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Age—52 Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Family—One of seven children of William and Rita Coyne of Woburn, Mass. Uncle of 11 nieces and nephews. Hobbies—Skiing, cooking. “I like to cook. I cook a lot. On Saturday nights, I have an open house for priests in the area. They like comfort food—stews, meatloaf, chicken and roasts. I can do a lot of Italian, too. I like to eat so you learn to cook.” Favorite saint—“I’ve always liked the Little Flower, St. Thérèse of Lisieux. I think her idea of love of God each and every day, in small moments, is the right way to go. I think that’s how most of us Father Patrick Beidelman, rector of live our lives.” SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indian- Favorite sports team—New England apolis, carries the Book of Gospels. Patriots. “My family has always been, from the beginning, Boston Patriots’ and New England Patriots’ fans. We can tell you all the stories in their history. My happiest sports memory is their first Super Bowl win. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and Bishop-designate Christopher J. Coyne shake hands during a Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the Evangelist I’m looking forward to seeing the Church in Indianapolis. The archbishop announced that day that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Bishop-designate Coyne as an auxiliary bishop for continuance of the rivalry between the the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Patriots and the Colts.” Favorite prayer—“Being a liturgist, I like the official prayer of the Church—the Father Christopher J. Coyne of Boston Liturgy of the Hours. I’ve always felt that it’s a good start for the day.” Favorite books, authors—“I’m a Archdiocese to be ordained on March 2 voracious reader. I love my Kindle. I read all types of books—thrillers, science fiction, By John Shaughnessy not guaranteed or expected to be Worship and spokesperson for the biographies. Right now, I’m reading the Archbishop Buechlein’s eventual Archdiocese of Boston. Holy Father’s latest book (Light of the Calling it “a late Christmas gift” from successor, according to archdiocesan “I’m grateful to the Holy Father,” World: The Pope, the Church and the Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Daniel officials. Archbishop Buechlein said during the Signs of the Times.) I’m also reading M. Buechlein announced on Jan. 14 that Bishop-designate Coyne becomes the Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the American Grace, a fine book on religion and Father Christopher J. Coyne has been first auxiliary Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. “I American culture.” appointed as auxiliary bishop of the See related editorial, bishop of the consider this a late Christmas gift. We have Writing a blog—“I write a blog for my Archdiocese of Indianapolis. page 4. See related Archdiocese of a vibrant archdiocese with 151 parishes parish. I usually post one a week, whatever is As auxiliary bishop, Bishop-designate articles, pages 7-9. Indianapolis spread out over almost 14,000 square miles going through my mind. It’s not always Coyne will assist Archbishop Buechlein in since in 39 counties in central and southern theological. Sometimes it’s just fun. fulfilling the responsibilities of leading the Bishop Joseph E. Ritter received that Indiana. That’s a lot of territory for People might want to get to know me nearly 225,000 Catholics in central and appointment in 1933. one bishop to be the shepherd of. through some of my writings. You can find southern Indiana. At 52, Bishop-designate Coyne has “As most of you know, I’ve had some my blog on the parish website While he becomes the second highest- been a pastor, a professor of liturgy and health issues in recent years, including a (www.blog.saintmmparish.org). I plan to ranking official in the archdiocese, he is homiletics, and the director of the Office of See COYNE, page 8 continue to write a blog.” †

A word of profound thanks to Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel With the appointment of Auxiliary Msgr. Schaedel will receive a well-deserved Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, Msgr. Joseph sabbatical in Rome, after which he will receive F. Schaedel’s a new assignment. His responsibilities as service as the moderator of the curia are being assumed by vicar general for Father William F. Stumpf, the dean of the the Archdiocese of Bloomington Deanery and pastor of Indianapolis comes St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington. to a conclusion. Msgr. Schaedel will continue his position as Msgr. Schaedel vicar for religious and director of the has been vicar archdiocesan Mission Office. general and I can’t thank Msgr. Schaedel adequately for moderator of the his faithful service to me and to the curia for 17 years. archdiocese. He has been May he receive God’s special blessing for Archbishop outstanding in his the future! Daniel M. Buechlein ability and willingness to serve in that capacity. His Sincerely yours in Christ, responsibilities have been particularly heavy in recent years as he stepped up to serve in the absences occasioned by my illnesses. He did so generously and Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. superbly without complaint. Archbishop of Indianapolis Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Events across the country to mark 38th anniversary of Roe v. Wade

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Tens of Among the Roe anniversary events thousands of pro-life supporters from all planned in Washington will be an afternoon over the United States, including the Pro-Life Leadership Mass on Jan. 23 at the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, are expected to St. Vincent de Paul Chapel on the campus of travel to the nation’s capital for events that The Catholic University of America. The Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy prayerfully protest the Jan. 22 anniversary main celebrant and homilist will be of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston- 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing Houston, the chairman of the bishops’ abortion. Committee on Pro-Life Activities. The same day that the high court ruled on The Mass “will enable Catholic leaders the Roe case, it also handed down who work to advance the culture of life to Doe v. Bolton, the companion decision. join in prayer for an end to the evil of Together, Roe and Doe defined abortion as a abortion and other attacks against human constitutional right, and overturned most life,” said Tom Grenchik, the executive state laws banning the procedure. director of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life This year’s national March for Life in secretariat. Washington on Jan. 24 will promote the “In joining together for this eucharistic theme “Thou shalt protect the equal right to celebration, we will witness to our life of each innocent born and pre-born unwavering commitment to the inherent U.S. prelates arrive for the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for Life at the Basilica of the human in existence at fertilization—no dignity of all human life,” Grenchik explained National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington on Jan. 21, 2010. The vigil precedes the exception, no compromise.” in a Jan. 4 letter inviting pro-life leaders national March For Life, a demonstration held each year to protest abortion and the The event falls on the Monday after around the country to attend the Mass. 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized it across the nation. From right are Archbishop Donald W. the official Roe anniversary to allow The National Prayer Vigil for Life will be Wuerl of Washington and Cardinals Sean P. O’Malley of Boston, Justine Rigali of Philadelphia and participants to visit their representatives on held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of William H. Keeler, the retired archbishop of Baltimore. Capitol Hill after a noon rally on the the Immaculate Conception on Jan. 23-24. It National Mall and a march along opens with a 6:30 p.m. Mass in the Young people hold the Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court. shrine’s upper church, and Cardinal DiNardo front banner of the On the eve of the main event, March for Life will be the celebrant and homilist. There will sixth annual Walk for Life organizers plan to hold a mini-rally be time set aside for confession. Catolico El Heraldo West Coast on Jan. 23 in in Lafayette Park across from the A rosary for life will be held in the shrine’s San Francisco. An estimated White House. Crypt Church as will “Holy Hours for Life.” 35,000 people participated in Also on Jan. 24, a pro-life Mass will be On Jan. 24, morning prayer and Benediction the pro-life demonstration. celebrated at noon at SS. Peter and Paul will be followed by a 7:30 a.m. closing Mass. Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in For the 15th year, the Archdiocese of CNS photo/Jose Luis Aguirre, Indianapolis. After the Mass, a Washington will sponsor its annual pro-life pro-life march is scheduled from the youth Mass and rally on the morning of Jan. cathedral to Veterans Memorial Plaza, 24. According to the archdiocese, the 431 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis for a success of last year’s event, attended by respect life rally with speakers. more than 17,000 young people, has Other Washington events related Jan. 22 to honor the 2011 winners of its Life The same day, a pro-life Mass will be prompted the archdiocese to hold a Mass to the Roe anniversary include the Prizes. The foundation is a private celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Charles and rally at two venues this year to Cardinal O’Connor Conference on Life at organization that has given away millions to Borromeo Church, 2222 E. Third St., in accommodate the crowd. One location will Jesuit-run Georgetown University for fund pro-life causes, abstinence education, Bloomington. Following the liturgy, a rosary be the Verizon Center, Washington’s largest college and high school students, the and efforts to end the HIV and AIDS procession is scheduled across the campus of sports arena. American Life League’s Personhood pandemic. Indiana University to a Planned Parenthood After the March for Life, several pro-life Conference, a Rock for Life concert, a This year’s winners include the center at 421 S. College Ave. in organizations will hold the National Pro-Life witness event sponsored by the Silent No Rev. Alveda King, the niece of the late Bloomington. Youth Rally near the Supreme Court. The More Awareness Campaign, and a Mass Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who is a Across the country, for the seventh year in event’s founding sponsors are Students for sponsored by the Ignatian Pro-Life prominent leader in the African-American a row, the West Coast Walk for Life will Life of America, Rock for Life, 40 Days for Network, a union of pro-life groups from community’s pro-life movement and a Priests draw pro-life supporters to San Francisco on Life and Human Life Alliance. Other Jesuit high schools, colleges and parishes. for Life staff member; Doug Johnson, the Jan. 22. Thousands more people around the sponsors include the Family Research In addition, the Gerard Health legislative director of the National Right to country will attend local events sponsored by Council, Pro-Life Action League, Human Life Foundation is sponsoring an invitation- Life Committee; and the Terri Schiavo Life their dioceses and pro-life organizations. International and Susan B. Anthony List. only awards ceremony and reception on and Hope Network. †

Pakistani archbishop calls official’s remark on blasphemy law ‘setback’ BANGALORE, India (CNS)—Catholic officials in Gilani’s coalition government, has only 125 seats in the diplomats in which the pope called for the law’s repeal, Pakistan expressed disappointment after Prime Minister 342-member National Assembly, and is dependent on the saying it “serves as a pretext for acts of injustice and Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated that there would be no support of pro-Islamic parties and independent legislators for violence against religious minorities. amendment to the country’s blasphemy law, which makes the survival of the government. “It is our law and we will work according to our law,” insulting the Prophet Mohammed or the Quran punishable Beena Sarwar, a Muslim and prominent member of Gilani said. by life imprisonment or death. Citizens for Democracy, which has been campaigning against Pope Benedict’s address followed the Jan. 4 “This is a setback. We have to take it in our stride and the abuse of the blasphemy law, told CNS that the assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Pakistan’s move on,” Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore, the prime minister’s remark ruling out an amendment “appears to Punjab province, by his security guard for his criticism of president of the Pakistan Catholic Bishops’ Conference, be a political move.” the blasphemy law and his support for Asia Bibi, a told Catholic News Service on Jan. 12, hours after the “This is aimed at defusing the situation as the Christian woman sentenced to death on a blasphemy prime minister’s remarks. right-wing extremist lobby is putting a huge amount of charge in early November. “We are really disappointed,” Peter Jacob, the pressure on the government through demonstrations,” she said. Archbishop Saldanha said he was not surprised that executive secretary of the Church’s National Commission However, “the appeasement of right-wing militant some Islamic groups planned Jan. 14 protests against for Justice and Peace, told CNS from his office in Lahore. hardliners” to hold on to power, Sarwar cautioned, “does not Pope Benedict’s remarks. However, Jacob said Gilani has his own “political work and only backfires in the long run.” “Some groups are taking advantage of the situation,” compulsions” to make such a declaration on the Speaking to journalists, Gilani urged them to be he said. sensitive issue. responsible and stop the controversy on the blasphemy law. About 97 percent of Pakistan’s 184 million people The Pakistan Peoples Party, the major party in He also reacted to Pope Benedict XVI’s Jan. 10 address to are Muslim. †

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Box 1410 • Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Page 3 Sidewalk counselors show love to mothers and babies By Sean Gallagher efforts in Indianapolis, Schmitz didn’t want to go near an abortion Hundreds of pro-life supporters facility. from central and southern Indiana “Once in a great while, I’d go travel to Washington this weekend and pray a rosary [in front of an Sean Gallagher Photo by to join tens of thousands of other abortion facility],” she said, “but I people for the 38th annual got out of there as quickly as March for Life on Jan. 24. I could.” While they are standing up for She even thanked God for not life and peacefully protesting the calling her to minister there. culture of death, other people Then 40 Days for Life started in committed to proclaiming the Indianapolis in the fall of 2007. Gospel of Life will remain in Schmitz participated in the Indiana on the front lines of the 40-day-long prayer vigil outside the pro-life cause. Planned Parenthood abortion center They are the sidewalk counselors near her home, and felt that God who faithfully stand outside was calling her to do what she had abortion facilities to offer love, fought against so hard in the past. hope and help to mothers So after “arguing” with God experiencing a crisis pregnancy. about it for about four months, Bob Rust, a 79-year-old member Schmitz started praying regularly of St. John the Evangelist Parish in outside the facility on Good Friday Enochsburg, has been dedicated in 2008. But she was still too afraid Bob Rust, left, and Margie Schmitz pray the rosary on Jan. 7 outside a Planned Parenthood abortion center in Indianapolis. to this life-saving ministry for to try to speak with the women The sidewalk counselors offer information and help to mothers considering abortion. Rust is a member of St. John the 20 years in extreme heat and cold. going into the building. Evangelist Parish in Enochsburg. Schmitz is a member of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. He knows that many people in Then a sidewalk counselor the broader culture see him and there asked her to simply hand out Sidewalk counselors and other pro-life other sidewalk counselors as pro-life pamphlets to people arriving supporters pose on Jan. 2 at St. Maria Goretti harassing the people who go into in cars. Submitted photo Church in Westfield, Ind., in the the abortion centers. “Right away, someone pulled up, Lafayette Diocese after the seventh annual But that doesn’t distract him and it was a mother and her Gift of Life Mass that celebrates the babies from the real purpose that keeps daughter. I said, ‘OK, God, you’ve saved from abortion during the previous year. In him committed to this challenging got to give me the words. I don’t the front row are, from left, Bill Manning, Marian ministry. know what to say,’ ” Schmitz Leahy, Kathy Stadler, Mary Rose Wahnsiedler “We’re out there to show love, to recalled. “And the Holy Spirit really and Elaine Esposito. In the back row are, from show love for the woman and the did [help me]. I couldn’t believe the left, Dan Dessauer, Steve Dlugosz, child,” Rust said. “That’s what words that were coming out of my Frances Adornato, Eileen Hartman, we’re there for.” mouth. They just stared at me and Elizabeth Kane, Pam Babbitt, Cathi Wahnsiedler, They share facts about fetal listened. Then they drove around Lucy Wahnsiedler and Bob Rust. development and encourage women and came out.” to consider pro-life alternatives, The next time that Schmitz did that terrible sin, [but] God has in a Gift of Life Mass that is that night. including help offered by such sidewalk counseling, she helped a turned it into something amazing,” celebrated on the first Sunday of the “I spent New Year’s Eve in her ministries as the Great Lakes couple choose life for their baby. she said. “I could never have year at St. Maria Goretti Church in church with the last baby saved in Gabriel Project and and the She has been a faithful sidewalk imagined what he’s done with me, Westfield, Ind., in the Lafayette 2010,” Kane said. archdiocese’s Birthline. counselor ever since. where he’s brought me spiritually.” Diocese. During the Mass, the For Kane and other pro-life Margie Schmitz thought for a One of her fellow counselors She has helped bring many counselors and other pro-life sidewalk counselors, it’s this kind long time that sidewalk counselors went into an abortion center mothers make the choice for life supporters carry to the altar white of dedication that expresses their were actually hurting the pro-life 29 years ago as a young mother. But that she didn’t make. And God has roses representing each of the love for mothers experiencing crisis movement which she started she didn’t chose life for her unborn blessed her with the chance to see babies saved from abortion during pregnancies and their babies. volunteering for in 1974. baby. some of the babies that she helped the previous year at abortion centers “We’re Jesus’ hands and feet,” “I felt that they would give us a Elizabeth Kane, a member to save. in Indianapolis. Kane said. “We feel that that’s bad name,” said Schmitz, a member of Our Lady of Mount Carmel “I got to be there when one was The rose that Kane carried this where he would be if he were on of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Parish in Carmel, Ind., in the born,” Kane said. “I got to hold him year represented a baby she had this Earth because his precious Indianapolis. “I just didn’t like it. I Lafayette Diocese, has ministered as before his mommy held him. He’s 3 helped save on New Year’s Eve. children are being destroyed, and don’t know. I thought maybe they a sidewalk counselor at abortion now.” She had counseled a woman at her the mothers and fathers are being were harassing the girls.” centers in Indianapolis for For the past seven years, Kane, apartment and persuaded her to ruined. We’re there to bring Although she volunteered in seven years. Rust, Schmitz and other sidewalk choose life. The woman then Christ’s love, and to offer help many ways for decades in pro-life “My baby was a martyr through counselors are invited to participate invited her to go to church with her and hope.” † Gabriel Project to open crisis pregnancy center in Indianapolis By Sean Gallagher “It’s both scary and breathtaking,” says Gabriel Project husband are now suffering from infertility. Volunteering to executive director Eileen Hartman about the opening of the help women considering abortion is close to her heart. The Great Lakes Gabriel Project, a parish-based center. “I have learned over the past 11 years [that [the “I felt that this was a way to be connected and give ministry that offers assistance to mothers in crisis Gabriel Project has been active in the archdiocese] that God support to those [in crisis pregnancies],” said Wynberry as pregnancies across the archdiocese and other dioceses in is in charge. Now I’m at least at a place where I can expect she wiped tears from her eyes. “For me, it meant a lot to the Midwest, is set to open the first Catholic pregnancy wonderful things to happen.” have an opportunity to help women who are fortunate [to resource center in Indiana. The primary wonderful thing that Hartman, a member have conceived a baby]. 1st Choice for Women is located at 5455 W. 86th St. in of St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus, hopes to see happen “This is where I feel compelled to serve and to Indianapolis, less than a mile from the Planned Parenthood at the center, of course, is mothers choosing life for their reach out.” center that is the largest provider of abortions in the state. babies. It will be sidewalk counselors who initially reach out to The generosity of members of the St. Monica Council To help expectant mothers with that decision-making expectant mothers entering the four abortion facilities of the Knights of Columbus in Indianapolis is making process, 1st Choice for Women is equipped with an across Indianapolis and invite them to come to 1st Choice 1st Choice for Women possible. ultrasound machine, which will enable the mother’s to see for Women. their unborn children. “It’s an answer to prayer,” said sidewalk counselor Three ultrasonographers have volunteered to operate the Elizabeth Kane. “We have trouble getting ultrasounds for machine and 17 nurses will soon be trained to provide [women] that are in a crisis. It’s going to be wonderful.” ultrasounds. Kane and other counselors have been given keys to the Kim Bova is a board-certified ultrasonographer and a center. When they take a mother there, an on-call Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by volunteer at the center. She has worked in her field for volunteer nurse or ultrasonographer will be contacted and 17 years, and is the director of the ultrasound department at come to assist the counselor. Community Hospital South in Indianapolis. If an ultrasound is done, a doctor will view it later and “I work on the other side of the fence,” said Bova, a follow up contact will be made with the mother. member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. “We see a lot The expectant mother’s visit to 1st Choice for Women of ER [patients] that are having complications from an can then introduce her to the other ways that the abortion. Or just in our general outpatient schedule, we get a Gabriel Project and other pro-life ministries, such as the [patient’s] history with [gynecological problems]. And you archdiocese’s Birthline, can assist her. hear, ‘I’ve had two or three abortions.’ “It’s all about the body of Christ,” Hartman said. “Year after year after year, it steals my spirit.” “That’s what we are. We’re the body of Christ for her. And Eileen Hartman, center, shows an ultrasound machine on Jan. 7 at So being able to help women avoid the physical, spiritual so you want to treat her like she’s your sister.” 1st Choice for Women to Jamie Wynberry, left, Anita Moody, and emotional pitfalls of abortion is a blessing for Bova. Bobbie Lawless and Trish Funk, all nurses who are volunteering “This seems like a breath of fresh air,” she said. “I really (1st Choice for Women, 5455 W. 86th St., in Indianapolis, at the new crisis pregnancy center. It is an effort of the need this to refuel my spirit, to realize that there are some will have an open house from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Gabriel Project, a parish-based, pro-life ministry active in many happy endings.” Jan. 22. For more information about 1st Choice for faith communities in central and southern Indiana. Hartman, a Jamie Wynberry is a nurse and will soon be trained to Women, call 317-213-4778. For more information about member of St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus, is the executive operate the ultrasound machine at 1st Choice for Women. the Great Lakes Gabriel Project, call 877-734-2444 or director of the Gabriel Project. Although they’ve been blessed with one child, she and her log on to www.goangels.org.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011

OPINION Be Our Guest/Greg Zoeller Respecting life in faith and justice (Editor’s note: Both houses of the Illinois In calling for the abolishment of capital state legislature this month passed bills punishment, retired Cardinal Theodore Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 banning the death penalty in their state. As McCarrick of Washington, who had Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher this newspaper went to press, the bill was previously supported the use of the death Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus sitting on Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s desk penalty, said, “We cannot teach that killing awaiting his signature. Quinn has not is wrong by killing. We cannot defend life indicated whether he will sign the bill into by taking life.” law. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller Though the Catholic Church, in Editorial submitted the following commentary after principle, still allows for the death penalty seeing how the state of Illinois is addressing to be carried out by human institutions, the death penalty question.) our Catechism of the Catholic Church Welcome, Bishop-designate Coyne quotes Pope John Paul II in his encyclical t was welcome news for On Nov. 8, 2010, on the campus of the “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of IArchbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Life”) that “cases in which the execution And as people of faith who know the Ind., the office of of the offender is an absolute necessity are health challenges that our archdiocesan the Indiana Attorney very rare, if not practically non-existent” shepherd has faced in the past few years, General hosted a (CCC, #2267). He also noted that “non- Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann it is an announcement that we should be criminal justice lethal means are sufficient to defend and happy to hear, too. summit convening protect people … in keeping with the Bishop-designate Christopher J. members of the concrete conditions of the common good Coyne’s appointment as auxiliary bishop three branches of in conformity to the dignity of the human to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on state government to person.” Jan. 14 is surprising in the sense that he address the This absolute respect for the dignity of is the archdiocese’s first auxiliary bishop economic reality of all life, the innocent unborn life as well as since Bishop Joseph E. Ritter was the death penalty. those who have committed the most named to the same post in 1933. Two prosecutors, heinous of crimes, comes from the faith and Greg Zoeller Bishop Ritter later became the who are considered hope for redemption of sinners, and the archbishop of Indianapolis and a leading experts in the prosecution of capital absolute knowledge that we are all sinners. cardinal in the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Bishop-designate Christopher J. Coyne, a cases, referred to the system as “broken” This can be seen in our failure to live up to But when you consider the size of our priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, due to the runaway costs that threaten to the perfect life example of Jesus Christ, archdiocese—151 parishes spread over addresses the media during a Jan. 14 press bankrupt smaller counties. who sought out sinners for redemption and nearly 14,000 miles in 39 counties in conference at St. John the Evangelist A Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court forgave with his final breath. central and southern Indiana—and the Church in Indianapolis. He will be ordained cited statistics that show the increasing From the perspective of faith, the fact that the archbishop asked the a bishop on March 2 at the historic length of the appellate process, and the absolute respect for all life does not allow Vatican for some help, the appointment downtown church. reduction in executions over the past for taking of life except to save and protect makes sense. two decades. other life. The “right to life” is a divine “As you can imagine, that’s a lot of disappointment that he would be leaving A research scientist in economics right not subject to the fallibility of human territory for one bishop to shepherd,” Massachusetts to minister in Indiana. reported on the extreme difficulty in determinations based on human Archbishop Buechlein said during a “My mother is not happy,” quantifying the overall costs of the death perspectives and knowledge. We are all Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the Bishop-designate Coyne said. “She penalty within the criminal justice system called to follow the example of Christ in Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. used to like the pope.” for budgetary purposes. loving God above all and loving our “Bishop-designate Coyne is a young The new bishop also said he had not One of the primary reasons for this neighbor as ourselves. 52, and I’m 72,” the archbishop added. yet chosen an episcopal motto. criminal justice summit was to begin a While this is an impossible command to “I’m looking forward to the energy “I did look to see whether ‘It is what discussion of the costs of capital fulfill through human means alone, it is, [that] he will bring to helping us carry it is’ is in the Bible, but it is not,” punishment in an era of decreasing state nonetheless, what we are called to do with out our mission.” he said. resources. There were several options our lives and is best demonstrated by our Bishop-designate Coyne, a priest of All joking aside, Bishop-designate offered to address the growing financial respect for all life. the Archdiocese of Boston, will bring Coyne said that he had learned a lot of concerns as well as the issue of many other gifts to his new ministry. things during his nearly 25 years of fundamental fairness in applying statutes (Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is a They include time spent as a parish priestly ministry in Boston, including equally among all counties regardless of member of Christ the King Parish in pastor, experience as a professor of “the importance of relying on the their financial resources. Indianapolis.) † liturgy and homiletics, and a strong cautions and advice of others, and the Convening the three branches of communications background as a need to listen to what is being said with government to address issues of spokesperson for the Archdiocese of an open heart and an open mind. importance to our system of justice is an Letters Policy Boston, including during the height of “I pledge that to you,” he said. important role of mine as the state’s Letters from readers are welcome and the priest sex-abuse crisis there. He later added, “Please know that my legal representative. should be informed, relevant, well- He also is active in sharing the prayers are for you, and I ask only the But as a Catholic, my faith leads me to expressed, concise, temperate in tone, Gospel on the Internet through blogging same in return.” view the death penalty from a vastly courteous and respectful. and posting videos about the faith. We all should, indeed, offer prayers different perspective. The editors reserve the right to select There is one downside to for Bishop-designate Coyne. In taking Our Church’s teachings on the death and edit the letters based on space Bishop-designate Coyne’s appointment, on this new role, let us pray that he is penalty are part of the moral principle of limitations, pastoral sensitivity and Archbishop Buechlein joked. “He’s been able to help the archbishop in carrying the Sixth Commandment, “Thou shall content. a lifelong [New England] Patriots fan. out his mission. We pray that his time not kill.” The U.S. Conference of Letters must be signed, but, for serious reasons, names may be withheld. “I told him that would fade,” the here bears much fruit for our Catholic Bishops has called for the end Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” archbishop said to roars of laughter archdiocese, and that Bishop-designate of the use of the death penalty as no The Criterion, P.O. Box 1410, Indianap olis, during the press conference. Coyne learns to love Indiana. longer justified as necessary as a IN 46206-1410. Bishop-designate Coyne was quick to And most important, we pray that “legitimate defense” of life since society Readers with access to e-mail may send make sure his sense of humor was this man of God helps us all grow in our can be safely protected through modern letters to [email protected]. evident during his introduction to our lives of faith. incarceration methods. archdiocese as well. He talked about his mother’s —Mike Krokos Take time to pray for life Where Religion Matters Jan. 22, 1973. exception, no compromise.” The percentage of U.S. adults who cite their religion as the most important That day still “lives in infamy” for While several groups from the influence on their views all people who understand that life Archdiocese of Indianapolis will make begins at conception. the pilgrimage to our nation’s capital, POSITION ON THE ISSUE: It has been 38 years since the others will be praying for life at the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade and same time in Indianapolis, TOPIC LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE Doe v. Bolton decisions legalizing Bloomington, and throughout our state abortion in the U.S. Nearly and country. SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 5% 60% four decades later and after more than What a powerful witness for life! 55 million unborn children have been Even if you are unable to attend the 9% 45% killed, we are still hard at work— national or local events on Jan. 24, take ABORTION through our prayers and faith-based time to stop at a church or chapel—or actions—trying to end to this find a quiet place in your DEATH PENALTY 32% 13% misguided law. workday—and offer prayers for an end GOVERNMENT ASSISTANCE 12% 4% Tens of thousands of pro-life to abortion. TO THE POOR supporters from all over the U.S. will We must continue our work to travel to Washington, D.C., to take part protect all human life from conception IMMIGRATION 8% 5% in this year’s March for Life on Jan. 24. to natural death. Our faith demands no The theme is: “Thou shalt protect the less of us. ENVIRONMENT 6% 9% equal right to life of each innocent born

and pre-born human in existence—no —Mike Krokos Source: Pew Research Center 2010 poll ©2010 CNS The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Bishop-designate Coyne is a gift to our local Church ur Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, welcome in central and southern Indiana. Speaking about the office of a bishop and our very life testifies that our human family gave our Archdiocese of He brings an impressive array of talents and a priest in his apostolic letter on priestly needs God in a world that would often OIndianapolis a wonderful gifts to offer in ministry here. formation, the late Pope John Paul II quoted believe otherwise. Christmas gift. His main duty will be to help me carry St. Augustine, who was speaking for We bishops and priests are visible We have not had an auxiliary bishop out my responsibilities, which will be a gift. bishops at a celebration of the martyrdom of sacraments of the priesthood of Jesus Christ since 1933. Bishop Joseph E. Ritter was Most of you are aware that I have had some Sts. Peter and Paul centuries ago. in a world that needs to see and hear and consecrated in February of that year. health issues in recent years that have St. Augustine said: “We are your touch Jesus—and is no longer sure it can. Bishop-designate Christopher Coyne curtailed some of my activities. shepherds, with you we receive The single driving motive for our call to will be ordained on March 2. He will be my I have been assured that our new bishop, nourishment. May the Lord give us the ministry in the Church is love of Jesus assistant bishop, and will also be vicar at age 52, has lots of energy. It occurs to me strength to love you to the extent of dying Christ, and love of him moves us to a general of the archdiocese. that I was his age when I was called to for you either in fact or in desire.” pastoral love for the many. Bishop-designate Coyne is a priest of the Indianapolis. I am about to mark my We are sometimes asked, “What is it like Love of God and belief in his care is the Archdiocese of Boston, where he has been 24th anniversary as a bishop, and am to be a bishop these days, what does it motive that leads us to want to serve and not pastor of St. Margaret Mary Parish for the entering my 19th year in Indianapolis. take?” A bishop has to be strong. A bishop be served. The pastoral love of Christ in us past four years. I am excited by the appointment of an is a martyr, not in the “poor me” sense, serves unity and communion in our Church He has a doctorate in liturgy from the auxiliary bishop for our archdiocese. It rather in the original sense of the Greek in a divided world. † Sant’Anselmo Liturgical Institute in Rome. comes as a surprise, for it is not customary word. He is a witness like Peter, saying with He taught liturgy and homiletics in the for the Holy See to appoint an auxiliary his very life, “You are Christ, the Son of the seminary in Boston for 10 years before bishop to assist a bishop who has passed Living God!” (Mt 16:16). Do you have an intention for becoming a pastor. age 70. This is a welcome exception for our In a secularized world that believes only Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? He has also been responsible for local Church. With the help of an energetic in what it sees, by his consecration and by You may mail it to him at: communications in the archdiocese, and assistant bishop, we can continue to lead the what he does, Bishop-designate Coyne will is regularly on Boston Catholic television. archdiocese forward. be a witness to Mystery. Archbishop Buechlein’s I am told that he loves to ski. He When we ordain a successor of the The very life and identity of a bishop Prayer List confided to me that he has been a Apostles, we cannot help but think of the (and of priests) are rooted in the order of Archdiocese of Indianapolis longtime New England Patriots fan. I said original 12. They poured out their life’s faith, the order of the unseen and not in the 1400 N. Meridian St. that would certainly pass in favor of the blood for love of Jesus Christ and the secular order of values. And so in a secular P.O. Box 1410 Indianapolis Colts. community of believers. Their intriguing, society, the challenge to be a spiritual and Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 We owe the new bishop our gratitude for checkered lives are wonderful testimony moral leader is great. Above all, this means saying “yes” to the Holy Father. He leaves that God does great things for us despite the behind his mother and father and five poverty of our humanity. Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for January siblings in the Boston area. That has to be a My predecessor, Archbishop Edward T. personal sacrifice. O’Meara used to say, “Isn’t it marvelous Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to I assured Bishop-designate Coyne that how much good God accomplishes in spite consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. he would receive a heartfelt “Hoosier” of ourselves?”

El obispo designado Coyne es una dádiva para nuestra Iglesia local uestro Santo Padre, el papa dones que ofrecer en su ministerio aquí. formación sacerdotal, el difunto papa Juan necesita a Dios en un mundo en el que Benedicto XVI, obsequió a Su principal deber será ayudarme a Pablo II citó a San Agustín quien se dirigía a frecuentemente se cree otra cosa. Nnuestra Arquidiócesis de desempeñar mis responsabilidades lo cual los obispos en ocasión de la conmemoración Los obispos y los sacerdotes son Indianápolis un maravilloso regalo. será una dádiva. La mayoría de ustedes está del martirio de San Pedro y San Pablo hace sacramentos visibles del sacerdocio de No hemos tenido un obispo auxiliar al tanto de que he padecido algunos siglos. Jesucristo en un mundo que necesita ver, desde 1933. El obispo Elmer Joseph problemas de salud en años recientes los San Agustín dijo: “Somos tus pastores, escuchar y tocar a Jesús y ya no está seguro Ritter fue consagrado en febrero cuales han restringido algunas de mis en ti recibimos sustento. Que Dios nos de poder hacerlo. de ese año. actividades. conceda la fortaleza para amarte hasta el El motivo que impulsa nuestro llamado El obispo designado Christopher Se me ha asegurado que nuestro nuevo extremo de morir por ti, ya sea en hechos o al ministerio en la Iglesia es el amor de Coyne se ordenará el 2 de marzo de 2011. obispo de 52 años tiene mucha energía. Se en anhelo”. Jesucristo y el amor por él nos conduce al Será mi obispo asistente y también el me ocurre que yo tenía su edad cuando fui En ocasiones se nos pregunta: “¿Cómo es amor pastoral por los demás. vicario general de la Arquidiócesis. llamado a Indianápolis. Estoy a punto de ser obispo en esta época? ¿Qué hace falta El amor a Dios y creer en Su auxilio es El obispo designado Coyne es un celebrar mi aniversario número 24 como para serlo?” Un obispo debe ser fuerte. Un el motivo que nos lleva a querer servir y no sacerdote de la Arquidiócesis de Boston obispo y estoy adentrándome en mi décimo obispo es un mártir, no en el sentido de a ser servidos. El amor pastoral de Cristo en donde ha sido pastor de la parroquia Santa noveno año en Indianápolis. “pobre de mí” sino en el sentido original de nosotros sirve a la unión y la comunión en Margaret María desde hace 4 años. Me entusiasma la designación de un la palabra griega. Es un testigo, al igual que nuestra Iglesia en un mundo dividido. † Posee un doctorado en liturgia del obispo auxiliar para nuestra Arquidiócesis. Pedro, que expresa con su propia vida “¡Tú Instituto Litúrgico Sant’Anselmo en Esto llega por sorpresa ya que la Santa Sede eres Cristo, el Hijo del Dios Vivo!”. (Mt ¿Tiene una intención que desee Roma. Enseñó liturgia y homilética en el no acostumbra designar un obispo auxiliar 16:16). incluir en la lista de oración del seminario en Boston durante 10 años para asistir a un obispo que ha sobrepasado En un mundo secularizado que cree sólo Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar antes de convertirse en pastor. los 70 años. Resulta una excepción grata en aquello que ve, el obispo designado su correspondencia a: Asimismo, ha sido responsable de las para nuestra Iglesia local. Con la colabo- Coyne será un testigo del misterio, mediante comunicaciones en la arquidiócesis y ración de un energético obispo asistente, su consagración y su obra. Lista de oración del Arzobispo aparece regularmente en la televisión podemos continuar llevando adelante nuestra La vida misma y la identidad de un Buechlein católica de Boston. Me dicen que le Arquidiócesis. obispo (y de los sacerdotes) están enraizadas Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis encanta esquiar. Me confesó que desde Cuando ordenamos a un sucesor de los en el orden de la fe, el orden de aquello que 1400 N. Meridian St. hace mucho tiempo ha sido fanático de Apóstoles no podemos menos que pensar en no se ve y no en el orden de valores P.O. Box 1410 los Patriots de Nueva Inglaterra. Se lo los 12 originales quienes vertieron la sangre seculares. Y por consiguiente, el reto de ser Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 permití ya que eso ciertamente favorecerá de sus vidas por amor a Jesucristo y a la un líder espiritual y moral en una sociedad a los Colts de Indianápolis. comunidad de creyentes. Sus vidas secular es grande. Por encima de todo, esto Le debemos nuestro agradecimiento al fascinantes y variopintas representan un significa que nuestras propias vidas dan nuevo obispo por decirle “sí” al Santo maravilloso testimonio de que Dios hace testimonio de que nuestra familia humana Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, Padre. En Boston deja a su madre y a su cosas extraordinarias por nosotros a pesar de Language Training Center, Indianapolis. padre, así como a cinco hermanos, lo cual la pobreza de nuestra humanidad. debe ser un sacrificio personal. Mi predecesor, el arzobispo Edward T. La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero Le aseguré al obispo designado Coyne O’Meara solía decir: “¿Acaso no es que recibiría una sincera bienvenida maravilloso todo lo que Dios logra a pesar Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus hoosier en el centro y en el sur de de nosotros mismos?” hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para servir en la iglesia, especialmente como Indiana. El obispo designado aporta una Hablando acerca del oficio del obispo y sacerdotes y gente religiosa. variedad impresionante de talentos y del sacerdote en su carta apostólica sobre la Page 6 The Criterion Friday, Janaury 21, 2011

Retreats and Programs Events Calendar “Compassionate Healing,” Benedictine Sister Anita Louise Lowe, presenter, January 21 march and rally until 4 p.m. free admission. Information: January 26 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., $65 per person. Northside Knights of Information: Archdiocesan 800-682-0988 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 812-367-1411. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Office for Pro-Life Ministry, www.saintmeinrad.edu. 56th St., Indianapolis. “An Evening of February 22-24 317-236-1569 or Reflection,” Father Michael McKinney, 71st St., Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Catholic Business Exchange, 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. January 30 presenter. Information: 317-545-7681 or Our Lady of Lourdes School, St. Meinrad. “A Personal Preparation for the Mass, breakfast and program, [email protected]. St. Charles Borromeo Parish, 5333 E. Washington St., Paschal Mystery,” midweek retreat, “Nothing Bad Has Ever Benedictine Father Jeremy King, presenter. Happened To Me,” 2222 E. Third St., Indianapolis. Open house, January 27 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 800-581-6905 or Jeff Worrell, president, Bloomington. 1-3 p.m. Information: 56th St., Indianapolis. “Your Spiritual Life [email protected]. Advantage Medical, presenter, Second annual Bloomington 317-357-3316 or is Better Than You Think,” day of 6:30-8:30 a.m., online March for Life, 10 a.m., www.ollindy.org. reflection, Father Michael McKinney, February 25-27 reservations only. Reservations Mass, rosary procession to Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Indiana War Memorial, presenter. Information: 317-545-7681 or and information: Planned Parenthood abortion St. Meinrad. “Reflections on the Suffering auditorium, 431 N. [email protected]. www.catholicbusiness center, 421 S. College Ave., Servant Songs of Isaiah 4-55,” Benedictine Meridian St., Indianapolis. exchange.org. Bloomington. Information: January 30 Father Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: Right to Life of Indianapolis, 812-330-1535 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. memorial service for the January 21-March 5 [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana Saint Meinrad Archabbey, unborn, followed by February 26 January 26 Conference,” marriage preparation library gallery, 200 Hill Drive, memorial walk to program, 1:30-6 p.m. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. St. Malachy Parish, 9833 E. St. Meinrad. “Plein-Air Monument Circle, 3 p.m. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Sacrament of Pastels” exhibit, Jan Frazier County Road 750 N., Information: 317-582-1526. Marriage, a Priest’s Perspective–Date Night and Iris Gentry, artists. Brownsburg. “Catholics January 31 for Engaged and Married Couples,” Information: 800-682-0988 or Returning Home,” session January 30 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Father Todd Goodson, presenter, 6-9 p.m., www.saintmeinrad.edu. four of six, 7 p.m. Information: St. Joan of Arc School, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima” $50 per couple includes dinner. Information: 317-650-5751. 4217 N. Central Ave., monthly Mass and social, Mass, 9 a.m., 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. January 23 Indianapolis. Open house, goodwill offerings accepted. Information: Queen and Divine Mercy January 27 Mass, 10:30 a.m., brunch 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate Archbishop Edward T. Center, Rexville, located on following Mass. Information: Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, Ind. O’Meara Catholic Center, 925 South, .8 mile east of 317-283-1518. February 1 (Evansville Diocese). “Sunday 1400 N. Meridian St., 421 South and 12 miles south Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Eucharist–Why We Do What We Do,” Indianapolis. Catholics United January 31 of Versailles. Mass, 9:30 a.m., 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Art of Spiritual Benedictine Sister Anita Ann Lowe, presenter, for the Faith, Abba, St. Joan of Arc School, Direction–A Morning for Moms,” on third Sunday holy hour 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $65 per person. Information: Father Chapter, meeting, 4217 N. Central Ave., Father Peter Marshall and Mary Schaffner, and pitch-in, Father Elmer 812-367-1411. Burwinkel, celebrant, daily 6:30-8 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Open house, presenters, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., $30 per person Mass, 9 a.m. Information: 317-236-1569, 800-382-9836, 5:30-7 p.m. Information: includes continental breakfast, lunch, Mass February 27 812-689-3551. ext. 1569, or 317-283-1518. and program, child care included at no Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. [email protected]. additional charge, but space is limited. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana January 24 February 5 Information: 317-545-7681 or Conference,” marriage preparation St. Michael School, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, January 29 [email protected]. program, 1:30-6 p.m. Information: 515 Jefferson Blvd., 1347 N. Meridian St., Indian- Saint Meinrad Archabbey 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. apolis. Mass for Life then Church, 200 Hill Drive, Greenfield. Carnival, February 4 pro-life march downtown and St. Meinrad. Choral music noon-5 p.m., free admission, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. February 28 Respect Life Rally at program, “Awake, My Soul: bounce house, games, food. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Veterans Memorial Plaza, A Celebration of Psalms,” Information: 317-462-6380 or Rest Awhile,” silent reflection day, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima” Mass, noon, followed by AGO Festival Singers, 3 p.m., [email protected]. † 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $25 per person includes monthly Mass and social, Mass, 9 a.m., continental breakfast and lunch. Information: goodwill offerings accepted. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. February 4-5 March 8 Lecture to be given on priestly spirituality Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Benedictine Father Vincent Tobin will the Gregorian Pontifical University in 56th St., Indianapolis. “Renewing the 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Sharing Renewed–A Program for Men,” give a lecture on priestly spirituality at Rome. He has taught courses at Strategies for Self-Care,” session two, Father John McCaslin and team of lay Toni Peabody, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., 7 p.m. on Feb. 7 at the Church Leadership Saint Meinrad, the ministers, presenters, $125 per person Center Theater on the fourth floor of Gregorian and $25 per person includes dinner. Information: includes accommodations and meals. 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. Newman Hall on the campus of Saint the Pontifical Information: 317-545-7681 or Meinrad Seminary and School of Liturgical Institute, [email protected]. March 4-6 Theology in St. Meinrad. also in Rome. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, The lecture, titled “Out of A sought-after February 7 St. Meinrad. “Carnival Capers–Preparing Egypt: Reflections on Moses as Leader in retreat master and Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. for Lent,” Benedictine Father Noël Mueller, 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Art of Spiritual presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or the Book of Exodus,” will focus on spiritual director, Direction,” day of reflection,” Father Peter [email protected]. leadership through life’s transitions as a Father Vincent is Marshall and Mary Schaffner, presenters, diocesan priest. It is sponsored by the the manager of the 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $35 per person includes March 9-30 seminary’s Institute for Priests and Archabbey Guest continental breakfast, lunch, Mass and Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Presbyterates, and is part of its Gregorian House and program. Information: 317-545-7681 or Fr. Vincent Tobin, O.S.B. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Bridges to Lectures in Priestly Spirituality series. Retreat Center. [email protected]. Contemplative Living,” Thomas Merton Father Vincent, a monk of The lecture is free and open to the February 8 seminar, four Wednesdays, Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, presenter, 6-9 p.m., $85.95, Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, public. For more information, call Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, earned a licentiate in sacred theology at 812-357-6501. † 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. four sessions includes dinner. Information: “Woman Talk–Enhancing,” session one, 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. Diana Hendricks, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., March 11-13 $25 per person includes dinner. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 317-788-7581 or 56th St., Indianapolis. Weekend Lenten Statue [email protected]. retreat, Benedictine Father Adrian Burke, February 11-13 presenter. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “A Love Triangle That in the Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Works–A Valentine Retreat for Married Couples,” Benedictine Father Jeremy King, St. Meinrad. “The Sundays of Lent: presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or Cycle A,” Benedictine Father Jeremy King, snow [email protected]. presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. February 18-20 Snow covers a statue of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. March 14 St. Francis of Assisi in the 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend,” Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. courtyard of the marriage preparation retreat. Information: 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest Archbishop O’Meara 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Catholic Center in $25 per person includes continental breakfast Indianapolis on Jan. 12. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or Several inches of snow fell St. Meinrad. “Praying the Bible,” [email protected]. in central and southern Benedictine Brother Zachary Wilberding, presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or March 14-April 4 Indiana on Jan. 11-12. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, [email protected]. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. February 19 “Companions in Christ–The Way of Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Forgiveness,” four Mondays, Benedictine Immaculate Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Sister Angela Jarboe, presenter, 7-9 p.m., $60 Ferdinand, Ind. (Evansville Diocese). plus $12 for book. Information: 317-788-7581 “Saturday Morning at the Dome–Marriage or [email protected]. as a Process,” Barbara McDonald, presenter, 9 a.m.-12:15 p.m., light lunch, $45 per March 15-17 person. Information: 812-367-1411. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “The Return to God in the Rule February 21 of St. Benedict,” midweek retreat, Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Benedictine Father Vincent Tobin, presenter. Immaculate Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Information: 800-581-6905 or Ferdinand, Ind. (Evansville Diocese). [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Page 7 Archdiocese of Indianapolis has had two previous auxiliaries By Sean Gallagher New Albany and grew up as a member of seminarian for the then-Diocese of newspaper, Bishop Francis Chatard had St. Mary Parish. He was ordained a priest Indianapolis. Bishop Ritter ordained him to requested an auxiliary at the time because History was made on Jan. 14 when it was of the Diocese of Indianapolis in 1917. the priesthood in 1940. of his failing health. announced that Pope Benedict XVI had Retired Father Hilary Meny, 96, was a Father Meny said Bishop Ritter’s Bishop O’Donaghue, who was born in appointed Father Christopher J. Coyne, a student in the minor seminary at leadership helped to put the diocese back on 1848 in Daviess County, Ind., was priest of the Boston Archdiocese, to be an Saint Meinrad Seminary in St. Meinrad a good financial footing. ordained a priest of auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of when Bishop Ritter was appointed as an “Prior to his ordination as bishop, I think the Diocese of Indianapolis. auxiliary bishop. the diocese just had so many young men Indianapolis Bishop-designate Coyne will be only the However, he has no memory of the who were at Saint Meinrad who were, in a in 1874. third auxiliary bishop in the 177-year appointment because, at the time, he was sense, financial wards of the diocese so that Pope St. Pius X history of the archdiocese and the first since not yet affiliated with the Diocese of the diocese was tending to go broke,” appointed him as Pope Pius XI appointed Father Joseph Indianapolis as a seminarian. he said. bishop of E. Ritter as an auxiliary in 1933. “They didn’t want any more people on Bishop Ritter would later become an Louisville on Bishop Ritter served as an auxiliary, the roster than they could support,” said archbishop in 1944 when the Diocese of Feb. 9, 1910. He however, for less Father Meny of the financially Indianapolis became an archdiocese. Two died in 1925. than a year. challenging times during the Great years later, Pope Pius XII appointed him as In a Jan. 15 Bishop Joseph Depression. archbishop of St. Louis. He was made a Bishop interview with Chartrand, the He recalled seeing Bishop Ritter “at a cardinal in 1961 and died in 1967. Denis O’Donaghue The Criterion, bishop of distance” when he would come to the History, in a sense, repeated itself with Father Meny said Indianapolis at the seminary for ordinations. the appointment of Bishop-designate Coyne. he had heard about the appointment of time, died later that “I was in the band at Saint Meinrad,” At the Jan. 14 press conference, Archbishop Bishop-designate Coyne on the radio. same year and recalled Father Meny. “Of course, we’d Daniel M. Buechlein acknowledged that the When told that the soon-to-be auxiliary Bishop Ritter was put on a program each time before an health challenges he has experienced in bishop is well over 6 feet tall, Father Meny, chosen to succeed ordination. And Bishop Ritter would be recent years precipitated the appointment. who is 5’6”, said with a laugh, “As far as I him on March 24, on hand, and he’d come out and listen to In 1900, Father Denis O’Donaghue was know, he’ll do well. And, of course, the 1934. our bum notes, you know.” appointed the first auxiliary bishop of the very fact that he’s so tall and so imposing Archbishop Bishop Ritter was After studying at Saint Meinrad for Diocese of Indianapolis. According to a would psychologically do something to Joseph E. Ritter born in 1892 in eight years, Father Meny finally became a February 1910 The Indiana Catholic almost anybody who is a shrimp like me.” † Auxiliary bishops are like associate pastors, says canon lawyer

By Sean Gallagher that which is given to him by the diocese’s bishops—much like the fact that it is rank, he is considered at a higher level than bishop. usually only parishes with a large number anybody else. It’s a recognition of his The Archdiocese of Indianapolis hasn’t “The auxiliary is strictly a helper,” said of households that have an associate pastor. episcopal status.” had an auxiliary bishop for 77 years. So Father Bonke. “He’s an assistant bishop, Canon 406 states that a diocesan bishop Canon 408 states that an auxiliary virtually no Catholic alive today who grew but without any ordinary jurisdiction of any should appoint an auxiliary bishop as the bishop ordinarily is to carry out episcopal up in central and southern Indiana has any kind. vicar general of the diocese, although this duties “whenever the diocesan bishop memory of the ministry of an auxiliary “The [diocesan is ultimately “dependent requires it,” and that the bishop. bishop] maintains only upon his authority.” diocesan bishop is not to As Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein full and total Father Bonke said assign such duties said at the Jan. 14 press conference at jurisdiction, and this condition reflects the An associate pastor “habitually” to which Bishop-designate Christopher J. authority and fact that an auxiliary anyone else. Coyne was introduced, Catholics across the administrative bishop has no authority has no duties except Such tasks include archdiocese, including himself, will have competence.” except what is granted to those that are given to those which only a some learning to do. The canons that him by the diocesan bishop can perform, The Church’s Code of Canon Law deal primarily with bishop. him by the parish’s such as ordinations or might be helpful in that regard, said auxiliary bishops Archbishop pastor. In the same the dedication of a Father James Bonke, the defender of the Fr. James Bonke are #403 to #411. Buechlein chose to church. But they can bond in the archdiocese’s canon law court, Canon 403 states follow canon 406’s way, the only authority also involve presiding at known as the Metropolitan Tribunal. that an auxiliary bishop can be appointed if recommendation that an auxiliary other diocesan and In an interview with The Criterion, “the pastoral needs of a diocese suggest it.” and has appointed important parish events Father Bonke said that an auxiliary bishop Father Bonke said that Archbishop Bishop-designate Coyne bishop has in a diocese that the diocesan bishop in a diocese is much like an associate Buechlein’s loss of energy due to his health as vicar general. would ordinarily attend, pastor in a parish. difficulties over the past few years would Canon 407 notes that is that which is given including confirmations. An associate pastor has no duties except be such a pastoral need. a diocesan bishop is to to him by the diocese’s “It will be an those that are given to him by the parish’s In other dioceses, the high number of consult his auxiliary opportunity for pastor. In the same way, the only authority Catholics to be ministered to necessitates bishop before others bishop. Bishop Coyne to be able that an auxiliary bishop has in a diocese is the appointing of one or more auxiliary about “cases of major to get around the importance, especially of archdiocese, and meet a pastoral character.” the priests and see where “The auxiliary bishop, in effect, the parishes are,” Father Bonke said. “His becomes a member of the presbyterate of comment in the press conference about ace, Heat P Furn ump & A the diocese,” said Father Bonke, regarding having to buy a GPS was a good one [in ir Conditioner Sale canon 407. “But, because of his episcopal that regard].” †

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By Mary Ann Wyand

An enthusiastic group of young adult Catholics who are IUPUI students and St. John the Evangelist parishioners attended the press conference announcing the appointment of Father Christopher J. Coyne as the auxiliary bishop of the Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann archdiocese. They also displayed a large sign that read “IUPUI [heart]s our shepherd” to surprise Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. “We need to add an ‘S’ to our sign,” said Breanna Holder, an IUPUI sophomore and St. John parishioner from Odon, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese, who is majoring in journalism, so the poster can also refer to Bishop-designate Coyne. “It’s very exciting to see his excitement about his [ministry] here,” she said about the new auxiliary bishop. “… It’s exciting for both St. John’s, and those of us who attend IUPUI and [are members of] Breanna Holder the Catholic Student Organization.” Holder said she is glad that Bishop-designate Coyne writes a blog for St. Margaret Mary Parish in Westwood, Mass., www.blog.saintmm parish.org, and hosts Catholic videos posted online. “As a young Catholic, it is very inspiring to see our [new Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein talks with Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis senior Michael Conner, left, of St. Paul auxiliary bishop] communicating via an online ministry,” Parish in Tell City, who holds a sign praising Archbishop Buechlein after the Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the Evangelist Church she said. “It shows his devotion to connect to the Church at in Indianapolis. Father Rick Nagel, center, the director of the archdiocesan Office of Young Adult and College Campus Ministry, also all levels. For the young and older generations alike, talked with the archbishop and students after Bishop-designate Christopher J. Coyne’s official introduction. technology and the Internet are great teaching tools and ways to stay connected as a universal Church. I have read “I had no idea that we were going to be getting an “I’m also excited to have that kind of a mentor close to some of Bishop-elect Coyne’s blog, and have found it to be auxiliary bishop,” he said after the official announcement. me, someone with his experience, love for the Lord and his very inspirational.” “… I’m excited to have the opportunity to meet Church, and desire to be holy,” Father Nagel said. “I’m IUPUI freshman Patrick Burton Bishop-designate Coyne and to work with him a little bit. looking forward to hanging out with him and learning from also attended the press conference. “The archbishop has been really wonderful in terms of him, and continuing to serve our shepherd, He completed his primary education young adult ministry,” Conner said. “It’s been something Archbishop Daniel, who has been such a great spiritual at St. Lawrence School in Indian- that he’s been very, very supportive of. It’s something that father for me. I’m very happy and am looking forward to apolis, and is majoring in computer he has a large heart for, and so we just want to show [him] becoming the administrator here. science and applied math with a that we really appreciate that. I really love our archbishop.” “The archbishop has made young adult and college minor in Spanish. Father Rick Nagel, the director of the archdiocesan campus ministry one of his top three priorities for the “I think it’s very exciting,” Office of Young Adult and College Campus Ministry as well remainder of his service to the archdiocese,” he said. Burton said. “He’s very excited to as the Catholic chaplain at Indiana University-Purdue “Our young people are a joy to be around, and they are get started. He seems very energetic. University Indianapolis (IUPUI), was also appointed the new responding so beautifully to the ministry. We’ll hopefully be … It’s good for us youth here to see administrator of St. John the Evangelist Parish by able to introduce Father Coyne to them soon, and for them someone excited to be serving God Archbishop Buechlein, which is effective on Feb. 15 to be able to share their enthusiasm. Patrick Burton and serving the people. I pray that because Father Stephen Giannini, the current pastor, will “There’s a big crowd [of young adults] here today,” he does well, and that he continues accept additional administrative duties for the archdiocese. Father Nagel said. “The word spread that there was to grow in his faith and help us grow in ours.” “I’m ecstatic,” Father Nagel said after the press something big being announced at their parish so they St. Paul parishioner Michael Conner of Tell City, a senior conference. “It’s such awesome news to see the growth of spread the word and came here. I think that’s a sign of their at IUPUI, serves as the president of the Catholic Student the archdiocese and the possibilities of bringing more souls love for Christ’s Church and how they want to support Organization there and is discerning a possible call to the to Christ through his Church right here in the archdiocese.” whatever the shepherd here desires.” priesthood. He held the sign during and after the press Bishop-designate Coyne will reside at the St. John Parish conference. rectory with Father Nagel and Father William Stumpf. (Reporter Sean Gallagher assisted with this story.) †

share with my brothers here, and to me that’s the greatest press conference, Bishop-designate Coyne responded, “I COYNE job ever. was never asked to defend the indefensible, and I never did. continued from page 1 “I’ve been a pastor for four and a half years in suburban “What I learned from that is the importance of a priest to Boston, and they’ve been the best years of my priestly life. always strive to holiness, to lift up and care for those who bout with Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2008, and that has And I will certainly miss the wonderful people of are most vulnerable in society. One thing that I changed in curtailed some of my activities. Bishop-designate Coyne is St. Margaret Mary Parish in Westwood.” my priesthood was that, in the midst of all that, when little a young 52, and I’m 72. I’m looking forward to the energy He then thanked Archbishop Buechlein for the children were brought up to Communion, I started to bless that he will bring to helping us carry out our mission.” opportunity to assist him. He also shared his desire to work them, which I’ve never done before. Bishop-designate Coyne exuded that energy at the press with the clergy, religious and laity of the archdiocese to “I can’t even imagine why I didn’t in the past. But I conference, displaying a combination of humor, humility further the mission of the Church. would give them a blessing. It’s a reminder to me that the and humanity during his remarks. “While I come with almost 25 years of priestly ministry hands of a priest should always be a hand of blessing and A lifelong, diehard fan of the New England Patriots in many and various roles within the Church, I know I never a hand of abuse.” professional football team, Bishop-designate Coyne opened have a lot to learn,” he said. “I need to learn names, faces, Archbishop Buechlein has appointed Bishop-designate his comments with a reference to the casual, game-day policies and practices, histories and stories.” Coyne as the vicar general of the archdiocese, which means attire of the team’s head coach, Bill Belichick. He is now part of the history and the story of the that he will be the second highest-ranking official in the “I was going to wear a hooded, sleeveless sweatshirt to archdiocese. He will be ordained as a bishop at St. John archdiocese. His appointment marks the end of the press conference this morning, but the boss said no.” the Evangelist Church on March 2. He will become the Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel’s 17 years of service as the After a burst of laughter from the crowd of reporters, 66th auxiliary bishop currently ministering in the United vicar general of the archdiocese. news photographers, priests, archdiocesan officials and lay States. The archbishop’s deep appreciation of Msgr. Schaedel’s Catholics, Bishop-designate Coyne turned serious. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis will become the service was evident in his comments. “I am humbled by the desire of the Church, through the 33rd diocese in the United States to currently have at least “He has been outstanding in his ability and willingness to Holy Father, Pope Benedict, that I become a bishop,” he one auxiliary bishop, joining such dioceses as Atlanta, serve,” the archbishop said. “He has generously and without said. “I already participate in the great priesthood, which I Baltimore, Buffalo, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, complaint stepped up to serve the people of the archdiocese New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. when my illness has prevented me from doing so. The appointment of Bishop-designate Coyne was also “He will receive a well-deserved sabbatical in Rome after celebrated by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, the spiritual which he will receive a new assignment. He will continue leader of the Archdiocese of Boston. his position as vicar for religious, and will continue to be “Bishop-elect Coyne has served as a priest of the director of the archdiocesan Mission Office and the Office Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Archdiocese of Boston for almost 25 years, and during this of the Propagation of the Faith. I can’t thank him enough for time he has continued to demonstrate tremendous skill as a his faithful service to me and the archdiocese.” pastor and leader within the archdiocese,” Cardinal The archbishop also expressed his gratitude to O’Malley said in a statement. “Archbishop Daniel M. Bishop-designate Coyne for “saying yes to the Holy Father.” Buechlein is indeed blessed to receive one of Boston’s At the same time, Bishop-designate Coyne vowed to finest priests.” strive to become a good bishop for the archdiocese. As part of his time in the Archdiocese of Boston, “I pledge myself today to the service of God’s people Bishop-designate Coyne was a professor of sacred liturgy here in [the archdiocese of] Indianapolis, and I hope over and homiletics at St. John Seminary in Brighton. He also time to become a true son of Indiana,” he said. “Please know Fathers Gerald Kirkhoff, from left, George Plaster, Patrick Doyle served as the director of the archdiocese’s Office of that my prayers are for you, and I ask only the same in and Rick Ginther listen attentively during the Jan. 14 press Worship from 2001 to 2002. And he was the archdiocesan return.” conference at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis at spokesperson from 2002 to 2005—three years during which it was announced that Pope Benedict XVI has appointed which the priest sex abuse crisis in Boston reached its (For more coverage and photos of the appointment of Father Christopher J. Coyne of the Boston Archdiocese as an peak. Bishop-designate Christopher J. Coyne, log on to auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. When he was asked about those three years during the www.CriterionOnline.com.) † The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Page 9 Laity and clergy express pleasure about new auxiliary bishop

By Mike Krokos he was selling us anything. He shared himself with us. He seems to be … very J. Patrick Byrne drove more than committed to his faith. I think he’s going 100 miles one way on the morning of to be a good leader.”

Jan. 14 to witness Byrne, who just completed his Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann history. third year on the Catholic Community But Byrne Foundation board, said the mileage that admits that he separates parts of the archdiocese does not didn’t know adversely affect the local Church’s efforts exactly why he to build up the body of Christ. was invited from “There’s no doubt,” he said. “We’re all his southern one faith community. The distance is not Indiana home to an issue.” St. John the Father Eric Johnson, the archdiocesan Evangelist Church director of vocations, was among the more J. Patrick Byrne in Indianapolis that than 30 priests who attended the press day. conference. “I knew there was going to be an He said that Archbishop Buechlein has important message,” indicated “that he would said Byrne, a member like Bishop-designate of the Catholic Coyne to have the Community ‘When we were opportunity to meet with Foundation’s board of talking, [Bishop- and get to know the directors, “and the designate Coyne] was seminarians as quickly archbishop asked us to as possible. attend.” very concerned about “We will, of course, That announcement our parishioners, our be bringing them up Videographers and reporters from Indianapolis television stations and newspapers participate in a turned out to be the priests, our employees [from Saint Meinrad Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis as Archbishop Daniel appointment of Bishop- Seminary and School of M. Buechlein introduces Bishop-designate Christopher J. Coyne. designate Christopher and our parishes. He Theology] for the J. Coyne as an auxiliary also showed he has a ordination,” knows the good questions.” bishop for the great background as a Father Johnson said, St. Joan of Arc parishioner Archdiocese of “and look forward to Joseph Rivelli of Indianapolis frequently Indianapolis. pastor, and in working having him work with attends daily Mass at St. John the The Jeffersonville in the Archdiocese of us in the future.” Evangelist Church during his lunch break businessman and Father Stephen from his job downtown. He also assists member of St. Mary-of- Boston. He knows the Giannini, the director of there as a lector, altar server and extraor- the-Knobs Parish in good questions.’ priest personnel for the dinary minister of holy Communion. Floyd County said that archdiocese, said he met “Obviously, we love the archbishop,” he was pleased to be Bishop-designate Coyne Rivelli said, “and we’re just praying that able to learn the news —Fr. Stephen Giannini the day before the press he stays healthy as long as he can. To firsthand. conference. have a younger bishop here … I think is a Fr. Stephen Giannini Fr. Eric Johnson “I wasn’t sure what “When we were good thing. I’m excited to meet him. the agenda was going to be [at the news talking, [Bishop-designate Coyne] was He’ll be living here.” Coyne will] have a great effect on [the conference], but I’m really happy,” Byrne very concerned about our parishioners, our St. Susanna parishioner Donna Poole life of the] archdiocese,” Poole said. “I said. “He [Bishop-designate Coyne] priests, our employees and our parishes,” of Plainfield also works downtown and think he’ll be good.” really seems to be a great choice. Father Giannini said. “He also showed he sometimes attends daily Mass at “He seems to be a real person—just has a great background as a pastor, and in lunchtime at St. John Church. (Reporter Sean Gallagher assisted with his spirit,” Byrne said. “I didn’t feel like working in the Archdiocese of Boston. He “I’m hoping that [Bishop-designate this story.) † Chancellor looks forward to assisting archbishop and new auxiliary bishop By Mary Ann Wyand “Bishops are very busy,” Lentz said, “and the Chancery itself is very busy. There are many demands, and having As chancellor of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, another person to help us carry out our mission, both inside Annette “Mickey” Lentz is required by canon law to certify [the archdiocese of] Indianapolis and outside, will be an the authenticity of the apostolic letter of appointment from asset to all of us, especially to Archbishop Buechlein, who Photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann the Holy See that officially designates Father Christopher needs to do a little less. He will be a wonderful mentor for J. Coyne, a priest of the Archdiocese of Boston, as the new Father Coyne.” auxiliary bishop who will assist Archbishop Daniel Lentz said she met Bishop-designate Coyne on Jan. 13. M. Buechlein. “I had an opportunity to visit with him and welcome “I’m looking forward to doing that,” Lentz said after the him,” she said. “I look forward to working with him. … Jan. 14 press conference at St. John the Evangelist Church [He has] much spirit, much enthusiasm and an excitement in Indianapolis. about being here.” After Bishop-designate Coyne is ordained on March 2, Before her appointment as chancellor, Lentz served the he will help Archbishop Buechlein with the sacramental, archdiocese as the executive director of Catholic Education spiritual and pastoral needs of the Church in central and and Faith Formation. southern Indiana. “When we met yesterday, I told him that my former role “I’ve experienced two other installations—of was as the executive director of education,” Lentz Bishop [Paul] Etienne and Bishop [Timothy] Doherty—so explained. “I said that I am learning a lot as chancellor, and I’ve seen the role that chancellors played,” she explained, we’ll learn more together. I said that there is much of which “and I thought, ‘I wonder if I’ll ever have the opportunity to we can be proud—historically, academically and Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, left, and Annette “Mickey” Lentz, the do that?’ Now here we are.” spiritually—with our schools, our parishes and our faith archdiocesan chancellor, applaud as Bishop-designate Earlier, as Lentz waited for the press conference to formation programs. I look forward to assisting him in any Christopher J. Coyne is introduced during a Jan. 14 press begin, she reflected on the historic announcement. way with them, and [helping him] learn more about them. conference at St. John the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. “I’m very pleased to be a part of it,” she said. “It’s an … He will have a wonderful experience visiting [the Msgr. Schaedel will begin a three-month sabbatical in Rome in exciting time for the archdiocese. We haven’t had an parishes and schools in] central and southern Indiana. He’s February. He has served as the vicar general of the archdiocese auxiliary bishop since back in the days of Cardinal [Joseph real excited to learn about us.” for 17 years, and also ministered as the pastor of Our Lady of the E.] Ritter, and I think the time is right. … It’s a historic day, Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis. a wonderful day, in the Church.” (Reporter Sean Gallagher assisted with this story.) †

and continuing residence at SS. Peter and Tribunal, leaving the position of pastor Indianapolis while continuing as Catholic Official Appointments Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. and appointed to full-time vicar for chaplain at Indiana University-Purdue Effective Feb. 15, 2011 Clergy and Parish Life Coordinators: University Indianapolis (IUPUI), and director Rev. William F. Stumpf, pastor of Formation and Personnel, while of Young Adult and College Campus Ministry. Rev. Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, St. Charles Borromeo Parish in continuing as vice chancellor, and vicar general, moderator of the curia, Bloomington and dean of the Bloomington archdiocesan judge for the Metropolitan Rev. Michael W. Magiera, associate director of the archdiocesan Mission Office Deanery, leaving those positions and Tribunal, with residence at SS. Peter and pastor of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary and Society for the Propagation of the appointed moderator of the curia, with Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Parish in Indianapolis and chaplain for the Faith, and pastor of Our Lady of the Most residence at St. John the Evangelist Parish Tridentine Mass Apostolate, appointed Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, leaving in Indianapolis. Rev. Eric (Rick) Nagel, Catholic temporary administrator of Our Lady of the the positions of vicar general, moderator of chaplain at Indiana University-Purdue Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis the curia, and pastor of Our Lady of the Rev. Stephen W. Giannini, pastor of University Indianapolis (IUPUI), director while continuing as chaplain for the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis; St. John the Evangelist Parish in of Young Adult and College Campus Tridentine Mass Apostolate. granted a sabbatical leave, and appointed Indianapolis, vicar for Clergy and Parish Ministry, and sacramental assistance at vicar for religious, continuing as director of Life Coordinators: Formation and St. John the Evangelist Parish in These appointments are from the office of the archdiocesan Mission Office and Personnel, vice chancellor, and Indianapolis, appointed administrator of the Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Society for the Propagation of the Faith, archdiocesan judge for the Metropolitan St. John the Evangelist Parish in Archbishop of Indianapolis. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Scientist’s research finds spot for parting of the Red Sea BOULDER, Colo. (CNS)—From his at Boulder. office in Boulder, scientist Carl Drews His research gained national can pinpoint the spot where his research attention, including a segment by theorizes the biblical miracle of the ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer, but the he Red Sea parting of the Red Sea took place. software engineer with the National Center Although Drews has never been there, for Atmospheric Research said he was not the Google Earth Pro imaging on his comfortable with the premise some media LEBLEBANONBBANON computer can zoom in on the place in took—that his research “explained” the Egypt where Moses and the Israelites phenomena of the parting of the Red Sea. SYRIA escaped death when the waters parted, “The science can only look at the according to the Book of Exodus. His physical aspects of it,” Drews told the MEDITERRANEANITERRANEAN virtual “pushpin” comes back with Denver Catholic Register, newspaper of the SEA images of what is now predominately Denver Archdiocese. “ ‘Explanation’ means agricultural land, with orchards, irrigation somehow God didn’t do it, and I don’t like canals and grape fields indicating those connotations. I think my research vineyards. further affirms it happened. I think it a ISRAEL It is in the Eastern Nile Delta, between supports the account.” Pelusium and Qantara, and 75 miles north The study was part of a project into JORDAN of the most popular theorized place in the impact of winds on water depths, SINAI Egypt, which has been the Suez Canal. including the extent to which Pacific Ocean PENINSULA And it is reachable on foot. typhoons can drive storm surges, according “One of the places right in the middle to the University Corporation for of the crossing shows what looks like a Atmospheric Research, known as UCAR. SAUDI hotel and some type of building,” said “By pinpointing a possible site ARABIA Drews, a member of Epiphany Anglican south of the Mediterranean Sea for the Fellowship in Boulder, a congregation crossing, the study also could be of PT under the umbrella of the Anglican benefit to experts seeking to research RED Mission of the Americas out of Rwanda. whether such an event ever took SEA “It would be fun to knock on their door place,” UCAR said in a statement. ©2011 CNS and to say in Arabic, ‘Do you know that “Archaeologists and Egyptologists have Moses walked right by here.’ It would found little direct evidence to substantiate probably elicit a form of disbelief. But many of the events described in Exodus.” 3 miles wide. As soon as the wind “From a faith perspective, it has perhaps people would say, ‘Well, Drews and oceanographer Weiqing stopped, the waters would come rushing always made sense to me that God uses maybe ...’ ” Han analyzed archaeological records, back, UCAR said. natural action to carry out his plan if he His research made the miracle ever satellite measurements and current-day “There are a number of details [in so chooses,” said Drews, who grew up more real, said Drews, who claimed to maps to estimate the water-flow and Exodus] like the duration of the wind and Lutheran. “In this case, he sent the wind have always been enchanted by the depth that could have existed 3,000 years the direction of the wind that support the and the wind moved the water. God is account in the Book of Exodus. ago. They then used an ocean computer computer model,” Drews said. “The fact using natural means to bring out what he “For anyone who always believed model to simulate the impact of an that bodies washed up on the Eastern wants to have happen, which is to save this happened, somehow it’s still a thrill overnight wind at that site. shore where the Israelites were able to see his people. In this case, God is directing to see it supported by scientific finding,” The results were that a wind of them—details like that were confirmed by all things.” he said. 63 mph, lasting for 12 hours, would the ocean model.” Drews, of Gunbarrel, took up the have pushed back waters estimated to be From a theological standpoint, the (Editor’s note: The Google Earth crossing of the Red Sea for his master’s 6 feet deep. That would have exposed timing of the Red Sea parting when Pro coordinates used by Carl Drews thesis in oceanic and atmospheric mud flats for four hours, creating a dry Moses and his people needed to cross are: Kedua Gap, 30.9812 North, sciences at the University of Colorado passage about 2 to 2.5 miles long and shows the miracle, Drews said. 32.4553 East.) † Purgatory is a process, not a place, pope says at general audience

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You’ve heard it before. You’re “Sabbath time,” presented as Catholic Spirit very busy, you have too much to one of life’s essentials. Sabbath do, but you still ought to schedule time is all about taking a timeout a regular timeout into your day from work in order to honor God because you need and deserve a and life’s deepest meaning, in respite—an almost daily order to become rested and Hrbacek, CNS photo/Dave opportunity to rest, to be restored restored as human beings in and to regain a sense of yourself God’s sight. as someone who matters. After all, we are not created And you probably have tried only to work. Without that many times: diminishing the value of work in • You’ve made the decision to the least, we need to be able to take a 25-minute walk outdoors view ourselves as more than (your chance to exercise, think workers. Sabbath time serves and change pace), only to find that goal. after less than a week that the Family life, however, can time available for your walk has easily present itself as nothing disappeared from view. but work. I know exactly what it • Or you have decided to rise feels like for a parent to think, at 30 minutes earlier each morning 10 p.m., that the household’s to read and pray alone, only to work is endless and never will find that after the first week you get finished! are more fatigued than ever or Fatigue is one of the hazards of that one of your household’s wee family and parental life. And what people has found you out and can happen is that as fatigue now is rising grows, so do early, too. impatience, a The truth reduced ability may be that ‘ … in family life, it is to make good you really are decisions and Army National Guard Capt. Steven Sellars, his wife, Heidi, and their children, Evelyn, left, and Ryan, play with building a busy person. essential to take steps even anger. blocks at their home in Hastings, Minn. Maybe you to reduce stress and What also can have a job and happen is that a frequent “Sabbath timeout” by taking care of each other’s But having good friends to a family and a heighten hope. Just stress (and not only on Sunday or the children from time to time? share our experiences with and to household to getting the household’s dominates the weekend)—comes into play. This I suspect that when we reduce consult also reduces stress and run, which work done is not quite household. timeout may be uniquely stress, we smile more. And a often serves to bolster hope. means you It takes important for parents, but as a household’s many smiles surely Praying clearly serves to restore always have enough.’ large goal it also is uniquely rank among the greatest gifts its the sense that life matters and others to think investments of challenging. members can give each other. actually makes sense. about and care time, energy, Would we do well if we think To reduce stress levels at Carving out a restful, for, essential money and of ourselves as gift givers, to home, it may sometimes be refreshing and somewhat regular shopping to do and, hope to keep a household running consider sharing our gifts of time necessary to say no to requests timeout definitely is not easy. unfortunately, a kitchen that well. But even when we are and energy with each other in arriving from outside the My experience tells me, always seems to need cleaning tending fairly well to the time, ways that allow for rest and household for our time and though, that it helps to make up. energy and financial factors of personal refreshment? For energy. And it may be essential at some form of timeout a true Perhaps you quite accurately family life, the hope factor may example, could a husband and times to readjust our expectations priority, and not to give up easily can say that you have little or no get neglected. wife make plans to take over for of each other and of ourselves. on the decision to insert time on your hands. You’re not So, in family life, it is essential each other for brief periods at After all, we cannot do reasonable, if brief, periods of wrong about that. But there is a to take steps to reduce stress and home in order literally to allow everything, and we must be kind refreshment into our lives, no risk in all of this: It is the risk heighten hope. Just getting the each other a timeout? to ourselves. matter how busy we actually are. that life appears to be all household’s work done is not Or might couples who are Exercise is known to reduce about work. quite enough. close friends or relatives give stress. And lowering the noise (David Gibson served on This is a risk that the And this is where the notion of each other an evening out or a volume in a home can itself Catholic News Service’s editorial Judeo-Christian tradition has Sabbath time—what I might term night away from home to relax prove refreshing. staff for 37 years.) † Busy everyday life can be suffused with a spirit of prayer By Mary Eileen Andreasen with the presence of God.” our prayer. Consciously offering God our daily We can keep a prayer book of daily Many people lead such frantic lives that thoughts and prayers is perfectly reflections in the car, have little religious

CNS photo/Jim West CNS photo/Jim the only time they think about praying is appropriate, and doesn’t need to take an reminders around the house or bookmark before they drift off to sleep. It’s hard to inordinate amount of time. There is no religious websites. find a peaceful 30 minutes to pray, and it’s need to separate our busyness from God or We can join spiritual pages on practically impossible to retreat to a distant put our relationship with God “on hold” for Facebook, download podcasts of homilies mountaintop monastery for a few days. later. Simple prayers, such as “Help me, or religious discussions, or listen to How can we make a commitment to Lord, as I deal with my children” or Christian music stations. prayer when our days are so full? “God, guide me in this project at work,” Pushing a cart in the grocery store Health professionals tell us that it’s will suffice. or doing dishes can be quiet moments easier to stick to an exercise plan when we Sometimes we can pray by simply of prayer. slowly add more exercise to our day acknowledging and living consciously in God walks with us in daily life and instead of waiting to visit the gym for an the presence of God in daily life. Prayer loves us as we are, with our distinctive hour after work. can be listening, not just talking! gifts and shortcomings. In the same way, we can incorporate St. Irenaeus said, “The glory of God is Since it is practically impossible to prayer into our daily lives by changing how man fully alive.” This being so, then what begin praying when the busy days are we look at prayer. we do and experience every day can be done, it behooves us to increase our Why separate prayer from our lives? sanctified. prayer time throughout the day. Then, at Instead, we should gradually blend it in. Family time should be marked by night when we are about to sleep, we can We can pray during our morning drive formal prayers at meals and bedtime, and end our day with a final prayer of thanks to work and as we watch the sunrise. by quiet personal prayers. When children and a solemn “Amen!” A worker installs weatherstripping in a Chrysler We can notice other wonders of the day are taught the traditional prayers of the Jeep Grand Cherokee in May 2010 at the and offer up a quick prayer of gratitude. Church and how to speak to God from their (Mary Eileen Andreasen has worked in a Jefferson North Assembly Plant in Detroit. In Jesuit Father James Martin said, own experience, they will know how to variety of ministry settings for 20 years. the course of our busy days, we still have the “Noticing [the wonders of each day] helps pray throughout their lives. She lives in Omaha, Neb., with her ability to speak with and listen to God in prayer. you realize that your life is already suffused There are many ways to increase husband and five children.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Catholic Evangelization Outreach/ Peg McEvoy Wisdom of the saints: St. Francis de Sales Trust and St. Francis de Sales, whose feast is on practiced in different ways depending occupation, it also embellishes and Jan. 24, is the patron of the Catholic press upon a person’s status—nobleman or enhances it. proclaim Christ because he wrote and working man, servant or prince, married He also compared true devotion to a distributed small or unmarried man or woman. This gem cast in honey. The gem becomes with your lives pamphlets to explain devotion must also “be adapted to the brighter and more sparkling. Similarly, Catholic doctrine strength, to the occupation and to the “Each person becomes more acceptable “The primary task of evangelization is to identify while he was Bishop duties of each one in particular.” and fitting in his own vocation when he the Savior of all people in Jesus Christ. Never of Geneva, He wrote that it was not proper for a sets his vocation in the context of grow tired of trusting in him and proclaiming Switzerland from bishop to want to lead a solitary life like devotion.” him with your lives in the family and everywhere. 1605 to 1622. His a Carthusian, or for married people to be When a person practices devotion This is what people expect from the Church and book, Introduction to no more concerned than a Capuchin correctly according to his or her way of from Christians still today. (Pope Benedict XVI, the Devout Life, is about increasing their income, or for a life, he wrote, family cares become more 2006) rightly considered a great devotional working man to spend his whole day in peaceful, mutual love between spouses masterpieces, written for Christians of church like a religious. He called this becomes more sincere, and our work How do we proclaim Jesus Christ “with our every walk of life and for every age. sort of devotion “ridiculous, unorganized becomes more pleasant and agreeable. lives in the family and everywhere?” Francis is known for his axiom “A and intolerable.” He called it not only an error but a The act of celebrating spoonful of honey attracts more flies than He wrote that any devotion that worked heresy to try to exclude the exercise of the Eucharist certainly a barrelful of vinegar” to explain his against, or is inimical to, anyone’s devotion from military divisions, artisans’ proclaims Christ. Prayer approach toward his Calvinist opponents. legitimate station and calling “is very shops or family households. He with our spouses and He also helped St. Jane Francis de Chantal definitely false devotion.” True devotion, acknowledged that the type of devotion children proclaims Christ. establish the Sisters of the Visitation. He he said, destroys nothing at all. On the that is purely contemplative, monastic and Acts of charity and is one of the 33 Doctors of the Church. contrary, it perfects and fulfills all things. religious would certainly be out of place compassion proclaim In Introduction to the Devout Life, He compared true devotion to a bee in those situations, but, he wrote, there are Christ. Francis wrote that God has commanded that collects honey from flowers in such a many other devotions fit for those who When we point back to Christians to bring forth the fruits of way as to do the least damage or live in a secular state. Christ as the reason for our devotion, “each one in accord with his destruction to them, leaving them whole, “In whatever situations we happen to actions and the source of character, his station and his calling.” undamaged and fresh. True devotion not be, we can and we must aspire to the life our joy, we are evangelizing. He emphasized that devotion must be only does that to every sort of calling or of perfection,” he concluded. † However, there are times when we need to identify Christ up front as the motivation for our The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco actions and the reason for our concern as well. On Jan. 24, approximately 200,000 people will be doing just that. They will prayerfully Remembering the saint who served the poor all year long march in Washington, D.C., to fight for the lives Thousands of people around the world spiritual path of St. Vincent de Paul.” and disabled persons, counseling for of the unborn. who are cash-poor, not just during the On page after page, Knuth tells us the ex-offenders, assistance for the elderly From Indianapolis there will be teenagers, holidays but all year stories of people knocked down by disabled, and much more. All told, this adults, clergy and our own Archbishop Daniel long, will get food poverty and “out of the ordinary particular St. Vincent de Paul Society M. Buechlein. They will trust and proclaim and other necessities problems” who she met at the thrift store. spent $10,658,523 aiding the poor in the Christ as they march to support the Gospel of life for their families, They have taught her what the saint year ending on Sept. 30, 2009. so often negated in our own country. thanks to a caring himself said that we followers of Christ Knuth writes that many people ask her In Indianapolis, there will be a solemn man—St. Vincent must do. She said: “Our purpose is to what kind of impact her work at the observance of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade de Paul—who help the poor and to change our own way St. Vincent de Paul store has had on her beginning with Mass at SS. Peter and Paul lived more than of thinking and being. It only looks as “emotionally.” Her answer is powerful: Cathedral, a march to Veterans Memorial Plaza, 400 years ago. though we run a store.” “What our patron, St. Vincent de Paul, recitation of the rosary and a guest speaker. His name should I learned about the important work of teaches us is that by helping each other Can you proclaim Christ “everywhere” by be familiar to the St. Vincent de Paul Society back in face-to-face, there is always something committing to part or all of this event in Catholics because the work for the poor the 1960s when I was a reporter for we can do—even if it’s only to offer a Indianapolis? For more information, go to that this great man began and carried out The Long Island Catholic, the listening ear, help pay a bill or provide www.archindy.org/evangelization and click on in his lifetime has actually never ended. diocesan paper of the then-newly clean clothing. It’s the love that is the event under “Latest Updates.” It has gone on for centuries in many formed Diocese of Rockville Centre. offered that matters most. Not all of us have the opportunity to make the nations because good people continue The late Luke Smith, the dynamic “That’s what changes the world bold statement of participating in the March for this work through societies that bear the leader who got the organization going because it changes us. Our job is not to Life or other solemn observance. But each of us name of St. Vincent de Paul. after the new diocese was formed in solve all the problems; our job is to can do something. Should anyone doubt this, I strongly 1962, inspired me to write often about comfort, clothe, feed and visit,” We need to trust in Jesus and proclaim him recommend a book published in October the work of this great society. He would she wrote. when we hear and see things that oppose his 2010 by Jane Knuth, Thrift Store Saints: repeat: “We have to help the people who Knuth acknowledges something that Gospel and the sanctity of life. Meeting Jesus 25 Cents at a Time live on the margins of society, the poor!” was also told to me by Msgr. Armshaw: Some of us can pray more, maybe even say (Loyola Press, Chicago). Here we have a After reading Knuth’s book, I “Most people know very little about the a novena. The “Novena for Life” from the middle-class, suburban housewife/mother contacted Msgr. Patrick Armshaw, the work of the society, which is one of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other in Kalamazoo, Mich., who got kind of longtime spiritual adviser to the General reasons [that] I wrote the book.” novenas can be found at “swept in” to working at a St. Vincent Council of the St. Vincent de Paul We Catholics owe her thanks. www.usccb.org/prolife/liturgy/novenas.shtml. de Paul thrift store in her city. Society on Long Island, N.Y., to ask him Do you need to become more informed about “Right away, curious incidents that how the work begun by Smith is going (Antoinette Bosco writes for Catholic Church teaching on the value and protection of were almost like grace started to occur,” today. I was astounded when he gave me News Service. For more information human life? You might consider reading she said in her book. And now, 13 years a summary of their years of ministry: about the Indianapolis council of the “Evangelium Vitae” (“The Gospel of Life”) later, she is a regular volunteer, Besides their stores, they have St. Vincent de Paul Society, log on to written by John Paul II in 1995. You can find absolutely committed to “following the rent-assistance programs for homeless www.sdvpindy.org.) † links to this document and many others at www.usccb.org/prolife/tdocs. The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick All of the acts mentioned are acts of prayer, faith and witness. None of them involves hate or cruelty or violence. The world needs the truth The role of work: The heart of new leadership spoken in love about the evil of abortion. As As I jogged around the U.S. Capitol in they had disdain for this concept of work, new leaders: that they would see Pope Benedict said, people “expect” it. mid-November, moving vans dotted the viewing it as pain and hardship. themselves as God’s co-creators. There Many people come to our faith because of the front of Congress as The Bible, on the contrary, pictures must be a sacred transcendence in their consistency and truth of our moral teachings, new members were God at work, bringing about his creations work that raises them above mundane, including the sanctity of life. moving in and and finding the process to be very good. everyday chores. We sometimes partition our evangelization replacing outgoing These ambivalent pictures of work Spiritual writers give us yet another activities so much that we lose sight of their members. have us both dreading and embracing it wish for new leaders. connectedness to all elements of our faith. In Baltimore at the as a means of being co-creators St. Clement of Alexandria counsels: In your parish, do the teams focusing on same time, a new with God. “We should not be idle, yet we should evangelization, spiritual life, social justice and president of the Undoubtedly, leadership comes with a not become completely exhausted by our pro-life communicate and work with each other? U.S. Conference of high price. Once the accolades are over labor, either.” Although the focus of each team may differ, Catholic Bishops was and leaders begin to work, a tough daily On this note, a hunter once told there are certainly opportunities—such as the elected. grind awaits them. Serving people who St. Anthony of Egypt, “If I bend my bow March for Life in January and Respect Life More often than not, raised exude a sense of entitlement can be all the time, it will break.” Anthony Sunday in October—to work together. expectations and hopes for fresh ideas, extremely draining and disheartening. It replied, “So it is also in the work of God. Regardless of our ability to participate in inspiring creativity and new possibilities, is easy to see this kind of work situation If we push ourselves beyond measure, specific events, we are all called to proclaim accompany new leadership. as the Romans and Greeks did. the brethren will soon collapse. It is Christ in our families, in our parishes and Whatever else is required of new St. Thomas Aquinas gives us our right, therefore, from time to time, to everywhere. leaders, knowing how to work with first wish for new leaders: “There can be relax their efforts.” We must always point to him as the reason for others, especially when seemingly no joy in life without joy in one’s work.” Allow me one final wish for leaders: our actions and the source of our joy—our impossible difficulties are encountered, is So our first wish for new leaders is Take time to meditate on the nature of Savior. the heart of their duty. that they are lovers who are deeply in work and on the spiritual principles upon What are the first principles of work love with their new roles. which it is founded. It is what creates (Peg McEvoy is the archdiocesan associate that we should desire for new leaders? St. Thomas would also point out that true joy in accomplishing it. director for Evangelization and Family The Greeks and Romans came to true love must be directed to the work at Catechesis. For questions and/or help starting a equate work, especially manual labor, hand and not at self-love. (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for parish evangelization team, contact her at with something that slaves did. As such, The Bible gives us our second wish for Catholic News Service.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, Janaury 21, 2011 Page 13

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 24 Thursday, Jan. 27 The Sunday Readings St. Francis de Sales, bishop Angela Merici, virgin and doctor of the Church Hebrews 10:19-25 Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011 True wisdom is to understand the meaning Hebrews 9:15, 24-28 Psalm 24:1-4ab, 5-6 of the cross, he said, and this understanding • Isaiah 8:23-9:3 requires grace, which is available only to Psalm 98:1-6 Mark 4:21-25 • 1 Corinthians 1:10-13, 17 those who earnestly follow the Lord. Mark 3:22-30 • Matthew 4:12-23 St. Matthew’s Gospel supplies the Friday, Jan. 28 last reading. Tuesday, Jan. 25 Thomas Aquinas, priest and The Book of Isaiah supplies this It is situated in Capernaum, the fishing The Conversion of Paul, doctor of the Church weekend’s first reading. village located at the northern tip of the Apostle Hebrews 10:32-39 It offers us a Sea of Galilee. Jesus is there after leaving powerful lesson. Nazareth and beginning his public ministry. Acts 22:3-16 Psalm 37:3-6, 23-24, 39-40 Isaiah lived during a As a center of commerce, albeit very or Acts 9:1-22 Mark 4:26-34 time when God’s people modest commerce, the people of Psalm 117:1-2 were facing spiritual Capernaum saw many visitors come and Mark 16:15-18 Saturday, Jan. 29 danger. They still had go from the village. Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 their independence, at Jesus used this coincidence as an least after a fashion. opportunity to encounter many people. He Wednesday, Jan. 26 (Response) Luke 1:69-75 Hebrew kings still called them to fidelity to God. He repeated Timothy, bishop Mark 4:35-41 reigned in the kingdoms the admonitions of the Hebrew prophets Titus, bishop of Judah and Israel. The to them. 2 Timothy 1:1-8 Sunday, Jan. 30 religious, social and political structures all In this place, Jesus met Andrew and then or Titus 1:1-5 Fourth Sunday in still gave lip service to the ancient religion, Simon, whom Jesus renamed Simon Peter. Psalm 96:1-3, 7-8, 10 Ordinary Time and to the holy covenant between God and These brothers become the first of the the Chosen People. Apostles in the sequence of calling. In time, Mark 4:1-20 Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 However, all this was at risk because Christianity was to grow from and build upon Psalm 146:6-10 devotion to the covenant and obedience to the Apostles. 1 Corinthians 1:26-31 God’s law were at low ebb. It is interesting that the Gospels, such as is Matthew 5:1-12a Isaiah loudly warned that disaster was the case in this reading, refer to these just around the corner. He also said that the Apostles so specifically by listing their people could rescue themselves by names, leaving no doubt whatsoever about returning to religious faithfulness and their identity. It was vital in the early Church Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen obeying God in accordance with the that the teachings of the genuine Apostles teachings of the prophets. would be kept intact and be followed by Canonization process was established All of this implied a certain potential the people. within the people. They did not sin because in 16th century then revised several times they were helpless in the face of temptation. Reflection Our study group’s discussion of Church There is precious little information, at Rather, they were weak because they ignored These readings remind us of how blind Qhistory raises some questions about saints. Aleast from the Bible. God. If they were determined, they could people can be, and also how powerful we We know the criteria The Gospels, which is where we might be virtuous. can be. for making saints today, expect to discover these details, were not For its second reading, the Church In the first reading, Isaiah criticized the but what were these written as a detailed biography of our Lord. selected a passage from St. Paul’s people for their religious listlessness, but he requirements at the The Gospels give us the good news of First Epistle to the Corinthians. also presumed that—if they wished—they beginning of the Church? God’s love and infinite compassion for our Paul obviously loved the Corinthian could reverse their wayward hearts and turn It seems that there human family as revealed in the life and Christians. He yearned to see them saintly again to God. were lots of saints in the teachings of Jesus. and eternally with the Lord. In essence, the same message was in early days. When did the The beginning of what is perhaps the On the other hand, the Christians troubled the second reading taken from Paul’s current process begin? first Gospel ever written distinctly indicates him because they seemed so attracted to the First Epistle to the Corinthians. (Wisconsin) this intention. many vices of their great, worldly and The Apostle boldly denounced the St. Mark, in Chapter 1, Verse 1, of his wealthy city. They also seemed extremely Corinthians’ sins and quarrels. However, by The Church does not “make saints.” When Gospel, says he is writing “the beginning of vulnerable to the feelings of competitiveness calling them to conversion, he presumed Athe Church canonizes a saint, it means that the gospel of Jesus Christ.” that vex all humans if not checked. that they had the power within themselves to Catholics may venerate that person in public Those words are important. The Never willing to be passive or indifferent, be holy. liturgies and the person’s name may be Anglo-Saxon roots of our English word Paul loudly called the Christians in this We are sinners, but we need not be included in the “canon,” the eucharistic prayer “gospel” have the same meaning as the Latin community to be true to their identity sinners. Sin binds us. We truly can be free by of the Mass. and Greek words for “gospel”—it means the with Christ. seizing the power of our wills, allowing The method of naming someone a saint has “good news.” Some time later, the title The Apostle taught a basic message. divine grace to empower us even more, and been a long process. Originally, especially for “Gospel” was given to the first four books of Earthly reward will pass more quickly than by disdaining sin to be one with Christ. martyrs, it was accomplished through general the New Testament, our four Gospels. anyone might realize. Earthly wisdom is The teachings of the Apostles guide us acclamation by the whole Christian Those first words of Mark refer not to the only folly. and draw us to the Lord. † community. document he was writing, but to the good Gradually, local bishops established criteria news of salvation that the heavenly Father for sainthood in their own territories. From was offering to the human family—and My Journey to God there, the devotion often spread to other areas would continue to offer—in the life, death as well. and resurrection of his Son. The vast majority of Christians that we call In all of the Gospels, it is clearly not the saints—historians have estimated around writers’ purpose to answer questions or Looking for God in Other Places 10,000—were “canonized” in processes provide interesting information. What was something like that. not directly relevant to our comprehending The Winter Elm Even today, it is not uncommon for the meaning of the life and message of Jesus Catholics of a certain region to informally was simply passed over. The writers likely Oh stately elm in all your winter honor one of their own as a saint, even if the did not know these details. nakedness, individual is not officially canonized. That is why we know nothing from the How God has deemed to sanctify and Most Catholic people living in Gospels about most of the years in the life of greatly bless Central America revere Archbishop Oscar Jesus. We can assume a few things. Your countenance, with myriad branches Romero of El Salvador, a defender and friend Joseph died sometime during the straining toward the sky. of the poor, who was shot and killed while Holy Family’s years in Nazareth since he What is my place in God’s unfolding celebrating Mass in 1980. isn’t mentioned afterward, but that’s about as master plan, Almost 800 years ago (1234), much as we can assume about his death. I who am of his ultimate creation, man? Pope Gregory IX decreed that only the This lack of engaging information in the

What paradox, for just two arms to lift to Catholic Accent Bishop of Rome could canonize saints since Bible may disappoint us, but the seemingly him in praise have I! that action offered the saint for veneration by little asides scattered through the Gospels, the universal Church. Since then, less than the apparently insignificant details that seem The Bird Feeder 1,000 people have been canonized, most of incidental, carry some message that the them (483) by Pope John Paul II. evangelists considered fruitful and integral God shows Himself to me this morn, A formal canonization process similar to the for Christian readers. CNS photo/Ed Zelachoski, behold, behold! one today was established in the 16th century, The more we read and study the He is not clad in regal robes of finest who come to feast upon my offerings but revised several times. narratives of the conception and birth of gold, each day. “Saint” is simply an anglicized version of John the Baptist and Jesus, the more we no scepter in his hand, no shining jeweled I see him in the place prepared in the Latin word “sanctus” (“holy”). realize that every word and phrase reveals its crown. maple tree. Scripture applies the name to the living as own special insight and wisdom about what His robes are blue and red and grey and I know him in the place he has well as the dead. St. Paul addresses his letters God was saying in these commonplace black and brown. prepared in me. to the Corinthians and Ephesians to the family events. He is the dove, the cardinal, the finch, the “sancti,” the saints, the “holy ones,” in those Other early Christian writings, including jay By Glenna Hoog Christian communities. the Protoevangelium of James, contain a variety of tales about Jesus and his relatives. (Glenna Hoog is a member of St. Peter Parish in Franklin County. Two cardinals What did Jesus do from the time he was Some may or may not be true. They are not perch close to a bird feeder as snow falls in Greensburg, Pa.) Q13 years old until he began to teach his part of our sacred Scriptures or matters of followers? (Virginia) Catholic faith. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, Janaury 21, 2011

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Please submit in writing to our Cheryl Russell, John and Richard CNS photo/Jon Nazca, Reuters eclipse office by 10 a.m. Thursday Burns. Grandmother of three. before the week of publication; CARDINAL, Kent Louis, 52, be sure to state date of death. St. Mary, North Vernon, Nov. 14. A seagull is silhouetted Obituaries of archdiocesan priests Husband of Karen Cardinal. against the sun at dawn serving our archdiocese are listed Father of Kelsi, Jackson, Jon and elsewhere in The Criterion. Order Josh Cardinal. Brother of during a partial solar eclipse priests and religious sisters and Paulette Alquist, Greg, Jude, on Guadalmar Beach in brothers are included here, unless Mike and Pat Cardinal. Grand - Malaga, Spain, on Jan. 4. they are natives of the father of one. The partial eclipse was archdiocese or have other visible near sunrise over CASSIDY, Mary Helen, 84, connec tions to it; those are most of Europe and separate obituaries on this page. St. Isidore the Farmer, Bristow, Jan. 2. Mother of Linda Dauby, northeastern Asia. BALLARD, Frank E., Jr., 61, Virginia Gerstenschlager, Patty St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, Jarvis, Mary Lee Smith, Duane Dec. 29. Husband of Patricia and Richard Cassidy. Sister of Ballard. Son of Mary Jane Donald and Kenny Cronin. Ballard. Father of Frank Grand mother of 15. Great-grand - Ballard III. Brother of Mary mother of 23. Brent, Diane Harbeson and Lynn Ray. CHEESEBREW, Mary A., 95, St. Mary, North Vernon, Dec. 22. BATES, Robert E., 76, Father of Edythe Stilwell, Mary St. Gabriel, Connersville, Jan. 1. Jean Todd and Floyd Father of Laura Myers, Thomas Cheesebrew. Grandfather of 16. and Timothy Bates. Brother of Great-grandfather of 35. Great- Sue Ann Pea. Grandfather of great-grandfather of 11. and Stephen Eckerle. Brother of John Kish Jr. Grandmother of Henrietta Carroll, Marita Indianapolis, Dec. 30. Daughter eight. Great-grandfather of seven. DALTON, MaryAnn, 79, Ruth Hauri and Rose Wagner. of four. Cherry and Norbert Moeller. of John and Veronica Sauter. Grand father of three. Great- Sister of Emily and Jake Sauter. BERLIER, Lenora E., 94, Annunciation, Brazil, Dec. 8. KITCHIN, Robert L., 88, Grandfather of 19. Great-grand - grandfather of two. Granddaughter of Walt Sauter St. Luke the Evangelist, Mother of Vonna Harper, Colleen St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 17. father of nine. and Bettie Whitney. Indianapolis, Dec. 16. Mother of Kellum, Sharlene Shillings and ECKERT, Anna E., 92, Husband of Cheryl Kitchin. MORRIS, Constance D., 78, Paula Miller and Edward Berlier. Tony Dalton. Grandmother of 11. St. Joseph, Clark County, Jan. 3. Brother of Samuel Kitchin. Holy Angels, Indianapolis, SCHERSCHEL, James F., 93, Grandmother of five. Great- Great-grandmother of seven. Mother of Jane Barnes, Judy Dec. 4. Mother of Eric Anglin, St. John the Apostle, KLEEMAN, Velma S., 90, grand mother of six. Fuesting, Cindy Kleehamer, Anita Bledsoe, Carol Grace, Bloomington, Nov. 27. Husband DAVIS, Henry, 78, St. Paul, St. Paul, Tell City, Jan. 3. Mother BLAKE, Dorothy M., 87, Mary Rager, Ed and Frank Marsha and Reginald Carter, of Blanche Scherschel. Father of Tell City, Jan. 2. Husband of of Kathy Hammond. Sister of St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, Eckert. Sister of Minnie Larson, Derek Tracy Sr., James, Jeffery Martha Becher, Jeannette Carr, Janice Davis. Father of Sonnie Joyce Baldwin. Grandmother of Dec. 22. Mother of Pamela West, Jane Naville and Pete Sprigler. and William Morris. Sister of Anthony, Daniel, Leo and Simmons, Hugh and Glenn three. Great-grandmother of six. Dale and Dennis Blake. Grand - Davis. Brother of Barbara Grandmother of 16. Great-grand - Ruth Carter and Ella Mae Samuel Scherschel. Grandfather mother of 11. Great-grandmother Eckstein, Brenda Phelps, Charles, mother of 25. Great-great-grand - KLEIN, Mark Robert, 51, Cunningham. Grandmother of of 13. Great-grandfather of 32. of five. Gary, Scott and Tom Davis. mother of two. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, 22. Great-grandmother of 42. Great-great-grandfather of three. Dec. 10. Husband of Maggie BOEDING, Mark W., 82, Grandfather of four. FARRELL, Mary Ellen Great-great-grandmother of one. SCHMITT, John P., 69, St. Joan (Jackson) Klein. Brother of St. Michael the Archangel, (Stevens), 85, St. Michael the MUNCHEL, Rita A., 82, of Arc, Indianapolis, Dec. 25. DORGAY, Peggy A., 86, Susan Klein. Indianapolis, Jan. 5. Father of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Archangel, Indianapolis, Jan. 4. St. Michael, Brookville, Jan. 3. Brother of Alice Houff. Mother of Patricia Farrar, Rose KNIGHT, Phyllis A., 84, Mother of Linda Brattain, Cynthia Christensen, Lisa, Mark New Albany, Dec. 23. Mother of SCHNEIDER, Dorothea M., Guidry, Irene Roseman, Kathleen St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle, Darlene Hohman, Gary and and Randell Boeding. Brother of Susan Mullins, Deborah Powell, 86, St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis, Morgan, Mary Winkler and Paul Dec. 13. Mother of Debra Jones, Gerald Munchel. Sister of John Boeding. Grandfather of Paula Rotenberry, Daniel and Dec. 23. Wife of Louis O. Farrell. Sister of John Stevens. Elizabeth Rodeghiero and Carol Dorothy Rennekamp and Al eight. Great-grandfather of two. Joseph Dorgay. Grandmother of Schneider. Mother of Debra Grandmother of 13. Great-grand - Knight. Sister of Blanche Erhart. Grandmother of 11. BURNS, Gladys Marie nine. Great-grandmother of two. Back, Stephanie Bowers, Linda mother of 39. DeBock. Grandmother of two. (Mezepella), 84, Our Lady of the ECKERLE, William H., 88, MURCHIE, Donna, 51, Farrell, Susan Lopez, Esther Great-grandmother of four. Greenwood, Greenwood, Jan. 2. St. Gabriel, Connersville, FRIESEL, Marian Ellen, 86, SS. Francis and Clare, Stroh, Chris, Louis, Mark and Wife of John Burns Sr. Sister of Dec. 28. Husband of Frances St. Charles Borromeo, McCONNELL, Brian, 59, Greenwood, Dec. 22. Wife of Matthew Schneider. Sister of Olyne Hill. Stepmother of (Price) Eckerle. Father of Jerald Bloomington, Jan. 5. Mother of St. Mary, North Vernon, Oct. 3. William Murchie. Mother of Peggy Havelin, Ruth Hock, Dennis and Michael Friesel. Son of Harold and Jacquelyn Amanda, Billie and Jessica Carolyn Shelby and Michael Grandmother of four. Great- McConnell. Brother of Lucy Murchie. (correction) Raftery. grandmother of six. Burns, Kathleen Lockhart, NAVILLE, Herbert F., 91, SCHNEIDER, Wilfred W., 87, If you are a victim of Annette Sanford, Mary and John GOOD, Lillian A., 80, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Holy Family, Oldenburg, Jan. 3. Report sexual misconduct by a person McConnell. ministering on behalf of the St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, New Albany, Dec. 31. Husband Husband of Anna Mae Schneider. sexual Church, or if you know of anyone Dec. 24. Wife of Raymond McCONNELL, Jacquelyn, 85, of Rita Naville. Father of Ellen Father of Carol, Andrew, Stanley who has been a victim of Good. Mother of John, Kenneth St. Mary, North Vernon, Dec. 17. 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Mother of Smith and John Moeller. Brother St. Simon the Apostle, of seven. † Providence Sister Theresa Rose Butts was a teacher and principal Providence Sister Theresa Rose Butts died on Dec. 15 at Maryland and Washington, D.C. Mother Theodore Hall at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 95. In the archdiocese, Sister Theresa Rose taught at St. Patrick The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Dec. 20 at School in Terre Haute from 1948-52 then served as the principal the Church of the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary-of-the- of the former St. Benedict School in Terre Haute from 1952-58. Woods. Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery at the After retiring from teaching in 1988, Sister Theresa Rose motherhouse. served as a school librarian for eight years before returning to Rosemary Butts was born on April 7, 1915, in Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Galesburg, Ill. She joined the congregation of the Sisters of For the next 10 years, she assisted with activities at the Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on July 15, 1934, and professed her first vows on Jan. 23, 1937, and her final motherhouse. vows on Aug. 15, 1942. In 2006, Sister Theresa Rose began her ministry of prayer Sister Theresa Rose earned a bachelor’s degree in biology at full-time with the senior sisters. svdpindy.orgsvdpindy.org Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College and a master’s degree in She is survived by a brother, Cyril Butts of Galesburg, Ill. SocietySociety ooff St.St. VincentVincent dede PaulPaul English at Xavier University in Cincinnati. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Providence, 3001 E. 30th StreetStreet • Indianapolis, IN 46218 During 76 years as a Sister of Providence, she ministered in 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Mary-of-the Woods, education for 59 years at Catholic schools in Indiana, Illinois, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN 47876. † The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 Page 15 U.S. author cites new evidence of Classified Directory communism’s ‘war’ with the Church For information about rates for classified advertising, call (317) 236-1572. ROME (CNS)—That leaders from Moscow to Budapest saw Health Care Pope John Paul II was a pivotal it, Weigel said. He catalogued efforts Home Improvement figure in the fall of European by communist regimes to place spies in Brother's Construction Chimney's cleaned communism is accepted as a truism, but local Catholic hierarchies and the

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Keystone Kops flavor, Weigel noted Jan. 12. The book is a sequel to Weigel’s Scecina Memorial High School, a co-educational Catholic high school By doing so, the late pope “created that the same security police operative 1999 biography, Witness to Hope: The of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis serving students in grades 9-12, Biography of Pope John Paul II. It adds is seeking a Vice President for Advancement. The Vice President tactical advantages for the Church: As would surface a year and a half later— collaboratively designs and implements a comprehensive Advancement the pope preached moral revolution as one of the men who beat Solidarity new details about the church's struggle Program of internal and external communications, alumni relations, over the heads of communist regimes, activist Father Jerzy Popieluszko to against communism and covers the last student recruitment, and development. 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The director is primarily responsible for overseeing and executing the school’s print Pope John Paul’s longtime secretary, students in the late 1960s were trained witness was provided by Church and electronic communications program and will help advance the who once remarked about the Church’s agents of Hungarian secret intelligence, leaders who spoke courageously strategic direction of Bishop Chatard’s marketing efforts, including all battle with Poland’s communist regime: he said. against the regimes, sometimes paying forms of internal and external marketing, communications and event “You must understand that it was Weigel said communist moles were with their lives. promotions (publications, advertising, public relations, media relations, always ‘them’ and ‘us.’ ” placed successfully at Vatican Radio, at “Deeply committed and politically etc.), ensuring that the plan is aligned with the school’s strategic goal and mission. Strong writing skills and proficiency in InDesign graphic What he meant, Weigel said, was the Vatican newspaper and in pontifical shrewd Christian pastors and laity design software are preferred. that “the struggle between communism universities. When Pope John Paul II eventually won out over communism. and Catholicism could not be was elected, he took some The blood of martyrs, however, was the Please send samples of portfolio (including writing samples) and understood as a matter of episodic counter-intelligence steps. seed of victory. Their sacrifice, and references by January 28, 2011 to Nicole Beasley at [email protected] or Bishop Chatard High School, confrontations.... It was all war, all For one thing, materials dealing what we can learn from it about the 5885 Crittenden Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46220. the time.” with Poland were no longer archived in cardinal virtue of fortitude—courage— Certainly that was how communist the Secretariat of State, but were kept must never be forgotten,” he said. † For more detailed information visit www.BishopChatard.org Pope names first diplomatic representative to Vietnam Saint Patrick Catholic Church VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In a first step toward insisted that needing government permission to name a establishing diplomatic relations, Pope Benedict XVI has bishop was not normal, but that it could be tolerated Director of Music Ministries named a 57-year-old Vatican diplomat to be a “non-resident temporarily as Vatican-Vietnamese relations improved. pontifical representative” for Vietnam. In a formal address on Jan. 10 to the diplomatic corps Saint Patrick Catholic Church in Louisville, Kentucky, a parish of 1200 Italian Archbishop Leopoldo Girelli, currently Vatican accredited to the Vatican, Pope Benedict said the agreement households and 645 students in its parish-school is seeking a Director of Music Ministries. The position is available immediately, but a nuncio to Indonesia, was reassigned on Jan. 13 to serve as to name a representative to Vietnam was one sign of starting date is negotiable. Along with excellent music skills, choral the pope’s representative to Vietnam and simultaneously as improved religious freedom in the world. competencies and expert knowledge of Roman Catholic liturgy, the nuncio in Singapore and apostolic delegate in Malaysia and Pope Benedict sent Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of successful candidate will exhibit passion, enthusiasm and strong Brunei—two countries that do not have diplomatic relations the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, to leadership qualities in an effort to build and grow a music program with the Vatican. Vietnam in early January for celebrations marking the with an existing solid foundation. The position includes directing an Adult Choir, Children’s Choir, recruitment and training of cantors, and Archbishop Girelli, who has been in the Vatican 50th anniversary of the establishment of the providing accompaniment at Sunday Masses as well as Solemnities, diplomatic corps since 1987, previously served at Vietnamese hierarchy. Feasts and other Masses not limited to the Rite of Christian Burial and nunciatures in Cameroon, in New Zealand and in the Cardinal Dias underlined the fact that the pope hoped the Rite of Marriage. The successful candidate will assist the parish United States, as well as in the Vatican Secretariat of State. for improved diplomatic relations and a chance for the with the implementation of the Third Edition of the Roman Missal. The Director of Music Ministries is a full-time member of the Pastoral Team He was ordained a bishop in 2006 when he was named Catholic Church to contribute to the good of Vietnam, and the position includes a full benefits package. nuncio to Indonesia. particularly through education, health care and social work. A joint working group formed by the Vatican and Addressing government representatives on Jan. 5 at the For further information or to receive a detailed position description, Vietnam’s communist government announced in June that Shrine of Our Lady of La Vang, the cardinal expressed his please inquire via telephone at 502 244 6083 or via e-mail to the two sides were agreed that a papal representative would hopes that they “would not fail to ensure full religious [email protected]. be named. A statement from the working group said that freedom, create favorable conditions for religious TO APPLY: Send cover letters, résumés, and audition materials to: unlike a nuncio, the representative would not be residing in organizations and for all those who publicly profess and Director of Music Ministries, Search Committee Vietnam for the time being. practice their faith, whatever their belief.” Saint Patrick Catholic Church For years, top Vatican diplomats made annual trips to The cardinal said the Church and the government were 1000 N. Beckley Station Road Louisville KY 40245 Vietnam to work out details of the Church’s life in the like a mother and a father in a family, each having a Or an electronic application to: [email protected] country, including discussing every potential bishop’s specific role, but needing to work together “for the good of appointment with the government. The Vatican always their children,” Rome-based AsiaNews reported. † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 21, 2011 May 1 beatification set for Pope John Paul II after miracle approved VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Even so, Church experts needed years Pope Benedict XVI approved a miracle to review the massive amount of evidence CNS photo attributed to Pope John Paul II’s regarding the late pope, including intercession, clearing the way for the thousands of pages of writings and late pope’s beatification on May 1, speeches. The process began with the Divine Mercy Sunday. Diocese of Rome, which interviewed Pope Benedict’s action on Jan. 14 more than 120 people who knew followed more than five years of Pope John Paul, and asked them about his investigation into the life and writings actions and character. Studies were of the Polish pontiff, who died on conducted on his ministry, the way he April 2, 2005, after more than 26 years handled suffering and how he faced as pope. his death. The Vatican said it took special care In 2007, on the second anniversary of with verification of the miracle, the the pope’s death, the Rome Diocese spontaneous cure of a French nun from concluded the initial inquiry phase. The Parkinson’s disease—the same illness documents from the investigation were that afflicted Pope John Paul in his final placed in four chests, which were latched, years. Three separate Vatican panels tied with a red ribbon, sealed with red approved the miracle, including medical wax and delivered to the Congregation for and theological experts, before Saints’ Causes for further study. Pope Benedict signed the official In November 2008, a team of decree. theological consultors to the saints “There were no concessions given congregation began studying the here in procedural severity and 2,000-page “positio,” the document that thoroughness,” said Cardinal Angelo made the case for Pope John Paul’s Amato, head of the Congregation for beatification. After their favorable Saints’ Causes. On the contrary, he said, judgment, the cardinal and bishop that Pope John Paul’s cause was subject members of the sainthood congregation to “particularly careful scrutiny, to met in late 2009 and voted to advance remove any doubt.” the cause. The Vatican said it would begin On Dec. 21, 2009, Pope Benedict looking at logistical arrangements for declared that Pope John Paul had lived a the massive crowds expected for the life of “heroic virtues.” That meant he beatification liturgy, which will be could be beatified once a miracle had celebrated by Pope Benedict at the been approved. Vatican. Divine Mercy Sunday had The reported cure of the French nun special significance for Pope John Paul, was carefully investigated by the Vatican’s who made it a Church-wide feast day to medical experts over the last year after be celebrated a week after Easter. The questions were raised about the original pope died on the vigil of Divine Mercy diagnosis. Vatican sources said that, in the Sunday in 2005. end, the experts were satisfied that it was With beatification, Pope John Paul Parkinson’s, and that there was no will be declared “blessed” and thus scientific explanation for the cure. worthy of restricted liturgical honor. In 2007, the nun, Sister Marie-Simon- Another miracle is needed for Pierre, spoke to reporters about her canonization, by which the Church experience. A member of the Little Sisters declares a person to be a saint and of the Catholic Motherhood, she was worthy of universal veneration. diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 2001 at the The Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Father age of 40. After watching Pope John Paul Federico Lombardi, summed up much deteriorate from the effects of of the sentiment in Rome when he said Parkinson’s disease, she said, “I saw Above, Pope John Paul II that Pope John Paul would be beatified myself in the years to come.” waves as he arrives at primarily for the spiritual gifts of faith, When the pope died in 2005, and as Miami International Airport on hope and charity that were the source of Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre’s condition Sept. 10 at the start of his his papal activity. began to worsen, all the members of the CNS photo/Joe Rimkus Jr. 1987 trip to the United States. The world witnessed that spirituality Little Sisters of Catholic Motherhood in Pope Benedict XVI approved a when the pope prayed, spent time with France and Senegal began praying to miracle attributed to the sick and suffering, in his visits to the Pope John Paul to intervene with God to Pope John Paul II’s impoverished countries of the world, heal her. intercession, clearing the way and in his own illness “lived out in faith, By June 2, two months after the for the late pope’s beatification before God and all of us,” pope died, she was struggling to write, to on May 1, Divine Mercy Father Lombardi said. walk and to function normally. But she Sunday. Brigida Jones, a 26-year-old said she went to bed that night and woke Australian Catholic visiting the Vatican up very early the next morning feeling Left, Pope John Paul II hugs from Melbourne, echoed the completely different. a girl during his visit to spokesman’s sentiments. “I think he did “I was sure I was healed,” she said. Not New York in 1995. so much while he was alive, and you’d long afterward, she had recovered enough just see him on television and get this to return to work in Paris at a maternity sense of peace—obviously, he hospital run by her order. was holy,” she said. Several times during the last two years, Father Lombardi said the rumors have surfaced about delays in Vatican was preparing to move Pope John Paul’s beatification cause. Pope John Paul’s body from the crypt of Various reasons were reported, St. Peter’s Basilica to the Chapel of most having to do with incomplete St. Sebastian in the basilica’s upper documentation. level at the time of beatification. The In 2010, with new revelations of chapel, on the right-hand side of the priestly sex abuse in many European church just after Michelangelo’s countries, some Vatican sources said it “Pieta,” is easily accessible and was the wrong moment to push the spacious, an important factor given the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul, who steady stream of pilgrims who come to was pope when some of the abuse see the pope’s tomb. occurred. But the Vatican’s sainthood Father Lombardi said congregation continued to methodically Pope John Paul’s casket would not be process the cause. opened at the time of the relocation, and A year ago, a book revealed some Mourners hold banners that it would remain closed after it is of the spiritual and penitential practices of that read “sainthood now” placed beneath the altar of the chapel. Pope John Paul, including self-flagellation during the funeral Mass for To make room, the Vatican will have to and spending entire nights on a bare floor CNS photo/Reuters Pope John Paul II in move the tomb of a previously beatified with his arms outstretched. The book was St. Peter’s Square at the pontiff, Pope Innocent XI, to another written by Msgr. Slawomir Oder, Vatican on April 9, 2005. area of the basilica, he said. postulator of the late pope’s sainthood In 2005, Pope Benedict set cause, and it prompted some displeasure Pope John Paul on the fast track to among Church officials because it was beatification by waiving the normal based on supposedly confidential material five-year waiting period for the gathered in the investigation process. introduction of his sainthood cause. Pope John Paul’s death and funeral That seemed to respond to the brought millions of people to Rome, and “Santo subito!” (“Sainthood now!”) Vatican officials said they would begin banners that were held aloft at working with the City of Rome in Pope John Paul’s funeral. logistical planning for the beatification. †