Inside Archbishop Buechlein ...... 5 Editorial ...... 4 Question Corner ...... 19 Sunday and Daily Readings . . . . 19 Religious Vocations Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Souther n Indiana Since 1960 Supplement...... 9 CriterionOnline.com January 13, 2006 Vol. XLVI, No. 13 75¢ Pope John Paul II’s would-be assassin to be freed from Turkish prison

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Turkish Agca, 48, had served 19 years in an prison, thereby completing his sentence, terrorist who shot and seriously wounded Italian prison for his May 13, 1981, according to the Associated Press. Pope John Paul II in a failed 1981 assassi- assassination attempt on Pope John Paul at Cardinal Renato Martino, president of CNS photo/Reuters nation attempt was scheduled to be freed on St. Peter’s Square. the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, parole from a Turkish prison on Jan. 12. Just days after the near-fatal shooting, said his council did not want to interfere Since his extradition from Italy to the Polish pope publicly forgave Agca, and with the Turkish court’s decision that deter- Turkey in 2000, Mehmet Ali Agca served in 1983 the pope embraced his would-be mined Agca had “paid his debt to justice.” five years of a 10-year sentence for the assassin in his Rome prison cell. The cardinal said, however, that 1979 murder of a Turkish journalist and two Though he was sentenced to life in Scripture readings during this Christmas robberies the same year. But a Turkish court prison for the shooting, Italian authorities season have talked about Christ being sent said Agca had completed his prison term granted Agca clemency in 2000 and “to proclaim liberty to captives.” and could be released, according to reports returned him to Turkey. At the time, the Christ, in his mercy, will not break “a by the country’s semiofficial Anatolia news Vatican said the pope personally intervened bruised reed” nor snuff out “a smoldering agency. in the gunman’s release from the Italian wick,’ he wrote in a statement sent to jour- Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro- prison. nalists on Jan. 9. Valls, commenting on “the news of the pos- After returning to his home country, Cardinal Martino also noted that “John sible freedom of Ali Agca” in a Jan. 8 press Agca was sent to prison for the murder of Paul II, who immediately pardoned his release, said the decision to release Agca the editor of a liberal Turkish newspaper attacker, titled one of his messages for the should be up to the Turkish courts. and two robberies committed in 1979. World Day of Peace: ‘There Is No Peace Concerning issues of “a judicial nature,” New Turkish laws reduced Agca’s origi- Without Justice, No Justice Without Mehmet Ali Agca, guarded by Turkish police, sits the Vatican “submits to the decisions of the nal punishment from life in prison, or Forgiveness.’ ” in court for a hearing in Istanbul in this tribunals involved in this matter,” the state- 36 years under Turkish regulation, to a Pope John Paul’s former secretary, December 2000 photo. Agca, the man who shot ment said. 10-year sentence. Additional penal code Polish Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of and seriously wounded Pope John Paul II in Pope Benedict XVI is expected to travel reforms led a Turkish court recently to fur- Krakow, said the late pope “would have 1981, will be freed from prison this month, the to Turkey this fall. ther deduct the years Agca served in Italian See AGCA, page 2 Anatolian state news agency said on Jan. 8. Catholic Conference Gift return? Senate likely to seek works to limit death swap for House immigration bill penalty in Indiana By Brigid Curtis Ayer

WASHINGTON (CNS)—When sena- In response to a call by the U.S. tors return to work in mid-January, one Conference of Catholic Bishops for an end waiting task will be to decide what to do to capital pun- with the big, unwieldy Christmas present ishment in the left for them by the House, labeled United States, CNS file photo by David Maung David CNS file photo by “immigration reform.” the Indiana It’s improbable that the Senate would Catholic pass as-is the Border Protection, Anti- Conference is Terrorism and Illegal Immigration working to limit Indiana’s death penalty Control Act, which passed the House on during the 2006 legislative session of the Dec. 16 by a vote of 239-182. The ques- Indiana General Assembly. tion is whether the Senate will try to “Because all human beings are created in amend and rework the House bill more to the image and likeness of God, we have an its tastes or just chuck it onto a back inherent dignity,” said Indiana Catholic shelf, and then rally behind a different Conference Executive Director Glenn bill with a better chance of passing in the Tebbe. “The Church has consistently upheld upper body of Congress. the dignity of all life from conception to The 257-page House legislation natural death. It is out of this consistent life focuses entirely on enforcement. It ethic that we address legislative issues.” includes provisions to criminalize viola- Senate Bill 48 would prohibit the court tions of immigration law, including the from imposing a death sentence if the jury act of providing aid to illegal immigrants; is unable to agree on a sentencing recom- would make it harder for legal immi- mendation. Current law allows a judge to grants to become citizens; and would impose a death sentence when a jury cannot penalize state and local governments that agree on a recommendation. “The bill puts do not pointedly enforce immigration the decision back into the hands of the jury laws, currently only a responsibility of See LEGISLATURE, page 21 federal agencies. It would eliminate a visa lottery program that allows up to 50,000 people a year from certain coun- tries to enter the United States legally and would build 700 miles of new fence along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico. The bill also would expand the employment authorization verification program, while not replacing the flawed database employers use for checking documents. Not included in the bill were provi- sions encouraged by President George W. Bush to address U.S. demand for workers from other countries and to provide a way for the millions of people already in the country illegally to regularize their status. Organizations that back a more com- prehensive approach to immigration reform, including the Catholic Church, Mexican migrants carry crosses during Holy Week in Tijuana in 2005 to recall those who have died have thrown their support behind other while crossing the U.S.-Mexican border. Immigration reform is among the big issues to be discussed bills, particularly one sponsored by by members of Congress in 2006. See IMMIGRATION page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006

“People who are trying to help immigrants Fourth-grader IMMIGRATION will be finding themselves turned into crimi- Patrick O'Neill continued from page 1 nals,” Cardinal McCarrick said. “That’s going pledges alle- to include people at churches.” giance to the Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Edward For such Church programs to screen out flag during a Kennedy, D-Mass. That bill includes enforce- needy people based on their immigration sta- naturalization ment changes as well as a new worker visa tus is not an option, he said, “if you want to ceremony in program; improvements in legal immigration do what the Lord told you to do.” March 2005 at procedures so families can be reunited more In a statement, Don Kerwin, director of V. David World CNS photo by Kamba, Catholic New Cardinal Joseph quickly; and ways for immigrants already in the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Bernardin the country illegally to pay a fine and adjust known as CLINIC, warned that the bill would School in their status. overturn two Supreme Court rulings that Chicago. The Senate is expected to take up immi- mandate fair treatment and due process for gration legislation in February. Although the immigrants who are detained indefinitely by House bill passed by a large majority, few the Department of Homeland Security observers expect it to have much support in because they cannot be deported to their the Senate. Some predicted it wouldn’t get home countries. past being assigned to a committee. Those rulings led to a reversal of a previ- Still, as Washington got back to work after ous policy of arbitrarily imprisoning people the holidays, opponents of H.R. 4437 were for years after they had served any criminal taking every opportunity to express their sentences when they could not be deported worries about its potential impact. for a variety of reasons, such as a lack of Washington Cardinal Theodore E. diplomatic relations with the home country. McCarrick told reporters on Jan. 5 that the Kerwin said that under the House bill “we Employees International Union, Americans approach. Focusing only on enforcement U.S. bishops are “very concerned about this.” can expect, at minimum, an increase of thou- for Tax Reform and the Manhattan Institute fails to address the economic demand for One particular worry is that provisions to sands of indefinite detainees in U.S. detention joined Bishop Thomas G. Wenski of foreign workers and will drive illegal immi- criminalize immigration violations would be facilities.” Orlando, Fla., in criticizing the bill as inade- grants further into the shadows of society, applied to Church workers who help needy “This would be a huge step backwards,” quate and punitive. she said. people without regard for immigration status. he added. “We should not expand a legal Though the interest groups seemed to have Bishop Wenski said among the House Under current law, being in the country black hole that leaves migrants imprisoned in common ground only in finding the House bill’s failings is that it ignores the need to illegally violates only civil law, not criminal legal limbo.” bill inadequate, a criticism many shared was help legal immigrants reunite their families. codes. By making immigration violations a During a telephone press conference held its failure to recognize that enforcement alone The wait for family reunification visas is as crime, those who even unknowingly assist as the House debated the bill in mid- won’t end illegal immigration. long as 10 years, he pointed out, which people who are in the country illegally could December, representatives from the Tamar Jacoby, of the Manhattan Institute, adds to the pressure on people to enter the be subject to prosecution. U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Service said the House bill takes an ostrich-like United States illegally. †

Some Vatican officials noted that Turkish The allegations resulted in a trial and Between Millenniums. AGCA authorities had not informed the Vatican that acquittals in 1986 for the Bulgarian and He expressed his belief that Agca was a continued from page 1 Agca was to be released. Navarro-Valls men- Turkish defendants implicated by Agca. professional assassin and that the assassi- tioned this in his Jan. 8 statement, and Agca later said the Bulgarian connection nation attempt was “not his initiative.” celebrated” upon hearing the news of Agca’s Cardinal Angelo Sodano, Vatican secretary of was a fabrication of Italian intelligence offi- The pope did not say who he thought was scheduled release from prison. state, told the Italian daily La Repubblica on cials who had promised him early release if behind the shooting, but described it as “The Holy Father had forgiven him from Jan. 9 that he only heard of the court’s deci- he went along with their plan. an episode in the “last convulsions of the very first moment, sincerely so, and sion from news reports. In recent years, Agca has said he acted 20th-century ideologies of force.” then when he met him in jail he spoke to At various times since the assassination on his own in shooting the pope. Agca, a Pope John Paul long credited Mary with him like a brother,” he told the Italian daily attempt against Pope John Paul, Agca told Muslim, had publicly threatened to kill the saving his life; he was shot on May 13, the Corriere della Sera on Jan. 9. different versions of what happened and who pontiff in 1979 when the pope visited anniversary of the first of the apparitions in Archbishop Dziwisz said the pope had was behind it. At one point, Agca claimed Turkey. Fatima, Portugal. In 1984, he had the bullet once asked, “How could we show ourselves Bulgarian secret service agents hired him at The late pope had offered his own views fragment that was removed from his body before the Lord if we didn’t forgive each the bidding of the Soviet KGB, the former of the assassination attempt in his book, placed in the crown of the Marian statue at other?” Russian secret police and intelligence agency. Memory and Identity: Conversations the Fatima shrine. †

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For The Holy Childhood Association, one of in poorly ventilated mines, for example. exploitation, an annual Vatican report said. 860 million children of the world, the four pontifical mission societies, finances At the origin of many forms of child Among the more worrisome trends are future is an unknown and the present is a and supports thousands of projects aiding exploitation is the fact that, according to the more than 200 million child laborers nightmare that lies on the consciences of the neediest children in developing coun- UNICEF, more than 50 million children between 5 and 14 years of age and the adults,” said the report, issued on Jan. 5 by tries. In 2004, it allocated $18 million for born each year, mostly in Africa and Asia, increase in street children on several conti- Fides, the Vatican missionary news agency. nearly 1,800 projects, including programs are never registered. They become, in nents, it said. The annual report, first prepared in at schools and orphanages. effect, clandestine in their homelands, Millions more children are forced into 2004, seeks to draw attention to the plight The report said that, among the esti- unknown to their own governments, the armed conflict or prostitution. In many of young people on the feast of the mated 211 million child laborers, about report said. †

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Be Our Guest/By Glenn Tebbe Death penalty and immigration

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 are key legislative issues Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher William R. Bruns, Associate Publisher For almost 40 years, the Indiana Immigrant concerns within our state also Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Catholic Conference (ICC) has offered a continue to be a concern of the Indiana moral and social jus- bishops. While the Church does not advo- tice perspective cate undocumented immigration into the regarding state legisla- United States, it affirms the human dignity Editorial tive issues. of the undocumented who live within our Again this year, the midst and makes every effort to ensure that ICC looks forward to their basic human needs are met and that Pope Benedict XVI working within the their human rights are respected. Although looks at his crosier as legislative process by immigration policy is a national issue, there he celebrates Mass at providing a readily are state policies that can facilitate or St. Peter’s Basilica at accessible source restrict one’s ability to provide for one’s the Vatican on Jan. 1. regarding the position family. of the Church on matters affecting the com- Of specific concern this session is the CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters Gentile, CNS photo/Tony On the feast of Mary, Mother of God, and mon good. The Church examines all issues problem of obtaining a driver’s license. In World Peace Day, the in the light of her principles on social doc- Indiana, driving is critical to support pope said that “when trine and the Gospel. While the Church is one’s family. Getting to work, obtaining man lets himself be realistic in its approach to addressing groceries and taking care of the ordinary enlightened by the issues, taking into consideration the politi- needs of one’s family require driving a splendor of truth he cal realities and likelihood of success, there vehicle. Allowing immigrants to obtain becomes a peacemaker are times when the issues are of such driving privileges not only benefits immi- with interior courage.” importance that the Church must speak grants, it is a matter of safety for all with a prophetic voice, in spite of political Hoosiers. realities. Two such issues are priorities for Neither issue is popular or likely to be 2006 in the Indiana General Assembly. addressed. However, the Church’s moral The first is the use of capital punishment position is not based on popular opinion. in Indiana. During 2005, five individuals The issues it addresses are not only those in were executed by the state. This is approxi- which it is likely to be persuasive. The mately half as many as were executed from Church’s role in society as noted in the 1977 to 2004. Another person is scheduled Catechism of the Catholic Church is to to be executed on Jan. 27 and more await “bear witness to man, in the name of an execution date. As the U.S. Conference Christ, to his dignity and his vocation to the of Catholic Bishops recently noted in its communion of persons. She teaches him We are called to solidarity and statement, “A Culture of Life and the the demands of justice and peace in confor- Penalty of Death,” “the sanction of death, mity with divine wisdom” (#2419). stewardship in the New Year when it is not necessary to protect society, The ICC shares in this responsibility, and violates respect for human life and dignity.” looks forward to examining other issues hristian “solidarity means standing world’s material resources. Even a “cul- We urge Indiana legislators to reconsider with these same criteria throughout the Cup for one another, the healthy for ture of life” that respects human dignity the death penalty law and its effect upon 2006 session of the General Assembly. the sick, the rich for the poor, the and promotes authentic family and society. Jesus showed us that the only true countries of the North for those of the community values. Even peace and jus- way to justice is through mercy and recon- (Glenn Tebbe is executive director of the South, in the knowledge that we have a tice for all people regardless of their ciliation, not violence. Indiana Catholic Conference.) † mutual responsibility and with the race, religion, social or economic status. awareness that it is in giving that we What must we do to achieve true and Making a Difference/Tony Magliano receive, that we can only give that lasting peace? Acknowledge our soli- which has been given to us, which darity with all our sisters and brothers therefore never simply belongs to us” in the one family of God. Be grateful Pope Benedict XVI proclaims the (Pope Benedict XVI). stewards of the gifts we have received At the beginning of each new calen- from a good and gracious God. Share ‘Gospel of Peace’ in message dar year, the Church calls our attention generously with others all the material to the challenges we face in the year and spiritual gifts we have received In his first World Day of Peace message, place their various talents at the service of ahead as we strive to achieve peace and through Christ’s bounty. Accept the will Pope Benedict XVI has signaled that he the common good of the human family.” justice for all the peoples of the world. of God, as Mary did, and follow Christ intends peacemaking Moving from a general view to more During his 26-year pontificate, Pope as faithful disciples. Be open to the to be a central part of specific concerns, the pope expresses his John Paul II spoke often (and urgently) work of the Holy Spirit—even as he his papacy. In fact, his deep belief that weapons are serious road- of the need for peace. “Peace is more calls us out of our comfort zones into first papal decision— blocks to peace. and more clearly seen as the only way new and unfamiliar territory. (“Put out picking a name—was “In a nuclear war there would be no vic- to justice,” he said. “Peace is itself the into the deep” as the Lord challenged greatly influenced by tors, only victims. The truth of peace work of justice.” And “public opinion his weary disciples when they were his desire to build requires that all [nations] ... strive for a pro- is growing in consciousness of the unsuccessful in their efforts to catch fish peace. gressive and concerted nuclear disarma- absurdity of war as a means of resolv- in Luke 5:4 and “start afresh from In his Jan. 1, 2006, ment. The resources which would be saved ing differences.” Christ” as Pope John Paul II called us to peace message, he could then be employed in projects of New Year’s Day is traditionally con- do in his apostolic letter, “Novo writes that he chose development capable of benefiting all their sidered World Peace Day—under the Millenio Inuente,” “Entering the New the name Benedict because he wanted to people, especially the poor.” patronage of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Millennium”). evoke both St. Benedict, “the patron saint The United States has agreed with Pope Benedict XVI has carried on this Each new year is a new beginning. of Europe, who inspired a civilization of Russia to scale down its number of strate- important tradition—making world A chance to try again. peace on the whole continent, and Pope gic long-range missiles to approximately peace the subject of his address to the As Pope Benedict XVI said in his Benedict XV, who condemned World War I 2,200 by 2012. But 2,200 city-destroying people in St. Peter’s Square on the first World Peace Day message: “If peace is as a ‘useless slaughter.’” weapons are far too many. In truth, even day of the new year. As he often does, the aspiration of all men of good will, The pope teaches in his inaugural World one nuclear weapon is one too many. the Holy Father reminds us that there for the disciples of Christ this is a per- Day of Peace message, titled “In Truth, Turning to conventional weapons and can be no peace without God. Indeed, manent mandate that commits every- Peace,” “that peace cannot be reduced to military spending, the pope writes: “In this all our attempts to achieve reconcilia- one; it is a demanding mission that the simple absence of armed conflict.” True regard, one can only note with dismay the tion and harmony among the divided urges them to proclaim and witness peace is the fruit of a divinely planted evidence of a continuing growth in military peoples of the world are doomed to ‘the Gospel of Peace,’ proclaiming that order, brought about by humanity’s thirst expenditure and the flourishing arms trade. failure unless they are open to the recognition of God’s complete truth is for an ever more perfect justice. ... How can there ever be a future of peace grace of God and subject to his divine a prior and necessary condition for the Echoing the Catholic Church’s teaching when investments are still made in the pro- will. “Without God, things always go consolidation of the truth of peace. that social justice is an essential ingredient duction of arms and in research aimed at badly,” the pope says frequently. May this acknowledgement grow more for peace, the pope writes, “Whenever the developing new ones?” Without God, our best efforts are and more, so that each Christian com- integral development of the person and the Here again, the United States leads the futile and our yearning for peace munity may become the ‘leaven’ of a protection of his fundamental rights are world. We sell and give away more remains unsatisfied. Without God, humanity renewed in love ... With hindered or denied, whenever countless weapons than any other nation. Our 2006 there is no real solidarity and no hope [Mary’s] maternal help, we wish to people are forced to endure intolerable military budget weighs in at more than for human equality, no end to poverty commit ourselves to quickly work for injustices and inequalities, how can we $440 billion—not counting the war in Iraq. and human suffering, and no peace peace, following Christ, the Prince of hope that the good of peace will be This is more than the combined military among the warring nations and cultures Peace.” realized?” budgets of the next 20 countries. of our divided world. — Daniel Conway In response, Benedict XVI teaches that True followers of the Prince of Peace But with God all things are possible. “Catholics in every part of the world have a must pray for the faith and courage to Even an end to world hunger. Even (Daniel Conway is a member of the duty to proclaim and embody ever more change the deadly course that our nation cures for AIDS and other catastrophic editorial committee of the board of fully the ‘Gospel of Peace.’... God is love and world seem determined to pursue. illnesses. Even a just distribution of the directors of Criterion Press Inc.) † which saves, a loving Father who wants to see his children look upon one another as (Tony Magliano is a columnist for Catholic brothers and sisters, working responsibly to News Service.) † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Bishop Bruté House helps support a new ‘cultur e of vocation’

ometimes important things happen in lead them in service to the Church and the 17 Catholic youth are enrolled in the call, which is shared by all of us, seems to small ways and without much fan- world.” Bishop Bruté formation program at Marian have been diminished over the years. And Sfare. In late August of 2004, we inau- We prayed that “through prayer these College has added the value of encouraging with that diminishment went the attentive- gurated the Bishop Simon Bruté House of young men may be led by your Spirit to other youth and young adults to wonder ness to God’s call to religious and priestly Formation at Marian College in Indiana- seek the way of your truth, that if you are what specific plan God might have for vocations as well. Why has there been a polis for college seminarians. It is a place calling them as future ministers of Christ, them. diminishment in the awareness of vocation and a program for young men who wonder they will respond with generous hearts and Our archdiocesan youth program sup- in general? whether or not God might be calling them resolute will.” ports this encouragement. Like the Bishop The prevailing values of our culture to the priesthood. These young men want We prayed that “here they will grow Bruté venture, it helps us communicate that eclipse the spiritual values that foster voca- and need to decide whether they ought to accustomed to offering spiritual sacrifices, baptism initiates everyone on the way of tional alertness. We are, as it were, washed pursue a priestly vocation. and by celebrating the liturgy, experience holiness. Every baptized person is called to in secular and material values that in fact We are providing a situation and a pro- the saving power of the sacraments.” live a holy life in some specific way. The militate against the generous spirit needed gram where this kind of decision can be We prayed “that their obedience will more common vocation of Catholics is to for service in the Church and the world. made prudently and freely. In its second lead them to follow the Good Shepherd.” live the faith as lay persons, whether mar- For awhile, not much effort was expended year, the number of seminarians housed in I make a point of the Bishop Bruté ried or single, and to do so in the stuff of in issuing an invitation to consider the call St. Francis Hall on the campus of Marian House of Formation because, besides the everyday life. to holiness in general, and to serve as reli- College doubled and that may happen important work of providing a nearby In addition, some of us are called to be gious and priests in particular. again in the fall of this new year. opportunity for young men to see if God holy as consecrated women or men who Today, many of our youth and young Actually, the idea of a house of forma- calls them to priesthood in a formation pro- live a special witness to the Gospel in the adults are seeking to sidestep excessively tion emerged from discussions with young gram designed for that purpose, we are Church and the world. Religious sisters, materialistic values in search of a deeper men who told us they would appreciate experiencing another benefit. I believe that brothers and priests are a unique gift for the meaning in life. Frankly, I find them read- living with like-minded guys while going the existence of the Bishop Bruté House of life of the Church. And, of course, some of ily attentive to spiritual direction. With to college. They said they would appreciate Formation, to be sure, along with our arch- us are called to be ordained deacons or like-minded peers, they signal hope for the a little structure in their life, particularly diocesan youth ministry program, has priests in the ministry of the Church. future. for prayer and daily Mass. They also said enkindled a new “culture of vocation.” The baptismal call to holiness is the They deserve our enthusiastic support! † it would help them to have ready access to What do I mean by a new “culture of foundation of all vocations. For a variety of priests. vocation”? reasons, awareness of that fundamental God is smiling on this venture, and we Quite simply, it means that the idea of are grateful. In the prayer of dedication, vocation in general is more noticeably Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for Januar y we asked the Lord “that this house may brought to mind for our youth and young indeed be a school of prayer and a center adults. I don’t mean to suggest that the Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to of divine teaching so that those who come vocation to priesthood is the only vocation consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. here may discover how God chooses to that comes to mind. The fact that La casa del Obispo Bruté ayuda a incentivar una nueva ‘cultura de vocación’ lgunas veces suceden cosas al camino del servicio a la Iglesia y al a otros jóvenes y jóvenes adultos a pre- Dios a las vocaciones religiosas y sacer- importantes de modo casi imper- mundo.” guntarse acerca de cuál será plan especí- dotales. ¿Por qué ha habido una dismin- Aceptible y sin mucha fanfarria. A Rezamos por que “a través de la fico que Dios tiene reservado para ellos. ución en la conciencia a la vocación en finales de agosto de 2004 inauguramos la oración tu Espíritu guíe a estos jóvenes a Nuestro programa juvenil arquidioce- general? Casa de Formación del Obispo Simon buscar el camino de tu verdad; para que sano apoya este incentivo. Al igual que Los valores predominantes de nuestra Bruté en Marian College de Indianápolis, si estás llamándolos como futuros min- la empresa del Obispo Bruté, nos sirve cultura eclipsan los valores espirituales para seminaristas universitarios. Se trata istros de Cristo, respondan con corazones de ayuda el comunicar que el bautismo que fomentan la conciencia vocacional. de un lugar y de un programa para generosos y una voluntad decidida.” inicia a todos en el camino a la santidad. Nos vemos arrastrados por los valores jóvenes caballeros que sientan la inqui- Oramos para que “aquí crezcan acos- Todos los bautizados están llamados a seculares y materiales que, de hecho, etud del llamado de Dios al sacerdocio. tumbrados a ofrecer sacrificios espiri- vivir una vida santa de alguna forma militan en contra del espíritu generoso Estos jóvenes desean y necesitan decidir tuales y por medio de la celebración de específica. La vocación más común de necesario para el servicio a la Iglesia y si deben ir tras su vocación sacerdotal. la liturgia, experimenten el poder sal- los católicos es vivir la fe como laicos, el mundo. Durante algún tiempo no se Estamos proporcionándoles un ambi- vador de los sacramentos.” ya sea casados o solteros, y hacerlo en hacían grandes esfuerzos para emitir una ente y un programa donde pueda tomarse Rezamos “para que su obediencia los las cosas cotidianas. invitación a considerar el llamado a la este tipo de decisión prudente y libre- lleve a seguir al Buen Pastor.” Asimismo, algunos de nosotros esta- santidad en general, y a servir como reli- mente En su segundo año, el número de Destaco la Casa de Formación del mos llamados a la santidad como hom- giosos y sacerdotes, en particular. seminaristas alojado en Saint Francis Obispo Bruté ya que, además de la labor bres o mujeres consagrados que viven Hoy en día muchos de nuestros Hall en el recinto universitario Marian importante de proporcionar una oportu- como testimonio especial del Evangelio jóvenes y jóvenes adultos están bus- College se duplicó, lo cual podría nidad accesible para que los jóvenes en la Iglesia y en el mundo. Las her- cando soslayar los valores excesiva- suceder nuevamente durante el otoño de determinen si Dios los está llamando al manas y hermanos religiosos, así como mente materiales en pos de un signifi- este nuevo año. sacerdocio en un programa de formación los sacerdotes son obsequios únicos para cado más profundo de la vida. En realidad, la idea de una casa de diseñado para tales fines, estamos experi- la vida de la Iglesia. Y, por supuesto, Francamente los encuentro atentos de formación surgió a partir de conversa- mentando otro beneficio. Creo que la algunos de nosotros estamos llamados a buena gana a la orientación espiritual. ciones sostenidas con jóvenes quienes existencia de la Casa de Formación del ordenarnos como diáconos o sacerdotes Junto con los compañeros que com- expresaron que les gustaría vivir con Obispo Bruté, junto con nuestro pro- en el ministerio de la Iglesia. parten su visión, son un indicio de esper- chicos que compartieran su parecer grama arquidiocesano de ministerios El llamado bautismal a la santidad es anza para el futuro. durante su época universitaria. Indicaron juveniles, han despertado una nueva “cul- la base de todas las vocaciones. Por ¡Ellos se merecen nuestro apoyo entu- que desearían contar con cierta estruc- tura vocacional.” diversas razones, la conciencia de dicho siasta! † turación en sus vidas, especialmente en ¿A qué me refiero con una nueva “cul- llamado fundamental, que todos compar- lo atinente a la oración y la misa diaria. tura vocacional?” timos, parece haber disminuido con los También comentaron que les ayudaría Sencillamente significa que, en gen- años. Y con dicha disminución también Traducido por: Language Training Center, contar con sacerdotes a su alcance. eral, nuestra juventud y los jóvenes se ha esfumado la atención al llamado de Indianapolis Esta empresa cuenta con el favor de adultos piensan más en la idea de la Dios y nos sentimos agradecidos. En la vocación. No quiero sugerir que la La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero oración dedicatoria le pedimos al Señor vocación al sacerdocio es la única en la “que esta casa sea, en efecto, una escuela que piensan. El hecho de que 17 jóvenes Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus de oración y un centro de enseñanza div- católicos estén inscritos en el programa hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para ser vir en la iglesia, especialmente como ina de modo que quienes vengan aquí de formación Obispo Bruté del Marian sacerdotes y gente religiosa. descubran cómo Dios elige conducirlos College tiene el valor agregado de alentar Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Events Calendar January 13 January 15 www.seidata.com/~frburwink. Information: 812-535-4531 or Church, 14598 Oakridge Road, 2:30 p.m., brown bag lunch, [email protected]. Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of free-will offering. Registration: Holy Rosary Church, 520 Ste- SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, January 16 vens St., Indianapolis. Lumen 1347 N. Meridian St., Indiana- January 17 Lafayette). Catholic Profes- 317-543-0154. Dei meeting, Mass, 6:30 a.m., polis. Catholic Widows/ Our Lady of Perpetual Help sional and Business Club, St. Francis Community Rela- breakfast in Priori Hall, $10 Widowers Organization, Mass, Parish, 1752 Scheller Lane, New Mass, 6:30 a.m., breakfast, Ritz Atrium Banquet Center, 3143 E. tions, 3145 E. Thompson Road, members and guests. Informa- 10:30 a.m., breakfast, Knights of Albany. “Catholics Returning Charles, 12156 N. Meridian St., Thompson Road, Indianapolis. Indianapolis. St. Francis Hospital tion: 317-842-6917 or Columbus, Mater Dei Council, Home,” six-week series, Carmel, Ind. Information: St. Francis Medical and Surgical and Health Centers, “Freedom [email protected]. 437 N. Delaware St., Indiana- 7:30-9 p.m. Information: 812- Weight Loss Center, one-day from Smoking,” seven-week www.cpbc-ld.org. polis. Information: 317-784-1102. 745-3112. motivational workshop, $30 per class, 6-8 p.m., $50 per person. Marian College, St. Francis Hall January 20 person. Information: 317-782- January 16-February 21 Information: 317-782-7999. Chapel, 3200 Cold Spring Road, MKVS and DM Center, Rexville Knights of Columbus, 2100 E. 7525. Indianapolis. Catholic Charis- (located on 925 South, .8 mile Vigo County Public Library, 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Terre Haute. Saint Mary-of-the- January 18 matic Renewal, praise, worship, east of 421 South, 12 miles south St. Malacy Parish, 326 N. Green Business Exchange, Mass, January 22-26 Woods. SpiritPro Workshop and St. Monica Church, 6131 N. healing prayers, 7 p.m. Infor- of Versailles). Covenant Sunday, St., Brownsburg. “Catholics 6:30 a.m., buffet breakfast. retreat series, four Tuesdays, Michigan Road, Indianapolis. mation: 317-797-2460. holy hour, 2:30 p.m., Mass, Returning Home,” six-week Information: 765-966-0916. “Soul Brothers–Men of the 3:30 p.m., with Father Elmer series, 7-8:30 p.m. Information: Parish mission, “Receive, Bible Speak to Men of Today,” St. Michael Parish, 519 Jefferson Burwinkel. Information: 812- 317-858-8422. January 21 Renew, Rejoice!” 7:15 p.m. St., Greenfield. Natural Family 689-3551 or e-mail 6-8 p.m., facilitator, Congrega- Cordifonte House of Prayer, Sunday, 7 p.m. Monday through Planning (NFP) class, 9-11 a.m. [email protected] or log tion of Christian Brother Barry January 19 3650 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Thursday. Information: 317-253- Information: 317-462-2246. on to Schoenstatt Web site at Donaghue, donations accepted. Our Lady of Mount Carmel Silent prayer day, 9 a.m.- 2193. †

Retreats and Programs [email protected]. January 30-March 6 speaker, noon-1:30 p.m., $20 per person. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. Information: 317-545-7681 or e-mail Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center, 8220 Meridian St., Indianapolis. Archdiocesan Office www.archindy.org/fatima. W. State Road 48, Bloomington. “One Life to of Family Ministries, “Divorce and Beyond,” January 13-15 Live,” preparation for death and eternity, $120 six-week program, 7-9 p.m., $30 per person. February 4 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. per person or $150 per couple. Information: Information: 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, 1045 W. 56th St., Indianapolis. Tobit Weekend. Infor- 812-825-4642, ext. 200. ext. 1596. 146th St., Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of Lafayette). mation: 317-545-7681 or e-mail Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Office of Family www.archindy.org/fatima. January 21 January 31-February 28 Ministries, and Diocese of Lafayette, Office of Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “The Family Ministries, Retreat for Separated and January 15 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Spirit of Vision of Vatican II for Today,” five-part video Divorced Catholics, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $7 fee, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. the Seasons” retreat, 8:30 a.m-4 p.m., Bene- series, Franciscan Sister Janet Born, presenter, includes continental breakfast and boxed lunch. 56th St., Indianapolis. Pre-Cana Conference, dictine Sister Antoinette Purcell, presenter. 1:30-3 p.m., $35 series. Information: 812-933- Information: 317-236-1586, 800-382-9836, ext. 1:45-6 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681, 317- Information: 317-788-7581 or e-mail 6437 or e-mail [email protected]. 1586, or e-mail [email protected]. 236-1596 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. [email protected]. February 1-22 January 17-19 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. January 22 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Dreams: Is God Trying to Get Your Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Dr., Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Basic Pottery and Beyond,” Franciscan Sister St. Meinrad. Midweek Retreat, “A Personal Attention?” Franciscan Sister Olga Wittekind, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Adoration 101,” Ann Vonder Meulen, potter, educator, 6-9 p.m., presenter, 9:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., $45 per person, Preparation for the Paschal Mystery,” Benedic- Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, presenter, 7 p.m., $140 early registration. Information: 812-933- tine Father Jeremy King, presenter. Information: early registration. Information: 812-933-6437 or $20 per person. Information: 317-545-7681 or 6437 or e-mail [email protected]. e-mail [email protected]. 812-357-6611 or e-mail avinson@saint e-mail www.archindy.org/fatima. meinrad.edu. February 1-23 January 23 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “Kids January 19 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Basic Pottery and Beyond,” Franciscan Sister and Clay,” ages 7-11, Franciscan Sister Ann Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. “The 56th St., Indianapolis. “Your Call, Your Cup, Ann Vonder Meulen, potter, educator, 9 a.m.- Vonder Meulen, art teacher, 1-3:30 p.m., $20 Spirit in These Times,” monthly series, Your Talents, Your Response,” Richard Smith, noon, $140 early registration. Information: 812- first child, $15 each additional sibling, early reg- 9-10:45 a.m., $30 series, $8 per session, Fran- presenter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $30 per person. 933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. istration. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail ciscan Father Carl Hawver, presenter. Informa- Information: 317-545-7681 or e-mail [email protected]. tion: 812-933-6437 or e-mail center@olden www.archindy.org/fatima. February 2 burgosf.com. St. Michael the Archangel Parish, 3354 W. 30th February 9 January 24 St., Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad School of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. January 20-22 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Day Theology, first of 10 sessions, Ecclesial Lay 56th St., Indianapolis. “Day of Reflection on Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, 101 St. An- of Reflection, “Blessed or Stressed,” Franciscan Ministry (ELM) program, “What Is the Peace and Justice,” Jesuit Father Benjamin thony Drive, Mount St. Francis. “Blessed Sister Patty Campbell, presenter, 9:30 a.m.- Bible?” Benedictine Father Bede Cisco, presen- Hawley, presenter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $30 per Grieving Retreat,” Msgr. Paul Koetter and 3:30 p.m., $45 per person, early registration. ter, 9 a.m.-noon. Information: 317-236-1495 or person. Information: 317-545-7681 or e-mail Dr. Margie Pike, presenters. Information: 812- Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail 800-382-9836, ext. 1495. www.archindy.org/fatima. 923-8817 or e-mail retreats@mountsaint [email protected]. francis.org. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. February 10-12 January 27-29 56th St., Indianapolis. “Celebrating Our Lives Kordes Retreat Center, 841 E. 14th St., Ferdi- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. with Tales of Blessing,” Theresa O’Bryan, pre- nand, Ind. (Diocese of Evansville). “Living 56th St., Indianapolis. Retrouvaille program 56th St., Indianapolis. Tobit Weekend. Infor- senter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $30 per person. Simply So We Can Simply Be,” $152 per per- for troubled marriages. Information: 317-236- mation: 317-545-7681 or e-mail Information: 317-545-7681 or e-mail son. Information: 800-880-2777 or e-mail 1586 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1586. www.archindy.org/fatima. www.archindy.org/fatima. [email protected] Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, January 30 February 3 Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, 101 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Our Lady Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. Married of Grace Academy Alumnae retreat,” Bene- 56th St., Indianapolis. Senior Mass and Social. 56th St., Indianapolis. Businessman’s lun- Couples Retreat, “Recognizing Jesus in One dictine Sister Mildred Wannemuehler, presenter. Information: 317-545-7681 or e-mail cheon, Bruce Scifres, Roncalli High School’s Another.” Information: 812-923-8817 or e-mail Information: 317-788-7581 or e-mail www.archindy.org/fatima. six-time state championship football coach, [email protected]. †

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Legacy for Our Mission: For Our Children and the Future Retirement doesn’t sit well with Monsignor Knueven

sgr. Harold Knueven retired in 2003 after 45 years in the Msgr. Knueven said St. Mary’s is planning to join the Legacy for Our Mpriesthood. But it wasn’t long before he was again serving in a Mission campaign in the fall. “I think it’s a wonderful program,” he parish. In January 2004, he arrived at St. Mary Parish in Greensburg said. “The archbishop knows the right people to call and contact to to answer a return call to full-time ministry. help us professionally do resource work and training. He’s a great leader in fundraising, and I will continue to support the archbishop “I made the decision because there wasn’t enough to do in retirement, from a parish level.” and the archdiocese was short of priests,” he said. This month, Msgr. Knueven marks his third year as pastor at St. Mary. Msgr. Knueven believes there’s no more rewarding life than the life of a priest. A priest must sacrifice, but happiness, peace, joy and “[The favorite part of my job] is just dealing with people. I like contentment are the reward, he said. human beings,” he said. “I have never found anybody that I couldn’t deal with or couldn’t work with. I just like to be present After being called back from retirement, Msgr. Knueven now plans with people.” to work until he is no longer able to. “I’m going to stay in a parish one year at a time as long as my health holds out. I’m happy to be ministering in the archdiocese, and I feel that my life and work “The favorite part of my job is are worthwhile.” just dealing with people.”

In 1990, Msgr. Knueven traveled to Uganda. “I stayed in a convent “I think that I have planted out in the wilderness where there wasn’t any water. [People in the a few seeds...” His busy days at St. Mary’s include sermons, marriages and funerals. community] would carry water from the well in the jungle on their And in addition to serving as pastor, Msgr. Knueven is involved heads in pans and pots. So I did it, too, because I wanted to experience with various committees, including the Legacy for Our Mission capital it.” When he returned home to St. Augustine’s in Jeffersonville, campaign. “I’m at a meeting every night. But I enjoy my meetings Msgr. Knueven raised $10,000 to drill a well and install a pump in and working with people,” he said. the area he visited in Uganda. Legacy for Our Mission, the archdiocese’s ongoing capital campaign, is guided by the principles of Christian stewardship and addresses the needs Msgr. Knueven, who is 74, broadened his religious life through Msgr. Knueven’s efforts at home are just as strong as they are abroad. of archdiocesan ministries. Contributions to Legacy for Our Mission travel. He traveled to Sophia University in Japan in 1967 and Poona “Seminarians need encouragement, and the archdiocese and the will directly benefit Our Ministry of Care, which includes retirement University in India in 1974, both through the Fulbright Scholarship. vocations director are doing a really good job,” he said. At Our Lady assistance for priests, as well as every parish in the archdiocese through During Lent in 1982, Msgr. Knueven traveled to Rome for the of the Greenwood Parish, he was able to help a few men find their gifts that the parish will retain for its capital, endowment or direct first time. calling. “I think I may have planted a few seeds there before I left, ministry priorities. and I’m working on it here, inviting them to come and talking with them.” Page 8 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Parishes to honor legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. By Mary Ann Wyand birth date,” Father Taylor said. “Martin courageous, nonviolent American a part of Central School to join us this year. Each was born on Jan. 15, 1929, and died on your prayer together.” year, we invite students from another Archdiocesan parishes are encouraged April 4, 1968. Had he lived, he would be The educational packet for use during [Catholic] school to help us celebrate to observe Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day 77 years old.” liturgies includes a prayer for peace as Dr. King’s birthday.” during Masses on Jan. 14 and 15. Father Taylor said the archdiocesan- well as a commitment card that asks The U.S. government designated the This year, the archdiocesan Office of wide observance during Masses will help Catholics to work for nonviolence in the observance of Martin Multicultural Ministry prepared an educa- Catholics in central and southern Indiana world by meditating on the life and teach- Luther King Jr. Day tional packet for parish use during week- remember King’s legacy of promoting ings of Jesus every day, and to remember as a federal holiday end liturgies instead of scheduling an respect for every person, nonviolence and that the nonviolent movement seeks jus- CNS file photo in 1986. archdiocesan Mass at SS. Peter and Paul peace throughout the world. tice and reconciliation instead of victory. “It’s something Cathedral in Indianapolis. “This year, in order to touch more peo- It also invites Catholics to pray that all that we can never “It is customary for the archdiocesan ple, the commission strongly encourages people might live in freedom, to commit forget,” Sister Gerry Multicultural Ministry Commission to every parish to incorporate the message to working for peace and justice for all said about King’s life celebrate the birthday of Dr. Martin and memory of this man of God and people, to participate in regular Church and legacy. Luther King Jr. on the Sunday before the prophet for our times into the regular and community service to help others, and “We talk to our holiday,” said Father Kenneth Taylor, Sunday liturgies,” Father Taylor said. “No to refrain from “violence of fist, tongue or children about help- director of the Office of Multicultural matter where you are located in the heart.” Dr. Martin Luther ing them to remem- Ministry. Indianapolis Archdiocese—urban, rural, Father Taylor also serves as the pastor King Jr. ber [and] celebrate “This year, that is Jan. 15, the Second suburban—[parish] communities are of Holy Angels Parish and the administra- … this day,” she Sunday in Ordinary Time and his actual urged to make the life and work of this tor of St. Michael the Archangel Parish, said. “Unfortunately, I think some of our both in Indianapolis. parents have forgotten the whole story and Holy Angels School students will cele- struggle of the civil rights movement. brate King’s birthday on Jan. 13 with a “But at Holy Angels School, it’s some- 10 a.m. march starting at 28th Street and thing that we just cannot ever afford for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. in Indian- our children to forget,” she said. “It means Robert W. McKinney apolis. A liturgy at Holy Angels Church, a great deal because that’s the perspective 740 W. 28th St., will follow the march. of our school as well—the African- Cathedral High School Holy Cross Sister Gerry O’Laughlin, American perspective—and it’s just such the Holy Angels principal, said Holy an important day, such an important Class of 1992 Cross Central School students in Indian- event.” apolis will join Holy Angels students for Sister Gerry said Holy Angels School’s Bachelor of Arts the march and Mass for the first time. enrollment is “100 percent African- Oglethorpe University, 1996 “We will begin our celebration with a American” this year, and the Indianapolis march down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. West Deanery school’s 139 students have Street in front of our school,” she said. writing assignments about King that are President “Our whole school—pre-kindergarten due next week. R.W. McKinney Companies, LLC through sixth-grade students—will partici- “The teachers want them to experience pate, and we’ve invited the fifth- and the march and the worship again,” she sixth-grade classes from Holy Cross said, before completing their essays. †

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File photo Beidelman walks ‘Washing the beside Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein feet of others’ during the opening procession of By Fr. Eric Johnson Celebration in the Director of the archdiocesan Office Spirit of Hope: The of Priestly and Religious Vocations Great Jubilee on Sept. 16, 2000, at the On the day of my ordination to the RCA Dome in diaconate, I was given a small icon of Indianapolis. Father Jesus washing the Beidelman supervised feet of his disciples. the execution of the It is a beautiful liturgical plan for the image, recalling the Mass when 30,000 Gospel of John’s people worshipped story of the Last together and 3,200 Supper in which youth and adults were Jesus, gathered for confirmed. Then semi- one last time with narian Eric Johnson, those he loved, now a priest and the humbly washed and director of the arch- dried the feet of those who followed diocesan Office of him. Priestly and Religious While the icon was certainly a nice Vocations, processes gift, I believe it was also meant to serve into the RCA Dome as a reminder of what my own life as a behind the arch- deacon and later a priest was to be bishop. about. As one who is called to be an image of Christ’s presence to others through priestly ministry, I too am to be about humble service. As one who is asked to love as Christ loved, I too am called to wash feet. The image of Christ washing the feet of his disciples remains a powerful one Priest shows leadership skills at young age for me. As I look at that icon today, I am reminded of the countless people—par- By Sean Gallagher was, and what he said and did and the Father Beidelman’s first pastoral ents, teachers, friends, family, priests, good relationship he shared with me and assignment following his ordination in couples, brothers and sisters—who have Father Patrick Beidelman grew up so many.” 1998 gave him many opportunities to pass washed my feet, who have witnessed around priests. Benedictine Father Noah Casey, pastor on the faith. He served as the part-time this service to me. He discerned his own priestly vocation of St. John the Evangelist Parish in associate pastor of St. Monica Parish and It is this image of Christ washing the at a relatively young age and has followed Indianapolis, also was also a cousin of the part-time chaplain of Cardinal Ritter feet of his disciples and his command the example of his early priestly models. Father Sweeney and sees his influence on Jr./Sr. High School, both in Indianapolis. that his disciples do the same that is the But it was his own gifts in leadership that Father Beidelman. Msgr. Paul Koetter, the current pastor theme for this year’s Religious placed him in some unique positions of “Pat is, by virtue of his personality, so of St. Monica Parish and pastor at the Vocations Supplement. As such, I responsibility from an early time in his outgoing, as was Father Jim, and he learned time of Father Beidelman’s assignment believe it serves as an invitation to ask priestly life. an awful lot just by watching him,” he said. there, was impressed with his young asso- ourselves how we are called to wash the Currently the pastor of SS. Peter and “Father Jim was so well thought of and ciate pastor, who was only 25 when he feet of others. Paul Cathedral Parish in Indianapolis and respected for his pastoral skills. I think that began to minister alongside him. But it also offers us an opportunity to the archdiocesan director of liturgy, simply rubbed off a lot on Pat.” “I think the thing that impressed me reflect with gratitude on the ways in Father Beidelman, 33, grew up as a mem- Father Beidelman received Father with Father Pat from early on was the fact which others—particularly priests, ber of Holy Spirit Parish on Indianapolis’ Sweeney’s chalice as an ordination gift. It that he always had a fairly high sense of brothers and sisters—have washed our east side. was given to him by Father Sweeney’s judgment and prudence,” Msgr. Koetter own feet, and witnessed to Christ’s He counts several priests and religious brother, Benedictine Father Timothy said, “that, even though he was quite action of loving service. sisters as relatives and got to know many Sweeney, a former archabbot of Saint young, I thought that there was a certain Indeed, all of us are called to wash of them in his youth. Meinrad Archabbey and currently the pas- wisdom in him that was stronger than his the feet of others. In John’s Gospel, after But the priest he said had the biggest tor of St. Paul Parish in Tell City. years would have suggested.” Jesus set aside his towel and returned to impact on him was Father James “In a lot of ways, every time that I cel- This wisdom was soon put to the test his place at that table, he said to his dis- Sweeney, who died in 1990 when Father ebrate Mass, Father Jim is with me,” when Father Beidelman was asked a little ciples: “If I, your teacher and master, Beidelman was a senior at Cathedral High Father Beidelman said, “and I’m kind of over a year after his ordination to oversee have washed your feet, you ought to School in Indianapolis. connected to all the relatives who have the execution of the liturgical plan for the wash one another’s feet” (Jn 13:14). “Father Jim became a Christ figure for passed on the faith to [me] and that I see Celebration of the Spirit of Hope: The To wash another’s feet is to take on me,” Father Beidelman said, “a person as part of my job to continue to pass on to Great Jubilee, a massive eucharistic the role of a servant. It is to place the who helped me understand and know my own family, but especially my wider liturgy celebrated in the RCA Dome in needs of others before our own, to care Christ more fully through the person he faith family.” See PRIEST, page 10 for them, support them, encourage them, heal them and forgive them. The invitation to wash another’s feet Franciscans live out vocations ministering to Hispanics is an invitation to enter into the ordinary, routine, dirty and sometimes mundane By Sean Gallagher Conventual Franciscan aspects of people’s lives and experi- Father Tom Smith helps lead ences, and allow God’s life, presence When Franciscan Father Tom Fox Submitted photo a living Way of the Cross and goodness to touch them. arrived in the archdiocese more than during Holy Week 2004 that This supplement contains stories of 12 years ago, Hispanic ministry was largely was sponsored by St. Mary individuals and communities who have limited to St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis. Parish in New Albany. accepted Christ’s invitation by embrac- Today, 19 parishes in nine of the Hispanic Catholics living in ing a vocation to the priesthood, the 11 archdiocesan deaneries are reaching out the New Albany Deanery permanent diaconate or the religious to Hispanic Catholics. Father Tom and four organized the devotion and life. other Franciscan friars have played integral acted out the various parts. They are stories filled with joy, hope, roles in this expansion. Father Tom, who grew up as faith and the desire to respond gener- Beyond being prepared for Hispanic a member of St. Mary Parish ously to God’s love. They are stories of ministry by the experiences of their own in Navilleton, has ministered men and women imitating the example lives and their prior ministries, these friars to Hispanics in the deanery of Jesus by washing the feet of others. also acknowledged their Franciscan voca- since 2000. In some sense, these stories belong to tion as well-suited to this ministry. all of us. The lives and witness of these “We have a commitment pretty much His interest in this ministry took root in Shelbyville. He also ministers at the sisters, brothers, deacons, seminarians with the people who are on the margins of the early 1980s when he was involved in Marion County Jail to both Spanish-speak- and priests enrich us all and make us all society and so [Hispanic ministry] fits very advocating social justice in Central ing and English-speaking inmates. a little more fully human, a little more well with that part of our charism,” Father America. Reflecting upon the expansion of arch- true to what God calls us to be. Tom said. After ministering in El Salvador, diocesan Hispanic ministry over the past Most of all, these stories offer to us a Nevertheless, Father Tom, who grew up Guatemala and San Antonio, Texas, Father 12 years, Father Tom saw the work of God unique glimpse of God’s love. as a member of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Tom came to Indianapolis in 1993. Since in bringing him home. As with all Christian vocations, it is Indianapolis, said that when he entered the then, he has helped start Hispanic ministry “I just feel grateful to God that I was love that roots us in the mystery of Franciscans’ Sacred Heart Province, head- at several Indianapolis parishes, including able to be here at this time and to be able to Christ, love that is witnessed in gener- quartered in St. Louis, in 1953 he “had no St. Patrick, St. Philip Neri and St. Monica. respond,” he said. “I can’t understand either ous self-giving, love that is practiced by idea” that he would eventually minister to Currently, Father Tom is serving how God kind of prepared me for this, but I washing one another’s feet. † Hispanic Catholics, let alone in his home- Hispanic Catholics at St. Lawrence Parish really think that there the hand of God was town. in Indianapolis and St. Joseph Parish in See FRANCISCANS, page 11 Page 10 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Franciscan Sister Jannette Pruitt appreciates her life of sisterhood

By Mary Ann Wyand formation, Sister Jannette is living at St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis and volun- In the wake of Hurricane Katrina last teers as director of religious education. August, Franciscan Sister Jannette Marie She also is completing undergraduate Pruitt of Indianapolis learned a special les- studies in pastoral ministry at Marian Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann son about the meaning of sisterhood. College in Indianapolis, which was The native of Bay St. Louis, Miss., founded by the Oldenburg Franciscans in couldn’t locate her relatives who lived 1936. Several times a month, she drives to there or in nearby Waveland, Miss., and the motherhouse in Oldenburg for commu- New Orleans for a week after the devastat- nity activities or formation programs. ing Category 4 storm struck the Gulf Coast Sister Jannette’s 18-year-old grand- states on Aug. 29. She was afraid they had daughter, Christian Curry-Jeffries, was dis- been hurt or killed by the high winds, pow- placed by the hurricane and is living with erful waves and flooding that destroyed her to complete her junior and senior years entire communities. at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School in She said it was the most difficult week Indianapolis. of her life, but members of her religious “The sisters arranged for Christian’s air- community—the Sisters of the Third Order plane ticket,” Sister Jannette said. “When of St. Francis of Oldenburg—offered their she got here, they enrolled her at Cardinal prayers and support, which helped her cope Ritter. She will be living with me for the in the days after the disaster while she rest of this year and next year. I know that Franciscan Sister Jannette Marie Pruitt of Indianapolis plays dominoes with her granddaughter, waited for word about her family. God is giving us this time together. She Christian Curry-Jeffries, on Dec. 15 at St. Rita Parish in Indianapolis. Sister Jannette is a “sister mom” When Sister Jannette was finally able to will be graduating from high school and I’ll with three grown children. She joined the Oldenburg Franciscan order after participating in a “life contact her family members displaced by be making final vows [with the Oldenburg awareness weekend” in 1998 at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. the hurricane, the Oldenburg Franciscans Franciscans] in 2007. She’s really excited also provided financial assistance to help about being here with me and I’m excited the celebrant for the Mass. tell us in school where to pursue this so I pay for some of their transitional living about having her here.” “A lot of people ask me, ‘How did you figured I was supposed to be a mom.” expenses. This support from her community come to know that you’re Franciscan?’ ” The National Black Sisters Conference “My whole family lives there,” Sister means so much, Sister Jannette said. “They she said. “I tell them, ‘Well, I’m from New recently featured Sister Jannette and Jannette said. “When the hurricane hit, I are my backbone. Sister Jean Marie Orleans so that was a given. In New 11 other sisters in a national Religious Life didn’t know where they were or if they [Cleveland, the congregational minister] Orleans, we are full of joy and we exude Stewardship campaign to promote “the were OK. I just prayed that everybody told me, ‘It’s not what you’re going to do that feeling in hospitality. People are not mosaic face of religious life.” would survive. All their houses were dam- anymore. It’s what we’re going to do.’ I strangers. People are to be greeted with In the campaign brochure, she describes aged. My mother’s best friend died in her told them, ‘You really make me feel like love. I just give out whatever God has put her life journey as a “God-quest” and house.” you want to be my sister as much as I want into me, which is a lot of joy.’ ” explains that a true steward follows the call Sister Jannette is a “sister mom” and to be your sister.’ ” Sister Jannette said she believes God to be a disciple of Christ. grandmother who joined the religious com- Sister Jannette professed her first vows called her to sisterhood when she was a “I am a person of the Church,” Sister munity at age 50 after raising three children with Sister Kathleen Branham on July 5, young woman. Jannette explained in the brochure. “I am as a divorced single parent. She worked as 2004, at the motherhouse chapel in “I believe he called me first to sister- black, Catholic, [the] mother of three adult a nursing assistant for 24 years in Cali- Oldenburg. Divine Word Father Charles hood,” she said, “but at that time they were children and [have] three granddaughters. fornia and New Orleans. Smith, one of her spiritual advisers with not taking that many African-American And now I am called to serve the Lord as a During the second part of her religious Franciscan Sister Catherine Schneider, was women into religious life. They didn’t even Sister of St. Francis of Oldenburg.” †

sion on Father Beidelman. “He has leadership qualities that can PRIEST “It was breathtaking to see that number match or exceed so many of those fine continued from page 9 of people gathered to celebrate the Jubilee individuals,” Davis said, “so anytime that year, to celebrate the 3,000 or so that you can spend quality time, lengthy peri- Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Indianapolis on Sept. 16, 2000, attended would receive confirmation that day, to ods of time, with an individual who has by 30,000 Catholics and when 3,200 truly celebrate as a local Church,” he said. such strong leadership qualities is a youth and adults were confirmed. “It will be a moment and a celebration blessing.” He worked closely in this project with that I’ll never forget.” But whether he was charged to oversee Charles Gardner, archdiocesan executive Less than a year later, Father an enormous liturgy, served as the pastor director for spiritual life and worship, Beidelman was named the pastor of of a large and a small rural parish or ass- who is now Father Beidelman’s supervi- St. Michael Parish in Brookville and Holy signed to the archdiocese’s cathedral sor in the archdiocesan Office of Worship. Guardian Angels Parish in Cedar Grove. parish, Father Beidelman has never “He is actually very good at working As a result, he was the pastoral leader of allowed his administrative duties to over- with a group and in meetings, and in dis- more than 900 families. take the spiritual mission of his priestly tributing his responsibilities,” Gardner He followed this ministry four years life and ministry. said. “He was able to keep the whole pic- later in his current assignment as pastor of “I’m with people who in very good ture in mind pretty well and he was able SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish and as faith are yearning, striving, seeking God to stay very calm . . . even though it was the archdiocesan director of liturgy. in just about everything that they’re a big job.” In his ministry at the cathedral, Father about in the Church,” Father Beidelman On the day of the Mass, Father Beidelman has worked closely with said, “in either a sacramental celebration During a Nov. 30 Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Beidelman arrived at the dome very early Michael Davis, the president of the parish or in something as simple as a parish Cathedral’s Blessed Sacrament Chapel, Father to complete final preparations. For the council. meeting. Patrick Beidelman, pastor of the Cathedral last hour and a half before the Mass, he Davis works for the Indiana Chamber “I get to see how they integrate their Parish, elevates a chalice given to him at his was working behind the scenes and thus of Commerce and meets on a regular everyday ordinary lives, how they get to 1998 ordination by his cousin, Benedictine did not see the tens of thousands of peo- basis with the leaders of the state’s largest connect that to their faith. And the example Father Timothy Sweeney. The chalice had ple come together for worship. Walking industries. Nevertheless, he thinks that of people connecting faith to their life— belonged to a priestly role model for Father onto the floor of the dome during the Father Beidelman’s leadership skills are in all walks of life—of the people I’ve Beidelman, his cousin, Father James Sweeney, opening procession made a big impres- comparable with theirs. met has been inspiring, hands down.” † the brother of Father Timothy, who died in 1990.

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By Brandon A. Evans mitment to the sacraments—no matter if be a position that would last for 10 years. in the strictest sense, but I live within the he has a parish assignment or not. “It wasn’t like I was ordered to go,” he context of a religious life,” Brother While the life of a priest can be coun- “The essence of their way of life is said, “but the provincial sits down and Joseph said. tercultural enough in our day and age, it still to be the sacramental ministers of the says ‘I really need you to do this.’ ” Besides that, there is the comfort that is even more puzzling to some people Church, and that is fundamentally differ- “We trust that God speaks through our he brings to our local Church through his why religious men would want to be ent than a brother,” he said. superiors,” he said, so it is with trust that presence as a member of the “only a brother.” For him, “it really wasn’t a question.” a religious sees the requests of God in Congregation of Holy Cross. It’s an attitude that Holy Cross Brother Today, he added, most of their forma- those of the superior. It is a situation in “One of the very basic tenets of our Joseph Umile, pres- tion is done in such a way that the deci- which “they need you to do something congregation is wherever one of us is, our ident of Bishop sion to become a priest or a brother is and you vowed that you would respond. congregation is,” he said. Chatard High delayed until a man becomes a greater “As it turned out, it was in the begin- Being such a presence is also a way to School in part of the community and religious life. ning the most horrific experience of my witness to the young people he serves at Indianapolis, has The realization of what God was call- life because I walked into a hornets’ Bishop Chatard. dealt with before. ing Brother Joseph to do came while he nest,” Brother Joseph said. He said that young people today seem “I’ve had people was working as a French teacher in the The school was failing financially, more open than in years past to consider- ask me how come I Holy Cross high school he had attended. enrollment was dropping and he had to ing a life as a professed religious or didn’t go all the This was right after he completed his col- learn Italian, on top of it all. diocesan priest. way,” Brother lege education. In the end, he wasn’t able to save the He tries to tell them that such a voca- Joseph said in “I became interested and close to the school, but still calls it “the time of my tion is “possible for anybody—just be Br. Joseph Umile, C.S.C. regard to priestly brothers,” he said. “I kind of liked their life that I remember the most.” open to it.” ordination. vision of life and their community life.” And, moreover, it prepared him to Brother Joseph uses himself as the Many people see becoming a brother He began joining the brothers for come to Bishop Chatard, which, 14 years prime example, telling young people not in a religious order as a step to the priest- shared meals and the Liturgy of the ago, faced similar difficulties. to assume that because they did not get hood, he said, and the old joke was that Hours, and in 1975 entered the commu- As president, he coordinates fundrais- “the call” in high school or college that it brothers are religious who couldn’t learn nity for a year, followed by a year in the ing, alumni relations, planning and doesn’t necessarily indicate what God Latin. novitiate, then nine years of work. financing. Unlike a Holy Cross-run wants for them. In reality, the lives of priests and broth- One of the challenges he encountered school, though, Brother Joseph is now “If you talked to me about being a ers are unique paths within a religious during his service in the community was separated by distance from other Holy brother or a priest in high school, I would community. The Congregation of Holy related to his vow of obedience. While at Cross brothers or priests. have laughed in your face because there Cross is comprised of two equal societies a school in Connecticut, serving in a Still, for him it is not a cause of despair. was nothing farther from my mind,” he of brothers and priests, most of whom capacity that he felt was fruitful, Brother Not only does he see members of his said. “There is no right time for God’s focus on education. Joseph received a difficult request from congregation, and his province in New call in a vocation. It can happen at any The question that a man has to ask his provincial superior. York, on a regular basis each year—both point. himself, Brother Joseph said, is how he “They needed somebody to go to formally and informally—but he also “There’s no such thing as a delayed sees himself functioning as a religious. Rome,” he said, to serve as the headmas- lives with archdiocesan priests. vocation or a late vocation,” he said. “It What sets apart a priest is a special com- ter of a failing boarding school. It would “It may not be a religious community, comes in its own due time.” †

sabbatical in June, Father Al looks back over Franciscan Father his more than five years of ministry to arch- Tom Fox receives FRANCISCANS the offertory gifts continued from page 9 diocesan Hispanics with satisfaction. “It’s hard to put it all into words, but it’s during a Nov. 2 Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by in this, that I would be so well prepared for been a very positive experience working in bilingual Mass at this and be able to come to my own home- the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and espe- St. Lawrence Church town.” cially experiencing the wide diversity of the in Indianapolis. Like Father Tom Fox, Conventual Hispanic community,” he said. “There are a Father Tom, who Franciscan Father Tom Smith is also a son whole lot of good folks, and they’ve got a grew up as a mem- of the archdiocese who has returned to min- good future.” ber of St. Joan of ister among its growing Hispanic popula- Franciscan Father Arturo Ocampo, a Arc Parish in tion. member of the Sacred Heart Province, is Indianapolis, Raised as a member of St. Mary Parish in looking forward to this future. returned to his Navilleton, Father Tom Smith entered the Since September 2004, he has been the hometown in 1993 to novitiate of the Conventual Franciscan pastor of St. Patrick Parish in Indianapolis, minister to Hispanic Province of Our Lady of Consolation in which boasts one of the archdiocese’s Catholics in the 1974. It is headquartered in the archdiocese largest and most vibrant Hispanic commu- archdiocese. at Mount St. Francis in the New Albany nities. Deanery. But in anticipating what is to come, first few months of priestly ministry have religious vocations. He does that in part He first ministered to Hispanic Catholics Father Arturo said that it was in part his own been “a dream come true,” but also very because of the satisfaction he has found in in a Milwaukee, Wis., parish in the late history in the archdiocese that prepared him busy. his vocation and in ministering to 1970s, but not full time until 2000 when he to lead many Hispanics. “Sometimes I’m in the office until late Hispanics. returned to the archdiocese. He spent a year at St. Mary Parish in because people call or because I have “The Lord touches each person in their Now Father Tom Smith serves Hispan-ics Indianapolis in 1980-81, four years before appointments,” he said. “They just want to own way, whatever their vocational call at St. Mary Parish in New Albany, his own priestly ordination, serving under come and talk. They need someone that can is, and then provides ways for us to wit- St. Michael Parish in Charlestown and retired Father Mauro Rodas, then the listen to them in their own language and ness to the Gospel, to speak the word of St. Joseph Parish in Corydon. He also serves parish’s pastor. not judge them.” the Lord,” Father Tom Smith said. “And, in this ministry in the Louisville During that time, then Brother Arturo Father Juan Carlos has also sought to for me, that’s exciting. It’s very gratify- Archdiocese at St. Rita Parish in Louisville. traveled thousands of miles across the arch- foster Franciscan vocations among those ing. There’s a sense that I’m making a He said that his current ministerial focus diocese visiting Hispanic families. whom he serves. difference here.” fits in well with the historic Franciscan Reflecting on the recent celebrations of To that end, he is helping organize a emphasis on proclaiming the Gospel. the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe on Dec. Franciscan vocations retreat to be held on (For more information about the upcoming “Francis was very clear about evangeliza- 12 in many archdiocesan parishes, Father Feb. 25-26. Franciscan vocations retreat or to register, tion and working with the poor,” Father Tom Arturo was able to see great development Father Tom Smith is also encouraging call Mario Soberanes at St. Patrick Parish Smith said. “And I find that even though over the past 25 years. Hispanic men to be open to priestly and at 317-631-5824.) † many Latinos are Catholic, that their sense “When I was here in ’80-’81, it was a big of awareness of Catholic teaching, their for- celebration, but no big deal,” he said. “But mal education, is often limited. They have [this time], it was a big celebration at St. great faith, but not necessarily a lot of train- Patrick’s, a big celebration at St. Mary’s, a ing in it. So there’s a real sense of evange- big celebration at St. Philip’s, and it goes on Out of This lization there.” and on—St. Gabriel and St. Monica—huge Franciscan Father Al Jost, who also came celebrations.” to the archdiocese in 2000 to serve Father Arturo said that the Sacred Heart World buy! Hispanics, shares Father Tom Smith’s focus Province can reach out well to Catholics of on evangelization. He was the first member different cultures because its own members EVERY WEDNESDAY of the Sacred Heart Province to join Father come from diverse backgrounds that include EVERY Tom Fox in his base of ministry in Vietnam and Mexico. Others are American OFF NON-PRESCRIPTION Indianapolis. with roots in Africa or other Hispanic coun- ITEM IN THE STORE But in just a few months, Father Al tries. 10% branched out far from the city, regularly cel- “That is the gift that comes to us in the ebrating Mass in Spanish at St. Ambrose province,” he said. “We acknowledge it. We PLATINUM SAVINGS PLAN is back! 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Keystone Ave. the archdiocese,” Father Al said. “Almost to the many Hispanic Catholics in 317 787-7205 every day, I had something different [to Indianapolis who also came from that city. do].” Describing himself as a “missionary here Now looking forward to starting a in the U.S.,” Father Juan Carlos said that his Page 12 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Sisters of Providence find miracles in center-city neighborhood By Mary Ann Wyand officially opened on Aug. 15, 2000. Administrative assistant Cate Dion Lane It truly is a “miracle place.” assists the sisters in this ministry, which Providence Sisters Barbara McClelland relies on donations and volunteers. A and Rita Ann Wade founded the center- grant from the congregation provided Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann city ministry in 1999 at 940 N. Temple funding for three years. Ave. in Indianapolis, and believe God’s “Our outreach to the near-eastside Providence helped them establish this neighborhood is an effort to re-create a hospitality house in a transitional near- community vibrant with care and concern, eastside neighborhood to provide a vari- where people can feel safe and neighbors ety of services to the poor. can once again enjoy one another,” Sister “In 1999, we were given permission Barbara said. “Hopefully, our presence [by the Sisters of Providence] to begin a dispels some of the fear and distrust that new ministry, which we named Miracle had grown. In our ministry at Miracle Place,” Sister Barbara said. “When we Place, there are opportunities for direct spoke with the [congregation’s] general service to those who lack some of what council, we envisioned a neighborhood many [people] may take for granted.” ministry which would evolve as the needs Miracle Place offers after-school care presented themselves.” for children, English classes for Hispanic Their new ministry enabled Sister adults, activities for senior citizens, acad- Barbara and Sister Rita Ann to return to emic and sports programs for youth, and the near-eastside and minister to the support and counseling. Providence Sisters Barbara McClelland, left, and Rita Ann Wade founded Miracle Place on the near-east- white, mostly elderly residents who have Picnics in the backyard at Miracle side of Indianapolis in 1999 and minister as co-directors of the ministry for low-income residents. The lived in the neighborhood for many years Place help build community by fostering ministry depends on help from benefactors and volunteers to provide a variety of services. as well as younger African-American and friendships among neighbors, and sea- Hispanic families who moved there in sonal gifts from the ministry to residents would like it to evolve, and that’s what funds from government and corporate recent years. Most residents have incomes include fruit baskets, Easter lilies, boxes has happened.” grants enable residents to repair the that are below the federal poverty level. of food and even bicycles. There were too many coincidences and deteriorated old houses. Both sisters lived at the former Holy “I had been in chaplaincy for unexpected offers of help as they worked “We’re trying to offer a sense of beauty Cross Parish convent on the near-eastside 22 years,” Sister Rita Ann said. “I together to make Miracle Place a reality, and dignity to the people,” Sister Barbara until it was closed in 1996, and enjoyed noticed the loneliness of people in the Sister Barbara said, so they decided that said. “One of the greatest ways [that] an informal part-time backdoor ministry hospital and wanted to do something that God and Blessed Mother Theodore Miracle Place has helped the community is of providing hospitality and food for would bring people together so they Guérin—the foundress of the Sisters of through a grant received from the Federal neighborhood residents. would have companionship and feel a Providence at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods— Home Loan Bank to rehab homes in the Sister Barbara joined the congregation part of some place. Barbara and I felt have blessed their ministry to the poor. neighborhood. The $280,000 [grant in in 1967 and served as the principal at that we did somewhat of a similar min- “Both of us loved our former min- 2002] was entirely for the purpose of reno- Holy Cross Central School from 1981 to istry at Holy Cross Parish. We used to istries,” Sister Barbara said, “but we felt vating homes owned by people who live in 1996. give people food when the parish office that we could be of service in a different our immediate area. Our senior citizens, in Sister Rita Ann joined the order in and food pantry were closed.” way and that other people were quite particular, benefited. New roofs, furnaces 1948 and taught fifth-grade and eighth- Providence led the way for them, Sister capable of doing our school and hospital [and] electrical wiring were just some of grade classes at Holy Cross School Rita Ann said, as they began to plan the ministries. the improvements which were made.” before she began a new ministry as a new center-city ministry. “God called us [to this new ministry] Sister Barbara and Sister Rita Ann also chaplain at St. Vincent Hospital in “We knew that we wanted to do and things opened up for us very easily,” were amazed when the congregation’s Indianapolis in 1977. neighborhood ministry and work with she said. “Money was there when we general council granted permission for the Now they are ministering together as children,” she said. “We told our superi- needed it. A businessman gave us an ini- ministry to own homes and vacant lots in co-directors of Miracle Place, which ors at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods that we tial donation which inspired us to move the neighborhood for a short time to reno- on. At the time, our community had new vate and beautify the properties—then sell ministry grant funds available, and that them to low-income people. The goal is to was providential. We didn’t set out to get provide affordable, suitable and stable those funds, but they happened to be housing so families can put down roots available to us at the time we asked per- and take pride in their neighborhood. mission to do this. We had three days to During the past five years, Sister Got write a proposal. That was a wonderful Barbara said, she has seen “God’s opportunity. God has worked with us.” Providence manifest itself more and more After the sisters acquired the house, and more in my life and in this ministry they needed funds to renovate it and an through benefactors, volunteers and Questions? anonymous donor soon offered them neighborhood residents. It is a very hum- enough money to complete the house bling experience for me to be able to Find the answers in the repairs so they could begin their ministry share God’s love here and minister to in this home mission territory. people in this neighborhood because I see new, 2006 edition of the “This area has problems with drugs their goodness.” Directory and Yearbook and crime,” Sister Rita Ann said. “Many The most surprising miracle, the sisters of the seniors own their homes and have said, was the unexpected gift of a linden for the Archdiocese of lived here for many years. They’ve seen tree with heart-shaped leaves from the neighborhood go down, and now they Eastside Community Investments to beau- Indianapolis. Available have hope that there will be a resurgence tify the front yard of Miracle Place. of families living in the neighborhood. “That was Blessed Mother Theodore’s beginning in January. Miracle Place gives them hope for the favorite tree,” Sister Rita Ann said. “She survival of the neighborhood. used to send a [linden] sapling to new he new directory contains up-to- “I think our reliance on Providence has missions. She would say ‘Do your best Tdate information about parishes, increased with this ministry,” Sister Rita and God will do the rest.’ We have both pastors, parish staff, schools, school Ann said. “That’s been one of the fruits of felt her presence.” staff, religious education staff, arch- the ministry.” diocesan administration, offices and Miracles continue to happen there, the (For more information about Miracle agencies, telephone numbers, Mass times, addresses, sisters said, as neighborhood revitalization Place, call 317-423-3064.) † e-mail addresses, photos of and biographical information about pas- tors, parish life coordinators, religious women and men ministering Providence Sister Barbara in the archdiocese, Catholic chaplaincies, hospitals, colleges and McClelland plays with 2-year- other institutions. old Everardo Asconcio Jr. on Dec. 8 at Miracle Place in • More than 300 pages of information you can use. Indianapolis. 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By Brandon A. Evans The facility offers apartments, resi- dential living and 24-hour nursing The Benedictine Sisters of Our care. Lady of Grace Monastery in The Benedict Inn Retreat and

Photos by Brandon A. Brandon Photos by Evans Beech Grove recently celebrated Conference Center is an ecumenical 50 years since its founding. ministry operated by the sisters to In that time, the Benedictine provide programs for spiritual, educa- sisters who came from Monastery tional and physical growth. Immaculate Conception in The center is located at the former Ferdinand, Ind., in the Evansville Our Lady of Grace Academy, an all- Diocese, and those who followed girls school that closed in 1978. them, have engaged in a myriad of The sisters have communal prayer ministries. each day, and many of them are Among them are two that exist involved in ministries throughout the on the many acres of land owned archdiocese. by the monastery. The St. Paul Hermitage prides (If you’re interested in learning more itself as “a place to call home” for about life in the community, call elderly people. Since it opened in Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette 1960, more than 1,000 people have Etienne at 317-787-3287, ext. 3032, lived there—and the waiting time or e-mail [email protected], is about three years. or log on to www.benedictine.com.) †

Mary Pietz, left, a resident of St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove, poses near the elevator on Dec. 12 with Benedictine Sister Sharon Bierman, administrator of the facility that has Benedictine sisters at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove and guests pray Morning Prayer on Dec. 12 in cared for more than 1,000 elderly residents since its founding in 1960. St. Paul Hermitage the community’s chapel. Daily life at the monastery involves a variety of works punctuated by communal prayer. is one of the main ministries of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. From left, Benedictine Sisters Norma Gettelfinger, Maureen Therese Cooney and Mary Carol Messmer pray Morning Prayer on Dec. 12 in the commu- nity’s chapel with other members and guests of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove .

Above, morning light shines on Dec. 12 on a crucifix and other statuary in the snow-covered cemetery at Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. The Benedictine women’s religious community recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of its founding.

Left, Benedictine Sister Mary Luke Jones, administrator of the Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center in Beech Grove, does paperwork on Dec. 12 in the center’s Shop Inn Spired Books and Gifts. The center is an ecumeni- cal ministry of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. Page 14 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Carmelite novice finds peace and happiness in her life of prayer

By Mary Ann Wyand government confiscated our house and everything in it.” In October 2002, she participated in a silent retreat and Accused of “betraying the country,” the Nguyen family spent this quiet time reflecting on her life and God’s pres- Born in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War, Discalced had to start a new life without any belongings. ence in her life. Carmelite Sister Mary Joseph Nguyen has found peace and “Having nothing left, we lived a few days here and there “I have come to appreciate God much more and am very happiness half a world away at the Monastery of St. Joseph with my dad’s relatives,” she said. “We had to start our lives grateful to him for the grace to have him in my life and for in Terre Haute. from the beginning again. No one could imagine what we his abundant blessings,” she said. “I started going to retreats Her childhood years were filled with adversity, but her had gone through. At night, I could hear my mom cry. I more and spending more time in prayer. I would come to faith and loving family led her through the turmoil of war in wept too and asked God to comfort us, to strengthen us and church to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.” Southeast Asia to safety in the western United States and to take away the suffering.” During these “wonderful vacation times with God at later a contemplative life of When she was in the ninth grade, her mother tried to retreats and alone with him before the tabernacle,” she said, prayer as a Carmelite nun in send her to the United States with her older sister and “I started to have a sense of God inviting me to religious life the Midwest. younger brother, but they were arrested and imprisoned for a with his very gentle but persistent voice inside my heart.

Submitted photo Her father served in the month before being released to go back to school. The feeling grew stronger and stronger each day. I tried not South Vietnamese army and “My sister and I attempted to escape a lot more times to think about it; however, the more I ignored the feeling the helped the American govern- after that but never made it to America,” she said. “When more it came back to me.” ment, she said, but after the my dad was released from prison in the summer of 1986, At first, she doubted that God was calling her to reli- war communist officials he tried to escape to America again but the police found out gious life. detained him at a re-educa- and searched for him. To avoid being caught and sent back “I never thought I would be a cloistered nun because I tion camp to brainwash him to jail, he secretly moved from one place to another and was very active and full of energy and fashionable,” she with new government doc- eventually to a small fishing town south of Saigon. While said, “and I love my family so much that I would never trine. She was forced to relo- he was hiding from the police, my mom continued to try to have the courage to live away from them. I asked God for cate with her mother and four find a way for him to go to America. This time, we decided a sign [to] clarify the thoughts of God calling me to reli- siblings to the New to split up our family. My dad took my older sister and gious life.” Economic Zone in Vietnam. younger brother with him in the summer of 1987. They got Later, she realized that “God doesn’t force me to say yes Sr. Mary Joseph Nguyen, O.C.D. In early 1978, when her on a boat to escape to America. God blessed our family. with hesitation and doubt. He wants me to return his love father was released from the That boat made it to the Philippines. A year later, they set- with my whole heart, to trust him completely and to will- re-education camp, her parents decided to find a way to tled in California.” ingly give up what he has given me with a generous and escape to America. But more danger lay ahead for the In September 1992, she journeyed to the United States joyful heart. He won. After a few years of discerning, I Nguyen family. In the summer of 1982, after she finished the with her mother, younger sister and baby brother, where decided to say ‘yes’ to him. When the decision was made, seventh grade, her family and several neighbors tried to they were reunited with her father and siblings. She couldn’t peace and happiness took possession of my soul. I happily escape on a small fishing boat but ran out of water and food. speak English then, but was able to earn a scholarship and quit my job, said goodbye to my very dear family and left On their fifth day at sea, a severe storm with huge waves degree in management information systems in 1999. After everything behind to devote myself completely to God.” forced them to return home, and they were arrested. graduation, she worked at a credit reporting company until At the Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute, Sister “I remember walking barefoot for so long before we God called her to religious life in the summer of 2003. Mary Joseph said, “I am enjoying my life as a young arrived at the jail,” she said. “The police separated my mom While working full time, she was an active member of Carmelite novice in this beautiful and loving community. In and dad and the rest of us so they could question us individu- her parish, where she taught sixth-grade religious education silence and solitude, I embrace the whole world in my heart ally. We had no communication with one another. Because classes and participated in the young adult ministry twice a and present it to God in unceasing prayer. My life is more we were very young, they let us stay outside the jail cells. … month for Bible study, reflections and service projects. fulfilling and satisfying because what was missing inside the My mom pretended she was pregnant and needed medical “I had a full and promising future ahead of me,” she said. depth of my soul has been found. God called and I said attention badly. After a week, they released her. My father “However, life was not very satisfying for me because ‘yes’ to him. I continue to ask God to guide me and give me stayed in prison for three and a half years without a trial. The something was still missing in the very depth of my heart.” the courage to faithfully follow his call with love and joy.” † Seminarian serves others, grows closer to God in the outdoors Seminarian Jeremy Gries, By Sean Gallagher a member of Nativity of Priests are sacramental signs of Christ. Seminarians Our Lord Jesus Christ become acquainted in their priestly formation with the mul- Parish in Indianapolis, titude of ways that this identity is lived out. stands next to a truck Over the past year and a half, seminarian Jeremy Gries, a used to deliver firewood member of Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in to needy families by sem- Indianapolis, has been doing this at Saint Meinrad School of inarians in Saint Meinrad Theology in St. Meinrad. School of Theology’s pro- One of the unique ways that Gries has learned that he can gram Cooperative Action show Christ to others is through his work in the outdoors. Theology Submitted photo courtesy School of of Saint Meinrad for Community Gries is the student coordinator of Saint Meinrad’s Development (CACD). Gries is the student coor- Cooperative Action for Community Development (CACD). One of the main activities of this program is to distribute dinator of CACD and over- firewood split on the seminary’s campus to needy families in sees the work of more Perry, Spencer and Dubois counties in southern Indiana. than 300 volunteers. “It helps bring in the social justice aspect of being in the outdoors and doing physical labor,” said Gries. But in addition to giving the love of Christ to others working up a sweat on the Saturdays when the wood is split. “It’s helped me to realize that not everybody is going to through service, Gries’ leadership in CACD also helps him “Part of ministry and of administration is getting in on think the way that I do and that just because I think some- develop skills that he will need in priestly ministry. the action,” Father Anthony said. “He could on Saturday thing in my head, I need to articulate that and get that across According to Benedictine Father Anthony Vinson, who walk around and see what’s going on, but he’s in splitting and try to motivate the people,” he said. helps oversee CACD, Gries coordinates the work of CACD’s and he’s a good teacher. He teaches people, whether it’s run- Part of Gries’ interest in working in the outdoors is rooted more than 300 volunteers, which are drawn from both the ning a chainsaw or putting things up on a pallet.” in his longstanding love of hiking and camping. seminary and the broader community. He also helps deter- Gries has noticed how his activity in CACD has helped From late February to the middle of July in 2001, Gries mine who receives the firewood that CACD distributes. him learn how to communicate with people he’s been hiked the entire Appalachian Trail largely by himself. The But these administrative duties don’t keep Gries from charged to lead. See GRIES, page 15

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deacon candidates are pioneers. In the his- Deacon Hilger, they discern together the Sean Gallagher Photo by tory of the archdiocese, they are the first theological meaning of what they have paten at the conclusion group of men in formation who will experienced. of the eucharistic become permanent deacons. But he talks more often with deacon prayer during a Sept. 17 Because of this, there are few models for candidate Bill Jones, a fellow member of Mass at SS. Peter and them of what it means to be a deacon. The St. Bartholomew Parish. Paul Cathedral in only ones in the archdiocese are deacons Saying that they have “become buddies,” Indianapolis at which who have moved here and are now minis- Deacon Hilger is looking forward to the the archdiocese’s dea- tering in our local Church. day that they can minister side by side as con aspirants became Deacon Ed Hilger is one such model. A deacons. candidates for the dia- member of St. Bartholomew Parish in “I keep telling him to rush through his conate. Columbus, he and his wife, Donna Lee, courses really fast so we can share some moved there in March 2004 when he of the duties,” said Deacon Hilger, who became vice president for sales and market- among other duties currently assists with ing at Impact Forge, an industry based in marriage and baptismal preparation, wit- that city. nesses the exchange of wedding vows, The father of five grown children, and celebrates baptisms at St. Bartholo- Deacon Hilger was ordained in 1983 for the mew Parish. Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, just For his part, Jones is thankful for 12 years after the first ordination of perma- Deacon Hilger’s presence in the parish. nent deacons in the United States. “He and I have a bond and a relationship After ministering mainly in rural that I value very much,” Jones said. “I’ve parishes in northern Indiana, he and his talked to him about the diaconate and what family moved in 1996 to a suburb of he went through in his formation process. Detroit and ministered in that archdiocese It’s been a real blessing for me.” until relocating to Columbus. Deacon Hilger was drawn to the dia- He brings with him nearly a quarter cen- conate through he and his wife’s involve- tury of experience of life and ministry in ment in the Church and their desire to the diaconate in a variety of contexts that he spread the Gospel. father, his wife believes that being a family so many of the times. So I’m always can share with current deacon candidates. Describing his formation prior to ordina- husband and father helps him be a good struggling with spirituality as opposed to “I know what it is to go through the ebbs tion as “a walk up a hill” that included deacon. the pragmatic, business training of my life. and tides of [formation],” Deacon Hilger some “trials” for him and his family, “I think Ed, in living with me and with It makes an excellent compliment.” said. “I can speak today because I went Deacon Hilger nevertheless said that the the female psychology, gets to have an Overarching all of this, Deacon Hilger is through it. And it’s like any other course experience and his subsequent life and min- insight into the feminine spirituality of the convinced that being a deacon has drawn that you’re going through. Sometimes you istry as a deacon have helped him be a bet- people,” Donna Lee Hilger said, “so that he him closer to Christ through the people he can’t see the value of it at the moment, but ter husband and father. can know what they think, how they’re serves. down the road, with the discipline from it, “I would like to think that . . . going thinking and what their needs are so that he “It has increased my faith when I see it’s amazing how you can draw upon it.” through the training and going through life can address those needs.” people move toward Christ, to see Christ One of the ways that he is sharing his experiences as a deacon,” he said, “has Deacon Hilger acknowledged the great alive in people’s lives, to be able to walk experiences with archdiocesan deacon can- made much more understanding in my rela- support he receives from his wife in this with people in good times and in bad didates is by serving as a facilitator of one tionship with my wife [and children].” and other areas. times,” he said. “It makes me more of the formation program’s theological In addition to the diaconate helping “My wife is a very spiritual person,” he resolved in my commitment as a reflection groups. Deacon Hilger to be a good husband and said. “I’m the pragmatic person in the believer in Christ.” †

with him how important the people were to GRIES me,” he said. “It was nice to be back in a continued from page 14 parish setting. The people are very For Vocations important.” trail starts in northeastern Georgia and ends Whether he is in the outdoors serving in Maine. It is more than 2,100 miles long people in need or worshipping with people and winds through 14 states. in a parish church, Gries wants to help Although this adventure happened more people understand better the nature of the than three years before Gries became a Church and how much Christ loves them. seminarian, he had started thinking about “I think if people are brought to that the priesthood a few years before when he and come to understand it and experience We Pray was studying engineering at Purdue it, their faith will grow and they’ll become University in West Lafayette, Ind. more interested in growing in faith and This discernment continued off and on growing in spiritual practices and knowl- in the years to come when he was a gradu- edge of the Church,” he said. “It will have ate student at Purdue and during a brief a real impact on their lives.” † time working for an engineering firm in Won’t You Indianapolis. But during all this time, he loved being in the outdoors and found that it brought him Submitted photo closer to God. Gries said this happened for him in a particularly strong and extended way when hiking the Appalachian Trail. “All of the time [it] was just you and your thoughts,” he said. “You just spend a lot of time thinking about your life and Pray With Us? where you were headed and where you were coming from and, for me, how God was playing in that life and how he was directing me. There were a lot of times to think and to pray.” Gries lived and worked in Indianapolis The Knights of Columbus after completing his graduate studies. He became a member of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis and spoke about his interest in are in solidarity with the priesthood with his pastor, Father Gerald Kirkhoff. Father Kirkhoff is convinced that Gries Pope Benedict XVI would be a good priest. “I think he’d be a fine priest,” he said. “I really do. I think he’s very dedicated to what Our bishops, and our priests he’s doing. But I also think he’s going to be out there in the parish. He’s going to be out with people.” Seminarian Jeremy Gries, a member of Nativity ✝ Gries saw that quality in himself last fall of Our Lord Jesus Christ parish in Indianapolis, when he went with Father Daniel Atkins to rejoices on July 11, 2001, as he completes a hike the parishes he leads in Harrison County in of the entire Appalachian Trail that spans more Jeff Biel – State Deputy the New Albany Deanery. Gries spoke about than 2,100 miles. Gries, who became a seminar- his priestly formation to the parishioners to ian in 2004, said that the four-and-a-half month State Chaplain help them understand how their contribu- hike provided time to think about the role “God Rev. Theodore Mens – tions to the United Catholic Appeal are used. was playing in [my] life and how he was “It hit me as I went from Mass to Mass directing me.” Page 16 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2006 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. To be ‘catholic,’ people need to love each other

By Fr. John W. Crossin, O.S.F.S. Catholics. It also embraces the Protestant and Orthodox Christians with whom we A few decades ago at St. Matthew share an “imperfect communion.” School in Philadelphia, I learned that To be catholic is to be respectful of all “catholic” means “universal.” people, to share our faith with all, to care Jeffrey Paul CNS photo by I still am dealing with the implications for all in need. of that definition. More profoundly, “catholic” implies I also learned that “Catholics”—with a the universal call to holiness. It implies capital “C”—are all over the world. The opening our hearts to the Holy Spirit’s Catholic Church has many members—a guidance. It implies giving everything to billion or so. God. One implication, unknown to me at the When I was a boy, we never entered time, was that these people were to sup- Protestant churches. And Protestants did port one another. Catholics are not really not enter ours. Entrance was frowned being “catholic”—small “c”—unless we upon, if not forbidden. love one another. But the Second Vatican Council in the We show this by supporting the vic- 1960s embraced the search for Christian tims of Hurricane Katrina or of the earth- unity. quake in Pakistan. We provide sustenance For the last decade, I have been for AIDS victims or for those suffering engaged in this search full time. I never famine. realized how the council would affect me We have a network of loving commu- so personally. nities. We share our faith and our love Now we Catholics realize that we are with others. joined with our Protestant and Orthodox What I didn’t realize as a boy was that brothers and sisters in baptism. A displaced woman receives supplies at a Church-sponsored food distribution site in Sudan. From this support is nothing new. The Acts of We all have received the Holy Spirit. St. Basil to St. Francis of Assisi to Luther to Calvin to St. Francis de Sales to the present, there is a the Apostles speaks of the early We are all called to aid others. constant tradition of love and care for those in need by people of faith. Christians in Jerusalem having all things Jesus himself calls his disciples to be in common. They supported one another. one (Jn 17). Our communities are to work theological foundations for the Churches’ sufferings of all. We seek to bear one In his letters, St. Paul mentions to the together for the common good. stand on poverty issues. another’s burdens (Gal 6:2). communities in the Eastern Mediter- This is particularly true in our love for One thing I learned in this process is Our common spirituality expresses ranean area the collection for the Church the poor. that my colleagues—all rooted in differ- itself concretely. in Jerusalem. He urged the early For the past four years, I have been ing Christian traditions—are deeply spiri- Christian communities together spon- Christians to be generous to those in engaged in a project with five scholars of tual people. We share a passion for fol- sor soup kitchens and shelters for the need. other Christian traditions, primarily fac- lowing Christ. We have a deep joy in homeless. They come together to pray for This generosity is evident in all ulty of schools in the Washington being his disciples. those in need. They work for local or branches of contemporary Christianity. Theological Consortium in Washington, Another thing I learned is that love for regional or national legislation to aid The word “catholic” embraces D.C. We have been looking at the the poor is a common commitment. From those disabled or maimed by war or men- Jesus’ time until the present, in all the tally distressed or displaced by disasters. Christian traditions, we have been con- This Christian collaboration calls us to Twinning builds faith, friendship cerned about the poor. seek God’s will. How is the Holy Spirit From St. Basil to St. Francis of Assisi calling us to act for the good of others? By Maureen E. Daly rebels. Located near the Honduran border, to Luther to Calvin to St. Francis de Sales Ours is not just a pragmatic collabora- it was in the path of repeated attacks. to the present, there is a constant tradition tion for the common good. Rather, our The sense of being a member of a When the war finally ended, peaceful of love and care for those in need by peo- collaboration begins in prayer. “catholic,” worldwide Church was rebuilding was set back by Hurricane ple of faith. We search together for God’s will. We brought home to my parish when mem- Mitch. Roads, homes, farms and schools Love for the poor is “catholic.” It is seek to discern the movement of the Holy bers of our sister parish in Nicaragua vis- were washed away by the storm. The universal. Spirit both in our hearts and in the midst ited us. town still is recovering from those losses. This love is rooted in our common of the Christian communities. Then we The Nicaraguan delegation came to St. Vincent de Paul Parish and Christian baptism. It continues in our life act for the common good. Baltimore, Md., earlier this year to cele- Methodist churches in Baltimore helped in the Holy Spirit. It expresses itself in As I learned at St. Matthew School in brate a 20-year sister relationship between with home construction, a new church the “spirituality of communion” that the the Mayfair neighborhood of Phila- the two faith communities. roof, a revolving loan fund and food. But late Pope John Paul II spoke of in his delphia, “catholic” means “universal.” But Since 1985, St. Vincent de Paul Parish 20 years of effort would not have been 2001 apostolic letter for the start of the “catholic” is a lot more universal than I in Baltimore has had a sister relationship sustained had there not been personal vis- new millennium, titled “Novo millennio thought it was then. with St. John the Baptist Parish in the its in times of war and in peace, which ineunte.” town of San Juan de Limay. put a human face on a distant community. On our spiritual journey through life, (Oblate Father John W. Crossin is the When the sister relationship began, we think of the other Christians who are executive director of the Washington Limay was a dangerous place to visit and (Maureen Daly is an associate editor of joined to us “within the profound unity of Theological Consortium in Washington, an even more dangerous place to live at special projects for Catholic News the mystical body.” D.C. His most recent book, Walking in the height of the war involving the Contra Service in Washington, D.C.) † We try to be sensitive to the joys and Virtue, was published by Paulist Press.) † Discussion Point Mission parishes need prayers This Week’s Question things.” (Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sister Elena Hoye, Dubuque, Iowa) Describe a situation that Catholics in another part of the world face that concerns you. Can people like you “I’m in the diaconate candidacy program now because do anything about this? I felt a call to evangelize the Church, starting with Catholics. Thinking about global problems facing the “I read recently that the Holy Father was encouraging Church, I think that if I and others start locally to Catholics in Iraq to stay strong in their faith. In China, energize the Church we may create a ripple effect people can’t practice their faith openly. ... What we globally.” (Frank Golazeski, Trenton, N.J.) can do is pray and support missions in those places.” (Therese Stahl, Glen Ellyn, Ill.) Lend Us Your Voice “In the Philippines, there is a violent backlash against An upcoming edition asks: What is the most difficult human rights advocates. ... We have sisters who live challenge that parents face today in helping to form and work there. I’d repeat what Sister Joan Chittister their children’s values? says, ‘Speak up, speak out, speak on.’ Often, that’s all To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to we can do. But, on the other hand, people of good [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at conscience speaking out is what really changes 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † Bob Roller CNS photo by Page 18 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Perspectives Looking Around/Fr. William J. Bryon S.J. The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco What the Ignatian way promises you in 2006 Still touched by

Around the first of the year, signs of regularly, is to do yourself an enormous 5. Plan and decide how to collaborate last year’s painful “resolutionary” Christianity appear in the favor. All you have to do is resolve to more effectively with God and how, with onward march of many accept the grace—the gift—that God gives God’s assistance, to avoid or overcome the memories Christian soldiers who to all who ask, the gift of prayer. influence of evil in the future. Then con- want to lose weight or One form of daily prayer is the clude with an “Our Father.” I find as each new year begins that I quit smoking. They join “Examen.” It comes out of the Spiritual Spirituality is moving in a new direction remember not only the good things that the ranks of their secu- Exercises of St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of in our day. One observer, Robert Wuthnow, happened in the past lar counterparts in mak- the Jesuits. Here’s how one veteran Jesuit sees a shift from a spirituality of “dwelling” months, but also those ing New Year’s resolu- explains this daily five-step prayer routine: with an emphasis on “habitation” to a spiri- that brought me tears. tions. If these fail, they 1. Begin by placing yourself consciously tuality of “seeking.” The dwellers relate to This past fall, my resolve a month or two in the presence of God. Become aware of sacred space; the seekers “search for sacred daughter, Mary, and later to meet these God’s goodness, the gifts of life and love. moments that reinforce their conviction that her family were com- objectives by linking their Lenten devo- Be thankful. the divine exists.” ing to visit, and she tional commitments to weight loss or break- 2. Pray for the grace to see clearly and to Dwelling-oriented spirituality is not called to ask me if it ing the smoking habit. respond generously to the guidance God is doing it today for many Americans who are was all right if she How often have you discovered at the giving you in your daily history. beset with “a sense of spiritual homeless- brought a friend, Pat. end of a month-long diet that all you lost 3. Review in memory the history of the ness.” But the seeking-oriented spirituality She said her friend was 30 days? So you tell yourself you’ll try day just ending (or at midpoint) in order to is not satisfactory either because it “results was hurting terribly because her 12-year- again next year when New Year’s Day or see concrete instances of the presence and in a transient spiritual existence character- old nephew recently died in a tragic way. I Ash Wednesday rolls around. Until then, guidance of God and, perhaps, of the activ- ized more often by dabbling than by depth.” said, “Of course!” you’ll just go on feeling a bit guilty. ity and influence of evil. These can be Instead, try the handy, practical, check- When Pat arrived, it didn’t take long You can, however, assuage that guilt now detected by paying attention to strong feel- list form of prayer known as the “Examen.” for her to tell me her tragic story. by making a spiritual resolution. Resolve to ings experienced that may have arisen from It’s a resolution waiting to be made. The death of her nephew was extraor- pray, if not more, at least more regularly. situations and encounters. dinarily sad because it apparently hap- Spiritual resolutions deal with the imma- 4. Evaluate these instances in which you (Jesuit Father William J. Byron is a colum- pened by his own hand and was listed a terial side of life—the intangible, immea- either have collaborated with God or nist for Catholic News Service. Jack Fink’s suicide. But Pat said it was an accidental surable, weightless realities of spirituality. yielded to the influence of evil in some way. column, which usually appears in this death. She explained as I listened with a Making a resolution to pray more, or more Express gratitude and regret. space, will return next week.) † broken heart: Apparently, a new “game” that young Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes teens are playing is called “The Choking Game.” What they do in order to get a “high” is to cut off oxygen, usually by Hope is the name of the New Year game putting a rope around their necks. Apparently, too, they get a tingling sensa- The new year has begun, and we’re Americans buy hybrid and other gas- participant. tion that puts them on this “high,” and filled with the hope offered by Christ’s conserving cars, ride bikes and walk wher- Parishes are families with God as they’re supposed to stop the choking just birth. Who knows, ever possible. They turn off air condition- Father, whose members, including the pas- before they pass out. It is said that getting maybe our next holi- ing, electric appliances and water when not tor, find emotional, spiritual and some- a “high” this way appeals to youngsters day newsletter will needed, cook from scratch at home and times material support among their broth- who would never use drugs or alcohol. report genuine human take notes when their grandparents explain ers and sisters. The Body of Christ is nour- There is a problem, of course. As Pat progress. how they managed to live just fine on one ished, healed and inspired, and its mem- explained, very often the “choking game” President George income. They do not move to Arizona to bers share these gifts with the wider com- goes on too long, and youngsters like her Bush and Sen. Ted become champion landscapers. munity. nephew accidentally kill themselves. She Kennedy take a vow to The U.S. government comes up with an Parents remember that the privilege of is now on a mission to get parents to be blood brothers, cut- immigration plan that allows foreign work- free public education also entails a respon- know about this “game” and to talk to ting their fingers and ers to earn money for their impoverished sibility for them and their children to their children about how dangerous it is. smearing their blood families back home, while ensuring that attend, work hard and follow rules. Parents Pat hopes she can alert parents to together as boys do in this ritual. tax-supported benefits are not entitlements know what their kids are up to at all times watch for “clues,” like unusual marks U.S. Supreme Court nominees are given to non-American citizens. Everyone because they’re mostly home with them around the neck, bloodshot eyes and com- approved or denied quickly on the sole receives a living wage, including non- spending boring “down time” together. plaints of headaches. Parents also should bases of legal acumen, character and human union employees. However, there’s no further need for a TV note if their young teenagers have ropes wisdom, and they perform accordingly. Politicians remember their place in the supernanny, cops or drug rehab. and plastic bags in their rooms. If so, ask Saddam Hussein apologizes to the constitutional system and the people they The unemployed live decently, learn questions—and remove them. judge at his trial, admits his guilt and begs represent, and lose the attitude. They speak new skills and remain positive until they I still see the pain in Pat’s eyes and forgiveness of his victims. Israelis and to each other with the expectation that find work. The sick are patient in the face hear it in her voice. What a tragedy she Palestinians meet over kosher lamb din- they’re really being heard, and listen with of their suffering, remembering that pain is and her family have lived through! She ners in the Gaza strip, ending the meal respect and an open mind. Compromise redemptive through Christ’s example. The tells their story in hopes of saving even with toasts in appropriate beverages to and progress toward the common good dying cheerfully examine memory and one youngster’s life. their unity of purpose. ensue. wait to see God. Another memory that stays with me Franciscan guardians of Christian holy Pope Benedict XVI meets regularly with Perhaps our 2006 letter will read this was a conversation I had with the parents places in Jerusalem, along with their every variety of non-Christian. Together way. We can only hope. of a soldier who served in Iraq. A friend Muslim and Jewish neighbors, plan guided they discuss points of agreement, share called to ask if I would talk with them, tours of the city’s various religious attrac- meditation or prayer and engage in thera- (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the and when he told me of their pain it tions. Profits from the tours will be used to peutic schmoozing. God is not mocked, Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular renewed my own. maintain and improve the entire area. nor defined beyond recognition by any columnist for The Criterion.) † Their son, back from Iraq, in deep pain from confused memories of this war, had Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister committed suicide. My son, Peter, had committed suicide in March 1991, pro- foundly disturbed because of the United Predicting the future, heeding advice States’ launching of the first Gulf War. Peter was distressed that people were On an ominously dark day one summer world.” The webmaster, Ronald L. decade or century will bring. Only God being killed, as he would say, “this time in my early childhood, neighborhood Conte Jr., author of many books, including knows. Yet, God gives us the intelligence to for oil.” friends and I watched The Bible and the Future of the World,pre- try to make sense of our lives, keeping our Peter took to quoting Pope John two couples playing dicts these good and bad events will even existence on earth as meaningful, healthy, Paul II, who had made a plea to the first badminton in the yard affect the current generations. Conte, who happy and safe as possible. (Certain life sit- President Bush before the Gulf War was next door. We won- edits the Internet’s CatholicPlanet Catholic uations, of course, are predictable, i.e., if launched, saying: “Save humanity the dered how they could magazine (www.catholicplanet.com), calls we practice gluttony—or starve our bod- tragic experience of a new war. A war be having such fun on himself “a devout Catholic.” ies—our health will suffer. So, too, if we would not resolve the problems, only the very day the world Conte writes theology books, booklets neglect our spiritual life, our immortal souls aggravate them.” would end. and articles. He is currently translating the will suffer. This is common sense.) As the dead soldiers came home in How did we know Bible from Latin to English. As for his Still, as I write this column, the media body bags, the tragedy worked on Peter’s this? Because one prophecies, he claims to “know certain is blitzing the public with cautionary brilliant, moral, fragile brain, and he boy’s parents heard a things about the future from interpreting advice about predicted natural (storms, killed himself, leaving a long tape and radio announcement declaring “the end” the Bible” but has “never received any pri- earthquakes, etc.) and unnatural (terroris- notes telling us, “It’s time to go home.” was imminent, and the word spread. vate revelation.” tic, war-related) disasters. Of course, since I shared my story with these parents, Although my parents did not seem very This is the second week of the first 9-11, I take this seriously, just as I did now permanently suffering people as I concerned, I was frightened. month of 2006—and this column is being prior to the predicted but non-appearing am. My hope is that they will come to As the years pass, end-of-the-world released in the Friday the 13th issue of computer crash. (I even had my old man- believe, as I have about Peter, that their and other disastrous pronouncements peri- The Criterion—a seemingly perfect time ual and electric typewriters repaired.) son had a tragically fragile and wounded odically surface. One could say such pre- to introduce Conte’s Web site since I am This time, however, much more practi- brain, now healed by our loving Father in dictions are predictable. Remember the not superstitious. Readers can discern cal, informative advice for disasters can heaven. worldwide reports declaring computer Conte’s credibility themselves via the be found at this Web site: These memories stay with me as we systems worldwide would crash at the Internet or by writing to him at P.O. Box www.ready.com. begin a new year. They make me ever coming of the new millennium in 2000? 881238, Port St. Lucie, FL 34986. more a lover of the gift of life. Recently, I found a Web site announc- My point in sharing this information is (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of ing both the “great blessings and great suf- this: None of us knows exactly what the Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is (Antoinette Bosco is a columnist for fering for the Catholic Church and the next moment, day, week, month, year, a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † Catholic News Service.) † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Page 19

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Friday, Jan. 13 Wednesday, Jan. 18 Sunday, Jan. 15, 2006 Hilary, bishop and doctor of 1 Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 the Church Psalm 144:1-2, 9-10 • 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19 reading. 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22a Mark 3:1-6 • 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20 It is a story about the decision to follow Psalm 89:16-19 • John 1:35-42 Jesus by Simon, later known as Peter, and Simon’s brother, Andrew. In the story, Mark 2:1-12 Thursday, Jan. 19 Jesus intrigues Andrew and Simon. They 1 Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 The First Book of Samuel is the source follow Jesus. The Lord invites them to be Saturday, Jan. 14 Psalm 56:2-3, 9-14 of the first reading for this weekend. Apostles. 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a Mark 3:7-12 Originally, First and They recognize Jesus as Messiah. Jesus Psalm 19:8-10, 15 Second Samuel were calls Peter to a new life, even giving him a one volume. At some new name, Cephas, which is often trans- Mark 2:13-17 Friday, Jan. 20 point in history, an edi- lated as Peter. Fabian, pope and martyr tor divided them into Sunday, Jan. 15 Sebastian, martyr two volumes, and two Reflection Second Sunday in Ordinary 1 Samuel 24:3-21 volumes appear in The Church, in the majesty and glory of Time Psalm 57:2-4, 6, 11 Bible translations its liturgy, in the profound gaze into the today. reality of Jesus, born in Bethlehem, given 1 Samuel 3:3b-10, 19 Mark 3:3-19 As the title of these by the Gospels, called us all to celebrate Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-10 books implies, the cen- the birth of Christ at Christmas. 1 Corinthians 6:13c-15a, 17-20 Saturday, Jan. 21 tral figure is Samuel, a prophet active cen- On Christmas, the Church revealed to John 1:35-42 Agnes, virgin and martyr turies before Christ. us that Jesus was the son of Mary, there- 2 Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, Prophets were highly revered through- fore a human, as she was only human in Monday, Jan. 16 23-27 out the history of the Chosen People. They spite of her unique holiness and singular were seen as God’s special representatives, place in the divine plan of redemption. 1 Samuel 15:16-23 Psalm 80:2-3, 5-7 but also personally very holy and devoted Two weeks later, it celebrated for us the Psalm 50:8-9, 16-17, 21, 23 Mark 3:20-21 to God. feast of the Epiphany, revealing then to us Mark 2:18-22 At times, prophets initially resisted their the fact that Jesus, born in Bethlehem, was Sunday, Jan. 22 calling. Such was the case for the great divine, the Son of God, and that redemp- Tuesday, Jan. 17 Third Sunday in Ordinary prophets, Isaiah, Ezekiel and Jeremiah. tion is God’s gift for all people. However, after all was said and done, they These past several weeks have been Anthony, abbot Time accommodated themselves to God’s will times in which the Church, with the great- 1 Samuel 16:1-13 Jonah 3:1-5, 10 and accepted the call to be prophets. est joy and hope, has told us about the Psalm 89:20-22, 27-28 Psalm 25:4-9 These figures were admired because the Lord. He is the Savior of the world! Mark 2:23-28 1 Corinthians 7:29-31 call to be a prophet was seen precisely as a Now the Church asks us in the readings Mark 1:14-20 call from God. this weekend to consider how personally In this weekend’s reading, God calls we shall respond to these marvelous facts. Samuel. It occurs according to God’s plan. By the mere fact that we are of the Church, Samuel is open to hearing God, indeed or at least interested in God, we are being ready to hear God, but Samuel cannot touched by God’s grace. God calls us. He Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen hurry the divine plan. offers us eternal life in Christ. St. Paul’s First Epistle to the How should we respond? St. Paul gives Corinthians supplies the second reading for us very concrete advice. Samuel, Peter and this weekend. Andrew are examples. We must follow Magi were first gentiles Many of the Pauline writings have their Christ. There is no other way to true life luster in their clear revelation of the bond and peace. † between true believers and Jesus, who was to believe in Christ the Son of God but also human in a mys- tery that theologians call the Incarnation. Readers may submit prose What can you tell us about the three started depicting one of them as a black Truly committed Christians, in faith and Qkings who came to worship Christ African nobleman. baptism, are inseparably bound to Jesus, or poetry for faith column after he was born? A feast in honor of the “Three Wise both in a shared human nature, but also in The Criterion invites readers to sub- Do we know their Men” is listed in Butler’s Lives of the the divine life given believers by Christ. mit original prose or poetry relating to names? Are they con- Saints for July 23. It is not widely This supernatural bond, the very key- faith or experiences of prayer for pos- sidered saints? If so, observed, however, and is not on the stone of personal salvation, requires sible publication in the “My Journey to when is their feast? Catholic liturgical calendar. Christians not only to be of spiritual faith- God” column. Where did they die? No one has a clue, of course, about fulness, but bodily faithfulness as well. Seasonal reflections also are appre- (Pennsylvania) where or when they might have died. They must not allow themselves to fall into ciated. Please include name, address, Catholic authorities in Milan claimed carnal sin. parish and telephone number with sub- We know very to have their bones after these were Instructing the Christian Corinthians in missions. Alittle about these brought to Italy from Constantinople this fact seems for some to be excessive for Send material for consideration to men except that the around the year 500. In 1162, the Holy Paul. However, it should be remembered “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, Gospel of Matthew presents them as Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa that Corinth was known near and far as a P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 the first gentiles to believe in Christ took them to Germany and gave them to virtual capital of lewdness and vice. or e-mail to [email protected]. † (Mt 2:1-12). the archbishop of Cologne. They are still St. John’s Gospel furnishes the last In the New Testament, they are called enshrined in the Cologne Cathedral. sages (in Greek “magoi”) who came Are they genuine? For a variety of rea- apparently from the East to offer gifts to sons, no one can know. That the relics in My Journey to God the Christ child. Cologne are those brought from Milan in The third-century theologian Tertullian the 12th century seems certain. Where was the first to raise the idea that they were they originated, however, and what hap- kings. He called them “almost kings.” pened to them during the thousand years The Call Some centuries later, they were com- before that, no one can say. monly honored as kings, probably based All the above must be considered in It began as a whisper Blowing, it grew to a gust on the passage in Psalm 72, which says of the context of what the Magi passages in Nearly impossible to hear Drawing ever near the Messiah, “The kings of Tarshish and the Gospel were intended to mean. Like soft and soothing air For a message of love the Isles [the far west] will offer gifts; the Did the story happen as it is described Flittering first here Becoming more clear kings of Arabia and Seba [the far south] by Matthew? Then there—“Surrender.” The word from above—“Trust.” shall bring tribute. All kings shall pay him Was it partly made up but based on homage.” some actual journey of Magi to Jerusalem Stronger now, the breath of a man At last, the gale force from the seas, Many passages in the Gospels and around the time of Jesus’ birth? The embrace of a friend, enfold You will bend but not break, other parts of the New Testament find Or is the story totally legendary, The loving shepherd and teacher If you but follow My Will their roots in prophetic writings of the intended to call attention to the fulfillment The path of life behold I have called for your sake. Old Testament. of the prophecies referred to by Matthew? From my brother—“I have a plan.” Rebuked winds, “Quiet! Be still! … The Bible says nothing about how Any of these understandings is com- Peace.” many there were. The numbers fluctuated patible with the Catholic understanding of Rapidly rising, more severe, greatly, but eventually there were said to the meaning and divine inspiration of the I will lead you by the hand. By Jeremy M. Gries be three, probably because of the three Bible. Why are you troubled? gifts offered in Bethlehem. Your way to the Promised Land. The names Melchior, Gaspar and (A free brochure describing basic A voice rumbled—“Do not fear.” Balthasar are first mentioned in the sixth Catholic prayers, beliefs and moral pre- century. cepts is available by sending a stamped, (Jeremy Gries is a member of Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in By the Middle Ages, devotion to the self-addressed envelope to Father John Indianapolis and a seminarian for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis at Saint Meinrad Magi was popular all over Europe. They Dietzen, Box 5515, Peoria, IL 61612. Seminary in St. Meinrad. He wrote this poem in the fall of 2003 when he was actively were venerated as saints and their images Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen discerning entering the seminary.) appeared widely in all forms of art. at the same address or by e-mail in care Much later, in the 15th century, artists of [email protected].) † Page 20 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Pope baptizes 10 infants, urges parents to lead them on path of truth

VATICAN CITY dipper over the head of amusement without respon- family of God that carries Pope Benedict (CNS)—Continuing one of each baby as he pronounced sibility, that turns the human within itself the promise of XVI baptizes his predecessor’s favorite the words of baptism. The being into a ‘thing’ instead eternity. It is a company that an infant at traditions, Pope Benedict five girls and five boys were of a person,” he said. will always follow him, even L'Osservatore Romano the Sistine XVI baptized 10 babies and children or grandchildren of The pope said the “yes” in the days of suffering and Chapel at the urged their parents to lead Vatican employees. to life expressed in baptism the dark valleys of life, and CNS photo/ Vatican on them along the path of Afterward, the pontiff was fully experienced by offers him consolation, com- Jan. 8. The truth. smiled in delight as broth- early Christians, including fort and light,” he said. pope baptized In an extemporaneous ers and sisters of the newly those in ancient Rome, who The pope added that, 10 babies, sermon during a Jan. 8 baptized brought him the fought against a similar while “none of us know using the Mass, the pope said baptism offertory gifts. “anti-culture of death” in what will happen to our occasion to today carries with it the Instead of pronouncing their pagan society. planet or our Europe in the launch an responsibility to fight his prepared text, the pope “It involved a ‘no’ to the next 50 or 60 years,” as impassioned against “the largely domi- stood and gave an spectacles where death, cru- Christians they could all be denunciation nant culture of death”—a impromptu sermon on the elty and violence were sure that they belong to the of a “culture culture, he said, that is meaning of baptism. In the entertainment. Think of family of God. of death” that marked by injustice, self- broad sense, he said, the what was done in the The Mass was the he said per- delusion and sexual irre- sacrament is a “yes” to life Colosseum, or here in resumption of an annual tra- vades the sponsibility. and a “no” to the wide- Nero’s gardens, where men dition begun by Pope John modern world. The hour-and-a-half-long spread culture of death. were set on fire like living Paul II in 1980 to mark the Mass at the Sistine Chapel “This anti-culture is seen torches,” he said. feast of the Baptism of the was enlivened by the fre- in drugs, in flight from real- The pope’s reference was Lord. Because of his frailty, quent cries of the infants ity, in self-delusion, in false to accounts of Christians the late pope had to skip the chosen for the papal liturgy. happiness that is manifested being burned alive to light liturgy the last two years of Beneath Michelangelo’s in lies, deceit and injustice. the evening parties thrown his life. famous frescoes of the cre- It is seen in contempt for by the Emperor Nero in his Speaking to tens of thou- ation, mothers used paci- others, contempt for soli- gardens on Vatican Hill. sand of pilgrims afterward fiers and rhythmic rocking darity and contempt for a With baptism, the pope from his apartment window to try to keep their babies sense of responsibility for said, the child is brought above St. Peter’s Square, quiet. the poor and the suffering,” into “a company of friends Pope Benedict said baptism as an adult. baptism and emphasized The pope, standing next he said. that will never abandon was a gift to the infant that He encouraged all that baptism unites mem- to a large marble font, “It is demonstrated in a him, in life or death.” needs to be accepted in a Christians to rediscover the bers of every Christian poured water from a golden sexuality that becomes pure “This company is the “free and responsible” way meaning of their own church and community. † Vatican announces papal Don’t take liturgies VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI’s schedule of public liturgies through April chances with includes a Lenten communal penitential service—a papal first—but no canonization or beatification ceremonies. The Vatican announced the chest pain. pope will preside over a com- munal penance service fol- lowed by private confessions and individual absolution on April 11, the Tuesday of Holy Or where you treat it. Week. The liturgies include: • A Mass for workers on March 19, the feast of St. Joseph, at St. Peter’s Basilica. The St. Francis Cardiac & Vascular • An April 3 memorial St. Francis is the only area hospital to Mass marking the first Care Center is the only full-service earn 2004 awards from both HealthGrades anniversary of the death of and Solucient, or to receive both the 2004 Pope John Paul. In 2006, the heart facility on Indy’s south side. and 2005 HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Awards for Clinical Excellence. anniversary of the pope’s If you are experiencing chest pain, seek death, on April 2, falls on a Sunday, when funeral and immediate help from the right hospital. memorial Masses generally St. Francis is the only hospital on the south are not celebrated. The St. Francis Cardiac & Vascular Care With the exception of the side that offers comprehensive surgical and Center has received 5 stars from HealthGrades for its work with heart attacks penance service, the new medical cardiac and vascular care, and is the for 5 years in a row. They also ranked St. pope’s Holy Week and Francis in the Top 10 in Indiana for Cardiac Easter schedule maintains first Indianapolis-area hospital accredited as Surgery and Cardiac Intervention. papal tradition: Palm Sunday Mass on a Chest Pain Center. Continuing a 20-year • April 9 at St. Peter’s Square. tradition of making every second count with • The chrism Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica on Holy complete, compassionate care. Solucient has named St. Francis one of the Top 100 hospitals in the country. Thursday morning, April 13, and the Mass of the Lord’s Supper in the evening at the Basilica of St. John Lateran. • A Good Friday liturgy at St. Peter’s Basilica and the Way of the Cross service at heart.StFrancisHospitals.org Rome’s Colosseum on April 14. • The Easter Vigil on April 15 at St. Peter’s CARDIAC & VASCULAR Basilica. • Easter morning Mass on CARE CENTER April 16 at St. Peter’s Square followed by the blessing “urbi et orbi,” to the city (Rome) and the world. † The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006 Page 21

fering from mental illness should be treated the same.” Thirty-eight states have the death penalty. Since 1977 LEGISLATURE No matter what happens this session, Bowser said she will when Indiana reinstated it, 16 persons have been executed. continued from page 1 continue to work on this issue. Only three of the 92 persons sentenced to death in Indiana “Before I leave the Senate, I want to rid our state of the received commuted sentences. Gov. Joe Kernan commuted where it should be,” said Sen. Anita Bowser (D-Michigan death penalty altogether. But, for now, I’m doing what I can two death sentences to life in prison without parole. City), author of the bill. to move this issue forward,” she said. Malcolm Lunsford, a permanent deacon from the Gary Senate Bill 66, also authored by Sen. Bowser, establishes a Sen. Richard Bray (R-Martinsville), chairman of the Diocese, works as a volunteer chaplain at the Indiana State procedure to determine whether a person is mentally ill and Senate Judiciary Committee (the legislative panel that both Prison in Michigan City, where he visits, listens to and brings prohibits the imposition of life imprisonment without parole death penalty bills have been assigned and who in part will Communion to those on death row. or the death penalty for a person found to be mentally ill. control what happens to this legislation), said he is not plan- “The death penalty accomplishes nothing,” said Lunsford, Paula Sites, assistant executive director of the Indiana ning to hear either bill this session. who has witnessed one execution. “For some, it may give a Public Defenders Council, said “Senate Bill 66 is based on “We studied the death penalty extensively a few years ago sense of revenge, but not closure. Closure comes only model language drafted by the state Task Force on Mental and in the short session a subject like the death penalty takes a through forgiveness.” Disability and the Death Penalty. lot of time,” said Bray. “Even if we had the time, I don’t think The Indiana Catholic Conference was scheduled to host a “We were not expecting to use this model language until the votes are there to pass it.” program for legislators on Jan. 12 titled “The Costs of the the 2007 General Assembly, but public interest sparked by the Bray, who served as a Morgan County prosecutor for Death Penalty.” Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, Holy Arthur Baird clemency campaign encouraged us to begin our 12 years, said he has “a lot of confidence in Indiana’s judicial Cross Father Tom McNally and Lunsford were to be the fea- efforts a year early,” Sites said. system.” He said he supports the death penalty as do the tured speakers. Gov. Mitch Daniels recently commuted the death sentence majority of people he represents. For more information about the Indiana Catholic of Baird to life in prison without parole. With regard to persons who are mentally ill, Bray said Conference and its legislative updates, log on to Kathy Bayes, National Alliance of the Mentally Ill (NAMI), he agrees they should not be executed, but added “deter- www.indianacc.org. Fort Wayne Chapter, said, “Our goal is to limit very carefully mining a criterion for mental illness is difficult because it’s the definition to be used in the change in state law to apply so subjective.” (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for The Criterion.) † only to persons suffering from serious mental illness at the time of the crime.” Bowser, a longtime advocate to end the death penalty, said “the mood of the House and Senate are not favorable to abol- ish the death penalty at this time, but I think we can move on some aspects of the death penalty. “Persons who are mentally ill should not receive a death sentence,” said Bowser. “The U.S. Supreme Court has out- lawed executing minors and the mentally retarded. Those suf-

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Great-grandmother of 15. St. Isidore, Bristow, Dec. 14. HART, Margaret E. Mother of Barbara Basham, Benedictine Father Kevin Ryan was (O’Leary), 88, St. Mary, Mary Alice Heichelbech, David a teacher, administrator and pastor Greensburg, Dec. 27. Mother of Jones and Bob Sutton. Grand- Rest in peace Marlys Keeling, Janice Sandlin, mother of nine. Great-grand- Benedictine Father Kevin Meinrad’s former Minor Kay Wiley and Wayne O’Leary. mother of 13. Great-great- Ryan, a monk and priest of Seminary, which he served as grandmother of one. Please submit in writing to our St. Mary, Greensburg, Jan. 1. Sister of Dorothy Guild. Grand- Saint Meinrad Archabbey in vice rector and rector. He also office by 10 a.m. Thursday Mother of William Patterson. mother of 11. Great-grand- KESTERMAN, Leo B., 91, St. Meinrad, died on Dec. 26 at taught physics at Saint Meinrad mother of 14. Great-great- St. Peter, Brookville, Dec. 17. the monastery infirmary. He College. before the week of publication; COFFMAN, Geneva Ann, 57, grandmother of one. Husband of Evelyn Kesterman. was 89. For many years, he also be sure to state date of death. St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, Obituaries of archdiocesan HELLMICH, Donald G., 68, Uncle of several. The Mass of Christian Burial served as a ham radio operator. Dec. 22. Wife of Samuel was celebrated on Dec. 30 at the When the high school priests serving our archdiocese Coffman. Mother of Monica St. Mary, Greensburg, Dec. 26. KOEBERLEIN, Helen are listed elsewhere in The Husband of Frieda M. Kramer. Barbara, 89, St. Joseph, Archabbey Church. Burial fol- closed, Father Kevin served Connerly, Lucy and Patrick lowed at the Archabbey eight years as chaplain for the Criterion. Order priests and Coffman. Sister of Norma Father of Daniel, David and Indianapolis, Dec. 24. Sister of religious sisters and brothers Phillip Hellmich. Brother of Marcella Stenger, Clarence and Cemetery. sisters at Monastery Beard, Janet Boze, Donna Father Ryan was a jubilarian Immaculate Conception in are included here, unless they Ruth Ann Bishop, Shirley Gang James Koeberlein. Christopher, Paula Graden, of profession and priesthood. Ferdinand, Ind. are natives of the archdiocese and Charles Hellmich. Grand- Gloria Klutzke, Trish Logon LEISURE, Carole A., He participated in the Rush Father Kevin also served as or have other connections to it; and Jody Watson. father of four. St. Gabriel, Indianapolis, those are separate obituaries Religious Study on Aging and associate pastor of St. Meinrad HEMMELGARN, George Nov. 27. Mother of Joni Alzheimer’s. Parish in St. Meinrad and on this page. DAVIS, Emma Margaret, 90, Prince of Peace, Madison, Edward, 74, Holy Name, Heimlich, Julie Jackson and The former James Thomas administrator of St. Isidore ALLARD, Jr., Jeffery D., 28, Dec. 17. Mother of Nancy Beech Grove, Dec. 4. Husband Stuart Baker. Sister of Joan Ryan was born on April 9, Parish in Bristow. St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, McDonald and Mary Anne of Sue (Toner) Hemmelgarn. Young. Grandmother of five. 1916, in Evansville, Ind. In In Jonesboro, Ark., Father Dec. 18. Son of Debra Allard. Potter. Sister of Daniel and Father of Karen Garr and MANWANI, Ivaneide P., 53, 1930, he enrolled at Saint Kevin ministered as the chap- Brother of Melissa Allard and Robert Claflin. Grandmother of Timothy Hemmelgarn. Brother St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, Meinrad Seminary as a high lain at Holy Angels Convent Jeanne Clark. Grandson of one. Great-grandmother of one. of Helen Andrews and Dec. 16. Wife of Ghansham M. school freshman. and St. Bernard Medical Center. Leah Allard and Margaret Rosemary Cox. Grandfather of Manwani. Mother of Arjan, He was invested as a novice He also served as chaplain at DeLUCIO, Nicholas, 91, Woolsey. five. Great-grandfather of one. Rajan and Shalimar Manwani. in 1936, professed his simple St. Paul Hermitage in Beech St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 16. Daugher of Raimundo deSouza vows on Aug. 6, 1937, and was Grove. BANET, Daniel, 54, St. Mary- Father of Loretta DeLucio, HETTINGER, Stanley and Joana Ermida Nunes ordained to the priesthood on His most recent assignment of-the-Knobs, Floyds Knobs, Nickie Ross and Rose Suveges. Charles, 81, St. Augustine, Penha. Grandmother of one. May 26, 1942. was in Montana, where he Dec. 28. Brother of Charlene, Brother of Antoinette Norman, Jeffersonville, Dec. 17. Laverne, Damon, Daryl, Duane, Husband of Sylvia (Shipp) MARTIN, Robert, 78, Following his ordination, served at several parishes. Virginia Perri, Phyllis Father Kevin earned a master’s Surviving are one brother, Jerry and Stephen Banet. Sheppard, Sue Stallings, John, Hettinger. Father of Jacqueline St. Gabriel, Indianapolis, Vise, C. Michael and Gary Dec. 13. Husband of Joann degree in physics at The Patrick Ryan, who lives in BARHORST, Helen Paul, Raymond and Robert Catholic University of America California; and two sisters, (Benham), 91, St. Mary, DeLucio. Grandfather of four. Hettinger. Grandfather of five. (Edwards) Martin. Father of Angela Stewart and Jeff Martin. in Washington, D.C. He later Kathleen Schmitt, who also Greensburg, Dec. 22. Mother of Great-grandfather of one. HIRSCHAUER, Paul J., 86, attended Indiana State lives in California, and Mary Patsy Ahrens, Ethel Borneman, St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Grandfather of three. Great- HALEY, Jane Carol (Greiwe), grandfather of two. University in Terre Haute, Adele Schuler of Louisville, Nellie Pfeister, Kathy Reece, 58, St. Mary, Greensburg, Dec. 21. Father of Judy Dover, where he received a master’s Ky. Ollie Thomas and Richard Jan. 1. Wife of William Haley. Phyllis Gehrich, Teresa, Francis MASTEN, Donald M., 78, degree in guidance and admin- Memorial gifts may be sent Benham. Sister of Richard Mother of Christine Pyle and and Mike Hirschauer. Brother St. Michael the Archangel, istration. to Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Powers. Grandmother of 15. Lora Haley. Sister of Rosemary of Mary Agnes McDermott. Indianapolis, Dec.25. Husband Father Kevin was a teacher 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN Great-grandmother of 30. Collins, Janet Einhaus, Patricia Grandfather of six. Great- of Azalee Masten. Father of and administrator at Saint 47577. † Great-great-grandmother of 12. Lowry, Betty Sample, David, grandfather of eight. Step-great- Donald Masten II and Tim BOSLEY, Dorothy Hazel Mike and Thomas Greiwe. grandfather of two. Masten. Stepfather of Brent (Hinds), 83, St. Simon the IVANCIC, Mary, 88, Landers, Trish Riley, Lois Benedictine Father Malachy Fulton HALLORAN, Rosemary C., Vining, Joy, Jim and Mike Apostle, Indianapolis, Dec. 14. 95, Holy Name, Beech Grove, St. Michael the Archangel, served in Evansville and Indianapolis Mother of Judy England, Indianapolis, Dec. 21. Mother Barley. Grandfather of 13. Nov. 28. Mother of Kathleen Great-grandfather of 15. Debbie Green, Sandra Smith, Frederick, Patricia Kippen- of Frank and Richard Ivancic. Benedictine Father Malachy Parish (now Cathedral) in MERKEL, Urban John, Theresa Stokes, Linda, Doug, brock, Barry, Kevin, Michael Grandmother of four. Great- 84, Fulton, a monk and priest of Evansville, Ind., and St. Mary St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 19. Parish in Huntingburg, Ind. For Mike and Steve Bosley. and Thomas Halloran. grandmother of two. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, died Husband of Helen (Haag) seven years, he was pastor of BRYAN, Mary E., 65, Grandmother of 15. JONES, Barbara, 93, on Dec. 28 at the monastery Merkel. Father of Rosemary infirmary. He was 91, and was a Mary Help of Christians Parish Gravelie, Frederick, John, jubilarian of profession and in Mariah Hill, Ind. Michael and William Merkel. priesthood. In 1967, he began a nearly Brother of Loretta Bedel, The Mass of Christian 20-year assignment as pastor Edward and Martin Merkel. Burial was celebrated on of St. Anthony Parish in Grandfather of 14. Dec. 31 at the Archabbey St. Anthony, Ind. METZGER, Matt, 81, Sacred Church. Burial followed at the For two years, he served as Heart, Jeffersonville, Dec. 13. Archabbey Cemetery. resident chaplain for the Husband of Mary Metzger. The former Edward Fulton Benedictine sisters of Our Father of Susan Johnson, was born on Sept. 28, 1914, in Lady of Grace Monastery in Jennifer Smith, David, Phillip New York. He graduated from Beech Grove. A quarter cen- and Rick Metzger. Brother of Cathedral College Preparatory tury later, he returned to Beech Helen Pashich. Grandfather of Seminary in New York in 1934 Grove as chaplain for the resi- five. then enrolled at Saint Meinrad dents of St. Paul Hermitage for Seminary. three years. MILLER, Edna, 78, St. Paul, He was invested as a novice Father Malachy returned to New Alsace, Dec. 10. Mother in 1936, professed his simple Saint Meinrad in 1989, and of Sharon Shackelford, Jayne vows on Aug. 6, 1937, and was ministered in short-term pas- Weber, Marlene Wullenweber, ordained to the priesthood on toral assignments whenever he Donnie, Eddie and Mike Miller. June 5, 1943. was able. Grandmother of 14. Great- For many years, Father Memorial gifts may be sent grandmother of four. Malachy served in the to Saint Meinrad Archabbey, PENNO, Mary Helen, 78, Evansville Diocese, first as 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN St. Michael the Archangel, associate pastor of St. Benedict 47577. † Indianapolis, Dec. 20. Wife of Robert T. 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In the résumé and three professional references, your closet, 2005 list, Fides included a priest killed in Russia and one should be submitted to: killed in Belgium. Although they were not working in mis- garage or sion territories, the Belgian, Father Robert De Leener, was Sr. Therese Gillman, OSF, Oldenburg Academy included because of his work with immigrants; Slovakian President, PO Box 200, Oldenburg, Indiana 47036. attic. Father Jan Hermanovski was included because of his work E-mail: [email protected] with the homeless in Russia. “The list includes not only Oldenburg Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer. missionaries in the strict sense, but all Church personnel Call or e-mail Dana 236-1575 killed in a violent way or who sacrificed their lives aware or [email protected] of the risks they ran by not abandoning their commitment,” the agency said. † Page 24 The Criterion Friday, January 13, 2006

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Featured Speakers You are invited to spend an evening Linda Bamrick–State Championship Girls’ with state championship coaches from Basketball Coach, Cathedral High School the Indianapolis Catholic high schools to Jim Boswell–State Championship Football Coach, learn the art of building a champion. Cardinal Ritter High School Ott Hurrle–State Championship Football Coach, Becoming a champion is much more Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School than winning the final game of the Leo Klemm–State Championship Boys’ Basketball season. Six Catholic high school state Coach, Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory High School champion coaches will detail their Bruce Scifres–State Championship Football Coach, processes for building a champion. Roncalli High School Funds raised benefit the Jill Starliper–State Championship Volleyball Coach, Catholic Youth Organization. Bishop Chatard High School

Ticket Information: Contact Rick Wagner at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Phone: 545-7681 • E-mail: [email protected] • www.cyoarchindy.org