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November 12, 2003 The University News
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Meghan Kuckelman
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Lead by example, Galante says
Bishop discusses leadership and community
Lincy George
Assistant News Editor
Catholic Christian leadership
is not giving orders but witness-
ing Jesus Christ, Fr. Joseph
Galante, bishop of the diocese of
Dallas, said at a Dinner and Dis-
course event sponsored by Cam-
pus Ministry last week.
Catholic Christian leadership
"does not involve an exercise in
command and obedience. You've
got to walk the walk, not just talk
the talk," he said
Professing a desire to engage
in a discussion, Galante asked
the audience, comprised mostly
of students, what they thought
Catholic Christian leadership
meant for Catholic students.
"How do Catholic Christians
exercise leadership in their situ-
ations, in the world around them?
Let's talk in context of your-
selves who, because of educa-
tion, background, are now called
as Catholic Christians to exercise
leadership," he said.
Reading from a statement
made after Pope John Paul II met
with bishops from the Philip-
pines in October, Galante said,
"Today's world is constantly
bombarded with words and in-
formation. For this reason, pos-
sibly more than any time in his-
tory, things Christians do [mat-
ter], This is why Mother
Theresa's life speaks to so
many."
Galante used himself as an
example to demonstrate the dis-
tinction he made between Catho-
lic leadership and what he called
leadership based on a "military
model."
"I cannot say, Tin bishop.
Therefore you have to do what I
say.' Rather, in fiilfilling my of-
fice I have as bishop, I have to
know how to lead, draw people,
first of all, into a relationship
with Jesus, what Jesus' message
is," he said.
Forcing people to do the right
thing is not leading people be-
cause if you force people they
may do the right thing but with-
out the right motivation, Galante
said.
"To be a leader is not to flex
muscle and make people do
things because, in a sense, it does
not bring about interior change
of heart," he said.
Under the military model of
leadership, Jesus Christ would
not be a good leader, Galante
said. "If leadership is about
making people do the right thing,
Jesus is not a successful leader.
He does not make us do the right
tiling. He did not make Peter not
deny him. He did not make Ju-
das not betray him," he said.
Responding to a request for
clarifying what he meant by
"making people do the
right thing," Galante de-
scribed the situation of the
Catholic Church before
the second Vatican Coun-
cil as an example.
"There are sanctions
that can be brought to bear
on people. There is fear,
but there is no conversion
involved in that. Before the
second Vatican Council.,
eat[ing] meat on Friday
deliberately was a mortal
sin. Now everybody is ob-
ligated to do penance," he
said.
"The consequences of
that [emphasis on sanc-
tions] were that most
people did not have an in-
ner sense of conviction, re-
lationship with the Trinity," he
said.
Galante explained that the
lack of conviction led people to
a more lax practice of their faith
when the second Vatican coun-
cil reduced the emphasis on the
consequences of sinning.
"People then began to drop
out of observing the command-
ments, worrying about chastity
because they had been formed
primarily by threat; the threat
was sanction," he said.
Galante explained that the
changes brought about by
If leadership is
about making
people do the
right thing, Jesus
is not a success-
ful leader. He
does not make
us do the right
thing.
Bishop Joseph
Galante
Vatican II were not to blame for
the laxity in practice of Catholic
faith, but that the real cause was
the lack of conviction in people
faced with the cultural changes
of the sixties.
"Second Vatican Council
came along when there was a
cultural explosion in the sixties.
There was distrust of institu-
tional leadership. The Church
lives in a culture. As people who
were not well formed saw it all
crumbling, they had nothing to
fall back on," he said.
Galante used the oft repeated
words of an archbishop of Bos-
ton at the time to express the at-
titude of people who were not
Louis Shopen/ University News
Bishop Galante discussed the
theological emphasis on commu-
nity in the Catholic Church, at Din-
ner and Discourse last week.
"well fonned" in their faith.
"We have a problem - most
of our Catholics had the attitude:
just so I can slide into heaven
even though my back is scorched
by the fires hell - a basic
minimalist understanding of
what it meant to be Catholic," he
said.
Galante said he did not know
if the church was any better prior
to Vatican II than after and ex-
pressed doubt of the good of re-
turning to the way things were.
"Was the church better then
than it is now? I do not know be-
cause in every age the church
faces the reality of its human-
ness," he said.
"If we go back to that, are we
going to be better people? We
would be conforming. A well
run prison has conformity," he
said.
Galante said Catholicism was
not about conformity but com-
munity and pointed to a problem
of fundamentalism, particularly
fundamentalist Protestantism.
"Conformity is not a sign of
community. The Church is a
community, not just a me and
Jesus reality. Lots of people are
going to fundamentalism. It is
very personal. 'Jesus is my per-
sonal Lord and Savior." Catho-
lic teaching is Jesus is our Lord
and Savior. Jesus came to save
us not as individuals. Fundamen-
tal Protestantism is antithetical to
community," he said.
Galante further said that fun-
damental Protestantism teaches
a value system contrary to the
gospel.
"Fundamentalism plays very
much into a comfortable secular-
ism. One of the tenets of funda-
mental Protestantism is that if
you just turn your life to God,
you will be successful. What's
the value system - if you are well
off materially, that is a sign God
has blessed you. That's an
See Galante, Page 3
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Online schedule:
Seniors: Mon., Nov. 10
Juniors: Wed., Nov. 12
Sophomores: Thurs.,
Nov. 14
Freshmen: Mon., Nov. 17
- Jan Burk
Symposium to
take place
Saturday
The annual symposium
sponsored by the Phi Beta
Kappa honor society will
take place this Saturday,
Nov. 15, from 9 a.m. to 3
p.m. in the art auditorium.
Presentations will also
simultaneously take place
in Gorman Faculty Lounge
and upstairs Haggar.
Topics range from Neu-
tron/Gamma Pulse
ShapeDi scrim nation
to Why we Should Read
Madame Bovary to Poetic
Riddles in the Anglo-Saxon
Style-
- Lincy George
Old Testament
professor to speak
Dr. Erik Eynikel, an Old
Testament professor from
the Netherlands, will de-
liver a lecture, The Parable
and the Theory of Semio-
575, at 11 a.m. today in
Gorman Faculty Lounge.
- Rebecca Leland
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