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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Professing belief in the resurrection of the dead and affirming that the human body is an essential part of a person’s identity, the Catholic Church insists that the bodies of the deceased be treated with respect and laid to rest in a consecrated place. While the Catholic Church continues Cardinal Gerhard to prefer burial Muller in the ground, it accepts cremation as an option, but forbids the scattering of ashes and the growing practice of keeping cremated remains at home, said Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect of the Fathers Andrew and Benjamin Syberg, left, Anthony and John Hollowell and Doug and David Marcotte are all smiles on June 25 in the rectory of Congregation for the Doctrine of the SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis after Father Anthony was ordained a priest. That ordination rounded out three sets of brothers ordained Faith. for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis since 2009. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) “Caring for the bodies of the deceased, the Church confirms its faith in the resurrection and separates itself from Six brothers enter more deeply into attitudes and rites that see in death the definitive obliteration of the person, a stage in the process of reincarnation or the family, faith through the priesthood fusion of one’s soul with the universe,” the cardinal told reporters on Oct. 25. By Sean Gallagher described as “a blessing of the Spirit,” faith of archdiocesan Catholics, and In 1963, the congregation issued happened on June 25 in SS. Peter and encourage them to make their families an instruction permitting cremation He had planned this moment for Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis when the seed bed of future vocations. as long as it was not done as a sign of months, had thought about it for years. Cardinal-designate Joseph W. Tobin ‘Love fights’ denial of the basic Christian belief in the What would he say in this profound ordained six men as priests for service But while they recognize the resurrection of the dead. The permission moment in his life and the life of his to the Church in central and southern importance that growing up in faith- was incorporated into the Code of Canon brother that both would remember for Indiana. filled families had on their future as Law in 1983 and the Code of Canons of the rest of their lives? When Father Anthony Hollowell priests, the priests acknowledged that the Eastern Churches in 1990. Yet when became a priest that day, he filled out growing up together came with more However, Cardinal Muller said, Church See our annual Father John three sets of brothers who have been than its fair share of scuffles. law had not specified exactly what Vocations Supplement, Hollowell came ordained priests for the Archdiocese of “Love fight,” said Father Anthony should be done with “cremains,” and pages 9-16. to his younger Indianapolis since 2009. while reflecting on the times when he several bishops’ conferences asked the brother, Father All priests share a common and three of his brothers would wrestle congregation to provide guidance. Anthony Hollowell, to give him a sign brotherhood in their deep bond of their oldest brother John. The result, approved by Pope Francis of peace minutes after he was ordained ordained life and ministry. Fathers “In our family life growing up, we after consultation with other Vatican a priest, all of his planning disappeared Anthony and John Hollowell, David fought a lot,” Father Anthony went on. offices and with bishops’ conferences and and he said words that he never and Doug Marcotte and Andrew and “But, in my mind, it was never outside the Eastern Churches’ synods of bishops, considered. Benjamin Syberg experience it at an of the context of our love for each other. is “Ad resurgendum cum Christo” “I love you.” even deeper level as brothers. And See BROTHERS, page 12 This moment, which Father John they hope their witness will deepen the See CREMATION, page 2 Cardinal-designate Tobin will say ‘thank you’ to archdiocese with Dec. 3 Mass and reception

By John Shaughnessy allowing him to continue as the spiritual A reception and a receiving line leader of the Church of central and with the cardinal-designate will follow When Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin southern Indiana. in the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara learned on Oct. 9 that Pope Francis had “What four years has done for me is Catholic Center across the street from the named him as one of 17 new cardinals, that this wonderful Catholic community cathedral. The Mass and the reception are he quickly thought of the impact that spread across 39 counties has gone from both open to the public. the people of the ‘the archdiocese’ to ‘my people.’ I don’t The celebration in the archdiocese archdiocese have mean that in a proprietary way at all. will come exactly two weeks after Pope had on his life. They have a claim on me, and I have a Francis installs the archbishop as a “I want to be claim on them.” cardinal in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome able to say thank Cardinal-designate Tobin will be on Nov. 19. He will be the first cardinal you to the people sharing his gratitude with the people of to lead the archdiocese. for helping make the archdiocese in a special celebration “The Mass of celebration for me who I am,” on Dec. 3, a celebration that will begin Archbishop Tobin on Dec. 3 is said the cardinal- with a Mass at 11 a.m. in SS. Peter and important in a couple of ways,” says designate, stressing Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Dec. 3 Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor Cardinal-designate how pleased he is also the feast day of St. Francis of the archdiocese. “One, it will be the Joseph W. Tobin was that Pope Xavier, principal patron of the See CARDINAL, page 2 Francis was archdiocese. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016

compatible with the Christian faith. The CREMATION name, the person, the concrete identity continued from page 1 of the person” is important because God created each individual and calls each (“To Rise with Christ”), an instruction individual to himself. “regarding the burial of the deceased and In fact, when asked if there was the conservation of the ashes in the case any way to rectify the situation when a of cremation.” person’s ashes already had been scattered, Presenting the instruction, Cardinal Cardinal Muller suggested making a Muller said, “shortly, in many countries, memorial in a church or other appropriate cremation will be considered the ordinary place and including the name of the way” to deal with the dead, including for deceased. Catholics. What is more, he said, labeling an urn Cremation, in and of itself, does or tomb in a public place is an expression not constitute a denial of belief in of belief in the “communion of saints,” the immortality of the soul and the the unending unity in Christ of all the resurrection of the body, the instruction baptized, living and dead. says. Nor does it “prevent God, in “Other believers have a right to pray his omnipotence, from raising up the at the tomb,” and to remember deceased deceased body to new life.” members of the Catholic Church on the However, the Catholic Church feast of All Saints and All Souls. An urn containing cremated remains is seen in a niche in the Holy Rood Cemetery mausoleum in wholeheartedly recommends continuing Keeping ashes at home on the mantel, Westbury, N.Y., in 2010. During an Oct. 25 news conference in Rome, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, prefect the “pious practice of burying the dead,” he said, is a sign not only of love and of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said that while the Catholic Church continues to Cardinal Muller said. It is considered grief, but also of not understanding how prefer burial in the ground, it accepts cremation as an option, but forbids the scattering of ashes or one of the corporal works of mercy and, the loved one belonged to the entire keeping cremated remains at home. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) mirroring the burial of Christ, it more community of faith and not just to his or clearly expresses hope in the resurrection her closest relatives. the instruction said. embalmed and are placed in simple when the person’s body and soul will be “Only in grave and exceptional cases,” Asked specifically about the growing wooden caskets that eventually will reunited. the instruction says, local bishops may trend in his native Germany of “forest biodegrade along with the body. In addition, he said, when a person give permission for ashes to be kept in a burials,” where people pay to have their “We believe in the resurrection of the is buried in the ground and—at least private home. Cardinal Muller said it was ashes in urns interred at the base of a body, and this must be the principle of to some extent—when the urn of the not up to him, but to local and national tree in a designated forest burial ground, our understanding and practice,” Cardinal person’s ashes is placed in a columbarium bishops’ conferences to determine Cardinal Muller said the German bishops Muller told Catholic News Service, noting or tomb, the final resting place is marked what those “grave and exceptional” were not thrilled with the idea, but that there is a difference between allowing with the person’s name, the same name circumstances might be. accepted it with the proviso that the tree for the natural decay of the body while with which the person was baptized and Placing the ashes in a sacred place also be marked with the name of the person protecting the environment and seeing by which the person is called by God. “prevents the faithful departed from being buried at its base. the body of the deceased primarily as “Belief in the resurrection of the flesh forgotten or their remains from being In the United States and other fertilizer for plants and trees. is fundamental,” he said. “A human shown a lack of respect,” which is more countries, a growing number of Catholic cadaver is not trash,” and an anonymous likely to happen as time goes on and the cemeteries set aside sections for “green (The English text of the instruction can be burial or scattering of ashes “is not people closest to the deceased also pass, burials” for bodies that have not been found at: http://bit.ly/2eBe2Yt.) † Pope expresses shock over cruelty waged against innocent Iraqis VATICAN CITY (CNS)—As a military Square on Oct. 23 for the Angelus prayer, sons and daughters of that beloved land, for Human Rights verified reports that operation in northern Iraq fights to wrest the pope said, “In these dramatic hours, I including many children; this cruelty ISIS militants were forcing residents control of areas held by retaliating Islamic am close to the entire population of Iraq, makes us weep, leaving us without words.” of surrounding villages into Mosul— State forces, Pope Francis criticized the especially that of the city of Mosul. The pope’s remarks came as Iraqi presumably to be used as human shields. “cruelty” and heinous violence waged “Our hearts are shocked by the heinous government troops and Kurdish fighters As humanitarian groups worked to aid against innocent civilians. acts of violence that for too long have backed by a U.S.-led coalition were those already displaced by the offensive, He invited people to pray with him, been perpetrated against innocent citizens, seeking to retake control of Mosul, the many fear it will become a mass exodus asking that “Iraq, while gravely stricken, whether they be Muslims, whether they nation’s second-largest city. As the because more than 1 million people were might be both strong and firm in the hope be Christians, or people belonging to so-called Islamic State lost control of thought to be inside Mosul. of moving toward a future of security, other ethnic groups and religions.” a number of villages, it has stepped up Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and reconciliation and peace.” He said he was “saddened to hear news attacks in other parts of the country. Caritas Iraq said they were prepared to Speaking to visitors in St. Peter’s of the killing, in cold blood, of many The United Nations High Commissioner respond quickly to the expected crisis. †

they are of him—and the guidance and St. Mary Parish in Mitchell, appointed CARDINAL service he has rendered to us in these Official dean of the Bloomington Deanery while continued from page 1 past four years.” continuing as pastor of St. Vincent de No tickets or reservations are Appointments Paul and St. Mary parishes. opportunity for guests from all across required for people to attend the Mass Effective immediately southern and central Indiana to celebrate and/or the reception. The reception, Rev. Eric M. Johnson, pastor of the Eucharist with him and congratulate which is being sponsored by Franciscan Rev. Martin Day, OFM Conv, pastor of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in him, especially the people who would not Health, will feature light refreshments St. Benedict Parish in Terre Haute, appointed New Albany, appointed dean of the New be going to Rome. and live music. dean of the Terre Haute Deanery while Albany Deanery while continuing as pastor “It’s also a testament that he “This is history in the making,” Lentz continuing as pastor of St. Benedict Parish. of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish. serves the local Church of central noted. “There’s an element of excitement and southern Indiana. And we want from people for his being named a Rev. Dennis M. Duvelius, pastor of Rev. Guy R. Roberts, pastor of to recognize this historic event in the cardinal. At the same time, I see how St. Paul Parish in Tell City, St. Mark St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis and archdiocese. It also gives people the humble he is about it. He is also honored Parish in Perry County and dean of the dean of the Indianapolis North Deanery, opportunity to let him know how proud by it.” † Tell City Deanery, reappointed dean reappointed dean while continuing as while continuing as pastor of St. Paul and pastor of St. Joan of Arc Parish. St. Mark parishes. (These appointments are from the office Correction Rev. Richard W. Eldred, pastor of of the Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., The poet of the “My Journey to God” poem in the Oct. 21 issue of The Criterion was St Vincent de Paul Parish in Bedford and Archbishop of Indianapolis.) † Patrick Harkins, not Patrick Harris. †

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Annual appeal supports retired archdiocesan priests

By Natalie Hoefer approved for early retirement for health or other reasons. ‘A lot of people don’t know that we have In November, Catholics in central Just because a priest is of retirement religious priests and diocesan priests. It doesn’t and southern Indiana donate to United age does not mean they are fully retired, mean that the diocesan priests aren’t religious Catholic Appeal: Christ Our Hope (UCA), notes Father Kirkhoff. which in part benefits the retirement of Twenty-eight of the 45 retired priests or pious. It just means that they are attached priests of the archdiocese. age 70 and older still serve in some to and serve the diocese rather than [being Then just a month later, a second capacity, including three who are still attached to] a specific religious order.’ collection is taken for retired religious in parish pastors. December. Others take on other part-time roles in Why two collections for the same the archdiocese, such as Father Kirkhoff, —Father Gerald Kirkhoff, vicar for advocacy cause? who at age 73 serves not only in his vicar of priests The Criterion spoke with Father Gerald role but as director of the archdiocesan Kirkhoff, archdiocesan vicar for advocacy Mission Office and Society for the for priests, about the difference between Propagation of the Faith. ‘I think of the teaching sisters’ in Indianapolis, or the Missionaries of the two collections. He and the other 27 retired-but-still- The USCCB’s Retired Religious Charity serving those in need on the east active archdiocesan priests serve as collection in December benefits all other side of Indianapolis. ‘They’d never say they deserve it’ substitute celebrants at parish Masses, religious—priests, sisters and brothers Catholics of central and southern The difference between the two hear confessions, and celebrate wedding of religious orders—who serve in the Indiana are probably most familiar with collections is easily summed up, he and funeral Masses. archdiocese. the sisters who founded communities in says: The funds from the UCA benefit The retirement funds the priests “It’s the most successful second the archdiocese and taught in parochial priests of the archdiocese, whereas the receive, funded in part by UCA donations, collection,” says Father Kirkhoff. schools, says Father Kirkhoff, including December collection for retired religious, go toward priests’ monthly living In central and southern Indiana, Benedictines, Franciscans and Sisters of sponsored by the U.S. Conference of expenses, including housing. there are 134 religious priests and Providence. Catholic Bishops (USCCB), benefits “The diocese doesn’t really have an brothers serving from nine orders, the “When I think of the Retired Religious priests, brothers and sisters of religious official facility for our retired priests,” majority being Benedictines, Conventual collection, I think of the teaching sisters orders. Father Kirkhoff explains. “St. Paul Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits and who for so long went underpaid and “A lot of people don’t know that Hermitage [in Beech Grove, a ministry Order of Friars Minor (Franciscans). underappreciated,” he says. “They built the we have religious priests and diocesan of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Some serve as parish pastors. Others Catholic school system. … They did this priests,” Father Kirkhoff explains. “It Lady of Grace monastery] does make serve in schools, hospitals, on college for a pittance, and they live long lives. doesn’t mean that the diocesan priests accommodations for retired priests, but campuses or as counselors. “So in one sense, when a person aren’t religious or pious. It just means that most find housing on their own.” The archdiocese also benefits from contributes to the religious collection they are attached to and serve the diocese Donating to the United Catholic the service of 499 religious women in December, it’s not just an act of rather than [being attached to] a specific Appeal is “a token of people’s representing 24 orders. charity—I think it’s an act of justice.” religious order.” appreciation of what they receive from Some serve in hospitals, such as Of the 149 priests of the the priests,” says Father Kirkhoff. “Priests the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual (For more information on the United Archdiocese of Indianapolis, there are would say [the funds are] helpful, but Adoration. Others serve a specific Catholic Appeal, log on to currently 45 who are age 70 and above they’d never say they deserve it—some population, such as the Little Sisters of www.archindy.org/uca or call the Office and therefore receive retirement funds. wouldn’t even think that,” says Father the Poor serving the impoverished elderly of Stewardship and Development at 317- An additional six priests have been Kirkhoff. at St. Augustine Home for the Aged 236-1415 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1415.) † Bishops to vote for USCCB president, vice president at general assembly WASHINGTON (CNS)—U.S. bishops • Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond of Angeles. at the conclusion of the general assembly. are scheduled to elect the next president New Orleans. • Archbishop William E. Lori of The current president, Archbishop Joseph and vice president of the U.S. Conference • Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Baltimore. E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., and the of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) at their Philadelphia. • Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of current vice president, Cardinal DiNardo, upcoming fall general assembly taking • Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Detroit. will complete their terms. place on Nov. 14-16 in Baltimore. Oklahoma City. • Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of USCCB bylaws provide that the first Each office is elected from a slate of • Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Miami. election is that of the president by simple 10 candidates who have been nominated Galveston-Houston. • Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa majority vote of members who are present by their fellow bishops. Released by • Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Fe, New Mexico. and voting. Following the election of the the USCCB, the slate of candidates for Brownsville, Texas. The president and vice president are president, the vice president is elected president and vice president are as follows: • Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of Los elected to three-year terms, which begin from the remaining nine candidates. †

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Opinion Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. Monk’s Tale: The story of a

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 successful university presidency Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor Holy Cross Father Edward A. “Monk” Father Malloy is famous for speaking Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Malloy has just produced Volume 3 without script or notes, so the ideas in of his three-part memoir Monk’s Tale. his homilies and formal speeches, not This book is a to mention off-the-cuff remarks, are not chronological tour of carried in full in the pages of this book. his 18-year presidency Meetings—an endless stream, it seems— Editorial of the University of are mentioned but agendas are, for the Notre Dame. The first most part, not given. two volumes traced Clashes with faculty are alluded his life from birth to, but not described in detail. He through schooling had only one serious difference with on to seminary and Father Hesburgh, but that is simply ordination up to his acknowledged, not disclosed in any way. presidential years. His one disagreement with his successor, There are 18 chapters in Volume 3. Holy Cross Father John Jenkins— They enable the reader to get inside the over the firing of football coach Ty mind of this man as well as enjoy an Willingham—is mentioned along with over-the-shoulder look at the life of a an acknowledgment that although Father peripatetic university president. It is not Malloy was still president, Father Jenkins my intention to review the book here. had the right to make the decision. I simply want to underscore a few of By any measure, the Father Malloy the things that Father Malloy sees as presidency was a very successful one. There important in maintaining the momentum is much in this book worth pondering by New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan shares a light moment with U.S. Democratic presidential that makes a university great. anyone responsible for the advancement of nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump during the 71st His immediate predecessor in the any Catholic college or university—trustees, annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York presidency of Notre Dame was the legendary administrators or faculty. City on Oct. 20. The charity gala, which honors the memory of the former New York Democratic Holy Cross Father Theodore M. Hesburgh, • Permeate the place with international governor who was the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for the U.S. presidency, who occupied that office for 35 years. Father mindedness, Father Malloy would raises money to support not-for-profit organizations that serve children in need. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Hesburgh was the best-known Catholic priest recommend. in the U.S. and the best-known university • Pay special attention to alumni, president—public or private—in the nation. including giving preferential admissions, He could be succeeded, people thought, but within limits, for alumni sons and History of ‘the Catholic vote’ never replaced. daughters. Father Malloy stepped into the • Work a service orientation into the In his columns that appear on page 5, the Whig Party and a powerful political job and up to the challenge by being undergraduate student experience as well Cardinal-designate Joseph W. Tobin has force from the 1830s to the 1850s. Anti- himself, surrounding himself with able as alumni activities. taught us how we should decide whom Catholic riots flared up in many places. administrators, staying in touch with • Tighten up the town and gown to vote for in the coming elections. As Meanwhile, the Democratic Party faculty and students (living in a dorm and relationship as happened in the case of he wrote, no candidate and no political took in the immigrants, especially the teaching a class). Notre Dame’s Center for the Homeless in party perfectly represent the positions of Irish refugees from the potato famine He listened full circle—to trustees, the city of South Bend. the Catholic Church. Neither he nor we who arrived penniless and took whatever faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, • Cultivate the Catholic character and are going to tell you for whom to vote. jobs they could find. Soon Irish Catholic as well as to civic, Church, national and emphasize ethics—personal and social— For some of us, though, the history Democratic machines dominated international leaders. His ears were not in all that the university does. of the Catholic vote in the United States politics in Boston, New York, Chicago, merely ornamental. Notre Dame is a great Catholic is fascinating. There was a time, prior Philadelphia, Kansas City and St. Louis. There is a chapter in this book for each university. Monk Malloy helped to make to 1960, when Catholic periodicals The bosses helped the poor Catholics of the 18 years of the Malloy presidency. it even greater. His book will help you insisted that Catholics didn’t vote as a find jobs, and picked up the tabs for Accordingly, we get an introduction understand the how and why. bloc and, therefore, there really wasn’t doctor bills, weddings and funerals. In to every commencement speaker and such a thing as “the Catholic vote.” That return, Catholic voters kept the machines honorary degree recipient, although we (Jesuit Father William J. Byron is argument fell apart in 1960 when John in power. That continued through the get only the title, not the content, of the professor of business and society at F. Kennedy received 80 percent of the first half of the 20th century and through many talks and formal addresses given by St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. Catholic vote. (One study showed 78 the Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson the president each year. E-mail him at [email protected].) † percent and another 82 percent.) presidencies. Sure, it was recognized that most Then, though, the Democratic Party Catholics happened to be Democrats. turned left, notably supporting abortion Letter to the Editor But the 1952 election hadn’t been that rights. That happened shortly after lopsided, when 52 percent of Catholics many Catholics took advantage of the voted Democratic and 48 percent G.I. Bill after World War II to get a Rise above party politics, promote the Republican. That obviously changed college education and join the middle common good, and vote for life, reader says when a Catholic ran for president in 1960, class. Catholics found the Republican and religion was an issue in the campaign. Party advocating the things they believed As Catholics get ready to vote in the Not only does a vote against life make That had been true, too, in the in. Many ardent Republicans today had general election, they should remember that one complicit in the murder of unborn 1928 election when Democrat and parents or grandparents who were just as some issues are more important than others. children, it contributes to the loss of Catholic Alfred E. “Al” Smith ran. ardent Democrats. The most important issue of all is the religious freedom. It is no coincidence In that election, too, 80 percent of The first Republican president to get right to life because all other rights are that defenders of abortion and same-sex Catholics voted for Smith. It was a bitter a majority of Catholic votes was Richard meaningless without it. Only those who marriage seek to criminalize Christianity campaign, which revived the Ku Klux Nixon in 1972. But more Catholics are alive can exercise their civil rights, and brand the Bible as “hate speech.” Klan, and the Catholic vote was not swung back to a Democrat in 1976 pursue earthly happiness, or labor for Sinners simply do not want to be enough to elect Smith. to vote for Jimmy Carter. Then it was their eternal salvation. reminded of their sins. It’s not hard to see why most Republican again, especially in From a Catholic perspective, problems So I urge my fellow Catholics to rise Catholics were Democrats back then. 1984 when Ronald Reagan received that affect the quality of life, such as above party politics, promote the common That started way back in the 1800s, 61 percent of the Catholic vote. poverty, health care, immigration, or refugee good, and vote for life on Nov. 8. If not before the birth of the Republican Party. That was the high water mark for resettlement, though important, do not carry for your country or your Church, please Catholics made up a minute part of the Republicans though, because the the same moral weight as problems that do it for the sake of your immortal soul. population until the country began to Democratic Party has won more Catholic threaten the basic life principle, such as experience large groups of immigrants. votes since then. Michael Dukakis, Bill abortion, euthanasia, embryonic stem-cell Stephen L. Bussell Many came from France after the French Clinton, Al Gore, John Kerry and Barack research, or same-sex “marriage.” Indianapolis Revolution, but most were from Ireland Obama all received more Catholic votes On quality-of-life issues, a Catholic and Germany, especially during the than their opponents. It was close at times, can take one side or the other without Irish potato famine in the 1840s—and though, especially in the Dukakis-George acting against the faith, but on matters Letters Policy they were Catholics. The U.S. Catholic H.W. Bush race in 1988 and the Gore- of principle, the only moral choice to be Letters from readers are welcome and population soared from 663,000 in 1840 George W. Bush race in 2000—the one made is on the side of life. should be informed, relevant, well- to 3.1 million in 1860. that required a Supreme Court decision. Unfortunately, politicians often cloud expressed, concise, temperate in tone, That frightened the anti-Catholic So is there a Catholic vote? It appears the issue when they try to justify the courteous and respectful. elements that always existed. They tried to that Catholics today vote about the non-existent right to abortion under the The editors reserve the right to select and make it difficult for Catholics to become same way as the rest of the population. pretext of “helping people,” as if they edit the letters based on space limitations, citizens. That movement became the Even when Catholic John Kerry ran, he could help people by killing people. This pastoral sensitivity and content. Nativist Party, better known as the Know received only 52 percent of the Catholic is nonsense. Letters must be signed, but, for serious Nothings because members were told, if vote, not 80 percent as Smith and As long as a pro-life alternative is reasons, names may be withheld. they were asked about the party’s political Kennedy did. available, a Catholic may not, in good Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” platform, to say, “I know nothing.” conscience, vote for a pro-abortion The Criterion, 1400 N. 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We must work hard to avoid war and promote peace

he history of humankind is marked a death-dealing infection. War should unjust aggression is not unlimited. chemical, and biological weapons, and by endless warfare, the seemingly always be the last resort, and we should Here, as everywhere, the end does to reduce its own reliance on weapons of Tconstant conflict between never lose sight of the cost of war not justify the means. As Catholics mass destruction by pursuing progressive families, tribes, nations and peoples. (personal, economic and social) and its and as faithful citizens, we insist that nuclear disarmament. It also must end In the modern era—especially since irreversible harm to human life. “the use of torture must be rejected its use of anti-personnel landmines and the middle of the last century—wars As noted in “Forming Consciences as fundamentally incompatible with reduce its predominant role in the global have included the threat of complete for Faithful Citizenship,” “Nations the dignity of the human person and arms trade” (#69). annihilation through the use of “weapons should protect the dignity of the human ultimately counterproductive in the Catholics are called to be of mass destruction.” War has always person and the right to life by finding effort to combat terrorism” (#68). As peacemakers, not warmongers. We been problematic—even when it was more effective ways to prevent conflicts, Church leaders, we have also raised understand that the use of military “justified,” but now it has the potential to resolve them by peaceful means, fundamental moral concerns about force is sometimes both justified and to totally destroy life as we know it. and to promote reconstruction and preventive use of military force. We necessary, but we would much prefer How can we possibly justify that? reconciliation in the wake of conflicts” honor the commitment and sacrifice of that our leaders use other means to In “Forming Consciences for Faithful (#68). those who serve in our nation’s armed promote the common good and achieve Citizenship,” the bishops of the United It’s true that nations have the right, forces, and we also recognize the moral lasting peace. “Further, we support States warn against becoming indifferent and the obligation, to protect innocent right to conscientious objection to war policies and actions that protect refugees to war (#68). The number of armed people against unjust aggression, in general, a particular war, or a military of war and violence, at home and conflicts spreading throughout the globe including terrorism and the persecution procedure. abroad, and all people suffering religious and the ever-present threats against our of individuals and groups for reasons Again, as Catholics and as citizens, persecution throughout the world, many way of life can have a numbing effect. of race, political ideology, religious we feel compelled to speak out against of whom are our fellow Christians” More than ever before, we need to be intolerance or economic gain. As we any use of force that is indiscriminate (#69). awake and alert to the dangers of war. bishops teach, “the duty of nations to or disproportionate. “Direct and In this election year, we have many More important, we must work hard to defend human life and the common good intentional attacks on noncombatants in tough choices to make, but high on avoid war and promote peace. demands effective responses to terror, war and terrorist acts are never morally the priority list is this question: Which War is never a sign of what ought moral assessment of and restraint in the acceptable. The use of weapons of mass candidates and political parties are truly to be. It is never OK, even when it is means used, respect for ethical limits destruction or other means of warfare for peace, justice and the common good necessary to defend the innocent against on the use of force, a focus on the roots that do not distinguish between civilians of all? There are no easy answers. That’s an even greater evil. At best, war is like of terror, and fair distribution of the and soldiers is fundamentally immoral. why we need to pray for the guidance of an amputation that becomes necessary burdens of responding to terror” (#68). The United States has a responsibility the Holy Spirit—especially on Election to protect the rest of the body against But the right to defend against to work to reverse the spread of nuclear, Day. †

Debemos esforzarnos arduamente para evitar la guerra y promover la paz

a historia de la humanidad está resto del cuerpo contra una infección Pero el derecho a defenderse contra de reducir su propia dependencia de marcada por interminables potencialmente mortal. La guerra una agresión injusta no es ilimitado. armas de destrucción masiva mediante Lconflictos bélicos, y las siempre deberá ser el último recurso En este caso, como siempre, el fin no la búsqueda del desarme nuclear constantes diferencias entre familias, y jamás debemos perder de vista justifica los medios Como católicos y progresivo. También deben poner fin tribus, naciones y pueblos. En la el verdadero su costo (en términos ciudadanos fieles insistimos en que “el al uso de minas antipersonal y reducir época moderna, especialmente desde personales, económicos y sociales) y el uso de la tortura debe ser rechazado su papel predominante en el comercio mediados del siglo pasado, las guerras daño irreversible que provoca a la vida como fundamentalmente incompatible global de armas” (#69). encierran además la amenaza de la humana. con la dignidad de la persona Los católicos estamos llamados aniquilación completa a través del uso Tal como lo expresan los obispos de humana y en última instancia como a ser pacificadores, no belicistas. de “armas de destrucción masiva.” Las EE. UU. en “Formando la conciencia contraproducente en la lucha contra el Comprendemos que el uso de la fuerza guerras siempre han sido problemáticas, para ser ciudadanos fieles”: “las terrorismo” (#68). Como líderes de la militar a veces está justificado y es aunque se las considere “justificadas,” naciones deben proteger la dignidad Iglesia también hemos planteado unas necesario, pero consideramos preferible pero hoy en día tienen el potencial de de la persona humana y el derecho inquietudes morales fundamentales en que nuestros líderes emplearan otros destruir por completo la vida tal como a la vida buscando maneras más cuanto al uso preventivo de las fuerzas métodos para promover el bien común la conocemos. ¿Acaso existe algo que eficaces de prevenir conflictos, de militares. Honramos el compromiso y alcanzar una paz duradera. “Además, pueda justificar esto? resolverlos mediante medios pacíficos y el sacrificio de quienes sirven en apoyamos las políticas y acciones que En “Formando la conciencia para ser y de promover la reconstrucción y las Fuerzas Armadas de nuestro país protejan a los refugiados de la guerra ciudadanos fieles,” los obispos de los reconciliación tras la estela de los y también reconocemos el derecho y la violencia, en nuestro país y en el Estados Unidos nos previenen contra conflictos” (#68). moral a oponerse de forma consciente extranjero, y a todas las personas que el peligro de volvernos indiferentes Es cierto que las naciones tienen a la guerra en general, a una guerra en sufren persecución religiosa en todo hacia la guerra (#68). La cantidad de el derecho y la obligación de proteger particular o a una operación militar. el mundo, muchos de los cuales son conflictos armados que se propagan por a los inocentes contra una agresión Una vez más, como católicos y nuestros hermanos cristianos” (#69). todo el mundo y las amenazas siempre injusta, lo que incluye el terrorismo y ciudadanos, nos sentimos obligados a En este año electoral tenemos constantes contra nuestra forma de vida la persecución de personas y grupos por hablar en contra del uso de cualquier muchas decisiones difíciles que pueden llegar a generar indolencia. Pero motivo de su raza, ideología política, tipo de fuerza indiscriminada o debemos tomar, pero encabezando ahora más que nunca debemos estar por intolerancia religiosa o por ventaja desproporcionada. “Los ataques nuestra lista de prioridades se atentos y despiertos ante los peligros de económica. La doctrina de los obispos directos e intencionados contra los no encuentra la siguiente interrogante: la guerra. Y lo que es más importante: enseña que “el derecho de las naciones combatientes en una guerra y actos ¿Qué candidatos y partidos políticos debemos esforzarnos arduamente para a defender la vida humana y el bien terroristas nunca son moralmente verdaderamente obran en favor de evitar la guerra y promover la paz común requiere respuestas eficaces aceptables. El uso de armas de la paz, la justicia y el bien común La guerra jamás será una señal contra el terror, valoraciones morales destrucción masiva y otras tácticas de para todos? Las respuestas a este de lo correcto. Jamás será aceptable, de los métodos usados y moderación guerra que no distinguen entre civiles planteamiento no son sencillas. Es por aunque sea necesaria para defender en su uso, respeto de los límites éticos y soldados es fundamentalmente ello que debemos rezar para recibir la al inocente contra un mal aún mayor. en el uso de la fuerza, un enfoque en inmoral. Los Estados Unidos tienen guía del Espíritu Santo, especialmente En el mejor de los casos, la guerra las raíces del terror y una distribución la responsabilidad de trabajar para en el día de las elecciones. † es como una amputación a la que se justa del peso que conlleva responder al revocar la proliferación de armas recurre solamente para proteger el terror” (#68). nucleares, químicas y biológicas y Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016

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

November 2 [email protected]. Greenwood. First Friday [email protected] or [email protected]. a.m. car pool from St. Patrick Archbishop O’Meara Catholic celebration of the Most www.stagnesnashville.org. Parish, 1807 Poplar St., Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., November 4 Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, St. Martin of Tours Parish, Terre Haute, to Bloomington Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Marian University chapel, 5:45 p.m., exposition of the November 5 1720 E. Harrison St., Planned Parenthood, 421 Catholic, educational, 3200 Cold Spring Road, Blessed Sacrament, following SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Martinsville. Christmas S. College Ave., arriving charitable and social singles, Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Mass until 9:30 p.m., 1347 N. Meridian St., Holiday Bazaar, 9 am.- 10:15 a.m.; return to St. 50 and over, single, separated, Catholic Business Group, sacrament of reconciliation Indianapolis. Mercy prayer 3 p.m., vendor booths, craft Patrick Parish around noon. widowed or divorced. New Mass and monthly meeting, available. Information: service and talk by Father room, cookies, baked goods, Information: Tom McBroom, members welcome. 6 p.m. 6:30-8:30 a.m., breakfast, 317-888-2861 or info@ Joseph Moriarity, one of cash raffles, door prizes, food 812-841-0060, mcbroom. Information: 317-243-0777. $15 per person. Information: olgreenwood.org. Pope Francis’ appointed and drinks. Information: 765- [email protected]. 317-435-3447 or lumen.dei@ Missionary of Mercy priests 342-4504. Calvary Mausoleum comcast.net. St. Lawrence Church, 6944 E. for the Holy Year of Mercy, November 5-6 Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., 46th St., Indianapolis. First prayer service, talk on St. Michael Church, 145 All Saints Parish, St. John the Indianapolis. All Souls Day Most Holy Name of Jesus Friday Charismatic Renewal mercy, adoration, confession, St. Michael Blvd., Brookville. Baptist Campus, 25743 State Mass, noon. Information: Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Praise and Mass, praise and sponsored by St. Monica First Saturday Devotional Road 1, Guilford. All Saints 317-784-4439 or www. Beech Grove. First Friday worship 7 p.m., Mass Parish, all invited, 10 a.m. Prayer Group, prayers, Parish Fall Craft Show catholiccemeteries.cc. devotion, exposition of the 7:30 p.m. Information: Information: 317-523-4193, rosary, confession, meditation, and Chicken Dinner, Sat. Blessed Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; [email protected]. [email protected]. 8 a.m. Information: 765-647- 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Sun. 11 a.m.- Our Lady of Peace Cemetery reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; 5462. 5 p.m., soup lunch Sat., and Mausoleum, 9001 Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the November 4-5 St. Bartholomew Church, chicken dinner Sun., craft Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Sacred Heart and prayers for St. Augustine Home, 2345 W. 1306 27th St., Columbus. “A St. John Paul II Parish, show in 12-room school, mega All Souls Day Mass, noon. the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. 86th St., Indianapolis. Musical Pilgrimage to Rome St. Paul Church, 218 split-the-pot. Information: Information: 317-574-8898 or Information: 317-784-5454. St. Augustine Guild Bazaar, and the Vatican” concert, Schellers Ave., Sellersburg. 812-576-4302, emilyalig.asp@ www.catholiccemeteries.cc. handmade crafts, decorations, St. Bartholomew Choir with First Saturday Devotion, gmail.com. St. John Paul II Parish, jewelry, afghans and food, all conductor Bogdan Minut, 8 a.m. reflection on mysteries November 3 St. Joseph Church, 2605 proceeds benefit Little Sisters 7:30 p.m., free. Information: of rosary, recitation of the November 6 Logan’s Roadhouse, 970 E. St. Joe Road, Sellersburg. of the Poor, Fri. 9 a.m.-6 p.m., www.saintbartholomew.org rosary, litany, consecration St. Catherine of Siena Parish, Lewis and Clark Parkway, First Friday devotion of the Sat. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and click on Music Ministry prayer to Mary, Mass at St. John the Evangelist Clarksville. Theology on Tap, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, then Concert Series. 8:30 a.m. Information: Church, 9995 E. Base sponsored by New Albany noon Mass, followed by litany St. Agnes Church, 1008 812-246-3522. Road, Greensburg. Turkey/ Deanery Catholic Youth and consecration to Sacred McLary Road, Nashville. St. Malachy School, 7410 Sauerbraten Dinner, Ministries, “We Make the Heart of Jesus. Information: Christmas Bazaar, crafts, N. County Road 1000 E., Terre Haute Helpers of cake walk, raffles, mock Road by Walking,” Father 812-246-2512. Christmas items, decorated Brownsburg. Altar Society God’s Precious Infants, turtle soup, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thomas Clegg presenting, tabletop trees, jewelry, food, Christmas Bazaar, 9 a.m.-3 7:30 a.m. Mass at the Information: 812-934-2880, ages 22-39, 6:30-8 p.m. Our Lady of the Greenwood quilt raffle, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. p.m. Information: Carmelite Monastery, 59 stcatherine47240@ Information: 812-923-8355, Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Information: 812-988-2778, 317-625-4153, Allendale, Terre Haute; 8:45 gmail.com. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Father Vincent Lampert offers healing service on Nov. 15 at cathedral November 11 With Grateful Hearts, includes lunch. Information, Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Benedictine Sister Carol registration: 812-933-6437, Father Vincent Lampert, pastor of Indianapolis, at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 15. Center, 8212 W. Hendricks Falkner and Patty Moore [email protected]. St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg and The service is for those experiencing Road, Bloomington. Go Out presenting, 9-11 a.m., $25. the archdiocesan exorcist, will hold an a “dark valley,” spiritual affliction or a to All the World and Tell the Information and registration: November 16 evening of prayer and reflection with need for the shelter of God’s comfort Good News, Cardinal Francis 317-788-7581, www. Benedict Inn Retreat & Scripture, song and petitions for healing, and abiding presence, especially during Arinze presenting, rosary benedictinn.org. Conference Center, 1402 protection and guidance at SS. Peter and the Holy Year of Mercy. 6:45 p.m., presentation 7 p.m. Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Paul Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in All are welcome. † Information: 812-825-4642, ext. November 13 Personal Retreat Day, 9 a.m.- 1, [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 4 p.m., $35 includes a room House, 5353 E. 56th. St., for the day and lunch, spiritual November 11-13 Indianapolis. “Contemplative direction available for an Saint Meinrad Archabbey Living with St. Benedict and additional fee. Information and Sisters of Providence’s Taizé service Guest House and Retreat Thomas Merton” evening registration: 317-788-7581, Center, 200 Hill Drive, of reflection, Father Jeff www.benedictinn.org. on Nov. 8 to focus on silence St. Meinrad. “St. Francis Godecker presenting, 5:30- The Sisters of Providence of Saint “Finding God in the Ordinary.” Each Effect: A Study of Two 9:30 p.m., $35 includes dinner, November 17 Mary-of-the-Woods and the greater month has had a specific focus. For Characters,” Benedictine deadline to register is Nov. 12. Benedict Inn Retreat & faith community of the Wabash Valley November, it will be “silence.” Father Noel Mueller Information, registration: 317- Conference Center, 1402 will host their monthly ecumenical The service is open to persons of all presenting, $255 single, 545-7681, ext. 107, marcia. Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Taizé prayer service in the Church of faith traditions and is free. It includes $425 double. Information: [email protected] or Basic Beliefs and Beyond, the Immaculate Conception, prayer, music, time for silence and 812-357-6585 or mzoeller@ www.archindy.org/fatima. third of three stand-alone 1 Providence Place, at Saint Mary-of- time for spoken and silent prayers, saintmeinrad.edu. sessions, Benedictine Sister the-Woods, in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, in a prayer space lit primarily by November 15 Angela Jarboe facilitating, from 7-8 p.m. on Nov. 8. candlelight. November 12 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 7-9 p.m., $25 per session. The services take place on the For more information, call 812-535- Benedict Inn Retreat & 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. Information and registration: second Tuesday of each month. 2952 or log on to Conference Center, 1402 Caregivers Retreat, 317-788-7581, The 2016 theme for Taizé has been Taize.ProvCenter.org. † Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 www.benedictinn.org. † Rachel’s Vineyard retreat on Nov. 4-6 in Lafayette Diocese offers post-abortion healing A Rachel’s Vineyard Healing love and mercy are bigger than your Retreat will be offered in the pain. Lafayette Diocese on Nov. 4-6. The To register by Oct. 31 or for more retreat is open to anyone who has information, contact Jennie at 765-477- had an abortion or suffered because 7706, Dave at 765-860-6006, or log on of an abortion by another. God’s to rachelsvineyard.org. †

St. Louis de Montfort Benedictine Sisters Parish hosting free hosting Nov. 6 prayer Thanksgiving meal service for peace St. Louis de Montfort Parish, 11441 The Sisters of St. Benedict of Hague Road, in Fishers, Ind., in the Our Lady of Grace Monastery, 1402 Lafayette Diocese, is hosting a free Southern Ave., in Beech Grove, will Thanksgiving dinner in Craig Willy hold a prayer service for peace in their Hall from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Nov. 24. monastery chapel at 4:45 p.m. on The meal will include turkey, Nov. 6, the Sunday before the elections. Standing up for life mashed potatoes, stuffing, vegetables, All are invited to the service, and to rolls and dessert. All are welcome. stay for evening prayers with the sisters. David Bereit, CEO of 40 Days for Life, speaks during the pro-life rally outside of the For more information, call For more information, contact the Planned Parenthood abortion facility in Indianapolis on Oct. 8. (Submitted photo by Jim Recasner) 317-517-4256. † monastery at 317-787-3287. † The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016 Page 7 Parishes, pro-life organizations live out call during Year of Mercy

Compiled by Natalie Hoefer Church, 1752 Scheller Lane, in New Pregnancy” form. Albany at 6:30 p.m. (RSVP by Nov. 8 at • In July and Each year, the U.S. Conference of 812-944-2065 or [email protected]). August, two Planned Catholic Bishops recognizes October as • At St. Joseph Church in Sellersburg, Parenthood referral Respect Life Month. part of St. John Paul II Parish, a talk was offices closed in the In recognition of this focus, given on Jan. 16 to raise awareness on archdiocese, one in The Criterion has compiled pro-life human trafficking. Sellersburg is just Avon and one in Terre highlights from around the archdiocese off of I-65, a human trafficking route Haute. Four additional over the last 12 months. commonly taken from Chicago through facilities were closed It is impossible to list all of the pro-life Louisville and further south. throughout Indiana, all activities throughout central and southern • A snowstorm may have trapped many due to a decrease in Indiana since Respect Life Sunday on buses traveling home from the Right patronage and funds. Oct. 4, 2015. But this roundup offers to Life March in Washington, but the • St. Meinrad Parish a sampling of many of the good works weather held for two marches on Jan. 22 in St. Meinrad hosted accomplished to embrace life at all stages. in the archdiocese—in Indianapolis and an information session • On Oct. 8, 2015, St. Joan of Arc in Terre Haute—plus a vigil service the on foster parenting Parish hosted a talk by Safe Haven Baby night before in Indianapolis. on Aug. 7, designed Boxes founder Monica Kelsey. She was • In February and March, archdiocesan to answer questions a driving force behind Indiana House Bill involvement in the 40 Days for Life for those who wish to 1016 to have infant incubators (“boxes”) campaign contributed to an international become a “champion placed in locations such as police and result of 631 lives being saved from for children.” fire stations, hospitals and nonprofits abortion, and six abortion workers • To promote well- dedicated to child welfare. quitting. being at all stages • The first ever “Future Full of Hope: • A 6-foot-by-4-foot traveling of life, St. Elizabeth Honoring Children We Have Entrusted to missionary image of Our Lady of Ann Seton Parish in the Lord” service was held on Guadalupe, patroness of the unborn, Richmond (the merged Oct. 15, 2015. The service is for families visited St. Vincent de Paul Parish in faith community of the and individuals who are grieving Bedford and Mother of the Redeemer former St. Andrew, pregnancy loss, infant loss, or childhood Retreat Center’s Sacred Heart Chapel in Holy Family and loss, including stillbirths, ectopic Bloomington for veneration in March and St. Mary parishes) pregnancies, abortions and miscarriages. April. offers free blood It was such a success that it is now a • On April 23, three sites in the pressure screenings Pastor Dustin Spitler, left, of Vision Baptist Church in Riley, and Ron Mass rather than a service, and it will archdiocese—one in Bloomington and after all Masses on the Marsh of Eastside Baptist Church in Terre Haute hold signs in be offered twice this year: on Oct. 28 two in Indianapolis—hosted “#ProtestPP” first weekend of each Terre Haute on Jan. 22 to stand in support of life during the local solemn at St. Mark the Evangelist Church, 535 rallies, sponsored by a coalition of state month. † observance of the Roe v. Wade decision. (Submitted photo by Tom McBroom) Edgewood Ave., in Indianapolis at 6:30 and national pro-life groups in response p.m. (RSVP by Oct. 25 at 317-446-4248 to revelations that Planned Parenthood or [email protected]), and on was involved in the illicit trafficking of Nov. 11 at Our Lady of Perpetual Help aborted babies’ body parts. Around the nation, 60 such protests were held. • St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis unveiled a new memorial to the unborn on May 1. A list of known memorials in the archdiocese can be found by logging on to www.archindy. org/plfl/memorials.html. • On June 30, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Walton Pratt granted a preliminary injunction on an Indiana law that would have gone into effect on July 1, making it illegal for women in Indiana to have an abortion due solely to discrimination based on the race, gender or disability of a fetus. Other parts of the law were upheld, including requiring abortion providers to give information on perinatal Third Street in Bloomington is lined with people during the Life Chain event on Oct. 4, 2015. (Submitted hospice care; a ban on photo by Marian Leahy) group counseling before an abortion in favor of one-on- Deacon Michael Braun, director of the archdiocesan one counseling; a clarification Secretariat of Pastoral Ministries, leads a eucharistic on when the state-mandated “Furnace or Heat Pump” Our staff has over procession during the archdiocese’s first-ever Vigil for Life ultrasound must take place; an 76 years of at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on Jan. 21. update on Indiana’s admitting rd Catholic Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin carries the Blessed Sacrament at privileges law; and an update Anniv Education 133 ersa the back of the procession. (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) to the “Termination of ry Sale

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By Sean Gallagher for the Year of Mercy,’ and this year we the conference will include a midday Becoming the Man God Created You To do conclude on the final weekend for the Mass, with Bishop Timothy L. Doherty Be. The 2016 Indiana Catholic Men’s Year of Mercy,” he said. “We hope those of the Diocese of Lafayette, Ind., serving Father James is a noted retreat leader Conference will feature three priests who who attend this year will look back at as the liturgy’s principal celebrant, and and mission preacher known for his are popular preachers and authors that the last year, and feel they have a better lunch that follows. Eucharistic adoration passionate call to the faithful to help make attract listeners and readers from understanding of God’s will take place during a difference in the world today around the world. mercy. As we conclude the conference, and a through the power of the Holy This year’s speakers include on the final weekend, we eucharistic procession Spirit. Father Larry Richards, a priest of hope to see God’s mercy from the convention Born in Dublin, Ireland, the Diocese of Erie, Pa., Society continue, and we hope center to nearby St. John Father Murphy is a priest for of Our Lady of the Trinity Father the men also see their the Evangelist Church the Camden, N.J., Diocese. James Blount and Father Ronan importance in spreading will occur preceding Ordained in 2000, he has Murphy. God’s mercy to others.” the midday Mass. The served in parishes in his diocese The conference will begin at Registration for the sacrament of penance will and Australia, in addition to 8 a.m. on Nov. 19 at the Indiana conference, which is be available throughout ministering as a mission preacher Convention Center, 100 Fr. Larry Richards sponsored by the Fr. James Blount, the conference. Fr. Ronan Murphy in many countries. Father S. Capitol Ave., in Indianapolis, Marian Center of S.O.L.T. Ordained in 1989, Murphy currently ministers to and will conclude by 4:30 p.m. Indianapolis, is $50 Father Richards serves a community of Carmelite nuns Mike Fox, a conference organizer per person, $45 per person in groups in parishes in the Erie Diocese and in New York, and leads retreats for the and member of St. Pius X Parish in of 10 or more, and $25 per person for is the founder of The Reason for Our Marian Movement of Priests. Indianapolis, noted that this year’s religious brothers, deacons and students. Hope Foundation, an evangelization conference will occur on the weekend Priests and seminarians may attend free and education association. In addition (To learn more about the 2016 Indiana that will see the close of the Holy Year of of charge. Registration fees will increase to being a speaker on Catholic topics in Catholic Men’s Conference or to register, Mercy. after Nov. 8. demand across the nation, he is the author log on to www.indianacatholicmen.com “Last year our theme was ‘Preparing In addition to a full slate of speakers, of several books, including Be a Man! or call 317-888-0873.) † Knights of Columbus urges U.S. Catholics to pray novena ahead of election NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS)—The The Knights’ novena—nine heaven, who chose Mary as the fairest our president and on all the officers of our Knights of Columbus is urging members and consecutive days of prayer—asks the of your daughters; Holy Spirit, who government. Grant us a fruitful economy, other U.S. Catholics to pray a novena from intercession of Mary, the mother of chose Mary as your spouse; God the born of justice and charity. Have mercy Oct. 30 to Nov. 7, the eve of Election Day. Jesus, under her title of the Immaculate Son, who chose Mary as your mother, in on capital and industry and labor. Protect “The Church teaches that Catholics are Conception. Individuals, families, union with Mary we adore your majesty the family life of the nation. Guard the called to form their consciences based on councils and parishes are all invited to and acknowledge your supreme, eternal precious gift of many religious vocations. Church teaching and vote in accordance participate, the Knights said. dominion and authority. Through the intercession of our mother, with that well-formed conscience,” said Mary Immaculate is the patroness of “Most Holy Trinity, we put the United have mercy on the sick, the tempted, Supreme Knight Carl Anderson, who the United States. In 1791, Archbishop States of America into the hands of Mary sinners—on all who are in need.” is CEO of the international fraternal John Carroll of Baltimore, the first bishop Immaculate in order that she may present According to the Knights, the prayer organization based in New Haven. of the United States, dedicated his diocese the country to you. Through her, we wish was written for the 1959 dedication of “Pope Francis has said in reference to to her. The first U.S. diocese, it covered to thank you for the great resources of this the Basilica of the National Shrine of the the U.S. election that we should ‘study the the entire country. In 1846, the land, and for the freedom which has been Immaculate Conception in Washington, proposals well, pray and choose with your U.S. bishops reaffirmed that dedication its heritage. which includes a bell tower known as conscience,’ and this novena is designed and Pope Pius IX ratified it in 1847. “Through the intercession of Mary, the Knights Tower. The Knights of to help Catholic Americans do that,” Here is the text of the novena: have mercy on the Catholic Church in Columbus donated money for the tower’s Anderson said in a statement. “Most Holy Trinity: Our Father in America. Grant us peace. Have mercy on construction. †

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Vocations discerned Sisters share a journey toward through encountering Jesus in prayer, service ‘the loving heart of God’ By John Shaughnessy By Father Eric Augenstein NAPOLEON—Her The first line of the homily is the one that words offer a combination has stayed with me. Gathered with a few of wisdom and welcome: million young Catholics for World Youth “Let us no longer be Day this past July, strangers, but friends in Pope Francis began his our journey of faith. Then homily by saying, “Dear we, together, will meet the young people, you have loving heart of God.” come to Krakow to meet Franciscan Sister Shirley Jesus.” Gerth shares that message We might be tempted on the website of to think that the young St. Maurice Parish in Church gathered at Napoleon in southeastern World Youth Day was Indiana, where she serves there primarily to see as its parish life coordinator the Holy Father, walk in (PLC). the footsteps of the great Those words show the Polish saints, make new friends from around purpose that has guided the world, or listen to some of the best-known Sister Shirley in her Catholic speakers and musicians of our time. interactions with people But that would be missing the point. World through the years. They Youth Day was all of these things—but none also capture the blooming of it would matter if we did not meet Jesus relationship that is Franciscan Sisters Shirley Gerth, left, and Donna Prickel rely on the values of St. Francis—and Christ. “Dear young people, you have come to developing between her and each other—as they serve the archdiocese as parish life coordinators in the Batesville Deanery. Krakow to meet Jesus.” Franciscan Sister Donna Sister Shirley serves in St. John the Baptist Parish in Osgood and St. Maurice Parish in Napoleon. It’s so simple—and yet that simple Prickel, the parish life Sister Donna ministers at Immaculate Conception Parish in Milhousen. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) statement goes to the heart of not only an coordinator of Immaculate event like World Youth Day, but the journey Conception Parish in Millhousen, which is just a few As for Sister Donna, she’s in just her third month as of discipleship. turns along country roads from St. Maurice. a parish life coordinator. To be a disciple is to have met Jesus and While Sister Shirley has been a part of the The closeness of St. Maurice and Immaculate to pledge to continue encountering him— Franciscan community in Oldenburg for 55 years and Conception parishes has led to a connection where learning from him, following him, striving to Sister Donna has had that connection for 44 years, the Sister Shirley serves as a mentor to Sister Donna, but be like him. two women are relative “strangers” because their faith the roots of their relationship run far deeper—to their We meet Jesus in the sacraments, in prayer, journeys have led them in different directions—until shared commitment to their Franciscan values. in Scripture. We meet Jesus in the friend, now. “I can’t imagine doing this pastoral work without or stranger in need of love and compassion. Since the summer, their lives have become the foundation of our Franciscan values,” says Sister We meet Jesus reflected in the lives of other intertwined in their roles as parish life coordinators in Shirley. “When we talk about St. Francis, we talk disciples. We meet Jesus in the silence of our the archdiocese. about a life of simplicity and the love of creation.” hearts, and in the joyous uplifting of voices in In her 25 years in that role, Sister Shirley has served Sister Donna nods and adds, “It’s the sense of us song and prayer. the parishes of St. Anne in New Castle, St. Rose of all being one. Francis was very strong about being Sometimes, we meet Jesus in planned Lima in Knightstown, St. John the Baptist in Osgood the humble one. That whole concept works well in encounters; other times, he takes us by and St. Maurice. She also ministered in the former the country where people live from the land, and they surprise. St. John the Evangelist Parish in Enochsburg. See FRANCISCANS, page 14 To grow in discipleship is to meet Jesus on a regular basis. To meet Jesus on a regular basis is to grow in discipleship. The same thing is true for vocational Postulant finds ‘kindred spirits’ discernment. The best way to discover our particular vocation—the unique way God is calling us to follow him—is to grow in among Sisters of Providence discipleship, to regularly encounter Jesus Christ in prayer, Scripture, sacraments, By Jason Moon (Special to The Criterion) community and works of mercy. And the living out of a vocation continues the same SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS—The Sisters pattern—to be a good and holy priest, of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is a husband, wife, deacon or consecrated religious community of Catholic women religious religious, we need to regularly meet Jesus and founded by St. Mother Theodore Guérin in 1840. invite him into our lives. They collaborate with others through prayer, Speaking recently to a group of diocesan education, service and advocacy. Through their vocation directors, Cardinal Gerald Cardinal ministries, the mission of the congregation is to Lacroix of Quebec, Canada, reiterated what honor Divine Providence, and to further God’s many others have said: “The strength of loving plan through devotion to works of love, a priest depends on his relationship with mercy and justice in service among God’s people. Christ—a living relationship with Christ, so Those collaborations include working with that the priest sees as Christ sees and loves as Providence Associates, women and men of faith he loves.” who choose to have a relationship with the Sisters Emily TeKolste knocks on the door to Providence Hall The same is true for all vocations—starting of Providence. Providence Associates commit to seeking entrance as a postulant to the Sisters of Providence with the universal call to discipleship. sharing their own unique gifts and talents with of Saint-Mary-of-the-Woods religious community at its In the pages of this year’s Vocations others while walking with the Sisters of Providence. motherhouse northwest of Terre Haute. (Submitted photo) Supplement, you will read stories of men and Currently, there are more than 200 Providence women who have met Jesus along the journey Associates living out Providence spirituality in their Wilkinson. From there, Emily was taken to the parlor of their lives—and continue to encounter him daily lives across the United States and in Taiwan. of Providence Hall for a prayer service, a blessing as they discover and live their vocations. The Sisters of Providence continue to accept and the official welcome into the congregation. As you read these stories, I encourage you new members to the community and have done so Emily’s connection to the Sisters of Providence to reflect on your own journey of faith. How in recent years, including Sister Dina Bato, who is stems from Sister Tracey, who entered the have you met Jesus in your own life? In those currently preparing to profess perpetual vows, as congregation in 2014. meetings—those encounters—how has Jesus well as temporary professed Sisters Hannah Corbin, “When I encountered the Sisters of Providence, I called you to follow him? Arrianne Whittaker and Sister Joni Luna. In addition, had just moved into the Indianapolis Catholic Worker Along the way, if you hear the call to mission novice Sisters Tracey Horan and Anna Fan community,” Emily said. “I had moved there because discern the priesthood or consecrated life, let are also in formation. I was searching for a way to get out of the suburbs me know—I’d be honored to walk the journey In September, Indianapolis native Emily TeKolste where I grew up and into a more economically of discernment with you. was welcomed by the Sisters of Providence as a marginalized community. I was looking for deeper postulant. friendships, since most of my friends from high (Father Eric Augenstein is vocations director Emily took part in the ritual of entrance, as she school and college lived in different states. for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. He can be knocked on the door at Providence Hall. She was “I was looking for a way to connect in a deeper contacted at [email protected].) † greeted by then-General Superior Sister Denise See PROVIDENCE, page 15

The Criterion | Friday, October 28, 2016 | Page 9 2016 Vocations Supplement Rule of St. Benedict leads sisters to live vocation of mercy By Natalie Hoefer going on. It’s easy to judge and see what we BEECH GROVE—When Benedictine Sister see, but not know all Jennifer Mechtild-Horner thinks about the Rule of the stuff underneath that St. Benedict, she says mercy is one of the words that makes that person be comes to mind. that way. … “The rule is merciful,” says Sister Jennifer, prioress “Because we were of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Lady of Grace received by God, we Monastery in Beech Grove. “Because we were need to receive others. received by God, we need to receive others.” And hopefully, that So how does the Holy Year of Mercy play out in a person receives others, community that already lives by mercy as a rule? and it goes on.” The Criterion spoke with members of the Benedictine community to discover how they have ‘I’m driven by mercy’ highlighted in a special way this year that trait that Benedictine Sister is so paramount to their vocation, and the different Kathleen Yeadon, a ways in which mercy is shown in the daily work of the 53-year-old teacher sisters. of theology at Bishop Chatard High School ‘We receive all as Christ’ in Indianapolis, defines Being a community based on mercy, the sisters mercy as compassion. “did not suddenly start being merciful on the first day “It’s how you of the jubilee year,” says Benedictine Sister Mary receive others, how you Luke Jones, monastery director of development, with understand their own Benedictine Sister Kathleen Yeadon helps a man at the Cathedral Kitchen on Oct. 19. The theology a chuckle. struggles,” she says. teacher at Bishop Chatard High School in Indianapolis brought students of her social justice class “But the Year of Mercy as declared by the Holy Mercy was infused to volunteer. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Father has brought it to the forefront of our thinking at an early age in Sister and our reflection and our own prayer,” she says. “It Kathleen, whose 17-member family operated a food has focused our attention.” pantry out of their basement for St. Joan of Arc Parish She lists special actions the community took to in Indianapolis. mark the jubilee year, such as having mercy-themed “I’m driven by mercy,” she says. “You give it prayer services for the public (with the final one set because you’ve been given it. I’ve been given so much for 4:15 p.m. in the monastery chapel on Nov.6). The of it and continue to be given it—why wouldn’t I want efforts also include sharing quotes about mercy in to give it back?” donor “thank you” letters, offering a retreat on mercy And give it back she does, in many ways. While at the Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference Center, Sister Kathleen’s list of merciful activities includes and publishing an educational article about corporal volunteering for charitable organizations such as the and spiritual works of mercy in the community’s Cathedral Kitchen in Indianapolis—where she takes newsletter. the students of her social justice class to volunteer Internal actions were taken as well, such as trips for twice a year giving out clothes they collect—and the sisters to walk through the Holy Doors of Mercy bringing food to Help Our Own People, much of her at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, and mercy is given out on the fly. Lenten reflections on Pope Francis’ letter announcing “I like driving through neighborhoods and giving Benedictine Sister Heather Jean Foltz, right, assists a the holy year, “Misericordiae Vultus” (“The Face of out stuff,” she says. “I drive south from Chatard, so I resident of St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove on Aug. 8, Mercy”). take extra food to shelters. If I see people on a porch, where she serves as director of social services. (Submitted “We’ve been touched as a community by the Holy I’ll stop and say, ‘Can you use food?’ ” photo) Father, his presence in the world,” says Sister Jennifer. It’s not just in the giving of needed goods, but in “He is mercy. That’s how he wants to live in the the interaction with those she encounters that Sister given mercy to me. I’ve had people in my life who world, and he calls us to live that way.” Kathleen finds the most mercy. planted those seeds of mercy for me, and the desire Both sisters agree that much of mercy is seeing “I develop these friendships,” she says. “I feel God to live a life of mercy and hospitality and as a faithful Christ in others, an action that lies at the center of the leads me to these people. There are a lot of cool things Benedictine bloomed from that.” Rule of St. Benedict. that happen when you interact with people not in your After entering the monastery in 2009, Sister “I think the most important sentence in the Rule is economic status. Most people I’ve met have been so Heather professed her solemn vows in June of this that we receive all as Christ,” says Sister Mary Luke. kind to me. They remind you your life is not as bad as year. “It underlies everything we say and everything we do, you think. “The Year of Mercy was really special to me, to our hospitality in seeing and treating each person as “Each time we meet people, you know because of be able to make my solemn profession during this Christ.” God’s mercy to you that there’s so much more to their year, because that’s been a theme on my journey— Sister Jennifer sees mercy in the first sentence of heart than what you see.” that I have received love and compassion that the Rule, which states, “Listen carefully … and incline Sister Kathleen looks to the current pope as a planted seeds that led to this life. Through living in with the ear of your heart.” model of mercy. community I’ve given and received mercy, so to be “I think that also helps us to see Christ and to “I think it’s great that Pope Francis teaches [mercy] able to make my profession during this time was really listen to what [a person’s] need is,” she says. “I all the time,” she says. “He’s everywhere doing such a grace for me.” think if we listen long enough to people, we can get everything. She now lives the life of mercy not just in her underneath something they’ve said or done. They may “I love how he’s met with the different groups monastic community but also in her job as director of irritate us, but when you listen, there’s something else [each month during the Year of Mercy], so each time social services at the sisters’ St. Paul Hermitage. The is a different group facility serves the elderly by providing independent we’re supposed living, assisted living and 24-hour nursing care. to reflect on, and “For me, it’s a gift to be able to journey with we’re called to keep people in their final years,” says Sister Heather. “I thinking about it. journey with family while loved ones are passing MissionVocationDay “It’s that constant away—being present, offering prayers and a listening message—it doesn’t ear. Being hospitable to them is an important piece of matter where you my job.” live, you’ve got to She also helps newcomers transition into their extend and receive new home, “plugging them into activities, finding mercy.” ways they can continue to share their gifts in the community. … It’s important that people are able to Mercy is ‘a theme share their gifts throughout their entire lifespan, doing on my journey’ those things they love to do all their life.” Benedictine Sister While Sister Heather considers it a gift to have a Heather Jean Foltz, job in which she is able to show mercy, she says that 33, sees her vocation mercy “doesn’t necessarily have to be big acts. as a journey of “My definition of mercy is living a life of love and An opportunity for men ages 15-19 to visit with Glenmary unfolding mercy. compassion. 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Seminarian grows in faith during hard times in vocational journey

By Sean Gallagher

According to his mother, Mary Dedek, archdiocesan seminarian Michael Dedek has “always been very close to God.” That closeness was nurtured from his early years in grade school until he became a seminarian after two years of college. And in the more than three years he’s been involved in priestly formation, his bond with God has become more intimate still. But the path to this deep relationship has involved its own hardships where Dedek could have easily turned away from his faith. Instead, he embraced it all the more. “As I grew up, I had the sense that I wanted to do what God wanted me to do with my life,” said Dedek, who is in his first year of theological formation at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology at St. Meinrad. “Over time, I really fell in love with the faith. I never wanted to be anything but Catholic.” Dedek grew up as the oldest of four in Monroe County. He and his family were members of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington, where he and his mother are still parishioners. He experienced the importance of his faith as early as second grade when he was a student at St. Charles’ school and was absolved of his sins for the first time in the sacrament of penance. “I remember an incredibly peaceful feeling after going to confession for the first time,” Dedek said. “I felt so happy. It was the first time that I felt a peaceful Archdiocesan seminarian Michael Dedek prepares the altar for an Aug. 9 Mass in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at SS. Peter feeling that can only come from God.” and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. The liturgy was part of the annual end-of-the summer archdiocesan seminarian convocation That was a timely gift for Dedek, because it was in which men in priestly formation for the Church in central and southern Indiana spend time together before returning to their around that time that his parents divorced. His mother respective seminaries. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) then had to care for him and his three younger siblings by herself. “He’d always have all the answers in confirmation “I don’t think it challenged my faith, but it certainly class,” said Father Keucher, associate pastor of Our Seminarian Michael Dedek was a challenge to me as a person,” he said. “It helped Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood. “He • Age: 23 me to learn how to turn to God during those difficult had a passion for the faith and for the Lord that kind moments. It helped me to learn how to trust him. of spread to the other people in the class.” • Parents: Mary Dedek and “A big part of growing up was coming to terms As the years went on, Dedek became more involved the late Michael Dedek with the divorce. It made me stronger and helped me in the parish, especially assisting in liturgies as an • Home parish: St. Charles become the man I am today.” altar server. Father Keucher, who often came back to Borromeo Parish in Among her many responsibilities in caring for her St. Charles for important Masses to serve as a master Bloomington children during this time, Mary Dedek took seriously of ceremonies, saw how the faith continued to grow in her duty to pass on the faith to them, especially his former student. • Education: Bloomington making sure they went to Mass on Sundays. “I remember after one Easter Vigil that I told him, North High School in And in the hard times, she would encourage them ‘Michael, you need to go to seminary. I think you’d be Bloomington; Marian to turn to prayer. a very good priest,’ ” Father Keucher recalled. “This University in Indianapolis; Bishop Simon Bruté “When we would have troubles that we couldn’t was probably at about 12:30 in the morning and he College Seminary in Indianapolis; Saint Meinrad figure out, I’d always tell them to pray, maybe to said, ‘It’s funny that you say that, because I’ve been Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad St. Joseph,” Mary Dedek said. thinking about it and I’ve been feeling the Lord call • Favorite Scripture passages: Revelation 22:1-5; Despite the challenges he had to face at a young age, me.’ ” John 1:1-5 Dedek was firm enough in his faith that he expressed Nonetheless, it would be a few more years before a desire to be a priest one day—something he said that Dedek became a seminarian for the archdiocese. In the • Favorite saint: St. Augustine his mother affirmed but let develop on its own. interim, he studied for a year at Indiana University in • Favorite author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky “She was very supportive of that,” Dedek said. Bloomington. • Favorite prayer or devotion: St. Louis de “And I don’t think she ever forgot about that, even in Going into that year, he thought God was calling Montfort’s consecration to Jesus through Mary the times when I forgot about that.” him to marriage. But that started to change. As he became a student at Bloomington North “The thought of the priesthood came and went for a • Hobbies: Boating, hiking, camping, reading, High School in Bloomington, Dedek remained long time growing up,” Dedek said. “But this time, I had learning to play the banjo interested in his faith, something that Father Michael this feeling that I couldn’t just push these thoughts to the Keucher noticed when he helped lead a confirmation back of my mind. I had to figure out what they meant Chesbrough, his boyhood pastor at St. Charles, preparation class that Dedek was taking in his and what God was trying to tell me in all of this.” who died in 2008. Dedek appreciated “the love and freshman and sophomore years. At the end of his freshman year at Indiana compassion that he had for all of the kids” at the At the time, Father Keucher was a seminarian and a University, Dedek “wasn’t ready to make the parish school. member of St. Charles. commitment yet” and so he enrolled at Ivy Tech “He would remember your name and would always Community College while speaking regularly about make sure to talk with you when he walked by,” his discernment with his pastor, Father Thomas Dedek said of Father Chesbrough. “He was a very Kovatch, and then-archdiocesan vocations director kind, loving person. Father Eric Johnson. “He was helpful by just being himself—a jolly During that time, he also visited Bishop Simon Bruté priest who was always happy to say ‘Hi’ to you and College Seminary in Indianapolis. Dedek admitted he made sure you were doing OK.” was a bit nervous on the way to the seminary. Father Keucher looks at Dedek and sees a possible “When I got there, everyone was so welcoming,” future jolly priest in him. he said. “The whole time I was there, it just felt that “Michael has a very hospitable presence,” Father I belonged. That’s really what did it. After that, the Keucher said. “He takes joy in being with people and decision was easy.” truly represents the Lord to people in a kind of humble He enrolled there and at nearby Marian University way. He’s just kind of a jolly guy.” where the college seminarians take classes, graduating For men considering that God might be calling three years later. them to the priesthood, Dedek encouraged them to “Bruté is a home,” Dedek said. “The seminarians take it to prayer. there are family. It makes formation more of something “Make sure you spend some time praying about it, you want to do for yourself and your brothers.” even if it’s just a little bit,” he said. “Praying about it Dedek said that what draws him to the priesthood will crack open the door that God can push open the now is what was attractive to him as a child and a rest of the way. youth. “Once you’ve prayed about it, you listen and wait “What really attracted me to the priesthood was the for that beautiful, peaceful feeling that God will give way that a priest can help people, the way he can be you when you’re on the right track.” Archdiocesan seminarian Michael Dedek chats with Joe there for people,” he said. The priesthood seems like Hurdle, a seminarian for the Diocese of Cheyenne, Wyo., before one of the best ways to help other people.” (For more information about a vocation to the a class on Oct. 18 at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of A priest who was there for him during the difficult priesthood in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, visit Theology in St. Meinrad. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) times of his parents’ divorce was Father Charles www.HearGodsCall.com.) †

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Three sets of brothers have been called to the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in recent years, and they all pointed to the importance of the family in encouraging priestly and religious vocations. Shown at a young age are, left, Andrew and Benjamin Syberg, John and Anthony Hollowell, and David and Doug Marcotte. (Submitted photos)

to, and it was a very solid one,” said Father Andrew, had online video chats through Skype. Father John, BROTHERS associate pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish in already ordained, appreciated being able to share his continued from page 1 Columbus. concrete priestly experiences with his brother who, as His brother recalled the influence of his parents’ a seminarian, could only speculate about what it would You could stretch it at times. But, even in our worst dedication to spending an hour in adoration of the be like to be a priest in the future. fights, … there was always a deep love there.” Eucharist each week at 2 a.m. on Tuesdays in a “For me as a priest to be able to confirm those Fathers Doug and David were the only children in perpetual adoration chapel. things for him was really helpful, as other priests did their family, and were born less than two years apart. “Even as a kid, not being all that prayerful, I for me,” said Father John, pastor of Annunciation “Just being the two of us, we played together knew that my parents prayed and I knew that it was Parish in Brazil and St. Paul the Apostle Parish quite a bit,” said Father Doug, pastor of Most Sacred important,” said Father Benjamin, who was ordained in Greencastle. “But when it’s coming from your Heart of Jesus and St. Augustine parishes, both in in 2014 and serves as administrator of Our Lady brother, that’s awesome.” Jeffersonville. “But being brothers, at times it ended of the Springs Parish in French Lick and Our Lord That support has continued since the brothers have up with a dispute and a fight.” Jesus Christ the King Parish in Paoli. “I believe that entered into priestly life and ministry. Brothers can also be “partners in crime” in both so much grace over the years has come from their “Sometimes, we need each other to be another their youth and adulthood, as Fathers Andrew and continued dedication to do that. God is very rich in his good priest to talk with,” said Father Benjamin. “And Benjamin found out when they were classmates for blessings when we continually turn to him in that kind sometimes, we need each other just to be a brother. a period while in priestly formation at Saint Meinrad of way.” The fact that that’s the same thing is an unbelievable Seminary and School of Theology in St. Meinrad. The Marcotte brothers also saw in their parents a source of support.” “We got into a little trouble,” Father Benjamin said witness to the importance of service in the Church by That mutual support took on a special poignancy with a laugh. “We’d have too much fun sometimes. “being active in a variety of things” at St. Michael for the Marcotte brothers last December when their There’d be some slapping and giggling with us sitting Parish in Greenfield where they grew up. father, William Marcotte, died. in the back of class from time to time. We got along “They both spent time in giving to God,” said “It was obviously a different experience for us as so well.” Father David, who was ordained in 2014 and serves priests,” said Father David. “We were able to support as administrator of St. Martin of Tours Parish in Mom in a different way. At the same time, we’re still ‘God is very rich in his blessings’ Martinsville. “That helped us to think about what ways her sons. And he was our Dad. We had many of the In the midst of all the fun times and fights they’d we could give of ourselves to the Church as well.” same emotions. Like anyone, you still struggle with have as children, the brothers also had the faith the same things.” planted in them by loving parents who then nurtured ‘Sometimes, we need each other just to be a The faith that they’ve grown in through the those seeds with love, but also in other ordinary ways. brother’ priesthood, which was nurtured in them as children by One was an uncompromising dedication to As young adults, each of the brothers came to their parents, was a source of strength for them in that attending Mass on Sunday. discern that God was calling them to serve as priests. time of shared grieving. “We were at Mass every single Sunday, unless you The brothers who were ordained second “There is a comfort that comes from our faith, were bleeding or dying,” said Father Doug, who was acknowledged some influence on their own because we have this hope that this is not the end,” ordained in 2013. “You were there.” discernment from those that preceded them in the said Father Doug. “While it is still sad and there’s “If we were on vacation, Dad was going to find us seminary. still grief very much involved, it’s not something that a place to go to Mass,” said Father Anthony, who is “Tacitly, it had some effect on me in terms of crushes us.” pursuing graduate studies in Rome. getting to know seminarians and what they were like,” Another way that the faith was planted early on said Father Andrew, who was ordained in 2015. “I’d Where vocations are found in these priests was simply through their parents’ meet different priests. I saw more of what seminarian Now that all three sets of brothers are serving as example of living out their faith and their vocation to life was like than your average guy would who priests, they see a helpful meaning in their shared marriage. was working and didn’t have a sibling involved in ordained life and ministry for the faithful of central “That was the first vocation that we were exposed formation.” and southern Indiana—the importance of the family. Father Anthony became a seminarian for the “That is where vocations are found, that’s where archdiocese just four months after his brother was they’re discovered, that’s where they’re fostered, ordained in 2009. that’s where they grow,” said Father Andrew. “Things happened around that ordination that “That’s where it starts. The family is so important to started stirring spiritually,” Father Anthony said. “I vocations, whether it’s married life or [religious life] attribute it to that ordination Mass and his Mass of or the priesthood. Parents are the driving force behind Thanksgiving.” that.” At the same time, he and the other brother priests Father Benjamin agreed. recognized that their individual discernment was their “It’s about the family,” he said. “And, to go deeper, own. it’s about marriage. Two people who love each “I looked up to [Father John] in many ways other completely and live that out in the Church are growing up,” Father Anthony said. “But when it came the greatest thing that can produce vocations to the to discernment, it was pretty personal.” priesthood.” When they were in priestly formation, the brothers The importance of families to vocations, the Church were a support for each other. and the broader society should lead the faithful to do For Father Benjamin, being at Saint Meinrad all it can to bolster them, Father Doug said. together with his brother “was like home. “I don’t think we are going to solve the priesthood “Just the fact that my brother was there gave me so crisis—or the marriage crisis—without strengthening much life and kept me grounded,” Father Benjamin our families,” he said. “That doesn’t mean that there said. “Someone who knows everything about me was are not priests who come from less than ideal family always around the corner.” situations. The Marcottes, however, were separated by an “But, I think we do have to acknowledge that ocean, with Father Doug in formation at the Pontifical strong families help people to be able to say, ‘Yes,’ Father John Hollowell ritually lays hands on his younger North American College in Rome and Father David because they’ve been formed day in and day out.” brother, transitional Deacon Anthony Hollowell, during the at Saint Meinrad. And the Hollowells were divided by June 25 ordination Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral time, with Father Anthony not becoming a seminarian (For more information about a vocation to the in Indianapolis in which Deacon Anthony was ordained a until after his brother was ordained. priesthood in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, log on priest. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) Yet the support was still there. The Marcottes to www.HearGodsCall.com.) †

The Criterion | Friday, October 28, 2016 | Page 12 2016 Vocations Supplement Siblings in priesthood, religious life support each other in ministry

By Sean Gallagher

BEECH GROVE AND BROOKVILLE—In addition to having three sets of brothers ordained priests in the past seven years, the Archdiocese of Indianapolis also has two priests who have sisters in religious life. Father Sean Danda, pastor of St. Michael Parish in Brookville and St. Peter Parish in Franklin County, is the brother of Society of Our Lady of the Trinity Sister Solanus Casey Danda, who teaches at St. Alphonsus School in Seattle. Msgr. Paul Koetter, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis, is the brother of Benedictine Sister Mary Ann Koetter, subprioress (second in authority) at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. The siblings recently spoke with The Criterion about their common influences in their vocational discernment, and how they support each other in their lives of prayer and service to the Church. Sister Solanus, less than a year from professing perpetual vows, entered her religious community in 2008, seven years after her brother became a seminarian and two years before he was ordained. They were both open to priestly and religious vocations when they were students at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis in the late 1990s and early 2000s. “I can remember having conversations with him about discernment while we were driving to school,” Sister Solanus said. “We talked about religious vocations. I got advice from him. He definitely Benedictine Sister Mary Ann Koetter and her brother, Msgr. Paul Koetter, pose on Sept. 28 in the chapel of Our Lady of Grace contributed to that. Seeing his openness and having Monastery in Beech Grove, where Sister Mary Ann serves as subprioress. Msgr. Koetter is pastor of Holy Spirit Parish in a deep admiration for him definitely affected my Indianapolis. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) openness to God’s call in my life.” Father Danda said he and his sister support each Sister Mary Ann said, other through their prayers, regular phone calls and, “but it is a call from God in a world dominated by digital communications, by that we’ve both received. writing each other letters. And Paul’s been very He noted that the example of a brother and sister supportive. He’s someone dedicated to serving God and the Church is a witness I would turn to in order to to the broader world that “God has to remain number talk about it. I think he has one in our life. influenced me.” “Celibacy and vocations to consecrated chastity For his part, Msgr. Koetter tell the world that being in a sexual relationship is not finds strength in the religious necessarily the end all, be all to happiness,” Father life of his sister. Danda said. “The world does not want that message “I feel the support of right now. And it’s all the more needed for people to Mary Ann being in religious take up the consecrated life.” life and being able to share Msgr. Koetter, the sixth of nine children from a that experience,” he said. family from Floyds Knobs, was ordained a priest of “We’re both celibate and the archdiocese in 1977 when he was 25. have made a commitment to Sister Mary Ann, the eighth child in the family, God that’s pretty important entered Our Lady of Grace Monastery 27 years later in our lives. We can in 2004. mutually support each other They also have two nephews who are priests, within that.” including Father Eric Johnson, pastor of Our Lady of They also both find Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. support in their other As they were growing up, the Koetters also had the siblings’ vocations to example of a cousin who was a priest and two other married life. Together, cousins who were religious sisters at the Benedictine they have several hundred Monastery Immaculate Conception in Ferdinand, Ind., combined years of in the Evansville Diocese. marriage. “The vocation of religious life was real,” said “They’ve been a Sister Mary Ann. “It was a normal thing in our family. tremendous witness,” said Knowing I had cousins who were in religious life Msgr. Koetter. “And most made it something I could look at. It was an option. It of them have been involved wasn’t so foreign.” in all sorts of volunteer and She also noted the example of her brother in his Church-related activities. priestly life and ministry was an aid in her own It’s not just the example Father Sean Danda and his sister, Society of Our Lady of the Trinity Sister Solanus Casey discernment. of the two of us. It’s the Danda, pose on July 10 in St. Alphonsus Church in Seattle. Sister Solanus teaches in the “Our lives are different in how we live them out,” example of all.” † parish school there. (Submitted photo) Brother priests offer advice to parents to foster vocations in the home By Sean Gallagher “That invitation, in which [the family] get to see “Family is really where you have that foundation priests and religious in a different setting from a placed, where you’re first truly formed in the faith,” They all agreed. liturgical or teaching role, whatever it might, is very he said. “Hopefully the role and the significance that The three sets of brothers in the archdiocese who valuable. The challenge is to get the priesthood or the family plays will come out. It helps to shape us are priests, and the two priests who have sisters religious into the range of a normal decision, one that for the rest of our lives.” in religious life all pointed to the importance of a reasonably good person could make.” Having the example of brothers who are priests the family in encouraging priestly and religious Father Anthony Hollowell noted that simply can hopefully help dispel misconceptions about the vocations. building up a healthy life as a family is a way to priesthood and religious life for parents. Here is some advice and reflections they shared prepare the “soil” in which the seeds of vocations “This is a great life that lets young men and on fostering vocations in the home. can grow. women know that giving your life in service to the Msgr. Paul Koetter, pastor of Holy Spirit Parish “Vocations depend upon the soil,” he said. “The Church is full of joy,” said Father John Hollowell. in Indianapolis, served as archdiocesan vocations soil in which we grow up influences our ability to “I think it’s often portrayed as sort of being director from 1983-93. freely respond to what God is asking of us. It doesn’t boring or oppressive, when in reality there are He advised that families pray together regularly, determine it, but it influences it in a real way.” all these amazing things that happen—graces and and invite priests and religious to their homes. Vocations can be more easily discerned when the moments—that God gives us that we would never “Most of us would welcome the chance to visit faith is nurtured in children from a young age, said know about when we first started down the path of a home and spend a little time,” Msgr. Koetter said. Father David Marcotte. discerning that call.” †

The Criterion | Friday, October 28, 2016 | Page 13 2016 Vocations Supplement Deacon hears the call to ‘be Christ for those in need’ By John Shaughnessy the issue of teenage pregnancy in Lawrence The father-to-be became so agitated that hospital County, which had the employees were on the verge of calling security when highest rate in the state someone decided to call Deacon Dave Reising first. at the time, he says. As a chaplain for St. Vincent Dunn Hospital in “We were trying to Bedford, Deacon Reising rushed to the scene where bring sanctity back into the angry-looking man was yelling in Spanish. marriages,” he recalls. “His wife was in labor, and they took his wife away “The real issue was teen from him, and he wasn’t going to let that happen,” pregnancy. I would give Deacon Reising recalls. “I was wearing black, and I had classes to the different my deacon cross around my neck. He came over and ministers in town on was talking a mile a minute to me in Spanish. I don’t marriage preparation. speak Spanish, but we got an interpreter on the phone.” Marriage prep is such The deacon was also able to get the man to calm an important part of down. having a successful “As soon as the baby came and everything was marriage. We know fine, he wanted me to stay with him the whole time. the effect we had was He wanted to pray together. Then he took me back to a great one because we the room to bless the child.” had so many people As nice as that story is, it isn’t the best part. involved in it.” Deacon Reising matched the new parents with a Deacon Reising’s Deacon David Reising greets a person at a Mass at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Bedford. couple at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Bedford who leadership also led to Ordained in 2008, Deacon Reising is involved in many ministries in the Bedford faith community speak Spanish. Since then, the couples attend Mass an improved attitude and St. Mary Parish in Mitchell. (Submitted photo) together, and more Hispanic families have been drawn toward Catholics in the to the parish. Some children have been baptized, while community. affecting them and their families. It’s hard, but you others take religious education classes. “Catholics are only 2-3 percent of the community know you should be there. You know you need to be “We have an increasing number of Hispanic here,” Father Eldred says. “By his work with all these there.” families at St. Vincent’s and St. Mary Parish in other ministers, he’s helped forge a path for Catholics Mitchell,” Deacon Reising says. “Every time I’m in to be better accepted. He’s helped bring a better ‘I’m doing God’s will’ a situation like that, I feel the presence of God. A lot awareness of the Catholic faith to the ministers and His dedication and involvement as a deacon of times, I don’t know what to do. But I want to be the people in the community.” requires the support and understanding of his wife of Christ for people. God’s Spirit takes over, and you do 45 years, Kathy. the things that need to get done.” ‘You know you need to be there’ They share a family that includes two children and For Deacon Reising, that improved acceptance three grandchildren. They also share a commitment to ‘He’s definitely a blessing’ and understanding became an opportunity to “let the Church as Kathy worked for 21 years as the parish The list of things Deacon Reising has done since people see what Catholics are about—the love we can secretary at St. Vincent de Paul Parish. becoming a deacon in 2008 is staggering, according to provide to the community.” And they now share lunch together on the days Father Richard Eldred, the pastor of both St. Vincent So when he has a weekly Communion service at the he serves as a chaplain at the hospital—where de Paul and St. Mary parishes. Lawrence County Jail for prisoners who are Catholic, she volunteers in helping make sure flowers and Beyond his work as a hospital chaplain, he visits he opens his time there to non-Catholics, too. mail reach patients. It’s one of the ways they stay with prisoners in jail, helps with youth ministry, trains “I go through the bars, and I’m with them. That’s connected, just as their prayer time together is. altar servers for the parishes, assists the local Catholic so important,” he says. “A lot of times, the other “I know this is what he has a calling for,” she says. Charities homeless shelter for women and children, inmates could see the Catholics were being ‘fed’ by “I support it all the way. He’s always been a good guy, and leads an effort to bring Communion to shut-ins this, so they wanted to come, too. I give them a rosary but this has brought him closer to Christ and to people.” and parishioners in nursing homes. He’s also involved when we pray. They want to wear it as a necklace so At 67, Deacon Reising says that love for God and in baptisms, funerals, weddings and six Masses a I have to explain to them the way it should be used. It his people is the essence of his life as a deacon. week. helps them understand a little about our faith. I love “Everything I do is in support of the Church and “He’s definitely a blessing for all of us,” Father that.” God’s kingdom. The satisfaction for me is knowing Eldred says. He has the same approach when he visits people in I’m doing God’s will, no matter what that is. I think Then there’s the ministry that Deacon Reising took nursing homes and at the hospital. it’s important to just bring Christ to people—to on to help lower teenage pregnancies and improve the “One of the ministries that really touches my increase their faith, or if they have no faith, to help odds of marriages surviving—an effort that also had heart is to the dying—just being with them and their them see there’s something greater than themselves. the impact of creating greater respect for Catholics in family,” he says. “That seems to be one area in which “I want to be Christ for those in need. I know Lawrence County. I especially feel the presence of God. It’s praying with that’s what Jesus is calling me to do. That’s what he’s Deacon Reising was an original board member of them, holding their hands, just being there in silence calling all of us to do. You don’t need to be a deacon Marriage and Family Alliance, an organization formed with them. to do it. You just have to see Jesus in every person in 2007 that involved different churches to address “It fills my heart because you see how God is you meet.” †

parents always encouraged helping the sisters and the ground during that process. It’s a privilege to be FRANCISCANS parish. invited into people’s lives and their homes during such continued from page 9 “Having that connection with the sisters nourished a vulnerable time. I know I’m a better person and a my thoughts of a vocation, and it grew. I knew by the better Franciscan because of this ministry.” have a gratitude and praise for that living. In the past, second or third grade that I was going into religious She shares the story of the relationship she we had schools in many of these little parishes. We’re life—and that has never changed.” developed with a woman, diagnosed with dementia, continuing part of that mission, that presence in the rural Her life has changed since becoming a parish life who had been in a nursing home for 10 years. community.” coordinator. “Many times, she didn’t know me,” Sister Shirley First, she had to move to a place where she didn’t recalls. “I walked in there two weeks ago, and she had ‘I’ve never doubted my vocation’ know anyone—a transition that has been eased died that morning. The fact she wasn’t there left an The Franciscan way of life attracted both sisters at considerably by the way she has been “warmly impact on me. Through all that time, I learned more an early age. embraced,” she says, by Immaculate Conception deeply what presence means.” “There were nine of us in my family,” says Sister parishioners. Sister Donna has begun to experience that feeling Shirley, who is 72. “I knew my parents always prayed She has also had to make a transition from being as a parish life coordinator. that one of their daughters would be a sister and one with people in a health care setting. “That relationship that Shirley is describing is ‘God of their sons would be a priest. I did have a brother “When I worked with people in health care, it was with us,’ ” Sister Donna says. “Our presence lets them who was a priest, but he died. for a short interim, an interim of crisis,” Sister Donna know they’re not alone. We’re that reminder that God “I was taught by Franciscan sisters at St. Mary says. “Now my life is about being with them and is with them in their joy and their suffering. That’s the School in North Vernon. I never thought of any other supporting them over the continuum of their lives. message of the Gospel.” religious order. I entered the order in my senior year This gives me an opportunity to know people before It’s also become the message of the growing of high school. And I’ve been happy ever since. I those vulnerable times.” relationship between Sister Shirley and Sister Donna. don’t know why we don’t have more vocations to “I’ve been fortunate to have Shirley with me,” religious life and the priesthood. I’ve never doubted ‘We’re that reminder that God is with them’ Sister Donna says. “I don’t have those 25 years of my religious vocation.” In 25 years as a parish life coordinator, Sister experience. That’s what I rely on.” Neither has Sister Donna, who has previously Shirley has experienced all the roles and all the Sister Shirley smiles and says, “Instead of served her Franciscan community by primarily emotions of that relationship with parishioners. mentoring, I like to use the word, ‘companioning.’ Our working as a nurse for nearly 35 years, with many of “A parish life coordinator does everything a priest lives are intertwined. There’s a natural bond there.” those years in Michigan. does, except for celebrating Mass and the sacraments,” It’s a bond that began as Franciscan sisters—a bond “I also was from a large family,” says Sister Donna, she says. “One of the joys of being a PLC is you enter that continues as two people on a journey of faith who is 63. “I was the oldest daughter of 11 children. I people’s lives at all stages—as babies, as a young, toward “the loving heart of God.” grew up in St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Morris. I had engaged couple or with people dying. the Franciscan sisters all through grade school and high “My greatest joy is being with people in sickness (For more information about the Oldenburg school. We lived a half mile from the parish, and my and dying. I just think you’re standing on sacred Franciscans, visit www.oldenburgfranciscans.org.) †

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By Natalie Hoefer But just as much of a transition for him was Religious communities can often mirror a slice the Mass. In India, Father of society—members with different jobs, different Savio grew up with and backgrounds and different ethnicities. learned to celebrate in the Such a slice can be found even among the six Syro-Malabar tradition. Conventual Franciscans who live and serve in Syro-Malabar is an Terre Haute. Eastern Catholic Church The Criterion interviewed two of the priests and and liturgical rite tracing one transitional deacon from that community. The its origins to the Apostle three serve at St. Joseph University Parish. Among Thomas in the first them are one American, one Indian and one American century. raised in the Mexican culture of his father’s family. He had experience They are three men of different generations, with celebrating the Latin Rite different backgrounds, but the same strong love of Mass at a convent while their vocation. serving for 10 months in Here are their stories. India. But it’s still not the same, says Father Savio. ‘I believe everyone has a call’ “When I came here, At 33, Deacon Mario Serrano is the youngest member [the Latin Rite] was very of the community. He was born and raised in new to me,” he recalls. “I New Mexico, but with the strong influence of his hadn’t done any weddings Conventual Franciscan Fathers Savio Manavalan and Mark Weaver and Conventual Franciscan Mexican father, he considers himself Mexican-American. or baptisms. For almost a transitional Deacon Mario Serrano stand in front of the doors of St. Joseph University Parish in He was first introduced to the Conventual year, I was studying and Terre Haute, where all three serve. (Submitted photo) Franciscans in the missionary parish of the small learning more about the southwestern New Mexico town where he grew up. faith and what we do differently. But I was happy to cultural variety, it would be an excellent place for “[The missionary priests] would go from one place to have more experiences in my life.” him.” another,” he recalls. “I was always impressed by that.” The other priests in the community have been What Deacon Mario didn’t understand was the instrumental in that learning process, says Father ‘The best of all worlds’ order of Franciscans who served his parish. For a Savio. With members of such varying backgrounds, the time, it was priests of the Order of Friars Minor, who “All the other friars helped me a lot,” he says. “I friary in Terre Haute is “the best of all worlds,” says wear brown habits. For another part of his youth, it studied from them how to live in a parish, because in Deacon Mario. was the Conventual Franciscans, who wear habits of India it was more missions. “It’s a way we can give witness to the Church and black, gray or varying shades of white. “Every day, I’m learning something new.” our society, because we are not only an intercultural “To me they were all Franciscans,” he says. “The community but also intergenerational,” he says, noting ‘brown Franciscans’ have said to me, ‘When will you ‘I knew I wanted to be like them’ that the friars range in ages from 33-79. “We can come back to us? We formed your vocation!’ ” Like Father Savio and Deacon Mario, 65-year-old see the wisdom of the older friars and those simply He is currently living out that vocation serving as Father Mark Weaver did not know of the various beginning.” the parish’s university minister, serving the students Franciscan orders when he was growing up on a farm Father Savio also appreciates the variation of ages primarily of Indiana State University and Rose- in Ohio. in the friary. Hulman Institute of Technology, both in Terre Haute, At the church where he worshipped, there was “a “In India, the oldest friar was maybe 60 or 65,” and also Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in nearby young priest who always was bringing seminarians he says. “We didn’t have a generation that had St. Mary-of-the-Woods and Ivy Tech Community with him,” says Father Mark, pastor of St. Joseph passed through all of their religious life and all their College in Terre Haute. University Parish. “They seemed like nice guys. wonderful experience.” “I joke that I went through college and stayed Thinking over what kind a priest I wanted to be, I He and Deacon Mario try to share their cultural there,” says Deacon Mario. knew I wanted to be like them. But I didn’t know the and faith backgrounds with the other friars and with With six years of experience in campus ministry, distinction of what kind of Franciscans there were.” the faith community in Terre Haute. Deacon Mario the deacon has found joy in serving those at the At the age of 14, he entered the former minor has assisted at bilingual Masses and enjoys answering college level. seminary of the Conventual Franciscan Province of questions about his culture, such as the Mexican “Day “They are discerning where God is calling them,” Our Lady of Consolation in Mount St. Francis. He of the Dead” holiday. he explains. “I believe everyone has a call. I’m there to was ordained in 1977 at the age of 25. As for Father Savio, he says that since “the day I help them discover what God is calling them to be, not Over the course of his 39 years as a priest, he has came here [two years ago], the parish was asking for necessarily to be Franciscans but to become themselves.” served in California and at three parishes in Indiana— Mass in my mother tongue and [the Syro-Malabar] Rite.” On Nov. 4, Deacon Mario will become who he two in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and one in the He finally celebrated such a Mass at St. Joseph feels he is called to be: an ordained Conventual Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. University Church in this rite in August. Franciscan priest. The ordination will take place in But his priesthood has not been confined to the “We had 150 people. I expected 50-60. … It was El Paso, Texas. states. For 25 years, from 1979-2004, Father Mark a good experience. They asked me to do more in the ministered in Central America. He spent 16 years in coming years.” ‘Every day, I’m learning something new’ Honduras and nine years in El Salvador. In a society seeming to become more divided Father Savio Manavalan, associate pastor of “Most of the time I was not with another English and divisive, Deacon Mario sees the multicultural, St. Joseph University Parish, has been a priest for speaker,” he says. “It was a big cultural and linguistic multigenerational Conventual Franciscan friary in nearly three years. Like Deacon Mario, he was change and challenge for me.” Terre Haute as “an alternative way, as St. Francis of confused about Franciscan orders as a youth growing But having a multicultural experience has proven Assisi was doing at his time. Within the Church, there up in India. advantageous to the priest, who serves in a parish with was a crusade, but he focused on relating with each “The [Franciscan order of] Capuchins have a good “a lot of different cultures. other. presence in India, especially in my state,” he says. “I “I counted a couple of years ago, and our parish “We strive to do that today. It’s living out used to see them, I went to their retreats. I joined the has people born in at least 25 countries,” he says. “It’s our charism, living out our brotherhood, and that Franciscans, and then I learned the different orders!” a parish with a spirit of welcome and openness, even experience spreads into our ministry and those we Living in Indiana has been a learning experience though it is predominantly Anglo.” come in contact with.” for Father Savio, 34. One major difference between And it was Father Mark’s multicultural experience India and Indiana is the climate. that led to the placement of Father Savio in Terre Haute. (For more information on the Conventual “We don’t have a fall or spring climate, just months “When there was a possibility of an Indian priest, Franciscans of the Our Lady of Consolation Province, of heavy rain, summer and the time we don’t have the province thought [that with] my experience of headquartered in Mount St. Francis, visit rain,” he says. living in a different culture and the parish having www.franciscansusa.org.) †

the Sisters of Providence, I felt comfortable with exploring other communities,” Emily said. “She asked PROVIDENCE almost everyone I met. I felt that they were kindred if I needed to continue searching, or if I could just trust continued from page 9 spirits, and I enjoyed spending time with them.” that God would reveal to me if I was on the wrong path. Emily said that, for her, the call to enter religious “So, we called Sister Editha Ben and formally way with the world around. I wasn’t looking for life became final in 2015. requested that I be able to start the process of working religion or religious life in any way, but through “I was visiting my sister in Guatemala, and I found with a discernment guide.” Sister Editha is the Sisters interacting with Tracey, I began to feel the nudge myself at one point overcome with the sensation of Providence’s vocations director. to seek more information about religious life. I that I was going to be a sister and I was at complete After a year in the postulancy, Emily will be thought I’d find what I wanted to find at the Catholic peace with it,” she said. “At the time, I had started eligible to enter into the first year of the novitiate. It is Worker—and I did in almost every way you can the Providence Associate program, but switched gears at that point when she will receive the title of sister. name. But something didn’t feel right.” toward exploring religious life.” The Sisters of Providence are still welcoming new Emily added her knowledge of White Violet Emily said she had scheduled a visit with another members on an annual basis. Center for Eco-Justice—a ministry of the Sisters of religious community after returning from Guatemala. Providence—also played a role in her decision. After that visit, she then met with Providence Sister (Jason Moon is the media relations manager for the “I was particularly interested in that because of Carole Kimes. Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. For my background in sustainability issues and work in “I asked if I could enter into a deeper discernment more information about the order, visit sustainable agriculture,” she said. “As I got to know process with the Sisters of Providence while still www.spsmw.org.) †

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NOGALES, Ariz. (CNS)—The apostolic nuncio to the United States celebrated Mass at the U.S.-Mexico border on Oct. 23, offering prayers to break down the barriers that separate people. Archbishop Christophe Pierre faced the immense steel border fence in Nogales as he and the bishop of Tucson and the bishop of Mexico’s Diocese of Nogales, Sonora, concelebrated the liturgy with people gathered on both sides of the border. The nuncio began the prayer of the faithful with a plea for unity. “Jesus, we come before you today as your disciples, sometimes filled with fear and doubt, even suspicion,” he said. “We pray to dismantle the barriers within our hearts and minds that separate us, who are all members of your body.” Following his words, young people led the congregation in prayers for “needed immigration reform,” for humane treatment of migrants who don’t have documents, and for “security and justice for all.” They prayed especially for migrant children, “who are vulnerable to exploitation and abuse,” and for all who have died in border violence, including border patrol agents, immigrants and innocent victims. Above, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic The Mass was the third such one this nuncio to the United States, gives Communion year along the U.S.-Mexico border in during Mass at the international border in Arizona. The liturgies were organized by Nogales, Ariz., on Oct. 23. Dioceses Without Dioceses Without Borders, an effort of the Borders, an effort of Mexico’s Nogales Diocese dioceses of Nogales, Tucson and Phoenix and the U.S. dioceses of Phoenix and Tucson, to work collaboratively on issues that affect Ariz., organized the liturgy celebrated on the Church and people in the border region. both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Right, a During his homily and afterward in Mexican girl peers through the fence during an interview with Catholic News Service Mass at the international border. (CNS photos/ (CNS), Archbishop Pierre echoed the Nancy Wiechec) sentiments of Pope Francis in regard to borders and the care of migrants and Carlos Zapien, music director for the refugees, who the archbishop said all too Diocese of Tucson, said the special Mass often are looked upon as unwanted and as was a statement that “faith can unite people.” criminals. Zapien’s original score “Misa de la “Borders exist all over the world, and Misericordia” (“Mass of Mercy”) was used borders are not bad, but borders should not in the cross-border liturgy with choirs on be just a barrier—should not be a wall— both sides participating. but should be a bridge between people,” “Faith and music have no borders,” he the nuncio said. said. “Anything that goes in the direction Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson of understanding, helping each other, said he was grateful for Archbishop discovering the beauty of the other is Pierre’s participation in the liturgy. what is necessary to convert hearts and “He represents Pope Francis, whose transform the world,” he said. “It’s time heart is along the borders of our world, to break the obstacles that exist between caring for immigrants and refugees,” he people.” told CNS. To cheers from both sides of the border, “The nuncio’s presence is a reminder of Archbishop Pierre ended his homily our Holy Father’s great love for those who with, “Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen are suffering, for those who are in need. de Guadalupe! Viva la Iglesia santa!” So this was a very special celebration here (“Long live Christ the King! Long live the in ‘ambos Nogales’ [‘both Nogaleses’] as Virgin of Guadalupe! Long live the holy we pray together across walls united in our Church!”) prayer for one another.” Archbishop Pierre is no stranger to the Among the hundreds of people that people of Mexico. He served as nuncio gathered for the border Mass were those in Mexico for nine years before being that serve the Kino Border Initiative, a appointed as the pope’s representative in binational migrant advocacy and service the U.S. But he said this Mass was his first organization. visit to Nogales, Ariz. Bishop Kicanas expressed his pride in In what seemed to be a spontaneous the group and in a group of young people, moment during the liturgy, five young the Kino Teens, who work with the border people ducked under a barrier near the initiative. border fence to hold hands and pray the “Their enthusiasm, their spirit is a true Our Father with those on the other side in blessing,” he said. “They believe in the Mexico. Lord. They believe in the Church, and to They stayed at the border fence until the have these young people participating in sign of peace, offering their hands to those our Mass here in ‘ambos Nogales’ was a on the other side. true blessing.” †

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Young women reach through the international border fence to hold hands and pray the Our Father with those on the other side during Mass on Oct. 23 in Nogales, Ariz. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) www.indianacatholicmen.com Page 18 The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016 For expectant parents, miscarriage can be ‘loss of a dream’ CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (CNS)— we knew something was wrong,” Kayla The Church does not define how Immaculate Conception parishioners said. “There was no heartbeat.” a couple should handle their baby’s Kayla and Matt Boesch had planned to The couple, filled with grief and remains, or whether or not they should welcome their first baby this fall. anxiety, immediately sought solace have a funeral. It’s largely up to the Instead, they will be visiting the in their church, and met with Deacon couple involved, in consultation with their cemetery plot where they buried their Dominick Azzara at Immaculate spiritual adviser. baby’s remains last spring. Conception Parish in Clarksville. As Deacon Azzara said more pastoral When Kayla suffered a miscarriage Catholics, “we believe the life begins training on miscarriage is needed. Kayla around the 11-week mark of her at conception,” Kayla said. She and her Boesch would like to see miscarriage pregnancy, she and her husband were husband knew they wanted to honor the covered in marriage preparation and devastated, but determined to honor the brief life of their unborn baby in a special natural family planning classes. “You life that existed, however briefly, inside way. learn all about your cycle and family of her. Deacon Azzara didn’t have many planning, but no one tells you what to do During National Pregnancy and Infant definite answers for them. with a loss,” she said. Loss Awareness Month, observed each Ministering to couples who have The Boesches had to wait and see October, the Boesches shared their experienced a miscarriage “is an area that if Kayla miscarried naturally, or if she story to help break the silence that often has not been addressed well enough” by would need a “D and C”—a dilation surrounds miscarriage. the Catholic Church, the deacon said, and curettage procedure—to remove Miscarriage, the loss of a pregnancy but there are ways priests, deacons and what clinicians refer to as “products of during the first 20 weeks of gestation, other Church personnel can offer support. conception” from her body. occurs in about 10 to 20 percent of all When a baby dies in the womb, there are While waiting, they decided they known pregnancies, and the vast majority specific prayers and blessings that can be wanted to name their baby and take its of these are early term miscarriages, offered for the family. remains from the hospital and bury them. occurring before 13 weeks. A memorial service, funeral and/or They also wanted to have a memorial Often, women who experience a burial can be planned; grief support and service to honor their unborn baby, whom Kayla Boesch and her husband, Matt, of miscarriage unjustly feel ashamed and counseling should be available, Deacon they named Francis. Clarksville, Tenn., pose for a photo on Sept. 23. don’t speak up or reach out, Kayla Boesch Azzara said. But they had to find answers to some Kayla suffered a miscarriage earlier this year, told the Tennessee Register, newspaper of “People working in a parish need to be uneasy questions. What would they put and wants to break the silence surrounding the Nashville Diocese. “It’s like this quiet, sensitive,” Deacon Azzara said. “People the baby’s remains in? How would they miscarriages by talking about her experience private, sad group.” are finally coming forward and saying transport and store them? How do they and sharing resources with other women. (CNS When the Boesches learned their baby they’re having trouble,” after a pregnancy explain to people what they were doing? photo/Theresa Laurence, Tennessee Register) had died in utero, they were initially loss. For so long, he said, miscarriages They began scouring the Internet overwhelmed and weren’t sure how were “unspoken and unshared.” for resources, and found some sites of those out here lately,” said Deacon to deal with the practical or emotional Now that more people are speaking that walked them through the process, Mike Wilkins, director of the Diocese of aspects of miscarriage. They hope that by out and seeking support, “we need to be including those most uncomfortable parts, Nashville’s Calvary Cemetery. opening up, they can help other couples aware and ready to respond,” Deacon such as how to store and transport the A section of the cemetery, dubbed heal. Azzara said. “It’s a work in progress.” baby’s remains. “The Garden of Angels,” is reserved for “When you’re so deep in grief, it’s The U.S. Conference of Catholic Before undergoing the “D and the burial of unborn children and infants really hard to have clarity about what you Bishops offers some specific prayers C” procedure, Kayla had to explain under age 1. should do,” Kayla Boesch said. “The pain and blessings for parents who have repeatedly to hospital personnel that she Since 2014, “there has been a dramatic would be worth it if we can help someone experienced a miscarriage, as well as was planning to take the baby’s remains increase in the rate of miscarriage else.” some limited resources on their from the hospital, and had to fill out pages burials,” Deacon Wilkins said. This It was on the day of Kayla’s first “For Your Marriage” website— of paperwork to do so. In Tennessee, but could be attributed to more awareness of ultrasound that the couple found out the www.foryourmarriage.org—but Church not all states, parents have the right to Calvary’s service, or a cultural shift to sad news. “The tech who performed it guidance on coping with the specifics of bury the fetal remains from early-term honor lives lost to miscarriage, he said. asked to be excused from the room, and miscarriage is limited. miscarriages. If the parents choose not to “To lose a child is very damaging, and take the remains and bury them, hospitals having a funeral or memorial and burial can must properly dispose of them. be very cathartic,” Deacon Wilkins said. When Kayla was recovering from Echoing Deacon Azzara, he said the the procedure at St. Thomas Midtown Church “is still trying to find our way” to Your Gifts Hospital in Clarksville, she received best minister to parents who lose a child do a small basket with a tiny handmade through miscarriage. blanket, two roses and a card from Since physically recovering, Kayla the nonprofit organization Minutes of has faced the more difficult challenge of Gold, dedicated to supporting women spiritually healing. While miscarriages Great Things! experiencing miscarriage or infant loss. can be tough on married couples, “I could “That was so beautiful,” she said, “the feel God in our marriage working on acknowledgement of someone saying, something,” Kayla said. “Matt was my ‘This was a child.’ ” rock.” “We try really hard to honor each Going through the process together Celebratingthe Sacraments life,” said the Rev. Jennifer Jarvis, staff has brought them closer, and helped them chaplain. “A chaplain attends every heal as a couple. pregnancy loss. It’s part of our protocol.” “Giving a name and having a memorial $1.8 Million| Clergy Retirement The Boesches were not alone in service really helped,” Matt said. | wanting to bury the miscarried remains “It gave us some closure, and was a $171,000 Diaconate Formation of their child. “We’ve done an awful lot way to honor Francis,” Kayla added. † $412,000| Clergy Sabbaticals, Studies and Retreats Nebraska bishops urge Catholics, other voters to OK death penalty repeal OMAHA, Neb. (CNS)—Nebraska’s Sept. 29 news conference in Lincoln. three bishops made their position— Getting the bishops’ message to the In addition to the ministries listed above, and the Church’s position—on capital people began the week before the news UCA receives $770,000 to support Seminarian punishment clear in 2015 in their support conference, Venzor told the Catholic Education and Vocation Programs. for repeal of the death penalty through Voice, Omaha’s archdiocesan newspaper, the legislature’s approval of a measure to with the start of social media campaigns • Our Archdiocesan Vocations Office eliminate capital punishment. to educate and increase awareness among • Active Vocations Committees in Our Parishes And as the November election draws voters. The effort includes summaries • A Vocations Advocate Program for Every Parish closer, Tom Venzor, executive director of Church teaching, quotes from Church • Students attending the Bishop Simon Bruté College of the Nebraska Catholic Conference, is leaders and articles. Seminary focused on sharing that message again Venzor said the strength of the social with Catholics and all other voters. media campaign will be in Catholics Nebraskans will vote on Nov. 8 on sharing the material with others. When We Support Vocations... whether to retain the measure, known as Regular media—print and broadcast— L.B. 268, which repealed the death penalty also are vehicles for the message, he said. Vocations Increase in Nebraska and replaced it with a life And the message “advocating and sentence without parole. State senators urging a vote to retain the repeal of the Your Gift of $100 allows 10 young people passed the bill last year over Gov. Pete death penalty,” also is going to parishes Ricketts’ veto. But a successful petition across the state. to attend the Called By Name Dinner! effort supported by Ricketts put the The state Catholic conference, working This event helps them discern measure on the ballot as Referendum 426. with the Catholic Mobilizing Network, whether God is calling them Venzor, who represents Archbishop has sent packets of materials, including to the priesthood or religious life. George J. Lucas of Omaha and Bishops posters and prayer cards. Videos of each James D. Conley of Lincoln and Joseph bishop discussing the death penalty have G. Hanefeldt of Grand Island on public been created and distributed to parishes, Visit www.archindy.org/UCA or scan here to learn about policy issues, announced plans for and events featuring speakers and vocation programs supported by your UCA gifts. building awareness and educating voters discussion were being held at each of the on the death penalty referendum at a three cathedrals across the state. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2016 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. The ‘Our Father’ is rooted in Jewish tradition of prayer By Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Father”), teaches his disciples to do the same. His father becomes “Our Father.” As Jews, Christ’s disciples already He is, of course, transcendent, majestic, knew how to pray. Psalms were sung the King of the Universe—“who art in as the priests offered the sacrifices in heaven.” the Temple. Psalms were chanted in the But his majesty draws near to us in synagogue services and prayed around the tenderness, and calls us to a prayer that table at Passover. is an intimate dialogue of love. In this Jews also prayed morning, noon and prayer, we dare to approach him and to night (see Dn 6:11). The most important rest secure in his affectionate embrace. of these prayers was written on a little “Hallowed be thy name.” For a scroll (called a phylactery) and bound to a Jew, one’s name is not just a label, but man’s forehead and fastened to doorposts expresses the essence of the person. (called a mezuzah): Jesus has just revealed God’s name— “Hear O Israel! The Lord is our God, Father. To “hallow” means to make the Lord alone! Therefore, you shall love visible, like the cloud of God’s glory the Lord, your God, with your whole that covered Sinai and shone from heart, and with your whole being, and Moses’ face. We pray in this petition that with your whole strength” (Dt 6:4-5). through and in us the Father’s love would This prayer, the “Shema,” was the first be made manifest to the world and that thing whispered in a newborn’s ear, and people would see, understand and glorify the last thing whispered to the dying. It him. was the verbal emblem that distinguished “Thy kingdom come.” Though the Jew from gentile. kingdom or reign of God won’t come in So why did Jesus have to teach his its fullness until the return of Christ, it disciples to pray? Because it was time for began to break into history in the public a new Israel to be born. The identity of ministry of Jesus and broke in with even God and his plan of salvation, revealed in greater force on Pentecost Sunday, falling bits and pieces in the law, was now being upon 120 initially, which in a matter of A man looks out over the Jazreel Valley from Mount Precipice, the start of the Gospel Trail in Israel. fully revealed in his Son. hours became 3,000. The Mount of Beatitudes, the traditional site of the Sermon on the Mount, is another stop along the It was time for the new Israel to pray “Thy will be done on Earth, as it is in trail. (CNS photo/Debbie Hill) in a new way, a way that would make heaven.” God reigns where people yield to clearer than ever the identity of the one his will. His will and his kingdom mean where all is forgiven by God and the In the writings after the New God and how we should love him with all the same thing: “righteousness, peace and family. If we refuse to forgive, we block Testament, the Lord’s Prayer replaced our heart. joy in the Holy Spirit” (Rom 14:17). the flow of God’s mercy to and through the “Shema” of the Jews, and Christians There had been hints that the “Give us this day our daily bread.” us, and essentially put ourselves outside prayed it at least three times per day. fearsome God who had revealed himself This helps us understand the attitude of the family. Yet in the Holy Land, there are still on Sinai was a father, at least to the we should have as God’s children—we “And lead us not into temptation, but descendants of the first Christians who widow and orphan (Ps 68:6) and to confidently expect our loving Father to deliver us from evil.” This petition is a preserve the ancient Jewish-Christian the king (Ps 110:3). But Jews in Jesus’ provide for all our needs. But we pray sober reminder that we live in a world heritage. When a baby is born to such time had so emphasized God’s majesty not just for our own private needs but where God’s kingdom is in conflict with a family, it is still customary for the that, far from calling him Father, they for the entire worldwide family’s needs. another kingdom. Our world is a dangerous father to be the first one to speak to no longer even dared to utter the name On the flip side, there is never a moment place where a powerful adversary prowls the newborn. What does he whisper in revealed to Moses, “Yahweh.” They when our brothers and sisters are not “like a roaring lion” (1 Pt 5:8). the child’s ear? “Our Father, who art in didn’t even like to say the word “God,” praying for us. In praying this, we reject Satan’s tricks heaven … .” preferring to substitute “the Lord” or “Forgive us our trespasses, as we and humbly acknowledge our need for even “Heaven.” forgive those who trespass against us.” God’s help in escaping his snares. But we (Marcellino D’Ambrosio is co-founder of So Jesus, who himself nearly Here, Jesus reminds us that the Church, also rest confident that our Father has the Crossroads Productions, an apostolate of exclusively addressed God as “Abba” the new Israel, is a community of mercy, power to protect us. Catholic renewal and evangelization.) †

Versions of the ‘Our Father’ in New Testament have similarities, differences

By Daniel S. Mulhall “teach us to pray just as John taught his disciples” (Lk 11:1). In the “Our Father,” Jesus gave us In both Matthew’s and Luke’s what St. Thomas Aquinas called “the versions, we pray to our Father in most perfect of prayers” because it heaven. Luke simply begins “Father.” teaches us to ask for what we need, and Both versions acknowledge the holiness the order in which to ask. of God’s name (“hallowed”), and ask The Catechism of the Catholic for the kingdom to come. Matthew Church declares (quoting Tertullian, adds, “your will be done, on Earth as in a theologian of the early Church) that heaven.” In both, we are told to ask for the entire message of the Gospel is our daily bread. summarized in this prayer (#2761). In Matthew, we ask God to forgive There are two versions of the “Our us our debts while in Luke we ask that Father” found in the New Testament. The our sins be forgiven. Both versions ask first is found in Matthew 6:9-15, while that we not be subjected to the final the second is found in Luke 11:1-4. While test. Only Matthew’s version includes the two versions are similar in the words the request that we be delivered from they use, there are differences in how evil. they are presented. The “Our Father” Both versions tie our forgiveness used today is most similar to Matthew’s to our willingness to forgive others, account, although not identical. although with different wording. Matthew situates the prayer as part Immediately following his teaching of of Jesus’ teaching in the Sermon on the the “Our Father,” Jesus explicitly tells Mount (Mt 5-7). As the new lawgiver, his followers: “If you forgive others their Jesus tells his disciples to pray quietly transgressions, your heavenly Father will Spectators in Logan Square watch a Jumbotron as Pope Francis recites the “Our Father” during his in private because the “Father knows forgive you. But if you do not forgive 2015 visit to Independence Hall in Philadelphia. There are two versions of the “Our Father” found in what you need before you ask him” others, neither will your Father forgive the New Testament. (CNS photo/Cameron Hart) (Mt 6:8). your transgressions” (Mt 6:14-15). In Luke 10, Jesus lays out the Where Jesus in Matthew encourages food. Jesus says that the neighbor asks, receives; and the one who seeks, meaning of discipleship, ending with the us to pray quietly, in Luke Jesus tells eventually will give the man what he finds; and to the one who knocks, the story of Mary having “chosen the better us to pound unceasingly at the doors of wants if for no other reason than to stop door will be opened” (Lk 11:10). part” because she focused on the Lord heaven (Lk 11:5-8), illustrating this with the clamor. (Lk 10:42). Immediately in the next the story of the man who, late at night, So too, he tells us, will God reply to (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist living chapter, Jesus is asked by a follower to knocks on his neighbor’s door seeking our persistent prayer. “For everyone who in Louisville, Kentucky.) † Page 20 The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher 20th-century Church: ‘Gaudium et Spes’ summed up Vatican II Death is a birth (Fourteenth in a series of columns) Church prior to the council, was affirmed mutilation, physical and mental torture, in this document. It said, “The Catholic undue psychological pressures, subhuman into eternal life “Gaudium et Spes,” (“Pastoral Church gladly values what other Christian living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, It is a broad human custom to give Constitution on the Church in the Modern Churches and ecclesial communities have deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling more attention to celebrating the birthday World”) was the last document promulgated contributed and are contributing” (#40). of women and children, and degrading of a person than recalling the anniversary by the Second Vatican The second part of “Gaudium et Spes,” working conditions where men are treated of his or her death. Council. It gave notice with comments on practical problems, as mere tools for profit rather than free and Gifts are given, cakes that the Church no gave top priority to problems encountered responsible persons. are baked and parties longer intended to by families in the modern world. It began The economics section stressed both are held on birthdays. focus just on itself as with the Church’s teachings about the that “every man has the right to possess a Friends and it had been doing, but holiness of marriage and the family, the sufficient amount of the Earth’s goods,” relatives of the was going to engage nature of married love, and the intended and that “men are bound to come to the deceased may recall with the modern world. fruitfulness of the marital contract. aid of the poor and to do so not merely in their heart and The document But it also said this, which was not out of their superfluous goods” (#69). mind their loved one had two parts. The emphasized as clearly in Church teaching The section on politics said that the who has gone before first was a description of the conditions before the 1960s: “Marriage is not merely political community and the Church are them on the date of contemporary humanity. The second for the procreation of children: its nature as autonomous and independent of each on which that person died. They may presented some concrete issues and the an indissoluble compact between two people other. But then it qualified that statement give time in prayer, seeking the repose Church’s teachings on those issues. and the good of children demand that the by saying: “Nevertheless, there are close of his or her soul, thanking God for the The Church embraced secular and mutual love of the partners be shown, that it links between the things of Earth and those deceased’s example or for asking God to scientific endeavors. It said, “Methodical should grow and mature” (#50). things in man’s condition which transcend help them live more like him or her. research in all branches of knowledge, Naturally, as one would expect, the world, and the Church utilizes temporal But these are, for the most part, private provided it is carried out in a truly scientific “Gaudium et Spes” included a section on realities as her mission requires it” (#76). acts of love and gratitude, not public manner and does not override moral laws, the dignity of human life, saying, “Life must The document also had a lot to say celebrations. This is, at least in part, can never conflict with the faith, because the be protected with the utmost care from the about world peace. related to the overall secular nature of our things of this world and the things of faith moment of conception” (#51). The crimes So the council, the most important culture, which is largely focused on this derive from the same God” (#39). against the human person enumerated event for the Catholic Church during the world alone. The openness of the Catholic Church in the document included murder, 20th century, was over. Its effects would The Church has a different perspective to other religions, not a mark of the genocide, abortion, euthanasia, suicide, be seen for a long time. † on setting dates for celebrations. Almost since its beginning 2,000 years ago, Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes it has given praise and thanks to God for how he has led men and women to Scary stories are becoming all too real and scary in today’s world holiness with feast days for individual saints. Ordinarily, though, the date for Kids love to be scared. As babies, they Now, I’m sure that kids couldn’t care less at odds with the U.S. slyly sneaking into these feasts is on the anniversary of their play peek-a-boo, happily anticipating the about the origins of Halloween. They just our government to destroy our freedoms. deaths, not their births. sudden unveiling of a familiar face. But the love the dressing up and eating the treats Or unprincipled doctors or scientists bent That’s not entirely accurate, though, element of surprise is and pretending to be scared even when on infiltrating our populations with awful because the Church would say that on the always there, which they’re really not. And for me and one of diseases that have no cure. Whatever the day a person’s earthly life is over is a kind just might lead to a less my friends from grade school, it meant the plot, unlike in the past, the fear it inspires is of birthday, the day on which he or she desirable sight. inevitable Halloween birthday party. threatening to our very survival. is born into eternal life. And we believe Surprise goes hand Every year, our class celebrated students’ Today, what scares us is so terrible that it’s that people who die in God’s grace have in hand with being birthdays. Mine was Oct. 30, and my friend’s no longer kid stuff. Russia is rattling nuclear heaven as their ultimate destination. They scared. Children was Nov. 1, so guess what? Every year, destruction at us once more, and medieval will thus be saints, whether they are play hide and seek, like it or not, we had a Halloween-themed societies with modern weapons threaten to formally recognized as such or not. screaming either in celebration. The holiday we both loved had destroy our civilization. Fanatics of all kinds The relatively obscure tradition within glee or terror when become a kind of ordeal. We still laugh about are dividing people into hateful factions bent the Catholic Church of honoring a saint on they discover, or are it when we get together annually. on eliminating each other. So it’s no wonder the anniversary of his or her death is one discovered by others. They love to hear However, the things that scared us then that kids still love witches and ghosts. What that I think could benefit our culture more ghost stories around a cozy campfire, and pale by comparison to what frightens us possible fun could there be in dressing up like broadly. Our culture tends to celebrate Halloween is right up their alley. nowadays. We had funny Bob Hope and an ISIS goon or a corporate raider? things that are seen as positive, such as Of course, Halloween is All Hallows’ Abbott and Costello comedies with spooky The best thing to do, I think, is to keep a birth, but tries to downplay anything Eve, a religious observance of the eve of the themes, and so-called horror films about offering children the love and assurance of troublesome or negative, like death. This feast of All Saints, or All Holy Persons. But Dracula and Frankenstein. We were scared, protection they need in order to thrive. If is the case, at least in part, because of it began as a pagan Roman observation of but we always knew it was just fun. they can receive from us the same unlimited our culture’s secular nature. Being rather the end-of-summer close to the We’ve graduated to Freddie Krueger love and forgiveness that God gives to us, narrowly focused on this world alone, food-growing season. and Nightmares on Elm Street and Scream. his children, real fears will be destroyed. it can’t give a satisfying answer to what Later, the pre-Christian Celts believed We’ve dripped through gallons of gore and And we’ll all be ready, the next day, to greet happens to a person after he or she dies. that ghosts of the dead roamed the Earth on blood, so far into the realms of scariness that the blessed saints whose company we hope Christianity, on the other hand, offers that night, and they lit bonfires atop high it’s become really unbelievable. It’s still kind to join one day. the world a positive outlook on the ending hills to scare them away. When the Celts of fun, but even more unbelievable. of one’s earthly life. If one, with the help became Christian, they converted the night Other current “scary” films involve (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the of God’s grace, lives according to his into a precursor to All Saints Day. And All villainous creatures from outer space Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular will, then death can be put into a proper Hallows Eve morphed into Halloween. invading our country, or spies from nations columnist for The Criterion.) † perspective. Fear or anxiety might still be instinctual human reactions to death. Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli But faith can lift us above such a limited outlook, and help us see death against a horizon of hope and joy. Don’t let your faith fail because God does really care for you Thanks to the faith that my parents Cancer treatments have me grappling force propelled me out the door. Mass began. I suddenly realized that nurtured in me when I was young, this with headaches, intestinal issues and As I drove, a familiar verse surfaced I’d never checked the time during my understanding of death and the birth into fatigue. One particular morning, with and persisted: “Simon, Simon. Satan has conversation with David, but here I was, eternal life has guided me over the past additional treatments asked to sift you like wheat. But I have perfectly punctual for Mass. year since my mother died on Oct. 17, looming, I didn’t prayed for you, that your faith may not No wonder I felt propelled to leave 2015. When the first anniversary of her know where to turn. fail” (Lk 22:31-32). home early! It allowed space for that death came earlier this month, my family My mind raced It’s not the first time the words, conversation. I pondered the message didn’t invite friends over for a party. with questions. The delivered by Jesus to Simon Peter, spoke David would bring to his wife, indeed, the Instead, we did what was appropriate for drug is effective to me. I definitely felt sifted. strength the conversation gave me, too. our Catholic faith: we worshipped at a against the cancer, but I parked the car and walked toward the I marveled at God’s care for each of us! Mass at our parish that was offered for the it’s debilitating me. church when I spotted David, a fellow What care! What beautiful, tailored care! repose of her soul. Should I quit? Find parishioner whose wife is battling cancer. But God wasn’t done. (He never is.) Despite all the technological and another option? Visit a We exchanged greetings, and David Moments later, several pews ahead, I medical advances that we so naturally cancer center? explained they were anxiously awaiting spotted Larry. In recent years, after a long celebrate, death is still a reality that we Additionally, I suffer headaches from test results. struggle, Larry had beaten brain cancer. cannot escape. But it’s not something we the treatment. Will they go away? Should I I shared my struggles, and the verse I When I saw his shiny head, a surge of need to fear. God offers us a way beyond see a neurologist? If so, who? Should I wait received on my way to Mass. strength arose. “Stick with me,” I heard our fear. Accept it with trust and joy. to visit the established expert? Or accept a “Listen, David,” I concluded. “Jesus God say. “I’ll get you through this. Stick The upcoming feasts of All Saints quick appointment with the new specialist? is praying for us, … but look at what he with me.” and All Souls can renew this trust and Tossing and turning, I opened my eyes prays for … not for good health or that Today, there’s no urgency for a second joy in each of our hearts. November is when suddenly, a definitive answer arose. our troubles go away. … He is praying opinion. I put the neurologist on hold because also a month in the Church when we’re Clear and sharp, it came from deep within. that our … faith … will … not … fail.” the headaches are diminishing. Surprisingly, I invited especially to pray for our faithful “You’re going to do what you did 20 I squared my shoulders. “That’s what don’t even dread the upcoming treatments. departed. years ago, when you were first diagnosed,” brought me here today.” I can do this. Embrace more fully the traditions I thought. “Turn to Jesus. Go to Mass. David, a humble man, nodded. Whatever it is, you can, too. and teachings of our faith connected Forget the rest. Just turn to Jesus.” I turned toward the church. “I’m going Just don’t let your faith fail. to these feasts and this month, and you I threw on clothes, brushed my hair, to go in and pray for you, for your wife might help the world in which we live grabbed the car keys and glanced at the and for me,” I said. “I’m going to pray (Debra Tomaselli writes from Altamonte to have a broader, more healthy and, clock. It was too early to leave for Mass, that our faith will not fail.” Springs, Florida. She can be reached at ultimately, more joyful perspective on but my body wouldn’t stop. A strong inner I slipped into the pew moments before [email protected].) † death. † The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016 Page 21

Thirty-First Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Thursday, November 3 Daily Readings St. Martin de Porres, religious Philippians 3:3-8a The Sunday Readings Monday, October 31 Psalms 105:2-7 Sunday,October 30, 2016 Philippians 2:1-4 Luke 15:1-10 Psalm 131:1bcde, 2-3 • Wisdom 11:22-12:2 rough, crooked and beset with dangers and Luke 14:12-14 Friday, November 4 • 2 Thessalonians 1:11-2:2 attractive detours. We must be resolute in St. Charles Borromeo, bishop • Luke 19:1-10 our determination to be with God. For its last reading, the Church gives us Tuesday, November 1 Philippians 3:17-4:1 a selection from St. Luke’s Gospel. The Solemnity of All Saints Psalm 122:1-5 The Book of Wisdom provides this Lord was on the way to Jericho, an ancient Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 Luke 16:1-8 weekend’s first reading. As the condition city not far from the Dead Sea, mentioned Psalm 24:1bc-4b, 5-6 of the environment has absorbed more and in several dramatic Old Testament 1 John 3:1-3 Saturday, November 5 more public interest, passages. It was a city seated at the foot of Matthew 5:1-12a Philippians 4:10-19 the pope and other the great Judean mountains, a virtual oasis Church leaders have in a stark and lifeless terrain. Psalm 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a, 9 addressed the problems While Jericho offered security to so Wednesday, November 2 Luke 16:9-15 of exploiting nature. many, as it offers security still, Jesus truly Commemoration of All the This reading, while brings life and security. Faithful Departed Sunday, November 6 composed many, many Zaccaeus was wealthy, but Luke’s (All Souls’ Day) Thirty-second Sunday in centuries ago, states the Gospel sees wealth as a burden. The poor underlying principle in are closer to God. They are unencumbered. Wisdom 3:1-9 Ordinary Time the Church’s teaching Additionally, Zaccaeus was a tax Psalm 23:1-6 2 Maccabees 7:1-2, 9-14 on respecting the collector, a disgusting occupation among Romans 5:5-11 Psalm 17:1, 5-6, 8, 15 environment. the Jews. Tax collectors worked for the or Romans 6:3-9 2 Thessalonians 2:16-3:5 This principle is that God is the Creator detested Romans, and the system made John 6:37-40 Luke 20:27-38 of all, and the author of all life. It should them little else other than legalized thieves. or Luke 20:27, 34-38 be recalled that Wisdom was written Nevertheless, Jesus, the Lord of life, in a world highly influenced by Greek freed Zacchaeus from the heavy burden of philosophy. Surrounding Greek philosophy sin and gave him life. was Greek mythology, which saw gods and Climbing the tree on the part of Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle goddesses as being within nature. They Zacchaeus teaches us two important had control over nature, of course, but they lessons. Despite all his wealth, he was could exercise their control in ways not subject to the simple obstacles confronting The Church is doing much to promote necessarily kind to humanity. everyone, namely the inability to see For the second reading, the Church through or over others. And Zacchaeus more vocations to the priesthood gives us a passage from St. Paul’s Second desperately wanted to see Jesus, realizing Epistle to the Thessalonians. that wealth offered no lasting satisfaction. I love the Church very much and see discussed. This effort resulted in some young While the nature within which humans Qhow the world needs it more than men entering the seminary, and several others live while on Earth is marvelous and is Reflection ever. But the growing shortage of priests who began to discern a vocation with the God’s loving gift, it is not everything. In just three weeks, the Church will in many parts of the help of a spiritual director. God calls us to eternal life. He gives us close its liturgical year. The weekend country troubles me Jesus. The Lord became human, as are following, four weeks from this weekend, because I know that I was raised in the faith in a time we, bonding with us, in the mystery called it will lead us into a new year of worship their life and ministry Qwhen Catholics were required to the Incarnation. Through the Incarnation, and reflection. But before then, it will call is vital to the Church’s abstain from eating meat or food, such as through the redemption accomplished by us to close this year in a mood profoundly mission. What can the gravy, made from drippings of meat, on Jesus on Calvary and in the Resurrection, hopeful and thankful. Church do to promote every Friday. I understand that the Church and by accepting God’s gift of faith, we We have hope, and we give thanks more vocations to may have changed this requirement. I’m gain the supreme result of possessing the because we are one with God, in Jesus. the priesthood? a bit confused about this, so could you gift of Jesus. We gain life eternal with God. The key is truly to be with Jesus, without (Maryland) please help me understand this possible Paul constantly summoned Christians, compromise, without pause. Our union with change in practice? (Texas) such as the faithful in Thessalonica, to the Lord must be perfect. Jesus is our king. The Catholic Church in the U.S. is realize the wonder and greatness of God’s This weekend’s Gospel points us toward Aenergetically involved in promoting Canon 1251 of the Church’s Code gift of Jesus. the Feast of Christ the King, the great vocations to the priesthood. This effort is Aof Canon Law requires Latin-rite The Apostle never leads anyone down celebration closing this year. making some inroads, even in a culture Catholics to abstain from meat on all a primrose path. The epistles, and this Our life and security are in Jesus. We that seems to marginalize priests, and in Fridays of the year, as well as on Ash reading in particular, remind believers must realize that we are as desperately in which parents are often reluctant to have Wednesday. That same canon, however, that the path through life with God is need of the Lord as was Zacchaeus. † a son choose the seminary because they gives to national conferences of bishops have different hopes for him. the authority to modify this requirement. In 2015, 3,650 men were enrolled In some countries, for example, meat is in post-baccalaureate studies for the generally unavailable, which would render My Journey to God priesthood—a modest increase from the such a penance meaningless. low year of 1998 (3,114 students), but In the United States, Catholics are nowhere near the peak years of the 1960s obliged to abstain on Ash Wednesday (8,159 students in 1968). and on the Fridays of Lent. So there is no Mercy In some places where particular energy absolute requirement for U.S. Catholics is applied to these efforts, the results are to abstain on every Friday; however, the By Linda Abner remarkable. One small farming town bishops ask that, if we choose to eat meat in central Michigan with a population on Friday, we adopt some other type of of 1,224 has now produced 22 priests; penitential practice in remembrance of the Words exchanged between them that town’s Catholic parish has a weekly sacrificial death of Christ. Could not be retrieved, Holy Hour to pray for vocations to But the bishops do still clearly encourage Forgiveness freely offered; the priesthood and religious life, and abstention from meat on all Fridays, saying Mercy is received. fundraisers are held regularly to support (in a 1966 statement entitled “Penance and those who have chosen such paths. Abstinence”) that “we give first place to Sorrow overwhelming, A key factor in promoting vocations abstinence from flesh meat ... in the hope Grief that can’t be borne. is personal encouragement from other that the Catholic community will ordinarily Presence of companions— Catholics. Recently, the Center for continue to abstain from meat by free Mercy carries on. Applied Research in the Apostolate choice as formerly we did in obedience to determined that 350,000 single Catholic Church law.” Tragedy unfolding; males in the U.S. have “very seriously” As to what constitutes “meat,” the Chaos everywhere. considered a vocation to the priesthood, bishops say (in a 2016 publication called Caring souls endeavor; (Linda Abner is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes but only 1,000 enter a seminary or a “Questions and Answers about Lent and Mercy is their prayer. Parish in Indianapolis. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin religious order’s novitiate each year. That Lenten Practices”): “Abstinence does chats with women of the Indiana Women’s Prison same study shows that if a young man has not include meat juices and liquid foods Sadness like a coffin, in Indianapolis after celebrating Mass there on three people encourage him toward the made from meat. Thus, such foods as No strength to face each day— May 10, 2015.) (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) priesthood, he is five times more likely to chicken broth, consommé, soups cooked Angels whisper “courage.” consider such a vocation. or flavored with meat, meat gravies or Mercy leads the way. In my own diocese, some success sauces … are technically not forbidden.” has come from a program titled “Called But they quickly add, “However, moral Shame and guilt imprison, While we were yet in darkness by Name.” On one particular weekend, theologians have traditionally taught that Thorough in defeat, Stumbling through the night, churchgoers throughout the diocese were we should abstain from all animal-derived But the soul finds freedom Compassion was God’s answer, encouraged to write on a card the name of products (except foods such as gelatin, At the mercy seat. Embracing us with Light. someone they knew who they felt would butter, cheese and eggs, which do not make a good priest. have any meat taste).” Righteous in our judgments, Heart of God so open, Those named were then contacted by Demanding others pay; Eternal second chance: the diocese, and invited to an evening with (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth God shines His sun on everyone— Life, a song of mystery— our diocesan bishop where, in low-key and Doyle at [email protected] and Mercy is His way. Mercy is the dance. friendly conversation, vocational discernment 30 Columbia Circle Drive, Albany, N.Y., and the daily lives of priests and religious are 12203.) † Page 22 The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016

Oct. 4. Wife of Clay McBride. Mother of Diane Powers, Sandy Satterfield and Stephen McBride. Sister of Mary Hack, Eileen Kellems, Velma Rest in peace Stewart and Jim Bennett. Grandmother of six. Great- Please submit in writing to our GRIFFIN, Thomas L., 96, grandmother of one. office by 10 a.m. Thursday St. Therese of the Infant Jesus before the week of publication; MCGLYNN, Yvonne, R., 94, (Little Flower), Oct. 11. Father be sure to state date of death. Christ the King, Indianapolis, of Kathleen Aldrich, Mary Obituaries of archdiocesan Aug. 28. Mother of James and Ann Burkhart, Ruthie Reid, priests serving our arch- Kevin McGlynn. Grandmother Eileen Walters, Maureen and diocese are listed elsewhere in of six. Great-grandmother of Vincent Griffin. Brother of The Criterion. Order priests five. Ruth Ann Melloy. Grandfather and religious sisters and of 18. Great-grandfather of 32. MATTSON, Margaret, C., brothers are included here, 95, Our Lady of Lourdes, unless they are natives of the GRINER, Marina, 98, Indianapolis, Oct. 13. Mother archdiocese or have other St. Matthew the Apostle, of John and Lloyd Mattson. connec­tions to it; those are Indianapolis, Sept. 10. Mother Grandmother of 10. Great- separate obituaries on this of Dani Paolo Bolognesi and grandmother of 11. page. Caterina Blitzer. Grandmother of four. Step-grandmother of MOORE, Frances L., 91, three. Great-grandmother of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, BERRYMAN, Karen S., nine. New Albany, Oct. 6. Sister of 53, Our Lady of Perpetual Ronald Love. Help, New Albany, Oct. 13. HESTER, Donna F., 69, Daughter of Leroy and Rose St. Bartholomew, Columbus, MULLIN, Virginia M. Berryman. Sister of Alan Oct. 10. Wife of Robert (Diver), 96, St. Roch, Berryman. Hester. Mother of Melissa Indianapolis, Oct. 14. Mother Davis, Marci Harkless, of Margaret Bowers, Mary CLARKSON, Mary Frances Michelle, Bernard and Shawn Smith, Martha Weber, John (Meier), 89, St. Michael, Eder and Eric Hester. Sister of and Tim Mullin. Sister of Brookville, Oct. 15. Mother Billie Bailey, Minnie Brugger, three. Grandmother of nine. of Mary Beth Baird, Beth Ann Cumberworth, Great-grandmother of one. Catherine and Joseph Meier. Dianna Poole and Thelma Sue Grandmother of five. Great- OATES, Thomas, 74, Sauter. Grandmother of 17. grandmother of six. St. Michael, Brookville, Villa visit Great-grandmother of four. Oct. 14. Husband of Marlene DEARING, Anita, 64, JENKS, James E., 82, Oates. Father of Michelle A hallway is seen in the papal villa at Castel Gandolfo, Italy, on Oct. 21. Private areas of the St. Jude, Indianapolis, St. Michael the Archangel, Howard and Jeff Oates. papal villa are now open to the public. Although many popes over the centuries have spent their Oct. 14. Mother of Harry Indianapolis, Oct. 3. Husband Grandfather of two. summers at Castel Gandolfo, Pope Francis has chosen to remain in Rome. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) and Teddy Dearing. Sister of of Carol Jenks. Father of Patricia Hurrle and Dr. Joan PETTY, Roy C., 65, Our Nancy Fentz and Karen and Kathalene Mahoney. Lady of Perpetual Help, Jenks. Brother of John Jenks. New Albany, Oct. 11. Oct. 11. Wife of Robert Hilbert, Lindsay Johnson, of two. Grandmother of one. Rodewig. Mother of Brenda Shelby Scott, Lindsay Smith, Grandfather of two. Husband of Mary Lynn Petty. VEERKAMP, ALEXANDER, DECKER, Andrew J., 61, Mayfield, Johnny and Tony Hilbert, Tyler Scott and LAMPPERT, Joseph M., 83, Father of Heather Yates, R., 22, St. Mary, Greensburg, St. Louis, Batesville, Oct. 16. Michael Portwood and Allan Bryan Volta. Uncle of two. St. Nicholas, Ripley County, Christopher and Curtis Petty. Oct. 15. Son of Bob and Son of Helen Decker. Brother and Robert, Jr. Rodewig. Oct. 9. Husband of Carolyn Brother of Kay and Linda SELM, Jr., Urban J., 79, Michelle Veerkamp. Brother of of Teresa Huy, Susan, Paul Grandmother of eight. Great- Lamppert. Father of Susan Petty. Grandfather of four. St. Michael, Brookville, Vanessa and Grant Veerkamp. and Pete Decker. Uncle of grandmother of several. Batta, Sandra Hammond and Oct. 3. Husband of Sandra Grandson of Alfred and Bernice several. PRIFOGLE, Helen M., 90, Stephen Lamppert. Brother of St. Michael, Brookville, RUSSELL, Laura A. Selm. Father of Julie and Diekhoff and Carl Veerkamp. (McWilliams), 44, Prince Joe Selm. Step-father of FELDHAKE, Leo, 93, Robert Lamppert. Grandfather Oct. 1. Mother of James WIBBELS, Jr., Thomas of Peace, Madison, Oct. 7. Geri Lord, Karla Page-Bates St. Jude, Indianapolis, of five. Great-grandfather of Prifogle. Grandmother of four. A., 71, St. Mary, Lanesville, Mother of Devin Russell. and Henry Page. Brother of Oct. 16. Husband of Jean seven. Great-grandmother of six. Oct. 15. Father of Thomas A. Feldhake. Father of Mary Ann Daughter of Beverly Gerald, Jim and John Selm. LAUGHNER, Eileen F., Wibbels III. Grandfather of one. Wietbrock, Linda, Teresa, REISING, Violet H., 93, McWilliams. Sister of Grandfather of 13. Great- 82, St. Luke the Evangelist, Mike and Tom Feldhake. St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Kathleen Elliott and Patrick grandfather of 14. WILLIAMS, Walter E., Indianapolis, Oct. 10. Mother of Oct. 12. Mother of Kay 83, St. Roch, Indianapolis, Grandfather of 12. Great- McWilliams. Half-sister of TRIPP, Georgiana, 90, Diann Johandes, Jack and Scott Cooper, Carla Knapp, Oct. 8. Husband of Mary grandfather of five. Paula Schwanitz and Larry St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Laughner. Sister of Mary Reis David and Paul Reising. Eleanor Williams. Father Holmes. Oct. 15. Wife of Leonard FLODDER, Wilbur E., 98, Zaleski. Grandmother of five. Grandmother of nine. Great- of Cathy Henninger, Patty Holy Family, Oldenburg, SCOTT, Justin M., 23, Tripp. Mother of Judy and LECHNER, Thomas A., 86, grandmother of 17. Luttrell, Anne Okerson and Oct. 18. Father of Patti St. Nicholas, Ripley County, Gary Tripp. Grandmother of St. Jude, Indianapolis, John Williams. Brother of Bischoff, Debbie Hannebaum, RODEWIG, Della M., 84, Sept. 26. Son of Valerie four. Great-grandmother of Sept. 29. Brother of Betty Connie and Don Williams. Rick and Jim Flodder. St. Mary, New Albany, Hilbert. Brother of Becky seven. Step great-grandmother Murphy. Grandfather of six. † Grandfather of 12. Great- grandfather of nine. MCBRIDE, Dorothy L., 87, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Dialogue is expression of mercy, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Dialogue is an essential don’t yell, but have an open heart.” Online Lay Ministry Formation component of mercy because it is the only way a husband Pope Francis spoke about the importance of dialogue and wife can understand each other, and marked the feast of St. John Paul II on Oct. 22 The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the people of different religions can with a special Holy Year of Mercy general audience University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) live in peace and the only way the in and around St. Peter’s Square. With about 100,000 to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: Catholic Church can evaluate what is people in attendance, according to Vatican police, the • Courses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church from CDU needed to promote the common good crowd overflowed the square. Making his rounds in • All 12 classes for a Certificate in Lay Ministry available online in the world, Pope Francis said. the popemobile at the beginning of the audience, Pope • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners Good relations between husbands Francis made sure to drive part way down the main • Employees also receive reimbursement upon course completion and wives, parents and children, boulevard outside the square to greet people. For more information, please log on to employees and bosses, he said, In his main audience talk, Pope Francis said dialogue require one “to listen, explain with is an important aspect of mercy. It is what “allows www.archindy.org/layministry Pope Francis meekness, don’t bark at the other, people to know each other and understand the needs of the other.” In addition, “it is a sign of great respect” because it involves listening to the other and making the If you are a victim of effort to see the good in what the other is saying. Report sexual misconduct by a person “Dialogue calls us to place ourselves before the other, ministering on behalf of the seeing him or her as a gift of God,” the pope said. sexual Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim of “We don’t dialogue when we do not listen enough, or misconduct such misconduct, please contact when we interrupt the other to prove that we are right,” the archdiocesan victim he said. “How many times when we are listening to now assistance coordinator: someone, we stop them and say, ‘No. No. No, that’s not Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Hear Catholic Radio Indy right,’ and we don’t let the person finish.” P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1410 Such an attitude, he said, is “aggression.” 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 Right on Your Cellphone The Church, too, is called to dialogue, Pope Francis [email protected] NOT an APP … Uses no data said. 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Saying St. John Paul tirelessly proclaimed “the Gospel of mercy,” Pope Francis offered special prayers that the late pope would intercede to help young people face the challenges in their lives, help the sick “embrace with hope the cross of illness” and fill with love the families newlyweds are just starting. † The Criterion Friday, October 28, 2016 Page 23 What role are life issues playing in the presidential election? WASHINGTON (CNS)—Back in June, confusing. The voice of the values voters, Kristan Hawkins, who heads Students especially on abortion, is not as important for Life, got a firsthand look at how this as it used to be.” presidential election differs from all others Clinton’s running mate, U.S. Sen. when she participated in Donald Trump’s Tim Kaine of Virginia, also supports the outreach meeting with Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling, which evangelicals, which had legalized abortion virtually on demand in only a few Catholics 1973. As a practicing Catholic, Kaine says present. he is personally opposed to abortion, but She said the Republican that as a public official he cannot impose his nominee for president views on his constituents. appeared to be unfamiliar The Democratic National Platform, with the pro-life endorsed by Clinton and Kaine, opposes movement. “He kept saying ‘the pro-life.’ “Republican efforts to defund Planned I think I would have liked to have known Parenthood health centers,” and “seeks Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton are seen more of his heart, and less stump speeches.” to overturn federal and state laws and in Las Vegas during the final 2016 presidential campaign debate on Oct. 19. (CNS photo/Carlos Barria, Reuters) Three months and two campaign policies that impede a woman’s access managers later, Trump issued a specific to abortion, including by repealing the It remains an issue for voters in several the death penalty as a lawyer. As governor document about his pro-life positions with Hyde Amendment.” This represents a shift states, with referendums on the death penalty of Virginia, however, he approved 11 the formation of his 34-member Catholic by Kaine, who has supported the Hyde on ballots in California, Nebraska and executions and granted clemency in only Advisory Group, whose members include Amendment in the past. Oklahoma. Nebraska voters will decide if one appeal. He says he remains personally Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Trump’s document makes four promises: they want to keep the state’s ban on capital opposed to the death penalty, but pledged Susan B. Anthony List; Janet Morana, that as president, he would nominate pro- punishment as voted in by its legislature. to uphold the law in Virginia. co-founder of the Silent No More life Supreme Court justices; that he would Nebraska’s governor vetoed it. Lawmakers “Forming Consciences for Faithful Campaign; and Father Frank Pavone, sign into law a 20-week abortion ban overrode the veto, then the issue went to the Citizenship,” the U.S. bishops’ document national director of Priests for Life. known as the Pain-Capable Unborn Child ballot to have voters decide. on political responsibility that guides On Oct. 5, the Trump campaign sent Protection Act; would support stopping California’s Proposition 62 calls for Catholics on election decisions, states: a letter to members of the Catholic federal dollars from going to Planned replacing it with life imprisonment with no “Society has a duty to defend life against Leadership Conference meeting in Denver Parenthood “as long as they continue to chance for parole, and Oklahoma voters violence and to reach out to victims pledging his support for pro-life issues. perform abortions”; and support making are being asked if they want to add the of crime. Yet our nation’s continued Democratic presidential nominee Hillary the Hyde Amendment permanent law. Each death penalty to the state’s constitution. reliance on the death penalty cannot be Clinton was invited to address the group, year, the ban on using federal funds for In all three states, priests were justified” (#66). but her campaign declined. abortions must be approved as a rider on the expected to address the issue as a pro-life On the issue of assisted suicide, the Durign the Oct. 9 town hall debate appropriations bill. matter from their pulpits. Republican platform opposes euthanasia; with Trump, Clinton said she wants “a In the vice presidential debate on Oct. 4, “In the past,” says a statement from the the Democratic platform, as in past years, Supreme Court that will stick with Roe Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike California Catholic Conference, capital has no language on it. The Republican v. Wade and a woman’s right to choose.” Pence, an evangelical Christian, remarked, punishment “was sometimes morally document states, “We oppose the She reiterated that position during the last “I think if you’re going to be pro-life, you justified in order to protect society, but nonconsensual withholding or withdrawal presidential debate on Oct. 19 in Nevada. should be pro-adoption.” Kaine said he those times have passed.” California of care or treatment, including food and How prominent a role have life believed that women should make their own bishops also are asking voters to say no to water, from people with disabilities, issues—abortion but also capital decisions about pregnancy. Proposition 66, which would expedite the including newborns, as well as the elderly punishment and assisted suicide—really On the issue of the death penalty, the review of death penalty cases. and infirm, just as we oppose active and played in the 2016 presidential elections? Democratic Party’s platform calls for its “Any rush to streamline that process will passive euthanasia and assisted suicide.” “It’s about personality, mostly,” abolition. The Republican Party platform inevitably result in the execution of more “Faithful Citizenship” calls assisted said Massimo Faggioli, a professor of calls it “firmly settled” as a constitutional innocent people,” the conference said. suicide “intrinsically evil,” ranking it with theology and religious studies at Villanova issue, and additionally, condemns the Kaine, the only Catholic among the abortion, and adds, “It is a mistake with University of Philadelphia, in an interview U.S. Supreme Court for what it calls four major national candidates, has been grave moral consequences to treat the with Catholic News Service (CNS). He the “erosion of the right of the people to outspoken on the death penalty. He destruction of innocent human life merely called the presidential campaign “morally enact capital punishment.” defended death-row inmates and opposed as a matter of individual choice” (#22). † Presidential nominees spar over abortion issue as final debate opens WASHINGTON (CNS)—In the final regulate if you are doing so with the life has to make. And I do not believe the According to the Alan Guttmacher presidential debate on Oct. 19, Republican and the health of the mother taken into government should be making it.” Institute, just over 1 percent of all Donald Trump used his most explicit account.” Catholic teaching condemns the abortions are performed at 21 weeks or language to date to denounce late-term “If you go with what Hillary is saying,” intentional killing of the unborn at any later. Eight states already have a 20-week abortions. Trump responded, “in the ninth month, time from conception on. abortion ban. Trump made those remarks after you can take the baby and rip the baby In 2003, Congress passed the Partial Trump has promised in writing that he Democrat Hillary Clinton, answering the out of the womb of the mother. Just prior Birth Abortion Ban Act, and the bill was would sign into law a federal 20-week first question from moderator Chris Wallace, to the birth of the baby. You can say that signed into law by President George ban known as the Pain-Capable Unborn restated her support of the 1973 Roe v. Wade that’s OK and Hillary can say that that’s W. Bush. The Supreme Court upheld ban Child Protection Act, and also stop federal decision that legalized abortion virtually on OK, but it’s not OK with me. by a 5-4 vote in 2007. funding of Planned Parenthood, but he demand, and she pledged continued support “Because based on what she’s saying The law prohibits a form of did not repeat those promises during the for Planned Parenthood. and based on where she’s going and late-term abortion known as “partial- debate. “The kinds of cases that fall at the where she’s been, you can take the baby birth,” also referred to as an “intact Trump did restate his promise end of pregnancy are often the most and rip the baby out of the womb. In the dilation and extraction.” A live fetus is to nominate pro-life justices “of a heartbreaking, painful decisions for ninth month. On the final day. And that’s partially delivered, and an incision is conservative bent” to the Supreme Court, families to make,” she said. “I do not not acceptable,” he said. made at the base of the skull, through acknowledging that were the court to think the United States government Clinton called that “scare rhetoric,” which the brain is removed, allowing for repeal Roe v. Wade, “it will go back to should be stepping in and making those adding, “This is one of the worst possible easier delivery of the collapsed head and the states and the states will then make a most personal of decisions. So you can choices that any woman and her family the rest of the baby’s body. determination.” †

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Pope Francis will visit Lund and “Swedes are Malmo on Sweden’s southern tip on known to be people of Oct. 31-Nov. 1, mainly to participate in consensus, pragmatic, an international, ecumenical launch of so people try to commemorations of the 500th anniversary cooperate even if they of the Protestant Reformation. have different views The pope has insisted Christians and backgrounds,” cannot pass all responsibility for Bishop Anders said Bishop Anders building Christian unity onto theologians Arborelius Arborelius of participating in official bilateral dialogues. Stockholm, the country’s only Catholic The prayer of all Christians is essential, bishop and the first native Swede to hold he has said, and so is friendship. “Walk the post since the Protestant Reformation. together, pray for each other, and do More than 60 percent of Swedes are works of charity together when you can. baptized members of the Lutheran Church This is ecumenism,” he said in Georgia in A statue of Martin Luther is seen onstage as Pope Francis arrives for an audience with a pilgrimage of Catholics and Lutherans from Germany in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican on Oct. 13. The pope will of Sweden, and just over 1 percent are early October. visit Sweden on Oct. 31-Nov. 1 for the start of a yearlong commemoration of the 500th anniversary of registered members of the Catholic “People are very excited” about the the Protestant Reformation. (CNS photo/Stefano Rellandini, Reuters) Church, although Bishop Arborelius said pope’s visit, Rev. Bjerkhagen said. “Since that with the ever-increasing number of the Holy Father is a living symbol for person can be very welcoming and very His family’s contact with the immigrants in the country, the number of unity for many of us, we expect a lot! open, even if he sticks to his faith. Bridgettine sisters had a deep influence Catholics probably is double the official And particularly from this pope, who “Lately, there are more and more on him, he said, and eventually he began 115,000. has shown such a strong and brave voices saying religion brings intolerance, taking courses in the Catholic faith. Still, Sweden has become almost leadership in so many ways: his solidarity violence, conflict,” he said. “Before, they Entering the Catholic Church at the age famous for being one of the most secular with refugees and poor people; the very looked upon religious people as, well, of 20, he said, “I had some longing to countries in Europe. In surveys, less than honest interest he has shown toward other very tame, a bit stupid, but now they tend be a priest—many converts have this a third of Swedes describe themselves Christian churches; his open attitude on to say religion can make people violent.” idea,” but the local bishop urged him to as religious, and even fewer participate social-ethical matters; his humble and While the growth of the Catholic wait. He entered the Discalced Carmelite regularly in church services. easygoing way of approaching people.” Church in Sweden is due mainly to novitiate less than two years after However, “even in the secular society, The Lutheran chaplain and the Catholic immigrants, including Chaldean and becoming Catholic. there are certain Christian values that bishop both said friendship is something Maronite Catholics from the Middle East, Traditionally in Sweden, most converts are very much alive—this wish to help that is plentiful among Lutherans and Bishop Arborelius is part of the smaller, come from university circles, Bishop poor people, to protect those who are Catholics in Sweden. In fact, Bishop but steadily growing segment of Swedes Arborelius said, and are attracted by the in danger and to establish equal rights Arborelius said, his growing diocese does who have joined the Catholic Church after Catholic Church’s embrace of reason, its for everyone,” Bishop Arborelius told not have enough churches and so many being baptized Lutheran. theological depth and its social doctrine. Catholic News Service (CNS) on Oct. 18. Catholic Masses, especially in rural areas, “Not very active” as a Lutheran, he “Somehow, they think the Catholic Church The Rev. Michael Bjerkhagen, official are celebrated in Lutheran churches. always felt drawn to “the contemplative is a bit more serious about these things, so chaplain to the king of Sweden, agreed. “A The bishop said he hopes Pope Francis’ life or spirituality,” the bishop said. “I it’s quite common that people who are very Christian religious attitude still permeates popularity among Swedes and his visit will always had this longing for a life of well educated, if they turn to Christian faith, many ‘secular’ Swedes,” he said in an help the nonreligious “see that a Christian prayer and silent adoration.” they go to a Catholic church.” †

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