It’s All Good As mothers, God uses us in wonderful ways, writes columnist Patti Lamb, page 16.

Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com May 6, 2016 Vol. LVI, No. 30 75¢ World must respond to ‘We are here to serve others’ Islamic State genocide actions, United Nations’ conference hears UNITED NATIONS (CNS)—While religious freedom in much of the Middle East is under siege and the civil war in Syria seems to have no end in sight, Carl Anderson, supreme knight and CEO of the Knights of Columbus, and others called the United Nations to action. The U.N. plays a crucial role in securing the future of the region, particularly for people being tortured, Carl Anderson kidnapped and killed because of their religious beliefs, Anderson said during a daylong conference on April 28. Anderson’s presentation came during one of three panel discussions at the conference sponsored by the office of the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N. and joined by In Defense of Christians and other organizations focusing on human rights abuses in the Middle East. Presenters included people who experienced or witnessed atrocities being Catholic Charities Indianapolis presented four individuals with Spirit of Service Awards during an April 27 dinner in Indianapolis. Award recipients, committed against religious minorities. seated from left, are Domoni Rouse, Phyllis Land Usher and Htoo Thu. Standing are Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and award winner Tim Hahn. Led by remarks from Archbishop (Submitted photo by Rich Clark) Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N., the event had an intensely sensitive agenda. Speedway president encourages audience A 278-page report submitted to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that was co-authored by the Knights of Columbus to win the race that places others first and the group In Defense of Christians in By John Shaughnessy “One of the things as Hoosiers we do is we are so great at March outlined what it called “genocide” figuring out how to help each other,” Boles told the 400 people being carried out against religious minorities As the president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, who had gathered at the Indiana Roof Ballroom for the by the Islamic State. Its contents focused it seemed fitting that Doug Boles immediately knew that fundraiser for Catholic Charities Indianapolis. largely on Christians who have been Howdy Wilcox was the winner of the Indianapolis 500 in 1919. “That’s the thing we all have to remember—we are the way murdered, and those indigenous communities Yet Boles showed a measure of grace and preparation as the to light the world. And the way we light the world is the way who will or have been displaced from keynote speaker of the archdiocese’s Spirit of Service Awards we invest in others, the way we give up ourselves to invest their region. Dinner in Indianapolis on April 27 when he noted that 1919 was in others.” On March 17, Kerry designated also the year when Catholic Charities Indianapolis began helping Boles also used his speech to talk about the upcoming Islamic State actions as genocide, but the the poor and vulnerable in central Indiana. See AWARDS, page 2 See GENOCIDE, page 13 New Catholics follow varied paths to the Church at Easter By Natalie Hoefer

As the Church marks the resurrection of Christ at Easter, it also welcomes new members who enter into their own new life as Catholics. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis welcomed 910 souls into the full communion of the Church on Easter weekend through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in parishes throughout central and southern Indiana. Each new member brings a rich story of their call to Catholicism. Each bears the touch of God calling them closer to him in union with the one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church founded by Christ. Here are four of those special stories.

‘Feels like coming home’ When Edy Ballard went to Mass in 2015, a lot had changed since her prior Mass experience. After all, the last time she had stepped into a Catholic Church was the See CHURCH, page 9

Father Aaron Pfaff, pastor of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville, poses with newly confirmed Catholic Edy Ballard and her sponsor, Carol McElroy, in St. Joseph Church after the parish’s Easter Vigil Mass on March 26. (Submitted photo) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

“We are here to serve others. We are In his remarks at the end of the AWARDS here to represent what Christ did when he evening, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin continued from page 1 was here, and continue to walk and put began by adding a touch of personal ourselves second and others first.” history and humor in connection with the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 During the dinner, Catholic Charities Indianapolis 500. on May 29—focusing on its history and Indianapolis director David Bethuram also “Three years ago, when I was asked to tradition while also emphasizing the connected his agency’s work to the themes give the invocation for the first time, I was need and the opportunity for continuing of faith, history, innovation—and racing. excited because I had never been to a car innovation. “In our work, it is important to set race before—except the streets of Rome.” “Part of what makes us so special is our the pace while changing the course,” When the laughter faded, the archbishop history and tradition, a history and tradition Bethuram told the audience. “We set the turned serious, noting how someone earlier that was started by Hoosiers. What makes it pace by understanding and addressing in the evening had asked him, “Is there so special—and many people can relate to the immediate needs of the poor and anything that keeps you up at night?” this—is the fact that our dad, our granddad, vulnerable—like food insecurity and a safe “I ask myself, ‘What are we not our brother or someone special in our lives place to sleep—but we can only change the seeing as an archdiocese? How can we introduced us to the Indianapolis Motor course of poverty by addressing the root see better?’ ” the archbishop confided to Speedway,” said Boles, who recalled causes of poverty.” the audience. attending his first 500 race, when he was Catholic Charities Indianapolis “Because Jesus, if you read the Gospels, 10, with his dad. continued its ever-growing mission of never really lambasts people for being tired “To me, that gathering of people, that filling the immediate needs of the poor and and not helping the poor, but basically gathering of pride, is much more than vulnerable in 2015 when the agency served because they don’t see. In that famous about a race.” more than 70,000 people in the community, story in Matthew 25, both the good and the While Boles cherishes that history and Bethuram said. ones who are condemned have the same tradition, he also embraces innovation for “In the past several years, our Crisis response, ‘Lord, when did we see you the future of the race and the Speedway. Office has had a 40 percent increase of hungry or thirsty or a stranger or in prison “The Speedway was created in 1909 and households who come to our food pantry or sick?’ ” the 500 in 1911 not for those traditions. It to subsidize their monthly food budget,” Looking out on the audience—while Doug Boles, president of the Indianapolis was created to look forward. It was created he said. speaking to all supporters of the work Motor Speedway, shares a story during the to show what this community, this city At the same time, Bethuram noted, of Catholic Charities—the archbishop Spirit of Service Awards Dinner on April 27 in of Indianapolis could do going forward. Catholic Charities Indianapolis “has continued, “So I want to thank you tonight Indianapolis. (Submitted photo by Rich Clark) One hundred of any event, especially in the embarked on a major effort to study and for seeing, for having the eyesight, for eyes United States, is a huge accomplishment. research how best to dedicate resources that kind of break out from our hearts, and “Mother Teresa said, ‘No, I think my But it’s really a springboard to the next to specifically address some of the root recognizing in people, who are so easily mission in life is to make sure this little one 100 years. It’s a springboard to the causes of poverty, including lack of forgotten, the face of Jesus Christ.” doesn’t leave this world without knowing imagination of the next leaders of the training, lack of education, poor health and Archbishop Tobin also shared a at least one person loved her.’ ” Indianapolis Motor Speedway.” unbalanced diets.” reflection on a documentary about Pausing for a moment, the archbishop Boles concluded his talk with a That combined approach of tradition Blessed Teresa of Calcutta that he had seen. ended his talk with this thought: reference to racing and living the faith—by and innovation will give people in need It “showed her early days in Calcutta “The eyesight of the heart leads us to way of St. Paul. “the hope that will sustain them for a better where she and her sisters were basically love. Sometimes, it’s an irrational love, “The Apostle Paul told us how future,” he said. picking up people out of the gutters who something like a God who so loves the important it was to stay focused on the “Our focus is on helping those who are were dying. The documentary closed world that he sends us his only Son. endurance of running that race,” Boles able to move out of poverty, and caring with her holding up a dying child. And a “Thank you for having the eyesight. noted. “We love that at the Speedway—it’s for those who are not able to do so. We reporter who was a very pragmatic Western Thank you for all the help you have given a race. But that’s not what he meant. He serve in this way because our Catholic faith journalist said, ‘Mother Teresa, why do you us. And we promise that, with your support, meant to walk through the world and to compels us to serve those in the margins waste your time with that one? Go find a we’ll continue to reach out to those who stay focused on why we are here. and those who are most vulnerable.” child you can save and help that one.’ are otherwise forgotten. God bless you.” † Spirit of Service winners live out their faith by helping others

By John Shaughnessy translating for him. She also helps Community Center, leading a “Changing Lives Forever,” a new refugees by offering them successful $3.5 million capital St. Vincent de Paul Society Four individuals received support when they visit the doctor campaign. She is also involved program that tries to help people Spirit of Service Awards from or translating for them when with Hearts and Hands of escape the cycle of poverty by Catholic Charities Indianapolis they get a driver’s license. And Indiana, an organization that pairing them with a mentor who during its annual dinner event she serves as a translator during helps low-income families and makes the journey with them. at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in parent-teacher conferences at individuals become home owners Quote: “I love that [the Service: He is the founder of Indianapolis on April 27. Roncalli and St. Mark. in the area of St. Anthony Parish “Changing Lives Forever” “Helping Hand,” the grass-roots, Here is some capsulized Quote: “Since I have been on in Indianapolis. program] opens people’s eyes non-profit organization that strives information about each of the the receiving end of the generosity She also continues the family to the possibilities and gives to make a difference, especially recipients, who were prominently of other people, I feel great when business’ tradition of taking them hope. And it helps open the with members of the Hispanic featured in a page one story of the I help others. I feel like I grow so care of the funeral arrangements eyes of the facilitators who walk community. He taps into donations April 1 issue of The Criterion. much from doing it. Now when of nearly every Little Sister of with them. If we aren’t educated from restaurants and supermarkets I look at someone, I think about the Poor in Indianapolis since about each other, nothing will to provide food for about Htoo Thu, Spirit of Service what I can do to help them. I the 1930s. change. People in this program 200 people each week. Youth Award recipient feel God is telling me I should Quote: “Bill encouraged me are living a stressful life in an At the beginning of the school Background: A Burmese do this.” to never be on the sidelines. He unstable environment. When you year, his group gives backpacks refugee who arrived in the thought I could do anything. understand that, you want to be filled with school supplies to United States with her family Phyllis Land Usher, Spirit of That’s how I found myself in able to help. students. At Thanksgiving, they five years ago. She’s a member Service Community Award this position.” “The love of Christ is provide families with everything of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish recipient supposed to be spread from they need for a feast. In December, in Indianapolis and a senior Background: Known as Domoni Rouse, Spirit of Service one person to another. That’s they distribute coats and shoes for at Roncalli High School in “the fairy godmother of the Award recipient what I’m trying to do.” the winter. Indianapolis. west side,” she is the president Background: A longtime Quote: “When you do this, Service: Most of her of the Usher Funeral Home member of St. Rita Parish in Tim Hahn, Spirit of Service you see Jesus in these people. 600 service hours are related to in Indianapolis, a longtime Indianapolis, where she has Award recipient And look at all the time he spent the St. Vincent de Paul Society, business of her late husband served as president of the parish Background: Hahn traces the with the poor, talking with them, helping fellow volunteer Bill’s family. council and a religious education roots of his faith to growing up as laughing with them, helping Mike Newton distribute items Service: She is president teacher. a member of Holy Cross Parish in them. So why wouldn’t I want to refugee families while also of the board of the Hawthorne Service: She directs Indianapolis. to do that?” †

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There’s a strange simplicity but also respect for the GREENFIELD and beauty and honor that is due to Christ at the NORTH VERNON—As the Church Mass in that aspect.” comes to the end of the Easter season, one The basic design of the vestments that reminder of it that will remain in churches Father Byrd and Father Jenkins make date throughout the rest of the liturgical year back hundreds of years to the Middle Ages. is the Easter candle, also known as the “We have 2,000 years to pull from,” paschal candle. Father Jenkins said. “We don’t just pull Throughout the liturgical year, Easter from one little area or one little decade of candles are used at baptisms and at time. It’s all of it.” funerals. In addition to creating beautiful things They are a special symbol of Christ for the Church’s liturgical worship, in the liturgical worship of the Church, Father Jenkin’s work in art has also given serving as a dramatic reminder of the him a helpful perspective in ministering risen Christ bringing light into a dark and to people. fallen world. “That creative spark inside of me Priests, too, are special signs of Christ. from creating art has definitely helped They are sacramentally conformed to the me be more creative in working through image of Christ in their ordination, and problems in a parish and helping people show him forth to the Church and the work through problems in their lives,” world through their life and ministry. Father Jenkins said. Father Aaron Jenkins, pastor of St. Michael Parish in Greenfield, puts the final touches on March 23 Two archdiocesan priests have brought Art is also humbling for Father Jenkins. on an Easter candle that he decorated that is being used in his Indianapolis East Deanery faith these two symbols together to increase He recognizes that the beautiful things he community. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) the beauty, goodness and truth of God in creates come from materials that he did not this world through the artistic talents with make. This, too, helps in his ministry. which God has blessed them. “Seeing that on a more spiritual level Father Aaron Jenkins and Father Jerry in the world is that I’m working with folks Byrd make a labor of love out of adding that I didn’t make,” he said. “They’re beauty to the paschal candles for the working with a world that they didn’t parishes that they lead. make. We’re just trying to make the best of There are various ways to decorate a what we have.” † paschal candle, which ordinarily is the largest candle in a church, standing several feet tall. They can be painted with acrylic Right, standing in St. Mary Church in paints or melted crayons or have colored North Vernon on April 21, Father Jerry Byrd holds wax added to them. up a chasuble that he designed and sewed. Pastor “Doing candles and things like that of St. Mary Parish in North Vernon, and St. Anne allows me to give that part of myself and St. Joseph parishes in Jennings County, to a parish,” said Father Jenkins, pastor Father Byrd has made many vestments for himself of St. Michael Parish in Greenfield. “It and other priests. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) continues to be more and more relational.” His love of art doesn’t just connect him to his parish community, but to others whom he’s helped to draw out their own College student gives credit to priest artistic talents. Father Jenkins helped Father Byrd for helping her combine faith and art learn new artistic skills when both were in priestly formation at Saint Meinrad to show God’s beauty in the world Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad. By Sean Gallagher Parish in Lawrenceburg, Our Lady of Father Byrd recently decorated Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany and three paschal candles for the three faith GREENFIELD—From creating St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Seward, Neb. communities he leads: St. Mary Parish in stained-glass windows and decorating Stange felt confirmed in the path that North Vernon, and St. Ann and St. Joseph Easter candles to designing and sewing his God had laid before her while she was on a parishes in Jennings County. own vestments, Father Aaron Jenkins has discernment retreat in high school. She was Like Father Jenkins, he sees his work in used his artistic talents to show forth God’s praying in a chapel of the Dominican Sisters art as a “generativity to be shared.” beauty in the world. of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Ann “It’s a creative outlet for me to put It could also be said that his work to draw Arbor, Mich. what is in my mind and my heart to use in out the artistic talents in other people is a At first, she was distracted by the fact that something that’s for all the people,” Father work of art in itself. there was so little beauty in the chapel. She Byrd said. “It’s not just for me to hide Grace Stange, 21, took art classes from tried to return to a focus on prayer. away in a closet. Father Jenkins Eventually, Stange heard “this voice “When I create a piece of liturgical or when she was a in my heart say, ‘Dedicate your life to sacred art or compose a piece of music, homeschooled ecclesiastical art.’ ” I do it because it’s one of the ways that I high school student “I said, ‘Yes. I will definitely do can glorify God. And it’s another way that in southeastern that,’ ” she recalled. “I had never heard of people can relate to me.” Indiana. At the time, ecclesiastical art in my life. I had never heard Both priests also design and sew she was a member of those words together and didn’t know what it many of the vestments that they use St. Teresa Benedicta was. But I thought that it was pretty good.” in the celebration of the Mass. As of the Cross Parish After returning home from the with the decoration of Easter candles, in Bright, where retreat, Stange soon learned about Father Jenkins taught Father Byrd this skill. Father Jenkins was a new ecclesiastical art program at Both have made many vestments for serving as the pastor. Concordia University, and has been studying other priests in and beyond the archdiocese. Grace Stange He also taught and working on liturgical and sacred art there During this Easter season, sacristans at her liturgical art, for the past three years. St. Mary Parish in North Vernon have been including how to decorate Easter candles, She traces much of this work and her frequently laying out for Father Byrd’s during One Bread One Cup, a summer dedication to bringing art and faith together use at Mass the white vestments he made liturgical leadership conference for youths to Father Jenkins. for his Mass of Thanksgiving at St. Louis sponsored by Saint Meinrad Seminary and “He just believed in me and showed me Church in Batesville the day after he was School of Theology in St. Meinrad. that I have a place in the Church,” Stange ordained in 2012. Now she is studying ecclesiastical art said. “He did that and gave me the skills to “It always takes me back to that at Concordia University in Seward, Neb., accomplish it.” first Mass that I celebrated in Batesville,” which is affiliated with the Missouri Synod Father Jenkins is glad to carry on the he said. “It’s a reminder to me of the beauty Lutheran Church, and hopes to make a career Church’s ancient tradition of being a patron of the priesthood. It’s not just in the person, out of making beautiful things for the worship of the arts in helping Stange hone her talents but in the mysteries being celebrated and of God. and giving her the chance to create works of how they are coming to life. It’s not just an In 2011, Stange, at Father Jenkins’ liturgical art. ethereal idea when we worship. invitation, decorated an Easter candle for “I hope that she continues to incorporate This is a detail of an Easter candle “We’re drawn out of ourselves and put St. Teresa. art into her own spiritual life and deepen her that Grace Stange decorated in the presence of God. The vestments are “I got great feedback from the parish and relationship with Christ that way,” he said. earlier this year for St. Lawrence a reminder of that. It’s a sacred object, from him,” she said. “So I took that to heart “Hopefully, from that experience, she’ll be Parish in Lawrenceburg. A member something set apart.” and decided that that was something that I able to continue to help communities be of St. Lawrence Parish, Stange Father Jenkins appreciates the simple wanted to do. I really found a place in the more beautiful and our liturgies be more is studying ecclesiastical art at beauty in the fact that he himself makes Church that I felt like was for me. That was special through art.” Concordia University in Seward, Neb., many of the vestments he uses. my role. That was where I could take my and previously was an art student “In some ways, I feel a little better talents before God and use it for his glory.” (Grace Stange can be contacted of Father Aaron Jenkins, pastor of wearing [my] vestments, because I know She has since decorated Easter candles and about her work in liturgical art at St. Michael Parish in Greenfield. that I made them,” he said. “And they candles for Advent wreaths for St. Lawrence [email protected].) † (Submitted photo) didn’t cost nearly as much as if I would Page 4 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

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Our Global Family/Carolyn Woo Reflections of a mom When students and professionals, men or women, have sought my advice on careers, one key point I mention is to not give up family for Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 work. As Mother’s Day arrives, let me share my experience. Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor Our sons are now grown. Ryan is a young Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus clinical professor of medicine specializing in geriatrics, and Justin seeks his way to make God real and lives holy in a secular culture through the path of graduate theological studies. These choices Editorial emanate from a strong faith, the desire to touch, heal and minister, and discipline that hones natural gifts into skills. I pray daily for their holiness and health. I know this sounds lofty and unreal, but these have guided my petitions since 1996. That was when, facing different career options, I enrolled in a three-week executive program—ostensibly to develop leadership skills, but primarily for time away to deliberate. Still undecided at the end of the program, I was close to panic. But a question, completely unrelated to the task at hand, lodged itself in my head. The question: What would I want for our two boys? The answer: That they know their gifts as blessings from God, work hard to cultivate these gifts, and never use their gifts to put people down, but to lift people up. I felt great peace even though I did not get a direction arrow for the fork on that career path. These three points guided many choices. As one example, we did not want the most exclusive high schools for our sons as much as a strong faith culture, respect for authority, exposure to people from different economic strata, and ability to celebrate others. A proportionate sense of achievement and humility were just as important as solid academics. When they showed no interest in gifted programs at prestigious universities during summer vacations and instead proposed unstructured time to play sports and read, we listened. I abandoned my busy grid of daily academic and sports programs that made the summers “productive” and the Pope Francis speaks as he leads his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on April 27. sons “competitive.” (CNS photo/Paul Haring) For a Chinese mother to pass up on “gifted” affiliations and opportunities required a re-programming that opened up appreciation for alien concepts such as relaxation, downtime and vacations. As a result, the boys started each academic year with energy and commitment. Not once Pope writes against clericalism did we have to check on due dates for assignments. Pope Francis is probably the most outspoken are long gone. I worked a lot of hours and have no regrets. I draw tremendous energy pope on the evils of clericalism, although the Yet we still often wait for those in the from the aesthetics and ethics of doing a good job, and have flourished in Church has condemned this temptation at least clerical state to provide our leadership. Except the opportunities offered to me. since the Second Vatican Council, and other in ecclesiastical matters, that’s not the way it What I have learned is that I could have managed my stress better, set popes have spoken out against it. should work. boundaries and switched off work issues when I was with the family, given Clericalism is “a way of thinking that the Yes, we members of the laity have our own warning when I was preoccupied and about to blow, and apologized when clerical vocation and state in life are both vocations. How well are we carrying them out? I took it out on them. People often focus on managing time, but we should superior to and normative for all other Christian Some are doing extremely well. We’re pivot our attention more toward managing stress. vocations and states. From this point of view, it thinking about the staffs in our Catholic Today, we so enjoy our time together with the “boys” and the range of follows that clerics are the active agents in the schools, perhaps the best example of how things conversation over books, politics, religion, faith, society, comics, sports, Church—the ones who make the decisions, give have changed during the past 60 years. These etc., and their examples of faith-filled lives. I recognize that my sons and the orders, exercise command. The laity’s role are people carrying out their lay vocations. husband are God’s special gifts to me and his manifestations of love, is to listen and do as they’re told.” So are those involved in all the agencies that compassion, fidelity and agency. The quotation above is from Russell Shaw, are part of Catholic Charities, the hundreds of Whenever I am formally introduced at conferences and speeches, I am who has written extensively against clericalism volunteers in the St. Vincent de Paul Society, proudest of that last line: mother of Ryan and Justin. It is by this that I in numerous articles and in his book To Hunt, the Beggars for the Poor, and other Catholic measure everything else. to Shoot, to Entertain: Clericalism and the groups who serve the poor, the homeless and Catholic Laity. the sick in central and southern Indiana. (Carolyn Woo is president and CEO of Catholic Relief Services.) † Pope Francis’ latest denunciation of But these are still groups that have a clericalism is in a letter to Cardinal Marc connection with the Catholic Church. We’d Ouellet, prefect of the Congregation for Bishops like to think that every lay person realizes that and president of the Pontifical Commission he or she has a vocation. As the pope has said, Letters to the Editor for Latin America. The pope told the cardinal the fundamental consecration of all Christians that, in lay Catholics’ work for the good of occurs at baptism and is what unites all Remember, no matter your age, life society and for justice, “it is not the pastor who Christians in the call to holiness and witness. is a time to perform good works must tell the layperson what to do and say. He In this election year, that means Catholic already knows this, and better than we do.” politicians, too. Politics should mean the Father Tad Pacholczyk’s column in the April 22 issue of The Criterion The role of clerics, he said, is to “stand process of making decisions for the benefit of “On aging gracefully” was a bit depressing. alongside our people, accompany them in all people. Those involved in doing that are I am past 80. Each day remains the same as when I was 16. The day their search and stimulate their imagination carrying out a noble vocation. They should, of is what I make of it. Dwelling on aches and pains does no good. Keeping in responding to current problems.” And he course, do this while adhering to the teachings active, if it’s only using the computer, changes attitudes. emphasized, “We are called to serve them, not of the Church and to a well-formed conscience. Fortunately, my parents told me to prepare for old age. My family use them.” And, more broadly, we hope that all lay treats me as a resource. I teach my teenage grandsons to service my lawn As we said, Pope Francis is not the Catholics apply their faith more directly and tractor, how to sharpen blades, etc. Then they mow my yard. first member of the magisterium to make consciously to their work and lives in the world. Recently, my wife had an operation, my daughters and granddaughters those points. The Second Vatican Council’s They can be strengthened in this by the ministry showed up every day with food. “Decree on the Apostolate of Lay People,” the of the clergy. But they can have an effect on the My great-grandchildren are a joy. 1983 revision of the Code of Canon Law, the broader community in ways that go beyond the This is time for living, trying to get in a few more “good works.” 1987 Synod of Bishops on the role of the laity, reach of our priests. Death is out of my control. Faith in Jesus is not. and St. John Paul II’s apostolic exhortation About that strange title of Russell “On the Vocation and the Mission of the Shaw’s book in the third paragraph. It came Emery Mapes Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World” from a letter from Msgr. George Talbot to Lawrenceburg all emphasized that the proper vocation for the Archbishop Henry Manning in England in the laity is in the secular world—in our homes, 19th century. Talbot was complaining about neighborhoods, cities and countries. Blessed John Henry Newman’s suggestion The world needs more people like All of these teachings built upon the writings that the clergy consult the laity before making Bernie Price, Criterion reader says on the importance of the laity to the mission decisions on matters about which lay people of the Church from St. Francis de Sales in the have expertise. Talbot wrote, “What is the Thanks for the wonderful article in the April 29 issue of The Criterion early 17th century to St. Josemaria Escriva in province of the laity? To hunt, to shoot, to on the special love that guides Bernie Price. the decades before Vatican II. entertain? These matters they understand, but to I have known Bernie from a distance since being a young teenager The problem is that we laity, not the clergy, muddle with ecclesiastical matters they have no growing up in southern Indiana, and that has been a long time ago! are usually the ones most prone to clericalism. right at all.” She always has a smile on her face, and something good to say about That was understandable a century ago when That was 19th-century thinking. Things have everyone. most members of the laity were poorly educated changed since then. She is truly an inspiration! The world needs more people like Bernie! and when there were numerous priests, who were educated, in our parishes. But those days —John F. Fink Jerry Finn Starlight The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 5

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Give thanks to God for the joy his love and mercy have made possible “Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus That’s why we need God’s grace and What can we do to resist the the cross that we would be forgiven our prayed saying: ‘Holy Father, keep them the gifts of the Holy Spirit to preserve temptations of the Evil One and to unpardonable sins against him and the in your name that you have given me, our unity and remain close to God and come together as a united people, the part that each of us played in humanity’s so that they may be one just as we are one another. family of God? rejection of God’s wondrous love. First one. … I speak this in the world so that Unity is tough to achieve, and The Holy Year of Mercy that we Jesus forgives us. Then he prays that they may share my joy completely’ ” maintain, “in the world.” Families are celebrating now gives us some we will be united with each other and (Jn 17:1;11b;13b). struggle to stick together and not turn important insights to achieving and with him. And only then does it become against each other. Communities face maintaining unity. There can be no possible for us to share in his joy— he Easter season is a time when the challenges that come when strangers peace without forgiveness, recent completely! we celebrate the joy of our Lord’s (foreigners or aliens) move in and popes have insisted. Unless we forgo Easter joy flows from the greatest act Tresurrection as completely as threaten ways of living that have become vengeance and overcome ancient of love and forgiveness the world has possible. It’s a time to reflect on all the familiar and comfortable. Nations resort hurts, we will never reconcile—as ever known. Mercy is the gateway to joy, good things that have been made possible to war for a variety of economic, cultural individuals, families, local communities and the more generous and forgiving we by the life, death and resurrection of and religious reasons—none of which or nation-states. The ability to ask for become, the more our joy is complete. God’s only Son. serve the common good or the ultimate forgiveness, and equally importantly If we are angry, unhappy or alone, As Jesus prepared to return to his ends of liberty, justice and peace. No to grant forgiveness, is essential to we need to follow Jesus’ example: heavenly Father, he prayed for us—that wonder Jesus prayed to his Father for us, achieving reconciliation and unity. forgive the wrongs done to us (no matter we would be one as he and his Father imploring “that they may be one just as Pope Francis reminds us quite how awful or undeserving); reconcile are one. He knew that our happiness as we are one!” (Jn 17:11) forcefully that “mercy is the face of with open arms and hearts (as God children of God and sisters and brothers Disunity, division and enmity are God.” By this, he means that God looks continually reaches out to us, especially to each other depends on our unity. He part of the human condition, the result at us with loving and forgiving eyes. in the sacraments); and rejoice in God’s also knew that one of the Evil One’s of original sin. Sadness, not joy, is the He does not exact retribution for our abundant goodness! greatest weapons is his ability to divide all-too common experience of those sins. He knows how cruelly we punish As we prepare to conclude this us and turn us against one another. who struggle unsuccessfully to be ourselves with our selfishness and sin. Easter season, let’s give thanks to God In the Gospel of St. John united. Separation, not togetherness, God is the face of mercy because when for the joy that his love and mercy (Jn 17: 11b-19), Jesus prays, “I do too frequently threatens families, we open our eyes (and our hearts) to have made possible for us. And let’s not ask that you take them out of the neighborhoods, parish communities and him, what we see in return is God’s recommit ourselves to resisting the world but that you keep them from the even nations. Jesus’ prayer for unity unconditional love and forgiveness. temptation to separate ourselves from Evil One” (Jn 17:15). takes on a special urgency when we The ardent prayer of Jesus—that each other and from God. Only then will As faithful disciples, we cannot are forced to confront the divisions and they may be one just as we are one— we be truly one. Only then will our joy escape the temptations of the Evil One. disunity all around us. follows his extraordinary prayer on be complete. †

Demos gracias a Dios por la alegría que Su amor y Su misericordia han hecho posible “Levantando sus ojos al cielo, Jesús oró cerca de Dios y de nuestros hermanos. unidos como familia de Dios? maravilloso amor de Dios por parte diciendo: ‘Padre Santo, guarda en tu La unidad es difícil de alcanzar y El Año Santo de la Misericordia de la humanidad. Primero, Jesús nos nombre a los que me diste para que todos mantener “en el mundo terrenal.” Las que estamos celebrando ahora nos perdona. Luego, ora para que estemos sean uno como nosotros. … les digo familias luchan por permanecer unidas brinda algunas perspectivas importantes unidos unos con otros y con él. ¡Y solo estas cosas mientras estoy en el mundo y no volverse unas contra otras. Las para lograr y conservar la unidad. entonces podremos compartir su gozo para que tengan en sí mismos la plenitud comunidades enfrentan los retos que Los papas recientes han insistido en a plenitud! de mi alegría’ ” (Jn 17,1; 11b, 13b). se presentan cuando llegan extraños que no puede haber paz sin perdón. A La alegría pascual emana del mayor (extranjeros o forasteros) y amenazan menos que renunciemos a la venganza acto de amor y perdón que el mundo a Pascua de Resurrección es las formas de vida que son habituales y y superemos heridas del pasado, no haya conocido. La misericordia es la la época en la que celebramos confortables para todos. Las naciones nos reconciliaremos como personas, puerta de entrada hacia la alegría y Lla alegría de la resurrección de recurren a la guerra por una diversidad familias, comunidades locales ni estados- mientras más generosos y compasivos nuestro Señor a la máxima plenitud. de motivos económicos, culturales y naciones. La capacidad de pedir perdón seamos, mayor será nuestra alegría. Es un tiempo para reflexionar sobre religiosos, ninguno de los cuales está al y la igualmente importante de otorgar Si estamos enojados, infelices o todas las cosas buenas que han sido servicio del bien común ni de la finalidad el perdón, son esenciales para lograr solos, debemos seguir el ejemplo posibles mediante la vida, la muerte y la suprema de la libertad, la justicia y la reconciliación y unidad. de Jesús: perdonar las ofensas que resurrección del hijo único de Dios. paz. No en balde Jesús oró a su Padre El papa Francisco nos recuerda hayamos recibido (independientemente Al prepararse Jesús para su regreso por nosotros, implorando “¡que sean uno enfáticamente que “Dios es el rostro de la de cuán terribles o inmerecidas a su Padre celestial, oraba por nosotros como nosotros somos uno!” (Jn 17:11) misericordia.” Con esto nos quiere decir sean), reconciliarnos con los brazos para que fuésemos uno como Él y La desunión, la división y la que Dios nos mira con ojos amorosos y y el corazón abiertos (de la misma su Padre son uno. Sabía que nuestra enemistad son parte de la condición clementes. No nos castiga por nuestros forma en que Dios continuamente felicidad como hijos de Dios y como humana, el resultado del pecado pecados; conoce exactamente la nos tiende su mano, especialmente en hermanos y hermanas dependía de original. La tristeza, no la alegría, es crueldad con la que nos castigamos a los sacramentos); ¡y alegrarnos en la nuestra unidad. También sabía que una experiencia muy común de quienes nosotros mismos con nuestro egoísmo y abundante bondad de Dios! una de las armas más importantes del luchan infructuosamente por mantenerse nuestros pecados. Dios es el rostro de la Al prepararnos para concluir Maligno es su capacidad de dividirnos y unidos. La separación, no la unión, misericordia porque cuando abrimos los esta Pascua de Resurrección, demos enfrentarnos unos con otros. amenaza demasiado frecuentemente ojos (y corazones) a Él, lo que recibimos gracias a Dios por el gozo que nos han En la lectura del Evangelio Juan las familias, los vecindarios, las es el amor y el perdón incondicionales brindado su amor y su misericordia. (Jn 17:11b-19), Jesús ora: “No pido comunidades parroquiales e incluso de Dios. Y comprometámonos nuevamente a que los saques del mundo, sino que los los países. La oración de Jesús por la La ardiente plegaria de Jesús: que resistir la tentación de separarnos de guardes del Maligno” (Jn 17:15). unidad asume una urgencia especial sean uno como tú y yo somos uno, sigue nuestros hermanos y de Dios. Solo Como fieles discípulos, no podemos cuando nos vemos obligados a enfrentar a su extraordinaria plegaria pronunciada entonces podremos ser verdaderamente escapar a las tentaciones del Maligno. las divisiones y la falta de unidad desde la cruz para recibir clemencia por uno. Solo entonces nuestra alegría Por eso necesitamos de la gracia de Dios que nos rodean. nuestros imperdonables pecados contra será completa. † y de los dones del Espíritu Santo para ¿Qué podemos hacer para resistir las Él y el rol que cada uno de nosotros preservar nuestra unidad y permanecer tentaciones del Maligno y permanecer ha desempeñado en el rechazo del Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

For a list of events for the next four weeks as reported to Events Calendar The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/events.

May 9 17th Ave., Beech Grove. per family; Saturday only May 15 435 W. Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Carmel, Ind. (Lafayette Crooked Stick Golf Club, Ave Maria Guild, 12:30 p.m. option for those who can’t St. John the Baptist Campus Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. Diocese). Catholic 1964 Burning Tree Lane, Information: 317-223-3687, make the whole weekend, of All Saints Parish, Information: 317-784-4439 or Radio Indy Golf Outing, www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Carmel, Ind. Golf Fore [email protected]. $30 per child, $55 per adult 25743 State Route 1, Guilford. 10 a.m. registration, or $130 max per family. Faith, golf outing fundraiser All Saints Ladies Sodality May 19 11 a.m. Mass, 11:30 a.m. for archdiocesan “A May 12 Information and registration: Hot Breakfast Buffet, St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. lunch, 12:30 p.m. shotgun Promise to Keep” chastity www.campranchoframasa.org/ 7:30 a.m.-noon, donations Cenacle (house on parish Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. program, contests for prizes, family-camp-programs, accepted. Information: start, cocktails and dinner grounds), Indianapolis. Hope 888-988-2839 x122 Third Thursday Adoration, afterward with guest speaker 10:30 a.m.-noon registration, 812-623-2349. interceding for women 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m. contests, and Healing Survivors of Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, prizes, Suicide support group, 7 p.m. May 14 experiencing crisis pregnancy, 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m. lunch May 16 auction, $125 individual, Information: 317-851-8344. CYO Camp Rancho Framasa, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at buffet, 1 p.m. shotgun start; $450 foursome. Registration 2230 Clay Lick Road, House, 5353 E. 56 th 5:45 p.m. 5:30-7 p.m. hors d’oeuvres, and sponsorship information: 6-7 p.m. awards. Pricing, Holy Cross neighborhood Nashville. CYO Camp St., Indianapolis. Serra community, Kelley Gym, Open House, tour camp Club Dinner Program, Our Lady of Peace www.CatholicRadioIndy.org. information and registration: Cemetery and Mausoleum, www.archindy.org/ 125 N. Oriental St., and meet camp directors and archdiocesan director of Information: Indianapolis. Health Fair, after staff, 11 a.m.- 3 p.m., refugee services Heidi Smith 9001 Haverstick Road, Barb Brinkman, 317-870-8400, golfforefaith/. Questions: Indianapolis. 9:15 a.m. Mass. Information: free, no registration presenting on Holy Year Monthly Margaret Hendricks, Mass, 2 p.m. Information: [email protected]. Jan Erlenbaugh Gaddis, required. Information: of Mercy for refugees and 317-441-8956. 317-574-8898 or 317-631-8764 or jerlenbaugh@ 888-988-2839, ext. 122, immigrants, 6 p.m., $15. May 28 www.catholiccemeteries.cc. May 10 holycrossindy.org. [email protected]. Information: 317-748-1478 or St. John the Baptist, Seton Catholic High School, [email protected]. May 21 8310 St. John Road, May 13-15 St. Bartholomew Church, 233 S. 5th St., Richmond. Helpers of God’s Precious CYO Camp Rancho Framasa, 1306 27th St., Columbus. Floyds Knobs. Strawberry Fine Arts Extravaganza, May 18 Infants, Indianapolis. Mass 2230 Clay Lick Road, St. Nicholas Church, Festival, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., free visual arts show Dan Schutte in concert, and Divine Mercy Chaplet at Nashville. CYO Camp buffet-style chicken dinner 5:30 p.m., free musical singer/songwriter of many 6461 E. St. Nicholas Dr., 8:30 a.m. at St. Michael the Rancho Framasa Spring performance 7 p.m., well-known Catholic hymns Sunman. Holy Mass and Archangel Church, 3354 W. served 11 a.m.-6 p.m., build , Fri. $5 sloppy joe meal with chips Family Camp such as “Sing a New Song” and Healing Service, Missionary 30th St., followed by prayer your own strawberry shortcake, and ice cream and drink 7:30 p.m.-Sun. 2 p.m., “Here I am, Lord,” 7 p.m., free Oblates of Mary Immaculate at a local abortion center, and soap box derby, kids inflatable climbing, canoeing, crafts, but donations are welcome. Father Richard McAlear 5:30 p.m., purchase meal continued prayer at the church bouncers, bingo, craft booths, tickets at school office in archery, evening activities, Homestyle meal in parish hall presiding, freewill for those who wish to remain. advance or at the door of games, prayer, Mass, before concert to benefit school offering will be collected. Little Miss and Mister the event. Information: campfires, corral horse rides, program for Haitian students. Information: 812-212-9679, May 24 Shortcake contest, raffle, 765-965-6956. and more, $50 per child, Information: (812)-379-9353 [email protected]. Plum Creek Golf Club, frozen drinks. Information: St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. $75 per adult or $225 max ext. 237, www.danschutte.com. Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, 12401 Lynnwood Blvd., 812-923-5785. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to VIPs Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Ray and Anita (Schaefer) Biltz, members of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on May 7. Discount registration date is May 31 They were married at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in for All City, All Catholic High School Indianapolis on May 7, 1966. The couple has three children, Shelly Mayse, Reunion for Class of 1966 Sherry Sullivan and Jeff Biltz. They also have seven grandchildren. Members of the Class of 1966 from any of the 11 Catholic high schools then in The couple will celebrate their anniversary on May 7 existence in Indianapolis are invited to an All City, All Catholic High School Reunion with family and friends. † at Marian, Inc, 1011 E. St. Clair St., in Indianapolis, from 6:30-11:30 p.m. on July 2. The evening will begin with Mass at 5 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 1530 Union St., in Indianapolis. Doors open at Marian, Inc. at 6:30 p.m. for a reception with food stations until 8 p.m. and a cash bar until 11:30 p.m. Class photos will begin at 8 p.m., and the event will end at 11:30 p.m. First communicants The cost per person is $35 until May 31. On June 1 and after, the cost is $45 until the June 15 registration deadline. Children of St. Boniface Parish in Fulda and St. Meinrad Parish in St. Meinrad pose for photos Make checks payable to Reunion ’66, and mail them to Joan Fitzgerald Gutzwiller, after their first Communion on April 9 and 10, respectively. 1823 Lanarkshire Drive, Greenwood, IN 46143. For more information, contact Mary Pat Mahan McElhiney at 317-578-9323 or [email protected]. †

Katie’s 5K Run/Walk for Hope set for May 21 The 5th annual “Katie’s will also take place during the Walk. 5K Run/Walk for Hope” will take Participants will be able to join the place at Roncalli High School, National Bone Marrow Registry at 3300 Prague Road, in Indianapolis, at no cost, possibly saving a life and 10 a.m. on May 21. becoming someone’s hero. The event honors Katie Lynch’s The entry fee is $25 per adult, $15 courageous battle with cancer. Her free per student or $100 per family. Register spirit, as well as her love of her family by May 10 to guarantee a T-shirt. and friends, will be celebrated by raising Registration forms can be found by funds for the Katie Lynch Scholarship logging on to www.katieshope.org. Fund, as well as the Make a Wish For more information or group In the St. Boniface photo, are, front row: Marshall Snyder, left, Carly Cassidy, Madelyn Greulich Foundation, Sunshine Kids Foundation pricing, call Marty Lynch at and Ella Gogel. Middle row: Michael Blalock, Wyatt Gudorf and Lance Kern. Back row: catechists and the children of Riley Hospital. 317-518-1219 or Kathleen Lynch at Karen Mangum and Jonathan Matthes, Benedictine Father Anthony Vinson, pastor, and catechist A “Be the Match Registry Drive” 317-502-1979. Karen Scherzer. (Not pictured: Coyt Collett.)

Global Catholicism is topic of May 21 workshop at Catholic Center in Indianapolis

The Archdiocese of Indianapolis Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Center and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) are in Indianapolis; Kim Lamberty, hosting “Living Global Catholicism: CRS director of university and mission Loving Our Global Neighbors” at engagement; and Beth Knobbe, the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara CRS relationship manager. Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., The conference will end at 3 p.m., in Indianapolis, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on with an optional Twinning Parish May 21. session from 3-4 p.m. with Lamberty. The event is a day of prayer, The conference is free, although a learning and discussion to discover $5 donation is requested to offset the ways to better love God by better cost for the lunch. In the St. Meinrad photo, are, front row: Chance Zoglman, left, Crystal Auffart, Jordan Scherzer, serving our neighbors in need around RSVP to Marilyn Ross at Anna Springston, Hayley Arnold and Carter Welp. Middle row: Colt Sitzman, Peyton Gray, the world. [email protected] or 317-236-7326. Tyler Ruxer, Carsten King and JD Brentlinger. Back row: catechist Karen Mangum, Guest speakers are For more information, log on to Benedictine Father Anthony Vinson, pastor, and catechists Jonathan Matthes and Karen Scherzer. Father James Farrell, director of www.archindy.org/crs. † (Submitted photos by Victory Photography) The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 7 Church’s diversity on display at Intercultural Ministry banquet; three honored for their work

By Mike Krokos demonstrates unselfishness, passion and a strong commitment to the spiritual, The menu included appetizers from social, educational or cultural welfare Africa, Burma, Vietnam and Mexico. of multiculturalism in general, noted Desserts were served from the Philippines Deacon Michael Braun, director of the and Mexico. Drinks included beverages Secretariat of Pastoral Ministries in the from Togo and the Philippines. And soul archdiocese, which hosted the event. food from the United States was the Sister Norma has extensive experience main dish. as an educator, administrator, lecturer, and Though the food was among the retreat and spiritual director. Since 1989, featured attractions of the second she has significantly focused her ministry Three individuals were honored for their outstanding service to the archdiocese’s mission of archdiocesan Intercultural Ministry at Marian on recruiting and retaining intercultural ministry on April 23 in Indianapolis. Pictured are honoree Franciscan Sister Norma Awards Banquet on April 23 at the Latino students while also celebrating Rocklage, left, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, keynote speaker Annette “Mickey” Lentz, and honorees Knights of Columbus McGowan Hall their heritage. Guadalupe Pimentel Solano and Marlon Alfonso. (Photos by Mike Krokos) in Indianapolis, the dancing, music and “Sister Norma has embraced diversity singing from various cultures added to and inclusion throughout her life of the portrait of the Church’s diversity service as a sister of St. Francis at on display. Marian University,” Deacon Braun said. And at the gathering of approximately In her acceptance speech, Sister Norma 230 people, three Catholics from central accepted the award on behalf of all the and southern Indiana—Franciscan Sister members of her order, the Congregation Norma Rocklage, Guadalupe Pimentel of the Sisters of the Third Order of Solano and Marlon Alfonso—were St. Francis in Oldenburg. honored for their outstanding service “Thank you for the honor, but also to the archdiocese’s mission of thank you for the gift of being able intercultural ministry. to serve so many persons of different The theme of this year’s program, cultures,” she said. “Caring for God’s Creation,” was Pimentel Solano was awarded the taken from Pope Francis’ encyclical Emerging Leader Award, which is “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our Common given to a young person who is actively Home,” which was released last June. involved in the community and promoting Annette “Mickey” Lentz, archdiocesan intercultural ministry. chancellor, said recognizing and In 1999, she arrived in Indiana from celebrating the Church’s diversity ties in Mexico at the age of 7 with her family. well with “Caring for God’s Creation.” While filling out an application to be a “The stewardship of creation is rooted 21st Century Scholar in the eighth grade, in our God-given dignity. Because each of she learned she was undocumented. us is created in God’s image, we all have a She lost hope in education, but at primary responsibility to love one another the end of high school she learned and to protect human life,” Lentz said in about the Development, Relief and Members of the archdiocese’s Burmese faith community are pictured at the second archdiocesan her keynote address. Education for Alien Minors Act, also Intercultural Ministry Awards Banquet on April 23. “The message of ‘Laudato Si’ is pretty known as the DREAM Act. She began simple: God is the creator of the world and to advocate for it, and continues to it belongs to him. But he did give it to us be a strong advocate for immigrant to take care of. So I ask us: Are we proud rights. She is the founding member tenants? Do we practice the stewardship of the Indiana Undocumented Youth model of what he did intend?” Alliance, an organization that focuses on One of the beautiful aspects of the empowering and providing resources to creation story in the Bible is all the undocumented youths. diversity that God created, Lentz said. “[Her] experience as a young “We see his beauty and his blessings undocumented immigrant grew in her everywhere: in our languages, in our a compassion for those with similar costumes, in our cultures. It is astounding, experiences,” Deacon Braun said. “She and stands out in this natural world.” distinguished herself by leading and Some people ignore or forget that we organizing activities to advocate for are only “temporary caretakers,” Lentz immigrants.” continued, and invariably, want more and In accepting the award, Pimentel more for ourselves. Solano, who is a member of St. Monica “That’s the kind of thinking that allows Parish in Indianapolis and a member of its us to mistreat and exploit one another,” pastoral council, said her work for young she said. “That’s the kind of thinking that people stems from her life experience. allows us to turn our backs on the new “That is another reason why I do the immigrants who are coming every day to work that I do,” she said, “because I know our community, to our home.” that if I don’t. … I don’t want for that trip This celebration, she noted, provides [that other young people make here] to be an opportunity not only to build up the in vain.” The Holy Angels and St. Rita Gospel Choir performs on April 23 at the archdiocesan Intercultural intercultural ministry efforts in central Ministry Awards Banquet. and southern Indiana, but to build a Building a community of harmony culture “and an archdiocese that creates Alfonso received the Leadership respect for everyone and everything while Intercultural Service Award, which promoting that we are all in this together. is given to an individual who has “The more we can embrace this a long history of contributing to ‘These events allow people from concept, the better we will get at learning intercultural ministry. different countries to celebrate their from one another and sharing our gifts,” Born and raised in the Philippines, own cultural identity while joining Lentz said. “The more we see God in the Alfonso moved with his family to Indiana face of everyone we meet, the more likely when he was a teenager in 1971. His together with others from different we are to see God in all creation.” passion for advocating awareness of backgrounds. The color, vitality, and cultural diversity in Indiana has led him solidarity present at celebrations like Creating a foundation of compassion to volunteer with different churches and The evening’s three honorees were with the archdiocese’s Multi-Cultural this help to build a community of nominated by parishes, archdiocesan (now Intercultural) Ministry Commission communion and harmony.’ agencies and community groups, and since 2008. He worked with Father selected for their outreach to others while Kenneth Taylor on the commission, living out their faith. and was the representative of the —Deacon Michael Braun, director Sister Norma, who is the executive Filipino Ministry. of the Secretariat of Pastoral director for Education Formation Outreach “We look for a person who models at Marian University in Indianapolis, leadership and service to the community,” Ministries in the archdiocese received the Community Service Award. Deacon Braun said. “Marlon Alfonso has The award is presented to someone who See DIVERSITY, page 8 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

more than 30 years ago and helped found the DIVERSITY archdiocese’s French-Speaking Ministry. She continued from page 7 said she appreciates how she is now able to participate in a liturgy celebrated in her native been involved in the Indianapolis intercultural language. community in a leadership role for nearly “It is nice to be able to worship with 40 years. His commitment to creating people you can identify with, speaking your cultural awareness and serving the Filipino language, and hearing the Gospel in your community set him apart.” language,” Bartet said. Alfonso, also a member of St. Monica Maria Manalang, who is coordinator of the Parish, said in his acceptance speech that archdiocese’s Philippine Ministry, co-chaired people’s work in diversity is changing the event with Bartet. Indiana. He also cited preparations underway “With the growth of the Filipino for the upcoming 40th annual Indy community, we are now close to 10,000 strong International Festival in November, which in numbers, with most centrally located serves as another avenue to help recognize in Indianapolis,” she said. Another strong the area’s ever-growing diversity. Filipino community resides in Terre Haute. “It’s hard work, but the passion is there for According to organizers, the gathering will the changing landscape of Indiana,” he said. now be held every two years and continue to “I’d like to thank Father K.T. provide the local Church the opportunity to [Kenneth Taylor], and [Franciscan] celebrate its growing, diverse community. Brother Moises Gutierrez [former director “Honoring individuals who have of the Office of Intercultural Ministry],” provided outstanding service to the mission Alfonso added. of intercultural ministry is essential for Dabrice Bartet, who is a member of the recognizing the beauty of the diversity archdiocese’s French-Speaking Ministry and present in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis,” served as planning co-chair of the April 23 Deacon Braun said. “These events allow event, said the Intercultural Ministry gathering people from different countries to celebrate provided an opportunity to recognize the their own cultural identity while joining growing diversity in the Church in central and together with others from different southern Indiana. backgrounds. The color, vitality, and “I think almost all the communities were solidarity present at celebrations like this represented,” said Bartet, who is a member help to build a community of communion of St. Monica Parish. “We tried to have that and harmony.” throughout the entire evening—from the food to the entertainment and the speakers.” (More photos from the Intercultural Members of the SAYAW Philippine Cultural Dance Company share part of their culture Bartet, who was born in France and grew Ministry banquet can be viewed at while performing on April 23 at the archdiocesan Intercultural Ministry Awards Banquet. up in Togo, moved to the Indianapolis area www.CriterionOnline.com.) † (Photos by Mike Krokos)

Mother and daughter Amy and Lily Eggleston, members of Familia del Flamenco, bring a little Spanish Members of the archdiocese’s French Choir sing at the archdiocesan Intercultural Ministry Awards flavor with their dance performance at the archdiocesan Intercultural Ministry Awards Banquet. They Banquet. are members of St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis. What was in the news on May 6, 1966? Good riddance to the Index of Forbidden Books, and a decision about female altar servers By Brandon A. Evans for many years previously it had been considered an • First Jamaican is consecrated anachronistic survivor of medieval days, the Index still • Downey Field dedication slated Sunday; This week, we continue to examine what was going on served as a favorite target of some non-Christians in Archbishop Schulte will officiate in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through criticizing the ‘closed mind’ of the Church. To many, • Text of best essays in Serra competition the pages of The Criterion. it symbolized Catholic opposition to free intellectual • Priests in Italy get permission for clerical suits Here are some of the items found in the May 6, 1966, inquiry. The Index had no place in the modern Church. • Parishioners make hosts issue of The Criterion: It withered away from disuse and disfavor. Catholics • Backs ‘aspirations’ of Luther, Calvin • Msgr. C.B. Sweeney new vicar general; 29 clergy can only sigh with relief at having another bone of • Lodge pays a visit to Pope Paul shifts are announced contention removed from the continuing dialogue with • Nuns urged to exercise personal initiative • Child Center given Lilly grant non-Catholics.” • TV proves clergy headache • Hits rumors of revolt at seminary • Liturgy officials reconfirm ban on women Mass • ND speaker stresses relevancy of Marxism • Cardinal is legate to Polish observance servers • Academy, Latin School schedule joint concert • Fr. Hunger dies; Lanesville pastor from 1930-1962 “VATICAN CITY—The ancient restriction against • ‘Too patriarchal’: Pastor-assistant relationship hit • Board members present: Air school issues at women serving as ministers at Mass has been • Pope Paul comments on nature of Church meeting reconfirmed by the post-conciliar liturgy commission. • Clergy seek to improve lines of communication • Catholic students aid ‘Partners for Alliance’ Leaving the door open for possible exceptions • Six to receive major orders for archdiocese • Ordains ‘permanent’ deacon where native traditions seem to dictate them, the • Bp. Leo Pursley urges maturity for ‘emerging’ • Will world government succeed UN? Consilium for Implementing the Liturgy Constitution laymen • Commission official: It is impossible to ‘fix a date’ has informed bishops that women are still excluded for birth control ‘decision’ from the ‘ministerial functions’ of worship. • Funeral rites held for E.J. Bradley [Father Annibale Bugnini, secretary of the • Editorial: Good riddance commission] … said a distinction was made in regard “One would be hard put to find in any given to the participation of women at Mass between those American city more than a handful of Catholics who parts of the Mass which belong to the people and those could enumerate a generous sampling of the books and which are properly ministerial. Women are excluded authors included on the Index of Forbidden Books. It only from the latter. The liturgy recognizes the office is not surprising, then, that the slight flurry created of a layman in certain ministerial functions such as by the official demise of the Index came largely from serving Mass, Father Bugnini explained, ‘but always Read all of these stories from our the secular media. Catholics must have considered it as a substitute for a deacon who is the proper server or May 6, 1966, issue by logging on to our archives at a dead issue long ago. As a matter of record, the last assistant to the priest at the altar.’ ” www.CriterionOnline.com. † publication was in 1948. And, though, at that time and • 2 laymen named Xavier U. ‘veeps’ The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 9 CHURCH continued from page 1 same year that Neil Armstrong took his first step on the moon in 1969. “I remember the Latin Mass,” she recalled. “I don’t remember the priest facing the congregation. I remember not understanding a word, and the church was very dark.” Ballard, 56, was just 10 years old and living in New Jersey when her parents divorced. “It really fractured our family,” she said. “No one took me to church after that. I didn’t leave [the Church] because of a bad experience. I just drifted away, and nothing ever felt authentic after that.” She journeyed from atheism to being a born-again Christian, ultimately joining a Methodist church. “You just say, ‘Yes, I want Jesus as my Lord and Savior,’ and you’re in,” she said of joining the church. “I wondered, ‘Am I a Methodist, or just someone going to a Methodist church?’ ” In the 1990s, Ballard took classes at Saint Mary-of-the- Woods College, operated by the Sisters of Providence in St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was required to take a religion class, so she chose “The Church in Contemporary Society.” “I didn’t realize ‘Church’ with a capital ‘C’ meant the Catholic Church,” she said with a chuckle. “We read Vatican II documents, and they were so readable.” A non-Catholic friend began maligning the Church to Above, Father Steven Schwab, Ballard, saying that Catholics worshipped statues and did pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas not interpret the Bible correctly. Parish in Indianapolis, baptizes “She’d say Catholics don’t believe x-y-z,” said Ballard. Rachel Hoffman during the parish’s “I’d open up the Vatican II papers and say, ‘That’s not Easter Vigil Mass on March 26 correct.’ It opened my eyes.” at St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Last year, amidst the talk of the pope coming to the (Submitted photo) United States in September, Ballard felt a nudge. She found the website for “Catholics Come Home,” an apostolate that Left, Father John Hollowell, pastor serves Catholics who have lost ties to the faith. of Annunciation Parish in Brazil, “The homepage said, ‘The Church hasn’t been the same poses with Jason, Cameron, since you left’ and ‘We’ve been waiting for you.’ That’s Daniel, John, Sylvia, Andrew and such a powerful thing to see and hear,” she said. Shayna Tews before the altar at Ballard realized what she was missing in the Methodist Annunciation Church. Daniel had church was a sense of authority. been a Lutheran pastor for nearly “When you’re in your 20s, maybe it’s fulfilling to go six years before he and his family to a church that says, ‘Here are the basics, but you can were received into full communion interpret the Bible however you want,’ ” she said. “But in of the Church during the parish’s your 50s, you’re looking for something with authority that Easter Vigil Mass on March 26. is authentic.” (Submitted photo) Returning to the Church held a pleasant surprise for Ballard. that made him “realize that there is a God, and that he’s was time to learn more about the Catholic faith. “Church was nothing like what I remembered, but the personal, and he was knocking at the door. An all-powerful, What she did not anticipate was the feeling, two months reverence, tradition and history were all still there,” she almighty being comes knocking on your door, you might later, of being called to Catholicism. said. “The scary pieces were gone. I don’t think I ever saw want to figure out what he wants.” “I did a lot of thinking and praying,” she said. “Part of my priest’s face when I was little. I just saw the back of He began to read and study books on different religions, it was the awesome people who do RCIA at St. Thomas. As him. So the first time I met with [Father Aaron Pfaff, pastor and finally concluded that “the only place I could find I got to know more people, I felt like it was a community I of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville], the first thing I said where this whole concept of selfless and sacrificial could be part of. was, ‘You’re not so scary!’ ” love coincided with this concept of a personal God was “Second was Pope Francis. I find him to be so Ballard started going to RCIA classes at St. Joseph in Jesus.” refreshing. He’s a great example of the type of Christian I Parish. She and her husband had their marriage Pete challenged Wilbur, pointing out that he was want to be. His emphasis on mercy, social justice and the convalidated on Palm Sunday, and she received the “spending a lot of time trying to know about God, but not environment I find refreshing. sacrament of confirmation—taking the name of St. Thérèse spending much time trying to know God.” “And the Church has such a rich history. You can go of Lisieux—during the Easter Vigil Mass on March 26. So the one-time denier of God began to pray. really deep as far as knowledge, the hierarchy, the structure, “Everyone at St. Joseph’s has been so welcoming,” “Some of the things that came from that [prayer] were the history and the faith. There’s something for everyone, said Ballard. that I needed to learn how to depend on God, how to submit and that’s something I like.” “To me it really does feel like coming home. I feel and be obedient,” he said. “I think it was that flow that led As Rachel felt called more deeply into the faith, like all the words spoken by ‘Catholics Come Home’ are me to the Catholic Church, because it’s within the Catholic Christopher felt inspired, too. He had never been genuine. I feel like the Church has been waiting for me, and Church that you learn how to depend and submit. These are confirmed, so when Rachel received the sacraments is genuinely happy I’m home.” not words you hear in other denominations.” of baptism, confirmation and first Communion during And so, after going through RCIA, the former atheist the Easter Vigil Mass on March 26, Christopher was An atheist who ‘went all in’ for the faith was received into full communion of the Church at Nativity also confirmed. If a Christian who knew Kelly Wilbur six years ago during the Easter Vigil Mass on March 26. He took St. Paul “Going to RCIA is the first thing we did together at were to meet him today, he would be in for a surprise at as his patron “because of his conversion from someone who church besides going to Mass,” said Rachel. “This was fun Wilbur’s transformation. persecutes Christians to someone who obviously went all to do together where we were encouraged to talk and share “I was like the atheist that most Christians would want to in,” said Wilbur. what we were thinking. It took us outside our comfort zone, stay away from, like [The God Delusion author and atheist] He and Melanie also had their marriage convalidated but we did it together. Richard Dawkins,” he said. “I ridiculed what I perceived as after the Vigil Mass. (See related photo, page 12.) “We had similar beliefs, but this helped open our eyes their hypocrisy and arrogance and ignorance.” Now the tables have turned, said Wilbur. that we can rely on each other spiritually. And we have a Wilbur, 44, was raised in a fundamentalist Pentecostal “I love talking with atheists about religion and great community at St. Thomas that we now know is there church. By the time he was 16, he could no longer believe philosophy,” he said. “I know where they’re coming from. I for us.” in something that seemed so “artificial and superficial.” know the weaknesses they’ll point out. Rachel sees this new beginning as “a lifestyle change. When he married his wife Melanie 13 years ago, he “I didn’t pick Catholicism like it was on some It’s not just checking off a box saying, ‘I’m Catholic.’ never dreamed she would become Catholic. buffet table. I truly believe this is where the fullness of “The way I feel about this whole experience is that it “I accepted it begrudgingly,” he admitted. the truth is.” seemed so natural, like I was doing what I was supposed The Wilburs, who have two children, sent their oldest to be doing. In my heart, it felt like such a natural son to the school of Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ ‘It seemed so natural’ spiritual progression. Parish in Indianapolis, where Melanie was received into full When Rachel Hoffman signed up for RCIA classes at “Ten years ago, [Catholicism] wouldn’t even have been communion of the Church. St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianapolis last September, on my radar. I just happened to marry a Catholic boy and “I didn’t think of all the ramifications of that [decision],” she admits it was strictly an “academic pursuit.” started going to Catholic Mass. he said. “All of a sudden, I’m starting to be surrounded by “I wasn’t going with the intent of converting,” she said. “It just goes to show that whatever ideas you have for Catholic influences.” “I just wanted to learn more.” your life, it doesn’t matter—God will put you where he Then six years ago, Wilbur met Pete, a devout Learning about different faiths is precisely what wants to put you.” Catholic. From Pete, he learned the concept of selfless and Hoffman, 32, had been doing for the last decade. She had sacrificial love. not been raised in any particular faith. Only in high school ‘A call to a more devout life’ “This whole concept really resonated with me,” said did her mother start going to a Christian church, but even Daniel Tews was as Lutheran as possible before feeling Wilbur. “I started to incorporate it into my life. It took then it was just an occasional visit. called to Catholicism. love—something I previously thought was just a feeling— “I was about 22 or 23 when I became interested in “I had been a pastor for about six years and was a pastor and changed it to mean seeking for the good of others. different branches of Christianity,” she said. “I took it of three churches in South Dakota,” said Tews, 39. “I was “It changed the way I was a husband, a father, a friend, seriously, but I saw it more as a learning process than raised in a strong Lutheran family. I went to Lutheran everything,” he said. “Looking back, that was really God making a decision and sticking to it. I wasn’t committed to schools. My ancestors built the oldest Lutheran church in starting to work his way into my life. That love was like a anything in particular.” Wisconsin, and my family still worships there.” river that wasn’t going to stop once I opened the door.” In August of 2013, Hoffman married her husband, His journey—and the journey of his wife Shayna and Two years ago, Wilbur was at a funeral at Nativity when Christopher, a Catholic. After two years of going to Mass their five children—to Catholicism began of all places something happened that he could only describe as an event with Christopher at St. Thomas Aquinas, Rachel decided it See CHURCH, page 12 Page 10 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 11

Our Lady of Lourdes St. Barnabas St. Roch Alison McManus (catechumen) Larry Craciunoiu, Maaike Mondi, Steven Osen, Terri Duvall, Christina Hudson, Mark Hughett, Andrew Rittenhouse and Angela Spayd (catechumens); Amber Moore, Leslie O’Connor, Sydney Peacock, St. Mary Brayden Collins, Kaiya Collins, Andrew Drake, Troy Pennington, Caitlin Pooler and Lavanya Schoettle Leoncio Alcauter Granados, Tony Yichuan Ren Waylon James, Jacob Madden, Samantha Madden, (catechumens); Tracy Cottey, Tracy Hall, Deanna Hommel, (catechumens); Kathryn DeCloedt and Tycorian Roberson Dane Mize, Andrea Smithson, Brock Spayd and Jeremy Pooler, Tina Ruth and Patricia Wettig (candidates) (candidates) Charlie Taylor (candidates) Holy Name of Jesus, Beech Grove St. Philip Neri St. John the Evangelist Brittany Killion, Ruth Ann Lickliter, Christopher Mercado, We welcome the new Autumn Davis and Kenny Hobaugh (catechumens); Catholics who have been Brandon Arnold, Katie Egenolf, Jackson Egenolf, Cassie Stinson, Gavin Stinson, Josilin Stinson, Roy Stinson Jose Angel Martinez Coronado, Ernesto Ivan Garcia, Jace Egenolf, McKayla Epling, McKenzie Epling, and Tyler Sunderland (catechumens); Linda Kaviak and received into the full Daniel Angeles Granados, Margarito Lopez Ibarez, communion of the Church Nash Gray, Oliver Gray, Trevor Long, Bonnie Mini, Gayle Wagner (candidates) Angel Ochoa, Rita Russel, Calum Stewart, Halyn Stewart Jorge Padron, Samantha Poliskey, Justin Raisor and since last Easter. Most of the and Oren Stewart (candidates) Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood people listed here received Jesse Smith (catechumens); George Abernathy, Ryan Ball, Elise Barrett, James Bennett, Adam Berning, Sara Britt, Margaret Brown, Amie Martin, Michael McKeehan, sacraments of initiation St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Rachel Brozinick, Richard Denney, Adam Elsner, Jaxson Popp and Kaleb Popp (catechumens); during the Easter Vigil on Benjamin Church, Chad Culpepper, Karen Lientz and David Flannery, Lisa Gomez, Jason Gray, Kristin Bagley, Jalen Bernard, Fernando Calderon, Saturday, March 26. The Karen Zilson (catechumens); Jesse Brown, Emmanuel Hermosillo, Alexander Kassenbrock, Geiselle Calderon, Luis Calderon, Adam Cooper, names listed here were Elizabeth Scurlock and Amanda Wade (candidates) Ashley Lamb, Amanda Lee, Lexi Lucchese, Anastasia Cuevas, Elizabeth Cuevas, Yuridia Cuevas, provided by religious Carlos Delarosa, Brenda Dyer, Kristin Dyer, St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville Anthony Mills, Aaron Pfeiffer, Carolyn Rauhala, education leaders in local Jorge Espinoza, Jose Espinoza, Katherine Gonzalez, parishes. Jecar Rodriguez (catechumen); Breanna Scott (candidate) Laura Schlafer, Joshua Soeurt,Melanie Stepro, Patrick Vogt and Abby Weingardt (candidates) Andrew Hellmich, Jamison Henry, Corey Hudson, The 359 catechumens Donna Hyde, Kari Leck, Carrie Martinez, Austin Morales, listed are people who St. Michael, Greenfield Kent Martin and Megan Richards (candidates) St. Jude Joe Popp Jr., Adam Reese, Andrew Reuter, have never been baptized Andrew Bailey, Greg Beatty, Brandy Capshaw, Cesar Rodriguez, Abigail Savin, Jason Savin, and—within the past Andrew Carmen, Kathie Cleary, Julie Coy and Dominic Simion, Samantha Toscano, Kristi Trotter, year—were baptized, Indianapolis North Deanery Cody Dalton (catechumens); Brittany Bass, Bethany Cook, Brian Wagers, Danielle Wagers, Dean Waterman and confirmed and received their Christ the King Kelly Gridley, Adam Rugenstein, Jeff Studtman, LuAnn Waterman (candidates) first Eucharist. Mariah Harris and Sarah Leveridge (catechumens); Cheryl Thompson and Jon Walker (candidates) The 551 candidates Sadie Brock, Kinsey Couturier, Mary Creazzo, SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi, Greenwood listed were baptized in Amy Mayer, Andrew Porterfield, Carlos Quiroz and St. Mark the Evangelist Noah Dean Adams, Bradley Scott Brown, other Christian traditions Taryn Stone (candidates) Kirstia Cropper, Gary Dunagan, Jill Henson, Chrystal Dawn Chavez, Jeffrey Scott Hoffman, and were received into Samad Khosrawi, Stacey Ramsey, Katelin Ryan, Timothy James Martin, Christopher Lynn Riley, the full communion of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Hurd Charles Tucker and Charles Wilson (catechumens); Nathan Lucas Riley and Paige Lauren Riley (catechumens); Church with a profession Rachel Cross and Rolando Meninato (catechumens); Chad Fuhrman, Erin Fleck, Dan Kilgore, Heather Mandel, Minna Rose Burkhardt, Jay Allan Dalton, of faith, confirmation and Taylor Jacoby, Suzanne Jannetta, Heather Karazim, Elbert Wilson and Stella Wilson (candidates) Kaitlyn Lauren Eldridge, Richard Thomas Gendig, first Eucharist during the Melissa Lavella, Amy Mansfield, Linda Stuckert, Joseph Lee Gerard, Ava Grace Feilen, Leslie Ann Klein, past year. Jordan West and Kathryn Worden (candidates) St. Patrick Frankie Loyd Moore, Marsha Jo Moore, Most people are listed April Rivera and Jennifer Torres (catechumens); Rebecca Sue Reinhard, Brant Nicholas Smith and in the parishes where they St. Joan of Arc Vladimir Jimenez de la Cruz, Herminio Martinez, Bryan Robert Spindler (candidates) received their religious Jian Koers, Addison Montieth, Jenna Montieth, Telesforo Martinez, Briana Montiel, Celso Puente and formation and the Neil Montieth, Jeff Ottinger, Bella Giselle Ransom, Irving Salinas (candidates) sacraments of initiation. † Terry J. Robinson, Shirley Shelton, Cooper Walling, Isabella Grace Whitfield, Justin Whitfield and Eva Wojciechowski (catechumens); Nicole Buskill, Indianapolis West Deanery Holy Angels Matt Dilly, Neil Fitzharris, Tanner Heffner, Andi LaClave Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin baptizes Jocelyn Padilla-Palacios, a member of St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, during the Easter Vigil Mass on March 26 at SS. Peter St. Malachy, Brownsburg Francis Amoako, Angela Chambers, April Christie and and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Due to ongoing restoration from the September 2015 fire in their church narthex, members of St. Monica Parish celebrated their and Liam Wojciechowski (candidates) Augustin Alvarado, Juliana Alvarado, Selena Alvarado, Ron Eric Christie (candidates) Easter Vigil with the members of the cathedral parish. 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Vu, Shaun Beckett, Aaron Bickel, Marie Djogbede, Tameka Moore, Brady Spidel, Scott Spidel, Sophie Spidel Rachael Fisher, Douglas Garvin, Allen Chad Kirkwood, St. Louis, Batesville Gustavo Lua (candidates) Brooklyn Woodward, Krysten Woodward and Millie Wynn Maggie Gearns, Micky Ruble, Susan Such and Malissa Hohenstein (catechumen); Susan Sharpless (catechumens); Shannon Civils, Mike Davidson, and Louis Talley (catechumens); Ciara Farley, Tamie Luckett, Melissa Ndoye, Brent Perronie, Harrold Willhoite (catechumens); John Hoover, (candidate) Faye Ingram, Dave Mackey, Paul Martin, Brandy Govert, Andrew Small, Brooke Spidel, Jeanne Scheets, Phillip Spoljaric, Jodi Trotter, Amy Louden and Thomas Such (candidates) Bloomington Deanery Pam Montgomery, Cody Phillips, Melissa Ratliff, Eva Vital and Juan Vital (candidates) Glenn Warner, Ann Wheeler and Malinda Zumer All Saints, Dearborn County St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford (candidates) St. Michael the Archangel Lucy Schoenfeld, Johnny Tipton and Carol Weber St. Matthew the Apostle Stephanie Edgerton, Anthony Kamos and Michael Parks Floyd Atchison, Richard Bennish, Sheila Chase, Michael Beason, Shelley Greenley, Adina Gros, (candidates) Liliana Conard, Daniel Greenwell, Ben Lashenik, Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville (catechumens); Mark Chafin, Paula Fox, Daniel Mills, Lisa Couch and Linda Newbold (catechumens); Matthew Morton, Courtney Ratzlaff and Daniel Rivera Joseph Lashenik, Will Lashenik, Jaeden Mendez-Rynard, Glenda Suss (catechumen); Cheryl Burg and Joe Sluss Jessie Stenger, JJ Stenger and Sandy Stenger (candidates) Amanda Albertson, Mark Albertson, Alan Bush, St. Michael, Brookville (catechumens); Randall Ball, Traci Collyard, Brad Grube, Tyler Allen (catechumen); Donna Allen, Gabriel Toscano, Derrick Wilson and Nate Zubler (candidates) Cardis Morton and Aaron Smith (candidates) St. Mary, Greensburg Matthew Fisher, John McDonald, Anthony Newbold and Derek Burk, Dustin Burk, Mary Burk, Chelsey Dudley, (catechumens); Elaine Dilts, Katherine Dolan, Will Brown, Caylyn Cable, John Fox, David Tuchman, Gregory Roland (candidates) St. Monica Kevin Dudley, Carrie Gillman, Kevin Harvey, Tiera Hale, Annalynn Flynn, John Love, Robert Mack, Brandon Upchurch, Holly Upchurch, Amanda Walterman, Yolanda Barajas, Elias WaiMing Chui, Leslie Cruz, Miguel Angel Cruz, Abraham De la Torre, Angel De la Torre, St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington Stephanie Ison, Michael Orschell and Michael Walter Nolan Kenworthy, Todd Kenworthy, Emily Zubler and Hannah Walterman, Sydney Walterman and Paula Wilson Diego De la Torre, Moises De la Torre, Nicolas Jonathan Enciso, Rachel Espinoza, Brendy Flores Gonzalez, Penfie Jiao, Jeff Sagarin and Cody Weaver (catechumens); (candidates) Lena Zubler (candidates) (catechumens); Teresa Kress, Penny McCullough, Casandra Flores Gonzalez, Benito Gonzalez, Nancy Gonzalez, Adamary Gonzalez-Blanco, Brianna Jaimez, Erin Boyle, Gabrielle Gilbert, Rachel Johnson and Abigail Hyunhee Kim-Chui, Brenda Lopez Contreras, Jason Joshua Makabu, Lauren Marie Mallory, Kevin Miller and Deborah Schilling (candidates) St. Rose of Lima, Knightstown St. Pius X Amanda Vasquez (candidates) Jocelyn Padilla-Palacios, Mayte Perez, Carlos Ramos, Oscar Ramos, Enrique Rivas, Treston Robey, Kathy Arnold and Cassandra Steele (catechumens); Wynter Ackerman (catechumen); Devon Allison, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg Lakesia Titania Sanders, Devanis Andrea Santillan-Gonzalez, Estrella Simon-Cruz, Lluvia Belem Simon-Cruz, St. John the Apostle, Bloomington Hannah Mefford (candidate) Kimberly Carver, Sam Nierste, Jeffrey Routt and Tyler Clark, Jase Oelker and Joshua Wolfe (catechumens); David Hart, Rochelle Hart, Brittney Lane and Michael Sosnowski (candidates) Jennifer Valdez-Salinas, Saiduby Valdez-Salinas, Michael Francisco Valdiviezo, Valeria Vazquez, Brandon Vicente, Alejandra Aguero, Christina Clark, Leah Oelker, Jane Miller (candidates) St. Anne, New Castle Bryan Vicente and Julissa Vicente (catechumens); Yoselin Carina Aguilar, Constantino Arellano, Berenice Aristeo, Luis Salgado-Santamaria and Blythe Wolfe (candidates) Trenton Sweigart (catechumen); Johnnie Anne McDonnell St. Simon the Apostle Jack Aristeo, Ailin Andrea Barranco, Jonathan Barrientos, Wilber Barrientos, Leslie Guadalupe Bautista, Nancy Bautista, St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington and Julie McDonnell (candidates) Jonathan Ball, Joel Cox, Adrian Hedlund, Rosalia Bautista, Geovanni Saul Calderon, Giselle X. Calderon, Nicolle J. Calderon, Ashlyn Castaneda, St. Charles Borromeo, Milan Leah Beebe, Sierra Calderon, Regan Comer, Lucy Marquart and Nicole Marquart (catechumens); Erik Carbajal-Delgado, Jairo Carbajal-Delgado, Joselyn Carbajal Delgado, Martha Clemente, Adam Cruz, Wendy Hauser, Zach Hauser and Jonathon Jackson Clifford Crabill and Dudley Deppe (catechumens); Richmond Catholic Community, Richmond Shana Cameron Cappel, Paul Cantrell, Julia Layman, Ashley Naomi De Dios, Angel Sebastian Dominguez-Enriquez, Jessica Michelle Eugenio-Martinez, (catechumens) Bret Brumfield, Garrett Dunaway, Josie Eckert, Autumn Beatty, Luke Durbin, Josh Nelson, Heather Neeson, Francis Scruggs and Kristin Toussing Kevin Juaquin Dominguez-Enriquez, Octavio Eugenio-Martinez, Jennifer Vanesa Figueroa-Galdamez, Michelle Ng, Christina Rollf, Joshua Russell, (candidates) Martha Lisseth Figueroa-Galdamez, Alex Eduardo Galdamez, Beatriz Galindo-Hernandez, Alexis Gallardo-Morales, St. Anthony of Padua, Morris Evan Finley, Ryan McDermott, Savannah Michel, Francesca Troncoso, Mirabella Troncoso and Scott Wright Madison Judd, Miaya Judd, Erica Porter, Bryan Priebe and Beth Moellers, Jay Russell and Michelle Shier (candidates) Alma Delia Gonzalez, David Gonzalez, Jesus Ronaldo Gonzalez, Nallely Janett Gonzalez, Johny Guillermo, (catechumens); Christina Allen, Sharon Cramer, St. Thomas Aquinas Danny Thomas (catechumens); Morgan Judd (candidate) Denisse Gutierrez, Leslie Gutierrez, Arleth Hernandez Flores, Arianne Hernandez, Henry Hernandez, St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville Angi Durbin, Tyler Frame, Corey Rush, Andrew Thomas Christie Camamile and Rachel Hoffman (catechumens) Rene Hernandez Jr., Quinn Eileen Hinshaw, Samuel Trent Hinshaw, Emily Janecek, Karen Juarez, Salomon Juarez, Solomon Coyote Moon Dillard-Rynard, Darla Jandreau, St. Maurice, Napoleon and Shannon Troncoso (candidates) Indianapolis South Deanery Brian A. Landaverde, Jose Maria Leyva-Ramirez, Michel Anthony Leyva-Ramirez, Haley A. Lue-Flores, Adal Marcial, Philip Pahner and Jarrod Prentice (candidates) Sherry James and Brandon Puckett (catechumens); Alison Martinez, Crystal Martinez, Jessica Martinez, Joselyn Meza, Anet Montenegro, Fernanda Montenegro, Lora Jo Alsup (candidate) St. Mary, Rushville Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Mitzi Gicelle Moreno-Rodriguez, Veronica Joselin Moreno-Rodriguez, Sylvia Mundala, Soledad Ortega, Daniel Perez, Holy Family, Oldenburg Niki Cain, Kaitlyn Dawson, Bree Huskins, Alex Query and Dale Martin (catechumen); Amanda Jones, Mitzi Perez, Bryant Ramirez-Antonio, Carolina Reyes-Gallardo, Danielle Robey, Jamie Rodriguez, Jasmine P. Rodriguez, Jason Glenn Kistler and Katharine Elizabeth MacFarlane St. Agnes, Nashville Cody Smith (catechumens); Kevin Dolan, Darren Kessler Adrienne McCormick and Kelly Wilbur (candidates) Jose Luis Rodriguez, Kevin Javier Rodriguez, Orlando Ernesto Samano-Martinez, Nely Suyapa, Hector Torres, Joshua Martin (catechumen); Cathy Barcilauskas, (catechumens); Jessica Lynn Douyard and and Mike Moore (candidates) Edwin Alexis Trejo, Josselline Valdez-Salinas, Diego Vega, Kristal Velazquez and Dulce Vanessa Vigueras-Hernandez Dawna Grimes and Betty Richards (candidates) Cara Jean Obermeyer (candidates) Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary (candidates) Jerry Leary, Arielle Richert, Eliana Richert and Christ the King, Paoli Indianapolis East Deanery St. Nicholas, Ripley County Elise Richert (catechumens); Sarah Crocker, Diane Eaton, St. Thomas More, Mooresville Abigail Nunez, Amy Nunez and Kayla Nunez Mariah Harris and Sarah Leveridge (catechumens); Holy Spirit Becky Ragsdale and Jerry Richert (candidates) Sadie Brock, Kinsey Couturier, Mary Creazzo, Jacob Mattingly (catechumen); Joshua Bailey, Norman Bauske, Terry Benninghoff, Dean Rothenberger and Nicole Trinkle (catechumens); Addison Muckerheide, Douglas Alfredo Carias Gomez, (candidates) Kerigan Muckerheide and Naomi Schuck (candidates) Amy Mayer, Andrew Porterfield, Carlos Quiroz and Andani Joel Romero Hernandez, Jakoby Jerron Lux, St. Ann Taryn Stone (candidates) Danielle Salas Perez and Rachel Salas (catechumens); Vangie Bradshaw, Christopher Kaufman, Terrance Wilburs St. Susanna, Plainfield St. Peter, Franklin County Kimberly Ann Carreon, Marco Antonio Monter Cruz, and Sandra Wilson (catechumens); Erin Delaney and Kernon Barnes and Ben Newsom (catechumens); Adam Bender, Crystal Bender, Jerome Donaldson, Kelli Garwood, Amanda Bischoff and Nancy Narwold (candidates) Stephani Louise Meyers, James (Jim) Lewis Neff and Nina Nugent (candidates) Wade Kirby, Lisa Kabzinski, Darren Massingale, John Robert (J.R.) Means, Yolanda Means, Justin Middleton, Nicacio Emeterio Cirilo Reyes (candidates) Crystal Ray, Darrell Robinson and Justin Yager (candidates) See CATHOLICS, page 12 Page 12 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

early Church wasn’t Lutheran, and at the very beginning” by the CHURCH then the stuff I thought Catholics news of his inclination to leave continued from page 9 were wrong about, they were the Lutheran faith and pursue completely correct, and there becoming Catholic. at a Baptist funeral about four was evidence of it since the very “But God works in amazing years ago. beginning.” ways,” he said. “At this funeral, this Baptist The final evidence that Shayna agreed, referring to her pastor said, ‘And some people convinced this lifelong Lutheran involvement at the time in a book think that in order to be a pastor and devoted pastor that the study composed of several large you have to go to school and learn Catholic Church embodied the Catholic families. things!’ ” Tews recalled. “He told authentic faith founded by Christ “I think this [group] was a way it as a funny joke. To me, it was a was the role of the pope. for the Holy Spirit to condition mindboggling idea that you could “Ultimately, every person either me to receive [Daniel’s] news, just one day become a pastor.” becomes their own pope, or every because these women were He started reading again the church that starts itself becomes its such strong women of faith,” works of Luther and Lutheran own pope,” he said. “So you either said Shayna, 39. “I didn’t know documents that he’d read in the have the one that has actually anyone like them. Their faith seminary. He also decided to existed since the beginning and was everything to them, not read the writings of the early has been given the Holy Spirit just whatever day they attended Church fathers. to keep it from error, or you Mass. Everything in their life April Metzler, left, and Kelly Herndon, far right, stand as witnesses for the “We were taught in Lutheran have the whatever-thousands of revolved around their faith. That blessing of the marriage of Kelly and Melanie Wilbur at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus school that the Church was always denominations there are. To me it was striking to me. I was a little Christ Church in Indianapolis after the parish’s Easter Vigil Mass on March 26. Lutheran until the Catholics fouled comes down to somebody having envious of their wonderful faith.” Kelly Wilbur was received into the full communion of the Church during the Mass. it up in the 8th or 9th century,” he this authority.” Still, she was hesitant about (Submitted photo) said. As he read the early Church Nevertheless, the decision to leaving the Missouri Synod documents, though, he said leave the Lutheran church was not Lutheran Church. To be closer to both of their a long journey.” “there were times I was literally an easy one. “I was really at first trying to parents, the couple moved with Shayna agreed. screaming out loud in my office “For me to leave, that was my find a way to not have to leave,” their five children—ranging in “It feels like we’ve come so because [the early Church] wasn’t income, our home [that the church said Shayna. “But it became too age from 1 to 10—to Brazil, far, and yet it feels like just the Lutheran—it was profoundly owned],” he said. “I loved being difficult to live a double life of where they joined Annunciation beginning of a call to a more Catholic from day one.” a pastor.” trying to learn about Catholicism Parish and all were received into devout life,” she said. “We feel like Next, Tews picked up the By January of last year, Tews at home and feeling compelled to full communion of the Church [the Easter Vigil] seemed like the Catechism of the Catholic Church. said he was “so tired of standing adopt that as our life, yet wanting during the Easter Vigil Mass on pinnacle. But no, we’ve got a new “I realized that everything in both camps.” He spent time to not mention it to our church.” March 26. ladder to go up now. I had been taught about the fasting and praying, and he finally Daniel finally made the “My first holy Communion was “I pray the Holy Spirit gives Catholic Church was at best a broached the subject with his wife. decision to resign from his role beautiful,” said Daniel. “I came us the strength to take on the poor caricature of it, if not an He admits that Shayna, who as pastor of the three South back to my pew, and all I could challenge and do what he needs outright lie,” he said. “It was a had been baptized Catholic but not Dakota churches last summer. He say over and over was ‘thank you, us to do and be who he needs one-two punch for me that the raised in the faith, “was shocked officially resigned last October. thank you, thank you.’ It was such us to be.” †

St. Mary, New Albany Tell City Deanery Jefferson Jacobs, David Jones, George-Michael Ott and CATHOLICS Wesley Woods (catechumens); Gordon Emily, St. Augustine, Leopold continued from page 11 Christa Hart, Jim Pulliam and Kristina Ziegler Stephen Sanders (catechumen); Nicholas Devillez, (candidates) Andria Marie Flamion, Benjamin Robert Flamion, New Albany Deanery Doretta Mae Flamion and Kendall Hauser (candidates) St. John Paul II, Clark County St. Michael, Bradford Nicholas Bryant and Brooke Worrall (catechumens); St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad Tevyn Gottbrath, Tressa Gottbrath, Tristan Gottbrath and Ella Bryant, Joshua Conrad, Wyatt Cooper, Jennifer Sitzman (catechumen); Wendie Gessner and Paul Kaiser (catechumens) Eugene Deely and Beverly Flick (candidates) Amy Kelly (candidates) St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville St. Paul, Tell City Lisa Malloy, Brandi Norton and Jennifer Zwarych Seymour Deanery Matthew Warren Daugherty, Kelly Jo Merry, (candidates) St. Bartholomew, Columbus Fannie Peter and Emily Nicole Pruitt (catechumens); Aaron Allard, Frederick Freers, Rebecca Reeck, Taylor Sumner (candidate) St. Joseph, Corydon; St. Peter, Harrison County; and Samantha Rodriguez, Kylie Stattenfield and Most Precious Blood, New Middletown Brandon Dunaway, Bobby Kemp and Richard McGinnis Jennifer Veach (catechumens); Whitney Burton, Terre Haute Deanery (catechumens); Greg Dennis, Cory Frazier, Rachel Hood, Stacy DeVreese, George Dutro, Karen Dutro, Laura Lancasteer, Phil Reich and Tammy Seitz-Gubler Carolyn Etheredge, Nancy Hunter, Allison Lindhorst, Annunciation, Brazil (candidates) Pamela Nelson, Debra Nussbaum, Raul Rodriguez, Collier Frederick, Cora Frederick, Joy Frederick and Roberto Herbert Romero, Angelica Rosete Mejia, Porter Frederick (catechumens); Kirk Frederick, St. Bernard, Frenchtown Yeni Sierra, Gabriela Vazquez Rosete, Brent Veach, Abigail Hornback, Jonathan Lowe, Yvette Specker, Jared Clouse (candidate) Carl Weichman, Kylie Weichman and Teresa Weichman Cameron Tews, Daniel Tews, Jason Tews, John Tews and (candidates) Shayna Tews (candidates) St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd County Zachary Sharp (catechumen); Andrew Cassis, St. Rose of Lima, Franklin St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle Adair Megraw and Karen Nevitt (candidate) Jacob Neal (catechumen); Samuel Bordenkecher, Lisa Cupp (candidate) Saundra Bordenkecher. Nancy Hancock, Judy Miller, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Jeffersonville Bobbie Parker, Scott Steele, Kelsey Weaver and Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute Jennifer Buckley and Tina Stith (catechumens); Stephen Yingling (candidates) Richard Craig Harlan (candidate) Sara Hall and Elizabeth Wooldridge (candidates) St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Joseph, Jennings County; St. Benedict, Terre Haute St. Augustine, Jeffersonville and St. Mary, North Vernon Lindsay Clark (catechumen); Michael Acree, Saundra Duffee and Karla Wright (candidates) Amanda Kingswell, Devin Liston, Melinda McGlone, Everett Hays, Helen Kester, Diyombu Muyumba, Grayson McGlone, Tom Moore and Denise Wasson Isabella Muyumba, Dennis Stark and Jeri Stark St. Mary, Navilleton (catechumens); Nicholas Anderson, Aaron Bright, (candidates) Aviella Qualkenbush (candidate) Chassie Broadus, Marianne Daeger, Amy Mund, St. Joseph University, Terre Haute St. Mary, Lanesville Evan Short, Josie Short, Brandy Taulbee, Seth DeBaun and Ashley Murphy (catechumens) Kate Peggs, Brandon Philpot, John Renn and Shanda Thayer, Wes Thayer, Matthew Walker and Kevin Marchant, Bailey Pollard, Brian Ross and James Tripure (candidates) Karie Wilson (candidates) Harold Weber (candidates) Holy Family, New Albany Prince of Peace, Madison St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute McCarthy Barker, Clayton Bass, Annabella Case, Brittany Brown and Aaron Wood (catechumens); Tia Salen-Belli and Chloe Taylor (catechumens); Eli Kerr, Ethan Kerr and Lisa Schafer (catechumens); Jillian Cantu, Norma Jean Tague and Duane Wise Kristen Chamberlain, Saujin Park, Yong Joon Park, Bethany Kerr and Amy Stout (candidates) (candidates) John Walton and Vanda Yorks (candidates) Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Albany St. Ambrose, Seymour St. Patrick, Terre Haute Jordan Bryant, Holden Faith, Sydney Herrin, Karen Aquino, Leslie Arista, Kayla Burton, Betsy Bartee, Brandon Bartee, Tanner Kuykendall, Ronny Hornung, Inara Kochert, Dustin Williams, Roger Cutsinger, Seth Davidson, Serenity Pilant and Thomas Smith (catechumens); Kaden William and Kanon Williams (catechumens); Carmen Enriquez Beltran, Magdalena Enriquez Beltran, Amy Bauernfiend and Nikki Taylor (candidates) † Jessica Clemmons, Stephani Hardin, Sally Johnston, Serilda Gay, Gianini Narez, Yuliana Narez, Chris Morris, Juanita Schickel and Kristie Williams Angel Vasquez Perez, Heidi Jo Anthony Quirino, (candidates) Dereck Rodriquez and Jairo Yahir (catechumens); Robert Daughery, Petrona Juan, Marcos Gonzalez Morales, Melissa Narez, Erin Reinhart and Whitney Reinhart (candidates) The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 13

Anderson concluded his presentation A child captured and tortured by GENOCIDE by proposing that the U.N. take legal ISIS also addressed the conference. continued from page 1 action against the Islamic State and Samia Sleman, 15, of Hardan, Iraq, other terrorist groups to prevent a village north of Mount Sinjar, gave United States has yet to offer a plan the eradication of long-standing an emotional speech about her time to respond. and indigenous communities in the in captivity. A member of the Yazidi The U.N. estimates that more than Middle East. He called for punishment minority, Sleman spent six months half of Syria’s pre-civil war population of the perpetrators and for the sequestered along with other girls who of about 22.1 million people are in establishment of international standards were starved, raped and sold to other urgent need of humanitarian assistance. of justice, equality, the rule of law and Islamic State members. Four million Syrian refugees now live religious freedom. Samia brought attention to the many outside of their homeland. Overall, Sister Maria de Guadalupe Rodrigo, girls whom Islamic State members at least 8 million people have been a member of the Congregation of the take as sex slaves while their mothers displaced throughout the region, human Incarnate Word who has spent 18 years are killed for being “too old.” Some rights organizations estimate. in the Middle East as a missionary, enslaved girls are as young 7 or 8 years Anderson mentioned published spoke of her experience living in old, she said. threats in the Islamic State’s magazine, Aleppo, Syria, a major battleground in Despite the horrific actions of her Dabiq, specifying what the group the civil war. captors, Samia, whose family is still has called the “Crusader army” from “I remember the first two months being held, spoke on their behalf so the the West. Such threats have not only when this all started, we all remained U.N. and world governments would act been carried out in many parts of the inside,” she said. “There were constant to end the genocide taking place. Middle East, but have haunted the explosions and gunshots. We couldn’t In another session, Jacqueline lives of innocent men, women and sleep. But these weeks turned into Isaac, vice president of Roads of children, he said. months and the months into years.” Success, a Southern California Samia Sleman, 15, a Yazidi who was held hostage and raped The Knights of Columbus has Sister Maria described how children organization addressing human rights by members of the Islamic State when she was 13, cries raised more than $10.5 million for playing on the street collect bullets and in the Middle East, asked, “Where are while speaking at a conference addressing the persecution relief since 2014 while partnering with trade them with one another because you, world?” of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East and dioceses and religious organizations they could find nothing else to play Victims of ISIS are more than Africa at the United Nations on April 28. Also pictured to provide victims with food, clothing, with. Children should not be concerned numbers, but human beings, she said, as is human-rights advocate Jacqueline Isaac. The Vatican shelter, education and medical about safety, but safety is all they think many in the audience rose to their feet mission to the U.N. was a co-sponsor of the conference. attention, he said. about, she said. and applauded. † (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Petitioners want U.N. to respond to Islamic State attacks on Christians UNITED NATIONS (CNS)—A petition signed by Holy See-sponsored event at the U.N. in which victims saying that 2014 was particularly worrisome as more than 400,000 people called on the United Nations of atrocities spoke of their experiences while being communities were destroyed during night raids. to act to stop the Islamic State group in its endless held by the militant organization. Archbishop Jeanbart pleaded for help to end the attacks on Christians and other religious minorities. Bishop Joseph Danlami Bagobiri of five-year-long civil war in Syria, and for aid to flow Presented to U.N. officials on April 29 by Ignacio Kafanchan, Nigeria, and Greek Melkite Catholic to the thousands of Syrians injured and displaced Arsuga, president of CitizenGo, an advocacy Archbishop Jean-Clement Jeanbart of Aleppo, Syria, by violence. organization that works to defend and promote life, joined Arsuga in the presentation. People are losing hope in the world because other family and liberty around the world, the ceremony was Bishop Bagobiri said during a session on nations have not stepped up to end the hostilities, he part of three days of programming that examined the April 28 organized by the office of the Vatican’s said. The archbishop urged the U.N. to immediately act plight of religious minorities in the Middle East. permanent observer to the U.N. and the organization to save more innocent people from being harmed. With signatures gathered online, the effort seeks In Defense of Christians that, “Christians [in parts “We have seen people killed, slaughtered, to have the U.N. declare the Islamic State’s actions as of Nigeria and the Middle East] are becoming an women violated, priests and bishops kidnapped, genocide and for the world body to pursue legal action endangered species.” houses destroyed, churches and convents invaded,” in international courts. He described how Christians are fleeing northern Archbishop Jeanbart said, “but we persist with the help The presentation took place a day after a Nigeria because of attacks by Boko Haram insurgents, of God and with the help of those who help us.” †

Father Daniel Berrigan, advocate for justice, peace, poor, dies at 94

NEW YORK (CNS)—Jesuit Father Daniel Berrigan, an “To men of conscience, such works cry out to heaven for tried for conspiracy and destruction of government property early critic of U.S. military intervention in Vietnam who redress. They also sow into man’s future a poison which the in U.S. District Court in Baltimore in October 1968. Father for years challenged the country’s unborn will be condemned to breathe—hatreds, divisions, Berrigan testified that he participated in the burning because reliance on military might, died on world poverty, hopelessness. In such an atmosphere, he had come to realize that “one simply cannot announce April 30. He was 94. the world comes ever closer to the actuality of hell,” the Gospel from his pedestal ... when he was not down The author of several books of Father Berrigan told the crowd. there sharing the risks and burdens and the anguish of his poetry and one of the first Catholic He told various groups and retreats he led over the years students.” priests to receive a federal sentence that Catholics are called to live a life of nonviolence as They were given sentences ranging from two to for peace activism, Father Berrigan expressed in the Gospel and to protest injustices when they three and a half years in jail. Sentenced to three years, protested government policies are encountered. Father Berrigan was ordered to surrender to federal in word and in deeds, which Father Berrigan, with others, gave birth to the authorities and begin serving his sentence on April 10, garnered several stays in jail and in Plowshares movement to oppose nuclear weapons. On 1970. Instead, he went underground, evading federal agents federal prison. Sept.9, 1980, Father Berrigan, his brother Philip, and for four months. Father Berrigan died in the six other demonstrators were arrested after entering the FBI agents eventually arrested Father Berrigan on Block Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. company of family. In a statement General Electric missile plant in King of Prussia, Pa., and Island in Long Island Sound and he was sent to the federal issued shortly after the priest’s battering intercontinental ballistic missile nose cones with penitentiary in Danbury, Conn. In January 1972, the Federal death, the family said, “It was a sacrament to be with Dan hammers and pouring blood over classified defense plans. Parole Board granted Father Berrigan parole for “reasons of and feel his spirit move out of his body and into each of us Calling themselves the “Plowshares Eight” from the health” and he left prison on Feb.24. and in the world. biblical passage, “And they shall beat their swords into Daniel Berrigan was born in Virginia, Minn., on “Dan taught us that every person is a miracle, every plowshares” (Is 2:4; Mi 4:3), the eight defendants were tried May 9, 1921, the fifth of six sons of Thomas Berrigan, a person has a story, every person is worthy of respect,” the in the Montgomery County Common Pleas court, where the second-generation Irish-American who was working there statement said. “And we are so aware of all he did and all presiding judge rejected the use of international law theories as a railroad engineer, and Frieda (Fromhart) Berrigan, who he was and all he created in almost 95 years of life lived of justification for an illegal act. They were found guilty was of German descent. with enthusiasm, commitment, seriousness and almost of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy Attracted to the priesthood from his earliest years, holy humor.” and sentenced in July 1981. The Berrigan brothers, Oblate Daniel sent inquiries to religious orders when he was a The “heavy burden” of peacemaking will continue Father Carl Kabat and Baltimore lawyer John Schuchardt senior in high school. He finally applied to the Jesuits, among many people, the family added, saying, “We can all received the stiffest sentences, three to 10 years in prison. because their response was the lowest-keyed of those he move forward Dan Berrigan’s work for humanity.” The protest was the second major action for which received. In 1939, he began the Jesuit training program. A funeral Mass was planned for May 6 at St. Francis he was arrested. On May 17, 1968, Father Berrigan He was ordained on June 19, 1952. Xavier Church in New York. and eight others entered the Selective Service office in In July 1953, Father Berrigan was sent to France for a A poet whose works inspired people to reflect and act on Catonsville, Md., a Baltimore suburb, removed 378 files year of study and ministerial work in a small town near behalf of justice and peace, Father Berrigan began speaking and burned them in an adjacent parking lot with what they Lyons. In France, he met some worker-priests who gave against U.S. military involvement in February 1965 at a called “homemade napalm.” him, he later said, “a practical vision of the Church as she rally in a Protestant church in New York City. The “Catonsville Nine,” as they called themselves, were should be.” † Pope Francis to celebrate Mass, welcome homeless on pilgrimage to Rome VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis will welcome a papal Mass, the Stations of the Cross and a tour a day-to-day basis are also invited to attend. several thousand homeless and vulnerable people from of Rome. There will be a gathering to hear people’s The event follows Pope Francis’ continued efforts to all over Europe when they make a pilgrimage to Rome personal testimonies and a prayer “Vigil of Mercy” with increase outreach to the homeless, especially those who in November. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, France. live near the Vatican. Sleeping bags were handed out at European organizations that help the homeless are invited “This time of pilgrimage and opportunity to meet Christmas, showers were installed in the public bathrooms to participate in the European Festival of Joy and Mercy, Pope Francis will give people from the most vulnerable in St. Peter’s Square, and a special, private tour of the which will take place on Nov. 11-13. The event organizers— sections of society, who are often treated as outcasts, a Vatican Gardens and Vatican Museums was arranged. In the Fratello association—are inviting 6,000 homeless, chance to discover that their place is in the heart of God and 2015, the pope also opened a shelter for homeless men. vulnerable and marginalized people to take part. in the heart of the Church,” the Fratello association said in a For more information on the pilgrimage, visit Fratello’s The pilgrimage includes an audience led by Pope Francis, press release on May 2. Those who assist the vulnerable on website at www.fratello2016.org. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Catholic vote not as monolithic as it once was, but still important

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Is there a Catholic vote? Well, yes. Kind of. Voting patterns show Catholics vote much like the rest of America, with minor swings one way or the other, depending on the candidate and the state. Nevertheless, the Catholic vote still is important, as syndicated columnist, political commentator and Georgetown University professor E.J. Dionne likes to say. Any way it’s examined, analysts say the Catholic vote is not as monolithic as it once was. That is, except for Latinos, who now comprise about 35 percent of U.S. Catholics: More than 65 percent regularly vote for Democrats, and about 20 percent vote Republican, leaving few to be swayed by the candidates’ political positions. “Even though people use the shorthand of ‘the Catholic vote,’ ‘the vote of Catholics’ is probably the better way to describe it because there is that diversity now,” said Mark Gray, senior research associate at the Washington-based Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA). Gray suggested that the elections of 1960 and 1964 A Maryknoll sister casts her vote at a polling station inside her religious community’s auditorium in 2010 in Ossining, N.Y. were the last where Catholics could be considered a (CNS photo/Jessica Rinaldi, Reuters) uniform voting bloc. In 1960, they were moved to support Democrat John F. Kennedy, the country’s first and only message has appealed to those who have felt betrayed by science at the University of Notre Dame. Catholic president, and that wave carried into the election the institutions of government, Church and social services As goes the Latino vote, so goes Catholic Latino voters, four years later. that they once trusted to work on their behalf. he said. But since then, Gray told Catholic News Service (CNS), Stephen F. Schneck, director of the Institute for He offered a few statistics that are expected to influence Catholics “have not been really in one camp or the other,” Policy Research & Catholic Studies at The Catholic election outcomes beginning this year, but especially in the and that they hold values similar to the rest of the voting University of America, said perhaps no other group has felt future: populace, an indication that Church teaching holds little more betrayed than white, working-class communities in • 63 percent of Latinos in the U.S. were born in the U.S., sway in the election at the polls. places such as Pennsylvania, Appalachia, the Ozarks and and another 15 percent are naturalized citizens. “[Catholics] look for teachings of the Church the Deep South. • Of the Latinos younger than age 18, 94 percent were that are consistent with the party affiliation that they In an address during a daylong symposium, “Rebuilding born in the U.S. have,” Gray said. Trust,” on April 14 at the university, Schneck described the • About 800,000 Latinos turn 18 every year. Monika L. McDermott, associate professor of political high levels of drug abuse and alcoholism, marriage failures, “If I wanted to register new Latino voters, that’s science at Fordham University, who has analyzed exit poll declining life expectancy and rising crime rates that plague where you tend to focus, it would be 17-year-olds. You data for national news organizations, echoed Gray, saying such communities. have a huge group that has the possibility of engaging the diversity among Catholics means they vote the way they “There are many angles from which to consider the [politically],” he said. want no matter what the Church teaches. correlation between decaying social capital and what’s Fraga pointed to Florida, with its rapid growth in “They go their own way. They pick and choose what happening to the quality of life for these populations, newcomers from Puerto Rico, with large numbers of they want and what they want to follow,” she said. but one way to see it is as a crisis of trust,” Schneck told young and educated people seeking opportunities that are So there’s no need to expect that Catholics by the audience. unavailable on the Caribbean island territory. Fraga said themselves will sway the eventual outcome of this year’s “It’s a breakdown of trust with even basic institutions of the number of Florida residents of Cuban origin, who presidential election with its strange twists as candidates social life. Their distrust of government is something we all tend to vote Republican, remains flat and, because both trade extraordinarily nasty barbs and accuse major party hear about, but it goes far beyond that,” he said. trends are expected to continue, the political landscape in leadership of a lack of transparency in the delegate A week later in an interview, Schneck said working-class Florida will change. selection process. whites feel “like they’ve lived up to their end of the However Catholics vote, the U.S. Conference of Factors such as anger and distrust among voters are bargain, but the other institutions have not,” so they are Catholic Bishops (USCCB) again is preparing dissemination fueling the rise of self-proclaimed “outsiders,” whose turning to candidates who seem to offer them a better life. of its quadrennial document “Forming Consciences for Matthew Green, assistant professor of political science Faithful Citizenship” and accompanying study guides, at The Catholic University of America and another bulletin inserts and other discussion materials. symposium speaker, said that mindset could explain the The latest iteration of the document, approved at the appeal of Republican billionaire Donald Trump and, bishops’ annual fall meeting in November, draws on to a lesser extent, avowed democratic socialist Bernie papal teaching since 2007, particularly the latter part Sanders—candidates who have positioned themselves as of Pope Benedict XVI’s tenure and Pope Francis’ three outside the political mainstream. years overseeing the Vatican. It also considers recent Green said the high turnout in Republican primaries developments in U.S. domestic and foreign policy related to among people feeling forgotten has helped Trump hold off defining marriage, the use of drones in warfare and care for his two remaining challengers, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and the environment, among other issues. Ohio Gov. John Kasich. And Schneck cited Sanders’ appeal “There’s no doubt that this is something that’s very among young people, who “came of age cynical.” important to bring to the attention of Catholics, and “If you distrust the institution, but there is a candidate formation of conscience, as the document says, is a who says ‘I’m going to fix things,’ then that might motivate lifelong undertaking, and our need to bring our faith to the you to vote,” Green told CNS. public square is also not about one election,” said Susan Even with the large turnout among working class white Sullivan, director of education and outreach in the USCCB voters, Latinos may hold the key to the general election. Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development . If they show up at the polls in places like Florida, Nevada Materials are expected to be ready in the next several and Colorado, they will influence who becomes the next weeks, giving parishes, schools and study groups ample occupant of the White House, said Luis Fraga, co-director time to consider what the document offers prior to Election of the Institute for Latino Studies and professor of political Day on Nov. 8. † True believers serve others, Pope Francis says at audience VATICAN CITY (CNS)—To ignore the suffering of “To ignore human suffering—what does that mean? It another person is to ignore God, Pope Francis said. means ignoring God,” he told an estimated 25,000 people WALK A MILE IN THEIR SHOES And going to church does not automatically make in St. Peter’s Square. “If I do not draw near to the man or someone love their neighbor, the pope said on April 27 as woman or child or older person who is suffering, I cannot Imagine yourself out of work with the rent past due, other he reflected on the Gospel parable of the good Samaritan draw near to God.” bills piling up, and your family malnourished and hurting. during his weekly general audience. While the priest and the Levite—the two orthodox With no resources to fall back on, except agencies like the Christians are called to imitate the good Samaritan, religious figures in the story—have “closed, cold” hearts, Society of St. Vincent de Paul. stopping to help the injured, because the good Samaritan the pope said, the Samaritan, who was considered an is a symbol of Jesus, who bent down to help and to heal impure pagan, had a heart that was “synchronized with the Got a clear picture of yourself in this predicament? all humanity, the pope said. heart of God.” Not pretty, is it? By describing the priest and the Levite who passed The sign that one is close to God, the pope said, There, but for the grace of God, go I. Or you. by without offering help, Pope Francis said, the parable is showing compassion to others like God shows Use our website svdpindy.org to make a donation, makes it clear that “it is not automatic that one who compassion to us. “What does that mean? He suffers with become a volunteer, or schedule pick-up of working- frequents the house of God and has known his mercy us. He feels our suffering.” condition appliances, furniture and household items. knows how to love his neighbor. Like the good Samaritan, he said, God “does not ignore Or call 317.687.1006. “You can know the whole Bible, you can know all us. He knows our pain. He knows how much we need the liturgical rubrics, you can know all theology, but that his help and consolation. He draws near to us and never knowledge does not make loving automatic,” he said. abandons us.” “Love has another path.” Pope Francis asked those at the audience to consider svdpindy.org Pope Francis insisted there is no such thing as “true whether they believe that God has compassion for them, worship if it does not translate into service to one’s as they are—with their sins and their wounds—and that Society of St. Vincent de Paul neighbor. Let us never forget: in the face of the suffering he “draws near to us, heals us, caresses us. And if we 3001 E. 30th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46218 of so many people worn out by hunger, violence and refuse him, he waits. He is patient and always alongside injustice, we cannot remain spectators. of us.” † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2016 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Bearing wrongs can restore relationships through mercy By David Gibson

We know patient people when we see them. Yet patience is rather difficult to define in a precise way. After all, two people known for their patience may have greatly different personalities. It can be said that patient people are not always in attack mode, nor do they make it a goal to win every debatable point in a discussion. Notably, too, they do not expect others close to them to act and think just as they do. Patience may be hard to define, but it pleads for careful attention during the Church’s current Holy Year of Mercy. What is implied by the spiritual work of mercy that calls Christ’s followers to “bear wrongs patiently”? I have three questions. First, who does wrong things to us? Second, what does patience look like in action? Finally, how is patience merciful? The troubles, or wrongs, that stand ordinary life on its head arrive in many forms. Perhaps a family member makes a big decision that we would not make—a consequential decision that definitely will complicate matters for us. Or maybe trouble arrives in the form of unexpected developments no one really invited, but that will require hours of work on our parts, despite already overloaded schedules. Or maybe a family member forgets to pay a bill on time, thus adding a financial penalty to an already unwelcome expense. Not all the “wrongs” of life result from ill will. Still, they Catherine Hayek, a member of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Ferguson, Mo., prays on Nov. 24, 2014, in her parish’s church, as can prove disheartening and even rather sickening. violence began to erupt in the town following a St. Louis County grand jury’s announcement that there was not enough evidence to indict Often people react somewhat automatically to those Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. Bearing wrongs patiently is a spiritual work of mercy who wrong them—shouting angrily at them or, conversely, that can restore relationships. (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) giving them the “silent treatment.” Reactions like these, however, only serve to highlight just how demanding true illnesses, comes from the desire for revenge, whether in stand alone but to be paired with other terms like the ones patience can be. personal relationships or between states and nations.” Paul chose—terms that help to flesh out its meaning. Patience, as Pope Francis once wrote, is God-like. God Then turning attention to marriage, he affirmed that “only You might say, then, that patience is known by the “always invites us to take a step forward.” Yet God is one thing” can “save the world: mercy!” This encompasses company it keeps. Thus, according to St. Paul, patience “understanding” and “willing to wait.” “the mercy of God for human beings, and the mercy of travels in the company of mercy, compassion and People who are patient do not give up easily on others or human beings for each other.” kindness, for example. refuse to hear them out. Instead, they express ongoing hope “In particular,” he said, mercy “can save the most Consider also the company patience keeps in St. Paul’s in others, even when something they do is disruptive. So precious and fragile thing in the world at this time, marriage First Letter to the Corinthians. “Love is patient, love is people with patience are merciful. and the family.” kind,” he writes (1 Cor 13:4). It seems safe to conclude Capuchin Father Raniero Cantalamessa drew a People marry “because of love,” he observed. But over that he believes patience is lovingly kind. compelling picture of mercy, as well as patience, at time, “the limitations of each spouse emerge, and problems St. Paul goes on to say that love “does not seek its work in a marriage when he delivered the Good Friday with health, finance and children arise. A routine sets in” that own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood homily in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome this March. lessens joy. over injury” (1 Cor 13:4-5). Father Cantalamessa is the preacher of the papal household. What saves “a marriage from going downhill without any Whenever I witness truly patient people, I have the First, he noted that vengeance is mercy’s opposite. hope of coming back up again is mercy,” Father Raniero sense that they possess a quiet, clear strength and are not But “we need to demythologize vengeance,” he said. For insisted. By this, he meant mercy “understood in the at all passive. contemporary society frequently extols it, even placing biblical sense.” If they do not go to the wall over every wrong that those who practice vengeance on a pedestal. He referred, therefore, to “spouses acting with makes itself known to them, they nonetheless exhibit a “A large number of the stories we see on the screen and ‘compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience,’ ” strong sense of themselves and appear to know just what in video games are stories of revenge, passed off at times as qualities of Christian life that St. Paul listed in his Letter to kind of people they want to be. the victory of a good hero,” he said. the Colossians (Col 3:12). Father Raniero observed that “half, if not more, of the Note the appearance of patience in that list by St. Paul. (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s suffering in the world, apart from natural disasters and When patience is discussed among Christians, it tends not to editorial staff for 37 years.) † Jesus shows his followers how to bear unjust suffering with patience By Daniel S. Mulhall The final indignity was being forced refuse, did not turn away” because “the to carry his cross through the streets of Lord God opened my ear” (Is 50:5). When Christians participate in a work Jerusalem where he was mocked by the Bearing wrongs patiently is not an of mercy, they do so in imitation of Christ, crowds that recently had chanted his easy thing to do for anyone, not even who in his lifetime either performed the name in honor. And then he dealt with the Jesus. He was only able to do so because work himself or taught the importance of indignity of being crucified, although he of his confidence in God, which was doing so. In the spiritual work of mercy was guilty of no crime. rooted in a deep and rich life of prayer. that calls us to “bear wrongs patiently,” Throughout all of this abuse, Jesus As Isaiah 50:7 explains it, “The we have the opportunity to live out Jesus’ remained silent. He did not complain about Lord God is my help, therefore I am not behavior toward others, especially those how he had been treated. He did not whine disgraced; Therefore I have set my face who wrong us. or complain that he had gotten a rotten deal, like flint, knowing that I shall not be put During his passion, Jesus experienced a and neither did he become indignant and to shame” (Is 50:7). variety of foul treatment. He was stripped blame someone else for his troubles. If we are to bear wrongs patiently, naked in public, mercilessly scourged, Yes, he did ask to be spared of the we must take on the same attitude that ridiculed and forced to wear a crown of suffering during his prayer in the garden: Jesus had, as St. Paul prescribes in thorns that was embedded into his head. “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup Philippians 2:5-11. We must be willing to Some people spat on him, buffeted him pass from me,” but he ended the prayer swallow our pride and allow ourselves to about the head and abused him in many accepting what the Father had willed be humbled for his sake. other ways. for him: “Yet, not as I will, but as you Like Jesus, we are called to empty will” (Mt 26:39.) ourselves of all vanity and take on In his suffering, Jesus embodied the “the form of a slave” for the glory of Mary holds the body of Jesus in this suffering servant described centuries earlier God. To do this, we must “put on the stained-glass window at St. Francis by the prophet Isaiah. This servant of God Lord Jesus Christ,” (Rom 13:14) as of Assisi Church in Greenlawn, N.Y. In gave his “back to those who beat me,” and St. Paul encouraged. We cannot do it his suffering and death, Jesus gave an willingly offered his “cheeks to those who any other way. example to his followers of how to bear tore out my beard. My face I did not hide wrongs patiently, a spiritual work of mercy. from insults and spitting ” (Is 50:6). (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist who (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic) Like the suffering servant, Jesus “did not lives in Laurel, Maryland.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink For the Journey/Effie Caldarola Imperiled Church: Sun King controlled the Church in France Follow mercy, (Fourth in a series of columns) continued Cardinal Richelieu’s policies 1. The pope had no jurisdiction in not anger during the childhood of King Louis XIV, temporal affairs. The king (or rulers in My previous three columns were about especially through his close, and scandalous, general) were not subject to the Church Standing in line at the grocery store, the virtual elimination of the Catholic relationship with Queen Mother Anne. in matters relating to civil or temporal I waited for a young mom with a couple Church in England during the 16th to the Louis XIV, known as the Sun King, came administration, and the pope had no power of kids to finish paying. The little 18th centuries. But it was into his majority after Cardinal Mazarin’s to demand that citizens abandon their girl with her leaned also happening in other death in 1661, and he continued his reign loyalty to the state. languidly against the parts of Europe. until his death in 1715. As the leading 2. The conciliar decrees of the Council counter, wearing a T-shirt The 16th century monarch in Europe, he was determined of Constance (1414-1418) were affirmed. emblazoned with the witnessed terrible religious to control the Catholic Church in France, When the Council of Constance settled words, “I’m not arguing. strife in France—known just as King Henry VIII of England wanted the Great Western Schism, it also issued I’m just explaining why as the Wars of Religion— to do earlier. a decree that asserted the authority of a I’m right.” between Catholic and Gallicanism is the name given to efforts general council over the entire Church, At first glance, I Protestant factions. They ended in 1594 to restrict papal authority over the Church including the papacy. In other words, this was amused. But then, I wondered what when King Henry IV, the first of the in France. It is derived from the Latin Gallican Article tried to revive conciliarism, kind of child receives a T-shirt like that? Bourbon kings of France, converted to word “Gaul,” which was the name of the which Pope Pius II condemned in 1460. And what message does that send the Catholicism. region that later became France which was 3. The privileges and rights of the kid? “We find your intransigence and He began what became known in France ruled by the Roman Empire. Louis XIV Gallican Church were reiterated. stubbornness funny, so here’s a T-shirt as the grand siecle (great century), when encouraged the French clergy to reject 4. The judgments and declarations reinforcing that behavior.” France became the dominant country in the papacy. of the pope could be resisted until their Later, I thought about how many Europe, both culturally and politically. Innocent XI was elected pope in 1676, acceptance by a general council. adults could probably be handed the same The 17th century began well for and he almost immediately came into The Gallican Articles were popular apparel—all those folks who think they Catholicism in France. It was the state conflict with King Louis XIV, especially in France, but strenuously opposed by know the truth about everything. You find religion and Catholic prelates were in the matter of control over episcopal the papacy. Pope Alexander VIII, who them writing vituperative, sometimes powerful, especially Cardinal Armand appointments and disposition of the succeeded Innocent XI, condemned them dishonest blog posts, or responding Jean du Plessis de Richelieu (1585-1642), revenues of dioceses without bishops. The in 1690 in the apostolic constitution aggressively in the anonymous comments the chief minister to King Louis XIII, matter came to a head when an assembly Inter multiplices. As opposition to section to articles or news items. who reigned from 1610 to 1643. of 36 bishops and 34 deputies approved the articles increased, King Louis They are usually indignant, and Cardinal Richelieu used his spiritual and a document, written by Bishop Jacques revoked them. always right. They only read the opinions political authority to ensure monarchial Bossuet, meant to severely curtail the The Catholic Church was to experience they already agree with, and they want absolutism. authority of the papacy. even more problems in France a you to listen, but they don’t want to Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) The four Gallican Articles declared: century later. † listen to you. Here’s the thing about our country, and It’s All Good/Patti Lamb even our Church, right now: There are a lot of disgruntled people out there, people In ministry of motherhood, God uses us in wonderful ways convinced that they have a certain truth that the rest of us are lacking. Please, Recently at a church mom’s group to serve one of God’s people, I meet the to nurture. Our journeys are different. They don’t try to dialogue with them because meeting, I was challenged to pause and task with new eyes. One of my motherly cannot be compared. We are called to love they already have the answer. reflect on the “ministry” of motherhood. “duties” has now become an opportunity the souls God has entrusted to our care. We These people are almost always I never really viewed it as to show love. are called to help them get to heaven. If we angry, and angry people are not prayerful a ministry, so it was a good Further reflection on this ministry has help them win a spelling bee or get them people. I don’t mean that anger is always spiritual exercise. It made made me realize that there’s one part of through college or down the aisle, that’s wrong. There are instances that call for me see motherhood in a new motherhood with which I particularly great. But our main job, I believe, is to teach righteous anger. way. Often, I view it as a struggle. Where I get into trouble is when them about God’s grace and mercy. A refugee child’s body washed ashore series of duties: taking the I compare my motherhood journey to In essence, we are spiritual directors who on a beach, a person killed by a drunken kids to doctor and dentist that of others. are called to start them on their roads to driver, someone discriminated against appointments; making sure I look at Christmas cards other moms heaven. I’m finding that the secret to keeping for who they are—these things call their homework gets done; getting them send out, with their kids in perfectly sanity during motherhood is not to compare forth our anger. But if we are people to practice on time; encouraging them to color-coordinated clothes in front of a with others, but to embrace the family with of prayer, anger does not define us. It eat right. As all moms know, the list goes beautiful backdrop, and I feel inferior. which God has blessed us. Our roads look doesn’t become a core value, an intrinsic on and on. Someone shows me a mom’s Facebook very different, but God gives us the grace to part of our day’s emotion, a first and But when I view motherhood as post, celebrating her daughter’s third handle the paths we’ve been assigned. final response. a ministry, my attitude about my consecutive tournament win, and I A friend recently gave me a book Prayerful people are people with a responsibilities changes. question my parenting abilities. My kids that begins with this beautiful quote by peaceful core, or at least they’re on their I read that “ministry” comes from the aren’t exceedingly talented in the area of St. Francis de Sales. “Do not wish to be way to that core, and prayer is taking Greek word “diakoneo,” which means sports. Should I be pushing harder? They anything but what you are, and try to them there. “to serve.” One web site answering Bible haven’t found their niches yet. Should be that perfectly.” Anger defines many in various questions (gotquestions.org) summarized it they be playing an instrument? Should we Mother’s Day is Sunday. This weekend, circles of the Church. I’ve known social this way: “In the New Testament, ministry resume art lessons? I encourage all mothers, as one friend justice activists who are firebrands for is seen as service to God and to other people I have a friend whose son is struggling encouraged me, to view motherhood as a their causes, but when they become in his name. Jesus provided the pattern for with addiction. One afternoon, she said to ministry, and to recognize that God is using discouraged, they can grow angry and Christian ministry—he came, not to receive me, “What did I do wrong?” you in wonderful ways. He is proud of you. embittered. They forget that the greatest service, but to give it (Mt 20:28).” I think there are times when we all social justice activist of all time was I’m learning to view an hour spent question our abilities as mothers. (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna Parish nailed to a cross. Immediate success in a helping my son study for a Spanish exam We must remember: It’s not a contest. in Plainfield, is a regular columnist for cause is not guaranteed. as an act of service. If I view it as a way God has given us our own unique souls The Criterion.) † And then there are people who cling to the rules so strenuously that they lose Your Family/Bill Dodds sight of the bigger picture of God’s mercy and love. Those are often the people Accepting what God has chosen for us—no matter our age most critical of Pope Francis. They feel threatened by a Church that reaches out I’ve explained to God that he might want completely disagree with my statement. own life. Human freedom is a force for to those on the margins. These people are to rethink this free-will business. Yes, my We both knew God’s will was best for us. growth and maturity in truth and goodness; often angry and unwilling to dialogue. generation can handle it, but those young We both knew that sometimes we didn’t it attains its perfection when directed toward I love that Pope Francis has called us people may not be able to understand it or like it. But because we have God, our beatitude” (#1730-1731). to mercy—a concept far from anger— handle it. free will, we could choose to accept it. We That’s where parenting comes in. A and that one of his favorite words is “It seems to me,” I’ve could choose to take the time and make the mom’s role, or a dad’s, includes helping dialogue. I love his emphasis on the told him, “it’s just too much effort to figure out his will for us. We had a child grow and mature in truth and primacy of conscience. In our current responsibility and freedom both been through such a huge and horrible goodness whether that “kid” is 6 or 60. From political situation, if we only had more for them.” Apparently God change in our lives. adolescence to being an old-timer, there are real dialogue, and less anger, we’d disagrees. Truth be told, a lifetime of free will means so many choices and opportunities to accept be discussing real issues and how to I suppose every aging a lifetime of figuring out and choosing. and come to grips with our free will. And, solve problems rather than shouting at generation feels that way at some point. In the words of the Catechism of the as is so often the case, good builds on good. each other. “Kids today!” And the older one gets, the Catholic Church: “God created man a Bad leads to bad. My favorite homilist recounted once broader the definition of the word “kids” rational being, conferring on him the dignity A parent can also help a son or how he struggled with the rules himself. becomes. When my mother was in her 90s, of a person who can initiate and control his daughter become better at listening to the His spiritual director, a nun, advised this she still referred to my four siblings and own actions. God willed that man should be promptings—the nudges, if you will—of the priest: “Don’t focus on the rules. God is a me as “her kids.” At the time of our mom’s left in the hand of his own counsel, so that he Holy Spirit, and come to see that “your will rule-breaker. Focus on God.” death, the “young one” was 57. might of his own accord seek his Creator and be done” is always a good deal. In fact, it is Notice, she didn’t tell him to break the In those later years, Mom and I talked a freely attain his full and blessed perfection by the best deal. It is never “stupid,” even when rules. She told him they weren’t the main little bit about God’s will. This was after my cleaving to him” (#1730). it can seem or feel that way. point, they weren’t the central message. wife, Monica, had died and Mom had been It continues: “Man is rational and That’s so because God never lets us know God is the focus, and as we form a deeper a widow for 14 years. I would jokingly say, therefore like God; he is created with free his will for us and then abandons us. Where relationship with God, we stop spending “God’s stupid will,” and she would smile a will and is master over his acts. Freedom there’s his will, there’s always the way, the our time explaining why we’re right and little smile and answer, “Well, I wouldn’t use is the power, rooted in reason and will, to truth and the life. instead begin to listen. that word.” act or not to act, to do this or that, and so She was joking right back, appearing to perform deliberate actions on one’s own (Bill Dodds writes for Catholic News (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News to say she wouldn’t use it, but she didn’t responsibility. By free will, one shapes one’s Service.) † Service.) † The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016 Page 17

The Ascension of the Lord/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, May 9 Saturday, May 14 Sunday Readings Acts 19:1-8 St. Matthias, Apostle Psalm 68:2-3b, 4-5acd, 6-7b Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 Sunday, May 8, 2016 John 16:29-33 Psalm 113:1-8 • Acts of the Apostles 1:1-11 and to bring into the world the mercy, love John 15:9-17 • Ephesians 1:17-23 and presence of God in Jesus. Tuesday, May 10 • Luke 24:46-53 The passage of St. Paul’s Epistle to the St. Damien de Veuster, priest Vigil Mass of Pentecost Ephesians, which is the second reading, is Acts 20:17-27 Genesis 11:1-9 The Acts of the Apostles supplies the a beautiful prayer asking God to give the first reading, an account of the Ascension followers of Jesus wisdom and insight. It Psalm 68:10-11, 20-21 or Exodus 19:3-8a, 16-20b of the Lord from Earth into heaven. counsels believers to put everything under John 17:1-11a or Ezra 37:1-14 This passage is the the feet of Jesus, the “head of the Church” or Joel 3:1-5 beginning of Acts. As (Eph 1:22). Wednesday, May 11 Psalm 104:1-2a, 24, 35c, 27-28, is the case with the St. Luke’s Gospel, the last reading, Acts 20:28-38 29bc-30 Gospel of St. Luke, offers an ascension narrative. Jesus leads Acts seems to have the Apostles to a place near Bethany. (The Psalm 68:29-30, 33-36b Romans 8:22-27 been a work composed Mount of Olives, traditionally said to have John 17:11b-19 John 7:37-39 for one person. The been the site of the Ascension, is near name of this person is Bethany.) Jesus tells the Apostles that the Thursday, May 12 Sunday, May 15 Theophilus. Was this Scriptures have been fulfilled. St. Nereus, martyr Pentecost Sunday a proper name, or a God’s communication with people St. Achilleus, martyr Acts 2:1-11 title, since in Greek, it and nearness to people all through the means “friend of God?” centuries, and God’s mercy, are real. St. Pancras, martyr Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34 In any case, these first 11 verses of Acts As in Acts, Luke also establishes Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 have an especially powerful message for the Apostles as the chief witnesses and Psalm 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11 or Romans 8:8-17 us at the close of Easter time. Resplendent primary students of the Lord. Through John 17:20-26 John 20:19-23 in the message is the ascension of Jesus them, the Spirit will continue to come. or John 14:15-16, 23b-26 into heaven. The fact that Jesus ascended Thus, the Apostles watch the into heaven, rather than being assumed, ascension of Jesus and then return to Friday, May 13 reveals that Jesus is God, came from Jerusalem. They know their task, but Our Lady of Fatima God, is eternally with God, and possesses they still are unsure, so they pray in Acts 25:13b-21 the almighty power of God. It is a the temple constantly and proclaim the Psalm 103:1-2, 11-12, 19-20b confirmation of the earlier revelation in praises of God. John 21:15-19 Jesus’ resurrection of the same reality. Other points are important. The Reflection reading gives the credentials of the The readings powerfully testify that Apostles. Jesus chose them to witness the Jesus is God. Although crucified and dead, ascension. They were not bystanders. It Jesus rose again to life and then ascended was no coincidence. The ascension was into heaven. He went to heaven, breaking Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle another moment in which Jesus taught the the bonds of Earth, with the power of Apostles as no one else was taught. God. He was not taken into heaven. They were special students, but they The readings are strongly ecclesial. Standing in line to receive Communion were privileged because the Lord gave They stress the identity of the Apostles, them a unique mission. They would be both in the first and in the third readings. calls for being ‘respectful and reverent’ the instrument to carry his redemption to The Apostles learned from Jesus. Albeit Something’s been going on for a inappropriate. What do you think? Am I places faraway and to generations yet to humans, as Pentecost would teach us, Q while in our parish. I’ve never said just being a grouch? (Virginia) be born. the Spirit would come to guide them. anything to anyone The Apostles were humans. They were Important for us today, they formed about it, but I do find You are not being a grouch at all. You confused. Peter showed that they could the Church of which true believers are it annoying. I was Aare being respectful and reverent and be weak. So did Judas, who betrayed the part. Through them, in Christ, God lives raised to believe that reasonable. Holy Communion is, as you Lord. Jesus promised that the Holy Spirit in the Church and touches us through the moments right note, a special time—and for the precise would give them insight and wisdom. the Church. before, during and reason you mention. We meet Jesus Christ To underscore the divinity of Jesus and The Easter story is approaching its after receiving holy in a very personal way in the sacrament. his divine mission, angels appeared after conclusion. The final message is that Jesus Communion are a It is our most intimate contact with the the ascension telling the Apostles to go on lives still in the Church. He has not gone sacred time because we divine on this side of heaven. with their mission to preach the Gospel from us. He is here. † encounter Christ in a There’s a story about St. Teresa of special way. Avila, who heard someone say: “If only I There are a few ushers in our parish had lived at the time of Jesus. … If only I who shake hands with people in line to had seen him, talked with him.” receive Communion. Often, there is some St. Teresa is said to have responded: Damien of Molokai / 1840 - 1889 / feast - May 10 laughter and small talk that accompany “But do we not have in the Eucharist the that greeting. living, true and real Jesus present before Born in Tremelo, Belgium, Joseph de Veuster left school at 13 to work on the This has now evolved into a situation us? Why look for more?” family farm. Six years later he joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of where some of these same parishioners, You would be well-advised to speak Jesus and Mary, taking the name Damien. He volunteered for a mission to the while walking up the aisle, tap friends on to your pastor regarding your concern, Hawaiian Islands, and was ordained in Honolulu in 1864. He served on the island the shoulder who are kneeling and praying or perhaps send him a note. Sometimes, of Hawaii for eight years, then volunteered in 1873 to work at the leprosy colony and greet them, too. it seems, we are more logical, more on Molokai (leprosy is now called Hansen’s disease). Father Damien was priest, I have thought about speaking to our persuasive when we write things out. doctor and counselor to 800 patients before he contracted the disease in 1884. He pastor in private about this, and maybe stayed on Molokai, ministering until a month before his death. Considered a model he can mention from the pulpit that (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth and martyr of charity, he was canonized in 2009. Communion is a time for special focus and Doyle at [email protected] and inner prayer, and that such greetings are 40 Hopewell St. Albany, N.Y. 12208.) †

My Journey to God

My mother would pray at the side of our bed, That God would bless each of our six sleepy heads. My Mother’s After wiping her hands on the apron she wore, Down on her knees, she would kneel on the floor. “God bless Mommy and Daddy, Teresa and Cathy, Prayer Tina, Johnny, Marky, Tommy, and everybody. By Christina Eckrich Tebbe Please bring peace to the world, bring the world back to God.” She’d pray for God’s peace on the world, we were awed! (Christina Eckrich Tebbe is a member of We knew the next part, knew it by heart. St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. A mother For, my father was out working long after dark. comforts her infant daughter at home in this A good job or two, his days were so long. April 11 photo. In his apostolic exhortation “And thank you, dear Lord, for our Daddy’s good job.” “Amoris Laetitia” [“The Joy of Love”], As her folded hands rested on the next baby’s space, Pope Francis repeated his earlier reflection on Silent, unborn, under her apron she lay. motherhood: “Mothers are the strongest antidote There would be one more child, in this family of eight, to the spread of self-centered individualism. Mom carried the babe with God’s grace. … It is they who testify to the beauty of What came next has remained in my life to this day. life.” Mother’s Day is on May 8 this year.) Our Lady’s good grace was the gift that she prayed (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) Would come upon all of us, work, sleep or play. “Mary Queen of Peace, pray for us.” She has to this day! Page 18 The Criterion Friday, May 6, 2016

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Francis and Clare of Assisi, Shelby County, April 19. Wife Shirley Brock. Grandmother Greenwood, April 20. Son of of Nick Runnebohm. Mother of Apostle Parish in Taunton, Mass. on April 23. (CNS photo/courtesy Bill Breen via Taunton Daily Gazette) of 37. Great-grandmother of Aileen Green. Brother of Gail Susie Brown, Kathy Johnson, several. and John Green. Cindy Whitten and Mike BARZILAUSKAS, Anne H., HOUSE, James, 70, Runnebohm. Grandmother Benedictine Brother Philip Ripley served 97, St. Charles Borromeo, Holy Angels, Indianapolis, of seven. in parish ministry for nearly 40 years Bloomington, April 16. Mother April 17. Husband of Marie of Carl Barzilauskas. Sister of SAVING, Frank, 89, St. Mary, House. Father of Regina Benedictine Brother Philip Ripley, a monk of candidacy, working in the monastery tailor Frances Cabitor. Grandmother Bacon, Dorothea Herbert, New Albany, April 17. Father Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, died shop. He was invested as a novice in the of one. Charlotte Ruffin and Petita of Theresa Johnson, Deborah on April 16 at his residence in Evansville, Ind. monastery a year later, professed simple vows BARTHOLD, Clementine Wallace. Brother of Pamela Juliot, Francine Miller, Brad He was 83. on Aug. 10, 1952, and perpetual vows on B., 95, St. Augustine, Edwards, Valerie Ewing, and Jeff Saving. Brother of The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Aug. 10, 1955. Jeffersonville, April 21. Martha House and Cherie Thomas Saving. Grandfather of on April 22 at the Archabbey Church of After working in the tailor shop for Mother of Judith DeSimone McCord. Grandfather of seven. seven. Great-grandfather of 10. Our Lady of Einsiedeln. Burial followed at the five years, Brother Philip was assigned to the and John Barthold. Sister of Great-grandfather of two. Archabbey Cemetery. SCHANTZ, Janet M., 80, high school seminary’s library, where he worked Angeline, Anthony and Joseph LACIVITA, Eva, 96, Brother Philip was a jubilarian of monastic St. Louis, Batesville, April 20. for five years. Schwan. Grandmother of five. St. Michael the Archangel, profession, having celebrated 64 years of Mother of Jennifer Wessler, monastic profession. In 1977, he began nearly 40 years of service CALLAHAN, Virginia B., Indianapolis, April 12. Mother to St. Mary Parish in Evansville, working as of Anna Roberts. Grandmother Rachel Wilson, Anthony, Lloyd, Clarence Henry Ripley was born on 90, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, a housekeeper and launderer, assisting in the of three. Great-grandmother Mark and Steven Schantz. Aug. 6, 1932, in Paducah, Ky. Floyd County, April 20. sacristy, and caring for many of the parish’s Mother of Linda Martin, of nine. Sister of Mary Ann Wilson and He attended one year of high school at St. Mary’s Academy in Paducah before sick and elderly through his ministry as an Michael and Patrick Callahan. LEACH, William H., 73, Bob Uphaus. Grandmother of enrolling at the former Saint Meinrad Seminary extraordinary minister of holy Communion. Grandmother of seven. St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, eight. Great-grandmother of 11. High School in St. Meinrad, where he graduated Memorial gifts may be sent to Saint Meinrad Great-grandmother of 16. April 21. Father of Sharon WEBSTER, Michael S., 45, in 1950. Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN Great-great-grandmother of Armstrong, Deborah Browning Prince of Peace, Madison, three. and William A. Lech. Brother Philip then began a period of 47577. † April 23. Father of Jordan DELLON, Jack, 80, Grandfather of four. Webster. Son of Albert and SS. Francis and Clare of MARTIN, Jean I., 87, Margaret Webster. Brother of Assisi, Greenwood, April 21. 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WASHINGTON (CNS)—It’s ordination season, and bishops throughout the country are faced with similar Catholics have reason to be pleased with the numbers of circumstances. priests who will serve the Church well into the future. “It becomes a real challenge to ensure our parishes In recent years, the numbers of priestly ordinations have enough priests to serve the people,” Bishop Tobin have given Catholic Church observers reason to told CNS. believe there is not a global vocations crisis, but they Shrinking numbers of priests also coincide with fewer acknowledge there is still a need for more. numbers of Catholics attending Mass, Father Fisette said. “The good news is that the global number of Though he called that fact unfortunate, Father Fisette priests stopped declining about five years ago,” said said it did make it easier to spread the wealth in terms of Father Paul Sullins, associate professor of sociology at priests serving Catholics. The Catholic University of America in Washington. “Mass attendance rates nationwide are down,” he said. Since 2012, the total has been stable at about “If you have fewer people going to Mass, you don’t need 415,000 priests worldwide, a number that is the net of to have as many Masses in each parish.” new ordinations and retirements or deaths, Father Sullins This allows the diocese to assign priests to multiple told Catholic News Service (CNS). parishes, Father Fisette said. “The Church now has about the same number of The Church also has more than 18,000 permanent priests that it had in 1970,” he said. “The bad news, deacons today who perform many functions, like though it is not really bad news, is that the global homilies, baptisms and marriages, that were reserved population of Catholics has grown dramatically since to priests in the 1960s, when the Church did not have a then, so today we have far fewer priests per Catholic.” permanent diaconate in place, said Father Sullins, author Though the global numbers are currently strong and of Empty Pews and Empty Altars: A Reconsideration of vocations are plentiful in some regions of the world, the Catholic Priest Shortage. such as African and Asia, the quantity of priests are not Though growing secularization and parish closings as abundant in other continents, such as in parts of North have allowed dioceses to dispense their shrinking America, Father Sullins said. numbers of priests with greater ease, Father Sullins “We are importing priests from areas of the world argued those cultural trends show there actually is a need where young vocations are booming, or at least more for more priests to evangelize through their presence prevalent than in the U.S.,” he said. “In 2014, almost a in society. third of priests ordained in the U.S. were foreign-born, In its report “The Class of 2016: Survey of Ordinands and that does not count foreign-ordained priests who to the Priesthood,” the Georgetown University-based serve in the U.S. on assignment.” Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) Many U.S. dioceses also are faced with a disparity found that 51 percent of the respondents indicated that in the number of new priests being ordained and the they were discouraged from considering the priesthood. number who are retiring or leaving ministry, said The laity can be an invaluable resource in increasing Father Carl B. Fisette, director of vocations for the vocations simply by encouraging their sons to consider A seminarian from St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Mass., holds Diocese of Providence, R.I. the priesthood, Father Sullins said. a rosary as he prepares to participate in a “Grill the Seminarians” “We have 18 men in formation at this time [and] over “Many priests, including Pope Francis, relate that they discussion on April 3 with members of a youth group from the years when they would be projected to be ordained, first felt a call to priesthood from the example, devotion St. Patrick Church in Providence, R.I. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) we will probably have about 54 priests who will be over and encouragement of their mother and father,” he said. the retirement age,” Father Fisette told CNS. “So there “A mother can consecrate her son to God’s service, which numeric crisis, but because God is always renewing his will be quite a net decrease in the number of priests in doesn’t necessarily compel him, but has a powerful Church through calling faithful young men to serve as active ministry over the next six to eight years.” influence on his choice of vocation and state of life.” priests,” he said. “To pray and work to [strengthen] new These kinds of vocations trends are not unique Regardless of the numbers, it’s still important to priestly vocations is the work of evangelization, in which to the New England states, said Providence Bishop increase vocations, Father Sullins said. all of us can contribute to the renewal and proclamation Thomas J. Tobin, who said many of his fellow “We need more priests, not because we are in some of the faith.” †

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Operated by live this way and receive joy in doing priests, seminarians and other adults, God’s will,” Father Moriarty said. it takes place on the campus of the “Also, I think this extended time affords archdiocesan college seminary at participants an opportunity to be with 2500 Cold Spring Road, in Indianapolis. priests and ask particular questions and Father Joseph Moriarty, vice rector at relate in a longer period of time since the Bishop Bruté, said Bishop Bruté Days is participants are here for four days with helpful for teenage boys because it “is an the priests.” immersion experience.” Father Moriarty encouraged teenage “They are allowed to participate in the boys across the archdiocese to consider schedule of the seminary for a week and participating in Bishop Bruté Days, can discern then if God might be calling saying that the experience will help them them to live this way in a larger way discern their vocation, no matter what it through their college years,” he said. might be. Bishop Bruté Days is a combination “A priestly vocation is a great gift,” Thomas Thang, right, and Josiah Guerra-Cristobal, play with a soccer ball on June 17, 2015, of outdoor games and sports activities he said. “No priest, … parent, or friend at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis during its annual Bishop Bruté Days, with times for worship and spiritual should ever seek to manipulate the will of a vocations retreat and camping experience for teenage boys. Looking on is Nathan Herr, left. enrichment, such as daily Mass, God, but should always seek to facilitate (File photo by Sean Gallagher) eucharistic adoration, confession and it. If you think you might be called to presentations on the faith given by participate in Bishop Bruté Days, take seminarians and priests serving in central courage and be not afraid as our desire is ‘It gives them a witness of happy, fulfilled priests, and southern Indiana. always to facilitate the will of God to his who, like many of the pastors and other priests Father Moriarty said he hopes that honor and glory.” they know, are convinced that God has called this year’s Bishop Bruté Days will help them to live this way and receive joy in doing its participants by giving “them a clearer (Participation in Bishop Bruté Days God’s will.’ sense of God’s call in their life, and thus costs $75. 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