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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI named 22 new cardinals, including two from the United States, and announced a consistory for their formal induction into the College of Cardinals on Feb. 18. Among those named were Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher Cardinal-designate of Jerusalem who Timothy M. Dolan still is administering the Archdiocese of Baltimore; and Archbishop Thomas C. Collins of Toronto. The pope announced the nominations to the faithful in St. Peter’s In his 50th year of Catholic education, Bob Tully still connects with students as the chairperson of campus ministry at Roncalli High School in Indian- Square at noon on apolis. Here, Tully visits with Roncalli seniors, John Caito, left, and Sean Dunlap during a lunch period on Jan. 3. Jan. 6 before praying the Angelus. Cardinal-designate Bob Tully gives his hand to God and his heart to Cardinal-designate O’Brien, who was in Edwin F. O’Brien St. Peter’s Square students in five decades of Catholic education when his name was announced, said his priestly life has been “a surprise at every step. By John Shaughnessy This time, a hint of life. Tully recalls. “You don’t always see what I thought being appointed archbishop of As the doctors operated on Tully, the you’re accomplishing.” Baltimore would be the last surprise, but I It wasn’t supposed to be like this for news about his sudden change of health The story of his close call with death on was wrong.” Bob Tully—at the edge of death with raced through the Roncalli community. Jan. 18, 2011, reveals the faith, the impact He told Catholic News Service that the someone trying to shock his heart back People prayed. Father Stephen Banet, the and the spirit of Tully, who recently ministries he had been appointed to, and now to life. pastor of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis, celebrated his 50 years of service in his elevation to cardinal, were not things he When Tully entered the hospital, the where Tully is a member, rushed to the Catholic education. could “anticipate, navigate or engineer. It’s longtime teacher-coach-bus driver-and- hospital. Longtime friend Father Gerald Still, there is one telling part of Tully— just a matter of being open and in the right campus minister at Roncalli High School in Kirkhoff followed closely. his robust sense of humor—that is missing place at the right time and good things Indianapolis was scheduled to have a stent Hours later, Tully pulled through the from that story, at least until he shares an happen.” placed in one of his arteries. Yet during the operation. anecdote about nearly entering the after-life. In separate statements, the procedure, the artery ruptured. In the days after he came so close to “My wife asked me if I saw the light,” North American cardinals were quick to Tully was rushed into open heart death, Tully realized just how much his life Tully says. “I said, ‘No.’ Then one of my stress the collective rather than the personal surgery. Shock paddles were pressed meant to so many people. granddaughters asked me if I had felt the nature of the honor. against his chest. “I got hundreds of cards, letters, phone heat. I said, ‘No.’ Neither one of them “This is not about Timothy Dolan,” the His heart still didn’t beat. calls and flowers from people telling me wanted me.’ ” New York cardinal-designate said. “This is an They shocked Tully’s heart again. how much I meant to them and their kids,” See TULLY, page 2 honor from the Holy Father to the See CARDINALS, page 20 Right-to-work issue dominating initial stages of 2012 session By Brigid Curtis Ayer strategy of not showing up to halt the consideration, Church leaders recognize the process, but returned to work on Jan. 9 while important moral issues affecting people on What’s the “right-to-work” debate all keeping open the option of leaving again. both sides of the “right-to-work” debate. about? So significant are some of the moral In their statement, the bishops recognize Is it about freedom for Indiana workers, an stakes of the bill regarding the right to a just both the importance of workers’ rights to opportunity for economic growth and a wage, free association and matters of receive a just wage and to form unions. chance to create conscience, that the five Indiana Catholic At the same time, the bishops also jobs? Or is it bishops have weighed-in by issuing a two- support the right of individuals to be free about reducing page statement last month on from being forced to pay representation fees the strength of “right-to-work” detailing the Church’s to the union, particularly if the union unions and concerns and offering guidance. supports organizations or candidates that creating the The bishops’ statement reiterates the support abortion or same-sex marriage. “right-to-work for less” that critics claim? intrinsic value and respect for the human The bishops state, “Workers must be The answer is not clear. What is clear is person as the core value of Catholic social paid a wage that allows them to live a truly that the issue has dominated the initial stages teaching. human life and to fulfill their family of the 2012 legislative session. It states, “This dignity [of the human obligation. The Church supports the right of Gov. Mitch Daniels, Speaker of the House person] grounds certain rights including [but groups of employees to freely associate and Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, and Senate not limited to] the right to a just wage; the to form unions.” President Pro Tem David. Long, R-Ft. Wayne, right to a working environment that is not The bishops also address concerns with have made passing a “right-to-work” bill a harmful to the workers’ physical health or to certain unions’ activities. “Of particular priority. Republicans have tied its passage to their moral integrity; and the right to concern are unions that use their resources the economic well-being of the state. assembly and form associations. to support politicians or political parties that Democrats, with strong labor union While the Church will remain neutral on clearly devalue the sanctity of human life or sympathies, initially repeated last year’s the specific “right-to-work” legislation under See INDIANA, page 20 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012

our energy and gifts to make things happen.’ I think that’s Bob’s TULLY greatest gift to us—the enthusiasm Submitted photo continued from page 1 for making our futures possible, The secret to happiness with God and the power of prayer.” John Shaughnessy Photo by While the story of Tully’s near Hollowell pauses, laughs and death sheds light on how much he adds, “Of course, if you want to means to so many people, it also know the true story of Bob Tully, serves as a starting point for you’d have to see him on a football understanding how much those field. He’s extremely animated and five decades of influencing the lives very motivational. As much as kids of high school students have meant loved him in the classroom, they to him. loved him even more as a coach.” “There have been so many good Roncalli’s principal Chuck memories and so many good Weisenbach won’t forget the A younger Bob Tully smiles after he people who have come into my first time he heard Tully as a received a plaque in recognition of life,” he says. “God’s generosity football coach. 20 years of service at Roncalli High amazes me. I tell the kids here, ‘If I “As a child, my first house School in Indianapolis. Tully could convince you to put your butted up to Roncalli,” Weisenbach recently reached 50 years of service hand in God’s every day, that’s the recalls. “It was in the ‘60s when to Catholic education on Jan. 9, secret to happiness.’ Does that there was no air conditioning. It One of the joys of life for Bob Tully, left, is the time he gets to spend with his son, 2012, which was also his mean everything goes great? No. I would be seven in the morning, and Michael, while both work at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. 70th birthday. went through open heart surgery. this loud voice would be booming But I received a lot of love and and yelling at football players. It struggling, which kids’ parents are grown daughter, Leigh Ann, with students and adults. He challenged support. Why would I want to was Bob.” getting divorced, which kids’ dog his wife of 46 years, MaryPat. students to be their very best, and change that? Why wouldn’t I want Still, Tully’s most lasting impact has died,” Weisenbach says. “The “We were told he would be a gave them the tools and the to keep teaching?” on Weisenbach came later. kids clearly keep him going. It’s vegetable his whole life. All the motivation to become that person.” When Tully turned 70 on Jan. 9, “I was a student of his,” almost like he has an intravenous priests, the Sisters of St. Joseph, Tully has no plans to end that it also marked the 50th anniversary Weisenbach says. “I’d say the bloodline to the kids.” the Sisters of Providence, the connection with students. At 70, of signing his first education impact he had on me is the same At 16, Roncalli sophomore Sisters of St. Benedict and the with 50 years of experience, he still contract with the archdiocese. impact he has today. He has an Daulton Kramer describes Tully’s whole south side community loves being Roncalli’s chairperson “I signed it on my birthday in innate ability to make young people impact succinctly. prayed for him. Now I have a of campus ministry. He beams 1962,” he says. “That contract was feel good about themselves and “He just makes your day,” miracle walking in my home, a when he mentions the students’ a whopper. It was $1,800 a year. I who God wants them to be. He did Daulton says. “I also had him as a miracle who tells me every day response to helping people in thought I was rich. And I ended up that for me. I can still remember his sub in my Catholic Worship class, that he loves me. He works here need on the Saturday before being rich.” disposition as a teacher— and he was the best.” at Roncalli. He has a normal life. Thanksgiving in 2011: how they He started work at passionate about you as a student, Tully especially reaches out to I attribute that to all the prayers.” donated 150 pints of blood, how Bishop Chartrand High School in and passionate about you having students who are often overlooked. More than a few people regard they collected more than Indianapolis, where he taught Christ in your life.” “He has an incredible gift for Tully’s life as a living prayer. 85,000 cans of food, and how religion, cleaned toilets, washed connecting with the kids who are 300 registered to be potential bone floors and coached football, Living life as a prayer out on the fringe,” Weisenbach 50 years, one hope marrow donors. basketball and track. He continued After the open heart surgery, says. “Maybe they don’t like “He’s one of the most “I’m in the kid business,” he his multi-purpose approach to Tully’s doctor recommended that school. Maybe they don’t care dedicated and dynamic youth says. “I love the way they respond. Catholic education when he stop coaching. Tully reluctantly about religion. And he has a way of leaders I’ve ever met,” says I love looking forward to coming Bishop Chartrand High School and did, but he hasn’t stopped pouring connecting with them. They have a Bill Sahm, the president of to work. It’s been 50 years of John F. Kennedy Memorial High his attention and energy into hard look on their face, and after a Bishop Chatard High School in goodness, of great things.” School merged to become connecting with students during semester with Bob Tully, they want Indianapolis whose longtime Fifty years that have always Roncalli High School in 1969. Roncalli’s four lunch periods. to run the canned food drive.” friendship with Tully started in come down to one constant hope “The first word that comes to He’s all over the cafeteria, Tully has seen how that kind of 1977 when Sahm began a 7-year for Tully. mind about him is energy,” says greeting students, hugging them, caring has made a difference in his stint of teaching and coaching “I want a student to believe his Joseph Hollowell, Roncalli’s asking them questions, leaning own family. at Roncalli. life has become better because of president. “He’s relentlessly toward them to hear their answers “Our son, Michael, was born “He has a God-given gift for knowing me, and my life has positive, giving rise to a can-do and listen to their concerns. [in 1974] with a multitude of birth always looking at the bright side of become better because of philosophy that says, ‘We can put “He knows which kids are defects,” says Tully, who also has a things and always challenging both knowing him.” † Archdiocesan Directory and Yearbook to go online exclusively By Brandon A. Evans colleges and other institutions. and in what way it will be available is uncertain, “We have been moving toward an online especially because the directory files are only After printing an official Directory and version of the Archdiocesan Directory for quite updated once a year, whereas parish listings at Archdiocese of Indianapolis Yearbook for more than 30 years, the a while,” said Greg Otolski, executive director www.archindy.org/parishes and priest and Archdiocese of Indianapolis has decided to of communications, which oversees Criterion staff listings at www.archindy.org/staff are offer the full directory online for free and to Press, Inc. “For the past several years, we have updated regularly. cease publishing a print version. been increasing the amount of information “We are constantly evaluating the The current directory can now be viewed in about the archdiocese on the archdiocesan archdiocesan website and looking for the best separate PDF files at website.” and simplest way to give readers the information www.archindy.org/directory or as one large file. In previous years, the 300-plus page they want about the archdiocese and its parishes, The files can also be downloaded or printed. directory was mailed to every parish and made schools and agencies,” Otolski said. The annual publication contains available for purchase online or at the Past issues of the directory, including the information about parishes, pastors, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic inaugural two-part edition in 1978, can be parish staff, schools and their staffs, Center in Indianapolis. viewed upon request at the Catholic Center, religious education staff, archdiocesan This year, a “mini-directory” was printed 1400 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis. administration, offices and agencies, exclusively for parishes, and the entire Questions about the new online version of Directory and Yearbook telephone numbers, Mass times, parish directory was placed online. It looks on a the directory or any problems accessing the files 2012 addresses and e-mail addresses. It also computer screen exactly as it would look in should be directed to [email protected]. includes photos and biographical information print. People who would like a printed version for priests, deacons, parish life coordinators, of the directory can make copies on their (To browse the 2012 Archdiocesan Directory religious women and men ministering in the printer at home. and Yearbook online, log on to archdiocese, Catholic chaplaincies, hospitals, How the directory will look in the future www.archindy.org/directory.) †

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Wade WASHINGTON (CNS)—One thing that always stands out in the annual marches and rallies in Washington and across the country marking the anniversary of the Lockley CNS photo/Peter U.S. Supreme Court’s decision legalizing abortion is the crowd. “People are always surprised by the number of pro-lifers that show up in Washington and in their own Carol Tobias state capitals,” said Carol Tobias, president of the National Right to Life Committee. “The crowds are getting bigger and bigger each year and have more young people, which is encouraging for the pro-life movement and a shock for those who think abortion should remain legal,” she told Catholic News Service on Jan. 4. And based on expected turnouts, this year will be no exception. Tens of thousands of people from across the United States are expected to gather in the nation’s capital on Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life participants make their way up Constitution Avenue to the Supreme Court building in Washington on Jan. 24, 2011. Tens of thousands of people March for Life in Washington with the from across the United States are expected to gather in the nation's capital on Jan. 23 for this year’s March for Life. theme: “Unite on the life principles to overturn Roe v. Wade and with love protect with a Jan. 22 vigil Mass. Cardinal Daniel rallying-spirit will continue with several country will attend local events sponsored mothers and preborn children—no N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, pro-life organizations sponsoring the by their dioceses and pro-life organizations. exception, no compromise.” chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life National Pro-Life Youth Rally near the For the second year, the Midwest The event falls on a Monday, the Activities for the U.S. Conference of Supreme Court. March for Life will hold a banquet dinner day after the 39th anniversary of the Catholic Bishops, will be the principal Other Washington events related to the on Jan. 18 and a march and rally the next Roe v. Wade decision, to allow participants celebrant and homilist. Roe anniversary include the Cardinal day in Jefferson City, Mo., the to visit their representatives on Capitol Hill Marchers are invited to stay in the O’Connor Conference on Life at Jesuit-run state capital. after a noon rally on the National Mall and a basilica’s lower level to sleep overnight and Georgetown University on Jan. 22 for “We feel the Midwest is ripe for a march along Constitution Avenue to the participate in various services, including a college and high school students featuring a huge event,” said Kathy Forck, Supreme Court. rosary, confessions, hourly holy hours, night keynote address by Philadelphia Archbishop coordinator of Columbia (Mo.) 40 Days Next year’s march and rally in prayer and morning prayer, concluding with Charles J. Chaput; two Rock for Life for Life, a local group that is part of a Washington is slated for Friday, Jan. 25, a morning Mass celebrated by New York concerts—on Jan. 21 and 22; speeches at national campaign to end abortion. Forck because the Jan. 22 anniversary will fall on Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, USCCB the Supreme Court during the march hoped this year’s turnout would exceed a Tuesday, the day after public ceremonies president. sponsored by the Silent No More Awareness last year’s, especially since the March for for the presidential inauguration, and For the 16th year, the Archdiocese of Campaign; and a Jan. 23 Mass at Life in Washington and the West Coast organizers said they were not able to secure Washington will sponsor its annual pro-life St. Aloysius Church in Washington Walk draw so many participants. an adequate number of hotel rooms. youth Mass and rally the morning of Jan. 23. sponsored by the Ignatian Pro-Life Network, Tobias, who began her term as The night before this year’s rally, The popularity of the event prompted the a union of pro-life groups from Jesuit high National Right to Life president last March for Life organizers are planning a archdiocese to hold this event in two sports schools, colleges universities and parishes. April, said a number of the state rallies mini-rally in Lafayette Park across from venues last year—the Verizon Center and Although Washington draws the biggest this year will likely focus on new the White House. They are also sponsoring a the D.C. Armory—to accommodate a crowd crowd making a stand against legalized legislation passed in five states that youth rally that night at a Washington hotel. totaling about 28,000. abortion, similar events take place on a prohibits abortions after the 20th week of A capacity crowd of about The event includes a concert, smaller scale across the country. pregnancy, the stage of development 20,000 pilgrims is expected to fill the confessions, praying the rosary, and Mass, For the eighth year, the West Coast Walk when a fetus is said to feel pain. Basilica of the National Shrine of the before most of the crowd heads to the for Life expects to draw thousands of Fetal pain legislation passed in Immaculate Conception for the annual annual March for Life. pro-life supporters to San Francisco on Nebraska in 2010 and in Idaho, Kansas, National Prayer Vigil for Life, which begins After the March for Life, the Jan. 21. Thousands more people around the Oklahoma and Alabama last year. † Rape victim who chose life for unborn child will speak at pro-life rally on Jan. 23 By Mary Ann Garber Mercy for an end to abortion. Indianapolis, will also speak during the pro-life rally. During the rally, Carl will share her inspirational story of They will discuss their ministries as post-abortion Liz Carl’s story is painful yet uplifting. hope and healing about giving birth to her son. She speaks at reconciliation facilitators for the archdiocesan Rachel’s She is a courageous rape survivor who conceived a pro-life events in cities and on college campuses throughout Vineyard Retreats and other Project Rachel programs. child during that tragic act of violence then chose life for the nation as well as in other countries. “There are a tremendous number of women and men her unborn baby and placed her newborn son for adoption. In 2010, she addressed the United Nations that have experienced abortion and are part of our The University of Louisville graduate and “Conference on the Status of Women.” Church,” Sister Diane said. “For them, the anniversary of Louisville, Ky., resident is the keynote speaker for the As the keynote speaker at the 2011 March for Life in Roe v. Wade is very painful. archdiocese’s second annual Local Solemn Observance of Brussels, Belgium, Carl discussed the need to respect and “Very often, those who have experienced abortion will Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that protect the dignity and sanctity of human life before an say that they feel judged by those around them,” she said. legalized abortion in the United States during all audience estimated at 4,000 people. “That has to change. I want them to know that the Church nine months of pregnancy. “It made me feel ashamed,” Carl said about her rape. “It and the pro-life community embrace them and want to The Local Solemn Observance made me feel disgusted. But I think the worst thing for a help them. We must be unconditionally supportive and of the 39th anniversary of legalized rape victim is abortion. Every woman is strong enough to loving to those who have had that terrible experience. abortion is “a prayerful love her baby. … It’s a travesty that a child must die.” “They are our brothers and sisters, and have made demonstration of our faith in the Sister Diane said she decided to invite Carl to speak at tragic choices and suffered as a result,” Sister Diane said. Lord of Life,” explained Servants the Local Solemn Observance because “all life is worth “It’s only through Christ’s love, God’s graces and the of the Gospel of Life Sister living and no one should be exempt from that right to life, sacraments that post-abortive individuals will experience Diane Carollo, director of the including those children who are unfortunately conceived in peace, happiness and holiness.” archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life such a terrible manner. The next archdiocesan Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat is Ministry. “Many politicians will say that they oppose abortion March 23-25 at a confidential location, she said, and the The observance begins with except in the cases of rape and incest,” Sister Diane said. registration deadline is March 7. Mass at noon on Jan. 23 at “That’s always troubled me because those innocent lives are “Women and men that are struggling with the Liz Carl SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in just as worthy. … Even lives conceived in rape or incest aftermath of abortion should not be afraid to begin the Indianapolis. should be afforded the full protection of the law.” healing process,” Sister Diane said. “The first step takes a Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor of St. Luke the As a Church and a nation, she said, “we have to be lot of courage, but they have nothing to lose and Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, who also serves as unconditionally pro-life.” everything to gain from this healing retreat. Jesus is the vicar for religious and director of the archdiocesan Abortion doesn’t erase the horror of rape from a woman’s Divine Healer, and through the retreats he reaches out to Mission Office, will be the principal celebrant. mind, Sister Diane said. It only intensifies her agony and those who are in pain.” After the liturgy, pro-life supporters will participate in a suffering as she also grieves the death of her baby. peaceful and prayerful Respect Life March south on “We must change the laws,” she said. “We must have a (For more information about the archdiocese’s North Meridian Street to 11th Street then cross the street culture that promotes and respects human life, and supports Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat on March 23-25, call and walk north to 16th Street before returning to the it by law.” Sister Diane Carollo at 317-236-1521 or 800-382-9836, cathedral for the inspirational rally. Father Glenn O’Connor, pastor of St. Ann and St. Joseph ext. 1521, or post-abortion reconciliation facilitator Marchers will carry banners with beautiful photographs parishes in Indianapolis, and Pauline Kattady, a social Bernadette Roy at 317-452-0054. All calls are of young babies, and pray the rosary and Chaplet of Divine worker and member of St. John the Evangelist Parish in confidential.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012

OPINION Be Our Guest/Natalie Hoefer Implementation of new Roman Missal will help us grow in our lives of faith Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher This is in response to the letter to the on the new translation is A Biblical Walk GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus editor published in the Dec. 16 issue of through the Mass: Understanding What We John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus The Criterion about the new English Say and Do In The Liturgy by Edward Sri. translation of the Roman Missal. Should we not be putting our “treasures” In the letter, some questions were posed to help the poor? that I would like to answer: 1) Is the cost of What are the potential results in learning Editorial the new Roman Missal translation changes more about the new translation? A renewed worth it? 2) Is this change really going to participation and interest in Mass, a make a change in my faith? 3) Should we renewed joy in our Catholic faith, and a Father Dusin instead be putting our “treasures” to help desire to live that faith through works of Boehm smiles the poor? mercy and sharing that faith with others. So while receiving a The changes were requested by this new translation is a long-term sign of peace Blessed Pope John Paul II during his investment in helping the poor—both the from another File photo by MaryFile photo by Ann Garber pontificate after an extensive review of the materially and spiritually poor! priest during his first round of translations following the To summarize, while I appreciate the June 4, 2011, Second Vatican Council. At the time, it was writer’s concern for finances and wanting to ordination that judged that some content was missing in help the poor, I propose this: If we take the occurred at the old way of translation, and some time to learn the why behind the changes, SS. Peter and prayers were skewed. there is the increased Paul Cathedral in While no study potential to regain Indianapolis. identifies the results of belief in the Real the 1975 translation, it is According to another Presence, return to hard not to look at some weekly Mass, grow in current statistics and CARA poll, only relationship with God wonder if there isn’t a 22 percent of Catholics through renewed awe correlation. attended Mass weekly and reverence, and a A survey by the desire to live out their Center for Applied in 2011. renewed faith in the Research in the world, including Apostolate (CARA) in serving the poor. 2008 showed that only Given this potential, A recipe for happiness 57 percent of Catholics believed in the real I believe the changes—and the printed presence of Christ in the Eucharist material to assist their implementation—are e invite you to read the many they consider a grace from God, and (http://cara.georgetown.edu/ priceless. Wstories in our annual Religious 88.9 percent have a good morale. masseucharist.pdf). Am I reading too much into the value Vocations Supplement that begin on We haven’t seen data from studies of According to another CARA poll, only and pricelessness of the new translation? I page 7. women religious or brothers—although 22 percent of Catholics attended Mass will let the U.S. bishops answer that: Do you remember just a few years ago they might exist—but we would bet that weekly in 2011. “The entire Church in the United States when the clerical sex-abuse scandal they would have similar results. I’d say those are some pretty big costs. has been blessed with this opportunity to seemed to be in the news constantly that Those of us who know priests and Is this change really going to make a deepen its understanding of the sacred people were certain it would badly religious, both men and women, aren’t change in my faith? liturgy, and to appreciate its meaning and damage seminaries? Why would men surprised. Besides, the conclusions are in If Catholics only memorize the words of importance in our lives. Because the sacred accept a vocation to the priesthood when line with social science research that the new translation, it is likely their faith liturgy is the central action of the Church’s priests were being looked at as potential clearly shows that people with a strong will not change. But if one takes a little mission in the world, the energy and child abusers? spiritual life and religious faith are usually time and effort to learn the “why” behind attention given over to the Roman Missal Well, the opposite has occurred. happy and well adjusted. As Msgr. the changes, there is much potential for actually serves as the foundation for all of Enrollment in seminaries has been on Rossetti said, “Frankly, the reality is that growth. the other charitable and apostolic work in the rise. In our archdiocese, both religion is good for you, psychologically These changes provide the opportunity which the Church engages. It is the sacred Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of and spiritually.” to learn about the history and development liturgy which informs, inspires and Theology and Bishop Simon Bruté Still, we are sure that some people will of the Mass, the role of the priest and the nourishes the rest of the Church’s work in College Seminary are at capacity, with wonder how priests can be so happy when laity, and especially to nurture a new awe the world. As the ‘Constitution on the plans for expansion at both places well they’re expected to live a celibate life, and and reverence for Christ’s presence in the Liturgy’ states, ‘the liturgy is the summit under way. they know that they probably will be Eucharist and the mystery of the Mass. toward which the activity of the Church is According to Benedictine Father overworked. If they don’t know that There are many resources to help. directed; at the same time it is the font from Brendan Moss, director of enrollment at before they enter the seminary, they will Three websites to visit include Our Sunday which all her power flows’ ”(# 10) St. Meinrad, its increase started five years learn it while they are there in formation. Visitor (www.osv.com), www.catholic.com (http://old.usccb.org/romanmissal/). ago and has continued each year. Nevertheless, a full 75.1 percent of the and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Those seminaries mirror what is priests surveyed said not only that they Bishops’ website at www.usccb.org. (Natalie Hoefer is a member of St. Monica happening in other seminaries, according are happy to be living a celibate life, but A very helpful, easy-to-read book, based Parish in Indianapolis.) † to a study by the Center for Applied that celibacy has been a personal grace. In Research in the Apostolate. In the most fact, 82.1 percent said that they would recent report last April, it said that choose to remain celibate if priests were Letter to the Editor there were 3,608 post-baccalaureate allowed to marry. U.S. seminarians last year, an increase of As for being overworked, most priests New translation of Roman Missal 4 percent over the previous year and the see their ministry as a gift from God and highest number since the early 1990s. as the opportunity to serve others. It gives helps us honor, praise and glorify Jesus It’s not just numbers either. In the story them a purpose in life that many people This is in response to the letter in the But then read on. “The poor you have we published in our Dec. 2 issue of might not have. Dec. 16 issue of The Criterion, “At what always with you, but you will not always The Criterion about the increase in Today there are other Church-related cost—literally—is new translation of have me.” seminary enrollment, Father Phillip ministries besides the priesthood, Roman Missal?” What is the cost to honor Jesus, to praise J. Brown of Theological College in permanent diaconate and religious life. I, too, find it hard to understand why and glorify him? What is the mission of the Washington emphasized, “I’m We are speaking, of course, of lay “the spending of thousands of dollars to Church? Is it to spread the Good News or tremendously impressed with the quality ecclesial ministers. All of us have change a few words” was necessary. take care of the poor? of the candidates, their zeal. We’re seeing vocations, but we are writing in this But suddenly the Gospel of Matthew Seems like the Scriptures are always a real renewal of the priesthood.” week’s issue about religious vocations. 26:6-13 came to mind: “Why this waste? new and, yes, “Good News.” I think Jesus The priests in charge of Saint Meinrad The number of people serving the Church … The money could have been given to is worth it! and Bishop Bruté have expressed similar in lay ministry positions also continues to the poor.” Indeed, there are so many sentiments. increase every year. needs “out there.” It only seems “just Norbert Schott It’s doubtful that many of those Why are we witnessing such an and right.” Roachdale seminarians are there because they read upsurge in the number of people who are Msgr. Stephen J. Rossetti’s new book, but devoting their lives to the Church, Let us pray for the right to life and for it would certainly be an encouragement. especially now when our society is The book is Why Priests Are Happy: A becoming more secular? Could it be every baby who needs our protection Study of the Psychological and Spiritual precisely because of that? After watching yet another plea for the We need the same type and amount of Health of Priests, published by Could it be that they become care of abandoned animals, I felt compelled commercials for the right to life. Ave Maria Press. disillusioned with those things in their to put in a word for our abandoned babies— I wonder if any celebrity would have the That book contains data from a survey secular lives that society says are namely, the tiny victims of abortion in our courage to speak out in that fashion? taken in 2009 of 2,482 priests from supposed to make us happy? culture. Christmas is the celebration of the birth 23 dioceses, and a survey in 2004 of The priesthood, the diaconate and I love animals too, and believe they of a baby. Let us all pray for Jesus our 1,242 priests from 16 dioceses. It religious life seems to be a recipe for should be treated kindly. Savior, and for every baby who needs our confirms, among other things, that happiness—in this life and in the next. However, when we are besieged by protection. 92.4 percent of priests are happy overall advertisements for animal care while there being a priest, 94.9 percent feel a joy that —John F. Fink are abortion clinics everywhere, it shows the Rebecca Barnes horrendously skewed values of our people. Indianapolis The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Page 5 Black Catholics’ survey finds strong ties, strong engagement in the Church WASHINGTON (CNS)—African-American Catholics 63 percent of white Protestants saying “well” or “very well,” are much more engaged in the Church on a variety of levels while just 41 percent of white Catholics said so. than are white Catholics, concludes the first National Black Bishop Ricard said the finding that black Catholics are Catholic Survey. almost as at-ease in mixed or mostly white parishes as they Whether in a majority black parish, a mixed or mostly are in majority black parishes shows that efforts have been white parish, the survey found that African-American successful in helping African-Americans to feel a part of the CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Catholics feel satisfied and fulfilled in their parishes, Catholic Church and make it their own. explained retired Bishop John H. Ricard of That model could hold lessons for dioceses and parishes Pensacola-Tallahassee, Fla., president of the National Black that are struggling to help immigrants from Latin America Catholic Congress. and Asia feel like they belong, he said. By “engaged,” Bishop Ricard explained, the authors of Like African-Americans, Latino and Asian immigrants the report mean that African-Americans are involved in their have a strong cultural sense of community, Bishop Ricard parishes well beyond simply attending Mass somewhat said. “There is less emphasis on the individual and more on The Brooks family—Joe, Desiree, Gabrielle and Alyssa—pray regularly. the communitarian aspects of a church.” after arriving for Sunday Mass at St. Joseph’s Church in That includes having strong networks of friends and For instance, black Catholics in the survey were much Alexandria, Va., on Nov. 27. According to the first study of its family in their parishes, participating in multiple parish more likely to say it’s important that their friends attend their kind, Black Catholics in the U.S. are highly engaged with their activities, and saying their spiritual, emotional and social church. Just about 7 percent of white Catholics agreed with religion and parish life, more so than white Catholics. needs are met there. that statement. But 27 percent of black Catholics said so. Bishop Ricard, now rector of the Washington seminary Phrased another way, 48 percent of black Catholics said year, these visits featured conversations about what people of his religious order, the Josephites, said the results of the being with others in church is an important reason to go, wanted from their Church, what was working and not survey surprised and pleased him and the leaders of the compared with 26 percent of white Catholics, 58 percent of working, and what their everyday concerns were, he said. National Black Catholic Congress who commissioned it, black Protestants and 52 percent of white Protestants. “It had a significant effect on increasing people’s along with the University of Notre Dame’s Institute for There also are lessons for all types of parishes that are involvement,” he said. It wasn’t so much that the parish Church Life and the office of the school’s president. interested in having their members become more deeply would be able to adapt to all those concerns, but a matter of The survey will be used as the basis of a pastoral plan for engaged. “making people feel personally involved,” he said. evangelization that will be presented during the National Bishop Ricard related the experience of a large Black Catholic Congress on July 19-21 in Indianapolis. Florida parish that made the effort to have the pastor or a (For more information on the National Black Catholic “This is a bright spot for the Church,” said Bishop Ricard member of the parish staff personally visit every one of the Survey, log on to www.nbccongress.org/ in an interview at St. Joseph’s Seminary. 2,000 registered families. Completed over the course of a special-report/2011-black-catholic-survey.asp.) † Whatever their parish situation, a majority of African-American participants in the attitudinal survey conducted by Knowledge Networks “feel affirmed and have decided they are going to stay Catholic,” he said. “It’s a very Local day of reflection to focus on national survey optimistic message.” By Mary Ann Garber the health and well-being of the black Catholic Among the conclusions of the survey were that black community.” Catholics feel more committed to their parishes emotionally, Black Catholics in the archdiocese will have an Black Catholics need to “make their voices be heard spiritually and socially than do white Catholics. opportunity to discuss a significant new national survey as a number of the other ethnic and cultural groups in In those respects, as in many other aspects of the survey, on African-American participation in the Church during a the Church have,” Father Taylor said. “Even in areas of black Catholics were shown to be much more like black Jan. 28 day of reflection in Indianapolis. a high black Catholic population, there is a lot of Protestants in their approach to church than they are like Father Kenneth Taylor, director of the archdiocesan concern that ministry to black Catholics is suffering. white Catholics. Office of Multicultural Ministry and pastor of One of the things that are constantly being pointed to “Compared with other religious and racial groups, Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis, said the are the closing of black parishes and schools around the African-American Catholics behave and look like National Black Catholic Survey results will be the topic of country, and that comes down to a numbers issue.” African-American Protestants,” said the executive summary a special meeting from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Jan. 28 at He said other factors that concern black Catholics as written by study authors Darren W. Davis, a professor of Holy Angels School, 2822 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St., well as the Church in general include the disaffection political science and associate vice president for research at in Indianapolis. of youth, lack of vocations and cultural challenges. Notre Dame, and Donald B. Pope-Davis, professor of The day of reflection, which is free and includes lunch, “Those are Church-wide issues,” Father Taylor said, psychology and vice president and associate provost at will be held in the school “but because our numbers are so small to begin with Notre Dame. gymnasium, he said. No it’s more dramatic and we feel it more.” Still, “African-American Protestants are clearly more pre-registration is required. He said key points from the national survey that will highly involved by every measure of engagement,” they Father Taylor serves on the be discussed during the day of reflection and congress said. Therefore, the pattern “is taken as suggestive of a board of directors of the include more positive results than expected before the cultural effect, as opposed to a Catholic effect, whereby the National Black Catholic Congress interviews. historical and cultural norms of the African-American and is vice president of the “There is an underlying strength within the black community weigh just as heavily on African-American National Black Catholic Catholic community,” Father Taylor said, as well as Catholics as on African-American Protestants.” Clergy Caucus. strong participation at Mass and in many Church The survey was conducted last summer in phone calls to He is looking forward to activities by African-American adults. 3,215 people, including 2,104 African-Americans, discussing the survey on current “Only 24 percent of black Catholics belong to a proportionally representing Catholics and Protestants Fr. Kenneth Taylor opinions and practices of predominantly African-American parish,” he said. according to their ratio in the U.S. population. African-American Catholics later “Seventy-six percent do not. … It shows that we are Seventy-six percent of those surveyed said their parish is this month because it will be one of the main focuses of very spread out.” notpredominantly African-American. No margin of error “Faith Engaged: Empower, Equip, Evangelize,” the He said the National Black Catholic Congress has was given. National Black Catholic Congress, which will bring more asked each diocese to sponsor a day of reflection to In one set of comparisons asking “how well does than 2,000 participants to Indianapolis in July. prepare for the survey discussions at the congress your parish meet your needs,” black Catholics, and both “This is the first scientifically done study of black which will help form the pastoral plan. black and white Protestants, were more likely than their Catholics in the United States,” Father Taylor said. “This will be an opportunity for Indianapolis to have white Catholic counterparts to agree. For instance, “… The congress will use the findings of the survey a voice in how the pastoral plan will come out,” Father when the question asked about spiritual needs, plus the discussions before and during the congress to Taylor said. “This is a historic effort on the part of the 78 percent of black Catholics and 86 percent of black develop a new pastoral plan for black Catholics in the Church in the United States.” Protestants said “well” or “very well,” while 67 percent United States. of white Catholics and 81 percent of white Protestants “One of the things that sparked the survey being done (For more information about the day of reflection on said the same. in the first place was a sense across the nation that the Jan. 28 or the national congress on July 19-21, call the The difference was sharper when the question asked black Catholic community in the United States is really archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry at about parishes meeting social needs, with 62 percent of struggling,” he said. “We need to do something to address 317-236-1562 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1562.) † black Catholics, 76 percent of black Protestants and Marian University in Indianapolis begins yearlong 75th anniversary celebration Special to The Criterion University has made in its history.” university’s ambitious five-year fundraising campaign. That courage continues as Marian University builds Begun in 2007 with a goal of $68.2 million, the campaign Marking its 75th anniversary in 2012, Marian University the first Catholic osteopathic medical school in the has already raised $140 million as it heads toward its in Indianapolis fittingly began a yearlong celebration of its United States, Elsener said. completion in October. tradition of Catholic education with a Mass at the school on “As their expansion into health care administration At the same time, school leaders note, Jan. 12. proves, Marian continues to grow, adapt and innovate,” said Marian University remains steadfast in embracing its “At Marian University, students encounter Jesus Christ Gov. Mitch Daniels. “The university’s history and sterling Franciscan roots and its faith-filled mission as it and the truth in the classroom, and learn how to take Christ academic record is a point of pride for all Hoosiers, and the continues to provide a liberal arts education to students in with them into the world,” said Bishop Christopher next few years promise to be the best yet.” the 21st century. J. Coyne, apostolic administrator of the archdiocese. “A The year 2012 also marks the 35th anniversary of the That continued emphasis on Franciscan values is a strong Catholic university in the heart of Indianapolis can founding of Marion’s school of nursing—a school that source of pride for the Franciscan sisters who today only make our community a better place to live.” educates nearly 1,000 students today, including a significant continue the tradition of the religious women who founded Bishop Coyne’s tribute is one of many that leaders in number who are enrolled in the online, accelerated bachelor Marian University. religion, education and government have offered recently of science in nursing program. “We are so proud of Marian University’s courage to about the college that was founded by Franciscan Mother “Throughout the history of the school of nursing and now, venture throughout these last 75 years,” said Franciscan Clarissa Dilhoff and began classes on Sept. 15, 1937. with the addition of the college of osteopathic medicine, Sister Barbara Pillar, the congregational minister of the “When Mother Clarissa moved Marian College to Marian has and will provide communities across the state Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg. “We are very grateful Indianapolis, she called it ‘a preposterous venture,’ ” noted with highly trained nurses and doctors, helping the state to to the many people who have kept Marian vital to the city Daniel J. Elsener, president of Marian University. “Moving address a critical need in health care delivery,” said of Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and our nation. The an enterprise from the wilderness of southern Indiana to an Kristin Jones, president and chief executive officer of the Marian University family is a treasure to the Sisters of unfamiliar city during the height of the Great Depression Indiana Health Industry Forum. St. Francis. We hold you in prayer as you continue to build was one of many courageous decisions that Marian The year 2012 will also mark the conclusion of the on our legacy and make history.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Events Calendar January 13 317-784-4207. January 16 Troy Ave., Indianapolis. Mass, 71st St., Indianapolis. [email protected]. 2 p.m. Information: Catholic Business Exchange, St. Joan of Arc Church, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, January 27 4217 Central Ave., St. Mary Parish, 415 E. 1347 N. Meridian St., Indian- 317-784-4439 or Mass, breakfast and program, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis. Founder’s Day Eighth St., New Albany. apolis. Knights of Peter www.catholiccemeteries.cc. “The Greening of the 1347 N. Meridian St., Celebration Mass, 5:30 p.m., Soup supper, 4:30-8 p.m. Claver and Ladies Auxiliary Catholic Church: New Fad or Council and Court #191, January 19 Core Belief?” Goeff Glanders, Indianapolis. Charismatic reception following Mass in Information: 812-944-0417. Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Doyle Hall. Information: Celebrating the Life of Dr. president of August Mack Mass, praise and worship, January 15 Martin Luther King Jr., Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. Environmental Inc., presenter, 7 p.m., Mass, 7:30 p.m. 317-283-1518. Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Indiana War Memorial Mass, noon, reception 6:30-8:30 a.m., $14 members, Information: 317-846-0705. Mass, 2 p.m. Information: $20 non-members. St. Lawrence Church, Hartzer Auditorium, 431 N. Meridian following Mass. Information: 317-636-8194. 317-574-8898 or Reservations and information: January 28 Hall, 542 Walnut St., St., Indianapolis. Right to Life www.catholiccemeteries.cc. www.catholicbusiness Saint Vincent Hospital, Lawrenceburg. Batesville of Indianapolis, Memorial January 17 exchange.org. Education Building, Deanery and Knights of Service for the Unborn, Marian University, Ruth Lilly LaRosita’s Restaurant, 8220 Naab Road, Indianapolis. Columbus, vocations dinner, 3-4 p.m. Information: Student Center, 3200 Cold 336 Pearl St., New Albany. January 23 Office of Family Ministries 6 p.m. Information: St. Charles Borromeo Church, 317-582-1526 or rtlindy.org. Spring Road, Indianapolis. New Albany Deanery and St. Vincent Hospital, 513-241-1287. Adult programs information Catholic Youth Ministries, 2222 E. Third St., Bloomington. CPR and AED training for Richmond Catholic meeting, 6 p.m. Information: Theology on Tap, 6 p.m. ushers and liturgical January 14 317-955-6271 or Information: 812-945-2000 or 39th anniversary of Community, 701 N. “A” St., ministers, 8:30 a.m., St. Roch Parish, Family Life [email protected]. [email protected]. Roe v. Wade, Mass, 8:30 a.m. Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., Richmond. Charismatic Following Mass, Bloomington 12:30 p.m., $10 per person, Indianapolis. Single Seniors prayer group, 7 p.m. January 18 January 20 March for Life while praying registration deadline Jan. 20. meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and Information: Calvary Cemetery, Northside Knights of rosary to 421 S. College Ave. Information: 317-236-1475 or over. Information: [email protected]. Mausoleum Chapel, 435 W. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Information: 812-330-1535 or [email protected]. † Retreats and Programs Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Pro-Life Ministry office to 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Woman January 14 Talk: Let’s Talk Money,” session 1 of 5, Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, Allyson Collins, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., sponsor seminar on conscience 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. $25 per person, includes dinner. Information: 317-788-7581 or The archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life 335 S. Meridian St. in Greenwood. New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth Ministry is sponsoring a seminar titled Kevin Schemenauer, a theology Ministries, “Catholic 101” retreat for [email protected]. “A Cup of Coffee with a Dose of professor at Marian University in grades 9-12, $85 per student, registration February 16-20 deadline Jan. 20. Information: 812-945-2000 Conscience” from 2-4 p.m. on Jan. 28 at Indianapolis, and archdiocesan Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, or [email protected]. Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish, seminarian Joshua Cole will lead the 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. seminar that will explore the relationship January 14-15 New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth between the Catholic faith, how we vote Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, Ministries, senior retreat, $225 per student, and laws that we can support. registration deadline Feb. 3. Information: 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. In guiding the discussion, 812-945-2000 or [email protected]. “On the Journey,” New Albany Deanery Schemenauer and Cole will use the Catholic Youth Ministries retreat for high school juniors and seniors, 9:30 a.m., February 17-19 U.S. bishops’ document “Forming $85 per person. Information: 812-945-2000 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Consciences for Faithful Citizenship.” [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. Tobit Marriage The seminar is free. Coffee, tea and Preparation Weekend retreat. Information: dessert will be provided. January 22 317-545-7681 or To learn more about “A Cup of Coffee Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, [email protected]. with a Dose of Conscience,” log on to its 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana February 18 Facebook event page or send an e-mail Conference,” marriage preparation to [email protected]. † program. Information: 317-545-7681 or Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Kevin Schemenauer Joshua Cole [email protected]. “Hope in Diversity–Looking at Our Relationships,” Franciscan Sister January 23 Olga Wittekind, presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. p.m., $45 includes lunch and assessment tools. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest Information: 812-933-6437 or Bishop Coyne posts new podcasts Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., [email protected]. $30 per person includes continental breakfast and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or February 19 about use of new Mass translation [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana Marriage Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, and Father Beidelman discuss the February 4 Preparation Program,” 1:30-6 p.m. apostolic administrator, has posted three challenges and blessings experienced Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Information: 317-545-7681 or new podcasts that are thus far in the use of the new edition of “Be My Valentine Dinner: Two Hearts– [email protected]. available on the Internet for the Roman Missal, its reception in One Love,” Jim and Carolyn Meyer, listening or downloading. parishes, what is going well in the use of presenters, 4-8 p.m., $50 per couple. February 20 They are recordings of the new translation and work that still Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 812-933-6437 or three conversations that he needs to be done. [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Day of reflection” $38 per person includes continental breakfast had with Father Patrick Links to this podcast as well as February 4-5 and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or Beidelman, archdiocesan director of Bishop Coyne’s previous podcasts can be Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, [email protected]. liturgy, about the recent implementation found at www.archindy.org/auxiliary. 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. of the new translation of the Mass. The podcasts can also be downloaded New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth February 22 In their conversations, Bishop Coyne through iTunes. † Ministries, “Catholic 101” retreat for Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. grades 9-12, $85 per student, registration 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest deadline Jan. 20. Information: 812-945-2000 Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., or [email protected]. $30 per person includes continental breakfast and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or February 5 [email protected]. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Giant “Coffee Talk: Noticing Our Guardian Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Angel,” Franciscan Sister Patty Campbell, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Lenten presenter, 10:45 a.m.-noon, free-will offering. Journey: Ways of Forgiveness,” session 1 of turnip Information: 812-933-6437 or 4, Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, [email protected]. 6:30-9 p.m., $25 per person includes dinner. David Illyes, assistant February 10-12 Information: 317-788-7581 or garden manager at the Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Dr., [email protected]. White Violet Center for St. Meinrad. Couples retreat, Eco-Justice, a ministry of February 24-26 Photo courtesy of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods of Sisters Providence “Together for Life: A Romantic Covenant,” Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. the Sisters of Providence Benedictine Father Jeremy King. Information: 56th St., Indianapolis. “Retrouvaille of Saint Mary-of-the- 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. Weekend: A Lifeline for Marriages.” Woods, holds a turnip he February 11 Information: 317-849-6811 or picked from the organic Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Retrouvaille_Indy. fields at the center on 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Marriage Nov. 29. It weighs retreat: Celebrate the Sacrament,” Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Dr., 13 pounds, and is St. Monica Small Church Community Team, St. Meinrad. Retreat, “Reading the Book of 24 inches in diameter. He presenters, 9 a.m-4 p.m., $99 per couple. Hosea,” Benedictine Father Eugene Hensell. said it was about 8 inches Information: 317-788-7581 or Information: 812-357-6585 or in diameter when he [email protected]. [email protected]. first noticed it, and February 13 February 29 decided to leave it in the Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, garden to see how big it 56th St., Indianapolis. “Mornings for 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Lenten would get. The turnip Moms,” Father Jim Farrell, presenter, Journey: Ways of Forgiveness,” session 2 of seeds were planted in 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $31 per person includes 4, Benedictine Sister Angela Jarboe, August. continental breakfast and lunch. Information: 6:30-9 p.m., $25 per person includes dinner. 317-545-7681, ext. 15 or Information: 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, January 7, 2011 Page 6 Religious Vocations Supplement

Benedictine sister enjoys rhythms of monastic life, page 8.

Saint Meinrad monks pray and work, page 11.

Providence sister enjoys serving those in need, page 12. Priest thanks God for vocation, page 8. Seeking God above all things By Fr. Eric Johnson It can be easy to become consumed with our it places our other obligations in their proper perspective Director of the archdiocesan Office of Priestly and Religious Vocations immediate concerns and lose sight of the Kingdom. Our and helps to alleviate our anxiety. hearts and minds can become crowded as we brood over This annual Religious Vocations Supplement contains At the conclusion of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of work, strained relationships, difficulties and an uncertain the stories of men and women who have responded to St. Matthew, Jesus speaks about being dependent on future. It is tempting to give in to focusing all of our God’s call by embracing a vocation to the priesthood, the God. His words are spoken to a people whose hearts are thoughts and energy on these things, to let go of prayer permanent diaconate or the consecrated life. Their stories filled with the cares and anxieties and silence, and to fail to appreciate the needs and reflect the many and varied ways that countless other of daily living, and whose relationships that surround us. priests, deacons and religious have generously offered attention is fixed on how they are Part of the difficulty is our tendency to view God’s themselves in service to us. to acquire security, plan for the call as one obligation among many, and to see our I believe it is good for us to remember them in © Denis Ryan Kelly Jr. Kelly © Denis Ryan future, obtain sustenance and relationship with him as one of any number of gratitude. For in the ways they have taught us, cared for shelter themselves. relationships. Such a way of perceiving things, us, nurtured us and led us, we are reminded of God’s own Jesus reminds the people that however, places our relationship with God in providential care. Their unique response to God’s call to life is more than food and drink. competition with our other relationships. It fosters love and service reminds us of his love for us and our own He tells them that their heavenly within us a tendency to see God’s invitation to the call to seek God above all things. They encourage us to Father knows each of them Kingdom as something that needs to be balanced pursue God with the same energy that we devote to so intimately, is aware of their needs against the other demands in our lives. many other things, and to strive after his righteousness Fr. Eric Johnson and cares deeply for them. He then Christ’s command to seek first the Kingdom of God with purpose, passion and conviction. says, “Seek first the Kingdom of reminds us that this is not so. It echoes his words to Simply through their presence among us and by God and his righteousness, and all these things will be Martha: “You are anxious and worried about many embracing their vocations, priests, deacons, and religious given to you besides” (Mt 6:33). things. There is need of only one thing” (Lk 10:41-42). brothers and sisters remind us that life is so much more In doing so, Jesus calls those listening to him not to Our relationship with God is not simply one of many, than food and drink, that there is something beyond the allow the experience of worry and anxiety to crowd out the but the relationship that should define all others. Seeking cares of this world that is worth embracing and that place of God in their minds, hearts and actions. the Kingdom is not simply another obligation, but the God’s love will indeed provide for the rest. Jesus’ teaching seems all the more relevant to us today. pursuing of our ultimate goal of life and salvation. May their witness encourage our trust in God’s care for Our lives are often so full, so hectic and so weighed down When we place our relationship with God before all us, and inspire us to seek more eagerly the Kingdom of with responsibility. In our daily lives, there are so many else, our other relationships are not diminished, but are God. May it also lead us to invite others to take up their demands, obligations and uncertainties that can pull at us, deepened, nurtured and become more reflective of God’s example of service in the Church as priests, deacons, and occupy us and fill us with anxiety. love. When we strive to “seek first the Kingdom of God,” religious brothers and sisters. † Page 8 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Benedictine sister enjoys daily rhythm of monastic life By Mary Ann Garber

BROWNSBURG—Like the rhythm of music, the rhythm of monastic life

provides harmony for Benedictine Sister MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Marie Racine. Sister Marie is a member of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove, and ministers as the music teacher and choir director at St. Malachy School in Brownsburg. “Christ has a way of capturing your heart,” Sister Marie said. “During my discernment, I was falling in love with Christ, and I think that has to happen in order to be able to make a commitment to religious life. “My former life seems so long ago now,” she said. “This is where I feel called to be, … to find union with Christ. I wanted a lifestyle that would bring me closest to Christ, closest to my true self, to become the person that I was created to be. For me, that needs to be done in community. … Fidelity to the monastic way of life is one of our vows. It’s a commitment to ongoing conversion. It’s learning how to love more and more like Christ.” The native of New Bedford, Mass., grew up in a musical family with five siblings. Benedictine Sister Marie Racine, the music teacher and choir director at St. Malachy School in Brownsburg, works with fourth-graders, from left, Joey Wynne, As a sixth-grader, she sang in a Sydney Arnes and Ben Zimmerman as they play recorders and a xylophone. Sister Marie is a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of Grace children’s choir. During middle school and Monastery in Beech Grove. high school, she sang in a folk group for Masses at two parishes and entertained vocations,” Sister Marie recalled. “After gifts,” Sister Marie said. “I spent one year experience the joy of music. patients at local nursing homes. my first year in college, I stopped thinking as a postulant, two years as a novice and “I know that I have done my job if I see Folk music was “in style” in the 1970s, about it. The thought did not come back to was first professed for four years. That’s joy in their eyes,” Sister Marie said. “I am and she also learned to play the violin. me until I was 38 when I was invited by a when I went to school at the University of often surprised by how much they can learn Looking back, Sister Marie said, she has sister in my parish to think about being a Indianapolis to study music. It was a to do.” been singing for the Lord since childhood. religious sister.” privilege to have that opportunity. I made She reminds her choir students that they She first thought about religious life in She found herself wanting a lifestyle my perpetual monastic profession are using the gift of their voices to give the fifth grade then considered it again that would bring her closer to Christ. in 2007.” glory and praise to God. more seriously in high school, but decided “I was looking for a community that Living in community means “letting The process of surrendering your life to study mathematics, education and was committed to daily prayer and living go and letting God” shape her future, to God results in many joyful surprises computer science at Fitchburg State together in community,” she said. “That’s Sister Marie said. “To be able to continue in community life and daily life University in Fitchburg, Mass. what I felt called to—that rhythm of prayer our musical tradition in our community, we experiences, she said, as well as a deep “I went to college to be a teacher,” and community life. … Liturgy is one of need trained musicians. It was beneficial sense of peace. Sister Marie said, “but also got a minor in the things I love.” for my own ministry life and also good to “There are many ways to serve in computer science. Before entering the Benedictines focus on music and liturgy be able to contribute in this way to my community,” Sister Marie said, “but the [Our Lady of Grace] community in 2000, I in their daily lives, she said, and living in a community.” most important thing is to do it cheerfully, was a software engineer for 17 years. I community dedicated to prayer appealed After Sister Marie earned her to be joyful together. There are blessings never taught at a school.” to her. certification to teach music, the principal and challenges in living in community. I’ve But God had other plans for her. “It’s a good fit for me,” Sister Marie at St. Malachy School at that time always believed that it’s a mystery how all She started discerning a call to religious said. “That’s part of the rhythm of my life. contacted her to come for an interview. these particular people are together in life again as a young adult then discovered I want to live that with integrity.” “I try to be a role model as a one community. We’re all there because of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of After she joined the Beech Grove Benedictine sister and teacher,” she said. the mystery of God’s plan for us. Grace Monastery in Beech Grove online at Benedictines in 2000 with four other “I talk about my community life in the “People sometimes ask me, ‘How did www.benedictine.com while researching women, she began taking piano and classroom, and I bring the fourth-graders you know?’ ” Sister Marie said about other women’s religious communities. organ lessons from another sister at the to the monastery for a visit in the spring answering God’s call to religious life. Now she serves God as a woman of monastery. every year. I enjoy educating children “I always say, ‘When it happens, you prayer and teaches music to 400 Catholic A few years later, her community asked about music and faith and religious life. know,’ ” she explained with a smile. school students in kindergarten through the her to return to college to study music, They have a lot of questions about “When you feel that call in the depths of eighth-grade. music education and organ. my life.” your heart, then you can make no other “Our family was encouraged to pray for “We are really encouraged to use our Her goal is to teach students how to choice.” † From Sudan to Richmond, priest gives thanks for his vocation By Sean Gallagher St. Patrick Parish. In early 1995, he was poverty of spirit. All these things have made asked to lead the parishes of Holy Family, us strangers to ourselves.” One day in 1991, Father Todd Riebe St. Andrew and St. Mary in Richmond, and When he arrived in Richmond, was walking with some friends along a has ministered there ever since. He became Father Riebe saw great spiritual riches in the dusty street in Juba in southern Sudan. a priest of the archdiocese in 2000. three parishes there. But their members

File photo by Sean Gallagher File photo by Their quiet stroll was brought to a Although a world away in many ways often kept their heritage to themselves, sudden halt when artillery shells began from his pastoral experience in Richmond, according to lifelong St. Andrew parishioner exploding all around them. Juba had been a Father Riebe said the eight years that he and current deacon candidate Frank Roberts. frequent target in a decades-long civil war spent in Sudan prepared him well for parish “In the past, each parish was jealously in Sudan. ministry in the archdiocese. involved in protecting its identity and its “It was right there [where we were],” While he saw extreme material poverty independence from the other parishes,” said Father Riebe said. “In fact, the person right in war-torn Juba, he saw a spiritual richness Roberts, 73. “But [Father Riebe] led and next to me was killed. in the people who lived there. completed the joining of the three into the “I can remember, as this was all “The Sudanese helped me. They’re Richmond Catholic Community. happening, laying there and saying, ‘This is people of such deep faith,” Father Riebe “That, in and of itself, has been such a it,’ and thanking God. It had been such a said. “We missionaries would lament blessing to us because we work on many good life. I couldn’t have asked for that this [poverty and war] were unjust, that common projects.” anything more. Then it all ended and you this was terrible. And they would witness to The founding of Seton Catholic High went to see who was alive and who us that with faith comes the patience that School in Richmond, which opened in 2002, wasn’t.” we don’t necessarily have. [They would has been the largest among these projects, At the time, Father Riebe, who grew up say,] ‘In the end, God will make all one that both needed the three parishes to as a member of Sacred Heart of Jesus things right.’ ” come together and nurtured the bonds Parish in Terre Haute, was a member of the On the other hand, after he came home among them. Comboni Missionaries religious order and to Terre Haute, Father Riebe gained a new One of the main tasks to make the high Father Todd Riebe speaks on Aug. 17, 2011, at was ministering in Juba as a high school appreciation of the spiritual poverty of so school a possibility was to renovate an St. Andrew Church in Richmond to archdiocesan principal. many Americans. old school building on the St. Andrew seminarians who were on a pilgrimage to the Two years later, the Sudanese “I realized that while here there is an Parish campus. three parishes in the eastern Indiana city. government expelled him and the other affluence of material goods, there is a “In an earlier time, that would have been Father Riebe is the pastor of the Richmond members of his order in the country. poverty here that is as deep as the nuts,” Father Riebe said. “That would have Catholic Community made up of the parishes of He returned home to Terre Haute for a [material] poverty in Africa,” he said. “And, been St. Andrew’s problem, not [the other Holy Family, St. Andrew and St. Mary. sabbatical and soon began assisting at in one sense, it’s harder because it’s the See RIEBE, page 14 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 9 Marcotte brothers share family bonds and call to priesthood Submitted photo File photo by Sean Gallagher File photo by

Above, seminarian Dave Marcotte, right, assists Bishop Christopher J. Coyne during the annual archdiocesan chrism Mass celebrated on April 19, 2011, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis.

Left, seminarian Dave Marcotte, left, Benedictine Father Severin Messick, seminarian Doug Marcotte and the two seminarians’ parents, Bill and Irene Marcotte, pose on July 19, 2009, at St. Michael Church in Greenfield. In a Mass on that day, Father Severin, at the time the pastor of the parish, blessed Doug as he prepared to leave the U.S. to enroll at the Pontifical North American College in Rome for his theological formation. Father Severin died on Sept. 28, 2011.

By Sean Gallagher a freshman at IU. priesthood, with the possibility of thus said. “And I thought to myself that he At first, Dave felt no similar call to the not having any grandchildren, was didn’t seem unhappy at all. In fact, he Priests often refer to each other as priesthood. But over time, he said that his challenging. was very joyful. I think that, more than “brother priests” because of the close brother’s discernment, combined with his “It was difficult at first, but now I see anything, kind of led me to continue to spiritual bond that brings them together in own increased involvement in faith how wonderful it is for the both of them allow the priesthood to be something the priestly life and ministry that they activities at St. Paul Catholic Center in to be studying to become priests,” she that I considered.” share. Bloomington, led him to broaden his said. “They just have a peace and People who know Doug and Dave If, God willing, both of them are horizons in considering what plans God happiness about them. And so since they have hopes that they will follow well in ordained priests for the Archdiocese of might have for him. are that way, then I have said to God, Father Severin’s footsteps. Indianapolis, seminarians Doug and Dave “I found myself being more and more ‘I’m very happy. My sons are giving “I think they’ll both be great priests. I Marcotte will be brother priests to each drawn in to my faith, and to the [Catholic] their lives to you. If this is what you really do,” said Deacon Wayne Davis, other in both body and spirit. community both in Bloomington and at want, then this is what I’m going to do. who ministers at St. Michael Parish and They are brothers, age 26 and 24, and home,” Dave said. “That got me thinking I’m not going to fight it.’ ” has known the brothers for much of grew up in Greenfield, where their a lot more, too, about what possibilities Bill said other parents should their lives. “I think Doug is more parents, Bill and Irene Marcotte, are outgoing by nature than David. David is members of St. Michael Parish. quiet, but not shy. Doug is in his third year of theological “I think they’ll each relate well to formation at the Pontifical North ‘I think they’ll both be great priests. I people. I think their own personal lives, American College in Rome, and is really do. … I think they’ll each relate their piety, will be a tremendous scheduled to be ordained a transitional blessing to all who know them.” deacon on June 23 at SS. Peter and Paul well to people. I think their own personal Msgr. Anthony Volz has had both Cathedral in Indianapolis. lives, their piety, will be a tremendous brothers minister with him during Dave is in his second year of seminarian summer assignments. He theological formation at Saint Meinrad blessing to all who know them.’ thinks having brothers as seminarians Seminary and School of Theology in can send a message to other Catholic St. Meinrad. —Deacon Wayne Davis on families. Doug appreciates having his brother as “That catches people’s attention,” a fellow seminarian because he knows seminarians Dave and Doug Marcotte said Msgr. Volz, pastor of St. Barnabas that the call to the priesthood is Parish in Indianapolis. “It says that in a something that few other people share or world where perhaps the spiritual life is can understand on a personal level. there were for me. I think that’s when I encourage their children to consider a de-emphasized, it should be emphasized “It’s nice to have somebody that you first started to really think that much more priestly or religious vocation, but within in family life. It doesn’t mean that can talk to and that you can relate with about the priesthood.” limits. everyone’s going to be a priest or a nun. and that you’re so close to who’s having Dave started the process to become an “You can encourage them,” he said. But it means that they’ll be good, the same experiences as you,” Doug said. archdiocesan seminarian after his “You can lead a horse to water, but you faithful Catholics, good, faithful Dave said that both of them being sophomore year at IU, and has been in can’t make them drink it. They’re going followers of Christ.” seminarians has deepened their priestly formation since 2008. to have to decide on their own. You can With his ordination to the transitional relationship even though they now live Both brothers acknowledged that the offer them all kinds of assistance or help diaconate only five months away, Doug thousands of miles apart and have guidance of their parents as they were or guidance. But it’s going to be their is already looking forward to the day conversations with each other on the growing up planted the seeds of their ultimate decision.” when he and his brother, Dave, may Internet via Skype. vocations. Although the relationships within share an even deeper bond as priests “It’s harder in the sense that I can’t “My parents always made going to their family have played a significant than they have known up to now. talk to him as often or be able to spend Mass on Sunday a non-negotiable,” Doug role in Doug and Dave’s vocational “I certainly look forward to being time with him,” Dave said. “But the said. “So I grew up knowing that it was discernment, the brothers valued able to share that experience with my reality is that, even if we’re both priests in something important.” highly the example of their longtime brother, to have that bond with him of the archdiocese, we may be separated by They also helped their sons be open to pastor, the late Benedictine Father not only him being my brother, but a fair distance, too. whatever vocation God might call them to, Severin Messick, who died on really sharing what is most unique about “It’s tough, but in a lot of ways our including the priesthood. Sept. 28, 2011. us—the priesthood,” Doug said. “The friendship and relationship is that much “I always encouraged and talked to “When I first really started thinking defining aspects of our lives will be better.” them about the priesthood whenever they about [the priesthood]—even before I something that we share and that we Doug began discerning a possible call asked questions,” Irene said. “I think talked to my brother or my parents—he won’t share with most people.” to the priesthood when he was a junior at that’s really important because I think was the first person that I went to to talk Indiana University in Bloomington. He sometimes parents kind of downplay that. about it,” Dave said. “He had a lot of completed his degree there then became a I think it’s important to answer their advice to give and a lot of helpful (For more information about a vocation seminarian in 2007. questions about [vocations].” insight every step of the way.” to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of When Doug told his brother and his At the same time, Irene acknowledged “When I looked at Father Severin, I Indianapolis, log on to parents about his discernment, Dave was that having her two children consider the always saw a man of great joy,” Doug www.HearGodsCall.com.) † Page 10 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 A bride of Christ Desire for Christ leads Bishop Chatard graduate to life as Dominican sister Submitted photos

Above, during a visit to the kindergarten class at St. Henry School in Nashville, Tenn., Dominican Sister Imelda Grace Lee reads to the class with the help of kindergarten student Grace Sizemore. As part of her teacher education program at Aquinas College, Sister Imelda Grace observed and helped in the classroom during the fall of 2011.

Left, holding her right hand on a copy of her religious community’s constitutions, Dominican Sister Imelda Grace Lee, right, professes her first vows as a member of the Nashville, Tenn.-based Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia on July 28, 2011. Holding her hand is Mother Ann Marie Karlovic, superior of the community. The liturgy in which Sister Imelda Grace professed her vows took place in the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville. Sister Imelda Grace is a former member of Christ the King Parish and a graduate of Bishop Chatard High School, both in Indianapolis.

By Sean Gallagher was too young to make such an adult in Bloomington at the time, and led a vocation with the sisters over the course decision, knowing that baptism meant a group of young adults who were of the next academic year and entered as As a student at Bishop Chatard High lifelong commitment to God,” discerning God’s call in their lives. He a postulant in 2009. School in Indianapolis, Katherine Lee had Sister Imelda Grace said, “but through my has since been ordained a priest, and has She was not alone, joining 21 other her mind set on becoming a lawyer, persistence and a strong desire to receive returned to minister there. young adult women who entered the getting married and having a family. our Lord in the Eucharist, I was granted “You could see that she really exuded community at the same time. During the Christmas break of her permission. a devotion, especially when she came to Fourteen other women professed senior year in 2006, she shadowed a lawyer “And so, a year and countless daily Mass,” Father Cassian said. “She first vows with her last July. at a top-notch law firm in Indianapolis to formation classes later I was baptized was always here hanging around “Being a member of a community see what a typical day in her future only a few months before receiving my St. Paul Catholic Center, even when she with so many other young women is lucrative career might be like. first holy Communion.” had nothing to do, just to pray. truly a gift,” said Sister Imelda Grace. “At the end of the day, this lawyer said The memories of her baptism as a “That kind of caught my curiosity “There is a certain joyful zeal and to me, ‘You can have all of this [in first grader made a lasting impression on and I got to know her. Our conversations enthusiasm that the young sisters bring, reference to his spacious office], any Sister Imelda Grace. were mostly about God. She was so and I know this from the experience of luxury—cars, houses, money. Anything “As much as I would have preferred to passionate about her faith, about praying being one of them.” that you could want in the world you have been baptized as an infant, I and offering her life to pray for those At the same time, she has valued could have,’ ” she said. “Rather than consider it a tremendous who don’t know getting to know many of the older being overjoyed at this, I heard a voice in privilege to be able to God, and to serve members of the 151-year-old the back of my heart say, ‘Is that all that remember my ‘Though I am not a Christ in a selfless congregation. there is?’ ” baptism—my birth into way.” “To see these older sisters living on Five years later, she found what was the Church—and to be lawyer fighting for the One of the young the foundation that the sisters long missing—and more riches than she could able to hear the voice of truth, I am a adults in the before them had laid, and the younger have imagined when standing in that the late, great discernment group sisters striving to live and embrace the lawyer’s office—when she professed Msgr. Francis Tuohy Dominican defending was seminarian heritage that has been passed down to vows of poverty, chastity and recite the baptismal the truth, proclaiming Michael Keucher. them, was more powerful in my obedience as a member of the formula, and to see my the truth and living for “Her discernment discernment than simply looking at the Nashville, Tenn.-based Dominican Sisters baptismal candle all was very much of a youthfulness of the community,” of St. Cecilia. She is now known by her aflame,” she said. the truth.’ model for my own at she said. religious name, Sister Imelda Grace Lee. “The Lord, in his mercy, —Dominican Sister that time,” said The Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia In a recent e-mail interview with granted me the most Imelda Grace Keucher, a member are primarily a community of teaching The Criterion, she reflected on her precious gift of faith as of St. Charles sisters, and Sister Imelda Grace is vocation journey. a child, and the grace to Borromeo Parish in studying elementary education at her “It is really beautiful to look back and persevere in that faith as I grew older—a Bloomington, who is in his first year of community’s Aquinas College in see how the Lord has been at work faith that I cherish to this day.” theology studies at Saint Meinrad Nashville. through my life, and to see how he has After graduating from Bishop Chatard, Seminary and School of Theology in After volunteering as a catechist for taken those things that I wanted and she enrolled at Indiana University in St. Meinrad. third- and fourth-grade students in transformed them into something more Bloomington still with the idea of “Not that I would call myself holy, religious education classes at St. Paul wonderful than I could have ever planned pursuing a career in law. but it’s interesting how holy people stick Catholic Center in Bloomington, or chosen for myself,” Sister Imelda But her experience in the lawyer’s together and make each other holier,” he Sister Imelda Grace knows the spiritual Grace said. “I am truly a bride—the office months earlier had set her soul said. “She took her discernment very depths that can be found in teaching the Bride of Christ—and I am truly a mother, looking more and more toward Christ. seriously and prayerfully. I could tell faith to children. a mother to souls. “As I began my time at IU, I began that she lived her faith in a very real “As I taught these children the truths of “Though I am not a lawyer fighting for to go to daily Mass and pray the way, even on the campus.” the faith and watched them grow closer to the truth, I am a Dominican defending the [Liturgy of the Hours] daily,” Father Cassian was also impressed by Christ, I realized that the Lord had not truth, proclaiming the truth and living for Sister Imelda Grace said. “Through this, the way that she was able to forgo the only asked me to be a teacher, but to be a the truth.” my desire for Christ grew and deepened, temptations of campus life, yet at the mother—of souls,” Sister Imelda Grace As a child, she attended Christ the and I longed for him to be everything same time have a great desire to lead said. “And this spiritual motherhood is King School in Indianapolis. However, for me, my sole treasure. In return, I others to Christ. what I began to long for. her parents, one of whom was Catholic, longed to give myself to him completely “The worldly things around her, “I realized that in religious life I had chosen not to baptize her as an infant. and entirely without reserve.” [even] on this secular campus, didn’t would still be a mother, and I would still A desire for that sacrament grew in her It was during the first of the two years affect her a bit,” he said. “That was have the joy of being a bride.” when she and her first-grade classmates she spent in Bloomington that she began something beautiful to see.” were learning about Christ and the actively discerning a call to religious life. He spoke to her about the Dominican (For more information on the Eucharist in their religion class. Dominican Brother Cassian Sama was community in Nashville. She made a Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia, log on to “My parents initially thought that I ministering at the St. Paul Catholic Center retreat there in May 2008, discerned a www.nashvilledominican.org.) † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 11 Prayer and work Monks of Saint Meinrad continue ancient traditions in the present By Sean Gallagher

The Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad have been witnesses to the Gospel and servants of the Church in southern Indiana for more than 150 years. But the tradition of prayer and work that they

carry on today can be traced back 1,500 years to Photos courtesy Archabbey of Saint Meinrad the Rule that St. Benedict wrote during the sixth century in Italy. From the way in which they gather for prayer in their church several times a day to their care for infirmed monks and welcoming guests to the monastery, it guides the life of the Saint Meinrad monastic community. Currently, there are 95 monks of Saint Meinrad, ranging in age from 23 to 94. Many of them are priests. Some are solemnly professed brothers. Some monks teach or serve in the administration of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, the community’s primary apostolate. Others assist at Abbey Press, which produces and sells religious gift items, booklets, pamphlets and magazines, and at Abbey Caskets. Parish ministry both within and outside the Archdiocese of Indianapolis has also been a ministry of the monks of Saint Meinrad for most of its history. The following photo essay shows how the monks pray, work and share life together in community in a tradition deeply rooted in the history of the Church.

(For more information on Saint Meinrad The Benedictine monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad and other monks living there who are studying in the community’s seminary Archabbey, log on to www.saintmeinrad.edu.) † pray the Liturgy of the Hours on Oct. 15, 2011, in the community’s church.

Benedictine Brothers Andrew Zimmerman and Maurus Zoeller play chess on May 27, 2011, in the calefactory, or living room, of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad. The monks, along with Benedictine Brother Francis Wagner kneels while Benedictine Brother Mario Ibson, right, have competed in a friendly professing solemn vows as a monk of Saint Meinrad chess rivalry for more than 30 years. Archabbey in St. Meinrad during a liturgy in the Archabbey Church on Jan. 25, 2011. When men are received as novices in the monastery and when monks profess solemn vows, all of their hair, except for a narrow band around the head called a corona (Latin for “crown”), is cut off as a symbol of their dedication to the service of God and the Church.

Benedictine Brother John Mark Falkenhain bakes bread on Nov. 29, 2011, in the monastery kitchen. He took up the hobby in 2011. His bread is now served daily at breakfast for the monks. Brother John Mark also serves as his community’s vocations director.

Benedictine Brother Elijah Luckett walks through one of the courtyards With the hoods of their habits drawn up, Benedictine Benedictine Father Cyprian Davis teaches a Church history course at on the grounds of Saint Meinrad Archabbey on Oct. 5, 2011, in monks of Saint Meinrad carry lit candles as they walk in a Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, the primary apostolate St. Meinrad. Visitors are always welcome at Saint Meinrad, and can join procession to their community’s cemetery on All Souls of the monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey. Future priests, permanent the monks any day at prayer or Mass in the Archabbey Church or tour Day, Nov. 2, 2011. deacons and lay ministers are prepared there for ministry in the Church. the historic buildings and peaceful campus. Page 12 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Sister of Providence finds ‘God energy’ in ministry at St. Ann Clinic

By Dave Cox As assistant administrator, Sister Special to The Criterion Beth interviews potential new volunteers, answers the phone when TERRE HAUTE—Providence Sister necessary, oversees the processing of Beth Wright finds “God energy” donations, fills in and assists wherever everywhere around her and within her. needed, and associates with donors, who She believes it was “God energy” that are plentiful and generous with their led her to the Sisters of Providence. She time, services and money. feels “God energy” in all elements of her Providing services to patients is at life. She encounters “God energy” in all the heart of her ministry. of the people she serves in her ministry as “I see human beings who should be assistant administrator of St. Ann Clinic in able to have health care,” Sister Beth Photo courtesy of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods of Sisters Providence Terre Haute. said. “In my opinion, health care is not a St. Ann Clinic offers free medical, privilege. It should be a right. Several of dental, psychological, pharmaceutical and our patients have said if it were not for counseling services to people who have no our clinic, they would be dead. We medical insurance. Between 150 and 200 range from [treating people with] colds patients visit the clinic each week. and breathing issues to those who have It is located on the campus of St. Ann been diagnosed with cancer. The clinic Parish in Terre Haute, which is scheduled has good community support.” to be closed in May. St. Ann Clinic will Sister Beth, a native of Beech Grove, remain in operation after the parish closes. is still in initial formation. She is in her Not only was it a life-changing Tertian year, the final year of decision to join the Sisters of Providence preparation before she professes of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, but also perpetual vows. Sister Beth was not even Catholic when Recently, she was involved in a group she was first moved by “God energy.” discussion about a book titled A “I was into my own spiritual journey. I Presence That Disturbs. Part of that was sitting in my apartment journaling, discussion centered on a quotation from looking out the screened-in porch at the the psychologist Victor Frankel that little lake with a fountain. I was asking the said, “To live, you must choose; to love, questions,” she said. “What is the meaning you must encounter; to grow, you must Providence Sister Beth Wright works on Dec. 13 at the St. Ann Clinic in Terre Haute, a ministry that of all this? What’s my purpose in being suffer.” provides free medical, dental, psychological, pharmaceutical and counseling services to people here? I was quiet. Where does she find her “God without medical insurance. “In my head, I heard, ‘Nun.’ That’s it! energy” at St. Ann Clinic? ‘Nun.’ Immediately, even without the “I find it in the encounters I have one another that way,” she said. me, it was religious life, community life, background, I thought n-u-n, not n-o-n-e.” every day. What I find in my life is all Sister Beth learned to trust her living a life in common. “I knew immediately what [that word] of that. What I find in my ministry is the “God energy” as she answered her call. In “The call is something I could not meant because I started resisting the encounter, which, to me, brings to the several discernment gatherings, she has ignore,” Sister Beth said. “It’s a leap of possibilities right away,” Sister Beth said. center the love and compassion.” heard other women ask, “How did you faith—at least it was for me. But I cannot “In that experience, and in looking back Sister Beth believes her spirituality know? One hundred percent, how did you imagine not being where I am now. I over my life, it seems like where the Spirit has grown since she entered the Sisters know?” would not be able to do what I am doing is moving me is not usually rational. of Providence eight years ago. “My response would be if you want a at St. Ann Clinic on my own. It’s a gift to “It’s not always something I would “Prayer for me is very broad. It is the guarantee, I didn’t have that. There is no be there and work with people from think of. But, in my journey, that seems to energy. Prayer is where you touch the guarantee, just like exploring marriage. I 13 counties who don’t have health be where I usually find the movement of ‘God energy.’ The way I define prayer is felt called to focus on where I could be insurance.” God, not in human reason. I find the it is like breathing. Both are necessary supported in ministry, where I could make movement of God when I open myself to for life. My spirituality has grown to the a difference. It comes down to, for me, (For more information about the possibilities or what may be considered as point that I know that we are all in God how am I going to channel my passion, Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of- impossibilities.” and of God, and we need to treat my life energy? What’s attracting me? For the-Woods, log on to www.spsmw.org.) † Courage and compassion mark Franciscan sister’s journey of faith By John Shaughnessy Like the savory smell of the Slovenian walnut bread— service learning opportunities for college students, faculty potica—that she still makes, it all comes back to Franciscan members and presidents. She worked at Cathedral High The joy dances in her eyes as she recalls the defining Sister Jackie McCracken, enveloping her in the warmth of School in Indianapolis from 2008 to 2010, helping teachers moments from her childhood. her childhood blessings. imbed the concept of service into their classes. She can see herself walking through the neighborhoods “It’s a huge part of who I am, who I’ve become,” she She now serves as a program associate for the of Holy Trinity Parish on the near west side of Indianapolis says with a satisfied smile. Indiana Network for Higher Education Ministries in Indian- in the 1950s—growing up in a That same smile and that same sense of joy return later apolis, helping college students explore faith-based career family where her mother and when Sister Jackie adds the details of the woman she has possibilities. grandmother shared secrets in the become at age 66—an advocate who has worked to help Looking back on her life as a religious sister, she once Slovenian language, growing up in victims of domestic violence, a teacher who has led wrote, “I’m not sure that any other lifestyle would have the Catholic school where the high school students to deepen their faith through service, a allowed me the flexibility and encouragement to pursue the Franciscan sisters in their habits program coordinator who now directs college students in ministry and service opportunities I’ve been engaged in welcomed her warmly, growing up internships that help them discover God’s call in their lives. during my lifetime. I’ve grown as a person, become in the parish church where she sang For Sister Jackie, it’s all part of her incredible journey of courageous, taken risks and become transformed as a result in the choir on summer mornings at becoming the woman that God envisioned her to be—a life of the people in my life.” the 5:30 a.m. Mass and brought journey that she considers still full of possibilities. All those qualities and experiences show the heart that baskets of hard-boiled eggs to be “The transformation is still taking place,” she notes. Sister Jackie has for others, according to Franciscan Sister blessed by a parish priest on “I see my transformation as occurring in partnership with Barbara Piller, congregational minister of the Sisters of the Sr. Jackie McCracken, O.S.F. Holy Saturday. the Divine. When I was a kid, I didn’t see it as an equal Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg. partnership. You hear the term ‘co-creator.’ I see myself as a “She’s very dedicated to the Franciscan tradition of co-creator in my life with God.” justice to the poor and the underserved,” Sister Barbara While Sister Jackie says that the child she was wouldn’t says. “Her special passion is for women and children. She’s recognize the religious sister she has become, the ties that always working to make a situation better. She works for connect them are still evident. peace through justice. And she’s true to herself. At the same As a student at the former Holy Trinity School and the time, she’s very aware of the needs and goals of the former St. Mary’s Academy in Indianapolis, she was community—from her Franciscan community to the global Trusted and Compassionate Care fascinated by and felt close to the Franciscan sisters who community.” • Dedicated to meeting your non-medical homecare needs taught her. 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Sister Jackie recommends her choice of vocation to • Personal care assistance with bathing, toileting, hygiene, “I’ve become a part of these women, and we’re part of women who want to dedicate their lives to God and make a dressing, medication reminders, feeding and transfers something bigger, making an impact on people’s lives— difference to others as part of a community of women who • Companion care and safety monitoring teaching and ministering,” Sister Jackie says. “I’ve been support each other. • Housekeeping, laundry, shopping and meal prep involved in so many ministries that I have a compassion for “For any young woman, this way of life offers a • Respite care (including periodic or vacation coverage) people from all walks of life.” broadening of perspective, an opportunity to grow in a • Transportation & errands She taught religion and English at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. multitude of ways, and the opportunity to see yourself as a • Medicaid Waiver and CHOICE provider High School in Indianapolis in the 1970s. She has served as rich, vibrant participant in the human race and the human the communications director for her order. For 14 years, she questions we all have,” she says. Call us for a free in-home consultation: had various roles as an advocate for female victims of Sister Jackie smiles and adds, “My sisters say, ‘Join the Kathy and Terry Huser domestic abuse, from being there for women during court convent and see the world. ’ ” proceedings to training judges and lawyers about the issue (317) 255-5700 or 332-8261 of domestic violence. (For more information about the Sisters of the www.HuserHomeCare.com She was also the executive director of Indiana Campus Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg, log on to Compact, part of a national organization that promoted www.oldenburgfranciscans.org.) † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 13 Deacon candidate leaves corporate world to teach high school religion

By Sean Gallagher

A few years ago, deacon candidate Tom Horn flew around the country

while working as a vice president of Sean Gallagher Photos by manufacturing for Navistar, a commercial truck and diesel engine company that brings in nearly $10 billion in revenue annually. Today, he drives a school bus to take students to work on service projects as a religion teacher at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. For Horn, being behind the steering wheel of a bus is far more significant than being a jet-setting corporate executive. “I feel like what I’m doing now is really important, whereas what I did before was more about stock prices and earnings per share and the board of directors,” said Horn, a member of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. “Trying to call [students] to God and trying to get them to question God in their life is a lot more important in my mind.” Being active in the Church has always been important for Horn, 50, who grew up near Dayton, Ohio, and served in the Marine Corps after graduating from the Naval Academy. After participating in a Christ Renews His Parish retreat in 2004 at St. Mark Parish, his life of faith started to deepen when he committed himself to looking at each day’s Mass readings. “It was a habit that I wanted to get into to give a little time to God,” Horn said. “The more I read the Scriptures, the more Deacon candidate Tom Horn, a religion teacher at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, talks with sophomore Luke Jahnke, a member of St. Jude Parish in time that I spent with them, [the more] Indianapolis, on Nov. 16, 2011. I just started to question my priorities in life and where I was headed. studies to become a math teacher. “It was apparent that I could and The drastic change in salary that he probably should be doing more for the would experience was fine with him, but Church. The next thing I knew, I was was it acceptable to his family? inquiring about the diaconate.” “I was concerned that I was being In the middle of this discernment selfish,” Horn said. “It was something process, Horn accepted a promotion at that I wanted to do. It was a priority in Navistar that made him a vice president my life. It was something that I was of the company in 2005. It was a job called to do. And yet I’m dragging the based in Chicago that he would hold for three of them along. Because of their love the next four years. and support, they’re nodding their heads. Even though the job required a lot of But what’s really in their hearts?” travel and time away from his wife, Although Virginia was willing to Virginia, and their sons, Bill and Brian, accept the change, it didn’t come without he thought taking the promotion was the challenges. natural thing to do. “I felt like it was jumping off a cliff “I thought that was why you worked,” with just faith,” she said. “It was a test Horn said. “I thought the reason you went [of faith], for sure. A big test. You jump to work was to do as well as you could off a cliff, and you just know that God is and, if people offered you promotions and going to catch you. You just feel that more money, you were supposed to take strongly about it.” them … .” Although he studied at As his discernment Marian University in of a possible vocation to Indianapolis to the diaconate deepened qualify for a teacher’s Deacon candidate Tom Horn teaches a class on the sacraments on Nov. 16, 2011, at Roncalli High then led him to enter the ‘I feel like what I’m license to teach math, School in Indianapolis. archdiocese’s deacon Horn was given the formation program, his doing now is really chance to teach Chuck Weisenbach, Roncalli’s Transitioning from life in the corporate job and that calling important, whereas religion at Roncalli in principal, thinks Horn’s presence in the world to teaching at a Catholic high school seemed to be more in what I did before was the summer of 2009. school has been a plus to everyone in didn’t simply have an effect on Horn’s conflict. He started his job the community. work life. It, and being in the deacon This isn’t the case more about stock there a few weeks “I feel like God certainly blessed us formation program, has blessed his with most deacon prices and earnings later, and loves it. But with the wealth marriage. candidates who are still per share and the he knows that it is of life “We’re together again,” Horn said. in the work force, very different from experiences and “We’re not geographically separated. We’re according to board of directors.’ working for Navistar, knowledge that not on different ships going in different Deacon Kerry where the success or he brings with directions. We are unified.” Blandford, director of —Deacon candidate failure of every him from a career Virginia feels the service that her the archdiocese’s project could be spent in corporate husband has given as a deacon candidate deacon formation Tom Horn on moving clearly measured. America and his has changed him. program. But most of from the corporate “It’s a whole Marine Corps “He’s not the same man that I married, them, unlike Horn at the world to teaching different chase experience,” but in a very good way,” she said. “There’s time, live and work near religion at [at Roncalli], if you Weisenbach said. a lot more to him than I ever knew, and their homes and will,” Horn said. “It “And then now it’s being allowed to come to the parishes. Horn often Roncalli High School really isn’t Virginia Horn certainly the surface.” found himself thousands in Indianapolis measurable. We’re not preparation that Horn is looking forward to being of miles away from the just trying to educate they obviously received in their ordained with his 15 classmates in a liturgy place where he would them. We’re trying to diaconate program is unbelievable scheduled for June 23 at SS. Peter and Paul need to do supervised change their hearts as preparation.” Cathedral in Indianapolis. ministry in the formation program. well. That’s not always apparent.” Connor Basch, a sophomore at “I’ll be glad to not be reading any books “As it become more and more difficult, But the warm interactions that he has Roncalli and member of St. Barnabas and writing any papers for a while,” Horn I knew I was going to be forced into with his students, their parents, and Parish in Indianapolis, was a student in joked. “Ultimately, it will free up more making a decision,” Horn said. “I faculty and staff at Roncalli have made a Horn’s class on the sacraments last time to serve, to do those things that we couldn’t be in Chicago, and give the time big difference, Virginia said. semester. really should be doing. And I get excited and dedication that I needed to give to the “He’s been blessed by the affirmations “It’s probably been my favorite about that.” archdiocese.” he’s getting from the teachers, from the religion [class] since I’ve been in Catholic In late 2008, after praying about the students, from the parents,” she said. schools,” Connor said. “He likes to (To learn more about the archdiocese’s matter and speaking with his family, Horn “You don’t get feedback that way [in the involve everybody in the class and use deacon formation program, log on to decided to resign from Navistar and begin corporate world].” real life examples.” www.archindy.org/deacon.) † Page 14 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012

RIEBE Submitted photo continued from page 8 parishes’] problem.” But with his help and that of many Catholics in Richmond, it succeeded. “We were investing in the Richmond Catholic Community,” he said. “We were investing in the future. And to have a mission and be hoping for the future was exactly what we needed to become stronger and to grow together.” While Father Riebe is quick to spread the credit around to many other people for bringing the parishes together and in the founding of the high school, Roberts said his pastor’s holiness has had a real and lasting effect on the Richmond Catholic Community. “He is probably the most saintly man I’ve ever known,” Roberts said. “He is just absolutely tireless in his dedication to the Church, in living the word that he preaches. He’s one of these people who can walk into a room and, with his smile, light up the whole room. His enthusiasm is unending.” Father Riebe’s dedication to his priestly life and ministry have also nurtured vocations in other people. Father Jeremy Gries, administrator of St. Mary Parish in Rushville, spent the summer of 2006 ministering in the Richmond Catholic Community as a seminarian. At the Father Todd Riebe interacts with children in southern Sudan, where he ministered as a high school principal from 1985-93 as a member of time, he was unsure if the priesthood and parish ministry the Comboni Missionaries religious order. were really where God was calling him in his life. “I came back after that summer largely thinking that, She experienced this in a special way in 2009 shortly three parishes into one community of faith led her to ‘Yeah, God’s calling me to this,’ ” Father Gries said. “And I before she entered the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual understand the give and take of life in a religious think Father Todd played a big role in that, helping me to Adoration in Mishawaka, Ind., as a postulant. community. see that parish life is not only a good and joyous life, but it’s Her sister had just given birth to a baby boy that was ill “For me, the Richmond Catholic Community is like a a life that God had called me to. It was an important summer and had to be rushed to Riley Hospital for Children big family,” Sister Maria Kolbe said. “And so if I were to for me.” in Indianapolis. come home, it’s just like a big family reunion. Father Todd Franciscan Sister Maria Kolbe Elstro recalls “Father Todd came out all the way from Richmond at is basically the father figure.” Father Riebe’s first day ministering in the midnight to baptize him,” said Sister Maria Kolbe, who is Gratitude and awe are at the heart of Father Riebe’s Richmond Catholic Community. now a novice in her community. “He stayed until 2 a.m. on thoughts about his life as a priest—whether it is in On that day in 1995, she was a fourth-grade student in a a Sunday morning and then drove back and said five Richmond or far away in Sudan. religious education program there. She and her class were Masses.” “It is a wonderful life. It is an amazing life. I love being doing jumping jacks because they had not memorized the Such dedication to his vocation influenced her a priest,” Father Riebe said. “Even there, if it had ended that beatitudes. Father Riebe stopped in the classroom to see own calling. day, that was my thought—thank you, God.” what all the noise was about. “The way he gives [of himself] has taught me that we “He just sat down and taught us the beatitudes in a way need to fully give of ourselves as priests or as religious,” (To learn more about a vocation to the priesthood that the children would understand,” Sister Maria Kolbe she said. in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, log on to said. “He’s always been a person who’s gone the extra mile.” And the way that her longtime pastor helped lead www.HearGodsCall.com.) † ‘Nun Run’ participants invited to visit religious communities on Feb. 24-25 Vocations directors for the Benedictine Sisters of Our Lady of Grace who minister in Indianapolis and accommodations are provided. Oldenburg-based Congregation of the Monastery in Beech Grove have organized a Beech Grove. For more information or to register for Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, “nun run” that will take place on Feb. 24-25. Women ages 18-40 who are interested in the “nun run,” call Daughter of Charity the Daughters of Charity, the Little Sisters During that time, “nun run” participants learning more about these religious Sister Theresa Sullivan at 812-963-7563 of the Poor, the Sisters of Providence of will visit, pray and share meals with communities are invited to participate. or send an e-mail to her at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and the members of these religious communities Transportation, meals and overnight [email protected]. †

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All contents are copyrighted © 2012 FaithAlive! by Catholic News Service. Apologies require regret, responsibility and restitution By Mitch Finley stepped on her toes. a good apology that people often To express genuine regret, say forget about. In a scene in The Fantasticks, the authors, you need to understand It’s fine to say that you are reputedly “the world’s longest that you acted inappropriately and sorry. It is commendable to accept running musical,” Bellomy tells in a way that was hurtful, whether responsibility for being CNS photo from Reuters his teenage daughter, Luisa, that it was meant to be or not. thoughtless or clumsy or for she owes him an apology. If you don’t see this, listen to letting your temper get the better Her voice dripping with the other person and ask questions of you. impatience and sarcasm, Luisa in order to gain clarification, But in order for an apology to replies, “Sor-ree!” especially if it was your words that be all that it needs to be, you must Clearly, this is not the apology were hurtful rather than a physical do something to compensate for Bellomy wanted because it’s no accident, such as stepping on the hurt caused to another person. apology at all. Rather, Luisa’s tone someone’s toes. This act of restitution may be of voice makes it clear that she is Admit to yourself that your possible immediately or it may insincere. relationship with the other person need to be delayed, but, either Perhaps, by the end of the play, is more important than being right. way, it needs to happen. Luisa has learned the lesson that a It would not have been a good Concerning Charles and Gloria, sincere apology is idea for Charles to perhaps he gently led her to a one fine way to have told Gloria, comfortable chair where they heal a relationship “You should have could examine her foot. The and get it off to a moved out of my gesture alone would be new start. ‘Once you truly way,” thus appreciated. This is true in understand transferring all A hurried apology also needs all kinds of human your own blame to her. to be followed up with a phone interactions, from a Once you truly call or perhaps an invitation to casual encounter responsibility understand your lunch or some other act of between strangers and can own responsibility restitution. All will depend on the to close genuinely and can genuinely extent of the injury or offense. friendships, and express regret, you Next comes repentance—it is there is no way for express regret, are ready to offer what the authors say is the a marriage to be you are ready to an authentic convincing factor in an apology healthy and apology. because it begins in the fulfilling without offer an Accepting heart—and the request for countless sincere authentic responsibility can forgiveness. apologies. apology.’ be tough. You The apology is indeed one of A real apology, need to accept the the most important but least as authors fact that you are understood foundations of human Gary Chapman and responsible for relationships. People differ in Jennifer Thomas explain in your actions, not the person you what they believe constitutes a The Five Languages of Apology, hurt, not your parents for raising genuine apology, and they usually has three parts: expressing regret, you wrong, and not the fact that do not relish rejection or failure in accepting responsibility and your boss reprimanded you at work the event that their apology and making restitution. The alternative today, and not someone else’s request for forgiveness are The late Pope John Paul II, now Blessed John Paul II, embraces a crucifix during a is that the other person is likely to irritating behavior 10 minutes ago. rejected. liturgy on March 13, 2000, at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome in which he asked be left feeling taken for granted, A genuine apology requires you Furthermore, anyone who forgiveness for past and present sins of Christians. The unprecedented jubilee and no one likes that. to be honest enough to accept that receives an apology that omits “request for pardon” included apologies for sins against Christian unity, the use of Unless an apology includes all you are responsible for your apology language, according to violence in serving the truth, hostility toward Jews and members of other religions, three of these actions, it is behavior even when it’s an Chapman and Thomas, may not the marginalization of women and sins against society’s weakest members. incomplete at best. honest mistake. be able to accept an apology, even Authors Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas write that any true apology must When Charles accidentally Once you accept responsibility, if it is genuinely offered. involve expressing regret, taking responsibility and giving restitution. stepped on his wife Gloria’s toes you are well on your way to As such, techniques of as they passed each other in the offering a complete, sincere expressing regret, accepting that will help relationships to for Newcomers, Old-Timers and narrow hallway of their home, she apology that will put your responsibility, making restitution, thrive. Those In Between, published by said, “Ouch!” relationship with the other person genuinely repenting and asking for The Word Among Us Press. His He immediately stopped and back on solid ground. forgiveness are essential for (Mitch Finley is the author of website is www.mitchandkathy expressed his regret for having Making restitution is also part of offering and receiving apologies The Rosary Handbook: A Guide finley.com.) † Jesus’ forgiveness of us should lead us to forgive others By Fr. Dale Launderville, O.S.B. and then return to offer the gift (Mt 5:24). Jesus emphasizes that the one who refuses to forgive Jesus wants us to live at peace with one another. another is not only callous and self-centered, but also Conflict is inevitable in a Christian community. When St. Peter asks Jesus how many times he must ungrateful. If we should approach God’s altar with an offering and forgive his brother, Jesus responds that he must do so This lack of awareness of how much one has been remember that we are at odds with another, Jesus exhorts “77 times” (Mt 18:22). Jesus expects that his disciples will forgiven is a lesson that most decent Christians must us to leave the gift at the altar and first seek reconciliation favor mercy and forgiveness over strict, measurable justice learn over and over again. The first and most important as might be encouraged by the standard of an “eye for eye step is to recognize that we have been forgiven a debt by [and a] tooth for tooth” (Ex 21:24). God that no mere human can repay. Even though this law was not interpreted literally in Because we are always in debt to Jesus, we should ancient Israel so that offenders were maimed as a always be ready to immediately forgive others.

CNS photo/Debbie Hill CNS photo/Debbie punishment, it did create an expectation within the If this practice of forgiveness exists within a community that punishment would almost inevitably community, someone who injures another would be follow from a misdeed, whether inadvertent or ready to acknowledge this wrong and seek pardon from deliberate by a person. the one offended. However, Jesus teaches that right relationship within a If we know that we will be forgiven—even if not community is grounded in the readiness of each member to immediately—then we will be more likely to own up to forgive another for a wrong suffered. our misdeeds and seek reconciliation with others. A foreshadowing of this emphasis on the power of Jesus recognizes the power of forgiveness to promote forgiveness occurs in the prophecy of Ezekiel about how honesty in our relationships with one another. God restores the Israelite exiles. As a result, they become Even when someone is forgiven by another, much more fully aware of the evil character of their misdeeds work remains to be done in order for healing to occur. (Ez 36:31). An important step toward healing, therefore, is honest Latin Catholic Patriarch Michel Sabbah of Jerusalem, right, We tend to be more honest about our misdeeds when we acknowledgement of the wrong that has been done. shakes hands with Rabbi Alon Goshen-Gottstein before an know that we will be accepted and forgiven. The sooner that a person takes the step of apologizing, April 26, 2002, prayer service in the courtyard of St. Anne Jesus sets the standard for the practice of forgiving and the better. Church in Jerusalem. The service, sponsored by men and seeking forgiveness: “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive women religious, was held to show solidarity with all people in our debtors” (Mt 6:12). (Benedictine Father Dale Launderville is a Scripture the Holy Land, and to pray for justice, peace and forgiveness. In the parable of the unforgiving servant (Mt 18:21-35), scholar at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink For the Journey/Effie Caldarola Biblical readings: The Book of Deuteronomy Why does family The Book of Deuteronomy is read as Deuteronomy in the Gospel passages following the instructions in the book. history matter? part of the Office of Readings both next about Jesus’ temptation in the desert That would have been in 622 B.C., week, which is the after his baptism by John in the almost 100 years after it was hidden. Why does family history matter? Second Week in Jordan River. For each of Satan’s Chapter 23 of the Second Book of Kings I asked myself that question as I put Ordinary Time, and three temptations, Jesus responds with a details those reforms. together some albums of ancestry for my the following week. quotation from Moses’ reflections on the It helped, of course, that the book was kids for Christmas. Next week, the Israelites’ wilderness experience in not only written in the form of a Is there anyone readings are taken The Book of Deuteronomy. covenant between God and the people, among us who hasn’t from the first Deuteronomy is written as a series of but also as speeches by Moses. In them, lamented at some 16 chapters. eloquent discourses by Moses, sort of his Moses reminds the people that God point, “Gee, I wish I Deuteronomy— last testament, as the Israelites were chose Israel as his cherished people, and would have asked the word means preparing to cross the Jordan River into he did so only because of his love for Grandma—or Grandpa “second law”—is the last of the five the Promised Land. them and because of his fidelity to their or Dad or Uncle Joe— books in the Pentateuch, the first five However, it was likely written centuries ancestors. more questions about books in the Bible. It is considered later, probably in the northern kingdom of God showed this love by redeeming the family while they extremely important by observant Jews Israel shortly before that kingdom was his people from slavery in Egypt and by were still alive”? today, and it inspired the evangelists and destroyed by the Assyrians in 721 B.C. It giving them the land of Canaan, land The other side of that coin is that often teachers in the early Church. is surmised that Levite refugees from the that was far superior to that of Egypt. It we do remember special evenings spent “Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, north took it to the southern kingdom of is particularly special because God will reminiscing around the dining room table the Lord alone!” (Dt 6:4) is the Shema— Judah. Then it was apparently hidden in dwell there in the Temple. with older relatives, but nobody wrote it the Hebrew word for “hear”—that the Temple. In return for that, the people must down—or better yet, turned on a recorder. observant Jews pray at the beginning and Chapter 22 of the Second Book of observe the covenant. They must observe Now the storylines blur and the memories end of each day. The next sentence, Kings tells us that, in the 18th year of his statutes, decrees and commandments. grow foggier. And the silence that separates “Therefore, you shall love the Lord, your the reign of King Josiah, the high priest If they do so, God will bless them and us from the dead seems quite intense. God, with all your heart, and with all Hilkiah found the book and gave it to the make them prosper. But if they do not, And then there is that box of photos in your soul, and with all your strength,” scribe Shaphan. God’s wrath will flare up and he will the attic. Who the heck could this young (Dt 6:5) is what Jesus called the greatest Shaphan, in turn, read it to curse them. man be? commandment (Mt 22:37-38). King Josiah, who immediately ordered a This column will continue this I peruse the old, sepia-toned picture of We also recognize the Book of sweeping religious and cultural reform explanation next week. † someone, probably Grandma’s brother or Grandpa’s cousin, his name lost to It’s All Good/Patti Lamb posterity, but his face preserved. When I visit an antique shop and see those framed photos, it stabs at my heart to Wipe away the past and start the New Year fresh with God think that someone gave those old January is not my favorite month. excited, but they may not yet fully grasp to the bishop, who asked him for God’s portraits away. But then I hope, perhaps It’s cold and often dreary. the significance of it. answer to the question. over-optimistically, that maybe their Christmas spirit has given way to the When you are 8, you’re sorry for “I asked God what your worst sin descendants made smaller, more functional winter doldrums. hitting your sister and sneaking was,” said the little boy. “Well, God copies to keep. Or maybe they just didn’t And then there is Junior Mints from the candy jar at thought and thought, and he couldn’t know who those folks were, staring out at that pile of bills home. Down the road, however, life gets remember.” them with the sober expressions favored in from December’s more complicated. I forget where I heard it, but I have late 19th-century photography. holiday shopping to Suddenly, we find ourselves full of always loved that story. It reminds me My Christmas project aimed to give my contend with. regret and even shame. Some of the that God’s love and mercy are infinite. kids a sense of their direct lineage. I’m not Usually, I catch a choices we made could have been Sometimes I mistakenly perceive the genealogist to compile page after page whale of a cold in better. That is when we rediscover how that God is keeping track of my of cousins three times removed. I was not January. truly wonderful the sacrament is. missteps and failures. born with the scrapbooking gene either so I mentioned these One of the most beautiful aspects of Instead, I think it’s more accurate to my little enterprise is not “cute” nor is it thoughts to my our Catholic faith is that if we tell God consider him as a parent cheering for even done with a very straight ruler. husband, David, and he asked if I could we are sorry for our sins, then we are his sons and daughters from the What I do like are stories and anecdotes possibly be any more pessimistic. forgiven. We don’t have to carry them sidelines. about the past. Relating ancestral stories is So I brainstormed until I came up around with us anymore. It turns out So I guess January isn’t so bad after something that the Hebrew people did well. with something good about January. that with God, there are do-overs. all. It is a blank slate, a clean canvas. In And when Jesus came along, the Gospel I do like the idea of the fresh start Years ago, I heard a sweet story addition to making resolutions, a great writers were quick to want to establish his that the New Year brings. I suppose about a little boy who claimed to way to start the New Year is by going to lineage and tell a little about his family. one redeeming thing about January is converse with God. News of the boy confession. We can wipe away the past Who you came from was very important to the hope of better days to come. To that spread, and piqued the interest of and start fresh with God. If a formal the Scripture writers in telling who end, we make lofty resolutions. Church authorities. A high-ranking confession is not possible, perhaps we you were. We vow to trim our waistlines, save bishop asked the boy a question, can just go to God from our hearts. My husband’s grandparents emigrated money, spend more quality time with to which only God would know Here’s to a year of all that we hope from Italy. It was exciting to receive an our families and be kinder. We make the answer. for—the hope of being all that God has e-mailed photo of my husband’s great- promises to do better. January, as gray The bishop instructed the little boy to called us to be with nothing standing grandmother, who lived in Rionero, Italy, in as it is in Indiana, is ripe with hope. ask God what the worst sin that the between us and God. the 19th century. It was sent to us by an The year is new, and the slate is clean. bishop had ever committed was. If the Happy fresh-start to you! Italian cousin. It was also fun to listen to Speaking of clean slates, the boy came back with the answer that the my mother-in-law reminisce about her second-graders at my parish, St. Susanna bishop was thinking of, then he would (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna grandfather, whose photo adorns his in Plainfield, soon begin preparing to know that this child did, truly, speak to Parish in Plainfield, is a regular gravestone in Rhode Island. receive their first reconciliation. They are God. Some time later, the boy returned columnist for The Criterion.) † But for me, my Celtic roots have very special meaning, especially as it relates to Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister Celtic spirituality with its deep relationship to the land and the environment. Two of my great-grandfathers came to this country Looking backward—and forward—in the New Year because of the mid-19th-century Irish Each January, for as long as I can not to overdo my resolutions because I feedback, but also graciously accept famine. One of them came as an orphaned remember, I have probed my brain to don’t want to fail. The best approach for questions about my columns. young man from County Galway. figure out what I can me now is to try to improve on Conversely, another event in In his book Eternal Echoes, the great do better in the something each week. December was very sad—the death of a Irish writer and philosopher New Year, and how I Looking back to the previous weeks friend, Rudy Brinker, whose funeral was John O’Donohue wrote exquisitely about will implement my and acknowledging my faults is much held at St. Barnabas Church on the south growing up in his homeland in Connemara resolutions. This easier for me than dealing with side of Indianapolis. in County Galway. usually takes the resolutions for an entire year. Each day Paul and I went to the Mass of He wrote that in Connemara, “when entire month because this month, I will remember 2011 then Resurrection with two Lutheran friends, someone asks a child who he is, the child is I repeatedly vacillate. slowly and prayerfully assess my goal Jane and John Willenbrock. not simply asked for his name. The I usually only for the rest of January. John once worked with Rudy, and question is ‘Ce leis thu?’ i.e., ‘To whom do share these pledges Yes, I become aggravated when I sang with him and my husband in the you belong?’ There is a recognition in the with God the Father, don’t fulfill all that I hoped I would. Indianapolis Maennerchor. John shared a language that your identity is not merely the Son, the Holy Spirit, Blessed Mother But I now accept that better than in beautiful eulogy at the Mass. Happily, your own personal marker. You are both an Mary and some special saints. previous years. before Mass, Paul and I were able to expression and extension of an already Some of my favorite saints are However, I am also pleased knowing speak briefly with Msgr. Tony Volz, our acknowledged family line.” St. Joseph, the Blessed Virgin’s spouse; that I have reached some of my goals. former pastor at Christ the King Parish The Gospel writers knew that. They St. Cecilia, patroness of music; With my husband, Paul, I was able to in Indianapolis. knew that the God who chose to be born St. Francis of Assisi, who loved animals; attend a 90th birthday party for a dear I am eagerly looking forward to new into our world chose to be born into a and a Jewish woman, Edith Stein, who friend, Joe Puppin. He and his wife, experiences during 2012, and am family line, and that those lines matter. converted to Catholicism, became a Alvina, are members of Holy Spirit praying that God will bless all of Jesus was both an expression and an Carmelite nun and took the religious Parish in Indianapolis. The Criterion’s readers. extension of his family tree, and so are all name St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. What surprised me at the party was of us. She died in Auschwitz, Germany, in how many of their guests recognized me (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of Maybe that’s why family history matters. 1938 when I was 3 years old. because of my “Faithful Lines” column Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, As for making promises for the and photo. Such affirmation is good for is a regular columnist for (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News New Year, I have learned to be careful the soul. I always appreciate positive The Criterion.) † Service.) † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2011 Page 17

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 16 Friday, Jan. 20 The Sunday Readings 1 Samuel 15:16-23 St. Fabian, pope and martyr Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23 St. Sebastian, martyr Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012 keystone of personal salvation, requires Mark 2:18-22 1 Samuel 24:3-21 Christians to practice spiritual and bodily • 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19 faithfulness. They must not allow Psalm 57:2-4, 6, 11 • 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20 themselves to fall into carnal sin. Tuesday, Jan. 17 Mark 3:13-19 • John 1:35-42 Instructing the Christian Corinthians in St. Anthony, abbot this fact seems for some to be excessive for 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Saturday, Jan. 21 The First Book of Samuel is the source Paul. However, it should be remembered Psalm 89:20-22, 27-28 St. Agnes, virgin and martyr of the first reading for this weekend. that Corinth was known near and far as a Mark 2:23-28 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 Originally, First and Second Samuel virtual capital of lewd behavior and vices. were one volume. At St. John’s Gospel furnishes the Psalm 80:2-3, 5-7 some point in history, last reading. Wednesday, Jan. 18 Mark 3:20-21 an editor divided them It is a story about the decision to follow 1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 into the two volumes, Jesus by Simon, later known as Peter, and Psalm 144:1-2, 9-10 Sunday, Jan. 22 and two volumes Simon’s brother, Andrew. Mark 3:1-6 Third Sunday in Ordinary Time appear in Bible In the story, Jesus intrigues Andrew and translations today. Simon. They follow Jesus, and the Lord Jonah 3:1-5, 10 As the title of these invites them to be Apostles. Thursday, Jan. 19 Psalm 25:4-9 books implies, the They recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 central figure is Jesus calls Peter to a new life, even giving Psalm 56:2-3, 9-14 Mark 1:14-20 Samuel, a prophet who him a new name, Cephas, which is often Mark 3:7-12 was active centuries before Christ. translated as Peter. Prophets were highly revered throughout the history of the Chosen People. They Reflection were seen as God’s special representatives, The Church, in the majesty and glory of but also personally very holy and devoted its liturgy, in a profound gaze into the Go Ask Your Father/Fr. Francis Hoffman to God. reality of Jesus, born in Bethlehem, given At times, prophets resisted their calling by the Gospels, called us all to celebrate then later came to accept it. Such was the the birth of Christ at Christmas. Church norms establish five requirements case of the great prophets Isaiah, Ezekiel On Christmas, the Church revealed to us for Catholics to gain plenary indulgence and Jeremiah. They accommodated that Jesus was the son of Mary, therefore a themselves to God’s will and accepted the human, as she was only human despite her How long do the effects of a plenary practically impossible to be detached from Lord’s call to be prophets. unique holiness and singular place in the Qindulgence last? all desire to sin. These figures were admired because the divine plan of redemption. Can we ever have fulfilled all the Others, more hopeful in God’s mercy, call to be a prophet was seen as a call Two weeks later, it celebrated for us the requirements for gaining would recognize such sentiments of from God. feast of the Epiphany, revealing then to us a plenary indulgence? detachment as a free gift from God that will In this weekend’s reading, God calls the fact that Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was not be lacking if you ask for it. Samuel. This occurs according to divine, the Son of God, and that redemption A plenary God’s plan. Samuel is open to hearing God, is God’s gift for all people. Aindulgence remits My small group of Cursillo sisters and indeed is ready to hear God, but These past several weeks have been the whole of the Qmeets weekly. One of the women had Samuel cannot hurry the divine plan. times in which the Church, with the temporal punishment hip surgery and is housebound for three St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians greatest joy and hope, has told us about the incurred by a person’s more weeks. We are to meet at her house this supplies the second reading for this Lord. He is the Savior of the world! sin up to the point when week, and one of the other women said that weekend. Now, the Church asks us in the readings it is granted—as she would bring Communion for all of us. Many of the Pauline writings have their this weekend to consider how personally opposed to a partial It is my understanding that the only luster in their clear revelation of the bond we shall respond to these marvelous facts. indulgence, which remits punishments only people allowed to receive Communion at a between true believers and Jesus. By the mere fact that we are of the in part. person’s home would be the person who is Jesus was the Son of God, but also Church, or at least interested in God, we But it doesn’t remit the punishment of housebound and any caregiver—only on human, in a mystery that we call the are being touched by God’s grace. God sins committed later. Sunday—who is unable to attend Mass. Incarnation. calls us. He offers us eternal life in Christ. Consequently, when the person who Is that true or are we all allowed to Truly committed Christians, in faith and How should we respond? St. Paul gives benefited from the indulgence goes on to receive the Eucharist at her home? baptism, are inseparably bound to Jesus, very concrete advice. Samuel, Peter and commit other sins, he or she no longer has a both in a shared human nature, but also in Andrew are examples. We must follow “plenary” or full remission of temporal You have have described the the divine life given to believers by Christ. Christ. There is no other way to achieve punishment. He now has other sins with Arequirements just about right. This supernatural bond, the very true life and peace. † temporal punishments. The sick, shut-ins and those who care for The holy souls in purgatory, on the other them are eligible to receive holy Communion hand, can no longer commit sins. whenever the minister of holy Communion My Journey to God So if someone gains a plenary indulgence visits them, whether it is on a Sunday or and applies it to a soul in purgatory, then that weekday. soul will be released from purgatory and rise The others, who are able to attend Mass, 2. (Nettie Farris is a up to heaven to enjoy the Beatific Vision for should go to Mass and receive at a church. member of St. Mary-of- eternity. I suppose you could make a case that the Vigil n the-Knobs Parish in Only God knows for sure the state of a others are “caregivers” to some degree or keeps Floyds Knobs. A young person’s soul. I don’t think anyone can be another. Or you could call this event a 1. the woman holds a candle in absolutely certain that he has gained a “Communion service” and justify their flame front of a crucifix during plenary indulgence. But he or she could be reception of Communion that way. n alive a penance service for morally certain. But I think either approach— lights all young people led by Moral certainty is certainty beyond a caregiver/Communion service—is a forced a night Pope Benedict XVI at reasonable doubt, sufficient as a guide to adaptation of the law and not in keeping with can- long St. Peter’s Basilica action. the spirit. dle at the Vatican on There are five requirements for gaining a It would be best, I think, if your Cursillo By Nettie Farris March 29, 2007.) plenary indulgence, and these are specified in group attends Mass together and then visits the norms of the Indulgentiarum Doctrina your friend with a duly deputed minister of (1967, #7): holy Communion—a priest, deacon or

, Reuters “To acquire a plenary indulgence it is extraordinary minister of holy Communion. necessary to perform the work to which the The extra care that we give to the indulgence is attached and to fulfill Eucharist only strengthens our faith and three conditions: sacramental confession, deepens our love for Our Lord. † Giampiero Sposito Eucharistic Communion and prayer for the intentions of the Supreme Pontiff. CNS photo/ “It is further required that all attachment Readers may submit prose to sin, even to venial sin, be absent. If this disposition is in any way less than complete, or poetry for faith column or if the prescribed three conditions are not The Criterion invites readers fulfilled, the indulgence will be only partial.” to submit original prose or poetry The five requirements are: 1) perform the relating to faith or experiences of work; 2) go to confession; 3) receive prayer for possible publication in the Communion; 4) pray for the pope; 5) be “My Journey to God” column. detached from all sin. Seasonal reflections also are Traditionally, it is understood that you appreciated. Please include name, must go to confession, receive Communion address, parish and telephone number and pray for the pope within one week— with submissions. before or after—of performing the Send material for consideration to indulgenced work. “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, How can we know whether we are Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 or by completely detached from sin? e-mail to [email protected]. † Some people would suggest that it’s Page 18 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2012

FLETCHER, Virginia, 55, St. Anne, New Castle, Dec. 8. Sister of Tom Fletcher. GEHLBACH, Dolores (Waiz), Rest in peace 97, St. Paul, Sellersburg, Dec. 12. Mother of Linda Boyd, Janet, Please submit in writing to our Grandson of Catherine Boehm Larry and Paul Gehlbach. Sister Josek, Reuters CNS photo/Petr office by 10 a.m. Thursday and Sandra McGovern. of Bill, Bob and Joe Waiz. Grand mother of 13. Great-grand - before the week of publication; BRANSON, William G., 88, mother of 18. Great-great-grand - be sure to state date of death. Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, mother of one. Obituaries of archdiocesan Nov. 28. Husband of Mary priests serving our archdiocese Agnes (O’Gara) Branson. HEIM, Heidi, 90, are listed elsewhere in Father of Peggy Beltrame, Rita St. Bartholomew, Columbus, The Criterion. Order priests Parsons, Ann Ruhmkorff, Dec. 21. Mother of Jennie Franz, and religious sisters and Thomas and William Branson. Nancy and Thomas Heim. Sister brothers are included here, Grandfather of 14. Great- of Bob Simbach. Grandmother of unless they are natives of the grandfather of one. four. Great-grandmother of four. archdiocese or have other CLERY, Esther L., 71, KIESER, Ronald, Sr., 73, connect ions to it; those are St. Benedict, Terre Haute, St. Paul, Tell City, Dec. 14. separate obituaries on this June 6. Mother of Peggy Clery. Father of Debra Lamar, Marie page. Sister of Becky Clery, Flossy Sommer, Roxanne Sutera, Denis, BALDERSON, Margaret A., and Therese Orman, and Ronald Jr. and William Kieser. 58, St. Patrick, Terre Haute, Henrietta Whalen. Brother of Anna Parker and Ed Dec. 17. Mother of Erin DeFABIS, Philip Francis, 91, Kieser. Grandfather of nine. Step- Balderson. Daughter of Helen St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 11. grandfather of six. Great-grand - Barnes. Sister of Lisa Guess, Father of Phil and Vincent father of 12. Snow church Tina Sims and James Barnes. DeFabis. Brother of Mike KOCHER, Bernard, 93, BECKMAN, William Joseph, DeFabis. Grandfather of one. St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 14. A Catholic priest walks inside a church made of snow on Dec. 28 in the Bavarian village of Mitterfirmiansreut near the German-Czech border. The snow church is likely to attract tourists 56, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, EDSON, Laurette, 97, Father of Mary Haley, Chris, New Albany, Dec. 27. Son of Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Gerry, Leo, Marvin and Michael until the beginning of spring. Marie Beckman. Brother of Dec. 4. Mother of Vicki Kocher. Brother of George Beverly Leonhardt, Pamela Kocher. Grandfather of 13. Arbuckle and Dale Edson. MOORMAN, Leona M., 99, Robert and Sgt. Ste Stephens, Cynthia Stephenson, Great-grandfather of four. Jo (Davey) Lowe. Brother of Ann ven Grandmother of six. Great- Alford and Theresa Lowe. St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, Rudloff Jr. Brother of Teresa Lynn Timmons, Gary, James, grandmother of seven. LEIDOLF, Evelyn N. (Smith), Dec. 27. Mother of Janet Blair, Holmes, William Denney, Lewis Richard and Stephen Beckman. McCARTHY, Michael E., 79, EDWARDS, Betty, 70, 95, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Rita Fledderman, Helen Lattire, Goff, Julia and Mike Rudloff. Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, BOEHM, Adam M., 24, St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 13. Floyds Knobs, Dec. 16. Mother Ruth Werner, Mary Wolters, Joan Dec. 16. Husband of Barbara SCHMIDT, Donald Joseph, 57, Our Lady of the Greenwood, Mother of Carol Morris, Donna of Mary Ann Lanum. Sister of Wuestefeld, Thomas and Virgil (Springman) McCarthy. Father of St. Agnes, Nashville, Dec. 2. Greenwood, Dec. 5. Husband of Murray, Brenda Turner and Harold Smith. Grandmother of Moorman. Grandmother of Bridget Duckett, Danny, Mike III Husband of Nancy Schmidt. Maria (Danis) Boehm. Father of Marjorie Edwards. Sister of three. Great-grandmother of six. several. Great-grandmother of and Tim McCarthy. Brother of Father of Annie Luidhardt, Isabella, Killian and Victoria Ruth Hargett, Charles, Don and Great-great-grandmother of one. several. Great-great-grandmother Mary Ann Fuerer and David Christy Schmidt, Carl and Chris Boehm. Son of Kenneth and Ralph Pierce. Grandmother of LOWE, Robert T., 44, of several. McCarthy. Grandfather of 12. Taylor. Brother of Ann Bastin, Kelli (McGovern) Boehm. seven. Great-grandmother of St. Bernadette, Indianapolis, MORRISON, Victor P., 69, Cate, Bill and Jim Schmidt. Brother of Father Dustin Boehm. two. Dec. 4. Son of Thomas and Mary McPHILLIPS, Pat E., 58, SS. Francis and Clare, Grandfather of 17. Great-grand - St. Anne, New Castle, Dec. 10. Greenwood, Dec. 7. Husband of father of one. Mother of Matthew McPhillips. Suzanne Morrison. Father of SPRINGER, Mary C., 85, Depart April 30 with Fr. Thomas Speier, OFM Daughter of Michael and Dolores Gualtieri, David and Dorothy (Kwilinski) McPhillips. St. Mark the Evangelist, Dennis Morrison. 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the upcoming Year of Faith. conversion to the Lord Jesus and old and traditional while World Catholic New CNS photo/Karen Callaway, The Congregation for the to the rediscovery of faith, so that expressing it “in a new way, in Doctrine of the Faith released a the members of the Church will order to respond to the questions “note” on Jan. 7 outlining the be credible and joy-filled of our times,” it said. The note aims of the special year and ways witnesses to the risen Lord, offers pastoral recommendations bishops, dioceses, parishes and capable of leading those many aimed at aiding “both the communities can promote “the people who are seeking it to the encounter with Christ through truth of the faith,” the door of faith,” the note said. authentic witnesses to faith, and congregation said. Critical to renewing one’s faith the ever-greater understanding of It also announced that within and being a credible witness is its contents,” it said. the Pontifical Council for having a firm and correct Among the initiatives will be Promoting New Evangelization, a understanding of Church various ecumenical events at the secretariat would be set up to teaching, it said. Vatican aimed at restoring unity suggest and coordinate different Because the year’s start, on among all Christians, including initiatives. The new department Oct. 11, coincides with the “a solemn ecumenical celebration Children attend a religion class at St. Blase Parish in Summit Argo, Ill., in this will be responsible for launching anniversaries of the opening of in which all of the baptized will 2011 photo. In an effort to help Catholics have a better and correct understanding a special website for sharing the Second Vatican Council in reaffirm their faith in Christ,” it of their faith, the Vatican issued a list of pastoral recommendations for celebrating useful information on the Year of 1962 and the promulgation of the said. There will be special the upcoming Year of Faith. One suggestion is for dioceses and parishes to Faith. Catechism of the Catholic Church Masses at the Vatican to mark the ensure better quality catechetical materials that conform to Church teaching. Pope Benedict XVI wanted the in 1992, it would be an opening and closing of the Year Year of Faith, which runs from auspicious occasion to make the of Faith, it added. others together to renew dialogue and via other “modern Oct. 11, 2012, to Nov. 24, 2013, work of the council and the Some recommendations for between faith and reason; technologies.” to help the Church focus its catechism “more widely and bishops, dioceses and parishes offering penitential celebrations; The congregation said it attention on “Jesus Christ and the deeply known,” it said. include ensuring there be better and putting a focus on liturgy, wanted to promote the recommen- beauty of having faith in him,” The congregation said the quality catechetical materials that especially the Eucharist, it said. dations because the office’s it said. pope “has worked decisively for a conform to Church teaching; It also called for Vatican II “specific functions include not “The Church is well aware of correct understanding of the promoting Catholic principles documents, the catechism and its only safeguarding sound doctrine the problems facing the faith,” council, rejecting as erroneous and the significance of Vatican II Compendium to be republished and correcting errors but also, and and recognizes that without a the so-called ‘hermeneutics of in the mass media; hosting events in more affordable editions and foremost, promoting the truth of revitalization of faith rooted in a discontinuity and rupture,’ and that bring artists, academics and to distribute the texts digitally the faith.” †

What was in the news on Jan. 12, 1962? ‘Lay senate’ proposed for Church operation, Criterion opens branch office and religious film rated an abysmal failure By Brandon A. Evans to be elected to the papacy, and that the Vatican course, by many Catholic critics [notably America’s administrative staff—the Roman curia—be thoroughly Moira Walsh, who termed it a fraud, anti-religious and This week, we continue to examine what was going on internationalized.” disedifying), and classified separately by the Legion of in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through • Unity seen ‘by-product’ of Council Decency as ‘theologically, historically, and scripturally the pages of The Criterion. • St. Edward’s Hospital [in New Albany] to close inaccurate,’ which is about as chastened as one film can Here are some of the items found in the Jan. 12, 1962, January 15 get. Any Catholic who would see this movie out of issue of The Criterion: • The scourge of unemployment anything but cinematic curiosity deserves to be schlunked • ‘Lay senate’ proposed for Church operation • Lawyers’ group schedules Red Mass on January 16 by a 10-foot spear.” “ROME—A leading Italian priest has called on the • Variety of topics slated on ‘Family Day’ agenda • Don’t coddle students, Jesuit speaker urges forthcoming ecumenical council to make sweeping • Criterion opens branch office • Cites theological aspect of ecumenical movement changes in the Church’s administrative staff, including the • Race and Racism • Excommunication of Castro clarified by establishment of a ‘world senate’ of Catholic laymen. • Tax aid for church-related agencies upheld in three Vatican aide Father Riccardo Lombardi, S.J., founder of the important Supreme Court decisions • Kentucky body votes to continue bus rides Movement for a Better World, made his recommendations • Rome warns about use of horoscopes • Catholic students’ group hits extremists’ stand in a new book, The Council. He said there is a need for a • Unity Octave observance slated January 18-25 • Two laymen are included on new unity commission ‘reform of the Church’ by the Second Vatican Council to • High Court backs smut convictions offset a decline in morality, the growth of secularism and • Religious travesty: ‘King of Kings’ rated as an (Read all of these stories from our Jan. 12, 1962, the efforts of an atheistic communism. The noted Jesuit abysmal failure issue by logging on to our archives at preacher urged that it be made possible for non-cardinals “The film [‘King of Kings’] has been pulverized, of www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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previous role as archbishop of CARDINALS Munich-Freising, Germany. In speech to continued from page 1 Four of the new cardinals are already over

the age of 80 and, therefore, ineligible to vote Haring CNS photo/Paul diplomats, Archdiocese of New York. … It’s as if Pope in a conclave. The pope uses such Benedict is putting the red hat on top of the nominations to honor Churchmen for their pope condemns Empire State Building, or the Statue of scholarship or other service to the Church. religious terrorism Liberty, or on home plate at Yankee Among the new so-called honorary cardinals Stadium.” is Cardinal-designate Karl Becker, a Jesuit VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Cardinal-designate O’Brien said his and former theology professor at Rome’s Benedict XVI condemned “religiously nomination reflected the “zealous faith” Pontifical Gregorian University. motivated terrorism” and restrictions on of Catholics in Baltimore, and Cardinal- The Jesuits remain the religious order with religious freedom during his annual address designate Collins attributed his elevation to the highest representation in the college, with to diplomats accredited to the Vatican. the pope’s “esteem for the role of Canada eight cardinals, followed by the Salesians Looking both at signs of promise and and of the Archdiocese of Toronto in the with six, including the Vatican secretary of areas of concern around the globe, the pope universal Church.” state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. There are said human dignity, truth and justice The latest additions will bring the United seven Franciscan cardinals, divided between demand governments safeguard all human States and Canada’s share of the College of the Order of Friars Minor and the Capuchins, life and recognize the importance of the Cardinals to 22. The U.S., which is home to with the latter represented by Cardinal Sean traditional family based on the marriage of about 5.5 percent of the world’s Catholics, P. O’Malley of Boston. Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass marking the a man and a woman. will provide almost 10 percent of the Here is the list of the new cardinals: feast of the Epiphany in St. Peter’s Basilica at the But his strongest words on Jan. 9 were 125 cardinals under the age of 80, who are • Italian Archbishop Fernando Filoni, Vatican on Jan. 6. During the Mass, the pope reserved for the topic of religious freedom the only cardinals eligible to vote in a prefect of the Congregation for the ordained U.S. Archbishop Charles J. Brown, the new and religiously motivated violence. conclave for a future pope. Evangelization of Peoples, 65. apostolic nuncio to Ireland. During his Angelus The pope paid tribute to Shahbaz Bhatti, By contrast, only one of those named, • Portuguese Archbishop Manuel address following the Mass, the pope named 22 new a Catholic and government minister for Cardinal-designate Joao Braz de Aviz, comes Monteiro de Castro, major penitentiary of the cardinals, including two from the United States. minorities in Pakistan, “whose untiring from the country with the most Catholics, Apostolic Penitentiary, 73. battle for the rights of minorities ended in Brazil. When the cardinals are inducted in • Spanish Archbishop Santos Abril Ernakulam-Angamaly, major archbishop of his tragic death” when he was murdered February, only seven of the 22 cardinal Castello, archpriest of Basilica of St. Mary the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, 66. last March. electors from Latin America will have been Major, 76. • Canadian Archbishop Thomas C. “Sadly, we are not speaking of an appointed by Pope Benedict. • Italian Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, Collins of Toronto, who will turn 65 on isolated case,” the pope told the diplomats With his latest appointments, president Pontifical Council for Migrants and Jan. 16. gathered in a formal, frescoed hall of the Pope Benedict will have named more than Travelers, who turns 74 on Feb. 3. • Czech Archbishop Dominik Duka of Apostolic Palace. 50 percent of the current cardinal electors, • Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Bertello, Prague, 68. “In many countries, Christians are with the rest having been named by president of the commission governing • Dutch Archbishop Willem J. Eijk of deprived of fundamental rights and Blessed John Paul II. Vatican City State, 69. Utrecht, 58. sidelined from public life. In other The pope’s latest nominations included • Italian Archbishop • Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Betori of countries, they endure violent attacks 16 Europeans, continuing a trend in his Francesco Coccopalmerio, president of Florence, 64. against their churches and homes,” he said, cardinal appointments since his election the Pontifical Council for Interpreting • U.S. Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of mentioning particularly the Christmas Day in 2005. Legislative Texts, 73. New York, who will turn 62 on Feb. 6. attacks against churches in Nigeria. Seven of the new appointments are • Brazilian Archbishop Joao Braz de Aviz, • German Archbishop Rainer Maria “In other parts of the world,” he said, Italians, which will bring that nation’s total prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Woelki of Berlin, 55. “we see policies aimed at marginalizing the of cardinal electors to 30—or 24 percent— Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic • Chinese Bishop John Tong Hon of role of religion in the life of society, as if it more than any other country. Life, 64. Hong Kong, 72. were a cause of intolerance rather than a None of the new cardinals are from • U.S. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, • Romanian Archbishop Lucian valued contribution to education in respect Africa, the region where the Church is pro-grand master of the Equestrian Order of Muresan of Fagaras and Alba Iulia, major for human dignity, justice and peace.” experiencing its fastest growth, or Oceania. the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, 72. archbishop of the Romanian Catholic Discussing the Arab Spring movements Ten of the new cardinals are officials of • Italian Archbishop Domenico Calcagno, Church, 80. that toppled repressive governments in the Roman Curia, whose offices by tradition president of the Administration of the • Belgian Father Julien Ries, expert on North Africa and spread to the Middle East, often entail membership in the college. Patrimony of the Holy See, who turns 69 on history of religions, 91. Pope Benedict said, “it is hard to make a Pope Benedict, when he was known as Feb. 3. • Maltese Augustinian Father Prosper definitive assessment” of the recent events, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, spent more than • Italian Archbishop Giuseppe Versaldi, Grech, biblical scholar, 86. but “initial optimism has yielded to an 23 years in the curia as prefect of the president of Prefecture of the Economic • German Jesuit Father Karl Josef acknowledgment of the difficulties of this Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Affairs of the Holy See, 68. Becker, retired professor of dogmatic moment of transition and change.” † though he had been named a cardinal in his • Indian Archbishop George Alencherry of theology, 83. †

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