Faith and Family Find the complete joy of Jesus in everyday blessings, writes columnist Sean Gallagher, page 12. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com August 29, 2014 Vol. LIV, No. 46 75¢ Groups lash out at new opt-out rules for ‘Tested HHS mandate WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pro-life in fire’ groups that have battled the federal government since the 2012 issuing of rules mandating nearly all employers to provide abortifacients, sterilizations and contraceptives in their health insurance plans derided the federal government’s latest amendment to those rules. The proposed changes would allow religious institutions—and potentially some for-profit companies—to opt out of the federal Health and Human Services Administration’s (HHS) mandate drawn up as part of the Affordable Care Act. “Once again, HHS continues to violate the conscience rights of Americans while claiming just the opposite,” said an Aug. 22 statement from Charmaine Yoest, president and CEO of Americans United for Life. “Our own organization is a good example of the challenge posed: Americans United for Life is a public interest law firm that opposes life-ending drugs and devices required under the HHS mandate,” Yoest said. “Nevertheless, because we are not For Leron and Hannah Giesting, the early years of their marriage have been tested by unexpected, serious health concerns. Here, the Batesville farming a faith-based group, we may be forced to couple poses for a family photo with their three daughters, Felicity, left, Nalley and Siena. (Submitted photo) purchase life-ending drugs and devices following the radical Challenges deepen young couple’s bond pro-abortion political agenda of this administration.” of marriage and relationship with God An Aug. 22 fact sheet from the (Editor’s note: Marriage has become let him be alright. Please don’t take him him again.” federal Centers an even greater focus in the Church from me. Please let him see her grow up.” Like most young couples, Hannah and for Medicare and the archdiocese this year. Noting Married less than a year at the time, Leron never expected that this situation and Medicaid that marriage and the family are “in Hannah made her prayer as she sat next to could be happening to them. Services outlined crisis,” Pope Francis will lead a meeting her sick husband, Leron, in a doctor’s office Members of St. Louis Parish in Charmaine Yoest the interim final of the Synod of Bishops on the issue while she held their newborn daughter. Batesville, they never expected that their regulations, issued in October. And Archbishop Joseph She could feel her worry in every part of marriage and their faith would be “tested after two Supreme Court actions: a June 30 W. Tobin has made it an archdiocesan her body. in fire” so early. ruling that, under the Religious Freedom goal to “strengthen marriage and “Eyes closed to stop the tears,” she Restoration Act, closely held companies family life.” With that greater focus in recalls. “Ears plugged to drown out the Looking forward to a long life together may be exempted from the mandate as a mind, The Criterion has been sharing a deafening ‘what ifs’ surrounding mysterious When Hannah and Leron were married religious right, and a July 3 temporary stay continuing series on marriage. This week, and very negative physical symptoms. on Sept. 19, 2009, she couldn’t have been granted to Christian-run Wheaton College in our story focuses on a young couple and Hands clutched so tightly your knuckles more excited. She knew she was marrying Illinois from complying with the mandate. the challenges that tested their marriage.) are white.” her best friend and looking forward to a Under the new rules, an eligible Then she listened as the doctor long lifetime together. organization may advise HHS in writing By John Shaughnessy mentioned that Leron could have stomach She could see their future before of its religious objection to contraception cancer. The feeling of panic intensified. them as they left St. Alphonsus Ligouri coverage. HHS will then notify the insurer Overwhelmed with fear, Hannah “I was afraid that my husband was going Church in Zionsville, Ind., in the for a health plan, or the Department Giesting silently pleaded to God, “Please to die. I was afraid that I would never see See MARRIAGE, page 8 See HHS, page 8 Force alone cannot stop ‘religious cleansing’ in the Middle East, Franciscan leader says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Although Christians, Muslims and Jews have struggled for hundreds of years to live peacefully alongside each other in the Middle East, “we have never seen the kind of ‘religious cleansing’ we are witnessing today,” said the head of the region’s Franciscans. “All religious communities must raise their voices against this abomination” being carried out, particularly in Iraq and Syria, by terrorists calling themselves the Islamic State, said Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, custos of the Holy Land. Speaking in Rimini, Italy, on Aug. 24 at an international meeting sponsored by the Communion and Liberation movement, Father Pierbattista said political, economic and probably military intervention will be needed to protect the Christian and other minority communities of the Middle East. However, he added, their survival ultimately will depend on the courage and willingness of the region’s inhabitants to love and protect one another. “Political solutions must be sought urgently, but they won’t save Members of the Yezidi religious minority who fled from violence in Christianity in the Middle East,” he said. “Their presence will be saved Mosul, Iraq, receive aid on Aug. 21 in Dohuk province, in the northern part by the little ones, by those who courageously step up and challenge of the country. The Franciscan custos of the Holy Land said force alone See MIDDLE EAST, page 2 cannot stop “religious cleansing” in the Middle East. (CNS photo/EPA) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014

in almost every community. The Arab Spring movement MIDDLE EAST that began in 2011 “gave rise to continued from page 1 great enthusiasm,” particularly death, selflessly loving their among the region’s youths brothers and sisters.” looking for greater freedom and Clearly, the Islamic State’s opportunity, he said. “But this “fanaticism must be stopped, process was in a certain way if necessary even with force,” hijacked by religious movements the Franciscan priest said. and parties that transformed it “Nevertheless, the use of force into a power struggle between without a plan for reconstruction the different religious and social on every level will resolve components of the Middle East, nothing. Force stops; it especially between Shiite and destroys. However, if there Sunni” Muslims. is no reconstruction then the The growing power of extremist void created by the use of force Muslim groups, he said, threatens will give life to even greater not only the Christian and Yezidi extremism.” minorities, but also other Muslims Father Pierbattista, who is who don’t think like they do. based in Jerusalem, said the entire The Franciscan priest said Middle East is undergoing a that throughout the region he has profound transformation. witnessed Christians and Muslims “The kind of stability that for coming to each other’s rescue, 40 years characterized relations sharing the little they have even in or non-relations in these countries the most desperate situations. Such An Iraqi Christian child who fled from religious-based violence in Mosul, Iraq, lies on a bed on Aug. 21 at Mar Elias has ended definitively, but what gestures, “present everywhere, Monastery Church in Amman, Jordan. The Franciscan custos of the Holy Land said force alone cannot stop “religious will take its place still is not clear. constitute the secret and necessary cleansing” in the Middle East. (CNS photo/Jamal Nasrallah, EPA) “The Middle East is in flames,” power to move beyond and Father Pierbattista said. And not stop in the darkness of the everything only on those terms sacrifice on the cross. “Our actions must be accompanied while the tolerance between some moment, in the power of Satan.” “has nothing to do with the “Jesus became Lord of the by a profound and serene groups seems to have disappeared, While political, military and Christian faith,” which is a world on the cross, not after the conviction that in order to bear new signs of caring for and economic interventions must be commitment to follow Jesus success of the multiplication of fruit everything we do must be protecting one another can be seen considered, he said, evaluating whose triumph came from his loaves,” Father Pierbattista said. united to the action of Christ.” † Transition plan is announced for two charter schools next year By John Shaughnessy “The Indianapolis Office of Education Innovation will priority is the education and formation of your children work closely with the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, which throughout this current academic year, with the ultimate Four years after the archdiocese received approval owns the two school buildings, to identify another charter goal of preparing them for college- and career-readiness,” to create two charter schools in Indianapolis, one of the management organization to serve the community at the Elson wrote. schools will re-open next year as a Catholic school while current Andrew Academy site, 4050 E. 38th St.,” the press She also noted that informational nights will be the other hopes to continue under new management, release noted. scheduled at the schools to answer any questions according to the independent board that oversees the The statement also noted that the archdiocese plans and concerns. two schools. to re-open a Catholic school at the Padua Academy site, In 2010, the City-County Council of Indianapolis In announcing the decision to relinquish the charters 349 N. Warman Ave., for the 2015-16 school year. and Marion County approved the archdiocese’s plan for of Andrew Academy and Padua Academy at the end “All of the students currently attending Padua St. Anthony Catholic School and St. Andrew & St. Rita of the 2014-15 school year, the president of the board Academy will have the opportunity to enroll at that Catholic Academy to become charter schools. As part of directors of ADI Schools Inc. said, “It is in the best Catholic school,” the press release noted. “Placement of the approval, the schools had to change their names interest of the parents and students to offer alternatives to assistance will also be available to all current students and they couldn’t promote the Catholic faith during the current schools.” of both Andrew Academy and Padua Academy who school hours. “We have worked the past four years to provide a wish to attend another Catholic school, charter school or The archdiocese formed a separate corporation— quality education to the children of these communities,” traditional public school.” ADI Schools, Inc.—in 2010 to oversee the two schools to said Marc Guess, president of the ADI board of directors. A letter announcing the decision and the transition ensure that all aspects of their governance and operational “Our focus has always been to do what is best for the plans was sent on Aug. 22 to the families of activities conformed to state and federal laws. students. We believe these changes will allow for better Andrew Academy and Padua Academy. In the letters, the “High-quality schools are critical to the health and opportunities for these children and their families.” director of the ADI Schools, Peggy Elson, stated that the well-being of our city,” said Brandon Brown, director of A transition plan for the two schools for the 2015-16 schools remain committed this year to “providing the best charter schools for the City of Indianapolis. “We support school year is already in place, according to a press education” for the children there. the ADI Board’s decision and appreciate its commitment release from ADI. “Even as we prepare for this transition, our top to putting the interests of students and families first.” † Pope’s 2015 World Peace Day message will focus on human trafficking VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Human trafficking destroys social plague remains all too real in today’s world” with an annual Mass with the victims of trafficking, and soon the lives of millions of children, women and men each child labor, forced prostitution, trafficking for organs and after his election as pope in 2013, he asked the pontifical year, making it a real threat to peace, the Vatican said as it a variety of forms of forced labor. academies of sciences and of social sciences to study the announced Pope Francis’ 2015 World Peace Day message Trafficking, which generates huge amounts of income problem of modern-day slavery and ways for the Church would focus on the phenomenon. for organized crime, threatens peace because it is based on to work with others to stop it. “Slaves no more, but brothers and sisters” will be a lack of recognition of the fundamental human dignity of In March, the Vatican, the Anglican Communion the theme for the Jan. 1, 2015, commemoration and for its victims, the Vatican statement said. and others launched the Global Freedom Network. The the message Pope Francis will write for the occasion, “Fraternity requires us to reject any inequality which initiative, based at the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, according to the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. would allow one person to enslave another,” the statement aims to prevent modern forms of slavery; to protect, Pope Francis has called human trafficking “a crime said. “Our purpose is to build a civilization based on the rescue and rehabilitate victims; and to promote concrete against humanity” and “an open wound on the body of equal dignity of every person without discrimination.” measures that condemn or criminalize human trafficking. contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ.” The pope’s full message for World Peace Day The United Nations estimates 2.4 million people In describing why Pope Francis chose trafficking as traditionally is released by the Vatican in mid-December are trafficked at any given time and their exploitation the theme for World Peace Day 2015, a statement from and is sent, through Vatican diplomats, to the leaders of generates $32 billion in annual profits for criminals. The the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace said, “Many nations around the world. Global Slavery Index estimates nearly 30 million people people think that slavery is a thing of the past,” but “this As archbishop of Buenos Aires, the pope celebrated worldwide are living in slave-like conditions. †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—The parents of James Foley were touched when Pope Francis called to comfort them after the death of their son, a U.S. journalist killed by Islamic State militants in Syria. In an Aug. 22 interview on NBC’s “Today” show, John and Diane Foley briefly described their phone conversation on Aug. 21 with the pope, in which they spoke of shared grief at the death of loved ones. “Pope Francis See related editorial, was so dear page 4. because he is grieving himself, having just lost three members of his family and [with] his nephew critically ill,” Diane Foley said on the program. “Here in the midst of his tremendous grief, he took the time to call. Our whole family was there, one of our beloved priest friends . U.S. journalist James Foley speaks at Northwestern University’s . . was there, my brother-in-law spoke in Bishop Peter A. Libasci of Manchester, N.H., walks down the aisle of Medill School of Journalism in Evanston, Ill., after being released Spanish to him. He was just so kind.” Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Church in Rochester, N.H., following the Aug. 24 from imprisonment in Libya in 2011. Foley, a freelance war The wife and two young children memorial service for slain U.S. journalist James Foley. Foley was seen being correspondent from New Hampshire and a Marquette University of the pope’s nephew, 35-year-old executed in a video released by Islamic State militants in Syria on Aug. 19. alum, was killed at the hands of the Islamic State militant group. Emanuel Horacio Bergoglio, were killed (CNS photo/Katherine Taylor, EPA) (CNS photo/Tommy Giglio, Northwestern University via Reuters) in a car crash on Aug. 19 in Argentina. Bergoglio was critically injured. bringing important images of war and specifically the rosary, got him through Marquette posted a link to his John Foley said on the “Today” oppressive regimes to the rest of the world. captivity in a military detention center in article along with a statement about show that “we felt very comforted and The memorial Mass at Our Lady of the Tripoli. his death on the university’s website: supported” that the pope offered his Rosary Church, the Foleys’ parish church, He had been captured with www.marquette.edu. personal prayer was packed, with people standing three two colleagues, he noted. “We extend our heartfelt prayers and for them and their deep in the back and sides of the church, “Each day brought increasing worry wishes for healing to James’ family and son during the according to media reports. that our moms would begin to panic. My friends during this very difficult time,” conversation that Bishop Libasci asked the crowd colleague, Clare, was supposed to call her the university’s statement noted. “[He] lasted more than to follow the words of the Prayer of mom on her birthday, which was the day had a heart for social justice and used 20 minutes. St. Francis: “It is in pardoning that we are after we were captured. I had still not fully his immense talents to tell the difficult A Vatican pardoned. It is in dying that we are born to admitted to myself that my mom knew stories in the hopes that they might make a spokesperson said eternal life.” what had happened. But I kept telling Clare difference in the world.” that Pope Francis The bishop observed that Foley my mom had a strong faith. Foley’s parents talked about the heart of was particularly went back to covering conflicts in the “I prayed she’d know I was OK. I their son when they spoke to reporters on “struck by the faith” Middle East after a previous kidnapping prayed I could communicate through some Aug. 20 on the front yard of their home. of Foley’s mother. in Libya in 2011. He was released after cosmic reach of the universe to her.” “We thank God for the gift of Jim,” his Pope Francis James Foley 44 days that time. He wrote about how he began to pray mother said. “We are so, so proud of him.” was kidnapped “Jim went back [to the war zone] the rosary. Diane Foley added that her son was in November 2012 while covering the again that we might open our eyes, that “It was what my mother and “a courageous, fearless journalist—the civil war in Syria as a freelance journalist. we might indeed know how precious is grandmother would have prayed. I said best of America.” The Islamic State posted a video on the this gift,” the bishop said. “May almighty 10 Hail Mary’s between each Our Father. John Foley told reporters: “We think his Web on Aug. 19 showing Foley being God grant peace to James and to all our It took a long time, almost an hour to count strength came from God.” His wife added, beheaded, saying it was in retaliation for fragile world.” 100 Hail Mary’s off on my knuckles. And “We know it did.” U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq. In 2011, after he was released by his it helped to keep my mind focused. Clare As the parents grieved, they also found a During a memorial Mass on Aug. 24, kidnappers in Libya, Foley wrote an article and I prayed together out loud. It felt reason to find comfort. Foley was described as living his faith for the alumni magazine of Marquette energizing to speak our weaknesses and “It’s not difficult to find solace,” his through his work. Bishop Peter A. Libasci University in Milwaukee. A 1996 graduate hopes together, as if in a conversation with father noted, saying that he knows their son of Manchester, N.H., lauded Foley for of Marquette, Foley described how prayer, God, rather than silently and alone.” is “in God’s hands.” † Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference on Sept. 20 seeks to build faith By Sean Gallagher

Catholic speakers from near and far will help strengthen the faith of Catholic men from across the state on Sept. 20 at the 2014 Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference in Indianapolis. In addition to a full slate of speakers, the conference will include a midday Mass with Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin serving as the liturgy’s homilist. After lunch, eucharistic adoration and Benediction will Archbishop take place in the afternoon. The sacrament Fr. Brian Dudzinski Fr. Michael Gaitley, M.I.C. Hector Molina Joseph W. Tobin Dcn. Rick Wagner of reconciliation will be available throughout the conference. organization in El Cajon, Calif. attendees about the importance of learned about our faith, and we heard about Marians of the Immaculate Conception Fox is looking forward to hearing fatherhood. it from some great presenters.’ ” Father Michael Gaitley will give two Molina explain the Church’s teachings Father Brian Dudzinski, pastor of Fox encouraged men interested in the presentations during the event. related to various controversial issues St. John Vianney Parish in Fishers, Ind., in conference to bring friends or relatives “The people who know of him have facing society today—marriage the Lafayette Diocese, will give a reflection with them. He likened it to the way many raved about him,” said conference redefinition, pro-life issues and others during a period of eucharistic adoration. people prefer going to sports events with organizer Mike Fox, a member of St. Pius related to religious liberty. Father Patrick Beidelman, executive other people. X Parish in Indianapolis. “He’s a younger “He’ll touch on quite a few things director of the archdiocesan Secretariat for “There are a lot of people who want to priest, in his 30s. He’s written several that will be very helpful for us everyday Spiritual Life and Worship, will welcome come, but they don’t really want to go by books. He’s very, very dynamic. He is Catholics—to help us know more about the conference participants and lead them themselves,” Fox said. “And especially for definitely one [speaker] that people are why the Church believes what it believes,” in prayer to open the event. those people who have come before, invite excited about.” Fox said. Ken Ogorek, archdiocesan director of somebody who hasn’t attended it.” Father Michael’s religious community Other speakers come from central catechesis, will serve as the conference’s This year’s event will take place at is based in Stockbridge, Mass. Another Indiana. Deacon Rick Wagner, vice master of ceremonies. the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, speaker, Hector Molina, is a staff president for mission and ministry This is the first time that the men’s 350 W. Maryland St., in Indianapolis. apologist for Catholic Answers, a at Bishop Chatard High School in conference has been held since 2012. Fox Registration will begin at 8 a.m. and the Catholic apologetics and evangelization Indianapolis, will talk to conference said that the fact that it wasn’t held in 2013 conference will conclude at 4:30 p.m. revealed how important it is for many Registration for the conference, which Catholic men across the state. is sponsored by the Marian Center of “There are men in groups from different Indianapolis, is $45 per person, $40 per ‘There are a lot of people who want to come, but they don’t really parishes that look forward to that day,” Fox person in groups of 10 or more and $25 per want to go by themselves. And especially for those people who have said. “There’s a pilgrimage group of two person for students. Clergy and seminarians come before, invite somebody who hasn’t attended it.’ busloads from Evansville coming up. may attend free of charge. “They just really enjoy it because we’ve had a history of very dynamic speakers. (To learn more about the 2014 Indiana —Mike Fox, Indiana Catholic Men’s Conference organizer Even if you don’t know who they are [in Catholic Men’s Conference or to register, advance], you walk away and go, ‘Wow. log on to www.indianacatholicmen.com or That was a wonderful day because we call 317-888-0873.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014

Opinion Letters to the Editor Columnist’s piece, conjugal act, which [according to Father Pacholczyk] would not be morally statistics share acceptable,” it strengthened the bond of Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 challenges of black marriage, and was consistent with Jesus’ Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor commandment to love one another. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus community Father Pacholczyk’s attempt at “Making A recent piece by noted Sense of Bioethics” did not make sense. Washington Post columnist The beauty of the “marital embrace” Eugene Robinson initially focused extends beyond a specific act of sex. God’s Editorial on the tragic shooting of 18-year-old gift of life is greater than the acts that Michael Brown by a police officer in Father Pacholczyk identifies. Ferguson, Mo. The use of a medical procedure to help James Foley: ‘It didn’t However, Robinson’s thoughtful produce human beings who are children and non-accusatory reflections on this of God—every bit as much as those who death of a young black man by a white were produced by the “beauty of the make sense, but faith did’ police officer then led to his observation marital embrace” that Father Pacholczyk No one deserves to die like this. regarding a same-day shooting death describes—is not morally unacceptable. It And no parents or family members elsewhere of an innocent black 3-year-old is life-giving and filled with love. should have to deal with the reality that girl by a gun-happy black man with a long the heinous and barbaric way in which criminal record. Alan Mytty their loved one is taken from them is Robinson went on to correctly note Indianapolis temporarily available for a worldwide that “black-on-black violence is too audience to view on YouTube. often ignored—and continues to claim Though we could turn this into victims at a rate that our society should Couples using artificial another debate about the pros and cons consider outrageous and unacceptable.” insemination should of technology and social media, we will He stated that in 2012, black-on-black save that discussion for another day. killings (some 2,412) were almost as great not be stereotyped, For us, it is more important today numerically as white-on-white killings—a reader says to celebrate the life of a journalist who hugely disproportionate death toll, developed a passion for travelling to percentage wise. I must take exception to Father Tad the world’s trouble spots trying to I would like to add to Robinson’s Pacholczyk’s column in the Aug. 22 edition expose the suffering of innocent people comments the haunting observation that (“Is artificial insemination wrong even and shining a light where there is so an even greater example of black-on-black among married couples?”). much darkness. violence is the killing of black babies in I would suspect that the majority of And to remember a person who the womb in the nation’s abortion mills. married couples seeking such a procedure wasn’t afraid to share how the Catholic Percentage wise, the abortion mills— would not fall into his stereotypes. I doubt faith taught to him at a young age was a notably Planned Parenthood—eliminate far that the wife is being treated as an “object” lifeline for him, especially when he was more black babies than white babies. of any kind, let alone for “the pursuit of held captive. Margaret Sanger, a Planned Parenthood ulterior ends.” James Foley, 40, a freelance founder, clearly intended that I also doubt that the procedure is in any journalist who graduated from Planned Parenthood would be the way substituting or “replacing the conjugal Marquette University in Milwaukee, vehicle to dramatically reduce the black act,” nor is it in any way making the wife was killed on Aug. 19 by members American journalist James Foley, who population via birth control and abortion. a “biological laboratory.” It is often a of the Islamic State in retaliation was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Unfortunately, Sanger’s hopes are slowly desperate attempt after years of “shared for U.S. airstrikes on the militants’ November 2012 in Idlib, Syria, is pictured being realized. bodily intimacy” to fulfill a desire to have a strongholds in northern Iraq. in an undated photo. Foley, a freelance war According to the National Black family as God ordained a marriage to be. By all accounts, Foley developed a correspondent from New Hampshire and Catholic Congress, 35 percent—or My wife and I almost resorted to that heart for social justice while attending Marquette University alum, was killed at the 420,000—of the 1.2 million babies aborted procedure ourselves after 10 years of Marquette. That passion eventually hands of the Islamic State militant group. annually in the U.S. are black. This number attempting to have a baby, so I know how led the photojournalist overseas. In (CNS photo/Nicole Tung, courtesy GlobalPost via EPA) dwarfs the reported number of blacks hard the decision is. 2011, he was kidnapped on a Libyan killed in street violence by black offenders We were blessed to conceive when we battlefield and held captive in Tripoli second time after he was kidnapped in in 2012. had effectively given up, and now have a for 44 days. November 2012 while covering the civil beautiful 25-year-old daughter. Foley found strength during that war in Syria. His family earlier this week David A. Nealy The “beauty of the marital embrace” can dark time thanks to the prayers he released a letter they said James wrote to Greenwood certainly continue after the procedure for it learned as a young man. them while in captivity. A fellow captive in no way takes the place of it. “I began to pray the rosary. It was memorized the letter and shared it with I believe Father Tad is missing the point. what my mother and grandmother the Foley family when he was released Father Tad’s column would have prayed,” he wrote in a in June. raises questions about Dick Sturniolo piece published in Marquette Magazine It reads in part: “I know you are Danville after his release. “I said 10 Hail Marys thinking of me and praying for me. And procreation, gift of between each Our Father. It took a I am so thankful. I feel you all especially children (Editor’s note: The Catechism of the long time, almost an hour to count when I pray. I pray for you to stay strong Catholic Church, in addition to explaining 100 Hail Marys off on my knuckles. and to believe. I really feel I can touch The Aug. 22 “Making Sense of the reasons behind the Church’s teachings And it helped to keep my mind focused. you even in this darkness when I pray.” Bioethics” column, “Is artificial on this sensitive issue, encourages research “Clare [a fellow captive] and What the journalist’s life lessons insemination wrong even among married “aimed at reducing human sterility” I prayed together out loud. It felt taught him—and so many of us who couples?” by Father Tad Pacholczyk is through moral means (#2375), a task taken energizing to speak our weaknesses and doubt—is that through the power of troubling. Father Pacholczyk seems so up effectively by the Pope Paul VI Institute hopes together, as if in a conversation prayer and the love of so many we are caught up in every minute physical detail in Omaha, Neb. The catechism also reflects with God, rather than silently never alone. that he leaves out the most Christ-centered on the spiritual meaning of infertility: and alone.” We cannot deny James Foley’s tragic life giving value of all, which is love. “The Gospel shows that physical sterility A phone conversation he later had death shows us there is grave evil in this His focus on the physical details without is not an absolute evil. Spouses who still with his mother, Diane Foley, while world. But as Bishop Peter A. Libasci of love is what objectifies the situation. The suffer from infertility after exhausting he was still in captivity, confirmed Manchester, N.H., said during a memorial conjugal act, which also involves details, legitimate medical procedures should something else he felt: that prayers Mass celebrated on Aug. 24, we must can be very destructive and objectifying unite themselves with the Lord’s Cross, were being offered by countless learn from his life. without love. the source of all spiritual fecundity. They others for him and his fellow captors’ “Jim went back [into the war zone] Father Pacholczyk states that artificial can give expression to their generosity by safe release. again that we might open our eyes,” insemination “would invariably involve adopting abandoned children or performing “I replayed that call hundreds of Bishop Libasci said at Our Lady of the a substitution or replacement of the demanding services for others” (#2379).) times in my head—my mother’s voice, Holy Rosary Parish in Rochester, N.H., conjugal act, which would not be morally the names of my friends, her knowledge his family’s parish.“That we might indeed acceptable.” As simply an action, that of our situation, her absolute belief in know how precious is this gift. May would be true, but as an act of love to Letters Policy the power of prayer. She told me my almighty God grant peace to James and to bring life into the world is something all friends had gathered to do anything all our fragile world.” together different. Letters from readers are welcome they could to help. I knew I wasn’t We continue to offer our prayers for A married couple I know very well and should be informed, relevant, well- alone,” Foley wrote. Foley’s family, and we remember these has two young adult sons produced via expressed, concise, temperate in tone, If you think about it, we’ve all words the journalist shared to close his artificial insemination. The husband is a courteous and respectful. The editors reserve the right to select been there. Or know someone who’s reflection about his time in captivity in quadriplegic. His body produces sperm, and edit the letters based on space been there. Libya in 2011: “If nothing else, prayer but he is not physically able to fully engage limitations, pastoral sensitivity and content. A broken relationship. The loss was the glue that enabled my freedom, an in the conjugal act. Sperm was extracted Letters must be signed, but, for serious of a job. A life-threatening illness inner freedom first and later the miracle of from his body by way of electrodes, and reasons, names may be withheld. affecting us or someone we love. When being released during a war in which the artificial insemination produced two Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” we or someone we know reaches the regime had no real incentive to free us. It wonderful human beings who have brought The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, lowest of lows in life, how often do we didn’t make sense, but faith did.” joy to this couple and more goodness to Indianapolis,­ IN 46202-2367. feel alone? the world. Readers with access to e-mail may send Foley faced the challenge a —Mike Krokos While this process involved letters to [email protected]. “substitution or replacement of the The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 5

Archbishop/Arzobispo Joseph W. Tobin

Rejoice in the Lord

Alégrense en el Señor

GA O UDE MIN TE IN DO

X MMXII Parishes helping parishes eliminate debt is a sign of unity, solidarity ast week, I wrote about our need surprised—as I was—to learn that it especially concerned. First, there are management of their parishes. I will Lto develop a global vision. The is not just parishes in urban or rural urban communities that boast a number of also ensure that the central offices of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis is part of the areas who suffer from the burden of an buildings. These plants were constructed archdiocese provide the necessary support universal Church, and called to express enormous debt. by parishoners years ago and, for the and oversight for the fiscal life of our that reality in meaningful solidarity with Burdensome debt makes it difficult most part, have been well maintained. parish communities. Should we do more? sister Churches in other parts of the world. for parishes to engage in the kinds of However, the present parish community Perhaps the biblical image of “jubilee” However, we experience the Church most ministries that are urgently needed today may be smaller and less affluent than the is something we might consider. The immediately in local communities of faith, in all regions of our archdiocese. When generation that “built the parish.” As a Book of Leviticus (Lv 25:1-55) describes usually parishes that are united under the a parish community is struggling to meet result, these parishes struggle beneath the jubilee as a time to let the land reset ministry of a bishop and form a diocese or the interest on its debt (let alone make the burgeoning weight of maintenance, and allow whatever it naturally produced particular Church. payments on principal), it becomes nearly taxes, insurance premiums and other to be shared by all, landowner and slave The archdiocese is not an archipelago impossible to carry out its mission fully assessments. alike. It was a time to set slaves free, and of parishes, each living in splendid and effectively. The other category includes parishes to return to its original owner any land isolation from the others. Rather, it is a Frankly, it is amazing that so many of that have been established in recent that had been sold or held as collateral network of communities and the bonds our debt-ridden parishes do as well as they years. These communities must construct for a loan. The jubilee was also a time to among them should translate into effective do—as a result of generous parishioners facilities to meet the needs of their cancel debts. “At the end of every seven- solidarity. and dedicated pastors and co-workers. But growing membership. As a result, these year period, you shall have a relaxation There are factors that contribute to this is not a situation that can continue parishes assume a heavy debt in the first of debts” (Dt 15:1–2). Is this one of the the well-being of parishes; others pose a indefinitely if we are to serve the growing years of their existence and must divert a places where the Holy Spirit is calling us serious threat to the present ministry and spiritual, sacramental and social needs significant portion of their income toward to open a new door? future prospects of these communities. of our people and carry the Gospel to so servicing the debt. As we engage in pastoral planning in One element that can weigh heavily many who do not know Jesus Christ. As I have traveled throughout central the months ahead, I will be asking the on a parish is debt. Here in central and Parishes carry debt for a variety and southern Indiana and met with question, “What can we—all of us— southern Indiana, we have parishes that of reasons. It may result from loans pastoral leaders and parishioners in every do to help parishes that are burdened are debt free. We also have parishes it assumed for new construction or region of our archdiocese, I asked myself by debt? How can we work together that carry a relatively modest amount necessary renovations. Debt may also whether anything might be done about this as parishes helping parishes in one of debt—usually resulting from the be the fruit of an underdeveloped sense serious problem. unified local Church, to ensure that construction of new facilities or the of stewardship among the parishioners, Certainly, the archdiocese must the mission of Christ is carried out in renovation of existing buildings. But I who do not accept a meaningful role in promote credible and effective the diverse communities of central and think most people in our archdiocese sustaining the mission of their community. stewardship that translates into a sense southern Indiana?” would be amazed—as I was when I Bad management on the part of pastoral of co-responsibility among Catholics for Last week, I urged that we “think first arrived here—to discover how many leadership or a lack of oversight by the the present ministry and future prospects globally, but act locally.” Parishes helping of our parish communities find themselves central offices of the archdiocese may of their own community. For my part, parishes would be a good way to express saddled with serious, debilitating debt. increase or prolong the parish’s debt. I will ask for greater accountability our unity and solidarity as one family What’s more, I think most would be Two categories of parishes have me from pastoral leaders for the financial of faith. †

La ayuda mutua entre las parroquias es una señal de unidad y de solidaridad a semana pasada escribí acerca de que no solamente las parroquias en zonas las comunidades urbanas que ostentan arquidiócesis proporcionan el apoyo Lla necesidad de crearnos una visión urbanas o rurales se ven aquejadas por el varios edificios. Estas instalaciones y la supervisión necesarios para el global. La Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis peso de enormes deudas. fueron construidas hace años por los desenvolvimiento de la vida fiscal de forma parte de la Iglesia universal que Las deudas pesadas hacen que sea muy parroquianos y, en su mayoría, están bien nuestras comunidades parroquiales. está llamada a expresar esa realidad a difícil para las parroquias participar en mantenidas. Sin embargo, la comunidad ¿Acaso debemos hacer más? través de una solidaridad significativa con los tipos de ministerios que se necesitan parroquial actual quizás sea más pequeña Quizás debamos considerar la imagen sus homólogas en otras partes del mundo. urgentemente hoy en día en todas las y menos afluente que la generación bíblica del “jubilee.” El Libro de Levíticos Sin embargo, nuestra experiencia más regiones de nuestra arquidiócesis. que “construyó la parroquia.” Como (Lv 25:1-55) describe el jubileo como un inmediata con la Iglesia es a través de las Cuando una comunidad parroquial tiene consecuencia, estas parroquias luchan momento para dejar que la tierra descanse comunidades de fe locales, normalmente dificultades para pagar el interés de su contra el peso cada vez más grande y que todo aquello que se haya producido las parroquias unidas bajo el ministerio de deuda (y ni qué decir de la amortización), y subyacente del mantenimiento, los naturalmente sea compartido por todos, un mismo obispo para formar una diócesis le resulta casi imposible desempeñar su impuestos, las primas del seguro y otras propietarios y siervos por igual. Se trataba o una Iglesia específica. misión a plenitud y eficazmente. deudas. de la época para liberar a los esclavos La arquidiócesis no es un archipiélago Francamente, es increíble que La otra categoría incluye a las y de devolver a su dueño original la compuesto de parroquias que viven en tantas parroquias plagadas de deuda parroquias que se han fundado en época tierra que había sido vendida o retenida espléndido aislamiento con respecto se desempeñen tan bien gracias a los reciente. Estas comunidades deben como garantía de un préstamo. El jubileo a las demás. Se trata de una red de generosos parroquianos y a la dedicación construir instalaciones para atender las también era la época para cancelar deudas. comunidades y los lazos que existen de pastores y compañeros de trabajo. necesidades crecientes de sus integrantes. “Cada siete años perdonarás toda clase entre ellas deberían traducirse en una Pero esta no es una situación que puede Como consecuencia, estas parroquias de deudas” (Dt 15:1-2). ¿Acaso es esta solidaridad manifiesta. continuar indefinidamente si estamos asumen fuertes deudas durante los una de las nuevas oportunidades que nos Existen algunos factores que llamados a atender las crecientes primeros años de existencia y deben brinda el Espíritu Santo? contribuyen al bienestar de las parroquias; necesidades espirituales, sacramentales dedicar una parte importante de su ingreso A medida que participamos en otros, representan una seria amenaza para y sociales de nuestro pueblo y llevar el a la satisfacción de dichas deudas. la planificación pastoral durante los el ministerio y para el prospecto del futuro Evangelio a las personas que no conocen Durante mis viajes por todo el centro próximos meses, estaré planteando la de dichas comunidades. a Jesucristo. y el sur de Indiana he conocido a líderes siguiente interrogante: “¿Qué podemos Uno de los elementos que puede Las parroquias endeudan por distintos pastorales y parroquianos de cada una hacer todos nosotros para ayudar a las resultar una carga muy pesada para motivos. Tal vez sea a consecuencia de las regiones de nuestra arquidiócesis, parroquias aquejadas de deudas? ¿De una parroquia son las deudas. Aquí en de los préstamos asumidos para la y me he preguntado si habría algo que qué manera podemos trabajar unidos el centro y el sur de Indiana tenemos realización de nuevas construcciones o pudiéramos hacer para solucionar este como parroquias que ayudan a otras parroquias sin deudas. También tenemos de remodelaciones necesarias. La deuda grave problema. parroquias pertenecientes a una Iglesia parroquias que arrastran deudas puede ser producto de un sentido de Ciertamente la arquidiócesis debe local unificada, para garantizar que se relativamente modestas, por lo general administración poco desarrollado de los promover una administración confiable lleve a cabo la misión de Cristo en las como resultado de la construcción parroquianos que no aceptan la realidad y eficaz que se traduzca en un sentido diversas comunidades del centro y del sur de nuevas instalaciones o de la de la importancia de su participación de responsabilidad compartida entre de Indiana?” remodelación de edificios existentes. para apoyar la misión de su comunidad. los católicos con el ministerio actual y La semana pasada los exhortaba Sin embargo, la mayoría de la gente de Una mala administración por parte del para el prospecto del futuro en su propia a “pensar a escala mundial y actuar nuestra arquidiócesis se sorprendería liderazgo pastoral o la falta de supervisión comunidad. Por mi parte, solicitaré un localmente.” La ayuda mutua entre las al descubrir—tal como me sucedió a por parte de las oficinas centrales de compromiso de responsabilidad todavía parroquias sería una buena forma de mí al llegar—que muchas de nuestras la arquidiócesis puede incrementar o mayor a los líderes pastorales en cuanto expresar nuestra unidad y solidaridad comunidades parroquiales se encuentran prolongar la deuda de la parroquia. a la administración económica de sus como una sola familia de fe. † ahogadas en deudas; y se sorprenderían Hay dos tipos de parroquias que me parroquias. Asimismo, me cercioraré todavía más, al igual que yo, al descubrir preocupan particularmente. Primero están de que las oficinas centrales de la Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014

Events Calendar August 29 Sat. 5-11 p.m., Sun. 3-11 p.m., music, Slovenian ambassador September 5 Assembly Hall, 1400 N. Parish festival, 5K walk/run, St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Texas Hold’em Sunday. to U.S. visiting, no coolers or St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis. rides, music, silent auction, 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Ave Information: 317-244-9002. outside beverages, shuttle and Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Evangelization in the Black food, kickball tournament, parking available at IU Health Community, Dominican Maria Guild Rummage First Friday exposition of the Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, Sale, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Sacred Heart Parish, West Hospital north parking. Blessed Sacrament, rosary Sister Jamie T. Phelps, Ph.D., Sat. 8 a.m.-midnight, Information: 317-888-7625. gymnasium, 558 Nebeker St., Information: 317-632-0619 or and Benediction, 4-6 p.m., presenter, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $25 Clinton. Spaghetti Dinner, [email protected]. Mass, 5:45 p.m. Information: includes lunch. Information: Sun. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Slovenian National Home, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Information: 317-244-9002. 317-236-1474, 800-382-9836 Information: 812-346-3604. 2717 W. 10th St., Indianapolis. 765-832-8468. September 1 ext. 1474, or email Polka Jam, live music, St. Peter Parish, Nativity of Our Lord Church, [email protected]. September 7 donation spaghetti buffet, August 30 1207 East Road, Brookville. 7725 Southeastern Ave., St. Mary (Immaculate Mount St. Francis Retreat Labor Day Festival, bring covered dish to share, Indianapolis. Serra Club Planned Parenthood, 30 S. Conception) Parish, 512 N. Center, 101 St. Anthony 10 a.m.-6:30 p.m., country free admission, 5 p.m. Mass for Vocations, 8:30 a.m. 3rd St., Terre Haute. Helpers Perkins St., Rushville. Fall Information: 317-632-0619 or Drive, Mount St. Francis. style chicken dinner, Information: 317-850-1382. of God’s Precious Infants, Festival, 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m., [email protected]. Picnic, 11 a.m.-midnight, 10:45 a.m.-2:30 p.m., quilts, 9:30 a.m. prayers in front chicken dinner, games, quilts. games. Information and September 6 of abortion center, park chicken dinner. Information: Holy Spirit Church, Information: 812-923-8817. reservations: 812-623-3670. St. Joan of Arc Parish, along Ohio Blvd., 10 a.m. 765-932-2588. 7243 E. 10th St., Indianapolis. 4217 N. Central Ave., Divine Mercy Chaplet at Serra Club Mass for August 31 St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Indianapolis. French Market, St. Catherine of Siena St. Patrick Adoration Chapel, St. Augustine Parish, 315 E. Vocations, 8:30 a.m. 4773 E. Morris Church St., noon-10 p.m., French food, Parish, 9995 E. Base Road, 1807 Poplar St.. 7:30 a.m. Chestnut St., Jeffersonville. Information: 317-850-1382. Morris. Labor Day Picnic, booths, entertainment. Mass at Carmelite Monastery, Enochsburg. Parish picnic, Harvest Chicken Dinner, chicken dinner, games, Information: 317-283-5508. 59 Allendale, Terre Haute. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Fireside Inn fried chicken food, 10 a.m. Information: chicken dinner, baked goods, and roast beef dinners, beer 1347 N. Meridian St., 812-934-6218. St. Michael the Archangel September 6-7 quilt raffle, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. garden, games, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Church, 145 St. Michael Blvd., Indianapolis. Charismatic St. Michael Parish, Information: 812-282-2677. Mass, praise and worship Information: 812-934-2880. September 3 Brookville. First Saturday 145 St. Michael Blvd., 7 p.m., Mass 7:30 p.m. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Devotional Prayer Group, Brookville. Fall Fest, Information: 317-846-0705. The Slovenian National Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Mass, Exposition of the Sat. 4-11 p.m., Sun. St. Pius V Parish, Home Picnic Grounds, Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Blessed Sacrament, rosary, 10-a.m.-7 p.m., chicken 330 Franklin St., Troy. Fall August 29- 1340 Yates Lane, Avon. Catholic, educational, confession, meditation, 8 a.m. dinner, raffle, silent auction. Festival, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Slovenian Festival, charitable and social singles, September 1 Information, registration: Information: 765-647-5462. dinners (bring your own St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. 10 a.m.-11 p.m., gates open 50 and over, single, separated, 765-647-5462. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. 10 a.m., Mass at 11:30 a.m., widowed or divorced. New September 6-8 container for carry-out Fall Festival, food, rides, food and drinks for purchase members welcome. 6:30 p.m. Archbishop Edward T. St. Mary Parish, 212 soup), games, entertainment. games, Fri. 5 p.m.-1 a.m., starting at 1 p.m., 2 p.m. live Information: 317-243-0777. O’Meara Catholic Center, Washington St., North Vernon. Information: 812-547-7994.†

Retreats and Programs VIPs presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., $15, book available Richard and Phyllis (Eagle) Hellmich, members of for $3.95. Information: 317-788-7581 or St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, will celebrate their 60th wedding September 12-14 www.benedictinn.org. anniversary on Sept. 11. Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House The couple was married on Sept. 11, 1954, at St. Mary Church and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, September 16-18 in Greensburg. St. Meinrad. “The Sermon on the Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House They have 11 children, David, James, Jon Trevor, Kyle, Mount: A Handbook for Living in the and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Dr., Michael, Philip, Richard II, Steven, Sue Carol, Thomas, and Kingdom of God,” Benedictine Father Vickie Ann. They also have 22 grandchildren and one great- Eugene Hensell presenter, $235 for single, St. Meinrad. “Beauty as a Pathway to $395 double. Information: 812-357-6585 God: Religious Art and Symbol in the grandchild. The couple will celebrate with an open house for family [email protected]. Benedictine Brother Spiritual Life, Part 2,” and friends from 1-3 p.m. on Sept. 6 at the Hampton Inn in September 13 Martin Erspamer presenter, $235 for single, Greensburg. † Oldenburg Franciscan Center, $395 double. Information: 812-357-6585 Oldenburg. “Let Peace Begin with [email protected]. Herman and Marcella (Hess) Naville, members of St. Mary Me,” Jennifer Profitt presenter, Parish in Navilleton, will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 includes lunch. September 17 on Sept. 6. Information and RSVP: 812-933-6437 or Benedict Inn Conference and Retreat The couple was married on Sept. 6, 1954, at St. Mary Church in email [email protected]. Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Lanesville. September 14 Praying-n-Playing: “Wondrously They have five children, Carol, Cheryl, Elaine, Daryl and Don. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Made—How Have I Been Shaped?” The couple also has 12 grandchildren and seven great- Coffee Talk: Responding in God’s Time, grandchildren. † Angela Roesler presenter, 10:45 a.m.-noon, Dawna Petersen presenter, 9:30-11:30 a.m., freewill offering accepted. Information $12 per session. Information: 317-788-7581 or and RSVP: 812-933-6437 or email www.benedictinn.org. [email protected]. September 18 September 15 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Contemplative Prayer, 3-4:30 p.m., 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Seasonal Bishop’s Bash for college students freewill offering accepted. Information Community Labyrinth Walk, 7-7:15 p.m. and RSVP: 812-933-6437 or email explanation, 7:15-8:30 p.m. walk. Free-will and young adults set for Sept. 7 [email protected]. donations graciously accepted. Information: Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin and the outdoor Mass, followed by dinner, games September 16 317-788-7581 or www.benedictinn.org. archdiocesan Young Adult and College and live music. Benedict Inn Conference and Retreat Campus Ministry invite young adults ages The event is free, and no reservations Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 18-35 to participate in this year’s Bishop’s are required. (For a list of retreats scheduled “The Constitution on Divine Revelation” Bash at Bishop Simon Bruté College For more information, contact Young (Dei Verbum), Meanings of Tradition, for the next eight weeks, log on to Seminary, 2500 Cold Spring Road, in Adult and College Campus Ministry Benedictine Father Matthias Neuman www.archindy.org/retreats.) † Indianapolis at 4 p.m. on Sept. 7. coordinator Katie Sahm at 317-592-4067 Archbishop Tobin will celebrate an or by e-mail at [email protected]. † Novice professes temporary Indy’s Irish Fest set for Sept. 11-14 vows at Saint Meinrad Archabbey Indy’s Irish Fest returns to $5 for children ages 5-13, and children Benedictine Novice Dane DeDecker will now be known as Brother André. Military Park on Sept. 11-14 for its ages 4 and under are free. professed temporary vows as a Brother André, 37, is from Geneseo, 19th-annual celebration of the state’s Festival hours plus discounts are: Benedictine monk on Aug. 6 in a liturgy Ill. He attended Geneseo High School and Celtic heritage. • Sept. 11, 4:30-10:30 p.m. at the Archabbey studied for a year at St. Mary’s University The four-day festival features (pub night with three Celtic Church of in Winona, Minn. He was previously live Irish music and step dancing rock bands, $5 admission; Our Lady of a member of St. Anthony Parish in on four stages, as well as shopping, $3 for military and first responders, Einsiedeln at Atkinson, Ill. food, cultural and children’s activities, no pre-sale tickets) Saint Meinrad Prior to entering the monastery, he had sporting events and more. • Sept. 12, 4:30-11:00 p.m. ($5 early Archabbey in worked for 12 years as an over-the-road The Kids Area is open from 5-9 p.m. bird admission from 4:30-5:30 p.m.) St. Meinrad. truck driver. on Sept. 12, 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. on • Sept. 13, 11:30 a.m.-11:00 p.m. His profession Temporary vows are typically Sept. 13 and noon to 4 p.m. on Sept. 14. • Sept. 14, 10:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m. of temporary for three years. This period offers a On Sunday, kids compete for the reddest (early bird free admission: vows came at continuing opportunity for the monk and hair, greenest eyes and most freckles. 10:30-11:30 a.m. with three canned the end of his the monastic community to determine Advance sale tickets are goods per person benefiting St. Vincent novitiate, a year whether monastic life is, indeed, the right $10 and go on sale on Aug. DePaul food bank. If you bring a ticket Br. Andre of prayer and vocation for this individual. 30 at Marsh Supermarkets, for the Sept. 13 Notre Dame v. Purdue DeDecker, O.S.B study of the Claddagh Irish Pubs and online at game any time, admission is free.) Benedictine way of life. As is the custom (For more information about www.IndyIrishFest.com. For more information, log on to during the profession of vows, he was Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad, Regular ticket prices are $15 for www.indyirishfest.com or call the assigned a religious name. Novice Dane log on to www.saintmeinrad.org.) † adults ages 15 and older, $10 for Indy’s Irish Fest Information Line at students ages 14-18 with student ID, 317-713-7117. † The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 7 Mass, dinner mark implementation of Terre Haute Deanery plan

By Sean Gallagher “It was a wonderful example of being thankful for the opportunity that we had Five years ago, members of parishes to go through the planning process and across the Terre Haute Deanery began thankful that it and the implementation a planning process that looked to the were successful,” said Bowers, a member future of the Catholic Church in west of St. Patrick Parish in Terre Haute who central Indiana. participated in the planning process and In 2011, then-Archbishop Daniel has helped oversee its implementation. M. Buechlein approved the proposed Although there have been challenges changes that emerged out of that planning in the implementation because it involved process. They included the merger of the merger of four parishes, Bowers four parishes in the deanery, having all noted that there are still parishes in all parishes in the deanery support St. Patrick five counties of the deanery, something School in Terre Haute and maintaining that then-Archbishop Buechlein mandated current outreach ministries in the area and at the start of the planning process. working to build up new ones. “It showed Archbishop Buechlein’s Over the past three years, Catholics commitment to having a Catholic presence across the deanery have worked in all major communities in our deanery,” to implement that plan that was Bowers said. “It’s important for families to begun in 2009. not have to drive a terrible amount of time On Aug. 13, many of them gathered to have an opportunity to worship.” with Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin for a At the same time, Bowers said the Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church implementation of the plan has resulted Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin prays the eucharistic prayer during an Aug. 13 Mass at Sacred Heart in Terre Haute and a dinner at the in growth for St. Patrick School, which is of Jesus Church in Terre Haute. Father Rick Ginther, second from right and dean of the Terre Haute parish that followed. now known as St. Patrick School of the Deanery, was a concelebrant at the Mass. Deacons Steven Gretencord, at right, and Michael Stratman, Saying it was a chance for him to “take Terre Haute Deanery. at left, assisted at the Mass. (Submitted photos by Patty Mauer) the pulse” of a portion of the archdiocese, “Our enrollment at our school is up,” Archbishop Tobin said he was glad to she said. “The one area in particular that meet the people involved in formulating we’ve seen growth in is our preschool. and implementing the plan because that We’re hoping to retain those families all work took place before he was appointed the way through the eighth grade. It’s had to lead the Church in central and a positive effect on our school.” southern Indiana. At the time of the merger of the “It was a lovely, spiritual evening,” former St. Ann Parish in Terre Haute and Archbishop Tobin said. “I was greatly the former St. Leonard of Port Maurice encouraged to hear how the parishes of Parish in West Terre Haute, there were the deanery were cooperating in several vibrant outreach ministries at both projects, such as shared responsibility faith communities. for a Catholic elementary school and an A dental clinic for people in need was effort to improve the outreach of the food operating at St. Ann, and St. Leonard bank that is managed by the archdiocesan housed a food pantry. Both ministries Catholic Charities.” have continued since the parishes were At the same time, he acknowledged merged in 2011, although the food that the implementation of the plan for the pantry has a new location, which gives Terre Haute Deanery was challenging for it better facilities and a greater ability to Jack Meany, a member of St. Margaret Mary Parish in Terre Haute, receives Communion from many Catholics because it resulted in the serve people in need. Both ministries are Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin during an Aug. 13 Mass at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Terre Haute. merger of four parishes. overseen by the Sisters of Providence of Meany and other Catholics from the Terre Haute Deanery involved in the deanery’s planning process “No one denied the pain that the parish Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. and the implementation of that plan came together with the archbishop for the Mass and dinner that mergers caused,” Archbishop Tobin Bowers noted, however, that all followed. said. “However, there was a tangible parishes in the Terre Haute Deanery have pride and gratitude for the new energy been encouraged to increase their outreach Terre Haute Deanery in 2009 eventually it grassroots, and assure that our pastoral these Catholics had discovered. I am to the broader community. became the Connected in the Spirit leaders are truly leading,” Lentz said. confident that the spirit of solidarity will We have encouraged all parishes in the planning process that has been “Then we can see the results. We kind of continue to grow.” deanery to have some sort of outreach,” implemented in the Batesville Deanery hold them as a model.” Gratitude was on the mind of Julie she said. “Some of our parishes are and the four Indianapolis deaneries. Although the implementation of Bowers as she attended the Mass opening their doors to distribute food.” It will also eventually occur in the the plan for the Terre Haute Deanery and dinner. The planning process that started in the other deaneries across central and is largely complete, Bowers noted southern Indiana. that the Catholics of west central Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor of Indiana won’t sit on their laurels in the the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, said that years to come. ‘It really gave me the hope that this can the process in the Terre Haute Deanery “You plan and implement, but it’s happen if we follow a process, make it began when a group of Catholics from organic,” Bowers said. “As needs come grassroots, and assure that our pastoral there approached archdiocesan leaders up, as our Catholic population changes leaders are truly leading. Then we can see the about the idea of preparing for the future and we see more needs or more areas that of the Church in their area. we can learn or grow in, we will continue results. We kind of hold them as a model.’ As Lentz observed and participated in to [plan and implement]. I think we have the planning process in the Terre Haute some good processes in place to have —Annette “Mickey” Lentz, chancellor of Deanery, she became more convinced that that continue.” it would be good to use the process across the Archdiocese of Indianapolis central and southern Indiana. (For more information about the “It really gave me the hope that this Connected in the Spirit planning process, can happen if we follow a process, make log on to www.archindy.org/connected.) †

Everyone Invited! St. Catherine of Siena 77th Annual Church Picnic Enochsburg Sunday, August 31, 2014 “Famous Fireside Inn Fried Chicken” also, Roast Beef Dinners starting at 11:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. Carryouts Available Beer Garden • Mock Turtle Soup • Homemade Pies Sandwiches • Prizes • Quilts • Variety Stands • Games Country Store • Music by Eureka Band (2:00-3:00 p.m.) Take New Point exit 143 off I-74, go north on County Road 850 E. ¼ mile, turn right on Base Road, go 3 mi. License #134757 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 MARRIAGE turned into “some very dark days.” continued from page 1 Finding faith amid the fear One of the few pieces of good news for Lafayette Diocese. the couple during those dark days was that “I envisioned health and happiness Leron didn’t have stomach cancer. coupled with life as a young family,” Instead, he was initially diagnosed with she says. “We both wanted children and a condition in which bacteria had infected were open to them from day one of our his large intestine so extensively that his marriage.” body couldn’t function normally. Still, even They came from different backgrounds: after antibiotics took care of that condition, Hannah, the daughter of an attorney; Leron struggled with other health issues that Leron, the son of a farmer. They first left him without energy and strength. saw something special in each other in Medical tests and visits with different 2007 when Leron was the best man at the specialists continued for about 2 1/2 years wedding of Hannah’s sister, Laura, and without any significant change for Leron. Hannah was the maid of honor. “Nothing could have prepared me for When they soon started dating, they the trials we would face in those years,” didn’t have usual dates of dinner or a movie Hannah says. “I was motivated by fear. I together. The dates often began at Leron’s fell back on my faith to show me the way parents’ family farm near Batesville. out of this painful situation. I knew that if The engagement photo of Leron and Hannah Giesting, members of St. Louis Parish in Batesville, “A lot of our dates would be spent baling he died, the only way I would see him again shows the joy they had as they prepared for their marriage, a joy that has grown—despite health hay and feeding the cows before we got is if we both made it to heaven. challenges—in the nearly five years since their wedding. (Submitted photo) to spend time with each other,” Hannah “My prayer life grew stronger. I began to recalls. With a laugh, she adds, “He said read more books on theology. My husband Her joy shows as she talks about Leron action. I grow more in love with Hannah as he had to make sure I could be a farm wife started a prayer routine that included regaining his strength to work the family I think about all she has done for me. before he could marry me.” reading the daily [Mass] readings from farm of corn and soybeans near Batesville. “When we were both made weak Leron also appreciated that Hannah is a Magnificat. We started going to [weekday] And that feeling radiates even more as through this, we had no choice but to good listener, makes plans and has a “light- Mass once a week. We added monthly she mentions how she loves seeing her lean on each other. Most importantly, we up-the-room” smile. As for Hannah, she confessions to our routine, as well as a husband have the energy to give their three learned to lean on God and the sacraments. saw what she was looking for in a husband weekly family visit to our parish’s perpetual daughters piggy-back rides. We were reminded that no matter what our in Leron. adoration chapel.” “Joy” is also the word that 30-year- lives look like, we always have hope. “He’s a very faithful man, and he made In the midst of this deeper connection to old Leron uses to describe the life that he “As I see Hannah grow in her faith, I me grow closer to God,” she says. “He God and their faith, another doctor offered and Hannah, 28, have created with their am encouraged to grow with her, to grow made me a better person by being around a new diagnosis of Leron and a measure of children: Nalley Jane, 4, Felicity Lynn, 3, for her. I used to be very proud and didn’t him. That’s how I knew he was the one.” hope. and Siena Cate, 1. He also uses the word to want anyone to do anything for me. In my Hannah’s vision for their future seemed describe his faith. weakness, I had to let Hannah do things for to be unfolding according to plan when The gift of joy “Humanity teaches us that happiness me. I learned even more how to love and she was eight months pregnant in July The doctor seemed to discover the root comes from feeling good, and that feeling how to be loved.” of 2010. They were happy and looking cause of Leron’s health concerns. good is the most important thing,” Leron That growth has also been mirrored in forward to the birth of their first child. Then “Basically, his digestive system doesn’t says. “I learned that there is a huge their shared faith life. They are involved in Leron suddenly became sick and lost about work like it should, and undigested food difference between happiness and joy. In their parish’s youth group, faith formation 40 pounds. gets into his bloodstream and causes an fact, one day I was feeling particularly bad, commission and Rite of Christian Initiation “He had no energy. He could hardly eat immune system reaction,” Hannah explains. and I was lying in bed, and all I could do of Adults. without getting sick,” she recalls. “The day “We are now in the process of building was pray. I was given the gift of joy that It’s all part of an eventful five years of I went into labor, he was actually scheduled up his good bacteria and watching very day. In spite of how terrible I felt, I was marriage. for tests. Our daughter was 3 weeks old carefully what he eats. He has started to totally joyful. “It would be easy to assume that five when we were in the doctor’s office. I can gain weight again and has a much better “God showed me that joy is his gift, and years of marriage with four years of remember the doctor coming in and saying outlook on life. if we share in his suffering, we share in his sickness and three beautiful daughters it could be stomach cancer.” “Seeing your best friend come back to joy and his peace. I mention peace because would result in two strained spouses and A future of hopes, plans and dreams life is wonderful and a great gift.” I came to accept that day that I was sick, one distraught wife,” Hannah says. “But and I didn’t know when or how or even if after five years together, we still have that I would ever get better. As I reflect on the newlywed glow.” last few years, there were so many moments Their faith also has the shine and the How has faith helped your when I see clearly that God was there strength of “gold that is tested in fire,” carrying me, holding me, and showing me she says. to love.” “In the past five years, I had to put my marriage? We want to know trust in God. Forced into a corner, I saw As part of our continuing series on marriage when you have especially Tested in fire how he will see us through anything. When marriage, The Criterion is inviting our counted on your faith? Hannah and Leron will celebrate their we started out, we had a good foundation in readers to share their input on any of Please send your responses five-year wedding anniversary on Sept. 19. our relationship with God. It was probably these three questions: and your stories to assistant editor They have learned to celebrate their love six inches of a foundation. Now, it’s like How does your faith deepen your John Shaughnessy by e-mail at every day. six feet. It’s real good, real solid. relationship with your spouse? [email protected] or “In my darkest moments, Hannah “We knew if we had faith and continued What shared expressions of faith and by mail in care of The Criterion. was there,” Leron says. “In my triumphs, on the path God set us on, we would shared experiences of your faith have 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN Hannah was there. She showed me that succeed in the end. It has been quite a helped to make your marriage more 46202. Please include your parish and even though we were both scared, that being journey that is far from over. My husband Christ-centered? a daytime number where you can be scared together was better than being apart. has said he would like to be married for Do you have a story of a time in your reached. † Hannah put everything on the back burner 75 years. I am not sure that is realistic, but except me. She showed me that love is an I want to give it a try.” †

separate payments for contraceptive religious entities and anyone else, who for exempted by the Supreme Court’s HHS services are the same. This takes effect moral reasons, cannot and will not include recent decision in Hobby Lobby, the continued from page 1 immediately. potentially abortion-causing drugs ... or proposed regulations would effectively HHS is soliciting comments on a contraception and sterilization procedures reduce, rather than expand, the scope of of Labor will notify the third-party proposal also released on Aug. 22 for in their private insurance plans.” religious freedom.” administrator for a self-insured plan, that closely held companies, which would The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, As part of the Affordable Care the organization objects to providing allow them to follow the same procedures which represents numerous clients that Act, which became law in 2010, HHS contraception coverage. nonprofits do when their owners are suing the government because of the requires nearly all employers to cover The insurer or third-party administrator object to the contraceptive mandate for mandate, including Hobby Lobby, issued contraceptives, sterilizations and some would then be responsible for providing religious reasons. an Aug. 22 statement calling the new rules abortion-inducing drugs for all employees enrollees separate no-cost payments for Rep. Christopher Smith, R-New Jersey, the “latest step in the administration’s in company health plans. It includes a contraceptive services for as long as they blasted the new rule in an Aug. 22 long retreat on the HHS mandate.” The narrow exemption for religious employers remain in the plan. statement, calling it “really just another statement noted that the organization had that fit certain criteria. According to the fact sheet, the highly coercive regulation—a direct, not yet reviewed the legal aspects of the Religious employers who are not obligations of insurers and/or third-party obnoxious, unprecedented government new rule. As of Aug. 25, the Becket Fund exempt had been required to fill out a self- administrators to provide or arrange attack on the conscience rights of had not released a legal analysis. certification form—known as EBSA Form Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of 700—to direct a third party, usually the Louisville, Ky., president of the manager of an employer’s health plan, to U.S. bishops, also promised to review provide the contested coverage. ‘By proposing to extend the “accommodation” to the interim final regulations and Many religious employers that the closely held for-profit employers that were issue an evaluation after the review have sued over the mandate argue that wholly exempted by the Supreme Court’s recent was completed. even filling out Form 700 makes them decision in Hobby Lobby, the proposed regulations “In keeping with our practice, we complicit in providing coverage they find would effectively reduce, rather than expand, the will evaluate the regulations according objectionable. scope of religious freedom.’ to the principles set forth in ‘United for An HHS statement on Aug. 22 said Religious Freedom,’ ” issued in March the rules “balance our commitment to 2012, he said in an Aug. 22 statement. helping ensure women have continued —Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, president of Archbishop Kurtz noted, though, access to coverage for preventative the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops that “by proposing to extend the services important to their health, with ‘accommodation’ to the closely held the administration’s goal of respecting for-profit employers that were wholly religious beliefs.” † The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 9 Displaced Iraqis face daily struggle against desperation, boredom

MANCHESTER, England (CNS)— A typical day for many Iraqi Christians encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against desperation, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear. In e-mail exchanges with Catholic News Service, Sahar Mansour, 40, who lectured in chemistry at the University of Mosul until June, described life in the camp and surrounding settlements of Iraqis who fled advancing Islamic State fighters. She said the day might begin by waking under the plastic cover of the makeshift tent that has become home. Then it would be time to pluck the damp clothes, the only set the camp residents own, from a nearby hedge or tree where they were hung to dry after being washed the night before. Most people then join the long line to use a latrine. Breakfast would follow. This is often prepared by young volunteers among the displaced. Humanitarian assistance from the international community means that food is at last reaching the more than 70,000 displaced Iraqis who live in at least six centers around Ankawa. The displaced Iraqis appear to be living everywhere. One of the camps is in the frame of a huge building that is under construction, and others have grown up around the local churches—often the first places the new arrivals turn for help. People displaced by violence sit outside St. Joseph Chaldean Catholic Church in Ankawa, Iraq, on Aug. 14. A typical day for many Iraqi Christians Many families are living in and around encamped at Ankawa, near Irbil, would probably involve another round of struggle against desperation, frustration, anxiety, boredom and fear. St. Joseph’s Chaldean Catholic Church, (CNS photo/courtesyvAid to the Church in Need-USA) while about 650 families live within the boundaries of a Syriac Catholic church. mothers were mourning for lost infants Many of the younger camp residents were filled so that younger children could Mansour visited the Syriac Catholic and fathers stood around helplessly. have volunteered for the work that both play and cool off. church on Aug. 12, and found that the “It is very painful … when a woman needs to be done to make their camps St. Joseph’s priests continue to priests and nuns there were “doing loses a child in front of her eyes,” inhabitable and to care for those who need celebrate Mass and administer the their best to respond to the needs of the Mansour added. help the most. sacraments, as well as tend to the needs of people” amid a scene of overcrowding But she added the displaced know that Latrines are being dug around the those camped there. and distress. they must not give in to the temptation camps, and portable toilets are being On Aug. 15, the feast of the “The situation is almost a tragedy,” she to despair: They sustain themselves as transported in to help to halt the spread of Assumption of Mary, the Christians said in a mid-August e-mail to Catholic much as possible by the hope that they diseases such as cholera and typhoid. joined a Marian procession near a statue News Service. “The place is too small will eventually be rescued from their The authorities at St. Joseph’s Church of Mary by the entrance of the Ankawa to contain these families. You see people awful plight. are also building showers on adjacent camp. It was one of the few moments of sleeping in the church, [the] hall, outside Mansour said those in the camps were land so that the camp residents can keep festivity in the camp, with small reserves the church, under the trees. Others have encouraged by the arrival of humanitarian themselves clean. of chocolates and sweets shared among set up tents to protect them from the assistance, including medicine. First aid The displaced Iraqis are making use of children while people prayed and sang heat of the sun and in the park in front stations have been set up to treat the weak, the professional skills they have. Barbers, hymns, and women “trilled” to express of the church. sick and injured. Cars also have been for example, offer haircuts to all of the their devotion. “The thing that made me depressed is provided to take medicine and treatment to displaced and a chance for men to shave. Mansour said the Church workers’ that diseases are spreading among kids,” those too ill to walk. Some of the youths, meanwhile, main job has been “to help people to she said. “The elderly people cannot cope Those in the camp must decide how to have volunteered to arrange games and forget their grief and sorrow and to make with the heat, a lot of them were fainting, use their time productively while waiting activities for the many children struggling them look forward to the future, hoping and deaths are being recorded.” for their land to be liberated from the to adapt to life inside the camp. that one day God will change their lives She said children were crying, while Islamic State militants. On one hot evening, paddling pools and make it better.” † Panic, hunger spread among quarantined Africans in Ebola areas CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS)—Hunger and more than 2,600 people in West Africa have been infected he said. panic are spreading among people unable to work because with Ebola since March. More than 1,400 people have Father Konteh said he and other Church workers were of restrictions aimed at containing the spread of Ebola died from the virus. investigating ways to provide food to people in similar in Liberia and Sierra Leone, say Church workers in Food prices in Liberia are “rising steeply and people situations “to help prevent desperation.” West Africa. are hungry,” Father Crisafulli said, noting that “markets While Caritas’ European staffers have returned home, In Liberia’s capital, Monrovia, Church groups “are in the city that are usually bustling are now empty and no the local staff continue their work, he said, noting that trying to get food and distribute it to families who have trading is happening.” “one of our finance clerks who has lost nine members of asked us to help, but movement is heavily restricted and People are unable to get to work and, “while they still her family to Ebola still comes to work every day.” there is little we can do,” Salesian Father Jorge Crisafulli, have to buy food, they have no money because they can’t Food prices have escalated, particularly since the provincial superior in West Africa, said in an Aug. 22 work,” he said. border between Sierra Leone and Guinea was closed in telephone interview from Accra, Ghana. “There is great fear of spread of disease where there June, Father Konteh said. Neighborhoods in Monrovia have been sealed are large groups of people,” he said. Many people in Sierra Leone buy their food with off under terms of the government-imposed state Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea are the countries money earned the same day, mostly through informal of emergency. mainly affected by the current Ebola outbreak. trading, he said, noting that the closure of trading places The World Health Organization has estimated that “Particularly in Liberia, Ebola has become an has led to severe levels of hunger. economic and social problem as well as a health Salesians in Liberia are “also worrying about how to problem,” Father Crisafulli said, noting that “panic and pay teachers’ salaries” after they had to shut their schools fear are now greater problems than the disease itself. in line with the state of emergency, Father Crisafulli said. “Feelings of isolation are brought on by international “We still need to pay salaries, but we have no school fear of ‘Ebola countries’ and banning of flights,” he said, fees to use for this,” he said, adding that “the education adding that “people feel like lepers of earlier centuries.” system here is already in crisis and now everyone has the Many people recover from Ebola and return to their added setback of losing an academic year.” families, and there are “stories of extraordinary courage” In Sierra Leone, the government has asked the in the face of death, he said. Salesians to take responsibility for children who have Hunger is also a major problem in Sierra Leone, said been orphaned through Ebola, Father Crisafulli said, Father Peter Konteh, executive director of Caritas for the noting that the order “accepted this challenge” after Archdiocese of Freetown, citing as an example a complex making careful preparations to do so safely. near his own home that has been quarantined. “We are planning our interventions in an organized Security guards were placed at the gate of the Freetown manner, taking people’s long-term as well as immediate complex that is home to 54 people after the Aug. 6 death needs into consideration” he said. Liberian police in protective clothing control residents of of an Ebola-infected doctor who lived there, he said. Recognizing that “prevention education can reduce Monrovia’s West Point neighborhood waiting for food rations While the guards ensure no one enters or leaves, there levels of fear,” the Salesians have produced and to be handed out on Aug. 21. Church workers say hunger are stories that some have been bribed by residents “who distributed leaflets and billboards in Nigeria and Ghana as and panic are major problems in Liberia and Sierra Leone as said they were desperate to get out to buy food,” he said well as Sierra Leone and Liberia, he said. neighborhoods are sealed off in an effort to curb the spread of in an Aug. 25 telephone interview. Ebola is spread among humans through direct contact Ebola. (CNS photo/Ahmed Jallanzo, EPA) Places affected by Ebola are quarantined for 21 days, with infected bodily fluids. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Cardinal Szoka, former Detroit archbishop and Vatican official, dies

DETROIT (CNS)—Cardinal Edmund In 1988, the year he was named a C. Szoka, who rose from poor beginnings cardinal, he oversaw major changes at to reach the highest levels of service ‘When I came there [Diocese of Gaylord Sacred Heart Seminary with the addition to the Church, died on Aug. 20 at in northern Michigan], I had no place of a graduate school of theology, plus a Providence Park Hospital in Novi, Mich. revamping of its undergraduate program The cardinal, who was 86, died of to live, I had no chancery office, I had and the addition of lay ministry programs. natural causes. no secretary. I had a territory, but none It also was a year of controversy His death leaves the College of of the facilities I needed. God really sparked by Cardinal Szoka’s decision— Cardinals with 210 members, 117 of whom helped me because when I think back after several years of studies and are under 80 and therefore eligible to vote consideration—to close several dozen in a conclave to elect a new pope. on it now, it went much easier than you parishes in the city of Detroit that had A funeral Mass for Cardinal Szoka was might think.’ experienced declining membership. celebrated on Aug. 26 at the Cathedral of It was one of the first large waves the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit, —Car dinal Edmund C. Szoka of parish closures in the U.S. After a with Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of plan to shutter 46 of 114 city parishes Detroit as the main celebrant. was unveiled, the final number closed While his accomplishments were often was trimmed to 31 in 1989. Another larger-than-life, Cardinal Szoka carried five closed the following year. Outraged with him lessons learned growing up faithful of the archdiocese,” recalling the father had immigrated from what is now Catholics protested, rallied against poor in hard-working Polish-American cardinal’s many years of “tireless episcopal Belarus; his mother from Poland. archdiocesan officials and filed appeals communities as he served as parish pastor, ministry” to the Church in Michigan and at In the 1930s, the Szoka family, in civil court in Detroit and Church chancery official, founding bishop of a the Vatican. He was a “generous servant of including an older sister, Irene, moved to courts at the Vatican. Their appeals new diocese, archbishop of Detroit and in Christ and the Church,” the pope said. Muskegon as his father sought sufficient ultimately failed. high Vatican posts. Cardinal Szoka considered his greatest work to support the family. Cardinal Szoka also presided over Then-Archbishop Szoka was installed accomplishment in the city of Detroit Young Edmund studied at St. Joseph pockets of growth in the archdiocese, to head the Detroit Archdiocese in 1981. the transformation of Sacred Heart Seminary College in Grand Rapids for including the opening of new parishes, He was named a cardinal in 1988, and was Major Seminary in 1988, according to two years, transferring to Sacred Heart some of which were multicultural parishes. Detroit’s archbishop until 1990, when he a 2011 interview during the celebration Seminary College in Detroit for his junior In 1990, Pope John Paul named him began a 16-year tenure at the Vatican— of his 40th anniversary of episcopal and senior years. He studied theology president of the Prefecture for Economic serving under both Popes John Paul II and ordination. at St. John’s Provincial Seminary in Affairs of the Holy See. Faced with a Benedict XVI. And although he headed up one of the Plymouth Township. He was ordained on budget crisis, he initiated reforms that In 1990, he was appointed president largest U.S. archdioceses and achieved June 5, 1954, for the Marquette Diocese by stanched a 20-year flow of red ink, and set of the Prefecture for Economic Affairs acclaim for restoring the financial Bishop Thomas Noa. the course for healthy balance sheets for of the Holy See, the Vatican’s budget condition of the Vatican, he pointed In 1957, then-Father Szoka went the rest of his time in the position and for management office, and seven years later to his role in setting up the Diocese of to Rome to study canon law at the several years thereafter. was named president of the Pontifical Gaylord in northern Michigan as the Pontifical Lateran University. In 1997, he was named president of the Commission for the Vatican City State, a accomplishment that meant the most to As secretary to the bishop, in Pontifical Commission for Vatican City post he retired from in 2006. him personally. October 1962 he accompanied Bishop Noa State—informally the “governor”—which Retired from active ministry since “When I came there, I had no place to to Rome for the first session of the put him in charge of a wide range of 2006, Cardinal Szoka had been living in live, I had no chancery office, I had no Second Vatican Council. activities such as the Vatican Museums, Northville, Mich., and had recently been secretary. I had a territory, but none of In 1971, he was named the first bishop and the microstate’s mint, post office and active again in the life of the archdiocese the facilities I needed,” Cardinal Szoka of Gaylord. To fund diocesan operations, police force. he once led. told The Michigan Catholic, Detroit’s he launched the Catholic Services Appeal, Despite such major responsibilities, “We mourn the loss of a dedicated archdiocesan newspaper. “God really forerunner of a successful campaign he Cardinal Szoka said he accepted the shepherd,” said Archbishop Vigneron, the helped me because when I think back would start in the Detroit Archdiocese. appointments with humility. current head of the archdiocese, who had on it now, it went much easier than you He was named to Detroit in 1981. “When I was in the seminary, my only served as a priest under Cardinal Szoka in might think.” During his tenure, he expressed deep ambition was to be a parish priest,” he said the 1980s. “For 60 years, Cardinal Szoka His episcopal motto—“To Live in concern over the racism and poverty that at the time. “But a priest is obedient. I did gave himself totally to his priestly service Faith”—was one the cardinal took to heart. plagued the city. In 1985, he sponsored not go asking for these jobs.” of Christ and his Church. He has gone “It is the perennial challenge the Church Detroit Mayor Coleman Young’s On June 22, 2006, Pope Benedict home to the heavenly Father with our always faces, strengthening the faith of the membership as the first black member of accepted his resignation. In retirement, prayers. May the Lord give him the reward people and helping them to live that faith the all-white Detroit Golf Club. he returned to the Detroit. Until 2008, of his labors.” fully and actively,” he once said. In 1987, he hosted his friend and he remained a member of five Vatican Pope Francis sent a telegram to the Edmund Casimir Szoka was born on mentor, Pope John Paul, on a visit to congregations, including the Congregation archbishop with “heartfelt condolences Sept. 14, 1927, in Grand Rapids to Polish Detroit and elsewhere in the archdiocese for Bishops and the Congregation for the to you and to the clergy, religious and lay immigrants Casimir and Mary Szoka. His as part of a major U.S. papal trip. Evangelization of Peoples. † What was in the news on August 28, 1964? An English Mass is previewed as the United States gets ready for sacraments in the vernacular By Brandon A. Evans Here are some of the items found in the August 28, • A photographic report from a South American 1964, issue of The Criterion: mission This week, we continue to examine what was going on • Mass in the vernacular highlights observance of • Reports deicide issue deleted from statement in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through Liturgical Week • Pope calls for peace in Cyprus the pages of The Criterion. “ST. LOUIS—The annual Liturgical Week got • ‘Johns Girls’ to mark 25th year as religious underway here with major stress on the 20th century • Newsweek’s analysis of encyclical lauded Catholic’s mandate for responsible involvement, not • Urges study of Teilhard theory of evolution 7th Annual St.Vincent de Paul only in the public worship of the Church, but also—in • World’s population passes 3.1 billion FRIENDS OF THE POOR® WALK cooperation with men of all faiths and none—in efforts • Cardinal Cushing raps Time article Saturday, September 27, 2014 to solve ‘the problems and perplexities.’ Serving as • Terre Haute lad grabs top award in Talent Show both the foundation and keynote for the Week was the • Pontiff lauds work of Mission Crusade Please join us for this fun and charitable event as we help opening Mass offered at 5 p.m. [Aug. 24] in massive • Ice cream social scheduled Sunday heighten national awareness of the challenges faced by the Kiel Auditorium. This Eucharist was in effect a preview • Seventh daughter becomes nun nation’s poor and raise significant funds for our valuable demonstrating the broad potential offered by the • Church’s antiquity, youth stressed by pope services. All funds raised locally will be used locally. constitution on the liturgy enacted by the ecumenical • Mixed reactions greet English in sacraments council, and the American Bishops’ decrees for putting • Another Air Line gets dispensation Location: Washington Park, 3130 E. 30th Street it into effect, which are to become general throughout • Kentucky shared-time ‘success’ Time: Registration 9 AM, walk/run starts at 10 AM the country next November 29. English was used for • Parish operates own program for aid to education Distance: Choice of 1–3 mile routes all of those prayers and Scripture readings which the • Major changes seen in Catholic schools Register: Go to www.indysvdpwalk.org to register bishops have decided will be in the vernacular.” • Diocese starts overhaul of high school courses or to help one of the four neediest SVdP conferences • Sacraments in English to begin September 14 • Franciscan body urges trade with Red nations in the city by donating to “Virtual Vicky.” “WASHINGTON—Traditional Saturday confessions • Sister in Mexico wears wig Sponsored by: in Catholic churches across the nation will have an • Byzantine rite faces difficulties in Greece unfamiliar ring for penitents in mid-September. The • Apathy to lay participation charged priest will absolve in English, reciting in the vernacular • CRS Bolivia aid tops $10 million the formula customarily said in Latin. This change, • Catholic negligence cited in race riots † probably the first to be noticed by the average Catholic, will be part of a sweeping revision in the administration of the Church’s sacraments and its sacramentals.” • KC drops system of ‘blackball’ • Fr. Vincent Grannan, chaplain, dies at 53 • Liturgical Commission is created • St. Meinrad monk bars ‘common worship’ plan • Clergy shifts announced by Chancery svdpindy.org • Prelate gets splashy welcome • KC again sponsors State Fair booth Read all of these stories from our Society of St. Vincent de Paul • Answers to parents’ questions: The new math August 28, 1964, issue by logging on to 3001 E. 30th Street • Indianapolis, IN 46218 • Radio spreads religion and literacy in Brazil our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com. • New family center opened in Detroit The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 11 Father Stanley Herber celebrates 50 years as ‘a priest of Vatican II’

(Editor’s note: Several archdiocesan Father Herber renewed his commitment priests are celebrating their 50-year jubilees as pastor of St. Gabriel Parish annually from in 2014. This week, we feature Father 2007 until his decision to retire this year. Father Stanley Herber Stanley Herber.) “I’m slowing down,” he admitted. “Age is creeping in. I’ll be 77 in October. But • Age: 76 By Natalie Hoefer I’ll be happy to help—I won’t be totally • Par ents: The late Knute and on the shelf.” Bertha Herber Change was in the air in 1964 when As he reflected on his 50 years as a • Siblings: Six sisters, one now deceased Father Stanley Herber was ordained a priest. priest, Father Herber recalled that “there • Childhood parish: St. Joan of Arc in “I was the last of the old,” he said. “My was some confusion that came with the first Indianapolis (after moving to various first Mass at St. Joan of Arc [Church in changes from Vatican II” in terms of the cities in Indiana and Michigan) Indianapolis] was the full beauty of the Mass. • Seminary: The former Saint Meinrad Tridentine Mass in Latin. Then in the fall, Overall, said Father Herber, “I High School in St. Meinrad, the former the first changes [in the Mass] came about don’t think of Vatican II as confusing, Our Lady of the Lakes Seminary in the [from the Second Vatican Council].” but as exciting. Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, ordained Vatican II brought about changes to the “Vatican II was defining for my from Saint Meinrad Seminary and School Mass and in other ways, but that was nothing priesthood. I consider myself a priest of Theology new for Father Herber, whose life had been of Vatican II. I think I came along at a • Ordained: May 3, 1964 full of change as his father’s job led to wonderful time. • Favorite Scripture: The Emmaus story several moves for the family. “When I was taking Scripture courses in (Lk 24:13-35) The family eventually settled down in major seminary, the new understanding of Father Stanley Herber delivers a • Favorite devotion: The Divine Office Indianapolis as Father Herber entered the the Scripture was just coming to be taught. homily during the Mass celebrating his • Hobbies: Golf, reading magazines such as seventh grade at St. Joan of Arc School. We got a whole deeper understanding of 50th jubilee on May 4 at St. Gabriel Church the National Catholic Register, America, “Our family got along great,” he said, how Scripture developed, who wrote what, in Connersville. (Submitted photo) Commonweal and The Priest. † despite being the only brother of six sisters. how it was put together. It was fascinating. “We got two vocations out of our family, so “And a deeper understanding of I’d say our parents were pretty devout.” the liturgy was also being presented. Father Stanley One of his older siblings, A revolution was taking place, which Herber, Providence Sister Marilyn Herber, recalls finally was brought to full expression in right, and a him being “our mother’s favorite. He Vatican II.” classmate was a good student, and he always had One of the most impactful changes pose at friends around the neighborhood no matter of Vatican II that he appreciates is Saint Meinrad where we lived.” the understanding of the priest’s role Seminary and When Father Herber’s cousin was during Mass. School of ordained in 1946, the new priest gave his “The altar was brought forward with the Theology in first priestly blessing to the 9-year-old boy, people gathered around,” he said. “It gave St. Meinrad suggesting Stanley may one day be giving a sense that [the Mass] was much more ‘we in the early blessings himself. people with the priest are offering the Mass 1960s. A few years later, Father Herber with Christ.’ It became more the people (Submitted photo) suspected he might have a call to the gathering as a communion of faithful people priesthood when a priest asked his to be a part of the great offering of Jesus.” sixth-grade class how one knows if they It is the role of the priest during Mass have a vocation. that Father Herber finds most profound “There was a boy who dared to answer, about the priesthood. ‘You just know.’ I realized he had a vocation, “Leading the people at the Eucharist, and maybe I did, too.” there’s a wonderful realization that Christ Time spent at the former Saint Meinrad is working through you,” he said. “We High School in St. Meinrad, the former constantly preach the presence of Jesus Our Lady of the Lakes Seminary in the in the people, the word, the priest and Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese, and finally Communion.” at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Father Herber’s love for the Mass Theology proved the calling to be true. comes through when he presides, said Father Herber’s first assignment Pamela Rader, business manager at as a priest was as associate pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville. heart and invited him to dinner.” It was a monumental task. Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Parish “He’s so good with liturgies,” she They have not only remained friends, “He was a marketer of change—not in Indianapolis and as an instructor at the said. “He’s very spiritual. You can tell he but have come to view Father Herber as for the sake of change, but change former Bishop Bruté Latin School, an did everything with meaning. He’s just a “part of our family,” said Peggy. for a reason. archdiocesan high school seminary on the sweet, gentle person, very generous, a good “He traveled out to Washington state “I have so much respect for him. parish campus. role model.” to perform one of our sons’ wedding. Our He’s just a blessing to you when you’re “Teaching was a challenge for me,” Joy Seffrin, a member and volunteer at lives just wouldn’t be as spiritually rich with him.” Father Herber admitted. “I enjoyed it, but the parish, agreed. without him.” Sister Marilyn recalls one particular then decided it was time to move on.” “He was a good shepherd for this When asked to describe Father Herber, Mass her brother celebrated that defined During the next 40 years, Father Herber parish,” she said. “He had a good way Ed recited a litany of positive traits. his priesthood. served as a pastor, priest moderator and of presenting things during his homilies, “He’s sincere, honest, outgoing, caring,” “We were on a pilgrimage in the administrator of numerous parishes, and as always looking toward making us more said Ed. “He’s a strong Christian, sincere Holy Land at the Sea of Galilee,” she said. dean of three deaneries. spiritual as a Church. in his faith, sharing, motivating, a man of “He was saying Mass. We were facing the However, the largest portion of his “I’ll miss him. I like our new priest, too, prayer. I know of countless people who sun, and Stan had his back to the sun. priestly ministry was spent as pastor at but I’ll miss Father [Herber].” would point to Father Stan as their spiritual “It was homily time, and he said, ‘You St. Mary Parish in New Albany for 14 years, Peggy and Edward “Ed” Ehlers became advisor and role model. He affected a lot of really can’t see my face can you? No, and most recently at St. Gabriel Parish friends with Father Herber a few years after lives in a positive way.” because it’s in the shadow. in Connersville, where he served for the he became pastor of St. Mary Parish in Ed recalled the challenge Father Herber ‘This is how it should be. I must last 18 years. New Albany in 1975. faced when Holy Trinity Parish’s church— decrease. Christ must increase.’ “I was almost at the retirement age The couple was searching for a Catholic just two blocks from St. Mary Parish in “That’s what his priesthood has [of 70] when I completed 12 years parish with a preschool. New Albany—burned down in 1975. been about.” [at St. Gabriel Parish],” said Father Herber. After discussing St. Mary Parish “That left an Irish Catholic-based “So I said, ‘Why don’t I just hang on another and school with them, said Peggy, church and a German-based church in (For more information about a year.’ And then because they don’t push “[Father Herber] said to us, ‘If you would a position where they needed to join vocation to the priesthood in the you out if you’re still ready to serve, I was ever like to invite a poor priest to dinner, together,” he said. “Father Stan had to help Archdiocese of Indianapolis, log on to welcome to stay.” that would be very nice!’ So I took that to coordinate the joining of the two parishes. www.HearGodsCall.com.) † Same-sex marriages in Virginia put on hold; Florida ban overturned WASHINGTON (CNS)—The U.S. Supreme Court between a man and a woman is not motivated by unjust ruling striking down same-sex-marriage bans in put same-sex marriages in Virginia on hold on Aug. 20, discrimination or animosity toward anyone. Human four Florida counties. one day before the ban was scheduled to be lifted. dignity is manifested in all persons; and all have the In the Virginia case, the Supreme Court gave no On Aug. 21, a federal judge in Tallahassee, Fla., capacity for and are deserving of love. This is especially statement in issuing its stay. It acted after a county struck down a voter-approved ban on same-sex true of children, who should be given the opportunity, to clerk in northern Virginia asked the justices to block marriage in that state, saying it violated the guarantees the greatest extent possible, to be raised and loved by the the issuance of marriage license while the case is being of equal protection and due process provided in the mother and father who conceived them.” appealed to the high court. 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. U.S. District Judge Robert Hinkle had made On July 28, a three-judge panel of the “We are sadly disappointed by the court’s decision his ruling in consolidating two suits filed against 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Richmond, to reject marriage as the union of only one man and one Florida Gov. Rick Scott. The Florida bishops had filed ruled 2-1 that Virginia’s same-sex marriage ban is woman as husband and wife,” said an Aug. 21 statement a friend-of-the court brief in one of the suits. Voters had unconstitutional. from Florida’s Catholic bishops. “The decision fails approved a gay-marriage ban in 2008. Virginia’s Catholic bishops in a statement on that to adequately consider that marriage unites a man and Hinkle issued a stay of his order pending likely ruling said that “those with same-sex attractions must be a woman with any children born from their union and appeals. No marriage licenses for same-sex couples will treated with respect and sensitivity,” but they reaffirmed protects a child’s right to both a mother and a father.” be issued in Florida under the stay. the Catholic Church’s teaching that marriage should be The bishops added, “Our affirmation of marriage The Florida attorney general had appealed a previous between one man and one woman. † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Old Testament: The great prophet Elijah enters history Find the complete (Thirty-fifth in a series of columns) dying violently because of the sins He challenged them to call upon Baal they committed. This culminated with to send down fire to consume two bulls. joy of Jesus Beginning with Chapter 12 of the the beginning of the reign of Israel’s After they tried all day long, Elijah had in everyday First Book of Kings, the Old Testament King Ahab in 869 B.C. Ahab “did evil in them pour jars of water over the sacrifice tells us what the sight of the Lord more than any of his several times before praying to the God blessings happened to Israel predecessors” (1 Kgs 16:30). He married of Abraham, Isaac and Israel. God then after King Solomon’s Jezebel and went over to the worship of sent fire down to consume the holocaust My youngest son Colin’s first birthday death in 922 B.C. the pagan god Baal, building a temple to and lapped up the water in the trench. won’t happen for another week or so. But Specifically, the him in Samaria. As the people praised God, Elijah for the past couple kingdom broke in two, That’s when the great prophet Elijah, had them seize Baal’s prophets. They of months, it seems with 10 tribes forming one of the most important figures in the took them to a brook where Elijah slit like he’s been giving the kingdom of Israel Old Testament, entered history, in Chapter their throats. himself one gift in the north and 17. He struggled to preserve the worship When Ahab told Jezebel what Elijah after another. two tribes becoming of the Lord against Ahab and Jezebel. had done, she vowed revenge, so A big grin spread the kingdom of Judah in the south. The First, we learn that Elijah told Ahab Elijah fled for his life. He went first to across his face as two kingdoms warred against each other. that there would be a severe drought. He Beer-sheba in Judah and then walked he just started to Jerusalem remained the capital went to a place east of the Jordan River 40 days and 40 nights (reminiscent crawl. Then I’d see of Judah. As far as the authors were where he was fed by ravens. Then he of the 40 years the Israelites were in his happy face pop concerned, Jerusalem’s Temple was moved to Sidon (in modern Lebanon) the desert) to Horeb (or Sinai), the around a corner when the only legitimate place for worship where he stayed with a widow and her mountain where God gave Moses the he became confident enough to crawl from and the kings were judged according to son, miraculously providing enough flour Ten Commandments. room to room. their loyalty or disloyalty to the Lord in for them to live for a year. Then, when The authors want us to know that it Now he smiles as he pulls himself up to terms of worship there. This meant that the widow’s son died, Elijah restored was fitting that Elijah, whose mission various pieces of furniture in the house and the worship of those in Israel, where him to life. it was to re-establish the covenant, “cruises” along them. King Jeroboam established shrines in Dan With all that as an introduction to should return to Mount Horeb. Surely, his first steps aren’t far away. and Bethel, was illegitimate. Elijah, Chapter 18 tells the famous story There he experienced wind, storms, What smiles will await us then? Chapters 12 through 16 tell us about of Elijah competing with the 450 prophets earthquakes and fire before hearing a It’s been a pleasure for my wife, Cindy, the reigns of three kings in Judah and of Baal and the 400 prophets of Asherah, tiny whispering sound that signified the our other sons and I to see Colin so happy six kings in Israel, the latter usually another pagan god, on Mount Carmel. presence of God. † with himself as he’s learned these new skills, even if he’s been a troublemaker For the Journey/Effie Caldarola in our closets and with our floor lamps. Yes, it’s time to “baby proof” our house Moving forward in kindness, without sharing a honk once again. But as Colin has been learning, I’ve Generally, I’m not a bumper sticker fan, of vehicles. Remember the old bumper This has been a rough year: Religious been trying to learn, too—or at least trying although once in a while one of them gives stickers that said, “Honk if you love persecution, including horrific treatment to remember a lesson I learned long ago but me a good chuckle. Jesus”? I haven’t seen many of those lately, of our fellow Christians; children fleeing forgot somewhere along the line. But most of the but my friend’s sticker turns that old adage death and rape coming to our borders I suspect I was a happy little boy when time, those little on its head. to be shouted at by unwelcoming mobs; I achieved those first accomplishments signs plastered on the “If you love Jesus,” her bumper sticker an airplane shot from the sky by lawless some 43 years ago. As I grew older, back of dusty cars reads, “seek justice. Any fool can honk.” thugs, and victims’ bodies left to rot in things that give great joy to Colin—like seem like sound bites Now, if I were inclined to be a bumper Ukrainian fields; thousands of innocent simply crawling or walking—became people shout at you sticker user, that’s one I’d use. residents of Gaza suffering the violence of commonplace to me. right before they peel In truth, I probably collect my own a cruel war pursued by two sides who pay And, in a certain sense, they should off when the light private bumper stickers, filling my little heed to civilian casualties. be. We really can’t expect to walk around turns green. journal with short, pithy sayings that Any fool can honk, and yet we are giddily happy every time we take a step. Sometimes a cause reflection. called to seek justice, and most of the time, But the happiness of my young son that bumper sticker will make me nod in The older I get, the more I quote the we don’t know where to begin. The world shines through in such ordinary events agreement. Often, they make me angry, little aphorisms my mother used to share has so many problems. helps me recall the importance of being and frequently I want to say, as the driver with me. As a kid, I suppose I shook my But we aren’t called to solve all of present to the little blessings with which speeds away, “Wait. Let’s talk about that.” head impatiently at them, but as I get them. We may not solve any of them, and our loving God surrounds us every moment I guess that’s part of our modern older, I see those kernels of truth as words the message of the cross is that sometimes of our lives. culture: We proclaim our opinion, but to live by. we come to apparent failure. Yet we As each of us moves into adulthood, we we’re unavailable to listen to the response. Maybe it’s not bumper stickers I object continue to seek justice. often focus our hearts and minds on moving Although, maybe it’s just as well not to, but the fact that they are in my face I heard a homilist say recently, on to bigger goals after having achieved to talk to those Smith & Wesson bumper without any opportunity for discussion. “Ministry is not about a quid pro quo. smaller ones. sticker types. However, I’ve had a co- Any fool can honk. Yep, even Jesus You can’t expect something in return It might be striving to graduate from worker’s car in my driveway all week said something like that: “Not everyone for ministry.” high school or college, landing that while she’s away on a trip, and she is who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter The cross suggests that often we see first job, establishing oneself in a career, definitely a bumper sticker advocate. Since the kingdom of heaven but only the little return for our efforts, but we move getting married and living well as a spouse she and I share most convictions, her one who does the will of my Father in forward in kindness in our little corner of or parent. bumper stickers don’t offend me, and one heaven” (Mt 7:21). the world nonetheless. Leave the honking All of these are good and worthy goals. of them actually made me think. It’s one thing to say we believe in to others. They deserve our best efforts. And, with the This is hopefully what most people Jesus, and that our faith will save us, but help of his grace, we can give God glory intend when they condense their demonstrating that we actually have faith is (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News and be drawn closer to him through them. convictions into short phrases on the back far more challenging. Service.) † But focusing ourselves too much on these adult goals can narrow our spiritual Our Global Family/Carolyn Woo vision. While keeping our eyes on the ball of these admittedly important objectives, We are called to step up when parents or society fail children we might become blind to the small but no less vital blessings that fill what we In gatherings with Catholic Relief of children living in conflict areas at Children’s Health. sometimes make the sidelines of our lives. Services colleagues in Africa, I often 1 billion, while a 2006 United Nations After decades of research, we now They might include the joy to be found inquire about their report projected 500 million to know that childhood traumas can in watching a baby take his or her first children. With 1.5 billion children affected by violence severely compromise the child’s long- steps, sharing a meal with a friend or loved beaming pride, each year. In addition to physical term development on many dimensions: one, letting go a hearty laugh after hearing they mention their suffering, children in conflict areas are emotional, physical, intellectual, social. a good, or even not so good, joke and so biological children out of school and thus held back from The damage starts early and extends many more things. and other children preparation for the future even when its grip into adulthood. It can lead to Jesus said at the Last Supper that he raised as their own. conflicts come to an end. The civil substance abuse, depression, promiscuity, wanted his joy to be in us and “your joy to The latter may be war in Syria, for example, has affected poor job performance and chronic be complete” (Jn 15:11). orphaned by the AIDS 5.5 million children, says the U.N. diseases, experts say. He said that his joy comes to us when epidemic, the Rwanda Even in stable societies, the abuse of In The Drama of the Gifted Child, we follow his commandment to love genocide, civil wars children takes place at astounding rates. In Alice Miller reminds us that “the truth another as he loves us, which ultimately and other calamities. the U.S., based on a report by the Centers about childhood is stored up in our bodies means “laying down one’s life for one’s Sometimes they are blood relations, for Disease Control and Prevention, and lives in the depths of our souls. Our friends” (Jn 15:13). sometimes an orphan in the village. I am government agencies log more than intellect can be deceived, our feelings For Jesus, that specifically meant freely always touched by the love and generosity 3 million child maltreatment cases each can be numbed and manipulated, our embracing his suffering and death. that have opened up homes, arms and year, with about a quarter of that number perceptions shamed and confused, our For us, his adult followers, it can mean hearts for the least and littlest among us. treated in emergency rooms of hospitals. bodies tricked with medication, but our being more like Colin—being the spiritual While at CRS we do extensive work What are called adverse childhood soul never forgets. And because we children he wants us to be—by consciously to reverse the root causes and effects experiences (neglect, abandonment, are one, one whole soul in one body, taking time out of our busy days to take of poverty, much less tractable are emotional and sexual abuse, parental someday our body will present its bill.” delight in the little things of life. the traumas that children experience drug addiction, incarceration of at least When parents or society fail children, This will help us make the joy of Jesus around the world because of war, abuse, one parent) define the daily existence who will step up for them? Who should? more complete in our own lives. But it can displacement from home into hostile for about 35 million children or one Whose children are they? also spread that joy to others when our environments, loss of parents and siblings, third of those between ages 12-17 smiles are inspired by everyday happiness brutal maiming and other trauma. in the United States, according to (Carolyn Woo is president and CEO of and triumphs of our children, friends and A 2009 estimate puts the number the 2011-2012 National Survey of Catholic Relief Services.) † loved ones. † The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 13

Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, September 1 Friday, September 5 Sunday Readings 1 Corinthians 2:1-5 1 Corinthians 4:1-5 Psalm 119:97-102 Psalm 37:3-6, 27-28, 39-40 Sunday, August 31, 2014 Luke 4:16-30 Luke 5:33-39 were coming. Christians would be abused, • Jeremiah 20:7-9 tormented and executed under terrifying • Romans 12:1-2 circumstances. (Paul himself would Tuesday, September 2 Saturday, September 6 • Matthew 16:21-27 be executed.) 1 Corinthians 2:10b-16 1 Corinthians 4:6b-15 For its last reading, the Church Psalm 145:8-14 Psalm 145:17-21 The Book of Jeremiah provides this this weekend presents a passage from Luke 4:31-37 Luke 6:1-5 weekend’s first reading. Jeremiah was the St. Matthew’s Gospel. It is a continuation son of a priest, Hilkiah, and therefore of the of the reading from Matthew last week. priestly caste. He was The Apostles still were with the Lord at Wednesday, September 3 Sunday, September 7 active as a prophet for Caesarea Philippi, where the Jordan River St. Gregory the Great, pope Twenty-third Sunday in two generations. Critics still forms north of the Sea of Galilee. and doctor of the Church Ordinary Time denounced him as In the reading last weekend, Peter had 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Ezekiel 33:7-9 disloyal to his people proclaimed Jesus the “Son of the living Psalm 33:12-15, 20-21 Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9 and race. He was so God” (Mt 16:16). It was a glorious blunt and controversial proclamation, and it raised the image of Luke 4:38-44 Romans 13:8-10 that angry listeners at glory and triumph. Easily following this Matthew 18:15-20 times went so far as to image was the thought of victory over evil Thursday, September 4 threaten his life. Once and oppressive forces, and vindication 1 Corinthians 3:18-23 he was thrown into a after suffering. Psalm 24:1bc-2, 3-4ab, 5-6 cistern and left to die, but he survived. Instead of assuring the Apostles that He withstood these criticisms, but he did they themselves would be the instruments Luke 5:1-11 not abide the outrages without protest. He whereby vindication quickly and devoutly believed that his role as a prophet automatically would come, Jesus warned resulted from his acceptance of God’s call. and indeed insisted that true followers of He complained to God that this divine call the Gospel must endure much in this life. Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle led him into the abuse and rejection that They would have to carry their crosses he experienced. Nevertheless, he never in the footprints of Christ crucified. His Saying prayers in and of themselves renounced his calling. kingdom is not of this world. As firm as his sense that he was called does not guarantee a person’s salvation to be a prophet was his firm belief that the Reflection people’s sinfulness would send the entire Many centuries have passed I was given a prayer folder that tells here in Pennsylvania, and I have invited society to doom. since Jeremiah wrote. Indeed, almost Q me that I will suffer no purgatory and him to be present, but not officiate, at This weekend’s reading includes 20 centuries have elapsed since the be taken directly to heaven when I die, our wedding on the beach in Cancun. Jeremiah’s protest about being a prophet as preaching of Jesus. Much has been provided that I say these prayers daily for He says that he is not allowed to attend well as a warning that disaster awaited the constant through the ages, however, and 12 years. (Missed days can be made up.) I since it is not a Catholic wedding in a people’s continued sinning. much today is exactly the same as what am about ready to start the third year, but church, and that he can only come to the Jeremiah was eloquent. He describes pertained during the time of Jeremiah or a dear Catholic friend dinner afterward at the resort restaurant. his vocation as a “fire burning” in his the time of Jesus. has just told me that Is that true? Everyone I talk to says that heart (Jer 20:9). Persecution from hostile governments this promise is not true. this can’t possibly be a rule for Catholic St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is and philosophies endures today, but The prayers are priests. (Pennsylvania) the source of the second reading. In this in this country real persecution comes called “The Seven reading, Paul pleaded with his readers, the more subtly, albeit intensely, from the Sorrows of Mary, as I take it from your question that Christians of Rome, “to offer” their bodies conventions of life around believers and given to St. Bridget Ayou are not a Catholic, since your “as a living sacrifice holy and acceptable from temptations besetting them. and The Twelve-Year church would seem by its name to be a to God” (Rom 12:1). The Christians in the Christians must live amid rebuke and Prayers of St. Bridget non-denominational Christian one. I do great imperial capital were immersed in rejection, at times quite direct. They on the Passion of not know whether your husband-to-be a culture utterly at odds with the Gospel always find sin attractive. Jesus,” and I have is Catholic, and my answer hinges on of Jesus. Integral to this culture were Doom and gloom are not the final read that these prayers were confirmed by whether he is. hedonism and gross sexual license. points in this message. Rather, the lesson Pope Clement XII and Pope Innocent X. I If he is not, I don’t see why your Paul urged the Christian Romans to is that God does not forsake us. He offers don’t really mind doing the prayers, but I brother-in-law should feel that he cannot resist this culture at all costs, even the loss us the way to salvation. Jesus is the Savior. would like to know if I can guarantee my attend the wedding. If, however, the of their earthly lives. He strengthens us. He is God. In the Lord salvation. (Fayetteville, Arkansas) man you are marrying is a Catholic, his This admonition implied true is genuine, everlasting reward. responsibility is either to be married by consequences. On the horizon was a In the miracle of grace, and in their No prayer—not even one said every a Catholic priest in a Catholic church or political and legal antagonism against bond with Christ, Christians will be Aday for 12 years—can “guarantee to receive the necessary permissions for Christianity. Many surely knew dark days victorious, over all, forever! † salvation.” Even a plenary indulgence, the marriage to be performed by someone which remits all of the temporal other than a priest and in a setting other punishment due to sin, covers only those than a Catholic church. My Journey to God sins committed up until the time the My guess is that the groom is in fact indulgence is gained. It does not cover sins a Catholic, and has not received the one might commit in the future. needed permissions—in which case I The surest way to eternal happiness is can understand your brother-in-law’s Saint John the Baptist, Pray for Us!* to live out the teachings of Jesus Christ as reluctance to attend. learned from the Gospels and his Church. Especially as a priest, he is required By Ken Ogorek I quote as my witness Jesus himself, who to avoid giving scandal, and he has explained in the Gospel of Matthew that evidently decided that his presence at the Saint John the Baptist, Patron dear, “not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, wedding would create the misimpression Who for our Lord prepared the way, Lord’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, that the ceremony was approved by the Pray that we welcome Jesus when but only the one who does the will of my Catholic Church. He offers us new life today. father in heaven” (Mt 7:21). I would guess, further, that he has It strikes me as a bit like magic to think made the judgment that for the sake of Saint John the Baptist, Pray for Us! that the mere recitation of certain words family harmony—and with the hope That we receive our Risen Lord. could by itself win joy that is eternal. that later you might decide to have your After all, a plenary indulgence requires, in marriage “blessed” by the Catholic You bid the people to repent, addition to the particular prayer or action, Church—it would better that he be Turning away from dark and sin, the reception of the sacraments of penance present at the reception. † Seeking the Lord at our hearts’ door. and the Eucharist as well as prayers for the Pray when He knocks, we’ll let Him in. pope’s intentions. Having said this, I would still encourage Readers may submit prose Saint John the Baptist, Pray for Us! you to continue the recitation of the prayers or poetry for faith column That we receive our Risen Lord. Ken Ogorek is a member you mentioned. Most often, the effect of of St. Pius X Parish in prayer—as well as comforting the soul—is The Criterion invites readers to submit Your cousin Jesus is the Lamb, Indianapolis and the director of to bring one closer to Jesus in thought and original prose or poetry relating to faith Showing His mercy, granting us peace. catechesis for the archdiocese. action, which is the goal of our lives and or experiences of prayer for possible May His peace in our hearts still grow, On Aug. 29, the Church the safest path to salvation. publication in the “My Journey to God” And in our life His love increase. remembers the Passion of Saint column. John the Baptist. In this photo I am getting married in Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Saint John the Baptist, Pray for Us! from Oct. 20, 2009, a statue of Q Cancun, Mexico, and the pastor of Please include name, address, parish and That we receive our Risen Lord. Jesus and St. John the Baptist is my Christian church (Valley Point Church) telephone number with submissions. seen in the narthex of Our Lady here in Pennsylvania is coming to marry Send material for consideration *A hymn that can be sung to the tune used for of the Americas Church in us. We will actually get married civilly to “My Journey to God,” Faith of Our Fathers Rochester, N.Y. (CNS photo/ at the courthouse here at home before we The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian St., Mike Crupi, Catholic Courier) travel to Mexico, in order to be sure that Indianapolis, IN 46206 or e-mail to the wedding will be recognized in the U.S. [email protected]. † My brother-in-law is a Catholic priest Page 14 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014

Rest in peace Please submit in writing Kelsey James, Kristina and to our office by 10 a.m. Jack McKinney. Sister of Thursday before the week of Jeanette Dunn, Doreen Lehr, publication; be sure to state Marcia Lowe, Cindy Poehler date of death. Obituaries of Levi, Denise and Art Poehler. archdiocesan priests serving Grandmother of two. our archdiocese are listed DAVIS, Walter W., 93, elsewhere in The Criterion. Christ the King, Indianapolis, Order priests and religious Aug. 7. Father of Janet Espiritu, sisters and brothers are Christine Welcher and Thomas included here, unless they are Davis. Grandfather of three. natives of the archdiocese or Great-grandfather of six. have other connec­tions to it; those are separate obituaries DONAHUE, Shirley V., 84, on this page. St. Joseph, Aug. 16. Mother of Theresa Brickens, Veronica ARMITAGE, David B., 74, McGhee, Bridget Shilling, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Angela Donahue Wykoff and Aug. 13. Husband of Gloria Christopher Donahue. Sister of Armitage. Father of Lynda Elizabeth Lopez and Dorothy Henderson, Jennifer Spivey, Raby. Grandmother of 13. Amy, Ben, Jeremiah and Sam Great-grandmother of 16. Armitage. Brother of Casey Peck. Grandfather of 14. DUM, Anton W., 87, Christ the King, Indianapolis, BAUER, Edward, 64, St. Mary, Aug. 7. Father of Susan Kent, New Albany, Aug. 7. Brother Celebrating Polish heritage Sandy Panyard, Marilyn Ryan, of Joyce Eaton and Regina Susan Seidel, Gary, Michael Harrison. Members of the Polish Women’s Alliance of America’s Zamek Dancers carry offertory gifts to the altar during Mass at the historic and Steve Dum. Grandfather of St. Albertus Church in Detroit on Aug. 10. The Mass drew more than 2,000 people, and was organized as part of a “Mass mob” BRIER, Kathryn M., 82, 14. Great-grandfather of one. movement to fill now-closed historic inner-city churches for occasional Masses. St. Albertus is no longer an active parish, but the St. Christopher, Indianapolis, FLODERUM, Douglas W., church remains open as a center for Polish heritage. (CNS photo/Jonathan Francis, Archdiocese of Detroit) Aug. 13. Mother of Charles, 46, Annunciation, Brazil, Daniel, David, James, Michael July 29. Husband of Melissa and Richard Brier. Grandmother Floderman. Son of Mary Ann GRABOWSKI, Thomas, 70, and Thomas Hauswald. Sister Aug. 16. Husband of Arlene SAMPSON, Stella, 93, St. Mary, of 10. Floderman. Brother of Adrienne St. Christopher, Indianapolis, of Barbara Julius and Catherine Kutter. Brother of Rosemary Rushville, Aug. 17. Mother of CAULFIELD, Thomas E., Davies, Dick and John Aug. 15. Husband of Tina Tinius. Grandmother of eight. Miller and Anthony Kutter. Barbara Brewer, Joann, Gerald 89, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Floderman. Grabowski. Father of Christine Great-grandmother of eight. LUSK, Mae, 93, St. Joseph, and Roger Sampson. Sister of Aug. 18. Father of Kathleen GILLUM, Joseph P., 46, Garver, Tracy Gercak, Michael, HOFFMAN, John F. Sr., Shelbvyille, July 11. Ann Suszek. Grandmother of Beach, Noreen Kavanaugh, Paul and Thomas Grabowski. St. Matthew the Apostle, 83, Prince of Peace, Madison, McCRARY, Aaron J., 21, five. Great-grandmother of three. Mary Larson, Sandy, Susan and Indianapolis, Aug. 19. Father Brother of Marilyn Bogseth and Aug. 14. Father of John St. Mary, Greensburg, Aug. 18. SCHLENSKER, Betty, 82, Michael Caulfield. Brother of of Jacquelyn, Jessica, Lucia, Bob Grabowski. Grandfather F. Hoffman, Jr. Brother of Patrick Caulfield. Grandfather of of 10. Son of Don and Janice McCrary. Holy Family, New Albany, Mia, Gino, Joseph, Joshua, Ilene Anger, Mary Haines and Brother of Ryan McCrary. nine. Great-grandfather of three. Michael and William Gillum. HAUSWALD, Lillian F. Marcelene Long. Grandfather of Aug. 13. Mother of Sandy Fritz Grandson of Myrna Kohlman, and Tammy Schlensker. 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IS-5987722 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Page 15 Online food safety training program available for parish volunteers

By Brigid Curtis Ayer were to get sick due to improper food Special to The Criterion handling, not only could a person be harmed, but the incident could also harm ‘Given the many venues our parishes serve others Parish volunteers that handle food have an organization’s brand, mission and the in providing or handling food, our participation in a free online resource they can access good work the particular nonprofit is trying the IN-TRAIN program is another way the Church to ensure food safety at parish events or to accomplish.” can make a good faith effort to promote the Church-sponsored venues involving food. Gilliam calls IN-TRAIN a “refresher The program, called IN-TRAIN, is an course” for those handing food. public good and safety by voluntarily enhancing online food-safety-and-handling training The program, developed by the ISDH’s standards. I am hopeful members of our faith program that volunteers can access anytime, Food Protection Program, is based on a community take advantage of this resource.’ anywhere, 24 hours a day, seven days national program called TRAIN. TRAIN a week. was developed by the Public Health —Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the “Whether it is food served at a funeral Foundation. Indiana has purchased its Indiana Catholic Conference reception, a parish retreat, picnic or festival, own affiliate site, IN-TRAIN, to provide parish volunteers and those who supervise similar food-safety training, but both them have access to a new online, food- can be accessed because TRAIN sites safety training program,” said Glenn Tebbe, are connected. executive director of the Indiana Catholic Learners on IN-TRAIN can access The IN-TRAIN program took about organizations’ volunteers. Conference (ICC), who serves as the official information about state, local, national and 11 months to develop, Gilliam noted. Tebbe participated in a panel that spokesman for the Catholic Church in even international training opportunities In addition to the online program, the provided practical feedback on how a Indiana on public policy matters. available to them both online and in person. department developed several handouts. program might be best implemented in Prompted by a study panel of the IN-TRAIN operates through a Handouts can be downloaded, printed and a parish or Church ministry setting. In Indiana General Assembly, the Indiana State collaborative partnership with state displayed in areas where food is prepared. addition to the ICC, Gleaners Food Bank Department of Health (ISDH) sought and federal agencies, local and national Voluntary safety standard handouts and the United Way of Central Indiana to provide resources for a food safety organizations, and educational institutions. include proper hand washing and drying also provided feedback to ISDH on how training program. TRAIN is funded by its network affiliates procedures; proper food cooling; a self- to develop a voluntary program to ensure “We wanted to develop something that and the federal Centers for Disease Control inspection check list; ideal refrigeration food safety and handling. was hassle-free and easily accessible for and Prevention. temperatures for various types of meat, “Parish volunteers across the state of volunteers of nonprofit organizations,” A subcommittee of the Indiana General poultry and casseroles; and proper manual Indiana will be able to access this tool to said Scott Gilliam, director of the Assembly’s finance committee examined washing of equipment, dishes and utensils. ensure food safety and handling,” Tebbe Food Protection Program for ISDH. ways for improving food-safety and Nonprofits are exempt from a variety said. “Parishes have not had any incidences “The goal of IN-TRAIN is to ensure handling procedures for nonprofit of food safety and handling regulations, or problems of food poisoning or persons food safety for the public. If someone organizations, including Catholic parishes. according to Gilliam. Because nonprofits being harmed by improper food handling, have voluntarily complied with best and we want to keep it that way. practices for safety and handling, the “Given the many venues our parishes program is seen more as an effort to make serve others in providing or handling ‘The goal of IN-TRAIN is to ensure food safety “modest improvements” to safety and food,” Tebbe continued, “our participation for the public. If someone were to get sick due to handling. The program’s goal is to provide in the IN-TRAIN program is another way improper food handling, not only could a person a uniform training program that anyone the Church can make a good faith effort be harmed, but the incident could also harm an can access to ensure basic food safety and to promote the public good and safety organization’s brand, mission and the good work handling is followed. by voluntarily enhancing standards. I am After completing a short online hopeful members of our faith community the particular nonprofit is trying to accomplish.’ registration, the training video takes take advantage of this resource.” roughly 35 minutes to complete. Gilliam For more information on IN-TRAIN —Scott Gilliam, director of the Food said the department sought feedback or to register for the online training go Protection Program for the Indiana State from nonprofit organizations during the to https://in.train.org. Department of Health development of the program on how to best develop and deliver a program (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for that would be applicable to their The Criterion.) †

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General responsibilities for this position include management of CHILDREN’S RELIGIOUS EDUCATOR the business, financial and information technology functions for the parish. The position includes budget development, financial reporting, Immaculate Heart of Mary (“IHM”) parish in Indianapolis is seeking a supporting payroll, human resource functions and all information part-time Catechist in Children’s Religious Education. IHM is a diverse technology. People management responsibilities also include the direct and vibrant Catholic community located in the Meridian-Kessler management of an office staff of three and working closely with all the Legal neighborhood (5692 Central Avenue) and has approximately 950 commission chairpersons in the parish including: finance, school, PTO, registered families. athletics, building and grounds. The position requires a collaborative If you are a victim of style with all parish constituents and reports to the IHM pastor. General responsibilities for this position include administration of Report sexual misconduct by a person pre-school religious education and Sunday Family Faith (a faith ministering on behalf of the This position requires exceptional oral and written communications education program for children ages 3-14 who do not attend a Catholic skills and proficiency with all aspects of information technology. sexual Church, or if you know of anyone grade school). The position reports to the Director of Religious The position requires strong finance, accounting, management and who has been a victim of Education, Stacy Hennessy. interpersonal skills. misconduct such misconduct, please contact This position requires exceptional oral and written communications A minimum of a B.S. in accounting or finance is required. the archdiocesan victim skills. now assistance coordinator: Please email cover letter, resumé, and list of references, in confidence, Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Please email cover letter, resumé, and list of references, in confidence, to: to: P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, Indiana 46206-1410 Aaron Schamp Stacy Hennessy IHM Finance Chairperson 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 Director of Religious Education [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Page 16 The Criterion Friday, August 29, 2014 Cardinal George joins cancer drug clinical trial

CHICAGO (CNS)—Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George is participating in a clinical research trial for a new cancer drug, the Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Aug. 22. Cardinal George was first diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006 and had a recurrence of cancer announced in 2012. The clinical trial at the University of Chicago involves a drug, currently known as MPDL3280A, that is designed to activate cells of the immune system, enabling them to attack cancer cells, the archdiocese said in a statement released to media. “This approach differs from that of traditional chemotherapy, which uses drugs designed to be toxic to cancer cells,” the statement said. “A preliminary trial of this new drug has shown promising results for patients who have the same type of cancer as Cardinal George.” The University of Chicago reported that in the first round of the clinical trial, 43 percent of patients with advanced bladder cancer “showed evidence of a ‘durable effect.’ ” While undergoing the trial, the cardinal will maintain his regular schedule, the archdiocese said. After his 2006 bladder cancer diagnosis, Cardinal George had surgery at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood to remove his bladder, his prostate gland and parts of his ureters. Five years passed without a recurrence of the cancer, but in August 2012, doctors found cancerous cells in one of his kidneys and in a nodule that was removed from his liver. After the diagnosis, he underwent a series of Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago confirms Joseph Kaiser, a member of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, during the chemotherapy treatments. Four months after being May 3, 2009, Mass at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis that celebrated the 175th anniversary of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. diagnosed, the cardinal was told that doctors could no Joseph’s confirmation sponsor, at left, was Richard Burkett. The Archdiocese of Chicago announced on Aug. 22 that Cardinal George is longer find any sign of cancer. However, in March of this participating in a clinical research trial for a new cancer drug. (File photo by Sean Gallagher) year, Cardinal George announced in his column in the Catholic New World, newspaper of the Archdiocese of that more than 74,000 Americans will be diagnosed the papal nuncio, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, to Chicago, that the cancer had returned. with bladder cancer in 2014, and approximately begin the process. “After many tests, scans, biopsies and other 15,000 new diagnoses are made when bladder cancer is in “It’s a question of being able to spend your entire energy inconveniences, the settled judgment is that the best course advanced stages. on what is my responsibility as archbishop of Chicago. This of action is to enter into a regimen of chemotherapy, with The cardinal’s health concerns have stepped up the is a position that demands a lot of constant attention,” he drugs more aggressive than those that were used in the process of searching for his successor as archbishop of said. “Now it looks as if I’m going to have to be spending first round of chemo,” he wrote. Chicago, reported the Catholic New World. During an a little more attention on my health, and so it’s just not fair Bladder cancer is the ninth most common cancer April 11 press conference, Cardinal George, who turned to the archdiocese to have someone who may not be able to worldwide. The American Cancer Society estimates 77 in January, told reporters that he recently urged do the job as well as I believe it should be done.” † At Mass, archbishop outlines steps to ‘dismantle systemic racism’ ST. LOUIS (CNS)—With the strife and violence that confronts us as we recognize there is an continuing in the aftermath of Michael Brown’s irrepressible yearning present in the heart of each shooting death by a police officer in Ferguson, Mo., person for good,” he said, noting that the Church more than 500 St. Louis Catholics gathered for a has been down this road before. votive Mass for peace and justice on Aug. 20 at the He spoke of one of his predecessors, Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Cardinal Joseph Ritter, a native of Brown, 18, was black, and Darren Wilson, the New Albany, Ind., who in the summer of 1947, police officer who shot him on Aug. 9, is white. “wrote to the priests of the archdiocese announcing St. Louis Archbishop Robert J. Carlson the desegregation of our Catholic schools; this celebrated the Mass with 27 priests and, in paved the way for the desegregation of the public his homily, laid out five important steps to schools seven years later.” “dismantle systemic racism,” which has become In 1963, St. Louis priests made a pledge on the evident in Ferguson: equality of all people and that summer the Human • “I am re-establishing today the Human Rights Rights Commission was established. Commission in the Archdiocese of St Louis.” “Many priests and religious are still living • “I am asking the Charles Lwanga Center who walked with [the Rev.] Martin Luther King to begin a study and offer solutions to decrease defending the dignity of every human person,” violence in our communities and in our families.” he said. • “I pledge an ongoing commitment to provide a “In the face of brokenness and shame and pathway out of poverty by providing scholarships so heartbreak, Jesus calls us to come to him and that young people can receive a quality education in encourages us so that we do not walk away,” Mary Myers prays in the Divine Mercy Chapel before the votive Mass for our Catholic schools.” (He noted that 3,000 children he continued. “The time has come for us to peace and justice at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis on Aug. 20. The have received scholarships in the last year.) acknowledge decades of hurt and mistrust and Mass was planned following the protesting and unrest in Ferguson after the • “I pledge my support and the support of the suspicion and prejudices and, yes, even a tragic shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a Ferguson police officer. archdiocese to assist the churches in Ferguson to death. ... We hear the Lord’s gentle voice as he (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) deal with issues of poverty and racism.” invites us to hunger and thirst for righteousness, and • “Finally, I am asking each priest in the his invitation to each one of us to be peacemakers.” Archdiocese of St. Louis to offer a Mass for Justice The Ten Commandments and the Eight and Peace.” Beatitudes provide Catholics with a roadmap to ‘We ask for the wisdom and Archbishop Carlson noted, “This is a modest address the underlying issues in the death of Brown compassion and courage to address beginning, but begin we shall. and what has followed, Archbishop Carlson said. the brokenness and division that “There is more that will need to be done, “Like the first disciples, we need to leave our confronts us as we recognize there is and we will work to open dialogue with the ordinary way of doing things behind and follow churches, community leaders and people Jesus, a journey that is never easy,” he said. an irrepressible yearning present in of Ferguson.” Prayer is necessary for the journey, the heart of each person for good.’ Archbishop Carlson offered prayers for Archbishop Carlson continued, citing Brown and his family, for Wilson and his family, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, who started her —St. Louis Archbishop for first responders and their families, and for day with an hour of eucharistic adoration. Robert J. Carlson community leaders. “It was only after prayer that she would leave to “We ask for the wisdom and compassion and serve,” he said. “Prayer is the inexhaustible source courage to address the brokenness and division of our service.” † The Criterion looking for your help to share success stories in schools As a new school year begins, The Criterion plans spiritual and athletic efforts and accomplishments of success stories to assistant editor John Shaughnessy by to add another dimension to our coverage of Catholic students, teachers and staff from across the archdiocese. e-mail at [email protected] or by mail in care education in the archdiocese. Seeking to make this endeavor as broad and complete of The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Each month, we hope to feature an article as possible, The Criterion will need to rely upon Catholic IN 46202. Please include the contact person for your highlighting the success stories of Catholic schools— school communities to share their success stories with us. school’s success stories and a phone number where he or by sharing a list of the most recent volunteer, academic, Send short summaries—and photos— of your school’s she can be reached. †