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Download Entire Issue in PDF Format It’s All Good Columnist Patti Lamb reflects on taking time to acknowledge God’s blessings each day, page 12. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com February 7, 2014 Vol. LIV, No. 17 75¢ Cardinal Tagle: Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by Haiyan recovery ‘There’s a lot of can show world a united Church need out there’ MANILA, Philippines (CNS)—An emotional Cardinal Luis Tagle of Manila welcomed U.S. Catholic leaders reviewing Typhoon Haiyan recovery efforts, saying that the work to rebuild devastated communities can show the world a Church united in the service of people in need. With tears welling up as he described the utter destruction he saw during a visit to Tacloban soon after the Nov. 8 typhoon swept in from the sea with 195-mile-an- hour winds and a tsunami-like storm surge, Cardinal Tagle reminded the international delegation on Feb. 3 that storm survivors can teach visitors about the importance of perseverance and maintaining faith in God. “I don’t know how we could make the whole world realize how much we could help. For a few days [during my visit], we knew it was possible for humankind to be together, to be one, to feel for one another and to transcend the barriers, all the baggage, the history that religion, that politics, After giving him a dish of lasagna and a pair of pants, volunteer Kathleen Murphy takes time to talk with a visitor to the Garden Door Ministry at St. John the financial economy has imposed on the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. During this brutal winter in Indiana, the Garden Door Ministry is one of the Catholic efforts that have reached out everyone,” Cardinal Tagle said in a meeting to the homeless and other people in need. at the offices of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines. “In that regard, we saw the response and Ministries, outreaches tackle ongoing challenge demand here,” he told a delegation of more than a dozen of helping homeless during brutal winter representatives of By John Shaughnessy asking for money for food. weather, we have been serving hot meals, the U.S. Conference “He was just wearing a sweatshirt, thanks to the generosity of donors,” of Catholic Bishops The doorbell rang on another bitter, and he looked like he was having said Bartolowits, coordinator of the (USCCB), Catholic below-zero-wind-chill day, letting hypothermia,” Bartolowits recalled. “I told Garden Door Ministry. “We’ve served Relief Services Dave Bartolowits know there was another him that St. John’s was a place he could go spaghetti, lasagna, chili and bean soup. (CRS) and Caritas person in need shivering outside the rectory for a hot meal, a coat, a hat and gloves— There are times when we serve 70 meals Australia. “There is door of St. John the Evangelist Parish in and I gave him directions. He clearly a day. so much hope for downtown Indianapolis. needed everything.” “We also provide limited clothing. We the world. We just Bartolowits was nearing the end of his The need for food, clothes and shelter have a room where we store coats, shirts, Cardinal prayed that this will Luis Tagle two-hour volunteer shift at the parish’s has been constant in a brutal winter hats, pants. And we have some blankets be sustained and will Garden Door Ministry, a ministry that marked by soaring snow totals and we’re handing out, again thanks to the not become sporadic, only occasional. We serves hot meals and provides warm dangerously plunging cold temperatures generosity of donors.” hope it becomes a lifestyle to be spearheaded clothing every weekday from 9 a.m. to in Indiana. The doors to the parish church are by Christians.” 5 p.m. to the city’s homeless. Just as constant has been the Catholic open into the evening, offering people a Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, As he headed toward the door, the response to that need, from the efforts place to “stay warm, to pray, to get out of Ky., USCCB president, who was leading violinist for the Indianapolis Symphony of volunteers to the commitment of the weather,” Bartolowits said. the delegation on its weeklong visit to Orchestra had just finished telling a archdiocesan Catholic Charities. “We’re trying to provide an the Philippines, told the cardinal that the story about a young man who recently “We always try to provide a sandwich atmosphere of hospitality for everyone U.S. Church wanted to work side-by-side approached him on a downtown street, and water, but during this cold stretch of See HOMELESS, page 8 with Filipinos in the long recovery process. See TYPHOON, page 3 ‘Part of the call to discipleship’: Bloomington parish starts new program with Lilly grant money By Natalie Hoefer through a new campus evangelization program started by St. Paul Catholic Center BLOOMINGTON—The young man sat in Bloomington. Herald-Times forward in his chair, expressing enthusiasm The program is the result of the parish as his finger tapped the table to emphasize campus ministry receiving $98,055 through his points. a Lilly Endowment grant last fall. “You always hear that part of being Christian is spreading the good news,” he ‘It was just the right time’ Photo courtesy Jon Blau of the said. “I’d always heard that and thought, It all started with an unexpected phone ‘Well, that’s something I can choose or not.’ call last summer. “But the more involved you get and the “[Lilly Endowment] actually called us more into your faith you get, you see why See DISCIPLESHIP, page 3 it’s so good, and you want other people to have the same thing.” The young man is not a priest, Dominican Father Simon-Felix Michalski, associate seminarian or director of catechesis pastor of St. Paul Catholic Center, talks with an in a parish. Indiana University student on the Bloomington He is Pierce Cavanaugh, a senior at campus in this Aug. 26, 2013, photo. Father Simon Indiana University (IU) and one of the is meeting weekly with the student leaders of the first leaders of a network of small faith small group program the parish’s campus ministry groups being established at the university launched this semester. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, February 7, 2014 Catholic identity must be clear, uncompromising, pope tells university VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Catholic Though the pope made no references universities must give “uncompromising” to any controversies, the University of and “unambiguous” witness to Church Notre Dame had reignited a heated debate teaching and defend themselves from all about maintaining the Catholic identity efforts to dilute their Catholic identity, of U.S. Catholic institutions of higher Pope Francis said. education when it invited President Barack Catholic universities, “by their very Obama to deliver the commencement Romano CNS photo/L’Osservatore nature, are committed to demonstrating address and receive an honorary law the harmony of faith and reason and degree in 2009. the relevance of the Christian message Several U.S. bishops and other for a full and authentically human critics said Obama’s support of legal life,” he said in an audience with abortion and embryonic stem-cell members of the board of trustees of research made him an inappropriate the University of Notre Dame and choice to be commencement speaker at a other officials. Catholic university. The pope met on Jan. 30 with some More recently, a Notre Dame professor, 130 people representing the Indiana-based Gary Gutting, wrote an op-ed piece in Catholic university, who were in Rome for the New York Times on Jan. 23 calling the inauguration of the university’s new on Pope Francis to rethink the Church’s Rome center. absolute opposition to abortion. In many Speaking in Italian, Pope Francis cases, abortions are immoral, the Catholic praised the university, saying it “has made professor of philosophy said, but “this Pope Francis accepts a gift presented by Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the an outstanding contribution to the Church by no means implies that most abortions University of Notre Dame, and Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, during a meeting with members in your country through its commitment actually performed are immoral,” of the board of trustees and other Notre Dame officials at the Vatican on Jan. 30. Catholic universities to the religious education of the young, particularly in cases of pregnancy must give “uncompromising” and “unambiguous” witness to Church teaching and defend themselves and to serious scholarship inspired by resulting from rape or when the life of the from all efforts to dilute their Catholic identity, Pope Francis said in his address at the meeting. confidence in the harmony of faith and mother is in danger. reason in the pursuit of truth and virtue.” A group of university alumni have also He said the institution’s original vision, expressed concern about the institution’s guided by its religious founders of the decision to comply with the federal Congregation of Holy Cross, “remains, Affordable Care Act, which requires in the changed circumstances of the employer-provided health insurance 21st century, central to the university’s to include coverage of contraceptives, distinctive identity and its service to the sterilizations and abortion-inducing drugs Church and American society.” while the university continues its lawsuit Catholic identity and missionary against the mandate. discipleship are critical, the pope said, In the homily at Mass in the chapel of and need to be evident in the way his residence that morning, Pope Francis Your support is critical to Catholics live and in the workings of all focused on the importance of humility and Catholic institutions.
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