SEATTLE

Archbishop J. Peter Sartain has appointed Andrew Casad the new director of the archdiocesan Liturgy Office.

Casad, who currently serves as director of liturgy and catechumenate for St. Thomas More Parish in Chapel Hill, N.C., will begin in the role Aug. 1. Father Steve Sallis, pastor of Sacred Heart Parish in Bellevue, will continue as interim director until June 30.

“I am excited to have been appointed by Archbishop Sartain to assist him in the apostolic mission with which he is entrusted as chief liturgist of our archdiocese,” Casad wrote in an email to The Progress.

Casad has served at St. Thomas More Parish since 2006. He holds as a Master of Theological Studies in liturgical studies from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Arts in cultural anthropology from the University of California, San Diego. In addition to academic publications, he has written for the magazines Pastoral Liturgy and Catechumenate. He serves as a team member for the North American Forum on the Catechumenate and a facilitator for Notre Dame’s online Satellite Theological Education Program.

Casad and his wife, Michelle, have a 4-year old daughter, Miriam, and a 1-year old son, Joshua.

OAKLAND, Calif.New bishop to relieve Archbishop BrunettPope Francis has appointed Jesuit Father Michael Barber, director of spiritual formation at St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Mass., as bishop of Oakland, Calif. The appointment was announced May 3, and Bishop-designate Barber will be ordained a bishop May 25 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland.

Seattle Archbishop Emeritus Alexander J. Brunett has served as apostolic administrator of the Oakland Diocese since Oct. 4, 2012.

Bishop-designate Barber, 58, is a member of the Jesuit Province of California. He succeeds Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, who was named head of the San Francisco Archdiocese July 27, 2012. He is the first Jesuit named to the U.S. hierarchy by Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope.

“I’m keeping my eyes on Pope Francis and seeing what he did in his first days as pope,” Bishop-designate Barber said May 3 in Oakland at an introductory news conference in which he thanked Archbishop Brunett for “coming out of retirement to serve us in this time of transition.”

SEATTLEThe Mount to host workshops on dementia careDementia care educator Teepa Snow will offer three free workshops June 18–19 at the Providence Mount St. Vincent Chapel, 4831 35th Ave. S.W.

The presentations are meant for professional and family caregivers helping a loved one living with dementia at home or in other living situations such as assisted living facilities or nursing homes.

Session one, The ABCs of dementia and caregiving, will be held Tuesday, June 18, from 7–9 p.m. No RSVP is needed.

Session two, Focus on activities: What's cooking and activities and programming for men, will be held Wednesday, June 19, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Session three, Focus on caregiving tasks and getting the person clean and mouth care, will be held Wednesday June 19, from 1–5 p.m.

Lunch will be available between the Wednesday sessions for a small fee. If staying for lunch, RSVP to Robert Butzerin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. document.getElementById('cloak8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1').innerHTML = ''; var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addy8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1 = 'Robert.Butzerin' + '@'; addy8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1 = addy8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1 + 'providence' + '.' + 'org'; var addy_text8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1 = 'Robert.Butzerin' + '@' + 'providence' + '.' + 'org';document.getElementById('cloak8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1').innerHTML += ''+addy_text8606588e9f4be7d70b738a414e25f6a1+''; .

SEATTLEPriests’ group to meet at Seattle USeattle University will host the second annual national conference of the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests June 24–27.

The AUSCP, formed in 2011 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, offers mutual support and a collegial voice for priests throughout the United States. The group has more than 935 members from 121 dioceses. Membership is open to U.S. priests in good standing.

The theme of the conference is “Lumen Gentium: God’s Pilgrim People.” The five keynote speakers will be Patrick Brennan, who will offer a pastor’s perspective on Vatican II’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, “Lumen Gentium”; Catherine Clifford with a theologian’s perspective; Jim Coriden with a canonist’s perspective; Robert Kaiser with a Vatican II journalist’s perspective; and Robert Mickens with a current Vatican journalist’s perspective.

Members of the AUSCP will discuss 15 proposed resolutions, including a call for the ordination of women to the permanent diaconate and the “open discussion for the ordination of women and married men to the priesthood.”

For more information, visit www.uscatholicpriests.org.

ARCHBISHOP ADDRESSES SMU GRADS

SEATTLEProgress writer, photographer receive journalism honorsThe Catholic Northwest Progress netted three awards in the Society of Professional Journalists Northwest Excellence in Journalism Contest. The awards, announced May 18, were for work produced in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington in 2012.

Photographer Stephen Brashear won second place in portrait photography for his photo of Deacon Jose Alvarez prior to his priestly ordination.

Reporter Kevin Birnbaum won two awards: first place in social issues reporting for his story about the Catholics Come Home media campaign, and third place in education reporting for a story about the new bilingual Juan Diego Academy at Holy Rosary School in Tacoma.

All three awards were for the nondaily newspaper category.

SEATTLENote to readersThe final two editions of The Catholic Northwest Progress will be published on June 13 and June 27, 2013. A new full-color magazine will be sent to all registered Catholic households in Western Washington for free beginning in September.

Subscriptions for The Progress have declined steadily over the past four decades. Fewer than 8 percent of registered Catholic households currently receive the newspaper, which has been the official publication of the archdiocese for more than 100 years.

The new magazine will publish 10 times a year and focus on evangelization. The transition will include a shift of archdiocesan news coverage to the Web, with an online publication capable of delivering news as it happens.

Send your local news items and photos to reporter Kevin Birnbaum at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. document.getElementById('cloakda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff').innerHTML = ''; var prefix = 'ma' + 'il' + 'to'; var path = 'hr' + 'ef' + '='; var addyda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff = 'Kevin.Birnbaum' + '@'; addyda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff = addyda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff + 'seattlearch' + '.' + 'org'; var addy_textda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff = 'Kevin.Birnbaum' + '@' + 'seattlearch' + '.' + 'org';document.getElementById('cloakda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff').innerHTML += ''+addy_textda48ffc4dde233f2614c5e15f91975ff+''; .

June 5, 2013