It’s All Good Be ‘good news’ people and let Christ’s light shine, writes columnist Patti Lamb, page 12. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com March 4, 2016 Vol. LVI, No. 21 75¢ Fresh start: Faith—tested and deepened Pope calls for integration First-year teachers in Notre Dame of divorced program leave their mark on students into Church life VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Those who hope Pope Francis will give divorced By John Shaughnessy and civilly remarried Catholics a blanket welcome back to The touching note appeared unexpectedly, giving Communion, and first-year teacher Mary Wickert far more than a those who fear he moment of surprise and delight. will open the doors For Wickert, the student’s note came when she to such a possibility desperately needed a boost to believe that all her are both likely to be caring and all her efforts to make a difference in her disappointed by his students’ lives mattered. decision. Wickert’s memorable moment of reinforcement Pope Francis told arrived after some of her eighth-grade students at reporters traveling St. Philip Neri School in Indianapolis completed with him from an assignment. Mexico to Italy “When they finish an assignment early, I let them Pope Francis on Feb. 17 that his use the time to draw or write something on the back document reflecting of their paper,” Wickert says. “I had a student write, on the 2014 and 2015 synods of bishops on ‘Teachers are like mothers. They come to school the family should be published by Easter. every day, and they care for all of their children. There is widespread expectation that the You are now part of [our] family. You’ll be watching document will be dated March 19, the feast us grow, and even though we’ll soon leave, we’ll of St. Joseph. remember you.’ ” On the specific issue of Communion for Wickert’s voice cracks with emotion as she quotes those who are civilly remarried without those words. That note is etched in her mind from having obtained an annulment of their her first year of teaching—a time of challenge, sacramental marriage, Pope Francis said it See FAITH, page 8 was a possibility, but only after a process of re-integration into the life of the Church. Reception of the Eucharist, he said, First-year teacher Mary Wickert shows her joy when one of would be “the point of arrival.” her students at St. Philip Neri School in Indianapolis gives the However, he insisted, “integration right answer in science class. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) into the Church does not mean ‘receiving Communion’ ” as if it were automatic. “I know remarried Catholics who go to church once or twice a year” and say, “ ‘I want to receive Communion’ as if it were some prize.” It is not, the pope said. An eventual return to the sacraments would be the result of “a work of integration.” “All doors are open, but one cannot say, ‘from this moment on they can receive Communion,’ ” Pope Francis said. Without a declaration that their sacramental marriage was null, “such a situation contradicts the Christian sacrament,” which is meant to be an indissoluble bond, Pope Francis had explained last August during one of his See DIVORCE, page 2 Businessman’s commitment to employees and faith strikes chord at poverty summit By John Shaughnessy

Sitting at one far edge of the panel of distinguished speakers, Jim Huntington waited patiently to share his humble story of how his small business is trying to do its part to help people stay out of poverty. For most of the morning of Feb. 24 at Marian University in Indianapolis, Huntington respectfully listened to the other speakers who shared their insights during a meeting of about 60 central Indiana business leaders—leaders who had been invited by Catholic Charities Indianapolis to discuss concrete ways to support the Catholic bishops of Indiana in their efforts to help people out of poverty. Huntington nodded affirmatively as Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin opened the poverty summit by talking about the bishops’ commitment to making a difference through their pastoral letter, “Poverty at the Crossroads: The Church’s Response to Poverty in Indiana,” which was published in March 2015. And Huntington’s attentiveness continued as his four fellow Business owner Jim Huntington, left, talks with Marian University president panelists shared their thoughts. Daniel Elsener during a break at a Catholic Charities Indianapolis poverty See POVERTY, page 9 summit at the college on Feb. 24. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016

Pope Francis’ focus on the process—and not on the DIVORCE possible end result—means it is an incremental change continued from page 1 from what St. John Paul II had written in his 1981 exhortation on the family, “Familiaris Consortio,” which weekly general audience talks about the family. called on pastors to accompany such couples in a process Speaking to reporters on his plane in mid-February, he of discernment regarding their share of responsibility for said a blanket invitation to return to Communion without the breakdown of a marriage, their behavior toward their looking at individual circumstances, helping them take spouse and children since the divorce, and their conduct in responsibility for a failed marriage and encouraging their new relationship. repentance “would harm the spouses, the couple, because However, St. John Paul wrote, “the Church reaffirms it would mean not having them follow that path of her practice, which is based upon Sacred Scripture, of not integration.” admitting to eucharistic Communion Pope Francis pointed to the divorced persons who have remarried” testimony of Humberto and because “their state and condition of Claudia Gomez, a couple who spoke at ‘These two [Humberto life objectively contradict that union his meeting with families on Feb. 15 in and Claudia Gomez] are of love between Christ and the Church Tuxtla Gutierrez, Mexico. Claudia was which is signified and effected by the divorced before they married 16 years happy. And they used a Eucharist. Besides this, there is another ago, and while Humberto said their very beautiful expression: special pastoral reason: if these people relationship always has been one of “We do not receive were admitted to the Eucharist, the “love and understanding,” three years eucharistic Communion, faithful would be led into error and ago “the Lord spoke to us,” calling them but we make communion confusion regarding the Church’s to join a local parish group for divorced in visiting the hospital.” teaching about the indissolubility of and remarried Catholics. marriage.” “We cannot receive Communion,” Their integration has St. John Paul’s points about the Humberto said, “but we can remained there. If there is objective situation of the couples and communicate through those who something more, the Lord about possible scandal were repeated are needy, sick or deprived of their will tell them, but it is a by many bishops at the synod last freedom,” whom the couple serves journey, a path.’ October. Several of them insisted through their parish outreach programs. the synod’s recommendations to “These two are happy,” the pope Pope Francis left no room for changing told reporters. “And they used a very —Pope Francis that teaching and possibly allowing beautiful expression: ‘We do not receive some couples in some circumstances to eucharistic Communion, but we make receive Communion. communion in visiting the hospital.’ Other bishops at the synod “Their integration has remained there,” the pope said. insisted that a process of discernment would mean little “If there is something more, the Lord will tell them, but it if full reconciliation with the Church and reception is a journey, a path.” of all the sacraments were not ultimately possible. The “integration” of families in the life of the Church They saw their recommendations as leaving the was a key point at the synods on the family, the pope said, possibility open. Pope Francis embraces Humberto and Claudia Gomez, who and is a concept that will be featured in his postsynodal Pope Francis’ remarks to reporters indicate that he, too, are married civilly but not in the Church, during a meeting with document, particularly when speaking about families sees a possibility, but both the sacraments of marriage and families at the Victor Manuel Reyna Stadium in Tuxtla Gutierrez, experiencing difficulties and those formed by new unions. of the Eucharist are too sacred to be treated lightly. † Mexico, on Feb. 15. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Celebration provides inspiration for businesses to help people By John Shaughnessy Dinner—a celebration of the efforts of Awards Dinner is an important way for the Catholic Charities Indianapolis to help the business community in central Indiana to In his efforts to gain more business poor and vulnerable in central Indiana. show their support for Catholic Charities sponsors for the archdiocese’s As the married couple of 27 years attended Indianapolis. Spirit of Service Awards Dinner on April 27, Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York “Our business is to help businesses help Gregg Wallander received extra inspiration on Feb. 7, they listened as Cardinal Timothy people,” Wallander says. “We’re raising during a recent weekend of celebration in M. Dolan focused his homily on that day’s money for Catholic Charities to help the poor New York City. reading from St. Paul’s First Epistle to and vulnerable they serve. And last year, they Wallander and his wife Cindy traveled the Corinthians. served more than 70,000 people. Obviously, to New York in early February to celebrate “That homily made me think of Catholic lots of Catholics have businesses and are two landmark moments in her life. Charities,” Wallander says. “Cardinal Dolan involved in businesses around the community. Pope Francis’ prayer The first was her 10-year mark referred to St. Paul saying, ‘I’m handing on This would be a very rewarding event to be as a survivor of a brain tumor. The to you what I received myself.’ In essence, part of.” intentions for March second occasion they celebrated was her he’s handing on the faith. Everything we have That experience has had an impact 50th birthday. is a gift from God. And we’re calling people on Wallander. In the midst of that joyous weekend, to ‘hand out’ what they have to people who “I’ve been involved with the Spirit of • Universal: Families in Wallander also heard a message that are vulnerable and in need. That’s what the Service committee for a number of years,” Difficulty—That families in “hit home” with him in his role as the Catholic faith is about.” says the member of St. Joan of Arc Parish need may receive the necessary chairman of the Spirit of Service Awards For Wallander, the Spirit of Service in Indianapolis. “I became moved by support, and that children may what they do. grow up in healthy and peaceful “To think about what Catholic Charities environments. ‘Our business is to help businesses help people. is doing with Holy Family Shelter and the • Evangelization: Persecuted refugees, we’re talking about the basic needs Christians—That those We’re raising money for Catholic Charities to help for dignity—shelter, food, clothing. Then Christians who, on account of the poor and vulnerable they serve. And last year, we’re talking about how to get them on their their faith, are discriminated they served more than 70,000 people. Obviously, feet—to get them out of the shelter. It’s such a against or are being persecuted, lots of Catholics have businesses and are involved foundational charity.” may remain strong and faithful in businesses around the community. This would be to the Gospel, thanks to the (Businesses and business owners seeking incessant prayer of the Church. a very rewarding event to be part of.’ information of how to be a sponsor for the Spirit of Service Awards Dinner on April 27 (To see Pope Francis’ monthly —Gregg Wallander, chairman of the Spirit of in Indianapolis should contact Valerie Sperka intentions, go to www.ewtn.com/ Service Awards Dinner at 317-592-4072 or send an e-mail to faith/papalPrayer.htm.) † [email protected].) †

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By Sean Gallagher ministry,” he said. “I am confident that his process will help me improve my pastoral Priests, deacons and parish life service to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis.” coordinators are called in their ministry to Msgr. Paul Koetter has served for nearly help grow the faith of the people in their 20 years as pastor of faith communities parishes and to support them in times with large budgets and many employees. of need. A participant in the first group of In some cases, especially in parishes pastoral leaders in Catholic Leadership that have a school, they also have to 360, he recognizes the good it can do for oversee dozens of employees and annual priests and parish life coordinators across multi-million dollar budgets. the archdiocese to bring pastoral ministry The Archdiocese of Indianapolis and administration recently received a $1 million grant from closer together. the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment “The administrative Inc. to help pastoral leaders in central and role is not, I think, southern Indiana bring these two areas a natural movement Msgr. Paul Koetter, left, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis, speaks on Feb. 25 with of their ministry together, and help them for most priests,” Kathy Peacock and Suzanne McLaughlin, the parish’s business managers, in the office grow in their understanding of finances and said Msgr. Koetter. of the Indianapolis East Deanery faith community. A $1 million grant recently awarded personnel management. “In fact, it might to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by Lilly Endowment Inc. will help pastoral leaders in Focusing on the continuing formation of even grind a little bit central and southern Indiana nurture their management skills and financial knowledge. clergy and other pastoral leaders in central with us. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) and southern Indiana in this particular area “Trying to figure is confirmed in the fact that, over the past out how to bring Lilly grant will fund array of programs through 2018 decade, Sunday and holy day collections Archbishop together being a at archdiocesan parishes have increased by Joseph W. Tobin chief administrator The Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. recently awarded a $1 million grant to less than 1 percent annually while health and a pastor is the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to help advance the leadership and financial literacy of and property insurance and utility costs and very challenging. Whatever help we can clergy and other pastoral leaders across central and southern Indiana. minimum raises for staff have increased at get, pastors especially, to bring those The “Empowering Pastoral Leaders for Excellence in Parish Leadership and a much higher rate. two together where both are honored is Management” grant will fund an array of programs through 2018 to achieve this goal. Lilly Endowment awarded so needed.” The programs include: 28 such grants late last year to religious Father Dustin Boehm will also • Catholic Leadership 360—Developed by the National Leadership Council on Church organizations across the country as part of participate in Catholic Leadership 360. Management and the National Federation of Priests’ Councils, this program assesses its National Initiative to Address Economic Ordained in 2011, he was appointed to the communications, leadership, relationship, planning and personal management Challenges Facing Pastoral Leaders. The lead St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville and skills of pastors and parish life coordinators through feedback gained through Archdiocese of Indianapolis was the only St. Bridget of Ireland interviews by trained staff of people to whom they report and with whom and to whom Catholic group to receive such a grant. Parish in Liberty just these pastoral leaders minister. The “Empowering Pastoral Leaders three years later. • Creating Cultures of Generosity—This seminar will help parish staff members give for Excellence in Parish Leadership and “It would be a new perspective on giving and generosity in members of their parish communities. Management” grant will fund an array of wonderful to know the The seminar is sponsored by the Indianapolis-based Lake Institute on Faith programs through 2018. right questions to ask and Giving. “The emphasis is on supporting pastoral when you first come • Executive Certificate in Religious Fundraising—This four-day intensive program leaders who are at the center of a network,” into a place [as an helps pastoral leaders gain practical applications of the cultural, organizational and said Matt Hayes, the grant’s project administrator],” said philanthropic principles unique to religious organizations which help donors grow director. “They have a solid foundation Father Boehm, “or the in spiritual motivation and religious values in their giving. It is sponsored by the in theology and philosophy. What we right questions for me Lake Institute. want to do is to make sure they have a to ask tomorrow so • Ministerial Excellence Fund—This fund will provide grants to priests, deacons serving solid foundation Fr. Dustin Boehm that I can move on to on parish staffs and lay ecclesial ministers dealing with large amounts of personal in institutional and the more pastoral and debt with such causes as student loans and catastrophic illness. Helping clergy and lay personal financial catechetical side of the job of pastoring.” ecclesial ministers resolve personal debt helps them become more effective ministers. literacy and leadership Other programs funded by the grant • Pastors Toolbox—Developed by the National Leadership Roundtable on Church and managerial will help pastors, parish life coordinators Management, this program helps new pastors understand day-to-day management skills.” and parish business managers gain a better skills needed in parish leadership that will help their faith communities live out the Among the grasp on effective financial management of Gospel with vibrancy. † programs funded by parishes and how to encourage increased the grant is Catholic support of parishes by their members. Leadership 360, Hayes said this practical knowledge work to have the programs it will fund know what happens to people when they which will help is helpful for parish leaders to apply the be a part of the life of the archdiocese go home, what happens to the parish pastors and parish life spiritual and theological knowledge that after the three-year period of the grant over time.” Matt Hayes coordinators identify is so much a part of their pastoral ministry is completed. Archbishop Tobin ultimately hopes strengths and areas to practical matters that are necessary For example, plans are in place to make that the programs funded by the grant will for growth in ministry through feedback to attend to in order for that ministry to the principles of Catholic Leadership 360 help people who help lead parishes across gained from interviews of people with and take place. continue to be made available to clergy and central and southern Indiana grow in their to whom they minister. “A person is doing pastoral leadership parish life coordinators in the future, and to ability to minister with care to the people Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin because they’re answering a call, which expand its availability to Catholic school they serve. will participate in the first group of gives them a mission, as St. Ignatius would principals and parish catechetical and youth “For all of us—ordained and archdiocesan pastoral ministers in say, to change the world,” he said. “They’re ministry leaders. non-ordained—our service to the Church the program. going to steward their time and their talent The effectiveness of the programs is not simply a job, volunteer activity or “Catholic Leadership 360 offers to do that in a more efficient way. My funded by the grant will also be carefully hobby,” Archbishop Tobin said. “Rather, it participants new insights into their own hope is that this grant will help people evaluated, said retired Father Jeffrey is a generous response to God, who loved ministerial style. As a participant, I will better understand how they can leverage Godecker, who helped write the grant us first, as well as an art. Any art requires take part in guided self-evaluation and I their time and their talent on behalf of proposal for the archdiocese. discipline, practice and evaluation. I hope will receive valuable information from the mission.” “We don’t just need to hand out that this grant will help all of us learn the others, who will be asked to evaluate my One of the goals of the grant is to evaluation forms,” he said. “We need to art of loving service.” † For ‘Mercy Friday’ initiative, Pope Francis visits young addicts at rehab center VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In the second of his a driver. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, organizer of made from scratch. “Mercy Friday” gestures, Pope Francis spent two hours the Vatican’s Holy Year of Mercy events, arrived In a press release, Archbishop Fisichella said with a group of young adults at a Catholic-run residential separately at the community outside of Rome near Pope Francis chose the drug rehab center as a follow-up drug rehabilitation center. Castel Gandolfo. to his visit to Mexico, where he repeatedly denounced To the complete surprise of the 55 residents, “We were speechless when we saw the car with the drug traffickers and urged Catholic pastors and Pope Francis showed up in his compact Ford Escort pope enter our community where every day our young parishioners to be close to all those who have fallen prey at the San Carlo Community on Feb. 26 with just people fight their battle to return to life,” said Roberto to drug addiction. Mineo, president of the Italian Solidarity Center, which In one of his earliest Year of Mercy events, in operates the facility. “The pope, like a caring father, spent December, Pope Francis opened a “door of charity” at a long time which each person, listening to their stories the main soup kitchen of the Rome diocesan Caritas. and embracing them one by one. Some of the young One Friday a month for the rest of the jubilee year, people showed him photos of their families, their children, Pope Francis was to demonstrate personally the works of and the pope had a word of hope and a blessing for each mercy. In January, he visited a home for the aged and a of them.” nearby facility caring for people in persistent vegetative Using tiny photos of past and present community states. Reporters are not invited to accompany the pope, members, the residents had made a mosaic of Our Lady of and news of the events is not released until the pope Lujan, patroness of Argentina, and asked Pope Francis to already has arrived. sign it, which he did “with affection and friendship.” Also related to the Year of Mercy, an Italian group of Sitting in a large circle, Pope Francis asked the physicians and nurses—Solidarity Medicine—opened a Pope Francis visits the San Carlo Community, a Catholic-run residents about their activities and learned that one of their mobile health clinic for the poor and homeless under the drug rehabilitation center on the outskirts of Rome near therapeutic projects is learning how to cook. “What is the colonnade at St. Peter’s Square on Feb. 29. Working with Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Feb. 26. The pope encouraged best thing you make?” the pope asked. Their response was the papal almoner’s office, which installed showers there the 55 patients to trust God’s mercy to keep them strong. not reported by the few people present, but at break time, and coordinates the weekly visit of barbers, the doctors (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano) they shared with Pope Francis some of their cheese pizza, and nurses will offer checkups and referrals for tests. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016

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Intellect and Virtue/John Garvey Justice Scalia: A man of the people Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, should not be allowed to impose their will God rest his soul, was routinely described through law when it would be immoral to Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 as a conservative, do so. That is also a compelling argument, Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor and so he was. especially about moral issues like abortion Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus He held fast to a and homosexuality. lot of traditional Maybe the real difference between values. He loved his Justice Scalia and the court is one of moral Church, his wife and authority—whom should we trust to make Editorial nine children, and decisions in matters like these? his country. Justice Scalia’s commitment to He favored democracy did not rest on a simple belief When Catholics disagree small government that it gives folks more of what they want. over big, and local He had more faith in the collective wisdom over national. He of the people than in the court’s “reasoned with Church teaching believed that change would be gradual and judgment.” The Catholic Church in this country difficult, if things are working right. Can it be, he asked about traditional has a serious problem: a sizeable But as a judge, he was a democrat, not marriage, that “an institution as old as percentage of Catholics disagree a conservative, and his death diminishes government itself, and accepted by every with its position when it comes to by one strong voice our commitment to nation in history until 15 years ago, [is] enforcing its teachings. This has constitutional democracy. supported by [no]thing other than ignorance been occurring more frequently as Justice Scalia perceived that the or bigotry?” our society continues to grow more greatest threat to self-government was the In Employment Division v. Smith, Justice secular, and should not be surprising Supreme Court’s tendency to read into the Scalia justified his narrow reading of the since high-profile Catholics in the U.S., Constitution the values it would like society Constitution’s religious liberty guarantee including politicians and celebrities, to adopt. That is why he opposed the court’s with the same faith in democracy. As have publicly done this for decades. decision to make abortion a constitutional he observed: “A society that believes in It is seen in some court cases right. “The permissibility of abortion,” he the [constitutional] protection accorded that question attempts by Catholic said in 1992, is “to be resolved like most to religious belief can be expected to be schools or parishes to hold employees important questions in our democracy: by solicitous of that value in its legislation to stipulations of their employment citizens trying to persuade one another and as well.” contracts that require them to live then voting.” It isn’t enough to say, by way of by Catholic moral teachings. That And that is why he opposed the court’s rebuttal, that majorities can be rash or means, for example, that teachers in decision to make same-sex marriage a mistaken. In cases we deem sufficiently Catholic schools may be terminated constitutional right, notwithstanding the important (free speech, self-incrimination, if they contract marriage with a contrary laws in many states. “A system cruel and unusual punishment), the text same-sex partner, divorce and remarry of government that makes the people of the Constitution takes power away without having previously received an subordinate to a committee of nine from majorities. annulment for the previous marriage, A newly married couple holds rosaries and unelected lawyers does not deserve to be In other cases, the question is whether or cohabit with a partner outside hands while leaving Pope Francis’ general called a democracy,” he said. the democratic process is more likely to of marriage. audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican The Constitution is silent about abortion get the right answer than five tall-building When Catholic schools have tried on Feb. 24. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) and marriage. For Justice Scalia, that was an lawyers who went to Harvard and Yale. to enforce those contacts agreed to end of the matter. Disputes over those issues As Justice Scalia wrote in one of his by employees, they are often taken been amazing to see Catholics criticize should be resolved by the elected branches early decisions, “it is all too easy” for such to court. The problem arises when an archbishop for declaring that sex of government, not by courts. a small clique “to believe that evolution Catholics and non-Catholic Church outside of marriage and homosexual The Supreme Court, by contrast, has said has culminated in one’s own views.” And employees disagree with the Church’s relations are gravely evil. That’s not that its job is to identify rights through the as he never tired of pointing out, unlike moral teachings. just Archbishop Cordileone’s opinion; exercise of “reasoned judgment” (the phrase the mistakes of democratic majorities, the This whole matter might have that’s what the Catechism of the Catholic it uses in the marriage case), and protect “reasoned judgments” of the Ivy Leaguers reached its apex last year when Church teaches, and what the Church has them against democratic constraint. can’t be undone. more than 100 Catholics signed always taught. Time was, when pointing out that your a full-page advertisement in the But that clearly is no longer what a opponent was against democracy was a (John Garvey is the president of San Francisco Chronicle asking sizeable percentage of Catholics believe. trump card. What has changed? To give the The Catholic University of America in Pope Francis to replace San Francisco Especially younger Catholics, who have court its due, its position is that the people Washington.) † Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone for been indoctrinated by our secular society characterizing sex outside of marriage into believing that all views must be The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick and homosexual relations as “gravely tolerated, and that the only real sin is evil.” This attitude, the ad said, fostered intolerance. Respecting the dead “an atmosphere of division and Yes, intolerance or discrimination intolerance.” toward another individual is a sin. But Not only were those with whom I spoke the impression that they couldn’t care less A more recent case occurred in that doesn’t mean that we must tolerate on Capitol Hill in Washington dismayed, about the deceased; when people take Washington, D.C. A pastor there fired a all views. That’s relativism, the belief that they were irate advantage of a sacred moment to score part-time paid cantor when he learned there is no such thing as absolute truth. about the political selfish political points? that the cantor was in a same-sex Obviously, the Church isn’t getting wrangling over How often have we seen families fight marriage. Again, there was an uproar its teachings across to all Catholics, the nomination of bitter battles over who has a right to the against the pastor among parishioners. let alone non-Catholics. Somehow, it Antonin Scalia’s inheritance, thus demeaning the sacredness It seems logical that a Church and its must evangelize its own, explaining successor before that death demands? When this pettiness institutions should be able to expect its what the Church teaches and why it the Supreme Court happens, we cannot but feel: This is out employees to live in accordance with does so. Too many Catholics have never justice, who died on of order. It is disgusting and reflects a its teachings. That doesn’t mean that been catechized, and don’t understand Feb. 13, was laid dysfunctional family and self-centeredness employees should be fired for minor the Church’s teaching on numerous to rest. at its worst! matters; after all, we are all sinners. But divisive issues. The outcry raises What in particular causes abnormal it does mean that employees must not One of those divisive issues is the a critical question behavior to become accepted as normal, flout the Church’s teachings. mandate that Catholic institutions must about our times: Is the abnormal behavior and ethical values to fall by the wayside? We thought that Cardinal Donald provide contraceptives, abortifacients of our age now considered normal It comes down to hardness of heart that W. Wuerl made a good distinction when and sterilization as part of health care behavior? Have our values been turned puts selfish needs and concerns first. he discussed the firing of that cantor in coverage for its employees. There are upside down? It’s rigidity leading to self-righteousness a same-sex marriage. He acknowledged Catholics who think this is a small When a person dies, the first priority is and dismissing values and ethical that we are all sinners, but said that matter, and don’t understand how serious to comfort the deceased person’s family, standards of behavior. Hardness of there’s a difference between someone the Church’s challenge is. The wrong friends and colleagues, who are touched heart refuses to comprehend that sacred who struggles to live in accordance decision by the U.S. Supreme Court could by the death of a loved one. It’s not only moments are not a time for advancing with Church teaching, and someone bankrupt groups like the Little Sisters of normal, but a respectful practice to put a career. who openly “insists that they are right the Poor. aside business concerns and instead bow No doubt many mourners of Antonin and the Church is wrong.” The Church clearly faces steep heads in silence and pray for the eternal Scalia saw in his death a sacred moment Cardinal Wuerl wrote on his blog, challenges in today’s growing secularized rest of the deceased. requiring respect for the person, his family “In the face of such irreconcilable culture to get its message across in a At moments like this, it’s also normal to and friends. With heads bowed in silence differences, it is not discrimination convincing manner. Many Catholics also take our mortality more seriously, to reflect and hearts filled with compassion, and or punishment to say that continued have a superficial view about what Pope on the ultimate meaning of life and what with prayers for them, the moment was ministerial service is not possible.” Francis is teaching, at times thinking counts most in it. celebrated with dignity. It’s one thing to succumb to that he is changing Church teachings to Is it any wonder that so many are Other mourners have undoubtedly temptation or concupiscence. It’s make them more compatible with secular angered by all the talk about a replacement gone through many of the same motions. quite another to insist that a lifestyle society. He is not. at a time when the moment calls for They are motions, however, lacking in incompatible with Catholic teachings is The Church needs a strategy to combat putting aside hype and politics until a warmth, heartfelt sympathy and genuine acceptable and must be condoned. this serious problem. person is mourned? compassion. There was a time—and it wasn’t Is it any wonder that many are outraged that long ago—that it would have —John F. Fink that people sound off publicly about what (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for should or should not happen next, giving Catholic News Service.) † The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Page 5

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Making mercy visible through corporal works of mercy

ccasionally, I read or hear “is the essence of Christianity because fundamental fact of God’s love for us as the global food price crisis will be long someone make the astonishing it is the essence of God himself. God is it is manifested in the life and ministry of term, and that the impact on poor people Oclaim that Pope Francis represents openness, acceptance, dialogue. And in Jesus Christ. in developing countries will be severe. a “radical break” from his predecessors. his relations with us, sinful mankind, he is To feed the hungry and give drink Pope Francis challenges us to respond I call this “astonishing” because anyone mercy, compassion, grace, forgiveness.” to the thirsty are the first two corporal to this crisis here at home and around who knows the teaching of former popes Our pope emeritus, who prefers to be works of mercy. As we bishops of Indiana the globe. We are called to feed the can hear their voices echoed (sometimes called Father Benedict, believes we are write in our pastoral letter, Poverty at hungry and give drink to the thirsty as a quite loudly) in the writing, homilies and called to be people of mercy because the Crossroads: The Church’s Response fundamental requirement of our Christian even off-the-cuff remarks of Pope Francis. that is the greatest possible expression of to Poverty in Indiana, most of us do discipleship. We cannot proclaim the There are obvious differences in our union with God and with the entire not encounter hungry people every day. Good News of our salvation unless we style between our current pope and his human family. Our lives are more isolated. Most of us also share with our sisters and brothers the predecessors, but a “radical break”? No St. John Paul II once wrote, live in neighborhoods where most basic food and drink they need to live full and way. The substance is the same. It is the “Mercy is the central nucleus of the necessities are presumed. And yet there healthy lives. Gospel of Jesus Christ and the teaching evangelical message. … Merciful love are hungry people—including children What can we do? We can pray for an of the Church handed down to us from also illuminates the face of the Church and elderly people—right here in Indiana. end to hunger and thirst wherever they are the Apostles. and shows itself both through the Catholic Charities agencies and local found—in our neighborhoods, in our state One powerful example is Pope Francis’ sacraments—especially the sacrament of parishes served more than 100,000 meals and nation, and throughout the world. We teaching on mercy, which he says is “the penance—and through works of charity. last year to people throughout central and can support local food pantries, Catholic ultimate and supreme act by which God … From divine mercy, which brings peace southern Indiana. How many more were Charities agencies in our archdiocese, and comes to meet us … the fundamental law to hearts, arises authentic peace for the not fed? the international CRS. We can advocate that dwells in the heart of every person world, peace between peoples, and among Throughout the world community (the for laws and government policies that who looks sincerely into the eyes of his various cultures and religions.” family of nations), millions of people are promote a just and equitable distribution brothers and sisters on the path of life, All three popes tell us that mercy hungry and thirsty every day. According of the world’s food and water. the bridge that connects God and man, begins with sharing our food and drink to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), gains “Jesus Christ is the face of the opening our hearts to the hope of being with those who are hungry and thirsty. in reducing global hunger have been Father’s mercy,” Pope Francis teaches, in loved forever despite our sinfulness” Mercy compels us to clothe the naked nearly wiped out in recent years by continuity with his predecessors and the (“Misericordiae Vultus,” #2). This is and shelter the homeless, to visit the sick sharply increasing prices on some of the holy Gospel. Let’s perform the corporal radical teaching, to be sure, but it is not a and imprisoned, and to bury the dead. most basic foodstuffs in every region works of mercy. Let’s be the face of break from the teaching of earlier popes. These very practical actions, which we of the world, and by the current global Jesus for others during this Lenten season Pope Benedict XVI taught that mercy call “corporal works of mercy,” reveal the financial crisis. Projections indicate that and always! †

Las obras piadosas como manifestaciones claras y tangibles de la misericordia n algunas ocasiones he leído o que la misericordia es “la esencia del Las dos primeras obras de en los países en vías de desarrollo escuchado pasmosos comentarios cristianismo, porque es la esencia de misericordia corporales son dar de serán graves. Ede quienes consideran que el papa Dios mismo. (…) Es apertura, acogida, comer al hambriento y dar de beber al El papa Francisco nos exhorta a Francisco representa una “separación diálogo; y en su relación con nosotros, sediento. Tal como los obispos de Indiana que respondamos ante esta crisis, tanto radical” con respecto a la postura hombres pecadores, es misericordia, lo expresamos en nuestra carta pastoral localmente como en todo el mundo. de sus predecesores. Digo que son compasión, gracia, perdón.” Nuestro papa titulada Pobreza en la Encrucijada: la Estamos llamados a alimentar al “pasmosos” porque todo el que conozca emérito, que prefiere ser llamado Padre respuesta de la Iglesia ante la pobreza hambriento y dar de beber al sediento las enseñanzas de los papas anteriores Benedicto, cree que estamos llamados a en Indiana, la mayoría de nosotros no como exigencia fundamental de ser escuchará el eco de sus voces (a veces ser un pueblo misericordioso porque esa ve personas hambrientas todos los días. discípulos de Cristo. No podemos bastante fuerte) en los escritos, las es la máxima expresión de nuestra unión Nuestras vidas están muy aisladas. La proclamar la Buena Nueva de nuestra homilías e incluso en los comentarios con Dios y con toda la familia humana. mayoría de nosotros vive en barrios salvación a menos que también improvisados del papa Francisco. San Juan Pablo II escribió una vez donde se asume que las necesidades más compartamos con nuestros hermanos el Evidentemente existen diferencias en que “la misericordia es el núcleo central básicas están cubiertas. Y, sin embargo, alimento y la bebida que necesitan para cuanto a estilo entre nuestro pontífice del mensaje evangélico. (…) Amor de hay personas que pasan hambre, incluso vivir saludablemente y a plenitud. actual y sus predecesores, pero ¿llamar misericordia [que] ilumina también niños y ancianos, aquí mismo, en ¿Qué podemos hacer? Podemos a esto una “separación radical”? En el rostro de la Iglesia y se manifiesta Indiana. El año pasado las agencias de rezar para que se acabe el hambre y la absoluto. La esencia sigue siendo la mediante los sacramentos, especialmente Caridades Católicas y las parroquias sed dondequiera que estén: ya sea en misma: el Evangelio de Jesucristo y las el de la Reconciliación, y mediante las locales sirvieron más de 100,000 comidas nuestros barrios, en nuestro estado, en el enseñanzas de la Iglesia que nos han sido obras de caridad. (…) De la misericordia a quienes tenían hambre en el centro país y en el resto del mundo. Podemos transmitidos a través de los Apóstoles. divina, que pacifica los corazones, brota y el sur de Indiana. ¿Cuántos más no apoyar las iniciativas de los comedores Un impactante ejemplo de esto son además la auténtica paz en el mundo, la recibieron alimento? públicos, de las agencias de Caridades las enseñanzas del papa Francisco acerca paz entre los diversos pueblos, culturas y En toda la comunidad mundial (en Católicas en nuestra Arquidiócesis de la misericordia, que en sus palabras religiones.” la familia que conforman las naciones), y a la CRS internacional. Podemos “es el acto último y supremo con el cual Los tres papas nos dicen que la millones de personas tienen hambre pronunciarnos a favor de leyes y políticas Dios viene a nuestro encuentro (…) es la misericordia comienza por compartir todos los días. De acuerdo con Servicios gubernamentales que promuevan una ley fundamental que habita en el corazón nuestro alimento y bebida con los de Auxilio Católico (Catholic Relief distribución justa y equitativa de los de cada persona cuando mira con ojos hambrientos y los sedientos. La Services o CRS) los avances en los alimentos y el agua en todo el mundo. sinceros al hermano que encuentra en el misericordia nos obliga a vestir al esfuerzos por acabar con el hambre En consonancia con las enseñanzas de camino de la vida. Misericordia: es la vía desnudo y dar techo a quien no tiene casi han desaparecido por completo sus predecesores y del santo Evangelio, el que une Dios y el hombre, porque abre el hogar, visitar a los enfermos y a los en años recientes a consecuencia del papa Francisco nos dice que “Jesucristo corazón a la esperanza de ser amados para presos, y a dar sepultura a los difuntos. aumento vertiginoso de los precios de es el rostro de la misericordia del Padre.” siempre no obstante el límite de nuestro Estas obras netamente prácticas y que algunos de los alimentos más básicos Realicemos obras de misericordia pecado”(“Misericordiae Vultus,” #2). denominamos “obras de misericordia en todas las regiones del mundo y por corporales. ¡Seamos el rostro de Jesús Ciertamente es una enseñanza radical, corporales,” revelan el hecho la actual crisis financiera internacional. para los demás durante la época de la pero no se aleja de las enseñanzas de los fundamental del amor de Dios por todos Las proyecciones señalan que la crisis Cuaresma y siempre! † papas anteriores. nosotros, tal como se manifiesta en la alimentaria internacional se prolongará El papa Benedicto XVI nos enseñó vida y el ministerio de Jesucristo. y que las consecuencias para los pobres Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016

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March 4 Blessed Sacrament, following Helpers of God’s Precious St. Paul Hermitage, presented by Richard Sontag Home,” Archbishop Joseph Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Mass until 9:30 p.m., sacrament Infants Prayer Vigil, 501 N. 17th Ave., of Tekton Ministries, Mass W. Tobin and leaders from 5333 E. Washington St., of reconciliation available. Terre Haute. 7:30 a.m. Mass Beech Grove. Ave Maria 5:30 p.m., soup other faith traditions, 1:30-4:30 Indianapolis. University Information: 317-888-2861 or at the Carmelite Monastery at Guild, 12:30 p.m., Mass for supper in the cafeteria p.m., free but $10 suggested of Notre Dame Handbell [email protected]. 59 Allendale, 9:25 a.m. parking deceased Guild members 6:30-7:15 p.m., speakers donation to offset costs. on Ohio Blvd., 9:30 a.m. at 11 a.m. in the chapel. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Registration: and Celebration Choirs Registration and information: St. Matthew the Apostle assemble on sidewalk in Information: 317-223-3687, Sister Diane Carollo, Concert, 7:30-8:30 p.m. www.hoosieripl.org/interfaith_ Parish, 4100 E. 56th St., front of Planned Parenthood [email protected]. 317-259-4373, ext. 256, or Concert is free, but goodwill voices_for_the_earth. offerings accepted. Fish fry Indianapolis. Lenten fish fry at 30 S. 3rd St. for [email protected]. available prior to the concert at dinners, 5-8 p.m. Information: prayers, 10 a.m. travel Saint Meinrad Seminary 5:30 p.m. in school cafeteria. [email protected]. to St. Patrick Adoration and School of Theology, St. Lawrence Parish, Benedict Inn Retreat Information: 317-356-7291. Chapel at 1807 Poplar St. for Bede Theater, 200 Hill Drive, 4650 N. Shadeland Ave., & Conference Center, March 5 Divine Mercy Chaplet. St. Meinrad. “The Cross as Indianapolis. Lenten Series: 1402 Southern Ave., East Central High School the Tree of Life: Images The 10 Commandments Beech Grove. Shop Marian University chapel, Performing Arts Center, 3200 Cold Spring Road, St. Michael Church, and Texts from Christian in Today’s World: INN-spired spring sale, 1 Trojan Place, Suite A, 145 St. Michael Blvd., Tradition,” presented Chastity and Faithfulness, Indianapolis. Lumen St. Leon. E6 Catholic Men’s 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: Dei Catholic Business Brookville. First Saturday by Dr. Robin M. Jensen, 7-8:30 p.m. Information: 317-788-7581 or Conference, featuring Devotional Prayer Group, Notre Dame professor [email protected] Group, Mass and monthly Christopher West, Mark Houck, [email protected]. prayers, rosary, confession, of theology, 7 p.m., free. meeting, 6:30-8:30 a.m., and Father John Hollowell, meditation, 8 a.m. Information: Information: 812-357-6501. March 10 breakfast, $15 per person. Mass with Archbishop Joseph St. Mark the Evangelist Parish, All Saints Parish, St. Joseph Information: 317-435-3447 or 765-647-5462. W. Tobin, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. March 8-9 Cenacle (house on parish Campus, 7536 Church Lane, [email protected]. Tickets: $45, or $50 at the March 6 Catholic Radio Indy 89.1 grounds), Indianapolis. Hope St. Leon. 5th annual All Saints door, $35 for groups of 10 or Providence Cristo Rey and 90.9 FM, 8383 Craig and Healing Survivors of Parish Spring Craft Show, Most Holy Name of Jesus, more, $15 for high school and High School, 75 N. St., Ste. 280, Indianapolis. Suicide support group, 7 p.m. more than 25 artisans, baked 89 N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. college students ages 16-25, Belleview Place, Indianapolis. Live “FUNdraising” event, Information: 317-851-8344. goods, lunch available, free First Friday devotion, free for clergy and religious. School Open House, for 6:30-9 a.m. and 3:30-6 p.m., exposition of the Blessed Information or to register: prospective students and live interviews with priests, March 12 admission, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; www.e6catholic families, 3-5 p.m. Information: deacons and other religious, St. Michael Parish, Information: 812-576-4302. reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; mensconference.com. 317-860-1000, ext. 121. plus local Catholic Radio Indy 250 High St., Brookville. Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the show hosts; volunteers and Dynamic Catholic event, The Willows, Sacred Heart and prayers for Northside Knights of March 8 donors needed. Information: “The Four Signs,” 6729 Westfield Blvd., the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. Columbus, 2100 E. St. Lawrence Parish, 317-870-8400. 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., $20 Indianapolis. Marriage on Information: 317-784-5454. 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. per person. Information: 71st St., Indianapolis. Tap, “Rediscovering Love,” Tropical Tribute Fundraiser Catholic Charismatic March 9 859-980-7900 or mary.burger@ Chuck and Marilyn Traylor, Our Lady of the Greenwood for Bishop Chatard High Renewal of Indianapolis, St. Luke the Evangelist dynamiccatholic.com. Church, 335 S. Meridian St., School grant, appetizers, Life in the Spirit Seminar, Church, 7575 Holliday presenters, 7-9:30 p.m., $35 per Greenwood. First Friday live music, beer, wine, session seven of seven, Drive E., Indianapolis. Lenten Christian Theological Seminary couple includes dinner, cash bar celebration of the Most 7:30-11:30 p.m., $30. Tickets 7-9 p.m. Information: Joseph Soup Supper and Speakers: (CTS), 1000 W. 42nd St., available, registration required Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, and donations: bishopchatard. Valvo, 317-546-7328 or “The Holy Land Yesterday, Indianapolis. Interfaith Voices by March 6 at www.stluke.org 5:45 p.m., exposition of the thankyou4caring.org/tropical. [email protected]. Today and Tomorrow,” for the Earth: Our Common or call 317-259-4373. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Adolescent substance abuse discussion set for March 16 at St. Joan of Arc Parish March 18 double. Information: 812-357-6585 or Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center, [email protected]. The substance Abuse Ministry (SAM) adolescents at Fairbanks addiction 8212 Hendricks Road, Bloomington. March 18-24 of the Indianapolis North Deanery treatment center in Indianapolis. “Helpful Signposts During Our Lenten Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. will host a discussion on the effects Time will be allowed for questions, Desert Journey,” Father John Hollowell 56th St., Indianapolis. Come Away and Rest of substance abuse on adolescent and additional information about presenter, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $35, lunch included. Awhile: Silent Self-Guided Days/Evenings development at St. Joan of Arc Parish, substance abuse will be available. Information: 812-825-4642, ext. 1. of Reflection for Holy Week. Information: 4217 Central Ave., in Indianapolis, at For information, contact March 18-20 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. 6:30 p.m. on March 16. Michael Chisley at 317-626-5388, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, March 19 The free discussion will be led Cindy Stansberry at 317-331-9738, or 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Silent Guided Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference Center, by Kathy Nelson, a counselor of e-mail [email protected]. † Father Jeff Godecker Weekend Retreat, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Walking and Mary Schaffner, presenters, $165 per to Calvary with Jesus: Preparing person, $295 per married couple. Information: for Holy Week,” Benedictine Sister 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Marie Lindstrom, presenter, 9-11 a.m., $20 per person. Information: 317-788-7581 or Bread for the World ‘Letter Workshop’ Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, [email protected]. 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana set for March 12 in Indianapolis Marriage Preparation Conference, March 23 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681 or Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference Center, Bread for the World, an organization some of the poorest parts of the world. www.archindy.org/fatima. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Christian seeking to eradicate world hunger, Featured speakers are Simplicity: A Lenten Dialogue, “Rest, is providing an “Offering of Letters Rebecca Middleton from Alliance to Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Providence Renew, Restore,” session two, Molly Workshop” at Second Presbyterian End Hunger, and Matt Gross from Bread Spirituality and Conference Center, Coyne Brosseau, MS, presenter, noon-3 Church, 7500 N. Meridian St., in for the World. 1 Sisters of Providence, St. Mary-of- p.m., $125 per person includes four sessions Indianapolis, from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on For more information and to register, the-Woods. Preparing for Holy Week and lunch. Information: 317-788-7581 or March 12. log on to www.eventbrite.com and Retreat, Providence Sisters Jan Craven and [email protected]. The focus of this year’s offering of search for “2016 Bread Offering of Paula Damiano, presenters, $200 per person, letters to Congress is on improving Letters Workshop,” or call Charlie registration deadline March 14. Information: Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Providence 812-535-2932 or [email protected]. Spirituality and Conference Center, 1 Sisters nutrition for mothers and children in Gardner at 317-407-9130. † of Providence, St. Mary-of-the-Woods. Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House and Lenten Book Study Series: Job and Julian Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. of Norwich, Rev. Rebecca Zelensky, PA, and Married couples only, “Benedictine Rev. Dr. Will Hine, presenters, 1-3 p.m., $25 Spirituality as Lived in Marriage,” Deacon per person. Information: 812-535-2932 or St. Boniface Parish offering pilgrimage Rich and Cherie Zoldak, presenters, $425 [email protected]. † to Germany, Austria and Switzerland To complete the 150th anniversary of Neuschwanstein Castle. Women’s Only Weekend retreat scheduled the building of its church, St. Boniface Pilgrims will then travel to Parish in Fulda is offering a pilgrimage Rothenburg, one of the most for April 8-10 at Camp Rancho Framasa to its sister parish in Fulda, Germany, and photographed cities in Germany. other locations in Germany, Austria and The highlight of the pilgrimage is A Women’s Only Weekend retreat be alone as well. Switzerland on May 30-June 6. Fulda, Germany, where pilgrims will will be offered at Catholic Youth Participants will sleep in shared The pilgrimage starts in Lucerne, enjoy the feast day of St. Boniface with Organization (CYO) Camp Rancho heated cabins and dine in the Switzerland. Stroll around the Old Town, Mass at the Cathedral of Hesse, where Framasa, 2230 Clay Lick Road, in dining hall. the famous Chapel Bridge, medieval St. Boniface is buried. Nashville, from 7:30 p.m. on April 8 to The cost is $180, which includes walls and the Lion Monument. The pilgrimage includes round-trip 2 p.m. on April 10. all meals, snacks, accommodations Drive the next day to Innsbruck, airfare from Louisville, Ky., lodging, The retreat offers opportunities to and all activities. Scholarships are also Austria, where pilgrims will visit ground transportation, private tours, daily participate in faith workshops, meet available. Emperor Maximilian’s Golden Roof, breakfast, three dinners and daily Mass. with a spiritual director, receive a The registration deadline is the City Tower and the Imperial Palace The cost is $3,509, but could be massage, and do fun camp activities April 5, and participants must be ages before continuing on to Munich, decreased with more participants. like canoeing, archery, crafts and more. 21 and older. Germany. See the moving figures of the Registration is required immediately, Transportation will also be included for To register, log on to glockenspiel at Marienplatz, followed by with a non-refundable payment due Mass at St. Agnes Church in Nashville. www.campranchoframasa.org. dinner at the famous Hofbräuhaus. in full. Participants are free to make their Information is available at Stops the next day include the city To register, contact Kathy Moore own schedules, keeping the weekend that website, as well as by calling of Oberammergau, the city where the of Haynie Travel at 812-477-8833, as busy or as slow as needed. There are 888-988-2839 or e-mailing Passion Play has been performed since ext. 308, or e-mail her at ample opportunities to be social and to [email protected]. † 1634, and a visit to King Ludwig’s [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Page 7 Lawmakers reject expansion of payday lending; decide to study issue

By Brigid Curtis Ayer panel considered an amendment to change the bill from a study committee to a bill to ‘The majority of people using these loans are The Indiana Catholic Conference expand payday lending. The amendment, working, but have so low of pay they cannot take (ICC) and other advocacy groups recently which resurrected controversial language helped persuade state lawmakers to reject that could not be agreed upon in the care of their everyday expenses. So they reach out an amendment to a bill that would have House, would have allowed expansion for this type of cash to make ends meet. People who expanded of the industry to lend installment loans are in a vulnerable position and already experiencing payday loans. up to $1,000 and at an increased annual financial distress are being taken advantage of.’ Instead, percentage rate of up to 180 percent. lawmakers Heather Willey of the Indianapolis moved law firm Barnes and Thornburg, who —Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the Indiana legislation represented short-term loan operators, Catholic Conference to further examine the issue in a summer spoke in support of the amendment. She study committee with the hope of finding said that these types of loans potentially Tebbe continued. “The weakest members self-sufficiency. alternatives methods to help lower-income could have the benefit of helping of society should be protected against usury Lisa Wilken, representing American individuals borrow money while reaching low-income individuals who have poor or any other type of exploitation. Economic Veterans, described the amendment as the self-sufficiency. The ICC supports the credit to build their credit history, so choices and policies should be judged by “wrong approach” to helping low-income legislation to study payday lending. they could qualify for a more traditional how they protect and uphold the dignity of people. She said that she spoke with a A payday loan—which might also be loan. Other supporters of the bill said the human person, support the family and veteran on her way to the Statehouse who called a “cash advance” or “check loan”—is the legislation would help loan providers serve the common good. said payday lending businesses are located a short-term loan usually lent at a high rate comply with new federal regulations soon “We don’t believe this amendment is outside of every military installation. She of interest that is typically due on a person’s to be promulgated. in the best interest of the people or a way added many veterans find themselves living next payday. Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the to help them reach self-sufficiency,” he paycheck to paycheck, and are vulnerable The legislative action took shape during ICC, who serves as the legislative and added, “and would encourage you to not to these types of loans. a lengthy meeting of the Senate Insurance public policy spokesperson for the Church adopt this amendment, but to leave the bill The committee rejected the amendment and Financial Institutions Committee on in Indiana, testified in opposition to the in the form it came out of the House as a by a 6-2 vote, and passed House Bill Feb. 25 when lawmakers heard testimony amendment. He said the interest rate of study committee.” 1340 which will create a summer study on House Bill 1340, the payday lending bill. payday loans would continue to do harm Tebbe added that the bishops across the committee on payday lending practices. Attorneys representing payday lenders and rather than benefit those people seeking nation, through organizations like Catholic “The ICC supports the study of the a few lenders who oversee these financial such short-term loans. Charities and the Catholic Campaign for industry and its impact on the people of operations highlighted to the Senate panel “Payday loans tend to trap people into a Human Development, are actively working Indiana,” Tebbe said. “If the bill passes the benefits of adopting an expansion of the cycle of repaying initial debt,” Tebbe said, to provide alternative funding sources to the General Assembly this year, I’m payday lending industry. adding it traps people into “exorbitant” assist people who need help. hopeful the summer study will open up Representatives of advocacy interest rates. Lucinda Nord, who represented the new opportunities for productive lending organizations who work with lower-income “The majority of people using these Indiana Association of United Way, also alternatives which move persons toward people testified about the negative impact loans are working, but have so low of pay opposed the amendment. She supported self-sufficiency.” expanding these types of loans would have they cannot take care of their everyday the issue being discussed in a summer on those they serve. expenses. So they reach out for this type of study committee. Nord said she thinks (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent Weeks earlier, House Bill 1340 passed cash to make ends meet,” he said. “People there is a need for some type of alternative for The Criterion. For more information out of the House and came to the Senate who are in a vulnerable position and already financial product, but felt that the high about the Indiana Catholic Conference, as a bill which created a study committee experiencing financial distress are being interest loan was not one that would help its Indiana Catholic Action Network and on the payday lending industry. On the taken advantage of. people move toward financial stability. She the bills it is following in the Indiana last day of regular committee hearings for “We believe it’s the state’s responsibility added she would like to see an expansion General Assembly this year, log on to the Indiana General Assembly, the Senate to facilitate and protect the common good,” of services that help people move toward www.indianacc.org.) † Marriage Day Celebration for all married couples is set for April 24 at cathedral By Natalie Hoefer 2 p.m. on April 24 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, or more, as well as the couples married the shortest time 1347 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis. and the longest time, will receive special recognition. Msgr. William F. Stumpf, archdiocesan vicar general, This festive Mass and celebration developed out of The Mass will be followed by will celebrate a Marriage Day Celebration Mass for the need for more space at the cathedral to accommodate a reception across the street in all Catholic married couples in the archdiocese at all of the couples celebrating 50 years of marriage—and Assembly Hall. their guests—during the Golden Wedding Jubilee Mass Couples must register for the in the fall. Mass by April 5. Early registration “Over the past couple of years, and especially last is highly encouraged, as space is year, we had to turn families away because we ran out limited and registration will close of space at the cathedral and Assembly Hall [in the once maximum capacity is reached. Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center],” admits Each couple is invited to bring Scott Seibert, archdiocesan coordinator of marriage and up to four guests. If any of those family enrichment. guests are married, they are advised “This will create an opportunity to gather the entire to register separately. Church of central and southern Indiana together to observe Msgr. William F. Stumpf Registration is available God’s plan for a long and joyful marriage vocation.” online at www.archindy.org/ During the Mass, which celebrates the beautiful witness plfl/ministries-goldenwedding.html, or by calling the of love and perseverance of married couples throughout Office of Pro-Life and Family Life at 317-236-1521 or the archdiocese, Msgr. Stumpf will lead the couples in toll free at 800-382-9836, ext. 1521, or by e-mailing renewing their wedding vows. Couples married 60 years [email protected]. †

‘Over the past couple of years, and especially last year, we had to turn families away because we ran out of space at the cathedral and Assembly Hall [in the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center]. This will create an opportunity to gather the entire Church of central and southern Indiana together to observe God’s plan for a long and joyful marriage vocation.’

—Scott Seibert, archdiocesan coordinator of marriage and family enrichment

Notre Dame Glee Club to perform at St. Alphonsus Church in Zionsville on March 13 Under the direction of Daniel C. Stowe, the an ensemble. “We want our audiences to receive an University of Notre Dame Glee Club will perform a educational experience as well,” says Stowe. concert at St. Alphonsus Liguori Church in Zionsville, in The first half of the program features music from the Lafayette Diocese, at 2 p.m. on March 13. the Renaissance, Classical and Romantic eras. The The Glee Club, one of the of the most renowned musical set will include sacred contemporary pieces, all-male choruses in the United States, will feature a including Franz Biebl’s “Ave Maria” for double program of a cappella works that cover a broad range of men’s chorus—a signature piece of the Glee Club. music from medieval works to contemporary compositions The program continues with an exciting second half for male chorus. The group will be stopping in Zionsville of sea shanties, folk songs, barbershop tunes and as part of their 2016 Centennial Spring Tour. African-American spirituals.” The program delivered in each performance is always filled with variety that highlights the Glee Club’s (There is no admission fee, but a freewill offering will be scholasticism, musicianship, and dynamic control as accepted. For more information, call 317-873-2885.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016

a teacher all at the same time. You really FAITH feel the call to be Christ the teacher to continued from page 1 your students. I pray every day that I can be Christ the teacher for them because growth, doubt and exhilaration for many I can’t do all those roles adequately educators. Yet Wickert is also part of an by myself.” educational experience that is occurring Those prayers are sometimes answered for the first time in the archdiocese during in unexpected ways. this school year. ‘You need to show them you care’ ‘I really feel a lot of love for them’ “I had an encounter with a student Wickert, Francis Butler and Katie where she was disrespectful to me,” Moran are 2015 college graduates who Butler recalls. “I was floored by it, and I are part of the University of Notre Dame’s gave her a consequence. Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE), “At the end of the day, she gave me a graduate degree, teacher-formation a note. I put it in my file of paperwork. program designed “to develop the skills When I found it later, I opened it up, and knowledge necessary to serve our and it was a letter of apology to me. I nation’s children, especially those from thanked her. It made me see the situation low-income and immigrant communities.” in a whole new light. I saw the courage While ACE started in 1993 with the it took for her to admit she didn’t do mission “to sustain, strengthen and something right.” transform Catholic schools,” this year Wickert often sees the courage of her First-year teacher Francis Butler describes his role at St. Anthony School in Indianapolis is the first time the program has sent students, too—and their need for another as being “a father, a brother, a mentor, a disciplinarian and a teacher all at the same time.” new teachers to the archdiocese—at the caring adult in their world. (Photos by John Shaughnessy) invitation of Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin. “A lot of these kids have tough lives,” The program also serves 29 other says Wickert, a Notre Dame graduate who archdioceses and dioceses this year. teaches math and science to her sixth-, While Wickert teaches at St. Philip seventh- and eighth-grade students. “They Neri, Butler and Moran teach at have a lot of responsibilities at home that St. Anthony School in Indianapolis. I never had growing up. They’ve shared Both schools serve predominantly personal, touching things with me. Hispanic-American students. “You need to show them you care All three first-year teachers were drawn because they are children of God. They by the faith and service components of a can sometimes drive you nuts in the program that provides a $12,000 yearly classroom, but if you show them that you stipend, affordable housing and a master care about them as a person more than of education degree following the what their grade is in math or science, completion of the two-year commitment. they feel much better about themselves “It’s overwhelming in many different and being in school.” senses—both good and bad,” says Moran, She pauses before adding, “I love a Notre Dame graduate who teaches them. I really do.” math, science and religion to seventh- and eighth-grade students at St. Anthony. Faith—tested and deepened “It’s overwhelming in having so much While Wickert, Butler and Moran have to learn. But it’s also overwhelming in a poured their hearts into teaching their really beautiful way—being able to enter students, they have also learned valuable into the lives of my students. I really feel lessons about teaching—and themselves. a lot of love for them. Accompanying “One of the greatest lessons I’ve In her first year at St. Anthony School in Indianapolis, Katie Moran says the best part of teaching for them through a lot of tough journeys has learned is that I need to redefine ‘success,’ her is “being able to enter into the lives of my students.” been extremely hard but rewarding.” to where it’s more a factor of growth,” All three teachers mention the “tough Moran says. “A lot of students come in the experience of teaching in a Catholic have been answers to prayers. Once, I was journeys” their students face. Many of behind academically and behaviorally, school that serves low-income, immigrant thanking God for his sense of presence, their Hispanic-American students are too. Success is about improvement. It’s communities. but I was also praying for a more tangible immigrants or children of immigrants. so important to see their successes and “Throughout my life, faith has always example of his comfort. Two days later, an They face poverty. Some work after celebrate them.” been an uphill battle,” Butler says. “It’s acquaintance [from Notre Dame] reached school. Others care for younger siblings Wickert has learned an even something I’ve tried to really work hard out to me and said, ‘I want to bring you while their parents work two and even greater appreciation for the Catholic on, but it’s never come easily. From this coffee and breakfast.’ Since then, we have three jobs to support their families. school teachers who shaped and experience, I can tell my relationship become really good friends.” It’s a world often far removed from the touched her life from kindergarten with God has deepened. There are a lot For Wickert, it’s all part of her spiritual childhoods of intact families, available through college. of times I look at the crucifix in my room growth, a journey that connects her past parents and comfortable lifestyles that “You never see behind the scenes, all and say, ‘I know you carried the cross, and her present. Wickert, Butler and Moran experienced. the preparation teachers do,” she says. “It please help me with this one.’ ” “I’ve been given so much from “It’s probably the most challenging makes me have a lot of respect for all my Moran has felt her faith tested and Catholic schools. ACE is a great way to thing I’ve ever done,” says Butler, a teachers, and especially the ones who stay deepened, too. give back. To me, there is no better way graduate of Siena College in Albany, N.Y., in it as a career. It’s a lot of tough work, “I’ve never experienced such a real to give back than to serve others in need. who teaches social studies and religion to and it often goes unnoticed.” need for God before,” she says. A lot of these kids have gone through a seventh- and eighth-grade students. What hasn’t gone unnoticed for the “I’ve felt his presence with me through lot of difficult situations. You have to trust “In many ways, you have to be a father, three young teachers is how their Catholic this experience, both through a sense of in your faith that God has put you in the a brother, a mentor, a disciplinarian and faith has been influenced and changed by his presence and through people who right place.” † What was in the news on March 4, 1966? Understanding Vatican II’s call for religious liberty, the cost of the council, and a condemnation of war By Brandon A. Evans “VATICAN CITY—The Second Vatican Council he declared.” cost more than $7 million, which was met by the • Economic sanctions defended This week, we continue to examine what was going on contributions of Catholics throughout the world. This • Native of Terre Haute slated for ordination in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through statistic is only one of hundreds contained in a special • Donate $60,742 to Fatima fund the pages of The Criterion. edition of the Vatican City weekly, L’Osservatore • Polish assault on Church seen inspired by Moscow Here are some of the items found in the March 4, 1966, della Domenica (The Sunday Observer). The edition, • Text of Church in Modern World schema issue of The Criterion: which came out in the first week of March, consists of • Cardinal McIntyre suspends Fr. DuBay • No tradition break seen in Vatican II freedom 228 pages instead of the usual 16. It is to be translated • Theologians aided spread of atheism, declaration later into all major languages.” Fr. Haering says “NORTH AURORA, Ill.—The Vatican Council’s • Urges ‘unequivocal’ condemnation of war • Holy Name, Beech Grove, Cadet champs Declaration on Religious Liberty was not a departure “NEW YORK—A Catholic priest said that the Church • Seek to save sinking basilica from tradition, but a reconsideration and a recognition must take the fundamental step in outlawing war by • Pope Paul plans busy liturgy schedule for of ‘her identity and her mission,’ a professor of issuing a ‘firm and unequivocal’ condemnation of it. … Holy Week biblical literature declared here. ‘The Church did not [Father Philip Berrigan, S.J.,] said that at one point • Cardinal Ottaviani heads new body on depart as much from an established pattern as we the [Constitution on the Church in the Modern World] family problems thought; the pattern really never was established,’ said lapsed into a type of socio-political concession. He said • Marian announces changes in faculty Father John L. McKenzie, S.J., visiting professor of that a statement such as ‘governments cannot be denied biblical literature at the University of Chicago. ‘What the right to legitimate defense once every means of we heard was a noisy and persistent minority who knew peaceful settlement has been exhausted’ is a rehashing what they believed. The great majority remained silent, of the just-war theory. This theory has done infinitely either from fear or from a lack of a clear understanding more to sanction war than to abolish it, he said. ‘When of their own belief,’ he said. Father McKenzie told a in modern times has every means for peaceful settlement symposium on religious freedom that the ‘supreme been exhausted?’ Father Berrigan asked. ‘History religious act of the Christian’ is ‘to exhibit the sovereign reminds us that preparation for war—which includes the love of God,’ and ‘he cannot perform it unless he does it cultivation of a “war psychology” by the propaganda Read all of these stories from our with supreme freedom.’ ” of one side or both—precludes efforts for a peaceful March 4, 1966, issue by logging on to our archives • Officials of seminaries to convene settlement. A nation cannot seriously investigate areas at www.CriterionOnline.com. † • Cost of Vatican II set at $7 million of reconciliation, and still adequately prepare for war,’ The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Page 9 Leaders share ideas, discuss efforts to help Hoosiers out of cycle of poverty By John Shaughnessy

When Catholic Charities Indianapolis invited business, social and government leaders to meet at Marian University in Indianapolis on Feb. 24, the hope was that they would provide concrete ways to support the Catholic bishops of Indiana in their efforts to help people out of poverty. Here are some of the thoughts and ideas shared by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and members of a panel called together to discuss the bishops’ pastoral letter, “Poverty at the Crossroads: The Church’s Response to Poverty in Indiana.”

Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin: “In our pastoral letter, the Catholic bishops of Indiana admitted that the root causes of poverty are complex and must be addressed effectively by a holistic and multi-faceted approach to social, economic and spiritual development. It is important to feed our hungry through soup kitchens and through the fine work of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. But we cannot neglect the more thorny public policy issues. We need to face these if we wish to During a poverty summit at Marian University in Indianapolis on Feb. 24, University of Notre Dame professor William Evans answers a address the fundamental causes of poverty here in Indiana, question while fellow panel members Sue Ellspermann, left, and Sheila Gilbert listen. Gilbert is the president of the national St. Vincent as well as in our nation and global community. de Paul Society, and Ellspermann served as the lieutenant governor of Indiana before resigning on March 2. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) “We want to work together with people of good will. The Church can be a partner with other faith traditions, for people coming out of poverty. three years to career counsel—where we’re aligning and community organizations, government and business in “That’s what mentors do. They hold the hope for people understanding across the state and by region what are the promoting what is just and right for society. We can offer a when they can’t do it for themselves.” jobs that are in demand, which ones have higher wages, moral perspective that flows from the light of Christ. and how do we encourage our higher ed system, our “We can do our part in promoting better-paying jobs, the William Evans, University of Notre Dame post-secondary education system to provide those skill sets. reduction of the higher unemployment rate in some sectors economics professor: “So when the opportunity is there, the programs are of the state, and what is more common—where people are “To move people out of poverty, we need to know what there, and then encourage people into those available working two or three low-paying jobs to keep food on the works. And we do a very poor job of actually analyzing higher wage jobs. We’re working on that. It has to be a table. We can organize our parishes to be more active in what we do in a systematic way to understand what public-private partnership.” keeping kids in school through graduation. programs actually deliver as promised. The evidence is “Most importantly, we can strengthen and promote the clear that more education increases your earning prospects, Phil Sicuso, partner in the law firm Bingham family as the basic unit of society.” that you’re going to be married, that you’re going to Greenebaum Doll, discussing a proposed rapid transit live a longer life. But if you take a low-income kid in a bus system that would add more frequent mass Sheila Gilbert, president of the national challenging school situation with one parent, getting that transportation in Indianapolis: St. Vincent de Paul Society: kid more years of education is often difficult. “We need people to be able to get to work, to the “No one is going to walk out of poverty alone. “Our advice to Catholic Charities is that we need to grocery store, to health care. There are a lot of people in There has to be someone who is walking with them and take a look at your programs under the microscope, and do central Indiana who don’t have a car. supporting them. That’s where one of the new thoughts the best job of finding what works and what doesn’t work. “The question for everyone in this room is, ‘What are is coming—around the idea of mentoring or partnering. And given that you’re a national organization, if something we going to do to see if this can be finished?’ One thing That’s where business can play a real role because you can does work, you can disseminate it to all 180 local agencies. that is not debatable is the impact of something like this be encouraging your employees to walk with people out of And if something doesn’t work, shut it down and move that on the people who need help to be pulled up through poverty. money to something that actually works.” the ranks, to have an opportunity to get places we all “Here in Indianapolis, the St. Vincent de Paul Society take for granted. by next April or May is going to have 48 people who have Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann: “Will businesses in central Indiana—people like us— completed a program to help them develop their goals and “Now the focus is on jobs that have higher wages identify this as priority? It may not be obvious to your understanding of what they need. They’re going to need because you can be in poverty if those are $10-an-hour bottom line, but do we want to have a community that someone specifically to walk with them. And most of them jobs. So moving up those wages is important. And those helps raise people up? When leaders of business are vocal are going to be women. It seems women are the ones who wages being up probably means more education. about an issue, it works. The question needs to be asked, ‘Is feel the hope they can make it out. Hope is the key virtue “So the state has been working very hard in the past this one of them?’ ” †

job of roofing” often attracts hardworking In a question-and-answer session during that with each other.” POVERTY people from “poor and uneducated” the poverty summit, Huntington also Huntington was also asked about the continued from page 1 backgrounds—and how his company tries to shared a defining moment in his company’s impact that providing health insurance, make a difference in their lives. business—and how he chooses to lead it. a 401(k) and other benefits had on his Sheila Gilbert, the president of the “Roofing is not a glorious job,” said “I was challenged by another business company’s bottom line financially. national St. Vincent de Paul Society, Huntington, a member of St. Michael the owner to bring my faith and my Church “It’s all been positive,” he said. “It’s just discussed the importance of having people Archangel Parish in Indianapolis. “You’re into my business,” he noted. “I told him, doing the right thing. We’re all the same. If in poverty be involved in efforts to “help out in the elements all the time. But it ‘Man, that’s going to be tough.’ He said, I treat you right, you’re going to treat me them get ahead instead of just helping them does provide a good living and a good ‘You can do anything you want.’ I said, right. The people who work with me—not get by.” opportunity for some people to move up. ‘Yeah, you’re right.’ ” for me, but with me—know that’s the way University of Notre Dame professor A lot of our people don’t have a higher That commitment changed the culture of we do things. They work hard, they work William Evans dwelled on his college’s education, but they’re some of the best his business. smart and the biggest thing is they care— efforts to study the approaches of social people you’ll ever want to meet. They “At our Christmas [gathering,] we started because we care about them. service agencies to ending poverty, and face a lot of challenges, and we help them talking about Jesus and God instead of “We have a very low turnover. Good finding the most effective ones so they can overcome them as best we can.” having a big party with alcohol. We changed people more than pay for themselves— be used nationally. He noted that helpers start at $15 an it to having breakfast, sharing a story with double.” Indiana Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann hour in his company, and the wage scale them, and encouraging them to go to church. Archbishop Tobin praised the focused on the state’s emphasis to lure increases to $38 an hour. His company It didn’t matter where they went—Catholic, contributions of all the panel members jobs with higher wages, while attorney also provides a 401(k) retirement plan for Methodist—just go to church and spend and the community leaders from business, Phil Sicuso stressed the importance of employees, putting 7 percent of their gross time with your family. And that really pulled education and health care who attended the developing new mass-transit programs wages into the account. And the company our community of people together.” poverty summit. that will help low-income and unemployed pays 75 percent of their employees’ Huntington shared one story that “The number and caliber of the people get to the jobs that can help change health insurance. dramatically showed that change. participants make clear that the pastoral their lives. “We provide health insurance not only for “We started several traditions when we letter aroused some interest,” the archbishop Then the spotlight finally turned to the the employee but the family as well, because did that. One was to just do something very said after the summit. “Some practical humble Huntington, whose plain business if Joe is worried about his kids, he’s not simple. We gave everyone $10. They got efficient models were shared that illustrated card of black ink on a white background going to do very well on the job,” he told their bonus as well. We challenged them not only how people can make their doesn’t even mention that he is the president the gathering of business leaders. “We train to go out and do something with their $10. first steps out of poverty through meaningful of AAA Roofing in Indianapolis. them and try to help them up the ladder in Give it to someone on the street, or buy employment, but how employers can take Huntington shared how the “difficult the business.” yourself a beer at the bar. Your choice. This steps to ensure that the poor will not return past year, one of our guys went around to misery.” and collected half of the guys’ $10. He He viewed the summit as another positive ‘I shared with the other Catholic bishops of took this to another young man who was step in addressing the challenge of poverty Indiana the positive experience at the meeting. going through some hard times. He had in Indiana. They in turn informed me about similar cancer issues.” “I shared with the other Catholic efforts happening in their dioceses. I think the The worker who collected the money bishops of Indiana the positive experience ‘conversation’ the bishops called for when we videotaped the person in need receiving at the meeting,” Archbishop Tobin noted. published ‘Poverty at the Crossroads’ a year ago the money. “They in turn informed me about similar “It was shown to all the people in our efforts happening in their dioceses. I think is now taking shape. There is clearly a desire to company. The guy was unbelievably the ‘conversation’ the bishops called continue the conversation in favor of concrete appreciative. That was done at the helper for when we published ‘Poverty at the action and partnerships.’ level, not the management level. It really Crossroads’ a year ago is now taking shape. gave all of them encouragement to lean on There is clearly a desire to continue the —Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin one another. As business owners, we should conversation in favor of concrete action and look to our faith and our Church and share partnerships.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes

Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled • March 7, 7 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ communal penance services for Lent. The following list • March 8, 7 p.m. at St. Jude of services was reported to The Criterion. • March 9, 7 p.m. for St. Ann and St. Joseph at St. Joseph • March 10, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas Batesville Deanery • March 13, 2 p.m. at Good Shepherd • March 4, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. at All Saints, • March 15, 7 p.m. for St. Mark the Evangelist and Dearborn County, St. Martin Campus St. Roch at St. Roch • March 4, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, • March 21, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, Millhousen; St. Catherine of Siena, Decatur County; Greenwood St. Maurice, Napoleon; and St. Mary, Greensburg at St. Mary, Greensburg Indianapolis West Deanery • March 7, 6:30 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg • March 8, 6:30 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Peter, Franklin County • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Susanna, Plainfield • March 15, 6:30 p.m. for St. Anthony and St. Christopher Bloomington Deanery at St. Anthony • March 7, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel the Archangel • March 15, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford • March 17, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas More, Mooresville • March 16, 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude the Apostle, Spencer • March 17, 6 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, Bloomington New Albany Deanery Pope Francis hears confession during a penitential liturgy • March 23, 4 p.m. at St. Paul Catholic Center, • March 15, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on March 28, 2014. Bloomington New Albany (“12 Hours of Grace”) (CNS photo/L’Osservatore Romano via Reuters) • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton Connersville Deanery • March 20, 4 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight Terre Haute (Deanery Penance Service) • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Mary (Immaculate Conception), • 5:45-6:15 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent at St. Mary, • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Patrick, Terre Haute Rushville New Albany (Deanery Penance Service) • March 15, 6 p.m., Richmond Catholic Community at • 7-8:30 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent at Holy Family, • March 16, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton St. Mary, Richmond New Albany • March 16, 7 p.m., at St. Benedict, Terre Haute • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Anne, New Castle • 7-8 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent at St. Mary, Lanesville (“The Light is on for You”) • 6:30-8 p.m. each Wednesday in Lent at St. Michael, • March 23, 7:30-9 p.m. at Annunciation, Brazil Indianapolis East Deanery Charlestown (every Wednesday in Lent 7:30-9 p.m.) • March 9, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit • 6:30-8 p.m. each Thursday in Lent at St. Francis Xavier, • March 23, 7 p.m. at St. Benedict, Terre Haute • March 11, 5-7 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield Henryville (“The Light is on for You”) • March 12, 1-3 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield • Every Monday in Lent 6-7:30 p.m. at St. Paul the • March 14, 7 p.m. for Holy Angels and St. Rita at St. Rita Seymour Deanery Apostle, Greencastle • March 15, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Indianapolis • March 6, 2 p.m. for St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, and • Every Wednesday in Lent 7-8 p.m. at St. Joseph • March 17, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville Holy Trinity, Edinburgh at Holy Trinity, Edinburgh University Parish, Terre Haute † • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus Indianapolis North Deanery • March 13, 4:30 p.m. for St. Patrick, Salem, and • March 6, 2-3:30 p.m. at St. Simon the Apostle American Martyrs, Scottsburg at American Martyrs, Lenten activities available online • March 7, 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Pius X Scottsburg Be sure to visit The Criterion’s Lenten Web page at • March 8, 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Pius X www.archindy.org/lent. Terre Haute Deanery The page consists of links to daily readings, archived Indianapolis South Deanery • March 9, 6:30-8 p.m., at St. Joseph, Rockville Lenten columns by Archbishop Emeritus Daniel • March 5, 9 a.m. at SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi, (“The Light is on for You”) M. Buechlein, a full list of communal penance services Greenwood • March 10, 1:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus, taking place at parishes, and other features. †

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Sometimes the dead are buried in nothing short of an appalling manner. Think of the Nazi regime’s mass burials in the 1940s of countless Jews murdered in its gas chambers. The regime judged these human beings as contemptible and deserving of oblivion. Other burials are inspiring. They draw upon a surviving family’s finest instincts, and the supportive strengths of a surrounding community to celebrate the life of someone known by name and cared about. Most funerals and burials uncompromisingly honor the dead. Perhaps, moreover, they even serve as moments of revelation for some in the community that gather together after a death. Why? Because these occasions present unique opportunities to view people who have died through the eyes of others who love them—through the eyes of family members, close friends and associates. Anglican Archbishop Rowan Williams suggests in his book Faith in the Public Square that seeing others “through the eyes of those who love them” is a way to discover how precious every life is. It is merciful to bury the dead, Christians believe. In fact, burial of the dead holds a place among the corporal works of mercy that Pope Francis wants the Church to revisit during its current Holy Year of Mercy. The actions of those who honor the dead accord them a valued place in prayer and lend support to their survivors. They are signs that God is not absent from anyone’s life, even in painful times of suffering and death. Mourners surround the casket of Holy Cross Father Theodore Hesburgh during his burial service on March 4, 2015, at Holy Cross During his mid-January 2015 visit to the Philippines, Community Cemetery on the campus of the University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana. Burying the dead is a corporal work of mercy. It Pope Francis made these points in a message for survivors is also a sign of God’s continuing presence among humanity. (CNS photo/Matt Cashore, University of Notre Dame) of the nation’s devastating November 2013 typhoon. He said: January 2015 burial of a homeless man in a Vatican its conclusion. “Let us commend to God’s mercy all those who have cemetery. The man’s name, Willy Herteleer, was carefully Here I cannot resist the urge to quote from a poem died, and invoke his consolation and peace upon all who noted by Vatican officials who spoke of the burial. titled “Into a Larger Existence” by the great Indian writer still grieve. May we remember in a particular way those Here was a person, it was made clear, whose life had Rabindranath Tagore. In the poem, which appears to among us whose pain makes it hard to see the way forward. meaning and who did not deserve to be forgotten. reflect the thoughts of someone at the deathbed of a loved “At the same time, let us thank the Lord for all those Herteleer, it seems, participated for more than 25 years one, Tagore writes: who have labored in these months … to visit the sick and in morning Mass at St. Anne Church just inside the Vatican “Stand still, dying, to comfort the grieving and to bury the dead. Their gates. Thought to be about 80 years old, he collapsed on a O Beautiful End goodness … [is] a real sign that God never abandons us!” December night, and was taken to a hospital where he died. for a moment, I wonder whether the Nazis, in digging mass graves Learning of Herteleer’s death, the Vatican arranged and say your last words in silence. for murdered Jews, cared that their victims had names? for his burial on its grounds. St. Anne’s pastor said the I bow to you and hold up my Did the perpetrators of the Holocaust ever attempt to view burial was “in perfect harmony with Pope Francis’ incisive lamp to light you on your way.” those they intended to kill through the eyes of people who message in which he always talks about the excluded, People who gather with the family and friends of loved them? Did they attempt to lock God out of their death those who do not count in our society,” but whom someone who has just died may not think consciously that chambers, the God who “never abandons” anyone? Christ holds dear. they are practicing a work of mercy. It may not come to A truth ignored by the Nazis was that its victims of any Those who regard burial of the dead as a work of mercy mind that they are serving as signs of God’s presence. age were children of parents who loved them. Many victims tend during the days, months and years after a death to make People often sense in a real way, however, that their were happily married, had devoted children and wonderful themselves the companions of those who die and of those presence at these times is vital. For, somehow, it takes a friends, and had contributed greatly to the world around who loved them. community to bury the dead. them through their work. They were loved by God. Yes, participating in this work of mercy even That’s a lot to overlook or to ignore! encompasses a desire to remain thoughtfully and prayerfully (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s Standing in sharp contrast with all of that is the alongside someone whose life in this world reaches editorial staff for 37 years.) † Giving proper burial to the dead is valued throughout the Bible By Daniel S. Mulhall it included as one of the works of mercy? Joseph (Jos 24:29-33). Proper burial of the dead was an important practice in Proper burial of the dead was considered so important Of the seven corporal works of mercy, only one is not Israel from its earliest days. A common practice was to in Israel that being left unburied was considered a curse found in Matthew 25:31-46: bury the dead. Why then is prepare a body for burial with ointments and spices, and and a condemnation. then to wrap it in a linen cloth before laying it in a tomb, In Deuteronomy, where all the curses for disobeying as was done with Jesus (Jn 19:40). God’s commands are listed, this curse is found: “Your There the body would decay until only bones corpses will become food for all the birds of the air and remained, and then they would be moved to a permanent for the beasts of the field, with no one to frighten them burial place where they would be placed with the bones off” (Dt 28:26). of one’s ancestors. Not to bury someone properly then was a sign of great According to the Gospel of Luke, Jesus was wrapped disrespect and a condemnation. in linen and laid in a “rock-hewn tomb in which no According to the Book of Tobit, burying the dead was one had yet been buried” (Lk 23:53), but because of the an important work of charity: “I had performed many Sabbath, his body had not yet been anointed with the charitable deeds for my kindred. … I would give my appropriate spices and perfumed oil. bread to the hungry and clothing to the naked. If I saw Thus, some women among his followers returned one of my people who died and been thrown behind the early in the morning on the first day of the week to finish wall of Nineveh, I used to bury him” (Tb 1:16-17). the burial ritual, only to find the tomb empty. As with all of the works of mercy, what is emphasized The importance of proper burial can be seen in here is the importance of compassion for others and the Genesis 23 when Abraham, who is then living among need to treat everyone with the dignity and respect they the Hittites, purchases a field in which to bury his wife deserve as people created by a loving God. Pallbearers lower a coffin containing the body of a Sarah. Genesis 49:31 informs us that Abraham will also Showing love for others, even after death, is how tornado victim into a grave on May 26, 2015, at a cemetery be buried in that tomb, as will Isaac and his wives Lea Jesus’ disciples are to show their love for God. in Ciudad Acuna, Mexico. According to the Book of and Rebekah, and their son, Jacob. Tobit, burying the dead is an important work of charity. The importance of a proper burial is also seen (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist. He lives in (CNS photo/Jaime Escamilla, Reuters) in the internment of Joshua and the bones of Laurel, Maryland.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink For the Journey/Effie Caldarola Renaissance Church: It spreads to newly-discovered lands A martyr and (Fifth in a series of columns) of the Americas. religion is another matter. One priest, hero for the faith The Spanish empire in the New World Pedro de Gante, reported that he and one The year 1492 was a busy one for was achieved quickly: the seizure of the other person baptized 14,000 Indians in Have you have ever heard of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella West Indies completed within 23 years one day. In Peru, St. Toribio, Archbishop Father Stan Rother? of Spain. Not only did they finish the of Columbus’s first voyage, the Aztecs of Lima from 1580 to 1606, baptized and His is not exactly a household name, and Reconquista (reconquest) in Mexico and Central America defeated confirmed 500,000 persons, built chapels, until I’d read a compelling new of Spain and begin to six years later, and the Incas on the west schools, hospitals and convents, and book about him, I didn’t know force Jews and Muslims to coast of South America 15 years later still. started a seminary. that this farmer from Okarche, leave the country (see last The conquest was brutal, and defeated The Catholic Church was well Okla., just might become the week’s column), they also natives were virtually enslaved. established in Central and South America first U.S.-born male saint. commissioned Christopher It was only the Catholic Church that and Mexico before missionaries started to Often, heroes are born Columbus to try to reach kept the natives from being actually move northward into what is now Florida, from hard times, and a real India by sailing west. enslaved. The religious orders toned down Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona testing ground for heroes Instead, he discovered what he called the the worst impulses of the conquerors. and California. in the 20th century came amid the violent West Indies. The Franciscans, Dominicans, Capuchins The Spanish also conquered the struggles in Central America. This is where He also set off an era of Catholic and, later, Jesuits looked on the conquests Philippines in 1561-62. Five Augustinian Father Stanley Rother, a priest who served in missionary work the world had not seen as opportunities for conversions. The friars accompanied the invasion and, after an Oklahoma-sponsored mission in Guatemala, since perhaps the first years of the Church. conversion of the natives was as quick as the natives were defeated, other religious found sanctity among a poor, remote Mayan There quickly ensued a race between their conquest, thanks to the hundreds of orders moved in. Within 30 years, more congregation. Spain and Portugal to claim newly- missionaries sent by religious orders. than 500,000 natives were converted. By He was brutally murdered by a death squad discovered land. Pope Alexander VI, In Mexico, the conversion happened the 17th century, nearly half the population allied to the government there in 1981. Before therefore, drew a line down the map of the quickly after the Blessed Virgin appeared was Catholic. his body was returned to Oklahoma, his Atlantic Ocean, and awarded discoveries to the 58-year-old native Juan Diego in Meanwhile, in India and other places flock loved him so deeply they kept his heart to the west of the line to Spain and to 1531 and her image, depicted as a native in central and eastern Asia, Portugal built to venerate. the east of the line to Portugal. This woman, appeared on his cloak. up an empire for commercial purposes, In Central America, oppressive regimes gave the Portuguese the rights to the By the end of the 16th century, the and the Catholic clergy tried to minister controlled by the wealthy controlled all the countries in the Far East, but also to Brazil, 7 million natives in the Spanish empire to traders, soldiers, slaves and others. In land and resources. They met resistance from which is why the people of that country were Catholics—at least in name. How India, converts were won in Goa, Cochin, insurgents determined to make life more speak Portuguese. Spain got all the rest much they actually knew about their new Madras, and other cities. † equitable for the poor, who lived in abject poverty. There was violence on both sides. It’s All Good/Patti Lamb Many right-wing Americans suspected the insurgents might be communists. Even the Let’s be ‘Good News’ people and let Christ’s light shine through Church was divided, as is evidenced by the life of Archbishop Oscar Romero, who began his Recently, my 8-year-old daughter I could relate to her distress. I avoid what must we do?’ The first thing that career as a defender of the wealthy Catholics Margaret neglected to follow some house watching the news because our world Jesus does in response is to propose, to in El Salvador, and ended his life murdered by rules and lost the privilege of watching is so troubled. I listen to the news and encourage, to motivate. He keeps telling government forces for his defense of the poor. television. When she hear about tragedies and heartbreaks that his disciples to go, to go out,” the pope Father Rother was apolitical. His turned her behavior leave me sickened and saddened. My said. “He urges them to go out and meet commitment was to the Gospel, and because of around several days later, mind is polluted with stories of shootings, others where they really are, not where that, his life, devoted to the poor, was a red flag I retrieved the remote accidents, addictions, illnesses, poverty, we think they should be. Go out, again to the oppressors. control from my secret and mean-spirited political remarks. I’m and again, go out without fear, without We’re still feeling the repercussions of hiding place and her also disheartened when I hear outlandish hesitation. Go out and proclaim this joy those violent years. Today, thousands of television privilege was stories about the antics of celebrities which is for all the people.” Central Americans flee the gang violence restored. whom our society has placed upon In the midst of this world’s bad news, and anarchy left behind in the wake of wars. She seized the remote control—her pedestals. I am easily overcome by all the we are called to spread the good news— Desperate pleas for sanctuary in the U.S. often long lost friend—and happily danced a bad news, and find myself dwelling in a through our words and our actions— fall on deaf ears. little jig as she hit the “on” button. But state of pessimism. about God’s unconditional love. God Father Stan Rother was the lanky son of a her happiness was short-lived. Especially during this season of Lent, wants us to let our Christ lights shine in loving family in the German-American enclave When she tuned in, the local evening however, I must embrace my faith and this drab age and bring others to him. of Okarche. news was being broadcast. The remote turn to the Gospel, the “Good News” of There’s a eucharistic prayer we hear In John’s Gospel, Nathanael asks derisively control wasn’t functioning properly, how Jesus died and rose from the dead at Mass which eloquently sums up the about Jesus, “Can anything good come so she couldn’t turn it to her normal, to restore our relationship with God. I Good News: “One day he will come in from Nazareth?” (Jn 1:46) Maybe some kid-friendly channel. need to call upon the Holy Spirit, our glory, and in his kingdom there will be no might ask the same thing about Okarche. If After several minutes of watching the Advocate, who remains with us during more suffering, no more tears, no more Father Rother isn’t a household name, Okarche news, Margaret turned the television off these troubled times. How often I forget sadness.” certainly isn’t. and came to the laundry room, where I to dwell on the Good News of God’s The other night when I tucked And yet, Okarche was a seedbed of was matching socks. kingdom and our ultimate goal, eternal Margaret into bed, I said, “Think happy vocations to religious life and the priesthood, “I couldn’t get the channel to change, life with our Creator. God’s grace—his thoughts, sleep peacefully and focus on and as solid a place to grow up as any Norman and the news was on,” she said in a undeserved favor—is ours if only we the Good News.” Rockwell setting. somber voice. accept his love. “We are ‘Good News’ people,” Even in grade school, Father Rother “It was really scary,” she added. In his homily during Mass in Margaret said. struggled with academia. He was asked to Then, my second grader went on Madison Square Garden in New York City Yes, Margaret. That’s right. I hope you leave his first seminary after failing to learn the to ask questions about weapons and last September, Pope Francis spoke always remember that. Latin he needed to study philosophy. viruses, topics discussed during the news these beautiful words to encourage us to But a prescient bishop sent him to another broadcast. I tried to calm Margaret’s mind proclaim the Gospel: (Patti Lamb, a member of St. Susanna seminary, and eventually this modest farm boy and reassure her, but she still slept in our “The Gospels tell us how many Parish in Plainfield, is a regular who grappled with Latin mastered the Tz’utujil bedroom that night. people came up to Jesus to ask: ‘Master, columnist for The Criterion.) † language of his indigenous Guatemalan flock. In Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda’s book, Your Family/Bill Dodds The Shepherd Who Didn’t Run: Fr. Stanley Rother, Martyr from Oklahoma, Father Rother emerges as a man immersed in his people, Practicing the Holy Year of Mercy begins at home traveling hard miles to pay visits, offering Good news, Mom and Dad! Take offering your support to those who are visionary. In her diary, she writes of Jesus Masses at remote sites, regularly welcoming a comfort in this Holy Year of Mercy, grieving. saying to her: beggar to his dining table. because you’ve been living and teaching The same is true for the spiritual works. “My daughter … you are to show As the political climate deteriorated, the corporal and spiritual Just look at that list and consider what mercy to your neighbors always and violence closed in ominously. works of mercy for years. you do as a parent: counsel the doubtful, everywhere. You must not shrink Father Rother’s life prompts the When it comes to the instruct the ignorant, admonish sinners, from this or try to excuse or absolve inevitable question, Why didn’t he leave? corporal, day after day comfort the afflicted, forgive offenses, yourself from it. Understandably, many priests and religious did, you’ve been: feeding bear wrongs patiently, and pray for the “I am giving you three ways of knowing their lives were in imminent danger. the hungry (“What’s for living and the dead. exercising mercy toward your neighbor: Father Rother did return to Oklahoma briefly. dinner, Mom?”), giving Counseling, instructing, admonishing, the first by deed, the second by word, the But like another martyred hero, Jesuit drink to the thirsty (more forgiving … that’s parenting. That’s third by prayer. In these three degrees is Father Frans van der Lugt, who remained in so when the little ones couldn’t reach marriage. Sometimes words are needed. contained the fullness of mercy, and it is Homs, Syria, long after the Jesuits urged him the faucet), clothing the naked (and Often it’s the example you set. It’s the way an unquestionable proof of love for me. to flee, Father Rother stayed. clothing them again as your kids outgrow you choose to live your life, to live your By this means a soul glorifies and pays Not everyone is called to remain as he pants, shirts, coats, and shoes overnight), Catholicism. reverence to my mercy” (The Diary of did. But he had a clear vocational sense of sheltering the homeless (when they’re But, of course, both sets of works Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine what God asked. Like Jesus, who set his face young but, these days, that sheltering extend beyond family and friends. Mercy in My Soul, #742). to Jerusalem knowing death awaited him, includes 20- and 30-somethings), visiting Throughout the world, and in your By these, you and your family do that, Father Rother was a man who knew what he the sick (providing chicken soup, placing community, there are those who are too: Deed. Word. Prayer. had to do. a cool hand on a warm forehead, and literally hungry, homeless and all the rest. These three keys will help you in His case for canonization is now in Rome, dashing to the pediatrician or pharmacy). There are those who are doubtful, ignorant, unlocking the Year of Mercy, and filling and it will be up to Pope Francis to decide What about visiting the imprisoned sinners and who offend in many ways. your home with merciful love that mirrors whether to proclaim him a martyr for the faith, and burying the dead? More often, but not You probably know that Divine Mercy God’s love and mercy for you. which leads to beatification. always, this can involve extended family Sunday, celebrated on the Sunday after and friends. It’s helping those whose Easter, traces its origin back to St. Faustina (Bill Dodds writes for Catholic News (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News loved one is in trouble with the law, and Kowalska, a Polish religious sister and Service.) † Service.) † The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Page 13

Fourth Sunday of Lent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, March 7 Friday, March 11 Sunday Readings St. Perpetua, martyr Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22 St. Felicity, martyr Psalm 34:17-21, 23 Sunday, March 6, 2016 Isaiah 65:17-21 John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Gospel, the beautifully reassuring • Joshua 5:9a, 10-12 parable of the prodigal son. Psalms 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b • 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 Much of the parable is self-evident, John 4:43-54 Saturday, March 12 • Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 even to us in the 21st century. Jeremiah 11:18-20 Certainly quite clear is the unqualified, Tuesday, March 8 Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12 This weekend, the Church observes constant love of the father, who is a St. John of God, religious John 7:40-53 Laetare Sunday. Its name is derived symbol of God. from the first word in the original Some powerful messages, however, Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 Latin of the Mass’ may be lost until we consider the ancient Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 Sunday, March 13 entrance antiphon. context. For example, the prodigal son John 5:1-16 Fifth Sunday of Lent “Laetare” in English was not the older son. Therefore, he was Isaiah 43:16-21 means “rejoice.” The not his father’s heir. The prodigal son Wednesday, March 9 Psalm 126:1-6 Church rejoices that had no right to an inheritance, whether St. Frances of Rome, religious Philippians 3:8-14 salvation, finalized he was good or bad. Then, the prodigal in the sacrifice and son deserted his father. This especially Isaiah 49:8-15 John 8:1-11 resurrection of Jesus, would have disgusted Jews at the time of Psalm 145:8-9, 13c-14, 17-18 is near. Jesus, who prized loyalty to parents. John 5:17-30 Priests may wear Next, the prodigal son rejected rose vestments. Rose the privilege given him of being part Thursday, March 10 is violet with a tinge of gold, reminding of God’s people. He abandoned the us of the first rays of the sun as they primary obligation of this status, to bear Exodus 32:7-14 creep across the horizon after a dark witness to God. Finally, he consorted Psalm 106:19-23 night. Christ, the light of the world, with prostitutes, scorning the sanctity John 5:31-47 is coming. of marriage, so precious to Jews, The Book of Joshua, the first reading, and risked defiling the pure stock of looks far back into the history of God’s God’s people by begetting children people, to the time when they had who would be reared by pagan and finished the long and threatening trip unbelieving mothers. across the Sinai Peninsula after being His sins brought him no reward. He Perpetua and Felicity freed from slavery in Egypt. Along the had to wait not just on animals, rather way, they had grumbled against God. than on humans, but on pigs, the lowest died 203 / March 7 Sinai was then, as it is now, bleak in of the low, in Jewish eyes. its sterility and lifelessness. Nevertheless, his father forgave all, Martyrs in Carthage, now in Tunisia, these young Into this situation came God and lavishly gave him an undeserved women—the noblewoman Perpetua and the slave with the gift of manna from the sky. inheritance. Felicity—were among five catechumens who, after Scientifically-speaking, what was refusing to worship the Roman emperor, were arrested manna? No one now can say, but it Reflection and condemned to be thrown to wild beasts. They were was real. It appeared unexpectedly. The Church is joyful. Salvation is baptized in prison, where Felicity also gave birth to a The people could not have created it. It near. It calls us to salvation, to be with daughter. In the Carthage arena, they were attacked by a was God’s gift. The people would have God in and through Jesus. beast, which did not kill them, so their throats were cut by starved without manna. The Church wisely realizes that all its a gladiator. St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the members, to some degree, at some time, Corinthians furnishes the second reading. have been prodigal children, wandering Midway in the reading is Paul’s urgent away as the Corinthians wandered. appeal to the Corinthian Christians to be Its message this weekend, however, John of God reconciled with God in Christ. It is not is not of denunciation. Instead, in difficult to imagine Paul’s frustration as the reading from Joshua, precisely 1495-1550 / feast– March 8 he saw the Corinthians toying with their with its reference to the manna, and old pagan ways. They were forsaking in the Gospel, with its thrilling story Taken from his Portuguese parents at age 8, John led an true life. Urgency literally flowed of the forgiving father, the Church irregular life in Spain as an estate manager and soldier. in his words. calls us to God. God loves us. He is His conversion at about 40 took such extreme forms It underscored his insistence that forever merciful, regardless of how far that he sometimes was confined for lunacy. In 1538 he nothing else matters, but life truly with we have strayed. began the hospital work that brought him respect and God. Thus so powerfully, he implored In Jesus, the sacrificial victim renown. Thereafter, he devoted himself to sheltering and the people to return to God. of Calvary, God awaits us with the caring for the needy, including prostitutes and vagabonds. Live as “new creations” in Christ. Eucharist, food for our starving souls, for After his death, his followers were organized into the For its final reading on this weekend, which we can find no equal. Hospitaller Order of St. John of God. the Church gives us, from St. Luke’s Lent is the time to turn back to God. †

My Journey to God The Pew By Veronica Phillips See the empty desk beside you, And the empty pew behind. You feel like something’s there, But it’s simply out of sight.

You engage a conversation With the person next to you. All along never thinking Of that lonely empty pew.

But if we stop and think About that cold, empty pew, We think about who could be there, And make the space brand new.

Alas the pew sits empty, A young angel sitting there. Though the angel has no memories Nor does it have much hair.

Abortion took its life, Took the joy of someone new. So stop and say a prayer, For the forever empty pew. (Veronica Phillips, a seventh-grade student at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ School in Indianapolis, is a member of Nativity Parish along with her parents, Christine and Matthew. A woman prays in the chapel of Divine Providence Hospital in San Salvador on May 21,2015, two days before the beatification of Archbishop Oscar Romero.)(CNS photo/Lissette Lemus) Page 14 The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016

and Kurt Mollaun. Sister of John and Tom Bauman. Grandmother of 12. Great-grandmother of seven. Rest in peace NICHOLS, Mary Ellen, 97, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Mother of Pat Dagon, Andrea Please submit in writing GOEBEL, James F., 81, Maynard, Brenda Tolliver and to our office by 10 a.m. St. Michael the Archangel, Kenneth Nichols. Sister of Aileen Thursday before the week of Indianapolis, Feb. 15. Husband Kerr. Grandmother of eight. publication; be sure to state of Beverly Goebel. Father of Great-grandmother of five. date of death. Obituaries of Sharon Caroselli, Anne, Mary archdiocesan priests serving and John Goebel. Grandfather PAVEY, Jean, F., 88, our archdiocese are listed of four. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, The Criterion Feb. 21. Wife of Richard Pavey. elsewhere in . , 86, GOLEY, Ann (Konkle) Mother of Janet and John Order priests and religious Prince of Peace, Madison, sisters and brothers are Froelich. Grandmother of three. Feb. 21. Mother of Karol Anne included here, unless they are Kirk, Rhonda McFarren and PITMAN, Robert M., 87, natives of the archdiocese or Jo Ellen Norville. Grandmother St. Joseph, Corydon, Feb. 18. have other connec­tions to it; of six. Great-grandmother of six. Father of Anthony, Eric, Michael, those are separate obituaries Great-great-grandmother of one. Paul, Richard and Robert on this page. Pitman. Brother of Betty Boaz. HECKMAN, Georgenia, 81, ANDREJASICH, Raymond J., Grandfather of four. Great- St. John Paul II, Clark County, 80, St. Luke the Evangelist, Feb. 16. Wife of Raymond grandfather of one. Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Husband Heckman. Mother of Carol PUNTARELLI, Joan of Carol Andrejasich. Brother of Goodman, Sherry Quinn, David E. (Pierle), 94, St. Roch, Frank Andrejasich. and Gary Heckman. Sister of Indianapolis, Feb. 5. Mother of COOK-FULTON, Elizabeth, Margaret Oester. Grandmother Tracy Pickens, Tim and Tory 91, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, of nine. Great-grandmother of Puntarelli. Grandmother of five. Feb. 18. Mother of Judy, Gary, seven. Great-grandmother of two. James and William Cook. HICKMAN, Theodore E., 83, Grandmother of nine. Great- RICHARDSON, Patricia Lynn, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Feb. 9. grandmother of 17. Great-great- 69, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, grandmother of five. HOPKINS, Dorothy Ann, 73, Feb. 14. Mother of Joe Christ the King, Indianapolis, Richardson. Sister of Bill, Jim CREAMER, Sean R., 30, Feb. 10. Mother of Christopher and Mike Peters. Immaculate Heart of Mary, and Michael Hopkins. Sister Indianapolis, Feb. 21. Son of RICHMOND, James J., of Barbara, Marlene, Allen Jim and Patti Creamer. Brother 55, St. Michael, Brookville, and John. of Lauren and Jimmy Creamer. Feb. 14. Brother of Paul and Tom Grandson of Shirley Creamer. MCCLURE, George, 88, Richmond. St. Jude, Indianapolis, Jan. 30. DAVIS, Esther Y., 91, SHEPARD, Jr., Bernard, 73, Husband of Marian McClure. Holy Angels, Indianapolis, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Feb. 17. Feb. 8. Mother of Carolyn Davis. Father of Marianne and George Husband of Rosie Shepard. Grandmother of three. Great- McClure, Jr. Grandfather of two. Father of Julie Hughes, Thomas grandmother of three. MCGINLEY, Eileen M., 71, and Timothy Shepard. Brother St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Feb. 20. of Marilyn Fillenwarth, Peggy DREWES, Ervinna, 89, Mother of Kathleen Gullott, Kennedy and John Shepard. St. Michael, Brookville, Feb. 19. Grandfather of six. Mother of Shirley Peters, Bruce, Meghan Stone, John and Mark David, Earl and Steve Sawyer. Hannon. Sister of Brian and John SPITZER, Edward L., 101, Papal selfie Sister of Olla Mae Padgett, Karen McGinley. Grandmother of 13. Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Prentice, Barbara and Margaret Great-grandmother of one. Feb. 16. Father of Jim and Mike Smith, Donald Cummins and Leo MILLER, Lois Jean, 90, Spitzer. Stepfather of Kim and Seminarian Stephen Rooney of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y., takes a selfie as Kolb. Grandmother of 13. Great- St. Anthony, Indianapolis, Kris Davenport. Grandfather of Pope Francis arrives to lead his general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on Feb. 24. grandmother of 11. Feb. 14. Mother of Donna four. Great-grandfather of four. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) GAROFOLA-BYERS, Patricia Edwards, Brenda McCoy and SPRIGLER, Robert, 87, Linda Miller. Grandmother of 10. Ann, 84, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Grandfather of 13. Great- Strain. Mother of Griffin and Indianapolis, Feb. 20. Father Bedford, Feb. 17. Wife of Step-grandmother of two. Great- Floyd County, Feb. 21. Husband grandfather of 17. Jacob Strain. Sister of J. Kyle of Kathy Clements, Karen Philip Byers. Mother of Toni grandmother of 12. of Elizabeth (Koetter) Sprigler. Schrink. Hunsaker and Clifford Garofola. MOLLAUN, Marlene P., 77, Father of Lisa Kiesler, Doris STRAIN, Jana K., 51, Duncan and Mark Weilhammer. Grandmother of four. Great- St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Lindner, Tina Malloy and Robert St. Christopher, Indianapolis, WEILHAMMER, Thomas A., Grandfather of six. Great- grandmother of one. Feb. 16. Mother of Kelly, Devin Sprigler. Brother of Jan Naville. Feb. 17. Wife of Gregory 95, St. Mark the Evangelist, grandfather of four. † Benedictine Abbot Alan Berndt led former Blue Cloud Abbey in South Dakota for 16 years Benedictine Abbot Alan Berndt, a monk of ordination, having lived for 71 years as a priest. simple vows on Aug. 6, 1940, and solemn vows reached its highest membership and carried on Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, died on Robert Joseph Berndt was born on on Aug. 6, 1943. a variety of works. A skilled administrator and Feb. 24 in the monastery infirmary. He was 95. March 15, 1920, in South Bend, Ind. 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He became a monk of Saint Meinrad once In 1950, Saint Meinrad Archabbey founded again when Blue Cloud Abbey closed in 2012. Blue Cloud Abbey in Marvin, S.D. Abbot For many years, Abbot Alan also helped Alan joined the new community as a founding “Furnace, Heat Pump or Air Conditioner” Our staff arrange the rosary processions at the nearby has over member. He served from 1970-86 as its Our Lady of Monte Cassino Shrine held on 76 years of second abbot. Sundays in May and October. rd Catholic After stepping down from leading the Ann Education Surviving is a brother, Richard Berndt of 133 ivers abbey, Abbot Alan began a series of pastoral ary assignments at local parishes in South Dakota South Bend. Sale and, from 1990 to 1995, served as chaplain at Memorial gifts may be sent to Saint Meinrad St. Mary Hospital in Pierre, S.D. 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Beginning in 1973, she 133rd AnniversaryAnniversary SaleSale 133rd AnniversaryA Sale 133rd Anniversary Sale on Feb. 25 at the Church of the Immaculate directed the Midtown Comprehensive Mental Conception at the motherhouse. Burial followed Health Center in Indianapolis, while also serving 1/2 OFF FREE FURNACE OR HEAT PUMP at the sisters’ cemetery. an assistant professor at Indiana University. 10 YEAR WARRANTY TUNE-UP ON PARTS & LABOR Margaret Marie Ginder was born on She served at Midtown from 1973-82 and SERVICE CALL 90% Furnace, Heat Pump or High Efficiency Sept. 25, 1929, in Montgomery, Ind. She and her 1986-2002. Save $45 with Paid Repair Air Conditioner. $59.95 family later moved to Indianapolis, where she She also served in the administration of the Cannot be combined with any other offer. Must be Cannot be combined with any other offer. Cannot be combined with any other offer. presented at time of service. Must be presented at time of order. Must be presented at time of service. was a student at St. Roch School and the former Sisters of Providence from 1982-86. EXPIRES: 3/19/16 M-F 8-4 EXPIRES: 3/19/16 EXPIRES: 3/19/16 M-F 8-4 St. John Academy. In the archdiocese, Sister Marilyn Rose THIELE 639-1111 THIELE 639-1111 THIELE 639-1111 She entered the Sisters of Providence of served in Indianapolis at Nativity of Our Lord Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Feb. 2, 1949, and Jesus Christ School from 1956-58 and at the professed final vows on Aug. 15, 1956. former Ladywood High School from 1962-65. Sister Marilyn Rose studied at Saint Mary-of- She is survived by a sister, Marilyn Simpson the-Woods College, where she earned bachelor’s of Greenwood. and master’s degrees. She also studied at the Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters University of Notre Dame in northern Indiana, of Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, where she earned a master’s degree and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- IS-5987722 doctorate in psychology. Woods, IN 47876. † The Criterion Friday, March 4, 2016 Page 15 Knights of Columbus, In Defense of Christians mount genocide petition

enslavement and systematic rape of Middle East, including the Feb. 4 of Los Angeles, Joseph E. Kurtz of girls and women, as well as destruction declaration by the European Parliament, Louisville, Ky., the USCCB president, of Christian churches, monasteries, and the Feb. 12 joint declaration and William E. Lori of Baltimore; and cemeteries and artifacts. signed by Pope Francis and Russian Bishops Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces, WASHINGTON (CNS)—As a “The United Nations Convention on Orthodox Patriarch Kirill. Pope Francis N.M., and Gregory Mansour of the mid-March deadline approached for the Prevention and Punishment of the had previously called Islamic State’s Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Maronite Diocese of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry Crime of Genocide defines ‘genocide’ actions genocide. The U.S. Conference St. Maron. to make a decision on whether to as killing, and certain acts ‘committed of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the Among the lay Catholic signers make a declaration of genocide in the with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, U.S. Commission on International are Supreme Knight Carl Anderson; Middle East, the Knights of Columbus, a national, ethnical, racial or religious Religious Freedom and Genocide Watch Thomas Farr, director of the based in New Haven, Conn., and the group,’ ” the petition says. are among other groups that have issued Religious Freedom Project at the Washington-based group In Defense “Extensive and irrefutable evidence statements. Georgetown University’s Berkeley of Christians have mounted a petition supports a finding that the so-called Presidential aspirants Hillary Center; Mary Ann Glendon, former campaign asking Kerry to make a Islamic State’s mistreatment of Iraqi and Clinton—who was Kerry’s predecessor U.S. ambassador to the Vatican; and genocide declaration. Syrian Christians, as well as Yazidis and as secretary of state—as well as the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s “America must end its silence about other vulnerable minorities, meets this Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and George Weigel, who wrote an authorized the ongoing genocide against Christians definition.” Marco Rubio, R-Florida, also have called biography of St. John Paul II. and other minority groups in Iraq and The State Department is required by it genocide. On Capitol Hill on Dec. 9, several Syria,” the petition says. law to make a decision one way or the The petition already has several groups testified at a House hearing urging It cites as evidence of genocide the other about genocide. high-profile Catholic signers. Among the State Department to declare the assassinations of Church leaders, mass The petition, found at the clergy, they include Cardinal situation genocide. On Dec. 4, Washington murders and deportations, torture, www.StopTheChristianGenocide.org, Timothy M. Dolan of New York; Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl was among kidnapping for ransom, forcible notes others who have made their Archbishops Charles J. Chaput 30 Christian leaders who asked to meet conversions to Islam, and the sexual own declaration of genocide in the of Philadelphia, Jose H. Gomez with Kerry to discuss the issue. †

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Patalinghug, faith and food go hand in “If a family thinks ahead about what hand, or in cooking terms, they blend; there they’re going to do in Lent—as opposed to is no trick to folding one into the other. making it seem like a drudgery” that they “The idea of food in faith is implicit in have to think of something meatless to eat, our Scriptures. It’s implicit in our liturgical he said, they can easily prepare a similar calendar,” he said, also adding that without dish and not have to rely on cheese pizza or question it’s a key component of the Mass. frozen fish sticks. The 45-year-old Filipino-American, Case in point: His simple meatless meal known as the cooking priest, has made seemed easy to make, looked good when the blending of those two worlds his life’s plated, as he put it, and was also really tasty. work with his apostolate, “Grace Before That’s part of his ministry, helping Meals,” which aims, as he puts it: “to bring people see they can and should eat well and families to the dinner table and bring God eat together. to the table.” The priest has tapped into a current He not only does a cooking show on the food fascination, popularized by Food Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) Network, the very spot where he gained called “Savoring our Faith,” but he also some notoriety seven years ago when travels across the country giving parish he beat celebrity chef Bobby Flay in a workshops and speaks at conferences, on steak fajita cook-off on “Throwdown! radio programs and via social media about With Bobby Flay.” the need for families to celebrate not just At that time, the Baltimore priest, who Catholic feast days, but everyday meals is part of a community of consecrated together. He also has written three books, life called Voluntas Dei, was already Celebrity chef Father Leo Patalinghug displays a Lenten seafood pasta meal he prepared in his and is currently working on two more. doing a cooking show and had written the Baltimore kitchen on Feb. 24. (CNS photo/Chaz Muth) Without irony, he says there is a hunger Grace Before Meals Cookbook, but cooking for this ministry, noting that the parish had been part of his DNA long before that. and rice, and maybe some steak “because I’m sure.” workshops he gives are typically booked, Over the years, he has occasionally taken who doesn’t like a little meat?” He can’t seem to help throwing in filled with parishioners of all ages interested cooking classes, and when he was in the His kitchen, set up for cooking cooking terms when talking about his work, in how food and faith meet and on seminary at the Pontifical North American demonstrations, is uncluttered. The noting that Christians are all called to be connecting or reconnecting with each other College in Rome, he ended up picking up counters are bare and cookbooks are leaven in society and that his ultimate goal and God. tips from chefs at local restaurants. stacked high above cabinets, with the is to bring people back to the Lord’s table. When Catholic News Service (CNS) But what really got his cooking juices appearance that they are not often needed. He also said his ministry provides bait: met Father Patalinghug at his Baltimore going was from being the youngest of On a chopping block is a small wooden “Once people nibble on the truth, once home on Feb. 24, he had just returned from four children, and growing up in what he statue of St. Pasqual, the Franciscan they’ve tasted and seen the goodness of a series of parish missions in California jokingly calls “Hotel Patalinghug” because friar who worked in a friary kitchen and God, they hunger for more.” and Chicago, and was about to leave the of his family’s hospitality so typical of is considered the patron saint of cooks And he sees the fruit, so to speak, with next day for the Los Angeles Religious the Filipino culture. He said he helped or and kitchens. the response, including an e-mail from a Education Congress. Oh, and he also was watched his mother cook, and they never Father Patalinghug admits his work is woman who told him that after watching having about 30 family members over that ate dinner until his father, a doctor, came not a traditional ministry, but he said it is his show, she went to church the next day, night for dinner, so he needed to get meat in home from work, usually around 7:30 p.m. meeting people where they are just as Jesus received the sacrament of penance and the oven and a pasta dish started. These days, with family get-togethers, sent his disciples out and told them to “eat received the Eucharist for the first time in But noting that a busy schedule is pretty he is not always the main cook, because his what is set before you.” 30 years. much how he rolls, he demonstrated that mom is such a good cook and his family He gives the example of St. Paul, “who “And I thought, I was just cutting with some advance planning he could also members often bring something. followed such a strict diet, but when he onions, you know? It’s kind of crazy,” easily whip up a Lenten meal of brown The go-to meal for the priest who is went to evangelize the nations, he had to, he added, “but I was doing it in the name butter smoked paprika sauteed with cherry frequently on-the-run is cooked vegetables for the first time, eat bacon, and he loved it of the Lord.” †

March at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods

Day of Reflection for Women Ministers Tuesday, March 8; 2-8 p.m. Join with other women ministers to refresh your spirit. Facilitators: Sister Paula Damiano and Rev. Rebecca Zelensky, Providence Associate. Cost: $25 (includes supper). Please register in advance. Easter centerpiece handmade by Sister Ruth Johnson from Taizé Prayer at the Woods White Violet Center alpaca fiber. Tuesday, March 8; 7-8 p.m. Finding God in the Ordinary: Change and Growth Available at Church of the Immaculate Conception Winter Used Book Sale Lunch and Lecture Saturday, March 12 & Sunday, March 13; 10 a.m. - 3 p.m., Wednesday, March 16; noon-1:30 p.m. Monday, March 14; 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Delve into the journals and letters of Saint Mother Theodore Guerin Shop a huge variety of fiction and nonfiction books Cost: $12 (includes lunch). Facilitator: Sister Jan Craven. Advance registration encouraged. David Haas at the Woods: Concert Preparing for Holy Week Retreat Friday, March 11; 7 p.m. March 18-20; 7 p.m. Friday to 1:30 p.m. Sunday Join world-renowned liturgical composer David Haas known for his works such as Reflect on the Good Friday liturgy and explore the meaning of this solemn day. “We Are Called” and “Blest Are They”. Facilitators: Sister Jan Craven and Sister Paula Damiano. Church of the Immaculate Conception Cost: $200 (includes meals, lodging and Sunday Brunch). Register by March 14 Cost: $10. Purchase online at: Events.SistersofProvidence.org. Tickets will also be sold the night of the performance. Seating is on a first come basis. Doors open at 6 p.m. Way of the Cross for Justice Friday, March 25; 10-11 a.m. David Haas at the Woods: Workshop Spend an hour recalling Jesus’ road to the cross and unite it with the justice ”A Spiritual and Musical Journey for the Beloved of God” struggles of our day. Saturday, March 12: 9 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Church of the Immaculate Conception A “reflective journey using the path of personal reflection and sung prayer to Cost: Freewill offering to support justice efforts in the Wabash Valley. explore our path of conversion and spiritual renewal. Events are at Providence Spirituality & Conference Center unless otherwise noted. Facilitator: David Haas. Cost: $20 (includes box lunch). Register by March 2 For more information or to register online: Events.SistersofProvidence.org or call 812-535-2952