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By Sean Gallagher

For people who are old enough to remember Nov. 22, 1963, the memories associated with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy are often Father Patrick Beidelman, rector of SS. Peter and etched in their minds, still vividly clear Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, carries the Book of 50 years later. Gospels. This can be especially true since Kennedy was the first—and still only— Catholic elected to the highest office in the land. Some of those Catholics who have U.S. President John F. Kennedy and first lady, Jacqueline shared their memories of that tragic day Kennedy, arrive at Love Field in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. with The Criterion were Catholic grade Later that day, President Kennedy was killed by an school or high school students at the time. assassin’s bullet while riding in a car on the streets of Another was a young priest. Dallas. To this day, he is still the first—and only Catholic— The following is an edited version of to be elected president of the United States. Fifty years their recollections of Kennedy’s death, the later, many readers of The Criterion still have vivid days that followed and the meaning of it in memories of that tragic day. their life of faith.

‘The silence and sadness of our city’ Renee Lange, now a member of Washington cathedral, site of Kennedy St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, was a seventh-grade student in the fall of 1963 at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Dallas. funeral in 1963, is ‘holy ground’ “I remember it like it was yesterday. It WASHINGTON (CNS)—On Nov. 25, 1963, a television President Kennedy at the Requiem Mass, Nov. 25, 1963, before started out as such an exciting day because audience of millions of people around the world prayerfully bid their removal to Arlington, where they lie in expectation of a the president was coming to town,” she farewell to President John F. Kennedy, as his flag-draped coffin heavenly resurrection.” wrote. “Everyone was talking about it! was placed before the sanctuary of the Cathedral of St. Matthew On a recent weekday, Msgr. W. Ronald Jameson, the “Later in the morning, we were in the the Apostle in Washington, during the funeral Mass for the cathedral’s rector, stood beside that plaque. “Many people middle of math class when the loud speaker slain president. who come here, come because of that,” he said, noting came on with the principal announcing that Today, almost 50 years later, people come to the cathedral that many talk about “the sense of hope that his presidency President Kennedy had been shot coming from across the country and around the world, with many brought the nation.” out of the triple underpass downtown. wanting to stand at that very spot, where an inlaid marble “They see the plaque, and it brings back memories,” the “Each student immediately kneeled plaque is inscribed with the words, “Here rested the remains of See KENNEDY, page 10 See LOCAL, page 10 Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, ‘Evangelii Gaudium,’ to be published on Nov. 26 VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican will publish However, last June, Pope Francis told the ordinary council of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation on Nov. 26, two days the Synod of Bishops, which is normally responsible for helping after he formally delivers it to the Church at a Mass concluding draft post-synodal apostolic exhortations, that he would not be the 2012-13 Year of Faith. working from their draft. The Vatican announced on Instead, the pope said, he planned to write an “exhortation Nov. 18 that “Evangelii Gaudium” on evangelization in general and, within it, refer to the synod,” (“The Joy of the Gospel”) will be in order to “take everything from the synod but put it in a presented at a news conference featuring wider framework.” Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president Pope Francis will formally deliver the document on of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Nov. 24 in St. Peter’s Square, at the concluding Mass of the New Evangelization; Archbishop Lorenzo Year of Faith, giving copies to a Latvian bishop, a Tanzanian Baldisseri, secretary general of the Synod priest and a deacon from Australia. The pope will also give of Bishops; and Archbishop Claudio Celli, copies to members of men’s and women’s religious orders, and to president of the Pontifical Council for representatives of other groups of faithful, including seminarians, Social Communications. families and members of ecclesial movements. A visually Pope Francis Apostolic exhortations, one of the impaired Catholic will receive the document in the form of a most authoritative forms of papal CD-ROM allowing for audio reproduction. writing, are often based on deliberations of synods of bishops. A Japanese sculptor and a Polish painter will receive “Evangelii Gaudium” is expected to take into account the the apostolic exhortation on behalf of the artistic world, October 2012 synod on the new evangelization, held at the Archbishop Fisichella said, and two journalists will do likewise beginning of the Year of Faith. on behalf of the media. † Page 2 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Nuns help debrief stressed typhoon victims arriving in Manila MANILA, Philippines children. I was so traumatized. (CNS)—The grandstand of That tidal wave, oh, the water Villamor Air Base was buzzing was so strong!” with teams of workers trying to Pateros, a Catholic, said she help people displaced by the super also prayed hard that no flying typhoon that struck the central debris like loose corrugated metal Philippines 10 days earlier. roofs would hit her head as she Reuters Rattay, CNS photo/Wolfgang Evacuees, fresh off the military huddled to protect her children. planes that took them here, could “When the storm slapped my make free phone calls, register for back, it really hurt,” she said. “I transportation to meet loved ones just kept praying that my head in Metro Manila, get help to start would be fine.” their lives over and receive some The family was able to stay in much needed stress-debriefing. a house that was still standing and That was where some local they had plenty of water, but there religious sisters stepped in. was little food. They were able to Nymiah Pateros told Catholic get some rice from a storehouse News Service she was thankful but it was wet, so they dried it in for help from Assumptionist the sun. Sister Anna Carmela Pesongco. “It was already starting to smell “She said she would contact sour. But we cooked it and ate it our family here,” said Pateros, instead of dying of hunger,” said who is from the town of Palo, just Pateros. “We just withstood it as south of Tacloban. “She helped us, best we could, but the children she has a cell phone. I don’t have developed diarrhea.” a cell phone now. It got washed The family survived the storm A 6-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy hold their soft toys on Nov. 19 in the devastated waterfront shanty town of Guiuan, out and filled with salt water.” and the hunger, but Pateros Philippines, in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan. Ten days after one of the most powerful typhoons ever recorded, some Pateros was holding her 1-year- said hungry inmates who broke residents of remote villages where the storm made landfall in the central Philippines said they were still waiting for aid. old daughter in her arms, giving through a wall in the prison her juice from a small box. The started to loot the remaining their relatives in Manila. help the survivors strengthen a hope that really, beyond all this, 29-year-old, her husband, their houses, and they went after the She said counselors are their faith. God is greater. God continues to daughter and 3-year-old son, family’s neighbors. particularly concerned for the “We pray for them, all these be a loving God.” and her father all survived the “So we left. We ran away and children, “so that they find a home people that we don’t even typhoon’s howling winds and we just came here,” she said. in the midst of all this because know their names, and reassure (Donations for Super Typhoon fast-rising water brought by a Sister Anna Carmela, president the kids need a certain sense of them that there is a God,” said Haiyan, which devastated the massive storm surge that smacked of Assumption College in Makati, security ... that they know people Sister Anna Carmela. “In all the Philippines, are being taken Leyte province. said the sisters from various can welcome them and offer disasters that we go through, it’s online at www.crs.org. Donations She said her husband “was orders are debriefing the survivors them, not just food, but a home. the strengthening of their faith also can be sent to CRS, drifting in the water. And we like the Pateros family to find out All these are simple things, but that will make them go on, that P.O. Box 17090, Baltimore, Md., clung to the branch of a tree. how traumatized they are, what they’re very important.” will make them find meaning in 21297-0303 or via phone by It was hard with two small they need and to facilitate finding Sister Pesongco said they also their pains and their sorrows and calling 1-877-435-7277.) † Highlights of U.S. bishops’ annual fall general assembly in Baltimore BALTIMORE (CNS)—During the Nov. 11-12 public already committed $20 million in emergency aid, with the Readers are invited to share sessions of the annual fall general assembly of the funds expected to come from a second collection CRS asked favorite Christmas memories U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in Baltimore, U.S. bishops to take in their dioceses before the end of the year. the bishops: • Approved a budget for 2014 and approved a 3 percent The Criterion invites readers to submit a brief story • Elected Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., to increase in diocesan assessments starting in 2015. about a special holiday memory for possible inclusion succeed New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan as president • Heard a report on “important progress” being made in in our annual Christmas issue, which will be published of the USCCB, and elected Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of bishops’ priorities for 2013-16 in their efforts to protect the life on Dec. 20. Galveston-Houston as vice president. and dignity of the human person, to strengthen marriage and Your favorite Christmas story may be written about • Approved the development of family life, to promote religious liberty, and to improve faith a humorous or serious topic related to your faith, a pastoral statement on the dangers formation and sacramental practice. family or friends. pornography poses to family life that • Approved adding a new staff person to the Submissions should include the writer’s name, would serve as a teaching tool for Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities to work on a national level address, parish and telephone number. Church leaders. The Committee on with the post-abortion ministry Project Rachel funded by a Send your story to The Criterion, Laity, Marriage, Family Life and Youth Knights of Columbus grant. 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46206 or will develop the statement, providing a • Approved the advancement of the sainthood cause of by e-mail to [email protected] by the Dec. 11 draft to the bishops in 2015. Mother Mary Teresa Tallon, who founded the Parish Visitors deadline. † • Nearly unanimously approved of Mary Immaculate, an order focused on contemplation and several steps toward adapting the door-to-door, personal ministry. Mexican Misal Romano for use in • In a “special message” released on Nov. 13, the Archbishop the U.S. The Mexican translation of U.S. bishops reiterated their objections to the Affordable Corrections Joseph E. Kurtz the missal will have Mass propers Care Act’s requirement that employee insurance include for the U.S. calendar included, with contraceptive, abortifacient and sterilization coverage, and said School Sister of St. Francis Diane Drufenbrock’s last publication possible as soon as fall of 2015. they remain “united in our resolve to resist this heavy burden name was misspelled in the headline for her obituary in • Approved adaptations for the Order of Celebrating and protect our religious freedom.” the Nov. 15 issue of The Criterion. Marriage and OK’d a new translation of the Order of The message was released one day after the conclusion of Also, the wrong date was published for testimony given Confirmation for use in U.S. dioceses. the public portion of the USCCB’s fall general assembly. The by Archbishop William E. Lori before a congressional • Heard a report on the USCCB’s efforts to promote and bishops met in executive session on Nov. 13. committee. He gave the testimony on Feb. 16, 2012, when defend traditional marriage, which stressed that recent laws A media release with the message explained that USCCB Archbishop Lori was the Bishop of Bridgeport, Conn. have placed the legal defense of marriage “at a critical point regulations regarding statements and publications define The error occurred in an article about a federal appeals in this country.” a “special message” as a statement, only issued at general court ruling upholding the challenge of a Catholic • Heard a report on the work of Catholic Relief Services meetings, that the general membership considers appropriate family from Madison to the U.S. Department of Health (CRS), which highlighted what the agency is doing for in view of the circumstances at the time. It was passed and Human Services Administration’s abortifacient, survivors of Super Typhoon Haiyan. The agency has unanimously. † sterilization and contraceptive mandate. †

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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46206 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 3 Year of two popes leaves indelible mark on Year of Faith VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The goal of the registered as Year of Faith pilgrims at a Year of Faith, which concludes on Nov. 24, visitors’ center just down the street from has been to educate Catholics St. Peter’s Basilica. But Father Francesco about basic Church teachings, Spinelli, an official at the Pontifical Council strengthen their faith and for Promoting New Evangelization, said the Haring CNS photo/Paul inspire them to share it with real number of participants in Year of Faith others. If it has succeeded, events at the Vatican is far higher “because as organizers say it has, the most come without registering at all.” credit ultimately lies less with its special Pope Francis will close the Year of Faith projects and events than with the historic with Mass on Nov. 24, the feast of papal transition Christ the King. The evening before, he will that occurred in preside over the Rite of Acceptance, a brief its course. ceremony in which adults who had been “The election of inquiring about the Catholic faith officially Pope Francis has become catechumens preparing for baptism. given new visibility The pope also plans to publish to the core teachings an apostolic exhortation on the new of Jesus Christ, evangelization (see related story on page Pope Benedict XVI arrives to celebrate a Mass opening the Year of Faith in St. Peter’s Square at the which ultimately 1), promoting what he calls a “culture of Vatican in this Oct. 11, 2012, file photo. Pope Benedict and his successor, Pope Francis, have both is what the Year encounter” between Christ and humanity used the Year of Faith to explain basic Church teachings and encourage people to practice their faith of Faith sought to and among believers themselves. The more seriously. achieve,” Msgr. Paul document and the ceremony with future Pope Francis Tighe, secretary Catholics will underline a key point of people who had been far from the Church give to this world of ours, which all too of the Pontifical Pope Francis’ teaching: Christ not only would hear an invitation to respond to the often no longer succeeds in raising its gaze Council for Social Communications, told knocks on hearts to get inside, he knocks on Lord,” and, from what bishops and pastors on high, no longer succeeds in raising its Catholic News Service. the doors of churches asking to be let out around the world are reporting, it seems to gaze to God,” Pope Francis said. Both Pope Benedict XVI, who opened into the world. have worked, he said. The two popes naturally brought the celebration in October 2012, and At his general audience on Oct. 16, the Both popes have insisted that being an distinctive styles to the Year of Faith, Pope Francis dedicated their Year of Faith pope asked the crowd: “Are we missionaries authentic Christian isn’t simply about one’s Archbishop Ruiz said, but it is “only a talks to explaining the creed, looking by our words, and especially by our private prayer life. It must be evident in the hypothesis” to think, for example, that at modern cultural challenges to faith, Christian life, by our witness? Or are we way a person interacts with others and with Pope Benedict would have used the recognizing faith as a gift, and urging Christians closed in our hearts and in our the world. pro-life celebration in June to denounce Catholics to proclaim God’s love and share churches: ‘sacristy Christians’?” A month before he stepped down, abortion, or the family life celebration in the Gospel. Archbishop Jose Octavio Ruiz Arenas, Pope Benedict said that believing in God October to denounce redefining marriage. Readers share their But a different secretary of the new evangelization council, “makes us harbingers of values that often “Pope Benedict’s magisterium wasn’t Year of Faith stories, pope means told Catholic News Service that Pope do not coincide with the fashion and concentrated just on that,” Archbishop a different Benedict proposed the Year of Faith “to give opinion of the moment. It requires us to Ruiz said, and the retired pope designed the page 7. personality and a strong push to the new evangelization,” adopt criteria and assume forms of conduct Year of Faith celebrations to be expressions a different style, and to help Catholics “recognize the joy that that are not part of the common mindset. of “joy and happiness,” not protests. even when teaching or preaching on the comes from the great gift of faith” and from “Christians must not be afraid to go Msgr. Tighe said, “One of the particular same themes. In addition, a new pope tends knowing that God loves them so much that ‘against the current’ in order to live their achievements of Pope Benedict was to draw more visitors to the Vatican because he sent his Son to save them. faith, resisting the temptation to conform,” showing—with strong philosophical and many Catholics are eager to meet their Pope Francis’ election during the he said. theological arguments—the legitimate new shepherd. Year of Faith can be seen as “providential,” Pope Francis, in a Year of Faith talk in claim of faith to having a place in the Eight months after Pope Francis’ the archbishop said. “The personality of April, said, “Being Christian is not just public square and in public debate. March 13 election, the number of visitors Pope Francis, his closeness, his use of about obeying orders, but means being “In a simpler, more directly pastoral to the Vatican continues to be higher than language that is simple and profound, in Christ, thinking like him, acting like way, Pope Francis is almost literally usual, which most observers attribute to his his desire to go out and meet people, has him, loving like him. It means letting him bringing faith to the public square, easy rapport with a crowd and his touching captivated people’s hearts. take possession of our life and change it, particularly in and through the media,” he focus on children and the sick. “The Holy Spirit knew what he was transform it and free it from the darkness of said. “We see especially in social media a By Nov. 13, more than 8 million doing,” Archbishop Ruiz said. “He wanted evil and sin. huge desire on the part of people to share Catholics had come to Rome and officially to be sure that in the Year of Faith many “This is a precious service that we must his words and deeds.” † 20 years later, religious rights law being tested in ways not foreseen WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Supreme Court on worried about its possible uses—to get around laws that that there is a compelling reason to disregard religious Nov. 26 will consider whether to accept one or more of four restrict abortion, that require equal employment for women beliefs in requiring employers to cover contraceptives, cases it is being asked to review that deal with faith-based or racial minorities, or that prohibit employing children, abortifacients and sterilization. objections to provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). for example. RFRA refers to restoring the compelling interest test for Part of what’s at stake is a couple of centuries’ worth of “Absolutely nobody thought that a private, for-profit when the government may “substantially burden a person’s history for the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment, company” would claim a protected religious right, exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule as well as the durability and reach of the Religious Freedom Laycock said. of general applicability.” Restoration Act. Three of the suits on the court’s Nov. 26 conference Windham said various exemptions from the health RFRA, as the 1993 law is known, was the result of calendar question whether for-profit companies may law—such as for plans that are grandfathered in—diminish concerted lobbying by an interfaith coalition allied to be required by the federal government to pay for the government’s claim that there is a “compelling interest” repair what was seen as damage to religious rights from a contraceptives, abortifacients and sterilization in employee to provide contraceptive insurance. 1990 Supreme Court ruling. health insurance in spite of the owners’ moral objections. “There are 109 million employees on grandfathered As noted by panelists at a Nov. 7 conference sponsored A fourth case involves the Christian-run Liberty University plans that are not required to comply” with the by the Freedom Forum, in the 20 years since RFRA passed, and its employees. contraceptives provisions, she said, though they still have the debate over religious liberty has shifted in ways its Laycock said he is not sure how he feels about whether to comply with other parts of the law, such as to cover pre- advocates never anticipated. the companies suing over what’s known as the Health and existing conditions. Indeed, some of those who worked side-by-side to pass Human Services’ (HHS) mandate should be found to have Laycock cautioned that “the whole debate on sexual RFRA now are on opposite sides of those lawsuits over religious rights. He said it helps the argument of businesses morality and religious rights is turning the country against the ACA. such as Hobby Lobby, the craft store chain in one of the religious liberty.” In short, they disagree about what’s more at risk: the suits, that they are family run, closely held companies with Just as the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s right of people of faith to be free from laws that clash with a history of operating under faith-led principles. opened the door to more common acceptance of abortion their religious beliefs, or, the right of people to be protected On the other hand, Laycock said, “the government has and divorce, a comparable cultural shift is now happening from laws that affect them being shaped by religious beliefs gone to remarkable lengths to protect religious institutions” over same-sex marriage, Laycock said. “One side views it they don’t hold. from having to comply with provisions of the health law as a grave evil, and the other side views it as a fundamental In a session on the Free Exercise clause at the conference that such institutions say are morally objectionable. civil right.” sponsored by the Freedom Forum, Doug Laycock, a The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, and others, He said both sides should be willing to negotiate over University of Virginia First Amendment professor, said in say the exemptions don’t go far enough in covering a range how civil laws and religious beliefs can accommodate some ways the state of religious rights has improved since of faith-based employers. each other. RFRA became law, but “in some ways it’s worse.” In another panel, Dan Mach, director of the “Polarization is a real problem,” he said. Unlike the RFRA was written following the Supreme Court’s 1990 Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief at the relatively collegial negotiations 20 years ago on how ruling in Employment Division v. Smith that said a Native American Civil Liberties Union, said the ACLU—one of RFRA should be written, Laycock said, “there’s a tendency American tribe in Oregon had no right to use the illegal the advocates for RFRA in 1993—backs the government in on both sides to resist” any negotiation until all legal drug peyote in a religious ceremony. the HHS cases because that’s also a matter of some people’s challenges have run their course. The court said judges only had to determine that a law religious freedom. “Liberty on our side but none for them is a very bad applying to all citizens reasonably advances a legitimate “The ACLU cares about many rights, including religious trend,” he observed. government policy. Previously, the standard for reviewing a freedom,” Mach said. “And while that’s a crucial right, it Kim Colby, senior counsel for the Christian Legal religious claim required finding a “compelling” interest in is not absolute. We believe it should not be used to infringe Society’s Center for Law and Religious Freedom, said restricting religious freedom. on the rights of others.” In the HHS lawsuits, he added, instead of the dug-in partisans that Laycock portrayed, RFRA was written to restore the higher “compelling the “others” are the employees of the companies that “we’re seeing a country that has turned its back on interest” standard. are suing. pluralism. It’s no longer enough to agree to disagree.” The law was subsequently ruled by the Supreme Court Lori Windham, senior counsel at the Becket Fund, Now, she said, everyone is supposed to accept the to apply only to the federal government, not states or which represents many of the organizations suing the sexual morality standards of a changing society, which she municipalities. federal government over the HHS mandate, said in the same attributed to “tone deafness” on the part of those who want Twenty years ago, those involved in crafting RFRA panel that the government is on shaky ground in arguing same-sex marriage legalized, for example. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013

Opinion

Reflection/John F. Fink Remembering the apologist C. S. Lewis C. S. Lewis died 50 years ago today, devil, Wormwood, on the art of temptation. on Nov. 22, 1963—the same day that Before its publication as a book, it was Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley died. serialized in The Guardian during 1941. Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor He was 64. During World War II, Lewis—who had Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Lewis has been been wounded in combat during World War called the most I—was asked to give four series of radio beloved Christian talks about Christianity over the BBC. These apologist and talks were published as separate books, but Editorial storyteller of the later combined into one book called Mere 20th century. It’s Christianity. remarkable that his After the war, Lewis published Miracles: numerous books, A Preliminary Study in 1947. By this time, he Church is facing a including those had come to the attention of Time magazine, on Christianity, his novels, science fiction where he was featured on the cover of the and children’s books, continue to be best- Sept. 8, 1947 issue. Inside was an article that profound change sellers. included him among “heretics” who actually I admit to having been influenced greatly believed in Christianity—T. S. Eliot, W. H. e has been called the closest thing by Lewis’s writings. When I down-sized Auden, Dorothy Sayers and Graham Greene. Hthe Church has to a vice pope. after I remarried and moved to a smaller Lewis then became prolific in his writings. He was personally selected by home 16 months ago, I donated 52 boxes He wrote his seven children’s books, The Pope Francis to be the chairman of of books and personal papers to Marian Chronicles of Narnia, from 1950 to 1955. the Council of Cardinals, the eight University’s library, but I couldn’t part with They, like everything else he wrote, were cardinals Pope Francis chose to help my books by and about Lewis. I return to invigorated by his faith. him govern the Church. them frequently. Lewis was a man of prayer and, in his So people listen when Clive Staples Lewis, who called himself devotional life, was guided by Thomas a CNS photo/Seth Gonzales, The Texas Catholic Texas The CNS photo/Seth Gonzales, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga Jack from an early age and was thus Kempis’ Imitation of Christ. He prayed of Tegucigalpa, Honduras, speaks. known to his friends, was a convert from morning and evening prayer from the Therefore, it’s not surprising that atheism to belief in God in 1929 and then Anglican Church’s Book of Common Prayer. more than 3,000 people turned out to to Christianity in 1931. He never moved One of his books was Reflections on the listen to his 5,500-word address at the on to Catholicism, probably because his Psalms. And uncommon in the Anglican University of Dallas Ministry Council Northern Ireland roots were too strong. Church, he regularly went to confession to an on Oct. 25. He spoke about the new Nevertheless, Blessed John Paul II was one Anglican priest. atmosphere we are experiencing of his admirers, and the Catholic publishing For people not familiar with Lewis’s within the Church. company Ignatius Press sells many of the work, I suggest you begin with his spiritual “Pope Francis has arrived,” the books by and about him. autobiography, Surprised by Joy, which ends cardinal said. “I do not find it naively Lewis’s “day job” was as a don with his conversion to Christianity in 1931, optimistic to say that we are in the (professor) of English literature at Oxford although the book wasn’t published until beginning of a new and dynamic University in England, where he tutored 1955. period in the history of Catholicism.” students. One of his many writings about Then I suggest Mere Christianity. In He spoke about the necessity of a English literature was English Literature in it, Lewis teaches the fundamental truths reform of the Church, saying, “There the Sixteenth Century Excluding Drama, a of Christianity, finding common ground is no possible reform of the Church volume of the Oxford History of English on which all Christians should agree. (In without a return to Jesus,” and, “To Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Literature, which Lewis nicknamed OHEL. my book Mere Catholicism, I tried to find discern what constitutes abuse or Maradiaga, the chairman of the group of He was also president of the Oxford common ground on which all Catholics infidelity within the Church we have cardinals advising Pope Francis on reforms Socratic Club from 1942 to 1954, should agree.) no other measure but the Gospel.” of the Roman Curia, among others areas of when Lewis left Oxford for Cambridge I like Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on The Church, the cardinal said, the Vatican, gives the keynote address at the University. It sponsored weekly debates Prayer, and admit that that’s where I got my is rising and is facing “the most seventh annual University of Dallas Ministry on the relevance of Christianity in a inspiration for my book Letters to St. Francis profound change in her history Conference on Oct. 25 in Irving, Texas. The modernist world. de Sales: Mostly on Prayer. And those who since primeval times.” It’s changing two-day conference on Oct. 25-26 was co- Lewis began publishing his religious are mourning over the death of a spouse can from a European Church, culturally sponsored by the University of Dallas and the writings and science fiction in the 1930s, benefit by reading A Grief Observed, which uniform, to a universal Church, Dioceses of Dallas and Fort Worth. but it wasn’t until the World War II years Lewis wrote after the death of his wife, Joy. culturally polycentric. that he became widely known in the United Of course, there’s also The Latin American cardinal said laity offers plenty of spaces, alternatives States. That began with the publication of The Screwtape Letters. that it’s symbolic that the last three and scenarios where he still does not his book The Screwtape Letters in 1942. popes have not been Italians. “The make his presence felt in an incisive, These are 31 imaginary letters from an (John F. Fink is editor emeritus of temptation of Europeanizing and decisive and courageous manner.” elderly devil named Screwtape to a younger The Criterion.) † Italianizing the Church has always Making equality among the members been one tied to pretenses to power. of the Church a reality, he said, we Fortunately, things have changed.” must go back to the life of Jesus, Letter to the Editor He gave notice that Pope Francis “who, despite being a layman, caused is going to follow the teachings of ‘a change in the priesthood’ (Heb 7:12). Story was biased piece into a country that no longer needs bodies to the Second Vatican Council, “which Jesus’ entire life was a priestly life, in settle vast swaths of wilderness or armies of emphasized truths such as these: the sense that he became a man, was on immigration reform, manual labor to drive the motors of industry The Church is not the hierarchy, but poor, fought for justice, criticized the reader says hurts poor American citizens. the people of God,” and, “Within vices of power, identified himself with The jobs of television pundits, politicians, the people, there is not a dual the most oppressed and defended them, I am writing out of exasperation that and well-educated Americans like the classification of Christians—laity and treated women without discrimination, once again The Criterion presented a biased assistant dean at Anderson University are clergy, essentially different.” clashed with the ones who had a piece on illegal immigration. not threatened by uncontrolled immigration. As for the first truth, he said, “The different image of God and of religion, While I doubt anyone would defend The poor and working class are not so hierarchy has no purpose in itself and was forced by his own faithfulness the current U.S. immigration system as fortunate. They will bear the burden of and for itself, but only in reference to be prosecuted and to die crucified coherent, effective or fair, to argue that amnesty, a burden The Criterion neglects to and subordination to the community. outside the city.” the only solution is the massive piece acknowledge. Catholic solidarity should not … The hierarchy is a ministry that Cardinal Rodriguez emphasized of legislation referenced in the Nov. 8 be so selective. requires lowering ourselves to the that the Church must follow Jesus. “If article (“Pathway to Citizenship”) is The irony of The Criterion placing this condition of servants.” the Church has a mission at all, it is to intellectually dishonest. Moreover, to article next to a story regarding abortion For the second truth, he said, manifest the deeds of Jesus. The Church imply that not supporting said legislation is coverage in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) “Neither the clergy are ‘the men of has never been her own goal. Salvation anti-immigrant, anti-poor or anti-Catholic is is rich. Many advocated for the ACA in the God,’ nor are the laity ‘the men of the comes from Jesus, not the Church. The reprehensible. name of the Catholic Church, only later to world.’ That is a false dichotomy. To Church is mediation.” I support immigration reform generally, realize the voluminous bill empowered the speak correctly, we should not speak In the past, he said, the Church gave and would have enjoyed an article government to force the Church to fund of clergy and laity, but instead of the impression of “having too much analyzing the bill. While I presume abortion services. Cure-all bills with lofty community and ministry.” certitude and too little doubt, freedom, Kevin Cullen, the author of the story, read names and even loftier goals rarely, if ever, Vatican II, he said, didn’t make dissension or dialogue.” No more, the entire 1,137-page document, I am meet expectations. the foundations of the Church into a he said. “No more excommunicating disappointed that the article fails to include There is a long Catholic tradition of polarizing outline of two extremes, the world, or trying to solve the any pertinent information thereto. In fact, robust intellectual inquiry. This pure clergy-laity. He said that a presbyter world’s problems by returning to the only mention of the bill’s contents emotional appeal, devoid of any rigorous is, above all, a minister of the Word authoritarianism, rigidity and moralism, came not from the proposed bill itself, but analysis, is an affront to that tradition. “who must communicate to all the life but instead keeping always the the interpretation of a 16-year-old boy. I The immigration system needs reform, that emanates from Christ, and for that message of Jesus as her sole source wonder why the author never mentioned the but the wrong reform could hurt many more reason devotes himself primarily to of inspiration.” millions of people waiting for admission to people than it helps. I believe in God, but the altar and to the celebration of the We believe that Cardinal Rodriguez’s the U.S. Is it not injustice that others broke from man I need facts. I expect better from sacraments. No one can replace him in address was a significant one.† the rules and now demand citizenship? The Criterion. this regard.” Any changes to the immigration system However, he said, “The field of the —John F. Fink will have far-reaching repercussions. This Jack Murtha isn’t 1900. The flood of uneducated workers Indianapolis The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 5 Second collections: ‘Our people are extremely generous’ By Natalie Hoefer

Frequently during the year, many Catholics make a leap of faith at Mass—they put money in a second collection with faith that it gets to where it needs to go and helps who it needs to help. Sean Gallagher File photo by The second collection may come in the form of envelopes for such causes as “Collection for Aid to the Church in Central and Eastern Europe,” “Peter’s Pence” or “Catholic Campaign for Human Development.” Or it may come from a foreign missionary speaking about his or her order’s works. It could also come as a result of a natural disaster, such as a hurricane, tornado, flood or Super Typhoon Haiyan, which earlier this month devastated the Philippines. Regardless of the nature of the second collection, those within the archdiocese who direct the funds laud the Catholics in central and southern Indiana for their generosity. This article will look at who initiates the various second collections, where the money goes, and how generosity to these collections benefits members of the archdiocese as well as the global community.

“[We] benefit from our generosity” “I want to be transparent about the collections, and let the people of the archdiocese see just how giving they are,” said Father Gerald Kirkhoff, director of the archdiocesan Mission Office, which collaborates with the National Collections Office of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). His office coordinates the missionaries who solicit at Masses, including the number of missionaries and when Members of the Indiana National Guard and other rescue workers load ice on March 3, 2012, into a refrigerated truck parked next to and where they will speak. St. Francis Xavier Church in Henryville, Ind., while workers attach a tarp to the church’s damaged roof that resulted from a tornado the “We get about 200 letters a year from missions previous day. Archdiocesan Catholics were generous in helping those affected by the storm, raising nearly $250,000 in a special collection. requesting to solicit here,” said Father Kirkhoff. “We only schedule them from May to about September or October. explained. ‘Anyone can send the Mission Office a Catholic Charities also oversees the second collection Unfortunately, we can’t help them all.” check and names of people who they want Mass offered for Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in the spring, as well But those who are given permission to speak are helped for. We spread those out [among retired priests and as the CRS Operation Rice Bowl campaign during the greatly by Catholics in the archdiocese, he said. priests in smaller parishes]. All of the money goes right Lenten season. Dana Danberry, office manager of the Mission Office, to the priest.” According to Chamblee, 53 parishes participated keeps track of the donations among other responsibilities. in the 2012 Operation Rice Bowl campaign, raising “Over the last four years, [Catholics in central and Generosity to Catholic Charities collections nearly $32,700. The archdiocese retains 25 percent southern Indiana] contributed an average of over $423,000 Two efforts of the National Collections Office of that amount to use toward local hunger initiatives, per year to the foreign missions who solicited here,” are overseen by Catholic Charities rather than the such as soup kitchens and other efforts to feed the she said. Mission Office: the Catholic Campaign for Human poor in the archdiocese. As for the second collection envelopes that many Development (CCHD) and Operation Rice Bowl. “Whether it’s the CCHD or CRS, the members of the Catholics receive with the packet of envelopes from CCHD was established by the U.S. bishops in 1969 archdiocese show extreme generosity,” said David Siler, their parish, Father Kirkhoff explained that those are to address the root causes of poverty in America archdiocesan executive director of Catholic Charities. coordinated by the USCCB National Collections Office. through the promotion and support of community-led, (See sidebar below.) Each parish determines which of self-help organizations. Generosity in times of crisis those collection envelopes to include and participate in. Of the money raised by this national collection, Collecting for those in need is not always something But the archdiocese benefits from those as well, said 50 percent stays in the archdiocese, said Theresa that can be planned. In times of natural disasters, the Father Kirkhoff, who is also pastor of Good Shepherd Chamblee, archdiocesan director for CCHD. USCCB or local bishops can call for second collections to Parish in Indianapolis. “In 2012, the members of the archdiocese contributed assist those affected in times of natural crises, as with the He cited the national collection for Black and almost $108,250, of which we got to keep half, recent typhoon that struck the Philippines. Indian Missions as an example. which is used for local grants. Danberry reported that, in second collections for “We have parishes with a high “With that money, we have victims of the earthquake in percentage of blacks that get some funded such local efforts as the Haiti in 2010, members of the of those funds. [Archdiocesan Indianapolis Congregation Action archdiocese contributed $525,000. Catholics] benefit personally from Network (IndyCAN), Hearts and They gave nearly $132,600 for our own generosity.” Hands of Indiana and the Hispanic survivors of the tsunami in Japan in Another example is the annual Ministry of the New Albany 2011, and more than $154,000 for December collection for the Deanery.” those affected by the tornadoes in Retirement Fund for Religious. Chamblee addressed the Oklahoma in 2013. “That [collection] benefits concerns in recent years of Sometimes disaster strikes those religious priests, sisters allegations that CCHD money was closer to home. and brothers in our archdiocese being granted at the national level According to Danberry, who belong to an order,” to organizations that do not adhere when floods inundated many Dana Danberry Father Kirkhoff noted. “Money Theresa Chamblee to Catholic moral teaching. David Siler parts of the archdiocese in collected in our archdiocese goes to “The controversy in the last 2008, nearly $150,000 was orders located here, such as the Sisters of Providence and few years has overshadowed the tremendous work of raised through second collections. the Sisters of St. Francis. the CCHD,” she said. “But I also understand why the And when deadly tornadoes ravaged southern Indiana “Last year, the people of the archdiocese contributed allegations would be a cause for concern. on March 2, 2012, the archdiocese raised nearly $250,000 nearly $209,000 [to that collection], and that benefits all “I would like to reassure those with concerns that all in a special collection. of us by helping the religious orders who help us,” he said. grantees must sign a contract stating that they will adhere While that money stayed in the archdiocese, Siler As for archdiocesan priests, the Mission Office helps to all teachings of the Church,” she said. “There is also explained, “Whatever money is raised for [national or cares for them, too. so much follow up that is done to make sure the grantees global] disasters, [the archdiocesan Catholic Charities “We have over 40 retired archdiocesan priests who say adhere to that contract. (See sidebar below.) office] just serves as a gathering point. All of that money, Mass on a daily basis if they’re able,” Father Kirkhoff “Locally, I closely monitor the grantees through 100 percent, goes on to the Catholic Charities coordinating required reporting [which they submit], and also by efforts for the disaster.” monitoring their activities and webpages. I do random site Siler and Father Kirkhoff agree—no matter the nature ‘Whether it’s to help the visits and attend their events.” of the second collection, the members of the archdiocese It was through a random site visit of a national give liberally. work of the Missions Office grant recipient two years ago that Chamblee found the “Whether it’s to help the work of the Mission Office or to help out in a disaster, organization to be in violation of their grant agreement to or to help out in a disaster,” said Father Kirkhoff, “our our people are extremely adhere to Catholic principles. people are extremely generous. I feel like they should generous.’ “Their grant was immediately pulled,” she said. know that.” †

—Father Gerald Kirkhoff, director of the Second collection resources available from USCCB, CCHD archdiocesan Mission To learn about the national collections and where those For information regarding concerns about the Office, which collaborates dollars go, log on to the U.S. Conference of Catholic national organizations that receive money from with the National Bishops’ (USCCB) website at www.usccb.org/about/ CCHD, log on to http://origin.usccb.org/about/ Collections Office of national-collections. catholic-campaign-for-human-development/ For information on the national Catholic Campaign for Who-We-Are/truth-about-cchd.cfm. the U.S. Conference of Human Development (CCHD), log on to www.usccb.org/ For information on the local CCHD, log on to Catholic Bishops about/catholic-campaign-for-human-development. www.archindy.org/cchd. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013

Events Calendar November 22-23 [email protected]. [email protected]. Blessed Sacrament, rosary, Information: 317-356-6377 or December 13-14 St. Augustine Home, confession, meditation and [email protected]. St. John the Evangelist Benedict Inn Retreat and December 4 petitions, 8 a.m. Information: 2345 W. 86th St., Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Parish, 126 W. Georgia St., Conference Center, 1402 765-647-5462. St. Michael Parish, Indianapolis. Little Sisters Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Christmas Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 145 St. Michael Blvd., of the Poor, rummage sale, Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, December 7-8 City Sidewalks, Christkindl 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Information: Shop INNspired Gift Brookville. “The Signs Shop, pre-Black Friday sale Catholic, educational, St. Lawrence Parish, Village, Fri. 5-9 p.m., littlesistersofthepoor from God-Miracles and spectacular, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. charitable and social singles, 4650 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Sat. noon-9 p.m. Information: indianapolis.org. Their Meaning,” 7-9 p.m. Information: 317-788-7581. 50 and over, single, separated, 64th Anniversary weekend, 317-765-561-2924 or Information: 765-647-5462. November 23 widowed or divorced. New Sat. 5 p.m., Mass, Sun. [email protected]. November 28 members welcome. 6:30 p.m. 8 a.m., 10 a.m., noon, English St. John the Evangelist December 9 Our Lady of Lourdes Information: 317-370-1189. Masses, 6 p.m. Spanish Mass. Church, 126 W. Georgia St., Our Lady of Fatima Retreat December 15 School, 30 S. Downey Ave., Information: 317-546-4065. St. Michael Parish, Indianapolis. Rosary Indianapolis. Irvington December 7 House, 5353 E. 56th St., 145 St. Michael Blvd., procession, following Community Thanksgiving St. Michael Church, December 8 Indianapolis. Advent 12:10 p.m. Mass, pray and dinner, delivered meals 145 St. Michael Blvd., Scecina Memorial High School, dinner and concert, Brookville. “The Signs process through the streets available, noon-2 p.m., Brookville. First Saturday 5000 Nowland Ave., 6-9 p.m., $40 per person. from God-Miracles and of downtown Indianapolis. volunteers needed. Devotional Prayer Group, Indianapolis. Christmas music Information: 317-545-7681 or Their Meaning,” 7-9 p.m. Information: faithful. Information: 317-356-7291 or Mass, exposition of the concert, 3 p.m., no charge. [email protected]. Information: 765-647-5462. †

Retreats and Programs Creativity retreat, Lance Brunner, Ph.D., Expanded opportunities for presenter. Information: 812-933-6437 or November 23 [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. reconciliation at SS. Peter and Vulnerability: Opening to the Sacred, December 7 Franciscan Sr. Barbara Leonhard, presenter, Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Paul Cathedral during Advent 9-11:30 a.m., $20 per person, $30 for Center, 1402 Southern Ave., CEU credit. Information: 812-933-6437 or Beech Grove. Advent Thomas Merton There will be expanded opportunities if needed, will be available after [email protected]. Retreat, Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, for the sacrament of reconciliation the liturgy. at SS. Peter and Cathedral, On the Sunday mornings of Advent, November 25 presenter, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Mass and Morning Prayer, 9 a.m., $55 per person 1347 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis, on confessions will be he heard from Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Saturdays and Sundays during Advent. 10-10:30 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at 56th St., Indianapolis. Silent self-guided includes lunch. Information: 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. Confessions will be heard in the 10:30 a.m., and additional confessions, day of reflection, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., $31 per Blessed Sacrament Chapel from if needed, will be heard after Mass. person. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. December 12 4:30-5 p.m. each Saturday, followed Daily Mass is celebrated at 8 a.m., Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference by the weekly anticipation Mass at and confessions are heard from noon to November 29-December 1 Center, 1402 Southern Ave., 5 p.m. Additional time for confession, 1 p.m. each Friday. † Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, Beech Grove. Visio Divina: Birth of St. Meinrad. “O” Antiphons Retreat, Christ, Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, Benedictine Fr. Columba Kelly, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., $30 per person presenter. Information: 812-357-6585 or includes dinner and reflection guide [email protected]. book. Information: 317-788-7581 or Archbishop Tobin to dedicate, bless new December 2 [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Catholic Radio Indy studio on Dec. 17 Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. December 13 Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin will lead northwest side of Indianapolis for Advent Faith Building Institutions Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. a dedication ceremony and blessing of nearly 10 years. As the lease ended, the (FBI), “Preparing for Christmas Friday Night Film Series, “Les Miserables,” the new Catholic Radio Indy offices and decision was made to purchase space in the Footsteps of St. Francis and 6:30-9 p.m., free-will offering. Information: studio at 8383 Craig St., Suite 280, in elsewhere in the city. Father Chris Wadelton, Pope Francis,” 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. Indianapolis, at 2:30 p.m. on Dec. 17. All are welcome to attend the presenter, 5:15 p.m., $30 per person includes dinner. Information: 317-788-7581 or December 14 The radio station, which broadcasts ceremony. [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, in Indianapolis on 89.1 FM and in For more information, contact 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Praying Noblesville in the Diocese of Lafayette the station office at 317-870-8400, December 6-8 with Icons, Rev. Karen E. Scherer, presenter, on 90.1 FM, leased space on the ext. 21. † Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. From 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $45 per person. Information: Darkness to Light: A weekend retreat 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. for those who grieve,” Fr. Jim Farrell, Mary Weber and Marilyn Hess, presenters, December 15 $159 per person. Information: 317-545-7681 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. or [email protected]. Coffee Talk: Called to Compassion, Submitted photo Franciscan Sr. Clare Teixiera, presenter, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 10:45 a.m.-noon. Information: 812-933-6437 Meditation, Contemplation and or [email protected]. †

Archbishop Lori to discuss HHS mandate on Nov. 29 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore will discuss “Concerns Over the Erosion of Religious Freedom in America” at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 1752 Scheller Lane in New Albany, at 7 p.m. on Nov. 29. Archbishop Lori is chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty. His talk will address the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) mandate requiring employers to offer contraception, abortifacients and sterilization to employees, which is against Church teaching. A native of New Albany, Archbishop Lori attended Our Lady of Perpetual Help School and Parish in his youth. There is no cost for the talk, and refreshments will be available in the parish basement afterward. Archbishop For more information, call the parish office at 812-944-1184, William E. Lori ext. 5. †

African Catholic Ministry to celebrate 10th anniversary with Mass, reception on Dec. 1 Fighting hunger

The archdiocesan African The Mass will be followed by Jeannette Wrin, left, chair of the Hunger Bust Walk/Run event, hands a check in the amount of Catholic Ministry will celebrate a reception with refreshments in $3,300 to Providence Sister Joseph Fillenworth, director of the West Terre Haute Providence its 10th anniversary with a Mass the Father Bernard Strange Family Food Pantry. Also pictured is Providence Sister Joan Slobig, parish life coordinator for and reception at St. Rita Church, Life Center. St. Mary-of-the-Woods Parish. The presentation took place at St. Mary-of-the-Woods Church in 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Ave. in There is no charge to attend the St. Mary-of-the-Woods on Oct. 12. The second annual Hunger Bust Walk/Run event, sponsored Indianapolis, from 3-6 p.m. on Dec. 1. celebration. However, free-will by St. Mary-of-the-Woods Parish to raise money for the West Terre Haute Providence Food The celebration will begin with offerings are appreciated. Pantry, was held on the campus of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and the grounds of the an African Mass, featuring African For more information or to become Sisters of Providence motherhouse on Oct. 6. The West Terre Haute Providence Food Pantry drummers, an African choir and the a member of the ministry, contact is an outreach of the Sisters of Providence that has served the needs of the West Terre Haute Global Children, African Dancers group. Sally Stovall at 317-269-1276. † community since 1994. The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 7 Parishioners say Year of Faith has helped them grow in faith, hope and love (Editor’s note: When Pope Benedict XVI as I continue on my faith journey.” announced a special Year of Faith from Oct. 11, 2012, to Nov. 24, 2013, he viewed ‘Fired up for going deeper’ it as an opportunity for Catholics to commit Their commitment to God and their Submitted photo to a deeper relationship with Christ. As the faith has always been a constant for the Year of Faith nears its end, The Criterion Sisters of St. Benedict at Our Lady of is sharing stories of Catholics from the Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. Still, archdiocese whose faith has grown in during this Year of Faith, some sisters the past year—and the people who have have noticed inspired them.) an even greater energy around the By John Shaughnessy monastery—thanks to the inspiration of The three words touched Becky Pinto’s Pope Francis. heart and deepened her faith. “I am so grateful Pinto never expected to hear those words to God for sending as she approached the us Pope Francis at mother and daughter after this time of need in Sunday Mass on Sept. 22 our world,” notes at St. Bartholomew Church Sr. Kathleen Benedictine Sister in Columbus. Yeadon, O.S.B. Harriet Woehler. It was the first time “I appreciate his back in their parish church ‘common folk’ way of relating to us. He for Barbara and Katie seems so human, just like us. He seems so Norb Schott said his faith has grown as he has watched his wife, Marianne, deal with a deadly Wesolowski following the tragic Aug. 11 accessible, just like Jesus.” respiratory disease. auto accident that devastated their family. Benedictine Sister Kathleen Yeadon On that August day, the Wesolowski adds, “He’s given us the momentum to suffering and discomfort,” Schott notes. of the Cross” on Good Friday at St. Mary family had traveled north toward live the life we’ve already committed to. “Each day is a struggle to breathe for her, Parish in North Vernon. Ball State University in Muncie where People are living a spirituality that is more and the doctors have given her months to It was her way of sharing her faith with Katie was preparing to start the school visible. It’s a huge transformation for us.” live. I trust God to be more generous. young people, to have them experience the year. On the return trip, Katie’s mother, That transformation was apparent “She is patient with me, her primary poignancy of the Passion of Christ. Barbara, her father, Joseph, and her sister, in the two times that Pope Francis has caregiver, and the daily work just to In return, the 50 youths who Michelle, were in an accident that left asked Catholics to pray and take part in breathe, eat and bathe is hard to watch. participated in the production usually did Joseph and Michelle dead and Barbara eucharistic adoration—on the feast of She often says, ‘Do not cry for me. I know such a powerful job that they often moved seriously injured. Corpus Christi in June and on the day of now how difficult it must have been for Doxsee to tears. “It was such a shock wave that went fasting and prayer in September regarding Jesus to breathe from the cross.’ Now, one of those youths during through the community and the youth the threat of increased warfare in Syria. “My faith in Jesus has grown by Doxsee’s tenure is having an impact on her ministry community,” says Pinto, also a “We were all together,” recalls watching my dear friend join her faith and the faith of others. member of St. Bartholomew Parish. Sister Kathleen. “The unity and power you sufferings to Jesus on the cross.” “Lance Treadway and his wife, Erin, That feeling of devastation is one that feel being together in eucharistic adoration While Marian inspires her husband, had been doing a lot of Bible study with Pinto has known. is so amazing. And it filters down into she also encourages him to take time various groups,” Doxsee says. “Lance “I lost my mother in 2011,” she says. other things in the monastery. Everyone for the online religion courses that he went to our pastor, “She knew me better than anyone. When I passes out his sermons, and then we talk takes through the Satellite Theological Father [Jonathan] lost her, it was such a huge hole in my life.” about them at the dinner table. You want Education Program of the University of Meyer and said So Pinto was among the many everyone to be excited about their faith, Notre Dame. he wanted to do parishioners who reached out to Barbara and we are. It’s just that rejuvenation. “She knows I love to study,” says something deeper. and Katie following the Sept. 22 Mass. You’re fired up for going deeper.” Schott, a member of St. Paul the Apostle He was turned “Barbara was wheelchair-bound, with Parish in Greencastle. “She tells me, on by his faith, Katie beside her,” Pinto recalls. “When I ‘Love never fails’ ‘It is good for you. Get your mind off and he wanted went up to greet and hug the two of them, As his wife’s primary caregiver, me.’ So early in the morning, before the to turn on other Barbara looked up at me and said, ‘Isn’t Norb Schott knows he’s supposed to be the daily schedule begins, I read the Mass people’s faith.” God wonderful?’ ” strong one at this point in their marriage. readings, pray and meditate, and go In early Pinto was stunned—and moved. Yet Schott insists that his faith to the computer.” 2013, Treadway “Even after suffering this unthinkable is strengthened as he watches his His courses have led him to Bible Lance Treadway started a “Bible family tragedy, which could have leveled wife, Marian, deal with a deadly verses that guide him as he cares for Timeline” study the less faithful, Barbara was called to respiratory disease. Marian. Several verses from Chapter 13 program, a 32-week course that drew articulate for me the depth of her love of “My wife, 66 years young, has shown of St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians 31 people, including Doxsee. God. Her deep faith continues to inform me such beauty and strength during her have especially resonated with him. “You could really see the fire he had to “Love never fails,” he quotes. “Faith, live his faith,” she says. “That inspired the hope and love remain, but the greatest of rest of us. After the first of the year, some these is love.” of us are going to facilitate more groups ‘I am so grateful to God for sending us He pauses and adds, “We’ve been for people.” Pope Francis at this time of need in our together since 1979. Here in the last year For Doxsee, it shows the influence that world. I appreciate his “common folk” or two, I’ve had to face the fact I won’t different generations can have on each have her. I’ve just come to accept that my other—sharing the faith at some points and way of relating to us. He seems so human, faith tells me there’s life after death. It’s receiving that blessing at other times. just like us. He seems so accessible, become very real for me. We’re taking “I’m in my 60s. He’s a young man near each day as we can.” 40,” she says. “He makes me want to study just like Jesus.’ more, learn more and pray more. And then The influence of different generations go out and help other people to be more —Sister Harriet Woehler, O.S.B. For 22 years, Carolyn Doxsee served as open to our faith. His faith, love of God, an adviser for the youths who took part in vision and drive are making a difference. a dramatic presentation of the “Living Way It’s inspiring.” †

Online Lay Ministry Formation

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes:

• Courses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church from CDU • All 12 classes for a Certificate in Lay Ministry available online • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners • Employees also receive reimbursement upon course completion

For more information, please log on to www.archindy.org/layministry

Society of St. Vincent de Paul To Donate: svdpindy.org 3001 E. 30th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46218 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Boehner remarks raise questions on if, when House will act on reform WASHINGTON (CNS)—Depending the Senate bill to the floor of the House great majority of what we—the American on how one interprets House Speaker unless he had support from a majority of people—want.” John Boehner’s recent comments on the Republican caucus. He said that unlike senators, who are the prospects for immigration reform Donohue said the House can instead elected on a statewide basis, some House legislation to be passed in the House, move to the floor five separate bills that members have a tough sell to persuade it might be out of the question, or the deal with aspects of immigration reform, the people of their congressional districts measure might just take a different form which have already moved through that supporting immigration reform is a CNS photo/Jonathan Ernst, Reuters than the bill already passed by the Senate. relevant committees. Together the five wise move. Boehner said on Nov. 13 that he would bills “cover the waterfront” of the key “We’ve got to give them a little not go to conference with the Senate to pieces of comprehensive immigration breathing room,” Donohue said. discuss how to get the House to accept reform, he said. Others at the press conference the comprehensive reform bill senators The Senate bill, which passed in a included Bishop John C. Wester approved in June. 68-32 vote, includes: billions of dollars of Salt Lake City, chairman of the Some advocates for comprehensive of new spending on border security and U.S. bishops’ communications committee. reform were quick to decry his comment addresses a wide range of problems in “All of us in the country stand at a as a death knell for any legislation that the current systems, including: family critical moment in history,” Bishop Wester House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, gestures might repair what is widely acknowledged immigration; various types of worker said. “The nation’s leaders must decide during a news conference in late October on to be a broken immigration system. Some visas; and legal status for people who if the country moves forward with Capitol Hill in Washington. Boehner said on opponents of comprehensive reform were were brought to the U.S. as children. It immigration reform or continues to allow Nov. 13 that he would not go to conference equally quick to applaud the interpretation includes a 13-year path to citizenship an immoral situation to prevail. with the Senate to discuss getting the House that reform attempts are dead. for many of the estimated 11 million “Immigration reform is about human to accept a comprehensive immigration reform But at a news conference the next day, immigrants who lack permission to be in beings, and it’s about their basic rights: bill the Senate approved in June, but he has Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO the country. They would be required to life and dignity,” he said. “Our country indicated the House could take up its own of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and speak English, pay fines and any taxes values these human rights enshrined version of a reform bill. other business, faith and law enforcement owed and meet other benchmarks. in our Constitution, and it’s really leaders insisted that all hope is not lost. Additional legislation might be unacceptable that we make an exception senior staff met with several religious Instead, Donohue argued, Boehner required to make sure the piecemeal when it comes to immigrants. Families leaders representing some of the most was careful to also say that “it’s time approach addresses all the elements are being separated through deportations, activist faith communities working for to get immigration reform done,” just, included in the Senate’s comprehensive migrant workers are exploited and comprehensive reform. apparently, not with the Senate bill. bill, but Donohue said “we’re going to victimized by unscrupulous employers, They included Seattle Auxiliary Boehner has long said he would not bring find a way to produce a stew that gets the and human beings are dying in our desert. Bishop Eusebio Elizondo, chairman of the This suffering must end. It is always time bishops’ migration committee, and leaders to do the right thing.” of Presbyterian, Baptist, evangelical and Bishop Wester recalled Pope Francis’ nondenominational churches. ‘Immigration reform is about human beings, and pastoral visit to the Italian island The White House described the private it’s about their basic rights: life and dignity. Our of Lampedusa, where boatloads of meeting as a chance to discuss the shared country values these human rights enshrined immigrants pass in their voyage from commitment of the administration and the in our Constitution, and it’s really unacceptable North Africa to Europe. On that trip this faith groups to persist in their efforts. that we make an exception when it comes to summer, the pope decried the throwaway Meanwhile, on the National Mall immigrants.’ culture that devalues human beings. participants in a “Fast for Freedom” That culture exists in the United States continued their hunger strike to try to draw as well, he said. “We can no longer let attention to the immigration reform battle. —Bishop John C. Wester of Salt Lake City, partisan politics keep us from doing our Bishop Wester was among political chairman of the U.S. bishops’ communications duty to our fellow human beings.” and religious leaders who stopped by the committee A day earlier, President Barack Obama, site to encourage participants and to pray Vice President Joe Biden and their with them. †

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A banner made and given to the archdiocese in 2009 by Peruvian relatives of Jamie Torpoco, member of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield, is displayed during the St. Martin de Porres feast day Mass on Nov. 3.

Franciscan Brother Moises Gutierrez, at right, welcomes the congregation as seminarian Douglas Hunter, left, and Fathers Kenneth Taylor, Steven Schwab and Todd Goodson listen at St. Monica Church in Indianapolis on Nov. 3. Brother Moises is the director of the archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry, which sponsored the St. Martin de Porres feast day Mass. St. Martin de Porres: ‘A saint for everyone’

By Natalie Hoefer humility. When you surrender to God, when you are humble, Participants indulge in food from around the world you allow divine providence to provide the means to after the feast day Mass on Nov. 3 at St. Monica He was a simple man of prayer who swept floors and become holy.” Church in Indianapolis. performed other menial tasks in a Dominican friary. After decades of serving with the Dominicans in various There are stories of his ability to be in two places at once, capacities, St. Martin de Porres died on Nov. 3, 1639. levitating and exuding light while praying, having the ability to In an interview after his presentation, Father Cassian walk through locked doors, and having powers as a healer. admitted that, being a Dominican like St. Martin de Porres, the He went on to become the patron saint of hairdressers, saint is one of his favorites. race relations, innkeepers, African-Americans, public schools, “I admire his zeal to make Christ known,” he said. “He interracial harmony, Peru, people of mixed race, social justice didn’t just help others—he saw Christ in others and loved them. and more. It comes through his humility and peace, prayer and devotion This gifted man is St. Martin de Porres, whose feast day was to Mary. He’s just remarkable.” celebrated on Nov. 3 with a special Mass and presentation at Because of St. Martin de Porres’ designation as patron St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis. saint of intercultural harmony and relations, the archdiocesan “With his multicultural background, he really is a saint for Office of Multicultural Ministry sponsors a Mass each year to everyone,” said Dominican Father Cassian Sama, associate honor his feast day, changing the location of the Mass from pastor of St. Paul Catholic Center in year to year. Bloomington diuring a presentation The Mass this year at St. Monica before Mass. Church was concelebrated by Father Cassian started with a sketch of ‘St. Martin de Porres is the Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of the saint’s life. Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis; St. Martin de Porres was born in patron saint of intercultural Father Steven Schwab, pastor Lima, Peru, in 1579 to a Spanish father relations and intercultural of St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in and a freed black slave. harmony … We celebrated Indianapolis; and Father Todd Goodson, “His father rejected St. Martin for his the diversity of our Catholic pastor of St. Monica Parish. dark skin,” said Father Cassian. “Because Father Dustin Boehm, associate pastor Father Dustin Boehm offers a homily in English of that, his childhood was one of poverty. community in the archdiocese of St. Monica Parish, served as the and Spanish on Nov. 3 amidst Hispanic and He experienced everything the poor went as one Church, one faith, one principal celebrant. African decorations, including a statue of through—hunger, starvation, rejection, body, one Spirit.’ Franciscan Brother Moises Gutierrez, St. Martin de Porres, at St. Monica Church in abandonment. director of the Office of Multicultural Indianapolis. Father Boehm is associate pastor of “Most who grow in poverty are Ministry, reflected on the event. St. Monica Parish. bitter. But God had graced [St. Martin —Franciscan Brother “The St. Martin de Porres celebration de Porres] at an early age. He allowed Moises Gutierrez, is one of my favorite events the Christ’s love to change his heart. His director of the Office of Office of Multicultural Ministry poor background enabled him to relate to organizes,” he said. “In fact, I’m very others. Even as a child, he would give his Multicultural Ministry proud that the archdiocese organizes this scarce resources to beggars whom he saw event every year. as less fortunate than himself. “St. Martin de Porres is the patron “He reflected Christ the humble saint of intercultural relations and servant, Christ who came to serve and not to be served. That is intercultural harmony, and that was what we saw happening what made St. Martin de Porres unique. His whole life was an at this year’s celebration. We celebrated the diversity of our attitude of humility.” Catholic community in the archdiocese as one Church, one A multicultural choir sings a hymn with verses in He was apprenticed to a barber at age 12. faith, one body, one Spirit. English and Spanish at the St. Martin de Porres “At that time, a barber meant not just cutting hair,” “It was enlightening how we were able to incorporate feast day Mass on Nov. 3 at St. Monica Church in Father Cassian explained. “It also meant medicine, doctoring, our diversity in the liturgy and in the gathering afterward,” Indianapolis. treating wounds and fractures, prescribing medicine, like a he added. doctor and pharmacist. To honor the multicultural appeal of St. Martin de Porres, “He became so good that people left his master and went to the readings, songs and homily were offered in English and [St. Martin de Porres] instead. He became very successful and Spanish, and the general intercessions were read in four made a lot of money. But he gave it all to the poor.” languages. A pitch-in meal following the Mass featured foods In his mid-teens, St. Martin de Porres felt the call to from around the world. religious life with the Dominicans, but did not deem himself “The joy present there was contagious,” said Brother worthy of becoming a priest or brother. Moises. “But, to quote Pope Francis, ‘The true joy that He joined the Dominicans as a third order lay person, one experiences within the community … is not something performing menial tasks, sweeping and cleaning. superficial. It does not stem from things or from favorable “It wasn’t long before [the Dominicans] realized the person circumstances, but from a deep harmony between persons.’ ” Dominican Father Cassian Sama discusses they had in their midst,” said Father Cassian, and St. Martin St. Martin de Porres’ devotion to the rosary in a was asked by the Dominicans to join the order. (For more photos of the St. Martin de Porres celebration, see talk about the saint preceding a special St. Martin “St. Martin de Porres surrendered to God with complete the online story at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † de Porres feast day Mass on Nov. 3. Page 10 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 11

Left top, Robert F. Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, first lady What was in the news on Nov. 29, 1963? National and local coverage Jacqueline Kennedy and CNS photo/Bob Roller John F. Kennedy Jr. are seen leaving the U.S. Capitol on of the shocking assassination of President John F. Kennedy Nov. 24, 1963. The following day a funeral Mass was By Brandon A. Evans assassination of President Kennedy,’ said [Cardinal Francis F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum Kennedy F. celebrated for U.S. President Spellman,] the Archbishop of New York. ‘His death is a tremendous John F. Kennedy at the This week, we are forgoing our traditional way of loss to the world. My sympathy goes to his wife, to his father and Cathedral of St. Matthew the sharing this article. mother, and to his family. It is a family of heroes.’ Cardinal James CNS photo/Abbie Rowe, National Parks Service, courtesy National Parks John Rowe, CNS photo/Abbie Apostle in Washington. Instead of presenting the Nov. 22, 1963 edition of Francis McIntyre of Los Angeles and Cardinal Joseph Ritter of The Criterion—which contained its normal coverage of the St. Louis received word at the North American College in Rome. Left bottom, pictured is a Second Vatican Council and other events of the day—we are ‘We were having dinner together when we received the terrible prayer card from President presenting the issue from the following week, which covered news,’ the two Cardinals said in a joint statement. ‘It grieved our John F. Kennedy’s funeral a life-changing event that occurred 50 years ago this week: the hearts and shocked us deeply. We immediately called together Mass at St. Matthew’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy. the students and offered prayers together for the repose of the Cathedral in Washington on As such, we will not publish a “50 Years Ago” column next President’s soul and the comfort of his wife and children.’ ” Nov. 25, 1963. week. Those who want to see the headlines from the Nov. 22 issue • Special rites are held in Archdiocese from “50 Years Ago” may do so by logging on to our local news “Special requiem Masses were offered in all deaneries of CNS photo/courtesy Catholic Standard archives at www.CriterionOnline.com. the Archdiocese for the repose of the soul of President John Here are some of the items found in the Nov. 29, 1963, issue of F. Kennedy. Parishes held memorial services morning, noon and The Criterion: night as thousands of Catholics paid tribute to the assassinated • A world is in mourning: Cardinal officiates at President. The Apostolic Delegation in Washington granted President’s rites special permission for the celebration of Requiem Mass on “WASHINGTON—Requiem Mass for John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Sunday evening in parish churches. In nearly all churches the 35th President of the United States and the first Catholic to occupy National Anthem was played and sung by the congregations at the the Presidency, was offered while the nation and world mourned. close of services.” Hundreds of dignitaries of Church and State filled St. Matthew’s • President Johnson asks God’s help Cathedral here to pray for and honor the 46-year-old Chief • Editorial: Seeds of hate Executive who was slain by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, Tex. “ ‘The crime of assassination was so abhorrent to the Twenty-seven chiefs of state or heads of government were among genius of Anglo-Saxon civilization, so foreign to the spirit and the 1,200 persons at the low Mass. Other delegates brought practice of our republican institutions, that little danger was A floor marker where the casket of President John F. Kennedy the number of countries represented to 53. And throughout the apprehended.’ Thus commented a friend of Abraham Lincoln rested during his funeral Mass is seen on Oct. 24 at the Cathedral country, Americans joined in prayer for Mr. Kennedy in response shortly after John Wilkes Booth had fired the fatal shot in of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington. It reads: “Here rested the to President Lyndon B. Johnson’s proclamation of a ‘nation day Washington’s Ford Theatre that has echoed through the ages. It remains of President Kennedy at the Requiem Mass, Nov. 25, 1963, of mourning.’ ” was a comment that bespoke the skeptical mood of 1865. Against before their removal to Arlington where they lie in expectation of a • Pope Paul cables his condolences the often dark history of the Presidency, and of our very own days, heavenly resurrection.” “ ‘We are deeply grieved by this execrable crime, for the this was probably the complacent feeling of all of us in the early grief which has struck the great and civilized country and for the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963. Now and for a long time, the echo of suffering which Mrs. Kennedy, her children and her relations suffer. muffled drums and the staccato hoofbeats of a riderless horse will that if I told her about President Kennedy, she would wake up We deplore this event with our whole heart. We express the hope remind us of how wrong we were.” LOCAL and console me. that the death of this great statesman will not bring damage to the • Audience of priests, nuns give Billy Graham ovation continued from page 1 “We kids went to my Aunt Martha’s home that night, where we American people, but will strengthen its moral and civil sense and • Asks all-out effort for racial justice prayed for the Kennedys as well as for our family. sentiments of nobility and concord. We pray God that the sacrifice • Recalls JFK’s surprise visit to CYO convention down next to our desks, and we all prayed the rosary together. I “My mother had brain surgery the next day, and gave birth of John Kennedy may help the cause promoted and defended by him • Administered Last Rites to stricken President remember afterward, the school was so quiet. Everyone was in shock to my little brother, Joe, on Nov. 24, at about the time that of the liberty of peoples and of peace in the world.’ ” that this actually happened in our very own city. [Jack] Ruby shot [Lee Harvey] Oswald. Mom and my little brother • American Cardinals express their grief (Read all of these stories from our Nov. 29, 1963, issue by logging “As our parents picked us up from school that day, many went over survived their ordeal. “ ‘I am terribly shocked, disgusted and depressed at the on to our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † to the church to pray. I will always remember the silence and sadness “Every year [around this time], I pray for the Kennedys and of our city on that day.” for my family.” hotel lobby in Rome after he had helped conduct ‘A cold, rainy November day’ ‘Our world changed that day’ KENNEDY a daily press briefing during Vatican II. He said he As president, Kennedy faced challenges of Judy Copeland was a young teacher at Little Flower School in On Nov. 22, 1963, Phyllis Tapscott was 13 and a student at continued from page 1 then went to his room, closed the door, and “I wept Indianapolis on Nov. 22, 1963. Now living in California, Copeland St. Bartholomew School in Columbus. silently and alone.” fast-changing world at home and abroad recalls that momentous day. Now a member of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield, she recalls her priest told the Catholic Standard, newspaper of the As a Washington auxiliary, then-Bishop Hannan “The message came over the public address system from our memories of that day 50 years ago. Washington Archdiocese. was a close friend of the Kennedys, and was asked DALLAS (CNS)—A young first family, captivating with his historic call for service-minded action: “Ask not pastor, Father John Riedlinger, that our president had been shot in “When my mother woke me up to get me ready for school on the In an article in the Nov. 29, 1963, issue of the by the first lady to deliver the eulogy. and chipper, reinvented life in the White House during what your country can do for you, ask what you can do a motorcade in Dallas,” she said. “Shortly after, another message morning of Nov. 22, 1963, no one had any idea that the world would archdiocesan paper, reporter Valerie MacNees, The eulogy also included favorite Scriptural John F. Kennedy’s 34-month presidency in the early 1960s. for your country.” revealed the sad news that our president was dead. forever remember that date,” she said. “As a 13-year-old, my world who attended the president’s funeral, recounted the passages that President Kennedy liked to quote, The public image was vibrant: with first lady But Engel said Kennedy had far more interest in “I was working with a small reading group in my classroom when consisted of family, friends, school, riding my bike and playing with emotions of that day in spare language: “The heart which the family provided to Bishop Hannan. Jacqueline Kennedy’s redecoration of the somewhat international affairs than domestic matters. we received the news. We were told to immediately go to the church my Barbie doll. I knew nothing about politics. I did know that John of the entire world shared the grief of the American The responsibility for planning the funeral tattered White House and her posing for magazine “The Peace Corps really does represent what to pray, and then were dismissed. Kennedy was our first Catholic president, but I was more interested in people in the loss of their president. Mass had been given to Sargent Shriver, the covers in striking Oleg Cassini designs; the couple’s Kennedy stood for—to send American energy around “It was a cold, rainy November day, making this tragic news the fashionable Jackie Kennedy. “An emperor, a king, a queen, princes, husband of President Kennedy’s sister, Eunice, and two endearing children, Caroline and John-John, the world,” Engel said of the development organization even sadder. There were people standing on the streets in downtown “I remember the day like it was yesterday. The day started out like princesses, presidents and premiers of foreign founding director of the Peace Corps established by and their pet pony, Macaroni—a gift from founded under Kennedy to send U.S. volunteers to Indianapolis crying outwardly. The city was virtually shut down for any other day. We always started the day with morning Mass, and governments joined the American people Monday the president. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. build friendship and share skills with the people of several days as we were all home watching the news and the funeral then went back to our classroom to continue our daily routine. in paying their last respects to President John In his 2012 biography of his father, A Good The context for the idyllic scene contrasted vividly other nations. “But my read of Kennedy was that he on television.” “Our day was interrupted when the pastor of our parish came on Fitzgerald Kennedy,” she wrote. Man, Mark Shriver wrote that his father then took as the Cold War festered globally and social upheaval was interested in foreign affairs and did domestic policy the school’s intercom system to say that President Kennedy had been “The great and the lowly of the world met on a on the responsibility of organizing the funeral fractured the homefront. because he had to.” ‘Like the walls themselves were praying’ shot, but nothing else was known at that time,” she remembered. “We common level in mourning the 46-year-old president Mass and related arrangements with the same As Kennedy, then 46, arrived in Texas in Others characterized the Kennedy administration in Just blocks away from Little Flower School, students’ did not know how bad it was. A short time later, the announcement who was slain by an assassin’s bullet last Friday in resoluteness, purpose and faith that marked his life November 1963, the visit came against a backdrop of terms of personality. attention at Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School in came that he had died. Dallas.” Kennedy was killed on Nov. 22, 1963. of service to his country and his Church. the Cold War, the space race and the nation’s volatile In a September article in The Atlantic, Editor-in-Chief Indianapolis turned from their studies to news from Dallas as the “There was stunned silence. We were all very young, but we knew Thousands of people crowded the streets leading Later reflecting on the funeral Mass in a 1966 civil rights scene. James Bennet, quoted the magazine’s February 1964 shooting was announced. that something incredibly big had just happened. Class was suspended to the cathedral, including Richard Schmidt, now oral history interview for the John F. Kennedy In Kennedy, the nation’s 35th president and first and edition, in which historian Samuel Eliot Morison extolled One of those students was Rosemary Ritchie, now a member of for the day. The whole school went back into church for a Mass to the archivist and historian for St. Matthew’s, who Presidential Library and Museum, Cardinal only Catholic to hold the position, the populace got a war Kennedy’s courage, comparing the significance of his St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Fortville. pray for our president and for our country. was then working as an administrative assistant for Cushing said, “It was a very, very simple funeral, hero, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and visionary. decision-making to Lincoln’s. “I was just settling into my journalism class when “Our world changed that day. And for me, even at that young age, I the Food and Drug Administration. following as close as possible the services in During his election campaign against Richard M. Nixon, The political power struggle known as the Cold War Father Harry Hoover came on the public address system and realized that for the rest of my life I would turn to God when I needed He watched as the president’s flag-draped memory of the martyred Lincoln. No fanfare, Kennedy had to dispel the notion that his religious beliefs that also defined the Kennedy presidency lasted for announced that there had been an incident in Dallas, and reports were help understanding what was happening in the world.” casket was moved on a caisson drawn by six everyone bowed in sorrow, tears flowed in would translate to a U.S. ruled by the Vatican. decades and shaped international affairs on many fronts. that the president had been shot,” she said. gray horses, with the Kennedy family members abundance. In a televised speech, the senator from Massachusetts The disastrous U.S. attempt to overthrow Cuban leader “He connected the radio to the public address system for the whole ‘It was heartbreaking’ and U.S. and world leaders walking behind in “On the way out, I was preceding the casket, and said he was not “the Catholic candidate for president. I Fidel Castro in the Bay of Pigs invasion heightened school to listen to the news for several minutes. Then he turned it off Father William Munshower was associate pastor of a solemn procession along Connecticut Avenue I went over to Jacqueline and shook hands with her. am the Democratic Party’s candidate for president, who international tensions. Soon after, the Soviet buildup of for a while, but shortly came back on the public address system and St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianapolis on Nov. 22, 1963. to the cathedral. I kissed little Caroline and shook hands with her. happens also to be Catholic.” missiles in Cuba, a scant 90 miles off the coast of Florida, announced that the president had died. He led the school in prayer for Ordained in 1958, Father Munshower was attuned to political and “The crowds were unbelievable. People just John John was getting a little restless, so he was Kennedy had commanded a Navy torpedo boat brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the the repose of the soul of President Kennedy. social trends in society. poured out to witness this,” said Schmidt, who down in the rear of the church. Outside at the end of during World War II and earned a Purple Heart, yet the brink of nuclear war in October 1962. “I remember it sounding like the walls themselves were praying. On Aug. 28, 1963, he had participated in the March on Washington remembers the silence of the crowd, interrupted only Mass, John John saluted the flag, the most touching presidency brought management frustrations, according to A race to succeed in space exploration added to There was a feeling that the joining of all the voices in prayer was in which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a by the sound of the drums and brass instruments thing I ever saw.” Jeffrey Engel, director of Southern Methodist University’s competitive zeal between the U.S. and the Soviets. certain to reach heaven. It was comforting at a time when we were Dream” speech. solemnly played by military band members as the Outside of St. Matthew’s Cathedral, that little Center for Presidential History. Kennedy also made strides for civil rights completely devastated. There were many tears and stunned faces. It At the time of the shooting in Dallas, Father Munshower was in procession moved toward St. Matthew’s. boy’s salute to his father’s flag-draped casket, Engel told The Texas Catholic, newspaper of the during a struggle that dramatically revealed the was immediately personal. He was ours! We knew that prayers were the rectory of his parish. Boston Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, a friend immortalized in a photograph by Stan Stearns of Dallas Diocese, that Kennedy earned a reputation for country’s divisions. the best and only thing that would help.” “Our secretary always had a radio on, and was listening and doing of the Kennedy family, was the celebrant at the United Press International, remains perhaps the inspired crisis management at a time when humanity In a televised speech in June 1963, during the height her secretarial work,” he said. “Then she let out a yelp and all at once Requiem Mass. He had officiated at the wedding most poignant image from that day. grappled with unprecedented fears. of civil rights protests, Kennedy told the nation that racial Double tragedy said that the president had been shot down in Dallas. Well, we quickly of John and Jacqueline Kennedy. Also in the On a recent weekday at St. Matthew’s, its rector “People always had a fear that God could end the discrimination was intolerable. Now a member of St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis, turned on the television and were all glued to it. sanctuary were then-Washington Archbishop Patrick reflected on its place in history as the Catholic world, but the notion that the world could end tomorrow “If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat Maria Wyrick was a sixth-grade student at Our Lady of Lourdes “It was tragic. We were just hoping against hope that it wasn’t A. O’Boyle and Washington Auxiliary Bishop cathedral in the nation’s capital. because of human action really only arose in the lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send School in Indianapolis at the time of Kennedy’s death. She had a fatal. But rather quickly, it came out that it was fatal. We called people Philip M. Hannan, who had been attending the There crowds gathered in joy at the end 1950s,” Engel said. “Kennedy was first and foremost a his children to the best public school available, if he double tragedy to cope with on Nov. 22, 1963. together to the church that night. People turned out in droves,” Father Second Vatican Council in Rome and rushed back to of World War II in 1945, to attend Mass with Cold War president. He thought that [President Dwight] cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, “I went home from school feeling extremely sad [about the Munshower said. Washington after learning of the president’s death. Blessed John Paul II in 1979, in sorrow after the Eisenhower had run out of energy. The thing to remember in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all assassination]. I did not know if my dad knew about it yet,” she “We were encouraged and consoled by the sadness of our fellow In his 2010 memoir published by Our Sunday 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States—and about the Kennedy administration, like all presidential of us want, then who among us would be content to have wrote. “When I got home, I told Dad and he told me that our family citizens over the death of a Catholic president. … We were certainly Visitor, The Archbishop Wore Combat Boots, 50 years ago for the funeral Mass for the nation’s administrations, is that an administration is, by and large, a the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who had our own tragedy. hurt by the fact that the first Catholic president had been gunned then-retired New Orleans Archbishop Hannan first and only Catholic president. rejection of what came before.” among us would then be content with the counsels of “My mom was eight months pregnant and in a coma. I thought down. It was heartbreaking.” † noted that he had heard the terrible news at his “This indeed is holy ground,” the priest said. † In his inaugural address, Kennedy challenged the nation patience and delay?” † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 LEFT PAGE

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“This way!” Hugh calls enthusiastically, disappearing into the jungle. I pause, uncertain if I should follow but I’m also aware I have no choice. I step from the safety of the dirt road onto a narrow footpath leading into the dense cloud forest of Bolivia’s high mountains. “Be careful, it’s slippery!” Hugh is now far ahead of me. He walks quickly, both because he is excited to visit the family we’re about to see and because he has plenty of experience on paths like this one. The man I’m following, Hugh Smeltekop, is the vice director general of Carmen Pampa University. As a Catholic university founded by the Franciscan Sisters, Carmen Pampa University offers poor Bolivian students access to a college education. Hugh’s enthusiasm for service, devotion to the university and dedication to his impoverished student wards is clear. When he speaks, I can hear the passion in his voice and see the light in his eyes. Hugh recognizes his mission and success come from God. “I just feel like we’re all lit up from inside. You know the whole ‘don’t put a bushel basket over God’s light in you’ — it’s about this never-ending source of power that doesn’t come from us,” Hugh said. The students see Hugh as a leader, mentor and friend. They say this because he takes a personal interest in each of them, encourages them in their education and enthusiastically shares the Gospel with them. “Hugh is very admired and loved here,” said Luis, a veterinary science major at the Hugh Smeltekop is a Catholic man putting his faith into action on behalf of the poor. university. “He is very caring and always available to help people. He is a good role Cross Catholic Outreach, a South Florida- Cavnar said Catholic lay missionaries Cross Catholic’s help is so important to model.” based ministry working to bring education to like Hugh are uniquely suited to motivating us — because it brings the donors into A former Peace Corps volunteer and the poorest of the poor, saw the good work students and developing leaders for the our mission. It unifies a community of Michigan native, Hugh came to Carmen being accomplished by Hugh, the Franciscan community. people. Together we can take on this Pampa University 12 years ago. What Sisters and Carmen Pampa University and “I can see God’s kingdom growing common cause and respond to the poor started as volunteer work became a career, immediately began supporting the college. through Hugh’s work. He has truly brought in ways that ensure the dignity of each ultimately leading to his appointment as vice “This university is reaching out to the mission of St. Francis to this isolated human being.” director general. poor students in ways only the Catholic area of Bolivia,” Cavnar said. To support the worldwide outreaches God’s providence was clearly at work in Church can,” said Jim Cavnar, president of When we return from our jungle hike, I of Cross Catholic Outreach, look for his life, Hugh says. Cross Catholic. “The poor students from ask Hugh how he sees Cross Catholic’s role the ministry brochure enclosed in this “I just fell in love with the mission and the the surrounding rural mountain farming and what he thinks of the American Catholic issue of the paper or mail your donation people at this incredible university. It offers communities had virtually no chance at donors who have stepped forward to help to Cross Catholic Outreach, Dept. tremendous opportunity for young people higher education — yet here at this Catholic make a difference. AC01013, PO Box 9558, Wilton, NH who have potential, but have nowhere to go university they were told, ‘We can help. You “We are one people and one body 03086-9558. All contributions to the with it,” Hugh said. don’t have to be left behind.’” in Christ,” he said. “I think that’s why ministry are tax deductible. Cross Catholic Now Endorsed by More Than 60 Bishops, Archbishops

As Cross Catholic Outreach (CCO) and Archbishops are also impressed by continues its range of relief work to help the unique collaborative relationship the poor overseas, its efforts are being Cross Catholic has with the Pontifical recognized by a growing number of Council Cor Unum in Rome. This allows Catholic leaders in the U.S. and abroad. the charity to participate in the mercy “We’ve received an impressive number ministries of the Holy Father himself. In of endorsements from Bishops and his praise of CCO, Archbishop Dennis Archbishops — more than 60 at last Schnurr of Cincinnati underscored this count,” explained Jim Cavnar, president unique connection. of Cross Catholic Outreach. “They’re “Cross Catholic Outreach’s close impressed by the fact that we’ve done collaboration with the Pontifical outreaches in almost 40 countries and Council Cor Unum is a source of that we undertake a variety of projects; encouragement,” the Archbishop said. everything from feeding the hungry “The Holy See has unique knowledge and housing the homeless to supplying of local situations throughout the world safe water and supporting educational through its papal representatives in opportunities for the poorest of the poor.” nearly two hundred countries and through Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. its communications with Bishops and Louis sent one of the more recent letters others who care for the poor and needy in of encouragement, writing: “It is my hope every corner of the world.” that this ministry will continue to flourish CCO president, Jim Cavnar, explained and reach as many people as possible. I the significance of this connection. will inform the priests of the Archdiocese “Our collaboration with Cor Unum of St. Louis of the important work that allows us to fund outreaches in virtually Cross Catholic Outreach does and elicit any area of the world and we have used their prayerful and financial support that method in special cases — to help the for the service you provide to the less victims of natural disasters, for example,” fortunate around the world.” he said.“It only represents a small part of In addition to praising the work CCO our overall ministry, but it can be a very accomplishes, many of the Bishops important benefit in those situations.” RIGHT PAGE The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 13

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Cross Catholic Outreach brings hope to poor students worldwide Mary and Jhovana Pampa seem like brothers or sisters needed them. And with average American college students. The their parents gone, there was no money to sisters carry book bags and talk about their pay the school fees or buy books anyway. It classes. Both are about to graduate and hope was tragic to see these young women. They to move into the workforce armed with could barely read or write,” Cavnar said. their degrees. Their smiles reveal justi ed Other times, children drop out of school excitement. because of something even more simplistic But there’s something that makes these but equally tragic — hunger. Such was the girls very different from “average” college case for Laurinda, 7, in Mozambique. students. Laurinda’s single mother, Celestina, is Mary and Jhovana live in a rural farming disabled and permanently wheelchair-bound. community high in the mountains outside Her legs are shriveled and lifeless. To feed Corocio, Bolivia where they have neither Laurinda and her brother, Celestina used to running water nor electricity. They share a beg in the streets, but it was rarely enough. two-room wooden shack with their parents, Driven by acute hunger, Laurinda often and everyone sleeps on a dirt  oor. skipped school to beg in the streets for food. “Our parents sustain the family by raising By God’s grace, one of Cross Catholic’s chickens, growing tomatoes, and harvesting ministry partners in Mozambique discovered coca leaves for tea,” Mary said. the family and began providing food staples, Clearly, this is a far cry from the college medical care and, most importantly, school experience of a typical European or fees so that Laurinda and her brother could American student. Instead of being worried attend classes regularly without having about whether to purchase a dormitory to worry about whether there was enough Mary, left, and Jhovana, right, are pursuing an education in Bolivia’s mountains. refrigerator, these sisters worry about where their next meal will come from. Most young men and women like Mary and Jhovana who live in such poor, remote areas never attend college. Their families can barely afford food, clothing, shelter and medical care. For them, a college degree is out of the question. Even primary school fees — just a few dollars — can be daunting to pay. Still, Mary and Jhovana, these unlikely candidates for higher education, are walking the hallways of Carmen Pampa University. This is because the Catholic institution has made a special priority of serving Bolivia’s poorest students from the country’s most isolated rural areas. “This university is a perfect example of the Catholic Church’s strength. It routinely does God’s work among otherwise forgotten people. It brings change and hope where they are needed most,” said Jim Cavnar, president of Cross Catholic Outreach, an of cial Catholic ministry that stands as one of the university’s key supporters. “Cross Catholic supports programs like this because we believe Christ would have us focus most on the poor, the isolated.” Making all levels of education accessible to poor families and their children is one of the most crucial aspects of Cross Catholic’s work, according to Cavnar. From kindergarten to primary school to university, education is the key to lifting the poor out of poverty, he says. “Without an education, young people would be passed over for jobs. If they don’t have even basic skills liking reading, writing and arithmetic, they will never become employable adults. And if you haven’t  nished primary or secondary school, you can’t even think about going to a university,” Children like Laurinda are often forced to drop out of school because of hunger. Cavnar said, “and without university educated leaders, how can these developing money left over to buy food. “Education is a value Catholics have to education, and the sisters understand the countries hope to improve?” Today Laurinda is thriving, learning, free always regarded highly. They know how importance of the gift they’ve received. This harsh reality is true not only in from hunger and on the path to a much better important education is for development and They are also prepared to give back to their Bolivia, but elsewhere as well. That’s why future. for a child’s future. This is evidenced not community and country in thanksgiving. Cross Catholic supports education programs “Laurinda’s case is one of the worst only by the great system of Catholic schools “With our education, we can be part of the around the globe, from Nicaragua to Kenya I’ve witnessed,” Cavnar said. “She was and universities around the world, but also solution,” Mary said. “We can only do that to Vietnam. It achieves this only through literally so hungry she couldn’t sit upright through the steadfast support we’ve received through the knowledge we’ve acquired. As the help it receives from compassionate in her desk. She  ed to the streets to beg for Catholic educational projects,” Cavnar young people get a higher education, they American Catholics. for whatever she could get. She’s just one said. can come up with help to These donors, Cavnar admits, are the real heartbreaking example of the obstacles poor In Bolivia, Mary and Jhovana Pampa are bring improvements heroes of his ministry’s outreach. It is their children face in getting an education.” shining examples of the impact American to our country.” gifts that allow students to overcome barriers “I thank God for our ministry partners Catholics can have when they contribute and stay in the classroom. Many who had around the world,” he added. “They provide sick or struggling parents would never have thousands of children like Laurinda with a completed courses and gone on to lead way to stay in school. I’m in awe of God’s How to Help: worthwhile lives without help. Orphaned or power to reach out and save children like her abandoned children run an even higher risk from despair, and grateful for the chance to Your help is needed for Cross Catholic Outreach to of not  nishing school, Cavnar said, because be part of it.” bring Christ’s mercy to the poorest of the poor. To make many have to drop out to care for younger To further empower these ministry a donation, use the enclosed postage-paid brochure or siblings. partners, Cross Catholic Outreach relies on mail a gift to: Cross Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC01013, “I’ve talked to orphaned girls as young support from generous American Catholic PO Box 9558, Wilton, NH 03086-9558. as 12 in places like Mozambique and Haiti benefactors. Cavnar said these donors who had to drop out of school because their understand the value of education projects. Page 14 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Two Benedictine sisters celebrate special jubilees Criterion staff report Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand. Monastery. In 1985, she began working in 1951. On Aug. 10, 1953, she professed Sister Eugenia went on to become a the business office at St. Paul Hermitage, the temporary vows. She made her perpetual Two Sisters of St. Benedict at Our Lady founding member of Our Lady of Grace home for the aged operated by the Sisters of monastic profession in 1956 at Our Lady of of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove Monastery in Beech Grove in 1956. St. Benedict in Beech Grove. Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, where recently celebrated milestone jubilees. She received her bachelor’s degree in In 2001, she became the assistant in the she was a founding member. Benedictine Sister Eugenia Reibel and teaching from the former St. Benedict development office, where she worked until Sister Patricia began her career as a Benedictine Sister Patricia Dede marked College in Ferdinand, and a master’s her retirement in 2011. teacher in 1954 in Evansville, Ind. anniversaries on Aug. 10—the 75th jubilee degree in guidance from Butler University Through the years, Sister Patricia also for Sister Eugenia and the 60th jubilee for in Indianapolis. Sister Patricia Dede taught at Our Lady of Grace Academy Sister Patricia. Sister Eugenia began her teaching career Sister Patricia Dede was born in in Beech Grove, St. Bartholomew In separate ceremonies at in 1940 at St. Mary School in Huntingburg. Terre Haute and is the youngest of School in Columbus, St. Anthony School Our Lady of Grace Monastery, both sisters Through the years, she either taught, eight children, all of whom became either in Clarksville, St. Pius X School in renewed their vows, promising stability provided guidance archdiocesan priests or Indianapolis, the former Sacred Heart in the monastery, fidelity to the monastic counseling or members of the Sisters School in Indianapolis, Sacred Heart way of life and obedience according to the served as principal of Providence of Saint School in Terre Haute and Christ the King Rule of St. Benedict. at St. Ambrose Mary-of-the-Woods. School in Evansville, Ind. School in Seymour, Sister Patricia She also served as a pastoral minister Sister Eugenia Reibel St. Mary-of-the- attended Academy at St. Ambrose Parish in Seymour and Born Olivia Agnes in Poseyville, Knobs School in Immaculate St. Cecelia Parish in Clearwater, Fla. Sister Eugenia graduated from Academy Floyd County, the Conception in Sister Patricia was a chaplain at Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Ind., former Our Lady Ferdinand, then St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, Wis., in the Evansville Diocese. of Grace Academy went on to receive the senior sisters’ director at Our Lady She entered Monastery Immaculate Sr. Eugenia in Beech Grove, Sr. Patricia a bachelor’s of arts of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove and Conception in 1936 and professed Reibel. O.S.B. St. Barnabas School Dede, O.S.B. degree in music from the administrator of St. Paul Hermitage in temporary vows in 1938—the profession in Indianapolis, St. Benedict College Beech Grove. by which the Sisters of St. Benedict St. Joseph School in Evansville, Ind., and and a master’s degree in American History Currently, Sister Patricia works for mark their anniversaries. In 1941, she Transfiguration School in St. Louis, Mo. from Indiana University in Bloomington. St. Francis Hospital Palliative Care as a made her vows of perpetual monastic In 1978, Sister Eugenia became Sister Patricia entered Monastery chaplain, and volunteers for the Society of profession at the Benedictine Monastery the receptionist at Our Lady of Grace Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand in St. Vincent de Paul in her spare time. † Belgium’s faith leaders: Don’t allow children to decide on own euthanasia BRUSSELS (CNS)—The president of the Belgian Some Belgian legislators have proposed extending a About 1,200 cases of euthanasia, most involving bishops’ conference joined other faith leaders who criticized 2002 euthanasia law to include children and dementia terminal cancer, were registered in Belgium in 2012. In the proposed legislation to extend euthanasia to children and sufferers. Two senate commissions will draft a bill, which summer of 2012, a mentally ill man serving 20 years for a dementia sufferers, warning the measure risks “destroying then would be debated in parliament. double murder became Belgium’s first prison inmate to be the functioning of society.” The religious leaders said such a bill risked “the growing euthanized. “We are also opposed to suffering, whether physical banalization of a very grave reality,” adding that they were In November of 2012, the government announced plans or moral, and especially the suffering of children,” “deeply alarmed ... as citizens relying on philosophical to follow the Dutch in allowing euthanasia for Alzheimer Archbishop Andre Leonard, conference president, said in a arguments, and as believers inheriting our respective sufferers, as well as for children “if capable of discernment joint statement with Christian, Jewish and Muslim leaders. religious traditions.” or affected by an incurable illness or suffering.” “But to suggest minors can decide on their own “Instead of supporting a suffering person and gathering In an October survey by Barometre Politique, 75 percent euthanasia is to falsify their power of judgment and their persons and forces around to help them, we risk dividing of Belgium’s 11 million inhabitants favored allowing freedom. To suggest persons with dementia can also be these forces and isolating the suffering person, branding euthanasia for children in an irreversible coma or vegetative euthanized is to deny their dignity and hand them over to them guilty and condemning them to death,” said the state, while 80 percent supported it for dementia or the arbitrary judgment of decision-makers.” Nov. 6 statement. Alzheimer patients facing “unbearable grief.” †

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For one reason or another, requires support in the forms person—spirit, soul and body.” we all need to be restored, of patience, compassion and I suspect it is impossible Shemitz CNS photo/Gregory A. renewed—made well and encouragement from others who to read the Gospels without made whole. love them. noticing the compassionate It is said that communal However, keeping hope alive care Jesus extended to people celebrations of the sacrament of can be a big challenge for drug- who sought healing. No wonder the sick have an added benefit: dependent individuals and their dioceses, parishes and religious They remind not just the sick, families. Pope Francis must have institutions commit so much time but all present had them in mind and effort to ministries that help of their need for when, during the people heal from whatever has healing. ‘I suspect it is interview with wounded them. The realities him published on But many of those motivated in human lives impossible to Sept. 19 in several by Christ’s example also are that call out for read the Gospels prominent Jesuit moved by their conviction that healing may publications, Christ is present in those who be painful and without noticing he said: are sick or in pain. Pope Francis cause profound the compassionate “I have made this point on Oct. 4 when suffering. care Jesus a dogmatic he visited a rehabilitation center Numerous certainty: God is for sick and disabled children and Church leaders extended to in every person’s youths in Assisi, Italy. point to the sense people who sought life. ... Even “We are among the wounds of isolation, of healing.’ if the life of a of Jesus,” Pope Francis said. He being alone, that person has been explained that “Jesus is hidden in sick people often a disaster, even if these kids, in these children. ... experience. it is destroyed by On the altar, we adore the flesh of Moreover, sickness and vices, drugs or anything else, God Jesus, in them we find the wounds suffering frequently cut away at is in this person’s life. of Jesus.” the virtue of hope. Energy and “You can, you must try to Pope Francis often insists strength may wane as suffering seek God in every human life. that it is vitally important in intensifies. Although the life of a person is Christian life to accompany Consider couples in troubled a land full of thorns and weeds, wounded people—to hear them, marriages. How hopeful are they? there is always a space in which walk with them, help them heal. A wife and husband can grow the good seed can grow. You have In the Jesuits’ recent interview weary of the strained condition of to trust God.” with him, he proposed an their relationship. Sick people, injured people, image of the Church as a “field Nonetheless, research indicates abused people, exploited people: hospital after battle” for seriously that significant numbers of these They all need healing. injured people. Sister Ann Marie Pierce, a member of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate spouses want their marriages to An “illness can leave the Celebrating the sacrament Heart of Mary, visits with patient Michael Spinella at Good Samaritan Hospital heal. Research also suggests that sufferer feeling anguished, self- of the anointing of the sick is Medical Center in West Islip, N.Y. Following the example of Christ, the Church this kind of healing, sometimes in absorbed, maybe even despairing one way the Church walks with reaches out to help heal people of many kinds of wounds. the form of a reconciliation, can and in revolt against God,” Bishop people who long for healing. This indeed pave a couple’s way to Charles V. Grahmann observed in sacrament, many note, strengthens by coming to dwell within the healing radiates outward through authentic happiness. a 2002 pastoral letter. individuals who are ill and their one stricken by illness, to bear it the respectful, Christ-like words Broken bonds within But, in concert with the family members, too. and live it with him.” and actions of all who stay close to families—between parents and Catechism of the Catholic Church, During a 2008 Mass for the Christ comes “to break the people who are sick or wounded, children, for example—quite the now-retired bishop of Dallas sick in France, Pope Benedict XVI isolation that pain induces,” and do whatever possible to commonly are cited by Church also noted that “illness can be the commented that “Christ is not Pope Benedict said. relieve their pain and strengthen educators to show that healing cause for maturing, discerning a healer in the manner of the Naturally, the Church’s care their hope. is needed everywhere. For the true direction of one’s life world.” The pope explained for sick and wounded people Christians, family divisions and sharpening the focus of what that “to heal us, [Jesus] does reaches beyond the moments of (David Gibson served on Catholic highlight the urgent need to heal should truly be priorities in life” not remain outside the suffering sacramental celebrations. News Service’s editorial staff for human relationships. (#1501). that is experienced; he eases it The priority Christ places on 37 years.) †

Sacred Scripture explains spiritual and physical healing on many levels

By Marcellino D’Ambrosio we could go to heaven, but to introduce the kingdom of life right out of us. God into the messy world we live in here and now. So when a paralyzed man was lowered to Jesus As I first started paying attention to the Bible in my One of the facts of life in this messy world is illness. It through a roof, Jesus’ first response was, “Your sins are teenage years, I ran across a saying of Jesus that deeply is instructive that Jesus does not waste time speculating as forgiven” (Mk 2:5). impressed me: “I came so that they might have life, and to the precise cause of a particular illness. Pharisees present on the occasion object to Jesus’ have it more abundantly” (Jn 10:10). The Apostles are interested in whose fault it was that authority to forgive and thus heal spiritually. So Jesus Christ came not just to save souls, but to save people— a man was born blind (Jn 9:2). Jesus is not. He is only demonstrates his competence by healing the physical spirit, soul and body (1 Thes 5:23). He came not just so interested in glorifying God by healing the man. Healing disease as well. Jesus does not say “yes” to our spiritual is a sign of the kingdom of God. Note that the various needs and “no” to our earthly needs (2 Cor 1:18-22). healing miracles in St. John’s Gospel are called “signs.” God created us body, soul and spirit, and desires that But Jesus and the whole of Scripture show that there we have fullness of life and have it abundantly (Jn 10:10). is a definite, though complicated, relationship between When a pagan woman begged Jesus to heal her illness and sin. Sometimes we act as if sins are just black daughter, the Lord at first rebuffed her because she was marks against us in God’s ledger, debits against our not a Jew, a child of God. However, when he saw true rewards account. faith in her bold response, he heeded her request. But sin is more than a demerit—it is the distancing But note the metaphor that Jesus uses here to describe of a person from God, who happens to be our source healing. He calls it “the food of the children” (Mt 15:26).

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic CNS photo/Gregory A. of life itself. Earlier in this same Gospel, he teaches us to pray in this Original sin, flowing from the tragic decision of fashion: “Give us today our daily bread” (Mt 6:11). Adam and Eve (Gn 3), causes us to inherit a weakened The lesson? God’s healing power is part of the daily humanity that from the moment of conception is food of God’s children. Healing is our birthright as sons distanced from God and thus prone to sin and disease of and daughters of God. A woman receives a blessing from Father David Regan all sorts. during the annual blessing of throats on the feast of St. Blase Actual sin results from each person’s own decisions, (Marcellino D’Ambrosio writes from Texas and guides at St. Patrick Church in Smithtown, N.Y. Sacred Scripture and creates new wounds in us and those whose pilgrimages to Rome and the Holy Land. He is co-founder teaches that healing of various kinds is part of the daily bread lives we touch. of Crossroads Productions, an apostolate of Catholic that God gives to his people. But whether original or actual, sin always drains the renewal and evangelization.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink For the Journey/Effie Caldarola Year of Faith: We believe in miracles Looking for heroes in Some people don’t believe in matter of faith in God’s existence and his performed by his own authority. real-life nightmares miracles. Therefore, they reject the ability to manifest his love, care and plan Other miracle workers called on Gospels because of salvation. God’s authority. When I was a younger woman, I had there undoubtedly If miracles are an exception to the But some people might object that recurring nightmares about being trapped by are miracles in them. natural order, we must first agree that they’ve never seen a miracle. Miracles the Nazis. Maybe that’s strange, but I was Or they try to find there is a natural order. If our world are rare and unusual. God doesn’t a history major who natural explanations were chaotic and without order, the idea perform them willy-nilly. There are many devoured information for them. of miracle would be meaningless. But things that we’ve never seen, but that about modern European If people cannot scientists, or just our observance, assure doesn’t mean they don’t exist. history, had a lively accept miracles, it’s us that there are indeed natural rules, Actually, you have seen a miracle. imagination and was understandable that the way things usually happen. If all You see it every time you go to Mass prone to anxious they cannot accept the that order came about because of God’s and see bread and wine changed into the dreams. Gospels because they actions, then he can make exceptions to Body and Blood of Christ. I would wake up to describe about 35 miracles performed by his natural law. So what about all those miracles that heart-thumping, Jesus. They include his own resurrection; In a corporation there are always that the Gospels say Jesus performed? terrifying feeling of the raising of three persons back to life; certain rules that all employees must Perhaps some of the healings were being nearly ensnared, numerous healings of sick, blind and lame observe. But the chief executive officer psychosomatic, but not all of them could followed by the euphoria of realizing I’d people; nature miracles such as stopping might decide, for a good reason, that an have been. Was it just coincidence that been dreaming. a storm at sea and walking on water; exception should be made for a certain the storm stopped when Jesus ordered Unfortunately for the millions who multiplication of food; and prophecies, or individual. He doesn’t do away with the it to? If Jesus didn’t really rise from the suffered during the Holocaust and under miracles of the intellectual order. rule; he just uses his authority to suspend dead, why didn’t the Romans simply the brutality of Hitler’s Germany, the Sometimes miracles are defined as it in one particular instance. produce his dead body? nightmares were real, and awakening only violations of the natural law. They aren’t. Similarly, God, as the author of natural Rather than try to explain away brought a renewed sense of horror. They are interventions in the normal law, can make exceptions to that law in miracles, those with faith should It was with this in mind that I recently course of nature by a higher power order to give us strong evidence that a accept them as God’s intervention in became acquainted with one of the stars in outside of nature—God. If we believe in given message has his authority behind it. human affairs. our Catholic constellation, Blessed Restituta God, we must believe in the possibility Of all great religious teachers, only Since the “Year of Faith” ends Kafka. Her feast day is on Oct. 29. of miracles. In the Gospels, or any part Jesus claimed to be the Son of God on Sunday, this is my final column Obviously not a household name, of the Scriptures, a miracle is always a and backed up that claim with miracles in this series. † Restituta nonetheless deserves notice for the courageous path she took to martyrdom. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes She sparked something in my imagination. Just who, I wondered, was Restituta Kafka, There’s always a lot to be thankful for in life and where did she ever get that very unusual name? There’s a lot to be thankful for on they surprise us with horrible killing grass, sunset over the lake or the trees, She was born with, arguably, a much this Thanksgiving Day. Don’t snicker, sprees. moonlight creating a velvet landscape, all lovelier name, Helene, in 1894. She lived I really mean it. Despite the usual Personally, I’m thankful that my are available to us just for the noticing. in what was then the Austro-Hungarian human conviction, parents taught me how to live in this We’ve even been given five senses Empire. Later, her homeland would become i.e. the widespread world. I know how to save, and take good to help us with that. God thinks of part of the Czech Republic, but two brutal impression that the care of possessions and our environment. everything. We like to think that people wars took place before that happened. She world is going to I know to walk and drive to the right, to are God’s ultimate creation, but whether was a shoemaker’s daughter, and, according hell, there really are lower my voice in public places, and to that’s true or not, we can be grateful that to some sources, her dad wasn’t wild about many things that can do my best at everything. I also learned he made them. her entry into the convent, but off she went, make us grateful. to pass along such lessons to my kids, as We can even be grateful for those where she became a nurse. For one thing, we they will to theirs. times when real grief enters our lives. Apparently, she was a talented operating can continue to be I’m thankful my parents also Scripture says that all things work for room nurse seasoned in the bloodbath of thankful that we live taught me, by word and example and good in God’s time. That’s hard to World War I, and she rose to prominence in in the United States. sometimes (sorry, mom and dad) even believe, especially during the heat of the her Austrian hospital. This is a country dedicated to personal by bad example, how to maintain happy trouble. But over time, I’ve learned that There are photos online that purport freedom and personal responsibility, relationships in marriage and friendship. it’s true, to be of Restituta, who looks like a always mindful of the common good. No And I’m thankful for the realization that At the opposite extreme, we are solid, no-nonsense type. One picture, wonder so many people around the world marriage is a sacramental union which, thankful for the enjoyment of humor. As however, shows a woman in a stark white try to come and be part of us. by its very nature, involves the creation we know, laughter is one of the greatest habit smiling broadly, the image of someone We should be thankful that, no matter of human life. Just as true friendship aids to health and well-being that we you’d love to see at your bedside. how hard some of us try to sabotage creates emotional life. know of. If we live in a family of natural It used to be the style, of course, that this noble ambition by making bad We’re all grateful that marriages comedians as I did, it helps, but whether photos showed folks looking serious and personal and national decisions based on and friendships are not disposable we’re funny or not, we can share laughter stern. I suppose getting your picture taken greed and selfishness, our initial goal of commodities. Still, being human, we’re and cheer was a relatively rare occurrence, so you democracy remains. not always satisfied with our spouse, our Most of all, we can all be thankful wanted to pay it the respect of severity. And though many of the Founders friends, our pastor or whoever. But we for God’s constant loving care, and Fortunately, someone caught Restituta’s were pantheists, their concept is should understand that half the problem be mindful that God always answers jovial side at least once. inherently Christian because it’s based on is probably us, and we can work on our prayers, if not always in the The striking thing about Restituta’s treating others as we want to be treated, improving that half. way we expect. name is that she took it in honor of a and hope for the future. Sometimes Of course, we should always be third-century martyr who was beheaded by we forget the responsibilities that this thankful for God’s beautiful creation, (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the Roman Empire. Another empire, another includes, things like taking the mentally much of which exists merely for our the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a millennium, and Restituta died the same ill seriously, instead of wondering why pleasure. The morning dew on the regular columnist for The Criterion.) † way—beheading, this time by the Nazis. That gives me the shivers. The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick What was her crime? The Nazis decreed that religious imagery had to be banished Exploring solutions to stop the abuse of alcohol and other drugs from schools and hospitals. When a new addition was added to Restituta’s Should we turn our heads away, call Brown placed six bottles of beer on that an idea is an illumination. It is like hospital, she boldly put a crucifix in every the police or shut it down? the table. Then she asked the audience, a light bulb going on in our minds, and room, lest there be any question of her These questions were posed in an “What would be considered moderate to we see things in a new light, suddenly facility’s loyalty. article about Maryland Attorney General excessive to binge beer drinking?” giving way to that “aha” moment Perhaps the Nazis had more pressing Douglas F. Gansler, who was To my surprise, it took fewer some of us have experienced. things to do than monitor hospital rooms, photographed in a bottles to define binge drinking than This experience happened to me but a doctor who was a Nazi loyalist ratted house full of young I had imagined. More surprising was while listening to Brown. Her lecture on Restituta, and she was imprisoned. people attending a learning about the effects alcohol has prompted me to ask myself: When Even then, she was given an out: wild drinking party. on pregnancy and possibly causing is it too young to learn about the Leave your religious order and go quietly. Undoubtedly, a miscarriage, or harming a child effects of alcohol and drugs on our But Restituta refused. Her last words excessive drinking cognitively and behaviorally. well-being? Should our parish adult were: “I have lived for Christ; I want to is one of the greatest It brought to mind the issues of education programs make this a high die for Christ.” problems of our drinking and misusing drugs, and what priority? As students enter college, Although many priests and nuns died postmodern age, was going on in the Gansler case. should there be an orientation day at the hands of the Nazis, including the especially among Even though we have more specifically focused on drinking and great Edith Stein, who became St. Teresa young people who information available to us than ever drugs? Throughout the year, should it Benedicta but died in a concentration camp engage in binge parties and sometimes before, many people, unfortunately, be repeated and then evaluated to learn because of her Jewish heritage, no other nun end up ruined for life. don’t have a realistic idea of the effects of its effectiveness? in Europe was sentenced to execution by Recently, I attended a lecture of alcohol and other drugs. The more ideas we can explore beheading except Restituta Kafka. titled, “New Evidence on Moderate Even though horrific news stories tell to solve problems, the more the The annals of World War II literature are Drinking and Pregnancy” by of the damage they can cause, it is so probability we have of diminishing full of heroes who challenge us to question Dr. Carole W. Brown, a fellow at easy to become nonchalant about their them; in this case, getting rid of how we would have responded to that real- the Institute for Policy Research and effects or to dismiss them. How do we conditions that produce the damaging life nightmare. So here’s one more hero: Catholic Studies at The Catholic increase sensitivity and awareness about effects of alcohol and drugs on us. Blessed Restituta Kafka, pray for us. University of America in Washington. their danger? It is primarily through The lecture was an eye-opener in regard increased education and research. (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for (Effie Caldarola writes for to the use of alcohol. Cardinal John Henry Newman wrote Catholic News Service.) † Catholic News Service.) † The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013 Page 17

Feast of Christ the King/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, November 25 Friday, November 29 Sunday Readings St. Catherine of Alexandria, Daniel 7:2-4 virgin and martyr (Response) Daniel 3:75-81 Sunday, November 24, 2013 Daniel 1:1-6, 8-20 Luke 21:29-33 • 2 Samuel 5:1-3 and probably accurate, to assume that this (Response) Daniel 3:52-56 • Colossians 1:12-20 inscription was placed on the cross above Luke 21:1-4 Saturday, November 30 • Luke 23:35-43 the Lord’s dying body by the Roman St. Andrew, Apostle authorities to warn potential rebels of the Tuesday, November 26 Romans 10:9-18 The Second Book of Samuel furnishes plight awaiting anyone who dared to defy Daniel 2:31-45 Psalm 19:2-5 the first biblical reading for this feast, Rome. It was also intended to mock Jesus. marking the close of the Church year. Instead of mockery, the sign was a (Response) Daniel 3:57-61 Matthew 4:18-22 Once, the two books revelation. It situated Jesus in the full Luke 21:5-11 of Samuel composed sweep of salvation history, that pattern of Sunday, December 1 a single volume. In encounters between God and the Hebrews. Wednesday, November 27 First Sunday of Advent time, editors divided Jesus was of the Hebrews. He was a Jew. Daniel 5:1-6, 13-14, 16-17, Isaiah 2:1-5 the volume into the Most importantly, Jesus was the first 23-28 Psalm 122:1-9 two books now seen among the Jews, the king. in Bibles. The book The Gospel then gives the story of the (Response) Daniel 3:62-67 Romans 13:11-14 records the major criminals being executed beside Jesus. Luke 21:12-19 Matthew 24:37-44 events of the reign of One cynically blasphemes. The other King David in Israel, beautifully professes Jesus as Savior. Thursday, November 28 which was from 1004 To him, Jesus promises life eternal. Daniel 6:12-28 to 971 BC. It is classified as a history book It is a majestic act of divine love and in the Old Testament. forgiveness. (Response) Daniel 3:68-74 In this weekend’s reading, David Luke 21:20-28 becomes the king of Israel. He was more Reflection than a governmental authority or political The Church closes its year with a figure. His task as king was to strengthen brilliant and joyful testimony of Jesus the union between God and the people. He as Son of God and Redeemer. He is the Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle was God’s instrument, but not in a plan to only source of true life. Furthermore, the control people. After all, people had free Lord is the very embodiment of God’s wills allowing them to choose the course of endless love. Jesus frees us from our The Church’s ‘Order for Christian their actions. sins, as he forgave the dying thief on the Rather, David was God’s gift to the cross at Calvary. Funerals’ allows for burial at sea people. By bringing them closer to As Son of God, Jesus is God, God, David assisted in bringing them to possessing all authority over everything. There was a photo in our local Catholic Father Maciel was later determined to have prosperity, peace and life. Nothing can overcome or daunt the Son of Qnewspaper of a pastor presiding abused multiple victims; he was removed For its second reading, the Church God, not even death on the cross. over a burial at sea. Please clarify the from ministry by Pope Benedict XVI, and presents a passage from St. Paul’s Epistle Americans generally do not understand Church’s teaching on cremation, and the ordered to spend the rest of his days in to the Colossians. This epistle was written the European concept of royalty. proper final resting place of the cremated “prayer and penitence.” to the Christians of Colossae, a moderately Monarchs exist to serve their people. remains. (I thought Supporters of Pope John Paul point important city of the Roman Empire. A great heroine of the Second World that the “cremains” out that he attempted to stem abuse by Jesus is the absolute keystone of War was Queen Wilhelmina of the were to be buried.) assigning such cases to the Vatican’s creation. All human beings and certainly Netherlands, great-grandmother of the (Davenport, Iowa) influential Congregation for the Doctrine all Christians come together in the Lord. present Dutch king, who came to the of the Faith, and by approving an expedited Through Jesus, all people possess the hope throne as a small girl when her father The Catholic process for weeding abusers out of the of eternal salvation. Through Jesus, all died. On a great holiday early in her AChurch, while it priesthood. Christians share in the very life of God. reign, her mother led Wilhelmina to the prefers a traditional As to what was reported and discussed in Magnificent in its imagery, this reading palace balcony to receive the cheers burial or entombment, the canonization process about Pope John acclaims Jesus as the “image of the of the crowd. Thrilled, the little queen permits cremation. The Paul’s response to the crime, sin and scandal invisible God.” asked, “Mommie, do all these people cremated remains are to of sexual abuse, it is difficult to say without St. Luke’s Gospel supplies the last belong to me?” be treated with the same respect as the body access to a transcript of the proceedings. reading. It is a passage from Luke’s Her mother wisely replied, “No, dear, of the deceased, which means that they are I feel confident that the matter would powerful Passion Narrative that recounts you belong to them.” to be placed in a worthy vessel and buried have been brought forward for discussion, the trial and execution of Jesus. The great lesson of this feast is that or entombed in consecrated ground (not especially given the strength of victims’ Central in the story is the inscription the wonderful, wonderfully loving and kept on a mantelpiece or scattered over a concerns. Technically, the role is filled placed above the head of Jesus on the cross. forgiving Son of God, Christ the King, mountaintop or any other place). now not by a “devil’s advocate” but by the It read, “The King of the Jews.” It is easy, belongs to us. † The Church allows burial at sea, provided “relator,” who assembles material on the that the body or the cremated remains are candidate’s life and writings as well as on buried in a dignified and heavy container. the social milieu of the period. My Journey to God In the “Order for Christian Funerals,” It is important to note that the #406, Section 4, there is a specific prayer canonization is neither a seal of approval of to be used in such cases: “Lord God, by the each decision made during Pope John Paul’s power of your word you stilled the chaos papacy nor a ratification of every policy of the primeval seas, you made the raging choice. It is a statement that he was a holy waters of the flood subside, and calmed the man who is now with God in heaven, not Christ storm on the Sea of Galilee. As we commit necessarily a wise or an effective Church the body [earthly remains] of our brother leader in every aspect of his papal ministry.

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz CNS photo/Gregory A. [sister] N. to the deep, grant him/her peace Supporters of Pope John Paul would the King and tranquility until that day when he/she say, in fact, that he was “all of the above,” and all who believe in you will be raised to citing his role in freeing Eastern Europe By Natalie Hoefer the glory of new life promised in the waters from Soviet tyranny, his international trips of baptism.” to promote the Gospel and his courageous O King of all on heaven and Earth, example while suffering during his final No ermine robe upon your birth, I am a longtime practicing Catholic, years from Parkinson’s disease. But swaddling clothes like those to servants born. Qbut there is a question that has been bothering me. With respect to the (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth O King, like none before or after, canonization process for Pope John Paul II, Doyle at [email protected] and Midst malicious, mocking laughter, how did the devil’s advocate treat the 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Crowned not with gold but instead with painful thorns. issue of the clergy sexual abuse scandal? (Marlboro, N.J.) O King of all God’s great creation, Readers may submit prose With not a throne to rule the nations Pope John Paul II—along with or poetry for faith column But upon a cross was your battered body borne. APope John XXIII—will be canonized by Natalie Hoefer Pope Francis in a liturgy at the Vatican on The Criterion invites readers to submit O King of every life created, is a member of April 27, 2014. original prose or poetry relating to faith By so many were you hated, St. Monica Parish As your question suggests, some people or experiences of prayer for possible Crucified, with few who for you mourned. in Indianapolis have objected to this decision—particularly publication in the “My Journey to God” and a reporter for advocates for victims of clergy sex abuse— column. O resurrected King most glorious, The Criterion. A because, they say, as the Church’s leader, Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Now with God in heaven victorious, stained-glass window Pope John Paul did not act quickly and Please include name, address, parish and On this day we give you all our thanks and praise! of Jesus wearing forcefully enough in punishing abusers and telephone number with submissions. a crown is seen at protecting children. Send material for consideration To Christ the King of Mother Church, St. Joseph’s Seminary They especially fault Pope John Paul to “My Journey to God,” To Christ the King of heaven and Earth, in Yonkers, N.Y. for his support of the Mexican priest The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian St., We give glory, love and honor all our days! Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, who Indianapolis, IN 46206 or e-mail to fostered many religious vocations through [email protected]. † the society he founded, the Legion of Christ. Page 18 The Criterion Friday, November 22, 2013

and Treva Miles and Victor and Carla Pagani. MILLS, Agnes T., 82, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Rest in peace Floyd County, Nov. 6. Mother

of Dawn Ridge, Sherry Wilson, Reuters Yip, CNS photo/Bobby Please submit in writing Mother of Roseann Hamel- to our office by 10 a.m. Harris, Frank, James, John and Dennis, Ray and Richard Thursday before the week of Leo Evans. Grandmother of 15. Mills. Sister of Bud Campbell. publication; be sure to state Great-grandmother of 30. Great- Grandmother of seven. Great- date of death. Obituaries of great-grandmother of one. grandmother of 10. archdiocesan priests serving FRUEHWALD, Pearl M., 86, , our archdiocese are listed NADERMAN, Joseph H. St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 6. Aunt elsewhere in The Criterion. 66, Immaculate Conception, of several. Order priests and religious Millhousen, Nov. 5. Cousin of sisters and brothers are HEEDE, Marjorie P., 95, several. included here, unless they are St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Oct. 31. PARKER, Violeta E., 55, natives of the archdiocese or Mother of Linda Cress, James have other connec­tions to it; and Robert Heede. Grandmother St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, those are separate obituaries of five. Great-grandmother Floyd County, Nov. 7. Wife of on this page. of one. Greg Parker. Mother of GeeAnn AGRESTA, Gwendolyn Marie, HELLMAN, Cyrilla A., and Gerard Parker. Grandmother 82, Nativity of Our Lord Jesus 91, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, of one. Christ, Indianapolis, Oct. 25. Floyd County, Nov. 10. Mother RAMSEY, Joan M., 87, Mother of Katie Baxter, Mary of David, Dennis and Jerry Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Kappes, Francie Kight, Annie, Hellman. Grandmother of six. Nov. 1. Mother of Karen Margie, James, Larry, Michael, Great-grandmother of 10. Great- Quinn-Folzenlogel, Kathleen Sam and Tony Agresta. Sister of great-grandmother of six. Karen Jones. Grandmother of 27. Quinn-Young and Julianne INGRAM, Barbara Ann, 82, Great-grandmother of 46. Ramsey Bidwell. Grandmother St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Praying for the Philippines of six. Great-grandmother of 10. BOTTOM, Christine L., Nov. 3. Mother of Mary Ann and 60, SS. Francis and Clare, John Ingram. RENNIE, Justin, 66, Greenwood, Nov. 11. Wife of Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired archbishop of Washington, prays during a Mass inside , St. Augustine, Leopold, Sept. 8. Carey Bottom. Mother of Shawn KEOUGH, Robert Joseph the partially destroyed Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord in Palo, Philippines on 63, St. Charles Borromeo, Husband of Betty Sue Rennie. Bottom. Daughter of Kenneth Nov. 17. Cardinal McCarrick celebrated Mass at the heavily damaged cathedral for victims of Bloomington, Nov. 6. Brother Father of Beth McClane, Donna, Mayhan. Sister of Mark and Matt Typhoon Haiyan, which came ashore on Nov. 8 in the Philippines, killing thousands. Mayhan. Grandmother of one. of Daniel, John, Kevin and Nancy and Charles Rennie. Timothy Keough. BURLINGAME, SMITH, Rosetta E. (Hess), Robert D., Sr., 91, St. Therese of LAKER, Anna M., 67, 92, Holy Family, New Albany, the Infant Jesus (Little Flower), St. Mary, Rushville, Nov. 2. Nov. 2. Mother of Phyllis Wife of Donald Laker. Mother Pope prescribes daily rosary Indianapolis, Oct. 30. Father Andres, Denise Bomersbach, of Connie Duffitt, Gloria Lee, of Rosie Laker-Weber, Bonnie, Connie, Brian and James Darlene Schy, Karen Thomas, for what ails you in life Ed and Robert Burlingame. Dick, Jerry, Jim and Juder Smith. Grandfather of six. Great- Laker. Grandmother of eight. Sister of Irene and Marcella VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis a rosary, a Divine Mercy holy card and a grandfather of eight. Step-grandmother of four. Great- grandmother of three. Naville. Grandmother of 16. admitted he wasn’t a pharmacist, but he medical-style instruction sheet. CARMACK, Robert P., 79, Great-grandmother of 22. didn’t hesitate being the spokesman for In addition to describing how to St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, MARKS, Laverne (Beberdick), the heart-healthy benefits of 59 little pills pray the rosary and the Divine Mercy Oct. 30. Husband of Joan 90, St. Matthew the Apostle, STROBEL, Mary L., Indianapolis, Oct. 29. Wife strung together: the rosary. Chaplet, a devotion begun by St. Faustina Carmack. Father of Jo Ellen St. Pius V., Troy, 82, Nov. 7. “I want to recommend some medicine Kowalska, the information sheet states Ford, James, Jonathan and of Robert Nelson Marks. Wife of Urban Strobel. Mother Stepmother of Kim Brinegar, for all of you,” the pope said on Nov. 17 categorically that no negative side effects William Carmack. Brother of of Joanie Howland, Lee Ann David, John and Paul Marks. at the end of his Sunday Angelus address. have been reported. Betty Jane Upton and Harold Huebschman, Bernie, Dennis Carmack. Grandfather of six. “It’s a spiritual medicine.” The sheet recommends daily use of MARTIN, Norma J., 85, and Michael Strobel. Sister of Great-grandfather of three. Holding up a white medicine box with the beads for both adults and children, Most Holy Name of Jesus, Jean Gleann and Rita Northcott. Beech Grove, Oct. 22. Mother of an anatomical drawing of the human but adds that it can be repeated as often CLARK, Janet Lee, 66, Grandmother of six. Great- St. Andrew, Richmond, Cindy, David, Gary, Jim, Kevin heart on it, Pope Francis told some as necessary. It also notes that receiving grandmother of six. Nov. 6. Mother of Stephanie and Les Martin. 80,000 people gathered for the midday the sacraments increases the efficacy prayer that the boxes contained a rosary. of the prescription, and that further Pollitt. Stepmother of Shelly McCOOL, Clara (Gerkin), 95, THOMPSON, Elizabeth J., 88, Norris and Darrel Clark. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Oct. 16. “Don’t forget to take it,” he said. “It’s information and assistance can be received Daughter of Helen Liebert. Sister Nov. 8. Mother of Emmy Gray, Wife of Don Thompson. Mother good for your heart, for your soul, for your from any priest. of Susan, John and Michael Ann Henson and Sandi Miller. of Carol Stumpf. Grandmother of whole life.” The Swiss Guards, their family members Liebert. Grandmother of seven. Sister of Rose Ann Born. two. Great-grandmother of two. Praying the rosary and the and the Albertine Sisters who work in EBERLE, Richard, 57, Grandmother of seven. Great- Divine Mercy Chaplet will help people their barracks spent weeks in October, the St. Charles Borromeo, grandmother of two. VENDELY, Bill, 96, reap the fruits of the Year of Faith, he said, month of the rosary, preparing the boxes Christ the King, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Oct. 31. Father of MILES, Bernadette Ann, because they are “a spiritual aid for our and inserting instructions in Italian, French, Nov. 4. Father of Margaret, Chris and Tim Eberle. Brother of infant, St. Charles Borromeo, soul and for spreading love, forgiveness English or Polish. Archbishop Krajewski Steve Eberle. Grandfather of five. Bloomington, Oct. 25. Daughter Patricia, Theresa, Edward and and brotherhood to everyone.” got the idea from Archbishop Slawoj EVANS, Rosemary H., 103, St. of Lee and Tricia Miles. Sister Tony Vendely. Grandfather Volunteers, led by Archbishop Konrad Glodz of Gdansk, Poland. A seminarian in Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little of Marcella, Callum and Niccolo of seven. Great-grandfather Krajewski, director of papal charities, Gdansk had made similar boxes for youths Flower), Indianapolis, Oct. 24. Miles. Granddaughter of Alan of eight. † gave away about 20,000 boxes containing attending a retreat. †

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CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, INC. Donor-advised fund helps family with charitable donations Special to The Criterion willingness to serve the needs of the Church,” said John. The Duffy’s engagement in the Church has led them For John and Melissa Duffy, giving to charity was to make sacrifices in order to support its ministries. instilled at a young age and reinforced throughout their Recently, the couple made the decision to establish lives by their family and faith a donor-advised fund with the Catholic Community community. Foundation (CCF). The fund, simply described as a Melissa, a nurse practitioner charitable checking account, enables John and Melissa to by training, is currently a make charitable contributions on a regular basis in any stay-at-home mom to sixth-grade amount to one or multiple Catholic ministries. triplets, Martin, Michael and And the fund keeps John, Melissa and their children Lauren. John is employed by actively involved. Morgan Stanley, and has 20 years “The fund is an important teaching opportunity of experience in the investment for our children,” Melissa said. “We plan to share our industry. Both have been generous giving decisions with them, and include them in the with the Church and the greater decision-making process when they get a bit older. We Indianapolis community. like the idea of them eventually being able to designate Ellen Brunner Melissa shares her gifts at gifts to suitable charities.” St. Simon the Apostle Parish, the Offered by the CCF, a donor-advised fund is a family’s parish in Indianapolis, and with community charitable gifting instrument. It is a simple, less costly Melissa and John Duffy organizations such as the Indianapolis Children’s alternative to establishing and maintaining a private Museum Guild. foundation, explained Ellen Brunner, CCF director. unlike private foundations, can protect a donor’s identity, John was a cabinet member for the archdiocese’s “The beauty of the donor-advised fund is that the if requested, Brunner added. “Legacy for Our Mission” campaign. He currently serves benefactors have the ability to direct grants from the on the board of directors at Father Thomas Scecina donor-advised funds to Catholic ministry areas closest (For more information about establishing a donor- Memorial High School as well as the finance committee to their hearts,” Brunner said. “Donors contribute tax- advised fund or information about the many charitable at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary, both in deductible assets to their donor-advised funds, and and gift planning opportunities available through the Indianapolis. recommend distributions from the account to charitable Catholic Community Foundation, please contact them at The Catholic faith is a guidepost for the Duffy family. organizations of their choice over time.” 317-236-1482 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1482. They will be “Our enthusiasm for our faith translates to a strong CCF does the record keeping and due diligence, and, happy to assist you.) † Confession renews grace of baptism, Pope Francis says at weekly audience VATICAN CITY (CNS)—With baptism, Christians “This must never happen! Let us pray with new life “that isn’t weighed down by a negative past, but are cleansed of sin, but the sacrament doesn’t wash away insistence,” the pope said. The “real battles” that need to already contains hints of the beauty and goodness of the human weakness nor the obligation to ask forgiveness be fought in the world, he said, are not wars for power, kingdom of heaven.” when they make mistakes, Pope Francis said. but battles “for life, never for death.” “This is beautiful,” he told an estimated 45,000 people Baptism is “God’s powerful intervention in our lives In his main audience talk, continuing a gathered in St. Peter’s Square. “I can’t be baptized to save us. This saving intervention of God doesn’t Year of Faith series about the creed, Pope Francis two or three or four times, but I can go to confession, and remove our human nature and weakness. We are all reflected on the affirmation, “I confess one baptism for when I go to confession, I renew that grace of baptism. weak and we are all sinners. And baptism doesn’t the forgiveness of sins.” “The Lord Jesus is so good that he never tires of remove our responsibility to ask forgiveness every time As he has done on several occasions, the pope forgiving me. Remember that! Baptism opens the doors we err,” the pope said on Nov. 13 during his weekly encouraged people to find out the date of their baptism of the Church. Look up the date of your baptism. But general audience. and celebrate it as a “second birthday.” He told the also, when the door starts closing a bit because of our At the end of the audience, Pope Francis offered crowd he wouldn’t ask the bishops present if they weakness and sins, confession reopens it.” prayers for the victims of the typhoon in the Philippines knew their baptismal dates “because I don’t want to “Let’s go forward joyfully, OK? Because life must and for those who died on Nov. 11 when a mortar shell embarrass them.” be lived with the joy of Jesus Christ,” he said. “This is a hit a school bus in Damascus, Syria. Through baptism, he said, God gives each person a grace from the Lord.” †

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On the sidelines, head coach Terri Purichia let And they’ve put in a lot of time that makes them her clipboard drop to the court, her tears flowing successful, too.” as her assistant coaches rushed to hug her. Crucial to that success was the leadership It’s a scene and a feeling that Purichia says of the seniors on the team, Maile Daniel, she will never forget—a scene and a feeling that Mary Kate Meyer and Abby Spitznagel. overflowed with emotion immediately after the Abby was the recipient of the Class 2A volleyball team of Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. Mental Attitude Award. High School in Clarksville won its first Indiana “They’re good leaders by example,” Purichia High School Athletic Association (IHSAA) said. “When your seniors behave in that way, your championship in volleyball on Nov. 9. other players know no other way.” “I found myself getting very emotional For Purichia, the state championship was a after the victory,” said Purichia whose team fulfillment of a dream that started in 1986 when she defeated Bishop Noll High School of Hammond, was a freshman at Providence. Ind., in the Class 2A championship by a “I love this school and the people in it,” said score of 25-18, 25-15 and 25-20 at Ball State Purichia, who has been the Providence volleyball University’s Worthen Arena in Muncie. “I was so coach since 1998. “I’ve been blessed as a player, a overwhelmed with pride and happiness.” coach and a teacher to be part of this community. The victory capped a storybook season in “I know how hard so many people through which the Providence team finished with a the years have worked for this. We have such a record of 36-4—one more win than last year’s tradition of excellence here, but we’ve never been team which lost in the state championship match. able to bring a volleyball state championship “That loss fueled the fire for 365 days,” back to Providence. To be able to do that for the Purichia noted. school is such an awesome experience. It’s very Just as important, she said, were the meaningful for me to be a part of. leadership, chemistry, unity and talent that “It’s a feeling I won’t ever forget.” †

‘They’ve been playing together for a few years, and they get along very well on the court and off the court. That chemistry is so critical. The second thing is that they have some talent. And they’ve put in a lot of time that makes them successful, too.’

—Terri Purichia, Our Lady of Providence

Jr./Sr. High School volleyball coach Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School players celebrate winning the Class 2A state volleyball championship on Nov. 9 at Ball State University’s Worthen Arena in Muncie. Players fight through adversity to help Brebeuf Jesuit claim Class 3A state title By John Shaughnessy the season.” A year ago, the 33-year-old Huse Anna Huse considers it fitting the way couldn’t imagine coaching at Brebeuf. A Submitted photo the volleyball team of Brebeuf Jesuit 1999 graduate of Milan High School in Preparatory School in Indianapolis recently Milan, she was in her sixth season as an earned a state championship. assistant coach of the volleyball team at “We had a lot of close matches Miami University in Ohio. But that focus like that this year,” said Huse in changed as she prepared to be married in describing her team’s 26-24, 27-25, March and her husband-to-be, William, 25-23 win over Concordia High School received a job offer in Indianapolis. of Fort Wayne, Ind., in the Class 3A “My mother-in-law informed me of championship of the Indiana High School the opening at Brebeuf,” Huse recalled. Athletic Association (IHSAA) on Nov. 9 “I called the school at the end of January, at Ball State University’s Worthen Arena I was hired in February, and we were in Muncie. married on March 1.” “It reinforces that this team never gives The Brebeuf players quickly up. They fight. They have the belief they bought into her coaching philosophy, can win.” Huse noted. They also have a touch of history as they “My philosophy is to learn every day became the first volleyball state champions to become a better team, to get better Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School players celebrate winning the Class 3A state volleyball with more than 10 losses in a season. at the game, and to be accountable for championship on Nov. 9 at Ball State University’s Worthen Arena in Muncie. Starting the state tournament with a our performance,” she said. “Team record of 13-12, Brebeuf’s team won seven intelligence is important. Inclusion is, matches in the post-season to claim its too. The players developed a sisterhood ‘Our loss record doesn’t reflect the quality of our fourth state title in the sport. through the season. Their leadership “Our loss record doesn’t reflect the was excellent.” team. We faced a lot of great teams during the quality of our team,” said Huse, the One of the team’s leaders, season. We also had some injuries. But we always first-year head coach. “We faced a lot of Sierra Witham, was named the recipient moved forward. That was what was special. great teams during the season. We also of the Class 3A Mental Attitude Award. Through the struggles, they kept fighting.’ had some injuries. But we always moved “I’m extremely proud of all the forward. That was what was special. players because they worked so hard and —Anna Huse, Brebeuf Jesuit Through the struggles, they kept fighting.” fought so hard,” Huse said. “When you Huse paused and added, “I felt extreme work so hard for months to get a goal, Preparatory School volleyball coach happiness when we won. I was so proud it’s so great when you accomplish it. and honored to coach this team through It just feels right.” †

Catholic Charities USA president sees strong message in how pope lifts up the poor ALEXANDRIA, Va. (CNS)—The president of Catholic is an effort of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of than half of the Church’s membership until the 1900s—to Charities USA said Pope Francis is calling people to a Catholic relief, development and social service agencies. acclimate to this country. “new reality certainly in the way that he lifts up the poor.” One aim of the campaign is to urge governments to At the beginning, their work involved ministering just to His message of walking with those in need addresses implement the right to food in national law. Catholics, he said, but the Second Vatican Council changed some of the questions Catholic Charities and other Catholic Father Snyder outlined the long history of Catholic the approach and “challenged us to be leaven in the world.” organizations have faced, Father Larry Snyder told a group social ministries in the United States, which began almost For organizations such as Catholic Charities, that meant of journalists and media professionals on Nov. 7 at the 300 years ago when French Ursuline sisters built a school, anybody who was in need, regardless of their religious Catholic Press Association’s Southern and Eastern regional hospital and orphanage in New Orleans. affiliation, could get services. Today, local agencies of meeting in Alexandria. “What happened in New Orleans is what has happened Catholic Charities help about 10 million individuals every The priest also mentioned that Pope Francis is expected in every community since Catholics have populated this year, he said. to introduce a worldwide hunger campaign with a video country,” he said. “It was a response to a local need.” Father Snyder said Catholic Charities’ goal is to message on Dec. 10, which is World Human Rights Day. Since then, religious communities and lay Catholics ultimately reduce poverty in the United States—which The campaign, “One human family, and food for all,” helped other Catholic immigrants—who made up more affects more than 46 million people. †