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ROME (CNS)—While taking selfies can be an occasion to capture treasured memories, it can also be a sign that young men and women are deprived of meaningful human interaction with others, said. Responding to questions on May 14 at a meeting with 1,700 priests and lay leaders of the Diocese of gathered at the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the pope said he realized the negative social implications of technology a few days earlier when Pope Francis he was greeting teens participating in a program of the international network of “Scholas Occurrentes.” “They were all there waiting for me,” he said. “When I arrived, they made noise, as young people do. I went to greet them and only a few gave their hand. The majority were with their cellphones [saying], ‘Photo, photo, photo. Selfie!’ “I saw that this is their reality, that is the real world, not human contact. And this is serious. They are ‘virtualized’ youths,” the pope said. “The world of virtual communication is a good thing, but when it becomes alienating, it makes you forget to shake hands.” , vicar of the , had asked Pope Francis about his impressions of the meeting in March in preparation for the upcoming meeting of the Synod of on “young people, faith and Catechumen Hannah Bach, vocational discernment,” and how the 18, is guided into the Church should respond to the needs of baptismal font at St. young men and women. University Church in The pope said he had “a good Terre Haute by Conventual impression” of the presynod meeting, Franciscan Father Mark and the meeting’s final document Weaver, the parish’s pastor, was “beautiful.” He also praised the and her sponsor Sierra Flores commitment of the young delegates during the Easter Vigil Mass and their seriousness in addressing the on March 31. challenges facing young people today. (Submitted photo by Bill Foster) Drug use, he said, is one of the main See SELFIE, page 2 College student, young adult and grandparent share their stories of being called to the Catholic faith By Natalie Hoefer Three of those special stories begin the academics there were better than the here: surrounding schools.” As the Church marks the resurrection But Bach received more there than a of Christ at Easter, it also welcomes new ‘I feel so grounded’ good education. members who enter into their own new Hannah Bach knows she’s bucking a “I met a lot of really awesome life as Catholics. trend. Catholics,” she says. “There are some The Archdiocese of Indianapolis “I know a lot of people at this age turn Catholic families I know who are so welcomed 895 souls into the full away from Church,” says the 18-year-old much fun. communion of the Church on Easter freshman at Rose-Hulman Institute of “And [the high school] did a good weekend through the Rite of Christian Technology in Terre Haute. “A friend told of [teaching the faith]. … . We had Initiation of Adults (RCIA) in parishes me [that] in college your faith either grows some classes on defending the faith. throughout central and or it dies. I didn’t want mine to die.” Everything they said contradicted the Welcome, new southern Indiana. And so it was that the Colorado native stereotypical Catholic view, like, ‘They Catholics, Each new member was received into full communion of the hate sex and hate gays.’ ” pages 10-12. brings a rich story Church at St. Joseph University Parish in Nevertheless, it wasn’t until Bach of their call to Terre Haute during the Easter Vigil Mass was a few months into college life that Catholicism. Each bears the touch on March 31. she considered pursuing Catholicism of God calling them closer to him in Despite one parent being an atheist through the Rite of Christian Initiation union with the one, holy, Catholic and and the other being an agnostic, Bach for Adults (RCIA). apostolic Church founded by Christ. attended a Catholic high school “because See RCIA, page 9 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 archbishop calls for prayers for peace as violence increases Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson JERUSALEM (CNS)—As the world any cynical use of human lives and ______witnesses “another outburst of hatred and disproportionate violence. Once again, we violence, which is once again bleeding are forced by circumstances to plead and May 20 – 27, 2018 all over the Holy Land,” the head of cry out for justice and peace!” Jerusalem’s Latin called for He announced that on May 19, the eve of May 20 — 10:30 a.m. May 23 — 7 p.m. prayers for peace. Pentecost, a prayer vigil would be held at the Bilingual Confirmation of adults Confirmation of youths of St. Mary “We need to pray more for peace Church of St. Stephen at L’Ecole Biblique in of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Parish, North Vernon, and St. Ann and our conversion and for all,” said Jersualem. He asked the entire patriarchate to at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Parish and St. Joseph Parish, Jennings Indianapolis County, at SS. Peter and Paul Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, apostolic dedicate a day of prayer and fasting for the Cathedral, Indianapolis administrator of the patriarchate, or diocese. peace of Jerusalem and that the liturgy on May 20 — 3:30 p.m. The Associated Press reported that Pentecost be dedicated to prayer for peace. Confirmation of youths of Holy amilyF May 24 — 10 a.m. the same day the United States was “We must truly pray to the Spirit to Parish, Oldenburg, at Holy Family Leadership Team Meeting, Archbishop inaugurating its embassy in Jerusalem, change our hearts to better understand Church Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center, Israeli forces shot and killed 57 his will, and to give us the strength to Indianapolis Palestinians and injured more than 2,700 continue to work for justice and peace,” May 22 — 9 a.m. during mass protests along the Gaza the archbishop said. Mass with the Missionaries of May 24 — 6 p.m. border on May 14. In addition, a baby died Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their and the Queen of Peace Shelter Circle of Giving Mass at St. John the from tear gas inhalation, the Gaza Health capital and now feel that, with its embassy residents, Indianapolis Baptist Church, Starlight, and reception Ministry said, bringing the death toll to 58. there, the U.S. cannot be a fair broker in to follow at Huber Winery, Starlight May 22 — 1 p.m. “The lives of so many young people the peace process with Israel. Priests’ Council Meeting, SS. Peter and May 25 — 7 p.m. have once again been shut down and Many Israelis see opening the Paul Cathedral rectory, Indianapolis Commencement of Father Thomas hundreds of families are mourning their embassy as the long-awaited official Scecina Memorial High School seniors, loved ones, dead or wounded,” said the recognition of Jerusalem as their capital May 22 — 7 p.m. at Father Thomas Scecina Memorial statement from Archbishop Pizzaballa. and the fulfillment of a promise made by Bilingual Confirmation of youths High School, Indianapolis “As in a kind of vicious circle, we numerous U.S. presidents to move the of St. Patrick Parish, Indianapolis, must condemn all forms of violence, building from Tel Aviv. † at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, May 27 — 9:30 a.m. Indianapolis Mass at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, in the Fan Zone on the May 23 — 10 a.m. Cooper Tire Stage ‘We must truly pray to the Spirit to change our Department Heads Meeting, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara May 27 — noon hearts to better understand his will, and to give Catholic Center, Indianapolis Invocation for the 102nd Indianapolis us the strength to continue to work for justice 500 Race, at the Indianapolis Motor May 23 — 12:30 p.m. Speedway and peace.’ South Deanery Priests’ Meeting at St. Jude Parish, Indianapolis — Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa (Schedule subject to change.)

An important way to help young SELFIE people engage with the reality around continued from page 1 them is to encourage them to get involved in charity work and in the corporal problems facing young men and women works of , he said. “Do something today. However, youths also can be “easy for others, because this helps them be prey” to a different kind of drug: cultural concrete, it grounds them, and they enter Parishes change Mass times due to alienation. into a social relationship.” Young people today receive proposals Since many parents today “are from holiday weekend, Indy 500 race that are alienating them “from values, a generation whose roots are not very from insertion into society, alienating strong,” the pope said young people lost in Several parishes in the Indianapolis 4 p.m. and in Spanish at 5:30 p.m. on them from reality: they propose a life of the virtual world should engage in dialogue West Deanery will change their Mass May 26. No Mass will be celebrated on fantasy,” the pope said. with their grandparents and the elderly. schedule for the Memorial Day weekend May 27. “It worries me that they communicate Citing an unnamed poet, Pope Francis on May 26-27 due to the annual • St. the Parish, and live in a virtual world. They live like said, “ ‘All that the tree has flowered Indianapolis 500 race on May 27. 3354 W. 30th St., Indianapolis: this, communicate like this and do not comes from what it has in the ground Mass will be celebrated at 4 p.m. and have their feet on the ground,” he said. below.’ Go to the roots!” • Holy Angels Parish/St. Rita Parish, 5:30 p.m. on May 26. Mass will be “We must make young people ‘grounded’ “In my opinion, this is one the most Indianapolis: celebrated at 7 a.m. on May 27. Parking in the real world; to touch reality without difficult problems facing youths today: Saturday anticipation Mass will be is available within walking distance of the destroying the good things the virtual they are uprooted,” the pope said. “They held as usual at 4:30 p.m. in the parish track. world may have because they are useful. must find their roots without turning back. center located in Holy Angels School • St. Anthony Parish, This is important: reality, concreteness.” They must find them to go forward.” † at 2822 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. 337 N. Warman Ave., Indianapolis: on May 26. There will be no Mass at Mass will be celebrated in English at 4:30 Chartrand Memorial Chapel p.m. and in Spanish at 6 p.m. on May 26, Official Appointments continuing as Catholic chaplain, Indiana on the campus of Marian University in and at 8:30 a.m. in Spanish and at Army National Guard. Indianapolis on May 27. St. Rita Parish, 11:30 a.m. in English on May 27. There 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Ave., will will not be a 5 p.m. Mass on May 27. Effective July 5, 2018 Rev. J. Daniel Atkins, chaplain have Mass at 6 p.m. on May 26 and at For information about Mass changes at coordinator, Our Lady of Providence 11 a.m. on May 27. other parishes in the area, call the parish Rev. L. Ahern, chaplain, Junior/Senior High School, Clarksville, • St. Christopher Parish, 5301 offices. † Our Lady of Providence Junior/Senior while beginning assignment as senior W. 16th St., in Indianapolis: Mass will High School, Clarksville; Catholic associate pastor at Our Lady of Perpetual be celebrated at 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. on chaplain, Hanover College; and Catholic Help Parish, New Albany. May 26. No Mass will be celebrated on chaplain, Indiana Army National Guard, May 27. to part‑time associate pastor at St. Mary (These appointments are from the office • St. the Archangel Parish, Parish, Greensburg; sacramental minister, of the Most Rev. Charles C. Thompson, 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis: St. Charles Borromeo Parish, Milan; and Archbishop of Indianapolis.) † Mass will be celebrated in English at

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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Page 3 Father Gerald Burkert remembered for his ‘gentle, unassuming nature’ By Sean Gallagher He appreciated the retired priest’s gentle Therese Brandon worked closely with from 1949‑61 at Meinrad Seminary leadership of Holy Name from 1996-2007. Father Burkert at Holy Name, serving on and School of in St. Meinrad. Father Gerald Burkert, a retired priest “He was always there for people,” its parish council and school commission Father Burkert was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Father Robeson said. “Whenever someone while he was pastor there. on May 7, 1961, by Archbishop Paul died on May 13 at Franciscan Health was in the hospital, he was there. “His greatest quality was his gentle, C. Schulte at the Archabbey Church of Indianapolis. He was 83. Whenever there was a need in the parish unassuming nature,” Brandon said. “He Our Lady of Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. The Mass of and his presence was needed, he was led by example. He was confident in the His first pastoral assignment was as Christian Burial always there. He took his healing and decisions that he made and appropriately associate pastor of St. Patrick Parish in will be celebrated at caring role as a priest very seriously.” talked to parishioners when he needed Indianapolis. He served there for a year 10:30 a.m. on May 18 Father Robeson said that Father Burkert’s advice. He really did consider what people and then ministered as associate pastor at Sacred Heart main regret in his later years was that he had to say before making a decision.” of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis from of Jesus Church was unable to help priests in parishes. A Father Burkert often spearheaded 1962-69. in Indianapolis, stroke he suffered months after retiring building projects in the parishes he During that time, he also served the church of the left him unable to drive to parishes across led. At Holy Name, he led a capital as a high school teacher at the former parish in which central and southern Indiana. campaign that resulted in the building of a Chartrand High School in Indianapolis, Father Burkert grew “He really wanted to be able to help gymnasium and parish office building, the which later became Roncalli High School. Fr. Gerald Burkert up. Visitation will relieve priests,” Father Robeson said. “I latter of which is now named after him. From 1969-71, Father Burkert take place before the think it was hard for him, because after he But while Father Burkert leaves a ministered as associate pastor of Mass at Sacred Heart from 9:30-10:30 a.m. had that stroke, he couldn’t really do that.” brick and mortar legacy in the parishes St. Mary Parish in New Albany. He then Archbishop Charles C. Thompson will In a 2011 interview with The Criterion where he ministered, Brandon also returned to St. Jude Parish, serving with be the principal celebrant of the Mass. on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of sees a lasting effect in how he helped Father William Morley, who died in 1985, Burial will follow at the priests’ circle at his ordination as a priest, Father Burkert build a community of faith among the as its co-pastor from 1971-83. Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis. said that celebrating the sacraments, parishioners at Holy Name. Father Burkert then returned to Ordained in 1961, Father Burkert was especially the Mass and the sacrament “How he led us has much to do with New Albany, ministering as pastor of longtime co-pastor of St. Jude Parish in of penance, continued to be powerful where we are today,” she said. “He carried Holy Family Parish from 1983-96. Indianapolis, and pastor of Holy Family moments for him decades into his priestly the torch. He did a great job.” His last pastoral assignment was as Parish in New Albany and Holy Name of life and ministry. Gerald Franklin Burkert was born on pastor of Holy Name of Jesus Parish in Jesus Parish in Beech Grove before his “The sacrament of reconciliation is very May 3, 1935, in Indianapolis to Michael Beech Grove, serving there from 1996 retirement in 2007. rewarding,” Father Burkert said. “It’s very and Ruth Burkert. until his retirement in 2007. Father Robert Robeson, Holy Name’s humbling. The people know who you are. He became an archdiocesan seminarian Memorial gifts may be sent to current pastor, visited him several times You know who they are. And they still go after graduating from the eighth grade at Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary, at the St. Paul Hermitage in Beech Grove to confession. It shows the strong faith that the former Sacred Heart of Jesus School in 2500 Cold Spring Road, Indianapolis, IN where Father Burkert lived in retirement. they have in the priesthood and in Christ.” Indianapolis and received priestly formation 46222. † Encouragement should be heritage a pope or bishop leaves, Pope Francis says (CNS)—When a focused his homily on the first reading “compelled by the Spirit, I am going to people. Instead, he offers them the bishop leaves a diocese, he should give from the Acts of the Apostles in which to Jerusalem” (Acts 20:22), but first witness of his love for Christ and for an honest assessment of what he has done the Apostle Paul takes his leave of the he reviews how he had tried to serve Christ’s flock. and where he has fallen short, but mostly Church in Ephesus. the Lord when he was with them, and “Look after the flock,” he said. “Be he should encourage people to follow the “It’s a strong passage, a passage that he urges them to “keep watch over bishops for the flock, to care for the Lord, Pope Francis said. goes straight to the heart,” the pope said. yourselves and over the whole flock of flock, not to climb in an ecclesiastical Celebrating Mass in the chapel of the “It’s also a passage that lets us see the which the Holy Spirit has appointed you career.” on May 15, journey of every bishop at the time he overseers” (Acts 20:28). Pope Francis said that when he reads the same day he was to meet with the must take his leave.” Paul’s last testament to the priests, the passage from Acts, “I think of myself, bishops of Chile to discuss the clerical In the passage, Paul summons the the pope said, is not like a worldly because I am a bishop and will have to sexual abuse scandal, Pope Francis priests of Ephesus and tells them that, will in which he distributes his things take my leave.” †

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Opinion Be Our Guest/Richard Doerflinger An advocate for the Gospel of Life For me, a highlight of the past month Vatican, and also to represent the Vatican was seeing Harvard law professor to the U.S. (and other nations), in an Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 receive the University official capacity. Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher of Notre Dame’s Evangelium Vitae Medal. The 1995 U.N. conference’s final Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus I have always been interested in this declaration condemned forced abortion award, named after St. John Paul II’s and sterilization, female infanticide tremendous 1995 whose and prenatal sex selection as “acts of English title is “The violence against women.” This was a Gospel of Life.” I was remarkable victory for several reasons: Editorial the first recipient of The conference was held in Beijing, the award in 2011, the capital of a country where these are and each year I’m practiced; China’s coercive population delighted to see policy was supported by the U.N.’s own it given to people family planning agency; and that agency more deserving than received funds from the United States myself: Helen Alvaré, under the Clinton administration. the Sisters of Life, This is only a snapshot of a lifetime Rep. Chris Smith and of accomplishment. What makes it his wife Marie, the Little Sisters of the remarkable is that Mary Ann Glendon is Poor, and so on. also one of the most unassuming, affable These honorees have truly “served to and self-deprecating persons I have ever proclaim the Gospel of Life by steadfastly met. affirming and defending the sanctity of When receiving Notre Dame’s medal, human life from its earliest stages,” in the she said she was “overwhelmed” by words of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics this recognition. Her acceptance speech and Culture that presents the medal annually. spoke less of herself than of the four Even in this august company, longtime friends from Boston, present at Professor Glendon stands out, for reasons the ceremony, with whom she founded worth reflecting on as we confront a the group “Women Affirming Life” many Pope Francis uses incense as he venerates a statue of Mary during Mass in Molfetta, , on secular world that can seem very hostile years before. She spoke of the unsung April 20. (CNS photo/) to the faith and its pro-life values. “rank and file” of men and women who Her accomplishments are many. uphold the dignity of human life against The month of May is devoted Through books like Abortion and Divorce terrible odds, and she was delighted that in Western Law and Rights Talk, she her daughters and their husbands and showed how our country developed the children were able to celebrate the event to the Blessed Mary most extreme and divisive policies in with her. “The Lord has bestowed upon [Mary] be welcomed as Christ and should be the Western world on abortion and other How to achieve great things and the blessing of all the nations, and has encouraged to feel a genuine sense of issues—by wrongly treating them in advance urgent messages in a world confirmed his covenant upon her head. membership and belonging in our parish terms of the nearly absolute “right” of prepared to put up great resistance? Alleluia.” (Traditional Marian antiphon) communities, our neighborhoods and our the isolated, freely choosing individual. Embrace family and friends who support country. This does not mean that our She developed these ideas further while you and give you a sense of perspective. Mary is a paradox. A simple girl from borders should be unsecured, but it does teaching at Harvard Law School, as a Approach everyone, including opponents, a small town is proclaimed Queen of the require us to have immigration policies devout Catholic in one of the most secular in a friendly and gentle way, making the Universe. A virgin gives birth to a child, that are welcoming and that respect the and liberal institutions in the country. conversation about the message you serve names him Jesus, which means “savior,” dignity of individuals and protect the Her public service includes terms on rather than about yourself. and then becomes his most faithful and integrity of families. the President’s Council on Bioethics and In short, speak the truth in charity and long suffering . She speaks with When we encounter a stranger, we the U.S. Commission on International humility. It’s a message all of us, not least authority (“Go, do whatever he tells you”) meet Christ. When we welcome new Religious Freedom. She served as our political leaders, should be reminded but she acknowledges the great mystery of neighbors, we welcome the Lord who the Vatican’s representative to the of every day. her life, pondering things in her heart. comes to us in and through the needs United Nations World Conference Mary is conceived without sin (the of others. When we love our neighbor, on Women in 1995—and later as (Richard Doerflinger worked for 36 years ), but she suffers we discover the face of God and we U.S. ambassador to the . in the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities of the consequences of our sinful human experience the power of God’s love for Apparently, she is the first person in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. nature—with one important difference: us—poured out above all in the sacrificial history to represent the U.S. to the He writes from Washington state.) † “When the course of her earthly life was love of Christ, who suffered and died finished, [she] was taken body and soul to secure for each of us an everlasting into heavenly glory ...” (Catechism of welcome in his Father’s house. the , #966). From her On Jan. 22, 1999, in Mexico City, Letter to the Editor heavenly home, she continues to follow Pope John Paul II stood beneath the Jesus and to intercede for us before the figure of Our Lady of Guadalupe and A special ‘thank you’ to St. Christopher Parish throne of grace. proclaimed a message of hope to all the Mary’s virginity bears abundant peoples and nations of the Americas. for hosting Mass of Remembrance fruit because her acceptance of God’s In his apostolic letter, “Ecclesia in I am writing this letter to thank the staff away at a local nursing home. She was from promise is unconditional. In her America” (“The Church in America”), and members of St. Christopher Parish in Shanghai, China, but had lived with us and womb, the second person of the Trinity the Holy Father spoke of the diverse Indianapolis for holding a special Mass of brought that sense of Hoosier hospitality to becomes one with us so completely that gifts and talents of our people, the Remembrance on April 16 for the deceased the local community by helping my wife with we can call him “brother” and “friend” natural beauty and vast resources of of St. Anthony and St. Christopher parishes at making balloon animals at A Caring Place even as we revere him as the almighty the American continent and the many St. Christopher Church. and at the St. Christopher summer festival. transcendent God. distinctive cultures and traditions that Father Paul Shikany was the celebrant, She also helped at St. Christopher’s lemon Mary is the bridge that connects us with have contributed to the way life is and there was special music to highlight the shake‑up booth. her Son. She is also the assurance that lived in the great metropolitan centers, evening’s theme. It was indeed an “evening My dad also recently passed away on Easter he remains close to us, that we can touch small towns and rural villages in which of celebration.” Father Shikany spoke about Sunday. He will be remembered for his faith, him and talk to him in the sacraments, we live here in North, Central and God’s love and plans for us. After the liturgy, passing on the importance of how character in the ministry of our Church, and in our South America. there was a social and reception downstairs in matters, and for making people laugh. communion with one another. May we always be open and the Damascus Room. Every one of us is invited to have welcoming to others—especially the poor The evening was especially meaningful for Mark Hummer a personal relationship with Jesus and the downtrodden! May the prayers me as my mother-in-law had recently passed Indianapolis Christ. Mary, the mother of Jesus and and example of Our Lady of Guadalupe our mother, supports and encourages inspire us to welcome strangers and this relationship by her prayers, by invite them into our hearts and homes so the witness of her life and by her that we all may be one, as God is one— Letters Policy identification with us, the people of God Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Letters from readers are published in space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and and the mystical body of Christ. We are right to turn to Mary during The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s content (including spelling and grammar). Compassion and mercy are her this month of May. She is our mother commitment to “the responsible exchange of In order to encourage opinions from a hallmarks. No one who seeks her help is and our queen, our protector and our freely-held and expressed opinion among the variety of readers, frequent writers will ever left unaided. That’s one reason that source of comfort and hope. Those People of God” (Communio et Progressio, 116). ordinarily be limited to one letter every we seek Mary’s special intercession for who are without a homeland and who Letters from readers are welcome and three months. Concise letters (usually all who are homeless or who seek safety seek a new life for themselves and their every effort will be made to include letters less than 300 words) are more likely to be and a better life in our homeland. families rightly implore the assistance of from as many people and representing as printed. many viewpoints as possible. Letters should Letters must be signed, but, for serious As Catholic Christians, pilgrims on a the Blessed Virgin Mary. be informed, relevant, well-expressed and reasons, names may be withheld. journey to our heavenly home, we believe Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for temperate in tone. 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Come, Holy Spirit, fill our hearts on Pentecost and beyond

The Sequence for Pentecost Sunday, This is precisely why God sent us his so often rejected by today’s culture of the Lord) to sustain us in life’s journey. “Veni, Sancte Spiritus,” completes Holy Spirit—to give us courage in our waste, and victims of the drug trade, We know that, as Pope Benedict our celebration of the joy of Easter weakness, to sustain us in our fidelity human trafficking and contemporary reminds us, “the Church after the by calling on the third person of the to his Word, and, yes, to fill our hearts forms of slavery,” the pope said. resurrection always finds history filled Blessed Trinity to come into our hearts, with joys that will never end! This is why Easter is the season of with joy and hope, grief and anguish.” bringing light for our darkness, comfort Pope Benedict XVI told us in his hope. Our hope is not idealism, a form That was certainly true for the for our distress, healing for our souls’ 2010 Easter message “Urbi et Orbi” of “wishful thinking.” Our hope is not disciples of Jesus. Many faced bitter sicknesses, warmth for our frozen (to the city and the world): “Easter does political or ideological. It is Christian persecution and death as they carried hearts, and joys that will never end. not work magic. Just as the Israelites realism, grounded in the person of Jesus out the Lord’s great commission to go How can we expect the Holy Spirit to found the desert awaiting them on the Christ and in the story of his life, death out to the whole world as missionary give us “joys that will never end”? far side of the Red Sea, so the Church and resurrection. Christian hope is not disciples to preach the Gospel and We know that our lives are filled with after the resurrection always finds an illusion. As the Letter to the Hebrews heal the sick in Jesus’ name. They sorrow and disappointment. We know history filled with joy and hope, grief assures us, “we have [hope] as a sure and experienced no end of suffering and that even after receiving God’s saving and anguish.” steadfast anchor of the soul” (Heb 6:19). disappointment, but they served the grace and being reconciled to him in the Joy and hope do not eliminate our We are truly anchored to our heavenly Lord joyfully because they were sacrament of penance, we will sin again. grief and anguish. They transform home regardless of the storms we empowered by the Holy Spirit and were We know that all those whom we love, them—making them like the Lord’s encounter along the way. For Christians burning with the fire of God’s love. and we ourselves, will one day suffer passion and death: a participation in the on the way to our heavenly home, When the dark days come—in our and die. What’s the point of asking painful pilgrimage of human suffering life’s difficulties are not eliminated, personal lives and in our common life for unending joy? to the abundant joy of eternal life. as if by magic. They are endured with as missionary disciples—we should Our faith is weak, isn’t it? Just In his Easter message this year, confidence, with hope and, yes, with the call on the Holy Spirit and invite him six weeks ago, we celebrated the great Pope Francis said the resurrection of joy of the Risen Christ. to come into our hearts as he did with miracle of our salvation and the true Jesus offers hope in a world “marked by That’s why we dare to invoke the the hearts of Mary and the disciples on source of all human hope and joy. We so many acts of injustice and violence,” Holy Spirit and to ask for joys that the first Pentecost. Come, Holy Spirit, believe that the Lord is risen, that he has including parts of Africa affected by never end. We know that we need the bring light for our darkness, comfort conquered sin and death, and that we “hunger, endemic conflicts and terrorism.” help of God’s grace to face the pain and for our distress, healing for our souls’ are truly free. We believe this, and yet Easter “bears fruits of hope and the weariness of daily life. We know sicknesses, warmth for our frozen we have our doubts. dignity where there are deprivation and that we need the Spirit’s sevenfold hearts, and joys that will never end. We hope in Jesus Christ, and yet exclusion, hunger and unemployment; gifts (wisdom, understanding, counsel, Is this too much to hope for? Our we give in to sadness and despair. where there are migrants and refugees, fortitude, knowledge, piety and fear of faith says, “No!” †

Ven, Espíritu Santo, llena nuestros corazones en Pentecostés y más allá La Secuencia del Domingo de el motivo por el cual Dios nos envió actual del descarte—a las víctimas del fortaleza, ciencia, piedad y temor de Pentecostés, “Veni, Sancte Spiritus,” su Espíritu Santo: para darnos valor narcotráfico, de la trata de personas y Dios) para que nos apuntalen en la completa nuestra celebración de la en nuestra debilidad, preservarnos en de las distintas formas de esclavitud de travesía de la vida. Sabemos que, tal alegría de la Pascua al invocar a la nuestra fidelidad a su Palabra y, por nuestro tiempo,” tal como lo expresa el como nos recordó el papa Benedicto, tercera persona de la Santísima Trinidad supuesto, para llenarnos el corazón de papa. “la Iglesia, después de la Resurrección, para que acuda a nuestros corazones alegría eterna. Es por esto que la Pascua es la se encuentra con los gozos y e inunde de luz nuestra oscuridad, El papa Benedicto XVI nos dijo en temporada de la esperanza. Nuestra esperanzas, los dolores y angustias de consuele nuestra angustia, nos cure su mensaje de Pascua “Urbi et Orbi” esperanza no es un ideal, una forma de la historia.” las enfermedades del alma, caliente (para la ciudad y para el mundo) “hacerse ilusiones”; no es una cuestión Esto fue especialmente cierto nuestros corazones helados y nos llene de 2010: “La Pascua no consiste en política ni ideológica. Es el realismo para los discípulos de Jesús. Muchos de alegría eterna. magia alguna. De la misma manera cristiano enclavado en la persona de tuvieron que enfrentar crudas ¿Cómo podemos esperar que el que el pueblo hebreo se encontró con Jesucristo y en la historia de su vida, persecuciones y la muerte mientras Espíritu Santo nos llene de “alegría el desierto, más allá del Mar Rojo, muerte y resurrección. La esperanza cumplían con la enorme encomienda eterna”? así también la Iglesia, después de la cristiana no es una ilusión. Tal como del Señor de ir por el mundo como Sabemos que nuestras vidas están Resurrección, se encuentra con los nos asegura la Carta a los Hebreos, misioneros para predicar el Evangelio llenas de dolor y desesperanza. gozos y esperanzas, los dolores y “tenemos como firme y segura ancla y curar a los enfermos en el nombre Sabemos que incluso después de angustias de la historia.” del alma una esperanza que penetra de Jesús. No estuvieron exentos de recibir la gracia salvadora de Dios y La alegría y la esperanza no hasta detrás de la cortina del santuario” sufrimiento y desesperanza, pero de habernos reconciliado con Él en el eliminan nuestro dolor y nuestras (Heb 6:19). sirvieron al Señor con alegría por sacramento de la penitencia, pecaremos angustias; las transforman y las En verdad estamos anclados la facultad que les había conferido nuevamente. Sabemos que todos convierten en algo similar a la Pasión a nuestro hogar celestial, el Espíritu Santo y porque en sus aquellos a quienes amamos y nosotros y muerte del Señor: una participación independientemente de las tormentas corazones ardía el amor de Dios. mismos, estamos destinados a sufrir en la dolorosa peregrinación del que se presentan todos los días. Para Cuando llegan los días oscuros, tanto y morir algún día. ¿Qué sentido tiene sufrimiento humano hacia la alegría los cristianos que nos encontramos en nuestras vidas personales como en pedir la alegría eterna? plena de la vida eterna. en el camino hacia nuestro hogar nuestra vida colectiva como discípulos Nuestra fe es débil, ¿no es cierto? En su mensaje pascual de este celestial, las dificultades de la vida no misioneros, debemos acudir al Espíritu Hace tan solo seis semanas celebramos año, el papa Francisco dijo que la se eliminan como por arte de magia, Santo e invitarlo a que entre en nuestros el asombroso milagro de nuestra resurrección de Jesús brinda esperanza sino que se soportan con la confianza, corazones, tal como lo hizo con el salvación y la fuente verdadera de toda en un mundo “marcado por tantos actos la esperanza y, por supuesto, la alegría corazón de María y de los discípulos la alegría y de la esperanza humana. de injusticia y violencia,” incluyendo de Cristo Resucitado. en ese primer Pentecostés. Ven, Creemos que el Señor ha resucitado, aquellas partes de África que sufren por Por ello nos atrevemos a invocar Espíritu Santo, derrama luz en que ha vencido sobre el pecado y la el “hambre, conflictos endémicos y el al Espíritu Santo y a pedir la alegría nuestra oscuridad, consuela nuestro muerte y que somos verdaderamente terrorismo.” eterna. Sabemos que necesitamos desasosiego, sana las enfermedades de libres. Creemos esto y, sin embargo, La Pascua “trae frutos de esperanza la ayuda de la gracia de Dios para nuestra alma, infunde calidez a nuestros tenemos nuestras dudas. y dignidad donde hay miseria y enfrentar el dolor y el agotamiento corazones helados y llénanos de la Confiamos en Jesucristo y, sin exclusión, donde hay hambre y falta de la vida cotidiana. Sabemos que alegría eterna. embargo, sucumbimos a la tristeza y trabajo, a los prófugos y refugiados— necesitamos los siete dones del Espíritu ¿Acaso esto es demasiado pedir? a la desesperación. Este es justamente tantas veces rechazados por la cultura (sabiduría, inteligencia, consejo, Nuestra fe dice “¡No!” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018

For a list of events for the next four weeks as reported to Events Calendar The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/events.

May 21 May 23 of St. Michael the Archangel prayers, hymns, rosary chicken dinners on Sat., food former St. Bridget School Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Our Lady of the Most Holy Father Peter Prusakiewicz, procession, Litany of the tents, carnival rides, games All-Class Reunion Weekend. House, 5353 E. 56th St., Rosary Church, 520 Stevens after 7:30 a.m. Mass, freewill Blessed Virgin, Benedictine tent, Monte Carlo room, silent Meet and Greet, Fri., Indianapolis. Serra Club St., Indianapolis. Caring offering, sponsored by the Brother Simon Herrmann auction, pony rides on football Holy Angels Parish Center, Dinner Meeting and for the Least Among Us: Marian Center of Indianapolis. presenting, 2 p.m. CT. field, live entertainment, raffle 2822 Dr. Martin Luther Vocations Program, honoring A Conversation on Fetal Information: 317-888-0873, Information: 812- 357-6501 tickets $5 each or 3 for $10 for King Jr. St., Indianapolis, mothers of seminarians and Medicine, sponsored by [email protected]. weekdays, or 812-357-6611 $3,000, $1,000 and $500 prizes. hors d’oeuvres, cash bar, priests, 5:40 p.m. rosary Pro-Life Ministries of Holy day of the event. Information: 317-786-4371. disc jockey, 7-10 p.m., followed by dinner, $15. Rosary and St. John the New Albany Deanery Catholic $10 per person; Golf Outing, Information: 317-748-1478 or Evangelist Parish, Dr. Brandon Youth Ministries, 101 May 28 June 1 Sat., Southern Dunes Golf [email protected]. Brown of Riley Hospital for St. Anthony Dr., Mt. St. Francis. Calvary Mausoleum Our Lady of the Greenwood Course, 8220 S. Tibbs Ave., Children presenting, “The Man Tour,” for young Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis, noon shotgun Sisters of St. Francis, 6:30-8:30 p.m., includes adult men, baseball, fellowship Indianapolis. Memorial Day Greenwood. First Friday start, $100 per golfer; Dinner Our Lady of Fatima Shrine, simple meal. Information: and Scripture, 6-9:30 p.m., $5. Mass, noon. Information: celebration of the Most and Dance, Sat., Holy Angels 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. Eric Slaughter, ericslaughter@ Register by May 21, www. 317-784-4439 or www. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, Parish Center, gathering, May Devotions, in honor of sbcglobal.net. nadyouth.org. Information: 812- catholiccemeteries.cc. 5:45 p.m., exposition of the 6:30-7:30 p.m., dinner, cash new feast of Mary, Mother 923-8355, [email protected]. Blessed Sacrament, following bar and disc jockey, 7-10 p.m., of the Church, 6:30 p.m., May 24 Our Lady of Peace Cemetery Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament $25 per person; Mass, Sun., bring lawn chair if desired. Our Lady of Greenwood May 26 and Mausoleum, 9001 of Reconciliation available. Marian University Chartrand Information: 812-934-2475, Church, 335 S. Meridian St., St. Parish, Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Information: 317-888-2861 or Memorial Chapel, 3200 Cold oldenburgfranciscans.org. in Greenwood. “St. Michael, Starlight, 8310 St. John Road, Memorial Day Mass, 10 a.m. [email protected]. Spring Road, Indianapolis, the and the Floyds Knobs. Strawberry Information: 317-574-8898 or 9 a.m., followed by reception May 22 Holy Angels,” presented by Festival, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., www.catholiccemeteries.cc. St. Lawrence Church, 6944 at Holy Angels Parish Center. Plum Creek Golf Club, Congregation of St. Michael chicken dinner served E. 46th St., Indianapolis. First Information, including tickets, 12401 Lynnwood Blvd., the Archangel Father Peter 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 5K run/walk, SS. Francis and Friday Charismatic Renewal 317-926-3324, peck.ronald@ Carmel, Ind. Catholic Prusakiewicz of Poland, build-your-own strawberry Church, 5901 Olive Branch Praise and Mass, praise and yahoo.com. Radio Golf Outing, 10 a.m. 7 p.m., freewill offering. shortcake, soap box derby, Road, Greenwood. Memorial worship 7 p.m., Mass 7:30 p.m. registration, 11 a.m. Mass Father Peter will celebrate kids’ bounce houses, bingo, Day Service, 8:45 a.m. Information: 317-546-7328, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (optional), 11:30 a.m. buffet Mass before at 5:45 p.m. craft booths, games, Little patriotic music, 9 a.m. Mass [email protected]. Parish (Little Flower), lunch, 12:15 p.m. shot-gun Sponsored by the Marian Miss and Mister Shortcake followed by flag ceremony, 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. start, about 5 p.m. prizes Center of Indianapolis. contest, frozen drinks, live playing of Taps and reception. Women’s Care Center, Summerfest, Fri. 5-11 p.m., and dinner, Indianapolis Information: 317-888-0873, music and entertainment, raffle. Information: bill_ochsner@ 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. Sat. 3-11 p.m., Sun. 11:30 a.m.- Colts general manager [email protected]. Information: 812-923-5785. comcast.net. First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., 5 p.m., midway rides, bingo Chris Ballard speaking, Father Michael Bower presiding, on Fri., silent auction, $125 per person, $450 per May 25 May 27 May 31, June 1-2 optional tour of center to entertainment tent, food and foursome, sponsorships Holy Rosary Parish, Monte Cassino Shrine, St. Jude Parish, 5353 follow. Information: 317-829- beer garden, $10 minimum available. Registration and 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. 13312 Monte Cassino Shrine McFarland Road, Indianapolis. 6800, womenscarecenter.org. purchase required for ages 13 information: Barb Brinkman, “St. Faustina, Divine Road, St. Meinrad. Blessed Summer Festival, Thurs. and and older. Information: 317-870-8400, barb@ Mercy and St. Michael,” Mother Pilgrimage, hosted Fri. 5 p.m., Sat. 6 p.m., indoor June 1-3 www.littleflowerparish.org, catholicradioindy.org. presented by Congregation by Saint Meinrad Archabbey, Mexican fiesta on Fri., fried Holy Angels School and the 317-357-8352. †

Events and retreats can be submitted to The Criterion by logging on to Alumnae brunch for former St. Agnes www.archindy.org/events/submission, or by mailing us at 1400 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202, ATTN: Cindy Clark, or by fax at 317-236-1593. Academy set for June 3, register by May 30

This year’s St. Agnes Alumnae Indianapolis, to the brunch. Seminar on Christian consoling to take Brunch will be held at the Riviera Club, Bring yearbooks, class pictures and 5640 N. Illinois St., in Indianapolis, at other memorabilia to share. place in New Albany on June 6 noon on June 3. The cost is $20 per person. For 30 years, the brunch has Reservations are required no later than A “How to Be a Christian Consoler” relating, examine biblical perspectives welcomed all attendees of the former May 30. Checks—made out to Pat seminar will be held at Our Lady of on suffering, receive practical tips for St. Agnes Academy—whether graduates Douglass and including maiden name Perpetual Help Parish, 1752 Scheller talking and listening, and learn common or not—and honored graduating classes and graduation year—can be mailed to Lane, in New Albany, from 6:30 p.m.- statements to avoid and practical caring of distinction. For this year’s brunch, the Pat Douglass, 7550 N. St., 8:30 p.m. on June 6. actions that make a difference. honored classes are 1948, 1958 and 1968. Indianapolis, IN 46240. This workshop is designed to offer There is no charge for the event, Attendees are invited to attend the For additional information, call Pat family, friends, and caregivers confident although registration is required by June 1. 10:30 a.m. Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Douglass at 317-340-7550 or send an and helpful tools in being present to To register or for more information, Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in e-mail to [email protected]. † those who are suffering. Participants call 812-945-2374 or e-mail tyost@ will explore common challenges of olphna.org. † Providence Sisters accepting Providence Associate applications through May 31 The Sisters of Providence of Saint in October. Following the orientation, the Mary-of-the-Woods, 1 Sisters of candidate and a Sister of Providence or Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, another Providence Associate companion are accepting Providence Associate meet regularly for a year to learn and applications through May 31. share about Providence spirituality. Providence Associates are women and For more information, contact men of diverse faith backgrounds, ages Providence Associate co-director 18 years and older, who share their own Debbie Dillow at 317-250-3294 or unique gifts and talents with others while e-mail [email protected]. walking with the Sisters of Providence. To learn more about Accepted applicants attend an Providence Associates, visit www. orientation at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods providenceassociates.org. †

Buy ducks now for Terre Haute Catholic Charities rubber duck regatta on July 4 Catholic Charities in Terre Haute Prices are $5 each, 6 for $25, 12 for is hosting the inaugural Wabash Valley $50 and 24 for $100. Rubber Duck Regatta at Fairbanks All proceeds will benefit Catholic Park, South First St., in Terre Haute, at Charities in Terre Haute and their work 5 p.m. on July 4. in serving the poor, homeless, elderly and New leadership Fifteen thousand ducks will be neglected children in west central Indiana. released into the Wabash River, For more information, including The newly elected governing council of the Sisters of St. Francis, in Oldenburg, smile after their with the owner of the winning duck updates on pop-up locations in the Chapter of Elections on April 15. Posing in the front row from left are Franciscan Sister Christa receiving $10,000. The winner doesn’t Wabash Valley area to purchase ducks, Franzer, congregational minister, and Franciscan Sister Delouise Menges, first councilor. Standing need to be present to win. visit www.duckrace.com/terrehaute or in the back row, from left, are Franciscan Sister Annette Grisley, councilor, and Franciscan Sister Ducks can be purchased at Catholic call 812-232-1447. Barbara Leonhard, councilor. The council members will serve from July 1, 2018, through June 30, Charities, 1801 Poplar St., in Terre For event updates, “Like” the 2024. (Submitted photo) Haute, Mon.-Fri. from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. “WVRDR” Facebook page. † The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Page 7

The Face of Mercy (from Pope Francis’ “”)

By Daniel Conway As missionary disciples, we are called to oppose all forms of injustice and pursue holiness “” (“Rejoice Here, Pope Francis rejects what might use religion for false purposes to promote the victims of human trafficking, new and Be Glad”) by Pope Francis is one be called “the elitism of sanctity,” and their own psychological or intellectual forms of slavery, and every form of more instance of this pope’s inspiring, calls attention to the presence of holiness theories. God infinitely transcends us; rejection,” the pope says. “We cannot prophetic, hope-filled and occasionally (not perfectly or completely but truly) he is full of surprises. We are not the uphold an ideal of holiness that would controversial teaching. in ordinary people, the middle class of ones to determine when and how we ignore injustice in a world where some In his latest , holiness. This emphasis on what the will encounter him; the exact times and revel, spend with abandon and live only Pope Francis makes it very clear that called “the places of that encounter are not up to us. for the latest consumer goods, even as holiness is not something that only a saint universal call to holiness” is not unique Someone who wants everything to be others look on from afar, living their can achieve. All are called to holiness and to Pope Francis, but, as always, this clear and sure presumes to control God’s entire lives in abject poverty” (#101). all have the potential—aided by God’s pope uses vivid images and gestures to transcendence” (#41). This is the both/and of Catholicism. grace—to become holy. reinforce his teaching. These are challenging words— While it’s undeniably true that defense “These witnesses may include our own Critics accuse Pope Francis of addressed to those who claim that the of the unborn is a grave responsibility mothers, grandmothers or other loved sowing doubt and confusion by teaching of this pope “causes confusion” for Christians and all who affirm the ones,” the pope says. “Their lives may urging flexibility in the application of among the faithful who long for clarity dignity of human life from the moment not always have been perfect, yet even traditional Church teaching to concrete and certainty in the Church’s teaching. of conception to the point of natural amid their faults and failings they kept situations. “Gaudete et Exsultate” will Perhaps the most serious issue death, we cannot be faithful to the moving forward and proved pleasing to not silence those who question the for many of the pope’s critics is his Gospel if we neglect any of the other the Lord” (#3). pope’s orthodoxy. statement that defense of the unborn and issues of morality and social justice “I like to contemplate the holiness In fact, the Holy Father uses this other social justice issues are “equally which the pope calls to our attention. present in the patience of God’s people: apostolic exhortation to challenge those sacred” (#101). We must be both radically pro-life in those parents who raise their children whom he considers “subtle enemies of Our defense of the innocent unborn, and uncompromisingly firm in our with immense love; in those men and holiness” to cast off their “narcissistic for example, needs to be clear, firm and opposition to all forms of injustice. women who work hard to support their and authoritarian elitism,” and embrace a passionate, for at stake is the dignity of As always, the words of Pope Francis families; in the sick; in elderly religious more open, loving and forgiving attitude a human life, which is always sacred and make us uncomfortable even as they who never lose their smile. In their toward the struggles of ordinary people demands love for each person, regardless assure us of God’s mercy and encourage daily perseverance, I see the holiness who seek to follow Jesus in spite of their of his or her stage of development. us to find both hope and joy in the life of of the Church militant. Very often, it weakness, selfishness and sin. “Equally sacred, however, are the missionary discipleship to which we are is a holiness found in our next-door “When somebody has an answer for lives of the poor, those already born, called by virtue of our . neighbors, those who, living in our midst, every question, it is a sign that they are the destitute, the abandoned and the reflect God’s presence. We might call not on the right road,” the pope says. underprivileged, the vulnerable infirm (Daniel Conway is a member of them ‘the middle class of holiness’ ” (#7). “They may well be false prophets, who and elderly exposed to covert euthanasia, The Criterion’s editorial committee.) †

El rostro de la misericordia/Daniel Conway Como discípulos misioneros estamos llamados a oponernos a todas las formas de injusticia y a buscar la santidad

“Gaudete et Exsultate” (“Alegraos En este sentido, el papa Francisco propio, al servicio de sus elucubraciones nuevas formas de esclavitud, y en toda y regocijaos”) del papa Francisco es rechaza lo que podría denominarse psicológicas y mentales. Dios nos supera forma de descarte,” señala el papa. “No una instancia más de las enseñanzas “el elitismo de la santidad” y destaca infinitamente, siempre es una sorpresa y podemos plantearnos un ideal de santidad inspiradoras, proféticas, repletas su presencia (no perfecta ni completa, no somos nosotros los que decidimos en que ignore la injusticia de este mundo, de esperanza y, ocasionalmente, pero sin duda verdadera) en la gente qué circunstancia histórica encontrarlo, donde unos festejan, gastan alegremente controversiales del sumo pontífice. ordinaria, la clase media de la santidad. ya que no depende de nosotros y reducen su vida a las novedades del En su exhortación apostólica más El énfasis en lo que el Concilio Vaticano determinar el tiempo y el lugar del consumo, al mismo tiempo que otros solo reciente, el papa Francisco deja muy II denominó “el llamado universal a encuentro. Quien lo quiere todo claro y miran desde afuera mientras su vida pasa en claro que la santidad no es algo que la santidad” no es exclusivo del papa seguro pretende dominar la trascendencia y se acaba miserablemente” (#101). solo puedan alcanzar los santos. Todos Francisco sino que, como siempre, el de Dios” (#41). Este es el “catolicismo del tanto y el estamos llamados a la santidad y tenemos Santo Padre emplea imágenes vívidas y Estas son palabras desafiantes, como.” Si bien es innegablemente cierto el potencial, guiados por la gracia de gestos para reforzar sus enseñanzas. dirigidas a quienes afirman que las que la defensa de los bebés en gestación Dios, de llegar a ser santos. Los críticos acusan al papa Francisco enseñanzas de este papa causan es una de las grandes responsabilidades “Entre [estos testimonios] puede de sembrar dudas y confusión al instar “confusión” entre los fieles que anhelan de los cristianos y de todos los que estar nuestra propia madre, una abuela u a la flexibilidad en la aplicación de las la claridad al y la seguridad de las reafirman la dignidad de la vida humana otras personas cercanas,” afirma el papa. enseñanzas tradicionales de la Iglesia enseñanzas de la Iglesia. desde el momento de la concepción “Quizá su vida no fue siempre perfecta, a situaciones concretas. “Gaudete et Quizás el asunto más grave, desde el hasta su muerte natural, no podemos pero aun en medio de imperfecciones y Exsultate” no silenciará a quienes punto de vista de muchos de los críticos ser fieles al Evangelio si descuidamos caídas siguieron adelante y agradaron al cuestionan la ortodoxia del papa. del papa, es su declaración de que la cualquiera de los demás aspectos de la Señor” (#3). De hecho, el Santo Padre emplea esta defensa de los bebés en gestación y justicia social y la moral que el papa “Me agrada contemplar la santidad exhortación apostólica para desafiar a otras cuestiones de justicia social son Francisco destaca. Así pues, debemos que está presente en la gente de Dios: en aquellos que considera como “enemigos “igualmente sagradas” (#101). estar radicalmente en favor de la vida y aquellos padres que crían a sus hijos con sutiles que la santidad” para que se Nuestra defensa de los inocentes que mostrarnos intransigentemente firmes en inmenso amor, en los hombres y mujeres despojen de su “elitismo narcisista y todavía no han nacido, por ejemplo, tiene nuestra postura con respecto a todas las que trabajan arduamente para mantener autoritario” y se entregan a una actitud que ser clara, firme y apasionada, puesto formas de injusticia. a sus familias, en los enfermos, en los más abierta, amorosa e indulgente frente que está en juego la dignidad de la vida Como siempre, las palabras del papa ancianos religiosos que jamás dejan a las dificultades que enfrenta la gente humana, que siempre es sagrada y exige Francisco causan incomodidad a pesar de sonreír. En su perseverancia diaria, ordinaria que procura seguir a Jesús, aún amar a cada persona, independientemente de que reafirman la misericordia de veo la santidad de los militantes de la a pesar de sus debilidades, su egoísmo y de su etapa de desarrollo. Dios y nos animan a buscar la esperanza Iglesia. Muy a menudo, se trata de la el pecado. “Pero igualmente sagrada es la vida y la alegría en la vida del discipulado santidad que vemos en el ciudadano “Cuando alguien tiene respuestas de los pobres que ya han nacido, que misionero al cual estamos llamados en de a pie, aquellos que, en medio de a todas las preguntas, demuestra que se debaten en la miseria, el abandono, virtud del bautismo. nosotros, reflejan la presencia de Dios. no está en un sano camino—advierte la postergación, la trata de personas, la Podríamos llamarlos ‘la clase media de el papa—y es posible que sea un falso eutanasia encubierta en los enfermos (Daniel Conway es integrante del comité la santidad’ ” (#7). profeta, que usa la religión en beneficio y ancianos privados de atención, las editorial de The Criterion.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Shelby County parishes form new St. Vincent de Paul Society

By Jennifer Lindberg Special to The Criterion SHELBY COUNTY—Sometimes it takes a grain bin, a quilt and numerous dedicated souls to start something that will help the poor. The newly formed St. Vincent de Paul Society of Shelby County is a fresh idea that has united two parishes linked through the Connected in the Spirit archdiocesan planning process: St. Joseph in Shelbyville and St. Vincent de Paul in Shelby County. Jim Carrier, president of the new society, said that many of the food pantries Shown is the newly formed St. Vincent de Paul Society of Shelby County. It includes members of St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville and St. Vincent de Paul in Shelby County only let people visit Parish in Shelby County. It has garnered wide support from both parishes in a short amount of time. (Submitted photos) every 30 days, and sometimes require people to be members of those churches. “This one guy thought it was unreal,” the response to the project The St. Vincent de Paul Society is Carrier said. “He said no one has ever has been overwhelming. different, said Carrier, a member of come to my house to help me.” “Most [councils] are St. Vincent de Paul Parish. It’s that hands-on approach that has very small, 10 people or “We go visit our clients,” said Carrier. garnered wide support for the project and less,” she said. “We are very “Everyone makes the poor come to them. seen it come to fruition in a relatively different. About 30 people We go to the poor. short time. Meetings were conducted in showed up for that first December, and the group hit the ground meeting. I can’t get over running in March. how many people are It has already served 30 clients, Carrier working toward helping us.” said. The original idea came St. Vincent de Paul societies are from Father Michael part of an international effort to assist Keucher, pastor of those in need on a person-to-person St. Joseph Parish and basis. According to its website, at least St. Vincent’s sacramental 12 million people are helped yearly by minister. After receiving the Vincentians in the United States. The numerous requests for organization is operated by lay people. help, Father Keucher Currently, Carrier’s grain bin is the wished aloud for a group’s warehouse for hard furniture, St. Vincent de Paul Society such as beds and appliances that clients to Sister Joan. might need. They have also helped with “Folks want to give, Paul Pavey of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby County speaks paying bills of those in need. Carrier they want to help, they after accepting a check for $8,044.80 from a tea party and quilt proudly had his grain bin stamped with want to be Christ to raffle that has jumpstarted a new St. Vincent de Paul Society to help SVDP letters (an acronym for the Society others,” said Father the poor in Shelby County. He stands in front of the quilt that was of St. Vincent de Paul) until the group Keucher. “I think this is donated to help raise money for the society. Pictured is the grain bin at Jim Carrier’s home. can find a temperature‑controlled storage helping us grow in our Carrier offered it to store wooden furniture place. faith. We’ve got lots of volunteers making to continue helping people, and it was and appliances until the society can find a Franciscan Sister Joan Miller, home visits, donating things, answering donated for the new endeavor. temperature-controlled warehouse it can afford. St. Vincent’s parish life coordinator, said phones and so on. Everyone is doing his The tea party has been raising money or her part, and it’s working beautifully.” for local Shelby County charities for The project keeps bearing fruit. This 15 years, Knight said. In all, it has raised year, the annual tea party at St. Vincent more than $30,000 for the community Parish donated all its proceeds to the through the years. society. By raffling a quilt and from the This year’s tea party was its best ever. ticket sales to the tea party, it raised more “It’s just a small tea party,” said Knight. than $8,000. “But we made that much money with this Joan Knight, president of the tea party small, little tea. People are amazing.” committee, said the raffling of the quilt earned about $2,000. It has been a quilt (Jennifer Lindberg is a member of You may be that keeps giving to good causes. St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville. To The quilt was originally won by donate, receive assistance or volunteer the only JESUS Mark Rosenfeld, a St. Vincent de Paul with the group, check out their website parishioner, at a cancer society raffle. at: svdpshelby.org, call 317-995-7027 or that some people see. Rosenfeld recently died of cancer, and e-mail [email protected]. his siblings donated the quilt—which was Donations are accepted through never used—to SVDP. St. Joseph Parish or St. Vincent de Paul

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Faith Formation and Catholic Education | Charity and Outreach | Seminarian Education and Clergy Care IS-5987722 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Page 9 A twin, a saint and grace lead young adult to Catholic faith By Natalie Hoefer church,” she says. “I thought he was praying about RCIA. I knew for a few wrong. Faith alone, grace alone and months before RCIA that this was the Nearly 1,500 years ago, St. Benedict Scripture alone—I was all in on that. journey for me.” and St. Scholastica were more than just I started praying for my brother out of That journey was enhanced not twins. They were best friends. They concern for him entering RCIA.” by choosing St. Scholastica as her shared their devout Catholic faith, and Yet she witnessed a “clear transformation confirmation saint, but rather by are believed to have spent long hours in his life.” By the spring of 2016, he was St. Scholastica pursuing her, she says. discussing religion and spirituality. accepted as a seminarian of the Diocese of “It was St. Scholastica’s feast day [on How apt, then, that Jenna Knepper, Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind. Feb. 10],” Knepper recalls. “My brother 27, chose St. Scholastica as her patron “I know my brother. I love my brother. sent me a reading about her feast day saint when she completed her initiation He’s my best friend. And something without realizing she was a twin. He said into the Church during the Easter Vigil curious was going on,” says Knepper. “He she reminded him of me.” Mass this year at St. Parish in had a successful career. To see him discern Shortly afterward, Melinda Rivelli, Indianapolis. The reason becomes clear as the priesthood was incredible to witness.” a pastoral associate at St. Joan of Arc she shares her story. Like St. Benedict and St. Scholastic, Parish, mentioned the saint to Knepper as “We were baptized Catholic,” says the Knepper twins had “hundreds of a possible . Knepper of her and her three siblings, conversations” about God and the “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ ” she says. including her twin brother Joseph. “But Catholic faith. Through such discussions “St. Scholastica was clearly pursuing me. growing up, Mom didn’t take us to Mass and through the witness of her brother and Knowing her story—her brother was a much. She was a single mom. … We grew some Catholic friends, and “by grace,” monk, her love and devotion for her brother. up not knowing much about Catholicism, says Knepper, “God slowly started to The one thing known is she loved him so or Christianity for that matter.” reveal to me the beauty of the sacraments, much. … [It’s] that sibling love that’s been When Knepper was a freshman at the real presence of the body and blood.” so foundational to my faith calling.” Jenna Knepper, who was received into full Indiana University Purdue University She started worshiping at St. Joan “Grace” is a word Knepper uses time communion of the Church during the Easter in Indianapolis, she became involved in of Arc Parish in 2016. But it was a trip and again when speaking of her faith Vigil Mass on March 31 at St. Joan of Arc Protestant ministries, Scripture studies and a year ago to visit Joseph at Mount journey. Church in Indianapolis, smiles with her twin worship. So later in college when Joseph, St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md., “The things I questioned the most brother, Joseph Knepper, a seminarian for the who attended the University of Notre that propelled her faith forward. [about Catholicism] have been the Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., Diocese, after the Dame, told her he was joining the Rite of “To see these [seminarians] and most filled with grace,” she says of the Easter Mass on April 1 at St. Vincent De Paul Church in Fort Wayne. (Submitted photo) Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), she God using them to witness to me, [the sacrament of reconciliation and calling was dubious. faith] become very real to me through upon the Blessed Mother’s intercession. grace and his pursuit of us, leading each “To me that wasn’t compatible with my brother’s life and their lives,” says “And then you have two twins growing of us to the Church in our own unique what I was learning in the Protestant Knepper. “After that I discerned and kept up without a faith, but through God’s way—it’s just grace.” †

something greater than myself. I thought, “Going to Catholic high school, I but you have to be strong enough to RCIA ‘God, I need you.’ ” was instructed not to take Communion,” choose.” continued from page 1 It wasn’t just her familiarity with she recalls. When it was time for her to Bach says that, despite the intense Catholicism that inspired her to seek God receive the Eucharist for the first time, she time and work involved in pursuing a “I think in some ways you have to hit through the Church. says, “I was like, ‘Yes! This is the way it biomedical engineering rock bottom before you can start moving “I had friends in other religions— should be!’ ” See related degree, being welcomed up,” she says. “Transitioning from home Hindu, Christians, Muslims, atheists,” When it comes to faith, Bach advises story, page 12. into the full communion to school was really hard. Part of the first she says. “I definitely believed in her college peers to “really think about of the Church has left quarter I thought, ‘This is terrible.’ I was monotheism. That made the most sense what you want and what will make her with a “sense of being calm, a deep to the point where I needed to turn to to me. I think it was part the Catholic you happy in the long term. … It can breath of relaxation. faith and part Catholic people [that be tempting to stay up late and miss “I’ve been moving toward this ever led to the decision]. I know some very church. But think long term, what God since I was a little kid. I finally found a loyal, steadfast, devout Catholics. has set out for you. It’s up to you, home. That is so good to know.” † You can’t have faith separate from the community. And I found I missed [the Catholic faith].” When she joined RCIA at St. Joseph University Parish, she was already “75‑80 percent sure I wanted to be a Catholic. But I wanted to fill in some of the gaps. What I had in high school was more of a teen thing. I wanted to round out my understanding [of the faith].” What Bach discovered did more than “fill in some of the gaps.” “I feel so grounded,” she says of life after the Easter Vigil Mass. “Sometimes, I felt so far apart from things, just floating. “I think there’s a very powerful connection with the supernatural, like something that’s just so beyond us [yet] we can personally come in contact with. Through the Eucharist, confirmation and Hannah Bach smiles as she prepares to receive the Eucharist from Conventual Franciscan confession, we just get closer and closer Father Mark Weaver for the first time during the to God. That proximity is so important. Easter Vigil Mass on March 31 at St. Joseph I’m just in awe.” University Church in Terre Haute. Part of that awe turned into pure (Submitted photo by Bill Foster) joy for Bach during the Easter Vigil Mass.

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The Sullivan (candidates) Julian, Maria Eva Mejia Mendoza, Senen Espinoza Ruiz Amber , Megan Conner and James Davis, Jr. names listed here were St. Pius X and Zavala (candidates) (catechumens); Jay Conner (candidate) provided by religious Luke Deem-Loureiro, Christopher McGee and St. Christopher St. Joseph, Corydon education leaders in local Jolin Witchger (catechumens); John Berry, Don Bonham, Jonathan Adams, Mary Decker, Angela Duncan, Briar Rawlings, Michael Rawlings and Stephanie parishes. Billy Hart, Andrew Lieske, James Schubert and Shayla Valentina Gomez, Norma Hicks, Opal Williams and Rawlings (catechumens); Darla Decker (candidate) The 447 catechumens VanDuyne (candidates) Aaron Young (catechumens); Monica Burger, Rosann St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd County listed are people who have St. Simon the Apostle DePersio, Drew Gerke, Jennifer Kincaid-Pembleton, Joan Travis Denison, Charlsie Douglas, Kyla Ising and never been baptized and— Hadley Harlan, Kiley Harlan, Sierra Hughey, Pea, Bill Pembleton, Gina Semmler and Carrie Sullivan Yvonne MacDonald (catechumens) within the past year—were Beckham Jeffares, Josephine Kort, Jeffrey Osborn and (candidates) St. Bernard, Frenchtown baptized, confirmed and Jordyn Rodgers (catechumens); Jeremy Greene, Jordan St. Gabriel the Archangel Brittany Bigos and Vicki Dubois (candidates) received their first Eucharist. 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Daisy Aguilar, Ezequiel Apolonio, Joshua Wilson (catechumens); Kirsten Davidson, Shelby Amanda McAlarney (candidates) (catechumens); Grace Alvarez, Kenneth Bickers, Kelly, Laura Middleton, Carrie Pfeiffer and Maggie Sly Alberto Corona, Roberto Islas-Carino, Keilyn Alicia Anabel Apolonio Peñaloza, Joselyn Apolonio Peñaloza, Luhn, Chelsea Miller and Paula Miller (candidates) Deborah Drury, Amber Humble, Robert Moll, Erin Moll (candidates) St. Michael, Greenfield Mendez, Justin -Zempoalteca and Uriel Gilberto Jimenez Bonilla, Miguel Muñoz Casimiro, Prince of Peace, Madison Dominique Egbert (catechumen); Kelli Carr, Martinique and Isabelle Wiehe (candidates) St. Anne, New Castle Valencia-Zempoalteca (catechumens); Carlos Boyzo, Sinthia Figueroa Argueta, Ruby Garcia Magaña, Jaquelin Matthew Clark, Brent Copeland, Michelle Deffenbaugh, Heindel McCarley and Rebecca Williams (candidates) St. Anthony of Padua, Morris Dale Catron, Jr., Dennis Darr, Glenn Hall, Jeffrey Yahir Conzalez, Bryanna Huber-Horta, Adelaida Gutierrez Leal, Jazmin Gutierrez Leal, Janete Hernandez, Annalise Ford, Sophie Ford and Brent Wingham Kristen Bedwell (catechumen); 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Erin Bischoff, Matthew Hooker, Ryan Guadalupe Sanchez-Cortez (candidates) Peñaloza, Katherine Ramirez, Michelle Ramirez, Susan Wallace (catechumen); David Lueking (candidate) (candidate) Joe Batchik, Maria Batchik, Julia Carter, Erin Hodge, Ricci, Marykate Rowan and Michael Todd (candidates) St. Roch Jacqueline Salinas Almaraz, Alexa Sanchez, Angel Tlatoa St. , Seymour St. Joseph, Shelbyville Austin Lipps, Erika Schweppe, Harold Smith, Sarah Immaculate Heart of Mary Wade McClurg, Mark Riley, Alex Robinson, Mckinzie Santiago, Alanna Spaulding, Steel, Courtenay Xina Dalila Miguel (catechumen); Matt Levine Kylie Bray, Goldie Bunge, Ximena Garcia Julian, Stewart, Grace Stewart, Melody Stewart and Joshua Ellen Coan, Janee Haas, Keith Jewell, Aaron Moody Robinson and Ryan Widner (catechumens); Rachel Stocker, Yesica Tiburcio Rios, Alondra Tlatoa Santiago, (candidate) Vanessa Garcia Julian, James Redenbarger, Yoder (catechumens); Vivian Bartkus, Emma Gundrum, and Dustin Kimball (catechumens); Lee Everett, Jim Culbertson, Stephanie Gravos, Rayshond Hatfield, Sarah Giselle Toledo Peñaloza, Esteban Apolonio Vicente, Ivan Bailey Rosales, Taylor Seaborn, Kenneth Thompson, Lana Huston, Brett Stewart, Alissa Timmerman and Hamilton, Jennifer Keller, Molly Kelly, Angie Makowiec, Ladd, Nathan Lowery, Joshua Tunny and Jody White Apolonio Vicente and Joselin Zelaya Franco (candidates) Tell City Deanery Sindy Gabriela Villalta Gonzalez, Cheyli Vilalta Lorna Timmerman (candidates) John Merrick, Alissa Moody, Lindsay Scharnowske, (candidates) St. Malachy, Brownsburg St. Isidore the Farmer, Perry County Gonzalez, Ava VanWye, Olivia VanWye and Jack St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, Rushville Dave Snider, Lauren Steuer, Alex Suder and Dick Holy Name of Jesus, Beech Grove Jessica Bare, Collin Benson, Xavier Hurley, Stephanie Danny Feeback (candidate) VanWye (catechumens); Jo Bartley, Amanda Jo Cuautle, Megan Lower and Dillon (catechumens); Carl Tempero (candidates) Andi McHugh, Diana Ratcliff and Hannah Spear Klausing, Hiedi Linder, Jerry Mitchell and Ryan Rowley St. Paul, Tell City Joshua Phelps, Dylan Phelps, Allen J. Phelps III and Harcourt, Jessica Ripberger, Courtney Smith and Dana St. Joan of Arc (catechumens); Felicia Clark, Elijah Goers, Elle Howe (catechumens); Bonnie Brock, Brittney Combs, Stacie Ashley Daum, Jaleigh Daum, Kinzley Daum, Addison Allen J. Phelps, Jr. (candidates) Valdez (candidates) Erika Biederman, Allie Billows, Niki Carson, and Kaylee Mazza (candidates) Dalton, Kevin Goodman, Kirk Head, Darryl Humbracht, Stiles, Jaxon Stiles, Zaiden Tribbie and Jersie Vinson Micki Dennie, Heather Henning, Karen Williams, Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood Missy Humbracht, Brandi Hurley, Rob Irvine, Shandi (catechumens) Bloomington Deanery Indianapolis East Deanery Harper Wynne and Phalen Wynne (catechumens); Benjamin Baker, Amber Bakirdan, Camron Ciampa, Lock, Adam Love, Lynn Meador and David Wray Holy Spirit Jenna Knepper, Jane Marhdt, Troy Montgomery and Gustavo Florencio, Aidan Garcia, Cliff Gilmore, Lorelei (candidates) St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford Terre Haute Deanery David Coonce, Elizabeth Cuatlatl, Amalia Cuatlatl, Caroline Washburn (candidates) Gilmore, Kendal Ladd, Brian Salazar Lopez, Jason Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville Dustin Dishman, Nathan Ensey, Austin Robbins and Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Brazil Eva Donagil Merlos Ambrosio, Alexis Eduardo St. Lawrence Newhouse, Michelle Ortega-Morales, Erick Paisano, James McClain, Amy Springman, Linda Streeter and Owen Robbins (catechumens); Richard Benish, Royce Emily Ochoa and Silca Pena (catechumens); Escobedo, Molly Hampton, Diana Yasmin Jaimes, Victor Kevin Amantecatl, Ismael Barrios, Jason Baryoh, Yaquelin Paisano, Brandon Pettijohn, Paola Rodriguez, Joan Valentine (candidates) Keeling, Joseph Mincer and Carla Robbins (candidates) Sasha Ochoa (candidate) Juarez, Ricardo Juarez, Patricio Díaz Landero, Jennifer Jenna Bunch, Alexia Cardona, Madison Mason, Mikaela Smith and Mackenzie Trulock (catechumens); St. , Mooresville St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington Marvel, Onorio Mejía, Brian Mejía, Alissa Parksey, McKenzie Mason, Carlos Joendry Ruballos Polanco, Katherine Bautista, Alyssa Holton, Janeth Mendoza, Gabriyel Bailey and Roy Beatty (catechumens); Daniel Scott Abrams and Wanida Bruggeman (catechumens); Maricruz Pérez Ramírez, Sarah Shirey, Charlie Soukup, Bryan Ramirez, Yobani Ramirez, Llamilet Ramirez Alexandra Pettijohn, Michelle Pippenger, Maria Smarelli Duke (candidate) Dominique Bahr, Benjamin Eichmiller, Sarah Greer, Jessica Soukup, Maynard Soukup, Onorio Roldan, Mauricio Ramirez Roldan, Juan Carlos Torres, and Mason Smarelli (candidates) See CATHOLICS, page 12 Page 12 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 God’s love, forgiveness make baptized grandparent ‘feel new every day’

By Natalie Hoefer Butler now runs an art glass studio with his son-in-law, Andrew Vargo. They create stained glass windows and Ever since he married his Catholic wife Linda in 1979, other glass projects for churches in several states. Bradley Butler, now 63, has been going to Mass. The It was his daughter and son-in-law who introduced Butlers raised their daughter Hilari in the Church. Their Butler and his wife to SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral grandchildren are Catholic. Parish in Indianapolis late in 2016. And it was there, after But it was not until a few years ago that Butler 37 years of feeling like an outsider, that Butler first began considered becoming Catholic. to feel comfortable with the Church. Throughout his married life, says Butler, “I really felt “I can’t tell you when, but I know what it was,” says like an outsider [in the Church]. I didn’t get anything out Butler of the reason for the change. “I went up and got a of the Mass. I felt like an imposter.” blessing [during Communion]. I’d never done that before. Such a feeling might be expected, given Butler’s early That’s when it happened—I starting to feel welcomed and upbringing in the Pentecostal faith. But his call to be comfortable. Catholic actually began at the age of 19. “… And then I started to really appreciate the Mass. “It was strong,” he says of the call. “It lasted for I really started to get almost enthusiastic and looked months. But I kept resisting because I didn’t think I was forward to going to Mass. … I never understood what worthy.” God’s love was. I never felt it, but I started to feel it. It Despite Butler’s feeling of unworthiness and of being started coming in slowly, then it just grew more and more an imposter in the Catholic Church, he did experience an during the RCIA [Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults] “awakening” of faith during a long hospital stay after a process.” serious car accident in 1997, two years after moving to He asked Linda—whom he says never pressured him Indiana. to become Catholic—to be his sponsor. “I had one of those awakenings where I knew I had to “Her going through the classes has renewed her faith,” do serious work,” recalls Butler, a professionally trained says Butler. “It wasn’t just for me—it was for her, too.” Linda and Bradley Butler stand before the altar of SS. Peter and artist. “I was doing horrible work, just to make a living. I But there was still the problem of him feeling Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Bradley was brought into full decided, ‘I’m going to start doing the Lord’s work.’ Those unworthy. communion with the Catholic Church in the cathedral during the were my exact words.” “When I started studying with Father Pat[rick Easter Vigil Mass on March 31. Linda, his wife of 38 years, was his When he was able to look for a job, Butler was Beidelman, of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish] sponsor. (Submitted photo) referred to a liturgical consultant. and the deacons, they just laughed at me when I said that “She said, ‘I can squeeze you in for five minutes,’ and [I felt unworthy],” says Butler. “I thought I was the only Although he did not choose a patron saint of artists, art even when I got there I still had to wait,” he says. “She one. They said, ‘Welcome to the club!’ ” does enter into his thoughts about the Catholic Church. started looking at my portfolio, then she looked at me and During the Easter Vigil Mass at the cathedral on “From early Christian times through the Renaissance said, ‘Where have you been?’ I just about cried.” March 31 when Butler received the sacraments of up until even the early 1800s, all the important Western With Butler’s experience creating stained glass pieces, initiation, he recalls feeling “so happy, and I just felt art was done for the Church,” he explains. “I like that the consultant had him interview for a commission to like everyone I loved, even my [deceased] grandparents connection. When I look at the [sanctuary] and I look at create stained glass windows for a church in Greenfield. and aunts and uncles, and my dad who passed away the windows, I’m just moved by them and [the fact] that He remembers the intimidation he felt, having a time in January, were all with me. I remember having that the same [format of the] Mass has been going for so long.” slot between a studio in Chicago and one in St. Louis. sensation that everything from my past was propelling me Art aside, Butler says that “learning more about the Nevertheless, when his turn came, says Butler, “I into the future.” faith has taught me more about being human. I am among started talking. I had no idea what to say. I had never For his confirmation saint, he chose St. Joan of Arc, everyone else who is flawed. I understand how God can done anything like that. But I was passionate, and they who inspires him “by the courage she had to follow her see me and still love me. Forgiveness is daily, and every picked me.” faith and lead her country.” day I feel new.” † Pope Francis is ‘most fearless man I ever met,’ says German filmmaker Wenders WASHINGTON (CNS)—Pope Francis, the subject of Film Festival in France. It is being released on May 18 in Errol Morris for some of his works. The “60 Minutes” a new documentary by German filmmaker Wim Wenders, the United States. segment demonstrates how it works: The interviewer’s is “the most fearless man I ever met,” the director said in In one excerpt from the film, Pope Francis comments face—in this case, Wenders himself—is superimposed a segment of the CBS newsmagazine on the rush of everyday life. over the camera lens, and the pope is responding to his “60 Minutes” that aired on May 13. “We live with the accelerator down from morning questions. “Fearless?” asked “60 Minutes” to night,” the pope declares in Spanish, with English Asked by Wertheim if the pope realized “how intimate correspondent Jon Wertheim. Wenders subtitles. “This ruins mental health, spiritual health and this was going to look,” Wenders replied, “Oh, yes. He replied, “Fearless. And he is not physical health. More so: It affects and destroys the understood this whole system really well, and stuck to it, influenced by polls or whatever. I don’t family. And therefore society.” and did it perfectly.” think he would ever consider any public Pope Francis quotes from Genesis to buttress his case: Wenders, who narrates Pope Francis: A Man of His opinion over something he means and “ ‘On the seventh, day, he [God] rested’ [Gn 2:2]. What Word, notes he is the first pope to take the name Francis. he’s convinced of. He’s totally fearless. the Jews followed and still observe, was to consider the “St. Francis stands for a lot,” he told “60 Minutes.” “He Because he has a lot of opposition.” Sabbath as holy. On Saturday you rest. One day of the stands for quite a radical solidarity with the poor. He Pope Francis Wertheim asked, “Do you think week, that’s the least! Out of gratitude, to worship God, to stands for a whole new relation to nature. So to take this he’s aware of that?” Wenders spend time with the family, to play, to do all these things.” name was daring.” answered, “I think he’s totally aware of that.” The pope concludes: “We are not machines!” Pope Francis also has had to confront the continuing The “60 Minutes” segment included excerpts from It appears as if Pope Francis is talking to viewers revelations of clergy sex abuse worldwide, which brought Wenders’ new movie, Pope Francis: A Man of His Word, directly into the camera. This is courtesy of the out a “really very strong” anger, Wenders said. “That was which made its world premiere on May 13 at the Cannes Interrotron, a device invented by U.S. documentarian [after] my question about pedophilia, and there he got so worked up. And there was a very angry man speaking into the camera.” In the film, the pope says, “Toward pedophilia, zero St. Benedict, Terre Haute tolerance! And the Church must punish such priests who CATHOLICS Emilee Athey, Allyssa Bennett, Alexander Bryant, have that problem, and bishops must remove from their continued from page 10 Kaeden Bryant, Ann-Marie Curran, Tristan Curran, priestly functions anyone with that disease, that tendency KeyShawn and Sibley Dennis Simonton (catechumens); to pedophilia, and that includes to support the legal action Sacred Heart, Clinton Daniel Brenton, Skylar Bryant and Donna Tevlin by the parents before the civil courts. There is no other Jennifer Reedy (catechumen); Tiffany Steinwald and (candidates) way out of this! Zero tolerance, because it’s a crime, no, Frank Turchi (candidates) St. Joseph University, Terre Haute worse! It’s leaving them alive, but destroyed.” St. , Greencastle Hannah Bach and Juraya Carie (catechumens); Patricia Realizing that, over the course of the interviews, James Marcum (catechumen); Eric Bock, Caleb O’Brien, Brown, Scott Cassell, Jo Catterson, Travis Hein, Victoria Wenders still needed “a moment that will close the Kenzlie Westerfeld, Chad Wilson, Emma Wilson and Mier, Jay Smith and Jon Stanisz (candidates) movie,” Pope Francis came up with one. Jennifer Wilson (candidates) St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute “If you ask me: ‘Give me an example of beauty, St. Joseph, Rockville Mikayla Cox, Kris Goldbey, Leanna Goldbey, Allyson simple everyday beauty, with which we can help others Mary Blain and Rose Ritchey (candidates) Trump and Ian Trump (catechumens); Jennifer Hallee, feel better and be happier,’ two things come to my mind. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute Nancy Jarrett and Jordan Witt (candidates) A smile and a sense of humor,” Pope Francis said. Gabriel Allen and Matthew Smith (catechumens) St. Patrick, Terre Haute “Here I make a personal confession. Every day, Harper Medley, Jessica Medley, Lindsey Wright and after my morning prayer, I recite St. Thomas More. His Dustin Youngblood (catechumens); Amber Tegtmeyer, ‘Prayer for Good Humor,’ ” the pope added. “It starts in Nicholas Tegtmeyer and Erika Youngblood (candidates) † a way that makes you laugh. ‘Give me, oh Lord, a good digestion, but also something to digest.’ That’s it.” †

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By Bob Kelly alone,” Father Keucher said. Special to The Criterion “We all have a race for bigger houses, cars, jobs and all those kinds of Most OneAmerica 500 Festival dreams, but not for the Holy Spirit. And Mini-Marathon participants run for the Holy Spirit has plans for our life,” health and fitness. Franciscan Sister Father Keucher said. “We run that race, Maria Faustina Herber adds a higher and what fuels it is the love of the Lord, calling to her race day. She witnesses which helps us choose what race to run for Christ by joining in the Race for in life.” Vocations team. The Race for Vocations was started Sponsored by the Indiana State 11 years ago by Father Rick Nagel, Council of the Knights of Columbus, pastor at St. John. More than 1,000 the Race for Vocations team welcomes runners have participated since its people of all ages to run or walk in inception. Race participants wear the Mini or 500 Festival 5K to both T-shirts designed to generate a greater promote and pray for vocations to the awareness of vocations. priesthood, religious life, sacred married “Our goal is to promote vocations in life and sacred single life. The Race for local parishes, mobilize our parishioners, Vocations included a Mass for Vocations pray for vocations and invite people and pasta dinner at St. John Evangelist to run for the cause,” said Father Eric Parish in Indianapolis on May 4, the day Augenstein, archdiocesan vocations before the race. director since 2013. “I like the Race for Vocations because “The event also provides an it starts with a Mass, and it’s a source of opportunity for religious, seminarians, strength,” said Sister Maria, a member lay people and priests to spend time of the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual together at this event for a great cause,” Adoration. “We are a beautiful witness Father Augenstein said. that we are called to something special. Ethan Apsley, a Shelbyville High It is important to witness Christ, and I School freshman, said his curiosity about Hoping to promote vocations in the Church in central and southern Indiana, participants from all think about that when I run,” said the vocations led him to attend the Mass and generations joined in the Race for Vocations as part of the OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon sister, who was participating in her second the pasta dinner that followed it. and 5K in Indianapolis on May 5. In the front row of this photo, participants included Daniel Race For Vocations event. “I wanted to support my archdiocese. I Oyerbides, left, and Harrison, Rex, Charlie, Lincoln and Nicholas Fischer. In the back row are Mandy During his homily at the Mass the have been thinking a lot about becoming a Oyerbides, left, Brooke Fischer, Amy Johnson, Father Michael Keucher and Celeste Fischer. (Submitted night before the race, Father Michael priest, and I want to help with vocations, photo) Keucher, administrator of St. Joseph since it may be something I may do Parish in Shelbyville, called upon those [in the future],” said Ethan, a member and School of Theology in in attendance to find the purpose that God of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby St. Meinrad in 2014, attended intends for each of them. County. the Mass for Vocations. “We need to figure out what is the race Benedictine Brother Nathaniel Szidik, The program made such a that God has for us. We all have been who discerned his calling to religious big impression on him that the given a race to run in life, and the good life after attending a One Bread, One resident from Grand Rapids, news is, we don’t have to run that race Cup program at Saint Meinrad Seminary Mich., is now a monk at Saint Meinrad Archabbey. “I was struck by the interactions by monks,” ‘We all have a race for bigger houses, cars, jobs, and all Brother Nathaniel said. those kinds of dreams, but not for the Holy Spirit. And the “Even though I loved my job in a steel mill in St. Louis, Holy Spirit has plans for our life. We run Missouri, I had something in that race, and what fuels it is the love of the my heart that I knew that I Lord, which helps us choose what race to had to check out” Benedictine Brother Simon run in life.’ Herrmann, also a monk at Saint Meinrad, was a participant — Father Michael Keucher, administrator of in the One Bread, One Cup St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville program as well. “It was God’s grace that was leading me into a deeper relationship with him,” Brother Simon said. “I will be running in my third race for vocations, and through this program, it has helped me to grow in the community.” Ethan Apsley and Marsha Apsley, members of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby County, pose for a photo on May 5, the (Bob Kelly is a member of day they participated in the Race for Vocations as part of the ShelbyShelby UpholsteringUpholstering Nativity of Our Lord Jesus OneAmerica 500 Festival Mini-Marathon and 5K in Indianapolis. 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The Holy Spirit takes us on ‘a journey into holiness’ By David Gibson holiness today, titled “Rejoice and Be Glad” (“Gaudete et Exsultate”), “The sound of the word ‘heartless’ ” is reproposes “the call to holiness in a nothing less than “horrible,” in Benedictine practical way for our time, with all its Father Benoit Standaert’s view. risks, challenges and opportunities” (#2). There is a striking difference between He situates holiness in the very heart of living “with or without heart.” It “is as the actual lives people live. great as the difference between heaven The Holy Spirit is the nurturer of and hell, life and death, light and dark,” whatever holiness characterizes our lives, the Belgian monk asserts. the pope affirms. “Holiness, in the end,” It is vital, he suggests in Spirituality, he writes, “is the fruit of the Holy Spirit an Art of Living: A Monk’s Alphabet in your life” (#15). of Spiritual Practices, that the key to He dispels the notion “that holiness is unlocking the heart be found. only for those who can withdraw from Most people know instinctively what ordinary affairs to spend much time in “heartlessness” implies. Christians tend prayer” (#14). Instead, “we are all called to grasp, moreover, that a heartless life to be holy by living our lives with love leads away from the values of the Gospel. and by bearing witness … wherever we They sense that heartlessness results in a find ourselves” (#14). somewhat cold, methodical approach to the Many Christians may indeed suspect surrounding world, an approach that rests that holiness is for others, for people too comfortably on the surface of things. with some special talent or aptitude for But Christian spirituality focuses the following the patient, kind, hospitable eye, the mind and imagination on all and healing ways of Christ that holiness the richness found below the surface of implies. whatever is most readily visible to us. There can be a tendency, moreover, A transformation of human hearts that to think that we know holiness when have grown stony is what God’s promise we see it and to surmise that those who of renewal entails, according to the appear holy must be greatly different Hebrew prophet . Thus, God says: from us. “I will give you a new heart, and a new But Pope Francis is at pains in his new spirit I will put within you. I will remove apostolic exhortation to assure people the heart of stone from your flesh and like you or me that our lives and activities give you a heart of flesh. I will put my fit well within the panorama of holy This stained-glass window depicts a scene from Pentecost, which marks the end of the Easter season spirit within you” (Ez 36:26-27). lifestyles. The challenge is to broaden our and commemorates the Holy Spirit descending upon the Apostles 50 days after Christ’s resurrection. The Spirit’s promise that life always can be renewed is the promise of Pentecost. The Spirit’s promise that life always can sense of holiness, he indicates. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) be renewed is the promise of Pentecost. “We are called to be contemplatives The Church’s Pentecost Sunday prayer, even in the midst of action and to nothing else to give to them, St. Teresa of is usually accompanied by a sense of “Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your grow in holiness by responsibly and Calcutta believed. humor” (#126). faithful and kindle in them the fire of generously carrying out our proper Father Benoit remarks that “nobody True enough, conversations about your love,” is often heard during Masses mission,” he states (#26). can smile and grit his teeth at the same spirituality—all the ways of acting upon celebrated this day around the world. Pope Francis confesses that he likes time.” He fears, though, that smiling the Spirit’s prompting in prayer, reflection Father Benoit thinks that this process “to contemplate the holiness present in has become very difficult for many. Yet, or service to others, for example—at of renewal involves getting “back in touch the patience of God’s people: in those he says, anyone “who receives your times assume a serious, earnest tone. But with the promptings of our heart.” He parents who raise their children with smile understands perfectly: This is pure joy and good humor are not foreign to writes: “Our humanity is at stake here: Do immense love, in those men and women blessing, pure gift.” saints’ lives, the pope insists. you have a heart or are you heartless?” who work hard to support their families, The Belgian monk’s best advice is to The holiness the Spirit gives, This means that the Spirit’s coming in the sick” and in elderly members of “make smiling an intentional practice.” Pope Francis is convinced, “will take sets in motion a journey into holiness. For religious orders “who never lose their Then “it will nourish us for the rest of our away none of your energy, vitality or the Spirit is “the foundational principle of smile” (#7). lives.” joy” (#32). new life, holy life,” Father Benoit says. Does smiling, then, constitute a sign of Similarly, Pope Francis finds that “ill Pope Francis’ recently released the Spirit’s work? A smile can become a humor is no sign of holiness” (#126). (David Gibson served on Catholic News apostolic exhortation on the call to gift to others, even when we feel we have In fact, he points out, “Christian joy Service’s editorial staff for 37 years.) † Pentecost was an important feast in the earliest days of the Church

By Joseph F. Kelly feast. The Catholic Church and others used to consider the eve of Pentecost to be a time of fasting, while Catholics Pentecost, Greek for “50th day,” was originally a Jewish also started a Pentecost novena. term referring to the 50th day after Passover. For the first Pentecost was also a popular time for confirmation Christians, it was the 49th day after Easter, and, counting among those churches that have that sacrament or a Easter, a period of 50 days. The Apostle Paul twice used ritualized observation as adolescents became adult the word to reference the Jewish feast day, but the day has believers. always been sacred to Christians. In the Middle Ages, the dramatic scene of Pentecost The Acts of the Apostles refers to Pentecost as the day was a popular theme for religious art. Much medieval piety when the Apostles were gathered in the upper room, “and focused on Mary, and visual art for Pentecost often showed suddenly there came from the sky a noise like a strong driving Mary seated while the Holy Spirit in the form of a dove wind. … Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire. ... flew above her and the disciples stood or sat around her. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:2-4). Such works of art enjoyed great popularity in France and Pentecost was the decisive event in the early history of Italy. the Church, an assurance to the Apostles and other disciples But the dramatic scene of Mary with her Son’s closest that the risen Jesus was fulfilling his promise to send the disciples also appealed to music composers. Johann Holy Spirit to them. Sebastian Bach composed a number of cantatas for the This motivated them to overcome their fears of the German Lutheran observation of Pentecost. Jewish and Roman authorities and to preach about Jesus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an 18th-century Austrian and his redemptive mission that continues after his Catholic, prepared a motet for Pentecost. And the list of resurrection. artists who found inspiration in Pentecost is much longer While it cannot be determined how widely spread the feast than this. initially became, Acts tells us that when Paul was evangelizing No feast coming after Easter will get much limelight, in Asia Minor, he “was hurrying to be in Jerusalem, if at all but Pentecost, in various forms, dates back to the earliest possible, for the day of Pentecost (Acts 20:16). In his First days of the Church. As such, it has meaning for us, and An artist’s depiction of a scene from the Pentecost appears in Letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 16:8), Paul speaks of staying it deserves our attention and reverence. The descent of the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in St. Louis. The Acts of the for Pentecost in the Greek city of Ephesus. the Holy Spirit on the disciples is indeed the origin, the Apostles refers to Pentecost as the day when the Apostles Today, Pentecost is a feast day in the Catholic Church “birthday,” of the Church. were gathered in the upper room, “and suddenly there came and some other Churches. from the sky a noise like a strong driving wind. … Then there Coming so far after Easter, Pentecost reflects its late (Joseph F. Kelly is a retired professor of John Carroll appeared to them tongues as of fire. … And they were all spring date. Flowers are used to decorate churches on this University in University Heights, Ohio.) † filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:2-4). (CNS photo/Crosiers) Page 16 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Worship and Evangelization Outreach/Andrew Motyka The Fighting Sullivans was an inspirational movie during WWII Two weeks ago, when I wrote about someone dared to pick on one of them. swimming without you.” There’s a large Don’t just sing Eddie Doherty, I mentioned that he Their father (played in the movie by explosion and the screen goes black. wrote the screenplay for the movie Thomas Mitchell) was a railroad freight Actually, Frank, Joe and Matt were at Mass; sing The Fighting Sullivans conductor. Each day, the boys climbed a killed instantly, but George and Al made (originally released water tower by the tracks and waved to it to lifeboats. Al died the next day, and the Mass as The Sullivans). It their father as he passed by on the train. George survived for several days before One of the most important liturgical occurs to me that some By the time of World War II, only one of suffering from delirium and slipping out emphases at the Second Vatican Council of my younger readers the brothers was married—Al, the youngest. of the boat. and since has been the fully conscious (if any) might not be He and Katherine Mary (played by Anne As happened to so many families during and active participation of the laity in the aware of this movie— Baxter) had a child they named Jimmy. World War II, Thomas and Alleta learned Mass. An important or of the Sullivan After the Japanese bombed of the deaths when three naval officers liturgical principle of brothers. Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, the brothers approached the house. Thomas went to the the 20th century is It was the story were anxious to enlist in the Navy— door and asked, “Which one?” One of them the call for the laity of five Irish-American brothers—George, mainly to avenge the death of their sister replied, “I’m sorry, sir. All five.” to become more than Frank, Joe, Matt and Al—who were all killed Gen’s boyfriend, Bill Ball, who had been In the movie, Thomas goes to work. As “mute spectators,” as together during World War II when the USS on the USS Arizona. When the recruiting his train passes the water tower, he salutes. Pope St. Pius X would Juneau was sunk by the Japanese on Nov. 13, officer said that he couldn’t promise that Later, Thomas, Alleta, Katherine Mary say. For the most part, 1942, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. the five could serve together, George and Gen, who has joined the WAVES priests, parishes and They were the children of Thomas and Alleta wrote to the Department of the Navy and (World War II women’s branch of the musicians make a Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa. The brothers also obtained permission. U.S. Naval Reserve), help christen a new conscientious effort had a sister, . In the movie, the brothers are doing destroyer, the USS The Sullivans. As the to promote participation by the people, The movie released in 1943 introduced their jobs on the USS Juneau when it is ship sails away, Alleta says, “Tom, our especially by singing. the brothers through a series of battered by explosions after it was hit by boys are afloat again.” Later, Al’s son This makes sense because singing is between 1914 and 1922. As they grew up, two torpedoes. Four of them find each served on it. Still later, a second destroyer one of the ways in which everyone can the brothers got into their share of fights— other, but realize that George is in the was also named the USS The Sullivans. engage the liturgical action. Common sometimes among themselves (if you sick bay and rush to him. When he insists It was christened by Al’s granddaughter, prayer, posture and singing are the main can imagine that) but sticking together if that they leave him, Al says, “We can’t go Kelly Ann Sullivan Loughren. † ways that we externally connect to the liturgy. Regardless of the quality of our That All May Be One/Fr. Rick Ginther voices, every one of us is able to join in prayer through recitation and song. The Ecumenical partners are called to speak that others might hear effort required to pray through song is reflected in St. Augustine’s famous adage, Assimilation: the art of drawing fractured world that ecumenical dialogue And no theology or religion which cantare amantis est: singing is for one diversity into a unity, while maintaining is a viable model for healing not only claims itself “Christian” can refuse who loves. unique qualities of the various elements historical differences among Christians, but self-examination of its history, present Sometimes, however, we can become drawn into oneness. healing historical differences of any kind. practices or teachings which may be so focused on participation that we forget I was fortunate We were lead through these thematic grounded in such domination. just what it is we are supposed to be to once again “moments” in sessions by a variety of We have to face, we were told, that the participating in. Music, separated from the participate in the speakers. One led a daily Scripture study, and Church has been complicit at times with liturgical action, can become busy work. National Workshop on her opening text was the Book of Genesis, unjust systems. We have suffered a peculiar We are given a song to sing while the Christian Unity 2018 Chapters 1 and 2, the creation stories. dichotomy of “silence”: many words about altar is prepared, or while we are waiting in Silver Springs, The greatest insight for me was in Gn “justice,” yet “inaction” to right the injustice. to receive holy Communion, but either Md., on April 16-19. 1:31, “… and God saw that it was very Christian churches are to be partners in the text is lacking in richness or the tune I came away with a good.” The Hebrew “very good” means “a holding one another accountable, and in to which it is set is uninspired. Lacking diversity of ideas, connection, overflowing and abundant.” bringing that accountability to the larger beauty in form or substance, such music insights and questions. I am still trying to All of creation is “very good”— community. We may be involved with is unsuited to the liturgy and disconnected assimilate them into an ecumenical whole. connected. Separation is not creation’s other religions as partners, too. Our local from worship. Thematically, the workshop’s essence or purpose. reality and God’s Spirit will provide the So what, then, are we to sing? The foundation was “God’s Power Nurturing And human beings are made in God’s partnerships we can nurture. “General Instruction of the Roman Communities of Witness and Dialogue.” image (Gn 1:26). We belong to God There is much more to assimilate from Missal” answers, “In the choosing of the “God’s Power”: that is, the power of truth because we bear the icon of God. We are the recent National Workshop on Christian parts [of the Mass] actually to be sung, spoken to untruth through the Holy Spirit. to be ambassadors, witnesses of God. Unity. I shall continue to pore over the preference is to be given to those that are “Nurturing Communities”: that is, And our “dominion” over the whole of thoughts and ideas, and hopefully grow of greater importance, and especially to newly linked Christian church voices once creation is to maintain the wellness of all into a better ecumenical “wholeness.” those which are to be sung by the priest locked in debates of “differences” now things (Genesis 2). Humans are to “till In the meantime, I shall hold fast to or the deacon or a reader, with the people linked in common purpose. and keep”; put another way, to “serve and this: ecumenical partners are called to replying, or by the priest and people “Of Witness”: that is, to advocate, educate, protect” all created things. speak that others might hear, and listen together” (#40). elucidate (make clear) that all people are Our Judeo-Christian world view, therefore, that others might speak. In this way, the What constitutes parts “that are of created equal and deserve equal justice. That does not allow for any form of relationship truth shall be found, and lived as one. greater importance?” “Musicam Sacram,” neither race, national origin, immigration which uses another to build up the user. an instruction on music issued by the status, nor any other discernable difference No form of slavery, racism, oppression, (Father Rick Ginther is director of the Vatican in 1967, divides the music of the matters more than being created in the image apartheid, economic subservience, archdiocesan Office of Ecumenism. He is Mass into three degrees. and likeness of God. exploitation of the environment, etc., is to be pastor of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Music in the first degree consists of “And Dialogue”: that is, showing our tolerated by or practiced by a Christian. Indianapolis.) † the chants sung by the priest or deacon in dialogue with the people, such as “the Amid the Fray/Greg Erlandson Lord be with you,” or the introduction to the Gospel. The second degree is what we What we learned from the ongoing debate about the life of Alfie Evans call the Mass Ordinary: the Kyrie, Gloria, Holy, and Lamb of God. The third degree Alfie Evans was born on May 9, tubes—sought a court’s permission to While health care professionals felt is the music sung during the entrance 2016. He died on April 28, 2018. For 16 do so. Eventually, Pope Francis was that everything possible had been done procession, responsorial psalm, offertory, and a half months, he was a patient of drawn into the case, as well as the Italian and that there was no possibility of a and Communion procession. Alder Hey Children’s government, the English bishops and change for the better, the Evans family Most parishes sing music from this Hospital in Liverpool, scores of advocates and activists. and others rejected the certainty of the third degree, and probably much of the England. By the Permission was sought, but denied, to medical professionals that all hope was music from the second, but the first is time he died, a good bring Alfie to a hospital at the Vatican. lost. Because the Italian hospital was an often neglected. This gets things backward, portion of the world While the doctors of the hospital did alternative, they felt that the family should and while it is permitted to replace the was aware of his short not deny the conclusions of the Alder have had the last word. designated texts of the third degree with life and the battle Hey doctors, the hospital was offering to As technology improves, the ability appropriate songs, those proper texts are his parents waged to provide ongoing care for what the British to keep human beings alive longer and frequently ignored entirely. This means prolong it. call a “semi-vegetative state.” longer will make additional cases like that our musical emphasis of the Mass is For reasons that By the time Alfie died, after his Alfie’s inevitable. On a human level, often on the parts that are less important were never medically clear, Alfie began to ventilator was removed on April 23, an parents are willing to go to great lengths than that which is not sung. show signs of a problem about two months extraordinary amount of medical and legal to defend their children. They know that Notice that music in the first and after he was born. In December 2016, seven effort had been made on his behalf. There doctors do not always make the right second degrees of importance are the months after he was born, he was admitted was an extraordinary amount of polemics predictions, and they hope for a future actual texts of the Mass. This is what to the hospital suffering from a variety of as well. cure. we are called to sing in “fully active symptoms, including seizures. For those debating what course of At issue are weighty matters regarding participation.” We are to engage in Tests showed significant brain damage. action was most appropriate, a major human dignity and a natural death, the the words of the Mass itself in song. He was kept alive on a ventilator and fed point of division concerns parental allocation of resources and the role of the It both reflects and edifies our interior by tube. An array of doctors weighed rights and their limits. Those defending state. The Catholic Church offers valuable devotion to offer our voices in the liturgy, in on the case, and, in the words of the actions of the hospital point to the guidance, though even it is not capable of especially those parts which are the a subsequent judicial decision, their almost unanimous conclusion of the resolving every debate. liturgical action. determination was that Alfie’s decline was medical professionals that the situation An unfortunate aspect of the Don’t just sing at Mass; sing the Mass. “both catastrophic and untreatable.” was hopeless, and to a legal system that controversy was the inflammatory Alfie came to the world’s attention recognizes there are limits to parental polemics that accompanied it. Death (Andrew Motyka is the director when the hospital—unable to secure rights, such as mandating life-saving threats against the doctors, exaggerated of Archdiocesan and Cathedral the permission of the parents to remove treatment for a child even when a family political rhetoric and the vilification of Liturgical Music for the Archdiocese of him from the ventilator and feeding says it violates their beliefs. See ALFIE, page 19 Indianapolis.) † The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Page 17

Pentecost Sunday/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, May 21 Friday, May 25 Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of St. , priest Sunday, May 20, 2018 the Church and • Acts of the Apostles 2:1-11 Genesis 3:9-15, 20 St. Gregory VII, pope • 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or Acts 1:12-14 St. de’Pazzi, • John 20:19-23 Psalm 87:1-2, 3, 5, 6-7 virgin John 19:25-34 James 5:9-12 (See related story on page 18.) Psalm 103:1-4, 8-9, 11-12 This weekend, the Church celebrates within each Christian, uniting Christians the Solemnity of Pentecost. The Acts of in a fundamental bond. Mark 10:1-12 the Apostles provides the first reading, When people open themselves fully Tuesday, May 22 the dramatic story and humbly to God, the Spirit comes to St. Rita of Cascia, religious Saturday, May 26 of the descent of the them. They recognize the Lord. They no James 4:1-10 St. Philip Neri, priest Holy Spirit upon longer are blind. Psalm 55:7-11, 23 James 5:13-20 the first Christians. St. John’s Gospel supplies the last In this passage, the reading. It recalls the visit by Jesus, Mark 9:30-37 Psalm 141:1-3, 8 imagery is important crucified but risen, to the Apostles who Mark 10:13-16 because these images are afraid, anxiously huddled together. Wednesday, May 23 spoke volumes to the Jesus, undeterred by locked doors, James 4:13-17 Sunday, May 27 people in first century appears in their midst, bringing peace and Psalm 49:2-3, 6-11 The Most Holy Trinity Palestine who heard confidence. Mark 9:38-40 Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 the story. He is the only source of true insight For example, the story tells that and of strength. Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-20, 22 suddenly, as the Apostles and the The Lord commissions the Apostles Thursday, May 24 Romans 8:14-17 community of Christians were gathered to continue the work of salvation. James 5:1-6 Matthew 28:16-20 in a secluded place in Jerusalem, He bestows the Holy Spirit on them, Psalm 49:14-20 a strong, loud wind was heard and conferring powers far above all human Mark 9:41-50 felt. In the Old Testament, God often power by empowering them to forgive appeared with, or in the midst of, a sins—a divine power—and giving them strong, loud wind. the right to judge the goodness, or Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle God also came in the form of fire on otherwise, of the actions of others. several occasions in the Old Testament, as when God spoke to from a burning Reflection People with serious illnesses are not bush. Small flames or tongues of fire For weeks, the Church joyfully has appeared and settled above the Apostles. proclaimed the glory and divinity of obligated to attend Sunday Mass As would be the case today, Jesus, victorious over death. Throughout An elderly woman in our parish Protestant minister, and he has been asked communication among people then was the Easter season, the Church has been Qhas terminal lung cancer. I have to perform the wedding ceremony. I burdened by the differences among careful to say that Jesus did not come into seen her condition deteriorate over the remember that you had recommended that the many languages. Another image and then depart from human history. He last two months. She is no longer driving, a member of the Catholic clergy also be is here. In the view of pious Jews, still lives. is very weak and is now on oxygen full involved in such a ceremony. multiple human languages did not just In remembering Pentecost, the Church time. I had been helping her to get to The uncle of their best man happens evolve, but were the direct result of tells us how the Lord remains with us. He church, and the other to be a priest, and my wife and I tried efforts to avoid God’s justice and to now lives, through the Holy Spirit, in the day she told me that to encourage our son to have that outmaneuver God. Church, guided by the Apostles and their she “goes back and priest participate in the wedding, but After being empowered by the Holy successors. forth” over whether unfortunately they said no. What are the Spirit, the Apostles were understood in all Pentecost already was a feast for she is still required to long-term ramifications of this? Will languages. The people saw in this a sign the Jews. It was the day when they attend Sunday Mass. their marriage be recognized by the that God willed the Gospel to be heard by acknowledged and rejoiced in their Out of sympathy, Catholic Church as valid? And if one all, and further, that through Christ sins national identity and ethnic cohesiveness, I responded that I day they should decide to raise their were forgiven. and specifically in the vital link between thought it would be children Catholic and have them receive The reading lists the nationalities their nation and God. OK if she did not the sacraments, will they run into any represented in Jerusalem on this For Christians, the new Pentecost attend. But now I trouble? (Virginia) important Jewish feast day. It actually celebrates their own cohesiveness, created worry that I may have said the wrong notes almost every major area of the by their common realization of life in thing. Did I? (Location withheld) A Catholic priest need not be Roman Empire. All nations, therefore, God. No mere earthly differences matter. Apresent at a mixed marriage were eligible to hear the Gospel of God offers salvation to all humanity. Relax. You gave her the right ceremony in order to have it be recognized Christ. The Holy Spirit creates and refreshes Aadvice. The Catechism of the as valid by the Catholic Church. St. Paul’s First Epistle to the this union. Catholic Church says: “The faithful are However, your son and his fiancée— Corinthians supplies the second reading. Signs make abundantly clear that God obliged to participate in the Eucharist on some time prior to the wedding—would Paul declared that no human conclusion, is within us in Christ, offering us peace at days of obligation, unless excused for a need to meet with a Catholic priest to obtain in and of itself, can truly compel a person present and joy in eternity. serious reason [for example, illness, the from the diocese the necessary permissions: to turn to Christ. Secondly, the very life Nothing can deny us this access to care of infants]” (#2181). a) for the marriage to take place in a setting of Jesus, given in the Holy Spirit, dwells God, except our own sin. † Note that the catechism does not other than a Catholic church; and b) for define the gravity of the illness that the officiant to be someone other than a would excuse, leaving room instead Catholic priest or deacon. for the person to make the judgment. Even if the couple does not choose My Journey to God If the illness were contagious, or if— to do this (the result being that their as, it would seem, in this case—the marriage is not recognized by the burdensome condition would preclude a Church), that does not preclude them from prayerful experience, a person need not having a child baptized in the Catholic Mother Mary (indeed, should not) go to church and faith—provided, of course, that they By Gina Langferman would be better off praying at home. intend to raise the child Catholic. (In the Your friend, though, might feel added words of 868.1.2 of the Church’s Mary, be my mother, comfort if she heard this same advice Code of Canon Law, “there must be And fill me with a love from a priest. Why not call your pastor a founded hope that the infant will be For Jesus, your son, and let him know about the woman’s brought up in the Catholic religion.” A love that will give me situation? He might want to call and Pope Francis in 2009, while still a cardinal the grace and strength assure her that she is not obliged to attend in Argentina, was reported to have told an To handle whatever comes. Mass. Even more important, he can visit Italian news magazine that “the child has her, bringing her holy Communion and, absolutely no responsibility for the state of Take my prayers to Jesus perhaps, the anointing of the sick. the parents’ marriage. And often a baptism For he always honored you, can be a new start for the parents as well.” And watch over my family, My son was born and raised Let me entrust them to you. QCatholic, attended Catholic (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth school and received all of his sacraments. Doyle at [email protected] and Mary, be my mother, Now he is about to marry a very nice 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York As I offer prayers above Protestant woman. Her cousin is a 12203.) † Help me to be devoted to Jesus And to always show his love. Readers may submit prose or poetry for faith column (Gina Langferman is a member of The Criterion invites readers to submit original prose or poetry relating to faith St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. or experiences of prayer for possible publication in the “My Journey to God” Photo: In the Basilica of the column. Annunciation in Nazareth, Israel, depictions of Mary from around the Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Please include name, address, parish world adorn the walls. Shown here is and telephone number with submissions. the contribution from Italy.) (File photo Send material for consideration to “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, 1400 by Natalie Hoefer) N. Meri­dian St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367or e-mail to [email protected]. † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018

Rest in peace Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connections­ to it; those are separate obituaries on this page. BERETTA, Ronald J., 82, Doles. Grandmother of five. St. Jude, Indianapolis, May 1. Great-grandmother of five. Husband of Wanda Beretta. DOWNTON, George E., Jr., Father of Deborah Dodson, 81, St. Anthony, Indianapolis, Kimberly Dolne, Anthony, April 25. Father of Donna Gregory, Mark, Matthew and Baker, Tamara Furlani, Cynthia Timothy Beretta. Brother of Mefford, Lenora Stevens, Carrie Rita Screen, Phillip and Victor West, Tara Worthy, Donald Beretta. Grandfather of 15. Ramsey, Andrew and George Great-grandfather of four. Downton III. Brother of Helen BRAUN, F. Josephine Dolder, Bill, Dick, Frank, Larry (Budenz), 94, St. Malachy, and Paul Downton. Grandfather Brownsburg, May 7. Mother of of 14. Great-grandfather of Sandra Routh, Jane Schaedel, several. Mary Ulrich, James and EATON, Frederick A., Jr., 91, Timothy Braun. Sister of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Michael Budenz. Grandmother New Albany, May 3. Father of nine. Step-grandmother of Theresa Carson, Kathleen of six. Great-grandmother Hagmann and Frederick Eaton and step-great-grandmother III. Brother of Robert Stokan. Spring blossoms of several. Great-great- Grandfather of five. Great- grandmother of one. grandfather of six. A tree with blossoms forms a natural canopy above a crucifix near the entrance to St. Medical Center in BRUMLEVE, Genevieve EVE, Clifton J., 97, St. John Smithtown, N.Y., on May 7. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) (Huber), 91, St. John Paul II, Paul II, Sellersburg, April 28. Sellersburg, April 24. Mother Father of Teresa Burgin, Helen, of Anna Brossart, Donna, John, Kathleen, Dennis, Eddie and Huff. Grandfather of 17. Great- Sister of Susan Rieger and May 3. Husband of Linda WARD, Kelly, 58, St. Elizabeth Benedictine Father Matthew Richard Eve. Grandfather of 13. grandfather of eight. David Korte. Aunt and great- Rambis. Father of Sherri of Hungary, Cambridge City, aunt of several. and Dr. Walter Brumleve. Great-grandfather of 13. JONES, Steve A., 48, Ganucheau, Gerri and Kristi May 1. Husband of Lori Ward. Grandmother of six. Rambis. Brother of Joan Smith. Father of Joseph and Joshua GULLETT, Virginia A. St. Matthew the Apostle, PERRA, Joan C. (Eldridge), Ward. Son of Donald and Joan BUSCHEMEYER, John (Becht), 78, St. Mary-of-the- Indianapolis, May 5. Husband 83, St. John Paul II, Sellersburg, Grandfather of three. Ward. Brother of Elaine Frost and W., 80, St. Joseph, Corydon, Knobs, Floyd County, May 3. of Delores Jones. Son of Chris April 25. Wife of Theodore SCHAFER, Donald J., 65, Steve Lines. Grandfather of two. May 7. Husband of Catherine Mother of Barbara Jacobs, Jones. Brother of Michelle Boyd Perra. Mother of Leanne, Kenny Prince of Peace, Madison, Buschemeyer. Father of Sarah Margie Mosier, Corky and and Nicole Jones. Uncle of and Rich Perra. Grandmother of May 1. Husband of Jane Ann WINGERTER, Rita M., 94, Koetter and Gretchen Swasey. Ed Gullett. Sister of Evelyn several. four. Great-grandmother of four. Schafer. Father of Jamie and St. Mary, Lanesville, April 29. Grandfather of five. Heilig, Juanita McCauley, Nina Mother of Dr. Rene Wingerter MARTIN, Wilbert L., Jr., PONTON, Margaret, Patrick Schafer. Brother of Schmidt and Stephen Becht. Buchanan, Randall, Robert, Jr. COROA, Alberto, 54, St. Jude, 86, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, 77, St. John the Apostle, Linda Greene, Richard and Grandmother of 10. Great- and Ronald Wingerter. Sister of Indianapolis, May 1. Husband April 27. Father of Kay Bland Bloomington, May 6. Mother Robert Schafer. grandmother of 10. Toni Korba and Frank Keeven. of Patricia Coroa. Father of and Wilbert Martin. Grandfather of Theresa Arthur, Lisa SCHMIDT, Earl A., 53, Prince Grandmother of nine. Great- Lucia Coroa. Brother of Rosa HALFAKER, Mary J., 92, of five. Great-grandfather of Bybee, Beth Keenan, Michelle Cabrera, Isabell Chavarra, St. Mary, Indianapolis, May 8. Kleindorfer, Lynnette Simon of Peace, Madison, April 30. grandmother of 19. one. Father of Trenton Schmidt. Victoria Delgado, Jaqueline Sister of Rita Eads. Aunt of and Angie Smith. Sister of WOERTZ, Douglas A., 66, MEYER, David L., 86, Brother of Duane Schmidt. Gonzales, Sonia Morales, Jorge several. Maureen Eaton, Catherine St. Joseph, Corydon, May 1. St. Mary, Greensburg, May 4. Klee and Steve Murphy. and Luis Coroa. HUFF, Andy J., 86, St. John TAYLOR, Mary P., 71, Husband of Gwen Woertz. DOLES, Anna M., 89, the Baptist, Osgood, May 4. PARRIS, Jill (Korte), 64, Grandmother of 20. Great- St. Mary, Mitchell, May 3. Father of Beth Vigne and St. Simon the Apostle, Father of Diane Davis, Sherry St. Therese of the Infant Jesus grandmother of seven. Mother of Brian Curtis and Matthew Woertz. Brother of Indianapolis, May 3. Mother Hawk, Kathy Plue, Jane Riehle, (Little Flower), Indianapolis, RAMBIS, Larry F., 75, Leonard Roberts. Sister of Bob Cheryl Quebbeman. Grandfather of Suzanne Lyons and Joseph Linda Sexton, Roger and Scott April 22. Wife of David Parris. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Goldsberry. of three. † Catholics get chance to celebrate, think about Mary with new feast day WASHINGTON (CNS)—The occasion, and the parish will host a that at the time of the original Pentecost, aside the Monday after Pentecost as the Catholic Church doesn’t often add new hospitality event after the morning liturgy Mary “did what a mother would do—she feast of Mary, Mother of the Church. celebrations to its pretty full liturgical and will have evening prayer that night prayed with and for her children in the When Father Barthel thinks about calendar, but this year’s new feast day, followed by dessert. upper room.” And at Jesus’ crucifixion, another day to honor Mary, he said he is Mary, Mother of the Church on May 21, The parish—where Father Barthel Christ publicly announced of Mary to reminded of the hospital ministry he did has Catholics gearing up to mark the day was initially assigned more than 28 years the disciple John, “behold your mother” as a seminarian when a patient who was or at least think a little more about Mary. ago as an associate pastor and now has (Jn 19:27). John symbolizes all of us, the Episcopalian asked him if it was OK if The new feast day, which will be returned to less than a year ago—was Church, Dodd said. she prayed to the Blessed Mother. celebrated annually the day after Pentecost, founded in 1971 and initially was staffed Auxiliary Bishop Gerard W. Battersby She said her reason for doing this, was announced in a March 3 decree by by Redemptorist priests. The parish, which of Detroit said Mary’s presence at the foot which the priest has never forgotten years the Congregation for Divine Worship opened so soon after the Second Vatican of the cross, and with the early Church at later, was: “Sometimes you just need a and the Sacraments. The decree said the Council, took its name from the title given Pentecost, are examples of what it means woman to talk to.” † pope approved the celebration because he to Mary by Blessed Paul VI in 1964. to be a disciple. thought it might “encourage the growth Gloria Falcao Dodd, director of He said this image of a mother with of the maternal sense of the Church in the academic programs for the International her children “on this pilgrim journey” is pastors, religious and faithful, as well as a Marian Research Institute at the important for the Church today, especially growth of genuine Marian piety.” University of Dayton, Ohio, wrote a as the pope is calling Catholics to a That line struck Father Chuck Barthel, paper about this Marian title in 2006. Her new evangelization and to unleash the pastor of Mary, Mother of the Church research shows that a bishop in the 1100s Gospel message. “It’s important for us to Parish in St. Louis, when he first read called Mary, “Mother of the Church,” understand the Church is Marian; this is it, and he has continued to go back to it and Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on the not just a pleasant sentiment added on,” as he considers the feast with particular rosary said that Mary at Pentecost was “in he said, stressing that Mary is a guide for significance for his parish. very truth, the mother of the Church, the the Church today. Gaining a renewed and deeper teacher and queen of the Apostles.” “I think this is a time of special grace,” understanding of Mary’s nurturing and And in 1981, the title “Mother of the bishop told Catholic News Service on caring side is something he said the the Church” was given another boost May 2, noting that Mary’s job has always Church, especially in today’s climate, when St. John Paul II had a mosaic been to point to Jesus. could certainly use. commissioned for the outside wall of his The Detroit Archdiocese is celebrating His parish is one of a handful of papal apartment called “Mater Ecclesiae” the new feast day with a May 21 Mass churches in the U.S., along with a (“Mother of the Church”) in gratitude for at Old St. Mary’s Church in Detroit Benedictine Abbey in Richmond, Va., his recovery after being shot in St. Peter’s concelebrated by Bishop Battersby, named Mary, Mother of the Church. For Square. Then, and other times, the pope Bishop Donald F. Hanchon, another this year’s celebration of the new feast spoke of Mary as a mediator, or someone Detroit auxiliary bishop, and several day, the St. Louis church is not planning who intercedes for us, said Dodd. archdiocesan priests. After Mass, there A statue of Mary is seen at Old anything big, but plans to celebrate on the That idea of Mary interceding for will be a May Crowning and procession St. Mary’s Catholic Church in the actual day—when he said parishioners the Church, as a mother does for her through the streets with a statue of Mary Greektown neighborhood of Detroit in this can “enjoy each other’s company”—not children, is important for Catholics to carried by Catholic school students. 2015 file photo. The Detroit Archdiocese is during Pentecost weekend when there is consider, especially as this new feast falls In some parts of the world this feast celebrating the new feast day for Mary, Mother already a lot going on. so soon after Mother’s Day, said Dodd. day isn’t new. The Church calendars of of the Church with a May 21 Mass at Old The pastor said he hopes to give She also said it is key to understand its Poland, Argentina, St. Peter’s Basilica and St. Mary’s followed by a May Crowning and parishioners a prayer card for the placement right after Pentecost, noting some religious orders have already set procession. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Detroit) The Criterion Friday, May 18, 2018 Page 19

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(CNS)—The head of people being resettled to continue to and an Iraqi woman who escaped Islamic befriended refugee families, taking them of Catholic Charities USA is saddened that decline. State militants after death threats, tearfully on trips and inviting them to events such as many Catholics have “become acclimated” In Portland, the archdiocesan Catholic leaving her family behind. carving pumpkins. to national resentment over migrants. Charities has seen the number of people Sister Donna admitted that she once “It depresses me to realize how few Dominican Sister Donna Markham, it has resettled fall in recent years. Since thought of refugees and migrants as people Catholics dive in to Catholic social the agency’s president and CEO, told the start of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, the looking for a handout. She is now ashamed teaching,” Archbishop Sample told listeners an audience during the Msgr. Thomas agency has resettled 105 people. In fiscal of the view, having learned thousands of in remarks before the lecture. The Church’s Tobin Lecture on Catholic social teaching year 2016, 600 people were resettled and stories. social justice work is an inseparable part on May 4 that some Catholics have 400 people were resettled in 2017. “They had no alternative,” she told the of its primary mission of salvation for the sidestepped the lessons of Jesus, who said, Sister Donna admitted that at times the Portland crowd. “They had to run for their world, he explained, saying, “It’s not an “What you did not do for one of these least circumstances lead immigrant advocates to lives. These are our brothers and sisters, option. ones, you did not do for me” (Mt 25:45). become “terribly demoralized.” not freeloaders.” “We need as a Church to continue to be Portland Archbishop Alexander “But the Gospel calls us to care for the She related the tale of a girl in the that voice of reason,” the archbishop added. K. Sample supported Sister Donna’s point, most vulnerable. We are not about to stop U.S. who returned home from school only “We need constantly to be an active voice reporting that he receives angry letters after now,” she said. to find that her father had been detained by of social justice for all.” speaking up for immigrants. Meanwhile, Pope Francis and the immigration officials. “As Catholics, we The archbishop expressed sadness about “We live in an age that treats migrants U.S. Catholic bishops have made strong think it is reprehensible to have families polarization in the Church when it comes as if they were a disease,” he said, calling it statements in support of the dignity torn apart,” Sister Donna said. “This is to the social mission. Orthodox believers, “deplorable” that the country would turn its of migrants. “They have responded to totally against who we are as a Church.” he said, tend to back the pro-life cause, but back on refugees and immigrants who are xenophobia with compassion, mercy and Sister Donna suggested that Catholics at times do not show enough concern for fleeing violence and poverty. “These are welcome,” Sister Donna said. “That makes plan small group potlucks and invite other social justice matters, including the real people with real lives.” me proud to be Catholic.” refugees and migrants to tell their dignity of migrants. “And, frankly, it goes While Catholic Charities nationwide She told stories of refugees, including stories. Erin Weisensee, a member of the other way, too,” he told the crowd. aid about 600,000 refugees and migrants that of a concert pianist who fled Romania Holy Redeemer Parish in Portland, “This isn’t a matter of either/or. I’d like overall, agency officials expect the number after her hands were broken by officials, explained how she and husband Matt have to see us hold all of this together.” †

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