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Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com June 24, 2016 Vol. LVI, No. 37 75¢ Too many couples do not understand ‘They are family’ marriage is for life, Francis says ROME (CNS)—Because most people today do not understand that sacramental marriage really is a bond that binds them to each other for life, many marriages today can be considered invalid, said. Raising a point he has raised before, and one also raised by now-retired Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis Pope Francis insisted on June 16 that the validity of a marriage implies that a couple understands that sacramental marriage is a bond that truly binds them to another for their entire lives. “We are living in a culture of the provisional,” he told participants in the of Rome’s annual pastoral conference. Answering questions after giving a Franciscan Sister Christine Ernstes, right, shares a smile with Anna Johannigman and Anna’s father, Joe Johannigman, before Mass on June 12 at prepared talk, Pope Francis told the story of Church in Millhousen in the Batesville Deanery. Anna sings during Mass while Joe plays the piano. (Submitted photo by Amy Hermesch) a bishop who said a university graduate came to him saying he wanted to be a priest, but only for 10 years. Emotions run deep for retiring sister The idea of commitments being temporary “occurs everywhere, even in priestly and religious life. The provisional. And for this who helped live their faith reason, a large majority of sacramental marriages are null. They say ‘yes, for my By John Shaughnessy that family on July 3 as she retires in the Batesville Deanery. Then the men whole life,’ but they do not know what they just a few months shy of her 75th birthday. of the parish decided to go with their are saying because they have a different MILLHOUSEN—Tears started to Everyone expects it to be an emotional day. “A” game—barbecued pulled pork. culture,” he said. pool in the eyes of Franciscan Sister “Sister Christine has been a huge part “It’s what they make for the parish The Vatican press office, publishing a Christine Ernstes. of the faith community in Decatur and auction,” she says with a smile. “They transcript the next day, adjusted the pope’s She could feel the emotion rising Jennings County,” says Scott Hermesch, take their time in letting the sauce soak in. words to read, “A part of our sacramental within her as she sat in the sanctuary the chairperson of the parish council. “In a It’s so good.” marriages are null because they [the spouses] during a recent Sunday Mass at lot of ways, when we think of the From tears to smiles, Sister Christine say, ‘Yes, for my whole life,’ but they do not Immaculate Conception Church in Church, we think of Sister Christine and the has experienced a range of emotions since know what they are saying because they have Millhousen, where she has served as role she plays in helping to administer the she came in 1995 to Millhousen, which is a different culture.” the parish life coordinator for the past faith and live out the Gospel. She has been just 10 miles from where she grew up on a Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, Vatican 21 years. our very real and direct link to the teachings farm in the Greensburg area. spokesman, said transcripts of the pope’s “I saw all these people coming up for of the Church.” “It’s been good because it’s let me off-the-cuff remarks always are reviewed Communion, and I thought of how all It’s the kind of tribute that will move connect with my friends, and I’ve been for precision and clarity to publication. of them had touched my life, and how I Sister Christine close to tears again, but her closer to my family. My mom died that “When dealing with particularly important had touched theirs,” she recalls. “I almost face breaks into a smile when she thinks April, and I came here in November. topics, the revised text always is given to the cried just because they are so much a part of the parish’s plan for her sendoff. At People at my previous parish in Aurora pope himself. That happened in this case, of my life. They are family.” first, a pig roast was planned, a farewell [St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception] therefore the published text was approved Sister Christine will say goodbye to fitting of this rural, farming community See FAMILY, page 2 expressly by the pope.” See MARRIAGE, page 2 Lori finds encouragement for the Church in ongoing religious liberty struggles By Sean Gallagher increased. The Islamic State has killed Second of two parts many Christians in the Middle East for their faith and driven many more from their The Church in the U.S. is in the midst ancestral homes. of its fifth annual Fortnight for Freedom, a In America, the pressure on religious period of prayer, advocacy and education liberty has been seen in recent years in such related to religious liberty enshrined in the wide-ranging issues as care for immigrants First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. to implications of the legal redefinition of The bishops in this marriage in the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 between the federal government and many country established Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. Catholic and Christian organizations the Fortnight in 2012 At the same time, religious freedom that were opposed in conscience to the in part because of the has been successfully defended in the Affordable Care Act’s abortifacient, mounting threats to judicial system. sterilization and contraceptive mandate. religious freedom both Two years ago, the Supreme Court ruled In an interview with The Criterion, in the U.S. and around in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby that the freedom Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori the world. of expression of religion of the owners of reflected on this decision by the high In the closely held businesses was protected by the court, other challenges to religious liberty, four years since federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act. and the role this freedom should play in the first Fortnight, Last month, the Supreme Court in its political considerations leading up to the Archbishop those threats have Zubik v. Burwell decision paved the way to presidential election in November. William E. Lori in some ways only a mutually agreeable negotiated settlement See LIBERTY, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016

weekly to play euchre, a group that has called her to step FAMILY in when one of the regulars isn’t available. They asked her continued from page 1 for prayers for family members in need. They told her they will miss her. They bragged about her as much as she raved said it was my mom’s doing that I came to Millhousen so I about the restaurant’s fried chicken and homemade pies. could be closer to my dad. He died three years ago. It was a Sitting at one of the tables, 94-year-old Martha Fry—a blessing to be that close.” lifetime member of Immaculate Conception—describes From the beginning, Sister Christine has tried to grow Sister Christine as “an inspiration.” and nourish the roots of faith and family that have always “She’s been such a marvelous leader in our church in been part of this farming community. every way,” Fry says. “She was with my when “When I first came, I was responsible for both he was dying. It was such a comfort to me to know that Immaculate Conception and St. Denis [in Jennings County] she was there to pray and be with his daughters when he parishes,” she says. “I told them we could make them was dying. She has a very pleasant personality, and she’s faith-filled places of prayer, worship and community very concerned about the parish. We are really going outreach to others, but it was up to all of us to do it. to miss her.” “They’ve always been willing to live their faith in all The feeling is mutual for Sister Christine, whose ways—reaching out, caring for each other, and coming nearly 54 years in religious life have also included together in worship. There are times when I am very service at Holy Spirit Parish, St. Philip Neri Parish and humbled by the faith of the people around me. I try to do Marian University, all in Indianapolis. what I challenge them to do.” As she prepares to move to the Franciscan Sisters’ One of the most challenging times came in 2013 when motherhouse in Oldenburg, she smiles at the memories the archdiocesan “Connected in the Spirit” planning process of how the parishioners of Immaculate Conception and led to St. Denis Parish being closed and merged into St. Denis parishes always looked out for her. Immaculate Conception. “When the weather is bad, the men of the parish refuse to “It was hard, but I think it has gone well,” she says. plow my driveway because they don’t want me out on the “It took effort on my part and the effort of the people town. Instead, they come and take me to town or wherever I in both parishes. They were willing to reach out to need to go. one another. When we put out our last parish pictorial “That shows the warmth and caring of the people here. directory, one of the first pictures was of the last Mass at They are good, welcoming people, and I have so much St. Denis. Underneath it, it said, ‘the newest members of gratitude for them. I will miss all of them.” † Immaculate Conception Parish.’ ” No one has had a better view of the difference Sister Christine has made in this community than Franciscan Sister Christine Ernstes listens as Lane Asher talks Kathy Westrick, who was already serving as the parish’s with her, Kendra Martin, Rhett Martin, left, and Ryker Martin coordinator of religious education when Sister arrived. (his back to the camera) before Mass on June 12 at Immaculate “She works so hard, and she’s done an awful lot— Conception Church in Millhousen in the Batesville Deanery. spiritually and also financially,” Westrick says. “We were (Submitted photo by Amy Hermesch) hurting financially before she showed up. Her motto is, ‘If you give to the charities, God will take care of you.’ So when we do an auction every year, some of that money is donated to the charities we take care of. It’s worked out ever ‘They’ve always been willing to live their faith in all ways— since she’s been with us.” reaching out, caring for each other, and coming together in Westrick’s voice gets softer as she adds, “She’s very worship. There are times when I am very humbled by the compassionate, very thoughtful, just a good person. She’s always been there for us—and me personally—during a lot faith of the people around me. I try to do what I challenge of sad times in our lives. She fit in from the beginning. She them to do.’ was used to country life, and we’re a country parish. It was a good match.” That sentiment came to life when Sister Christine stopped —Franciscan Sister Christine Ernstes by Millhousen’s lone restaurant—Stones—on a recent day for lunch. She was welcomed warmly by diners who meet

“The crisis of marriage is because people He said he had thought that the Church MARRIAGE do not know what the sacrament is, the beauty marriage could be considered invalid Ordination Mass continued from page 1 of the sacrament; they do not know that it is because the faith of the couple celebrating indissoluble, that it is for one’s entire life,” he the sacrament was lacking. “But from the to be live-streamed Attitudes toward marriage are influenced said. “It’s difficult.” discussions we had, I understood that the on archdiocesan strongly by social expectations, the pope said, Meeting in July 2005 with priests in problem was very difficult” and that further telling the story of a young man who told the northern , Pope Benedict also raised study was necessary. website on June 25 pope he and his fiancee had not celebrated their the question of the validity of marriages According to the Code of Canon Law, wedding yet because they were looking for a that, while performed in the Church, bound “For matrimonial consent to exist, the At 10 a.m. on June 25, the Church with decor that would go well with her together two baptized Catholics who had little contracting parties must be at least not ignorant Archdiocese of Indianapolis dress. “These are people’s concerns,” the pope understanding of the faith, the meaning of the that marriage is a permanent partnership will live-stream on its website— said. “How can we change this? I don’t know.” sacraments and the indissolubility of marriage. between a man and a woman ordered to the www.archindy.org/streaming— Pope Francis told participants that when he Asked about Communion for a divorced procreation of offspring by means of some the ordination liturgy of was archbishop of Buenos Aires, , and civilly remarried person, Pope Benedict sexual cooperation.” six priests at SS. Peter and Paul he banned “shotgun weddings” from Catholic had responded, “I would say that a particularly In a formal speech in 2015 to the Roman Cathedral in Indianapolis. parishes because the strong social pressure to painful situation is that of those who were Rota, a marriage tribunal, Pope Francis said: Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin marry placed on a couple expecting a baby married in the Church, but were not really “The judge, in pondering the validity of the will ordain transitional could mean they were not fully free to pledge believers and did so just for tradition, and consent expressed, must take into account the James Brockmeier, Anthony themselves to each other for life through then finding themselves in a new, nonvalid context of values and of faith—their presence Hollowell, Douglas Hunter, the sacrament. marriage, convert, find the faith and feel or absence—in which the intent to marry was Kyle Rodden, Matthew Tucci It was important, he said, that the couples excluded from the sacrament.” formed. In fact, ignorance of the contents and Nicholas Ajpacaja Tzoc to were not abandoned, but were assisted by the Pope Benedict said that when he was of the faith could lead to what the code [of the priesthood. Church. Many of them, he said, “after two or prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine canon law] calls an error conditioning the The ordination Mass will three years would marry. I would watch them of the Faith he asked several bishops’ will. This eventuality is not to be considered be archived on the website so enter the church—dad, mom and the child conferences and experts to study the problem, rare as in the past, precisely because worldly it can be viewed in the future holding their hands. They knew well what they which in effect was “a sacrament celebrated thinking often prevails over the magisterium of as well. † were doing.” without faith.” the Church.” †

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By Sean Gallagher ‘Our family is just like any other’ Reese’s family shares his On June 29, transitional Deacon healthy respect for the enormity of what’s Luke Reese, a former Anglican priest, about to happen in his life—and theirs. will become the first married priest in the “It’s exciting, a little overwhelming, a Archdiocese of Indianapolis when he is little scary, because of the awesome nature ordained in a liturgy witnessed by his wife of this,” said Gina. “It’s a very important, Gina of 24 years and their seven children. holy role that he’s going to be assuming. Soon after, Deacon Reese will begin And I’m supporting him in that. I’m his ministering in parishes in central and partner in life.” southern Indiana, another step in a winding “I’ve been thinking about how our spiritual journey for him and his family. family life will change,” added Alasdair “I’m really excited about it,” said Reese, 16, who will be a junior this Deacon Reese, who was ordained to the fall at Bishop Chatard High School in diaconate on May 31. “I look forward to Indianapolis. “I’m nervous. But if it’s what the adventure of it all.” my dad wants to do, I think he should go Since the Reese family was received for it.” Father C. Ryan McCarthy, left, places a deacon’s dalmatic on transitional Deacon Luke Reese into the full communion of the Church in Although the Reese family is aware during a May 31 ordination Mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston in 2012, they’ve sought to live out their faith of the high demands of priestly life and which Deacon Reese and two other men were ordained for the of the as many Catholic families strive to do. ministry that Deacon Reese will take Chair of St. Peter. Father McCarthy is pastor of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish At the same time, they’ve been a family on, he and Gina have sought to maintain in Indianapolis, where members of the ordinariate in central and southern Indiana worship. of firsts. reasonable expectations for their children. (Submitted photo) They and two other families were the “I think we’ve tried hard to not to first from an Anglican background in make our children feel like they have to Deacon Luke Reese central and southern Indiana accepted be perfect,” she said. “There can be a lot as members of the Houston-based of pressure and implied expectations. • Age: 47 • Favorite : St. Peter Damian Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Whether it’s real or not, the feeling is that • Wife: Gina • Favorite prayer or devotion: An St. Peter, which was established in 2012 ‘Well, Dad’s going to be a priest. Then we • Children: Ella, Abby, Alasdair, ancient prayer to Mary known as by Pope Benedict XVI. The ordinariate always have to be on our best behavior.’ Olivia, Edmund, Owen and Irene Sub Tuum Praesidium (“Under functions like a diocese for former “Our family is just like any other • Home Parish: Our Lady of the Most Your Patronage”): “We fly to your Anglicans and Episcopalians in the family, trying to know, love, and serve God Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis patronage, O holy Mother of God; and Canada. to the best of our abilities. Our situation is • College: Hanover College in despise not our petitions in our In full communion with the Church, the atypical of the average Catholic family’s, Hanover, Ind.; Butler University in necessities, but deliver us always ordinariate is able to maintain its Anglican but we are really just like everyone else.” Indianapolis; University of Michigan from all dangers, O glorious and spiritual heritage in its worship—and in In fact, Gina believes that the challenge in Ann Arbor, Mich. blessed . Amen.” having married men ordained as priests. to balance priestly ministry with family • Seminary: Saint Meinrad Seminary • Favorite movie: England, Reese’s history-making will continue life will have similarities to what many and School of Theology in My England when Bishop Steven J. Lopes, the families face. St. Meinrad • Favorite authors: Blessed John shepherd of the ordinariate, ordains him “It’s really no different from being the • Favorite Scripture verse: “Unless Henry Newman and C.S. Lewis a priest on June 29 at the Cathedral of family of a business man who travels or the Lord build the house, they labor • Favorite book: The Bible; Dune by Our Lady of Walsingham in Houston. a fireman who is on call, only a priest is in vain who build. Unless the Lord Frank Herbert Deacon Reese will minister to in the business of ministering to God’s guard the city, in vain does the guard • Hobbies: Music, judo, camping, ordinariate members in central and people,” she said. “We support him in that keep watch” (Ps 127:1). gardening southern Indiana at Our Lady of the with all the sobriety and humility that the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis vocation demands. and is expected to assist at other “I don’t fully know or understand all archdiocesan parishes. that may be required of us as a family as a “I look at the priesthood as service— result of Luke’s call to ministry, but does service to God’s people,” Deacon Reese anybody ever know what lies ahead of any said. “It’s not about me, ultimately. It’s major decision in life? Do we parents fully about what I can do to be the face of Christ understand what parenthood will involve? for somebody who might not otherwise see Do newlyweds fully comprehend marriage the face of Christ in a given day.” and how it will form and change them over the course of a lifetime?” ‘We’re all in the making’ Throughout nearly 25 years of marriage, ‘We support the celibate ministry’ Deacon Reese has sought to show Christ’s Although having a Catholic priest at face to Gina and their children through his the head of their family will be something loving care and concern for them. that the Reeses will learn to live with in As a priest, he’ll also do this for a the weeks and months to come, Deacon broader spiritual family. Reese sees the history that he’s making by “I think my experience as a father is being the first married priest to serve in going to be invaluable in thinking of my the archdiocese more as an exception due congregation as my spiritual children,” to his ties to the Anglican tradition than Deacon Reese said. “It’s not a one-time groundbreaking. thing. Everybody is a project. We’re all “We support the celibate ministry saints in the making.” within the Church,” he said. “And we Deacon Reese became a priest in the recognize its value.” making shortly after he and his family He doesn’t foresee making the fact were received into the Church in 2012. that he is married a prominent part of his He had been ordained a priest in the ministry in archdiocesan parishes. Transitional Deacon Luke Reese and his wife Gina pose with their seven children. They are, from left Anglican tradition about 10 years ago. “I’ll go into situations and people may in the front row, Edmund, Irene and Olivia. Back row: Ella, Alasdair, Owen and Abby. (Submitted photo) To be properly formed for priestly life know me [to be a priest], but they won’t and ministry as a Catholic, he began necessarily know about me,” he said. “I said. “But I don’t want to do that.” heart and an obvious love of Christ and commuting in the fall of 2012 from his don’t plan to make an issue of the fact that Instead, he’ll seek to “differentiate his Church,” he said. “We are blessed family’s home in Indianapolis to Saint I’m married with kids in my sermons or in myself [in my priestly ministry] from to have him beginning his ministry as a Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology parish life.” my home experience … to counsel them Catholic priest and continuing to build in St. Meinrad. Although people who attend Masses better” by not seeing his experience with up the body of Christ, leading more and He also received assistance from the that Deacon Reese will celebrate may his family as necessarily normative for new disciples into a life-giving relationship archdiocesan vicariate for clergy, religious not know he is married, leaders in the people in other situations. with God.” and parish life coordinators in formation ordinariate and the archdiocese have Deacon Reese will begin this ministry for pastoral ministry. worked to make sure that he’ll be able to ‘We are blessed to have him’ in the archdiocese with an Anglican Although he has now been in formation financially support his family through what In whatever way Deacon Reese will Use Mass at 11:30 a.m. on July 3 at for the priesthood for four years, when he’ll earn through his priestly ministry. be called upon to minister to Catholics Holy Rosary. asked how he views his upcoming That will include times when he’ll in the ordinariate and the archdiocese, From there, he’ll begin ministry ordination he says with a laugh, “Scary.” offer pastoral counseling to people Father C. Ryan McCarthy, pastor of at Holy Rosary and other parishes in “I don’t know if you can ever experiencing family difficulties. Although Holy Rosary, is certain that he will show a the archdiocese. really be ready for something as big as he has his own experiences of family life, love for the Church. “A priest is for service,” Deacon Reese the priesthood,” Deacon Reese said. Deacon Reese said he wants to be careful “He exhibits his great love for said. “A priest is not his own man. He’s “There are a lot of expectations placed not to “read my family’s situation into the the Church in everything he does,” for Christ. He’s for the Church and upon a man who is put up in front larger pastoral family situation.” Father McCarthy said. “It’s a desire to give God’s people.” of a congregation. He needs to be a “There are going to be some things God honor and glory through the Church.” solid leader. where there is some overlap, and I’ll Bishop Lopes shares Father McCarthy’s (For more information about the Personal “He just doesn’t say Mass for people. counsel someone and think, ‘Well, we’ve perspective on Deacon Reese. Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, visit He provides an example.” had this in our household,’ ” Deacon Reese “Luke possesses a true generosity of www.ordinariate.net.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016

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Making Sense of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk Seeing through the intersex confusion On rare occasions, babies can be born in which a person is either male or female, with ambiguous genitalia, and parents and but has confounding physiological factors that Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 physicians may be uncertain about whether a make them appear or feel as if they were of the Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor newborn is a little boy or a little girl. While opposite sex, or maybe even both sexes. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus testing for sex chromosomes is invariably part In other words, the underlying sex remains, of figuring out these even though the psychology or gender they cases, the genetics alone experience may be discordant. Put another may not always tell the way, intersex individuals may be “drawn Editorial whole story. away” from their intrinsic male or female Both genes and sexual constitution by various anatomical physiological factors differences in their bodies, and by opposing like hormonal interior physiological drives and forces. conditions in the womb This can be further complicated because can contribute to our of strong cultural forces that contribute to primary and secondary the confusion by sanctioning a paradigm sex characteristics of complete malleability in human and, unsurprisingly, sexual behaviors that militates against an disorders in our genes or our in utero hormonal understanding of sex-based “hard-wiring.” milieu can contribute to deflecting the Even though it may not be popular to affirm development of our maleness or femaleness. the fact, people suffer from sexual development For the most part, our genetic sex disorders in much the same way that they (XX female or XY male) serves as the best suffer from other kinds of developmental Chinese Catholics receive Communion in guide to the true sex of an individual, though disorders, whether of the cardiac/circulatory 2012 during Christmas Eve Mass in Beijing. in rare situations, even the sex chromosomes system, of the nervous/intellectual system or (CNS photo/How Hwee Young, EPA) themselves can have anomalies. others. No one, of course, should be subjected For example, when somebody is born with to bias or mistreatment due to a bodily disorder Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY), they develop they may have been born with, but in treating The in China not only as a male due to the presence of such persons, we always strive to return their the Y chromosome and its testosterone- cardiac or intellectual functions to their proper Let us pray for the Catholic and for the other side to select producing influence, but also as a “feminized” baseline, rather than inventing a new abnormal Church in China. from the nominees. The question, male because of the influences of the as the norm and defining that as a “treatment,” Some people are unaware then, is who has the authority to additional X chromosome. as some are tempted to do with sexual that there are at least 10 million nominate and who has the authority When strong hormonal influences are at development disorders. Catholics in China, perhaps as to appoint? play, as in another disorder called Congenital While a newborn’s “intrinsic maleness” many as 12 million. Is it any There were reports that China’s Androgenital Syndrome, a genetically normal or “intrinsic femaleness” may be difficult to wonder, then, that Pope Francis is President Xi Jinping encouraged talks XX female can have increased testosterone assess in certain more complicated intersex trying to have a closer connection between China and the Vatican after production by her adrenal glands, resulting in cases, the point remains that there is an with them? both he and Pope Francis were at the development of external male-like genitalia, “intrinsic” or “underlying” sexual constitution The Chinese government has the United Nations last September. even though she also has ovaries, a vagina, and that we must do our best to recognize, respect, persecuted Catholics in the past, He is said to have been surprised, a uterus. and act in accord with. We must carefully and occasionally continues to do but impressed, that the leader of the While the term “intersex” is sometimes acknowledge, nurture and accept our given so. It’s believed that at least two smallest country in the world drew used to describe situations where an individual embodied sexual nature as male or female. bishops and six priests are still in so much more attention than he, has non-standard genital anatomy, it typically Willfully denying or acting against that prison. Back in 1949, the officially the leader of the country with the has a broader range of meanings. Some have given nature will constitute little more than a atheist government expelled largest population, did. Of course, argued that a person has to be born with both prescription for disillusionment and dishonesty. both Catholic and Protestant the Chinese government would not ovarian and testicular tissue to count as being Pope Benedict, in a December 2013 address, missionaries. Then, in 1957, the acknowledge that. intersex, but “intersex” is an imprecise term echoed these concerns when he mentioned the Communist Party established the Pope Francis, for his part, has that can describe a range of situations in which errors found in various new philosophies where state-run Chinese Patriotic Catholic made it known that he wants to meet a person is born with an internal reproductive “sex is no longer a given element of nature, Association (CPA), which rejected with President Xi. During his visit anatomy or an external sexual anatomy that is that man has to accept and personally make any authority from the Vatican. to in 2014, he sent a not in accord with the typical expectations for sense of …” Today, it’s estimated that message to the Chinese people as his femaleness or maleness. To live in an ordered way, with an ordered more than 5 million Catholics plane crossed Chinese territory, and Sometimes the suggestion is made that masculinity or femininity, is certainly one of belong to the CPA, while the rest President Xi and Pope Francis have intersex individuals are, in fact, neither male the great challenges of our time, and we can of the Catholics are part of an exchanged greetings. The pope has nor female, but fluid, malleable or “bisexual,” only undertake this important task by insisting underground Church that accepts entrusted Cardinal , the with sexual identity residing somewhere on the correspondence of our minds to reality Pope Francis as its head. ’s secretary of state, with the between male and female. This kind of —especially to the deeply inscribed reality of According to Gerard O’Connell, task of normalizing relationships with explanation is untenable. our unique embodiment as male or female. America magazine’s Vatican the Chinese government. Human beings, along with most other correspondent, at the end of The difficulties are considerable. members of the animal kingdom, are marked (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his 2015, there were 112 Catholic One of them is that the Holy See now by an ineradicable sexual “dimorphism,” or doctorate in neuroscience at Yale University bishops in China, 99 of them in has diplomatic relations with , “two-forms,” namely, male and female. When and did post-doctoral work at Harvard active ministry. Seventy of them which China considers part of China. problems arise in the development of one of University. He is a priest of the Diocese of are recognized by the Chinese The Holy See would like to have these forms, this does not make for a new Fall River, Mass., and serves as director government, while 29 are diplomatic relations with both, but “third form,” or worse, for an infinite spectrum of education at The National Catholic underground and are not recognized that might not be possible. of different sexual forms. Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See by the government. Currently, the There’s also the situation with Instead, intersex situations represent cases www.ncbcenter.org.) † Vatican recognizes all but eight of Bishop Thaddeus Ma Daqin of the 112. Shanghai. In 2012, he was appointed However, the Vatican and the an auxiliary bishop by both the Letter to the Editor Chinese government disagree Vatican and the CPA. During his on the number of . The episcopal ordination, three bishops In appreciation for several surrounding dioceses. There will be Vatican recognizes 138, which recognized by the Vatican laid hands nearly 50 students living there in formation means that there are now about on Ma, but when two CPA bishops Father Robeson and this fall. 40 dioceses without bishops. China were about to do so, Ma rose and Bishop Simon Bruté Indianapolis is now recognized for the recognizes only 97 dioceses. embraced them instead. He then entrepreneurial talents of individuals starting The Vatican is anxious to announced to the congregation that College Seminary new technology companies that employ come to an agreement about the he was resigning from the CPA. He Twelve years ago, amid the activity and hundreds of well-trained individuals. Less appointment of bishops, or it’s quite received prolonged applause from the excitement of a coed Catholic university, understood are those individuals that use likely that the CPA will ordain 10 to congregation, but was soon arrested Father Robert “Bob” Robeson began the that same entrepreneurial spirit to create 20 bishops without papal approval. and has been confined to house arrest formation of a seminary for young men. environments where individuals can discern Obviously, both the Catholic ever since. In 2014, the Vatican His work began on one floor of a their relationship with their Creator and their Church and the Chinese recognized Bishop Ma as the Bishop residence hall at Marian University in vocation in life. Father Bob can stand tall in government claim the right to of Shanghai after the death of Bishop Indianapolis with a handful of boys who the founding and nurturing of Bishop Simon appoint bishops. The Church has Joseph Fan Zhongliang. wanted to discern a call to serve God. He Bruté College Seminary. had a long history of disputes The Cathedral of the Immaculate began to instill in them their love for God, As an archdiocese, we are truly blessed to with governments over this issue, Conception in Beijing has two and help them discover their own abilities have the Catholic formation programs offered and wants to retain the right to Masses in English and one in Italian and talents. They left Marian as men, well by Marian University and Bishop Simon appoint. But it has compromised on Sundays. Those of us who have founded in those abilities and understanding Bruté College Seminary. As parishes, we have with governments in the past and attended one of them can vouch of God’s love. the opportunity to utilize these resources. probably recognizes the necessity for the devoutness of the Chinese Over time, the seminary grew and took We owe a debt of gratitude to Father to do so now. Catholics. During the liturgy, they over the property vacated by the sisters at Bob for the love and care he has given in The usual solution has been pray for Pope Francis just as we do. the Carmelite Monastery, just a few blocks establishing our college seminary. for one side to nominate several south of the Marian campus. It now serves candidates for the position, —John F. Fink the college seminary formation needs of Art Berkemeier the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, as well as Serra Club of Indianapolis The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Page 5

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The vocation of the family is ‘to teach love’ he mystery of the Christian family Our model is, of course, the and family life is to teach love—both the sacrament is present—to encourage, can be fully understood only in of Nazareth. Pope Francis within the family circle and as a witness support and sustain them in spite of their Tthe light of God’s tender mercy. tells us that “the incarnation of the Word to others including extended family, imperfections and failings. To discover the vocation of the family— in a human family, in Nazareth, by its neighbors and friends, the larger Church The Church does not teach that the today and always—we must look to very newness changed the history of and society as a whole. According to sacramental grace given to married who treated everyone he met “with the world.” How did “the mystery of God’s plan, the family is a “school of couples makes them somehow perfect or love and tenderness, accompanying Christmas and the secret of Nazareth, love” and a “domestic Church” that impervious to sin. That’s why families their steps in truth, patience and mercy exuding the beauty of family life” change bears witness to the intimate and loving that are serious about their love and as he proclaimed the demands of the world history (#65)? By revealing that relationship that exists between God and fidelity to each other, and their witness Kingdom of God.” The Lord is with our the vocation of every human family his people. to the world, are strongly urged to families today “as we seek to practice since Adam and Eve is to give witness “The sacrament of marriage is participate fully in the sacramental and and pass on the Gospel of the family” to the unconditional love of God in not a social convention, an empty communal life of the Church. The old (“The Joy of Love,” #60). every time and circumstance. “Nazareth ritual or merely the outward sign of a saying that “the family that prays together Scripture teaches, and our Catholic teaches us the meaning of family life, commitment.” This is what distinguishes stays together” should not be passed over faith affirms, that marriage is a gift to its loving communion, its simple and our view of marriage from the secular lightly. There is a fundamental truth here. be honored. This divine gift includes austere beauty, its sacred and inviolable understanding. We see marriage as The more we practice it, the stronger our sexuality, which unites a man and a character,” Pope Francis teaches, quoting something holy—“a gift given for families will be. woman in love and provides for the Pope Paul VI’s Address to Nazareth on the and sanctification of the Pope Francis concludes his chapter on further gift of children. Jesus teaches that Jan. 5, 1964. spouses” and a sacramental sign of the the vocation of family life by affirming— the marriage bond is “indissoluble,” a The Church sees marriage as a relationship between Christ and his yet again—the sanctity of all human life. permanent, unbreakable bond that “should community of life and love, with love Church (#72). “Here I feel it urgent to state that if the not be viewed as a ‘yoke’ imposed on at the very heart of what it means to be Mutual self-giving in the sacrament family is the sanctuary of life, the place humanity but as a ‘gift’ granted to those a family. In chapters 4 and 5 of “The of marriage grounds the couple in where life is conceived and cared for, who are joined in marriage” (#62). Joy of Love,” Pope Francis devotes Christ’s love. “Sexual union, lovingly it is a horrendous contradiction when it How is this possible—a bond that is serious attention to defining what “love” experienced and sanctified by the becomes a place where life is rejected and liberating not burdensome? The answer is means—not in the abstract, but very sacrament, is in turn a path of growth in destroyed” (#83). the grace of Christ which allows families specifically and concretely. the life of grace for the couple” (#74). May God bless our families. May he “to bear witness to the love of God and to But for our purposes here, it’s enough Whatever challenges confront married keep them tender, loving and safe from live the life of communion” (#63). to say that the vocation of marriage couples and their families, the grace of all harm! †

La vocación de la familia es la ‘enseñanza del amor’ l misterio de la familia cristiana vivir la vida de comunión” (#63). transmitir la enseñanza del amor: tanto sustentarlos pese a sus imperfecciones y solamente puede comprenderse Nuestro modelo es, por supuesto, la dentro del círculo familiar como también fallas. Ea cabalidad al observarla bajo Sagrada Familia de Nazaret. El papa dar testimonio a los demás, incluso La Iglesia no nos enseña que la gracia la luz de la tierna misericordia de Francisco nos dice que “la encarnación a parientes más distantes, vecinos y sacramental que reside en los esposos Dios. Para descubrir la vocación a la del Verbo en una familia humana, en amigos, la Iglesia a mayor escala y la hace que de alguna forma sean perfectos familia, hoy y siempre, debemos seguir Nazaret, conmueve con su novedad la sociedad en general. De acuerdo con el ni inmunes al pecado. Es por ello que el ejemplo de Jesús quien trató a todo historia del mundo.” ¿Cómo transformó plan de Dios, la familia es la “escuela se exhorta a las familias que toman en aquel que encontró “con amor y ternura, el “misterio de la Navidad y el secreto del amor” y una “iglesia doméstica” que serio su amor y su fidelidad, así como acompañando sus pasos con verdad, de Nazaret, lleno de perfume a familia” ofrece testimonio de la relación íntima también el testimonio que dan al mundo, paciencia y misericordia, al anunciar las la historia del mundo? (#65). Al revelar y amorosa que existe entre Dios y su a que participen plenamente en la vida exigencias del Reino de Dios.” El Señor que la vocación de cada familia humana pueblo. sacramental y comunal de la Iglesia. acompaña a nuestras familias hoy en día desde Adán y Eva es dar testimonio del “El sacramento del matrimonio no es El viejo adagio de que “la familia que en su “interés por vivir y transmitir el amor incondicional de Dios en todo una convención social, un rito vacío o el reza unida permanece unida” no debe Evangelio de la familia” (“La alegría del momento y circunstancia. “Enseñe mero signo externo de un compromiso.” considerarse como meras palabras ya amor,” #60). Nazaret lo que es la familia, su comunión Esto es lo que distingue nuestra que encierra una verdad fundamental. Las Escrituras nos enseñan que el de amor, su sencilla y austera belleza, su perspectiva del matrimonio de la idea Mientras más lo practiquemos, más matrimonio es un don que debe honrarse carácter sagrado e inviolable,” nos dice seglar. Vemos el matrimonio como algo fuertes serán nuestras familias. y nuestra fe católica afirma esta noción. el papa Francisco citando el Discurso en sagrado: “es un don para la santificación El papa Francisco concluye su capítulo Este don divino comprende la sexualidad Nazaret del papa Pablo VI, dado el 5 de y la salvación de los esposos” y un signo sobre la vocación a la vida familiar que une al hombre y a la mujer en el enero de 1964. sacramental de la relación entre Cristo y reafirmando una vez más la santidad de amor y que es el preámbulo del don de La Iglesia considera al matrimonio su Iglesia (#72). toda la vida humana. “En este contexto, los hijos. Jesús nos enseña que el lazo del como una comunidad de vida y de La entrega mutua en el sacramento no puedo dejar de decir que, si la familia matrimonio es “indisoluble,” una unión amor, en la que el amor es el núcleo de del matrimonio es lo que conecta a los es el santuario de la vida, el lugar permanente e indestructible que “no hay lo que significa ser una familia. En los esposos con el amor de Cristo. “La donde la vida es engendrada y cuidada, que entenderla ante todo como un ‘yugo’ capítulos 4 y 5 de “La alegría del amor” unión sexual, vivida de modo humano constituye una contradicción lacerante impuesto a los hombres sino como un el papa Francisco concentra su atención y santificada por el sacramento, es a su que se convierta en el lugar donde la vida ‘don’ hecho a las personas unidas en en definir el significado del “amor,” no vez camino de crecimiento en la vida de es negada y destrozada” (#83). matrimonio” (#62). en términos abstractos sino de forma la gracia para los esposos” (#74). Sean Que Dios bendiga a nuestras familias. ¿Cómo es esto posible: un lazo que específica y concreta. cuales sean los desafíos que enfrentan ¡Que las mantenga tiernas, amorosas y libera y no ata? La respuesta es la gracia Pero a los fines de nuestra reflexión los matrimonios y sus familias, la protegidas de todo mal! † de Cristo que permite que las familias aquí, baste con decir que la vocación gracia del sacramento se hace presente puedan “estimoniar el amor de Dios y al matrimonio y la vida familiar es para animarlos, brindarles apoyo y Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016

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June 28 assemble on sidewalk in Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, 111 S. 9th St., Terre Haute. Deadline for RSVP to Father Archbishop Edward Most Holy Name of Jesus front of Planned Parenthood Catholic, educational, St. Benedict Community Thomas Scecina Memorial T. O’Meara Catholic Center, Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., at 30 S. 3rd St. for charitable and social singles, Festival, live music, family High School Class of 1976 1400 N. Meridian St., Beech Grove. First Friday prayers, 10 a.m. travel 50 and over, single, separated, games, casino games, 40-year Reunion. Reunion devotion, exposition of the to St. Patrick Adoration widowed or divorced. New food booths, beer garden, Indianapolis. 6th Annual is on Sept. 10, 6-10 p.m., World Refugee Day Dinner, Blessed Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; Chapel at 1807 Poplar St. members welcome. 6 p.m. handmade quilt raffle, Milano Inn, 231 S. College Ave., 6:30 p.m., guest speaker reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; for Divine Mercy Chaplet, Information: 317-243-0777. 50/50 raffle, silent auction, Chandreyee Banerjee, Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the completed around 10:30 a.m. tickets sold for drawings up Indianapolis, $55 per person Sacred Heart and prayers for July 7-9 to $25,000, 5 p.m.-midnight or $100 per couple, pay Midwest regional development the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. St. Michael Church, Holy Spirit Parish, each day. Information: online by Aug. 10 via PayPal, director, ethnic foods, Information: 317-784-5454. 145 St. Michael Blvd., 7243 E. 10th St., Indianapolis. 812-232-8421. or write a check payable to 69th Annual Festival music, refugee artwork, Brookville. First Saturday Scecina Memorial Class of Our Lady of the Greenwood Devotional Prayer Group, and Monte Carlo, Thurs. July 9 program updates, suggested 1976 and send by Aug. 10 $25 donation. RSVP: Church, 335 S. Meridian St., prayers, rosary, confession, 6-11 p.m., Fri. 6 p.m.-midnight, St. Bartholomew Church, to Scecina Class of 1976, HelpCreateHope.org. Greenwood. First Friday meditation, 8 a.m. Information: Sat. 1 p.m.-midnight, minimum 1306 27th St., Columbus. celebration of the Most 765-647-5462. $10 purchase of ride/food/ The King’s Singers: 7625 Cape Cod Circle, June 29 Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, drink vouchers per family Postcards from Around Indianapolis, IN 46250-1844. Indy FertilityCare, 5:45 p.m., exposition of the July 4 or individual, youths under the World, concert by E-mail RSVP by St. Mary Parish, 311 N. 3802 W. 96th St., Suite 310, Blessed Sacrament, following 18 must be accompanied by Grammy-winning British July 10 or send questions Indianapolis. New St., Indianapolis. sextet, doors open 6:45 p.m., Creighton Mass until 9:30 p.m., sacrament an adult; games for all ages, to SMHS1976Reunion@ Model Intro Session, of reconciliation available. Fourth of July Ole! 20 Midway rides, games of concert 7:30 p.m., tickets gmail.com. 6:30 p.m., $35 per couple Information: 317-888-2861 or Festival, 3-11 p.m., music, chance, bingo, corn hole, $25, group discounts by June 22, $50 after [email protected]. entertainment, children’s area, 30 booths, ethnic and fair food, available. Tickets: music June 22, registration due by Texas poker, American and beer and music, silent auction, office at St. Bartholomew, St. Michael the Archangel June 26. Information and St. Lawrence Church, Latino food, view downtown big cash jackpots; family Viewpoint Books and Church, 3354 W. 30th St., registration: 317-217-7332 or 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. fireworks. Information: dinners each night 5-7:30 p.m., Columbus Visitors Center, and Indianapolis. Mass in French, 317-637-3983. [email protected]. First Friday Charismatic $8 for adults, $4 for children. ticketriver.com/event/16850. 1 p.m. Information: Renewal Praise and Mass, Information: 317-353-9404, Information: 812-379-9353, St. Matthew the Apostle 317-523-4193 or July 1 praise and worship 7 p.m., [email protected], ext. 237. Marian University chapel, Church, 4100 E. 56th St., [email protected]. Mass 7:30 p.m. Information: bit.ly/1XXr7vP. 3200 Cold Spring Road, [email protected]. Indianapolis. July 4 Tri-Parish July 10 Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Mass and breakfast, July 8 St. Lawrence Parish, St. Therese of the Infant Catholic Business Group, July 2 9 a.m., continental Cathedral High School, 5225 E. 542 Walnut St., Lawrenceburg. Jesus (Little Flower) Church, Chicken Fest 2016, Mass and monthly Helpers of God’s Precious breakfast after Mass. 56th St., Indianapolis. Mass 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. meeting, 6:30-8:30 Infants Prayer Vigil, Information: 317-257-4297, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., chicken for Vocations, 8:30 a.m. Class of ’63 monthly a.m., breakfast, $15 per Terre Haute. 7:30 a.m. Mass [email protected]. Information: 317-748-1478. dinners, $12 adults, $10 person. Information: at the Carmelite Monastery at ages 10 and younger, raffle. gathering, 6 p.m. Mass, 317-435-3447 or 59 Allendale, 9:25 a.m. parking Archbishop O’Meara Catholic July 8-9 Information: 812-537-3992, optional dinner afterward. [email protected]. on Ohio Blvd., 9:30 a.m. Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., St. Benedict Church, ext. 2. Information: 317-408-6396. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to VIPs Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Dr. Gerald and Paula (Spellman) Stahl, members of July 8-10 $425 double. Information: 812-357-6585 or Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in Indianapolis, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, [email protected]. celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on Jan. 22. 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Twelve Step The couple was married on Jan. 22, 1966, in Weekend Retreat for Women. Information: July 12-14 Most Holy Name of Jesus Church in Beech Grove. 317-753-8527. Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House They have three children, Michelle Richardson, and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, Christian and Daniel Stahl. Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House and St. Meinrad. Midweek retreat, “Monastic They also have nine grandchildren. † Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Practices,” Benedictine Brother William AA retreat, “Powerlessness, Weakness and Sprauer, presenter, $255 single, $425 Strength in Recovery,” Benedictine Father double. Information: 812-357-6585 or Colman Grabert, presenter, $255 single, [email protected]. † All Saints Parish to display Nativity sets West Point grad from around the world during festivals Cadet Michael Joseph Breen II, a former All Saints Parish in Dearborn County will host a display of 70 Nativity sets from member of Christ the King Parish in around the world during its three summer festivals in July and August. Indianapolis, graduated from the U.S. Military The display will be available for viewing beginning on July 16-17 at the Academy on May 21. He is the son of Michael festival on the St. John the Baptist campus, 25743 State Road 1, Guilford. and Sally Breen, also former members of The next festival to host it will take place from July 30-31 on the St. Martin Christ the King Parish and now members of campus, 8044 Yorkridge Road, Guilford. The tour of the Nativity sets Our Lady of Grace Parish in Noblesville, Ind., in will conclude on Aug. 13-14 during the festival on the St. Paul campus, the Lafayette Diocese. 9789 N. Dearborn Road, Guilford. Cadet Michael Joseph Breen II For more information about the display of the Nativity sets, call 812-576-4302 or send an e-mail to [email protected]. † Shop INN-Spired Gift Shop in Beech Grove to hold sale on July 9 National Spelling Bee participant Shop INN-Spired Gift Shop, room, while still offering a variety of Larisa Tuttle, an eighth-grade located at the Benedict Inn Retreat & spiritual gifts, jewelry and books for sale homeschooled member of the Conference Center, 1402 Southern Ave., in the gift shop. Association of Roman Catholic in Beech Grove, is having a sale from Visitors can also enjoy a free Home Educated Students, which 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on July 9. soft-serve ice cream cone. meets at St. Michael-St. Gabriel The shop will offer books and other For more information, call Archangels School in the Indianapolis items at 50 percent off in a separate Dema Newby at 317-788-7581, ext. 5. † West Deanery, finished in a tie for 22nd place at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington on May 26. The contest started at the local level nationwide with SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish an estimated 11 million students. seeking local artists for fall festival Larisa was one of 285 spellers nationwide—and one of only SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi oil paintings, water color paintings, 13 spellers from Indiana—who Parish in Greenwood is seeking local pen-ink drawings, photography, pottery, qualified for the finals. She was artists for its seventh annual Art in the jewelry, wood art and more. Booth space one of 45 who made it to the final Park on Sept. 23-24. This upscale event is 10 feet by 10 feet, and artists must round on May 26. Larisa, 14, is the will feature local artists displaying bring all materials, such as tables, chairs, daughter of Marc and Dzintra Tuttle. and selling their masterpieces while table cloths, etc. The Tuttles are members of Our Lady live music radiates and local wines More information and an application of Mt. Carmel Parish in Carmel, Ind., are offered. form are available by logging on to in the Diocese of Lafayette. Marc is Art in the Park is an indoor event, and www.ss-fc.org/page.cfm?p=586, or president of Indianapolis Right to Life. all artwork must be handcrafted by the contact Rory Small at 317-752-1129 or (Submitted photo by Marc Tuttle) artist. Artists are being sought who create [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Page 7 Family petitions court to move body of Archbishop Sheen to Peoria

PEORIA, Ill. (CNS)—The family of the late In a statement e-mailed to Catholic News Service Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen has petitioned the (CNS) later in the day on June 14, the New York Supreme Court of the State of New York to allow Archdiocese said Church officials there will need time the transfer of the sainthood to review the petition announced by the Illinois diocese, candidate’s remains to Peoria. but added that “it is definitely encouraging that the Joan Sheen Cunningham, 88, Diocese of Peoria seems ready to reopen the cause so Archbishop Sheen’s niece and that the much desired process toward beatification and his oldest living relative, filed canonization can resume.” a petition on June 13 asking The petition signed by Cunningham notes that she that the trustees of St. Patrick’s was “extremely close” with her uncle and helped care Cathedral in New York City— for him up until his death. Cardinal Terence Cooke of where Archbishop Sheen has New York asked Cunningham for permission to bury been entombed in a crypt Archbishop Sheen in the St. Patrick’s Cathedral crypt. following his death on Dec. 9, The reasons for the family’s decision to seek the 1979—and the Archdiocese of transfer of his remains to Peoria include the long efforts Archbishop New York allow his remains to of the Diocese of Peoria and the Archbishop Fulton John Fulton J. Sheen be disinterred and transferred to Sheen Foundation to pursue the cause for canonization. Peoria for interment in a crypt at St. Mary’s Cathedral. The petition notes he was raised in the cathedral According to a June 14 press release from the parish, it is where he was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria, Cunningham—who resides in diocese in 1919, and it is close to where his parents New York—has the support of other living relatives of are buried. Joan Sheen Cunningham, niece of the late Archbishop Fulton the famed orator and media pioneer who was born in The Diocese of Peoria said the transfer could take J. Sheen, prays with her family during a 2009 memorial Mass for El Paso and ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria. place as soon as the court grants approval. her uncle at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. The family of Peoria Bishop Daniel R. Jenky is “immensely In its statement, the New York Archdiocese said that Archbishop Sheen has petitioned the Supreme Court of New York state grateful” for the family’s action, and looks forward to it had asked the Peoria Diocese to “officially reopen to allow the transfer of the sainthood candidate’s remains to Peoria. the resumption of Archbishop Sheen’s beatification the cause, with the understanding that the archbishop’s (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) and canonization cause, which has been suspended for earthly remains would then be sent to Peoria for a nearly two years since the Archdiocese of New York beatification ceremony as soon as one was announced, denied the bishop’s request to move the body to Peoria. and then returned after an appropriate time” to the crypt The Diocese of Peoria similarly greeted the news beneath the high altar of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Pope Francis’ prayer intentions for July with “great joy” and said with the progress already The statement noted that several weeks ago— made in the cause, a beatification could be celebrated “with the advice and consent” of Cunningham— • Universal: Indigenous Peoples—That shortly after the arrival of the remains in Peoria and the archdiocese put forward a proposal to balance indigenous peoples, whose identity and with the approval of Pope Francis. The diocese has been Archbishop Sheen’s “personal wish” to be “permanently very existence are threatened, will be a promoter of Archbishop Sheen’s canonization cause buried” at its cathedral “with the understandable desire shown due respect. for 14 years. The Congregation of the Causes of the of the Diocese of Peoria to have his earthly remains • Evangelization: Latin America and Saints at the Vatican reportedly has no objection to the present in their diocese for the celebration of his long the Caribbean—That the Church in transfer of the body. hoped-for beatification.” Latin America and the Caribbean, by “I am confident that the Archdiocese of New York It also said that the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ means of her mission to the continent, will cooperate fully with the request of the family of Causes “tells us all that is holding up the cause is the may announce the Gospel with renewed Archbishop Sheen,” said Msgr. James Kruse, vicar letter from the bishop of Peoria reopening the cause he vigor and enthusiasm. general of the Diocese of Peoria. “I cannot imagine closed two years ago.” that the archdiocese would oppose the family’s petition With the Peoria Diocese’s announcement of the (To see Pope Francis’ monthly intentions, presented to the court. It is our hope that the archdiocese petition, the New York Archdiocese said it was pleased go to www.ewtn.com/faith/ will offer their consent to this petition in order to to learn “there appears to be progress” on “a cause for papalPrayer.htm.) † expediteGCT 288_CriterionCaliforniaAd_Layout these matters.” 1 6/7/16 1:08 PM Page 1 which we have all worked hard.” †

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If you are planning your wedding between June. 30 and Feb. 1, 2017, we invite you to submit the information for an announcement on the form below. E-mailed photos Photos should be saved in jpg format and be a minimum 300 dpi resolution. Color photos are preferred. We recommend if possible, to have a photo where the couple’s faces are close to each other. Please send your photo as an attachment to the e-mail: [email protected]. Subject line: Fall Marriage (Last name). In the California e-mail, please include the information in the form located at the bottom. If you are unable to e-mail a photo, you may mail us a photo to scan with the bottom form. Please no photocopy photos. If you want the photo returned, please include a returning addressed envelope with a postage stamp on it. Deadline All announcements and photos must be received by 10 a.m. on Monday, July 1, 2016. (No announcements or photos will be accepted after this date.) • Round trip direct flight from Indianapolis to San Francisco — Use this form to furnish information — Clip and mail to: BRIDES, The Criterion, ATTN: Natalie Hoefer, 1400 N. Meridian Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 • Four star hotels Deadline with photos: Monday, July 1, 2016, at 10 a.m. • 3-hour sightseeing tour of San Francisco Please print or type: • Visit to 5 missions Name of Bride (first, middle, last) Daytime Phone • Daily mass • Visit Sausalito Mailing Address City State Zip Code • Vineyards of Sonoma’s wine country Name of Bride’s Parents (first, last) • World famous Monterey Bay Aquarium City State $2,364 per person double occupancy Name of Bridegroom (first, middle, last) Sightseeing, accommodations, roundtrip Hosted by Archbishop airfare, 5 meals, entrance fees, ferry fares, Name of Bridegroom’s Parents (first, last) & Travel Director Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R City State

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Q. What was your reaction when you learned that the high court in Visit fortnight4freedom.org to: Zubik v. Burwell had vacated the lower court rulings and remanded them back • Find resources to help you learn more about religious to those courts? Many of those lower liberty court rulings had been in favor of the • Learn what the Church teaches about it federal government and against various • Learn how it is being challenged across the country and Church organizations. Women religious and others demonstrate against the Affordable Care Act’s around the world A. “I was hopeful. contraceptive, sterilization and abortifacient mandate on March 23 near the • Enter into the stories of witnesses to religious freedom “As we looked at the possible steps of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. In May, the court vacated all from across the centuries outcomes, we had to naturally pray hard lower court rulings in the case and remanded the cases back to those courts • Watch a video sponsored by the U.S. bishops about that we didn’t have an out-and-out defeat. in what has been hailed as a partial victory for religious liberty advocates. religious liberty And we did not have that. We have lived (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann, Catholic Standard) for another day. That’s for the good. “So, I’m cautiously optimistic. And I hope that the negotiations will now Q. There may be cases in the coming probably will be challenged in even more regard to religious freedom, but we also proceed apace.” years in which the Supreme Court states than is currently the case.” need to understand how those freedoms will have another chance to rule on are impacted by the cultural issues that Q. Did you feel any frustration the questions about religious liberty Q. Given the presumptive nominees are before us, whether it’s potential over the fact that these cases, which raised in the Zubik case. How do the for president for the two major political restrictions on religious institutions came about through the issuing of current presidential campaign and parties in the U.S., it is plausible that following Obergefell or whether it is the the abortifacient, sterilization and the cultural trends swirling around the steps taken against religious liberty fate of religious freedom restoration laws contraceptive mandate more than it either encourage you, or make you by the Obama administration might at the state level, or whether it’s very local, four years ago, could have so easily concerned about the future makeup very well continue in other forms in such as city ordinances that sometimes been avoided as the Supreme Court’s of the Supreme Court and how that the future, no matter who is elected in restrict religious liberty or the suppression ruling suggests? might affect its decisions on religious November. of free speech and religious liberty on A. “Well, naturally. But I’ll put it this liberty cases? How should Catholics in the college campuses. way. The Little Sisters [of the Poor, a A. “Obviously, one has to look U.S. keep religious liberty in their minds “Awareness of these things is petitioner in the Zubik case,] have been with concern with regard to the future and hearts in the months leading up to important. When most people are very inspiring. It is true that this issue has appointment to the high court. And that the election as they continue to form complacent or unaware of these things, dragged on for a very long time. All of us certainly is one of the things that, as their consciences and consider how best then they proceed unabated. When are tempted to feel uneasy. faithful citizens and conscientious voters, to contribute to the common good by they’re raised up for discussion and light “But, in fact, I think they have helped ought to be in our minds as we go to the their participation in this important is shined upon them, they often do not us to see the importance of persevering. polls and vote for a president.” part of our political process? withstand scrutiny. And they’ve done this because of their A.“One of the things that we need to do “We also have to work within whatever joyful witness. They manifest the joy of Q. The federal departments of justice during this election year is to pray for our political party we belong to, to raise these religious life, the joy of serving, and the and education recently issued a letter country, pray that wisdom will prevail. I issues. That won’t always be popular or desire to use their freedom for service in of guidance to school districts across think that’s a very important thing. well received. But I think that it’s really all that they say and do. the nation that notified them that the “We need to pray for our country and the work of lay people to create a just and “They are helping all of us in this Obama administration considers Title not just for its prosperity, but also that it a tranquil culture. struggle to keep our chin up and to keep IX to require schools receiving federal would be a beacon of justice and a force “Priests and bishops teach and provide going. So, I’m very, very grateful for funding to accommodate transgender for good in the world. We have to think encouragement and support. But it is really them.” students in their use of bathroom about that as we go to the polls. lay people who shape the culture. So this facilities and in school-sponsored “We also have to raise our voices and is principally the work of the Catholic Q. While the Zubik decision by the activities. How might this step by the express our expectations to candidates that laity. This is one of the ways that the hour Supreme Court appears to be at least Obama administration affect future we do expect our nation to champion those of the laity must be made manifest. a partial victory for the supporters religious liberty concerns for Catholic who are being persecuted abroad, and to “It might be as simple as being a part of religious liberty, is there at least colleges, universities, high schools and keep our fundamental freedoms burning of a legislative network of one’s state part of you that wishes that the grade schools that, either directly or brightly in our own country. Catholic conference. It might be getting Supreme Court could have ruled on indirectly, receive federal funding? “Sometimes, I think we’re a little timid updates from the USCCB [United States the merits of the case, as it did in the A. “The letter is of concern, I think, about saying things like that. But we Conference of Catholic Bishops] or from Burwell v. Hobby Lobby case? to Catholic higher education, because shouldn’t be.” the Becket Fund or any one of these other A. “I don’t know. I don’t know enough Catholic colleges and universities often groups. There are a lot of ways that we about the inner workings of the court receive [federal] research grants. Q. Overarching these specific can be engaged and a lot of ways that we to know if that would have been a good “It’s also true that our other schools concerns on culture, politics and can instantly make our voices heard. We thing or not. It is what it is. Now we receive other sorts of public funding. religious liberty, how might you should do that. have to move ahead and go back to the There is also an exemption [for faith- encourage Catholics in the U.S. to “We shouldn’t just say that other people lower courts. based organizations], and I think we continue defending this first of freedoms are opinion makers. We should make a few “We’re happy that the unfavorable have to look very carefully to see how at a time when it seems more challenged opinions ourselves, don’t you think?” decisions were vacated, and we now have that applies to us and to what extent it than ever? the opportunity to live for another day. We can help us. A. “It seems to me that not only do we (To read part 1 of The Criteron’s interview should be grateful to the dear Lord, gather “It’s also important to know that this need to be informed about the Church’s with Archbishop William E. Lori, visit up our resources and move ahead.” is being challenged in many states, and teaching and our country’s heritage with www.CriterionOnline.com.) † Chairman, witnesses at hearing look at threats to religious freedom WASHINGTON (CNS)—U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, religious liberty is not only an “American value,” but a Eighteen years ago, Congress passed the International R-New Jersey, said on June 16 that “religious liberty is “universal principle.” Religious Freedom Act of 1998, making the protection called America’s ‘first freedom.’ ” “The right to religious freedom flows from the dignity of of religious liberty a priority of U.S. foreign policy, “[Religious liberty] is the right to believe, or not to every human person and, as such, deserves to be protected said Smith. believe, and to practice one’s religion according to the everywhere and for everyone,” said Smith. Recently, Smith introduced the Frank Wolf International dictates of one’s own conscience,” said Smith, who Despite the universal right to religious liberty, Smith said Religious Freedom Act, H.R. 1150, along with Rep. Anna convened a hearing on Capitol Hill on global threats to that it is not a right that is offered to all people. Eshoo, D-California. Wolf, for whom the bill was named, religious freedom. “The world is experiencing a crisis of religious freedom was the primary author of the original international Smith, a member of the House Committee on that poses a direct challenge to U.S. interests in the freedom measure and a “tireless champion of the poor and Foreign Affairs, is chairman of its Subcommittee Middle East, Central and East Asia, , China and persecuted,” said Smith. on Africa, Global Health, sub-Saharan Africa,” said Smith. “Religious freedom can act to undermine the Global Human Rights and He mentioned how countries around the world are religion-related violence perpetuated by non-state actors,” International Organizations. “facing systematic violence and discrimination” by both the said Smith. “The tolerance and open dialogue embodied in He was joined by panel of government and “non-state actors” such as Islamic State religious freedom is the best antidote to extremism.” witnesses: David N. Saperstein, militants in the Middle East and Boko Haram in Africa. Smith said diplomacy, paired with military and the State Department’s “These non-state actors have created global instability economic efforts, “can help undermine the conditions ambassador-at-large for through their murderous religious intolerance,” said Smith. that nurture groups like ISIL, Boko Haram, extremist international religious freedom; “If the U.S. does not have a comprehensive strategy to deal Hinduism, or radical Buddhism.” ISIL is another acronym Robert P. George, McCormick with these groups, the genocide, killings, beheadings and for Islamic State. professor of jurisprudence at sexual violence targeting religious minorities will happen “In a world where some people are willing to kill and Princeton University; and M. Zuhdi again and again.” die for their faith and where anti-Semitism persists even Jasser, president of the American Smith proposed the idea that religious liberty is not only in the most tolerant of places, it is more important than Islamic Forum for Democracy. a “human rights concern,” but “a key component of our ever for the U.S. to engage in a robust religious freedom Rep. Chris Smith Smith emphasized that national security.” diplomacy,” said Smith. † The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Page 9 Pilgrims walk 60 miles to visit shrine of St. Theodora and ‘grow closer to God’ By Natalie Hoefer to St. Susanna Church in Plainfield for Mass at 7:30 a.m. After Mass, the group PLAINFIELD—Under the hot sun, stood before the altar in a circle. Taking exhausted from walking nearly 60 miles turns, they read aloud from Mother along U.S. 40, Gina Hines decided she Theodore’s journal about the beginning of had just about had it. her own journey from to western “We’d been in a lot of traffic, with no Indiana in 1840. They called upon her shoulder to walk on,” said the member of intercession for blessings and providence SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish in as they commenced their 60-mile walk. Greenwood. “I kept having to get back up on the curb where it’s sandy and the ‘Not easy, but not as hard’ ground was uneven. … Such prayer marked the beginning I was ready to quit.” of each day’s journey before stepping Just then, her group out around 8 a.m. The group also came upon a shaded, stopped each day at 3 p.m. to pray the even trail that ultimately Divine Mercy Chaplet. led just two blocks from Lunch was eaten on the go, provided the final destination of by supportive family and friends the day’s trek. following along in mini-vans. Such moments of The pilgrims ended each walking day divine providence of their journey around 5 to 5:30 p.m. were plenty for the Dinner was enjoyed communally, 10 members of the Archdiocese of usually cooked by a member from one Indianapolis and the Diocese of Lafayette of the parishes opening its church—or who made a 60-mile walking pilgrimage gym or parish life center—doors to the from Plainfield to Terre Haute, with group for sleeping quarters: St. Paul the Pilgrims kneel around the coffin of St. Theodora Guérin in her shrine at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on the shrine of St. Theodora Guérin Apostle Parish in Greencastle on June 8, June 11. (Submitted photo by Jim Recasner) on the grounds of the motherhouse Annunciation Parish in on June 9, of the Sisters of Providence of and St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute on Saint Mary-of-the-Woods as their final June 10. destination. They started in Indianapolis Each morning, the pilgrims were then on June 7, walked from Plainfield to picked up and delivered to the spot where Terre Haute on June 8-10, and spent they stopped trekking the night before. June 11-12 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. “Jim had it planned out so well,” said Through prayer, faith, fellowship, the Hines. “He even planned ahead for ice generosity of others and the simple act cream stops each day!” of putting one foot in front of the other, The cool treat was appreciated on the group sought to grow closer to God the third day of the pilgrimage, when during the Holy Year of Mercy as they the temperature reached 93 degrees, not contemplated the physical and spiritual taking into account the heat radiating from destination of their journey. the blacktop of U.S. 40. “Three of the walkers developed ‘A pilgrimage we could achieve’ blisters on their feet,” said Recasner. Although the journey began on June 7, “Another had to stop walking on the last it was conceived in the fall of last year. day, but did some driving for us. Our While discussing Pope Francis’ Bull oldest pilgrim, Bev [Watt of St. Louis of Indiction “Misericordiae Vultus” de Montfort Parish in Fishers, Ind., in (“The Face of Mercy”) announcing the Lafayette Diocese], was 78. She was the Holy Year of Mercy, Robinson and the only pilgrim who walked the entire fellow SS. Francis and Clare parishioner distance without taking a riding break.” Jim Recasner were inspired by its call for Hines was surprised at her lack of pain pilgrimage: by the third day. Pilgrims walk through the Holy Doors of Mercy “The practice of pilgrimage has a “I can’t get over how kind of easy it’s at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis special place in the Holy Year, because been,” she said. “Not easy, but not as on June 7 as part of a pilgrimage during the it represents the journey each of us hard as I thought. I thought I heard Jesus Holy Year of Mercy. Jim Recasner, one of the Bev Watt, left, and Monica Robinson makes in this life,” Pope Francis said in say Friday morning, ‘That’s because I journey’s organizers, is seen at the far left. smile as they cross the Wabash River on paragraph 14 of the document. “Life itself carried you.’ ” (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) June 10 while on a walking pilgrimage to is a pilgrimage, and the human being visit the shrine of St. Theodora Guérin in is a viator, a pilgrim travelling along ‘We were all brought to tears’ After a break, the pilgrims celebrated her shrine at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. the road, making his way to the desired The sisters sent a bus to pick up the Mass with the sisters, had lunch, then (Submitted photo by Jim Recasner) destination.” pilgrims in Terre Haute on Saturday finally were taken to the physical While pilgrimages to the Holy Land, morning to take them to Saint-Mary-of- destination of their pilgrimage: the shrine Rome or Santiago de Compostela in the-Woods. of St. Theodora. involve a large commitment of time and In an effort to re-create the feel of “The highlight for us there was money, Recasner noted, “For us in Indiana Mother Theodore’s own arrival, words kneeling around the casket of Mother … we have our Indiana saint, and it’s from her journal were read describing Theodore, touching it and praying [a pilgrimage] that we could achieve.” her and her sister-companions’ first together.” Hines said. “I think it is the Such a pilgrimage would have been moments on the grounds of their new closest in spirit I have ever felt to a saint, within reach by car. But that seemed home. A man dressed as the local priest of even though I have been to many of their too easy. 1840, Father Stanislaus Buteux, greeted shrines in Europe.” “[We’re walking] because a pilgrimage the pilgrims with the words he spoke Later that day, the pilgrims took a tour is about offering sacrifice, and it takes us upon the sisters’ arrival as recorded by of the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods grounds, a little bit longer,” said Robinson. “We Mother Theordore: “Come down, sisters, had dinner at the Knights of Columbus’ can be more prayerful along the way.” we have arrived.” Gibault Children’s Services in Terre Robinson and Recasner met with As the pilgrims stepped down from Haute, then enjoyed their first night’s members of the Sisters of Providence the bus, they were greeted by a Sister of sleep in “real beds” in four nights. at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods to discuss Providence dressed as Mother Theodore. The last day of the pilgrimage included the idea. Keeping in character, “Mother Theodore” Mass with the sisters and a visit to the “The sisters really supported us going led the pilgrims through a ravine to shell chapel, built by Mother Theodore ahead with this [pilgrimage], and now a replica of the log cabin where the and her sisters with shells from the here we are!” said Recasner on June 8. six original sisters prayed and adored the Wabash River in thanksgiving for her Eucharist after their arrival. second safe crossing of the Atlantic as she Pilgrims head off on June 8 on the beginning ‘We started off with a bang!’ The next event brought the pilgrims sought funding in France. of their 60-mile walking journey from The journey began on June 7 with “to tears,” said Hines. They were led to St. Susanna Church in Plainfield to the shrine a specific pilgrimage destination Providence Hall through a door only used ‘You do not make the journey alone’ of St. Theodora Guérin at Saint Mary-of-the- Pope Francis mentioned in his Bull of to accept new . The pilgrims achieved the physical Woods. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Indiction: the Holy Doors of Mercy. “When they opened the door, at least destination of their pilgrimage, but what For the group of pilgrims, those doors 40 of [the sisters] were just cheering and of their spiritual journey? all there.” were at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in clapping, everything from young ones to “My takeaway is you may think you The journey had its desired impact of Indianapolis. [those who were] wheelchair-bound. I was can’t do it, but God can, and you have to helping the pilgrims grow closer to God. Recasner described the start of the immediately reminded of Hebrews 12:1, just trust that,” said Hines. “[The] reading on Sunday was about pilgrimage at the cathedral: “With Mass and felt like this must be what it will be Recasner noted, “I realized you do not forgiveness,” Recasner said. “It was an and the Holy Doors and confession—we like once we reach heaven—‘so great a make the journey [of life] alone. Jesus image to us that, once again, you don’t started off with a bang!” cloud of witnesses’ cheering our arrival at gave us two commandments: love God, have to carry all your baggage by yourself. The pilgrims spent their first night our final destination.” and love your neighbor. When you’re God is there to help you with that, with his at the Knights of Columbus Mater Dei Recasner reflected on the power of making a pilgrimage through life, you forgiveness and mercy.” Council building one block east of the that moment. can’t make it by yourself because you’ve cathedral, viewing a documentary on the “We started our pilgrimage with the got God and your neighbor.” (For those interested in making a group life of St. Theodora Guérin before settling Holy Doors at the cathedral,” he said. Robinson agreed: “That journey visit to the shrine of St. Theodora, contact in for sleep. “In a way we were going from one set of required all of us, and the gifts and talents Rita O’Donohue at 812-535-2945, or The next morning, the pilgrims drove Holy Doors to another.” and strengths all of us had to get us e-mail [email protected].) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 ‘God is here to grieve with us,’ says priest aiding families ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS)—Father Jorge and confusion of the reality of losing their Torres admits he has shed a lot of tears loved one in such a violent, senseless way. since June 12. “[The families] should know that in their The same is true for Father Miguel heart those emotions do not separate them Gonzalez, who along with Father Torres, from God, but bring us closer together. It is other Orlando area priests, representatives part of our humanity.” of and religious leaders But there was a time things became so of other faith communities spent hours real and so overwhelming, especially under counseling some of the 49 families who the intense media presence, Father Torres lost a loved one during the nation’s worst tried to turn away and have a moment to mass shooting that occurred during Latin cry alone. Those honest, raw moments have night at Pulse nightclub. led Father Torres to reflect on what might “It all feels so surreal,” Father Torres be the next step for the community. said during a break from counseling. “This is going to lead us to an Fatigue evident in his voice, Father Torres, examination of conscience. As a society, who serves as diocesan vocations director how do we help anyone suffering and in Orlando, couldn’t readily answer how find a path to prevent this from happening many families he had met with following again? Because my biggest concern is the tragedy—perhaps 15, 20 or more. when this event is in the rearview mirror, Sometimes he would spend hours with another might occur,” Father Torres told a family. Other times, he would stop and the Florida Catholic, newspaper of the speak to people in the parking lot of a Orlando Diocese. “And for right now, we senior center designated as a safe haven as a Church should examine how we reach for families as they awaited news of their out to everyone affected by this tragedy, children, spouses, friends and parents. and let them know they are loved and they Families waited hours to receive are always welcome, regardless of their A man prays on June 15 in front of photographs of victims of the mass shooting at the Pulse word about whether their loved one was perception of the Church.” nightclub in Orlando, Fla., during a vigil at a church in Orlando. (CNS photo/Jim Young, Reuters) among those killed or injured after a lone Many of the victims’ families are gunman, identified as 29-year-old Omar Hispanic, and having Spanish-speaking “Everything he spoke about, the emotion, free to express all their feelings. Yes, they Mir Seddique Mateen, opened fire inside counselors available proved crucial. the chaos, but also the outpouring of the could express their anger with God. Yes, the gay nightclub in the early morning Catholic Charities representatives, deacons support from people in the community, they could say they were angry at the hours of June 12. The shooter died in a gun and priests, including Father Torres and is real. There are also the little things he world. Ultimately dealing with those raw battle with SWAT team members. Besides Father Gonzalez, provided such help. spoke about that bring up the memories feelings could inspire healing, even when it the 49 patrons who were killed, another Father Gonzalez said it was a blessing to be of the event, little things like the sirens, is a long, arduous journey. 53 were wounded. able to communicate with family members ambulances and helicopters. And it’s true. “I don’t know their pain and I don’t Over several days, Father Torres in their native language. It offered another I hear it from my parishioners who live dare to say I understand, but I shared the offered comfort as families sought news layer of comfort for them. nearby Pulse. All those sights and sounds pain I felt when I was a teen and my uncle of their loved ones’ fates. He journeyed Counseling was not a foreign activity relive the tragedy and remind us it is was assassinated—a victim of a robbery through stages of grief and preparing for either priest, but the magnitude of the not over.” who was stabbed by a young man,” funeral arrangements. He shed tears as grief and tragedy was. With the deceased identified, the next Father Gonzalez said. “It is amazing when he witnessed their heartbreak. He said he Father Gonzalez recalled the personal step has been to make final arrangements. I shared that, all that anger ceased and that felt comfortable embracing families and witness offered during the priest Father Gonzalez is pastor of St. John person recognized where I was at.” sharing his own sadness, because he saw it convocation held nine months ago when Vianney Parish, which is less than two It was then the priest could try to as an “encounter of God and faith.” Bishop John G. Noonan of Orlando invited miles from Pulse nightclub. While no convey that it is possible to still love God, “When I would pray with families, I Msgr. Robert Weiss, pastor of St. Rose funerals have been planned at his parish, recognize God’s existence and yet be would begin by saying, ‘Jesus, at the cross of Lima Parish in Newtown, Conn., to pastors of other area Orlando parishes and confused about what happened and why. you cried out to the Father, “Why have speak. In December 2012, a mass shooting even south in Davenport have contacted “I imagine God, who is real, also weeps you abandoned me?” By saying that, it at Newtown’s Sandy Hook Elementary families who lost loved ones. One parish— for us. That’s why he gave us his Son; to gave them permission to express all the School took the lives of 20 children and Holy Cross in south Orlando—will wipe our tears and say, ‘I know your pain feelings they had, and we would not judge six adults. celebrate four funerals for the fallen. and I shower you with mercy,’ ” Father those feelings and we were going to love “Thinking now, his presence was Like Father Torres, Father Gonzalez Gonzalez said. “This [tragedy] is not God’s them,” he said of the understandable anger a blessing,” Father Gonzalez said. knew it was imperative that families felt plan, but God is here to grieve with us.” † What was in the news on June 24, 1966? The authority of bishops expanded, a new mother , and a writer argues for women priests By Brandon A. Evans from the Church’s disciplinary laws. superior • ‘Men, money, prayer’ called He listed the dispensations reserved “ST. MARY-OF-THE-WOODS, Ind.— mission needs This week, we continue to examine to the Holy See alone. Most of these The General Chapter of the Sisters • St. Pius X lad cops low gross in golf what was going on in the Church and the concern marriage and Holy Orders. of Providence here has elected Sister tourney world 50 years ago as seen through the With this sweeping legislation, the pope Mary Pius Regnier, S.P., as the 12th • Purposes of marriage pages of The Criterion. brought into effect one of the foremost superior general of the 125-year-old • Common sacramental rites urged Here are some of the items found in the aims of the : religious community. She succeeds as unity key June 24, 1966, issue of The Criterion: the decentralization of the Church’s Mother Rose Angela, who has held the • Blames early biographer: Scholar • Pontiff expands the authority of government. By the same token, he office since 1960.” claims ‘distortion’ in Catholic view bishops reduced the workload of the Roman • Why did pope delay action on of Luther “—Pope Paul VI has curia immensely.” documents? • New French series treats Vatican II set August 15 as the effective date of • Announce novena speakers • School aid act extended 2 years • 1,000 at installation of Evansville the ecumenical council’s law giving • File suit in school aid fight • Theologians discriminate against bishop bishops wider power to dispense • Providence Sisters elect new women, writer charges • St. Mary-of-the-Rocks’ Fourth of “CHICAGO—‘Double-think’ July picnic opens festival season theologians who persist in the ‘teaching • Pope urges devotion to the Sacred of contempt’ about women are Heart succeeding in keeping women from the • Couples attend meeting of birth priesthood, a Catholic woman writer control body [Catherine Benton] has charged. To • Says Burma anti-foreign, but not PRAYER & ACTION ON prevent women from becoming priests, anti-religious she said, Catholic thinkers have been • Pope comments on marriage willing to accept ancient and outdated • Lady of Grace plans $700,000 LAUDATO SI arguments to support their own anti- expansion feminism. The result has been a system • Renewal delays called hindrance to THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH BELIEVE that creation is of discrimination against women vocations a sacred trust given to the whole Earth community. based on their sex. It not only keeps • Profession rite slated at convent WE BELIEVE in the interdependence of women from the priesthood, but places • Nine are named to academic honors humanity and nature and recognize our in question their dignity as human at St. Meinrad harmful impact. beings.” • Cites importance of self-criticism • Layman wants ‘real, personal’ WE COMMIT ourselves to act with urgency to protect encounter with God, editor says her stability and integrity and to celebrate her beauty wherever we are. • Urges early diagnosis: Mental illness among religious avoidable, JOIN US in caring for our common home. psychiatrist states • Master plan will aid Ohio private colleges Download our free reflection guide at csjcarondelet.org • Spirit of poverty is parley topic Read all of these stories from • Birchers ‘distorted’ anti-Semitism our June 24, 1966, issue by THE SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF CARONDELET study logging on to our archives at Love of God and neighbor without distinction • ‘Three Saul Alinskys,’ Father www.CriterionOnline.com. † Cronin asserts 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. Love can grow as spouses deepen their knowledge of one other By David Gibson

Many couples on their wedding day hope as mightily as possible that their love always will remain just as it is then. They do not want their love to change. They cannot even imagine loving each other more than they do now. Their love seems so perfect. Yet, over the next decade or more their love surely will change. This is not an ominous prediction. Their love may become greater, better. The love in a marriage is meant to grow, Pope Francis believes. In fact, he counsels couples, the grace of a sacramental marriage is meant to perfect a couple’s love. So an important task for those preparing couples for marriage is to help each of the future spouses “learn how to love this very real person with whom he or she plans to share his or her whole life,” the pope writes in “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), his April 2016 apostolic exhortation on marriage and family life (#208). “Learning to love someone does not happen automatically,” he states (#208). But he definitely wants couples to believe it is possible for their love to grow. If it is to grow, he indicates, certain attitudes, convictions and ways of behaving are important. When unconditional love and a willingness to forgive become a life pattern, a household can be “a place of understanding, support and encouragement,” he observes (#108). He knows that forgiveness is not always easy. Without habits of forgiveness, however, there is a risk that “constant tension and mutual criticism” will begin to A groom spins his new bride in the middle of a deserted street during a snowstorm in Old Town Alexandria, Va., in January. Many couples characterize a couple’s home (#108). on their wedding day hope as mightily as possible that their love always will remain just as it is then. (CNS photo/Stacy Rausch, Catholic Herald) Pope Francis suggests that in the face of each other’s weaknesses, patterns of forgiveness protect couples from as powerful. In God, he says, patience “is a sign of his real person I married, whose interests and goals resemble mine looking always “for more and more faults, imagining power” (#91). greatly, yet who is different from me in many ways? greater evils, presuming all kinds of bad intentions” (#105). However, patience does not imply “letting ourselves It is of the essence to bear in mind just who this person Lots of us, maybe all of us, would enjoy being able to be constantly mistreated, tolerating physical aggression or is who is loved, according to Pope Francis. This also is explain exactly what “love” means and how it influences allowing other people to use us” (#92). important for all the relationships within their family. our lives together. In this, we resemble Pope Francis, Still, the pope cautions that “we encounter problems “Love always has an aspect of deep compassion that who boldly takes up this topic in “The Joy of Love.” whenever we think that relationships or people ought to be leads to accepting” the other person “even when he or He wants to relate love to “the concrete situation of perfect or when we put ourselves at the center and expect she acts differently than I would like,” he says (#92). every family” (#90). things to turn out our way. Then everything makes us “True love values the other person’s achievements,” But there is a challenge here. The word “love” impatient” (#92). the pope also advises, and “does not see him or her as commonly is used, the pope notes, but it often is Love is “gentle and thoughtful,” he writes. But love is a threat” (#95). “misused,” too. “not rude or impolite” (#99). In fact, “love abhors making In the pope’s eyes, a spirit of competition or a desire Bearing that in mind, he enters into a discussion not others suffer” (#99). to be considered the one who is “most intelligent or only of what love is, but what it is not. In this, the pope The pope accents love’s kindness. When love is kind, he powerful” is destructive in marriage and family life (#98). turns to one of the best-loved passages in the letters of says, it is “ready to be of assistance” (#93). So it creates the That person’s opposite, it would seem, is someone who St. Paul. He wrote lyrically both about what love is and is “happiness of giving” (#94). can “rejoice at the good” in another person (#109). not (1 Cor 13:4-7). But love is not boastful, the pope stresses. Those who For couples and their families, the pope says, a home St. Paul’s passage, often heard at weddings, describes love “refrain from speaking too much about themselves” and “must always be a place where” the others “will be there love as patient and kind. But, he says, love is neither “do not need to be the center of attention” (#97). to celebrate” whenever “something good happens” to “quick-tempered” nor “rude.” Rather, love “bears all things, For the love in a marriage to grow over the first decade one of them (#110). believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” of their marriage and all the decades to come, a husband and Patience is “the quality of one who does not act on wife need a degree of clarity about each other. (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s impulse,” Pope Francis comments (#91). He views patience They may need to keep asking themselves: Who is this editorial staff for 37 years.) † Pope Francis’ ‘The Joy of Love’ can strengthen marriage preparation programs By Daniel S. Mulhall Mike Day, director of family life for the Diocese family ministry at Regis University in Denver, thinks that of St. Augustine, Fla., says that couples in his diocese there is much in “The Joy of Love” that should become Now that the work of the meeting of the Synod of preparing for marriage are required to meet with a priest part of all marriage preparation efforts. Among these is Bishops on marriage and family has been completed with or deacon at least eight months prior to their wedding to the need to firmly ground the couple in reality. the publication of Pope Francis’ apostolic exhortation allow time for discernment. Pope Francis argues that the emphasis should be on “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), it is appropriate During this period, they complete a full course of realism more than idealism. Marriage prep programs, to consider how marriage preparation is taking place in instruction in a method of natural family planning— Thomas says, should use the approach rooted in dialogue the Church today, and how it might change as a result of St. Augustine is one of the few dioceses in the and encounter that the exhortation talks about. the exhortation. United States that requires a full course—along with Thomas says “The Joy of Love” points out that the taking two relationship inventories. goal of marriage preparation is to reach and encourage Couples also complete an online instruction program the hearts of the couple being prepared, appealing to and attend a retreat. Day says that this process is fairly generosity, commitment and love. standard across the United States. He said the exhortation emphasizes marriage as a Lauri Przybysz, president-elect of the National vocation, so vocational discernment is a necessary aspect Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers, says that for effective marriage prep. So, too, is the emphasis Pope Francis’ exhortation “reminds us that marriage that the couples themselves are the “ministers of the preparation is more than a program the couple attends.” sacrament.” Helping people to grasp this idea could Przybysz says that growing up in a Christian family become a valuable component in the preparation process. that nurtures the skills needed for a healthy relationship Finally, Thomas notes, marriage preparation (respect for others, patience, kindness, generosity, etc.) is programing should pay great attention to Chapter 4 of the best preparation for marriage. Groups in a parish or the exhortation, which he calls “the most detailed and diocese also can provide support for couples. realistic description of what is meant by Christian human Przybysz is supportive of programs that place an love ever presented in a Church document.” engaged couple with a married, mentor couple. She It focuses on the values necessary for healthy, Felician Sister Celeste Goulet, right, gives marriage preparation says that in this process both couples benefit through wholesome and holy married life, providing the perfect courses to a couple in Tulita, Northwest Territories, Canada. the interaction of journeying together. An added framework for marriage preparation. “The Joy of Love,” Pope Francis’ apostolic on marriage, includes bonus is that lifetime support networks can result from many insights to help strengthen marriage preparation programs these programs. (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist who recently moved to in the Church. (CNS photo/Michael Swan, The Catholic Register) David Thomas, retired professor of theology and Louisville, Ky.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Imperiled Church: The end of the The Holy Spirit can (Eleventh in a series of columns) west to the Adriatic Sea on the east. Austrian troops from Italy, but they were Government of this vast territory added defeated. Riots broke out in Rome, and in guide us through You can’t help but think that the to the temporal prestige of the . 1848 the pope fled in disguise to Gaeta, the light and Catholics of the 19th century were sure that However, it also involved the papacy in south of Naples. the Catholic Church was imperiled when bloody conflicts. During the 12th and France then came to the pope’s rescue. shadows of life Italian King Victor Emmanuel incorporated 13th centuries, there was conflict with the French troops restored papal rule, and the city of Rome into Holy Roman Emperor over territory, and the pope returned to Rome in 1850. One of the first columns I wrote when the fledgling Italian papal power declined during the years when Ten years later, though, Italian troops led I began this “Faith and Family” column state, and put an end to the papacy was located in Avignon, France. by Count Camillo Cavour occupied all in 2002 was about the of my the Papal States. Rome However, by the time of Pope Julius II of the Papal States except Rome, and its first son, Michael, who was born on had always been the (1503-1513) the states were reclaimed. immediate environs, and the territory was May 1 of that year. center of the Church. As we saw two weeks ago, Napoleon added to the new Kingdom of Italy. Last month, Temporal holdings seized the Papal States and annexed them to French troops protected the pope in Michael received of the popes went back the French Empire in 1809, but they were Rome for another 10 years until King Victor the sacrament of as far as Constantine. restored to the papacy after Napoleon was Emmanuel occupied Rome and incorporated confirmation from He granted the pope defeated. While Gregory XVI was pope, the city into his kingdom on Sept. 20, 1870. Archbishop Joseph extensive lands in Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, the people in the Papal States revolted He assured Pius IX of his personal safety W. Tobin. This Sicily and Africa. They were used to provide three times—in 1831, 1843 and 1845— and bestowed on the Vatican the privilege sacrament completed revenue to aid the poor of Rome and repair because they wanted more democracy. of extra-territoriality that it still has today. his initiation into the the city after various disasters and invasions. Gregory had to call on to put down But the large area of Italy that used to be Church that began Other lands were appropriated after the the revolts. the Papal States was no longer under his when he was a little Roman Empire fell in the West. After Pope Pius IX was elected in 1846, jurisdiction. The pope was now “a king more than a month old. The Papal States themselves originated he granted some political reforms and set without a kingdom.” As he walked confidently forward with the Donation of Pepin, the king of the up city and state councils. But he was not Pius IX never accepted this arrangement to have Archbishop Tobin anoint his Franks, in 756. By the 11th century, the prepared to go as far as his subjects wanted and considered himself a prisoner in the forehead with sacred chrism oil, I couldn’t Papal States included roughly two-thirds and refused to establish a constitutional Vatican. He never again left the area of help but return to that day 14 years ago of Italy, from the Mediterranean Sea on the state. Then papal troops tried to expel the the Vatican. † when my wife, Cindy, and I carried him to the waters of baptism. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes Confirmation is closely tied to baptism, strengthening the presence of the Holy Say the right thing at the right time for the right reason Spirit in the person being confirmed and his or her ties to the Church that A “saying” says it all, doesn’t it? It’s penetrating eye, the mildly menacing tone expression. I’m told there is another similar were established in that doorway to often a pithy statement which defines an of voice. Norwegian expletive which is so naughty the sacraments. idea or imparts a bit of wisdom. It can Some sayings are meant to be helpful in they wouldn’t tell it to me. After having raised Michael for be funny, serious, amazingly accurate or managing our affairs. Things like, “Waste The “s” word is another popular, but 14 years and foreseeing the challenges philosophical. not, want not” or “A penny saved is a penny naughty expletive. My niece used this that lay ahead of him in this world, he’ll Other names for earned.” Unfortunately, we don’t always expression out loud one day, only to hear most definitely need the strength of the sayings are adages, heed these suggestions until after it’s too her little daughter’s baby voice behind her Holy Spirit and the faithful of the Church mottoes, or witticisms, late. And sayings about health often go saying, “Sit!” Of course, many a juvenile to help him to live out the vocation but they have about ignored as well, as in, “Eat to live, don’t mouth has been washed out with soap for to which God has called him from the same purpose and live to eat” or “Put cream and sugar in your similarly inappropriate exclamations. all eternity. effect. The Bible is coffee, not coffee in your cream and sugar.” Over time, we all tend to develop sayings I should have seen that clearly when chock full of them, of Other behavioral issues are taken up in that succinctly sum up our own point of Michael was baptized on June 8, 2002. course, as in “Judge sayings. We hear, “Say what you mean, view on a subject. Some of my favorites We were all living in the wake of the not, that ye be not and mean what you say,” “Handsome is as include, “Anything tastes better with melted 9/11 attacks. And there were so many judged,” and quotations handsome does,” “Let sleeping dogs lie,” cheese on top,” and “Eat dirt.” The latter other negative trends in our society then from Shakespeare’s works are a close or “Don’t let your right hand know what is reserved for commenting on terribly that had existed for decades. second. Both often appear in “Jeopardy” your left hand is doing” come to mind. In bad behavior or personal insult or scam Despite those challenging times, I questions. fact, almost any human issue is covered by a IRS phone calls. And it’s usually delivered couldn’t help but be hopeful for Michael’s A friend and I were laughing recently saying somewhere. silently, although my friends know what future as Cindy and I brought him as a over the sayings our moms used to dish As an example, a friend whose mom was I’m thinking. little baby to be baptized in St. Joseph out. It seems that all mothers, regardless Italian told me of a saying her mother often Sayings are important because they Church in Shelbyville where I was of location, race, age or whatever, always recited to her in rhyming Italian: “Every day contain words, and words are powerful, baptized and where, at the time, I served employ the same ones. I am guilty of it you wake up after age 40 brings a new ache wise, inspiring. Scripture says, “In the as the parish’s director of religious myself. We are our mothers’ daughters, or pain, and every day you wake up over beginning was the Word. And the Word was education. after all. age 50 you should jump in the river with with God, and the Word was God” (Jn 1:1). That optimism was as it should be. And most of mom’s sayings are meant to all your clothes on.” A bit pessimistic, but We should watch what we say because it’s Cindy and I were overflowing with love encourage good behavior. “Don’t make me maybe it sounds better in an Italian rhyme. God who has that final Word. for our first-born child, even if we were come over there!” or “Because I said so!” Certain expletives are sayings, too. My sleep deprived at the time, living in what always delivered with exclamation points, Norwegian family exclaims, “Uff dah!” (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the we have come to call “baby boot camp.” are popular favorites. And they are always in moments of surprise, indignation, Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular With a future that was a blank slate, our delivered with the authoritative posture, the horror, you name it. It’s a great all-purpose columnist for The Criterion.) † hopes were as high as the sky—high as heaven—for him. Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli And, thanks to God’s grace, they still are high 14 years later. The experience What’s new? God will not be outdone in generosity of Michael’s first 14 years has also given Cindy and I the opportunity to grow in There’s no new beginning until you let Valentine flowers to both my widowed Recently, I’ve cleaned my closets … faith that God’s providence can make go of the old. grandmothers. I cringed at the expense, but and they’re free of useless stuff—all but these hopes a reality—even in the face of Our God is a God of new beginnings. I did it. the stockpiles of my published articles. the many hardships of our common broken “Behold, I make all things new” (Rv 21:5). Surprisingly, the world didn’t stop. In the hall closet, I store copies of every humanity and the growing difficulty of I’m pretty good at letting go of stuff … I learned I could do it. article, every column and every story living out one’s faith in this world. but sometimes I cling. Another time, a family in our church I wrote that made it to print. Several So when Michael received the In fact, my children needed a specialty-equipped van. I held boxes make up this treasured collection sacrament of confirmation last month, joke that anything not my breath and contributed an amount far and, uncharacteristically, I’ve clung to it my experience of it was tied more to nailed down may be greater than anything I’d ever given to for years. the grittiness of reality and the power given away. When one cause before. Maybe it’s time to let it go. Maybe it’s of God’s grace to shine through the they were young, I Again, life went on. time for a fresh start. shadows of life then when I witnessed decluttered the house In fact, the more money I gave away, the I’ve been pondering writing a book, and participated in his baptism so many and cleaned out closets more we seemed to have. but something holds me back. I’ve been years ago—when I had no knowledge of frequently. However, God will not be outdone in generosity. considering blogging, but I haven’t written the blessings and challenges that his life as soon as I finished I joined a Bible study, and we served a word online. I could reach people would bring. the job and shut the meals at a local women’s shelter. through Facebook, Instagram or Twitter … Our lives are all marked by light and closet door, it seemed the stuff inside One particularly cold winter, I searched my but I haven’t begun. darkness. They’re part and parcel of the multiplied. closet and gave the residents every extra Could the collection in the hall closet fact that, at one and the same time, we Oddly, the more I gave away, the more coat and sweater I owned. be restraining me? If I pitch it, will I be bear the weight of the effects of original we seemed to have. Later, when a local radio station forced to move on? sin and are lifted up by the redemption The same thing happened with collected cold weather gear for the Maybe it’s time to let it go so I won for us in Christ Jesus. our money. homeless, I thought I’d have nothing to can grow. So never give up or lose sight of I used to be a tightwad. I wouldn’t give. However, I was wrong. Surprisingly, I When you give something away, you the power of God’s grace as you face attend Tupperware parties because it meant still found winter clothing to spare. make room for something better. obstacles, often small but sometimes big, I’d have to buy something. I didn’t want How did that happen? You make room for God. You make in your daily life. Have a conscious and to do that. Rather, I wanted to save every I moved a lot as a kid, so I think it room for God to work. active trust that the Holy Spirit, which the dime for myself. helped me learn to let go of things, places, Let the new start begin. I’m ready. sacrament of confirmation strengthened in Then I realized generosity was even people. God never abandons us. You the heart of my son Michael and so many God’s plan. open a window for fresh new starts, and (Debra Tomaselli writes from of you, can lift you up in your struggles I began giving to the church. I donated God always provides. Altamonte Springs, Florida. She can be and open your eyes to the light of Christ, to the Sentinel Santa program. I sent Maybe that’s what’s happening now. reached at [email protected].) † which no shadow can obscure. † The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Page 13

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Thursday, June 30 Daily Readings The First Martyrs of the Holy Roman Church Monday, June 27 Amos 7:10-17 Sunday Readings St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop Psalm 19:8-11 and Matthew 9:1-8 Sunday, June 26, 2016 to slavery. Amos 2:6-10, 13-16 Paul reminded his ancient readers • 1 Kings 19:16b, 19-21 in Galatia, and us today, that blindly Psalm 50:16bc-23 Friday, July 1 • Galatians 5:1, 13-18 following our instincts is not in any way Matthew 8:18-22 St. Junípero Serra, priest • Luke 9:51-62 true freedom. Instead, it is an alluring form Amos 8:4-6, 9-12 of slavery. We are attracted to following Tuesday, June 28 Psalm 119:2, 10, 20, 30, 40, 131 The First Book of Kings is the source of our instincts. We are fascinated by sin St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr this weekend’s first reading. As the names and selfishness. Matthew 9:9-13 of these two volumes imply, First and God’s strength, given in the Holy Spirit, Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 Second Kings were through identity with Jesus, fortifies us. Psalm 5:4b-8 Saturday, July 2 written, to a degree, God’s revelation, proclaimed by Jesus, Matthew 8:23-27 Amos 9:11-15 to be a chronicle of instructs us. In Christ, God frees us Psalm 89:9ab, 10-14 the lives and reigns of from slavery. Wednesday, June 29 Matthew 9:14-17 Israel’s early kings. St. Luke’s Gospel furnishes the last Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles They were in no reading. For Luke, the Lord’s coming sense political or even to Jerusalem was momentous, for Jesus Acts 12:1-11 Sunday, July 3 personal biographies, personally but also for the world. Thus, Psalm 34:2-9 Fourteenth Sunday in however. They were this Evangelist was very dramatic in 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Ordinary Time written with the detailing the movement of Jesus toward the Matthew 16:13-19 Isaiah 66:10-14c purpose first and Holy City. foremost of drawing the people of Israel Passing to Jerusalem, the Lord went Psalm 66:1-7, 16, 20 more closely to God and to obedience to his through Samaria. For devout Jews, Galatians 6:14-18 commandments. Samaritans were a disgusting lot. Long ago Luke 10:1-12, 17-20 With such the case, it is not surprising Samaritans, although Jews and believers, or Luke 10:1-9 that they feature prophets as much as kings. had compromised themselves by accepting In this weekend’s reading, the focus is foreign invasion and then, more terribly, upon Elisha and Elijah, two of the earliest by consorting with pagans. All this recorded prophets. happened centuries before Jesus, but in the It describes the passage of responsibility first century, Jews still scorned Samaritans. Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle from Elijah to Elisha, something much Understandably, the Apostles asked more than simply a conferral of authority Jesus for a harsh rebuke when people in upon a new generation by a preceding a Samaritan village rejected the Gospel. The Church has requirements that must generation. Succession occurred, but God Jesus reprimanded the Apostles for making directed Elijah to call Elisha to the role of their request. be met before minors can be baptized prophet. In other words, both prophets were Someone else loudly cried out loyalty to My children were baptized as and are concerned about it. I have seriously divinely chosen. Christ. The Lord tells this person that true QCatholics, but none of them is now a considered changing parishes if this It was part of God’s plan to give the faith means a commitment so strong that practicing Catholic. continues. (Illinois) Chosen People direction, lest they go nothing can divert it. Soon I will be astray, and to their own doom, if left to their traveling with a The Church’s guidance to its priests own plans. Reflection granddaughter to Ais clear: As public representatives of Two points are worth remembering. The The Lord, in Luke’s Gospel, calls us to a South America, and I the Church, they should neither endorse first is somewhat coincidental. God told high ideal by saying that no one who looks have asked her mother nor oppose political parties or particular Elijah to anoint Elisha. Anointings with back after commitment to God can receive whether I might be able candidates for office. blessed olive oil survive in the Church’s the gift of eternal life. Turning to God is to baptize Sophia before At the same time, as the U.S. bishops sacraments. Anointing is one of the not momentary or half-hearted. the trip. (I wouldn’t do said in their 2015 document “Faithful most ancient gestures of ritual. It means The Church bluntly proclaims this fact, it without her mother’s Citizenship”: “The Church’s obligation to being marked. but it is also encouraging and reassuring. permission.) participate in shaping the moral character The second point is that the prophets put God sent prophets to guide the people and If her mother consents, may I do that of society is a requirement of our faith.” everything aside to serve God. ultimately also sent his son, Jesus. baptism at home, and are there any special So the Catholic Church—rightly and St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians We must resolve to follow Jesus. prayers that need to be said except: “I necessarily—takes positions on a host of provides the next reading. While pious Without God, we are apt to be slaves, baptize you in the name of the Father and public policy issues, including care for the Jews abhorred slavery, the literal owning chained to our sins. Our culture tricks of the Son and of the Holy Spirit?” I love poor, the sick and the elderly; protection of human beings was commonplace in us into seeing slavery as freedom. It my Catholic faith; I believe that baptism of human life at every stage; attention the Roman Empire. Galatian Christians has completely reversed the meaning of offers a spiritual protection that I want for to just war principles; and support for a included many Gentiles. They saw slavery freedom. We are slaves if we sin. We have my granddaughter when we travel together. living wage. every day and at every turn. Everyone no control. Christ gives us freedom, but we Please advise. (New Jersey) On immigration, for example, the instantly would have understood a reference must choose to be free. † position of the Catholic Church is clear. You acted properly in first asking your In a 2003 pastoral letter titled “Strangers Agranddaughter’s mother for permission No Longer,” the U.S. bishops stressed that My Journey to God to have her baptized. The Church’s “when persons cannot find employment Code of Canon Law (in #868) provides in their country of origin to support that, in normal circumstances, the consent themselves and their families, they have of at least one parent is necessary—danger a right to find work elsewhere in order of death being the exception. Another to survive,” and that “more powerful requirement, however, is the reasonable economic nations … have a stronger expectation that the child will be raised obligation to accommodate immigration as a Catholic. flows.” The bishops also acknowledge I don’t know the age of your that countries have the right to regulate granddaughter, but for her to be baptized, immigration with just laws. some plan should be in place for you or In my mind, though—if you are quoting another responsible adult to see to it that she accurately—your pastor went beyond receive the other sacraments of the Church, what is permitted by relating his views on including first penance, first Communion immigration to a particular candidate. The and confirmation—and, of course, that she focus must be always on the issue itself. be brought to Mass regularly. What he said about Pope Francis and As to whether you should administer same-sex marriage might simply be a the sacrament yourself, you should not. matter of emphasis and of how you heard Canon #861 provides that the ordinary him. In his April 2016 apostolic exhortation minister of baptism is a bishop, priest or “The Joy of Love,” the pope did say that deacon. Yours is not an emergency situation, homosexual unions do not match God’s so you should talk to a local parish to plan for marriage and family, but he also arrange to have Sophia baptized by the said that “every person, regardless of sexual In Mark 14:36, Jesus addresses God as parish priest if her mother gives her consent. orientation, ought to be respected in his or Abba, an Aramaic familiar form of her dignity and treated with consideration.” Daddy! Father, akin to our “papa” or “daddy.” My pastor seems to have liberal Before you decide to change parishes, By Jack Ferkinhoff Qpolitical convictions, and he often uses perhaps you and some like-minded In Romans 8:15, Paul tells us that his Sunday homilies to promote them. I am parishioners might seek to meet with your (Jack Ferkinhoff is a member of As adopted children we are to approach uncomfortable with this and feel that it is an pastor and discuss your concerns. Failing St. Maruice Parish in Napoleon. The Father in like manner. abuse of his pastoral position. that, if you think that he is clearly violating Jason, left, and Josh Orndorff After Pope Francis issued his apostolic the Church’s guidelines, you always kneel while praying the rosary on How awesome is this: exhortation on the family, our pastor said have recourse to the chancery office in March 5 at East Central High School in That we dare approach the very from the pulpit that “all relationships must your diocese. St. Leon during the E6 Catholic Men’s Power of the universe, be honored.” And he has criticized the Conference.) (File photo by Sean Gallagher) Sit upon His knee, views of a specific presidential candidate (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth And call Him “Daddy!” in a homily. Doyle at [email protected] and Other parishioners have also noticed this 40 Hopewell St. Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016

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Jeanne Duvelius, 76, mother of Father Dennis Duvelius, died on June 11 Benedictine Father Damian Jeanne Duvelius, the mother of Father Dennis Duvelius, survived by her daughter, Diana Feyka, and her sons, Jeffrey Schmelz was college seminary pastor of St. Mark Parish in Perry County and St. Paul Parish and Father Dennis Duvelius, three grandchildren and her sister, in Tell City, died on June 11 at Community North Hospital in Darlene Meyer. professor, leader in Indiana Indianapolis. She was 76. At the time of her death, Duvelius was a member of The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on June 16 St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis. In the summer, she enjoyed ecology, Sagamore of the Wabash at Holy Family Church in Oldenburg. Burial followed in that planting and caring for flowers, feeding birds and fishing for parish’s cemetery. Benedictine Father Damian Schmelz, a of Saint bluegill. In the winter, she watched the Indianapolis Colts and Jeanne Duvelius was born on June 15, 1939, in Batesville. She Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, died on June 12 in the attended St. Louis School in Batesville, the Oldenburg Academy knitted baby blankets for her family, especially for her future monastery infirmary. He was 84. of the Immaculate Conception in Oldenburg and the Indiana great-grandchildren. The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on June 18. University School of Nursing. At the time of her death, Duvelius Memorial gifts may be sent to the Indiana Hemophilia and According to Father Damian’s request, his remains will be was a retired registered nurse. Thrombosis Center, 8326 Naab Road, Indianapolis, IN 46260, donated to the Indiana University School of Medicine. Burial She married her husband, Daniel Duvelius, who survives her, or the National Autism Association, 1 Park Avenue, Suite 1, will follow at a later date at the Archabbey Cemetery. on Sept. 13, 1958, at St. Louis Church in Batesville. She is also Portsmouth, RI 02871. † Father Damian was a jubilarian of monastic profession, having celebrated 62 years of monastic profession. He was also a jubilarian of ordination, having celebrated 58 years of life and ministry as a priest Online Lay Ministry Formation Vincent Eugene Schmelz was born on May 7, 1932, in The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the Georgetown, Ind., and grew up as a member of St. Mary Parish University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) in Lanesville. to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: Father Damian entered Saint Meinrad’s former Minor Seminary in 1950, and was invested as a novice at • Courses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church from CDU Saint Meinrad Archabbey in 1952. • All 12 classes for a Certificate in Lay Ministry available online He professed temporary vows on July 31, 1953, and solemn • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners • Employees also receive reimbursement upon course completion vows on Aug. 6, 1957. He was ordained a priest on May 3, 1958. Father Damian earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy For more information, please log on to from the former Saint Meinrad College, and a bachelor’s degree www.archindy.org/layministry in sacred theology from Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology and from The Catholic University of America. After his priestly ordination, Father Damian began teaching biology in the former Saint Meinrad High School. During summers, he pursued graduate studies at Purdue University in IF WE ARE TO HELP OTHERS ... West Lafayette, Ind., earning a master’s degree in plant ecology in 1964 and a doctorate in that field in 1969. He taught biology at the former Saint Meinrad College until it closed in 1998. We need your used appliances: Father Damian also served in the college’s administration at • Washers different periods as assistant dean of students, academic dean, • Dryers (electric only, please) provost and vice rector. He also managed The UnStable, the campus pub, for 25 years. • Refrigerators He was active as a member of the Indiana Academy of • Ranges (gas or electric) Science, which he joined in 1966, receiving their Outstanding Even if they don’t work---we’ll repair them Service Award in 2003. He was known for his research in Indiana old-growth forests, We also need your used furniture: and was chairman of a blue-ribbon committee assigned to study controlled deer hunts in Brown County State Park. He and • Living room sofas and chairs a colleague specialized in the area of Donaldson’s Woods, a (clean, no holes or tears, please) nature preserve managed by the Indiana Department of Natural • Coffee/end tables; night stands Resources in south-central Indiana. In 2000, an addition to the • Dining tables, dinettes and chairs Donaldson’s Woods Nature Preserve was dedicated in his honor. Father Damian served for 33 years on the Indiana Natural • Lamps (floor or table-top) Resources Commission and was co-author in 1969 of • Dressers/chests Natural Areas of Indiana, which served as a guide for the creation of Indiana’s Natural Preserves. Call 317-687-1006 or go to svdpindy.org to arrange In 2007, he was awarded a Lifetime Conservation a Saturday morning pickup. Or bring them to us at Achievement Award by the Indiana Wildlife Federation. 1201 E. Maryland St. Open Monday thru Thursday Two years later, he was inducted as a member of the inaugural and on Saturday, 8:30 AM to 1:00 PM. class of the Indiana Conservation Hall of Fame. In 2015, Father Damian was named a Sagamore of the Wabash, the highest honor bestowed by the Governor of Indiana. Most recently, he served as pastor of St. Henry Parish in svdpindy.org St. Henry, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese from 2001-15 when declining health led to his retirement. Society of St. Vincent de Paul Memorial gifts may be sent to Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 3001 E. 30th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46218 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN 47577. † The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 Page 15

Serra Club vocations essay Retired priest gives student a vibrant example of God’s mercy

By Molly Gregg One example will always stand out to me. area priest is out of town, Father Eckstein ministers Special to The Criterion One day after daily Mass, Father Eckstein was to those who are dying; he goes to pray with them getting into his car to head to Milan. Some students and anoint them. He also presides at many funerals God has given me the gift of experiencing and were waiting in line to go to confession, so a parent in our area. Father Eckstein kindly gives of his time receiving mercy through priests, deacons and ran to his car and told him there were students in to assist at other parishes’ funerals and performs an consecrated men and women. One perfect example need of confession. Father immediately turned off important work of mercy—praying for the dead. He of mercy is shown through the priestly ministry of his car. With a smile on his face, he returned inside is truly a living saint in our midst. Father Frank Eckstein. the church and headed to the confessional. He was I have experienced mercy through He is a model for all as he continually gives eager to bring the gift of mercy to these children. Father Frank Eckstein. Every day, I am reminded of of himself to bring the love and mercy of Even at age 85, Father Eckstein continues to serve what a great gift he is to all. Mercy is flowing out God to everyone. and shine so brightly. of him, reaching the hearts of many. He reminds us As we continue in this Holy Year of Mercy, Father Frank Eckstein also lives out the daily that we are all called to be Christ-like: helpful, Molly Gregg Pope Francis tells us, “Mercy is the Lord’s most corporal works of mercy; he is a model to all of the humble, obedient, forgiving and merciful. Jesus will powerful message.” Father Eckstein continues to live parishioners and family to do the same. Feeding the surely say to Father Eckstein, “Well done, my good out the message of God’s tenderness by simply and hungry, visiting the sick, and burying the dead are and faithful servant.” humbly showing mercy and care every day. the three works of mercy that this faithful priest is Father Eckstein is a retired priest who helps out known for in our area. (Molly and her parents, Dana and Debbie Gregg, at our parish, St. Nicholas in Ripley County. He As my neighbor, Father Frank is known for his are members of St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County. ministers to us by tending to our spiritual needs. gardening; he often drops off corn and tomatoes She completed the eighth grade at St. Nicholas One would not be able to tell he is retired, for to our family. By bringing holy Communion to School last spring, and is the eighth-grade division he still gives lavishly of his time and assists at shut-ins and those in nursing homes, he brings the winner in the Indianapolis Serra Club’s 2016 neighboring parishes. light of Christ to those most in need. Whenever an John D. Kelley Vocations Essay Contest.) † Parish reaches out to Nebraska family after deadly alligator attack OMAHA, Neb. (CNS)—Members of St. Patrick the parish in Elkhorn, and Ella attended preschool at St. Patrick Church in Elkhorn. Parish in Elkhorn prayed on June 16 for Lane Graves, St. Patrick School. In Florida, news reports said Disney World closed all a 2-year-old boy killed in an alligator attack in Florida, Father Gary Ostrander, pastor, said 100 to 150 people of its beaches on June 16 so staff members could conduct his father and mother, Matthew and Melissa, and sister, attended the Mass, which was followed by the rosary for “a swift and thorough review of all our processes and 4-year-old Ella, during a regularly scheduled morning the family. protocols,” including looking at warning signs posted Mass and special rosary. “We were all remembering in our prayers, the family,” around the property. A sign near the lagoon warned On vacation at a Walt Disney Father Ostrander told the Catholic Voice, newspaper of the guests not to play or swim in the water, but made no World resort in Orlando, the family Omaha Archdiocese. mention of alligators. was relaxing on June 14 near a play The parish posted on its website— “As a parent and a grandparent, my heart goes out to area when the alligator grabbed www.stpatselkhorn.org— a plea for privacy for the family. the Graves family during this time of devastating loss,” Lane as he waded at the edge of “Please honor their privacy at this time and keep them in Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger said in a statement of a lagoon, authorities said. His your prayers,” parish officials said in the posting. condolence to the family. “My thoughts and prayers are father fought the alligator and his In a statement issued on June 16 to ABC News, with them, and I know everyone at Disney joins me in mother called for help, but their son the family said, “Words cannot describe the shock offering our deepest sympathies.” disappeared under the water. Lane’s and grief our family is experiencing over the loss of body was found about 18 hours our son. To all of the local authorities and staff who (Memorials or Mass intentions can be made in later, near the shore where he was worked tirelessly these past 24 hours, we express our Lane Graves’ name on line via the parish website, dragged off. deepest gratitude.” www.stpatselkhorn.org, or through the mail to St. Patrick Lane Graves The Graves are members of The funeral Mass for Lane was set for June 21 at Parish, 20500 West Maple Rd. Elkhorn, NE 68022.) †

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Choir to promote the vision of Marian • Other duties as assigned US News & World Report’s list of Midwest University Campus Ministry by providing Region colleges, as well as Money magazine’s Qualifications: The ideal candidate will Responsibilities include: providing for music at four Masses leadership in the areas of Roman Catholic list of Top 10 schools in Indiana “For Your have: per weekend, including personal direction and/or performance worship, ecumenical/common prayer, and Money”. Marian University was founded in for at least three Masses, recruiting and supervising volunteer liturgical music for the Marian University • Knowledge of and commitment to the 1937 by the Sisters of St. Francis, Oldenburg, musicians, directing adult and youth choirs, training cantors, community. Reporting to the Director of mission of Marian University. Indiana, and the Franciscan Values that the Campus Ministry, this minister will focus on • A bachelor’s degree in Theology, Liturgy, Sisters ingrained into the university’s culture and assisting with liturgical music for school liturgies. making current liturgies and prayer services Ministry, or Sacred Music are still prevalent today. The university dynamic by cultivating greater student • Deep understanding and love of the Catholic has experienced tremendous growth in This dynamic person of faith should have a Bachelor’s Degree, leadership and utilizing best practices. This liturgical tradition the past 10 years under the leadership of preferably with a music major, including knowledge and person will also foster the active participation • Five years of experience coordinating President Daniel J. Elsener, including the training in music theory and history, or equivalent experience, of the liturgical assembly in singing, expand worship and the liturgical life of a parish or opening of the Marian University College a strong sense of Roman Catholic liturgy, and proficiency our worship offerings, and involve a broader university. of Osteopathic Medicine in 2013—the in keyboard and choral direction. Salary commensurate with portion of the Marian University community • Choral conducting experience state’s first new medical school in 110 years. education and experience. in these opportunities. • Expert pianist Marian University’s football team has • Competency in vocal performance captured the NAIA national championship Essential Duties and Responsibilities: • Full knowledge and understanding of the in 2012 and 2015 in 9 years of existence. E-mail cover letter, resumé, and references, to: • Coordinate all Catholic liturgies following Church documents as they relate Marian University is also home to the most [email protected]. • Coordinate prayers and/or worship events to execution of the duties assigned to this successful collegiate cycling program in the such as: Sacred Hour, Night Prayer, and position: nation, which currently holds 32 national Adoration —The New Roman Missal titles. Legal • Direct the Sacred Choir and musicians —General Instruction of the Roma Missal Review of applications will begin If you are a victim of • Advise and mentor Pastoral Music Ministry —Sing to the Lord – Music in Divine immediately and continue until the position Report sexual misconduct by a person majors Worship (USCCB) is filled. Applications require a cover letter, ministering on behalf of the • Coordinate internships for the Pastoral • Strong organizational skills current resumé, and names and addresses Church, or if you know of anyone Music Ministry Majors • Strong, internally motivated work ethic sexual of three current references. Only complete • Coordinate four teams of student leaders (the • Ability to use Microsoft Office Suite who has been a victim of applications should be submitted to Liturgy Team, Night Prayer Team, Adoration • Master’s Degree in Theology, Liturgy, misconduct such misconduct, please contact [email protected]. No phone calls please. Team, and Sacred Hour Team) Ministry, or Sacred Music preferred the archdiocesan victim • Provide training and formation for all teams • Experience in higher education, working Marian University is an EOE now assistance coordinator: (including prior to the beginning of the with college students or young adults Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, school year, and during winter break) preferred • Be a contributing member to the Campus • Competency in organ and/or guitar preferred P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1410 Ministry staff team Located within 10 minutes of downtown • Collaborate closely with the Chair of the 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 Indianapolis, Marian University is one of the [email protected] Page 16 The Criterion Friday, June 24, 2016 ‘Laudato Si” at one year: Catholics inspired to act on climate change

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Thinking green is poorest people. not easy. Nor is it always cheap. “We’re seeing, I think, a very positive But for St. Michael Parish in Poway, Calif., effort to make sure that “Laudato Si’ is not a north of San Diego, one-day wonder or even a one-year wonder, parishioners are already but that it is something that is sustained within seeing the benefits— the Church and promoted as part of the work spiritual, financial and of the Church,” said Eamonnn Meehan, environmental—of a executive director. $1.3 million investment Likewise in the U.S., Catholics are in a solar panel system. experiencing a growing awareness of climate In the year since the change. A Center for Applied Research in panels were installed the Apostolate (CARA) poll conducted on on several buildings May 16-26 found that Catholic adults are more across the 26-acre likely to be concerned about climate change Church property, the than other Christians. parish has seen its The poll discovered that 68 percent of electricity costs fall by Catholics felt they have a moral responsibility more than 75 percent to act to mitigate climate change. In contrast, to about $5,000 a 65 percent of other Christians and 59 percent month from $20,000 of evangelicals held a similar view. The margin to $22,000 monthly, of error among the 1,010 Catholic respondents Pope Francis said Father John Dolan, is plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. pastor. At the current Dan Misleh, executive director of the rate, the system will pay for itself within Catholic Climate Covenant, told CNS that six years, he said. people want to act on climate change, and he What’s better, Father Dolan told Catholic credits “Laudato Si’ ” for that willingness to News Service (CNS), is that parishioners step up because of their faith. know that their Church is part of a planet-wide “People are wanting to know how they can movement in response to Pope Francis’ implement these teachings. How do we lower year-old encyclical, “Laudato Si’, on our carbon footprint? How do we take better Care for Our Common Home,” that calls upon care of creation? How do we ensure that those everyone to better care for God’s creation and who are most impacted by environmental one another. degradation and climate change are made Early morning sun rises through the fog in 2013 over the swollen Brisbane River in “People are buying into this,” whole?” Misleh said. . During the last year, Australian parishes and schools have integrated “green” Father Dolan said, explaining how topics During a June 13 teleconference discussing practices into everyday life to reduce energy consumption in response to Pope Francis’ on the environment and sustainability come Catholic activities related to the encyclical environmental encyclical. (CNS photo/Dan Peled, EPA) up in parish conversations, even during over the last year, Bishop Oscar Cantu coffee-and-doughnut gatherings after Sunday of Las Cruces, N.M., chairman of the Mass. “We have to think on a global level. This U.S. bishops’ Committee on International is no longer just a regional thing. We have to Justice and Peace, said the pope’s message has Vatican marks anniversary of reach into this call to stewardship. We have been shared with more than 100 members of dominion over the world and not domination.” Congress or congressional staff members. environmental encyclical by The publication of the encyclical last June The bishops also have supported the global helped boost the Diocese of San Diego’s climate agreement reached in December launching new website recommendation that all parishes install solar in Paris and the Green Climate Fund to power systems. With 98 parishes and 89 assist poor countries respond to climate ROME (CNS)—Marking the climate in their daily lives.” schools, the effort is more than symbolic. The change, he said. first anniversary of Pope Francis’ The science and economics of diocese reported that more than 50 entities are Clergy are a key audience, Bishop Cantu encyclical on the environment, change to protect the environment seeking bids on solar projects or solar power said, because they can influence the work the Pontifical Council for Justice are essential, Figueres said, but “the purchase agreements. being done at parishes on climate change. and Peace launched a new website guidance of our moral compass” is San Diego is not alone in embracing the The USCCB has developed training modules dedicated to the document and efforts what will made a difference. pope’s call to dialogue and action cited in and is hoping to reach 30 dioceses and around the world to put its teaching Archimandrite Athenagoras the encyclical. Catholic organizations around 500 priests by 2019. into practice. Fasiolo, an Orthodox pastor in the world have formed study groups, planted Hundreds of other efforts underway include: The site—www.laudatosi.va— Treviso, presented the Italian gardens, written broad action plans to reduce • Catholic Relief Services launched the “witnesses not only to the impact of edition of the book, Cosmic Grace, energy and water consumption, developed “I Am Climate Change” campaign the encyclical, but also the creativity Humble Prayer: The Ecological curricula and produced webinars to bring for students on college campuses, and and generosity of the people of Vision of the Green the principles Pope Francis expresses in introduced new ways to confront climate God everywhere in the world,” said Bartholomew I. “Laudato Si’ ” to life. change to subsistence farmers and Cardinal , council Pope Francis’ encyclical and The Archdiocese of Atlanta has adopted a communities displaced by drought and president. the collected environmental wide-ranging action plan that touches every environmental degradation. The council celebrated the reflections of Ecumenical Patriarch aspect of Church life. It identifies steps such as • The Global Catholic Climate Movement first anniversary of the document, Bartholomew of Constantinople, ridding the chancery of plastic foam cups and conducted a week of webinars in mid-June “Laudato Si’, on Care for Our he said, show that “the Holy Spirit bowls, teaching catechists about the document, featuring Catholic clergy leaders, Common Home,” on June 20 with a does not cease to work without retreats on sustainability, workshops on academics, and environmental advocates small conference at Rome’s Basilica interruption in his Church,” inspiring developing a parish garden and helping people to mark the encyclical’s anniversary. of St. Mary in Montesanto. leaders to teach care for “all the work understand that their buying habits matter, said • The Virginia Catholic Conference focused Christiana Figueres, executive of God.” Kat Doyle, archdiocesan director of justice and on the threat of rising sea tides in coastal secretary of the U.N. Framework Jesuit Father Michael Czerny, peace ministries. communities and lobbied for passage of a Convention on Climate Change, in a an official at the justice and peace “The reason we came up with an action plan bill that would help communities affected video message, said that as scientists, council, told Catholic News Service is because nothing is going to change if we by flooding. governments, economists and (CNS), [the encyclical] does not tell don’t take action,” Doyle explained. • The Ignatian Solidarity Network is concerned citizens were pushing for people what to think, but guides The Atlanta plan has caught the eye unrolling the Carbon Challenge program an international agreement to combat them through the complexities of the of Jacqui Remond, national director of to schools nationwide. Developed by climate change, Pope Francis’ issue of climate change and care for Catholic Earthcare Australia. She has submitted three Maine high school teachers, the encyclical provided the “moral creation, and calls them to reflect on it to the country’s bishops and , challenge allows students to engage in imperative to take bold action.” their response. encouraging them to adopt a similar plan for the encyclical through eight themes. Published six months before the “The variety and intensity of the country’s 28 dioceses and archdioceses. Through mid-June, 16 schools involving Paris summit on climate change, she debate” within and outside the Such a plan can be the basis for formation of more than 1,000 individuals had signed said, the pope’s document raised the Church, he said, “is a very healthy people in how they see their role on the planet, to participate in the challenge for the issue in “the hearts and minds of response” because the pope wrote the Remond told CNS. 2016-17 school year. hundreds of millions of people who encyclical to contribute to the debate “It’s a whole agenda of work that’s been • Religious orders, including missionary may not otherwise have considered and dialogue. † handed to us in ‘Laudato Si.” We have clarity orders, are taking the encyclical into the of purpose, a sense of direction and guiding communities in which they minister, principles and charisms in terms to take this adopting corporate action plans, forward,” she said. developing policies regarding divestment ‘The site—www.laudatosi.va— During the last year, Australian parishes and in fossil fuels, and widening education on “witnesses not only to the impact of schools have integrated “green” practices into the encyclical. the encyclical, but also the creativity everyday life to reduce energy consumption, • The Archdiocese of Chicago adopted a and parishioners are talking with each other plan to assess and reduce energy and water and generosity of the about how to respond to the pope’s document. consumption in all 2,700 archdiocesan everywhere in the world.’ In Ireland, the Catholic aid agency Trocaire buildings. has taken the encyclical to parish justice and • As part of the Healthier Hospitals —Cardinal Peter Turkson, peace groups and schools in an attempt to Initiative, SSM Health in St. Louis has build awareness and action in response to it. diverted more than 20 percent of its waste president of the Pontifical In a commentary on the document available to recycling, reduced overall energy Council for Justice and Peace to parishes, Trocaire explains how people of consumption, maintained or decreased faith have a responsibility to minimize their air emissions throughout its system, and contribution to climate change and understand implemented a more environmentally how the phenomenon affects the world’s friendly equipment sterilization process. †