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b'Today\\u2019s host(s): Scot Landry and Susan Abbott\\nToday\\u2019s guest(s): Fr. Roger Landry, executive editor of The Anchor, the newspaper of the Fall River diocese; and Gregory Tracy, managing editor of The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston archdiocese\\n\\n\\n\\nSome of the stories discussed on this show will be available on The Pilot\\u2019s and The Anchor\\u2019s websites on Friday morning. Please check those sites for the latest links.\\n\\nToday\\u2019s topics: Beacon Hill\\u2019s casino deal; Singing the New Mass translation; Ambassadors of Peace; new policy on altar girls in Phoenix\\nSummary of today\\u2019s show: Scot and Susan talk with Fr. Roger and Greg about the news of the week including the arrival of the new vicar general, Msgr. Robert Deeley; the societal costs of the casino bill proposed by Beacon Hill; singing the new Mass translation; a new religious order for Boston; and controversy over a new policy for altar girls in Phoenix.\\n1st segment: Scot welcomed everyone to the show and said to Susan that September 1 snuck up on his this year. Susan said she was sad to see August go. August is the shortest month of the year and February is the longest. Scot said at the Pastoral Center the last week of August is usually slow, but this summer he\\u2019s been involved in the Catechetical Certificate of the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization, there\\u2019s been various events saying goodbye to Fr. Rich Erikson, the outgoing vicar general, and events welcoming Msgr. Robert Deeley as the new vicar general. Susan said she was moved by the ceremony in which Msgr. Deeley took the Oath of Fidelity and the Profession of Faith, two rituals of the Church for those who hold certain offices in the Church.\\nScot welcomed Fr. Roger Landry and Gregory Tracy to the show. He asked Greg about his experience of the ceremony. Msgr. Deeley had talked about how when he went to theVatican he had three minutes to read all these documents in Latin before signing them, but in this instance he preferred the time to do it right and involve everyone in the Pastoral Center.\\nFr. Roger said transitional deacons and priests take the oath and profession, as well as pastors and other major responsibilities in the Church. The Church wants to make sure that the person is going to hand on the teaching of the Church, but also to reassure him that he will receive supernatural grace to live up to the demands of the oath and profession.\\nScot said Msgr. Deeley has been working Rome at the Vatican since 2003, including at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Se\\xe1n invited Msgr. Deeley to come serve as vicar general in April. He met with the Cardinal\\u2019s cabinet this morning, then sent an email to all employees of the Archdiocese throughout eastern Massachusetts, celebrated noon Mass with the Pastoral Center community, and then had this afternoon\\u2019s ceremony. Scot read the following quote from Msgr. Deeley\\u2019s email:\\n\\nThese past years of work in Rome have given me a unique opportunity to be near His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI. I could not help but note that, whatever the difficulty he encounters, or the problem that arises, he is always confident in the grace of Christ. The word that most captures the spirit of Benedict XVI is \\u201cjoy\\u201d. He teaches us to place our hope in Jesus Christ, who is our joy, as well as the truth of our lives. Accepting this call is fundamental to our mission as Church. We need to come to know that grace ourselves and then, in accord with the call of our Baptism, to share it with others. As I begin this new assignment I ask for your prayers, and promise a remembrance in mine. Together may we bring the joy of Christ\\u2019s love to our corner of the world here in the Church in Boston. May Mary, Mother of the Church, Our Lady of Hope, intercede for God\\u2019s abundant blessings on our Archdiocese.\\n\\nScot said it was very clear how closely Msgr. Deeley has worked with Pope Benedict and how well he knows him. Susan said joy is not just a silly feeling, but it is a gift of God.\\n2nd segment: In both the Anchor and Pilot there is an article called \\u201cFierce response to Beacon Hill leadership\\u2019s deal on Casino bill.\\u201d Scot ran down the details of the new bill put up on August 23. While they project $400 million in tax revenue, the Mass. Catholic Conference says that won\\u2019t outweigh the social costs.\\nGreg said people often ask how the Church can oppose casino gambling while allowing parish bingo. He points out that the Church says small-stakes gambling can be a legitimate form of recreation, while casino gambling often preys on the poor and those most unable to afford. In order for there to be $400 million in tax revenue, people have to lose more than $1 billion. These won\\u2019t be high-roller casinos like those in Monte Carlo and Las Vegas. This will attract those least able to afford to lose. Slot machines are particularly pernicious because while each individual play is only a quarter or a dollar, they can become addictive.\\nScot quotes the story which says that studies show how five years after a casino opens, the neighborhood sees a radical increase in crime and addition to gambling doubles within a 50-mile radius. With the three new proposed casinos, nearly every part of the state would be within 50 miles of the casino.\\nSusan pointed out that even if we poured every dime in tax revenue into schools and the like, the ends don\\u2019t justify the means. She noted that casinos aren\\u2019t built in wealthy suburbs, but in our poorer areas. Scot said you don\\u2019t have to be Catholic to know that this isn\\u2019t a good idea. Who\\u2019s going to be paying for the societal ills? How much would we pay to decrease crimes by the same amounts they are going to rise?\\nFr. Roger wrote on this issue a year ago. He said he thinks along the same lines. This gamble on casinos is a terrible bet. You can\\u2019t make a living off going to a place where the house always wins. The state is gambling its future on the backs of slot parlors and casinos. We have to stand up in our Commonwealth and say that this is a bad bet in which we\\u2019ll lose more than we win over the long term.\\nStop Predatory Gambling, the Mass. Family Institute and United to Stop the Slots are other organizations involved in opposing this bill.They encourage people to call the Governor\\u2019s office and elected representatives and tell them that this is a reckless gamble for Massachusetts.\\n3rd segment: Scot noted that we\\u2019ve talked about the coming launch of the new Roman Missal on the first Sunday of Advent, but starting this weekend at the the option of the pastor, parishes can start singing certain parts of the Mass in the new translation. Fr. Roger said the parts of the Mass we typically sing have new translations, including the Gloria; the Holy, Holy, Holy; and the Creed. The US Bishops said bishops could authorize their pastors to introduce the sung Mass parts in the beginning of September to help people get ready for the changes coming in Advent. They realize that in Advent we don\\u2019t sing many of these parts so they wanted to give three months of practice so that on Christmas morning the Gloria will be done in the most beautiful way possible.\\nSusan said she loves the title of the editorial: \\u201cSinging the Mass.\\u201d We sing the Mass, not just sing at Mass.\\nScot said Fr. Jonathan Gaspar will be with us on Tuesday to talk about the new Mass translations. He said in Fr. Roger\\u2019s editorial he refers to the Vatican II document Musicam Sacram which differentiates three different levels of music in the Mass and we\\u2019ve inverted the priority of the different kinds of music at Mass. The first priority for singing are the dialogue parts between the priest and the people: the Sign of the Cross, for example. The other Mass parts of the second priority: the Kyrie, Gloria, Lamb of God, the Creed, and Prayer of the Faithful. Of lowest priority are the entrance, offertory, and communion hymns as well as the Psalm, the Alleulia, and the readings.\\n4th segment: Scot said Cardinal Sean in recent months has been working to help form three diocesan religious orders. This week the Pilot profiles the Ambassadors of Peace. It was founded by Fr. Michael Sevigny, a Capuchin Franciscan for over 40 years. It will be a contemplative and active community helping member in a quest for inner peace and to bring peace to the world. The community will be based in Weymouth at a former convent at Immaculate Conception in Weymouth.\\nthe other two order are the Daughters of Mary of Nazareth led by Sister Olga Yaqob and the Franciscan Tertiary Handmaids of the Immaculate. He said the Lord raises up new orders when the Church particularly needs them and they have specific charisms for the needs of the day. On September 16-18, the Apostles will be holding a discernment weekend for women, and seven of the eight spots are filled already.\\nFr. Roger often leads retreats for new religious communities. They often succeed with God giving a particular charism to the founder or foundress, but there\\u2019s also a real sense of communal love among the members. They also need very good formation with a very clear path to holiness that involves fraternal correction and real education in the faith.\\nMoving to a new story, the rector of the Cathedral in Phoenix has changed his policy on altar servers so that only boys would be altar servers, while the girls would be trained as sacristans. The story has received a lot of coverage in the Catholic blogosphere.\\n\\n\\n\\nThe rector said the issue can\\u2019t be approached from just and emotional standpoint, but serving at the altar is not a right. He wants both boys and girls to be involved in service, but he\\u2019s found that when there are altar girls, there\\u2019s often not any altar boys.\\nGreg said he agrees with his assessment that when young girls are involved in something, the young boys choose not to be involved. He\\u2019s also seen that girls of that age are more comfortable being in front of people, while boys are not. It\\u2019s also valuable to have the boys brought closer to the liturgy because it does engender more vocations to the priesthood. It\\u2019s not about power or whether girls are valuable. It\\u2019s just a matter of formation.\\nSusan says she\\u2019s a traditionalist in such things, but she\\u2019s not sure whether it\\u2019s true that having girls as servers is itself a reason for more boys not being servers. She\\u2019s also not sure whether being a server ultimately makes a difference for whether boys become priests.\\nFr. Roger\\u2019s parish has both boys and girls. To preserve a balance, he actively recruits boys and about two-thirds of his servers are boys, which makes it easier for boys to come. When there\\u2019s a super-majority are girls, it becomes a girl thing to do. If the real urgency in the Church is for priestly vocations, then we need to have a small seminary within the parish. 70% of priests today were altar servers when they were younger.'