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After a hard-fought game earlier this season, Cardinal Ritter High School’s head football coach, Ty Hunt, speaks to the Raiders players. Fall tradition bonds families, generations By John Shaughnessy to share his or her thoughts and memories about the spirit of Catholic high school football. Together, they offer a Just mention Chatard against look at a tradition where faith, family and football are Cathedral in football and pulses quicken. intertwined. Eyes also burn with passion when Scecina faces Roncalli, Roncalli plays Living the dream Cathedral, Providence lines up against Paul Corsaro grew up hearing the stories of how his Ritter and Brebeuf takes on Scecina. grandfather was a star football player at Sacred Heart Catholic high school football rivalries in the High School in Indianapolis. He grew up listening to archdiocese are the equivalent of one-on-one back- people tell him how terrific his father was when he yard basketball games between brothers. played football at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. No one wants to back down. No one wants to He grew up dreaming that one day he would put on a give an inch. Everyone wants to walk away with varsity football uniform and run on the field as a starter. bragging rights. That moment came on an August night in 2005 when And yet, like brothers, the fierce rivalries are also Paul started at quarterback for the Roncalli Rebels. marked by the bonds that connect—the same faith, “That day at school, and the whole night before, I Roncalli the same commitment, the same discipline and even can’t remember anticipating anything like that before in quarter- the same respect. my whole life,” recalls Paul, 17, now a senior at back Paul Put those qualities together, and they form the Roncalli. “When you grow up on the south side and go to Corsaro foundation for what could be called “the spirit of all the games, putting on that uniform is something you continues Catholic high school football.” dream about. It’s an honor. a family For anyone who has ever played or coached “It’s something the entire team knows. We feel we’re tradition of football for a Catholic high school team in the not only playing for ourselves, but for everyone before Catholic archdiocese, and for anyone who has ever cheered us. All the alumni are in the stands, watching us during a football. and agonized for one of those teams, you know the game. They feel a loss just as bad as we do.” feeling, you have your stories. Roncalli’s starting quarterback senses that players at

Photo by Mike Delaney One person from each of the seven Catholic high other Catholic high schools in the archdiocese share a schools in the archdiocese that play football was asked See TRADITION, page 2 Six schools named Blue Ribbon Schools of Excellence

By John Shaughnessy In the past four years, 21 different D. C., it becomes a hot topic. ‘What do schools in the archdiocese have earned the you do?’ they ask.” Continuing its record-setting achieve- Blue Ribbon distinction. No other diocese She said she tells them, “We encour- ment, the archdiocese had six schools in the United States has matched that age, support, affirm and offer resources.” named recently as distinction. Lentz also noted that the archdiocese’s Blue Ribbon The six schools are among the past success helps to fuel its current Schools of 250 schools honored nationally by the success. Excellence by the No Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon “I feel schools are focusing on their U.S. Department Schools program. The archdiocesan success and performance, becoming high of Education. schools accounted for almost half of the performing schools,” she said. “We at the The six schools total 14 schools recognized in Indiana. One Office of Catholic Education emphasize earning that honor other Catholic school in Indiana—St. Jude its importance to the school community this year are Christ School in Fort Wayne—was also honored. and its marketing efforts. We also con- the King School in “We are thrilled and proud of these nect them with previous recipients for Indianapolis, Father Shawe accomplishments,” said Annette “Mickey” assistance.” Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison, Lentz, executive director of Catholic edu- Catholic schools are nominated for the St. Bartholomew School in Columbus, cation for the archdiocese. “It is a great award by the Council for American St. Lawrence School in Indianapolis, tribute to our education system. The arch- Private Education. Blue Ribbon schools St. Lawrence School in Lawrenceburg and diocese is nationally recognized by these are then chosen based upon the following St. Monica School in Indianapolis. phenomenal numbers. When I travel to See EXCELLENCE, page 7 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006

Communion, Stubbs starts TRADITION leading the singing again. continued from page 1 After the blessing, the coach gives them a talk. It’s as spiri- Photo by Kelly Lucas similar feeling. tual as it is inspirational. “If I had to pick two games to win all year, it would be Jimmy O’Hara [Cathedral’s Chatard and Cathedral,” Paul says. “You know they’re going head coach] does a good .” to be the hardest-hitting games all year. You know those are Sports are part of the going to be hard games. We get noticeably bigger crowds for Catholic holistic approach to those two games. You know you want to step it up even life that emphasizes the need more.” for a healthy body and a healthy mind, says Father A mother’s pain and joy Munshower. He also sees the As a mother sitting in the stands, Lee Ann Smith has had important connection that to endure the excruciating moments when one of her football- sports offer to families. playing sons was hit so hard that she just begged God to let “I’m convinced that athlet- him get up, to let him be healthy. ics is a very important part of “I had a rule, especially with my son, Alex,” she says. “He kids’ formation,” he says. would lay on the ground like he was dead. I told him, ‘If “And the family is very you’re not dead, if your neck’s not broken, get up.’ ” much involved in the holistic The Bishop Chatard Trojans battled the Cathedral Irish in an intense, emotional game at the RCA Dome The pain and violence of football is incredibly hard on the approach. There’s the whole in Indianapolis this year. mothers of players, Smith says, but she also knows the bene- family tradition that supports fits of the sport from having watched her three sons—Dan, us, supports our faith, supports our religion. Family and sports Rodney and Alex Byrnes—play at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High go together. Sports are a bonding mechanism. Football bonds School in Indianapolis. families and generations.” She saw some of her sons’ teams win only one game in a season. She also watched one of her son’s team win a state Following in his father’s footsteps championship in 2003. As a high school football player, K.C. Leffler always knew “There’s nothing like Friday night high school football,” the games against rival Catholic high schools would be the she says. “It was the best experience as a parent. It’s exciting. toughest battles of the season.

It’s heartbreaking. Alex was a quarterback, and Rodney “We knew we were going to be matched up against teams Photo courtesy of Our Lady Providence High School was a running back, and Dan was on the bench until he was that have the same type of education, the same type of beliefs a senior. So I know what that felt like, too. and the same type of discipline,” recalls Leffler, a 1987 grad- “I loved the bonding part. In the hard work and discipline uate of Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School in that comes from high school football, there comes tremendous Indianapolis. bonding. It was not just with their teammates, but the people So when Leffler watched Scecina win its first state football they played against, too.” championship in 1990, he was struck by the number of Catholics from rival Catholic schools who came to cheer for On holy ground Scecina. The weather was unseasonably warm on that memorable He also thought of the one person who he wished could late November day when a Bishop Chatard High School foot- have joined in the celebration—his late father, Ken Leffler, ball team would play for one of its seven state championships. Scecina’s former head coach. Early that morning, as the team met for breakfast, assistant For 26 years, Ken Leffler had coached football at Scecina. coach Kevin Shine walked alone toward the practice field and In fact, K.C. was born when his father was coaching. He grew sat on a bench. Looking across the field, he could see streaks up on the sidelines while his dad coached. He also played at of sunshine mixing with the early morning fog. Scecina for his father. “In that moment, it was holy ground for me,” recalls Shine, Now, K.C. is in his 13th year of coaching at Scecina, fol- a 1973 graduate who played football at Chatard and has lowing in his father’s footsteps in more ways than one. coached at the Indianapolis school for 27 years. “I thought of “Many of the athletes who he coached will tell you that all the kids through the years who played and practiced on they took far more than just the game of football from their The connection of faith and football in Catholic schools is displayed in that field, who had dreams and learned lessons on that field. It experience with my father,” K.C. says. “I believe that this is a player’s locker at Our Lady of Providence High School in Clarksville. was kind of a holy place for me.” one of the most rewarding and telling positives of Catholic Later that day, Shine would stand on that field and smile as high school football. The biggest rewards are the results, as approach has made on the three of his four sons who have he watched the players on that Chatard team continue their exemplified in individuals who have succeeded after high played football at Providence. celebration of the state championship they won at the school football.” “The best part is that the values they’re getting in being RCA Dome in Indianapolis. That’s the reason K.C. still coaches, assisting head coach part of the football program are the same ones they’re getting “I always believe there are reasons why we’re successful Ott Hurrle, who was an assistant to K.C.’s father. Thanks to at home—the work ethic, the team element, the sportsman- every year,” he says. “The first is CYO [Catholic Youth his wife, Kristen, K.C. finds time to coach even though he’s ship and the respect of each other as well as their elders.” Organization]. When we get a kid, they know the basics the father of six young children—including two sets of twins. because they’ve had tutoring from people who have played “Playing football was instrumental in the development of In the blood Catholic football. It’s like a torch that’s being passed on. my life,” he says. “I’m just trying to give back.” Steve Underhill started coaching football at Brebeuf Jesuit “The second reason is our long-standing tradition, and that Preparatory School in Indianapolis in 1992—the same year there’s a certain amount of work that’s expected when you’re Kneeling down, rising up his son, Marc, began playing for Brebeuf. Fifteen seasons part of a tradition. The coaches buy into it. The players buy The answer comes quickly when Mickey Golembeski is later, Underhill continues coaching because he loves the game into it, and the parents buy into it. It all begins at home.” asked his favorite memory of Catholic high school football. and the sense of family it gives him. “My favorite memory happens every week—win, lose or “At Catholic schools, the football team is not really a team, Faith and family draw—at the end of the game,” says the athletic director of it’s a family,” Underhill says. “My kids are grown and mar- The ritual is the same a few hours before every Friday Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High School in Clarksville. ried. I think of the Brebeuf kids as my kids. I really feel I get evening game. The players on the Cathedral High School “The team gets together in the middle of the field, on one more out of it than the kids. You get so much out of watching football team dress in their uniforms and walk together from knee, with their helmets off, giving thanks to our God.” kids excel. their Indianapolis school to nearby Our Lady of Fatima The moment of prayer reflects the philosophy that “I think you can learn more on a football field than in a Retreat House for Mass. Providence administrators and head football coach Gene classroom. Now, the classroom is absolutely essential, but on On those walks to Fatima this year, running back William Sartini have established for the school and its teams in the football field you learn teamwork, you learn how to deal Stubbs has led the Cathedral team in a hymn to Jesus, accord- southern Indiana. with things when they don’t go right, you learn how to pick ing to the team’s chaplain, Father William Munshower. “One of the biggest things we promote here is, ‘Faith first, each other up. Mass is a pre-game tradition for the Catholic schools that family second and football third,’ ” Golembeski says. “We “There’s a lot of camaraderie, too. You respect the people play football. believe that so strongly that we have a 30-foot sign in our on the other team. You want to rip each other’s heads off dur- “The Masses are beautiful,” says Father Munshower, a locker room that says exactly that.” ing the game, but you pat each other on the back after it. 1950 graduate of Cathedral. “I give a short homily. During As a father, Golembeski has seen the difference that “Football is just in the blood in Catholic schools.” †

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By Mary Ann Wyand St. Mary parishioners Norberto and Maria A Hispanic couple from St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis Aguayo of Indian- and a teenage girl from St. Lawrence Parish in Lawrence- apolis are the burg are the 2006 recipients of Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann recipients of the 2006 archdiocesan pro-life awards for Archbishop O’Meara distinguished service to the cause Respect Life Award for of life. distinguished service Msgr. F. Schaedel, vicar to the cause of life. general, will present the They emigrated from Archbishop O’Meara Respect Life Mexico in 1997. Award to Norberto and Maria Aguayo and the Our Lady of Guadalupe Pro-Life Youth Award to Claire Stange during the archdiocesan Respect Life Mass at Claire Stange 1 p.m. on Oct. 1 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Father Scott Nobbe, who was ordained on June 24, is the celebrant for the bilingual pro-life Mass, which is open to the public. He serves as executive assistant to Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and liaison for Hispanic ministry in the archdiocese. The Aguayos were active in the Church’s pro-life ministry in Guadalajara, Mexico, where they taught Natural Family Planning classes, presented a “Responsible Parenthood and Respect for Life” program, and helped with youth ministry activities in the diocese. “Our family was an important part of the apostolate to support life and [to] organize and provide programs [in Guadalajara],” they explained. “We organized a Mothers” support group for single mothers. life so much. I really enjoy helping children.” march in the center of the city called ‘The March of St. Lawrence parishioner Claire Stange of Lawrence- Claire has participated in the national March for Life Silence’ in honor of our brothers and sisters that died burg, the recipient of this year’s pro-life youth award, is a and Pro-Life Mass in Washington three times with her through … abortions.” home-schooled senior who plans to study occupational family. The Aguayos have four children and seven therapy in college. “We go every year,” she said. “It’s really an awesome grandchildren. They are members of the Catholic Family The daughter of Larry and Susan Stange, she is the experience going there, seeing all the people marching to Movement. fourth child in a family of 11 children. The Stange family defend the lives of [unborn] babies, … fighting for what After moving to Indianapolis in 1997, they became is active in Presentation Ministries, a Catholic lay ministry these children can’t do themselves. It’s really a touching active in pro-life ministry with Hispanics at St. Patrick group based in Cincinnati. experience.” and St. Mary parishes. “I want to work with children with special needs,” Claire said her faith has inspired her to work for the They teach Natural Family Planning classes, counsel Claire explained. “That is my greatest wish.” cause of life. expectant mothers to choose life for their babies as She helps her parents care for her younger siblings, “My faith has been my pillar to lean against, and it’s sidewalk counselors outside abortion clinics, and including 9-year-old and 4-year-old John, who really helped me when I go out and defend pro-life participate in the archdiocesan Helpers of God’s Precious have Fragile X Syndrome, which causes cognitive [issues],” she said. “I know the truth of the faith, and it Infants monthly pro-life Mass and prayer ministry. disabilities. helps me to know what’s morally right and to be able to Father Michael O’Mara, pastor of St. Mary Parish, St. Lawrence parishioner Roseann Lampert of see the evils of abortion and euthanasia. … Pro-life [work] nominated the Aguayos for their “steadfast [work] in Lawrenceburg, co-chair of the parish pro-life committee, has strengthened my faith all the more.” promoting the sanctity of life from conception to natural nominated Claire for the pro-life youth award. Claire participates in Mass every day with her family death.” “She has volunteered at the parish office, assisting and has invited two teenagers to join the . “From the pro-life group we were forming [for the secretary for four years,” Lampert said, “and One girl is participating in the Rite of Christian Initiation Hispanics], we conducted two symposiums for youth with frequently helps a neighborhood family by baby-sitting of Adults program and the other girl joined the Church the pro-life theme,” the Aguayos explained. “We are for their 6-year-old son, who is in a persistent vegetative during the Easter Vigil on April 15. giving programs on [human sexuality from a Christian state from a near-drowning accident three years ago.” “The Eucharist is the base of my whole life,” Claire perspective] for youth and adolescents that include talks “Life is everything to me,” Claire said. “I feel so said. “I’ve built my life upon it. My parents raised me to and parish retreats. We have programs of ‘Responsible blessed that my parents were open to life, and they have love my faith, and to be bold enough to go out and share Parenthood’ that teach the Billings Method [of Natural raised me the same way. What a gift my brothers and it. That has given me the confidence to be able to share Family Planning] to couples.” sisters have been to me. It’s really made me who I am my faith and values. I would encourage people to stand up They also participate in and promote the annual Central today because I have such a love for children and I respect and truly share what they believe with others.” † Indiana Life Chain on Respect Life Sunday, which begins at 2:30 p.m. this year on North Meridian Street. The Aguayos also collaborate with the Justice Coalition for Immigrants, coordinate a Christian Family Movement This is your group for 90 Hispanic families, present Marriage personal invitation! 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OPINION Be Our Guest/Darlene Davis New Mass response makes faithful more aware of responsibilities Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher In response to the letter “Mass have you come under my roof,” however, Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus translation shows Vatican needs to are much broader. What is under my roof? reprioritize its agenda” in the Sept. 15 The answer is my family, my job, those I issue of The Criterion, I applaud the author associate with, all that I do and say, my for her great concern for social justice. whole life—including the way I live out Editorial Her concern for the poor was most the social teachings of the Church. evident in the letter, and the frustration she Why am I not worthy to have the Lord feels that not enough is being done for the come under that roof? Could it be that I am poor is shared with all faithful Catholics, not so concerned about either social justice including the ones who head up the various or worship under my roof? Could it be that congregations at the Vatican. there are ways in which I could live my The Congregation for Divine Worship Catholic life more fully under my own and the Discipline of the Sacraments has a roof? How’s my prayer life or the CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy primary job to regulate the way we catechesis of the children I am responsible worship as a whole Church. for? Am I doing all I can to live an Contrary to the author’s claims, I authentic Catholic life under the lordship believe this congregation does have a heart of Jesus? With whom do I share the Good for social justice. In fact, they may have News? had that in mind when they were revising Could it be that the confession, “Lord, I the translation of the Mass prayers am not worthy that you should enter under highlighted by the author in changing the my roof” will lead me to contemplate these words “Lord, I am not worthy to receive and other questions, and be converted to you” to “Lord, I am not worthy that you more social justice, more fervent worship, should enter under my roof.” more evangelization of those around me? There is an old but true cliché that goes I personally see great wisdom in this “charity begins at home.” “Lord, I am not new response for Mass. I believe it could worthy to receive you” is a wonderful make the faithful more, not less, aware of confession, but these words are rather the richness of our responsibilities in being Young pro-life activists join hands while praying the Our Father during Mass at the narrow. They focus on me alone as we Catholic Christians in today’s world. Basilica of the National Shrine of the in Washington on Jan. 22. approach the most communal moment in The celebration was part of the National Prayer Vigil for Life held on the eve of the annual the Mass. (Darlene Davis is a member of St. Michael March for Life. The words “Lord, I am not worthy to Parish in Greenfield.) † Respecting all life from Letters to the Editor Give bishops the freedom immigrants. European immigration into to do their jobs well the Americas just about wiped out the generation to generation continent’s native population. Anatolia Should we all stop what we are doing was Greek before Turkmen tribes o one ever said it would be easy. It causes—not only this month, but every professionally and as Church so we can transformed it into what it is today: Nwasn’t easy for our parents. Or day. focus full attention on the crisis of our Turkey. grandparents. Or great-grandparents. At The Indiana Catholic Conference, times? Should interest in normal life events In the first century B.C., France was not least that’s what we hear. the Church’s public policy voice in cease? French but Celtic. Ancient China was a So why should it be any different for Indiana for state and national matters, Isn’t that what some are expecting of heterogeneous conglomerate of various our generation? is encouraging parishes and individuals bishops and log complaints at them peoples before it became, well, China. And in this case, it goes beyond the to focus on the death penalty. because they are continuing to perform Chinese immigration into the province of “you wouldn’t believe how hard I had it There have been six executions in their duties in the area of liturgical reform? Xinjiang transforms this huge piece of land when I was growing up” that we Indiana in the past 18 months, and ICC Let’s not be so narrow in our from Turkish-speaking into Chinese- occasionally hear from a parent or other initiated in August a pro-life education understanding of the role of Church speaking. loved ones. campaign, “The Death Penalty: No leaders. One could easily increase the list of Walking miles to school each Justice, No Healing, No Closure,” Yes, they have the responsibility of similar cases. For the classes I taught at morning—sometimes in knee-deep which supports the U.S. bishops’ leading us in worship. They, like the rest Indiana University, I even created a new snow in the dead of winter? No ongoing efforts to educate people about of us, have multiple responsibilities. word: “to out-baby” the local population. problem. the inhumanity of the death penalty. Check out the U.S. Conference of In our own Midwest, the French were Working a job or two in high school Abortion and assisted suicide Catholic Bishops’ Web site to see what “out baby-ed” by the English speakers. so you could afford car insurance, earn continue to be at the forefront of your bishops are up to. There is the social Assimilation into the main national body gas money and have spare cash for the society as well. Families can also take justice campaign, “Faithful Citizenship,” happens only if the quantity of latest fashions or that big date? No time to recite the rosary together, migrants and refugees concerns, immigrants is small when compared to sweat. praying for respect for all human life ecumenical affairs, pro-life ministries, the local population. As we get older, we realize there is from conception until natural death. cultural diversity, family and youth I have no quarrel with immigrants; I more to life than transportation, fashion During October, as part of their ministries, catechetics, education and myself am one of them. But if the Latino and that first crush. Respect Life Month activities, formation, evangelization and yes— immigration continues at the present rate, Ask recent generations, and they’ll individuals can fast and abstain from liturgy! the U.S. will become Spanish-speaking. confirm there are some common meat on Fridays, too. Hopefully, we are all praying for a Supermarkets in Bloomington (among denominators in life, among them how If we are to change hearts around us, resolution to war and terror, but at the same all places!) carry notices in Spanish; the hard it is to be a Catholic and a person we must be examples of Christ’s time we continue to do our work, love our U.S. is becoming bilingual. of faith who professes, and is called to message of respecting all human life in families and perform our duties for our Whether this is “bad” or “good,” a uphold, a consistent ethic of life. action. Church and communities. “threat” or just a fact of life, it is not for In a society and culture becoming And as people of faith, we know it Let’s give the bishops the same freedom me to argue in this letter. more secularized by the minute, all begins with prayer. to do their jobs well. They need our support Professor Denis Sinor, Bloomington wearing our faith on our sleeve is by no We encourage all Christians to take and prayers, not our nitpicking. means an easy thing to do. to heart the words our late Holy Father, Nancy Fahringer, Guilford ‘Under my roof’ is a As Catholics, that means standing up Pope John Paul II, shared in St. Louis special place within us against violence in every form: during his final pastoral visit to the Reader: Migration editorial abortion, euthanasia, assisted suicide, United States in 1999: “The new As I read the “Letter to the Editor” in war and all conditions that undermine evangelization calls us to be uncondi- has some serious flaws the Sept. 15 issue of The Criterion about the dignity of life. Those conditions tionally pro-life: We will proclaim and I am an avid reader of John F. Fink’s the (forthcoming) change of wording at include poverty, racism, hunger and celebrate and serve the Gospel of Life writings and usually share his views. the celebration of Mass, from “Lord, I am endemic diseases. And that list could in every situation.” However, his editorial on “Migration and not worthy to receive you” to “Lord, I am go on and on. Whether we’re seniors, baby Assimilation” has some serious flaws. not worthy that thou should enter under October is upon us, which means boomers or from Generation X or Y, we My first point is that I notice that Fink my roof,” it came to me that the person Catholics around the world are must consistently tell ourselves that considers it a “threat that Muslims will writing didn’t fully understand the observing Respect Life Month. And in standing up for life won’t be easy. become dominant throughout Europe.” meaning of “under my roof.” the process, hopefully, making some Nothing worth fighting for is, we’ve Why “threat”? Are not all humans It doesn’t mean taking Jesus home to noteworthy statements where life issues been told time and time again. equal? He concedes that there is no such your house. It means taking Jesus into the are concerned. (See our special Respect Every human life, born and unborn, “threat” in our country, “where even most home of yourself—your body, your mind, Life Supplement, pages 9-12.) is made in the image and likeness of Muslims assimilate into our culture.” Fink your heart, your soul—into the special While thousands will participate in God. That’s something all generations is, of course, right. They do assimilate place within us. the Life Chains that will take place have been taught. because they are few in number, and their It is a most personal and private place across the state of Indiana on Oct. 1, entry is severely limited. where he can minister to us and, through there are other ways to promote life — Mike Krokos My second point is that assimilation us, to others. depends on the quantity of the Lorene Brancamp, Greensburg The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Page 5

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

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Jesus set the precedent where respect life issues are concerned

n Oct. 1, we observe Respect Life an argument in a street fight, no matter the proposals run from “throw them all out” to welfare. They pay taxes and consume Sunday. We persist in doing so details, lacks a fundamental respect for “give them all green cards.” goods and services that are vital to the Oyear after year. We can never human life. Recently, an attorney who practices U.S. economy. concede the struggle to promote a culture For many, that analysis may sound too immigration law, Thomas Roach, • Illegal aliens should apply to legally of life. philosophical, but it would be hard to deny addressed five common myths about our come to work in the United States. True, We speak for the right to life of the its truth. Human life becomes dispensable immigrants (National Catholic Register, but it is impossible. The present system for voiceless unborn and the right to life of when it is just one more commodity that Sept. 3, 2006, issue). They included: employment-based immigration allows those who cannot care for themselves in can be discarded or terminated in the heat • Illegal immigrants take American only 10,000 low-skill green cards per year the nighttime of life. And there is much of anger or in a drugged or drunken state. jobs. Not true, they work in jobs for the entire United States. It is a paradox: more than a right to life at both ends of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta once Americans do not want. Their jobs are The U.S. needs workers, foreigners want to the spectrum. remarked that it is a great poverty indeed minimum wage with no benefits and little work, but the present immigration system Eloquent and deeply committed that causes someone to terminate the life of opportunity for advancement. doesn’t make it possible. proponents of the right to life are prophetic the unborn because of inconvenience. She • Illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes. The Our Church does not condone the in our culture. Secular materialism and was prophetic in reminding us that a overwhelming majority pay the exact same breaking of laws. But our Church also consumerism are a powerful counterforce society willing to destroy the unborn won’t taxes all of us pay. Employers deduct the says fix laws that don’t work. Further- in society in general and within Christian stop there. federal income and social security taxes more, the estimated 11-12 million illegal ranks as well. There is no question that the illegal from their earnings. immigrants in our country are to be Two imposing social instances of the ownership of guns, the accessibility of • Illegal aliens don’t learn English or respected in their human dignity. The lack of respect for human life are having a illegal drugs, irresponsibility of some assimilate. It may be true of the elder solution to our situation must be legal, deep impact on our local communities. parents, indifference in some of our Mexicans who received only a rudimentary respectful and workable. Here in Marion County, but elsewhere neighborhoods and the impact of poverty education in Mexico. However, their To the extent that racism is a as well, there has been an alarming in society must be addressed in cooperative children go to our schools, are immersed in significant factor affecting both the increase in the number of cold-blooded social programs. But they are symptoms of English and virtually all speak English. incidence of violence in our culture and murders. Something has gone awry. Civil a grave moral deficiency in our secular Like the Irish, , Germans and the issue of illegal immigration, it too is authorities and other community leaders culture. As we address the symptoms of Japanese, they will assimilate American a matter of respect for the dignity of are doing their best to address the problem. secular materialism that have gone awry, culture in the years ahead. human life. Every human person has a Much is drug-related; much is related to are we willing to name and own the need • They don’t contribute to the right to respect for his or her dignity. the quest for money. For sure, poverty is for respect for human life in all its U.S. economy and come here to get Jesus set the precedent. † an issue. dimensions? As one reviews the circumstances of the Another social issue preoccupies our publicized murders, in every case there is nation. It is the issue of illegal immi-grants. Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for September an astonishing lack for the value, the Isn’t it ironic that, except for our Native Teachers/Religious Education Directors: that they may rely on the strength and dignity, of the human person. One who Americans, we are a nation of immigrants? guidance of the Holy Spirit as they hand on the Catholic faith to our youth and kills to get money, one who kills to get Yet, there is a great divide in the nation encourage them to consider vocations to the priesthood and religious life. money to buy drugs, one who kills to win about how to handle this issue. The Jesús sentó el precedente en lo concerniente al respeto a la vida

l 1º de octubre, celebramos el ganar una discusión en una pelea callejera, “sáquenlos a todos” hasta “dénle residencia vitales para la economía estadounidense. Domingo de Respeto a la Vida. Año independientemente de los detalles, carece permanente a todos.” • Los extranjeros ilegales deberían Etras año insistimos en seguir del respeto fundamental por la vida Recientemente un abogado que ejerce introducir una solicitud para venir a haciéndolo. No podemos rendirnos jamás humana. derecho migratorio, Thomas Roach, abordó trabajar legalmente en los Estados Unidos. ante la lucha de promover la cultura de la Para muchos ese análisis puede sonar cinco mitos comunes sobre nuestros Es cierto, pero imposible. El actual sistema vida. demasiado filosófico, pero resulta difícil inmigrantes (National Catholic Register, de inmigración basada en empleo permite Abogamos por el derecho a la vida en negar su verdad. La vida humana se edición del 3 de septiembre de 2006). Estos un máximo de 10.000 tarjetas verdes al año nombre del nonato sin voz y por el derecho convierte en dispensable cuando no es más incluyen: en todos los Estados Unidos para a la vida de aquellos que no pueden valerse que un artículo que puede desecharse o • Los inmigrantes ilegales se apoderan trabajadores poco calificados. Es una por sí mismos en el ocaso de la vida. Y eliminarse en el calor de la ira, bajo un de los trabajos de los americanos. No es paradoja: Estados Unidos necesita existe mucho más que el mero derecho a la estado de ebriedad o por efecto de las cierto, ellos realizan trabajos que los trabajadores, los extranjeros quieren vida en ambos extremos del espectro. drogas. americanos no quieren hacer. Trabajan por trabajar, pero el sistema actual de Los proponentes del derecho a la vida La Santa Madre Teresa de Calcuta una un sueldo mínimo sin beneficios y con inmigración no lo permite. profundamente comprometidos y vez indicó que una gran pobreza es la que pocas oportunidades de superación. Nuestra Iglesia no aprueba que se elocuentes resultan profetas en nuestra verdaderamente ocasiona que alguien • Los inmigrantes ilegales no pagan infrinjan las leyes. Pero nuestra Iglesia cultura. El materialismo secular y el ponga fin a la vida de un nonato por impuestos. La inmensa mayoría paga los también dicta que arreglemos las leyes que consumismo son poderosas fuerzas de cuestiones de inconveniencia. Fue profeta al mismos impuestos que todos nosotros no funcionen. Más aun, los aproxi- contrarresto en la sociedad en general, así recordarnos que una sociedad dispuesta a pagamos. Los empleados descuentan de madamente 11 o 12 millones de como también en las filas cristianas. destruir a un nonato no se detendrá allí. sus ingresos los impuestos federales y de inmigrantes ilegales en nuestro país Dos imponentes instancias sociales de la No hay duda de que la posesión ilegal seguridad social. merecen respeto por su dignidad humana. falta de respeto por la vida humana están de armas, el acceso a drogas ilegales, la • Los extranjeros ilegales no aprenden La solución a nuestra situación debe ser ocasionando un profundo impacto en irresponsabilidad de algunos padres, la inglés ni se asimilan a la cultura. Tal vez legal, respetuosa y viable. nuestras comunidades locales. indiferencia de algunos de nuestros sea cierto en el caso de mexicanos mayores En la medida en que el racismo es un Aquí en el Condado Marion, al igual que vecindarios y el impacto de la pobreza de que recibieron únicamente una educación factor significativo que afecta tanto la en todos lados, ha ocurrido un alarmante la sociedad deben abordarse en programas rudimentaria en México. Sin embargo, sus incidencia de violencia en nuestra cultura y aumento en la cantidad de asesinatos a de cooperación social. Pero éstos son hijos van a nuestras escuelas, se encuentran el tema de la inmigración ilegal, se sangre fría. Algo va mal. Las autoridades síntomas de una deficiencia moral grave inmersos en el inglés y virtualmente todos convierte también en una cuestión de civiles y otros líderes de la comunidad en nuestra cultura seglar. Mientras hablan inglés. Al igual que los irlandeses, respeto por la dignidad de la vida humana. están haciendo lo mejor que pueden para abordamos los síntomas del materialismo italianos, alemanes y japoneses, asimilarán Toda persona humana tiene derecho a que abordar el problema. Gran parte está secular que van mal, ¿estamos dispuestos la cultura americana en los próximos años. se le respete por su dignidad. Jesús sentó vinculada a las drogas; gran parte está a señalar y tomar propiedad en la • No aportan a la economía este precedente. † vinculada a la búsqueda de dinero. Con necesidad de respeto por la vida humana estadounidense y vienen aquí para obtener seguridad, la pobreza es uno de los en todas sus dimensiones? asistencia social. Ellos pagan impuestos y Traducido por: Language Training Center, problemas involucrados. Otro aspecto social mantiene ocupada a consumen bienes y servicios que son Indianapolis A medida que analizamos las circun- nuestra nación. Se trata de la cuestión de stancias de los asesinatos anunciados, en los inmigrantes ilegales. ¿No es acaso La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en septiembre cada caso existe una falta impresionante de irónico que, salvo por los nativos valor por la vida y la dignidad de la persona americanos, somos una nación de Maestros/Directores de Educación Religiosa: ¡que ellos puedan contar con la fuer za y humana. Aquel que mata para obtener inmigrantes? Sin embargo, hay una gran dirección del Espíritu Santo cuando pasen la fe Católica a los jóvenes y les den ánimo a dinero, aquel que mata para obtener dinero división en la nación sobre cómo manejar ellos a considerar las vocaciones al sacerdocio y la vida religiosa! para comprar drogas, aquel que mata para esta situación. Las propuestas van desde Page 6 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Events Calendar

September 29-30 North Meridian Street, Indiana- Family Ministries, “Divorce and Elbow Room, 605 N. Pennsyl- Cancer Patients (SPOHNC), St. Anne Parish, 102 N. 19th Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, polis. Central Indiana Life Beyond” series, six sessions, vania St., Indianapolis. Theol- 6:30-8:30 p.m. Information: 317- St., New Castle. Fall bazaar, 5333 E. Washington St., Indiana- Chain, pro-life prayer vigil, 7-9 p.m., $30 per person. Infor- ogy on Tap, 6:30 p.m., speaker 782-6704. bakery, crafts, bookstore, mation: 317-236-1596 or 800- polis. Fall Festival, Fri. 5 p.m.- 2:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m., public 7:30 p.m. Information: theology October 5-7 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Information: 1 a.m., Sat. 3 p.m.-1 a.m., Sun. invited. 382-9836, ext. 1596, or e-mail [email protected]. St. Parish, 765-529-0933. noon-4 p.m., food, rides, games, [email protected]. 4050 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. entertainment. Information: 317- St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. 17th Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Fall rummage sale, Thurs.-Fri., South 5th Street and C Street, 356-7291. Ave., Beech Grove. Ave Maria St. Francis Hospital, Community 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Sat, 8 a.m.-noon, Richmond. Seton Catholic High Guild, Golden Jubilee Celebra- Relations, 3145 E. Thompson Saint Meinrad School of The- $2-a-bag-day. Information: 317- School and Richmond Catholic September 30 tion, Mass, 1:30 p.m., luncheon Road, Indianapolis, “Freedom ology, workshop, Dr. Thomas 546-1571. Community, fifth annual St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, following Mass. from Smoking,” seven sessions, G. Long, presenter, 9:30 a.m.- 4052 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. 6-8 p.m., $50 per person. Infor- 3 p.m. Information: 800-682- October 6 Oktoberfest, German-American Alumni homecoming gather- cuisine, dance, children’s games, St. Parish, 202 mation: 317-782-7999. 0988 or www.saintmenrad.edu. St. Church, ing, fundraiser, tour of school E. Washington St., Greencastle. 535 E. Edgewood Ave., Indiana- 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Information: 765- and parish, 3:30 p.m., candlelight Life Chain 2006, 2 p.m. Infor- October 2-November 6 935-3894. Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Marian College, Stokely Man- polis. Catholic Charismatic dinner, memory lane, Mass, mation: 765-653-7789 or e-mail sion, 3200 Cold Spring Road, Renewal of Central Indiana, 4:30 p.m., activities, 5:30-9 p.m. [email protected]. Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meri- dian St., Indianapolis. “System- Indianapolis. Irish Sampler, Mass, praise, worship and Holy Family Council, Knights of Information: 317-546-1571. “Irish Foods and Culinary healing prayers, 7:15-8:45 p.m. Columbus Hall, 200 N. Lynhurst Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 atic Training in Effective Par- enting” (STEP) program, six Arts,” Matt O’Neill, presenter, Information: 317-592-1992, Drive, Indianapolis. Breakfast, St. Parish, Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Monte 6-9 p.m., $45 per person. Infor- www.inholyspirit.org or e-mail 523 S. Merrill St., Fortville. sessions, 6:30-8:30 p.m., $90 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Information: 317- Cassino pilgrimage, “Mary, mation: 317-353-6664 or 317- [email protected]. Rummage sale to benefit Model of Faithfulness,” Bene- individual or $135 couple. Infor- 240-3782. mation: 317-236-1526. 862-0817. 4-year-old Peter Dudley’s med- dictine Sister Kristine Harpenau, Our Lady of the Most Holy ical expenses, sponsored by the 2 p.m. CDT. Information: 800- St. Simon the Apostle Church, October 3 St. Mary Parish, Marian Center, Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., Women’s Club, 8 a.m-3:30 p.m. 682-0988 or www.saint 8155 Oaklandon Road, Indiana- St. Athanasius Byzantine 317 N. New Jersey St., Indiana- Indianapolis. “A Journey Information: 317-485-5212. meinrad.edu. polis. Youth-led praise and wor- Church, 1117 S. Blaine Ave., polis. Solo Singles, Catholic through the Bible,” four ses- ship, eucharistic adoration ser- Indianapolis. Blessing of ani- singles 50 and over, single, wid- sions, 6:30-8 p.m., $12 per fam- Holy Angels Parish, 740 W. 28th Holy Family Parish, 3027 Pearl mals. 4-6 p.m. Information: 317- owed or divorced, new members ily. Information: 317-535-4370 vice, 6 p.m., fellowship follow- St., Indianapolis. Old School St., Oldenburg. Fall Festival, 632-4157. welcome, 6:30 p.m. Information: or e-mail [email protected]. ing service. Information: 317- Dance, 7 p.m., $5 per person. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. chicken and roast 317-897-1128. 826-6000, ext. 151, or e-mail Information: 317-926-3324. beef dinners. Information: 812- Saint Meinrad Archabbey, New- Our Lady of the Most Holy [email protected]. 934-3013. man Theater, 200 Hill Drive, St. Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., Benedict Inn Retreat and Confer- St. Francis Hospital, 8111 S. October 8 Meinrad. Saint Meinrad School Emerson Ave., Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Lumen Dei meet- ence Center, Shop Inn, 1402 St. Joseph Parish, 2605 St. Joe of Theology, 16th annual John ing, Mass, 6:30 a.m., breakfast Our Lady of the Most Holy Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Road West, Sellersburg. Turkey “What to Eat When You Feel S. and Virginia Marten Lec- Like Eating Nothing,” noon- and program in Priori Hall, Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., Open house, Sara Wuthnow, Shoot and Fall Festival, food, ture in Homiletics, Dr. Thomas $10 members, $15 guests. Infor- Indianapolis. Catholic Choir of jewelry designer, featured artist, chicken dinner, turkey shoot, 2 p.m. Information: 317-782- G. Long, presenter, 7 p.m. Infor- 4422. mation: 317-919-5316. Indianapolis, noon Mass. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: 317- 11 a.m.-6 p. m. Information: mation: 800-682-0988 or 788-7581. 812-246-2512. October 6-8 www.saintmenrad.edu. October 5 St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Oldenburg Franciscan Center, St. Francis Hospital and Health MKVS and DM Center, Rexville 17440 St. Mary’s Road, Bates- October 3-November 7 Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meri- 22143 Main St. Oldenburg. Center, 8111 S. Emerson Ave., (located on 925 South, .8 mile St. Francis Hospice, 438 S. “God’s Plan for a Joy-Filled ville. Turkey Festival, booths, dian St., Indianapolis. “Liturgy Indianapolis. Free screening for east of 421 South, 12 miles south Emerson Ave., Indianapolis. Marriage,” facilitator training. games, food, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Basics,” session 1, “Liturgical peripheral vascular disease, of Versailles). Mass, 3:30 p.m., Bereavement support group, Information: 317-236-1595 or Information: 812-934-4165. Renewal,” Father Rick Ginther, people over age 50. Registration: with Father Elmer Burwinkel. six sessions, 6:30-8 p.m. Infor- 800-382-9836, ext. 1595, or presenter, 6:15-9 p.m. Informa- 317-782-4422 or 877-888-1777. Information: 812-689-3551 or mation: 317-865-2092. e-mail [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, e-mail [email protected] tion: 317-236-1483 or 800-382- October 1 October 4 9836, ext. 1483, or e-mail October 7 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. or log on to Schoenstatt Web site Monte Cassino pilgrimage, “A SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, at www.seidata.com/~frburwink. St. Michael Church, 519 Jeffer- [email protected]. St. Michael School, 11400 Farm- 1347 N. Meridian St., Indiana- son Blvd., Greenfield. “Theol- ers Lane, N.E., Bradford. School Handmaid’s Lowliness.” Bene- polis. Archdiocesan Respect October 2 ogy of the Body,” Father St. Francis Hospital, Education reunion, Mass, 4:30 p.m., recep- dictine Father Vincent Tobin, Life Sunday Mass, 1 p.m., pro- Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Jonathan Meyer, presenter, Center, 5935 S. Emerson Ave., tion, 5:30 p.m., dinner, 6:30 p.m., presenter, 2 p.m. CDT. Informa- life award ceremony, public Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meri- Mass, 6:30 p.m. Information: Suite 100, Indianapolis. Support $12 per person. Information: tion: 800-682-0988 or invited. dian St., Indianapolis. Office of 317-462-2248. Group for Head and Neck 812-364-6646. www.saintmeinrad.edu. †

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School, 2801 W. Ave., Indianapolis. Sacred Heart devotion, Youth pilgrimage to Regular Events 86th St., Indianapolis. Indiana Autism and 11 a.m., Holy hour, 6-7 p.m. Information: 317- Sertoma Club meeting, 7-9 p.m., child care 632-9349. celebrate canonization Monthly provided. Information: 317-885-7295. St. Charles Borromeo Church, chapel, 2222 E. of St. Theodora First Wednesdays Third St., Bloomington. Adoration of the First Sundays The archdiocesan Office for Marian College, Ruth Lilly Student Center, St. Mary Parish, 317 N. New Jersey St., Indian- Blessed Sacrament, noon-6 p.m. 3200 Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis. People of apolis. Solo Singles, Catholic singles 50 and Youth and Young Adult Ministries is Peace Secular Franciscan Order, (no meetings over, single, widowed, divorced, new members Holy Name of Jesus Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., sponsoring a pil- in July or August), noon-2 p.m. Information: welcome, 6:30 p.m. Information: 317-897-1128. Beech Grove. Mass, 8:15 a.m., eucharistic ado- grimage for high 317-955-6775. ration following Mass until 5 p.m. Benediction. school students St. Francis Home Health, 438 S. Emerson Ave., Information: 317-784-5454. on Oct. 15 to Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, 1530 Union St., Greenwood. Cancer support group meeting, Saint Mary-of- Indianapolis. Mass with contemporary appeal, 6-8 p.m. Information: 317-257-1505. St. Peter Church, 1207 East Road, Brookville. the-Woods to cel- 5 p.m. Information: 317-638-5551. Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament after St. Francis Hospital, 1201 Hadley Road, ebrate the canon- 8 a.m. until Communion service, 1 p.m. ization of Blessed Fatima Knights of Columbus Hall, 1040 N. Post Mooresville. Cancer support group meeting, 6-8 p.m. Information: 317-257-1505. Mother Theodore Road, Indianapolis. Euchre, 1 p.m. Information: Holy Guardian Angels Church, 405 U.S. 52, Guérin, which 317-638-8416. Cedar Grove. Eucharistic adoration after First Thursdays will have happened earlier that day Immaculate Conception Church, 2081 E. 8 a.m. Mass-5 p.m. Information: 765-647-6981. St. Paul Church, 218 Scheller Ave., Sellersburg. in Rome. County Road 820 S., Greensburg. Holy hour, 7- A tour of the grounds of the Prayer group, 7-8:15 p.m. Information: 812- 8 p.m. Information: 812-591-2362. St. Michael Church, 519 Jefferson Blvd., Green- 246-4555. field. Mass, 8:15 a.m., exposition of the motherhouse of the Sisters of Provi- First Fridays Blessed Sacrament after Mass until Benedic- dence, including the Heritage St. Church, 1200 N. Indiana St., St. Church, 126 W. Georgia tion, 5 p.m. Information: 317-462-4240. Museum, various chapels and the gift Mooresville. Holy hour of adoration, prayer St., Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed shop, will begin at 3 p.m. and praise for vocations, 9:15 a.m. Information: Sacrament, 12:45-5:15 p.m., Vespers and Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish, 335 S. A celebration of the Mass will 317-831-4142. Benediction, 5:15 p.m. Information: 317-635- Meridian St., Greenwood. Caregivers support start at 4 p.m. This will be the first 2021. group, 7-8:30 p.m., monthly meeting sponsored Mass celebrated in the archdiocese in First Mondays by Alzheimer’s Association. Information: 317- Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center, 1400 N. honor of St. Theodora. Youths repre- Christ the King Church, 1827 Kessler Blvd., E. 888-2861, ext. 29. Guardian Angel senting all 11 deaneries will take part Meridian St., Indianapolis. Drive, Indianapolis. Exposition of the Blessed Guild, board meeting, 9:30 a.m. in the Mass, which will feature Sacrament after 7:15 a.m. Mass-5:30 p.m. SS. Francis and Clare Church, 5901 Olive music and the opportunity to pray to Benediction and service. Branch Road, Greenwood. Mass, 8 a.m., adora- St. Bartholomew Church, 1306 27th St., Colum- tion, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Sacred Heart Chaplet, Indiana’s first saint. bus. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church, 8:30 a.m., Divine Mercy Chaplet, 3 p.m. Infor- The Office for Youth and Young 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Information: 812-379-9353. 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. Adoration of the mation: 317-859-4673. Adult Ministries is not organizing First Tuesdays Blessed Sacrament after 5:45 p.m. Mass-9 a.m. transportation to Saint Mary-of-the- Divine Mercy Chapel, 3354 W. 30th St., Indian- Saturday. Information: 317-636-4478. Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, 1752 Woods. apolis. Confession, 6:45 p.m., Benediction of Scheller Lane, New Albany. Adoration con- Reservations are strongly encour- the Blessed Sacrament for vocations, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, 5333 E. Washing- cluding with confessions at 6 p.m. Benediction, aged but are not required. Those who 7:30 p.m. ton St., Indianapolis. Exposition of the Blessed 6:45 p.m. make reservations prior to Oct. 10 Sacrament, prayer service, 7:30 p.m. Informa- will receive a CD with music, Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, tion: 317-356-7291. St. Mary Church, 212 Washington St., North prayers and information about the 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Women: Vernon. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, life of St. Theodora. St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. Mickley Ave., No Longer Second Class,” program, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Information: 812-346-3604. For more information about the Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacra- 7-8:30 p.m. Information: 317-788-7581. pilgrimage, send an e-mail to ment, 4 p.m., rosary, 5 p.m., Benediction, St. Joseph Church, 113 S. 5th St., Terre Haute. St. Joseph Church, 2605 St. Joe Road W., Sell- 5:30 p.m., Mass, 5:45 p.m. Information: 317- Eucharistic adoration, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., rosary, kscoville@ ersburg. Rosary, Holy hour for religious voca- 244-9002. noon, Holy Hour for vocations and Benediction, archindy.org or call 317-236-1477 or tions, Benediction and exposition of the Blessed 4-5 p.m., Mass, 5:15 p.m. Information: 812-235- 800-382-9836, ext. 1477. † Sacrament after 7 p.m. Mass. St. Rita Church, 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown 4996. † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Page 7 Pope says nun Archbishop Milingo, four others incur excommunication slain in VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Recent intend to recognize in the future such ordina- bishops re-ordained by Archbishop ordinations made without papal approval tions and all the ordinations derived from Milingo. worked for victory have placed Zambian Archbishop them.” It also added that the canonical status The others were: Emmanuel Milingo and the four prelates of the “four presumed bishops is the same in • Bishop Peter Paul Brennan of the of love over hatred he ordained under which they found themselves before ordina- African Orthodox Church and the automatic excommu- tion” by Archbishop Milingo. Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of the , Italy (CNS)— nication, the Vatican The press office statement said the Americas, who according to one Pope Benedict XVI said a missionary nun said. Vatican had been following the archbishop’s Web site, was first consecrated a bish- slain in Somalia exemplified the “logic of Starting with his activities “with marked apprehension.” It op on June 10, 1978, and subsequently Christianity” by working for the victory of “attempted mar- said his involvement with a new association reconsecrated in October 1979 and love over hatred. riage” in 2001 until of married priests has helped sow “division twice more in March 1987. The pope’s comments on Sept. 24 his Sept. 24 ordina- and perplexity among the faithful.” • Archbishop Patrick E. Trujillo of came exactly one week after the nun, tions of four bish- The four men, all of whom already the Archdiocese of Our Lady of Consolata Sister Leonella Sgorbati, was Archbishop Emmanuel ops in Washington, claimed to have been ordained bishops in Guadalupe of New Jersey of the Old gunned down with her bodyguard as she Milingo Archbishop the Old Catholic Church, were leading fig- Catholic Church in America, who was left the children’s hospital where she Milingo’s actions ures the previous week in a “Married originally consecrated in 1997. worked in . have led him to “a condition of irregulari- Priests Now!” convocation held by • Bishop Joseph J. Gouthro of Somali authorities arrested one suspect ty and progressive breach in communion Archbishop Milingo in Saddle Brook, N.J. Las Vegas, presiding bishop of the and two potential witnesses to the slaying, with the Church,” said a written state- Archbishop Milingo had Catholic Apostolic which came amid rising tensions in the ment by the Vatican press office. told convocation partici- Church International. Muslim world over a recent papal speech Various Church officials tried “in vain” pants that he was under Archbishop Milingo’s Archbishop Milingo on . It was not known if the killing to contact the retired archbishop of Lusaka, Vatican orders to stop his actions have led him was archbishop of was connected to Muslim criticism of the Zambia, and “dissuade him from continu- campaign for married Lusaka from 1969 until pope’s speech. ing acts that provoke scandal,” the Sept. 26 priests or face suspension to ‘a condition of 1983, when the Vatican Addressing pilgrims gathered for a press statement said. from ministry. irregularity and asked him to resign be- noon blessing at his summer residence It said that despite the “patient vigi- A news release from progressive breach in cause he refused to stop outside Rome, the pope spoke about the lance” shown by the Vatican and Pope Archbishop Milingo’s using healing and exor- Gospel’s encouragement of peacemakers. Benedict XVI in hoping the retired arch- group claimed the new communion with the cism rituals that were “These words bring to mind the witness bishop would return to full communion ordinations would make Church.’ judged to be inconsistent of so many Christians who, with humility with the Church, the archbishop’s Sept. 24 the Old Catholic bishops — Vatican statement with Catholic teaching. and in silence, giving their lives in the ordinations “have dashed such hopes.” “bishops of the Roman In 2001, he married service of others for the cause of Jesus Because of the unapproved ordinations, Catholic Church.” Korean acupuncturist Christ, work concretely as servants of love “both Archbishop Milingo and the four or- The ordinations took place in Maria Sung in a mass ceremony and therefore as artisans of peace,” the dained men are under a ‘latae Washington at Imani Temple, the head- arranged by the Rev. Sun Myung pope said. sententiae’ excommunication, according to quarters of Archbishop George A. Stallings Moon, founder of the Unification He said some, like Sister Leonella, are Canon 1382 of the Code of Canon Law,” Jr., a former Catholic priest of the Church, which is now called the asked to make the supreme sacrifice of the statement said. A bishop who conse- Washington Archdiocese who broke from Family Federation for World Peace and their own lives. crates a bishop without a pontifical man- the Church in 1989 to form his own Unification. He subsequently separated “This sister, who served the poor and date and the person who receives the con- African American Catholic Congregation. from her at the personal urging of Pope the little ones for many years in Somalia, secration from him automatically incur the In 1990, Archbishop Stallings was or- John Paul II, but when he came to the died pronouncing the word ‘forgiveness.’ penalty of excommunication. dained a bishop by bishops of independent United States this July to announce his Here is the most authentic Christian wit- The Vatican statement also said “the Old Catholic Churches. “Married Priests Now!” movement, he ness, a peaceful sign of contradiction that Church does not recognize nor does it Archbishop Stallings was one of the said he was reuniting with her. † demonstrates the victory of love over hatred and evil,” he said. †

their parents and our staff that education This school has really done well over the the principal of St. Bartholomew School EXCELLENCE is important. And they’re great kids, too.” years.” in Columbus. Schubel also noted another continued from page 1 The Shawe community marked its So has St. Lawrence School in essential quality for becoming a school of recognition with a faith-based celebration Indianapolis, which was recognized as a excellence. three criteria, according to G. Joseph on Sept. 26. For the celebration, Bomholt Blue Ribbon School for the second time. “I read a while ago that a staff that col- Peters, the archdiocese’s associate execu- invited all former Shawe teachers, staff “There are a lot of people excited laborates is a greater indicator of student tive director for Catholic education: and students, and the school community here,” said Betty Popp, the school’s prin- success than socio-economic issues,” she • Schools with at least 40 percent of of Pope John XXIII School, the only cipal. “We’re in the top 250 schools in the said. “We have a staff that collaborates. their students from disadvantaged back- Catholic elementary school in Madison. nation.” The teachers work hard every day to make grounds that dramatically improve student “As our elementary school, they’ve St. Lawrence began its celebration on a difference in the lives of the children.” performance on state tests. obviously had a tremendous influence on Sept. 25 as teachers, staff and the school’s The Blue Ribbon recognition is a • Schools whose students, regardless of what has happened here,” Bomholt said. 360 students flowed into the parish church dream-come-true at St. Lawrence School background, achieve in the top 10 percent “This is an award we all need to share.” for a prayer service of thanksgiving. in Lawrenceburg. of their state on test scores. The high school has been decorated in St. Monica School in Indianapolis pro- “This has been a vision of mine as long • Private schools that achieve in the top blue ribbons, and the cafeteria staff made claimed its Blue Ribbon recognition on as I’ve been principal,” said Dena Steiner, 10 percent in the nation. blue Rice Krispies treats for students. the school’s marquee. the principal at St. Lawrence School in The honor is a tribute to the commit- Blue ribbons and balloons were also “It’s a fantastic place—the school and Lawrenceburg. “This is my sixth year. ment to Catholic education that parents, part of the celebration at Christ the King the parish,” said Debbie Reale, the assis- Our thought was we were working for this teachers, staff and students make, accord- School in Indianapolis, where students and tant principal at St. Monica. “Everyone every year. So every year, we’ve become ing to Jerry Bomholt, the principal of staff planned to dress in blue on Sept. 28. pulls together and works hard. We have a a better school. Shawe Memorial High School in “I’m proud for our school community lot of parental involvement, which you “To me, it shows the strength of Madison. and the entire parish,” said Scott Stewart, need if a school is to be a success. And Catholic education. It shows that what “Probably the most important factor is the principal of Christ the King School. we love our kids.” we’re doing, we’re doing right, especially the commitment to education that our par- “This is my third year here, and it’s been That successful combination of parents in the archdiocese. Our students get strong ents have made,” Bomholt said. “Our kids obvious to me that the school has been who offer support and students who set academics and a values education.” † have heard it over and over again from overdue for this honor for a long time. goals was also cited by Kathy Schubel,

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BEDFORD—It was a day that mothers Katie Berger Photos by would love—a chance to spend time with their children while their husbands volunteered to serve lunch for them in the kitchen. Mothers at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Bedford were given such a treat on Sept. 16 during a half-day retreat organized by the Catholic Women in Faith of Lawrence County. The event brought mothers and children together for a morning of prayer, sharing, activities and fellowship. Founded in 2004, the Catholic Women in Faith of Lawrence County’s mission is to nurture a faith community of Catholic women to discover their gifts, deepen their faith and support one another to go forth in sharing faith in their daily lives and fulfilling their role as Catholic women. The theme for the mom and kids’ retreat, “Rejoice, Refresh, Renew,” provided participants with an opportunity to do just that—step aside from what encompasses most days—to focus on their relationships with their families, friends and God. St. Vincent de Paul parishioner Michelle Padilla of Bedford, one of the organizers and the mother of seven children, said this gathering, which included children, was a special event for the women’s group. The women normally get together each month to discuss faith topics. The idea for the day came to her, she said, through prayer. Above, St. Vincent de Paul parishioner Molly Wagner of Bedford writes down a blessing for her mom, “The Lord put it on my heart,” Padilla Susan. The Mom and Kids Retreat was sponsored by Catholic Women in Faith of Lawrence County. said. She brought the idea to other women At right, parishioner Michelle Woodward of Bedford is traced by her daughter, Karoline West, during a who shared her interest in the retreat. The faith-sharing activity at the Mom and Kids Retreat at St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Bedford on Sept. 16. team of women then divided tasks, and the event began taking shape. The goal for the day, she said, was “to own. It focused on how to be a good helper traced their mother’s on a body-length grow in closeness and, really, in the for moms through a scavenger hunt, puppet piece of paper. Mothers then traced their holiness of God.” show and crafts. children inside their outlines. Padilla, who brought her daughter, Bailey Connerly, a fourth-grader at “It was fun because you got to trace Teresa, on this day, said she felt it was St. Vincent de Paul School, said he enjoyed your mom, and she got to trace you,” said important to be with her daughter to plant the day and the chance to be with his mom, 7-year-old Teresa Padilla. seeds for her future. She felt it was his sister and others. Parishioner Amy Brown, whose two important for mothers to be “able to share “I made some new friends here,” he said. children, Kyndall, 7, and Klayton, 4, with [our] children our faith that we love as After the individual sessions, the attended the retreat as well, said she was moms.” groups came together for several excited about the day and hoped her Father Rick Eldred, pastor of St. Vincent activities. The first was a Hula-Hoop children would begin to establish good de Paul Parish in Bedford and St. Mary game that allowed moms and kids to work friendships through the group and their Parish in Mitchell, opened the retreat with a in tandem. mother’s examples. 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By Roxana Ulloa Barillas

Respect Life Sunday, on the first weekend of October, falls near the Oct. 4 feast day of St. , who was named the of the environment by Pope John Paul II in 1979. St. Francis can inspire us to reflect anew on the ways that our attitudes, uses and abuses of creation affect the Poster/U.S. of Catholic Bishops Conference poor and vulnerable, especially our children both before and after birth. As Catholics, we are called to protect human life, to care for others and to respect God’s gift of creation. The Church’s call to respect human dignity and promote the common good of the entire human family, beginning with the most vulnerable, leads it to champion unborn children’s right to live. In their 1991 statement titled “Renewing the Earth,” the U.S. bishops remind us that, “We are charged with restoring the integrity of all creation. We must care for all God’s creatures, especially the most vulnerable. How, then, can we protect endangered species and at the same time be callous to the unborn, the elderly or disabled persons? Is not abortion also a sin against creation? “If we turn our backs to our own unborn children, can we truly expect that nature will receive respectful treatment at our hands? The care of the earth will not be advanced by the destruction of human life at any stage of development. As Pope John Paul II has said, ‘Protecting the environment is first of all the right to live and the protection of life’ ” (Oct. 16, 1991, homily of Pope John Paul II at Quiaba, Mato Grosso, Brazil). Children deserve special protection because they are the most innocent and vulnerable among us. Yet, while it is easier today than decades ago to protect children from environmental toxins, the risk of exposure to so many more untested synthetic chemicals is a challenge for scientists and for parents who are ultimately responsible for figuring out how best to protect their children from before birth into adulthood. Among the most susceptible to environmental hazards are children—born and unborn. In the womb, especially, they face a disproportionate threat to their neurological development from environmental toxins like mercury and lead. Exposure to air pollutants and toxins is also signifi- cantly more harmful to children than to adults. Their developing organs are not as efficient as those of adults toxin that can interfere with the nervous system and the and spread the cost of emissions reduction throughout in dealing with pollutants. Many children are exposed to development of the human brain from early in the public? environmental hazards at an early age, giving them more pregnancy. While chemicals play a major role in improving the time to develop slowly-progressing, environmentally- According to a consumer advisory jointly issued by quality of life for all Americans, many peer-reviewed triggered conditions, such as asthma, learning the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the studies suggest that some may pose serious long-term disabilities and certain cancers. Environmental Protection Agency health risks, including cancer and childhood develop- It was once assumed that children According to a (EPA), women of childbearing age, mental disabilities. in the womb were protected from the pregnant women, nursing mothers and The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) estimates outside environment. We know now, consumer advisory children under 5 are especially at risk that 25 percent of the developmental and neurological for example, that the placenta does jointly issued by the from unsafe levels of mercury. deficits in children are due to the interplay between not protect umbilical cord blood and Researchers find that an infant’s chemicals and genetic factors, while 3 percent are the developing baby from most Food and Drug rapidly developing brain and central caused by exposure to chemicals alone. chemicals and pollutants that the Administration (FDA) nervous system are extremely We must protect God’s gift of creation to ensure our mother encounters in the and the Environmental susceptible to damage because the children’s “right to a healthy environment.” It is not environment. Exposure to toxins in placenta allows the passage of enough to demand policies and regulations that address utero can harm the unborn child. Protection Agency methylmercury, the most toxic form of the unintended consequences of technological Children living in poverty, dispro- (EPA), women of mercury. Prenatal mercury exposure development. portionately consisting of black and childbearing age, has been associated with toxic effects The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) Hispanic children, face multiple on the developing brain, including tracks mercury-related legislation as part of the Catholic obstacles to their development, pregnant women, adverse effects on fine motor skills, Coalition for Children and a Safe Environment (CASE), including rates of lead poisoning and nursing mothers and memory and learning ability. working to reduce emissions in order to protect the asthma-related hospitalizations and children under 5 are Power plants are the primary man- environment and human health, particularly in deaths higher than those of the made source of mercury. More than vulnerable populations. general population. Outdoor air especially at risk from 1,100 coal-fired power plants, the As we highlight the Respect Life program and pollution, unsafe and crowded unsafe levels of nation’s largest source of airborne celebrate the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, we housing, contaminated water and soil, mercury pollution, send an estimated should reflect on our personal lifestyle and consider and industrial waste are just a few of mercury. 48 tons of mercury into the atmosphere how abuse of our environment threatens children’s the environmental hazards that are annually. health and their ability to realize their full potential disproportionately concentrated in low-income, minority Regulatory decisions concerning allowable levels of before as well as after birth. communities. emissions are made using a cost-benefit analysis. Public Addressing environmental health issues is health experts assert that the neurological damage (Roxana Ulloa Barillas is project administrator of the challenging. Often, the science is not clear or caused by mercury exposure in utero is irreversible. Department of Social Development and World Peace for conclusive. Such is the case with mercury, a known Should we not protect children from mercury toxicity, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.) †

The Pilot Partial-birth Go Death abortion Catholic Courier organic penalty Partial-birth Science Northwest Indiana Catholic Victims’ abortion supports relatives CNS photo by Peter Smith, Peter CNS photo by exposes Catholic sexual advocate against depravity of ethics, page 11. use of the death CNS file photo/Karin von Voigtlander, Voigtlander, CNS file photo/Karin von abortion, legal CNS photo/Karen Callaway, penalty, page 12. flaws, page 10. Page 10 Respect Life Supplement The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Partial-birth abortion exposes depravity of abortion, legal flaws

By Susan E. Wills legalizing abortion only “in the first three months of • A growing number of federal judges openly criticize the pregnancy.” Many Americans were shocked to learn that Supreme Court’s abortion jurisprudence for, among other In 1992, Dr. Martin Haskell presented a paper titled abortions are being done in the second and third trimesters things, unclear and inconsistent standards which often “Dilation and Extraction for Late Second Trimester of pregnancy, and are legal throughout pregnancy. contradict standards applied in other legal contexts. Abortion” at a National Abortion • The gruesome particulars of partial-birth abortion • Americans now strongly disagree with a “litmus test” Federation (NAF) seminar. He shifted the focus of the public debate away from the for judicial nominees requiring that they demonstrate whole- explained the “D & X” abortion sometimes difficult social and economic circumstances hearted allegiance to Roe v. Wade. method that he “routinely” used to women may face due to an unplanned pregnancy toward the The Supreme Court’s 2000 decision in Stenberg v. kill unborn children at 20- to act itself. With the growing use of ultrasound, many Carhart found Nebraska’s partial-birth abortion ban 24-weeks’ gestational age—and Americans began to see the child’s obvious humanity. unconstitutional, with the result that state bans in 29 other sometimes 26 weeks of gestation. • Nationwide polls have recorded a seismic shift toward states were voided. Three federal district courts later found In March 1996, in riveting pro-life positions. From 1991 to 1995, polls showed that the federal Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 unconsti- eyewitness testimony to Congress, a 32 percent of Americans, on average, favored unrestricted tutional on the basis of Stenberg. Three federal appellate nurse gave “partial-birth abortion” a abortion. In mid-1996, as public knowledge of partial-birth courts have agreed. face—specifically the “most perfect abortion spread, such support dropped to 25 percent. In an While no one can predict Supreme Court rulings, there is angelic face” of a baby boy at April 2005 poll by the polling company, inc. which reason to hope that the Supreme Court will uphold the Susan E. Wills ™ 26½ weeks’ gestational age. Haskell offered six possible views on abortion’s legality, only federal ban on partial-birth abortion when it hears the case had delivered the boy alive, feet-first, up to his neck, then 10 percent said abortion should be “legal any time, for any of Gonzalez v. Carhart this fall. stuck scissors into the base of his skull, inserted a suction reason.” That compared to 17 percent who responded “never First, the abortion procedure is defined in a more precise tube and vacuumed out his brain. legal,” 14 percent who said “only legal when the mother’s and limited way in the federal ban, which prohibits killing The defense of partial-birth abortion is undermining the life is in danger,” and 31 percent who would permit abortion the infant after he or she is delivered “substantially outside regime established by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. only when the mother’s life is at risk and for rape and incest. the mother’s body at specified anatomical points.” Wade. Partial-birth abortion may be Roe’s undoing. • Publications like American Medical News and Second, neither Roe v. Wade nor the 1992 decision which Some consider partial-birth abortion akin to infanticide. The [Bergen County] Record did their own research and affirmed and modified it, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, In philosophical terms, it is the reduction ad absurdum of discovered that thousands of partial-birth abortions were provides Constitutional protection for killing a child who is the premise that a woman has a Constitutional right to have being done annually, primarily on healthy mothers and substantially outside his or her mother’s body. a doctor kill her offspring for economic or social reasons at healthy babies. Third, when Congress enacted the federal partial-birth the earliest stage of pregnancy. • The strong public reaction against partial-birth abortion abortion ban, it made specific factual findings. Eight years But some judges—including two on the Supreme resulted in the enactment of laws banning the procedure in of Congressional hearings and debate proved that partial- Court—have defended partial-birth abortion on the ground 30 states between 1996 and 2000. Congressional efforts to birth abortion “is never medically necessary” to preserve the that there is no moral or logical difference between it and ban partial-birth abortion nationwide were stymied by two mother’s health and “poses significant health risks.” the alternative, equally gruesome second-trimester abortion vetoes by President Clinton and, in June 2000, by the Partial-birth abortion has exposed the depravity of late- method of dismembering a child in the womb and removing Supreme Court when it declared Nebraska’s law unconstitu- term abortion and its similarity to infanticide. It has also his or her body parts piecemeal. Doctors who perform late- tional. Americans saw how some government officials can exposed flaws in our legal system, which has prevented the term abortions have also made their view clear. For them, disregard and thwart the will of the people on this issue. American people from stopping this appalling practice and the difference between killing a partially-born child and one • Partial-birth abortion has had a probable influence on protecting unborn children consistent with the Constitution who is fully delivered is a legal technicality. elections. NARAL Pro-Choice America, in its 2006 report on and the moral aspirations of the people, guided by the self- Thanks to eight years of hearings and debates in reproductive rights, identifies 24 states as having pro-life evident truths in our Declaration of Independence. Congress, pro-life educational efforts and the proliferation of legislatures, 19 of which also have a pro-life governor; the We can hope that the Supreme Court will review alternative news sources, particularly the Internet, Americans report states that nine states have a majority pro-choice Gonzales v. Carhart with minds attuned to the Constitution did learn about partial-birth abortions and more than legislature and four states also have a pro-choice governor. and hearts open to the truth about human life. 70 percent of the people want to ban them. • NARAL’s report also describes a flurry of pro-life Haskell’s 1992 speech has far-reaching consequences: legislative activity at the state level. Fifty-eight pro-life (Attorney Susan Wills is associate director for education for • At least one wire service, one major polling company measures passed in 2005 alone of the 614 pro-life measures the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat for and a number of major newspapers still misrepresent Roe as considered that year. Pro-Life Activities.) † Now Your Parents Can Live At Home! Bruns-Gutzwiller, Inc. Your comfort is our first priority. General Contractors, Construction Managers We provide 24 hour care, live-in if necessary,

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Answers: Married people have more frequent and more invests in are indeed his own. Voigtlander, CNS file photo/Karin von satisfying sexual relations than the unmarried. As for sexual Possessiveness is the dark side of male attachment. The violence, marriage is by far the safest kind of sexual bright side of the very same tendency to attach is loyalty. relationship, both for women and their children. Rates of Men are capable of heroic loyalty to their wives and domestic violence for cohabiting and for dating couples are children, to their teams, companies and countries. Loyalty is higher than for married couples. Children are more likely to the desirable trait which is signaled by male jealousy. Most be abused by their mothers’ boyfriends than by their women are looking for men who have the capacity to mothers’ husbands, even when the boyfriend is their own commit to a relationship. biological father. Biblical authors and Church fathers recognized that sex The key to understanding these politically incorrect facts has a procreative purpose and a unitive purpose. Now is to get past the modern vision of sex that I call “Consumer science proves that they knew what they were talking about. Sex.” That view holds that sex is a private recreational This biological tendency to bond with each other means activity with no moral or social significance and is just for that, in a very real sense, casual sex isn’t even possible. fun. This view says, “Don’t take it too seriously. Just stay There is a reason why guys come unhinged when they find safe and don’t get pregnant.” out their “friend with benefits” has another “friend.” There is I call the alternative vision “Organic Sex.” This view of a reason why girls sit by the phone, wondering whether the sex, which happens to be the Catholic view, is that sex is an guy they hooked up with the previous night will ever call organic reality, with two natural purposes written into the them again. The Church teaches that marriage is the only appropriate context human body. The first purpose is procreation. The second is When we treat sex as just recreation, our sex partners for sexual activity and child-rearing. to build up and solidify a married couple’s relationship. become means to that end—they become consumer goods. The procreation part of this equation ought to be self- When consumer goods don’t satisfy us, we get rid of them. giving with abandon, they calculate whether it is in their evident. But the widespread acceptance of contraception and Pope John Paul II, in the “theology of the body” and his interest to stay in the relationship or leave it. They practice abortion has obscured the reproductive purpose of sex for earlier work, Love and Responsibility, makes it very clear not trusting. They practice conditional, not unconditional, many people. Planned Parenthood even calls the sexual that it is always wrong merely to “use” another person to love. aspect of our bodies “the reproductive system.” serve our own purposes. The cohabiting relationship enshrines a “use and be used” Did you know that science can show the physiological Our own experience shows us the problem with using consumer approach to dealing with each other. Once again, pathways by which we attach to our sex partners? other people. No matter how much fun we think we’re social science validates Church wisdom. Cohabitation is a During sex, women secrete a hormone called oxytocin, having during casual encounters, the truth is that no one bad idea. the same hormone they experience when they give birth or wants to be on the receiving end of the “use and be used” For two millennia, Holy Mother Church has been trying are nursing their babies. Some experts refer to oxytocin as culture. to tell us that marriage is the only appropriate context for the attachment hormone because it causes a woman to relax Another common pitfall is cohabitation. Many earnest sexual activity and child-rearing. The Church has been and connect with the person. young people live together because they are afraid of trying to tell us that Organic Sex is the path that will make Oxytocin, the bonding hormone, has a survival value. divorce. But the social sciences have shown that living us happy. Today, science shows that she has been right all Connecting with our sex partners increases the chances that together is not good preparation for marriage because people along. we will stay together long enough to build a stable home are more likely to divorce if they lived together before and raise a baby to adulthood. marriage than if they did not. (Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow What about men? At least one psychologist argues that Sex is and ought to be an act of complete self-giving. But in economics at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion jealousy helps men to connect with their sexual partners. A cohabiting couples often hold back on each other. Instead of and Liberty in Grand Rapids, Mich.) †

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The effects on the family, and on the wider When newspapers printed the Una- “While he was being executed, Jesus community, extend well beyond the initial bomber’s “manifesto,” Kaczynski forgave the people who were killing him,” shock and trauma. and his wife, Linda, recognized similarities Wright said. “I thought, ‘If that’s the The common assumption in this country to Ted’s ideas, and he faced an almost example Christ gave us while he was is that families who have suffered this kind unimaginable dilemma. He could turn in suffering on the cross, then I had to think of loss support the death penalty. This his brother, knowing that Ted might be very seriously about forgiveness in my own Northwest Indiana Catholic CNS photo/Karen Callaway, assumption, of course, is wrong. Many executed, or he could do nothing, knowing life.’ ” family members of victims have argued that more innocent people could be Kirk Bloodsworth, a retired Marine from forcefully against the death penalty for their harmed. He chose the path of life and took Maryland, was wrongfully convicted of loved one’s killer. steps to stop the violence by alerting law sexual assault, rape and first-degree murder Four people whose lives were touched enforcement officials. then sentenced to death in 1985. The ruling by murder unexpectedly became public Despite Ted Kaczynski’s history of was appealed a year later on the ground advocates against capital punishment. mental illness, federal prosecutors sought that evidence was withheld at trial, and A protester outside the Indiana State Prison in Vicki Schieber’s daughter, Shannon, was the death penalty. It was only through the Bloodsworth received a new trial. He was Michigan City, Ind., displays a mask of Edvard 23 years old in 1998 when she was work of highly-skilled lawyers—an found guilty again, however, and sentenced Munch’s famous painting, The Scream, during a murdered by a serial rapist in Philadelphia. advantage often unavailable to those facing to two consecutive life terms. pro-life demonstration in front of the In 2002, Troy Graves pleaded guilty to capital prosecutions—that Ted was allowed In June 1993, Bloodsworth’s case penitentiary. assaulting, raping and killing Shannon, and to plead guilty and is now serving a life became the first capital conviction in the to 13 other sexual assaults. sentence at a federal penitentiary in United States to be overturned as a result of it does. Since 1973, more than 120 people The Schiebers raised their children to Colorado. DNA testing. By the time of his release, he have been exonerated from death row after oppose the killing of anyone, including Gary Wright was one of the Una- had served almost nine years in prison, being cleared of their charges. murderers, if the killers could be bomber’s victims. The owner of a Salt Lake including two on death row, for a crime that Now Bloodsworth works for the Justice imprisoned for life without parole and no City computer store happened to pick up a he did not commit. Project’s Campaign for Criminal Justice longer pose a danger to society. piece of wood behind his store in 1987. It “In that time,” Bloodsworth said, “my Reform and the Criminal Justice Reform “We believe he is where he belongs turned out to be a bomb placed there by life had been taken from me and destroyed. Education Fund. today, as he serves his prison sentence, and Ted Kaczynski. It was a miracle that Gary The Catholic Church provided me with What is striking about these stories is we rest assured that he will never again wasn’t killed, but he had to endure three essential support in my time of need, and I seeing how God embraces people as they perpetrate this sort of crime on any other years in and out of surgery, and a slow, converted to Catholicism in 1989 while I face some of the most terrible and hopeless young women,” Vicki Schieber said. “But pain-filled process of rebuilding his body was serving time behind bars. I am a situations that life can present. killing this man would not bring our and contemplating what had happened to deeply spiritual person and continue to If these men and women can overcome daughter back. And it was very clear to us him. embrace the Church. Its values help to human hatred and bring a gospel of mercy that killing him would have been partly Both David Kaczynski and Gary Wright guide me as I travel across the country to and love to the world, how can we claim a dependent on our complicity in having it reflected on the death penalty in intensely tell my story.” right to demand the death of a killer to done.” personal ways, and both became convinced Although Bloodsworth was a retired “honor the victim” or to “win justice” for Now she serves on the board of directors that our society can live without using Marine with no criminal record and was the victim’s family? We cannot. To do so of Murder Victims’ Families for Human capital punishment. nowhere near the scene of the crime, he dishonors the lives of all the people Rights (MVFHR), a national non-profit Five years later, David Kaczynski had nevertheless been convicted and involved, making us complicit in perpet- organization of people who have lost a became the executive director of sentenced to death for a crime that he uating violence rather than ending it. family member to murder or to state New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, a did not commit. execution. group headed by Albany Bishop Howard If it could happen to someone like him, (Andrew Rivas is executive director of the David Kaczynski is the brother of Hubbard. he reasoned, it could happen to others. And Texas Catholic Conference.) †

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By Jim Schellman In the Church’s vision, the process of inculturation is one of “earthing” the Not so long ago, it was common to Gospel in the cultures of particular

hear Roman Catholics speak of the peoples throughout the world. This CNS photo/Reuters comfort they found in the familiar “earthing” gives the Gospel deep and celebration of the Mass, whether they authentic roots in a culture—in the experienced it in Portland or Paris. culture’s distinctive ways of conceptu- The Latin texts and the priest’s alizing, expressing, living and carefully prescribed movements and celebrating its experience of the mystery gestures created the effect of the of life and its relationship to the divine. predictable, wherever Catholics found Liturgical expression is an intrinsic themselves for worship. part of this process. Inculturation is Many of my friends now make a nothing new to Catholic tradition. similar observation about the Mass, Centuries of inculturation of the Mass despite the fact that it is being began with the spread of the faith from celebrated in a large variety of the early Jewish-Christian community to languages around the globe. Often, they the gentiles and the change of the are surprised by Mass in another language of worship from Hebrew to cultural setting and express feelings of Greek. being fairly at ease. This was followed several centuries Although the language may be later by transition to Latin as a result of unfamiliar, the gestures and movement the acceptance of Christianity in the of both priest and people nonetheless Roman Empire. seem familiar enough for people to feel A third “moment” of inculturation Congolese Catholics pray in their own language during Mass in the capital of Kinshasa. The ritual at home. The ritual structure of the Mass occurred when this largely Mediter- structure of the Mass is even more apparent now that a variety of languages may be used for liturgies. is perhaps even more apparent now that ranean religious experience made its a variety of languages may be used for way into the many parts of Europe and Church buildings are erected that to the fully sung and modulated the liturgy. its disparate cultures. grow out of local architectural materials celebration in a Vietnamese community. We are at the beginning of the Our present time can be seen as the and designs, from thatched and open- Parishes of mixed ethnic groups have “inculturation” of the Mass and all the next great moment of inculturation. The sided structures to soaring modern a special responsibility to ensure that Church’s liturgy set in motion by the faith experience of the preceding sheaths of glass and reinforced concrete. the celebration of Mass is sufficiently overwhelming approval of the centuries is being authentically Sacred objects for use at worship follow inculturated and reflective of their “Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy” by “earthed” anew in cultures where it designs and use materials at once people. the world’s bishops at the Second already has a long history and newly recognizable as local and worthy of their The Sunday Mass will usually need Vatican Council. “earthed” in other major cultures of the special use. to be an occasion that draws them The reality of inculturation was world. People take part in worship with together. addressed in the liturgy constitution in Celebration of the Mass in our own movements and gestures that embody • Are the languages present at its great opening to further use of living languages is a first step in the present reverent and joyful assembling in their Sunday Mass, with printed translations languages in the liturgy and in its final experience of inculturation. What follows cultures. This can mean graceful available so all can understand? several paragraphs dealing with degrees from this is evident in eucharistic swaying and stepping for some, high- • Do those serving in the various of “adaptation” of the liturgy. assemblies throughout the world. pitched ululation for others or reverent liturgical ministries reflect the different raising of the hands for still others. ethnic groups and indeed the variety of Some will sit on the floor with crossed ages in the assembly? Catholics seek Masses in native language ankles, others in chairs or pews. Some • Is liturgical music planned that will sing on and on, others will sing engages all? By Alejandro Aguilera-Titus right words to express them in a language three or four verses of a hymn. Some • Is planning for the liturgical that is not their own. will experience preaching for an hour— seasons done with sensitivity to the rich Anybody who has spent time in a The power of language and familiarity and would be disappointed if it were possibilities that the different cultural foreign land can identify with the it brings to one’s heart moves many less—while others will get the expected traditions bring to the parish as a delightful experience of hearing someone Hispanics and Latinos to drive miles to 15 to 20 minutes that their culture allots whole? speaking one’s language. participate in Mass celebrated in Spanish. for public address. With attention to these kinds of The connection with that person is What they find in this celebration is an Just consider how the celebration of considerations, we join the great stream immediate—it touches the very essence encounter with God in the context of the the Mass will vary within one diocese in of our ancestors in faith who faithfully of what is familiar to us. familiar. It involves understanding the the United States: from the full-throated have inculturated and passed on to us For people who have been away from readings and homily through the spoken and deeply embodied two- to three-hour the Catholic faith that lives in the home a long time, a conversation with word and the ability to participate in worship of an African-American parish words, gestures, worship and lives of others who speak their language can turn song. to the well-sung and engaged—but no God’s people in each generation. into a profound dialogue. more than an hour—worship of a largely People will seize the opportunity to (Alejandro Aguilera-Titus is associate white parish; from the colorful and (Jim Schellman is executive director of share the feelings and thoughts trapped in director of the U.S. bishops’ Secretariat deeply familial worship of immigrant the North American Forum on the their souls because they have lacked the for Hispanic Affairs.) † Latino/Hispanic or African communities Catechumenate.) † Discussion Point Multicultural ministry serves everyone

This Week’s Question “Through our Vibrant Parish Life Initiative, we are working with ethnic parishes in the diocese to meet How does your parish or diocese recognize the gifts cultural and spiritual needs. ... We are making a and talents of its differing cultural and ethnic conscious and concerted effort, as we move into the groups? 21st century with fewer priests, so that everyone knows they are welcome at the table.” (Mary Fran “Our parish is bilingual with Spanish and English Ehlinger, Medina, Ohio) Masses, but we’re also very multicultural because our parishioners are Caucasian, Spanish, Latino, Lend Us Your Voice Filipino and African-American. We have cultural awareness celebrations to show our appreciation and Do the people you work with, exercise with and awareness of our different cultures.” (Sister Cathy spend time with know that the Christian community Doherty, S.S.N.D., St. Louis, Mo.) matters very much to you? How have you shared your faith with them? “We have one Mass a month in the Choctaw language because we have a large number of To respond for possible publication in an Choctaws in our parish. Besides the main [parish], upcoming edition, send your response to we also have two missions.” (Helen Moore, [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at CNS photo/Reuters Philadelphia, Miss.) 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Mother Theodore’s conflict with the bishop Take a pilgrimage (Fourth of five columns) very frail. berated her for her leadership of the with family this fall Mother Theodore’s greatest problem community, and other times he insisted that After Mother Theodore Guérin from 1843 to 1847, though, concerned her he did not want to be involved in the affairs Labor Day has come and gone. And established the Sisters of Providence at relationship with Bishop of the community. now the crisp feel of autumn is in the air. St. Mary-of-the Woods, de la Hailandiere. Even The diocese still owned the property at Why not go on a Ind., they were often before she left for France, St. Mary-of-the-Woods and, at times, the road trip? desperate to keep their it was clear that the bishop bishop would promise to give it to the This isn’t the usual convent and schools believed that he possessed sisters and other times would refuse to do reaction to this time solvent. total control over the so. He insisted on an “Act of Reparation” of year when summer They were short of Sisters of Providence, from the sisters because he believed that gives way to fall. In money, and Bishop despite what the community’s rule said. they had spoken out against him to his addition to the climate Celestine de la Mother Theodore often had to oppose his superiors. changes that preclude Hailandiere of decisions as they affected her community, The matter reached its climax on many typical outdoor Vincennes—who always doing so as respectfully as possible. May 20, 1847. After visiting her activities, there are recruited the sisters to While she was in France, Bishop de la establishments, which by then were also ordinarily a rising come here from France—refused to support Hailandiere took over the community. He scattered from one end of Indiana to the number of commitments for families once them. He suggested that Mother Theodore admitted novices to vows, closed the school other, Mother Theodore went to meet with school begins in August. go back to France to raise money for the the sisters had established in St. Francis- Bishop Hailandiere. During that meeting, But fall can be a good time for parents community. ville, Ill., received three nuns from another the bishop insisted that Mother Theodore and their kids to take a trip, even for a day In 1843, she did return to France and community, opened a new establishment, agree to everything he proposed and then somewhere here in central or southern was gone for 11 months. She was and called for the election of a new left the room, locking the door as he left. Indiana. successful in raising money, and also in superior—all without input from the sisters That night, when two sisters arrived to This year in particular may give us clarifying the relationship between the and contrary to the community’s rule. He see where Mother Theodore was, Bishop even more motivation to do so and to sisters in the United States and those in hoped that the sisters would elect a different Hailandiere released her, but then declared make those trips into pilgrimages. France. superior, but they re-elected Mother to her and the sisters that Mother Theodore In just a couple of weeks, Pope Mother Theodore’s return trip to Indiana Theodore. was no longer the superior. Benedict XVI will solemnly declare was nearly as difficult as her first journey After her return, Mother Theodore’s Furthermore, he said, she was no longer Blessed Mother Theodore Guérin, the there. Her ship again experienced bad meetings with Bishop de la Hailandiere a Sister of Providence. He demanded that 19th-century foundress of the Sisters of weather, and she was ill when she reached grew more and more contentious, often she leave his diocese and forbade her to Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, as New Orleans. Her health continued to be lasting for hours. Sometimes the bishop return to St. Mary-of-the-Woods. † the first saint from Indiana. While hundreds of people from our Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes state will make a pilgrimage to Rome for the Oct. 15 canonization Mass, most Catholics in the archdiocese will remain Conspiring to believe the unbelievable here at home. But that does not mean that they cannot It’s funny how we tolerate things about protecting our borders in past years. I was Wilhelm. In it, Wilhelm, “director of participate in the festivities in a spiritually those we love that would drive us crazy in a so flabbergasted that I forgot to ask him communications for Americans for Limited significant way. stranger. The old where he got this information. Government,” takes the Presbyterian First, the archdiocesan-sponsored saying “love is blind” Now, Frank isn’t the only one advancing Church to task for allegedly publishing a pilgrimage will have prayer intentions seems to be true. outrageous theories. Just think about conspiracy theory. The Presbyterians! for each day of the pilgrimage. These Which brings me to The Da Vinci Code. And merely claiming According to Wilhelm, Westminster will be publicized in the Oct. 6 edition Frank, a dear friend one’s ideas to be true, as Dan Brown did in John Knox Press released a book called of The Criterion and can be viewed at from childhood. Every that novel’s preface, does not make them so. Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: www.CriterionOnline.com. Catholics so often, he calls me Credible sources and logic must do that, A Call to Reflection and Action. Written by remaining in Indiana can join with the on the phone and we unlike the imaginative nonsense that too David Griffin, the book “argues that 9/11 pilgrims in praying for these causes. reminisce. As we visit, often passes for authenticity. was a highly orchestrated Bush adminis- Second, people in Indiana—as well as we share opinions, and Then we had Oliver Stone’s movie, JFK, tration sham. The collapse of the World those interested across the country and this is where the in which the Grassy Knoll figured Trade Center—which the book says was around the world—can read about the toleration part comes in. To be blunt, Frank prominently. After seeing it, if you didn’t brought on by controlled demolitions, not pilgrimage and view pictures of it while it is a conspiracy theorist of the worst kind, a believe the Warren Commission, you’d be Islamic hijackers—was merely a ‘false flag’ is happening on the pilgrimage’s Web log. quality I despise in everyone else. convinced that JFK assassins with umpteen operation, designed to spur wars in the A link to it will be on The Criterion’s Last time we talked, Frank told me when murky motives are still out there. Poor, Middle East. The goal: an all-powerful homepage when the pilgrimage starts on political candidates call him for money he crazy Lee Harvey Oswald would be only American global empire.” Oct. 11. always asks them: What happened at the one of several. Wilhelm concluded: “The old adage that But families who will be in their homes meeting in 1965 (1965?) between President Or how about those who declare that the ‘if you don’t stand for something, you’ll on the day of the canonization can still Bush, Vincente Fox, president of Mexico, Holocaust never happened? That it was all a fall for anything’… seems to apply to the make a pilgrimage of their own here in and someone from Canada? Of course, the plot to gain sympathy for the idea of a Presbyterian leadership.” the state. solicitors never know the answer and Jewish homeland, or something? How’s that I don’t know about that, but if you ask Most appropriate this year would be a neither did I so Frank enlightened me. for outrageous? Considering the vast me, it certainly applies to Griffin, Frank, spiritual journey to St. Mary-of-the- He said the three leaders discussed how number of people who saw the death camps Oliver Stone and Holocaust deniers. Woods. to combine the entire North American in person, how could such a notion exist? There, families can pray together at the continent into one country. He also said But the conspiracy theory that disgusted (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the tomb of Blessed Mother Theodore. They their desire to accomplish this was the me most recently is one I read in a Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular can learn about her and view her personal reason not much has been done about Wall Street Journal column by Heather columnist for The Criterion.) † effects in the Heritage Museum at Providence Center. Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister Finally, they can give thanks and praise to God for the beauty of his creation, especially in the fall’s colorful ’60s film recalls the tensions in prejudice leaves while walking through the grounds of the Sisters of Providence’s Recently, after a busy day, I turned on Paul and I have never understood that Roy Glenn and Beah Richards, and the motherhouse. the television to check Turner Classic kind of prejudice, and do not believe that a housekeeper-maid was played by Isabel A particularly special time to visit Movies, one of the few difference in skin color or ethnic back- Sanders. All are superb in their roles. The St. Mary-of-the-Woods will be on TV stations that I ground or religion should be an issue in film is not without production flaws, but I Oct. 21-22. watch for good films. relationships. Fortunately, we passed on this consider it a classic. Oct. 22 is the anniversary of the day on Guess Who’s Coming openness to our daughters. After the film ended, I remembered the which Blessed Mother Theodore arrived to Dinner had just For readers not familiar with the 1967 following poem that I wrote for a friend at her western Indiana home. Thus, it has begun. film, I highly recommend searching for a whose daughter has a successful interracial been historically celebrated by the Sisters Because neither my copy of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. marriage. For those in similar relationships, of Providence as their “Foundation Day.” husband nor I had ever Paul and I and some of our friends have I dedicate it to all of you: On Oct. 22 this year, there will be a seen it, we decided to since had good conversations about it. Harmony festive public celebration of Blessed have dinner in front of It has been interesting learning that Youthful romance, black and white: Mother Theodore’s canonization. the TV. Paul set up tray Spencer Tracy was deathly ill while filming sunshine on a sable night, For more information about the events tables and served the “crab gumbo” that I his role as the father, yet I would not have moonbeams on a midnight day, at St. Mary-of-the-Woods that weekend, had kept simmering in a crock pot for most guessed that from his acting. It was his last mellowing what others say. go to the Sisters of Providence’s Web of the day. It is very rare for us to do this film. Katharine Hepburn, the mother in the Silent yearning—whispered, dear— site at www.spsmw.org and click on the because we believe dining and TV do not film, was in love with Spencer Tracy in real crystallizing passions clear— link in the box on the homepage titled mix well, but the movie was that important life. warning shunned, caution fleet, “Celebrate.” to us. I was delighted to find Cecil Kellway knowing love is bittersweet. Catholic families in the archdiocese For those unfamiliar with this Academy portraying the Catholic monsignor, whose Hearts retreating from the hate, have much to be thankful for in every Award-winning film, let me explain that it comfortable demeanor, attitude and words souls entreating gentle fate, season. But this fall will be a special time deals with racial issues. A wealthy white of wisdom reflect the teaching of the union bright in graying light, for all of us. couple, played by Spencer Tracy and Catholic Church. vital force—not black, not white. And, for families, it can be a blessed Katharine Hepburn, have their values I’m a longtime fan of Sidney Poitier, too, season when the youngest Catholics in challenged when their daughter brings and he played the fiancé who was a doctor (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of Christ central and southern Indiana can learn home her fiancé, who is black. The idea to Katharine Houghton’s role as the wealthy the King Parish in Indianapolis, is a about a holy woman who helped lay the was considered shocking at the time. couple’s daughter. The fiancé’s parents were regular columnist for The Criterion.) † foundation for our local Church. † The Criterion Friday,September 29, 2006 Page 15

Twenty-sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, Oct. 2 Friday, Oct. 6 The Guardian Angels Bruno, priest Sunday, Oct. 1, 2006 Job 1:6-22 Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher, St. Mark’s Gospel furnishes the last Psalm 17:1-3, 6-7 • Numbers 11:25-29 reading. Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 Here, wealth is not the point. Instead, Matthew 18:1-5, 10 • James 5:1-6 Psalm 139:1-3, 7-10, 13-14 • Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48 John is troubled by the fact that a man uses the name of Jesus to drive away demons. Tuesday, Oct. 3 Luke 10:13-16 How can this be? John does not know Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 The Book of Numbers, the source of the this man. The man is within the circle of Psalm 88:2-8 Saturday, Oct. 7 first reading for this weekend, is one of the disciples. Therefore, the man cannot be Luke 9:51-56 Our Lady of the Rosary first five books of the authentic. Bible. Jesus replies that obviously no enemy Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-17 The ancient of the Lord would, or could, invoke the Wednesday, Oct. 4 Psalm 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, Hebrews, and Jews name of Jesus to accomplish anything Francis of Assisi, religious 130 today, attribute these good. The Lord states that all those of Job 9:1-12, 14-16 Luke 10:17-24 five books, collectively honest faith are of God. Psalm 88:10-15 called the Pentateuch, The reading has a second part. It Sunday, Oct. 8 to . reminds us that the benefits, and indeed the Luke 9:57-62 However, Jews see needs, of this world may be fleeting when Twenty-seventh Sunday in Moses as only the eternity and things of the spirit are Thursday, Oct. 5 Ordinary Time human instrument considered. Job 19:21-27 Genesis 2:18-24 through whom God spoke to the people. Psalm 27:7-9, 13-14 Psalm 128:1-6 Thus, these five books, in the Jewish Reflection Luke 10:1-12 Hebrews 2:9-11 theological mind, are the very words of The story is told that when Cardinal God. For this reason, the Pentateuch, or the Thomas Wolsey—the Archbishop of York Mark 10:2-16 Torah, is the basis of all Jewish belief and in the days immediately prior to King or Mark 10:2-12 religious practice. Even historical events, Henry VIII’s break with the Church as well such as that mentioned in this weekend’s as the chancellor, or prime minister, of reading, have a religious message. for many years—was dying, he The message in this reading is that said that if he had served God as diligently God’s inspiration does not follow any route as he had served the king, he would not be that humans may suppose or prefer. For afraid to die. Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen that matter, mere humans cannot judge This worldly cardinal was hardly alone whether or not a person possesses God’s among humans in looking back upon life grace. with regret. For that matter, Cardinal Moses made this clear. The men Wolsey was hardly the only human Jesus often used parables discussed in the reading did not appear to approaching death to realize that he be worthy messengers of God. Moses squandered time on earth by running after warns his contemporaries that they should material rainbows. He finally saw that to illustrate his teachings not judge these men. God does not operate only the spiritual endures beyond life on according to any human timetable or set of earth. Why did Jesus speak so much in The condemnation of King David by requirements. The Church calls us all to realize that Qparables when he was addressing the prophet Nathan is a classic example For its second reading, the Church this earthly achievements and gains one day mostly illiterate of this in the Bible. David commits weekend presents a section from the will count for nothing. Only our nearness crowds? adultery with the wife of one of his Epistle to James. to God in this life will matter as we face As I understand it, soldiers. To cover up his crime, he has All the epistles are interesting since they entry into the next life. only the religious the husband murdered. reveal the circumstances of Christian life The readings also remind us that we leaders, scribes, Nathan then tells David about a rich several generations after Jesus. They were are human. We can be tempted. priests and the like man who, instead of slaughtering one of written long after the times remembered in Temptations can be strong. We are were educated. his many sheep for his guests, steals and the four Gospels. limited, and our judgments are flawed. Why didn’t Jesus kills the beloved single sheep of a poor The Christians living in the last third of We need God. † just say plainly what man. David says: The man who did this the first century A.D. had to face the fact he wanted to teach? deserves to die. Nathan replies: That man that some people, then as now a minority (Ohio) is you (2 Sm 12). in the population, possessed many material Readers may submit prose We find Jesus doing the same, as, for things. Their wealth produced, then as You are right that Jesus often spoke example, in the story of the Good now, a certain sense of security. It certainly or poetry for faith column Ain parables. If we extend the Samaritan (Lk 10:29-37) or in his provided ease. The Criterion invites readers to meaning of parable to the many forms it parable about the obedient and It was easy for Christians to assume submit original prose or poetry relating has in the Bible—proverbs, similes, disobedient sons (Mt 21:28). that God especially blessed persons of to faith or experiences of prayer for stories, metaphors, “figures” in John’s Especially in Mark, we find that wealth. possible publication in the “My Gospel and others—nearly everything another reason for parables is to obscure The epistle corrects this thinking. Journey to God” column. that Jesus said was a parable. In fact, the message that Jesus is proclaiming. Wealth is impermanent. Furthermore, it so Send material for consideration to Mark says that Jesus spoke to the people Parables allowed Jesus to speak, but to often is a temptation. If nothing else, it “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, only in parables (Mk 4:34). conceal his message about the kingdom distracts us from what truly matters in P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 It’s important to keep in mind that of God from enemies who were all too life, namely being with God and building or e-mail to [email protected]. † most parables went through some ready to accuse him of sedition against up storehouses of spiritual treasures. significant changes in form and meaning the Roman occupation forces. in the process of moving from the life of Finally, another reason was that Jesus through the proclamation of the parables are a common teaching and My Journey to God Christian message in the early Church to memory aid. Good stories always helped their final inclusion in the Gospels. Thus, people understand and reflect in their some of the parables have a different hearts on what Jesus was revealing to focus from one Gospel to another. them. Raboni Parables were a common teaching Perhaps this advantage especially technique for rabbis and other religious applied to mostly illiterate audiences, but I searched the roads of Palestine leaders for much the same reason that it doesn’t end there. Even for us, nothing I did not find Him there. Jesus used them. Their most obvious in the Bible more crystallizes Jesus’ I read the pages of Scripture purpose was to illustrate a teaching. The proclamation of the reign of God, our I found Him everywhere! stories of the Prodigal Son, for example, part in that kingdom and God’s uncondi- or the Good Samaritan are perfect tional, all-encompassing love for us than Yahweh illustrations of the preferential love that the great Gospel stories that I’ve Fullness of life God has for sinners and social outcasts. mentioned and countless others, such as Adonai Jesus often spoke in parables to Matthew’s description of the Last Lord of mystery “trick” his listeners into really hearing Judgment (Mt 25:31-46). Kyrios what he was saying. The crowds Parables are an intimate part of the Lord sometimes thought they knew where he Bible. It’s impossible to imagine the Raboni was going then he suddenly disarmed Gospels or the life of Jesus without Master, Teacher them by throwing in a hook at the end them. Messiah that forced them to see themselves as the Anoined One, Christ rascal in the story. (A free brochure on ecumenism,

Jeshua CNS photo/Crosiers As distinct from allegories that including questions on intercommunion Leader, Savior usually have many points of meaning, and other ways of sharing worship, is (Benedictine Sister Norma Gettelfinger is a parables normally have only one. To available by sending a stamped, self- Revealing yourself to me member of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in know what that point or thrust is, one of addressed envelope to Father John I need only listen, wait, watch! Beech Grove. This church window depicts the most helpful questions to ask is: Dietzen, Box 5515, Peoria, IL 61612. Jesus giving his Sermon on the Mount, which What comes at the end? Who is being Questions for this column may be sent to By Sister Norma Gettelfinger, O.S.B. begins with the Beatitudes.) spoken to at the finish, and what is Father Dietzen at the same address or by being said? e-mail in care of [email protected].) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006 Pope expresses respect Criterion wins national award for papal coverage for Muslims, pledges to Staff report continue dialogue The Criterion has earned a first-place national award for coverage of Pope John Paul II’s death and CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (CNS)—Meeting with historical look at his 26-year papacy in the Islamic ambassadors and representatives, Pope 2006 National Federation of Press Women (NFPW) Benedict XVI expressed his deep respect for Muslims, Communications Contest. pledged to continue dialogue, and said Islamic and “Pope John Paul II: 1920-2005—The World Christian leaders should cooperate to curb violence. Was His Mission” earned the top prize for “Faithful to the teachings of their own religious “Sections/Supplements Edited, Infrequent, traditions, Christians and Muslims must learn to work to- Non-daily Newspaper.” The award was presented gether, as indeed they already do in many common under- during the NFPW conference on Sept. 9 in Denver. takings, in order to guard against all forms of intolerance Senior reporter Mary Ann Wyand earned the and to oppose all manifestations of violence,” the pope said. national honor—which she said really is a staff “As for us, religious authorities and political leaders, award—for editing the 32-page commemorative we must guide and encourage them in this direction,” he edition published on April 8, 2005. said. Along with Wyand, news team members Brandon The unprecedented encounter at the pope’s summer Evans and Sean Gallagher worked tirelessly to make residence on Sept. 25 was designed to soothe Muslim sure the commemorative issue served as a snapshot resentment over a recent papal speech that cited a histori- of John Paul II’s life and papacy. Evans, who now cal criticism of Islam and the concept of holy war. The serves as archdiocesan webmaster, also continually pope later distanced himself from the quoted material, and updated The Criterion Online Edition. said he was sorry Muslims had been offended. But the commitment to the special issue didn’t Addressing the Islamic representatives at Castel end there. Art director Ann Sternberg and graphic Gandolfo, the pope alluded only briefly to the earlier specialists Dave Sechrist and Louie Stump (who has speech. Instead, he focused on assuring Muslim communi- since retired) all did yeoman’s work in helping the ties that his papacy was not backtracking on the dialogue issue come together, noted Greg Otolski, associate opened by the Second Vatican Council and developed in publisher of The Criterion. large part by his predecessor, Pope John Paul II. “It’s an unfortunate part of the journalism busi- The pope expressed his “esteem and profound respect” ness that newspaper staffs often do their best work for Muslim believers and said he wanted to continue to when moments of great sadness or tragedy strike. build bridges, especially between Muslims and Christians. The death of Pope John Paul II was one of those oc- Productive dialogue, he said, will be based on mutual casions,” Otolski said. knowledge, which “with joy recognizes the religious values While several other diocesan newspapers that we have in common and, with loyalty, respects the throughout the country delayed their special editions proud of, but one that readers would want to keep differences.” about the pope’s death until the following week, forever.” He said historical animosities should be left behind. The “the entire staff of The Criterion worked around the Other Criterion staff members—including former lessons of the past, he said, should help Christians and clock under extreme deadline pressure to put together associate publisher William Bruns, business manager Muslims seek “paths of reconciliation” that lead to respect an outstanding issue of the newspaper filled with Ron Massey, and senior account executives Barbara for individual identity and freedom. local, national, and international stories and photos Brinkman and Loretta Hahn Williams (who has since The papal talk was broadcast live on the Arab television about the life and death of the pope,” Otolski said. retired)—also worked on deadline to publish special network Al-Jazeera. † “We tried to keep our readers foremost in our minds editions about the papal funeral, election of the new throughout the process, and I think we ended up pope and installation of Pope Benedict XVI in with a paper that not only would the archdiocese be subsequent weeks. †

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Malone listens to the comments of a participant The National Directory for Catechesis (NDC), during a Sept. 12 symposium on the approved by the U.S. bishops in 2005, is intended to help National Directory for Catechesis in Indian- American catechetical leaders be responsive to the apolis. prevailing culture and to understand all religious Sean Gallagher Photo by education ministries in light of the Church’s mission of evangelization. This was the message that Portland, Maine, Bishop Richard J. Malone shared with more than 150 leaders of archdiocesan parishes and schools at a Sept. 12 symposium on the NDC sponsored by the archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education at The Atrium conference center in Indianapolis. From the start of his remarks, Bishop Malone emphasized the importance of evangelization in catechesis. “If there’s one overriding principle in the new directory for catechesis, it’s that everything we do, not only in catechesis but across all the ministries represented here, everything has an evangelizing dimension to it,” said Bishop Malone, a member of the U.S. Bishops’ Catechesis Committee. He went on to explain what evangelization, as it is lived out in practical terms, really means. “Fundamentally, it is simply to live one’s Catholic life in such a way that it gives witness to others, not that we’re perfect, but that we’re different because we belong to Jesus,” Bishop Malone said. “There’s something different about a Catholic Christian.” Bishop Malone also spoke about the strong emphasis that the NDC places on the cultural context in which evangelization happens in America. “We really can’t figure out how to do what we have to do unless we keep our finger on the pulse of the cultures in which we’re doing our ministry,” he said. Bishop Malone described the concept of a culture as “the mood, the atmosphere, the general assumptions and values that are floating around” and said that “it’s an atmosphere more than a system.” He then described several dominant themes in American culture, including the valuing of freedom, even if its purpose is sometimes misunderstood, and moral relativism. Participants in the symposium also shared their estimation of what is important in American culture. Among the traits mentioned were consumerism, a priority of the individual over the community and a lack of historical perspective. “We do not evangelize, we do not catechize, we who are ordained do not preach the Gospel at Sunday Mass in a vacuum,” Bishop Malone said. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, who in his work on the Committee on Catechesis helped craft the NDC, also shared his thoughts about what should be the priorities in catechetical ministry today. Foremost among them, the archbishop said, was prayer. “Pope Benedict XVI, in his … encyclical, ‘God is Love,’ said that we tend to think that sometimes that prayer is not so important because there’s so much to do,” Archbishop Buechlein said. “But he makes a very impassioned plea that we see that prayer is the source of authentic and genuine mission and ministry in the Church.” He also told the catechetical leaders at the symposium that while developing good teaching methodologies is important, “teaching from experience alone” is inadequate and that proper emphasis should be placed on passing on the content of the faith. Encouraging all Catholics to grow in awareness of the importance of their vocation was also a message from the archbishop. “That includes lay leadership. We need help so badly,” he said. “We also need priests, and we need consecrated women and men. Please don’t neglect helping our folks understand this as part of the needs of our local Church.” During a break in the symposium, Mary Jo Thomas- Day, the director of religious education at St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, spoke about how hearing again the basic principles and priorities in catechesis is still important to her. “I think just like we promote our adults to be in faith formation throughout their lives, we as catechetical leaders have to be updated on what the Church is teaching in order to teach our parents and students,” she said. “It re-energizes me to go out and continue my mission because I see so many others doing the same thing.” Thomas-Day, a 28-year veteran in catechetical ministry in the archdiocese, ministers alongside Kenna Brewer, a newcomer to religious education ministry who is a participant in the University of Notre Dame’s Echo Program, which seeks to recruit and form the next generation of catechetical leaders. “I think that the benefit of participating in something like this with leaders of our Church who have a much broader understanding of what is going on … is that they’re able to more accurately contextualize [the NDC] for us,” said Brewer. † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2006

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