Inside Highest ‘Ranck’-ing Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School senior Helen Ranck continues her family’s valedictorian streak, page 3. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Souther n Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com May 18, 2007 Vol. XLVII, No. 31 75¢ Arrest made The long and winding road in St. Anne Deacon Summers follows circuitous path to priesthood Church fire (Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series on the three transitional deacons By Mary Ann Wyand who will be ordained to the priesthood by Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein at Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Five weeks after fire destroyed historic 10 a.m. on June 2 at SS. Peter and Paul St. Anne Church in New Castle during the Cathedral in Indianapolis.) early morning hours of Holy Saturday, Henry County authorities arrested William By Sean Gallagher L. Abbott, 33, of New Castle on felony charges of arson, burglary and theft. Over the past 20 years, Deacon Henry County prosecutor Kit Crane Randall Summers has traveled across said Abbott was arrested on May 10 and the United States and around the world. charged with three Class A felony counts But on June 2, he will arrive where of arson for endangering the lives of God has called him to be when others, setting fire to a house of worship Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and causing a loss greater than $5,000. ordains him a priest who will serve the New Castle firefighter Jack Thurman faithful in central and southern Indiana. injured his back while battling the April 7 Deacon Summers, 50, will be blaze that gutted the 83-year-old brick ordained with deacons Eric Nagel and church and Henry County landmark. Thomas Kovatch in a eucharistic liturgy In a May 10 telephone interview, Crane that will begin at 10 a.m. on June 2 at said Abbott was also charged with a SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Class B felony of burglary and a Class D Indianapolis. felony of theft. Deacon Summers considered an Abbott, who is a convicted felon with airport his office for nearly 20 years, an extensive criminal history, is being held working as a consultant in the health at the Henry County Jail. care industry. Crane said bond on the underlying Based for many years in northwest- offenses and habitual offender offense was ern Indiana, he flew each week to work set at $340,000, which he hopes is enough at hospitals from coast to coast. to secure Abbott’s attendance at trial if During vacations, Deacon Summers bond is posted. visited 47 of the 50 states as well as “It’s been a great effort on the part of numerous countries in Europe and the New Castle Police Department, the northern Africa. Henry County Sheriff’s Department, the Although he has a long history of Deacon Randall Summers carries a Book of the Gospels during the chrism Mass celebrated on April 3 Indiana State Police, the federal … spanning the globe, Deacon Summer’s at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Deacon Summers will be ordained to the priesthood at Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms investiga- path to the priesthood can be traced the cathedral on June 2. tors and the New Castle Fire Department,” back even further. Crane said. “Those folks have … worked Raised in a Catholic home in north- “But certainly those Catholic values that I got to something else,” he said. really hard over the last few weeks. [The western Iowa and educated at Catholic when I was in grade school and in high school Deacon Summers pondered such investigation] culminated within the last primary and secondary schools and a were helpful in keeping the doors open as far questions in what he described as a “fruitful” few days.” Catholic college, Deacon Summers said as coming back.” life of prayer during his years working as a The probable cause affidavit stated that he was 19 when he thought God might God’s call to the priesthood also kept consultant. investigators determined the fire was be calling him to the priesthood. re-echoing as Deacon Summers grew older. “I was extremely self-reflective and caused by “open flame ignition to avail- In his early 20s, he joined “Every few years or so, I would get these self-directing,” he said. “It wasn’t a formal able materials.” Blue Cloud Abbey, a Benedictine ‘nudgings’ to look into the priesthood or reli- kind of prayer life, though. I might pray while The affidavit also stated that “the main monastery in Martin, S.D. He chose to gious life,” he said. “I may have looked up riding the bus into work.” body of the fire originated within the forgo making lifelong solemn vows and some places, depending on where I was in the Finally, Deacon Summers could ignore northern end of the basement meeting left the monastery when his temporary U.S. But whenever I would get a little too God’s call no longer. room, and that there were three other vows were completed in 1984. close, I would just sort of back away.” “I needed to pursue this and get it out of separate areas of burning within the After that, there was a time when he Deacon Summers’ reticence was partly my system once and for all,” he said. sacristy, north hall and server’s room.” put Catholicism on the back burner. related to his success in health care. He made this conclusion about The affidavit also noted that Abbott’s “I did go through a period in my life “That was part of the struggle in discerning eight years ago while living near Chicago. fingerprints were identified on a full bottle in my adult years where I didn’t prac- a vocation—trying to understand how I could After investigating some religious of altar wine taken from a locked cabinet tice my faith,” Deacon Summers said. be successful in a career and God calling me See SUMMERS, page 9 in the church and discarded in a dumpster. A silver goblet and several gold canisters See ARREST, page 9 Pope tells Latin American Church to focus on Jesus

APARECIDA, Brazil (CNS)—On a of marriage, and an erosion of traditional five-day visit to Latin America, Pope Latin America values and said that in response Benedict XVI identified a host of social and the Church needs to put greater emphasis on religious challenges and said the Church the religious education of its own members. should respond by focusing more clearly on One big reason that evangelical Churches the person of Jesus Christ. have attracted Catholics, he told Brazilian Reuters Gentile, CNS photo/Tony “This is the faith that has made America bishops, is that many Catholics are the ‘continent of hope.’ Not a political ideol- insufficiently evangelized and their faith is ogy, not a social movement, not an economic weak, confused and easily shaken. system: faith in the God who is love—who In a country where televangelists have took flesh, died and rose in Jesus Christ,” the had great success with simplistic religious pope said on the final day of his May 9-13 messages, the pope did not hold out any easy visit to Brazil. solutions. It was a comment echoed in many of his Instead, he said, the Church should encounters, which included a rally with conduct “a methodical evangelization aimed young people, the canonization of the first at personal and communal fidelity to Christ.” Brazilian-born saint, and the inauguration of Firm doctrinal content is essential to faith the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops formation, he said, and at nearly every stop Pope Benedict XVI embraces a group of children of Latin America and the Caribbean. he suggested wider use of the Catechism of during his visit to Fazenda da Esperanca The pope cited inroads by secularism, the Catholic Church. (Farm of Hope) drug rehabilitation center in threats against the family and the institution See BRAZIL, page 10 Guaratingueta, Brazil, on May 12. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007 Archbishop announces clergy, parish assignments

Official Appointments Franklin County, to pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist minister at Immaculate Conception Parish in Parish in Indianapolis. Millhousen and St. Denis Parish in Jennings County. Effective July 3, 2007 Rev. Mr. Randall R. Summers, to be ordained a priest Rev. Shaun P. Whittington, instructor at Father Rev. Msgr. Bernard R. Schmitz, pastor of St. Anthony of on June 2, 2007, to associate pastor of St. Barnabas Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Padua Parish in Morris and administrator of St. Charles Parish in Indianapolis. Madison, with residence and assisting at St. Lawrence Borromeo Parish in Milan and St. Pius Parish in Ripley Parish in Lawrenceburg, to administrator of St. John County, to pastor emeritus of St. Anthony of Padua Parish Rev. Dominic Chukwudi, from Issele-Uku Diocese, Parish in Osgood and St. Magdalen Parish in in Morris and granted permission to retire. Delta State, Nigeria, associate pastor of St. Barnabas New Marion, and chaplain of Father Michael Shawe Parish in Indianapolis, to administrator of Annunciation Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison. Rev. Gregory D. Bramlage, pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Brazil and Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville, Parish in Sunman, to administrator of St. Charles with residence at Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville. Rev. Thomas E. Clegg, pastor of Most Sacred Heart of Borromeo Parish in Milan and St. Pius Parish in Ripley Jesus Parish in Jeffersonville, to pastor of St. Augustine County, and continuing as pastor of St. Nicholas Parish Rev. Stephen T. Jarrell, pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Jeffersonville and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus in Sunman. Parish in Greencastle and Annunciation Parish in Brazil, Parish in Jeffersonville. to pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle Rev. Pascal E. Nduka, from Issele-Uku Diocese, and continuing as chaplain at DePauw University in Sister Shirley Gerth, O.S.F., reappointed parish life Delta State, Nigeria, associate pastor of St. Anthony Greencastle and the Indiana State Farm in Putnamville. coordinator of St. Rose Parish in Knightstown and Parish in Indianapolis, to administrator of St. Anthony St. Anne Parish in New Castle. of Padua Parish in Morris. Rev. Mathew Joseph Choorapanthiyil, O.C.D.,from Malabar Province, Kerala, India, administrator of Rev. Wilfred E. Day, pastor of Holy Family Parish in Rev. J. Peter Gallagher, part-time associate pastor of Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville, to Provincial assignment. New Albany, to dean of the New Albany Deanery and St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, to sacramental continuing as pastor of Holy Family Parish in assistant at St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis and Rev. Joseph M. Feltz, pastor of St. Lawrence Parish in New Albany. Holy Trinity Parish in Indianapolis, and continuing as Lawrenceburg and dean of the Batesville Deanery, to chaplain of Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in administrator of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Deacon John J. Chlopecki, parish deacon assignment at Indianapolis, with residence at St. Anthony Parish in Parish in Aurora and continuing as pastor of St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County, to parish deacon Indianapolis. St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrenceburg and dean of the assignment at St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Morris. Batesville Deanery. Rev. Robert J. Robeson, sacramental assistant at Effective Sept. 5, 2007 St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, to Rev. Michael Osemene, from Issele-Uku Diocese, sacramental assistant at St. Malachy Parish in Delta State, Nigeria, sacramental ministry at St. Mark Rev. Stephan Brown, S.V.D., pastor of St. Rita Parish Brownsburg and continuing as rector of Bishop Simon the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, to associate pastor in Indianapolis, to Society of Divine Word assignment. Bruté College Seminary at Marian College in of St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrenceburg and St. Mary of Indianapolis, with residence at Bishop Simon Bruté the Immaculate Conception Parish in Aurora, with Rev. Eusebius C. Mbidoaka, from Orlu Diocese, College Seminary in Indianapolis. residence at St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrenceburg. Nigeria, to administrator of St. Rita Parish in Indian- apolis and sacramental minister at St. Andrew the Rev. Mr. Thomas G. Kovatch, to be ordained a priest Rev. Christopher A. Craig, pastor of St. Mary of the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. on June 2, 2007, to associate pastor of Holy Family Immaculate Conception Parish in Aurora, to pastor of Parish, St. Andrew Parish and St. Mary Parish in St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville. Rev. Gerald J. Kirkhoff, pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Richmond, and chaplain of Seton Catholic High School Indianapolis, vicar for advocacy for priests, dean of the in Richmond. Rev. Donald A. Quinn, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Indianapolis North Deanery, and priest moderator and Shelbyville, to sacramental assistant at Our Lady of the sacramental minister of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Rev. Eric Augenstein, associate pastor of Holy Family Greenwood Parish in Greenwood and hospital ministry. Indianapolis, continuing as pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Parish, St. Andrew Parish and St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis, vicar for advocacy for priests, dean of the Richmond, and chaplain of Seton Catholic High School Rev. Mr. Eric Nagel, to be ordained a priest on June 2, Indianapolis North Deanery and priest moderator of in Richmond, to administrator of Our Lady of Perpetual 2007, to associate pastor of Our Lady of the Greenwood St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. Help Parish in New Albany. Parish in Greenwood and associate director of vocations for the archdiocese. Rev. Robert T. Hausladen, associate pastor of Rev. Paul D. Etienne, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis, sacramental minister Help Parish in New Albany, to vice rector of Bishop Rev. Jonathan P. Meyer, associate pastor of St. Luke of St. Andrew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis and Simon Bruté College Seminary at Marian College in Parish in Indianapolis and director of youth and young chaplain of Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis and pastor of St. Simon the Apostle Parish adult ministry for the archdiocese, to director of youth Indianapolis, continuing as associate pastor of in Indianapolis, with residence at St. Simon the ministry for the archdiocese and continuing as associate St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis and chaplain of Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. pastor of St. Luke Parish in Indianapolis. Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis.

Rev. Robert W. Sims, pastor of St. Simon the Apostle Rev. James R. Bonke, defender of the bond for the Effective Oct. 3, 2007 Parish in Indianapolis, to pastor of Immaculate Heart of Metropolitan Tribunal for the archdiocese and weekend Mary Parish in Indianapolis. sacramental assistance at St. Luke Parish in Indianapolis Rev. Patrick J. Beidelman, pastor of SS. Peter and and Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, to part-time Paul Cathedral Parish in Indianapolis and director of Rev. Jeffrey H. Godecker, pastor of Immaculate Heart associate pastor of Christ the King Parish in Indian- liturgy for the Office of Worship for the archdiocese, of Mary Parish in Indianapolis, to chaplain of the apolis while continuing as defender of the bond for the granted permission to pursue graduate studies in Rome. Butler University Newman Center in Indianapolis and Metropolitan Tribunal, with residence at SS. Peter and sacramental minister at Good Shepherd Parish in Paul Cathedral rectory in Indianapolis. Rev. Julian Peters, O.S.B., Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Indianapolis, with residence at Christ the King Parish in administrator pro-tem of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Indianapolis. Rev. Mike Onwuegbuzie, from Issele-Uku Diocese, Parish in Indianapolis and interim director of liturgy for Delta State, Nigeria, associate pastor of SS. Francis and the Office of Worship for the archdiocese. Rev. Brian G. Esarey, associate pastor of St. Barnabas Clare of Assisi Parish in Greenwood, to Issele-Uku Parish in Indianapolis, to administrator of St. Martin diocesan assignment. Effective Dec. 1, 2007 Parish in Yorkville and St. Paul Parish in New Alsace and sacramental minister at St. Mary-of-the-Rock Rev. Robert J. Hankee, pastor of St. Maurice Parish in Sister Christine Ernstes, O.S.F., reappointed parish Parish in Franklin County. Napoleon, St. John Parish in Osgood and St. Magdalen life coordinator of Immaculate Conception Parish in Parish in New Marion, and sacramental minister at Millhousen and St. Denis Parish in Jennings County. Rev. Harold W. Rightor II, pastor of St. Martin Parish Immaculate Conception Parish in Millhousen and in Yorkville and St. Paul Parish in New Alsace and St. Denis Parish in Jennings County, to pastor of These appointments are from the office of the Most Rev. sacramental minister at St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in St. Maurice Parish in Napoleon and sacramental Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Archbishop of Indianapolis. †

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By John Shaughnessy The oldest of their three daughters, Amanda, was the valedictorian at

Helen Ranck already knew that her Cardinal Ritter in 2003. Carolyn, the Submitted photo two older sisters were the valedictorians second of the daughters, earned the of their high school classes. distinction in 2006 at Cardinal Ritter. Then she learned that both her mother The family takes the rare five-for-five and father were also the top academic in stride, preferring to focus on the students for their classes when they were journey of education rather than the in high school. outcome. So, as the youngest member of a “Helen’s drive is not to get the family of five, what kind of pressure did award,” her mother says. “She goes to Helen feel about becoming the valedic- school and does her thing and if it falls torian of her high school class? into place, it’s a good thing. Whatever it “Not a lot,” says Helen, a senior at is, Helen knows that if she gives her Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in best, that is enough. Indianapolis. “Just because we’re all valedictorians, Pressure or not, Helen continued the it doesn’t make us any better. It’s just a amazing family connection by becoming weird twist. People ask what I’ve done the valedictorian of Cardinal Ritter’s to make them smart, but I don’t know. I 2007 class of 81 students. used to read them stories a lot.” “If I hadn’t done it, I’d be the odd one Frequent trips to the library were a out,” says Helen, whose family belongs to routine part of childhood for the three St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis. “It’s girls, whose parents met in college while kind of cool [continuing the streak], but the studying to become mechanical The five members of the Ranck family have all been valedictorians of their high school classes. They are, important thing is taking the classes and engineers. In elementary school, the girls top row, from left, Kris and Joe Ranck, and bottom row, from left, Carolyn, Amanda and Helen Ranck. The hopefully learning something.” weren’t allowed to watch television until photo was taken after Amanda’s college graduation at the University of Evansville on May 12. The family tradition started in 1978 their homework was finished. Television when Helen’s mom, Kris, was valedic- has never been a main recreational Kris says. “It was something they took Amanda graduated on May 12 from torian at St. Paul Catholic High School activity in the family’s life. upon themselves. I remember Amanda the University of Evansville with a in Norwalk, Ohio. In 1979, Joe Ranck “When they got to junior high and high saying that she wanted to apply herself, and degree in civil engineering. Carolyn was the top student at Meridian High school, they just got things done on their she didn’t care anymore about people recently completed her freshman year at School in Sanford, Mich. own. I didn’t have to do anything,” making fun of her for being smart.” See RANCK page 8 1,328 students to graduate at Catholic high schools in ar chdiocese

Criterion staff report The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 6 p.m. the daughter of Jeffrey and Laura Noel of The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 5 p.m. on May 24 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Pius X Parish. on May 20 at the school. This spring, 1,328 Catholic high school Indianapolis. The archdiocese will be represented at the The graduation ceremony will be at seniors in the archdiocese will graduate. The graduation ceremony will be at graduation by Archbishop Daniel M. 8 p.m. on May 31 at Clowes Memorial Hall Here is a listing of graduation-related 7:30 p.m. on May 25 at the Murat Centre in Buechlein and Annette “Mickey” Lentz, the at Butler University in Indianapolis. information for the 10 Catholic high Indianapolis. executive director of Catholic education and Allen Goebl will present the senior schools—seven archdiocesan and three The class valedictorian is Karen Rea, the faith formation for the archdiocese. speech at graduation. He is the son of Mark private—in the archdiocese. daughter of Dr. James and Jane Rea of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in and Nancy Goebl of St. Louis de Montfort Bishop Chatard High School in Indian- St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. Indianapolis has a graduating class of Parish in Fishers, Ind., in the apolis has a graduating class of 207 seniors. The class salutatorian is Elizabeth Noel, 199 seniors. See GRADUATE, page 8

Legacy for Our Mission: For Our Children and the Future St. Paul Plans Upgrades to Accommodate Strong Growth

t. Paul Parish in Sellersburg is only about 60 years “I have met good people at St. Paul who will be friends for Sold—young compared to many in the archdiocese. life. I am working on the committee because a good friend Yet the parish and school are both struggling to accom- asked for my help.” —Jim Sellmer modate the growth of this southern Indiana community. Support from the Legacy for Our Mission campaign will “St. Paul is my spiritual anchor. I am involved because I help solve the problem. was asked.” —Chuck Mensching

Sellersburg is located just nine miles north of downtown “St. Paul is one of my highways to heaven. I agreed to work Louisville and is experiencing a housing boom that has on this campaign to help improve the future for the young.” caused steady growth in the parish. Parish households —Sue Davis have more than doubled since 1996 from 250 to nearly 600 families today. Likewise, St. Paul School has experi- Legacy for Our Mission, the archdiocesan capital campaign, enced an increase in enrollment during this time. and school in the future,” said the pastor, Father Paul is guided by the principles of Christian stewardship and F. Richart. Renovation work on both structures is set addresses future ministry needs of the archdiocese. By The surge is of concern to St. Paul because of two trends. to begin in June. contributing to Legacy for Our Mission, you are helping Church seating capacity—340—is insuffi cient. In addi- your parish address its most urgent capital, operating and tion, no significant improvements have been made to “The help of the Legacy for Our Mission is critical to our ministry needs as well as the shared ministries and home the church since its construction in 1972. It needs a future to help us make capital improvements to St. Paul missions of the archdiocesan community. new air conditioning system, carpeting, lighting and, that are badly needed,” Father Richart said. Campaign at some point in the future, expanded seating for 100 co-chair Mike Waiz added, “We’ve been talking about Please visit the new online home of the Legacy for Our additional members. the need for improvements to the church and school for Mission campaign at www.archindy.org/legacy. It can quite a while, and now is the time—with the help of the also be accessed at www.LegacyforOurMission.org. The school also needs updates. Built in 1949, it needs Legacy for Our Mission—to make this a reality.” new windows as well as upgraded heating and air con- And a Little Child Shall Lead Them . . . ditioning systems and improvements to the special Co-chair Chad Balmer said parishioners gave generously. Children as well as their parents responded enthu- education room. The building originally housed the In addition, nearly 100 members contributed their siastically to the Legacy for Our Mission campaign at school, church, rectory, convent and social room. A total time to work on the campaign. When asked what St. St. Paul. One example was the granddaughter of of 321 students are enrolled in the K–6 school. Paul means to them and why they were willing to St. Paul School Princtipal Fran Matusky. On her help, volunteers offered a variety of responses. Here is own, nine-year-old Savannah Thieneman decided “Our membership and parish ministries both are con- a sampling: to forego the usual presents at her birthday party and instead asked family and friends to donate to tinuing to grow. It is imperative that we maintain the capital stewardship campaign. As a bonus, and expand our facilities to serve our current parish “To me, St. Paul is a one-stop shop for a stairway to heaven.” her father matched all the money that was raised, —Jay Jacobi family as well as all those who may join our church bringing the total contribution to nearly $2,200. Page 4 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007

OPINION Parish Diary/Father Peter J. Daly Gossip and its hurtful nature Gossip: Everybody does it, and person down and cause harm to his or her Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 everybody suffers from it. reputation. Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Sometimes gossip 2. Gossip is malicious talk. Malicious Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus is sinful, but in my talk serves an evil purpose. It is designed experience hardly to harm the person we are talking about. anyone ever confesses The reason we want to share that it. Maybe that is information is to degrade the reputation Editorial because it is so of another. Often, we do this to make common. If we do ourselves feel superior. something routinely, Truth is no defense when it comes to we stop reflecting on gossip. Even when the information is true it it. can be malicious. Christians are held to a A few years ago, higher standard than newspapers. Just while preparing adult converts to receive because a newspaper prints it does not mean holy Communion, we got into a discussion that we should gossip about it. about whether it was better to receive There are very few things more valuable Communion in the hand or on the tongue. to a person than a good name. Once One man said he thought we shouldn’t information is broadcast, we cannot get it CNS photo illustration/Greg Tarczynski CNS photo illustration/Greg receive Communion in the hand because of back in the corral. We do not know how it all the sins we commit with our hands. might be used. Another responded immediately, “But When we repeat something bad, to no what about all the harm we do with our purpose, we add to the harm. tongues?” A good test for malicious talk is our own Good point. feelings. How would I feel if something We really can hurt people with sinful about me was repeated to others? Could I gossip. recover? I’m not referring to small talk or 3. Gossip is about the private lives of harmless chit chat. Such talk may not be others. We do not have a right to delve into beneficial, but it does little damage. It is lives of famous people. Even politicians and ordinary conversation. Simple observations celebrities should have a zone of privacy. can be made: “She’s lost weight” or “He Just because something is on the front page has been sick a long time” or “Their house does not mean a Christian should talk about has been on the market for 10 months.” it. The supermarket tabloids titillate, but This is hardly sinful. they do not elevate. When does talk become sinful gossip? 4. Gossip degrades the speaker. When we It seems to me that it has four listen to someone gossip, we should want to characteristics: move away. We know that this kind of talk Three new books, Unprotected by Dr. Miriam Grossman, Unhooked by Laura Sessions Stepp 1. Sinful gossip is merely idle talk. It is designed to destroy. We know that the and The Thrill of the Chaste by Dawn Eden, aim to get the word out to young women that serves no good purpose. It advances no speaker will come after us next. promiscuous and uncommitted sex isn’t all that it’s advertised to be. good cause. We are talking about things Christian speech should lift us up and that we cannot change or affect in any way. encourage us. It should appeal to our “better It is not sinful gossip for a doctor to talk angels” and noble thoughts. It should be a to a nurse about a patient’s sexually sign of grace. Sex and the college woman transmitted disease. It has a constructive Our tongue is a powerful instrument. It purpose. It can advance a cure. can be used to build up in grace or tear he virtue of chastity definitely is from depression and to attempt It is sinful gossip for the same doctor or down in gossip. Tnot culturally correct these days, suicide, and will be at a greater risk nurse to talk to their husband or wife about especially, it would appear, among for developing eating disorders and that same patient. That conversation does (Father Peter J. Daly writes for Catholic many college students. performing acts of self-mutilation. nothing for the patient except tear the News Service.) † Dating once was a time during Stepp is a journalist for which young men and women got to The Washington Post. Her book know each other better while having follows nine young women who fun together. Today, it can often be a became part of our culture’s practice Letters to the Editor time for uncommitted sex. of casual sex. Not surprisingly, they It’s called “hooking up,” casual suffered the same emotional and Reader: Nothing immoral about sex with, supposedly, no emotional relational consequences as those strings attached. It has become described by Grossman. common on college campuses, Eden’s book is a personal memoir a country protecting its borders although surveys about just how detailing the emotional damage and common vary considerably. Some loss of self-esteem that she I read the first two paragraphs of the And is this not, indeed, an interference with surveys report that 80 percent of experienced as a result of trying to article on the May 1 march for immigration the laws of our land? college women “hook up,” while engage in sex without commitment. reform with great interest, and Franciscan Barbara Maness, Vevay others say it’s about 40 percent, still She learned from her mistakes and Father Tom Fox reflecting on the reality of a shockingly high percentage. has written the book to try to help Jesus being an undocumented immigrant. Today’s young men and women other young women. She had been I believe at that time Judea and Egypt Letters Policy have grown up with television shows an agnostic Jew, but recently were both part of the Roman Empire, much Letters from readers are published in and movies that take premarital sex converted to Catholicism, an event closer to our concept of states within the The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s for granted, and magazines that tell that she mentions in the book. U.S. as opposed to separate autonomous commitment to “the responsible exchange their readers how to get the most The subtitle of Eden’s book tells countries. If that indeed were the case, of freely-held and expressed opinion enjoyment from sexual activity. Long her message: Finding Fulfillment documentation as we know it today would among the People of God” (Communio et before they reach college, girls have While Keeping Your Clothes On. She not have been necessary. Progressio, 116). been indoctrinated by our media to writes, “Through chastity—and only However, for the sake of argument, let Letters from readers are welcome and think that the “Sex and the City” through chastity—can all the graces us assume it was necessary. In that case, every effort will be made to include letters approach to the single life is the that are part of being a woman come Joseph, “being a just man” (Mt 1:19), from as many people and representing as many viewpoints as possible. Letters should ideal. to full flower in you.” would most certainly have complied with be informed, relevant, well-expressed and Now, though, there seems to be a What she and the other women all Egyptian laws of the day. temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic reconsideration of sorts—an effort to authors have discovered is that trying This “argument” smacks of the one sense of courtesy and respect. get the word out to young women to have sexual freedom, as the world we’ve heard before that the first settlers The editors reserve the right to select that promiscuous and uncommitted defines it, just doesn’t work. here were also undocumented immigrants. the letters that will be published and to sex isn’t all that it’s advertised to be. While we call your attention to If there is no law in place, documentation is edit letters from readers as necessary At least three new books tell it as it these three new books by and about a non-issue, such as in Jesus’ and the first based on space limitations, pastoral really is: Unprotected by Dr. Miriam women, men can take this advice to settlers’ times. sensitivity and content (including spelling Grossman (Sentinel, $23.95), heart, too. 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ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Summer series focuses on Holy Father’s exhortation on the Eucharist

(First in a series) Eucharist is the gift that Jesus Christ makes prevalent theme of his teachings, namely Even before becoming our pope, of himself, thus revealing to us God’s our human quest for truth and the freedom Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has pleaded for t the conclusion of the Second infinite love for every man and woman. This that authentic truth confers. The Eucharist, continuity in liturgical developments that Vatican Council, Pope Paul VI wondrous sacrament makes manifest that the source and summit of the life and flow from and are consistent with the Aiestablished a new collegial system ‘greater’ love which led him to ‘lay down mission of the Church, is the “food of Church’s centuries-old liturgical tradition. involving bishops around the world in the his life for his friends’ (Jn 15:13). Jesus did truth.” “Concretely, the changes which the Council deliberation of Church affairs. indeed love them ‘to the end’ (Jn 13:1). In “In the sacrament of the Eucharist, Jesus called for need to be understood within the He launched a series of international those words, the Evangelist introduces shows us in particular the truth about the overall unity of the historical development synods, meetings of representative bishops. Christ’s act of immense humility: before love which is the very essence of God. It is of the rite itself, without the introduction of The last synodal assembly of bishops in dying for us on the Cross, he tied a towel this evangelical truth which challenges each artificial discontinuities” (n. 3). Rome was held from Oct. 2-23, 2005. The around himself and washed the feet of his of us and our whole being. For this reason, “I wish here to endorse the wishes topic for consideration was the Eucharist, disciples. In the same way, Jesus continues, the Church, which finds in the Eucharist the expressed by the Synod Fathers by the sacrament at the heart of the Church. in the sacrament of the Eucharist, to love us very center of her life, is constantly encouraging the Christian people to deepen During a synod, the assembled bishops ‘to the end,’ even to offering us his body concerned to proclaim to all, opportune their understanding of the relationship hear formal presentations, make brief and blood. What amazement must the importune [when convenient and between the Eucharistic mystery, the observations on the topic and also gather in Apostles have felt in witnessing what the inconvenient] (cf. 2 Tm 4:2) that God is liturgical action and the new spiritual small language groups for in-depth Lord did and said during that Supper! What love. Precisely because Christ has become worship which derives from the Eucharist as discussion. The discussion groups draw up wonder must the Eucharistic mystery also for us the food of truth, the Church turns to the sacrament of charity” (n. 5). † proposals on the topic for presentation to the awaken in our own hearts!” (n. 1). every man and woman, inviting them freely Holy Father, who composes a post-synodal It is interesting to note that the to accept God’s gift” (n. 2). or apostolic exhortation largely drawn from Holy Father refers to the Eucharist as the The introduction of the apostolic Do you have an intention for the bishops’ proposals and the formal “Sacrament of Charity,” which is not all exhortation continues by reflecting on the Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? presentations made during the assembly. that common as a name given to the value of the Second Vatican Council, noting You may mail it to him at: On Feb. 22, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI sacrament. that “the difficulties and even the occasional signed his first exhortation under the title One hears an echo of the theme of the abuses … cannot overshadow the benefits Archbishop Buechlein’s “Sacramentum Caritatis: On the Eucharist, pope’s first encyclical letter, “Deus Caritas and the validity of the liturgical renewal, Prayer List Source and Summit of the Life and Mission Est” (“God is Love”), in which he whose riches are yet to be fully explored,” Archdiocese of Indianapolis of the Church.” The exhortation was expounds on the profound theme of God’s and recommending the application of a 1400 N. Meridian St. published on March 12, 2007. love and our response in charity. “hermeneutic of continuity” to the P.O. Box 1410 Since the apostolic exhortation speaks to The Eucharist, a gift of God’s love, continuing work of implementing the Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 the very life of the Church, I thought it empowers us to imitate His love and to live renewal (n. 3). might be helpful if in my annual summer lives of charity. “In this sacrament, the Lord series of columns I provide a summary of its truly becomes food for us, to satisfy our Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for May teachings and, hopefully, helpful hunger for truth and freedom. Since only commentary as well. the truth can make us free (cf. Jn 8:32) Seminarians: that they will be faithful to prayer and study , and persevere in their The exhortation begins with these words: Christ becomes for us the food of truth.” desire to serve God and the Church as priests. “The sacrament of charity, the Holy The Holy Father thus introduces another La serie del verano se centra en la exhortación del Santo Padr e sobre la Eucaristía (Primero de la serie) La exhortación comienza con estas (cf. Jn 8:32), Cristo se convierte para Aun antes de convertirse en nuestro palabras: nosotros en alimento de la Verdad.” Papa, el Cardenal Joseph Ratzinger ha na vez finalizado el Concilio “Sacramento de la caridad, la De esta forma el Santo Padre introduce abogado por la continuidad de un Vaticano Segundo, el Papa Pablo Santísima Eucaristía es el don que otro tema predominante de sus desarrollo litúrgico que emane de las UVI fundó un nuevo sistema de Jesucristo hace de sí mismo, revelándonos enseñanzas, a saber, nuestra búsqueda tradiciones litúrgicas de la Iglesia que colegios que involucra a todos los obispos el amor infinito de Dios por cada hombre. humana de la verdad y la libertad que nos datan de cientos de años y sea consistente del mundo en las deliberaciones sobre los En este admirable sacramento se confiere la verdad auténtica. La con ellas. “En concreto, se trata de leer asuntos de la Iglesia. manifiesta el amor ‘más grande,’ aquel Eucaristía, la fuente y culmen de la vida y los cambios indicados por el Concilio Lanzó una serie de sínodos interna- que impulsa a ‘dar la vida por los propios misión de la Iglesia es el “alimento de la dentro de la unidad que caracteriza el cionales, reuniones de obispos represen- amigos’ (cf. Jn 15,13). En efecto, Jesús verdad.” desarrollo histórico del rito mismo, sin tantes. La última asamblea sinodal de ‘los amó hasta el extremo’ (Jn 13,1). Con “En particular, Jesús nos enseña en el introducir rupturas artificiosas” (n. 3). obispos en Roma se celebró del 2 al 23 de esta expresión, el evangelista presenta el sacramento de la Eucaristía la verdad del “Deseo sobre todo recomendar, octubre de 2005. El tema a considerar fue gesto de infinita humildad de Jesús: antes amor, que es la esencia misma de Dios. teniendo en cuenta el voto de los Padres la Eucaristía, el sacramento que de morir por nosotros en la cruz, Ésta es la verdad evangélica que interesa sinodales, que el pueblo cristiano representa el corazón de la Iglesia. ciñéndose una toalla, lava los pies a sus a cada hombre y a todo el hombre. Por profundice en la relación entre el Durante un sínodo, los obispos discípulos. Del mismo modo, en el eso la Iglesia, cuyo centro vital es la Misterio eucarístico,elacto litúrgico y el congregados escuchan presentaciones Sacramento eucarístico Jesús sigue Eucaristía, se compromete constan- nuevo culto espiritual que se deriva de la formales, realizan breves observaciones amándonos ‘hasta el extremo,’ hasta el temente a anunciar a todos, [a tiempo y a Eucaristía como sacramento de la sobre el tema y también se reúnen en don de su cuerpo y de su sangre. ¡Qué destiempo] (cf. 2 Tm 4:2) que Dios es caridad” (n. 5). † pequeños grupos según su idioma para emoción debió embargar el corazón de los amor. Precisamente porque Cristo se ha profundizar en las discusiones. Los Apóstoles ante los gestos y palabras del hecho por nosotros alimento de la Verdad, grupos de discusión preparan propuestas Señor durante aquella Cena! ¡Qué la Iglesia se dirige al hombre, invitándolo ¿Tiene una intención que desee sobre el tema para presentarlas al Santo admiración ha de suscitar también en a acoger libremente el don de Dios” incluir en la lista de oración del Padre quien redacta una exhortación nuestro corazón el Misterio eucarístico!” (n. 2). Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar postsinodal o exhortación apostólica (n. 1). La introducción de la exhortación su correspondencia a: basada en gran parte en las propuestas de Es interesante destacar que el Santo apostólica continúa con la reflexión sobre los obispos y las presentaciones formales Padre se refiere a la Eucaristía como el el valor del Concilio Vaticano Segundo Lista de oración del Arzobispo realizadas durante la asamblea. “Sacramento de la caridad,” que no es observando que “las dificultades e incluso Buechlein El 22 de febrero de 2007, el Papa una forma en absoluto común de llamar a algunos abusos cometidos ... no Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis Benedicto XVI firmó su primera este sacramento. oscurecen el valor y la validez de la 1400 N. Meridian St. exhortación bajo el título “Sacramentum Se puede escuchar el eco del tema de la renovación litúrgica, la cual tiene aún P.O. Box 1410 Caritatis: Sobre la Eucaristía fuente y primera encíclica del Papa, “Deus Caritas riquezas no descubiertas del todo,” y Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 culmen de la vida y de la misión de la Est”(“Dios es amor”), en la que se recomienda la aplicación de una Iglesia.” La exhortación fue publicada el explaya sobre el profundo tema del amor “hermenéutica de la continuidad” al 12 de marzo de 2007. de Dios y nuestra respuesta en la caridad. trabajo constante que supone la Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, Debido a que la exhortación apostólica La Eucaristía, un obsequio del amor de implementación de la renovación (n. 3). Language Training Center, Indianapolis. habla acerca de la propia fuente de vida Dios, nos da la capacidad de imitar Su de la Iglesia, consideré que resultaría amor y vivir vidas de caridad. “En efecto, La intención de vocaciones del Ar zobispo Buechlein para mayo provechoso proporcionar un resumen de en este Sacramento el Señor se hace sus enseñanzas en mi serie de columnas comida para el hombre hambriento de Seminaristas: ¡Que ellos sean fieles a la oración y estudien, y continúen en su deseo anuales del verano y espero también verdad y libertad. Puesto que sólo la de servir a Dios y la Iglesia como sacerdotes! poder ofrecer comentarios útiles. verdad nos hace auténticamente libres Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007 Events Calendar May 18 May 18-20 Dearborn Road, Guilford. [email protected]. 800-382-9836 or e-mail Writing, Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Knights of Columbus Hall, 2100 St. Joseph Parish, 125 E. Broad- Ladies Sodality, hot breakfast [email protected]. 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Parish followed by holy hour, Father and their families, lunch festival, food, games, noon- Indianapolis. 13th annual taps. Information: 317-859-4673. 21 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Elmer Burwinkel, celebrant, Cardinal Ritter Race Party, “A Celebration in Honor of included, noon-2 p.m. registra- 8 p.m. Information: 317-888- pitch-in luncheon. Information: 6 p.m., $65 per person includes May 29 Father Gerald Burkert,” tion required. Information: 317- 1273. 812-689-3551. dinner. Information: 317-927- St. Francis Hospital, Community 1-3 p.m. Information: 317-784- 257-1505 or www.StFrancis May 20 7825 or e-mail esteczyk@ Relations, Carson Square Office, 5454, ext. 5. Hospitals.org/cancer. Holy Cross Parish, Kelley Gym, May 22 cardinalritter.org. 3145 E. Thompson Road, 125 N. Oriental St., Indianapolis. St. Athanasius the Great Byzan- Indianapolis. “Freedom from June 4 Weber Retreat and Conference 11th annual Health Fair, free tine Church, St. Mary Hall, May 24-July 5 Smoking,” seven-week pro- St. Francis Hospital, 1210 Center, Adrian, Mich. Adrian health screenings, 11:30 a.m.- 1117 Blaine Ave., Indianapolis. St. Barnabas Parish, House of gram, 6-8 p.m., $50 per person. Hadley Road, Mooresville. Dominican Sisters, “Come and 1:30 p.m. Information: 317-637- Catholic Charismatic Renewal Joseph, 523 Fabyan Road, Information: 317-782-7999. “Look Good, Feel Better,” See” Weekend, June 1-3, 2620, ext. 406, or jerlenbaugh@ of Central Indiana, prayer Indianapolis. “Divorce and workshop for women with can- registration deadline May 18. holycrossindy.org. meeting, 7:15 p.m. Information: Beyond” program, Session 1 of Spalding University, 851 S. cer, noon-2 p.m. Registration: Information: 866-744-0005 or 317-592-1992, six programs, 7-9 p.m. Informa- Fourth St., Louisville, Ky. 317-782-4422 or www.StFrancis [email protected]. St. Paul Parish, 9788 N. www.inholyspirit.org or e-mail tion: 317-236-1596 or Festival of Contemporary Hospitals.org/cancer. †

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What was known as the “third secret” was, in fact, the Pope Benedict XVI and his secretary of state said the entire The publication of the third secret “was a time of light, not third part of a vision shown to Sister Lucia and her cousins. message has been published and has been interpreted only because the message could be known by all, but also Sister Lucia had made the first two parts public in the accurately. because it unveiled the truth amid the confused framework of late 1930s. They included a vision of hell shown to the The Marian apparitions to three children in Fatima, apocalyptic interpretations and speculation circulating in the children, along with prophecies concerning the outbreak of Portugal, began 90 years ago on May 13, and Pope John Church, upsetting the faithful rather than asking them for World War II, the rise of communism and the ultimate triumph Paul II ordered the so-called “third secret” of Fatima to be prayers and repentance,” Pope Benedict wrote. of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, especially in Russia if the published in 2000. The pope, as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of country was consecrated to her Immaculate Heart. As the Fatima anniversary approached, the Vatican the Faith, said he wrote the Vatican commentary “after having Sister Lucia wrote down the third part of the message, bookstore was selling copies of The Last Fatima Visionary: My prayed intensely and meditated deeply on the authentic words sealed it in an envelope and gave it to her local bishop. The Meetings With Sister Lucia. The 140-page, Italian-language of the third part of the secret of Fatima, contained on sheets message was sent to the Vatican in 1957, where successive interview with Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of written by Sister Lucia.” popes read it, but decided not to reveal its contents. state, opens with a letter of presentation from Pope Benedict. Pope Benedict said that for him the secret can be As for objections that the secret could not refer to The two men worked with Pope John Paul to publish the summarized “by the consoling promise of the Most Holy Pope John Paul since he did not die, Cardinal Bertone said “third secret” and to write an official commentary on it, Virgin: ‘My immaculate heart will triumph.’ ” such objections show an ignorance of the spiritual purpose of describing its depiction of a “man dressed in white” shot down Cardinal Bertone’s knowledge of the Fatima secret is not prophecy. amid the rubble of a ruined city as a prophetic vision of the something that comes just from a book. “Prophecy is not guided by a deterministic fatalism,” he 1981 attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul. As secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the said. “Prayer and penance are stronger than evil and than In the new book, Cardinal Bertone said Carmelite Sister Faith, he was sent by Pope John Paul to Fatima to discuss the bullets.” † Lucia dos Santos, at the time the last surviving visionary, confirmed the Vatican’s interpretation. He also said Pope John Paul felt that since the assassination attempt had already taken place and he survived, the 2000 beatification of Sister Lucia’s cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, was an appropriate occasion for announcing the publication of the secret. The continuing rumors that the Vatican is still hiding something puzzle Cardinal Bertone and, he said, they irritated Sister Lucia, who died in February 2005 at the age of 97. In the book, Cardinal Bertone said, “The most diehard ‘Fatimists,’ like those who follow Father Nicholas Gruner’s Fatima Crusader magazine, remain disappointed.” Father Gruner, a priest based in Canada, repeatedly has said that the Vatican’s text does not match other accounts by Sister Lucia and, basically, does not contain anything worrying enough to have prevented Popes John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul II from publishing it earlier. The strange thing, Cardinal Bertone said in the new book, is that Pope John Paul decided to publish the secret precisely to put an end to the wild speculation that had surrounded it. “The most absurd theses” were being spread, mainly presuming that the secret predicted catastrophic world events or widespread heresy at the top levels of the Church, Cardinal Bertone said.

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Archbishop Buechlein and Lentz will be announced at the end of the school represented the archdiocese. year. GRADUATE Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High continued from page 3 The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 7 p.m. on June 1 at the school. School in Clarksville has a graduating class Lafayette Diocese. The graduation ceremony will be at of 116 seniors. The archdiocese will be represented at 1 p.m. on June 3 at the school. The Senior Mass was held in April. the graduation by Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, Three students are currently tied for Archbishop Buechlein and Lentz vicar general, and Lentz. valedictorian. The selection for this represented the archdiocese. Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in distinction will be made at the end of the The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 2 p.m. Indianapolis has a graduating class of school year. on May 20 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help CNS photo/Tony Fiorini, The Catholic University of America The Catholic University Fiorini, CNS photo/Tony 81 students. The three students are Kenny Leveille, Church in New Albany. The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 7 p.m. the son of James and Sara Leveille; Paige The graduation ceremony will be at on May 31 at St. Christopher Church in Jones, the daughter of Kevin Jones and Lisa 11 a.m. on May 26 at the school. Indianapolis. Morgan of Prince of Peace Parish in The class valedictorians are Kristin The graduation ceremony will be at Madison; and Cody Harms, the daughter of Mooney and Robert Steiner. Kristin is the 7 p.m. on June 1 at the high school. Daniel and Kristi Harms of Prince of Peace daughter of Tom and Sharon Mooney of The class valedictorian is Helen Ranck, Parish in Madison. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in the daughter of Joseph and Kristin Ranck of The archdiocese will be represented at New Albany. Robert is the son of Robert St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis. the graduation by Cecil Mattingly, a special and Ann Steiner of Our Lady of Perpetual (See related story.) school consultant for the archdiocese. Help Parish. The class salutatorian is Alex Farris, the Father Thomas Scecina Memorial The class salutatorians are Maria Solis son of Thomas and Kimberly Farris of High School in Indianapolis has a and Sean Roberts. Maria is the daughter of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. graduating class of 88 seniors. Nestor Solis and Jane Seipel of St. Mary The archdiocese will be represented at The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 4 p.m. Parish of Lanesville. Sean is the son of the graduation by Msgr. Schaedel and on May 20 at Holy Spirit Church in Stephen and Annette Roberts of Our Lady Lentz. Indianapolis. of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. White House press secretary Tony Snow Cathedral High School in Indianapolis The graduation ceremony will be at The archdiocese will be represented at delivers the main address for The Catholic has a graduating class of 308 seniors. 7 p.m. on May 25 at the school. the graduation by Kathy Mears, an associate University of America’s 118th annual The Baccalaureate Mass will be at The class valedictorian is Alex director of Catholic schools for the commencement ceremony, held on the 10 a.m. on May 19 at the school. Grohovsky, the son of Steve Grohovsky and archdiocese. steps of the Basilica of the National Shrine The graduation ceremony will be at Fernanda Girolami of St. Therese of the Roncalli High School in Indianapolis of the Immaculate Conception in 1 p.m. on May 20 at Clowes Memorial Hall Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in has a graduating class of 251 seniors. Washington on May 12. at Butler University in Indianapolis. Indianapolis. The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 6 p.m. The class valedictorian is Laura Berlage, The class salutatorian is Lucretia Keenan, on May 25 at Our Lady of the Greenwood the daughter of Victor and Bernice Berlage the daughter of Shawn Keenan and Joyce Church in Greenwood. The Baccalaureate Mass will be at 6 p.m. of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Anderson of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus The graduation ceremony will be at on May 31 at St. Andrew Church in Indianapolis. (Little Flower) Parish. 11 a.m. on May 26 at the school. Richmond. The class salutatorian is Dominic The archdiocese will be represented at The class valedictorian is Michael The graduation ceremony will be at Valponi, the son of Paul and Brenda Valponi the graduation by Msgr. Schaedel and Rob Burkhart, the son of Joseph and Karen 7 p.m. on June 1 at Holy Family Church in of Holy Spirit Parish in Fishers, Ind., in the Rash, an associate director of Catholic Burkhart of St. Susanna Parish in Plainfield. Richmond. Lafayette Diocese. schools for the archdiocese. The class salutatorian is Amanda Fry, the The class valedictorian is Robert The archdiocese will be represented at Oldenburg Academy in Oldenburg has a daughter of Daryl and Sue Fry of St. Mark Funkhouser, the son of Steve and Cathy the graduation by Ronald Costello, superin- graduating class of 43 seniors. the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. Funkhouser of St. Mary Parish in tendent of Catholic schools and director of The Senior Mass was held on May 11. The archdiocese will be represented at Richmond. Project EXCEED. Lentz represented the archdiocese. the graduation by Msgr. Schaedel and The class salutatorian is John Purcell, the Father Michael Shawe Memorial The graduation ceremony will be at Lentz. son of Jerry and Mary Purcell of St. Andrew Jr./Sr. High School in Madison has a 1 p.m. on June 3 at the Chapel of the Seton Catholic Jr./Sr. High School in Parish in Richmond. graduating class of 27 seniors. Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg. Richmond has a graduating class of eight The archdiocese will be represented at The Senior Mass was held on May 14. The class valedictorian and salutatorian seniors. the graduation by Costello. †

M ARRIAGE S UPPLEMENT environment as much.” Helen also played soccer at Cardinal RANCK Ritter. continued from page 3 She says she will miss the people at Maryville University in St. Louis, where school. And like many high school she is studying to become an actuary. seniors, she’s also excited and nervous Helen plans to attend Michigan about moving on to the next stage of her Technological University to study life after she graduates on June 1. Marriage engineering. Is there also a sense of relief about NNOUNCEMENTS “I want to do something with cars being valedictorian? A and making them more efficient and “I guess,” she says, “but then there’s environmentally friendly,” Helen says. that whole speech-writing thing.” Be a part of our Marriage Supplement “I work on cars with my dad. I like Helen will deliver her speech at working on changing the oil, and we’ve graduation—a responsibility and an changed the brakes a couple of times. honor that her parents and her sisters July 20, 2007, issue of The Criterion That’s fun, but when you drive, it would know. Now, it’s Helen’s turn. She’s be better if you didn’t hurt the earned it. † If you are planning your wedding between July 1, 2007, and February 1, 2008, we invite you to submit the information for an announcement on the form below. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Pictures You may send us a picture of the couple. Please do not cut the photograph. The picture must be wallet-size and will be used as space permits. W e cannot guarantee Sunday Night workshop series the reproduction quality of the photos. Please put name(s) on the back of the photo. Photos will be returned if a stamped, self-addressed envelope is enclosed. Evening workshops on topics you have requested! Deadline June 3 Labyrinth 201 All announcements and photos must be r eceived by 10 a.m. Thursday, June 28, 2007. (No announcements or photos will be accepted after this date .) with trained labyrinth facilitator Bill Coleman All announcements without photos must be r eceived by the same date. August 12 Dominican Spirituality 101 with Sr. Romona Nowak, OP — Use this form to furnish information — Clip and mail to: ATTN: BRIDES, The Criterion, P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Deadline: Thursday, June 28, 2007, 10 a.m. September 9 Healing Power of Prayer 101 Please print or type: with Dr. Tim Heck BRIDE First Middle Last Daytime Phone There is no cost to attend these workshops, but advance Mailing Address City State Zip Code registration is requested to ensure adequate seating! Bride’s Parents You can now register on-line at www.archindy.org/fatima City State BRIDEGROOM First Middle Last Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Bridegroom’s Parents 5353 E. 56th Street City State Indianapolis, IN 46226 Wedding Date Church City State (317) 545-7681 ❑ Photo Enclosed Signature of person furnishing information Relationship Daytime Phone ❑ No Picture www.archindy.org/fatima The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007 Page 9

me to do the difficult.” Deacon Summers received confirmations of God’s call

SUMMERS Submitted photo continued from page 1 through numerous pastoral ministry experiences during his priestly formation. communities and dioceses, Deacon Summers gravitated He has served at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish in Floyd toward the archdiocese because of the help he received in County, St. Mary Parish in Schnellville, Ind., in the discernment from former vocations director Father Joseph Evansville Diocese, and St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. Moriarty. He also participated in prison ministry at Branchville Deacon Summers affiliated with the archdiocese as a Correctional Facility near Tell City and spent several seminarian in 2002, and enrolled at Saint Meinrad School of weeks studying Spanish in Mexico City. Theology that fall. “All of those have offered me very positive experiences At first, he found the transition from traveling from city that continually told me, ‘Yeah, you can do this,’ ” Deacon to city each week to living in a rural seminary a difficult Summers said. task. He also realized during his ministry experiences that Deacon Summers also initially wondered why God was his life of prayer in the work world may end up being calling him to the priesthood since he enjoyed the pleasures beneficial for him in full-time parish ministry. of being a world traveler. “When I was in the business world, you’d see so many “If I went according to my feelings, I’d be drinking different kinds of people in different situations,” Deacon margaritas on a beach right now,” he said with a chuckle. Summers said. “I couldn’t help but give thanks and pray “But I’m not here to take care of my feelings. I’m here to for them. It really spurred on my prayer life. I suspect the follow God’s will.” same thing will happen once I get into a parish.” Deacon Summers also pondered why God might be Father Gerald Kirkhoff, pastor of St. Pius X Parish, is a calling him to the diocesan priesthood since he enjoyed the friend of Deacon Summers. He thinks that his years as a solitude often found in monastic life. consultant will pay dividends to the parishes where he will “If I had my own preference, religious life and serve. Benedictine life would have been my first choice because it “He’s bringing us his experience of … juggling his seemed to be the easiest,” he said. “I think God was calling business [concerns] and his own life and his own finances,” Father Kirkhoff said. “I think all that experience will be a plus for him, especially down the road in a year Deacon Randall Summers rides a camel up Mount Sinai in Egypt in or two when he’s a pastor of a parish with all its financial January while on an independent study trip there. dimensions as well as the relating with people.”

Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Father Eric Johnson, the current archdiocesan vocations best about all of that.” director, got to know Deacon Summers when they lived Although his days of seeing an airport as his office are over, together at St. Pius X Parish. Deacon Summers still likes to travel and has incorporated it into Father Johnson thinks that Deacon Summers will be his priestly formation. adept at valuing the variety of people found today in For about a month in January, he traveled in Egypt, Jordan parishes across central and southern Indiana. and Israel with fellow archdiocesan seminarian Jeremy Gries as “Randy is a pretty impressive man, primarily in his an independent study trip. ability to be attentive to others and to engage in relation- “To be able to say that I’ve been to some of the places that I ships with others,” Father Johnson said. “Randy is the kind may be preaching on brings a whole other dimension in, and will of guy who can easily walk into situations that, for many, help the understanding of the hearers,” Deacon Summers said. can be tension-filled, and is able to calm the waters a little With ordination just weeks away, Deacon Summers is happily bit.” awaiting the start of his parish ministry as a priest. He will serve Father Johnson also thinks that Deacon Summers will as associate pastor of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, be a powerful sign of Christ for the parishes where he will beginning on July 3. minister. “I really am very much looking forward to being ordained and “I think, in some ways, Randy is somebody that you getting into a parish,” he said. “Those little bits of experience in just kind of naturally look to as a community of faith as parishes, I really enjoyed doing it. I really enjoyed being in someone who can pull people into that ministry of Christ’s parishes. And so I’m looking forward to it.” Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and Deacon Randall Summers love, Christ’s healing and Christ’s joy,” Father Johnson Deacon Summers will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving at process out of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral at the end of the said. “Randy is able to invite people into that ministry. 11 a.m. on June 3, the day after his priestly ordination, at chrism Mass on April 3. And so he is an icon in many ways of what we consider St. Pius X Church in Indianapolis. †

definitely needs help,” Msgr. Schaedel week [after the fire] that the parishioners Franciscan said. “[The arrest] may prevent other came to pray at the prayer center. We have Sister Shirley ARREST Gerth, parish life continued from page 1 similar crimes in other places. We pray for continued to put a petition in at Mass all those involved in the Holy Saturday asking the Holy Spirit to guide the coordinator of were among the sacred church property tragedy at St. Anne [Church], … including investigative team, and I just truly believe Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann St. Anne Parish recovered there. those who may have caused such anguish that God answered those prayers.” in New Castle, Several central Indiana news sources and pain.” Masses are celebrated in the basement holds the reported that Henry County Superior Court Franciscan Sister Shirley Gerth, parish of the Parish Life Center, Sister Shirley ciborium Judge Michael Peyton entered not-guilty life coordinator of St. Anne Parish and said, and the spiritual life of St. Anne recovered from pleas on Abbott’s behalf on May 11. His St. Rose Parish in Knightstown, said on Parish continues through the sacraments. the locked trial is set to begin on Sept. 11. May 10 she is “relieved to know that She said seven children received first tabernacle found Those sources also reported that Abbott progress has been made in the arson Communion in the basement worship in the rubble of denied starting the fire, but admitted he investigation.” space two weekends ago. St. Anne Church entered the church through an unlocked Sister Shirley praised police and fire “One little boy said to his grandmother, a week after the basement window with two men hours officials who investigated the arson and as they were coming here for reconcilia- April 7 fire. before fire gutted the church. He has said she hopes the arrest will prevent any tion, ‘Grandma, I wish we could have refused to identify the other men. further harm in the community. [first Communion] in church,’ ” Sister church. … We talked about what was Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, “I never expected [an arrest] to come Shirley said. “So we talked a little bit essential and what was nonessential. said last week he is pleased that authorities quite this soon,” she said. “I am certainly about that at our Masses. It’s a part of the When it came to first Holy Communion, were able to make an arrest in the arson case. relieved and at peace. I truly, truly believe loss. … I think it’s good to point out the of course, the essential is receiving the “Anyone who would do such a thing it is because of all the prayers that whole other losses as a result of the loss of the Lord no matter where we do that.” †

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Latin America’s biggest Marian shrine. BRAZIL After praying the rosary, the pope gave a spiritual pep talk continued from page 1 that was repeatedly interrupted by applause, telling the congregation: “The Church is our home. This is our home. In The crowds that showed up for papal events were enthusi- the Catholic Church, we find all that is good.” CNS photo/Jamil Bittar, Reuters Bittar, CNS photo/Jamil astic but smaller than foreseen by trip planners in Brazil, the At Mass outside the basilica the next day, the pope largest Catholic country in the world. There were empty appeared to draw a distinction between the Catholic Church’s spaces at both of his outdoor Masses, and the crowds along missionary approach and the aggressive proselytizing by some of his motorcade routes were sparse. evangelical Churches, which have flourished in Latin The papal trip began on May 9 with an inflight press America. conference that prompted controversy when the pope, in “The Church does not engage in proselytism. Instead, she response to a question, appeared to support the idea of grows by attraction,” the pope said. excommunication for pro-choice politicians. The Vatican later By living charity day in and day out, he said, Christians A man distributes Communion during Mass celebrated by released a toned-down version of the papal comments. release “an irresistible power which is the power of holiness.” Pope Benedict XVI outside the Basilica of the National Shrine of In Brazil, where pressures have been growing for legalized This is the center of the missionary task, he said. Our Lady Aparecida in Aparecida, Brazil, on May 13. The outdoor abortion, the pope mentioned protection of the unborn at sev- Before leaving Brazil, the pope delivered a lengthy service drew about 150,000 people. eral of his events, including a Sao Paulo airport welcoming opening address to the bishops’ general conference, a speech ceremony attended by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da that was greatly anticipated by more than 260 participants. because they are systems divorced from individual morality. Silva. The pope told the president and assembled dignitaries The pope made several key points: Along with his critique of capitalism and the growing rich- that he had come to help reinforce Christian values and • The Church best contributes to solving social and politi- poor gap, the pope warned that globalization risks creating counter new threats to the poor, the abandoned and the unborn. cal problems by promoting a moral consensus on fundamen- vast monopolies and treating profit as “the supreme value.” “I am well aware that the soul of this people, as of all tal values—which must come before the construction of just • The evangelization of the Americas was not the Latin America, safeguards values that are radically Christian, social structures. “imposition of a foreign culture,” and any attempt to which will never be eradicated,” he said. • Among Catholics, the bishops should give priority to retrieve pre-Colombian indigenous religions would be On May 10, the pope joined some 40,000 young people at Sunday Mass and more intense faith formation of young “a step backward” for Latin Americans. † a Sao Paulo soccer stadium for song, dance, prayer and a people and adults. lengthy papal speech that laid out arguments for Christian • Both Marxism and capitalism have failed to deliver on virtue. their ideological promises to build a better world, largely He warned against sexual infidelity, drug use and unethical routes to success, and told the youths to live their lives “with enthusiasm and with joy, but most of all with a sense of ATTORNEYS AT LAW responsibility.” The choreographed encounter was billed as an emotional WOOD, TUOHY, GLEASON, highlight of the papal visit. 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By Fr. Robert L. Kinast Heartfelt concern always recognizes the dignity of the In his encyclical “Deus Caritas Est” person being helped even when

(“God Is Love”) Pope Benedict XVI that person’s behavior seems to Haring CNS photo/Paul describes the kind of charitable service contradict that dignity—as in expected from followers of Jesus. the case of repeat criminal The first essential element that the pope offenders, drug addicts or lists is a combination of professional abusive spouses. competence and heartfelt concern. Charity motivated by Why are both necessary? The answer heartfelt concern shows respect stems from the pope’s understanding of for each person, sometimes in charity. very simple ways. The charitable activities which the pope The clothes at a local addresses include acts of kindness by St. Vincent de Paul Society individual Christians as well as the thrift store, for example, are organized response of the Church to human always clean, displayed on needs for food, clothing, shelter, health care hangers and kept in order by and education. size and type whereas at This form of charity should be another thrift store the clothes motivated by a love for the person in need, are haphazardly stacked on which corresponds to God’s love for that tables, rarely folded, and not person. It is more, therefore, than the always cleaned and pressed. technically proper care that a person might The pope encourages expect to receive at a public health clinic. cooperation between the Cultivating this kind of concern for the charitable works of the Church person requires a formation of the heart and other agencies. that doesn’t come from reading a book or On the other hand, Seminarian Paul Gros, left, from Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, serves dinner to Chau Nguyen and his taking a course. It entails a spiritual union individuals can bring a heartfelt mother, Nguyen Thi Vuony, 93, in Baton Rouge, La., after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans and other with Christ, which prompts a person to concern to bear on what is Gulf Coast communities. Notre Dame Seminary was damaged by flooding. imitate his example and love his neighbor otherwise a competent but merely as himself. technical service. the money she was saving for Christmas heartfelt concern is love of neighbor. But To be sure, this is a lifelong process of I know a young, single mother with a gifts and bought as many dental products not all works of charity are motivated by growth and development. It is nurtured by 5-year-old son who read about a day care as she could afford then took them to the love of neighbor. each experience of extending charity to center for the children of poor parents. The day care center for the children. Feeding people at a shelter is a others, but also by consistent spiritual story mentioned that many of the children Of course, heartfelt concern, good charitable deed, but if those distributing the exercises and a rich prayer life. have dental problems because they don’t intentions and charitable sentiments are not food do it in a condescending or “People who pray are not wasting their have toothbrushes or toothpaste. enough. When responding to human needs, impersonal way that makes the recipient time,” Pope Benedict said. This mother was so moved that she took charitable workers must know what they feel inferior or undignified it is not love of are doing. This involves skilled training and neighbor. awareness of related problems that are part Visiting people in an assisted-living God calls us to give to others of the situation. facility is a charitable deed, but if the A person who is homeless may also visitor goes through perfunctory motions what we have and who we ar e have a mental illness or psychological with an eye on the clock it is not love of problem. In this case, a charitable worker neighbor. By Carole Norris Greene served. ... We are only instruments in the must be trained to handle these problems as Love of neighbor comes from within, Lord’s hands.” well as provide a place for the person to from feeling God’s concern for those in It is noteworthy that in “Deus Caritas Better still, it is encouraging to know sleep. need then responding to them out of that Est” (“God Is Love”) Pope Benedict XVI that we alone do not have to be Visiting inmates is a charitable deed, but feeling. says, “The Magna Carta of all ecclesial responsible for saving the world! the visitor needs to know the regulations My dentist closes his office for two service” must be what St. Paul wrote, in “When the burden of need and our and policies governing prison life so the weeks when the circus comes to town so he his first letter to the Corinthians, “If I own limitations might tempt us to become visit is beneficial to the inmate without can offer free dental care to the performers give away all I have, and if I deliver my discouraged,” Pope Benedict explains, disrupting prison routines. and crew, who are always on the road. His body to be burned, but do not have love, “we are helped by the knowledge that ... Professional competence entails rationale is simple: It’s a service he is I gain nothing” (1 Cor 13:3). it is God who governs the world, effective organization. This includes proper capable of doing for someone who needs it As such, we are to give to others what not we. ... certification and licensing as well as done. He acts with what the pope calls “a we have and who we are. “In all humility we will do what we accurate record-keeping, adequate staffing, heart which sees.” “I must be personally present in my can,” the pope says, “and in all humility and availability of needed resources of It is what we are all called to do as gift,” Pope Benedict says, for such caring we will entrust the rest to the Lord.” food, clothing, shelter and medical followers of Jesus. service to people in need “leads to supplies. humility. ... The one who serves does not (Carole Norris Greene is associate editor A synonym for charitable works that (Father Robert L. Kinast is a pastoral consider himself superior to the one of Faith Alive!) † combine professional competence and theologian in Prairie Village, Kan.) † Discussion Point Ministry relies on grace and virtues This Week’s Question we are the beloved of God is important to me. Many people do not feel deep down that they are lovable What qualities—patience, knowledge, etc.—are needed because of their life experience. It is difficult to to give authentic care in Christ’s name to others? experience the love of God if you don’t feel lovable.” (Barnes Peterson, Keene, N.H.) “Empathy. To understand that no matter what situation anyone is in, there but for the grace of God go I. Also, I “Compassion and a non-judgmental attitude. We have to must see myself as part of humanity, and know that this seek to understand others and their viewpoints.” is my brother and sister and we’re all part of the body of (Pam Arsenault, Newtown, Conn.) Christ.” (Susan K. Rowland, Apache Junction, Ariz.) Lend Us Your Voice “Honesty and integrity. ... [These allow] people to see themselves as vulnerable in the same circumstances as An upcoming edition asks: What from your experience the person they are helping. ... That connection lets me of penance might aid someone preparing a return to the go beyond mere ability.” (Dr. Timothy Wargo, sacrament after a long time away? Waitsfield, Vt.) To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to “I would say affirmation of each person’s essential [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at goodness. As a psychotherapist, the understanding that 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † Thompson CNS illustration/Emily Page 12 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Go and Make Disciples/John Valenti Genesis: The love story of Jacob and Rachel Pilgrimage in (Fifth in a series of columns) shocked at the trickery and dishonesty in Laban agrees. Jacob works for seven years. Brazil and other the chapters about Jacob, but we are Laban, though, has an older daughter, In the Book of Genesis, Isaac, Abraham’s looking at this literature from the viewpoint Leah. During the wedding ceremony, the holy places son, plays much more of a passive role than of the 21st century. The story is meant to bride is veiled. That night, the couple Abraham did. The story be an exciting action narrative where the consummates their marriage in the dark. This month, Pope Benedict XVI begins with Isaac’s outcome hangs in doubt. It is not a pious The next day, Jacob discovers that he journeyed to Brazil, a country of servant traveling back biography of a saint. There are also some has been tricked and that he has married 134 million Catholics, to the land of sexual practices in this story that we Leah. Laban simply explains that it is not which represents Abraham’s birth to find definitely would not approve of today. the custom in that country to marry off a 83.5 percent of its a suitable wife for The trickery begins when Isaac is a blind younger daughter before an older one. population. Isaac. That wife is old man. He wants to pass on his birthright However, he then proposes that Jacob Part of the Holy Rebekah. to Esau, his older son, but Rebekah favors marry Rachel, too, in return for another Father’s visit included The scene of Isaac’s her younger son so she fixes Jacob up so seven years of work for Laban. Jacob a pilgrimage to the servant persuading that he feels hairy, as Esau is, and Isaac agrees, and thus he is married to both Leah town of Aparecida, Rebekah and her brother, Laban, to let her gives his blessing to Jacob, making him his and Rachel. which lies in the marry Isaac, and the journey back to heir and master over Esau. It happens that Leah is quite fertile, but province of Sao Paolo. Palestine, is considered a masterpiece of Esau resolves to kill Jacob, but Isaac Rachel is not. Leah begins having children It is known as the most ancient writing. And that leads to a great sends Jacob off to his uncle, Laban, back in while Rachel remains barren. So Rachel important Marian shrine in the country, the conflict as Genesis next tells us the story Mesopotamia. There, Jacob meets Rachel, gives her maidservant to Jacob, and the point where pilgrims from all over the of Jacob. Laban’s daughter, who runs off quickly to maidservant has a son. world converge. Our Lady of Aparecida is It involves the hatred of two brothers for tell Laban that Rebekah’s son has arrived. Then Leah ceases to bear children, and the patron saint of Brazil. one another, trickery on the part of Jacob Laban immediately takes Jacob in. she, too, gives her maidservant to Jacob, A pilgrimage is a long journey or search aided by his mother, Rebekah, and the Now we get into a great love story and she, too, has a son. But then Leah of great spiritual and moral significance. It triumph of the younger brother over the between Jacob and Rachel. Jacob tells becomes fertile again and bears two more is a journey to a sacred place or shrine of older. Rebekah is the heroine of the story. Laban that he will work for him for seven sons, plus a daughter, Dinah. Finally, importance to a person’s beliefs and faith. Modern Christians are sometimes years if he can have Rachel in marriage. Rachel has a son, Joseph. † It is a sacred journey, especially one undertaken as a way to pay homage. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes It all began in 1717 when three fishermen, Domingos Garcia, Filipe Pedroso and João Alves, were sent out by The power of positive thinking—again the local authorities to find fish in the Paraíba River. They went down the river Everybody loves a secret. goals as already accomplished. She not only given the grace to live fully and joyously. and found nothing. After many Little kids whisper and giggle about expected, but tried to believe that her We ground ourselves and become support unsuccessful attempts, they arrived at a them, actors reveal them in loud “asides” sinuses were healed and her kitchen floor for others, while humbly acknowledging place called Porto Itaguaçu. in melodramas, and was perfect. that we are not in charge here. Alves threw his net into the water and teenage girls can’t live She reported that the results were The Secret is little more than a brought out a statue of Our Lady of a day without them. sinuses F, kitchen floor A, and she’s not rehashing of the New Age idea that it’s Conception, but the head was missing. He “I’ve Got a Secret” sure if The Secret was responsible for we, not some God or spirit or whatever, threw his net in again, and soon reeled in was a popular quiz the A. The latter happened when, after who’s calling the shots. Somehow, the head of the statue. show in the early days focusing on the problem and thinking advocates of this kind of promise think After that, according to the legend, the of television. positively, she came up with a simple and that dependence upon an unseen divinity fish arrived in abundance for the three Somehow, if a inexpensive idea for transforming the is a cop-out, a weak attempt to answer humble fishermen, and their nets were full. thing is secret it’s damaged floor. Now, isn’t that revolu- hard questions or to avoid taking Thus began their pilgrimage of faith. more romantic, more tionary? Isn’t that an epiphany of spiritual responsibility. This sacred location became a place to appealing than an ordinary fact or event or understanding? They make things so much harder for revisit, and recall our stories and whatever it is. It’s delicious to be told a Well, no. Norman Vincent Peale, themselves. Personally, I’d hate to think that experiences of faith. For some, a pilgrim’s secret or to restrain yourself from telling among many others, promoted the idea of solutions to gaining world peace, destination becomes a place to remember one. And sharing secrets is both positive thinking 50 years ago. Not to eliminating poverty or keeping the human the faithfulness of others. excruciating and delightful, like enjoying mention philosophers and theologians race healthy and content depended upon me Some of the most important pilgrim being scared by movies or stories. since time began. Optimism beats or my decisions. destinations include Jerusalem, site of the It’s come to my attention that the old pessimism every time, and everyone Certainly I should do whatever I can in crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, and “secret” idea is now the subject of a book knows that a positive attitude is not only every way to make these situations better. Rome, site of the deaths of St. Peter and touted by Oprah Winfrey and others. emotionally but also physically healing. In fact, we should all be working together St. Paul and other early martyrs as well as The Secret (capitalized, signifying The lengths to which people will go to toward that goal. But, in the end, only the headquarters of the Catholic Church. importance) is that we are all masters of avoid religious answers to human God’s grace and sticking to God’s plan Many pilgrims travel to Constantinople, our own fates. If we think positively, we problems always amazes me, and this is will free us from human problems. And present-day Istanbul, Turkey, and former will make positive gains in life; if we one of those instances. Somehow, modern that is something we can assist with capital of the Byzantine Empire and see of don’t, we’ll fail. thinkers cannot accept the idea that there prayer. the ancient patriarchs. Lourdes in France is a A National Public Radio reporter said is a loving supernatural power greater than We’ve got a Secret, too; it’s called faith popular pilgrim destination where apparitions she’d tried out this theory with mixed themselves. They can’t imagine depending in God. of the Virgin Mary appeared, and the Way of results. She started with some goals: to cure upon prayer or giving up control. St. James in Santiago de Compostela is the her sinus ailments and to get a new kitchen Little do they know that, when we stop (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the pilgrimage to the Cathedral of Santiago floor. So, proceeding according to trying to manage every single aspect of Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern The Secret method, she thought of these our lives and the lives of others, we’re columnist for The Criterion.) † Spain, where the remains of the Apostle, St. James the Great, are said to be buried. Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister Aparecida remained an unassuming village with a small community of Redemp- tionist missionaries. They arrived from the May: A good month for mental gardening province of Munich in Germany and took on the responsibility for the shrine, making it the “Spring has sprung and so have I. …” Jones, an ordained interfaith minister that strangle the lovely flowers. … first Redemptionist parish in Latin America. Although I have forgotten the rest of specializing in motivation, caught my eye. “Pay attention to which thoughts come Construction of the shrine by the the ditty, I’ve also It was titled “How does your mental in as you awaken each day. Listen … tune Redemptorists began in 1737, and it was only “semi-sprung” garden grow?” (More about her can be in … and take care of it as a wise dedicated to the Immaculate Conception and into my seasonal found at www.soulmotivations.com or gardener would. Fertilize it with nurturing our Holy Mother, patron saint of mothers-to- cleaning. In fact, some www.emerginghealers.com.) thoughts of love, joy and peace. Breathe be and newborns, rivers and the sea, gold, of those indoor and Periodically, I recall my personal in deeply and allow the oxygen to flow honey and beauty. It is now the second most outdoor chores are Lenten efforts, getting my mind and soul through. Fill your thoughts with hope and visited Marian shrine in the world. still waiting to be in order. But I had never thought of that in happiness. Keep your mind open to Aparecida is also the second largest finished since last terms of mental gardening so Rev. Jones’ endless possibilities. … Life on the inside basilica in the world after St. Peter’s year. words were welcomed: “Be still and know creates life on the outside. … Your Basilica in Rome. It can hold up to Obviously, I am not that peace is possible. It takes only a thoughts are a choice.” 45,000 worshippers. as rigid in keeping second to change your mind. … Imagine Recently, I visited a friend in her 90s, a During his life in Nazareth, Jesus order as I once was. Pondering this, a your mind as a mental garden … a peaceful woman. Coincidentally, Dorothy honored the Virgin Mary and Joseph when parallel thought popped into my head. beautiful place to spend time with peace- talked about how deep breathing can he learned how to make the pilgrimage to During Lent, I did a lot of praying that led filled thoughts and wonderful pathways to lessen pain and promote inner peace. She Jerusalem. to cleaning the cobwebs from my mind explore.” has a beautiful prayer life, and one of her Lead us, Lord, to be aware of the and, hopefully, from my soul. What’s more, Rev. Jones wrote, “As the special joys is praying before the Blessed importance of pilgrimage for faithful During that time, I was also slowly gardener you get to choose which Sacrament. When I tell her goodbye, I hug Catholics everywhere. whittling away at a stack of mail set aside thoughts … will nurture the inner beauty her and can feel her contentment. Peaceful Lead us to understand that we too have for better reading than the quick look of your mind. You have the power to … friends and family of all ages help my to “attend to our Father’s business” when I first glanced at the items as they weed out the thoughts that can wreak inner peace. (Lk 2:41-52). arrived in my mail box. havoc and bring forth chaos to both your Be still … and know God. In the stack was Conquer, a newsletter inner and outer experience. If you invest (John Valenti is the associate director of from the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of in negative thoughts, they continue to (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of Christ Evangelization and Faith Formation for the Illinois. (I have MG, and Illinois is my grow and, before you know it, your the King Parish in Indianapolis, is a regular Archdiocese of Indianapolis. E-mail him at home state.) An article by the Rev. Sandy beautiful garden is overgrown with weeds columnist for The Criterion.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007 Page 13

Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, May 21 Acts 25:13b-21 The Sunday Readings Christopher Magallanes, priest Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20ab and martyr John 21:15-19 Sunday, May 20, 2007 and his companions, martyrs • Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 the Gospel and to bring into the world the Acts 19:1-8 Saturday, May 26 • Ephesians 1:17-23 mercy, love and presence of God in Jesus. Psalm 68:2-5ac, 6-7ab Philip Neri, priest • Luke 24:46-53 The Epistle to the Ephesians, the source John 16:29-33 Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 of the second reading, is a beautiful prayer Psalm 11:4-5, 7 asking God to give the followers of Jesus Tuesday, May 22 John 21:20-25 The Acts of the Apostles supplies the wisdom and insight. Rita of Cascia, religious Vigil Mass of Pentecost first reading with the story of the God’s wisdom and strength, the reading Ascension of the Lord states, will be “distributed among the Acts 20:17-27 Genesis 11:1-9 from earth into members of the Church.” It counsels Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21 or Exodus 19:3-8a, 16-20b heaven. believers to put everything under the feet John 17:1-11a or Ezra 37:1-14 This passage is the of Jesus, the “head of the Church.” or Joel 3:1-5 beginning of Acts. As St. Matthew’s Gospel, the last reading, Wednesday, May 23 Psalm 104:1-2a, 24, 27-28, is the case with the offers an Ascension Narrative. Gospel of Luke, Acts Jesus leads the Apostles to a place near Acts 20:28-38 29bc-30, 35c seems to have been a Bethany. The Mount of Olives, Psalm 68:29-30, 33-36c Romans 8:22-27 work composed for traditionally said to have been the site of John 17:11b-19 John 7:37-39 one person named the Ascension, is near Bethany. Jesus tells Theophilus. It is not the Apostles that the Scriptures have been Thursday, May 24 Sunday, May 27 known, however, if this was a proper name fulfilled. This is proof of the identity of Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 Pentecost Sunday or a title. In Greek, it means “friend of Jesus. God.” It also is proof of God’s communi- Psalm 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11 Acts 2:1-11 Were Luke and Acts written to a pious cation with people through the centuries John 17:20-26 Psalm 104:1ab, 24ac, 29bc-30, person who had a proper name not and of God’s mercy. 31, 34 recorded in these Scriptures? Matthew also establishes the Apostles Friday, May 25 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 In any case, these first 11 verses of as the chief witnesses and primary Bede the Venerable, priest and or Romans 8:8-17 Acts have a powerful message. students of the Lord. The Spirit will come. Resplendent in the message, of course, is Determined and committed, the doctor John 20:19-23 the ascension of Jesus into heaven, the Apostles watch the Ascension of Jesus Gregory VII, pope or John 14:15-16, 23b-26 lifting of Jesus from earthly space and then return to the city, where they pray in Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi, time to return to heaven. the temple and proclaim the praises of virgin This act of ascending, not of being God. assumed, reveals—as the Resurrection— that Jesus came from God, is with God, is Reflection eternal and possesses the power of God. The readings powerfully testify that Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen He is God. Jesus is God. Although crucified and dead, Other points are important. The reading Jesus rose again to life then ascended into gives the credentials of the Apostles. Jesus heaven. The correct word is “ascension,” Jesus refers to Mary as ‘woman’ chose them. It was a divine act. The Holy not “assumption.” He went to heaven, Spirit was in their selection. breaking the bonds of earth, with the for cultural and symbolic reasons Furthermore, Jesus taught the Apostles power of God. He was not taken into as no one else was taught. They were heaven. At the wedding feast in Cana, Jesus words and what Jesus was about during the specially trained because they had a The readings are strongly ecclesial. Qrefers to his mother as “woman” wedding feast at Cana. unique mission. Jesus guided and directed They stress the identity of the Apostles, (Jn 2:4). It seems cold Thus, the Cana story is the inaugural them, and they obeyed him. both in the first and in the third readings. and impersonal to episode of the whole fourth Gospel, setting They witnessed the Ascension. As They learned from Jesus. The Spirit would speak this way even to the themes for what is to follow as the humans, they were confused, but Jesus come to guide them. Important for us a stranger, let alone to sermons do, for example, in the Gospels of promised that the Holy Spirit would give today, they formed the Church, of which one’s mother. Matthew and Luke. them insight and wisdom. true believers are a part. Through them, in Commentators say The only other place that Mary appears Then, to underscore the divinity of Christ, God lives in the Church and still Jesus is, in fact, in the fourth Gospel is at the foot of the Jesus and the divine mission of Jesus, touches us through the Church. according Mary the cross, where again Jesus calls her woman. angels appear after the Ascension to tell The Easter story and the salvation story highest form of respect. John never gives her name. the Apostles that they should now go on are approaching the climax. The readings Yet Jesus addresses Jesus’ reference to his mother as with their mission. tell us that Jesus lives still in the Church. both the Samaritan “woman” in both events suggests that John The Apostles’ mission was to preach He has not gone from us. † woman (Jn 4:21) and the woman taken in intended to connect Cana and Calvary, the adultery (Jn 8:10) the same way. beginning and end of Jesus’ ministry, the Are we to conclude that Jesus is giving period when he was preparing for his “hour” My Journey to God them the highest respect, too? (Virginia) and the occasion when that “hour” had arrived. First, in Jesus’ time, calling a lady Having affirmed the detachment from his A‘woman’ was not rude or offensive. His human family, Jesus now bonds his mother In the Wilderness address of people as woman, in the cases and the “beloved disciple.” you mention, for example, was certainly not The Gospel explicitly notes that it was Self is the enemy, always Self: hostile. “from that hour” of the death, resurrection Looking inward, ever clamoring, Mary obviously didn’t feel hurt or and glorification of Jesus that the disciple Loud, demanding, pride enamoring, rejected by it since she immediately tells the took her into his own home and the new Treacherous, troublesome Self. waiters at the wedding feast to “do whatever community of the children of God was he tells you” (Jn 2:5). established, which was made up of those Useless, apathetic Self. The language is a bit strange in a way, called to be the Lord’s family. “I want, I will, I should, I must”— but Jesus emphasizes—as he does elsewhere All this helps to understand both the All good intents that come to dust in the Gospels—the distance between civility of the language that Jesus uses Because of self-imposing Self. himself and his family as well as his toward his mother and how those words self-determination of how and when he reflect the reach of our Lord’s ministry into I would escape this endless Self, would proceed in fulfilling the mission he the distant future. This part of me that holds me fast received from the Father. Some interpreters profess to see more With lies and thoughts of failures past, John gives many hints in this Cana complicated symbolism in Mary’s role as That keeps my eyes from seeing You. incident that there was more going on than “woman”—that she is, for example, just another miracle story. The reference revealed as the new Eve, the universal That keeps my ears from hearing You. Jesus makes to his “hour” (Jn 2:4) and the mother of all believers, a theory that became That interrupts, takes hostage prayer mention of signs and glory (Jn 2:11) tell us popular in Mariologies centuries later. And keeps me weak and in despair that the significance of what is happening Whether and in what way such a role for Beyond your Peace. here goes beyond the miraculous change of our Blessed Mother may be true, it seems water into wine. most scholars believe these kinds of I am so tired of fighting Self An abundance of wine—new wine—is interpretations import symbols that stretch

In vain. Lord, in Your forty days CNS photo/Bruno Reuters Domingos, often mentioned in Amos, Isaiah and beyond the evidence supported by the fourth Of wilderness and desert ways Jeremiah in the Jewish Scriptures as an Gospel’s text. Did doubting enter in? Be Thou my strength, I beg Thee. Please image of the final age, the heavenly Forgive the Self that hinders me messianic banquet. (A free brochure answering questions that “Deny thyself, and follow Me,” From all that You would have me be, On his holy mountain, says Isaiah, “the Catholics ask about receiving the holy You said. And Lord, I try And makes the devil laugh. Lord of hosts will provide for all peoples a Eucharist is available by sending a stamped, To silence the incessant cry feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy self-addressed envelope to Father John Of foolish, needy Self. By Linda Abner rich food and pure choice wines” (Is 26:6). Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612. The Churches who first received the Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen at (Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis.) Gospel of John could not have been the same address or by e-mail in care of unaware of the connection between these [email protected].) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2007

Grandmother of four. Great- grandmother of one. Msgr. James Lindenmeyer served MADDUX, Anastasia Marie, 57, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Rest in peace April 20. Wife of William Native Americans in New Mexico Maddux. Mother of Lisa and By Mary Ann Wyand stories about “his missionary work of spread- Please submit in writing to our COLUSSI, Lea, 75, Prince of Steven McCubbins and Brandy ing the Good News” to Native Americans in office by 10 a.m. Thursday Peace, Madison, May 1. Mother Maddux. Daughter of Daniel and Msgr. James Lindenmeyer, a retired priest the Diocese of Gallup. before the week of publication; of Ann Dee, Ellen Miller, Jane Helen (McMahon) McIntosh. of the Diocese of Gallup, N.M., and “Most of his presentations were in the be sure to state date of death. Romick and Joseph Colussi. Sister of Andy and Charlie Batesville native who lived in Shelbyville high schools,” Sister Demetria said. “The Obituaries of archdiocesan Sister of Jean Inkrot and Virginia McIntosh. during the past four years, died there on young people enjoyed his slides and his priests serving our archdiocese Kemme. Grandmother of nine. MANDERINO, Alletta, 74, May 8. He was 85. stories. It would not surprise me to hear of are listed elsewhere in The DUCHENEAUX, Alvena R., Sacred Heart, Clinton, May 4. Msgr. Lindenmeyer conducted mission someone’s vocation being the result of having Criterion. Order priests and 83, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, Mother of Joe Manderino. appeals and provided sacramental assistance heard him tell his story.” religious sisters and brothers April 24. Sister of Vivian Sister of Lillian Kazakevich. at parishes in the archdiocese for the past Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary are included here, unless they Billman, Patricia Pavey, Faith Grandmother of two. four years while living with his sister, parishioner James Alton of Indianapolis, are natives of the archdiocese Msgr. Lindenmeyer’s nephew, said his uncle Hackleman, James and Richard MC DONALD, Betty L., 65, St. Joseph parishioner Shirley Alton of or have other connections to it; Ducheneaux. Shelbyville. loved to preach on behalf of the Indian those are separate obituaries St. Bartholomew, Columbus, missions. April 13. Wife of Jerome “We are deeply saddened by Msgr. on this page. FLASPOHLER, Elizabeth, 68, Lindenmeyer’s death,” Bishop Donald E. “He passed away … after a five-year St. Michael, Brookville, April 27. McDonald. Mother of Jerilyn ALLEN, Elva Marie, 99, Pelotte of Gallup said in a statement. struggle with Alzheimer’s disease,” Alton Wife of Kenneth Flaspohler. Brewer, Jolanda Harmon, Jeremy said. “We will be returning [his body] to St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, and Jerome McDonald II. “He was loved very much by the people of Mother of Stephanie LaMont, the Diocese of Gallup,” Bishop Pelotte said. Farmington, N.M., for Mass and burial as he May 2. Mother of Sharon Darrell, David, Doug, Dwight Grandmother of nine. Brading, Shirley Unger and “We offer our prayers for Monsignor, and we requested.” and Terry Flaspohler. Daughter NAVILLE, Grace M. William Allen. Sister of Lloyd will hold up his family in prayer.” A Mass of Christian Burial will be of Martha (Monroe) Doerflein. (Roberts), 96, St. Mary-of-the- Tatlock. Grandmother of 11. Bishop Pelotte said Msgr. Lindenmeyer celebrated on May 18 at St. Mary Church in Sister of Betty Hensley, Janet Knobs, Floyds Knobs, May 2. Great-grandmother of 22. Great- was “a hard-working and dedicated priest” Farmington, N.M. Burial will follow there. Metcalf, Marilyn Faspohler, Aunt of several. who was “always very respectful and helpful James Lindenmeyer was born on March 1, great-grandmother of 18. Lester Monroe, Anthony, ODER, Elmer, Jr., 48, to me.” 1922, in Batesville. BANET, Kevin L., 49, St. Mary- Eugene, Keith and Kenneth Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general of He was ordained to the priesthood for the of-the-Knobs, Floyds Knobs, Doerflein. Grandmother of nine. Vevay, May 1. Father of Kathleen the archdiocese, celebrated a Mass of Diocese of Gallup by Bishop Bernard T. May 2. Husband of Dottie Banet. FOLEY, Ada M., 84, Geiger, Kimberly Haynes, Christian Burial for Msgr. Lindenmeyer on Espelage on Nov. 14, 1948. Father of Tyler Graham, Alyssa Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Amanda Vanlandingham, Daniel May 14 at St. Joseph Church in Shelbyville. On Dec. 12, 1972, Father Lindenmeyer and Jessica Banet. Son of Jeffersonville, April 26. Mother and Elmer Oder III. Son of Elmer He said Father James Shapelle of was elevated to the rank of Domestic Prelate Raymond and Evelyn Banet. of Bonnie Crain, Bobbie Skaggs, and Carol Oder Sr. Brother of Cincinnati, a seminary classmate, preached (Monsignor) by Pope Paul VI. Brother of Linda Schmidt and Soozie Thomas, Gerald, John, Cherie Schoonover, Michele the homily for his longtime friend. He served at Our Lady of Guadalupe Rick Banet. Joseph and Thomas Foley. Sister Wuebbling, Charlie Pence and “The archdiocese was proud to have given Parish in Flagstaff, Ariz., from 1950 until BECHERT, Suzann M., 68, of James Franklin. Grandmother Douglas Oder. Grandfather of a priest-missionary to Gallup, New Mexico,” 1969. When the Diocese of Phoenix was St. Roch, Indianapolis, May 7. of 16. Great-grandmother of 13. four. Msgr. Schaedel said. “I had fond memories created, he was appointed assistant pastor of Sister of Kathleen Feltz. Aunt of of Msgr. Lindenmeyer appearing each St. Joseph Church in Winslow, Ariz., where KNARZER, Marie Geraldine, SCHMIDT, Hubert, 75, several. summer in the Mission Office. He was a he served from 1948 until 1950. He also 90, St. Michael the Archangel, St. Jude, Indianapolis, May 1. delight to talk with—always upbeat. He was served there as pastor from 1969 until 1976. BEERY, Kenda K. (Cordes), Indianapolis, March 30. Mother Husband of Betty (Cleary) always willing to help out in parishes during In 1976, Msgr. Lindenmeyer was named 48, St. Matthew, Indianapolis, of Jean O’Keefe, Rosellen Schmidt. Brother of Vivian the summer when he was here. He was a pastor of St. Mary Parish in Farmington, May 1. Wife of Paul Beery. Schafer, Providence Sister Arlene Beard, Kathryn Berger, Edith ‘priest’s priest.’ ” N.M., where he served until his retirement in Mother of Jina and Kikalos Knarzer and Reginald Knarzer. Bordenkecher, Franciscan Sister Sister Demetria Smith, a Missionary Sister 1996. He made his home there until four Beery. Daughter of Ken and Rose Grandmother of nine. Step- Elora Schmidt and John Schmidt. of Our Lady of Africa and mission educator years ago when deteriorating health forced Mary Cordes. Sister of Kim Wall, grandmother of three. Great- SULLIVAN, Mary Theresa, 82, for the archdiocese, remembered Msgr. him to move to Indiana, where his family Paula Wilhauck, Karl, Kent and grandmother of 14. St. Pius X, Indianapolis, May 1. Lindenmeyer as “a very kind and patient could care for him. Kurt Cordes. KRACHENFELS, Margaret Mother of Christopher, Gerard person” who “had a great sense of humor.” Surviving with his sister, Shirley Alton, CASSERLY, Margaret M., 90, M., 90, Christ the King, and W. Joseph Sullivan. Sister of She said they traveled “many miles in our and brother-in-law, Charles Alton, are four Holy Trinity, Indianapolis, Indianapolis, May 3. Mother of Eugene Costanza. Grandmother archdiocese” for mission education programs nephews, three nieces and 13 great-nieces April 2. Aunt of several. Kristie Gill and Paula Mello. of two. † at parishes and schools, where he shared and great-nephews. † Catholic Cemeteries Association will sponsor Memorial Day Masses Monday, May 28 Please join

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