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Pope has shaped world events and John Paul II inspired millions (CNS)—As Pope John Paul II celebrates 25 years in office, the world is taking stock of a 25th Anniversary pontificate that has helped shape politi- cal events, set new directions for the Church and offered spiritual inspiration to millions of people around the globe. By any measure, this is a papacy for

CNS file photo by Arturo Mari CNS file photo by the ages. Since his election on Oct. 16, 1978, Pope John Paul has delivered more speeches, met with more world leaders, canonized more and kissed more babies than any previous pontiff. Visiting 129 countries—from the steppes of to the Rocky Mountains—he has implemented the Church’s own form of globalization. And in more than 50 major docu- ments, on themes ranging from eco- nomics to the , he has brought the and Church teachings to bear on nearly every aspect of modern life. Everyone agrees this pope already has left a moral legacy, inside and outside the Church. But the pope also has weath- ered his share of disappointments in recent years, including the U.S. clerical sex abuse scandal, the ecumenical rup- ture with Orthodox leaders, legislative defeats on pro-life issues in many coun- tries and the frustration of not being able to visit Russia and China. “The pope still has an important mes- sage to deliver, and people are listen- ing—perhaps more than ever,” Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in an interview with Catholic News Service. “He is the only global leader who is See POPE, page 7

Editor’s note: This keepsake edition of The Criterion commemorates the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of Pope John II. Pages 7-20 are filled with stories and photos looking at how the pope has shaped history and inspired millions throughout the world during the past quarter-century. This edition also includes a look back at the life of Blessed of Calcutta, who was beatified on Oct. 19.

Pope John Paul II waves to well-wishers in St. Peter’s Square in 1978, not long after his election as the 263rd successor to Peter. A quarter-century later, he has become the fourth longest-serving pontiff and one who has had a tremendous impact on the world and the Church. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 The Church needs your help ‘now more than ever’ A message from Archbishop M. Buechlein, O.S.B.

his weekend, oversight of the good of today’s economic challenges. generous stewards. I know that you, TNov. 1-2, is the whole. I am asking every member too, are affected by the economic real- Intention Week- I believe that the Lord of the archdiocese to do four ities that we’re facing. But I remember end for Called to is calling us to a new things essential to the success the saying of my mom. “Cast your Serve: orientation of our vision of our Church’s mission: bread upon the waters, and it will Stewardship and of evangelization as we 1, Now more than ever— come back to you.” The ministry of United Catholic carry out our mission. pray. We cannot accomplish our the Church depends entirely on the Appeal. It is our He is offering us a new moment of mission without fervent prayer. generosity of people like you who annual opportu- grace. 2. Now more than ever—become commit themselves to be faithful stew- nity to respond to We need to expand our understanding evangelizers, people of hope who show ards of all God’s gifts. We need to do our generous of home missions to include outreach to the “face of Christ” to families and this now more than ever. God with gifts of our time, our talent our youth and young adults, to our ever- friends and to colleagues and strangers and our treasure. growing Hispanic population and to the in the marketplace. God bless you! Circumstances are calling us to place poor wherever they are found—from 3. Be a personal recruiter for this our ministries as never before at the ser- poor rural areas of our archdiocese to appeal. We want to increase participa- vice of our parishes. Archdiocesan min- the core of our larger cities and towns. tion in this appeal by 6 percent. Will istries must exist to enable and support Now more than ever, we need your you help us—now more than ever— Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. ministry at the parish level and to pro- generous support as we try to respond to expand our participation rate? Archbishop of Indianapolis vide our entire local Church with this new moment of grace while facing 4. Now more than ever—be U.S. Senate passes partial-birth abortion ban WASHINGTON (CNS) — The U.S. horrific, unthinkable act—the killing of a “No human child should be subjected born,” Quinn said. “Yet despite three Senate passed the Partial-Birth Abortion partially born child. … No child and no to such a brutal death,” she added. “No decades of legalized abortion and abortion Ban Act by a 64-34 margin on Oct. 21. mother should be put through this risky, woman should have to endure a partial- advocacy, most Americans oppose most President Bush has said he would sign violent procedure. There is no place in birth abortion. No society that considers of the abortions that Roe permits, espe- the legislation, which three weeks earlier our society for the killing of innocent itself civilized should allow it.” cially partial-birth abortion.” was passed by the House on a 281-142 unborn children. Life is a gift from God, She praised the Senate for approving The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act— vote. and we are all stewards of that gift.” the bill without an earlier amendment it widely described by commentators as the Bush applauded the Senate action, Gail Quinn, executive director of the had attached affirming the U.S. Supreme most significant anti-abortion legislation saying the ban “will end an abhorrent U.S. Catholic bishops’ Secretariat for Pro- Court’s 1973 landmark abortion deci- since 1973—defines partial-birth abortion practice and continue to build a culture of Life Activities, predicted abortion advo- sion, Roe vs. Wade. That language was as the partial delivery of a fetus from the life in America.” cates would challenge the law in court, “superfluous and misleading,” she said. womb “for the purpose of performing an Indianapolis Archbishop Daniel M. but said most Americans oppose killing The Senate amendment supporting the overt act that the person knows will kill Buechlein said he was pleased that the partially born children. Roe decision was rejected on Oct. 1 by a the partially delivered living fetus” and president is expected to sign the legisla- “The American people—from every House-Senate conference committee then performing that act, killing the par- tion. background, of every age, every faith and working to reconcile differences between tially delivered fetus instead of delivering “It’s laws like this one that will end representing every segment of the politi- the original House and Senate versions of it alive. our slide toward a culture of death and cal spectrum—reject the killing of chil- the bill. Doctors who violate the ban could face help us build a culture of life,” dren who are in the process of being “Roe is extreme in every way and has a fine and up to two years in prison. Archbishop Buechlein said. “This law born,” she said in a statement released even been used to justify the brutal killing The legislation allows an exception to will work toward ending what is a immediately after the vote. of infants who are almost completely See ABORTION, page 26

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The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Page 3 Archabbot remembers his friendship with Mother Teresa By Mary Ann Wyand person, it seems that all nervousness is dis- Mother Teresa of Calcutta solved. joins others in prayer at a Mother Teresa of Calcutta was consid- “Mother Teresa’s thinking wasn’t ordi- global peace rally in ered to be a “living ” by many people nary thinking,” he said. “It was the thinking Toronto in 1982. She during her lifetime, Benedictine Archabbot of the Lord.” CNS photo by Bill Wittman believed that, “Works of Lambert Reilly of Saint Meinrad said dur- During a retreat near Boston in March are works of peace.” ing an Oct. 27 retreat, but she always con- 1991, he recalled, “The first thing I said to When Archbishop Daniel sidered herself to be a sinner because only the sisters in Massachusetts was ‘Scratch M. Buechlein was bishop of Jesus was without sin. and you find blood. We’re all alike under- the Memphis Diocese, he Archabbot Lambert and WTHR Channel neath. However we’re dressed, wherever became friends with 13 anchor Anne Ryder of Indianapolis, who we are, we’re weak sinners trying to do Mother Teresa. She had knew Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta, better.’ Since that first statement to the sis- established a were the keynote presenters for the retreat ters, almost every time I see any of them of Charity shelter there, commemorating her Oct. 19 . they say to me, ‘Father, scratch and you and asked him to recom- More than 325 people attended the retreat find blood.’ ” mend a priest to present at the Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Archabbot Lambert said that after visit- retreats and conferences Center in Beech Grove. ing many of the for her sisters. He recom- In his opening address titled “The Vision shelters, “I can truly say they have sought mended Benedictine of Mother Teresa,” Archabbot Lambert out the poorest of the poor.” Archabbot Lambert Reilly noted that, “You could talk with Mother The sisters pray endlessly, he said, “and of Saint Meinrad, and their Teresa about anything. She shied away when Mother Teresa was alive she was for- friendship continued for from nothing.” ever adding to those prayers.” years. Even though Mother Teresa was a very Mother Teresa was an extremely shrewd holy person, he said, “she was a very easy person, Archabbot Lambert said. “As sim- person to be with” and “had a very interest- ple as she was, she got her own way. But ing laugh.” what saved her was [that] her own way was Archabbot Lambert served as a retreat the Lord’s way.” master for Mother Teresa and her Mother Teresa knew that her way of life Missionaries of Charity on a number of was extremely difficult, the archabbot said, occasions after Archbishop Daniel M. and she required nine years of formation could be.” could sit at the feet of the retreat master, Buechlein, who was bishop of Memphis at for her sisters before they were eligible for It is said that Mother Teresa’s motto was and always sat at the feet of the Lord for the time, recommended him to her. their final vows. “It is no longer I who live. It is Christ who whatever his will spelled out. She didn’t Once when the Missionaries of Charity “She was a woman who had her own lives in me,” he said, yet she suffered believe that Jesus came to make life easy. asked him to return to for a series of mind,” he said, “and the reason she did was through times of spiritual darkness. She believed that Jesus came to make us retreats, then-Father Lambert explained that because the founding of her community “She was a woman who suffered attacks free. She didn’t believe that Jesus came to his had refused their request. came as an inspiration, as she claimed, against the faith,” Archabbot Lambert said. give us heaven on Earth. She believed that “If you do it, it will be God’s will,” from the Lord God himself. She wasn’t the “She was a woman who didn’t have great Jesus came to ultimately lead us to the Mother Teresa replied. “If you don’t do it, least [bit] interested in what she thought on joy in her prayer. But she was a woman mansion and the fullness of the kingdom.” it will be God’s will. But I hope you will her own. She always balanced what she who proved none of that meant anything. She was conscious of the fact that the do it.” thought with that which she thought God Persevering and sticking with prayer is that first vow that religious take in the Church People often ask him if he felt nervous wanted. She was an extremely selfless per- which is all important.” is the vow of conversion, he said. “Conver- being with such a holy person, Archabbot son. She emptied her mind of her own Mother Teresa “spent most of her time sion means [to] change your thinking so Lambert said. “I always answer, ‘No, I thinking because her aim … was to be a correcting herself rather than criticizing that you then change your acting. ‘Change didn’t.’ When someone is truly a holy follower of Jesus and the best follower she other people,” he said. “She didn’t know your thinking’ means there’s only one mind everybody else’s faults, but she certainly that is the model for how thinking should knew her own. She was someone who be thought, and that’s Jesus.” † Photo by Mary Ann Wyand Photo by Mary

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OPINION

The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick Pope John Paul the Great My first recollection of John Paul II is of through Christ and wanted to make a mark Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 a man with amazing energy and intellectual on it by serving Christ. Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher William R. Bruns, Associate Publisher power. He was athletic Illness and old age have a way of cool- Greg A. Otolski, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus and photogenic, conver- ing our fervor, causing us to think more of sant in several lan- our health than of more important matters. guages. He spoke with Often, they cause depression because we deep conviction and know we aren’t our real self and that we Editorial addressed issues in a will never have the energies to regain that philosophical, down-to- self. And, too, when we get older many of earth manner. our pet projects are reversed. Close friends This April, I saw the die, leaving us with no one to share our pope again in . concerns. And although we may enjoy it He was slumping over in his chair; he momentarily, we come to realize that peace drooled and slurred his words. can never fully be achieved in this life. As broken as he was, his determination A pope is human, yet for good reason CNS photo from Reuters to push on was very inspiring. Even more people think of Pope John Paul II as a man awesome was his courage in displaying his of enthusiasm; a dreamer of new ideas; a frailty in public. lover of youth and, like them, forward- Over the last few weeks, Pope John looking; the direct antithesis of someone Paul II has been lauded for being a cham- who no longer has anything to live for. We pion of human dignity, befriending the poor all know these as characteristics of Pope and defending refugees, apologizing to the John Paul. Pope John Paul II reflects near the rock believed to be the place where Jews, breaking down the Iron Curtain, trav- Many feel this pope one day will be Jesus told Peter, “Feed my lambs.” The pontiff visited the small eling the world, and working ferociously for called John Paul the Great. Of all his of the Primacy of St. Peter in Tabgha, Israel, during his week- world peace and Christian unity. I’ve come accomplishments, persisting in his first fer- long to the Holy Land in 2000. to think of him as a man with a mission to vor and forever seeing life filled with God’s keep him going despite the circumstances. uplifting spirit should be counted as his One virtue of this pope that I feel writers greatest. often have overlooked is a first fervor he never lost. No doubt he, like all young (Father Eugene Hemrick is a columnist for priests, had aspirations to change the world Catholic News Service.) † hen Jesus came among us as to us in an authentic manner the faith WGod-made-man, he exercised that comes from the apostles. Our world the three ministries of teacher, shepherd needs the clear and compelling moral and priest: the Man of Sacrifice. vision of the successor to St. Peter, As teacher, his words of wisdom, especially in its struggles with material- Church Facts compassion, consolation and challenge ism, hedonism and nihilism. held the crowds spellbound, for he Secondly, our Church is universal in spoke with an authority unfamiliar to scope, held together in unity by the pas- his listeners. toral zeal of Peter’s successor. The very Jesus the Good Shepherd restored the name catholic means universal—indi- flock to wholeness; not only did he cating that the is not bestow physical healing upon the blind, just one Church of many, but the one lame and mute, but he also healed indi- Church established for all people and vidual souls and communities by forgiv- for all time by Christ himself. ing sins and reconciling enemies. Third, our Church continues the Jesus is also the great high priest legacy of the Lord’s sacrifice. The Holy who offered himself as the perfect sacri- Father begins each day with intense fice. In relinquishing the rights of his prayer before the Blessed Sacrament divinity, he humbled himself to death on followed by the celebration of the Holy a cross, all for the remission of our sins. Sacrifice of the . This sacramental Jesus’ earthly ministry of teaching, connection with the Lord Jesus gives shepherding and offering the great sacri- the Holy Father the grace he needs to fice is a ministry that continued after his inspire us to live our lives for Jesus ascension into heaven. He established with dedication, with commitment and the Church, built with the 12 Apostles with the willingness to do whatever it as pillars, resting upon the unmovable takes to live out our faith, even if that foundation of the rock of St. Peter. In means laying down our lives for the the early days of the Church, the sake of the Gospel. Apostles exercised this same three-fold Finally, our Church will endure until ministry, as they taught with authority, the end of the age. Tyrants have tried to shepherded the Church in unity and destroy the Church but have failed. sanctified the early believers in the Holy , Hitler, Stalin and Mao have Sacrifice of the Mass. They, in turn, all inflicted great harm upon the ensured that Christ’s ministry would Church, but they were unsuccessful in continue by appointing successors destroying her. Should we be surprised through the laying-on of hands. that the Evil One would continue to try St. Peter and his successors occupy a to destroy the Church, not only from unique role in the Church, one of pri- without, but from within? And yet we macy among the other disciples. are promised by the Lord that the Furthermore, Peter is singled out by Church will be ever resilient, ever new, Jesus as “the rock,” the sure foundation ever strong enough to withstand even upon which Jesus would build his the powers of hell. Church, so unshakeable that even the As we reflect upon the 25 years of gates of hell would not prevail against it. the papacy of Pope John Paul II, may St. Peter the Rock served as the first we pray in gratitude for the gift of his bishop of Rome and was eventually leadership and the extremity of his sacri- martyred there. From the earliest days fices on our behalf. May we hold the of the Church, his successors have been promise of the endurance of the Church seen as ones who would lead for the close to our hearts, praying for the grace sake of unity, settle disputes, teach with to remain loyal to the teachings of the authority, even lay down their lives for Church and faithful to her precepts. For the sake of the Church. it is in the Church that we do have a On Oct. 16, we celebrated the silver rock—a sure and stable foundation upon jubilee of Pope John Paul II’s election which to live our lives, build our future to the papacy. The celebrations sur- and look to the hope of eternal life. rounding the pope’s anniversary the past few weeks have given us as Catholics — Rev. Daniel J. Mahan an opportunity to reflect with gratitude upon the gift of the papacy, the office of (Father Daniel Mahan, pastor of St. the successor of Peter. Our gratitude is Louis Parish in Batesville and dean of founded on several truths: the Batesville Deanery, is a member of First of all, our Church has a central the editorial committee of the board of teaching authority, one that can hand on directors of Criterion Press Inc.) † The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Page 5

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

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Pope John Paul II continues to show us the way

lot has been said and written the becoming a bishop. We are both laugh- a renewed discovery, a kind of a ‘new “If we take a close look at what con- past few weeks about the 25-year ing. As my visit was coming to a conclu- creation’ of the whole created order: the temporary men and women expect from Apontificate of Pope John Paul II. sion, Pope John Paul II asked, “Is there rediscovery of man as a person, of man their priests, we will see that, in the end, I was delighted to happen onto a TV pre- anything else you would like to say?” I created by God as male and female, a they have but one great expectation: they sentation by author and news correspon- said, “Yes—thanks for being a good rediscovery of the deepest truth about all are thirsting for Christ. Everything dent concerning a book pope!” We both laughed and then the man’s works, his culture and civilization, else—their economic, social and political that she is writing titled John Paul the Holy Father remarked, “Not everybody about all his achievements and creative needs—can be met by any number of Great. As I recall, she said the book says so. But that doesn’t matter. I must do abilities. other people. From the priest they ask for would be published in the spring of 2004. what I can.” John Paul II is not given to “After I was elected pope, my first Christ! And from him they have the right I was also surprised because, of all seeking fans at the expense of truth. Nor spiritual impulse was to turn to Christ the to receive Christ, above all through the things, she was making her presentation has he governed our Church in accord Redeemer. This was the origin of the proclamation of the word” (p. 85). at a conference sponsored by The New with popular opinion. Letter . As One of this pope’s themes for priests York Times. Unabashedly, she explained I believe one of the greatest gifts of I reflect on these events, I see ever more affirms one of my own. Once he wrote: why she considers John Paul II great. It this pope is his determination to keep our clearly the close link between the mes- “Prayer makes the priest and through is rather uncommon these days to praise Church and our world focused on the fun- sage of the Encyclical and everything that prayer the priest becomes himself. Before our pope, especially in the secular arena. damental reason for human existence— is found in the heart of man through his all else the priest must indeed be a man Cardinal Francis George recently sum- and why there is hope for humanity in a sharing in Christ’s priesthood” (Gift and of prayer, convinced that time devoted to marized some of the antipathy toward the wayward world. Once, while I was at a Mystery, p. 82). personal encounter with God is always pope in a homily he delivered in his lunch with some bishops and the pope, For the Holy Father, it is all about spent in the best way possible. This not cathedral in . His comments were someone asked, “Holy Father, what do Jesus and the gift of our redemption. only benefits him; it also benefits his occasioned by a false accusation made you consider the most important of your I am personally grateful to John Paul II apostolic work. While the Second Vatican against the pope in a major Chicago and apostolic letters?” because he has done much to model the Council speaks of the universal call to daily. “The first one,” he said. The “first meaning of the priestly vocation in our holiness, in the case of the priest we must In the context of his homily, the cardi- one” was Redemptor Hominis (Redeemer Church. In his same reflection, Gift and speak of a special call to holiness. Christ nal reflected: “The pope is attacked for of Humanity), a foundational encyclical Mystery, the Holy Father spoke of needs holy priests!” (p. 89). many reasons. In some Protestant circles, of his pontificate about our redemption humanity’s profound expectations of The Holy Father shows the way. † he is still regarded as the Antichrist. by Jesus Christ. Everything he has writ- priests. Among secularists, his teaching office is ten since that first document finds its a threat to human freedom. Among disaf- roots there. fected Catholics, the pope must be dis- On the occasion of his 50th anniver- Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for November credited so that Catholics will be forced sary as a priest, the Holy Father wrote, Catholic high schools: that they may be a continued sour ce for promoting the Catholic to change their faith.” “In these 50 years of priestly life, I have values of service and giving of one’s life as a gift for others, especially as priests or I have a wonderful photograph of my come to realize that the Redemption, the religious. first visit to the Holy Father after price which has to be paid for sin, entails

El Papa Juan Pablo II continúa mostrándonos el camino

ucho se ha dicho y escrito en las riendo. Cuando mi visita estaba llegando creación” del orden ya creado: el definitiva, no tienen mas que una gran últimas semanas sobre el a su fin el Papa Juan Pablo II me redescubrimiento del ser humano como esperanza: tienen sed de Cristo. Todo lo Mpontificado del Papa Juan Pablo preguntó, “¿Hay algo más que quisiera persona, un ser creado por Dios como demás, sus necesidades económicas, II. Me dio mucho gusto conocer por decir?” Y dije, “Sí. Gracias por ser tan hombre o mujer, un redescubrimiento de sociales y políticas, pueden resolverse por casualidad, a través de una presentación buen Papa!” Ambos nos reímos y luego la más profunda verdad sobre todas las medio de otras personas. ¡A través del por televisión, sobre la autora y el Santo Padre comentó, “No todo el obras del ser humano, su cultura y su sacerdote buscan a Cristo! Y por él tienen corresponsal de noticias Peggy Noonan mundo dice eso. Pero eso no importa. civilización, sobre todos sus logros y su el derecho de recibir a Cristo por sobre quien está escribiendo un libro cuyo título Hago lo que puedo.” Juan Pablo II no es talento creativo. todo lo demás a través de la es John Paul the Great (Juan Pablo el dado a buscar seguidores a expensas de “Después de ser elegido Papa, mi proclamación de la palabra” (pág. 85). Grande). Según recuerdo, dijo que el libro la verdad. Ni tampoco ha regido nuestra primer impulso espiritual fue volverme Uno de estos temas del Papa acerca de sería publicado en la primavera del 2004. Iglesia de conformidad con la opinión hacia Cristo el Redentor. Este fue el los sacerdotes apoya a uno mío. Una vez También me sorprendió porque estaba popular. de las Cartas Encíclicas Redemptor él escribió: “La oración hace al sacerdote haciendo su presentación en una Creo que uno de los grandes aportes Hominis. A medida que reflexionaba sobre y a través de la oración el sacerdote se conferencia patrocinada por The New York de nuestro Papa es su determinación de estos eventos, veo aún más claramente el convierte a sí mismo. Antes que nada el Times. Explicaba de manera impasible por mantener nuestra iglesia y nuestro nexo estrecho que existe entre el mensaje sacerdote debe verdaderamente ser un qué considera grande a Juan Pablo II. Es mundo concentrado en la razón de la Encíclica y todo lo que se encuentra hombre de oración, convencido de que el poco común en estos días elogiar a nuestro fundamental de la existencia humana y en el corazón del hombre a través de la tiempo dedicado al encuentro personal Papa, especialmente en el ámbito laico. por qué hay esperanza para la humanidad participación en el sacerdocio de Cristo” con Dios siempre transcurre en la mejor El Cardenal Francis George en un mundo desviado. En una (Regalo y Misterio, pág. 82). forma posible. No sólo le beneficia a él; recientemente resumió parte de la oportunidad mientras estaba en un Para el Santo Padre se trata de Jesús y también beneficia su trabajo apostólico. antipatía hacia el Papa en una homilía que almuerzo con algunos obispos y el Papa, el regalo de nuestra redención. Cuando el Segundo Concilio Vaticano pronunció en su catedral en Chicago. Sus alguien preguntó, “Santo Padre, ¿cuál Le estoy personalmente agradecido a habla de la llamada universal a la comentarios tuvieron origen en la considera la más importante de sus Juan Pablo II porque él ha hecho mucho santidad, en el caso del sacerdote acusación falsa que hizo contra el Papa un encíclicas y cartas apostólicas?” para modelar el significado de la debemos hablar de una llamada especial periódico importante de Chicago. “La primera”, dijo. La “primera” fue vocación sacerdotal en nuestra iglesia. En a la santidad. “¡Cristo necesita En el contexto de su homilía el Redemptor Hominis (Redentor de la esta misma reflexión, Regalo y Misterio, sacerdotes santos!” (pág. 89). cardenal reflexionaba: “Al Papa se le Humanidad), una encíclica fundamental el Santo Padre habló de las profundas El Santo Padre nos muestra el ataca por muchas razones. En algunos de su pontificado y sobre cómo expectativas de los sacerdotes. camino. † círculos protestantes, aún se refieren al Jesucristo nos ha redimido. Todo lo que “Si observamos detenidamente las Papa como el Anticristo. Entre los laicos él ha escrito desde ese primer documento expectativas de los hombres y mujeres Traducido por: Language Training Center, su enseñanza es una amenaza a la libertad tiene sus raíces allí. contemporáneos, veremos que en Indianapolis del ser humano. Entre los católicos En la ocasión de su quincuagésimo disconformes, debe desacreditarse al Papa aniversario como sacerdote el Santo La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en noviembre de modo que los católicos se vean Padre escribió: “En estos 50 años de vida forzados a cambiar sus creencias. sacerdotal, me he dado cuenta de que la Las escuelas secundarias católicas: que ellas sean una fuente continua para Tengo una maravillosa fotografía de mi Redención, el precio que debe pagarse promover los valores católicos de ser vir y dedicar su vida como regalo a los demás, primera visita al Santo Padre después de por el pecado, supone un renovado especialmente en el cargo de sacerdotes o religiosos. convertirme en obispo. Ambos estamos descubrimiento, como una “nueva Page 6 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003

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St. Parish, 1200 N. Indiana St., in Moores- retreat from 9 a.m. to noon or from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Fassnacht, visiting assistant professor of , at 812-535- ville, will host Missionaries of the Blessed Sacrament Father Dec. 2 that will help participants enter Advent with a spirit 5237 or e-mail [email protected]. Lawrence Villone at 2 p.m. on Nov. 2. Father Lawrence has of prayer and anticipation. There will be free child care and been successful in helping open chapels of perpetual ado- snacks. The cost is $25 per person. There will be an Advent Students interested in attending Saint Mary-of-the-Woods ration in many parishes around the United States. Represen- silent retreat on Dec. 5-7. It will be a chance to retreat from College in the campus-based program are invited to attend tatives from area parishes are encouraged to hear him speak. the hectic pace of life and holiday preparations. In addition the college’s fall open house on Nov. 7-8. The open house He will also answer questions. The event is free. For more to quiet time, participants will be able to experience daily is a chance for students to experience life at the college, information, call the parish at 317-831-4142. prayer with the monastic community. The cost is $140 for which was founded by the Sisters of Providence, by visiting residents and $110 for commuters. Also, there will be an with current student and faculty as well as staying on cam- A workshop on “The Degree on Ecumenism of the Advent retreat from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 6. pus overnight with students. For more information, call the ” will be offered by the Saint The retreat will help families keep Jesus in the center of college’s office of admission at 812-535-5106 or 800-926- Meinrad School of Theology from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Advent. The cost is $25 per adults and $10 per child (grades SMWC. † Nov. 11 and 18 at St. Parish, 6000 W. 34th St., in 1-8). Children 5 and under are free. The registration deadline Indianapolis. Benedictine Father Matthias Neuman, who has for the mini-retreat is Nov. 11, and the deadline for the other taught numerous courses and workshops on Vatican II, will two retreats is Nov. 14. For more information or to register, Awards . . . be the presenter. The cost is $40 per person, less for seniors. call the retreat and conference center at 317-788-7581. For more information or to register, call the Indianapolis Lisa Taylor, a member of St. Parish in Indian- Office of Saint Meinrad School of Theology at 317-955- Two speakers will present programs in November at apolis, recently received the 2003 Indiana Ministry of 6451 or e-mail [email protected]. Marian College, 3200 Cold Spring Road, in Indianapolis. Mother Sharing (M.O.M.S.) Leadership Award. M.O.M.S. is a Franciscan Father John Quigley, director of national program focused on mothers forming a network of St. Parish, 4607 W. State Road 46, in International, will present “Development as the Key to mutual support to provide learning, praying and ministering Bloomington, will have its 30th Holiday Craft Show from Peace” at 2 p.m. on Nov. 2 and 7 p.m. on Nov. 3 in the to one another. The annual leadership award is given to a 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Nov. 1. The show will feature tole paint- Bishop Chartrand Memorial Chapel. Franciscans Inter- woman who embraces the M.O.M.S. principles in her every- ing watercolor, oil paintings, handcrafted banners, rugs, national represents more than 1 million Franciscan men and day life and works to share them with others. Taylor has blankets and lamps. Everything is handmade. There will be women at the . Father Quigley advocates for been involved with this ministry for seven years and was a bake sale and free pictures with Santa from 9 a.m. to noon. the rights of all persons to develop in many arenas. Robert instrumental in starting it at her parish. Taylor also helped Admission is free. For more information, call the parish Ivie, professor of communications and culture at Indiana introduce M.O.M.S. groups to St. Parish office at 812-876-1974. University in Bloomington, will present “The Rhetoric of and Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish, both in War” at noon on Nov. 11 in Room 251 of Marian Hall. His Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad School of Theology in St. Meinrad will teaching and research focuses on rhetoric as a form of politi- present the annual Dolle Lecture at 7 p.m. on Nov. 4 in cal criticism with an emphasis on democracy and the prob- Knights of Columbus St. Malachy Council #12540 of St. Theater. Father Hohenbrink and Father lem of war. Both events are part of Marian College’s Brownsburg has earned the distinction of Star Council, the Keith Stripe, pastor and associate pastor, respectively, of Convocation Speaker Series. Both programs are free and international organization’s top award, for the 2002-03 frater- St. Michael Parish in Findlay, Ohio, will speak about leading open to the public. For more information, call the college at nal year. The award recognizes overall excellence in the areas a parish community through the building of a new church 317-955-6000. of membership recruitment and retention, promotion of the and forming a theology particular to the community to de- fraternal insurance program, and sponsorship of service ori- sign the church around. The annual Dolle Lecture addresses The Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College Chorale, Madri- ented activities. District Deputy Paul Zielinksi presented the various aspects of and architecture. The lecture gals and Jazz Band will present “Come Rain or Shine, the award to the membership at a ceremony on Oct. 6. is free and open to the public. For more information, call Forecast is Music” at 8 p.m. on Nov. 1 in the Cecilian Mary Jeanne Schumacher during business hours at 812-357- Auditorium. Selections include “Oh What a Beautiful For the eighth year in a row, St. Vincent Indianapolis 6501. Morning,” “It’s Too Darn Hot,” “Stormy Weather” and Hospital received the 2003 Consumer Choice Award by the “Somewhere Over the .” Tickets for the concert National Research Corporation (NRC). In order to recognize The Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 1402 will be sold at the door and are $4 for adults and $2 for stu- the nation’s top hospitals, NRC polls more than 400,000 con- Southern Avenue, in Beech Grove, will host three Advent dents, senior citizens and children. For more information, sumers on which hospitals have the best overall quality and retreats in December. There will be an Advent mini- call Sister of Charity of the Blessed Mary Therese image. St. Vincent was the only Indianapolis hospital hon- ored with the award, and was listed as the top Indianapolis hospital for its heart, obstetrics, emergency department, inpatient, home care, outpatients, testing, imaging and men- tal health services. With Grateful and Humble Prayers Our Lady of Victory Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in Indianapolis and The Faith Community Brandt Construction recently received an award for Sisters Excellence in Construction for a project exceeding $2 mil- of lion in the category of restoration at the annual meeting of offers our prayerful congratulations to the Associated Builders and Contractors. 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tremendous impact on the world and the Church precisely in European religious wars, and even in its missionary POPE because “he’s been the great Christian witness of our approach in some New World territories. continued from page 1 time, the man who has most persuasively embodied the Against considerable resistance within his own Vatican liberating power of Christian faith. hierarchy, the pope commissioned critical studies on the worried about the spiritual well-being of today’s men and “That had concrete, measurable political results in east Church’s role in the and the and on women, as opposed to their material well-being. He asks, central Europe in the revolution of 1989, but it has also the failings of Christians during the Holocaust. ‘Who are you?’ instead of ‘What do you want to do?’ or had an immeasurable impact on innumerable lives On an interreligious level, Pope John Paul has reached ‘What do you want to buy?’ And people understand this throughout the world,” Weigel told CNS. out in ways that were once considered impossible or even and respond to it,” Navarro-Valls said. As the analyses and accolades rolled in ahead of the heretical. In 1986, he visited a Jewish synagogue in Rome, At the start of the 21st century, a time of rapid changes 25th anniversary celebration, the pope was busy keeping a then in 2000 prayed at the Western Wall in —a in technology and biology, the pope has hewed closer to low profile. He purposely upstaged himself by beatifying gesture that won the hearts of many Jews worldwide. this dominant theme, Navarro-Valls said. Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Oct. 19—a Sunday that fell In Syria, he became the first pope to visit a mosque, For papal biographer George Weigel, the pope has had between the anniversary of his election and his inaugural and in Morocco he spoke to thousands of cheering Mass. Muslim youths. The pope has avoided great retrospective speeches or Twice he convened leaders of other religions and other documents on his first quarter-century. In fact, he has spo- Churches for prayer meetings in Assisi, where participants ken more about Mary, to whom he’s dedicated this year in denounced all acts of war and terrorism carried out in the a special way, than about his own accomplishments. name of religion. CNS photo by Arturo Mari CNS photo by At 83, he is frail and hobbled by Parkinson’s disease Within the Church, the pope has been no less dynamic. and other ailments. He has disciplined dissenting theologians and self-styled Many at the Vatican believe the pope’s infirmities have “traditionalists,” promulgated a new Code of Canon Law, added a new dimension to his message. issued new directives calling for clearer Catholic identity “When the Mass is celebrated by someone in his condi- in Church universities, and defended with the full weight tion, the sacrifice of Christ becomes even more evident,” of his authority the Church’s all-male priesthood. Cardinal Jozef Tomko, a longtime friend and retired Some critics have said that in dealing with in-the-field Vatican official, said in an interview with CNS. Church problems, the pope’s management style is too “What comes through is a deep spirituality and the detached. They cited the clerical sex abuse crisis as an acceptance of his limitations. I think in these conditions example of where the pontiff should have called bishops he is winning even more people to Christ than before,” and others to closer accountability. Cardinal Tomko said. Vatican officials reject that criticism, pointing out that The first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years, Pope John the pope has several times pronounced prophetically Paul II declared early on that the Second Vatican Council against sex abuse and other moral failings by Church min- had set his agenda. In particular, his global ministry isters. The pope’s is not to pore over dossiers but to quickly focused on Vatican II’s engagement of modern set clear directions, they say. culture. “This is not a pontificate that acts in a crisis manage- At the teaching level, the pope has penned three major ment style. He goes beyond crisis management, to the encyclicals on economic and social justice issues, and has root of the problem. And in the case of sex abuse, the real addressed the rich-poor imbalance continent-by-continent problem is in formation,” said Navarro-Valls, the Vatican in post-synodal documents. spokesman. Over the last 10 years, he also has authored three other As a teacher of the faith, the pope has been exhaustive, encyclicals that strongly challenge what he sees as a pre- demanding and authoritative. The Catechism of the vailing moral relativism in post-modern society. “Veritatis Catholic Church is his longest document and will no Splendor” spoke of the truth of the Church’s moral teach- doubt be seen as one of the great accomplishments of this ings, “” defended the inviolability of pontificate; a shorter compendium of Church teaching is human life against what the pope calls a “culture of also in the works. death,” and “” argued that human reason The pope brooks no dissent among the faithful, and in a cannot be detached from faith in God. 1998 document he invoked penalties against Catholics who Meanwhile, under his guidance, Vatican agencies have reject the Church’s wide range of “definitive” positions, issued important instructions on such specific questions as See ANNIVERSARY, page 8 foreign debt, in vitro fertilization, the arms industry, the role of the mass media and the impact of the Internet. Through all these pronouncements runs a central theme: that human freedom becomes destructive when people forget they are created in God’s image. Whether an unborn child, an impoverished African or an elderly shut- in, the pope says, every human being has a value that goes beyond earthly advantages and accomplishments. Karol Wojtyla receives the woolen from Cardinal Pericle While pushing Catholic teaching into virtually every Felice during his installation as Pope John Paul II on Oct. 22, 1978. area of modern life, the pope also has taken the measure The Board of Directors, Administration, He took the name to honor , who died only six of the Church’s past mistakes. At his insistence, the Faculty, Students and Parents of weeks after his election. Karol Wojtyla was the first non-Italian Church acknowledged historical errors in condemning elected to the papacy in 455 years, and the first Pole. 16th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, in participating CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL

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Pope John Paul’s pontificate is the Newly installed ANNIVERSARY fourth-longest in history, and perhaps Pope John Paul II continued from page 7 more than any of his predecessors he has and Cardinal shaped the hierarchy in his image. He has Stefan Wyszynski CNS photo by Arturo Mari CNS photo by including those on human sexuality. named more than three-fourths of the of That has prompted criticism by some world’s active bishops and nearly all of at the groups of laity and theologians, especially the cardinals who will elect his successor. Vatican in this in Europe and the United States. Such During his papacy, the Church has 1978 photo. The groups say the pope has presided over an expanded greatly in and made sig- pope chose the excessive centralization of Church power nificant advances in Asia and . congregation of and authority at the expense of local This distinctly Third World tilt has been Poles living in Churches. spotlighted during the pope’s more than Rome to be his While supporting Vatican II’s promo- 100 foreign trips, when he has used local first large audi- tion of the laity in the Church, the pope customs in his liturgies, spoken the native ence. During an has warned against confusing the roles of language and praised indigenous writers emotional lay Catholics and ordained priests. He has and thinkers. moment, Cardinal supported clerically managed lay organi- But the trips have enormous missionary Wyszynski knelt zations like , which has grown in objectives, as well. While respectful of the in front of the influence. non-Catholic or non-Christian majorities pontiff, and was As opposed to models of power-sharing along his itinerary, the pope has always joined by the in the Church, Pope John Paul has pro- presented the figure of Christ and the pope, who also posed models of holiness to the world’s Gospel message to any and all of his lis- fell to his knees. 1.1 billion Catholics. He has canonized teners. more than 470 people from dozens of That’s in keeping with the pope’s con- countries and beatified more than 1,300— viction that while all people can be saved, including the first lay couple. Christ is the unique Savior for all peo- At the 25-year mark, the pope’s record ple—a point made forcefully in the con- on ecumenism contains a long list of troversial document “Dominus Iesus,” agreements, joint declarations and mutual which emphasized proclamation of Christ gestures of good will, especially with over dialogue. some ancient Eastern Churches. Visiting India in 1999, the pope delin- spoken extensively on Catholic college pope continues to open people up to the But as common ground has been staked eated the Church’s approach on the Asian campuses, said it is striking how young transcendent, telling them that we’re more out among the Churches, the remaining continent, where he predicted “a great har- people welcome the pope’s challenge “not than genetics, we’re more than psychol- obstacles have stood in even higher relief. vest of faith” in the years to come. He to settle for anything less than the reli- ogy, we’re more than DNA,” said The Vatican’s clear injunction against praised his hosts’ non-Christian spiritual gious and moral grandeur that they’re Navarro-Valls, the Vatican spokesman. shared Eucharist with Protestant Churches traditions but also preached the Gospel, and capable of, under grace. This is a message that is resonating may seem arbitrary to critics, but the pope said the best way for Christians to evange- “He’s had a tremendous impact on the with Catholics and non-Catholics around views it as a painful reminder of the dis- lize was by living the Gospel values. young, not by pandering to them, but by the world, he said. tance yet to travel in ecumenical dialogue. As the pope has aged, his rapport with holding the bar of expectation high, all the The pope is also finding time for more In recent years, relations with the young people has remained consistently— time letting them know that he them reflective writing. Earlier this year, he have sharply and sometimes amazingly—fresh and and that Christ loves them,” Weigel said. published a small book of poetry, medita- deteriorated as a result of the pope’s deter- energetic. celebrations, As the years of this pontificate roll by, tions that were inspired by the Sistine mination to rebuild Catholic communities like the last one in Toronto in 2002, seem the encyclicals and teaching documents Chapel frescoes. in Russia and other parts of Eastern to bring out the pope’s good humor and have become fewer and the speeches Also, Pope John Paul II is in the final Europe. Surely one of the pope’s biggest vigor. He jokes more easily with the shorter. Those close to him say the pope phase of writing a book on his 20 years as disappointments after 25 years has been young, but there is a serious side to all has clearly not run out of things to say, a bishop in Poland. 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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Last year, as “complete trust in his most holy mother, theological commission studied that ques- he began the 25th year of his papacy, the Madonna.” tion in 1996 and unanimously voted Pope John Paul II publicly entrusted him- As pope, he dedicated the world to against such a move. The pope accepted self and the Church to the Virgin Mary, Mary during a specially proclaimed the recommendation. again displaying a lifelong personal devo- Marian year, traveled to Marian Marianist Father Johann G. Roten, tion that he sees as fundamental to his around the globe, and wrote an encyclical director of the International Marian ministry. exalting Mary’s place in the Church. He Research Institute at the University of “I place everything into her hands so began leading the rosary on the first Dayton, Ohio, said the pope’s personal

that with the love of a mother she will Saturday of each month at the Vatican. devotion to Mary also has helped spark a CNS photo courtesy Pope John Paul II Cultural Center present it to her son,” the pope said in During a Jubilee year ceremony in 2000 Church-wide grassroots revival of classi- St. Peter’s Square in October 2002. “I also with bishops from around the globe, he cal devotions that fell out of favor in the entrust my future to her.” renewed his entrustment of the world to immediate aftermath of the Second He underscored his message by releas- Mary’s care. Vatican Council. ing an apostolic letter on the Marian devo- After he was shot and seriously “He somehow lends his authority as a tion of the rosary, calling it his “favorite wounded on May 13, 1981—the feast of pope, but also as a human being, to the prayer.” The letter proposed the addition Our Lady of Fatima—he thanked Mary value and importance of those devotional of new contemplative themes to the cen- for having guided the bullet and saved his practices,” said Father Roten, who said he turies-old prayer and announced a “Year life. His certainty that he owed his life to receives hundreds of e-mails a month of the Rosary” to help Catholics redis- Mary became clearer when he ordered the expressing interest in traditional Marian cover its spiritual richness. third secret of Fatima published in 2000; devotions. Throughout his pontificate, the pope it spoke of a “bishop in white” falling “We see this pope who has written has shown a devotion to Mary that seam- down in a hail of gunfire, which Vatican books, has been a teacher of philosophy lessly integrates popular piety, theological officials said could be interpreted as refer- and theology, and at the same time has a scholarship and the expression of a per- ring to the assassination attempt. very simple, straightforward, almost sonal, human relationship with the mother The pope beatified two of the three youthful piety,” he said. of God. Fatima children whose visions of Mary in Father Roten said the pope’s 1987 As a young boy in Poland, the future 1917 included the three secrets. In 2002, encyclical, “” (“Mother pontiff—whose mother died when he he went to to canonize Juan of the Redeemer”), has had “quite an was 9—prayed daily to Mary in his parish Diego, the visionary of Our Lady of impact” on Marian theological studies, church and first donned the brown scapu- Guadalupe. The pope has called Marian particularly because of its emphasis on the lar, which he wears even today under his shrines worldwide a “geography of the human and maternal presence of Mary in white pontifical robes. As a teen-ager he faith,” and he’s made an effort to visit the Church. dedicated his life to her during a visit to them in each of his foreign travels. In contrast to some past interpretations the Marian at Jasna Gora in Rarely does a day of public activities of Mary as a more abstract “mirror image Czestochowa, Poland. go by in which the pope does not mention of Christ,” the encyclical describes her as As a theologian, he wrote about Mary Mary or her role in the Church. In 1995, a fellow believer “who reacts to Jesus as a mother figure who could unite all he began a series of weekly audience talks Christ in loving obedience” and thus is a people. As a bishop and later as pope, he on the Virgin; it lasted more than two “model of faith” for all believers, Father chose as his motto “Totus Tuus,” for years. Roten said. “completely yours,” and addressed it to At that time, the pope’s high praise for He also noted that over the years the Mary. Mary and his statement that “Mary’s place pope has adopted the phrase “entrustment” When elected pope in 1978, he spoke is highest after Christ” prompted specula- to Mary rather than using the more tradi- of Mary in his first speech, saying he had tion that he might be preparing to name tional word “.” This is a con- Pope John Paul II prays in front of the image of accepted the office of the papacy in a Mary corredemptrix (co-redeemer). At the scious decision to use a word that has more Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland in this 1999 spirit of humility to Christ and in Vatican’s request, an international personal overtones, Father Roten said. † photo.

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to meet people where they live, work and worship. CNS photo from Reuters Many observers count that as the most revolutionary change implemented during the first 25 years of Pope John Paul’s papacy. From behind the Vatican walls, a supreme pontiff came into the streets, factories, refugee camps, presidential palaces and churches of the modern world. Logging more than 700,000 miles, the pope has spent 6.5 percent of his papacy outside of and more than 10 percent of his papacy outside of Rome. Along the way, he has encountered young Catholic communities in Africa, walked through slum neighbor- hoods in , addressed world powers at the United Nations and preached the Gospel on six conti- nents. Because his trips attract massive media coverage, much of the world has come to know the global dimensions of the Catholic Church through these travels. And the pope’s presence has often brought international attention to the struggles of Third World nations. Yet Pope John Paul is not simply a roving goodwill ambassador or a media superstar. His trips have an evan- gelizing purpose that can give him the appearance of a modern-day apostle. Papal spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls sees the pope’s globe-trotting as an essential part of his overall mission: presenting Christ to a multifaceted world. “This is a pope who travels with a serious sense of pur- pose; he’s not on some tourist package,” Navarro-Valls said. “His aim is to reach all people—whether they are Catholics, non-Christians or even nonbelievers.” Pope John Paul II waves to the crowd gathered for Mass on a hill near the Sea of Galilee in Israel on March 24, 2000. While the pope began his pontificate by visiting heav- ily Catholic countries like Mexico and Poland, his trips took him 30,000 miles across six countries in Asia, activists in communist Poland, his moving prayer at in recent years have taken him to places like Azerbaijan, Oceania and the Indian Ocean. Jerusalem’s Western Wall, an impromptu chat with Kazakstan and India, where Christians are a small His seven trips to Africa have brought encouragement African villagers or his meditative moments on the Sea of minority. and attention to local Churches at a time when Galilee. Typically, the pope preps for his foreign visits by learn- Catholicism was experiencing explosive growth on the Last June, the pope compared his trips to those of the ing some of the local language, reading native literature continent. Apostles, who visited and encouraged local Churches. He and studying key chapters of the host country’s history. The pope has visited the United States seven times— added that such travels now constitute “an integral part of As Navarro-Valls put it, the pope wants to make a deep more often than any country except his native Poland. the ministry of the successor of Peter”—signaling to his cultural connection, not simply be a religious icon on dis- Highlights of the U.S. trips have included an exultant wel- eventual successor that he’d better keep his passport play. come by teen-agers in New York’s Madison Square handy. † “When he arrives somewhere, he’s not only there to Garden, a challenge on women’s ordination from a see the local residents, but also to understand their history. U.S. , addresses to the United Nations and a rousing In a sense, he is visiting the past as well as the present,” celebration with nearly 400,000 young people at World the papal spokesman said. Youth Day in Denver 10 years ago. Often, the pope is visibly moved by the moral signifi- From his first foreign trip in 1979, the pope has taken a cance of a place. For example, he spent a long time medi- traveling press corps aboard his chartered jet. Until his tating at the port of Goree, Senegal, because it was a point health declined in the mid-, he treated them to air- Thank You of departure for African slaves on their way to the New borne press conferences that sometimes lasted 30 minutes World. or longer. When it comes to papal travel, Pope John Paul has set He also travels with a 25-person staff of Vatican offi- Pope John Paul II records in virtually every category: He’s made 102 trips cials and technical experts, who handle everything from outside Italy, visiting more than 600 cities and giving security to last-minute changes in papal texts. more than 2,400 speeches during his foreign sojourns. All of them have their favorite memories from 25 years For 25 years of His longest trip, in 1986, lasted almost two weeks and of papal travel: his electrifying speeches to Solidarity Spiritual Leadership The parishioners Leave It to a Catholic Family and staff of to Have 960 Kids.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Despite a revelation transmitted through the Church, is at work outside the visible boundaries of popular perception that Pope John Paul II I cannot act as if the Word of God did not the Church—is one area all three theolo- has set strict limits on what is appropriate exist and as if the ministry of Peter did not gians agree has been opened up by Pope theological debate, three theologians in exist,” Father Cottier said. CNS photo from pool John Paul. Rome give him credit for encouraging Dominican Father J. Augustine Di Noia, Despite fears that the discussion would exploration of new areas, particularly in undersecretary of the Congregation for the be hampered by the 2000 doctrinal congre- , morality and rela- Doctrine of the Faith, said the “phenome- gation document, “Dominus Iesus,” on sal- tions with non-Catholics. non of dissent” that began gathering steam vation through Christ alone, they said there Theological debate during the first during the pontificate of Pope Paul VI is still plenty of room and need for theo- 25 years of Pope John Paul’s leadership of “was up and running” when Pope John logical investigation. the Church often took place in fairly pub- Paul was elected in 1978. Father O’Collins said, “Pope John Paul lic forums, reaching the masses through “John Paul II encountered a situation has pushed the idea of the Holy Spirit the news media, popular books and the that was unprecedented in the history of active, distributing gifts, in other cultures Internet. the Church: A fair number of theologians and religions.” The Vatican’s reaction to those who dis- had identified themselves as being in con- And Pope John Paul’s attempts to sented from Church teaching usually made flict with the Church on significant issues improve Catholic-Jewish relations have headlines in the same public way. and he—and Cardinal [Joseph] Ratzing- gone beyond condemning anti-Semitism “In the West, a number of theologians er—over the last 20 years have tried to and trying to foster respect, they said. have been discouraged; there may be a bit chart a course to address that new prob- “All of his important gestures and of a chill factor,” said Jesuit Father Gerald lem,” he said. words, including his recognition of the O’Collins, a professor emeritus at Rome’s The three priests agreed that, while Jews as ‘our elder brothers and sisters in Gregorian University. Pope John Paul has set clear limits on the faith,’ have put a new emphasis on and Father O’Collins, a Christology profes- what are acceptable positions on some given a new stimulus to a Catholic theol- sor, served as Jesuit Father Jacques issues, his teaching also has pointed out ogy of Israel,” Father Cottier said. Dupuis’ official advocate during the new avenues for theological investigation “Christian-Jewish dialogue is really just Vatican’s 1998-2000 investigation of as well as new approaches to old ques- beginning,” he said. “We have much to Father Dupuis’ book on interreligious dia- tions. Pope John Paul II squints as he listens to a discover, not only about the Jewish people, logue. All three pointed to the pope’s speech during a meeting with Catholic, Orthodox, but about the meaning of Judaism for the Father O’Collins said that in the past 1993 encyclical “” as Protestant, Jewish and Muslim leaders in Kiev on Church, and we owe this pope much for 25 years the Vatican sometimes has one of the most important documents in June 24, 2001. The pope urged religious leaders opening the path.” reacted too quickly to theological develop- the 25 years of his papacy and as an to rebuild the moral fabric of their society. Father Cottier said that, despite what ments that raised the concern of bishops. attempt to meet Vatican II’s call to make may appear in the mass media as a cam- Theological ideas, he said, need time moral theology more pastoral. systematically applied Catholic ethical paign against theological innovation, Pope and space to develop and mature. “What he does is challenge the whole considerations to modern social problems, John Paul knows how much the Church Dominican Father Georges Cottier, the- law-centered, legalistic approach to moral Pope John Paul probably will be listed sec- needs theologians, their research and their ologian of the and secre- theology and focuses again on becoming ond only to Pope Leo XIII, usually cred- scholarly debate. tary of the International Theological good,” explaining that if the Church ited with being the founder of Catholic “The Church needs theologians because Commission, said it is “not a fair assess- teaches something is forbidden it does so social teaching. it can make pronouncements only after a ment” to say that Pope John Paul has because it is harmful to the person, Father “He has built massively on what the long, in-depth reflection,” he said. restricted theological investigation. Di Noia said. from Leo XIII on have done,” par- The challenges of biomedical technol- “It is true that after the Second Vatican Father Cottier said, “This is one of the ticularly strengthening the Church’s oppo- ogy, terrorism and modern warfare, and Council there was a crisis in theology, or great aspects of the teaching of Pope John sition to the death penalty and “to war, the role of the world’s great religions in rather, a crisis among some theologians Paul II. His morality is the morality of the more or less under any circumstance,” said God’s plan for are “real prob- who opposed the authority of the magis- Beatitudes, of what is necessary for happi- Father O’Collins. lems, not abstractions. The problems of terium,” the Church’s teaching authority, ness and goodness, a reaffirmation of the The area where Father Dupuis ran into humanity are the problems of the Church, he said. importance of virtue.” trouble with the doctrinal congregation— and theologians must address them,” “If the object of theology is divine In the list of popes who have interreligious dialogue and the ways God Father Cottier said. †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When he 2002, for example, he asked them to get slurs a line in a speech or fails to stifle a to know Jesus and accept him as “the yawn, Pope John Paul II shows his age. faithful friend who never lets us down.”

But put him among young people, and But he also explores the challenges that CNS photo from Reuters watch the years fall away. flow from the Gospel, asking young peo- His eyes light up. His voice gets ple to be more honest, more giving, less stronger and more emphatic. He extempo- materialistic and more chaste than much rizes and might even sing a song. And a of contemporary society. smile—that telltale barometer of papal Papal biographer George Weigel said humor—returns to his face. the pope has had a great impact on At 83, the pope has learned that young younger generations precisely because he people are often the best medicine. But holds “the bar of expectation high” when it’s not only that they rejuvenate him: He it comes to questions of faith and morals. reaches them in a special way, too. Joaquin Navarro-Valls, the Vatican “It’s almost like a direct link to God, spokesman, said he thinks the pope strikes that goodness, and you feel connected to a chord of authenticity that appeals to that. You can see that he thrives on young young listeners. people and wants to bring them back,” “In a culture of images, the pope’s said Clair Sweeney, a young Scottish message is that human identity is not woman, after hearing the pope during formed from outside images but from World Youth Day celebrations in Rome in within,” Navarro-Valls said. 2000. “He demands from young people what The pope’s affinity for young people no one else has the courage to demand, began early. As a bishop in Poland, he sometimes even the parents. But he does loved to lead groups of youths on hiking more than make demands—he gives them and canoe trips, discussing religious and reasons for what he says,” the spokesman moral questions around a campfire. said. After his election in 1978, he made Pope John Paul often appeals to young young people a priority. In 1984, he insti- people’s sense of justice and generosity, as tuted World Youth Day, which brings hun- well as their optimism. In Toronto, asking dreds of thousands of Catholic young peo- youths to build a better world, he told them: ple to a different city every two or three “The future is in your hearts and hands.” Pope John Paul II waves to young people gathered in St. Peter’s Square as he arrives to officially open years. Coming from an octogenarian and self- World Youth Day celebrations on Aug. 15, 2000. At World Youth Day, Pope John Paul is described “old” pope, those words had the definitely the star attraction, but the cheers ring of someone passing the baton to St. Louis Blues hockey stick, which he sat in the audience. He said he decided to and chants that erupt from the crowds are younger generations. gamely swung once or twice. become a priest after the pope visited his only part of the story. Perhaps more than Over the years, the pope also has rec- It’s not always easy to measure the city in 1985 and asked young people to any other audience, young people listen ognized that gestures as well as speech- impact of the pope’s personal appear- consider a priestly vocation. closely to his words. making can have a huge impact on his ances, but it seems to run deep in many Today he counts himself among the “We have a sense he is speaking the young audiences. He has held hands and cases. “John Paul II generation”—young truth to us,” said one Polish girl at a danced with them on stage, answered their At a conference in Rome earlier this Catholics who grew up under this pope, recent youth day event. questions in a classroom, invited them for year in anticipation of the 25th anniver- who share his vision of the Church and At one level, the pope’s message to lunch, listened to their personal testimoni- sary of Pope John Paul’s election, a who are determined to live it in the young people is simple. At Toronto in als and accepted their gifts—including a Congolese seminarian, Gabriel Mukekwa, decades to come. †

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Pope John Paul II embraces a young man during the 1993 World Youth Day in Denver. The pontiff insti- Students at St. Leo School in Melbourne, Australia, surround Pope John Paul II during his visit to their tuted the international gatherings that attract hundreds of thousands of Catholic young people to a dif- classroom in November 1986. In 25 years as pope, he has made 102 trips outside Italy. ferent city every two or three years.

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Above, Pope John Paul II talks with his would-be assassin, Mehmet Ali Agca, in a Rome prison in 1983, two years after the attempt on the pontiff’s life. Italy granted Agca clemency on June 13, 2000, after he Above, Pope John Paul II kneels as he enters the Holy served 19 years for the assassination Door in St. Peter’s Basilica on Dec. 24, 1999, marking the start of the Jubilee year. CNS file photo by Arturo Mari CNS file photo by

attempt. Agca was extradited to Turkey CNS file photo where he is serving time in a prison for the murder of a Turkish journalist and for Left, Pope John Paul II prays at the Hill of Crosses in other crimes. Siauliai, Lithuania, in September 1993. Some 200,000 crosses, statues and rosaries were placed on the hill in defiance of former communist leaders. A year after Left, Pope John Paul II lies injured in his CNS photo courtesy Pope John Paul II Cultural Center Jeep after being shot by Turkish gunman his visit there, the pope donated a large crucifix for Mehmet Ali Agca on May 31, 1981, in the hill. St. Peter’s Square. Right, an intimate photo of Pope John Paul II is part of a series of images from the Vatican newspaper

L’Osservatore Romanofeatured in a special exhibit at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington. This photo was taken during the pope’s 1984 visit to Canada. Page 16 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Pope John Paul II canonized record numbers

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Most number of men and women recognized as Pope John Paul II Catholics have heard of SS. Maximilian “blessed” during Pope John Paul’s pontifi- blesses indigenous Kolbe, , Padre Pio, Faustina cate. Mexican children after they presented him

Kowalska and Juan Diego, but 25 years The first saint he proclaimed was CNS photo from Reuters ago they were not officially recognized St. Crispin of , an Italian Capuchin with a gift of two trees saints. known for his charity and his infec- during an arrival cere- They are just a handful of the record tious cheerfulness. mony in Mexico City 477 men and women that Pope John Paul As he has done at every on July 30, 2002. The II has canonized during his pontificate. since, the pope explained the ceremony as pope was in Mexico to Between 1588, when the canonization an opportunity to offer the world a specific canonize Juan Diego, process was centralized and careful record- model of holiness. North America's first keeping began, and the 1978 end of the The Capuchin, who died in 1750, the indigenous saint, who pontificate of Pope Paul VI, the total num- pope said, “offers our generation, which fre- experienced visions ber of saints canonized was 296. quently is inebriated by success, a lesson of of Our Lady of Critics have complained the Vatican has humble and trusting adherence to God and Guadalupe. turned into a “saint factory” during Pope to his plan for salvation, as well as [a les- John Paul’s tenure and have lamented that son] of love for poverty and for the poor.” becoming a saint is not as special as it once Holiness is a gift of God, he said at the was. end of the ceremony, but since it is commu- That is precisely the point of so many nicated from one person to another it can be Most of the more than 100 trips that As Cardinal Saraiva Martins said in and , Cardinal said that “saints generate saints.” Pope John Paul has made outside of Italy in 2000, “holiness knows no geographical or Jose Saraiva Martins told a conference last Whether martyrs or mystics, founders of the past 25 years have included a beatifica- cultural boundaries and has no racial preju- May looking at Pope John Paul’s quarter- religious orders or lay catechists, Pope John tion or canonization liturgy. dices.” century pontificate. Paul uses the ceremonies to highlight the For centuries, canonizations were While proclaiming their holiness before “Holiness is not the luxury of some, but ways in which the saints dedicated their reserved mainly for holy men and women the world, the pope looked particularly to a binding obligation for all,” said the cardi- lives to loving and serving God and others. with a universal following and appeal. Catholics in the United States when canon- nal, prefect of the Congregation for Saints’ In the pope’s mind, and in the mind of But traveling the world and canonizing izing St. Katharine Drexel, to Catholics in Causes. “The Church and the world today the Church, there are as many ways of liv- local saints in the lands where they lived, Sudan when he canonized St. Josephine have a great need of saints.” ing a holy life as there are individuals cre- Pope John Paul has recovered a taste of the Bakhita, to Catholics in Canada when he Pope John Paul’s record-making run did ated by God and called to holiness. earliest tradition of recognizing saints. canonized St. Marguerite d’Youville and to not begin immediately after his election in The record number of saints canonized In the first millennium of the Church’s Catholics in when he canonized 1978; in fact, he did not celebrate his first by Pope John Paul is due partially to the history, saints were proclaimed by the com- St. Pedro de San Jose Betancur. canonization Mass until June 1982. He fact that the list includes large numbers of munities where they lived and died; the He also canonized martyrs from Japan, then reformed the entire process in 1983. individual martyrs canonized as a group: pope, as bishop of Rome, canonized Paraguay, Spain, China and Mexico. The reforms streamlined the process, but for example, he canonized 103 Korean Roman saints. The founders of religious orders still one of the first causes to take advantage of martyrs in 1984 and 117 Vietnamese mar- The saints’ feast days were celebrated in have a lion’s share of the inscriptions in the the faster track to sainthood—that of tyrs in 1988. the local Churches, but as the fame of an universal ’ feasts, but Pope St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, founder But the growing roll of saints officially individual grew his or her feast was added John Paul’s beatifications of lay men and of Opus Dei—drew sharp criticism for its recognized by the Catholic Church over the to the calendars of neighboring Churches women have set the stage for more variety speed. past 25 years also reflects Pope John Paul’s and eventually to the Church’s universal in the future. With even greater speed, Mother Teresa attention to offering Catholics in individual calendar. “Contemporary men and women need of Calcutta was beatified on Oct. 19, just countries examples of how someone who Pope John Paul slowly has chipped saints capable of translating into today’s six years and one month after her death. lived and died in their own nations lived the away at European dominance of the list of language the life and words of Christ,” Mother Teresa brings to 1,319 the call to holiness. those officially canonized and beatified. Cardinal Saraiva Martins said in May. †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—It was a warm summer He doesn’t go about this like a politician in search of During much of Pope John Paul’s pontificate, the evening in Casablanca, and at the local soccer stadium votes,” Cardinal Tomko said. Church has experienced a tension between proclaiming the 80,000 young Moroccans were giving Pope John Paul II a “His purpose is to propose the message of Christ, in a Gospel and holding a dialogue with non-Christians. Some rousing welcome. spirit not of conquest but respect. If his listeners are a mil- may see a conflict here, but Cardinal Tomko does not. Slovak Cardinal Jozef Tomko, who stood behind the lion people in Poland or a few hundred in Mongolia, “Evangelization is a rich and complex reality. It pontiff in the tribute of honor, listened to the pope’s that’s secondary to the pope,” he said. includes personal witness, dialogue, human promotion, French-language speech and watched the crowd. He Even where the crowds are huge, the pope succeeds in and especially proclamation,” he said. noticed an amazing thing: These Muslim youths were not touching individuals, Cardinal Tomko said. The reason is But while proclaiming Christ is the apex of evange- just clapping out of excitement or out of respect for the that he speaks a “language of love,” he said. lization, it is not necessarily the first step, Cardinal man dressed in white. “Not everyone may realize this, but the pope pleases Tomko said. He said that from the beginning of his pon- They were hanging on every word. because he loves every single person he encounters—and tificate the pope has made this clear and has also “This was not preordained applause. They were people understand this,” Cardinal Tomko said. stressed that the Church “proposes Christ, does not responding to what he said. As I witnessed this, I was Pope John Paul has been a model evangelizer in many impose anything, and respects the conscience of every struck by the pope’s great talent for entering into the other ways, too, Cardinal Tomko said. He cited the pope’s individual.” minds of his listeners,” Cardinal Tomko recalled in a parish visits in Rome, his weekly audience talks aimed at Cardinal Tomko said that explains why even in places recent interview. the Church and the world, papal documents that reach out like India, where religious conversion is a highly sensi- In Cardinal Tomko’s view, the Morocco encounter in to specific groups and, above all, the 1991 encyclical on tive topic, the pope was welcomed as a “white holy 1985 showed Pope John Paul doing what he does best: the Church’s missionary mandate, “” man” by 2 million people on the beach of Madras during evangelizing in a way that respects the sensibilities of (“The Mission of the Redeemer”). his first visit there in 1986. † others. To his non-Christian audience, the pope spoke not only about belief in God, but also about the Christian convic- tion that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior of all. He CNS file photo acknowledged that was a deep difference in their faiths and said, “God will enlighten us about it one day, I am sure.” The pope addressed the sensitive topic of religious freedom and highlighted the many beliefs and hopes shared by Muslims and Christians as they try to build a better world. “It was very interesting. The pope knew how to speak about all these things in a way that moved these young people to applaud,” Cardinal Tomko said. Cardinal Tomko, a longtime papal confidante who headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples from 1985 to 2001, said he’s witnessed similar scenes on other continents, as the pope has taken the Church’s message to people of every race and every belief. With few exceptions, the pope has made a positive impression, the cardinal said. Although crowds of more than a million people have cheered him, the pope’s suc- cess as an evangelizer is not something that can always be measured by the size of his audience, he said. “The approval of the masses is not his main purpose.

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Gratefully acknowledging your spiritual leadership over these many years. Guiding us with your over 100 letters or encyclicals and your numerous books, visiting us with your presence, encouraging, praying and blessing us. You will always be remembered lovingly as Our Good Shepherd. THANK YOU and God reward you for your unselfish service — both to Him and His.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—With his The important thing, papal advisers A dove floats 25th-anniversary celebrations behind say, is for people to realize that the past Pope John him, Pope John Paul II is already end of papal travel—whenever it Paul II during his meeting

looking ahead to year 26 and its comes—does not mean the end of the CNS photo from Reuters inevitable round of meetings, liturgies pontificate. with young peo- and documents. “From the outside, people see the ple in St. The pace of the pontificate has trips as the biggest part of the pontifi- Peter's Square clearly slowed, and the pope’s cate, but that’s not really true in terms on April 10, fragility means that fewer big projects of content,” papal spokesman Joaquin 2003. The pon- are on the calendar. But there’s Navarro-Valls said in an interview. tiff entrusted enough in the pipeline to keep the “The pope has certainly not the youths of 83-year-old pontiff busier than many exhausted the themes of his pontifi- the world to men half his age. cate, and he will keep finding ways to Mary and called High on the pope’s agenda over the develop these themes and express on them to be next year are ad limina meetings with them. His pastoral creativity is still peacemakers. all U.S. bishops. The visits are intact,” Navarro-Valls said. required of all heads of dioceses every The papal spokesman said he sees five years and feature individual and the pope returning to basic questions group meetings with the pope. The about the Church’s structure in com- U.S. visits are set to begin in March ing months, focusing in a particular and conclude in December. way on the hierarchy and the role of Typically, the pope uses the ad lim- the bishop. ina speeches to encourage hopeful On Oct. 16, the pope published trends and address problem areas in a “,” a major document specific country. It will be the first summarizing and reflecting on the such encounters with U.S. prelates 2001 Synod of Bishops, which had as since the clerical sex abuse scandal its theme the role of the bishop in the rocked the Church in the United Church. States. In a more personal vein, the pope The pope currently has no firm has also been writing a book on his plans for foreign travel, but it’s not for experience as a bishop in Poland. The lack of invitations: In 2004, he’s been volume, expected sometime over the asked to visit Switzerland in June, his next year, is likely to provide new native Poland sometime next summer, material to the growing number of France in September, and Mexico for papal biographers. the International Eucharistic Congress Much of the pope’s liturgical and in October. speech-giving activity is preordained But papal aides privately say they these days. He has dozens of annual don’t know how much longer the pope appointments with ambassadors, will be able to travel. He no longer Church groups and bishops from walks and can barely stand during around the world, and he presides at public appearances, and he often more than 20 annual liturgical cere- appears tired and short of breath. monies at the Vatican and in Rome. †

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The members of St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis congratulate Pope John Paul II The Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa (msola), an international on his twenty-fifth anniversary , was founded 135 years ago for evangelization as Pope. and service to Africa. We encourage Catholic women to join our effort and dedicate their lives to Christ through ministry/friendship with the We thank him for his leadership peoples of Africa. For information on recruitment, training and membership write to: and our prayers continue to be with him. Msola-vocation 3715 Williams Lane Chevy Chase, MD 20815

Congratulations to Father Louis Gootee Council Pope John Paul II What: Monte Carlo Night Fundraiser-- The Knights of on your silver jubilee Columbus are hosting an evening of fun and entertainment for parish- We are fortunate to have you as our ioners and non-parishioners over the age of 21. Light snacks, sof t drinks, spiritual leader these past 25 years beer, and wine will be available for purchase. Bring your friends and try your luck at the many gaming activities that will be available. West Deanery Schools When: Saturday, November 8th, 7 PM ‘t il Midnight All Saints School Holy Angels School Where: Weilhammer Hall Nativity @ Church of the Nativity---7225 Southeastern Avenue, Indpls., IN 46239 (Cal l 317-862-1798 St. Christopher School St. Malachy School for directions) St. Gabriel School St. Michael School St. Monica School St. Susanna School Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School Charity Game Night License 101398 Page 20 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Mother Teresa beatification comes just six years after her death

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Just over six years and six weeks after her death, Mother Teresa of Calcutta was beatified by Pope John Paul II Oct. 19 in St. Peter’s Square. CNS photo by Arturo Mari CNS photo by The founder of the Missionaries of Charity died of cardiac arrest on Sept. 5, 1997, in Calcutta, India. A mere 15 months later, Pope John Paul gave per- mission for her beatification process to begin, even though Church rules require a waiting period of five years. Small of stature and full of energy, she was acclaimed as a living saint during her lifetime. She won the 1979 and, just three months before her death, was awarded the U.S. Congressional Gold Medal. Wearing a white and blue , she traveled the world delivering a single message: Love and caring are the most important things in the world. “The biggest disease today,” she once said, “is not or , but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncared for and deserted by every- body. The greatest evil is the lack of love and char- ity, the terrible indifference toward one’s neighbor who lives at the roadside, assaulted by exploitation, corruption, poverty and disease.” Born on Aug. 26, 1910, in , , to parents of ethnic Albanian origin, Agnes Gonxhe Bojaxhiu attended public schools and participated in a Catholic sodality with an interest in foreign mis- sions. She later said that she knew at age 12 that she wanted to be a missionary. She left home in 1928 to join the Loretto Sisters in Dublin, Ireland. The sisters sent her to India at the beginning of 1929 to study at their in . While teaching at a fashionable Catholic girls’ school in Calcutta, she could not ignore the incredi- ble poverty around her, especially the suffering endured by the dying and destitute on the city’s streets. Riding on an Indian train on Sept. 10, 1946, she received what she described as a “call within a call.” Pope John Paul II greets Mother Teresa at the Vatican in an undated file photo. The pope presided at the ceremony for her beatification on “The message was clear,” she later said. “I was Oct. 19, 2003, in St. Peter’s Square. to leave the convent and help the poor, while living among them.” diocesan religious community, and 15 years later the Two years later, the Vatican gave her permission Vatican recognized it as a pontifical congregation, to leave the Loretto Sisters and follow her new call- directly under Vatican jurisdiction. ing under the jurisdiction of the archbishop of In 1952, the city of Calcutta gave Mother Teresa a Calcutta. former Hindu hostel, which she and her sisters turned After three months of medical training with the into the Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) Home for Dying American Medical Missionary Sisters in , Destitutes. India, Mother Teresa went into the Calcutta slums, Although most Missionaries of Charity are sisters opening a school for children who had had no working with the poor, orphans, the aged, the handi- access to education. capped and the dying, Mother Teresa also founded a Soon volunteers, many of them her former stu- branch of contemplative sisters, contemplative brothers The Archdiocese of Indianapolis dents, came to join her. and an order of priests. In 1950, the Missionaries of Charity became a The missionaries work in more than 130 countries. † Office of Stewardship and Development staff "In all the many languages of pr ayer, let us ask the Spirit of God to offer our prayers and congratulations enlighten us, guide us and give us s trength so that, as men and to women who take their inspiration from their religious beliefs, we may Pope John Paul II work together to build the fu ture of humanity in harm ony, justice, on the 25th Anniversary peace and love." ~ Pope John Paul II, October 28, 1999 of his election

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By Fr. W. Thomas Faucher which might be sacraments. Finally, it became obvious that there were seven God made a decision that if human sacraments. One of them, confirmation, persons did something in a special way is intimately connected with . then God would be part of what they I wish there were eight sacraments. Northwest Indiana Catholic did. So there are human actions that One of my favorite actions is “the wash- have divine consequences. ing of the feet,” which some early That’s what sacraments are about. Christians considered a sacrament. Part The classic definition of a sacrament— of the problem was that it was unclear an outward sign instituted by Christ to who would be celebrating the sacra- CNS photo by Karen Callaway, give grace—has three elements: ment—the person washing the feet or the 1. There has to be a sign. person getting his or her feet washed. 2. Christ has to have designed this Either way, it is a great human action, action. most humbling and yet most divine. But 3. God himself has to be part of what “the washing of the feet” is not a sacra- happens. ment. In a sacrament, the word “sign” refers The seven sacraments usually are to a very special action that causes some- divided into three of initiation (baptism, thing to happen. confirmation and Eucharist), three of People pour water all the time. commitment (Eucharist, marriage and Pouring water might have many different ), and three of healing types of consequences—almost none of (penance, anointing and Eucharist). them divine. Eucharist is, of course, the most cen- But in a specific context, accompa- tral and most important, fitting into all nied by specific words, for a specific three categories. The Catholic Church requirement that all sacraments need two people comes from the reality that purpose, that action of pouring water has One of the most important things sacraments are actions intimately connected with the community of the Church. God uses human per- a divine consequence: It incorporates a about sacraments (and one of the reasons sons to share his grace. person into the Church. When all those individualistic denominations reject specific elements are in place, we call them) is that sacraments cannot be cele- what happens a sacrament and, in this brated by just one person. There always Sacraments are gifts from God case, the sacrament is baptism. must be at least two and preferably many Jesus created the sacraments because more involved in any sacramental cele- By Fr. Lawrence Mick Holy Spirit, who makes possible our we need physical helps to keep our faith bration. union with Christ in his death and resur- in God alive. What may seem like a contradiction The seven sacraments celebrate impor- rection. But at one point in the history of here, the celebration of a Mass by a tant moments in Christian life, but each The Eucharist calls us into a deeper , some people decided to priest who is alone, only is allowed marks a different experience. sharing in Christ’s sacrifice. denounce sacraments because they were when there is grave reason for it, and Baptism celebrates a child’s birth into Penance enables us to renew our bap- so primitive, so “unsophisticated,” so even then the Church says that a congre- a Christian family or an adult’s birth into tismal commitment and celebrates the for- elemental. An entire branch of the gation is present spiritually, meaning that of the Church. giveness Christ won for us through his Christian family rejects the idea of the priest is not really alone. Confirmation celebrates the gift of the sacrifice. sacraments. That all sacraments need at least two Spirit to guide those incorporated into The anointing of the sick invites those Catholics are sacramental people, and people comes from the reality that Christ. who are seriously ill to unite their suffer- our humanity needs physical actions. We sacraments are actions intimately con- The Eucharist feeds us regularly so ing to that of Christ. especially need those specific actions nected with the community of the that we continue to grow in Christ’s life. Marriage and holy orders offer two called rituals, which God gave to us so Church. God uses human persons to Penance offers hope for healing when different ways for Christians to live the that we actually can touch him. share his grace. we have strayed from Christ’s path. paschal mystery, dying to self and rising In a sacrament, we do not “just possi- Notice how we use verbs having to do Anointing offers physical and spiritual to new life in Christ. bly, maybe” touch God. We are given a with people in describing sacraments: healing in times of serious illness and Two sacraments are basic for the guarantee of that touch. God made a People celebrate sacraments, people pain. Church’s life. Baptism brings us into commitment to be within the human receive sacraments, people give sacra- Marriage celebrates the beginning of a Christ’s life and enables us to celebrate action we call a sacrament. ments, people get sacraments. new family where the faith will be lived. all the other sacraments. The Eucharist is It took the Church a long time to The sacramental need for people is Holy orders celebrates the choice of the central sacrament, sustaining the come to an understanding of just how why one person cannot marry, a priest new leaders to guide the faith community. Church through the sacrificial meal of many of these special ritual actions cannot absolve his own sin and there is All the sacraments celebrate Jesus Christ’s body and blood. Christ gave us. The early Church really no such thing as self-ordination. Christ’s death and resurrection, but focus The sacraments are gifts that Christ didn’t care about the number, but at Sacraments are actions that tell us on that paschal mystery in a different has given the Church, and link us closely some point in history there were people how much God loves us and how much way. with Christ so we might share fully in the who needed to know things like that. he is willing to do for us. Baptism plunges us into the watery life he came to share with us. Searching both Church tradition and tomb so that sharing in Christ’s death we the Scriptures, people found five or (Father W. Thomas Faucher is pastor of might also share in his resurrection. (Father Lawrence Mick is a priest of the seven or eight or 12 different things St. Mary Parish in Boise, Idaho.) † Confirmation focuses on the gift of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio.) † Discussion Point Share faith with others daily This Week’s Question transformed and sent forth to share the good news ... Vatican Council II asked Catholics to participate in my world.” (Margaret Stepan, College Ward, actively in the Mass. What makes you an active partic- Utah) ipant? “I think a person is an active participant at Mass just “Singing makes me an active participant, especially by going and by following along ..., by celebrating the when the music, the readings and the homily all tie event.” (Lisa Siraco, Manchester, N.H.) together. Going to Communion makes me an active participant. And carrying the message forward— Lend Us Your Voice beyond the physical locale of the church—makes me an active participant.” (Liz Hatcher, Auburn, Ala.) An upcoming edition asks: Describe one significant

“I’m an active participant when I lift up my heart to way your life or understanding as a Christian has Catholic Today’s the Lord with the body of Christ gathered. I’m an changed or developed over the past decade. active participant when I allow myself to be empow- ered by the Spirit to give 100 percent of myself— To respond for possible publication, write to Faith gifts, talents, heart, voice [and] attitude—to this act Alive! at 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. of worship. And I’m an active participant when I am 20017-1100. † CNS photo by Sharon Little, Page 22 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Catholic patriots: Archbishop John Carroll (II) Families are a Third in a series then the U.S. ambassador to France, sufficient authority to settle many of the living sacrament requesting permission to do so. Franklin problems of organizing the Church. This Just as George Washington is known as forwarded the message to the Continental could be done efficiently only by one who In last month’s column, as I looked for- the “Father of His Country,” so John Congress, which directed him to answer: had the backing of episcopal consecration. ward to the celebration of the 25th anniver- Carroll is the “Father “The subject of his application to Dr. Yet Carroll and the other American priests sary of the election of of the Catholic Church Franklin being purely spiritual, it is with- feared the public’s adverse reaction to a Pope John Paul II, I in the United States.” out the jurisdiction and powers of bishop appointed by the . Pope reflected on how his Carroll was elected Congress who have no authority to permit Pius VI, therefore, agreed to permit the devotion to the (yes, elected) the first or refuse it, these powers being reserved priests of the United States, “at least on this Blessed Virgin Mary bishop in the United to the several states individually.” first occasion,” to elect their own bishop. can be an example for States on March As Jesuit Father John Courtney Murray Bishop Carroll was quick to speak out our families. The Holy 25,1789 in a solemn observed in his book We Hold These when the Catholic Church was attacked. Father points Christian conclave of the priests Truths: “The good nuncio must have been An example was his reply to a letter that families to Mary as a of the United States at happily surprised on receiving this com- appeared in the May 9, 1789, issue of the powerful intercessor Whitemarsh, Md. munication. Not for centuries had the Gazette of the United States that ques- for them to our heav- Slightly more than a month later, Holy See been free to erect a bishopric tioned Catholics’ loyalty to the United enly father. Washington took the oath of office to and appoint a bishop without the States. Carroll wrote that the blood of I believe that he wants families to be become the first president of the United consent of government, without proper Catholics during the Revolution War “had strengthened by that that States—on April 30, 1789. exercise of government’s right of presen- flowed as freely [in proportion to their comes to them through Mary’s prayers Although the Church in the United tation, without all the legal formalities numbers] to cement the fabric of indepen- because he calls them to be at the fore- States received its first bishop at the same with which the so-called Catholic states dence, as that of any of their fellow citi- front of the Church’s mission of evange- time the country received its first presi- had fettered the freedom of the Church. In zens. They concurred with perhaps greater lization. This is a message that he has dent, the Church was officially established the United States the freedom of the unanimity than any other body of men in proclaimed from the very beginning of five years earlier, on June 9, 1784, when Church was completely unfettered. She recommending and promoting that gov- his pontificate some 25 years ago. On John Carroll was appointed prefect apos- could organize herself with a full indepen- ernment from whose influence America Jan. 28, 1979, just a few short months tolic for the United States. dence which is her native right.” anticipates all the blessings of justice, after he was elected, Pope John Paul, Before making this appointment, the In time, however, it became apparent peace, plenty, good order, and civil reli- speaking in , Mexico, proclaimed papal nuncio wrote to Benjamin Franklin, that a prefect apostolic did not have gious liberty.” † that “evangelization in the future depends largely on the ‘domestic Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes Church.’ ” To announce the Gospel and bring other men, women and families to Christ Saints don’t get in the way of God’s will is no small task. Indeed, it is the most important mission in which any human It seems that Pope John Paul II has who have lost spouses, close relatives or surprised once while he was giving a retreat being could ever being involved. The “made” or will “make” more saints during friends have not “talked” to them now and to some when one of them whispered very destiny of our world depends upon his tenure than all the then? Is it not comforting and healing to to him, she hoped that he wasn’t taken in its fulfillment. And yet the daunting other pontiffs com- continue such a loving relationship as long by Mother Teresa. “She’s a fake, you nature of this call should not cause bined. This displeases as we don’t depend upon it for emotional know,” she said. Catholic families to shrink from it, for some, i.e. those who stability or dwell entirely in the past? But that’s the thing about saints. They God has formed us by his grace to be his do not think kindly of In previous times, Catholics were well are human, like us, and they have human son’s apostles. Pope Pius IX. But, it acquainted with the saints. Their feast days foibles and faults. They can and do make Pope John Paul has gone even further pleases most of us who were marked by the Church, discussed in mistakes of all kinds, and that rankles some and asserted that families are a living remember Mother school and celebrated by families probably of us who do the same. So, what is it that sacrament in the world of the Blessed Teresa fondly. more than they are today. Every child had a makes them saints? . This is something that he has At any rate, this namesake saint, who gave, and should It seems to me, the difference is that taught from the earliest days of his min- pope seems to be try- receive in return, special attention. One’s saints, either recognized by the Church or istry as the successor of St. Peter. It is ing to remind us of our spiritual mission. name saint was a kind of additional by common agreement, do naturally what found in his We’re here on a journey whose goal is guardian angel. the pope is encouraging us to do. They “” (“On the sainthood, and all our aspirations should be Of course, being named for a saint was remember that their goal is God and that it Christian Family in the Modern World”), centered on it. We aim someday to enter sometimes done more according to the let- is his will, not ours, that should prevail. issued on Nov. 22, 1981: “God is love into the goodness that is God and complete ter than to the spirit of the thing. One of our In line with that idea is another quote and in himself he lives a mystery of per- ourselves at last. nieces whose parents wished to name her from the archabbot’s interview, in which he sonal loving communion. Creating the In that regard, as we note on the Feast of Laurie, was christened “Lawrence” by the said that whenever he left Mother Teresa human race in his own image and contin- All Saints (Nov. 1), we have the commu- attending priest. she would not say the expected, “Go and ually keeping it in being, God inscribed nion of saints available for our inspiration, Today we might be less aware of the do God’s will,” but rather, “Go and don’t in the humanity of man and woman the including those not yet recognized by the communion of saints, although when a get in the way of God’s will.” vocation, and thus the capacity and Church. An evangelical friend once told me Mother Teresa or a comes That’s our job, to not get in his way. If responsibility, of love and communion.” she thought this smacked of idolatry, or a along we recognize saintliness when we see we can do that, maybe we’ll stay on the All of this may seem like an abstract kind of magical power attributed to the it. At least most of us do. right road. form of theology disconnected from the dead. Recently I heard Benedictine Archabbot cares and concerns of the day-to-day life But veneration of the saints is not that at Lambert Reilly speaking in a television (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the of families, but nothing could be further all. Rather, it’s communing with the dearly interview on the occasion of his friend Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular from the truth. The Holy Father recog- departed as we did in life. How many of us Mother Teresa’s beatification. He was columnist for The Criterion.) † nizes this. In fact, in his first years as a priest some 50 years ago, Pope John Paul (then Karol Wotyla) dedicated himself to Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister being a pastoral companion of the young families to whom he ministered, helping God’s plan for us—to love and be loved them embody in their daily lives the deep meaning which God had written into At Mass the first weekend in October, I issue moment that strongly affected me. help. A Born Free Ministry rears babies their very bodies and souls. listened to the best pro-life message I’ve One day, five years ago, when deliver- of prison mothers until their release, and When Christian husbands and wives ever heard. My pastor ing something to a parish office, I over- the Galilean Christian Academy serves live out this vocation of love and com- in Indianapolis at heard a disturbing phone call. Someone both handicapped and academically nor- munion in the ordinary duties of the Christ the King Parish, explained that a couple planning to adopt mal children. The Tuckers even shepherd home—taking out the trash, washing the Msgr. Francis Tuohy, a teen-ager’s baby reneged on the offer children from other countries, and they dishes, changing diapers—the grace of shared how aborted when they learned the newborn had Down sometimes travel with children presenting their sacrament of marriage transfigures babies are not only Syndrome and a heart defect. concerts. them into the very image of the love and denied love, but their How tragic! I thought. Rather than Sandy also serves as “wife, mother and communion of Father, Son and Holy potential families are faulting anyone, I instead worried: What midwife” to neighboring Mennonite and Spirit. But it is ultimately in their open- denied loving them. will happen to that baby? I made many Amish communities. Her books—Faith, ness to the blessing of life and their He stressed how phone calls and researched agencies in the Hope and Room for One More, which cooperation with the heavenly father in everyone needs loving Midwest that deal with such scenarios, covers their spiritual journey—and the creation of a new human soul that help, especially those in vulnerable situa- concentrating on Catholic resources. I Precious in His Sight, with stories and this sacrament is fulfilled and reaches the tions—the physically or mentally chal- found little practical advice. testimonies of these children—are part of height of its effectiveness. lenged, elders suffering alone, prisoners Shortly thereafter, while my husband their ministry, too. The more that Catholic husbands, wives awaiting death sentences. and I were on a business trip, we ran- Criterion readers will be as profoundly and families, by the grace of God, deliber- Msgr. Tuohy repeatedly said, “They domly stopped for lunch at The Bread of affected as I’ve been to learn more about ately abide in their calling of love and deserve it!” and then added “You deserve Life Café in Liberty, Ky., operated by Galilean Home Ministries at communion, the more that they will be it!” He also described the Gabriel Project Galilean Home Ministries. Impressed, I www.galileanhome.org or by writing to apostles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. in our parish and elsewhere—volunteers wrote for more information, and I’ve been P.O. Box 880, Liberty, KY 42539 or by This is the powerful message that Pope dedicated to bringing practical, emotional on the Galilean mailing list ever since. In calling 606-787-5120. John Paul II has proclaimed for 25 years. and spiritual help to women who choose fact, I eagerly await each newsletter, We deserve to know how their love May we who are the Catholic families of life over abortion. which always edifies me. works. They deserve our loving help. the Archdiocese of Indianapolis embrace it. Blessed [Mother] Teresa’s words— Founders Jerry and Sandy Tucker and “God has called us to love and to be staff care for babies, children and older (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of (Sean Gallagher is the director of reli- loved”—kept rolling through my youth in need. Galilean Children’s Home Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is a gious education at St. Joseph Parish in thoughts, but I also remembered a life- offers unconditional love and medical regular columnist for The Criterion.) † Shelbyville.) † The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Page 23

All Souls Day/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Oct. 3 Friday, Oct. 7 Sunday, Nov. 2, 2003 , religious Romans 15:14-21 Romans 11:29-36 Psalm 98:1-4 • Daniel 12:1-3 This reading states that indeed there is Psalm 69:30-31, 33-34 Luke 16:1-8 an afterlife. Earthly death is not the end of • Romans 6:3-9 Luke 14:12-14 • John 6:37-40 any person’s existence. Determining the style of afterlife, however, will be open to Saturday, Oct. 8 each person. If a person follows God, then Tuesday, Oct. 4 Romans 16:3-9, 16, 22-27 Today, the Church observes All Souls the person will be with God in the future Charles Borromeo, bishop Psalm 145:2-5, 10-11 Day, its annual commemoration of those life. Romans 12:5-16a Luke 16:9-15 people who have died The second reading is from the Epistle in the Lord and are to the Romans. Psalm 131:1-3 awaiting entry into the St. Paul writes in this passage about one Luke 14:15-24 Sunday, Oct. 9 heavenly presence of of his favorite themes. If Christians truly The Dedication of the Lateran God. join themselves to Christ in this life by their Wednesday, Oct. 5 Basilica in Rome Several options holiness, then they will live with Christ for- Romans 13:8-10 47:1-2, 8-9, 12 occur among the possi- ever. Earthly death will not break the bond. Psalm 112:1-2, 4-5, 9 Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 ble readings. This St. John’s Gospel furnishes the last read- reflection follows one ing. Luke 14:25-33 1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17 selection. Quoting Jesus, the reading pledges that John 2:13-22 The first reading is all who genuinely love God will be with Thursday, Oct. 6 from the Book of Daniel. Once, Daniel was God eternally. Romans 14:7-12 regarded as one of the great prophets, prob- Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 ably because the Book of Daniel is rela- Reflection tively long in length, and it is very dra- All Souls Day is an ancient, beloved Luke 15:1-10 matic. time in the Catholic liturgical year. It cele- Certainly, Daniel is a book admonishing brates several facts, drawn from Scripture the to be loyal to the ancient and reinforced by human reason. Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen Covenant. Traditionally, Daniel has been The first, mentioned in Daniel, and regarded as a prophet, and as actually a fig- repeated throughout the , ure in history. is that human life is not extinguished by Cross of San Damiano was More detailed research, however, sug- physical death as a sudden breeze kills a gests that Daniel was not an actual person. candle flame. Rather, life is eternal. So the words of the book cannot be seen as The second point, equally biblical in made popular by St. Francis quotations from a prophet who truly lived origin, and equally reasonable, is that at a given moment in time. eternal life merely continues the matter in What can you tell me about the cross power ...”) is wrong. I’ve never heard Finally, major parts of the book date not which earthly life occurred. Closeness to Qof San Damiano? A friend gave one that. Is it true? (Illinois) from the time of the Babylonian Exile, but God, evidenced in virtuous living, contin- to me after I admired rather from the days when the Greek ues into eternity. Estrangement from God all the figures and its No, it is not true. That prayer, called a dynasty reigned in that area of the Middle also endures. unusual shape. Adoxology (prayer of praise), was used East, roughly covering present-day Israel, Thus, humans choose the afterlife they (Arkansas) very early in Christian liturgical worship, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. prefer. possibly because a similar prayer had This dynasty arose following the col- All Souls Day concerns itself not with The cross of San been common in Jewish worship for a lapse of Alexander the Great’s empire, and those estranged from God. They are ADamiano long time. the death of the great conqueror himself. doomed. No prayer can rescue them. They (St. Damian) is named Eventually some, perhaps overzealous, Alexander had no legitimate heir strong made their choice. Rather, it concerns itself after the small church copiers of Scripture (this was long before enough to hold intact the vast empire he with humans who turned to God, but per- near Assisi in Italy, the printing press) began placing these won on the battlefield. haps at times they were half-hearted. They where it originally words after the Lord’s Prayer in the Powerful generals, once subordinate to sinned. It scarred them, a concept vital to hung. It became famous because Gospel of Mathew (Mt 6:9-13) as a Alexander, seized the opportunity. One sin, but rarely acknowledged. St. Francis prayed before it often. gloss—marginal interpretations or pious established himself in and created his Purgatory is the process by which the It was during one of those times of notes which they occasionally inserted, own empire and dynasty. Cleopatra was his dead refine their commitment to God and meditation that Francis heard the words possibly just to break the monotony of a descendant. Another did the same and await the final stage of this refinement, from Jesus on the cross, “Francis, go tedious job. formed a kingdom in Antioch. which is the holiness that Scripture sees as repair my house, which as you see is In later centuries, some glosses, The Antiochene rulers were, by and essential to heavenly life. falling into ruin.” including this one, found their way into large, not only unfriendly, but also aggres- St. Paul especially is clear and constant At first, Francis believed the words the Bible text itself. This was the situation sively hostile to the Jews and their ancient in teaching us of the bonds that bind one meant that he should restore the chapel when the King James Authorized English religion. Antiochus IV Epiphanes reigned Christian to another, one Christian to the itself, which was in bad disrepair. was published in 1611. from 170 to 160 B.C. He called himself whole body of Christians. Our prayers can Later, he realized the Lord meant that The King James version, in general use divine, and he demanded that all under his influence others. Our prayers can assist oth- he was to repair, build up, God’s people by Protestants for more than 300 years, rule accordingly worship him as a god. ers. This ability, and this bond, are not lost and help repair the holiness of the included this addendum to the Lord’s Many Jews refused, and paid for their when a person dies. How could they be Church. Prayer. independence in conscience with their lives. lost? Jesus, of the bond, is eter- The cross thus came to have great As biblical scholarship developed, These were the stark, thundering intru- nal and supernatural. importance and meaning for St. Francis however, it became clear to everyone— sions of Greek philosophy into life in Asia Thus, today we pray for the dead’s and his followers, and for St. Clare, the Protestant and Catholic—that this addi- Minor. Subtler were Greek philosophical speedy progress toward God. Amid the founder of the women’s branches of tion was not originally part of Scripture, ideas, such as eternity and the concept of powerful symbolism of this liturgy, we also Franciscans, whose first religious home but was inserted afterward. the soul and body as present in each person. confront our own mortality and our own was in San Damiano. Thus, Protestant Bibles since the King In this situation, the notion of the afterlife need to be with God, now and in the ever- As you suggest, this form of the cross is James translation have, almost univer- grew and developed among Jews. lasting. † extremely popular in Catholic cultures sally, eliminated the sentence from the today. Described as an icon cross because Scripture, mentioning it at most as an of the many images it portrays, it is similar unauthentic, or liturgical, addition to the My Journey to God to other crosses common in Italy around sacred text. the 12th century, when Francis lived. Bible under Catholic aus- Christ is represented full and upright, pices have never included the sentence. distinguished from earlier “jeweled” For centuries, however, the doxology My Sacred Place crosses showing Christ victorious, and was included in the Mass shortly after the from later crosses, which heavily empha- Our Father. I have a sacred place with God sized his suffering and agonizing death. We continue the ancient liturgical tra- Where no one else has entered, The icons surrounding our Lord dition, of course, even today by offering And there within His holy peace include several witnesses to the this prayer of praise together at Mass, not My heart and soul is centered. Crucifixion—St. John, , as part of, but shortly after the Our Mary the mother of Jesus, the soldier who Father. It is in this precious place pierced Jesus’ side with a lance and oth- Oriental-rite Catholics, however, and That I can find my needed rest; ers. There are also angels and additional many Latin-rite Catholics in other coun- I go alone, and am met by God. images related to the events on Calvary. tries, still use it regularly as a concluding In His gentle love, I am blest. The cross was restored as much as doxology to the Lord’s Prayer. possible to its original condition in l938 He welcomes me with open arms, and now hangs in the church of St. Clara (A free brochure in English or Spanish, And listens to all I have to say— (Santa Chiara) in Assisi. answering questions that Catholics ask My sins and needs, my pain and joy— about baptism practices and sponsors, is With his blessing, I can now pray. After a recent Mass, a friend told me available by sending a stamped, self- Qthat the Our Father we say at Mass is addressed envelope to Father John

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Mary’s King’s Village Schoen- $10 per person. Information: statt, Rexville (located on 925 317-236-1521 or 800-382-9836, October 31 8 p.m., $4 adults, $2 students, South, .8 mile east of 421 South, ext. 1521. Marian College, St. Francis Hall senior citizens and children. 12 miles south of Versailles), Chapel, 3200 Cold Spring Road, “Schoenstatt Spirituality,” Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory Indianapolis. Catholic Charis- November 1-2 2:30 p.m., Mass, 3:30 p.m., with School, 2801 W. 86th St., matic Renewal, praise, worship, St. Parish, Father Elmer Burwinkel. Infor- Indianapolis. Indiana Autism teaching, healing prayers, 7 p.m. 25743 State Road 1, Dover. 13th mation: 812-689-3551 or e-mail and Sertoma Club meeting, Information: 317-927-6709. annual craft show and chicken [email protected] or log on 7-9 p.m., child care provided. dinner, Sat., craft show, 11 a.m.- to Schoenstatt Web site at Information: 317-885-7295. November 1 5 p.m., lunch, 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m.; www.seidata.com/~eburwink. St. Luke Parish, 7575 Holliday Sun., craft show, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., St. Bridget Church, 404 E. Vine chicken dinner, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. November 2-3 St., Liberty. Healing Mass, “Bye. Sorry I didn’t have king size.” Dr. East, Indianapolis. The © 2003 CNS Graphics Couple to Couple League of Marian College, Bishop Char- 7:30 p.m. Information: 765-825- Indianapolis, Natural Family November 2 trand Memorial Chapel, 3200 7087. Holy Cross Parish, 125 N. Planning (NFP), 9:30-11:30 a.m. Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis. November 7 chicken and noodle dinners. Church, Chapel, 335 S. Meridian Information: 317-228-9276. Oriental St., Indianapolis. “Development as the Key to Information: 812-346-4783. St., Greenwood. Perpetual ado- Bugbuster Flu and Peace,” Franciscan Father John St. Lawrence Parish, 6944 E. ration. 46th St., Indianapolis. “An St. John the Apostle Parish, 4607 Shot Campaign, flu and pneumo- Quigley, presenter, 7 p.m. Infor- Michaela Farm, Oldenburg. Evening of Praise and Worship” W. State Road 46, Bloomington. nia shots, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. mation: 317-955-6213. Volunteer work day, close down Holy Rosary Church, 520 presented by Christian musician 30th annual holiday craft show, Information: 317-722-8299, ext. gardens for winter, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Stevens St., Indianapolis. Tony Avellana, 7:30-9 p.m. 9 a.m.-4 p.m., crafts, tole paint- 116. November 3 EST. Information: 812-933- Tridentine (Latin) Mass, Mon.- Information: 317-826-6000. ing, watercolor and oil paintings, St. Francis Hospital-Indianapolis, 0661. Fri., noon; Wed., Fri., 5:45 p.m. rugs, blankets, woodworking, St. Franics Xavier Parish, Hwy. 8111 S. Emerson Ave., Indiana- Information: 317-636-4478. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, stained-glass, candles, free pic- 31 and Hwy. 160, Henryville. polis. “Freedom from Smoking,” November 9 Blessed Sacrament Chapel, 1347 tures with Santa, 9 a.m.-noon. Smorgasbord, craft booth, quilts, second of seven weekly classes Cardinal Ritter High School, St. Parish, 4217 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Information: 812-876-1974. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Information: 812- developed by American Lung 3360 W. 30th St., Indianapolis. Central Ave., Indianapolis. Catholic Charismatic Renewal, 256-3200. Association, 6-8 p.m., $50 fee, Open house, 1-3 p.m. Informa- Leave a telephone number to be Mass and Healing service, teach- St. Bartholomew Parish, 1306 $25 due at first class then $5 tion: 317-924-4333. ing 7 p.m., followed by praise contacted by a member of the 27th St., Columbus. “A Concert Parish, 815 W. each week. Information or reser- and worship, Mass and healing prayer group. Prayer line: 317- for All Saints,” donations Main St., Richmond. Evening of vations: 317-782-7999. St. Monica Parish, Emmaus service. Information: 317-927- 767-9479. spiritual music for families, Center, 6131 N. Michigan Road, accepted, 7:30 p.m. Information: 6709. 812-379-9353. 7 p.m. Information: 765-966- Mary’s King’s Village Schoen- Indianapolis. Family Life St. Therese of the Infant Jesus 0916. statt, Rexville (located on 925 November 7-8 Sunday Series, “Balancing Stress (Little Flower) Church, Chapel, South, .8 mile east of 421 South, in Our Home,” Michelle Meer, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods St. Elizabeth’s Pregnancy and 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. St. Thomas More Church, 1200 12 miles south of Versailles), M.S.W., presenter, 4-5:30 p.m. College, Cecilian Auditorium, Adoption Services, 2500 Perpetual adoration. Information: Information: 317-253-2193. St. Mary-of-the-Woods. N. Indiana St., Mooresville. “Family Faith Talks,” 7 p.m., Churchman Ave., Indianapolis. 317-357-3546. College Chorale, Madrigals and Organizational meeting to estab- Mass, 8 p.m., with Father Elmer Abortion recovery facilitator St. Parish, Jazz Band, “Come Rain or lish perpetual eucharistic adora- Burwinkel. Information: 812- training, Fri., 9 a.m.-noon, St. Thomas More Church, 1200 Hwy. 545, New Boston, Ind. Shine*The Forecast is Music,” tion chapels in parishes, 689-3551 or e-mail 2-8 p.m., Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m., N. Indiana St., Mooresville. (Diocese of Evansville). Fall Information: 317-297-7578. Perpetual adoration. Information: social, chili, hamburgers, home- 317-831-4142. made desserts, serving begins Saint Mary-of-the-Woods 11 a.m. EST. Information: 812- College, St. Mary-of-the- Monthly Woods. Fall open house, Infor- 937-4326. First Sundays I believe sharing is something you never outgrow . mation: 812-535-5106 or 800- November 10 926-SMWC. St. Paul Church, 218 Scheller American Martyrs Church, 270 Ave., Sellersburg. Prayer group, S. Bond St., Scottsburg. It isn’t supposed to end in kindergarten. Or when we November 7-9 7-8:15 p.m. Information: 812- Mount St. Francis Retreat Cen- “,” Frank 246-4555. ter, 101 St. Anthony Dr., Mount Runyeon, television and film get older. I believe sharing is a way of life. But why stop St. Francis. Married couples star, presenter, 7 p.m. Informa- Fatima Knights of Columbus, retreat, “Journeying with Jesus tion: 812-752-3693. 1040 N. Post Road, Indiana- Christ.” Information: 812-923- polis. Euchre, 1 p.m. Informa- there? Nothing can keep us from giving. The Catholic 8817 or e-mail DAR House, 400 E. Wabash tion: 317-638-8416. [email protected]. Ave., Crawfordsville, Ind. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, First Mondays Community Foundation has a number of financial tools November 8 Women’s External Degree Pro- Archbishop O’Meara Catholic St. Mark Parish, Schafer Hall, gram, coffee and conversation, Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., 535 E. Edgewood Ave., Indian- 6:30 p.m. Information: 812-535- Indianapolis. Guardian Angel that can help you help the Church carry on its mission, apolis. St. Mark School Parent 5186 or 800-926-SMWC. Guild, board meeting, 9:30 a.m. Teacher Group and St. Mark Parish Ladies Club, annual Windy Hills Country Club, 37 N. First Tuesdays U.S. Hwy. 231, Greencastle. St. Mark craft junction, crafts, Divine Mercy Chapel, 3354 W. from simple one-time gifts to endowments. For more Saint Mary-of-the-Woods luncheon, bake sale, 9 a.m.- 30th St., Indianapolis. Confes- College, Women’s External 4 p.m. Information: 317-787- sion, 6:45 p.m., Benediction of Degree Program, coffee and con- 8246. the Blessed Sacrament, 7:30 p.m. ways to remember the Church in your estate, ask for versation, 6:30 p.m. Information: 812-535-5186 or 800-926- St. Parish, 8144 St. Joseph Church, 2605 St. Joe SMWC. Jim Wathen at 800-382-9836. W. U.S. Hwy. 40 West, Knights- Road W., Sellersburg. Holy town. St. Rose Ladies Society, hour for religious vocations, St. Boniface Parish, St. Michael holiday craft bazaar and lun- Benediction and exposition of Center, 318 N. 9th St., Lafay- cheon, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., crafts, the Blessed Sacrament after ette, Ind. (Diocese of Lafayette). baked goods, Christmas items, 7 p.m. Mass. homemade chicken and noodles. Knights of Immaculata, meeting, Information: 765-345-5595. life of St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Professor Claude Foster, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, 2801 W. 86th St., Cordiafonte House of Prayer, presenter, 7 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Indiana Autism 3650 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. 765-742-5063. and Sertoma Club meeting, Silent prayer day, 9 a.m.- 7-9 p.m., child care provided. 2:30 p.m., bring lunch, free-will November 11 Information: 317-885-7295. offering. Information: 317-543- St. Elizabeth’s Pregnancy and 0154. Adoption Services, 2500 Churchman Ave., Indianapolis. First Fridays St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Pro-life meeting, 7 p.m., tour of St. Vincent de Paul Church, 1723 (Little Flower) Parish, 1401 N. archdiocesan “I” St., Bedford. Exposition of Bosart Ave., Indianapolis. facility. Information: 317-787- the Blessed Sacrament after Annual all-class reunion, Mass, 3412, ext. 39. 8:30 a.m. Mass-9 a.m. Sat. 5 p.m., social hour, school tours, morning, reconciliation, Fri. dinner and recognition of out- November 15 4-6 p.m., Sat. 8-9 a.m., “Chil- standing alumni award winners. Benedict Inn Retreat and Confer- dren of Hope” program, Holy Information: 317-357-8352. ence Center, 1402 Southern Ave., hour for children. Information: Beech Grove. “Six Pathways to 812-275-6539. St. Joseph Parish Hall, 1875 S. Forgiveness,” 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $60 County Road 700 W., North per person includes lunch. Infor- Holy Name Church, 89 N. 17th Vernon. St. Joseph Rosary mation: 317-788-7581. Ave., Beech Grove. Mass, 8:15 a.m., devotions following Blessed to be a Blessing Society of Four Corners, annual craft bazaar, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Daily —See ACTIVE LIST, page 25 crafts, baked goods, homemade Our Lady of the Greenwood The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Page 25

Organization, 7-9:30 p.m. Infor- service, 7 p.m. Fourth Wednesdays The Active List, continued from page 24 mation: 317-784-1102. Third Saturdays St. Thomas More Church, 1200 N. Indiana St., Mooresville. Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, 435 St. Michael the Mass until 5 p.m. Benediction. St. Thomas More Church, 1200 Brown County Widowed Mass and anointing of the sick, Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Mass, Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Information: 317-784-5454. N. Indiana St., Mooresville. Support Group, 3 p.m. Informa- 6 p.m. Information: 317-831- Mass, 8:35 a.m. Information: tion and directions: 812-988- 2 p.m. Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s Precious Infants monthly pro-life 4142. St. Peter Church, 1207 East 317-831-4142. 2778 or 812-988-4429. Third Thursdays Road, Brookville. Exposition of ministry, Mass for Life by - Last Sundays the Blessed Sacrament after St. Nicholas Church, 6461 E. Third Sundays Our Lady of Peace Mausoleum diocesan Office of Pro-Life Chapel, 9001 Haverstick Road, Holy Rosary Church, 520 8 a.m. until Communion service, St. Nicholas Dr., Sunman. Mass, Christ the King Church, 1827 Activities, 8:30 a.m., drive to Indianapolis. Mass, 2 p.m. Stevens St., Indianapolis. 1 p.m. praise and worship, 8 a.m., then Kessler Blvd., E. Dr., Indiana- Clinic for Women (abortion Novena to Our Lady of SACRED gathering in the polis. Exposition of the Blessed clinic), 3607 W. 16th St., Indian- St. Elizabeth’s Pregnancy and Perpetual Help, 11:15 a.m. Infor- Holy Guardian Angels Church, school. Sacrament, 2 p.m.-7 a.m. apolis, for rosary, return to 405 U.S. 52, Cedar Grove. Monday, rosary, 8 p.m. Open Adoption Services, 2500 church for Benediction. mation: 317-636-4478. † after 8 a.m. Second Mondays until midnight. Churchman Ave., Indianapolis. Mass-5 p.m. Daughters of Isabella, Madonna Church at Mount St. Francis. Third Mondays Circle meeting, noon, dessert for vocations to and beverages served. Informa- SS. Francis and Clare Church, St. Matthew Parish, 4100 E. 56th priesthood and religious life, tion: 317-849-5840. 5901 Olive Branch Road, 7 p.m. St., Indianapolis. Young Greenwood. Mass, 8 a.m., ado- Widowed Group, sponsored by St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. CNS photo from Reuters ration, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sacred archdiocesan Office for Family Second Tuesdays Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Heart Chaplet, 8:30 a.m., Divine Ministries, 7:30 p.m. Informa- St. Pius X Parish, 7200 Sarto Adoration of Blessed Sacrament, Mercy Chaplet, 3 p.m. Informa- tion: 317-236-1596 or 800-382- Dr., Indianapolis. Support 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Mass, 5:45 p.m. tion: 317-859-4673. 9836, ext. 1596. Group for Separated and Information: 317-244-9002. Divorced Catholics, 7 p.m. Infor- Christ the King Church, 1827 Third Wednesdays mation: Archdiocesan Office of St. Thomas More Church, 1200 Kessler Blvd. E. Dr., Indiana- Holy Name Church, 89 N. 17th Family Ministries, 317-236-1596 N. Indiana St., Mooresville. polis. Exposition of the Blessed Ave., Beech Grove. Holy hour or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. Prayer for vocations, rosary, Sacrament after 7:15 a.m. Mass- and rosary, 6 p.m. Information: eucharistic adoration, 5:30 p.m. Benediction and ser- 317-784-5454. Second Thursdays Benediction, 6 p.m. Information: vice. St. Luke Church, 7575 Holliday St. Jude Church, 5353 317-831-4142. Dr. E., Indianapolis. Holy hour McFarland Road, Indianapolis. Holy Rosary Church, 520 for priestly and religious voca- Rosary, 6:15 p.m. Information: Third Fridays Stevens St., Indianapolis. tions, 7 p.m. 317-783-1445. Marian College, St. Francis Hall All Saints’ Day Adoration of the Blessed Sacra- Chapel, 3200 Cold Spring Road, Backed by images of saints, Pope John Paul II waves to pil- ment after 5:45 p.m. Mass-9 a.m. Second Saturdays Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Indianapolis. Catholic Charis- Saturday. Information: 317-636- grims gathered in St. Peter’s Square for All Saints’ Day on St. Agnes Parish, Brown County Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., matic Renewal of Central Nov. 1, 2000. 4478. Public Library, Nashville. Indianapolis. Catholic Widowed Indiana, Mass and healing Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 5333 E. Washington St., Indian- apolis. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, prayer service,

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BEECH GROVE St. Anthony Church, 379 N. Warman Ave., Indianapolis. MOORESVILLE Exposition of the Blessed Sacra- ment after 5:30 p.m. Mass, hour of silent prayer and reflection followed by Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. Work alongside the St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacra- greatest Healer of all time. ment, 4 p.m., rosary, 5 p.m., Benediction, 5:30 p.m., Mass, 5:45 p.m. Information: 317-244- 9002.

St. Rita Church, 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Ave., Indiana- polis. Sacred Heart devotion, 11 a.m., holy hour, 6-7 p.m. Information: 317-632-9349.

Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 1530 Union St., Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacra- ment, 7:30-10:30 a.m., Mass, 6:30 a.m. Information: 317-638- 5551.

Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 1752 Scheller Lane, New Albany. Adoration con- cluding with confessions at 6 p.m. Benediction, 6:45 p.m.

St. Joseph Church, 113 S. 5th St., Terre Haute. Eucharistic adora- tion, 9 a.m.-4:45 p.m. Benedic- tion, rosary, noon, Mass, 5:15 p.m. Information: 812-235- 4996. Experience the rewards of First Saturdays working in an atmosphere PLEASE FORWARD YOUR RESUME TO: St. Francis Hospital and Health Centers, Our Lady of the Greenwood of compassionate concern, Pat Cassidy, 1600 Albany St., Church, 335 S. Meridian St., joyful service and respect Beech Grove, IN 46107 Greenwood. Devotions, Mass, 7:30 a.m., sacrament of reconcil- for life. Join the family of Ph: (317) 782-6535 Fax: (317) 783-8152 caring professionals at e-mail: [email protected] iation, rosary, meditations fol- web: jobs.StFrancisHospitals.org lowing Mass. St.Francis Hospital & Health Centers, one of Holy Angels Church, 740 W. 28th St., Indianapolis. Expo- Indiana’s leading sition of the Blessed Sacrament, healthcare providers. 11 a.m.-noon.

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Holy Family, New Albany, Jeannine (Brown) Downey. Oct. 17. Wife of Jerry Jenkins. Sister of Ruth Shinn. Grand- Mother of Mary Sue and Gary mother of six. Great-grand- ABORTION Jenkins. Sister of Donald and mother of nine. continued from page 2 Rest in peace Edwin Ullrich Jr. Grandmother RICHARDSON, Eileen, 65, of six. save the life of the mother, but does not include an excep- St. Agnes, Nashville, Oct. 11. tion for the mother’s health. JENSEN, Eileen S., 89, Please submit in writing to our Gene, Steven and Tim Deno. Wife of Ladson Richardson. A health provision would have rendered the legislation office by 10 a.m. Thursday Brother of Evelyn Coe, Wilma St. Benedict, Terre Haute, Mother of Michelle Johnson, Oct. 8. Sherry and Scott Richardson. virtually meaningless because of the broad definition of before the week of publication; Harper, Donna Metzinger, maternal health given by the Supreme Court in 1973. be sure to state date of death. James and Roger Deno. Grand- KELLEY, James Michael, 52, Sister of Thomas Murray. Obituaries of archdiocesan father of eight. St. , Clarks- Grandmother of six. President Clinton twice vetoed bills barring partial-birth abortions on grounds that there was no health exception in priests serving our archdiocese ville, Oct. 10. Son of Mary E. RICHEY, Katherine B., 77, DWYER, Melba June, 86, them. are listed elsewhere in The Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Kelley. Brother of Patricia St. Michael, Greenfield, Oct. 2. Criterion. Order priests and Oct. 13. Wife of Robert Leffew, Grant, Lyle, Paul and Wife of James H. Richey. Opponents of partial-birth abortion have fought for leg- religious sisters and brothers Dwyer. Mother of Judith Ronald Kelley. Mother of Catherine Hewitt, islation to ban it since reports on its use for late-term abor- are included here, unless they Doran and Dennis Dwyer. KRUER, Roberta Jean, 66, Jeanette Leary, Joellen Smith, tions came to light in 1993. The procedure involves draw- are natives of the archdiocese Grandmother of six. Great- St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyds James L. and Jess Richey. ing most of the body of a live fetus through the birth canal, or have other connections to it; grandmother of 11. Great- Knobs, Oct. 19. Mother of Sister of Martha Redd. Grand- then inserting a device into its head to suction the brain those are separate obituaries great-grandmother of one. Karen Book, Rhonda Herley, mother of 13. Great-grand- out, killing the child and collapsing its head to make it eas- on this page. FITZGERALD, James, 81, Sherry Ott, Victoria and mother of 11. ier to remove. BEARD, Ralph F., 73, St. Bar- St. Luke, Indianapolis, Oct. 2. Andrew Kruer Jr. Sister of RINGENBERG, Edith M., 89, The U.S. Catholic bishops sponsored two major post- tholomew, Columbus, Oct. 18. Husband of Mildred (Pope) Lillian Conley, Delores Harvey, Holy Family, New Albany, card campaigns, in 1996 and 1998, asking Catholics to Husband of Barbara P. Beard. Fitzgerald. Father of Joan Gutz- Carl, Robert and William Oct. 14. Sister of Leoda write their members of Congress urging a ban. Father of Kathleen Armentrout, willer, Patricia Lavelle, Liz Devine. Grandmother of 13. Caradonna, Flora Douglas and Delores Ferrill, Brenda, Linda Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Kiesle, Peggy Walko, John, LARSON, Rita E. (Savadge), Paul Ringenberg. and Ronald Beard. Grandfather Life, praised clergy of all denominations who have Michael and Richard Fitz- 81, St. Luke, Indianapolis, of six. RITTER, Dr. Richard J., 83, preached against partial-birth abortion and mobilized their gerald. Brother of Margaret Oct. 14. Mother of Paul David St. Michael, Greenfield, Oct. 14. congregations to lobby Congress for a ban. BRUNSMAN, Emma H., 95, Prout. Grandfather of 19. Great- Larson. St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, Father of Linda (Cowan) Huber, “It was primarily through the pulpits of America that we grandfather of two. McCARTY-LEWIS- Oct 8. Mother of Theresa Mary Roesinger, Joellen Smith, were able to tell so many people for the first time about GEILKER, John, 86, Holy McMANIGAL, Patricia Lee Holbert, Helen Laugle, Anita Therese Ritter-Inglert, Danny, this procedure,” he said. Spirit, Indianapolis, Oct. 12. (Mohr), 67, St. Michael, Peters and Alma Waywood. Jerry and Richard Ritter. Brother “Since Roe vs. Wade, public opinion on abortion hasn’t Husband of Margaret Geilker. Greenfield, Sept. 24. Mother of Grandmother of 10. Great- of Elaine Sauer. Grandfather Father of Judy Beeson and Jack Lisa Phillippi and Victoria changed much, except when this procedure came to light in grandmother of 22. of 14. Geilker. Brother of Lucile Weinberg. Grandmother of six. the mid-‘90s,” he said. “At that time, there was an observ- RUBLE, Barbara A., 71, CAHILL, Thomas J., 48, Holy Himes. Grandfather of five. able decrease in the percentages of those who claim that McSHAY, Daniel J., 49, St. Maurice, Napoleon, Oct. 23. Name, Beech Grove, Oct. 15. Step-grandfather of three. abortion should be allowed in all cases.” St. Luke, Indianapolis, Oct. 5. Wife of Orvel Ruble. Mother of Husband of L. (Helms) Great-grandfather of five. Step- Douglas Johnson, legislative director of the National Father of Colleen and Mindy Susan Meadows, Rose Cahill. Father of Amy Hawkins, great-grandfather of seven. Right to Life Committee, noted that in a 5-4 decision in Michelle Koss, Sandra Self, McShay. Son of John and Mary Mozingo, Roger Jones and HORN, John Earl, 85, Sacred Lou McShay. Brother of Michael Ruble. Sister of 2000 the Supreme Court struck down a Nebraska law ban- Jeffrey Helms, Christopher and ning partial-birth abortions. James Cahill. Son of Heart, Jeffersonville, Oct. 12. Jeffrey, Kevin and Michael Rosemary Reasoner and and Marjorie (Schuster) Cahill. Husband of Dorothy Horn. McShay. Kenneth Schoettmer. Grand- “Congress is now inviting the Supreme Court to re- Brother of Christie Denzen, Father of James and John Horn. MILLER, William G., 61, mother of 11. Great-grand- examine that extreme and inhumane decision,” he said. Anne Elliott, Cathy Huser, Brother of Tom Horn. Grand- St. Christopher, Indianapolis, mother of 18. Johnson also sharply criticized the Planned Parenthood Helen Stephon, Edward, John father of five. Great-grandfather Oct. 17. Husband of Linda Federation of America, a leading opponent of the new law, of one. SCHMITT, Richard B., 85, and Michael Cahill. Grand- Miller. Father of Andrew, Bill, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, for a September press release that said the legislation father of six. HUTCHISON, Julie Pauline, Eric and Michael Miller. Oct. 11. Father of Michael would “outlaw a medical procedure used primarily in DENO, Gerald A., 65, 79, Holy Name, Beech Grove, Grandfather of six. Schmitt. Grandfather of two. emergency abortions.” St. Michael, Greenfield, Oct. 1. Oct. 7. Mother of Paul NELMS, Melba F., 87, The procedure is performed primarily on healthy moth- Hutchison. SCHROEDER, Martin, 79, Husband of Reta (Anderson) St. Michael the Archangel, Holy Family, Richmond, ers with healthy babies, and claims that it was chiefly an Deno. Father of Shari Jacobs, JENKINS, Carolyn A., 60, Indianapolis, Oct. 8. Mother of Oct. 16. Husband of Norma emergency procedure were “thoroughly discredited” in the Carnes Schroeder. Father of mid-‘90s, Johnson said. Pamela Parker, Bill, Bob and Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the American Center for David Schroeder. Stepfather of Law and Justice, said the center, a public-interest law Sallye Creech, Amy Shake, firm specializing in constitutional and pro-life issues, Lisa Simmons, Julie Stout and “will work aggressively to see that this ban clears the Jeff Carnes. Brother of JoAnn legal challenges and survives the constitutional attacks Physicians of Indiana Dixon. Grandfather of eight. that will follow. Step-grandfather of 11. Great- “It’s clear that both Congress and most Americans want grandfather of one. to see this gruesome procedure outlawed,” he said. † URBANCIC, Henry, 86, St. Anthony, Indianapolis, Plum Creek Oct. 5. Husband of Marilyn Providence Sister Mary Slattery Urbancic. Father of Sheryl Ball, Family Medicine Laurie Bremmer, Karen was a teacher and pastoral associate Vandever, Julie Wade and Mark Providence Sister Mary School in Indianapolis from Urbancic. Brother of Bertha Slattery died on Oct. 22 in 1964-68. In 1968-69, she PLUM CREEK is pleased to announce Gorka and Justin Urbancic. Grandfather of nine. Great- Lourdes Hall at Saint Mary- taught music at Immaculate FAMILY MEDICINE grandfather of two. of-the-Woods. She was 79. Heart of Mary School in 1303 N. Arlington Ave., Suite 5 The Mass of Christian Indianapolis and religious Sacha Niemi, M.D. WILLIAMS, Justine L. Indianapolis, IN 46219 Burial was celebrated on education classes at (Baker), 80, St. Gabriel, Indian- Oct. 27 in the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (317) 355-2800 apolis, Oct. 12. Mother of Is now accepting new patients! Barbara Lee, Donald and Gary at Parish. Most insurance accepted. Williams. Sister of Mary Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. From 1969-71, she served Chermansky, Annie Fletcher and Burial followed in the sis- as director of religious edu- Joe Klobucar. Grandmother of ters’ cemetery. cation for the Terre Haute eight. Great-grandmother of The former Patricia Deanery. From 1971-72, she Michele R. Stookey, M.D. Holly Simpson, M.D. Sacha Niemi, M.D. eight. † Louise Slattery was born on continued the same ministry Jan. 3, 1924, in Los Angeles. for the Seymour Deanery, She entered the congrega- and from 1972-75 she tion of the Sisters of Provi- served as director of reli- ‘‘Help us to help others'' dence on Feb. 1, 1942, pro- gious education for the fessed first vows on Aug. 15, Batesville Deanery. TRI-COUNTY 1944, and professed final Sister Mary also taught CRITICAL vows on Aug. 15, 1949. religion classes at Roncalli ASPHALT Sister Mary taught music High School in Indianapolis NEED for Paving Indiana Since 1948 in schools staffed by the from 1975-78 then served as Sisters of Providence in a clerical assistant for the CALL FOR YOUR FREE ESTIMATES Indiana, Illinois, Maryland congregation’s St. Gabriel Refrigerators, Gas Stoves, and Oklahoma. Province in Indianapolis From 1989-99, Sister from 1978-80. Washers, and all types of • RESIDENTIAL DRIVEWAYS Mary served as pastoral She taught religion and • SEALCOATING associate of St. Patrick music appreciation classes at Furniture and Bedding. Parish in Indianapolis. Cathedral High School in Discounts for Senior Citizens For six years, she served Indianapolis from 1980-85. We also need VOLUNTEERS – men and as director of religious edu- Sister Mary taught music and non-profit organizations cation for the Terre Haute, at Sacred Heart School in women to work in our Seymour and Batesville Evansville, Ind., in the warehouse at 1209 East Maryland St. on CALL: 317-849-9901 deaneries. Evansville Diocese, from Wednesdays or Saturdays Sister Mary taught music 1946-48. 317-356-1334 at St. Joan of Arc School in She ministered as a com- Indianapolis and religious panion to the elderly in For FREE pickup or to volunteer, call: 317-862-2967 education classes at St. Joan Indianapolis from 1999- LICENSED & BONDED BY THE CITY OF INDIANAPOLIS of Arc Parish from 1957-64. 2002. 317-687-1006 She also taught music at She is survived by several St. cousins. † The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003 Page 27

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The coordinator works closely sider making their first collective statement on agriculture Beech Grove Indianapolis Mooresville with the campus chaplain and the music coordinator in 14 years when they review a new document called “For as well as with the Liturgy Committee. I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food” during their fall general meeting on Nov. 10-13. Subtitled “Catholic Administrative Assistant, Qualifications: BA or BS required as well as docu- Reflections on Food, Farmers and Farmworkers,” the pro- Stewardship and Development mented experience in the preparation and planning of posed document outlines principles on agriculture policy liturgy. Interested candidates may send a letter of and domestic and international trade issues. 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Duties include meeting preparation and fol- You may visit our website at www.spsmw.org works of mercy Jesus describes to the Apostles, telling low-up, correspondence, record maintenance, donor them that “whatever you did for one of these least brothers assistance, and special projects. of mine, you did for me.” The draft document observes The position requires knowledge of Microsoft Office that the “increasing concentration and growing globaliza- programs, especially Word and Excel, attention to tion” of agriculture are having the effect of “pushing some detail, excellent communications skills, commitment to Part-Time Office Help ahead and leaving others behind.” customer service, and ability to prioritize and meet project deadlines. We are seeking individuals who are WORLD committed to and model our core values of integrity, Evenings & Weekends cooperation, service, and stewardship. Italian judge sets off debate after Please send cover letter, résumé, and list of references Fax (317) 545-0095 to: ordering removal of crucifix Ed Isakson or ROME (CNS) — A judge in central Italy set off a Director, Human Resources debate involving Catholics, Muslims and politicians Archdiocese of Indianapolis E-mail résumé to: after he ordered the removal of crucifixes from class- P.O. Box 1410 rooms in an elementary school. Mario Montanaro, a Indianapolis, IN 46206 [email protected] judge in the court at L’Aquila, ruled Oct. 25 that laws E-mail: [email protected] requiring schools to have a crucifix in every classroom Fax: (317) 261-3389 before November 15 showed preference for Catholicism and ignored the role of other religions in society. He gave the elementary Equal Opportunity Employer school in the town of Ofena 30 days to remove the cruci- fixes. The case was started by Adel Smith, president of Fatima Retreat House the Muslim Union of Italy, whose children attend the Advertise in The Criterion! Ofena school. Bishop Giuseppe Betori, general secretary 5353 East 56th Street of the Italian bishops’ conference, said Oct. 26 the Indiana’s Largest Weekly Newspaper Indianapolis, IN 46226 judge’s decision violated national laws passed in the 1920s that have never been changed by Parliament nor Call 236-1572 to advertise! overturned by a constitutional court. † Page 28 The Criterion Friday, October 31, 2003

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