a sign of the kingdom of God.”
People’s understanding of faith and the kingdom “is
somehow measured in the manner in which we protect
and respect and cherish children or in which we fail
children. We know well the strong words of Jesus about
those who would injure of harm children,” he said.
The healing the church is looking for will only
come, he said, “when it welcomes our brothers and
sisters who have survived abuse as Jesus would have
welcomed them.”
