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Communities witness at National March for Life of faith, knowledge and service BY CHRISTOPHER LUSHIS

In Truth and Charity WASHINGTON — With enthusiasm and hope, individ- Page 2 uals from throughout the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend united their voices and footsteps on Jan. 22 with hundreds of thousands in support of the protection of life from conception to natural death. Five hundred stu- dents from the diocese joined nearly 700 more from the Ireland’s apostolic University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy Cross College, and endured the more than 12-hour journey to nuncio the nation’s capital with a combined 25 buses to stand in Lectures at his alma mater, solidarity in defense of life. On the morning of the march, Masses sponsored by Notre Dame the Archdiocese of Washington were offered at both the Verizon Center and the D.C. Armory. At the armory, Page 3 where Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades served as concel- ebrant, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston exclaimed, “How beautiful it is to see so many young people saying ‘yes’ to life!” These young pilgrims then ventured to the National The public relations Mall, joining with an estimated 500,000 supporters to of death hear words of encouragement from various pro-life lead- ers on keeping the energy and spirit of life alive beyond Campaigns to legalize the march. Speakers included Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, president of the USCCB, Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight CHRIS LUSHIS assisted suicide of the Knights of Columbus, Congressional members Between 500 and 700 diocesan participants from the National March for Life gathered Jan. from both parties and Rev. Sammy Rodriguez of Page 11 23 at the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., for Mass cel- ebrated by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades. Other dioceses joined the Mass and nearly 5,000 were MARCH, PAGE 8 in attendance. Local stands for life South Bend pro-life advocates TODAY’S CATHOLIC Parishes find websites offer Page 16 OFFERING welcome to their communities

ENVELOPE BY TIM JOHNSON She added, “The updating content provides parishioners inspiration and spiritual growth IN THIS without added work for the webmaster or HUNTINGTON — In this age of New volunteers.” Evangelization, many parishes find that their “The websites are a CMS system (Content ISSUE website might be just the tool to welcome Management System) that are designed for current parishioners, visitors and anyone who someone who does not have any computer Be a part of the wants to learn more about the parish. expertise,” she told Today’s Catholic. “The Our Sunday Visitor’s Faith in Action webmasters can be parish staff, volunteers in works of evangelization in the Websites offers just the tool that has been the parish or even ‘Father.’” Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend. deployed to help 13 Fort Wayne-South Bend Pecoraro said a parish can choose to start An offering envelope can be found diocesan churches or schools. And nationally, from a template or they can opt for a custom over 450 websites, including parishes, Catholic design, “whatever they feel they need to repre- in this issue, Feb. 1, of Today’s schools and other nonprofit organizations, use sent their parish community,” she noted. Catholic newspaper, requesting the Faith in Action Websites platform — and “Each site is personalized by a designer, even some small businesses. with their images and logos to match the parish you — our valued readers — help Eileen Pecoraro is the marketing and com- colors,” Pecoraro added. “The parish is always finance a portion of the costs of munications manager at Our Sunday Visitor in control of the content on the pages of the site delivering the newspaper to all (OSV) for the websites. She said, “Parishes like and can update it anytime.” the system because it is easy to use, update, we She noted, “The Faith in Action Parish registered Catholic homes in the have training and support, the content provides Websites come preloaded with 30-plus pages diocese. We thank you for your a sound understanding of what it means to be about the Catholic faith — and was reviewed generous, financial support. Catholic and the ability to provide parishioners by the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and a place to get up-to-date information about their home parish.” WEBSITES, PAGE 4 2 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC February 1, 2015 TODAY’S CATHOLIC Official newspaper of the Communities of faith, Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend P.O. Box 11169 Fort Wayne, IN 46856

PUBLISHER: Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades knowledge, and service

EDITOR: Tim Johnson NEWS EDITOR and STAFF WRITER: Kay Cozad IN TRUTH Editorial Department AND PAGE DESIGNER: Francie Hogan FREELANCE WRITERS: Ann Carey, Michelle CHARITY Castleman, Karen Clifford, Bonnie Elberson, Denise Fedorow, Diane BY BISHOP KEVIN C. RHOADES Freeby, Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC, Jodi Magallanes, Joe Kozinski, Vince Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades delivered this talk LaBarbera and Deb Wagner at the Light of Learning Award luncheons in Fort Wayne and South Bend last week: Business Department AD GRAPHICS DIRECTOR: Mark Weber hanks to the generosity of Quality BOOKKEEPING/CIRCULATION: Bethany TDining and the Fitzpatrick family, we cel- Belleville [email protected] ebrate each year this luncheon during Catholic Schools Week in which we honor and thank Advertising Sales our teachers, principals, and benefactors. It Tess Steffen is an event that reminds us of the gift of our Catholic schools and their important mission [email protected] in the Church. That mission would not be (260) 456-2824 fulfilled without the exemplary service of the outstanding educators whom we honor today. Web site: www.todayscatholicnews.org That mission would not be fulfilled without the generosity of so many who financially support our schools. And that mission would not be Published weekly except second fulfilled without the commitment of our pastors Sunday of January; and every other who make Catholic education a priority in our week from the fourth Sunday in parishes. I thank all of you. June through the middle Sunday KEVIN HAGGENJOS of September; and last Sunday in The theme of Catholic Schools Week this year is: Catholic Schools: Communities of Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, on a pastoral visit at Saint Joseph High School, greets student James December by the Diocese of Fort Kiai, Senior Community award winner for January. Wayne-South Bend, 1103 S. Calhoun Faith, Knowledge and Service. I’d like to speak St., P.O. Box 390, Fort Wayne, IN 46801. about each of these three aspects of Catholic Periodicals postage paid at Fort Wayne, education. stronger in their faith and many describe their The third aspect of this year’s Catholic IN, and additional mailing office. First: faith. Of course, faith is at the very experience as “life-changing.” I’m sure that a Schools Week theme is service. Why is this heart of the mission of our schools. That’s why survey at our other high schools would reveal so important? Because what our students POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: they exist in the first place: to form children similar results. It is clear that formation in the learn is not meant to remain in their heads. It Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, Fort and young people for a personal and living faith is a hallmark of our Catholic schools, one is to be lived. We don’t just want our young Wayne, IN 46856-1169 or email: encounter with Jesus Christ. 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Here are child, the formation of the whole person: our human family, the unborn. On the other some of the responses: spiritual, intellectual, psychological, social, end of the spectrum of life, I see many of our Today’s Catholic may be reached at : + Since I started at Saint Joe’s, I have moral, and physical. Catholic education Catholic school students reaching out to the Today’s Catholic, learned so much about my faith, which has aims at the integral formation of the human elderly and helping them, visiting nursing P.O. Box 11169, Fort Wayne, IN helped me learn more about myself. I have 46856-1169; or email: person. The pursuit of knowledge is not just homes, bringing the joy of their faith to those [email protected] been able to surrender to God and let His love about learning facts and figures, as important who may be lonely or neglected. I could give change my life. as they may be. 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Thanks to our educa- more. cal data illustrate the academic excellence tors, our students see the essential connec- Find us on Facebook! + My faith life has matured and grown of the 6,568 Catholic schools in the United tion between faith and reason, between since I began here at Saint Joe. States. We can proud of this. However, what knowledge and goodness, between truth and www.facebook.com/diocesefwsb + I have been been brought closer to God gives me the greatest pride is our formation beauty, between justice and charity, between through the Saint Joe community. of young people as missionary disciples of intellect and virtue. + My faith has grown since I became a Jesus. I wish to point out as well that we Thanks again to all of you. We are all student here. I am now comfortable sharing my must never be satisfied to rest on our laurels. partners in this noble endeavor of Catholic Follow us on Twitter! faith with other people my age. We must never be self-satisfied, but strive education. May God bless you and may God So many other responses reflect the same for greater academic excellence and stronger bless our Catholic school communities! @diocesefwsb sentiments. Many write that they have become faith formation. February 1, 2015 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 3 Nuncio to Ireland speaks at Notre Dame Public Schedule of BY ANN CAREY Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades

NOTRE DAME — The Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Ireland returned to the University of • Sunday, Feb. 1, 9:15 a.m. — Mass at Saint Catherine of Notre Dame, his alma mater, Alexandria Parish, Nix Settlement to deliver a Jan. 15 lecture on • Monday, Feb. 2, 10 a.m. — Meeting of Bishop’s Cabinet, “The Catholic Church in Ireland Archbishop Noll Center and Pope Francis: Legacy and • Monday, Feb. 2 — Vespers with Investiture of Novices, Transformation.” Franciscan Sisters Minor, Saint Andrew Church, Fort Wayne Archbishop Charles J. Brown • Wednesday, Feb. 4, 8:15 a.m. — Mass and Pastoral Visit, received his bachelor’s degree Saint John the Baptist School, Fort Wayne from Notre Dame before entering • Friday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m. — Mass and Dinner at Our Lady of the seminary and being ordained the Road Chapel, South Bend a priest for the Archdiocese of • Saturday, Feb. 7, 4 p.m. — Mass at Rekindle the Fire New York in 1989. While study- Conference, Century Center, South Bend ing for his doctorate in sacra- mental theology in Rome, he was recruited by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to join the staff of the Congregation for the Doctrine of PHOTO BY BARBARA JOHNSTON/UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME the Faith (CDF). He served that Archbishop Charles Brown, the apostolic nuncio to Ireland and a office for over a decade before University of Notre Dame graduate, delivers a Jan. 15 lecture on “The being appointed apostolic nuncio Catholic Church in Ireland and Pope Francis: Legacy and Transformation.” to Ireland in late 2011 by his Report abuse former boss at the CDF, Pope Benedict XVI. Archbishop Brown told the sion, which not only spread the “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy audience that he approached his values of the media industry, of the Gospel”) are quite relevant t remains important for our Church to protect children topic with “trepidation,” for the but also transformed the ancient to the contemporary situation in and young persons from the evils of abuse. To abuse a Church’s role in Irish society rhythms of Irish life that had Ireland. child is a sin. The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend and history — and the evolution included a devout practice of the He quoted the “heart of the Iremains committed to upholding and following its guide- of that role — is “a question of Catholic faith, Archbishop Brown Christian message” from that lines, policies and procedures that were implemented for daunting complexity.” explained. exhortation: “Jesus Christ loves the Protection of Children and Young People. These can The nuncio said that since The esteem of the Irish people you; He gave His life to save you; be reviewed on the diocese’s website, www.diocesefwsb. arriving in Ireland in January for the Catholic Church also was and now He is living at your side org under “Safe Environment.” 2012, his priority was to be open tremendously affected by the every day to enlighten, strengthen If you have reason to believe that a child may be a and free you.” and accessible to people so he clergy sex abuse scandals, the victim of child abuse or neglect, Indiana law requires that nuncio observed. As the culture The archbishop explained that could learn about the country and you report this to civil authorities. If you or someone you secularized, the Irish bishops had Pope Francis insists that those the needs of the Church there. know was abused as a child or young person by an adult, Ireland had a uniquely continued to speak out strongly who want to communicate the about moral issues in society. good news of Christianity must you are encouraged to notify appropriate civil authori- Catholic culture, and had been a ties of that abuse. In addition, if the alleged abuser is or largely rural society for a thou- So, the revelation of the crimes express God’s saving love with a of clergy and the negligence of joy that shows that the Catholic was a priest or deacon of the Catholic Church, you are sand years, Archbishop Brown encouraged to contact Mary Glowaski, victim assistance explained. Until the 1970s, the some bishops was met by outrage faith is freeing, and freedom coordinator, (260) 399-1458, email: mglowaski@dioce- Irish people practiced the faith and hostility toward the Church, cannot be imposed. Certainly in great numbers, a phenomenon Archbishop Brown said, for Christians have religious and sefwsb.org, or Rev. Msgr. Robert Schulte, vicar general he called “a living tradition of people questioned how bishops moral obligations, the nuncio of the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, at P.O. Box Christendom in our own time.” could dare to speak about moral- continued, but they are the con- 390, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46801, or at (260) 399-1419, Some 90 percent of the people ity when some of them had been sequence of that faith, not the email: [email protected]. The diocese is commit- attended Mass on Sundays and so negligent. prerequisite for faith. ted to helping prevent the abuse or neglect of children holy days, many made pilgrim- “So it’s clear that from what “This message of Pope Francis and young people and to assist those who claim to have ages to holy places, and large I’ve seen is that the Church of ... has been extremely well suffered harm as a result of such abuse. numbers of young people entered Ireland faces unique challenges received in Ireland where … the in society today. But having truth of Catholic teaching has the seminaries and the convents. Permanece importante para nuestra Iglesia proteger One of the factors that pre- said that, we must also say that been associated, at least in the the Church in Ireland possesses minds of many, with control and a los niños y jóvenes adultos de los actos maléficos del served Catholicism into the abuso. Abusar a un niño es pecado. La Diócesis de Fort second half of 20th century, he unique resources,” the nuncio perhaps at times even with coer- continued. cion.” Wayne-South Bend permanece comprometida en man- said, was that during the long tener y seguir sus directrices, pólizas y procedimientos centuries of British rule, keeping Among those resources he Archbishop Brown explained que fueron implementados para la Protección de Niños/as the Catholic faith of the indig- enumerated were Mass atten- that the disappearance of Irish enous people was seen as an act dance, which is lower than pre- societal support for being a mem- y Personas Jóvenes. Esto se puede observar en la página of resistance to the foreign power. viously, but still significantly ber of the Catholic Church may cibernética de la Diócesis, www.diocesefwsb.org bajo la This sense of solidarity and resis- higher than any other European usher in a new period in Ireland sección de Ambiente Seguro “Safe Enviornment.” tance, along with the martyrdom country; the “spiritual geogra- in which Catholics see themselves Si usted tiene razón para creer que un niño puede ser of some Church leaders, had built phy” of Ireland, with its hun- not just as part of the ambient, victima de abuso o negligencia, la ley de Indiana requiere up “enormous good will among dreds of ancient Christian sites; homogenous Catholic culture, but que usted reporte esto a las autoridades civiles. Si usted the Irish people,” and social leg- the “unseen world of saints and rather as people who have freely o alguien que usted conoce fue abusado, ya sea niño o islation tended to follow Catholic angels” that remains a part of accepted the liberating gift of persona joven por un adulto, lo animamos a que notifique principles. the Irish consciousness; and an faith in Jesus Christ and in His las autoridades civiles apropiadas de ese abuso. También, Then modernity came to awareness of the faith still present Church. si el alegado abusador es o fue un sacerdote o diacono Ireland. A gradual economic among the Irish people. Archbishop Brown’s talk was de la Iglesia Católica, lo animamos contactar a Mary improvement in Irish life attract- “There is a palpable desire the 10th lecture in the Terrence Glowaski, Coordinadora de Asistencia de Victimas, (260)- ed immigrants back to their home in the Irish people for an under- R. Keeley Vatican Lecture 399-1458, correo electrónico: mglowaski@diocesefwsb. series that is sponsored by Notre country, and those returning standing of life which goes org, o al Rev. Msgr. Robert Schulte, Vicario General de Dame’s Nanovic Institute for citizens brought with them their beyond the merely material and la Diócesis de Fort Wayne - South Bend, al P.O. Box 390, visible,” he said. “There is a hun- European Studies and is dedicated experience of secular societies, Fort Wayne, Indiana, 46801, o al (260) 399-1419, correo the archbishop said. ger and thirst to encounter the to giving students and faculty the truth of our existence.” opportunity to explore questions electrónico: [email protected]. La Diócesis esta Contributing to the change comprometida en ayudar a prevenir el abuso o negligencia in Irish culture was the spread Archbishop Brown said that about Notre Dame’s Catholic Pope Francis provides a way for- mission with representatives from de niños y personas jóvenes y dar asistencia a aquellos of electricity to rural Ireland. quienes reclaman haber sufrido daño como resultado de Prior to the 1950s, hundreds of ward to help the Irish rediscover the Holy See. Archbishop Brown tal abuso. thousands of Irish homes lacked the spiritual basis of human life, also had given the inaugural lec- electricity. However, with elec- for the pope’s reflections on free- ture in 2005, when he was on the tricity came radio and televi- dom in his apostolic exhortation staff of the CDF. 4 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC February 1, 2015

our technical support team when they need help. There is a built-in First International Day of Prayer and WEBSITES user guide but we have such a great relationship with our customers Awareness Against Human Trafficking CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 they like to call for the one-on-one experience.” Scot Landry, who wrote WASHINGTON (USCCB) — The that affect the numerous victims of Johnny Young, executive director given a ‘nihil obstat’ and the feast day of St. Josephine Bakhita, trafficking. The observance is being of USCCB Migration and Refugee the book “Transforming Parish structure of the sites are built Communications” and is the Feb. 8, has been designated as the promoted for all dioceses, parishes Services. on best practices for websites first International Day of Prayer and church groups. Bishop Martin Holley, auxiliary Secretary of Catholic Media for including the most common the Boston Archdiocese, lead a and Awareness against Human Pope Francis highlights in bishop of Washington, will hold a information needed for a parish.” Trafficking. Last year, the U.S. “Evangelii Gaudium” that human special Mass on Sunday, Feb. 8, at research study on best practices of All the parish needs to do is parish websites. “We adopted those Conference of Catholic Bishops’ trafficking affects everyone. “How noon, for the victims and survivors add their personal updates such as (USCCB) Committee on Migration I wish that all of us would hear of human trafficking at the Basilica finding as the basis of our Faith in Mass times, calendar events, staff Action Websites,” Pecoraro said. designated such date as an annual God’s cry: ‘Where is your brother?’ of the National Shrine of the contacts, parish photo galleries and day of prayer for survivors and (Gen 4:9). Where is your brother Immaculate Conception. Catholics Immaculate Conception Parish other information. The parishes in Auburn utilizes the Faith in victims of human trafficking. Later or sister who is enslaved? Where who do not live near Washington can share website content on social that year, the Pontifical Council is the brother and sister whom you are encouraged to host or attend Action Website. Tim Speer, the IT media, and the public can share manager at the parish, said, “From for Justice and Peace and the are killing each day in clandestine prayer services or awareness-raising their favorite pages and events International Union of Superiors warehouses, in rings of prostitu- events in their own communities a tech perspective, I liked the flex- broadening the reach of the parish ibility and power the template tools General at the Vatican, that the 2015 tion, in children used for begging, and parishes. More information is beyond just their parishioners. event will also be observed interna- in exploiting undocumented labour? available at www.usccb.org/about/ provided, along with their ease There is also a form builder in of use that allows parish staff to tionally. Let us not look the other way. There anti-trafficking-program/day-of- the system so a parish can build as St. Josephine Bakhita was kid- is greater complicity than we think. prayer.cfm do regular content updates them- many forms as they need for regis- selves.” napped as a child and sold into The issue involves everyone!” Pope USCCB’s Anti-Trafficking trations, religious education, volun- slavery in Sudan and taken to Italy. Francis wrote. Program advocates for better protec- “The layout of the website is teers and forms can also be built to much more intuitive and attrac- Once Josephine demanded her “We couldn’t be more thrilled tion for victims of human traffick- accept payment with the registra- freedom, she entered the religious that the focus will now be inter- ing, provides training and technical tive than anything we had used tion. “OSV’s Online Giving system previously,” Speer said. “People life with the Canossian Sisters and national. Our brothers and sisters assistance to service providers and is the perfect connector for accept- dedicated her life to sharing her tes- around the world want to prevent educates the public on the preva- who visit our website can find ing these payments,” Pecoraro said. the information they are looking tament of deliverance from slavery human trafficking as much as we lence of human trafficking. In 2013, “Our Sunday Visitor takes con- and comforting the poor and suf- do. It’s awe-inspiring to think that USCCB launched the Amistad for quickly — easy access to bul- tent one step further,” she added, letins, a calendar of parish events, fering. Catholics from so many differ- Movement to empower immigrants “with content from our Publishing The day is intended to raise ent countries will gather together and local leaders to prevent human the basic teachings of our Church, Division automatically updating Mass times, online giving. It’s our awareness and to encourage reflec- on the same day to pray for the trafficking in their communities. with topics like ‘Pope Francis tion on the violence and injustice same cause,” said Ambassador hope that all these tools draw them Daily’ reflection, daily Mass read- closer to our community of faith ings, Faith in Action stories of and to Christ.” people living the faith, family life “We liked how well the tem- and Catholic News and Prospective plates were designed,” he noted. U.S. House passes measure to restrict articles.” “Putting our site together was really And OSV offers technical sup- easy and looks great. Being able to taxpayer funding of abortion port. Pecoraro said, “The parish will easily overhaul our website without have training in the system from investing huge amounts of money, WASHINGTON (CNS) — After Obama administration, which said in Democratic Party were completely one of our digital specialists, access time and energy was a motivator members of the U.S. House scuttled a statement the bill “would intrude on without anyone who is pro-life,” he to a designer for personalization for us to take the plunge.” plans Jan. 22 to vote on a measure to women’s reproductive freedom and continued. of the site then unlimited access to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks, they access to health care” and “increase “I hope there will be an awak- passed a bill to restrict taxpayer fund- the financial burden on many ening and a realization that the ing of abortion. Americans.” Democratic Party used to be open to Called the No Taxpayer Funding Originally, pro-life members of people who were pro-life and it needs for Abortion Act, or H.R. 7, it the House planned to mark the Roe to be open to people who are pro- applies the principles of the Hyde anniversary by voting on the Pain- life,” Lipinski added. Amendment to federal health pro- Capable Unborn Child Protection As for those who argue that the grams, including the Affordable Care Act, which would prohibit abortion pro-life movement is “anti-science,” Act. after 20 weeks — when an unborn he said, “I think that science shows Since 1976, the amendment has baby can feel pain — unless the life us that life begins at conception. We prohibited the use of taxpayer dollars of the mother is in danger. know that, at conception, that all the to fund federal subsidies of any part But The Washington Post and DNA is there and the whole blueprint of a benefits package that includes other media outlets reported that for a unique human life is there. So I elective abortions. more than 20 House members raised think that those who claim otherwise H.R. 7 passed by a vote of 242 concerns about the measure, also are not looking at what the scientific to 179. The action came as tens of known as H.R. 36, and by late Jan. evidence is.” thousands of people from around 21, GOP leaders determined they Lipinski said seeing so many the country gathered on the National would fall short of the needed votes young people get behind the pro-life Mall for the annual March for Life to pass it and postponed consider- movement is encouraging. marking the anniversary of the U.S. ation of that measure. “It shows that the pro-life move- Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade A day before the House dropped ment is continuing to grow and that decision legalizing abortion virtually consideration of the measure, U.S. more people in younger generations on demand. Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Illinois, who are looking at and understanding the Speaking in favor of the bill before is a Catholic, told Catholic News issue,” he said. “I think this shows Immaculate Conception Parish in Auburn is one of the diocesan parishes the vote, U.S. Rep. Diane Black, Service in an interview he thinks that that the pro-life movement is grow- incorporating Faith in Action Websites. Debi Schoedel, administrative R-Tennessee, called it “common with the new Republican majority ing and that we are about to see a assistant at Our Lady of Good Hope, Fort Wayne, told Today’s Catholic, sense, compassionate legislation” that in the House and Senate, “we are in change in our nation.” “Visitors like the content available on our site especially the homilies will protect Americans’ “conscience a better position now than we have Results of a new poll show that archive.” rights by ensuring their hard-earned been in a number of years” to pass a nearly seven in 10 Americans — tax dollars are not used to fund the significant federal pro-life measure. including millennials (ages 18-32) Brady Benefits & destruction of innocent life.” Lipinski, a co-sponsor of H.R. 36, and women — are opposed to Associates, LLC “Today is a somber occasion,” was the only Democrat in the March taxpayer funding of abortion. Your Trusted Advisors she said, referring to the anniversary for Life congressional delegation. The findings were detailed in •Group Health Insurance of the “court’s tragic decision” on Asked if it is difficult to be pro- this year’s Knights of Columbus- abortion. life in a party that does not share Marist poll released in advance of Matthew T. Brady •Individual Health Insurance Parishioners “Our hearts ache for the 56 mil- those views, he said: “It definitely is the Roe anniversary. St.Vincent de Paul •Obamacare •Medicare-Supplements lion unborn lives lost to the shameful difficult; it would be much easier if I Respondents said they oppose Fort Wayne •Retirement Income Planning •Annuities •401K practice of abortion,” Black added. were surrounded by people who were such funding by a margin of 68 Passage of the No Taxpayer supportive of life. percent to 28 percent, with mil- Office: 260-220-8800 Funding for Abortion Act, sponsored “I also think it is very important lennials opposing it by 71 percent by U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-New for the pro-life movement to have to 28 percent. There was no dif- Marketplace: 260-220-8001 Jersey, Black and others, brought an people in both parties; it would be ference in opinions on the issue Shannon Brady www.bradybenefitsusa.com immediate threat of a veto from the very harmful to the movement if the between women and men. February 1, 2015 TODAY’ S C ATHOLIC 5 Curbing state expansion of IVF, sale of human eggs, embryos

INDIANAPOLIS — A bill to percent of embryos created perish to achieve, the Indiana Catholic embryos that can be created at one expand the sale of human eggs and during IVF process. Conference, however, does not sup- time.” embryos across state lines moves For decades, the Indiana Catholic INDIANA port SB 208 because the Catholic The American Society for forward as lawmakers considered Conference (ICC), has opposed Church considers in vitro fertiliza- Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) the bill’s merits during a Jan. 14 IVF and issues like it including sur- CATHOLIC tion immoral and cannot support lists the average cost of an IVF meeting of the Senate Health and rogacy, and embryonic stem cell any attempt to promote or expand cycle in the United States to be Provider Services Committee. research because they all involve CONFERENCE its use.” $12,400 per attempt. Midwest The measure, Senate Bill 208, endangering or killing a preborn He added, “Rather we would Fertility Clinic advertises financing would legalize the transfer of a child. It also opens the floodgates BRIGID CURTIS AYER hope this bill would be changed in packages upwards of $40,000 on human organism including human to commercialization of preborn order that this industry is regulated their Web page to potential clients. eggs or human embryos from human beings, and pushes the enve- to limit its harm. We are grateful The ASRM reports the sale price for Indiana to other states, which cur- lope of “creating” the perfect child, would decrease and the number of that this bill maintains current law eggs paid to the egg “donor” for the rent law prohibits. through genetic selection via egg donor eggs to decrease. of a prohibition on embryonic stem purchase of eggs by a fertility clinic Participation in in vitro fertiliza- donor profiles. It also puts the child Current law allows Indiana fertil- cell use and the use of embryos for ranges between $3,500- $10,000, tion is a morally grave sin accord- or children potentially at risk for ity clinics to collect and store unfer- other purposes. Yet, this legislation per cycle. ing to Catholic teaching. Yet some selective reduction when the num- tilized eggs for the purpose of fertil- provides no limit on the amount a Senate Bill 208 awaits a vote as ask, why the Church would oppose ber, characteristics or gender of a ity treatment. Fertility clinics cannot fertility clinic can charge for trans- the panel considers further analysis. technology when the end result, or child is deemed undesirable. offer use of their eggs to a fertility ferring ovum from one place to As the ICC tracks bills, the ICC goal in many cases, is to bring life The purpose of Senate Bill 208 clinic in another state, nor can they another, and has the effect of further posts legislative updates on its Web to an infertile, married couple? The is to allow Indiana fertility clinics to receive eggs from another clinic in sanctioning the commercialization page. To receive legislative updates answer involves several morally participate in multi-state egg banks, another state. of the human gametes.” via email pushes, join the Indiana grave issues. Outlined in a docu- according to Philip Sicuso, attorney Dr. Bopp told the panel that as Noting other countries’ lead in Catholic Action Network (ICAN). ment by the United States Catholic and partner at Indianapolis law firm technology improves it will reduce regulating reproductive technolo- These and other public policy Conference of Bishops (USCCB) Bingham Greenebaum Doll, who the ethical and moral dilemma of gies, Tebbe said, “We believe this resources are available at www. called “Begotten: Not Made: A testified in support of the bill repre- creating more embryos. He asserted industry needs further regulation indianacc.org. Catholic View of Reproductive senting Dr. Bradford Bopp, of the that if passed this legislation would including limiting the number of Technology,” IVF separates the Midwest Fertility Clinic. reduce the need to create extra eggs marital act from conception. 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He never tires of asked. “Quite simply because it YOUNG PEOPLE OBSERVE DURING NATIONAL PRAYER forgiving. We are the ones who was a woman who brought us tire of asking forgiveness, but He Jesus. It’s the path Jesus chose. never tires of forgiving us.” He wanted to have a mother” and VIGIL FOR LIFE AT NATIONAL SHRINE IN WASHINGTON chose to come to the world through Mary, the pope said Jan. 26 during Court OKs prisoner’s Mass in the chapel of his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae. The beard, declines case pope’s homily focused on the day’s about confessional seal reading from St. Paul’s Second WASHINGTON (CNS) — The Letter to Timothy (1:1-8) in which Supreme Court Jan. 20 ruled unani- the apostle highlights Timothy’s mously that the Arkansas prison “sincere faith that first lived in system may not prohibit an inmate your grandmother Lois and in your from growing a half-inch beard as mother Eunice. It’s one thing to a part of what he considers his reli- hand down the faith and another gious obligation as a Muslim. The thing to teach things about the court also declined to hear another faith. Faith is a gift. Faith cannot religious rights case involving the be studied,” he said. “Yes, you seal of Confession. In the beard study the contents of the faith to case, Gregory Holt, also known understand it better, but you never as Abdul Maalik Muhammad, come to faith by studying. Faith sued the Arkansas Department of is a gift from the Holy Spirit, it Corrections for permission to grow is a present that goes beyond any a half-inch beard, which is pro- kind of training,” he said, accord- hibited under the agency’s regu- ing to Vatican Radio. Handing on lations. Holt/Muhammad believes the faith is “the beautiful work he is called to wear an untrimmed of mothers and grandmothers,” or beard, but agreed to wear only a sometimes it comes from an aunt short one. The case drew atten- or a domestic helper, the pope said. tion when it was granted last year “We need to reflect on whether because the prisoner acted with- women today are aware of this out an attorney, writing up his obligation to transmit the faith.” own petition by hand. He has been CNS PHOTO/BOB ROLLER represented by lawyers since the Polls reveal declining U.S. Young people sit on the floor during the opening Mass of the National Prayer Vigil for case was granted. Writing for the court, Justice Samuel Alito said the support for abortion Life at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington policy violates the Religious Land WASHINGTON (CNS) — A Jan. 21. The all-night vigil is held before the annual March for Life, which this year Use and Institutionalized Persons Jan. 21 report from the National marked the 42nd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision that legalized Act, or RLUIPA, which is a 2000 Right to Life Committee and new law intended to limit how much a poll results show that abortion abortion across the nation. government can restrict religious is increasingly unpopular in the activities. Alito said the regula- United States, but also that the tion fails to use the least restrictive number of abortions performed in Increase in sex trafficking Pope says marriage ered rare as in the past, precisely means of furthering its interests the United States is at its lowest because worldly thinking often in controlling inmate behavior. In point since 1975. The day after expected during gridiron, annulment process should prevails over the magisterium of the other case involving religious the State of the Union Address, the Church,” the pope said. rights, the court declined to hear a the right-to-life organization held golf tournaments be free of charge Louisiana case involving a sacra- a news conference on its second PHOENIX (CNS) — Catholic VATICAN CITY (CNS) — mental Confession and whether a annual “The State of Abortion Charities of Arizona is preparing to Addressing the Vatican tribunal Confession is time priest can be compelled to disclose in the United States” report. The serve an increased number of sex- primarily responsible for hearing to encounter God, it’s not what transpired if the person who report showed that the number trafficking victims arrested by local requests for marriage annulments, made the confession waives con- abortions in the United States, cur- police in the days surrounding Super Pope Francis said all annulment a dry cleaners, pope says fidentiality. rently at 1.06 million per year, is at Bowl Sunday. “People who are con- processes should be free of charge. VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While its lowest point since 1975, when trolling sex-trafficked women are “The sacraments are free. The people must be honest and specific Father Richard McBrien, the number was 1.03 million and opportunistic,” said Jon McCaine, a sacraments give us grace. And a about their sins when they go to is also down from the 1.6 million clinical psychologist and consultant matrimonial process pertains to Confession, they will miss the ND theologian and high seen in 1990. A new Knights for Catholic Charities’ Dignity pro- the sacrament of Matrimony. How sacrament’s key grace if they are essayist, dies at 78 of Columbus-Marist poll shows gram for victims of sex trafficking. I wish that all processes were “completely mechanical” about 84 percent of Americans want sig- “The Super Bowl is a perfect time for free,” the pope said Jan. 24, at a listing their sins, Pope Francis WASHINGTON (CNS) — Father nificant restrictions on abortion and these people to make money by sell- meeting to inaugurate the Roman said. Confession is not a time for Richard P. McBrien, a retired would limit it to, at most, the first ing sex,” he said in a January state- Rota’s judicial year. Pope Francis judgment, but for an encounter professor of theology at the three months of pregnancy. At the ment from the Catholic agency. The also said that, because contempo- with the merciful God who is University of Notre Dame and National Right to Life news confer- Phoenix metro area was bracing for a rary culture portrays marriage as a always ready to forgive those who who was chair of the university’s ence, Carol Tobias, the organiza- surge in visitors as it got ready to host “mere form of emotional gratifi- seek pardon, the pope said Jan. theology department for 11 years, tion’s president, was asked about a triad of large sporting events within cation,” people often marry with- 23 during Mass in the chapel of died Jan. 25 at age 78 in his native President Barack Obama’s claim an eight-day period. The NFL’s Pro out a true understanding of the his residence, the Domus Sanctae Connecticut. A Jan. 25 announce- in the State of the Union address Bowl and Super Bowl XLIX and the sacrament, meaning many such Marthae. “So many times, confes- ment by the university said Father that the drop is a result of actions Waste Management Phoenix Open marriages might actually be inval- sions seem like routine, a formal- McBrien had died after a long ill- taken by his administration. Tobias golf tournament were all set to take id. “The judge, in pondering the ity,” he said. “Blah, blah, blah. ness, but did not specify the cause believes that the decline in the place there Jan. 25 through Feb. 1. validity of the consent expressed, Completely mechanical! Where of death. Funeral arrangements abortion rate is rather the result McCaine, who has been working must take into account the context is the encounter” in that kind of were incomplete. Notre Dame said of pro-life activism in public dis- with victims of sex trafficking for of values and of faith — or their confession, the pope asked, “the a memorial Mass would be cele- course and popular culture because more than 20 years, said he believes presence or absence — in which encounter with the Lord who rec- brated on its campus in the coming “yes, the numbers are going down, sex transactions around the Super the intent to marry was formed. onciles, embraces you and cel- weeks. In addition to his teaching, but the rates and ratios are also Bowl would occur in quiet neighbor- In fact, ignorance of the contents ebrates? That is our good God.” Father McBrien wrote 25 books going down, and that’s due to the hoods in homes leased to visitors. of the faith could lead to what According to Vatican Radio, Pope as well as a weekly syndicated pro-life movement keeping this “We live in a culture of excess, and the code (of canon law) calls an Francis said parents, priests and column, “Essays in Theology,” issue alive in the public debate.” the supply and demand for sex will error conditioning the will. This catechists need to teach people for the Catholic press for nearly be high,” he said. eventuality is not to be consid- how to “confess well, because 50 years. February 1, 2015 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 7 Sisters’ open house Paul II Center in Mishawaka. Jennifer Carrier will teach celebrates Year of “Introduction to Ecclesiology” on Consecrated Life Thursdays, Feb. 12, 19, 26 and March 5 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Saint round the iocese Joseph High School in South Bend. NOTRE DAME — The Sisters A D of the Holy Cross will host an In Fort Wayne Marilyn Fech will open house at Saint Mary’s on teach “Introduction to Ecclesiology” Sunday, Feb. 8, from 2-4 p.m., on Thursdays, Feb. 12, 19, 26 and for families and friends in the March 5 from 6-8:30 p.m. at Bishop South Bend community as they CATHOLIC SCHOOL STUDENTS SING NATIONAL ANTHEM Luers High School. begin the celebration for the Year For more information call 260- of Consecrated Life. The purpose 399-1411 or email jmartin@dioce- of this yearlong observance, as sefwsb.org. Registration is required. proclaimed by Pope Francis, is for religious to look to the past with Rekindle the Fire Men’s gratitude, to live the present with passion and to embrace the future Conference to be held Feb. 7 with hope. SOUTH BEND — Men of the The sisters’ open house will Diocese of Fort Wayne-South include tours of the Church of Bend are encouraged to attend The Our Lady of Loretto, the Heritage Rekindle the Fire Men’s Conference, Room and the Via Loretto walkway. which will be held Saturday, Feb. 7, Docents will give presentations at at the Century Center in South Bend. various stops along the tour. The day New this year will be a young adult will conclude in the Lillie O’Grady session. Center with a reception and informal The day begins at 9 a.m. with conversation with the sisters. a welcome. With the theme, The tour begins at the Church of “Encouragement, Strength, Our Lady of Loretto (follow signs on Fellowship,” this year’s conference campus, which is located on Indiana will include international Catholic SR 933 (US 31/33). For more infor- speakers — Steve Ray, Dr. John mation, contact Holy Cross Sister Wood and Ruben Quezada — Mary Alice Bowler at mbowler@ opportunities for Confession and cscsisters.org or 574-284-5560. concludes with a 4 p.m. Mass cele- brated by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades. USF to offer lecture Cost for the Saturday men’s con- on St. John XXIII ference is $35 and includes lunch. Registration is available online at FORT WAYNE — BILL PANZICA rekindlethefire.net. The Department of Philosophy South Bend area Catholic school students were invited to sing the National Anthem Visit the website rekindlethe- and Theology at the University fire.net for information or call Joe of Saint Francis invites you to before the Notre Dame women’s basketball game against Georgia Tech on Thursday, Jan. Witulski at 260-452-6875. the free public lecture, “St. John 22. Marian High School choir director Colleen Pingle directed the group, which was com- XXIII: Beloved Revolutionary” USF to present lecture on Thursday, Feb. 12, at 1 p.m. prised of students from Christ the King, Corpus Christi, Mishawaka Catholic, Queen of on the campus of the University on Pope Francis and of Saint Francis, North Campus Peace, St. Joseph, St. Jude, St. Matthew Cathedral, St. Pius X, Saint Joseph High School Leadership Auditorium, 2701 Spring St., Fort and Marian High School. Wayne. The lecture is the fourth FORT WAYNE — The University in a series to be offered by univer- of Saint Francis School of Liberal sity faculty members throughout Arts and Sciences is welcoming the academic year. 574-284-4636. will take place Saturday, March An optional 90-minute prepara- author and speaker Chris Lowney Angelo Roncalli, “Good Pope Topics discussed include the fol- 14, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at St. tory session will be offered in the to present “Leadership Lessons of John,” was canonized a saint last lowing: Augustine Parish. Doermer Center on Tuesday, Feb. Pope Francis” as part of USF’s April 27. Elected pope less than • “Teresa of Avila: Prayer is an The day will include a keynote 17, at 6 p.m. For additional prac- Servus Omnium lecture series. This five years before his death, his Adventure in Love,” will be the speaker, breakout sessions, lunch, a tice materials visit amc.maa.org. To event will be held at the USF Robert calling of the Second Vatican topic Tuesday, Feb. 17, at 7:30 youth track and a town hall group register for the competition, contact Goldstine Performing Arts Center, Council is seen as his least expect- p.m. in the Vander Vennet Theatre, discussion. One main topic of dis- Carolyn Exner at [email protected] or 431 W. Berry Street, on Tuesday, ed and greatest achievement. Student Center. The speaker will cussion will be the unveiling of 260-399-8067. Feb. 17, from 7-9 a.m. Franciscan Sister Jacinta Krecek, be Keith J. Egan, Aquinas Chair of Black Catholic Advisory Board’s First administered in 1950, the A former Jesuit seminarian, assistant professor of theology, Catholic Theology Emeritus, Saint “Strategic Plan for Evangelization AMC’s purpose is increasing inter- Chris Lowney later served as a will discuss events in the life of Mary’s College. and Pastoral Care of Blacks in est in mathematics and developing managing director of JP Morgan Angelo Roncalli, his vision and • “Teresa the Theologian on the the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South problem-solving ability through a & Co. on three continents. He cur- character, and ways in which his Human Person as Capax Dei” will be Bend.” The day will conclude with series of friendly mathematics com- rently chairs the board of Catholic life continues to touch and inspire the topic Tuesday, March 3, at 7:30 a Mass celebrated by Bishop Kevin petitions for junior (grades 8 and Health Initiatives, one of America’s today. p.m. in the Vander Vennet Theatre, C. Rhoades with a Gospel choir below) and senior (grades 9-12) high largest healthcare/hospital compa- For more information, contact Student Center. The speaker will be singing at 4 p.m. Cost for the Day of school students. nies, which comprises approximate- Angie Springer at 260-399-8066 Elizabeth Dreyer, professor of reli- Reflection is $15. “We are excited to host this math- ly 90 hospitals in 18 states. He is the or [email protected]. gious studies, Fairfield University. Registration details will be forth- ematics competition for the fifth author of four books, including the • “Teresa and Us: The coming. consecutive year, and welcome this best-selling, “Heroic Leadership,” St. Teresa of Avila subject Significance of Teresa of Avila for opportunity to provide an academic and most recently, “Pope Francis: Young Catholic Women Today” will USF hosting math challenge in a university setting for Why He Leads the Way He Leads.” of lecture series be the topic on Thursday, March 19, young mathematicians,” said Dr. The event will begin at 7 a.m. at 7:30 p.m. in the Vander Vennet competition Victor Kutsenok, chair of the USF with a blessing and opening prayer NOTRE DAME — The Center for Theatre, Student Center. Panelists Department of Mathematics. from Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades. Spirituality (CFS) at Saint Mary’s FORT WAYNE — The University will include Kaleigh Ellis ’17, Saint This will be followed by a Mardi College has announced the endowed of Saint Francis will host the Mary’s College, Katie Bugyis, doc- Gras Breakfast Buffet and Chris Spring 2015 Lecture Series. The American Mathematics Competition Office of Catechesis to toral candidate in Medieval Studies, Lowney’s presentation will begin at series, which includes two talks and (AMC) 10/12B for students in University of Notre Dame, Maria offer classes for Education approximately 7:45 a.m. one panel discussion, is titled “St. grades 9-12 on Wednesday, Feb. Surat, M.Div. student, University of For additional information, con- Teresa of Avila: Carmelite Mystic 25, in the Doermer Family Center for Ministry program Notre Dame and Julia Feder, PhD, tact Dr. Lance Richey, dean of the and Doctor of the Church.” It marks for Health Science Education, rooms theology, post-docorate, University Three classes will be offered by School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa’s 156 A and B. of Notre Dame. the Office of Catechesis for the at 260-399-8112 or [email protected]. birth. Activities will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $10 in advance and with food and refreshments, and the Education for Ministry Program. The lectures are free and open Save the date for Sankofa John Cavadini, PhD, will teach $15 at the door. Tables can also to the public. The Saint Mary’s 75-minute test will follow. A pro- be reserved in advance for $80 per gram will be available to parents dur- “Introduction to the Creed” on College Annual Endowed Lecture SOUTH BEND — Sankofa Black table. Corporate sponsorships are ing the test, and the event will wrap Saturdays, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28 Series Fund sponsors the lectures. Catholic Day of Reflection for the available as well. Visit sf.edu/ser- up with awards. from 9-11:30 a.m. at the St. John For information on the series, call Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend vusomnium for more information. 8 TODAY’S CATHOLIC February 1, 2015

Jesus calling me to join the religious life, but sometimes as a teenager, we MARCH have the struggles to want to plan CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and control our life, which can get in the way of what God wants us to do.” the National Hispanic Christian Strong, who has been discern- Leadership Conference, who offered ing throughout the last year, further the concluding prayer for the rally. shared that she has received “great Pro-life defenders of all ages then support and advice from the Sisters began the walk to the United States of Perpetual Adoration (Mishawaka) Supreme Court building, where in and Franciscan Friars Minor in dis- 1973, the Court decision on Roe v. cerning what God is asking. I keep Wade declaring abortion legal has praying to discover where He will since led to the death of over 50 mil- lead me.” lion unborn children. These support- On Jan. 23, Bishop Rhoades cel- ers marched together triumphantly, ebrated Mass at the Basilica of the demonstrating their advocacy for National Shrine of the Immaculate those without a voice of their own. Conception. While this Mass had Some spoke of their amazement originally been scheduled primarily at the response of so many commit- for those who had traveled from his ted participants. Kathy Heckber, a diocese, it instead became another parishioner of St. Aloysius, Yoder, example of Catholic unity and shared her thoughts on the event. shared participation in the life of the “Thousands of people marched with Church as diocesan groups from signs defending life. Many were New Orleans, Louisiana, Nashville praying, singing and chanting as and Knoxville, Tennessee, Jackson, they walked,” she said. “I was really Mississippi, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and Ogdensburg, New impressed to see so many young PROVIDED BY MARYANN HINORA, MARIAN HIGH SCHOOL adults. Seeing them gives me hope York, attended as well. Students and members of the Marian High School Right to Life Club stand in front of the diocesan banner that one day this will end.” The amount of participation Many students spoke of their at the National March For Life in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 22. surprised even Bishop Rhoades, excitement and gratitude for having who exclaimed, “I was planning to been able to take part in the march. celebrate Mass for 500 people, not Emma Rotkis, a junior at Saint 5,000!” He expressed his grateful- Joseph High School, South Bend, ness for their attendance and his joy on her third March for Life shared, that so many were able to partake in “It is inspiring to see so many peo- the Mass together. ple giving voices to those who have Diocesan priests Father Chris none. It is even more moving when Lapp, Father Jason Freiberger, you realize that some of the loudest Father Terry Coonan, Father voices come from the hearts of our David Mary Engo, Father Andrew young generation.” Budzinski and Father Drew Curry Hannah Toepp, a freshman at were concelebrants with Bishop Marian High School in Mishawaka, Rhoades. Students from Marian revealed, “My experience on the High School, senior David Schena March for Life was extremely II, the president of the Pro-Life prayerful and spiritually involved. Club, and junior Abbey Zielinski, We were elbow to elbow singing proclaimed the readings and inter- and praying the rosary along the cessions. PROVIDED BY BISHOP KEVIN C. RHOADES way to show the world our support Afterwards, students from the for life.” PROVIDED BY SAINT JOSEPH JUNIOR EMMA ROTKIS Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades is shown diocese shared their joy at being able Emma Gettinger, a Marian Saint Joseph High School students participate in the march with with students from Bishop Luers to participate in such a unique event. senior, added, “It was awesome to Chaplain Father Terry Coonan. High School at the march. David Kelty, a junior at Bishop have the experience to see so many Dwenger High School, Fort Wayne, others excited about their faith.” who carried the processional cross Clare, a parishioner from as altar server, exclaimed, “How Immaculate Conception, Auburn, often do you get to serve at the said, “The thing that stood out to me national shrine with Bishop Kevin the most was the joy of everyone. Rhoades? It was a privilege I will It was a totally somber occasion, never forget. Serving Mass is a hum- but at the same time it is like a big bling experience on its own. When Catholic family reunion; everyone you add the beautiful basilica with just has so much joy and hope that our bishop in the context of the pro- we can end this terrible problem.” life mission, it was exhilarating!” Young parishioners of St. Paul Karena Parish, also a senior at of the Cross, Columbia City, added Bishop Dwenger, enthusiastically their thoughts as well. remarked, “Seeing all those priests “It was pretty cool how every- and people at Mass just fills me with one came together in a peaceful joy. It makes me feel like our faith is protest, essentially taking over the so much bigger and more incredible whole street but in a very friendly than ever before. It was also hard way, uniting with people across the CHRIS LUSHIS Approximately 700 University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s and Holy not to get distracted by the Church’s country for such a great cause. It Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades leads Cross College students group together outside St. Agnes Church in beauty. Then after Mass, seeing men was also interesting to see former and women in religious orders, some opening prayer at a diocesan Arlington, Virginia, before heading to the National Mall. rape victims and those who shared of which I didn’t even know existed that they regretted their abortions.” Mass at the National Shrine of until today — these are the most Stacey Quinn said. “It’s just so pow- the Immaculate Conception in director, led those from Fort Wayne, bravely knelt before Christ in the joyful people I’ve ever met. They are erful, it brings tears to my eyes, see- Washington, D.C., on Jan. 23. and Franciscan Father David Mary Eucharist as Father Engo led the such a witness of holiness!” ing everyone bravely stand and talk Engo spoke to those from South group in praying for them, empha- Before returning to Indiana, about how they are against this huge ered in the churches of St. James Bend. sizing the importance of showing students also were able to travel to issue and how much we just need it and St. Ann to hear speeches on Towards the end of the prayers, support for those who are open to Mount Saint Mary’s Seminary in to stop.” forgiveness, mercy and renewal. Father Engo invited all those pres- following God’s will in their lives. Emmittsburg, Maryland, to visit Afterwards, students from the Reconciliation services accompa- ent who were open to discerning Brianna Strong, a parishioner of those from the Diocese of Fort diocese returned to their temporary nied by praise and worship music a vocation to the religious life or St. Gaspar, Rome City, was one who Wayne-South Bend who are study- parish accommodations for an were offered during Eucharistic Priesthood to come up and pray responded to this invitation. ing for the Priesthood. evening of community and reflec- Adoration for both diocesan groups. in front of the Blessed Sacrament. She shared, “I always have the tion as they shared pizza and gath- Father Andrew Budzinski, vocation Fifteen young men and women thought in the back of my mind of February 1, 2015 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 9 On the World Day of Prayer for Consecrated Life Franciscan priest brings God to His peopleHow has a religious impacted your faith? Conventual Franciscan Father Paul Faroh served at St. Joseph’s in LaGrange. He is a vivacious man Sister Volk: a constant touchstone and his enthusiasm is contagious. He is not afraid to show his emotions. He usually starts his hom The person that has touched my life in a significantly pro- ily with a joke and is an engaging speaker. He can found manner for the last 15 years since the day I met her - interpret the readings to make sense in our day is Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ Sister Linda Volk. She and age and apply them to our personal lives. He is embodies all that is authentic. She is open to the Spirit in a people person who has touched my life with his all things, and true to the vows she professed living her life caring, concern and compassionate ways. His man daily in the service of the Lord and others selflessly. I turn tra is “God is Love.” I appreciate his presence in to her when I am in need of prayer, advice, support and she - my life. Keep playing those bongos! God Bless You lifts me up. She cries with me, rejoices with me, she prays Father Paul! with me, she heals me. She is my constant touchstone. Susie Black Tena Jakubowicz Donaldson

Middlebury Sister Holzmer shares spirited wisdom In honor of the Year of Consecrated Life we recall how Sister Anita Holzmer’s life has blessed ours. By following Bishop (Kevin C.) Rhoades to this wonderful diocese, we encountered our beloved Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. Sister Anita graciously gave her time to teach our Franciscan Brothers Minor and us about our common heritage … that bore great fruit. Through her generous sharing of her vast knowledge and devotion to St. Francis and St. Clare, I became convinced of my own charism. After trying to be a “good daughter of St. Francis” for years, sister allowed me to look to St. Clare as my mother and thus embrace her form of life. This meant I had the gift of enclosure — to be a cloistered nun! On behalf of all the Poor Sisters of St. Clare, thank you dear Sister Anita. Our prayers and love unite us to you, all the way to heaven. Mother Celeste Marie of St. Joseph, PSC Fort Wayne Celebrating the Year of Consecrated Life with the What is Consecrated Life? Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration Consecrated life is defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as Sunday, February 8, 2015, 1-4pm “a permanent state of life recognized by the Church, entered freely in response to the call of Christ to perfection, and characterized by the pro- Mishawaka: 1515 W. Dragoon Trail fession of evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and obedience (914).” Fort Wayne: 2701 Spring Street & 2828 Wane Lane It is, the catechism goes on to say, the profession of these three coun- sels that characterize the life consecrated to God. And according to the For information contact: 574-259-5427 United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ website www.USCCB.org, forms of consecrated life include monastic life, the Orders of Virgins, hermits and institutes completely devoted to contemplation, apostolic religious life, secular institutes, societies of apostolic life and new or renewed forms of the consecrated life (cf. “Vita Consecrata,” 6-12). Each form is described in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. 10 TODAY’S CATHOLIC February 1, 2015 Consecrating our whole lives…

BY SISTER MARGIE LAVONIS, CSC

NOTRE DAME — Pope Francis Christians are also called to Student blooms under attentive care of sister has declared Nov. 30, 2014 to live the virtue of poverty and to Feb. 2, 2016 as a year to celebrate live simply. Those in consecrated Words cannot express the love and gratitude that overflows in my consecrated life. On Feb. 8, 2015, life strive to live in radical depen- many orders will host open hous- dence on God and try not to be heart for all the wonderful sisters who taught me from grade 1 es with religious throughout the weighed down by material goods through college. These wonderful women were Sisters of St. Francis nation. Many Catholics, especial- and other attachments. ly our children, are not even sure The baptized are also called of Perpetual Adoration. I am 83 years old and I can still name every- what consecrated life is. One of to follow God and obey God’s teacher that I ever had. Their love and devotion to God and teach the goals of this year is to educate Word. Consecrated religious Catholics about religious life. strive to do God’s will in con- ing has always been an inspiration to me. Each of them contributed I had the Sisters of the junction with the mission of their a piece of the puzzle in my life that has made me the person I am Immaculate Heart of Mary for particular community, as a hus- most of my grade school years band and wife give themselves to today. From the bud of a low self image person, I have bloomed into and every day we said the each other and to their children. being an author, a lecturer, an artist and the executive director of Morning Offering and conse- Family is their primary focus. crated ourselves to Jesus through Those who commit themselves as a world-wide ministry. My gratitude goes to God and these loving Mary. As a child, I am not sure religious give their entire lives to I fully understood what I was Christ and to the Church through prayerful women. doing, but I did know that I the vows of poverty, chastity and But the one sister to whom I shall always be indebted is Sister offered all I did that day to God. obedience. Little did I know that I would I believe God still calls some Thelma who taught me in the seventh grade at St. Andrew in Fort later give my whole life to Jesus to this radical and challenging Wayne in 1944. Up to that point I had little interest in school, just as a Sister of the Holy Cross. way of life. Let us pray that those It seems there is a lack of to whom God is calling will felt like I would never succeed in anything. I dreaded to go to school awareness currently about reli- respond with a generous “yes.” every day. But one afternoon, my course in life changed dramatically. gious life, especially among the Let us also do our part to young. Fewer young men and invite the young to consider this Would you like to know why? It was because Sister Thelma asked me women are answering the call option when they are discerning to stay after class. to live a consecrated life as a life choices. Sometimes it only sister, brother or priest. I think takes the question, “Did you ever When the classroom was finally cleared, she pulled up one of the one of the major reasons for think God might be calling you to student desk and sat next to me. Then she gave me a motherly talk. this is a lack of understanding be a priest, brother or sister.” of Priesthood and religious life. Your question just might plant She told me I had “a lot of potential,” that I was really not using my Worse yet, the possibility of liv- the seed of a religious vocation. gifts and thought I could do “much better.” Just because this kind ing the Christian call we receive Just as the Church needs good at baptism doesn’t even cross marriages, it also needs sisters, but strict young nun took the time out of her busy schedule to talk their minds. It is logical to say brothers and priests to extend the to me personally in such a kind, loving way was all I needed. It was that a person cannot choose a way reign of God in our world. of life he or she knows little or During this special year, may all the incentive I needed to become a better student. She made me nothing about. people learn more about those feel so important, that I wasn’t just another one of her students, but What is religious or conse- who have consecrated their lives crated life? In my early years I to Christ and to His Kingdom an individual that she really cared about. The end of that school year- thought being a religious was and support their ministries in the passed only too quickly, but all through high school she kept in con chiefly about ministry and serv- Church and in the world. ing others, but Jesus calls all tact with me, encouraging me to be all that God wanted me to be! Christians to serve His people. Dr. Joyce Pranger Venaglia Religious life is a call to make Indio, California Jesus the center of one’s life. It is Sister Margie Lavonis, CSC, is a former to consecrate or give one’s whole campus minister and vocation self to God. It is truly about lov- director and works for the Sisters ing God above all. One important of the Holy Cross communications way to show this love is through department. ministry or service, but that is not what makes one a religious. Men and women religious consecrate themselves to God by professing the three vows or promises of chastity, poverty and Poor Handmaid offers friendship and guidance obedience. It is a lifetime com- mitment. I would like to thank Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ All Christians are called to be chaste and to respect their bod- Sister Joetta Huelsmann and her immeasurable help ies as temples of the Holy Spirit, to me 18 years ago when we arrived in Fort Wayne but religious priests, brothers and Sister Joetta served as a sisters vow to give all of them- without friends or family. selves, body and soul, to God and pastoral associate at St. Vincent de Paul Church in- to God’s people. This is where Fort Wayne. She welcomed me by offering friend Welcome Home the service comes in. She helped me gain ship and spiritual guidance. She offered To your Family of Faith insights into my faith journey thus far. healing and peace in a difficult transition and she continues to do so to many others as the director of John XXIII Retreat Center in Hartford City. Marianne Dunne Fort Wayne February 1, 2015 COMMENTARY 11 The public relations of death Courage and conviction:

campaign to legalize she was unwilling to face the How one young Catholic assisted suicide is mov- expected suffering of her illness, ing forward in New and would move to Oregon so LIFE AJersey, with similar proposals she could take her life on Nov. saved 2,500 kids to be introduced in California, 1 using its assisted suicide law. ISSUES Maryland and other states. The She appeared on the cover of former Hemlock Society (now People magazine and became FORUM rena Sendler was 29-years-old under the more appealing name a spokesperson for C&C, her when Nazi tanks slithered into “Compassion & Choices”) interviews and video appearances Warsaw, casting a shadow of TWENTY RICHARD DOERFLINGER Ifear over the town and slicing it hopes to pass such bills in a carefully vetted by its media dozen states this year, although relations staff. Just before the apart with a walled-off ghetto for SOMETHING its efforts produced new laws announced date she said she the Jewish residents. in only three states, Oregon, didn’t feel too bad and may live of traveling to another state to There was no way she could obtain a lethal overdose from a sit back and watch. The social Washington and Vermont, in the longer — then went through CHRISTINA CAPECCHI past 25 years. with her suicide anyway. What doctor. worker with the shy eyes and What makes Compassion & encouragement she received from This raises basic questions. round baby face stood 4-feet, Is it the government’s job to 11-inches and possessed an Choices (C&C) so optimistic? C&C to “get with the program” taught Catholic prayers so they After all, its agenda is the we may never know. make suicide “convenient” for unblinking courage. She had two some people? Shouldn’t it value guiding stars in life: her Catholic could demonstrate non-Jewish same as always: Protecting Ms. Maynard’s “reality TV” heritage under possible Nazi doctors who want to prescribe show provided an appealing everyone’s life and prevent faith and her late father, a suicide without discrimination, physician who had died of typhus interrogation. a barbiturate overdose so their human face for C&C’s agenda. Despite the grave risk, some patients can kill themselves. The voices of others — including not select which people receive contracted from low-income a helping hand to jump off the patients. 200 Polish convents opened their The change is in the public patients with similar conditions, doors to the kids. relations of the issue, due to an who urged her to see meaning ledge? So Irena took action, Moreover, the grim reality pretending to be a nurse in order The sights, sounds and attractive 29-year-old cancer in her life and promote hope smells of Mass comforted Piotr patient named Brittany Maynard. rather than despair — were to gain access into the Warsaw ghetto and deliver food and Zettinger, who was 4 when he Ms. Maynard, a California drowned out. Now C&C wants left his parents in the ghetto. “For resident, announced last fall that to save others the inconvenience LIFE, PAGE 12 medicine. The grimness of their fate became clearer with every this hungry, bedraggled boy,” he passing day, as clusters were told PBS, “taking part in these rounded up, marched to the beautiful and uplifting ceremonies God strengthens our resolve against sin freight yard and shipped an hour was quite wonderful.” away to Treblinka death camp. The nuns were always on The sight of the youngest among guard for German inspections. busy commercial center. Visitors Reflection them, toddlers carrying their Given their cue, Piotr would often availed themselves of the THE dolls, haunted Irena. run to the attic and hide in a pleasures of the flesh provided in Thanks be to God, few people She enlisted her closest cupboard. Corinth. Indeed, Aphrodite, the SUNDAY today would say that they, friends and colleagues, mostly Miraculously, the system goddess of love and carnal desire, or great numbers of people, young women, to form a secret worked. All the Jewish kids was the city’s special deity. are “possessed by the devil,” network for the imprisoned placed in convents through GOSPEL Paul sees virginity as a although the Church still teaches Jews, sneaking aide in and Irena’s network survived the war. MSGR. OWEN F. CAMPION powerful Christian witness, and that such possessions occur. All smuggling children out. Irena In total, Irena saved the lives of from a more pragmatic point of people have “unclean spirits” bundled babies in garbage about 2,500 children. view, he thinks that Christians within them, since all sin, and wagons and gave them sleeping She lived to be 98 and never not obligated by marriage and th sin is the mark of the devil’s potions to keep them quiet on considered herself a hero. “It was 4 Sunday in parenthood can devote their involvement to some extent at the way out. Kids were directed simple,” she said. “I remember whole time to God’s service. least in any person’s spiritual life. through secret passageways into what my father had taught me: Ordinary Time St. Mark’s Gospel is the People can be aware of their sewers, following whispers and ‘When someone is drowning, source of the third reading. Mk 1:21-28 sins, and indeed usually they flashlights. give him your hand.’” Luke’s Gospel contains an almost are aware of how and when Parents were forced to make The Holy Father issues the he Book of Deuteronomy exact parallel story. Matthew they turn away from God and “heart-rending” calculations, and same challenge again and again, furnishes the first read- treats this event only glancingly. harm themselves or others. For Irena who could not guarantee beginning with his inaugural ing for this weekend. Judaism has never required many, this realization produces that their children would survive homily when he called us to be TDeuteronomy appears in mod- weekly attendance by Jews at a sense of guilt, or the cynical if they fled through her network. “protectors of one another.” We ern Bibles as the fifth book in synagogue services. However, hunch that virtue is impossible “I still have nightmares about can do so, Pope Francis said, by sequence in the Old Testament. It going to synagogue to pray for them to attain. For them, it,” she said in a 2011 PBS being “constantly attentive to is one of the Pentateuch, the first together, and to learn the these readings are especially documentary, tapping her left God.” five books of the Old Testament, teachings of the Torah, is comforting and encouraging. index finger to her temple. This month would mark all of them attributed to Moses. definitely a high value for Jews God will never leave us. Such “You’re going on a wonderful Irena’s 105th birthday. Our In this reading, Moses during the time of Jesus, as was the promise of Moses. This adventure,” one Jewish mother worlds may be vastly different, addresses the chosen people, indeed it is even among Jews promise was perfectly fulfilled in explained to her son, with whom but we can honor her memory by whom he has led, with God’s today. That Jesus went to the Jesus, with God’s own power to she was later reunited. “You’re treating our neighbors with the help, from Egypt where they were synagogue, and on the Sabbath put away any unclean spirit. He going to be a good boy.” same compassion. enslaved. He promises that God at that, reveals how seriously the can strengthen our resolve to be “You’re a big girl now,” a It is simple. will send prophets, with whom Lord took the Law of Moses. holy, even to be holy in the most father, who would later die, told the people can relate. If anyone As Jesus speaks, the people radical way. his 10-year-old. “Tomorrow you presumes to take the role of spellbound at the knowledge of must escape from the ghetto. I prophet upon himself or herself, things relating to God spoken by can no longer protect you.” without having been called by Jesus, a man “with an unclean Irena embraced the wartime God, then this imposter will die. spirit” appears. It is important to orphans as she routed them to God will take care of His note here that this man recognizes READINGS safe houses and then permanent people. Jesus as the “Holy One of God.” Sunday: Dt 18:15-20 Ps 95:1-2, 6-9 1 homes. “We had to give them a St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Furthermore, the man believes Cor 7:32-35 Mk 1:21-28 lot of love and attention to help Corinthians is the source of the that Jesus has the power to do Monday: Mal 3:1-4 Ps 24:7-10 Heb them adapt to their new lives.” second reading. From the earliest anything. The climax of the story 2:14-18 Lk 2:22-40 Beyond the sheer bravery days of Christianity, virginity has is when Jesus orders the unclean Tuesday: Heb 12:1-4 Ps 22:26b-28, required of the endeavor been treasured. Christians have spirit to leave the man, and the 30-32 Mk 5:21-43 — perhaps a byproduct of never been forbidden to marry, unclean spirit obeys. Wednesday: Heb 12:4-7, 11-15 Ps Irena’s youth — it was an act although all Christians are bound Again, the people are amazed. 103:1-2, 13-14 17-18a Mk 6:1-6 of organizational might. She to be chaste, according to their The message, however, is not in Thursday: Heb 12:18-19, 21-24 Ps coordinated each stop with state in life. However, over the their amazement, but that Jesus 48:2-4, 9-11 Mk 6:7-13 pinpoint precision. centuries, Christians have chosen could command this unclean The greatest help came from Christina Capecchi is a freelance lifelong virginity for religious spirit and be obeyed, and that the Friday: Heb 13:1-8 Ps 27:1, 3, 5, 8b-9c Irena’s Catholic connections. She writer from Inver Grove Heights, reasons. man, albeit harboring this evil Mk 6:14-29 called on priests, who created Minn., and editor of SisterStory. Corinth in the first century spirit, recognizes Jesus as the Son Saturday: Heb 13:15-17, 20-21 Ps fake baptismal certificates for org, the official website of A.D. was a city notorious for its of God. No devil can overcome 23:1-6 Mk 6:30-34 the Jewish children. They were National Catholic Sisters Week. outrageous immorality. It was a the power of God. 12 COMMENTARY February 1, 2015 When the lives we save become our own SCRIPTURE SEARCH read Aldous Huxley’s “Brave year younger than I, she was born Gospel for February 1, 2015 New World” the summer with a health condition that has Mark 1:21-28 before ninth grade. I was too kept her in and out of the hospital TEEN Iyoung for it: Huxley’s dystopia since she was a newborn. She Following is a word search based on the Gospel frightened me so much that, to celebrated her 16th birthday in a TABLET this day, I have not been able to hospital bed. Some — perhaps an reading for the Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, re-read it. However, its lessons increasing number — might look Cycle B: events when Jesus preaches in Capernaum. still haunt me, especially as we at her and say, either out of pity The words can be found in all directions in the puzzle. observe the 42nd anniversary of or out of the hardness of their CAROLINE PETERSON Roe vs. Wade, and as the move- hearts, “What a waste.” To this I CAPERNAUM JESUS SYNAGOGUE ment for abortion takes a new and can only give two answers. PEOPLE TEACHING TAUGHT troubling turn. First, in contemporary AS ONE AUTHORITY A MAN “Brave New World” describes bioethics, the connection between uncopiable lens through which we perceive the world. SPIRIT CRIED OUT WITH US a seemingly perfect world. pity and utilitarianism has NAZARETH DESTROY US I KNOW No member of it has ever become drawn disturbingly close. My cousin is not an abstracted “patient”; nor is she merely a HOLY (one) AMAZED OBEY seen another grow old. Death, Just as in Huxley’s “Brave New FAME SPREAD REGION deformity and illness are hidden World,” “I don’t want you to drain on the American health care behind closed doors. Much of suffer” becomes “I don’t want to system. She likes small children, what we ourselves have feared see you suffer” — a normal and enjoys apocalyptic fiction, is for centuries — crippling illness, understandable human reaction. addicted to GoodReads and OVER SPIRITS aging and emotional suffering — However, because of the high appreciates a good old-fashioned has been banished, if not from availability of abortion, “I don’t plastic spider prank now and CHOSUYORTSED then. I know she’s a good deal the earth, than at least from the want to see you suffer” becomes ASYT I ROHTUAE sight of the public. The terror “I don’t want to see you at all.” more than that, but I’m content of Huxley’s dystopia lies in the Pundits chime in, making that I won’t ever be able to PUYDTNO I GERZ understand her or anyone in her ignorance and indignity of its a horrible decision just a little EHANEMAFRLLA inhabitants. Paradoxically, while easier: “And you really don’t complexity. That is part of being the “brave new world” gives its want to pay for that suffering, do human. RTTNAMAPKWLM people a pass on experiencing you?” Once we agree on this one physical suffering, it robs them Finally, nihilism finishes the essential truth I think the fight N I UACGSUSEJA of the abilities that make them argument, “How is such a person for life will have nearly been AWOZHPOTOMKT truly human: to grow in virtue, to worth anything, anyway?” won. It might seem hard — after love deeply and to learn strength If a culture of widespread all, caring for a child with Down UZDA I ENGZA I A syndrome or other limitations is through weakness. abortion — especially abortion MJERNOEDUNKU Of course, suffering can never as a result of medical conditions an exhausting, difficult vocation, disappear altogether; therein lies discovered before birth — ended, one that calls for a love that I AD I EGPBFBENG cannot comprehend at my age. Huxley’s genius. People do die perhaps such an argument could RTRTFLKEYLOH in “Brave New World,” but they be reversed. Until then, we must But I do wonder if the gap do so alone, placed in sanitized raise high a second truth. Before between the weak and the strong KZCHMELVYPWT is as wide as it seems. Each of us compartments and saturated having any kind of debate about © 2015 Tri-C-A Publications www.tri-c-a-publications.com with drugs so no one will have the use and morality of abortion will someday become “limited” to watch their pain. Although we should agree on the following — whether in our infancy, the world Huxley describes will overused but critical fact. old age, illnesses or all three. Indeed, to paraphrase Flannery probably never be universal, Each human being is  55 Concord e.g. I still see shadows of it in our different. Indeed, we are each O’Connor, in the battle against he 56 See own day — especially within a hodgepodge of miracles in so abortion, the lives we save  the pro-choice movement, which many different senses. Even the become our own. ross ord   1 Terminal abbr. has become coupled with the most physically afflicted of us 1234 567 8910  2 Follows Sunday wonders of modern-day science possesses a body “fearful and to give parents an unprecedented wonderful” in its complexity 11 12 13 14 3 Cremains pot 4 Vietnamese city power. A child with Down — cells dividing constantly, 15 16 17 5 United States of syndrome, physical deformity information flowing effortlessly 18 19 20 21 America or even a sex not preferred by from our brain to our limbs, a 22 23 24 25 26 6 Ride the waves the parents can be aborted with mass of reflexes and movement 27 28 29 7 Jewish leaders shocking expediency. Thus, the and growth. What’s more, each 8 Musical “slow” next generation may well be one of us has a completely different 30 31 32 33 34 9 Eden had many of “designer children.” mind. Our memories, loves 35 36 10 Jesus rose very I think about this as I watch and dislikes, fears, failures and Caroline Peterson early, at ___ is a teen writer 37 38 39 40 one of my cousins grow up. A triumphs combine to form an from St. Pius X Parish, Granger. 12 People gathered to do 41 42 43 19 Church language

44 45 46 47 48 49 50 21 Sister (slang) 22 Blot at want so they can live longer. they arrive. Rip the mask off this 51 52 53 Most took their lives not because campaign, and we find grandma 23 Flightless bird LIFE 54 55 56 24 Peter’s mother-in-law of untreated pain or even fear and grandpa being nudged lay here CONTINUED FROM PAGE 11 of pain, but because they felt toward death by individuals and © 2015 www.tri-c-a-publications.com 25 The Mountain of God they were losing their autonomy governments who don’t want to Based on these Scripture Readings: Deut 18:15-20 29 Christ’s disciple or dignity and becoming a be bothered with “burdensome” and Mk 1:21-28 and 1Cor 9:16-19, 22-23 and Mk 1:29-39 31 Depresses of legalized assisted suicide has “burden” — a feeling no doubt people. Will lawmakers see 32 Animal foot little to do with self-assured encouraged by others, including through the mask? ACROSS 30 Leave pod 33 Regret young women facing intractable the government itself. Many 31 Fathers 34 Not New Testament pain who demand control over had chronic conditions, not 1 Flightless birds 32 Affirmative 35 Least amount their last days. imminently fatal diseases like 5 Ship initials 35 Impressionist painter 36 Hebrews became In Oregon, the state health late-stage cancer. All reporting 8 Limited (abbr.) 36 Wrote to Corinthians God’s department tells a different story. on the circumstances of their 11 Jewish scripture 37 Among 37 Defense Of the 752 people taking their deaths was done by the doctor 13 Pocket 39 Made wet 38 Paul Vi was 14 Epoch lives under its law from 1998 prescribing the lethal dose; state 41 Drapes Archbishop of ___ 15 Oakley’s first name 43 Brazil city through 2013, only six were officials have said the doctor’s 40 Old computer storage 16 Atmosphere 44 Cause of sickness 41 Money depository under 35 years old; the median account could be “a cock and bull Richard Doerflinger 17 Not Old Testament 45 Stretch to make do 42 John Paul used age is 71. In 2013, less than 3 story” for all they know. is associate 18 Young woman percent had any evaluation to director of the Secretariat of Pro- 47 Prophets do when young In short, this campaign uses 20 Hark 51 BB association 46 Extension (abbr.) check for treatable depression. a ploy known to marketers as Life Activities, U.S. Conference 22 Ancient Hebrew judge 52 Turn down 48 Aurora Most had no health insurance, or the “bait and switch.” People are of Catholic Bishops. To learn 26 Life histories 53 The end 49 Poisonous snake had it only from the government moved by unscrupulous ads to how to write to Congress on this 27 Prayer ending 54 One of your 50 Single of what St. — which has told cancer patients visit a store promising a bargain issue visit www.nchla.org; more 28 Small sharks own people Peter has two of it will fund assisted suicide but on a popular item, only to find on the bishops’ pro-life activities not some treatments the patients something far less attractive when can be found at www.usccb.org. Answer Key can be found on page 15 February 1, 2015 TODAY’S CATHOLIC 13

KNIGHTS TO SPONSOR BASKETBALL FREE THROW CONTEST The Knights of Columbus invites all boys and girls ages 9-14 (as of Jan. 1) to participate in their annual Basketball Free Throw contest, which will be held on Saturday, Jan. 31, at the St. Aloysius, Yoder, gym starting at 12:30 p.m. until approximately 2 p.m. All respective age category winners will continue to move on to regional and state competitions. Participants should bring a copy of their birth certificate for proof of age. Any questions, call Don Sports Wyss at 260-740-2290. Students from other churches and schools are invited. ICCL basketball teams press forward ST. JOSEPH-HESSEN CASSEL BOYS PLACE IN TOURNAMENT BY JOE KOZINSKI The Crusaders of Holy Cross heading their upcoming clash by were desperately trying to keep slaying the Pumas of Queen of pace in the St. John Bosco Peace, 47-37. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY — With Division and accomplished their Puma Luni Sete scorched the only four weeks to go in the mission by dispatching Holy nets for 21 points, but a fear- Inter-City Catholic League’s boys Family, 60-26. Crusaders Miguel some foursome of Saints — Zach basketball regular season, teams Zyniewicz, Jaden Ivy and Charles Whitfield, Hunter Renner, Zack jockeyed, pressed and elbowed Black dropped in 16, 14 and an and Thad Horvath — all scored their way to the top of the pack even 10 respectively to tip the in double digits in the victory. searching for some championship scales for Holy Cross. The Blazers of St. Matthew magic. The Corpus Christi Cougars also had designs on staying a Currently the top of the moun- laid claim to their first divi- game out of the St. Martin De tain is occupied by the Eagles of sional victory as they outpaced Porres Division, as they too St. Joseph as they firmly hold on St. Adalbert, 47-13, led by the took care of business by deny- to the only unblemished record dynamic duo of Austin Lee and ing the Bulldogs of Our Lady of in the league; but they were up Ashton Ruszkowski. Hungary, 36-22. Blazer team- for a challenge last weekend as St. Pius X’s John Brach tossed mates Paul Cline and Coley the Panthers of St. Anthony tried in 11 as the Lions stayed atop the Quinn did the bulk of the damage to hone in on the target on their St. Martin De Porres Division by as the baker’s dozen of Jalan Hill ROSE WORMAN backs. knocking off Christ the King in a fell short for the dogs. Though the game was close hotly-contested battle, 42-31. The fifth- and sixth-grade boys’ basketball team of St. Joseph- early, the aggressive pressure by The Falcons of St. Jude fell to Hessen Cassel competed in the Heritage Feeder School the Eagles eventually wore down Surf Sadowey and his Spartans of the pesky Panthers as St. Joseph St. Thomas, 26-11. Tournament over the Christmas break and came away with the prevailed, 54-28, behind the The mighty Mishawaka championship trophy. Team members include, front row, Caleb offensive outpouring of the trio Catholic Saints set up a Super A complete list of schedules and of Brennan Horvath, Chris Smith Bowl showdown with St. Pius highlights can be found at www. Naatz, Justin Girardot and Connor Nichter; back row, Logan and Conner Ratigan. X by remaining one game back icclsports.org. Peden, Danny Bauer, Dylan Wamsley and Nelson Knapke.

St. John takes on challenges of CYO Gold

BY MICHELLE CASTLEMAN “We have just two eighth grad- four. Dori Javis led her team in ers, but my girls have battled to scoring with 11 points, while the last whistle all year long,” Libby Bierbaum added five points FORT WAYNE — Clancy Shank Shank explained. and five assists. Taylor Bransfield and the St. John the Baptist, Fort The Eagles are 1-2 in league had four points and a number of Wayne, girls’ basketball team play. They got their first win on blocked shots. Shank reported Extending the knowledge of the Catholic Faith, have been challenged this season Saturday, Jan. 17, against St. that Caroline Sturm, Morgan promotes academic success, and nurtures lifelong playing in the large-school divi- Jude and have lost to St. Vincent Zimmerman and Audrey Vasell learning and productive citizens. sion (Gold League) against all and St. Joseph, Decatur. In the also played a great game. eighth-grade teams with their 36-25 loss to the Commodores, “We were very short handed combined seventh-and-eighth  Serving Kindergarten through Grade Eight the Eagles got off to a slow start, with our starting point guard grade squad. but battled back to get within Maddie Pape injured and shooting  Religious and Family Oriented Atmosphere guard Leah Hall out with the flu,”  Challenging Academic Environment he explained. Make Holy Family, Your Family “I am very proud of the  Plymouth Community and ICCL Sports Opportunities way our girls and assistant  NCA Accreditation * Licensed Teaching Staff Holy Family School is unique coaches (Becky Pape and Kathy Novak) have represented our  Computer Lab/Laptop Computers/iPads/Wireless in its mission to teach as Jesus school and our parish and hope Internet did, teaching and modeling our solid play will continue the last few weeks of the season,”  Spanish Classes in Kindergarten through Grade Eight gospel values. Shank concluded.  Fine Arts Programs - Band, Choir •Providing challenging curriculum in grades K-8. In other girls’ action, St. Rose/ St. Louis picked up another con-  State AYP Exemplary Progress “A” Grade •Dedicated, creative teachers licensed and fully degreed. ference win over Queen of Angels  Student Council •An environment that encourages respect, and understanding for all. on Saturday, Jan. 24. The Twins won, 22-12, and were paced by  Video Club •Providing students with a foundation of spiritual well-being and nine points from Nevaeh Feasby  After School Program education that is essential in the preparation of a well-adjusted and seven points from Maggie Castleman. Jenna Osborne led  Participation in the SCRIP Program well-educated Christian adult. Queen of Angels with nine. The  Indiana School Choice Scholarship (Vouchers) •We encourage active parental involvement. Twins also beat Most Precious Blood on Sunday to move to 4-1  Community Service Involvement •After school Latch Key Serv ices. •Preschool for ages 4 - 5. in the Blue League. “Guiding Families to Pursue the Truth - and Live it!” In junior varsity boys’ play, the 612 North Center Street * Plymouth, IN * 574-936-4329 St. Joseph-Hessen Cassel Squires www.saintmichaelschool.org Holy Family School • 56407 Mayflower Rd. reported a feeder tournament e-mail: [email protected] South Bend (574) 289-7375 championship at Heritage High School over the Christmas Break. www.holyfamilyschool.catholicweb.com

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With the passage of the 1964 Civil Eastwood successfully conveys the Some harsh violence, an adultery Rights Act behind him, President heroic personal commitment that theme, about a half-dozen uses of Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) motivated Kyle to protect his fellow profanity, a couple of rough terms, is anxious to concentrate on pro- fighters. Yet the film avoids any occasional crude and crass lan- •Medicare Supplements moting the economic measures of big-picture moral assessment of the guage. The Catholic News Service •Medicare Advantage his Great Society program. But specific struggle in which he partici- classification is A-III — adults. •Prescription Drug Plans Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (David pated or of armed clashes in general. The Motion Picture Association of Oyelowo) is equally determined The Catholic News Service clas- •Life Insurance America rating is PG-13 — parents to secure long-overdue access to sification is A-III — adults. The •Long Term Care Insurance strongly cautioned. CELL: 260-312-6798 the ballot for minority voters in the Motion Picture Association of [email protected] America rating is R — restricted. Parishioner: St. Patrick Parish, Arcola Office: 260-625-3208 Toll Free: 866-561-0391 A CENTURY AGO CELEBRATION AT ST. LOUIS ACADEMY All your legal needs, we can help! Students and staff dressed for ALL INDIANA COUNTIES... a school day in 1915 as they OFFICE APPOINTMENT OR WE WILL MEET YOU. Attorney Richard J. Thonert kicked off National Catholic 260-637-4040 Schools Week and the 100-year 810 Mill Lake Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46845 birthday celebration of St. Louis One traffic light north of Dupont Road Academy. 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Capital Markets • Investment Banking As a religious broadcaster, Fort Wayne Catholic Radio (Redeemer Radio) has established a religious qualification for all employee positions at WRDF. Private Equity • Asset Management In accordance with all FCC rules and EEO Program compliance measures, WRDF makes reasonable, good faith efforts to recruit and hire applicants ©2010Robert w. Baird & Co., Incorported Member SPIC www.rwbaaaird.com MC-27403 without regard to race, color, national origin or gender, among those who are qualified for employment based on their religious belief or affiliation. February 1, 2015 T O D A Y ’ S CAT H O L I C 15 REST IN PEACE Bremen Goshen South Bend What’s Happening? Enrique Aguayo, 80, Royce McDaniel Eck, 92, Guadalupe Cabral- St. Dominic St. John the Evangelist Pacheco, 68, St. Casimir WHAT’S HAPPENING carries announcements about upcoming events in the diocese. Send in your Columbia City Granger Richard L. Miller, 79, Joseph W. Mitchell, 80, Bernice Daszynski, 93, announcement at least two weeks prior to the event. Mail to: Today’s Catholic, P.O. Box 11169, St. Paul of the Cross St. Pius X St. Jude Fort Wayne 46856; or email: [email protected]. Events that require an admission charge or Churubusco Huntington Genevieve Jean payment to participate will receive one free listing. For additional listings of that event, please call David G. Rennecker, Priscilla K. Feltner, 44, Cytacki, 95, St. Hedwig our advertising sales staff at (260) 456-2824 to purchase space. 53, St. John Bosco Ss. Peter and Paul Andrew T. Krizman, 46, Fort Wayne Charlotte Kiddo Smart, St. Matthew ‘St. John Passion’ makes U.S. premier and children under 18 are free. 4-7:30 p.m. in the parish hall. William W. Colchin, 87, 75, St. Mary Jeanette R. Pozzi, 79, Fort Wayne — The Bach Tickets may be purchased at Cost is $8 for adults and $4 for St. Mary Collegium will premier the “St. the DeBartolo Performing Arts children ages 6-12. Children five Mishawaka St. Anthony de Padua John Passion” by Carl Phillipp Center, by phone at 574-631-2800, and under are free. Wine will be Geraldine E. Niezer, Bernice A. Fraser, 83, Raymond J. Rospopo, Emanuel Bach, Sunday, Feb. or online at shakespeare.nd.edu. for sale by the glass. Proceeds 90, St. Elizabeth Ann Queen of Peace 79, St. Casimir 15, at 7 p.m. at the Cathedral will benefit diocesan seminarians. Seton Cursillo meeting place changed Peter S. Siupinski, 61, of the Immaculate Conception. Donna M. Klowetter, Admission $20, students with ID Catholic Business Network Group Marjorie Wagner St. Joseph Fort Wayne — The monthly 74, St. Matthew $5, children under 12 free. Visit Cursillo Ultreya will be Thursday Fort Wayne — The Catholic DeBrosse, 87, George R. Drake, 87, www.bachcollegium.org or 260- Feb. 12, at St. Vincent de Paul’s Business Network Group will Cathedral of Sister Edwardine Queen of Angels 485-2143. Spiritual Center from 7-8:30 p.m. meet Friday, Feb. 6, begin- the Immaculate McNulty, 96, Church Ultreyas are opportunities for ning with Mass at 7 a.m. in the Conception New Haven of the Immaculate Hungarian Goulash and Langalo dinner people to gather, pray and share St. Mother Theodore Guérin Charlotte Fisher, 78, Conception, St. Mary- South Bend — Our Lady of personal stories about living a life Chapel. Mass will be followed Theresa A. Henry, 67, St. John the Baptist of-the-Woods, Indiana. Hungary School, 735 W. Calvert in God’s grace. Ultreyas are open by guest speaker Dr. Lance Sacred Heart Sister served at St. St., will have a dinner Saturday to all adults, even if they have Richey on “Lessons for Business Roanoke JoAnna C. Rowan, 90, Jude, Fort Wayne. Feb. 7, from 4-6:30 p.m. Tickets not made a Cursillo weekend. For Leaders from Dorothy Day.” Ruth F. Leffler, 72, are $9 per dinner, children 6-12 information call Brant or Christy St. John the Baptist St. Joseph $4.50 and childrenhe under 6 free. Howe athe 260-619-3650. he Additional Goulash $7, additional Langalo $2. Carry-outsross available. ord Knights plan fish fryross ord ross ord For information  call 574-287-1700. South Bend — The Knights of   Catholic School Principal FOAM HEY STBColumbusAYE Council MEN 5521, 61533 AGE EMUS USS LTD Actors fromFAVA the London RAVE stage to LYES. IronwoodREV Dr., ABBOT will have a NNEfish TORAH SAC ERA Central Catholic Jr.-Sr. High School in Lafayette, Indiana has an opening performAFAR ‘MacBeth’ at Notre I R IDame S APTfry onEL Friday, I RABBFeb. 6, from I 5-7 AUG ANN I E A I R NEW for Principal beginning in June 2015. 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The Catholic Schools Office Secretariat for Communications is accepting applications for ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend is seeking a director for the Secretariat of Communications.he This communicationshe director develops, implementshe St. John the Baptist School and maintainsross a  wideord range of public relationsross activitiesord from the Fortross Wayne ord Fort Wayne, Indiana diocesan  office. 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proudly presents ... The Shrines of Italy tours with your travel hosts: Father Andrew Budzinski Father Terry Coonan PROVIDED BY THE SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY RIGHT TO LIFE Director of Vocations Parochial Vicar, St. Pius X On Jan. 22, the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, approximately Parochial Vicar St. Vincent de Paul Travel Host for South Bend departure Travel host for Fort Wayne departure 300 pro-lifers participated in the March for Life in South November 10-20, 2015 November 3-13, 2015 Bend sponsored by St. Joseph County Right to Life. The Connect with the roots of our faith for 11 days exploring the Shrines of Italy! Visit Rome, Vatican City and be part of a Papal Audience, Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, San Giovanni Rotondo, Tomb of Padre Pio, march was held at the Federal Courthouse in downtown Abbey of Santissima Trinita, Madonna del Rosario, St. Peter’s Basilica, Christian Rome City Tour, St. Paul Outside the Walls, South Bend, preceded by a rally at the downtown public St. John in Lateran, St. Mary Major, Pompeii and so much more. Visit www.todayscatholicnews.org/TCT or call Bethany or Tina at 260-456-2900 for more details. library, with about 180 in attendance. Limited Availability — Call today