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Biking for Babies Group offers powerful witness for the unborn, page 16. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com October 16, 2020 Vol. LXI, No. 3 75¢ Supreme Court ‘WE WANT TO BELONG’ confirmation hearings highlight health care, religion WASHINGTON (CNS)—The Oct. 12 start of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett had two distinct focuses. Democratic senators homed in on concern that Barrett’s confirmation would lead to a vote to potentially overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA) when Judge Amy Coney the legislation comes Barrett before the nation’s high court in November. Republican senators emphasized the nominee’s qualifications for the role and stressed that her Catholic faith, which was raised in her 2017 questioning before the same Senate committee for her federal judiciary nomination, shouldn’t be an issue in the current proceedings. Indiana senators, who introduced Barrett remotely to the committee near the end of the five hours of discussion about her, highlighted Barrett’s judicial talents and emphasized that her Catholic faith should not come into question, with Sen. Todd Cheyenne Johnson poses for a photo at Butler University in Indianapolis where the senior has embraced her desire to become a Catholic and the Young, R-Indiana, pointing out that in his faith-filled community that has welcomed her. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) state, “Faith is seen as an asset in public service.” In her remarks, Barrett said she was “honored and humbled” to be nominated In her search for a home and a purpose, to the Supreme Court. She spoke of her husband, their seven children, her siblings and her parents. She mentioned “the college student finds both in her Catholic faith devoted teachers at St. Mary’s Dominican,” First in an occasional series where she would feel she belonged. the girls high school she attended in New She explored different options during her freshman year Orleans. (Editor’s note: In this series, The Criterion will at Butler University in Indianapolis, including A graduate of the University of Notre feature young adults who have found a home in joining a sorority. But none of them provided Dame Law School in norther Indiana the Church and strive to live their faith in their what she hoped for—until she decided to follow and currently a member of the school’s everyday life.) a longing that had intrigued her earlier in her faculty, she also mentioned that if she were teenage years. confirmed, she would be the only justice on By John Shaughnessy When Johnson was 13, her family had the bench not from Harvard or Yale. already moved several times, from Florida to Other than the school references, Barrett’s Like many first-year students in college, California to Arizona to Indiana. Raised as a only remark about her faith came after Cheyenne Johnson was searching. Southern Baptist, she found that in every place thanking people for their support in recent Searching for friends. her family moved, there was something different and confusing weeks. She added: “I believe in the power of Searching for a purpose in life. about the faith experience she had in church. It left her longing prayer, and it has been uplifting to hear that Searching for a community where she would be welcomed, See COLLEGE, page 8 so many people are praying for me.” See BARRETT, page 7 Holy Angels breaks ground after eight years without church By Natalie Hoefer structure was razed. “I cried and cried. for its new church on the same site as That was a sad, sad day. the former one on the near-west side of Nelli Simpson and Claudia Nicholas “But this is a great day,” she Indianapolis. Completion is expected stood side by side looking at the site quickly added, her mask-covered smile by March or April 2021, depending on where Holy Angels Church once stood. sparkling through her eyes. weather. “I was here the day they tore it The “great day” was Sept. 26, The event was more than a decade in down,” said Nicholas of the date eight the day Holy Angels Parish held a the making. years ago when the 109-year-old groundbreaking and blessing ceremony See HOLY ANGELS, page 8 Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, center, joins others in breaking ground for the Indianapolis faith community’s new church during a ceremony on Sept. 26. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, October 16, 2020 ‘Gospel is not reserved for Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson a few,’ Pope Francis says __________ October 17–25, 2020 VATICAN CITY (CNS)—God California, and I am also thinking of the loves and has prepared a banquet for central regions of South America, from the October 17 – 10 a.m. October 21 – 10 a.m. everyone—“the just and sinners, the Pantanal zone of Paraguay to the banks of the Confirmation Mass for youths of Department heads meeting at good and the bad, the intelligent and the Parana River in Argentina. St. Joseph Parish in Corydon, Our Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara uneducated”—and “Many fires are caused by persistent Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Catholic Center, Indianapolis every Christian is drought, but there are also those caused New Albany, St. Mary Parish in called to go out to by man,” he said. “May the Lord sustain Lanesville and St. John Paul II October 22 – 10 a.m. the highways and those who are suffering the consequences Parish in Sellersburg, at Our Lady of Leadership Team meeting at byways sharing God’s of these catastrophes and make us careful Perpetual Help Church, New Albany Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara invitation to the feast, to preserve creation.” Catholic Center Pope Francis said. Pope Francis also praised Armenia October 17 – 1:30 p.m. Before reciting the and Azerbaijan for agreeing to a Confirmation Mass for youths of October 23 – 6 p.m. Angelus prayer on Oct. cease-fire “for humanitarian reasons, St. Mary Parish in Navilleton, St. Mary Marian University BOLD Gala at 11, the pope reflected in view of reaching a substantial peace Parish in New Albany and St. John the JW Marriott, Indianapolis Pope Francis on Jesus’ parable from accord,” after renewed fighting over the Baptist Parish in Starlight, at St. Mary the Gospel of Matthew Nagorno-Karabakh region left hundreds Church, New Albany October 25 – 2 p.m about the king who prepared a wedding of people dead in late September and Confirmation Mass for youths of feast for his son; when the originally invited early October. October 18 – 2 p.m. St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish in Floyd guests did not arrive, he sent his messengers The pope also used his post-Angelus Confirmation Mass for youths of County, St. Michael Parish, Bradford, out to invite anyone and everyone. remarks to draw attention to his prayer American Martyrs Parish in Scottsburg, St. Bernard Parish in Frenchtown, “Even those on the margins, even those request for October, a request distributed at American Martyrs Church St. Joseph Parish in Crawford County, who are rejected and scorned by society, globally by the Pope’s Worldwide Holy Family Parish in New Albany, are considered by God to be worthy of his Prayer Network, formerly known as the October 20 – 1 p.m. and Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and love,” the pope told the crowd gathered in Apostleship of Prayer. Council of Priests meeting at Our Lady St. Augustine parishes in Jeffersonville, St. Peter’s Square to pray with him. The intention, he said, “goes like this: ‘We of the Greenwood Parish, Greenwood at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Church, The Church as a whole and each of its pray that by the virtue of baptism, the laity, Floyds Knobs members, he said, are called to go out to especially women, may participate more in “the geographic and existential peripheries areas of responsibility in the Church.’ of humanity, those places at the margins, “Today there is a need to broaden the those situations where those who have set spaces for a more incisive female presence up camp are found and where the hopeless in the Church,” he said, “because in general Pope Francis meets Cardinal Pell, remnants of humanity live.” women are set aside. We must promote the “It is a matter of not settling for integration of women into the places where comfort and the customary ways of important decisions are made.” thanks him for his ‘witness’ evangelization and witnessing to charity,” He added, however, that women leaders VATICAN CITY (CNS)—“Thank arrived in Rome on Sept. 30, more than the pope said, but rather “opening the in the Church must maintain their vocation you for your witness,” Pope Francis told three years after he had left Rome to face doors of our hearts and our communities as laity and not fall into “clericalism.” retired Australian Cardinal George Pell as charges in Australia. to everyone, because the Gospel is not Finally, the pope encouraged young the two sat down for a private meeting on Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican reserved to a select few.” people around the world to join a rosary Oct. 12, six months after the High Court secretary of state, had told reporters on After the formal prayer, Pope Francis campaign being sponsored by the Aid to of Australia overturned the cardinal’s Oct. 1 that it was Cardinal Pell’s decision expressed his closeness to people “impacted the Church in Need Foundation. conviction on sex abuse charges. to come to Rome, where he still has an by the fires that are devastating so many Pope Francis called the foundation’s “More than a year,” the pope could be apartment, and that Pope Francis was not regions of the planet, as well as to the “One Million Children Praying the Rosary” heard saying to Cardinal Pell in a brief thinking of giving the Australian prelate a volunteers and firefighters who risk their lives on Oct.