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A science teacher from the archdiocese James and Jackie Morris Welcome, Catholic educators! will receive a national award. Individually and as a married couple,

Another award winner from the James and Jackie Morris have made their In this week’s issue of The Criterion, we NATIONAL CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION archdiocese once led the world’s largest mark on Catholic education and faith-filled are including a special B section CONVENTION humanitarian agency. leadership. welcoming the thousands who are attending ‘At the Crossroads: And an Indianapolis woman who has James Morris currently serves as special the annual National Catholic Educational Where Challenge Meets Opportunity’ dedicated 47 years of her life to Catholic adviser to the chief executive officer and Association Convention on March 25-27. education will also be honored. president for Pacers Sports and It’s the first time in the 105-year history They are among the seven individuals Entertainment in Indianapolis. Previously, he of the association that the convention will from the archdiocese who will receive spent five years as the executive director for be held in Indianapolis. Criterion staff report Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole After a year’s worth of hard work and preparation, the New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. excitement builds as the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Attracting the NCEA annual convention to national awards during the National Catholic the United Nations World Food Programme, This year’s convention theme is “At the welcomes more than 8,000 delegates to the 2008 National Indianapolis is important and exciting, said Bob Catholic Educational Association’s annual convention on Desautels, a senior manager of convention services for March 25-28. the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association. It’s the first time in the 105-year history of the “This is a very prestigious convention,” Desautels association that the convention will be held in said. “You can’t overstate the importance of the Educational Association convention in where he oversaw the world’s largest Crossroads: Where Challenge Meets Indianapolis, the 13th largest city in the United States. Archdiocese of Indianapolis, and specifically the Office One of the city’s nicknames—“the Crossroads of of Catholic Education, in successfully conducting this America”—serves as the heart of the theme for the convention.” convention: “At the Crossroads: Where Challenge Meets Many local events are planned for convention week Indianapolis on March 25-27. humanitarian agency. He has spent more than Opportunity.” Opportunity.” co-sponsored by the archdiocese and various partners. “We really believe that the work of our catechists, On March 24, up to 50 delegates may travel to St. teachers and administrators makes a difference in the Mary-of-the-Woods College, the home of St. lives of children, parents, our world and the Church,” Theodora Guérin, Indiana’s first saint, who was says Kathy Mears, an associate director of schools for the canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. Tours of The archdiocese will also have a school, a 35 years in leadership roles in business, More than 400 workshops and Archdiocese of Indianapolis and a member of the historic St. John the Evangelist Church in convention’s organizing committee. downtown Indianapolis will also be available. “That work, however, can be challenging,” she On March 25, a reception will be held for continued. “Our convention is going to address those 500 guests at the Indianapolis Motor challenges that are facing Catholic education because we Speedway sponsored by Catapult Learning, parish, an organization and two philanthropic and humanitarian ventures 500 educational exhibits will be available at believe that our faith-filled educational system is and a Sacred Sounds Concert will be held definitely part of the answer to issues that are facing our at St. John the Evangelist Church, country and the world.” featuring the musical talents of The convention is also committed to a “green” theme, archdiocesan students. recognizing the integrity of the Earth. Recycling and Health Day will be held on March 26. lay governance bodies that will receive along with a personal life of public service the convention, which will be held at the other “green” practices will be emphasized at the Delegates will be able to “travel” through convention. a model heart and learn how to be more “This is one of the great challenges facing our heart-healthy courtesy of St. Vincent and St. Church and the world, and we want our teachers to Francis hospitals of Indianapolis. Free health understand and learn different ways to help make screenings will be offered, and participants national recognition at the convention. and volunteerism. Indiana Convention Center. The convention our students more environmentally aware,” Mears will also be invited to donate blood in the says. “As Catholics, we want to make sure that Indiana Blood Center Bloodmobile on site. we are leading the way in modeling how to be March 26 will also feature a tour of good stewards of the Earth .” Students and faculty at St. Simon the Apostle School in Indianapolis are all smiles Roncalli High School in Indianapolis for More than 400 workshops and 500 educational after being recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department 40 delegates, and a free “Teachers’ Night Here is a list of the award winners from Jackie Morris is a volunteer teacher at is open to anyone who works in or is exhibits will be available at the convention, which of Education in 2005. Read about the archdiocese’s outstanding track record in Out” at the Marriott Hotel Ballroom with will be held at the Indiana Convention Center. The education on page 2. (Submitted photo) music and dancing sponsored by convention is open to anyone who works or is interested QSP/Reader’s Digest. in Catholic education, including teachers, clergy, W. Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and College Day is March 27 and administrators, parents and students. chairman of the NCEA board of directors. features a special “Catechists’ Track.” College students the archdiocese: St. Joan of Arc School in Indianapolis, was interested in Catholic education, including On March 25, Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk, On March 26, the Most Rev. Blasé Cupich, bishop of and volunteer parish religious educators may attend all Archbishop of Cincinnati, is scheduled to celebrate the Rapid City, South Dakota, will deliver the opening keynote sessions, including special offerings for catechists for opening Mass with the Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, address. only $25 (registered in advance). A reception for 300 appointed to the Mother Theodore Catholic teachers, clergy, administrators, parents and Archbishop of Indianapolis, and the Most Rev. Donald On March 27, a keynote address will be delivered by See WELCOME, page 3B Welcome educators to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Annette “Mickey” Lentz Academies board of directors, and is a students. Dear Catholic Educators: bility—of shaping future generations. I will thereafter began opening Catholic schools throughout pray that your time in Indianapolis will be Indiana. I extend to you the warmest of welcomes to inspiring and that you will return to your local the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and its See parishes energized in your commitment to be Let’s pray that we continue to follow St. Theodora’s City. We are excited and proud that you good stewards of our most precious resource: wise counsel: “Love the children first, then teach The archdiocese’s executive director of member of St. Margaret’s Guild, the chose to hold the 105th Annual National our children, youth and young adults. them.” Catholic Educational Association Convention here at the “Crossroads of I hope during your convention that you will God bless all of you for all the good work you do and America.” I also welcome all the parish draw inspiration from St. Theodora Guérin, may God be with each of you this week! catechetical leaders who are here to take who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Catholic Education and Faith Formation will Childrens’ Museum Guild and the (Details for all local events can be found at part in the National Parish Catechetical Oct. 15, 2006. St. Theodora is truly a model Sincerely yours in Christ, Directors Convocation. for today’s educators. St. Theodora came to Archbishop Daniel M. the Indiana frontier in 1840 with five Sisters Educators all, you are the key to the future Buechlein of Providence and almost no resources, but of our Church, and the future of our society. within a year she had established a Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. receive the 2008 F. Sadlier Dinger Award, Day Nursery Auxiliary. She served as a www.archindy.org/ncea or at the local You have the privilege—and the serious responsi- motherhouse, a novitiate and an academy and soon Archbishop of Indianapolis established to honor people for their longtime trustee on the board of hospitality booth at the convention.) † outstanding efforts in Catholic education. Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in The award is given by William H. Sadlier Indianapolis. Inc. Educational Publishers. the 2008 NCEA Distinguished Teacher Award Board of Trustees at Our Lady of When he announced the award, company St. Mary School in North Vernon from the NCEA Department of Elementary Providence High School in Clarksville president William Sadlier Dinger wrote to Since 1865, St. Mary School in Schools. and St. Luke Parish School Commission Lentz, “Your remarkable work has had a North Vernon has created a rich Catholic McGregor has taught in various Catholic in Indianapolis tremendous effect on Catholic education tradition that focuses on moral values, schools in Indiana, including the last 25 years These two lay governance bodies will be locally and nationally.” academic excellence and spiritual, Christ- in the archdiocese. With a strong belief that recipients of the Outstanding Board Award Lentz has worked in Catholic education in centered faith development. There is a strong Catholic education is rooted in the examples of from the NCEA Department of Boards and the archdiocese for the past 47 years. She partnership between parents, school, parish Jesus, McGregor states, “We are called to Councils. The awards seek to honor and was a teacher and principal before joining the and community. provide students with more than a curriculum. showcase examples of outstanding boards, archdiocese’s Office of Catholic Education. The school’s principal, Franciscan Sister As teachers, we help students appreciate the commissions and councils of Catholic She was appointed executive director by Joanita Koors, serves on the special gifts [that] God has given them and help them Education that serve schools, (arch)dioceses Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein in 1998. education committee of the Jennings County to communicate that appreciation to God in or parish education programs so that their She has overseen intense progress in School Corporation. St. Mary School prayer.” stories may inspire others to excellence. Catholic education with the receipt of received a No Child Left Behind Blue “Susan exudes the professionalism that is a major challenge grant from Ribbon Award from the U.S. Department of so important when working with colleagues Ann G. Northam Lilly Endowment Inc. that resulted in Education in 2004. and the adolescents she meets each day,” says The director of religious education at Project EXCEED—a multi-year school Kathleen Wright, principal of St. Simon St. Augustine and Sacred Heart of Jesus improvement initiative that has become a St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis School. parishes in Jeffersonville will receive the national model. She also headed an effort to This parish is an open and diverse Mustard Seed Award given by the National organize an innovative consortium of urban community of faith which exists to love and E. Jo Hoy Association of Parish Catechetical Directors schools in Indianapolis, now known as the serve God, members of the parish, St. Joan of The principal at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. at their convocation. Mother Theodore Catholic Academies. Arc School and the neighborhood through High School in Indianapolis will receive a The NPCD recognizes Northam’s prayer, worship, evangelization, outreach, Catholic Secondary Education Award from the commitment and dedication to children’s Catholic Identity Awards education and stewardship. NCEA Department of Secondary Schools, faith formation as invaluable to the work of Five awards will be made to individuals, Under the leadership of Father Guy recognizing her distinguished service to the Church in spreading the Gospel. families, schools or parishes in the Roberts, pastor, and school principal, Catholic education. Northam has been the director of archdiocese as a joint recognition by William Mary Pat Sharpe, this center city parish has She was nominated by Ritter’s president, religious education at St. Augustine Parish H Sadlier Inc. and the archdiocese. These become revitalized in recent years. Paul Lockard. for the past 23 years. In July, she also awards affirm faith-filled work that “Mrs. Jo Hoy’s leadership has been became the director of religious education effectively demonstrates our identity as a The Guardian Angel Guild of Indianapolis significant in the renaissance of at the sister parish in Jeffersonville, Sacred Catholic people. They are: This organization was founded in 1959 to Cardinal Ritter High School,” Lockard says. Heart. The two parishes also share a pastor. financially support resource programs and “The mission of the school is to serve a The nomination cited the many programs Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein resource teachers serving special needs diverse student body to achieve their that Northam has sponsored for faith He was installed as Archbishop of populations in the archdiocese. The guild has academic, spiritual, social and physical formation, including a family book club, the Indianapolis on Sept. 9, 1992. The been an “angel” to St. Mary’s Child Center potential. As a Hispanic, she has embraced the Living Rosary, Advent Fair and the Blessing archbishop currently serves as consultor to and to elementary and high schools understanding that students of diverse of the Palms. † the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy throughout the archdiocese. The guild works backgrounds need the opportunity to interact and as co-moderator of the Disciples of closely with the Office of Catholic Education in a safe, caring manner, but also in an Christ-Roman Catholic International to help best serve students with special needs. environment of high expectations. She is an On the cover Dialogue. He has also been a leader in the They are truly angels as they live their motto: outstanding and deserving leader in Catholic efforts of the U.S. bishops to bring religion “Assisting God’s children with developmental education.” The risen Christ is portrayed in a textbooks into conformity with the disabilities to reach their potential.” She helped start a program of Everyday window at St. Mary Cathedral in Catechism of the Catholic Church. Spanish for police officers, teachers and other Killarney, Ireland. Easter, the feast of During his 15 years in Indianapolis, Susan McGregor public workers with Marian College in the Resurrection, is on March 23 Archbishop Buechlein has provided strong A science teacher at St. Simon the Apostle Indianapolis, where she also teaches classes. in the Latin rite this year. support to our Catholic schools with a School in Indianapolis, McGregor is one of Enrollment at Cardinal Ritter has risen from (CNS photo/Crosiers) special devotion to maintaining a Catholic 12 teachers from across the nation to receive 380 students to 540 students during her tenure.

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Archbishop Buechlein says cancer treatment prognosis is positive

Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, follow a month of daily radiation treatments. In summary, according to my oncologist and staff, my prognosis is completely positive. If there are no unforeseen developments, I I can’t tell you how much I miss being out in our parishes and at the Catholic Center, should be back “full force” in August or September. I plan to celebrate the priesthood especially at this holy time. I pray that you all may enjoy God’s choicest blessings for the ordination on June 7 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, and I hope to attend the upcoming Holy Triduum and the great Easter Solemnity! Priest Convocation at Saint Meinrad.

I want to provide you with an update on the status of my I would be remiss if I did not thank all of you for your understanding and for carrying on treatment for Hodgkin’s lymphoma now that my medical our mission for Christ so well that pastoral life seems to go on as usual. The cancer and treatment is well under way. accompanying consequences have, in fact, given me a wholesome spiritual pause and a time of special grace in this Lenten season. Your response and that of so many others has The fourth of six chemotherapy treatments was completed on been overwhelming and humbling. Thank you so much for your prayerful support and March 14. The side effects of the chemo have resulted in the encouragement. curtailing of my public pastoral ministry. This is largely due to the fact that my white blood cell count is extremely low and my Sincerely yours in Christ, immune system has been weakened. The oncology staff urges me to avoid public interaction for the time being because of the danger of serious infection. I was told that infection would mean hospitalization. Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. Archbishop of Indianapolis After two more chemotherapy treatments, concluding in April or early May, there will March 15, 2008 Archdiocese to purchase Carmelite monastery property for college seminary

By Sean Gallagher its policies, and other archdiocesan leaders to discuss the seminary’s future.

For the past three and a half years, All agreed that the college seminary had Submitted photo Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary been successful in its first three years in has been based on the campus of forming future priests, but archdiocesan Marian College in Indianapolis. leaders felt that the seminary needs to have But at the start of the next academic year a facility of its own, which would be a in August, the archdiocesan college priority in the years to come. seminary and its seminarians will have a Currently, 18 seminarians from the new home just a mile away. archdiocese and three other dioceses reside The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has and receive formation within a larger agreed to purchase the facilities and the dormitory on Marian’s campus, where other 17 acres belonging to the Carmel of the students also live. Resurrection, a community of Carmelite At the same time that discussions nuns who have lived in their monastery at were happening about how this 2500 Cold Spring Road in Indianapolis separate facility could become a since 1932. reality, Sister Jean Alice met with In recent years, the community, currently Msgr. Schaedel to talk with him about numbering 10 nuns, has found it her community’s desire to move. increasingly difficult to manage the upkeep An agreement between the archdiocese of their monastery and decided to move to and the Carmelites regarding the sale was the motherhouse of the Congregation of the made in the months that followed. Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in “I think Providence was definitely at The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has agreed to purchase the Carmelite Monastery of the Oldenburg, where they will have their own work in it,” Msgr. Schaedel said. “It just Resurrection, the home of a community of 10 Carmelite nuns in Indianapolis. The monastary will building. came at the perfect time.” become the new home of Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary. The seminarians will continue to take Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, Msgr. Schaedel said that other options classes at Marian College, which is one mile north of the monastery. sees the upcoming transition in the use of to establish a separate facility for the facilities as Bishop Bruté College Seminary would have Preserving a tradition of prayer maintain an environment of contemplative fitting into its long involved a greater financial investment by Father Robeson respects the tradition of prayer in the seminary that you can’t really history. the archdiocese than purchasing and prayer that has been carried on at the do while you’re on the college campus.” “Those sisters renovating the Carmelite monastery. monastery for more than 75 years. Msgr. Schaedel recalled how, in past have been a “Whatever we need to do to bring this “We’re inheriting an environment that’s decades, hundreds of archdiocesan powerhouse of building up to snuff for a seminary is steeped in the Carmelite tradition,” he said. Catholics would gather on the grounds of prayer for the local certainly going to be less than we would “And that’s something that I certainly want the Carmelite monastery to pray a novena Church in the have spent otherwise,” he said. to honor. [I’ll] do my best to make sure that to Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the days archdiocese,” he we appreciate and continue to advance the leading up to her feast day on July 16. said. “Every day, A place of their own Carmelite charism.” “We were invoking her guidance and they have been Father Robert Robeson, rector of the Father Robeson said that relocating the protection on the archdiocese,” he said. praying for the Bishop Bruté College Seminary, said that seminary from Marian’s campus to a place “And this is one more example that she is Msgr. Joseph F. archdiocese. And I having a place that designed to foster prayer will aid the still at it.” Schaedel know good and is truly home will spiritual formation and vocational well every day they pray for priests. foster a greater discernment of the seminarians. (For more information about the “And so this kind of fits right in that sense of community “When you’re in the middle of a Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary, log this space will continue to be part of the among the campus, there’s always something going on to www.archindy.org/bsb. For more life of the archdiocese. It will continue to seminarians. on,” he said. “There will be benefits from information about the Carmel of the be a place of prayer and study and “Community life being away from the center of activity. Resurrection, log on to formation for future ministers—in this is going to be “There will be times when we can www.praythenews.org.) † case, for priests.” much more vibrant In a letter sent to supporters of her within the community, Carmelite Sister Jean Alice seminary,” McGoff, prioress of the Carmel of the Father Robeson Fr. Robert Roberson Heating and Air Conditioning Resurrection, said said. “[The that “this use of the seminarians] are going to have more property fulfills our responsibility for their property and their dream that the home. monastery be used “They’re not going to be living in a for a religious rented space owned by somebody else. purpose and the They’re going to be living in their own building kept intact.” home.” www.callthiele.com Terms of the sale The additional space in the new SERVICE & REPLACEMENT SPECIALISTS are pending, but facilities will also allow formation John & Kara Traub they are expected to conferences to be given in a manner that Owners SERVICE CALL be finalized in the is geared more for individual classes Furnaces as low as $ 00* Our staff has over 100 years $ 95 Sr. Jean Jean Alice next two months. rather than for the community as a whole, 999 McGoff, O.C.D. of Catholic education 59 The seminarians which has been happening, in part, will continue to take classes at Marian because of space constraints. SAVE College. Father Robeson also said that the $ 00 separate facilities for the seminary will 30 A work of Providence help increase the role that it has served in Msgr. Schaedel sees the emergence of the life of the archdiocese. Expires 4/21/08 317-639-1111 Coupons must be the opportunity to purchase the monastery “The Church of central and southern presented at time of in a providential light. Indiana will be much more instrumental 50,000 BTU “INDY’S OLDEST purchase. Cannot be UPFLOW combined with any Last October, Archbishop Daniel M. in playing a part in the formation of our EATING OOLING COMPANY other offer! *Flue liner, Taxes, Permits, H & C ” Buechlein met with the seminary’s adminis- seminarians,” he said. “And they have Misc. Material Not Included SINCE 1883 639-1111 trators, a board of priests who help draw up already. People know the seminarians.” Page 4 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008

OPINION Making Sense of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk Do embryos have souls?

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 (Editor’s note: This week, we begin a new and pluripotency. Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher monthly column, “Making Sense of We must recognize that it is God’s Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Bioethics,” by Father Tad Pacholczyk.) business as to precisely when he ensouls embryos. We do not need an answer to this People are sometimes surprised to hear fascinating and speculative theological that the wrongness of destroying a human question, like counting angels on the head Editorial embryo does not of a pin, in order to grasp the fundamental ultimately depend on truth that human embryos are inviolable and when that embryo deserving of unconditional respect at every might become a person, stage of their existence. or when he or she Rather, this moral affirmation follows might receive a soul directly on the heels of the scientific data from God. regarding early human development, They often suppose which affirms that every person on the Illustration/historic postcard that the Catholic face of the planet is, so to speak, an Church teaches that “overgrown embryo.” destroying human Hence, it is not necessary to know embryos is unacceptable because such exactly when God ensouls the embryo, embryos are persons (or are “ensouled”). because, as I sometimes point out in While it is true that the Church teaches half-jest, even if it were true that an embryo that the intentional and direct destruction of did not receive her soul until she graduated human embryos is always immoral, it would from law school, that would not make it OK be incorrect to conclude that the Church to kill her by forcibly extracting tissues or teaches that zygotes (a single-cell organs prior to graduation. embryo) or other early-stage embryos are Human embryos are already beings that persons, or that they already have immortal, are human (not zebra or plant), and are, in rational souls. fact, the newest and most recent additions to The magisterium of the Church has never the human family. They are integral beings definitively stated when the ensoulment of structured for maturation along their proper the human embryo takes place. It remains an time line. Any destructive action against open question. them as they move along the continuum of This historic French postcard depicts Jesus meeting his mother and is the fourth Station The Declaration on Procured their development disrupts the entire future of the Cross at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Abortion from the Congregation for the time line of that person. Doctrine of the Faith in 1974 phrases the In other words, the embryo exists as a matter with considerable precision: whole, living member of the human species, Why didn’t Jesus escape? “This declaration expressly leaves aside and when destroyed, that particular the question of the moment when the individual has perished. Every human hen Jesus knew that he was God and man. spiritual soul is infused. There is not a embryo, thus, is unique and sacrosanct, and Wabout to be arrested and That was why God the Father sent unanimous tradition on this point and should not be cannibalized for stem cell condemned to what Cicero called “the his eternally begotten Son to earth, to authors are as yet in disagreement. For some extraction. most cruel and disgusting penalty” of restore the harmony with God that it dates from the first instant; for others it What a human embryo actually is, even crucifixion, why didn’t he escape? had existed before sin disrupted it. In could not at least precede nidation [implan- at its earliest and most undeveloped stage, Wouldn’t you try to get away if you that way, he showed his love for us. tation in the uterus]. It is not within the already makes it the only kind of entity were in that garden of Gethsemane? As St. Paul wrote, “God shows his competence of science to decide between capable of receiving the gift of an immortal Earlier, after Jesus had raised love for us in that while we were yet these views, because the existence of an soul from the hand of God. No other animal Lazarus from the dead and the sinners Christ died for us” immortal soul is not a question in its field. It or plant embryo can receive this gift; Sadducees decided to get the Romans (Rom 5:8). is a philosophical problem from which our indeed, no other entity in the universe can to kill Jesus, he hid in a village called And St. John’s Gospel tells us that moral affirmation remains independent. …” receive this gift. Ephraim, about 12 miles from “God so loved the world that he gave That being said, the moral teaching of Hence, the early human embryo is never Jerusalem at the edge of the his only Son, so that everyone who the Church is that the human embryo merely biological tissue, like a group of Judean Desert. believes in him might not perish but must be treated as if it were already liver cells in a petri dish; at a minimum, Why didn’t he go there again? It might have eternal life” (Jn 3:16). ensouled, even if it might not yet be so. It such an embryo, with all its internal would have taken him only about Jesus sacrificed himself for us. “I must be treated as if it were a person structure and directionality, represents the 15 minutes to climb the Mount of lay down my life of my own accord,” from the moment of conception, even if privileged sanctuary of one meant to Olives from Gethsemane and be on his he said (Jn 10:17). He is called “the there exists the theoretical possibility that develop as a human person. way on a road that ran from there to lamb of God who takes away the sins it might not yet be so. Some scientists and philosophers will the Judean Desert. of the world” (Jn 1:29) because he Why this rather subtle, nuanced position, attempt to argue that if an early embryo He didn’t do that because he chose was sacrificed, not just killed, like instead of simply declaring outright that might not yet have received its immortal to be crucified. As he had told his the lambs the Jews offered to God in zygotes are ensouled, and therefore are soul from God, it must be OK to destroy Apostles, that was his Father’s will. He their temple in expiation for their persons? that embryo for research since he or she explained it to his Apostles many sins. And the Letter to the Hebrews First, because there has never been a would not yet be a person. times, even though they refused to says that Jesus was also the priest unanimous tradition on this point; and But it would actually be the reverse; that accept it. who surrenders himself (Heb 2:14). second, because the precise timing of is to say, it would be more immoral to Of course, he could have gotten The United States Catholic ensoulment/personhood of the human destroy an embryo that had not yet received away. He said, “Do you think that I Catechism for Adults says, “His embryo is irrelevant to the question of an immortal soul than to destroy an cannot pray to my Father, who would sacrifice was an act of atonement, that whether or not we may ever destroy such ensouled embryo. at once send me more than 12 legions is, it makes us one again with God by embryos for research or other purposes. Why? Because the immortal soul is the of angels?” (Mt 26:53). the power of divine mercy extending Interestingly, ensoulment has been principle by which that person could come But he didn’t do that. He was to us the Father’s forgiveness of our discussed for centuries, and so-called to an eternal destiny with God in heaven, so determined to follow his Father’s will. sins. His sacrifice is also called an act delayed ensoulment was probably the norm the one who destroyed the embryo, in this It’s not that he wasn’t tempted to of satisfaction or reparation because he for most of Christian history, with immediate scenario, would preclude that young human run when the time came. Just as any lives out fully the Father’s call to ensoulment gaining some serious momentum from ever receiving an immortal soul (or human would do, he wanted to get out human beings to be faithful to his plan of its own beginning in the 1600s (and becoming a person) and making his or her of it. In his agony in the garden, for them, thus overcoming the power representing the position most widely held way to God. knowing full well what was soon to of sin. today). This would be the gravest of evils, as the happen, he prayed, “Father, if you are “It is also an expiation for our sins, Augustine seemed to shift his opinion stem cell researcher would forcibly derail willing, take this cup away from me.” which in the understanding of back and forth during his lifetime between the entire eternal design of God over that But then he quickly added, “Still, not Scripture means that God takes the immediate and delayed ensoulment. unique and unrepeatable person, via an my will but yours be done” (Lk 22:42, initiative in bringing about reconcil- In the 1200s, Thomas Aquinas held action that would be, in some sense, worse Mt 26:39, Mk 14:36). iation to himself. In the words of that human ensoulment occurred not right than murder. But why did Jesus have to die by Christian tradition, Jesus’ sacrifice at the first instant, but at a time-point The human person, then, even in his or crucifixion? Couldn’t God have saved merits salvation for us because it removed from the beginning. This, he her most incipient form as an embryonic us in some other way? retains forever the power to draw us to argued, would enable the matter of the human being, must always be safeguarded Of course, he could, if he did it by him and to the Father” (p. 92). embryo to undergo development and in an absolute and unconditional way, and accepting some imperfect expressions By dying by crucifixion, Jesus become “apt” for the reception of an speculation about the timing of personhood of human repentance and atonement. obeyed the will of God, demonstrated immortal soul from God (by passing cannot alter this fundamental truth. But God willed that our redemption his love for us, and accomplished our through simpler initial stages involving be achieved in the most perfect way. redemption. “vegetative” and “animative” souls). (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned No mere human, no matter how holy, While hanging on the cross, he Even today in various quarters, the his doctorate in neuroscience from Yale and could take on the sins of all humanity said, “It is finished” (Jn 19:30). discussions continue, with new did post-doctoral work at Harvard. He is a and offer himself as a sacrifice for God’s plan was carried out. embryological details like twinning and priest of the diocese of Fall River, Mass., all. Jesus, and only Jesus, could do so chimerization impinging upon the debate, and serves as the director of education at because only he was both —John F. Fink and new conceptual questions arising from The National Catholic Bioethics Center in the intricate biology surrounding totipotency Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org.) † The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B. SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR At Easter, we experience the mystery of life conquering death

or people of faith, Holy Week is a time of suffering and death. It is the least we can displacement of the centrality of the together and alone. Fvery special grace. do in return for the blessing of his love in Resurrection in Christian life. And so Easter is the pre-eminent feast In a certain sense, for people of faith, it our lives! We want to be reminded that a real of hope! For those who face death with is as if this special week is sort of No liturgical celebration is more human person stretched out his arms on fear, Jesus showed once and for all that in suspended in time, just for a bit. beautiful than that of the Easter Vigil. The the cross and suffered deeply because he death, life is changed and not taken away. All we need to do is give ourselves great Easter fire and the lighting of the loves us. In one of our eucharistic prayers, we are to the special liturgical prayer which the paschal candle are rich in their symbolism. Our crucifixes embrace a Christian reminded that we are called “to a Kingdom Church presents to us, especially We are led through the story of our realism about life and death and where every tear shall be wiped away.” during the Triduum of Holy Thursday, salvation in a wonderful series of readings. resurrection, and they strike a chord in This is the true home to which all of us are Good Friday and the Easter Vigil. How moving are the baptism of our human experience. journeying. And so Easter lifts our spirits These particular liturgical celebrations catechumens and the confirmation of They remind us that “He came unto his along the way. carry the noble simplicity of our most candidates! In fact, the entire Vigil and own and his own received him not” Thank God for the gift of our Easter ancient celebrations. Eucharist are moving. (Jn 1:11). faith! Thank God for the gift of his own On Holy Thursday, once more we Easter is the great solemnity of hope. Our ancestors rejected Jesus Christ and Son! Thank God for his Easter victory! celebrated the memorial of the It is the victory of life over death, salvation handed him the cross. God bless you and yours with the Lord’s Supper with special gratitude for over sin. We sing with gusto “the strife is Every Holy Week and Triduum, we happiest Easter ever. I offer joyful prayer the wonderful gift of the Eucharist and over and the victory won.” remember the death of Jesus, when he for all of you! † the priesthood in our lives. Yet much seems the same on converted the cross into a crucifix. And we also celebrated the great Easter Monday. The suffering and death We know the cross: It is the problem of example of loving service which Jesus which God asked of his own Son gives us pain and death in our lives. Jesus on that Do you have an intention for demonstrated in the washing of his the key to make sense of human tragedy cross is the solution. Jesus shows us that Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? disciples’ feet. It is at this celebration that all around us. pain can be the prelude to joy and peace; You may mail it to him at: each year we are reminded that Jesus calls Once more, we have traced the path of but more than that, the cross is the way to us “friends.” Christ’s Passion, the path of an innocent salvation. Christ fell on Good Friday, but Archbishop Buechlein’s What can one say about Good Friday? man who was betrayed by a friend and he rose to glorious life on Easter Sunday. Prayer List “Greater love has no one than to lay down then forced to die the humiliating death of Easter is a special feast for those among Archdiocese of Indianapolis one’s life for one’s friends” (Jn 15:13). a criminal. And once more we emerge us who bear more than their share of 1400 N. Meridian St. Our Good Friday liturgy is one of from the Triduum with great rejoicing human suffering. Jesus showed us that life P.O. Box 1410 profound and noble simplicity. I hope you because we have been saved from sin and does not end with death. We can Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 were able to gather for special prayer as death. Alleluia! experience solidarity with him in prayer, we remembered what great love the Lord I like to remember why our Church has for all of us. He suffered and died so clings to the tradition of displaying the Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for March that every one of us might have life cross with the image of the body of Jesus forever. on it. Youth: that they may be open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit so that they can truly Each year on Good Friday, we are This tradition is not a denial of the discern their role in the Church, especially God’s call to priesthood and religious life. privileged to walk with Jesus through his victory of Jesus over death, and it is not a

En la Pascua experimentamos el misterio de la conquista de la vida sobr e la muerte ara las personas de fe, la Semana Santa es Ninguna celebración litúrgica es más humana extendió sus brazos sobre la cruz y demostró de una vez por todas que en la Puna época de gracia muy especial. hermosa que la Vigilia Pascual. El gran sufrió profundamente debido a su amor por muerte, la vida cambia y no les es quitada. En cierto sentido, para las personas de fe fuego pascual y el encendido del Cirio nosotros. En una de nuestras oraciones es como si esta semana especial estuviera Pascual son rituales ricos en simbolismo. Nuestros crucifijos contienen un eucarísticas se nos recuerda que hemos ligeramente suspendida en el tiempo. Se nos hace un recorrido por la historia realismo cristiano sobre la vida y la sido llamados “al Reino en el que toda Todo lo que tenemos que hacer es de nuestra salvación en una maravillosa resurrección y tocan una fibra sensible en lágrima será enjugada.” Ese es el verdadero entregarnos a la oración litúrgica especial serie de lecturas. ¡Qué conmovedor es el nuestra experiencia humana. hogar al que todos estamos peregrinando. que la Iglesia nos presenta, principalmente bautismo de catecúmenos y la Nos recuerdan que: “A lo suyo vino, y Y así, la Pascua eleva nuestros espíritus en durante el triduo del Jueves y el Viernes confirmación de los candidatos! En efecto, los suyos no le recibieron” (Jn 1:11). el camino. Santo, y la Vigilia Pascual. toda la Vigilia y la Eucaristía son Nuestros ancestros rechazaron a ¡Gracias a Dios por el obsequio de Estas celebraciones litúrgicas en conmovedoras. Jesucristo y le entregaron la cruz. nuestra fe pascual! ¡Gracias a Dios por el particular llevan consigo la noble sencillez ¡La Pascua es la gran celebración de la Cada Semana Santa y triduo recordamos obsequio de su propio Hijo! ¡Gracias a de nuestras celebraciones más antiguas. esperanza! Es la victoria de la vida sobre la la muerte de Jesús, cuando convirtió la cruz Dios por su victoria en la Pascua! El Jueves Santo celebramos una vez más muerte, de la salvación del pecado. en un crucifijo. Que Dios lo bendiga a usted y a los el memorial de la Última Cena del Señor Cantamos con entusiasmo “la lucha ha Conocemos la cruz: Representa el suyos con la Pascua más feliz. ¡Ofrezco con especial agradecimiento por el terminado y se ha obtenido la victoria.” problema del dolor y la muerte en nuestras una oración de júbilo por todos ustedes! † maravilloso don de la Eucaristía y del Sin embargo, todo parece igual el vidas. Jesús sobre esa cruz es la solución. sacerdocio en nuestras vidas. lunes después de la Pascua. El Jesús nos muestra que el dolor puede ser el Y también celebramos el excelente sufrimiento y muerte que Dios le pidió a preludio de la alegría y la paz; pero más ¿Tiene una intención que desee ejemplo de servicio amoroso que demostró su propio Hijo que pasara, nos da la aún, la cruz es el camino a la salvación. incluir en la lista de oración del Jesús al lavarles los pies a sus discípulos. clave para darle sentido a toda la Cristo cayó el Viernes Santo, pero se Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar Durante esta celebración recordamos cada tragedia humana que nos rodea. levantó a la vida gloriosa el Domingo de su correspondencia a: año que Jesús nos llamó “amigos.” Una vez más hemos recorrido el sendero Pascua. ¿Qué podemos decir sobre el Viernes de la Pasión de Cristo, el sendero de un La Pascua es una festividad especial Lista de oración del Arzobispo Santo? “Nadie tiene un amor mayor que hombre inocente que fue traicionado por un para aquellos de nosotros que llevan más Buechlein éste: que uno dé su vida por sus amigos” amigo y luego obligado a morir la muerte que su propia cuota de sufrimiento Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis (Jn 15:13). humillante de un criminal. Y una vez más humano. Jesús nos demostró que la vida no 1400 N. Meridian St. Nuestra liturgia del Viernes Santo está salimos del triduo con gran alegría porque termina con la muerte. Podemos P.O. Box 1410 colmada de profunda y noble sencillez. hemos sido salvados del pecado y de la experimentar la solidaridad con él en la Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 Espero que hayan podido reunirse para muerte. ¡Aleluya! oración, tanto solos como acompañados. elevar plegarias especiales en recuerdo del Me gusta recordar por qué nuestra Por lo tanto, ¡la Pascua es la máxima inmenso amor que el Señor tiene para todos Iglesia se aferra a la tradición de exhibir el celebración de esperanza! Para los que Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, nosotros. Él sufrió y murió para que cada crucifijo, la cruz con la imagen del cuerpo enfrentan la muerte con temor, Jesús Language Training Center, Indianapolis. uno de nosotros pudiera tener vida eterna. de Jesús en ella. Cada año durante el Viernes Santo Esta tradición no constituye una Las intenciones vocationales del Arzobispo Buechlein para marzo tenemos el privilegio de caminar con Jesús negación de la victoria de Jesús sobre la por su sendero de sufrimiento y muerte. ¡Es muerte y no es un desplazamiento de la Los jóvenes: que ellos acepten el ánimo del Espíritu Santo, para que puedan discernir lo menos que podemos hacer para posición central que tiene la Resurrección su papel en la Iglesia, especialmente la llamada de Dios a hacerse sacerdote y entrar en recompensar la bendición de su amor en en la vida cristiana. una vida religiosa. nuestras vidas! Deseamos recordar que una persona Page 6 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Events Calendar March 21 sponsored by the youth ministry St. Joan of Arc Church, 4217 N. Bookmamas bookstore, 9 S. March 26 Annual Thomas Lecture on Calvary Cemetery, 435 W. Troy group of St. Mary Parish in Central Ave., Indianapolis. Johnson Ave., Indianapolis. Knights of Columbus Hall, Philosophy and Theology, Ave., Indianapolis. Stations of North Vernon, 1 p.m. Rosary and Stations of the Book signing, “A Belief in 225 E. Market St., Jeffersonville. Dr. James J. Walter, presenter, the Cross, Msgr. Joseph F. Information: 812-346-3604. Cross, 6:30 p.m. Information: Providence: A Life of Saint Daughters of Isabella Circle 7 p.m. Information: 800-682- Schaedel, vicar general, presider, 317-283-5508. Theodora Guérin,” Julie #95, annual card party, 7 p.m., 0988. noon. Information: 317-574- St. Mary Church, 415 E. Eighth Young, author, 1:30 p.m. $3 per person. Information: 8898 or e-mail mwilliams@ St., New Albany. Via Crucis– March 22 Information: 317-375-3715 or 812-282-3659. March 31 buchanangroup.org. Outdoor Way of the Cross, St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, e-mail [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Hispanic Ministry of New 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis. March 27 House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indian- Mass, Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Albany Deanery, 7 p.m. Easter egg hunt, 9:30 a.m., March 23 Riverwalk Banquet Center and apolis. 9 a.m., continental MKVS, Divine Mercy and breakfast, no charge. 9001 Haverstick Road, Indian- Information: 502-494-3264. children 10 and under invited to Lodge, 6729 Westfield Blvd., Glorious Cross Center, Rexville, Indianapolis. Catholic Radio Information: 317-545-7681 or apolis. Stations of the Cross, bring a basket. Information: St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, located on 925 South, .8 mile 89.1, fourth annual reception www.archindy.org/fatima. Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, 317-291-7014. vicar general, presider, 2 p.m. 4050 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. east of 421 South and 12 miles and dinner, Dr. Ray Guarendi, Information: 317-574-8898 or Lenten fish fry, 4:30-8 p.m. south of Versailles. Confession, guest speaker, 6 p.m., $55 per Our Lady of Perpetual Help St. Thomas the Apostle Parish, e-mail mwilliams@buchanan Information: 317-546-1571. 1 p.m., Mass, 2 p.m., on third person. Information: Parish, St. Joseph Room, 1752 group.org. 523 S. Merrill St., Fortville. Sunday holy hour and pitch-in, www.catholicradioindy.org. Scheller Lane, New Albany. St. Mary of the Immaculate Blessing of the “First Foods of groups of 10 pray the new “Catholics Returning Home,” St. Mary Church, 212 Conception, 203 4th St., Aurora. Easter,” noon. Information: Marian Way, 1 p.m., Father Saint Meinrad School of six sessions, 7:30-9 p.m. Washington St., North Vernon. PTO fish fry, 4-7 p.m. 317-485-5102 or e-mail Elmer Burwinkel, celebrant. Theology, Newman Theater, Information: 812-945-3112 or Living Way of the Cross, Information: 812-926-1558. [email protected]. Information: 812-689-3551. 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. e-mail [email protected]. †

101,” Charlie Gardner, presenter, 7-9 p.m., www.archindy.org/fatima. [email protected]. Retreats and Programs no charge, good-will offerings appreciated. Information and registration: 317-545-7681 or April 26 April 27 www.archindy.org/fatima. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. March 28-30 Oldenburg. Fourth annual women’s Rachel’s Vineyard Retreat, Indianapolis. April 11-13 conference, “Rocking Chair Wisdom,” 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre Cana Program” Post-abortion healing for women and men, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Mary Malloy and Jeanne Hunt, presenters. for engaged couples. Information: 317-236- confidential location, all telephone calls are St. Meinrad. “Reflections on St. Paul’s Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail 1596 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. † confidential. Information: Servants of the Letter to the Romans,” Benedictine Father Gospel of Life Sister Diane Carollo, Eugene Hensell, presenter. Information: archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Ministry, 800-581-6905 or e-mail 317-236-1521 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1521. [email protected]. Divine Mercy services are Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. St. Meinrad. “Monastic Practices: Drawing 56th St., Indianapolis. “What Does God Everyday Wisdom from the Monastic Life,” Want for You?,” Matthew Kelly, presenter, Benedictine Brother John Mark Falkenhain, scheduled in archdiocese $300 per person. Information: 317-545-7681or presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Criterion staff report e-mail [email protected]. April 13 Divine Mercy Sunday services are March 29 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. scheduled on March 30 at various parishes “Evensong,” 4-5 p.m. Information: Women at the ‘Burg, “Disciplines of a 812-933-6437 or e-mail in the archdiocese. All the prayer services Beautiful Woman,” 9-11:30 a.m. [email protected]. are open to the public. Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail Prayer services reported to The Criterion [email protected]. April 17 are as follows:

March 31 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, • St. Michael the Archangel Church, CNS photo/Fred LeBlanc, Catholic Observer Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 3354 W. 30th St., Indianapolis—2 p.m. 56th St., Indianapolis. Mass, 9 a.m., Third annual “Caregivers and Hospice eucharistic adoration; 3 p.m. Divine continental breakfast, no charge. Information: Retreat,” registration due April 3, $50. Mercy chaplet, sermon, eucharistic Information: 317-788-7581 or e-mail 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. procession and Benediction, Msgr. Joseph [email protected]. April 3-6 F. Schaedel, vicar general, presider, with Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, April 18-20 Father Varghese Maliakkal, parish St. Meinrad. “The Ministry of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, administrator. Information: 317-926- Co-Ordination,” parish administrative staff St. Meinrad. Married couples retreat, 7359. retreat, Benedictine Father Jeremy King, “Love Springs Eternal,” Benedictine Father • Christ the King Church, 1827 Kessler presenter. Information: 800-581-6905 or Noël Mueller, presenter. Information: Blvd., East Drive, Indianapolis—2 p.m. e-mail [email protected]. 800-581-6905 or e-mail eucharistic adoration; 3 p.m. prayer service, [email protected]. April 4-6 Divine Mercy chaplet, Benediction and Friars of the Franciscans of the Primitive Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. April 19 eucharistic procession, Father Tony Volz, Observance carry an image of Jesus the Divine 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Marriage St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, 10655 pastor, presider. Information: 317-255- Mercy on Divine Mercy Sunday in 2003 at the Preparation Program” for engaged couples. Haverstick Road, Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of 3666. National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Information: 317-317-545-7681 or Lafayette). Gabriel Project of Indiana “Day • St. Mary Church, 317 N. New Jersey Stockbridge, Mass. www.archindy.org/fatima. of Reflection,” Servants of the Gospel of Life St., Indianapolis—11:30 a.m. eucharistic Sister Diane Carollo, presenter, Mass, 9 a.m., adoration and Divine Mercy chaplet in service, reconciliation and eucharistic April 6 program concludes at 12:15 p.m. Information: English; 2:30 p.m. eucharistic adoration adoration. Information: 765-886-5503. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 317-844-5658 or [email protected]. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend,” and Divine Mercy chaplet in Spanish. • Mary’s King’s Village Schoenstatt, marriage preparation program for engaged April 20 Information: 317-637-3983. Divine Mercy and Glorious Cross Center, couples. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. • St. Bartholomew Church, 1306 27th Rexville, located on 925 South, .8 mile east www.archindy.org/fatima. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Liturgical Ave., Columbus—3 p.m. eucharistic of 421 South and 12 miles south of Seasons 101,” Father Keith Hosey, presenter, adoration followed by Divine Mercy Versailles—2 p.m. Mass followed by Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 7-9 p.m., no charge, good-will offerings chaplet and Benediction. Information: Eucharistic adoration, Divine Mercy 56th St., Indianapolis. “Liturgical Music appreciated. Information: 317-545-7681 or 812-379-9353. chaplet and pitch-in, Father Elmer • St. Joseph Church, 312 E. High St., Burwinkel, presider. Information: 812-689- Corydon—3 p.m. Divine Mercy chaplet, 3551. eucharistic adoration, reconciliation, • St. Vincent de Paul Church, 4218 E. Benediction and bilingual Mass. Michigan Road, Shelbyville—2-3 p.m.,

Submitted photo Information: 812-738-2742. eucharistic adoration, benediction and • Holy Family Church, 235 S. 5th St., Divine Mercy chaplet. Information: 317- Richmond—1 p.m. Divine Mercy prayer 398-4028. †

VIPs Jack and Mary (Sullivan) Olding, Christina Sauer of Corydon, a members of Holy Spirit Parish in sophomore at Presentation Academy in Indianapolis, will Louisville, celebrate their recently won the 50th wedding Catholic Church anniversary on Extension March 30. Society’s The couple was 2008 Short Story married on Contest. March 15, 1958, at The Catholic Holy Cross Church Church in Covington, Ky. Extension Living Stations of the Cross They have Society sustains Participants in the Hispanic ministry at St. Mary Parish in New Albany act out parts in a living six children: and extends Stations of the Cross at the parish in 2005. A bilingual living Stations of the Cross will be Beverly Gainea, the Catholic faith performed at St. Mary Parish, 415 E. Eighth St., in New Albany at 7 p.m. on March 21. For more Terri Roadauck, Colleen Serletti, Jack in poor and remote mission areas of the information, call 502-494-3264. Olding Jr., Jason Olding Sr. and the late United States where diocesan resources Lisa Olding. They have 11 grandchildren. † are insufficient. † The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Page 7 Jesus’ power was the power of love, pope says on Palm Sunday

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The power that Jesus demonstrated was the power of love, which heals and reconciles, Pope Benedict XVI said. “He did not come as one who destroys; he did not come with the revolutionary’s sword. He came with the gift of healing,” the pope said on March 16 as he CNS photo/Chris Reuters Helgren, celebrated Mass on Palm Sunday in St. Peter’s Square. Along with the pope, more than 350 young people and more than 200 cardinals, bishops and priests processed through the square carrying palm and olive branches as they marked Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem before his arrest, Passion and death. The young people chosen for the procession to represent their peers around the world were a special part of the liturgy, which also marked the diocesan celebration of World Youth Day. Pope Benedict noted how the Gospel tells of the young people of Jerusalem waving palm branches and exclaiming “Hosanna” as Jesus entered the city. Reciting the Angelus at the end of Mass, Pope Benedict told the young people he hoped to see thousands of them in Sydney, Australia, for the July15-20 international World Youth Day celebration, and he prayed that it would be “a time of deep and lasting spiritual renewal.” The pope’s homily at the Palm Sunday Mass Above, priests hold olive branches while leading a procession ahead of focused on the Gospel story of Jesus throwing the Pope Benedict XVI at the start of a Palm Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square at animal sellers and the money-changers out of the the Vatican on March 16. Temple in Jerusalem. The animals were sold for Temple sacrifices and Right, Pope Benedict XVI holds a woven palm frond while celebrating a Palm Sunday people needed to change money to make donations to Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 16. In his homily, the pope called the Temple, he said, but “all of this could have taken on Catholics to examine whether worldly desires have weakened their faith. place elsewhere,” outside the Temple, which should CNS photo/Maurizio Reuters Brambatti, have been a place of prayer. The space occupied by the sellers and money- if they are aware that “greed is purifying the Temple is followed by changers, the pope said, was supposed to be the atrium idolatry” and if it is seen in their stories of Jesus healing the sick. where the pagans, who could not enter the Temple, lives, the pope said. In healing the sick, Jesus could still go “to associate themselves with the prayer “Do we perhaps let idols enter reaches out to those whose lives to the one God.” into our faith in various ways? Are have been reduced by illness or “The God of Israel, the God of all people, was we always open to letting the Lord infirmity and who often are waiting for their prayers as well,” he said. purify us, allowing him to throw out pushed to the margins of society, Pope Benedict said the story should lead Catholics of us and of the Church all that is the pope said. today to ask: “Is our faith pure and open enough” so contrary to him?” he asked. “Jesus shows God as the one that people who are searching for God will ask to join The pope said it is important to who loves and demonstrates his Catholics? know that in the Gospel of power as the power of love,” The story also calls on Christians to ask themselves St. Matthew the story of Jesus he said. † URGENT NOTICE BA=PQNEJC=JKPA>KKG>U VEHICLES AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC FOR $129* PER MO.
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By Brigid Curtis Ayer he said. The three provisions that the ICC supported to help Indiana lawmakers reached a property tax relief low income families included increasing the state earned Different fates for tax relief, agreement on March 14 which delivers a mixed blessing income tax credit (EITC), immigration reform bills of property tax relief to increasing the renter’s deduction, homeowners, help for and helping the elderly on fixed The tax bill passed by Indiana lawmakers gives seniors and tax credits for incomes, which were added to the homeowners an average cut in property taxes of close to lower income families, but final property tax relief plan. 30 percent this year. opponents question the Rep. John Day (D-Indian- It includes caps on property taxes plan’s impact on local apolis), a longtime advocate for at 1.5 percent of a home’s assessed governments and schools. raising the earned income tax valuation in 2009. In 2010 and While property tax and immigration reform were credit, said, “The beauty of the beyond, it caps property tax at among the top priorities of the Indiana Catholic EITC is it rewards working people. 1 percent of a home’s assessed Conference, the ICC followed these issues with an eye on “President Reagan called the valuation. how the proposals might hurt lower income or immigrant earned income tax credit the best It eliminates many of the state’s Rep. John Day families and children, and how these reforms would affect anti-poverty, pro-family program township assessors, calls for public the common good of all Hoosier families. he’d ever seen, and I agree,” he added. referendums on capital spending The property tax relief plan contained in the The state earned income tax credit will increase from projects and places controls on local conference committee report on House Bill 1001 received the current 6 percent to 9 percent. The increase in the Glenn Tebbe government spending. bipartisan support, and passed the House 82-7 and the sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent has a disproportional It adds $120 million to help Senate 41-6. effect on the poor, some lawmakers said. schools offset the property tax caps. Rep. Jeff Espich (R-Uniondale), one “Lower income families pay more in The plan increases the earned income tax credit from of the chief negotiators of the proposal, sales tax than do higher income 6 percent to 9 percent for lower to moderate income families, called the bill “a solution to one of the families,” Rep. Day said. “For example, and makes it permanent. It increases the renter’s deduction toughest issues we’ve ever dealt with in ‘Lower income families a family with an income of $20,000 will from the current $2,500 to $3,000, and places additional caps the General Assembly.” pay more in sales tax pay twice as much in sales tax as a for senior citizen homeowners on fixed incomes. Rep. Espich said the bill gives family earning $60,000. There is an To provide property tax relief, the bill increases the state tax relief and tools for local [proportionally] than do issue of tax fairness here for lower to sales tax from 6 percent to 7 percent effective on April 1. communities to deal with the tax caps. higher income families. moderate income families. Local option income taxes are expected to be increased to He called the plan “taxpayer friendly” For example, a family “On the other hand, the earned make up for the shortfall caused by the property tax caps. and “community friendly.” with an income of income tax credit is gold. It’s fair,” The plan shifts the costs of child welfare, juvenile Rep. Brian Bosma (R-Indianapolis), Rep. Day said. “Talk about family incarceration, health care for the indigent, police and fire House minority leader, called the plan $20,000 will pay twice values; this is the way to go.” pensions, and some school costs from local governments to “the strongest property tax relief as much in sales tax as Seniors on fixed, lower incomes also the state. measure in two generations.” a family earning benefit. Homeowners age 65 or older Concerning immigration reform, a bill to punish Rep. Russell Stillwell (D-Boonville), $60,000. There is an with an income of $30,000 for an employers who hire undocumented individuals failed. summed up the proposal this way: individual or $40,000 for a couple, with A proposal to penalize employers who knowingly hire “There is pain and there is gain for issue of tax fairness here a home at an assessed value of undocumented immigrants failed when a compromise Hoosiers across the state.” for lower to moderate $160,000 or less, will have a more between House and Senate versions of the proposal could not He then asked, “Is there more pain income families. stringent property tax cap. be reconciled. or more gain?” In addition to the 1 percent cap on Some of the concerns of the bill included the possibility of Rep. David Orentlicher (D-Indian- On the other hand, the their home’s assessed value, their racial profiling, the detrimental effects on Indiana’s economy, apolis), raised concerns about the earned income tax credit property taxes would not increase more and harm to immigrant families and children—both legal and impact to his local school district, is gold. It’s fair. Talk than 2 percent per year. illegal. which would be losing money due to about family values; this Glenn Tebbe, Indiana Catholic During the 2008 session of the Indiana General lower enrollments. Conference executive director, who Assembly, the Indiana Catholic Conference testified in Rep. Vernon Smith (D-Gary), is the way to go.’ serves as official spokesman on public opposition to the proposal. praised many aspects of the proposal, policy matters for Indiana’s bishops, Glenn Tebbe, ICC executive director, said, “The Catholic but said, “It lacks equity.” —Rep. John Day said, “In the areas of property tax relief Church does not support illegal immigration, and respects the And Rep. Smith said he has a “great and immigration reform, we tried to right of nations to control its borders.” concern” for the $10 million cut to the accomplish a ‘do no harm’ policy. However, Tebbe explained to lawmakers that the Church Gary schools. “We wanted to make sure lower is concerned about the effects that the proposal would have Rep. Dennis Avery income families were not forgotten in the equation of on employers, immigrant families and children. (D-Evansville), said the plan was providing property tax relief to homeowners and that “Putting hundreds of people out of work will only add to “not fair,” and said he would be some of their needs would be addressed,” Tebbe said. “On the social concerns in the community,” Tebbe said. voting “no.” immigration reform, we did not want the state to enact an “Presently, those working are caring for their family needs Rep. William Crawford immigration policy which would harm those of the and contributing to the common good.” (D-Indianapolis), chairman of the immigrant community—legal or illegal.” He noted that similar laws enacted in Arizona and House Ways and Means Committee The property tax relief plan contained in the conference Oklahoma are having “detrimental effects” on the economy and also chief negotiator of the committee report of House Bill 1001 has been sent to and on the families of both legal and illegal immigrants. plan, outlined the many pluses of Gov. Mitch Daniels, who is expected to sign the bill In addition to the ICC, members of the Hispanic the bill. into law. community, the Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the “We don’t have perfection, but Indiana Manufacturers Association opposed the bill. Rep. 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Easter life we have been given in Jesus, The flood, an image of chaos, will no either through baptism or the renewal of longer be able to destroy the Earth. our baptismal vows. Jesus’ resurrection marked the Through the resurrection of Christ, beginning of the end of chaos in all its says God, “I make all things new!” disguises: “There shall be no more Living the new Easter life, though, is death or mourning, wailing or pain, none too comfortable, as we see in the [for] the old order has passed away” Acts of the Apostles. (Rv 21:4). We, like the first Christians, have a What does that mean for us, lot to learn about what it means to incorporated into the new creation abandon our old self for the new, the through baptism and now living for its unfamiliar, the untried. final completion? Does it mean that we Fortunately, we have the whole won’t have to suffer any more? 50 days of the Easter season ahead of No. It means that, as members of us to practice. And the Easter season is Christ’s body, we share in his work of really a rehearsal for our whole life! making new all creation, including At baptism, Jesus came out of the ourselves. water of the Jordan River. In Scripture, Look around: What could you do to water is an image of the original chaos drive the destructive chaos caused by when “the earth was a formless selfishness, anger or greed out of your wasteland, and darkness covered the home, your workplace or your abyss, while a mighty wind swept over neighborhood? What could you do to the waters” (Gn 1:2). establish in its place the order that is Since creation, chaos continues to eat the new creation? at the edges of our world and our lives. Remember, the heart of that new At the Jordan River, the Spirit descended on Jesus in the form of a dove, reminiscent of the dove sent The psalms often use chaos as an creation is Jesus himself. What could by Noah to see if land appeared following the flood. 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This Easter, we Christians reflect on one of the basic doctrines of Christianity—the

resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Illustration/historic postcard It’s such a basic belief that St. Paul told the Christians of Corinth, Greece, “If Christ has not been raised, your faith is vain” (1 Cor 15:17). But this is more than religious belief. We Catholics are convinced that the Resurrection is historical fact. Christianity is based on that historical fact. It’s easy to understand how people without faith can doubt the Resurrection. It just isn’t within our modern sphere of experience. Well, it wasn’t within the Apostles’ sphere of experience either. Our belief in the Resurrection is helped by the fact that the Apostles doubted it. They weren’t gullible men who easily accepted something like a man coming back from the dead. As often as Jesus predicted that he would rise from the dead, the Gospels make it clear that the Apostles didn’t understand what he was talking about. They didn’t even believe the women who went to the tomb and returned with the news that they had seen the risen Lord. This historic French postcard depicts Jesus being carried into the tomb and is the 14th Station of the Cross at the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France. Surely, they thought, the women were Christian faith in the Resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition from the beginning. Yet it has always been, and remains today, the delirious. It took Jesus’ appearance to them, cornerstone of the Christian faith. coming into a locked room and eating with them, before they believed. appeared to me” (1 Cor 15:3-8). marriage. Joseph was a widower, older than acknowledged leader of the Church in People today who don’t believe that In other words, many people saw Jesus Mary, whom he married so she could help Jerusalem. He is mentioned prominently Jesus actually rose from the dead must after his resurrection and could attest to it. him raise his children. He considered throughout the Acts of the Apostles. think either that the first Christians were Christians are generally familiar with himself Mary’s protector and was willing Paul’s letter to the Corinthians was then, awfully naïve to believe such a thing or that most of the appearances that Paul to honor her vow of virginity. The other and is now, the basic teaching of they were extremely clever to be able to enumerates, plus a few others written about three sons, named by both Mark and Christianity about Christ’s resurrection. concoct such a story and then sell it, not in the Gospels of John and Luke—to Matthew, were Joseph, Judas and Simon. Paul was insistent about it when he wrote only to their fellow Jews, but also to Mary Magdalene, the two disciples on the (Simon succeeded James as bishop of to the Corinthians, saying that our very Gentiles all over the world. road to Emmaus and the seven Apostles Jerusalem after James was martyred in the salvation depends upon the fact that Jesus Gospel accounts of the Apostles, though, who were fishing in the Sea of Galilee. year 62.) rose from the dead. Christians are not given show clearly that they were simple and John’s Gospel gives us details about his St. Jerome, in the fifth century, wrote a choice in deciding whether or not to uneducated men, hardly the type who could appearances to the Apostles, first when about Jesus’ appearance to James in his believe in the Resurrection. plan and successfully carry out a gigantic Thomas was absent and again, eight days book De Viris Illustribus. He wrote that he Some people confuse resurrection with fraud. later, when he was present. had recently translated into Greek and resuscitation. Christians do not believe that The news about Jesus’ resurrection from We assume that Jesus’ appearance to 500 Latin the early Christian document titled Jesus was only resuscitated as he himself the dead spread by word of mouth for brothers is the same account that Matthew “The Gospel according to the Hebrews,” resuscitated Lazarus, the son of the widow decades before it was put down on paper. It gives at the very end of his Gospel when he which still exists today but is not included of Nain and the daughter of Jairus. was St. Paul who first did that, in that letter says that the 11 disciples made their way to in the New Testament. Jesus rose from the dead with a he wrote in the year 56 from Ephesus, in Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had It says that James “had made an oath to glorified body, one that could pass modern Turkey, to the community he summoned them. Apparently about 500 eat no bread after he had drunk the cup of through the locked doors where the started in Corinth. people assembled there with the Apostles. the Lord until he saw him risen from those Apostles stayed, one that could appear This letter was written about 26 years We are less familiar, though, with the who sleep.” It then says that Jesus appeared to the disciples on the road to Emmaus after Jesus’ resurrection, and before any of appearance to James. This is not James, the to James, took some bread, spoke a and could just as quickly disappear. And the Gospels had been written. If there were brother of John. That James was among the blessing, and gave the bread to James with yet it was Jesus’ body, one that Thomas earlier written accounts, they have not Twelve when Jesus appeared to them. This the words: “My brother, eat your bread, for could touch when he was invited to survived. James was the leader of the Church in the Son of Man is risen from those who are examine Jesus’ wounds. In that letter, Paul reminded his readers, Jerusalem when Paul was writing to the asleep.” Christian faith in the Resurrection has “I handed on to you first of all what I Corinthians. He was well known among the Up to that time, James had been met with incomprehension and opposition myself received, that Christ died for our early Christians, which is apparently why skeptical of his younger half-brother. from the beginning. sins in accordance with the Scriptures; that Paul referred specifically to him. John’s Gospel stated, “Not even his In the early fifth century, St. Augustine he was buried; that he was raised on the Surprisingly, though, we are not sure of brothers had much confidence in him” wrote, “On no point does the Christian third day in accordance with the James’ precise relationship to Jesus. He (Jn 7:5), and Mark’s Gospel reports that faith encounter more opposition than on the Scriptures; that he appeared to Cephas might have been a cousin, but Paul referred Jesus’ family at one point thought he was resurrection of the body.” [Peter], then to the Twelve. After that, he to James as “the brother of the Lord” out of his mind (Mk 3:21) and went to take Yet it has always been, and remains appeared to more than 500 brothers at (Gal 1:19). him home. today, the cornerstone of the Christian once, most of whom are still living, though According to an early Christian After Jesus’ appearance to James, faith. some have fallen asleep. After that he document, the Protoevangelium of James, though, James devoted himself to appeared to James, then to all the apostles. James was the eldest of four sons and preaching the Gospel to his fellow (John F. Fink is editor emeritus of Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he two daughters of Joseph by an earlier countrymen, the Jews, and was the The Criterion.) †

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Holy Week and Easter are my favorite time of the Long Island Catholic Roswell year. during the The rites for these days are so concrete, so physically Easter Vigil at engaging. The blessing of the palms and procession into Christ the the church on Palm Sunday, the removal of the King Church Eucharist and stripping of the altar on Holy Thursday, in Commack, CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS photo/Gregory A. and the adoration of the cross on Good Friday all N.Y., on involve many people in the retelling of the origins of April 7, 2007. their faith. But one rite more than others proves compelling, not just for me but also for our Church family, and that is the baptism of adult catechumens during the Holy Saturday Vigil. I am the pastor of a tiny, small-town parish, which is home to many people on the move. The turnover in the local housing units is large. The mobility is not just geographic, with folks following job opportunities from place to place. For many people, the mobility is personal. They are trying to figure out where they are going in life, who they want to go with and what they want to do. For some, these questions are also spiritual. Their search for direction helps turn wanderers into pilgrims. Some become Catholics through baptism. For adults, this normally takes place at the Easter Vigil. Attending Mass week after week, Catholics learn what to expect during the liturgy. On Sundays, we recite night is far from ordinary. faith they have taken for granted since they were the creed, the basic faith of the Church that was put The words of the creed are turned into a series of children is the object of deep, personal choice by other together hundreds of years ago. questions addressed to the white-robed adults. “We mature men and women. But at our Easter Vigil, it is all so different. The believe” becomes “Do you believe?” These lifelong Catholics are there to witness the difference is very visual, very dramatic. The ceremony leads up to the actual act of baptism newly baptized make that choice during a dramatic and The adults preparing for baptism dress in white when the celebrant pours newly blessed water from the powerful public ceremony. robes. After a ceremony that begins in darkness, they font over the catechumens’ heads as he repeats the stand out from everyone else along with their sponsors words of baptism taken right out of Scripture. (Dominican Father David K. O’Rourke is pastor of next to the baptismal font and alongside the newly I am told by lifelong Catholics that being there when Our Lady of Mercy Parish in Point Richmond, Calif., and a lighted Easter candle. Everyone present sees that this adults are baptized is a moving experience because the senior fellow at Santa Fe Institute in Berkeley, Calif.) †

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Criterion staff report Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future. After a year’s worth of hard work and preparation, the Attracting the NCEA annual convention to excitement builds as the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Indianapolis is important and exciting, said Bob welcomes more than 8,000 delegates to the 2008 National Desautels, a senior manager of convention services for Catholic Educational Association Convention, Exposition the Indianapolis Convention and Visitors Association. and National Association of Parish Catechetical Directors “This is a very prestigious convention,” Desautels Convocation on March 25-27. said. “You can’t overstate the importance of the It’s the first time in the 105-year history of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, and specifically the Office association that the convention will be held in Indianapolis. of Catholic Education, in successfully conducting this One of the city’s nicknames—“the Crossroads of convention.” America”—serves as the heart of the theme for the Many local events are planned for convention week convention: “At the Crossroads: Where Challenge Meets co-sponsored by the archdiocese and various partners. Opportunity.” On March 24, up to 50 delegates may travel to “We really believe that the work of our catechists, St. Mary-of-the-Woods College, the home of teachers and administrators makes a difference in the St. Theodora Guérin, Indiana’s first saint, who was lives of children, parents, our world and the Church,” canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2006. Tours of says Kathy Mears, an associate director of schools for the historic St. John the Evangelist Church in Archdiocese of Indianapolis and a member of the downtown Indianapolis will also be available. convention’s organizing committee. On March 25, a reception will be held for “That work, however, can be challenging,” she 500 guests at the Indianapolis Motor continued. “Our convention is going to address those Speedway sponsored by Catapult Learning, challenges that are facing Catholic education because we and a Sacred Sounds Concert will be held at believe that our faith-filled educational system is St. John the Evangelist Church, featuring definitely part of the answer to issues that are facing our the musical talents of archdiocesan country and the world.” students. The convention is also committed to a “green” theme, Health Day will be held on March 26. recognizing the integrity of the Earth. Recycling and Delegates will be able to “travel” through other “green” practices will be emphasized at the a model heart and learn how to be more convention. heart-healthy courtesy of St. Vincent and “This is one of the great challenges facing our St. Francis hospitals of Indianapolis. Free Church and the world, and we want our teachers to health screenings will be offered, and understand and learn different ways to help make participants will also be invited to donate our students more environmentally aware,” Mears blood on site for the Indiana Blood Center. says. “As Catholics, we want to make sure that we March 26 will also feature a tour of are leading the way in modeling how to be good Roncalli High School in Indianapolis for stewards of the Earth.” Students and faculty at St. Simon the Apostle School in Indianapolis are all smiles 40 delegates, and a free “Teachers’ Night More than 400 workshops and 500 educational after being recognized as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence by the U.S. Department Out” at the Marriott Hotel Ballroom with exhibits will be available at the convention, which of Education in 2005. Read about the archdiocese’s outstanding track record in music and dancing sponsored by will be held at the Indiana Convention Center. The education on page 2. (Submitted photo) QSP/Reader’s Digest. convention is open to anyone who works or is interested College Day is March 27 and in Catholic education, including teachers, clergy, NCEA board of directors. features a special “Catechists’ Track.” administrators, parents and students. On March 26, the Most Rev. Blasé Cupich, bishop of College students and volunteer parish religious educators On March 25, Most Rev. Daniel E. Pilarczyk, Rapid City, South Dakota, will deliver the opening keynote may attend all sessions, including special offerings for Archbishop of Cincinnati, is scheduled to concelebrate address. catechists for only $25 (registered in advance). A the opening Mass with the Most Rev. Donald W. Wuerl, On March 27, a keynote address will be delivered by reception for 300 will be held that evening at the Archbishop of Washington, D.C., and chairman of the Daniel Pink, author of Free Agent Nation and A Whole New See WELCOME, page 3B Welcome educators to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis

Dear Catholic Educators: Due to chemotherapy treatments I will be novitiate and an academy and soon thereafter began unable to attend the convention, but I will pray opening Catholic schools throughout Indiana. I extend to you the warmest of welcomes to that your time in Indianapolis will be inspiring the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and its See and that you will return to your local parishes Let’s pray that we continue to follow St. Theodora’s City. We are excited and proud that you chose energized in your commitment to be good wise counsel: “Love the children first, then teach to hold the 105th Annual National Catholic stewards of our most precious resource: our them.” Educational Association Convention here at children, youth and young adults. the “Crossroads of America.” I also welcome God bless all of you for all the good work you do and all the parish catechetical leaders who are I hope during your convention that you will may God be with each of you this week! here to take part in the National Parish draw inspiration from St. Theodora Guérin, Catechetical Directors Convocation. who was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Sincerely yours in Christ, Oct. 15, 2006. St. Theodora is truly a model Educators all, you are key to the future of Archbishop Daniel M. for today’s educators. St. Theodora came to our Church, and the future of our society. Buechlein the Indiana frontier in 1840 with five Sisters You have the privilege—and the serious of Providence and almost no resources, but Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B. responsibility—of shaping future generations. within a year she had established a motherhouse, a Archbishop of Indianapolis Page 2B CONVENTION The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Archdiocese of Indianapolis schools set Blue Ribbon r ecord By G. Joseph Peters program as a way to have the excellence of “So, we expect to work even harder and When U.S. Secretary of Education their schools affirmed by a significant third we have to be more creative and more Archdiocese’s national Margaret Spellings announced the 2005 No party. She personally reviews and signs each collaborative. I think that attitude and Child Left Behind Blue Ribbon Schools in application. commitment will promote continued Blue Ribbon schools September 2005, 11 schools in Indiana Dr. Ron Costello, Ed.D., superintendent success for our students,” he said. “Parents received the award. Five of those were of schools, noted that the performance make many sacrifices to provide the Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of requirements have changed drastically under highest quality Catholic education and faith Indianapolis. the new NCLB Blue Ribbon Program. formation for our children, and the Blue An awards ceremony was held in In the former program, school Ribbon is a huge public recognition for Washington, D.C., in November. Two performance was considered, but the final them.” representatives from each school—the award was determined by evaluation of an Joe Hollowell is the longtime president Evans A. Brandon File photo by principal and a teacher—participated in the extensive application that covered many areas and former principal of Roncalli High ceremony, and received a plaque and a flag and required an onsite visit to verify the School, and Chuck Weisenbach is the signifying their school’s Blue Ribbon status. application. principal. They and the Roncalli team have Only 295 schools nationwide were honored There is still an extensive application, but sought and earned three Blue Ribbons, a for 2005, including 50 private and religious no site visit, and Costello said that “merely record in Indiana. Christine Cohn, U.S. Department of schools. to apply, school performance must be “I believe that being selected as a Blue Education official, celebrates with The story has been similar each fall for improving dramatically, which is often Ribbon School adds a level of credibility to St. Christopher students in Indianapolis five years. Four schools in the Archdiocese difficult to measure, or the students’ overall any school’s claims of excellence in after their school was named a Blue Ribbon of Indianapolis received Blue Ribbon awards performance must surpass the 90th percentile academic and co-curricular programming,” School of Excellence. in 2003, six schools in 2004, five schools in in the state as measured on standardized Hollowell said. “It is a credible third 2005, six schools in 2006, and one in 2007 tests.” party—the U.S. Department of 2007 for a total of 22 awards in the past five years. Because all schools in the archdiocese are Education—confirming that a school has St. Pius X, Indianapolis Before 2003, eight schools had received state-accredited and all students take the met a certain standard of excellence. 2006 Blue Ribbons under the former Blue Ribbon required ISTEP+ tests, the State of Indiana “The designation can’t be purchased or Christ the King, Indianapolis Schools of Excellence (BRSE) program. certifies private schools in the top 10 percent won through glitzy advertising. When St. Bartholomew, Columbus Since the first Blue Ribbon was awarded of all schools in Indiana as eligible to apply parents are looking at today’s tuition costs, St. Lawrence, Indianapolis in 1985, 24 Catholic schools in the for a Blue Ribbon through the Council for there is a new degree of scrutiny as to St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg archdiocese have earned 31 national Blue American Private Education (CAPE). whether or not the investment made will St. Monica, Indianapolis Ribbons. There are 71 Catholic schools in Costello believes that his sharing of the pay dividends in the life of their children,” Shawe Memorial High School, Madison the archdiocese. eligibility information with schools has Hollowell said. “The Blue Ribbon Holy Family School in New Albany, Ind., helped spur the number of applications in the designation helps parents see past the 2005 received its second Blue Ribbon award in past few years. There is now “ … a great school’s public relations claims to detect Holy Family, New Albany 2005. St. Jude School and St. Lawrence desire to participate and a healthy the potential of a real return on investment Immaculate Heart of Mary, School, both in Indianapolis, and Cathedral competition among the schools, which also for their children.” Indianapolis High School, a private school in Indianapolis involves a willingness to help one another Hollowell added, “In 1993, the first St. Michael, Greenfield (2004), also have been honored twice. through the process.” year we received the Blue Ribbon St. Simon the Apostle, Indianapolis Roncalli High School in Indianapolis has recognition, our enrollment was St. Thomas Aquinas, Indianapolis earned the honor three times. Expectation of high standards 724 students. This fall, 15 years and three 2004 Schools in the Archdiocese of Sister James Michael Kesterson, a Sister Blue Ribbons later, we began with an St. Barnabas, Indianapolis Indianapolis received more awards during of Providence and principal of St. Jude enrollment of 1,147.” St. Christopher, Indianapolis the last five years than any other diocese. We Elementary School in Indianapolis, led the St. Luke, Indianapolis believe that no other diocese in the nation efforts to earn two Blue Ribbons for St. Jude Department of Education visits St. Mary, New Albany has had more schools honored in the history School in 1996 and 2003. For the past five years, Kristine Cohn, St. Mary, North Vernon of the national Blue Ribbon Schools In 2005-06, she gave four regional U.S. Department of Education regional Cathedral High School, Indianapolis program. presentations in the archdiocese to potential representative, has visited each of the The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Blue Blue Ribbon applicants and helped two 22 schools in the archdiocese that earned a 2003 Ribbon Schools program recognizes schools schools with their applications. She also Blue Ribbon award. St. Jude, Indianapolis that make significant progress in closing the served as a Blue Ribbon School visitor under She meets with administrators and St. Louis, Batesville achievement gap or whose students achieve the former Blue Ribbon program, and teachers, visits classrooms and speaks to St. Paul, Sellersburg at very high levels. The schools submit an believes that she helps other schools by the student body at an assembly, affirming Roncalli High School, Indianapolis extensive application and are selected by a sharing what she learned on those visits. their Blue Ribbon status with a special 2001 panel based on one of three criteria: As a longtime administrator, she said that certificate. She always stays to observe Holy Family, New Albany • Schools with at least 40 percent of their the Blue Ribbon process has energized her, student prayers, performances and cheers. 2000 students from disadvantaged backgrounds and she hopes to apply for St. Jude to receive This has been no small undertaking on St. Charles, Bloomington that dramatically improve student a third Blue Ribbon. her part with so many schools to visit and performance on state tests. Jerry Ernstberger is another two-time distances between schools that are 100 1999 • Schools whose students, regardless of Blue Ribbon School principal at Holy miles or more apart in the archdiocese. Our Lady of Providence Jr./Sr. High background, achieve in the top 10 percent of Family School in New Albany. The special events with Cohn allow the School, Clarksville their state on state tests. He noted that Holy Family has earned the children to celebrate their achievement. It 1997 • Private schools that achieve in the top award under the two sets of criteria. helps students to“ … see themselves as part St. Jude, Indianapolis 10 percent in the nation. “The first award was recognition for high of a larger picture—a larger community,” Roncalli High School, Indianapolis quality in several components of school life; according to Lentz, who has accompanied Encouragement to participate the second is based more on our students’ Cohn on the many of the school visits. 1994 Annette “Mickey” Lentz, executive high achievement on standardized tests.” Cohn told students and teachers at St. Lawrence School, Indianapolis director of Catholic education and faith Ernstberger added, “I think there is an St. Michael School in Greenfield, Ind., 1993 formation for the Archdiocese of expectation of higher standards that comes that there are four things that make up a Roncalli High School, Indianapolis Indianapolis, was principal of St. Mark with receiving the honor, especially the good school: “… committed 1988 School in Indianapolis, the first school in the second time. Parents, teachers and even community, excellent teachers, involved Cathedral High School, Indianapolis archdiocese to earn a Blue Ribbon in 1985, students realize that we have to be more parents and great students. You are one just after the first national program began. accountable than ever because of the of only 11 schools in the state to be 1985 As executive director since 1997, she has recognition we have received. honored as a Blue Ribbon school, which St. Mark School, Indianapolis encouraged principals to participate in the means that all those involved with the school have taken a leadership role to do what is right.” Schools must pass through the gate— Former Indianapolis Mayor Bart with high standardized test scores before Peterson proclaimed Nov. 7, 2005, as any other criteria are considered. Schools Congratulations! “St. Thomas Aquinas School Day” in the need to know when they are eligible city in recognition of that school’s Blue through good management and sharing of Annette “Mickey” Lentz Ribbon. test data. The 2008 Recipient of the F. Sadlier Dinger Award In presenting the proclamation, the The Blue Ribbon brings public This award recognizes Mickey’s outstanding leadership mayor said, “This means you’re the best of recognition, but also accountability and and dedication to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis for the best. … You have great teachers … even higher expectations for nearly five decades as classroom teacher, principal, great involved parents … the school is performance. It places the school’s archdiocesan administrator and, since 1998, well-run, [and] each of you students works achievements in a larger context—on a really hard every day to do your best.” bigger stage. It is a great public “thank serving as the Executive Director, Secretariat for The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has you” to parents who pay the bills, and it Catholic Education and Faith Formation. experienced great success in having a large affirms their investment in Catholic Named for the former Chairman of the Board of number of schools recognized as education. William H. Sadlier, Inc. in 1980 to honor his Blue Ribbon Schools over the years. This lifelong dedication to the Catholic Church and to catechetical ministry, has not been because of a formal program, (G. Joseph Peters is associate executive the F. Sadlier Dinger Award recognizes a person whose work in but through subtle encouragement, supple- director of Catholic education in the catecheticalministry has had a significant and long-lasting impact. mented by healthy peer pressure and peer Archdiocese of Indianapolis. E-mail him support in a demanding process. at [email protected]. This story is Congratulations, Mickey, and thank you for Archdiocesan officials like to think that adapted from an article in Momentum, your dedication to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis our archdiocesan curriculum improvement the official journal of the National and the Office of Catholic Education! efforts have also contributed significantly Catholic Educational Association, to student performance. The new NCLB April/May 2006. Used with permission. criteria for the Blue Ribbon start with a Contact: Barbara Keebler, NCEA, at “gateway.” 202-378-5762.) † The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 CONVENTION Page 3B Archbishop of Indianapolis guides nation at cr ossroads By Ken Ogorek in ways that speak directly to people of The United States specific regions, cultures and nations. Catholic Catechism Catholic education, in particular With Archbishop Buechlein’s for Adults (USCCA) religious education, is at a crossroads of involvement, our U.S. Conference of expresses the sorts. Catholic Bishops has blessed us with a doctrines contained Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein of great resource for adult religious in the Catechism of the Catholic Church

Indianapolis education—a very important area of Evans A. Brandon by File photo illustration continues to help faith formation. in a way that guide the authentic The United States Catholic speaks directly to renewal of faith Catechism for Adults, then, will guide American society formation in teacher training, catechetical certifi- and culture. schools, parish cation and overall adult religious Archbishop Daniel catechetical education for decades to come. M. Buechlein of programs and Indianapolis has various other Local leadership, national impact been a leader in settings for In southern and central Indiana, faith formation in education in Archbishop Buechlein has overseen the the United States by Ken Ogorek religion nationwide. implementation of strategies for helping guide the religious education that are in turn crafting of the A national leader used by several dioceses throughout USCCA and earlier When the Catechism of the Catholic the U.S. leading the Church became available in the mid- For example: Bishops’ Ad Hoc 1990s, our American bishops sprang in • Our Archdiocesan Religion Committee to to action establishing their “Ad Hoc Curriculum Guidelines, used both in Oversee the Use of Committee to Oversee the Use of the schools and parish catechetical the Catechism. Catechism.” programs, answer the important Simply put, this committee’s work has question of “What am I supposed to greatly improved the doctrinal content of teach?” in our archdiocese and several textbooks and other resources used to other dioceses. teach religion in various settings. • The Faith 2000 assessment Archbishop Buechlein was instru- instrument for religious education, mental in this effort and continues to fill developed by our Office of Catholic a major role in spearheading efforts to Education, provides helpful feedback provide reliable materials for truly in the area of faith formation—for excellent religious education. school and parish programs— throughout southern and central Our own Catechism Indiana as well as in dioceses other Archbishop Buechlein was deeply then our own. involved with the process that gives us Information on these and other our own United States Catholic resources is available on our Office of certification. like the United States Catholic Catechism Catechism for Adults. Catholic Education Web site, for Adults. Efforts like Archbishop Why do we need an official American www.archindy.org/oce under Our Decisions at a crossroads Buechlein’s are meeting the challenges that catechism? Curriculum. From the late 1960s through the early can arise when courageous decisions must The Catechism of the Catholic Church The National Directory for 1990s, some methodological gains were be made for authentic renewal to spur suggests that groups of bishops Catechesis—another document that made in religious education even if its genuine progress. throughout the world produce local Archbishop Buechlein helped to bring doctrinal content wasn’t as clear as it catechisms—articulations of the Catholic about—guides all of our Catholic could have been. (Ken Ogorek is director of catechesis in the faith that accurately express the education efforts from curriculum and Without losing those gains, we have an Office of Catholic Education for the doctrines in the Catechism of the assessment through approval of textbooks exciting opportunity to bring greater clarity Archdiocese of Indianapolis. E-mail him at Catholic Church, yet communicate them to teacher and catechist formation and to Catholic education in light of documents [email protected].) † Youth ministry in action: ‘Ding Dong, Ditch and Run’ builds community

By Rose Lehman parishioners. They ring the doorbell and homes of two parishioners. Last Christmas, the run back to the car—“ding-dong, ditch and program’s sixth year of existence, six sets were Several years ago, our youth run.” delivered. team at Holy Family Parish in “It’s been such a joy when the doorbell Recipients say it brings both joy and meaning to New Albany, Ind., was looking rings to see what unfolds in the little the Christmas season. for a way to show our packages,” said 3DR recipients Betty Jo appreciation to some elderly and Gene Murphy. (Rose Lehman is youth minister parishioners who had been very “Initially, I heard people wondering at Holy Family Parish in involved in the life and what was going on,” commented Father New Albany, Ind. For growth of our parish. Sonny Day, pastor of Holy Family. “People more information on Thus was born the like the mystery of it.” youth ministry in “Nativity Set Delivery” The youths have fun trying not to get the Archdiocese of program or what is now caught, and the recipients have fun trying Indianapolis, contact referred to as “Ding Dong, to catch them. Father Jonathan Ditch and Run”—3DR for “It was really funny to see how all the Meyer, archdiocesan short. senior citizens tried to catch us each director of youth For 10 days in the night,” said youth participant Katherine ministry, at middle of December, one Finn. “I think they enjoyed it as much as [email protected].) figure from a Nativity set we did.” † and part of the Nativity On the last day, the youths story are delivered to and families deliver the stable T2172a parishioners’ homes one at a and the Baby Jesus, along with time. With each delivery, cookies, and sing Christmas the Nativity story grows. carols to those they have Each day, a group of served. youth and family members The first year, Holy Family stop at the houses of the delivered Nativity sets to the

all levels of Catholic education—pre- WELCOME school through college. continued from page 1 The Archdiocese of Indianapolis reflects the NCEA’s commitment to faith- Indianapolis Museum of Art sponsored filled education. The archdiocese has 151 by 11 colleges and universities in the parishes serving more than 230,000 region. Catholics. Its 60 elementary and 11 high On March 28, a special symposium schools educate more than 23,000 on urban education models will be held students. Another 17,000 students are in at the Convention Center. Details for all parish religious education programs in 39 local events can be found at counties of southern and central Indiana. www.archindy.org/ncea or at the local Catholic schools in the archdiocese hospitality booth at the convention. have also earned 31 national Blue Ribbon The NCEA is the largest private, awards from the U.S. Department of professional education association in the Education, including 22 in the past five world, representing more than 200,000 years, more than any other diocese. † educators serving 7.6 million students at Page 4B CONVENTION The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 CONVENTION Page 5B

Archdiocese of Indianapolis On the journey: Good schools to great schools! recommended for district accreditation By John Shaughnessy providing improved compensation, health Special toThe Criterion and by modeling new methods for teachers Central Catholic insurance and other benefits. Through a school improvement grant to enable them to develop new skills. School third- Catholic education in the archdiocese The second recommendation called for grade teacher Performance Pay from Lilly Endowment Inc. and supporting According to several of the master and Rachel Brubaker recently received a special distinction when the creation of a long-range, system-wide archdiocesan benefactors, the Archdiocese of mentor teachers in the archdiocese, helps Cedric The Teacher Advancement the world’s largest educational community marketing plan to increase enrollment,

Indianapolis implemented Project EXCEED,a becoming a master or mentor teacher has Wyand Ann Photo by Mary Georges with a Program (TAP) calls for pay for recommended that the archdiocese be support educational programs and comprehensive, measurable and sustainable enabled them to participate as a school reading performance as one of its major approved for district accreditation. promote the Catholic mission of the initiative that has provided increased leader, with a bit more financial compen- assignment on elements. The TAP program has been “This is a major accomplishment for our schools. Jan. 10 at the opportunities for academic achievement for sation, but most importantly, it has allowed Indianapolis implemented in 13 schools in the archdiocese and our schools,” said Annette “More needs to be done,” Lentz said. more than 23,000 archdiocesan students. them to remain in contact with students on South Deanery Archdiocese of Indianapolis through “Mickey” Lentz, the archdiocese’s “We need to shout our identity of The project’s three overarching goals are a regular basis, at the same time providing grade school. Project EXCEED and the plan is to executive director of Catholic Education Catholic culture through the rooftops.” to: them with new learning and exciting Cedric and his implement the program in additional and Faith Formation. “We are quite The review team also recommended sister, Sabrina, a 1. Recruit, retain, develop and reward the professional challenges. fifth-grader, schools as funds become available. pleased.” developing funding strategies that would best teachers and administrators. moved from Cape TAP teachers are evaluated and The recommendation means that the support new and existing programs, 2. Raise the level of students’ 2. Ongoing, applied professional growth. Haitian, Haiti, to rewarded based on performance archdiocese will become just the third provide just compensation for employees performance and report their progress; and Teachers seldom have time during the Indianapolis last standards for professional growth, diocese in the country to receive district and create equal funding for all schools. 3. Reach out to those students with school day to learn new techniques and August with their classroom achievement gains and accreditation from AdvancED, the world’s The archdiocese will have two years to mother, Rose special needs—those who have advanced strategies that would assist them to become Georges, and school-wide achievement gains. largest educational community that is submit a report outlining its progress in capabilities, who struggle with traditional better teachers. have excelled in Student results are measured through “committed to advancing excellence in meeting the review team’s recommen- modes of teaching and learning, who use Also, few teachers get the chance to their school work the value-added assessment model education.” dations. English as a second language or who fight to collaborate with one another or to learn thanks in part to developed by Dr. William Sanders, “I think I can speak with confidence that “The recommendations we made, we English as a New overcome the challenges of poverty. from those colleagues with more Language which determines growth in student all of us were extremely impressed with felt the archdiocese had already Project EXCEED’s success stems from the experience. classes. achievement by measuring individual the quality of education being offered by recognized as priorities,” Krenson said. interrelated nature of the innovative TAP restructures the school schedule to student progress from one year to the the Archdiocese of Indianapolis,” said “When we look at these recommen- programs and approaches. provide time during the regular school day next, rather than just measuring one Eddie Krenson, senior vice president of dations, what we’re looking for is Project EXCEED has led to true systemic for teachers to meet, learn, plan, mentor and school against another. non-public school services for AdvancED. progress—a serious, authentic effort to change in the methods that educators use to share with one another so that there is an Pay for performance, while contro- As part of the accreditation process, address them. We have every confidence reach students, the manner in which student ongoing effort to improve the quality of versial at first, has proven to be a very Krenson led a quality assurance review as a review team and as an organization and school progress is reported, and the way instruction and, consequently, to increase popular and effective incentive in the team of 12 educators from across the that the archdiocese will take these in which educators respond to results in student academic achievement. TAP Schools, and it is something that United States that spent four days in recommendations seriously, and they’ll central and southern Indiana’s Catholic This collaborative time allows businesses, corpo-rations and February in the archdiocese. seek ways to implement them.” schools. exposure to new instructional strategies foundations are willing to step up and The team visited schools, reviewed The recommendations were not a Key to the success of Project EXCEED was and provides the ongoing opportunity to support. archdiocesan documents and met with surprise to Lentz. the piloting of TAP, the Milken Family become more effective instructors. Read more about it at: more than 300 students, parents, adminis- “They all fell in the area of recruitment Foundation’s Teacher Advancement Ongoing Applied Professional Growth 3. Instructionally focused accountability. skills for teachers in the classroom so that which enable students to grow to their full Performance Pay: A Case for trators, teachers and business partners. and retention of good educators,” she Program. in TAP schools focuses on identified Most people agree that the best teachers teachers not only hear of new techniques, but also potential. Corporate and Foundation Support at In making its recommendation for noted. “We have been working on this We all want the best possible education needs based on instructional issues that should be paid more than less effective are able to watch other teachers utilize the new But with a growing number of choices for www.archindy.org/ncea/press.html. district accreditation, the review team area for a long time with, I think, good for our children, and research has shown that specific teachers face with particular teachers. strategy before they are asked to implement it. parents and students, it has become even more noted the strengths of the archdiocese’s results. the single most important school-related students. But what makes an effective teacher? This method of professional development and important to demonstrate the benefits of a (Adapted from an article in school system and also included a list of “Plans really are in place for all of the factor for student success is having a talented Teachers use data to target these areas TAP has developed a comprehensive instructional focused accountability has led to Catholic education. Momentum, the Official Journal of recommendations for continued recommendations. Some are in varying teacher in the classroom. of need, rather than trying various system for evaluating teachers and rewards increased student learning, which is the goal of all To continue the progress that our schools the National Catholic Educational improvement. stages from others. Again, there were no Through Project EXCEED, the archdiocese strategies on their own without input or them for how well their students learn. school improvement efforts. have achieved, the archdiocese recently Association, November/December The strengths cited by the review team surprises. We have two years to work on works to ensure that all children receive the specific information. Teachers are held accountable for meeting determined that it would pursue district accred- 2006. Used with permission.) † included the vision, leadership and these recommendations.” high quality education they need and deserve By utilizing data and collaborating the TAP Teaching Skills, Knowledge and 4. Performance-based compensation. itation through the North Central Association commitment of Archbishop Daniel M. Costello said the archdiocese has to from well-trained and caring educators. with others, teachers in the archdiocese Responsibility Standards as well as for the In most professions, people are rewarded and of Colleges and Schools, a partner of Buechlein to the success of Catholic continue to develop ways to showcase the are able to quickly remediate, using academic growth of their students. promoted for how well they perform their jobs. AdvancED. schools in the archdiocese. strengths of its schools. Better teachers strategies and techniques that have been Both achievement and growth are Unfortunately, teaching has too often been the After a successful three-day site visit in The review team also commended the “We have a good message as to what The Milken Family Foundation created suggested by the data and the profes- measured using value-added assessment, exception to this rule. February 2008, the archdiocese was granted Value-Added way that the archdiocese’s Office of happens when students stay in our the Teacher Advancement Program (TAP), a sional judgment of skilled colleagues. which yields the regular standardized data on TAP changes the current system by compen- district accreditation! (See related story on Assessment Catholic Education uses professional schools,” Costello said. “For kids staying bold new strategy to attract, retain, develop Allowing teachers to take time to learn proficiency, but also measures the student’s sating teachers according to their roles and page 5B.) development efforts to support teachers’ in Catholic education, our graduation rate and motivate talented people to the teaching and to work with another professional academic growth from one year to the next responsibilities, their performance in the Collaborating with the network of schools Catholic educators are called now growth and impact student learning. is very high and it helps the student to profession. educator for the purpose of developing using the state required ISTEP tests. classroom and the performance of their students that are a part of AdvancED and following the more than ever to be able to demonstrate Another strength is the way the continue in post-secondary education.” Because of its broad-based support, new skills and knowledge is a great Value-added assessment measures and as measured by value-added assessment. school improvement processes developed in that students are proficient and achieve archdiocese uses system-wide data to For Lentz, the accreditation results and high demand, TAP is now advantage for students and teachers! isolates the direct contribution that the Based on student performance and the conjunction with the organization will assist more than a year’s growth during a improve schools and teach students. recommendation is all part of the operated by the National Institute for Because of the time that is set aside teacher has on academic growth. (See the observations, teachers in the TAP schools of the our schools in continuing on our journey of school year, because they attend Catholic The review team also cited the archdiocese’s efforts of striving to offer Excellence in Teaching (NIET), a public specifically for professional development, box on value-added assessment.) archdiocese have earned additional performance educational excellence. schools. leadership of administrators, teachers and the best of Catholic education while charity. teachers have increased their knowledge Holding teachers accountable for their pay. The results of Project EXCEED have been William Sanders found that classroom staff throughout the archdiocese, including always trying to get better. TAP’s goal is to draw more talented and skills, greatly benefiting students. teaching skills means that principals and Amounts vary and it is the desire of the astonishing. Students, administrators and teachers are the most important factor in Lentz, Superintendent of Schools Ron “I continue to be proud of the work we people to the teaching profession—and keep Master teachers work with classroom master or mentor teachers are often in the archdiocese to be able to continue and expand this educators at Catholic schools have achieving gains in student achievement. Costello and the staff of the Office of are able to do and are blessed to do,” she them there—by making it rewarding to be a teachers to determine appropriate classroom! practice. (See the box on performance pay.) demonstrated measurable levels of excellence, But, most standardized tests tell us little Catholic Education. said. “I have an excellent schools’ team good teacher. interventions for students and continue to Teachers in TAP schools are observed on Teachers who participate in TAP schools achievement, growth and proficiency. about how the teacher affects student “The archdiocese’s commitment to for whom I am most grateful. They work TAP provides the opportunity for good work with them so that the new techniques a regular basis and the results of those indicate that the performance pay is appreciated, The rich environment in these schools achievement and growth. continuous improvement was cited at an hard and are totally committed to the teachers to earn higher salaries and advance can be incorporated smoothly. observations are utilized to further develop but it is not the sole reason they support the TAP focused on faith, academic rigor, good The assumption of the value-added exemplary level,” Krenson said. mission of Catholic education in this professionally, just as in other careers, Results indicate that where this method teacher skills and knowledge. program. citizenship, social justice, technology and model is that for a student to show The report from the review team also archdiocese.” without leaving the classroom. of professional development is practiced, Master and mentor teacher model new The ongoing professional development and the community provides students with the growth, the student must achieve a “gain listed three major recommendations for the At the same time, TAP assists teachers in students’ individual needs are being met structures that are in place to support teachers are opportunity to realize greater academic growth score” that is greater than one-year’s archdiocese. The first recommendation (For more information, see “Archdiocese reaching their highest potential by providing and learning is increased. of great benefit to everyone in the TAP schools. than their counterparts in other schools. growth—value-added. involved developing strategies to recruit of Indianapolis recommended for them with the opportunity to learn and Project EXCEED, Goal Two: As one teacher put it, “By implementing TAP, Further, high expectations from This year the Archdiocese of and keep effective teachers, principals and district accreditation” at practice better teaching strategies and by Raise the level of students’ performance the archdiocese showed that they wanted to invest archdiocesan educators, extensive training Indianapolis will provide both growth administrators, with a special focus on www.archindy.org/ncea/press.html.) † holding teachers accountable for their own Project EXCEED, Goal One: and report their progress in me and what I do matters to them.” opportunities and resources to implement and proficiency reports for all performance. Recruit, retain, develop, and reward the ■ Implemented value-added change at the classroom level have helped to 67 archdiocesan schools so teachers can T2172c best teachers and administrators assessment model in all 67 A new era of standards, assessment and create a community of exceptional teachers plan to modify instruction. It has been TAP is based on four elements: archdiocesan schools accountability in Catholic education and administrators. interesting to see high-performing 1. Multiple career paths. ■ Developed strategies for educators Catholic schools have always been committed At the heart of this new attitude is what we schools, show significant growth in ■ Under the current system, the most based on the four main principles of 26 schools completed audits, to providing strong academic environments, have learned from the TAP experience that can performance, even though this is harder common way for good teachers to increase the Teacher Advancement Program developed school improvement plans be applied in other schools. to accomplish when schools are already and enhanced data collection their salaries is to become administrators. (TAP) Project EXCEED has successfully performing at very high levels. Unfortunately, this removes them from ■ Maintained growth in ISTEP test Project EXCEED, Goal Three: transformed schools and individual students The goal of all Catholic educators ■ Trained school staffs and the classroom, where they often are most Reach out to students with special needs into achievers beyond their expectations. should be to demonstrate that they have implemented TAP principles in scores—20 percent higher than state needed. average Goals have been set and met as students and achieved growth and proficiency for all 13 schools ■ Achieved a 20 percent increase in TAP allows teachers to pursue a variety of teachers have succeeded and exceeded students. Meeting this goal should help ■ Demonstrated student performance the number of students served with positions throughout their careers—career, ■ More than 5,000 staff members expectations. convince people about the value of on standardized tests increased over special needs mentor and master teacher—depending upon participated in over 350 professional These important experiences in the original excellent teachers in our Catholic time their interests, abilities and accomplishments. development activities ■ More than 669 participants attended 33 Project EXCEED schools have led to new schools. ■ Achieved a high school graduation 38 training sessions on topics As teachers move through the ranks, their ■ Established a 52-hour Teacher Mentor aspirations for the future of Catholic school To read more about teacher related to special needs qualifications, roles and responsibilities Certification Program consistent with rate of 97 percent (state average children in the archdiocese. impact and value-added assessment 75.5 percent) increase, and so does their compensation. state standards ■ 222 teachers and principals partic- The future is bright, and it is with great of academic growth, please see This allows good teachers to advance in ■ 56 schools achieved accreditation by ipated in a Multi-sensory Reading hope and expectation that we are meeting the Teacher Impact on Student ■ Performance-based pay supported by their profession while still functioning within course “challenges at the crossroads.” Proficiency and Growth at 83 percent of staff from TAP payout the North Central Association, a classroom setting. AdvancED www.archindy.org/ncea/press.html. schools ■ 22 schools received state-of-the-art In the archdiocese, TAP schools employ (The full Project EXCEED report is available ■ Archdiocese achieved NCA AdvancED technology, including new computer master and mentor teachers. These teachers ■ Payouts valued at more than from Ron Costello, superintendent of schools, at (Adapted from an article in Momentum, labs and classroom PCs work to support other teachers by providing $380,000 to 334 teachers District Accreditation [email protected]. The Teacher the Official Journal of the National appropriate professional development, ■ Total of 22 Blue Ribbon Schools in five ■ Successful Latino Outreach Advancement Program and TAP are trademarks Catholic Educational Association, ■ Teacher payouts range between $400 programs in center city schools are helping to identify student needs, suggesting and $2,900 years from US Department of of the National Institute for Excellence in November/December 2006. Used with and assisting with appropriate strategies and Education now expanding to other schools Teaching. For more information, go to permission.) † interventions to improve student learning, www.talentedteachers.org/tap.taf?page=whatistap.) † Page 6B CONVENTION The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Mother Theodore Catholic Academies vital to center-city education “We carry out the mission of educating center-city school children not because they are Catholic, but because we are Catholic.” —Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. O.S.B.

Special to The Criterion Symposium on As Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein’s words resonate, the Archdiocese of Catholic Urban

Indianapolis has long realized the vital Sean Gallagher File photo by importance of the ministry of Catholic Elementary education in the center-city. In 2004, Archbishop Buechlein formed Education set for a consortium of center-city schools that were not economically viable to remain March 28 operating on their own. The result is the now-named Mother Theodore Catholic If you are interested in learning Academies (MTCA). more about the Mother Theodore This consortium approach assists the Catholic Academies and other urban schools in operating more efficiently by elementary school models from consolidating and coordinating such areas around the United States, please join as finance, maintenance, school us for the “Symposium on Catholic improvement, Catholic identity and Urban Elementary Education” from marketing. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 28. “It’s not just [a sharing of] financial The symposium will be held at resources, but human resources,” said the Indiana Convention Center, Tony Watt, MTCA chairman of the board. following the National Catholic One of the goals of the MTCA is to Education Association (NCEA) extract the principal from non-academic Convention, which runs from tasks. There is now a team of three March 24 through March 27. principals for the six schools with campus The symposium fee is $125 which directors at each site. This change in includes the conference, continental governance has brought about great breakfast and lunch. efficiencies, good stewardship of resources and the empowerment of educators to do (For registration information, what they do best. call Sarah Ley at 317-236-1513 or The Mother Theodore Catholic 800-382-9836 ext. 1513 or e-mail Academies, named for Indiana’s first her at [email protected]. You can saint, St. Theodora Guérin, are Holy also go to our Web site at Angels Catholic School, Holy Cross www.archindy.org/ncea/symposium. Central School, Central Catholic School, html.) † St. Andrew & St. Rita Catholic Academy, St. Anthony Catholic School and St. Philip Neri School, all in Indianapolis. ✠ Provides tutoring and development of St. Theodora was known for her organizational skills. dedication and selflessness in administering ✠ Helps middle school families and to the needs of others. Mother Theodore Ruth Tinsley, principal of St. Andrew & St. Rita Catholic Academy and Central Catholic School in students transition to high school. Catholic Academies are open to children of Indianapolis, helps pre-kindergarten student Chya Jennings with her classroom work in this 2006 file ✠ Offers high school and post- all religions, ethnicities and economic photo. Both schools are part of the Mother Theodore Catholic Academies. secondary education site tours. backgrounds. Our schools remain anchors ✠ Provides information regarding post- to the neighborhoods they serve. Catholic. instruction on student achievement. (See secondary education and career The Mother Theodore Catholic Although our center-city schools have the story on Teacher Impact on Student opportunities. Academies are committed to closing the widened the gap in long-term performance Proficiency and Growth on page 4B.) “Our approach is about providing a achievement gap for low-income and growth compared to their public school • WIC-R Strategies (grades 3–8) high-quality education with a strong minority students. Our counterparts, the enables students to become competitive moral base, which will lead students of focus is to provide archdiocese is academically through learning activities all faiths and economic levels to rigorous academic committed to that build mastery in writing, inquiry, secondary and post-secondary programs that will value-added collaboration and reading. education,” explained Connie Zittnan, lead students to assessment to • Reading Mastery teaches literacy director of MTCA. secondary and post- bring even higher skills to students in pre-school through “We want our students to be leaders secondary education. levels of account- grade 2. in the community and role models for Our programs provide the foundation ability and performance into the • Crecer class addresses non-English those who come after them.” for ongoing academic achievement to academies. This method measures both speaking students, grades 3–8, who are Financial support for the MTCA students of diverse backgrounds: achievement and the child’s growth from new to the U.S. schools has come from the archdiocese • One-third of our families have annual one year to the next. • Latino Support Services are through the generous contributions of household incomes below $13,000. Several programs have been added to available at three of our schools. corporations, foundations and individuals. • 75 percent of our students are of the MTCA’s educational model to ensure • 21st Century Community Learning minority culture. the best education for our students. Grant (Project RELATES) with focus on (For more information about Mother • 72 percent of our students are low- • The Teacher Advancement Program reading, enrichment in after-school and Theodore Catholic Academies, please income and qualify for the school lunch (TAP) provides our schools with a summer programs for the MTCA Schools. call Heidi Nightingale at 317-592-4067 program. systematic approach to professional staff • GATTE (Gaining Access to or 800-382-9836, ext. 4067. E-mail her • 47 percent of our students are non- restructuring and evaluates the impact of Tomorrow’s Education). at [email protected].) † St. Theodora Guérin: A saint for Indiana and a r ole model for educators

Anne-Thérèse Guérin was born on schools and a legacy of love, mercy and A marble statue of Oct. 2, 1798, in France. justice that continues to this day. St. Theodora Guérin, She was 24 when she She urged her Sisters of the foundress of the entered the Sisters of Providence to: “Put yourself Sisters of Providence Providence of Ruillé-sur-Loir, gently into the hands of of Saint Mary-of-the- France, a community that Providence.” Woods, stands outside served as teachers and cared for By the time of her death on of the Basilica of the the sick and poor. May 14, 1856, Mother Theodore National Shrine of the The young sister was asked had opened schools in towns Immaculate to lead a small missionary band throughout Indiana and Illinois, Conception in of sisters to America to and the Congregation of the Washington. The establish a motherhouse in the Sisters of Providence was strong, statue was sculpted by frontier Diocese of Vincennes in western viable and respected. Teresa Clark of Terre Indiana. She was beatified in 1998 and was Haute and carved by Mother Theodore and five sisters canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on Nicholas Fairplay of arrived at their mission, Saint Mary-of- Oct. 15, 2006, in a Vatican ceremony Oberlin, Ohio. The the-Woods, Indiana, on Oct. 22, 1840. witnessed by hundreds of Hoosier Catholics. statue will be Mother Theodore would establish a St. Theodora is interred in the Church of dedicated on May 10. motherhouse, an academy (now Saint the Immaculate Conception at Saint Mary- Mary-of-the-Woods College), Catholic of-the-Woods near Terre Haute, Ind.† Photo by Melissa Scarlett The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 CONVENTION Page 7B Hispanic outreach program serves needs of families

By Mary Ann Wyand New Language instruction for Latino Educating Hispanic children also means students in the schools. helping their Spanish-speaking parents and Now that many archdiocesan schools other family members with English as a with a significant number of Hispanic New Language (ENL) instruction. students have added an ENL teacher to their Margarita Solis Deal, program staff as well as bilingual teachers, Solis Deal coordinator of Hispanic outreach for the has been able to network more with school archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education, staff members throughout the archdiocese as has created a series of bilingual classes to an administrative resource. help Latino adults acclimate themselves to a “That was the time in which we were new language and culture. getting more and more Hispanic families These evening classes held at Catholic into the Catholic schools,” she explained, schools with a large number of Hispanic “so the archdiocese started this position to students involve the parents in their look at how we respond to the needs of the children’s learning environment and help families. That essentially was my task.” build community among Latino adults who Five years ago, she said, St. Philip Neri are newcomers in the parish. School’s enrollment was about 25 percent “They want to learn English,” Solis Deal Hispanic and St. Anthony School’s St. Philip Neri School students pose for an informal class picture on their way to lunch on Jan. 10 at said. “Although there are other [English enrollment was about 17 percent Hispanic. the Indianapolis East Deanery grade school. Campus minister Mary McCoy stands in the hallway language] courses available throughout the “Currently, those school enrollments have behind them. This year, 93 percent of St. Philip Neri’s students are Hispanic. Five years ago, that figure city, they feel much more comfortable exploded in terms of the percentage of was about 25 percent. English as a New Language programs and bilingual teachers are helping Latino coming to the school to get that resource.” Hispanic families,” Solis Deal said. students and their families acclimate to a new language and culture. (Photo by Mary Ann Wyand) This family support is especially “St. Philip Neri School is now 93 percent important for student performance. Many Hispanic, and St. Anthony School is now Hispanic families.” language barrier when raising their bilingual Spanish-speaking parents express concern about 70 percent Hispanic.” The former English as a Second children and that creates stress in the home. about not being able to help their children Recently, Solis Deal worked with staff Language program was renamed a few Many parents also are working two jobs and with homework assignments. members at Holy Name School in Beech years ago, she said, to reflect the fact that have very little time to participate in English Terri Rodriquez, the principal at Grove, St. Ambrose School in Seymour and many newcomers who immigrate to the classes. St. Philip Neri School in Indianapolis, said St. Louis School in Batesville to help them U.S. already speak two or more languages. “That’s a struggle that many [Latino] the school’s ISTEP (Indiana Standard with educational services for Hispanic “Someone from Guatemala speaks families face, especially when families come Testing for Educational Progress) test students. She also talked with the principal Spanish and may also know their Mayan into the country with older students,” Solis results last year indicated that students who at St. Lawrence School in Indianapolis about dialect, their native language,” she said. Deal said. “Sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade did not achieve Level Four or Level Five in specific needs there. “Now they are learning a third language students come here and fit into their new English proficiency on the Woodcock- Solis Deal presents a teacher orientation here.” culture quickly. They pick up the language Muñoz language scale also did not pass the session titled “Welcoming the Latino Student It’s also important to recognize cultural and other new ways, and their parents don’t ISTEP test. into Your School: Things to Consider.” differences among Latinos who are English understand how they do that.” Elizabeth Berkshire, the Catholic “I will go out and do workshops and language learners, Solis Deal said. “We Families who immigrate to the U.S. do so Charities Indianapolis social worker training sessions,” she said, “or work with have people moving here from Mexico, to seek better opportunities, she said. assigned to St. Philip Neri School, also the principals to see how they are getting Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador. All “They’re coming here to make a living and works with Latino parents to help them their schools ready to support the Latino these different people bring their own support their kids to give them a better life. understand the benefits of computers and families. cultural traditions, and we need to be They want to put food on the table.” dangers of the Internet as well as other “We’re finding that the size of religious cognizant of that. We also work with the Because Latino cultures are very family- cultural issues of concern. education programs increases tremendously teachers on cultural awareness.” oriented, Solis Deal said, “when you accept Solis Deal began her bilingual ministry in terms of working with the Hispanic Last year, she developed six workshops an Hispanic student you also accept their five years ago at center city grade schools population,” Solis Deal said, “but many of for administrators and educators about family. It’s really important to connect with in Indianapolis—which are now called the the schools are still very limited [in teaching strategies for English language the parents so they feel included in their Mother Theodore Catholic Academies— resources]. The center city schools [in learners that also address cultural issues children’s education.” with initial program funding through Indianapolis] receive financial support, but experienced by Latino families. Project EXCEED. many schools in other areas [of the She said Hispanic parents who know (For more information contact Margarita At the time, she coordinated English as a archdiocese] are challenged by the needs of very little English struggle with the Solis Deal at [email protected].) † St. Mary’s Child Care Center helps children reach their potential

Special to The Criterion provides evaluation and diagnosis of learning Summer Institute, drawing educators from corporate community fund the programs. problems for more than 110 children ages 6- all over the Midwest. Many of the largest companies in For more than 45 years, St. Mary’s Child 18 annually. A plan for school success is Significant, positive, lifelong outcomes Indianapolis support St. Mary’s Child Center Center in Indianapolis has been a leader in developed with the children’s families based are experienced by children who participate and its approach to educating the whole providing a full range of services for on the results of the evaluation. in a high quality early childhood program, child. Through the collaboration of these children who are desperately in need. St. Mary’s Early Childhood Program particularly children who face extreme businesses, the leadership of the center and St. Mary’s Child Center believes that provides direct services daily to 208 children barriers to development. the archdiocese, St. Mary’s is able to serve every child deserves a childhood that allows age 3 to 5 who are impacted by poverty, Research studies show compelling the neediest of children in the city. the child to be successful in early years, in abuse and violence.Transportation, nutrition evidence that children involved in these These same businesses have extended their school and as adults. services, social work services, play therapy programs have higher IQs, achievement support to the Mother Theodore Catholic Through its programs, St. Mary’s Child and home-based family support is provided. scores and graduation rates. They are less Academies in the center city that also work to Center, in partnership with the family, The program is of the highest quality. It is likely to be retained, enrolled in special provide educational opportunities to the enables children to reach their potential. accredited by the National Association for the education or incarcerated later in life. economically disadvantaged children of The Diagnostic Clinic at St. Mary’s Education of Young Children (NAEYC) and No child has ever been denied services at Indianapolis. inspired by the pre-primary St. Mary’s Child Center because a family is programs of Reggio Emilia of unable to pay. The clearly defined mission (For more information contact Connie Children’s restaurant review Italy, heralded to be the best has the support of the entire community. Sherman, St. Mary’s Child Center director, early childhood program in Individual donors, foundations and the at [email protected].) † the world by Newsweek magazine. T2172b In addition, St. Mary’s Child Center offers professional development opportunities to our community and beyond. The Seminar Series introducing the Reggio approach is offered each semester, and one-to-one mentoring is offered to other programs serving poor children. St. Mary’s Child Center provides financial support for educators working with children in poverty. St. Mary’s is a member of the Indianapolis Reggio Collaborative (Butler University, Warren Township Early Childhood Program, Lawrence Township Early Thousands of archdiocesan school children recommended Learning Centers and their favorite restaurants to convention attendees. St. Mary’s Child Center) and participates in the Butler Page 8B CONVENTION The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008

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T2171 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Easter Supplement Page 13 What can you do when you don’ t feel the new life of Easter?

By Fr. John W. Crossin, O.S.F.S. come with renewed attention. Catholic News Service Spiritual boredom may call us to examine our practices of personal prayer. Sometimes we do not feel the new life Maybe it is time to move on to new forms CNS photo/Crosiers of Easter. We can feel quite the opposite— of prayer. distant and distracted. There are many forms of prayer in the How might we deal with the ups and Church. Our spiritual friends or our parish downs and the lethargy that is an inevitable priest may have some good suggestions part of the spiritual life? about forms of prayer. One response is to complain. We might Our lethargy may indicate our need for a tell others that Easter is much too early this good example from others. Sometimes we year. Or we could say that the parish need to be on the receiving end of charity. Lenten preparation was not as good as it The virtues of others can raise us up when normally is. we are down. All this may be true even if it is not the Yes, we are called to do for others, but underlying cause of our distance. an appreciation of the efforts of others can We do better to complain to a spiritual break the downward cycle. This example friend. Such friends can be the infusion of listen intently and can the Spirit’s grace that give wise advice. Ultimately, we must we need. An obvious cause of ask the Spirit for new To receive a friendly distracted prayer may be phone call may help purely physical. We may life—and be ready to relieve our lethargy. not realize how tired we go deeper into the Engaging deeply with really are. The late mystery of the risen others pulls us out of winter cold can sap our ourselves. Engaging energy. A little rest or a Christ. deeply in prayer does visit to the doctor may the same. be in order. At the Eucharist, we Our prayer may be lethargic because our hear the inspired word of God. Though it whole life is going slowly. may be familiar, it is deep and mysterious. But a more frequent cause of spiritual We can begin to study the biblical word distraction is repetition or “sameness.” We and listen for its deeper meaning. have prayers memorized, and they no We all encounter the inevitable hills and longer speak to us as intimately as they valleys of the spiritual journey of life. once did. Perseverance, charity, and a renewed life of This spiritual boredom presents an personal and communal prayer can make opportunity. for a new beginning. The opportunity may be to practice the Ultimately, we must ask the Spirit for virtue of perseverance. Life is full of new life—and be ready to go deeper into repetition. Boredom may indicate that we the mystery of the risen Christ. need to pay greater attention. We need to focus outward rather than (Oblate Father John W. Crossin is executive withdraw into a self-centered world. director of the Washington Theological The risen Christ is portrayed in artwork by Robert Falcucii at St. Pius X Basilica in Lourdes, France. Deeper understanding and energy may Consortium in Washington, D.C.) † Easter, the feast of the Resurrection, is on March 23 in the Latin rite this year. 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By Jacob Allstott In a split second, everything in my life was prepared for Special to The Criterion changed. My thoughts went from what movie surgery. They had should I watch that afternoon to am I going to run a CAT scan Some 2,000 years ago, Jesus died on the to die today? to see what they cross. Time seemed to stand still as I wrapped were dealing with As followers of Christ, we pray through around the tree with my right side. I just before they the Stations of the Cross in an attempt to waited to hear the pop of breaking bones, opened me up. Museums Vatican CNS photo courtesy remember what while thinking that this is going to hurt. The pain was Christ endured for To my surprise, I bounced back off the unbearable as our salvation, but it tree and was back on my feet trying to walk they stretched my can be rather hard to up the hill. (Station II—Jesus Carries His arms over my meet Christ in his Cross) head to send me sufferings. I realized that all the air was trapped in my through the Over the last lungs. I forced it out with an excruciating cry machine. 2,000 years, our of pain then I sunk to my knees and passed (Station XI— society and lifestyles out face-first in the snow. (Station III—Jesus Jesus is Nailed to have changed Falls the First Time) the Cross) dramatically so we My brothers must have thought that I had Then they were Jacob Allstott forget what happened just died. Michael, quick to action, had Luke ready to operate. I during the Passion of and Zeke go back to the house to get the car remember being our Lord and the Crucifixion takes on more ready and call our Mom and Dad. so exposed as I mythical proportions. Michael then went down the hill on the got on the As a young man, this is how I viewed the four-wheeler to try to revive me. (Station V— operating table. I Stations of the Cross and the Passion of Simon Helps Jesus Carry His Cross) was completely Christ. I could not relate to biblical times or He nudged me a few times and called my naked, but did not the spiritual significance, but on Dec. 26, name, but I did not respond. I was too heavy care. (Station X— 2004, all that changed. for him to pick me up and pack on the Jesus is Stripped) That is the day when I took on my own four-wheeler. I went through cross, and it was JESUS CHRIST who came He was just about to ride up the hill for two life-or-death and met me in my sufferings, giving me a help when he heard me stir and say, “I’m surgeries while different perspective on what Christ did for OK, I’m OK!” my family and me during the Passion. We rode up the hill and drove to the loved ones sat out It was a normal winter day. My hospital. We walked straight into the in the waiting three brothers, Michael, Luke and Ezekiel, emergency room, and I was so exhausted that room, crying and and I decided to go snow sledding on an I collapsed into a wheelchair. (Station VII— praying. inner tube. We were having a great time. Jesus Falls the Second Time) (Station VIII— There had been 30 inches of snowfall that Michael and I were praying the whole Jesus Meets the Christmas week, and we were making full time, but hope seemed to have left us. What Women of use of it. Then it happened. we did not know was that I had ruptured my Jerusalem) An oil painting of Christ’s crucifixion by Italian futurist Gerardo Dottori is I was sledding down the hillside face-first kidney on impact and pulled it away from the I nearly died among the modern works of art on display in a special exhibit at the and the inner tube got kicked out of the chute aorta and vena cava. (I should have bled to several times that Vatican Museums. Dottori painted “The Crucifixion” in 1927. and into the side of a tree. (Station I—Jesus death in six minutes.) night as many is Condemned to Die) I laid back on the gurney while all the doctors and nurses fought to save my life. It is a truth that has redefined my doctors and nurses ran circles around me, and (Station XII—Jesus Dies on the Cross) relationship with Jesus. It is the defining I prayed for God’s will to be done in my life. After 10 hours of surgery, I was taken to moment of my life and my miracle. I knew that I could die, but I put my life in the intensive care unit. (Station VIII—Jesus Every doctor I have spoken to about my Submitted photo God’s hands. (Station IX—Jesus Falls the is Taken Down from the Cross) accident has said that there is no medical Third Time) After spending the last 15 hours in explanation for why I am alive. The human Then a sense of peace came over me that I torturous conversations with doctors and the body is not supposed to endure that kind of had never known before. Jesus took over. It agony of not knowing if they would ever extreme stress, but I know that “Our sorrows was as if I was a guest in my own body, just see me again, my family was finally able to He [Christ] carried … And by His scourging watching what was going on around me. come in my room. It was not pretty, though. we are healed” (Is 53:4-5). It was very sad to think about the family They had given me 18 pints of blood, 20 Therefore, during this Good Friday and and loved ones I would leave behind. units of platelets and 20 units of plasma to Holy Week, I invite you to let Christ meet I had just met the girl I had waited my keep me alive, but it caused my entire body you in your own sufferings of loneliness, whole life for, but I was OK to go meet Jesus. to swell up like a balloon. humiliation, illness and death. I just laid there and rested in the peace of I hardly even looked like the son that Think about what pain and sufferings Christ. I even had a nurse ask me twice why I they once knew. The doctors put me under you have known in this life then remember wasn’t scared to die. I could not answer her. I sedation, and I spent the next few days in the Good News of the Gospel and that simply looked back at her and said, “I don’t darkness. (Station XIV—Jesus is Laid in the JESUS CHRIST has already carried that to know.” (Station VI—Veronica Wipes Jesus’ Tomb) the cross. Face) I have few memories of meeting my So give it to Jesus: cry for those sufferings, Then I realized that my Mom had made it family and loved ones as they poured into cry for what he endured for us, pray to be to the hospital. I looked up at her and saw the hospital. healed, and may God bless you in your tears in her eyes, and it broke my heart I died many spiritual deaths during my journey as he has blessed me and my family! because she knew. I could tell that she knew, recovery and the Lenten season that The Allstott brothers stand in front of the crucifix but there was nothing that I could do to followed. (Jacob Allstott is a teacher at St. Jude at Our Lady of the Springs Church in French Lick, console her. (Station IV—Jesus Meets His Every time I prayed the Stations of the School in Indianapolis. He is a member of the parish where they grew up. Pictured in this Mother) Cross, I could see that Christ really took on St. Roch Parish in Indianapolis, and grew 2003 photo are, from left, front row, Michael and They soon flew me to the University of all of our sins and sufferings, and he carried up in Our Lady of the Springs Parish in Jacob, and, back row, Ezekiel and Luke. Louisville Hospital’s Trauma Center, where I them with the cross to the top of Calvary. French Lick.) †

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In the course of my life, I’ve spent The next four readings come from Long Island Catholic many pleasant evenings sitting around a three of the prophets: campfire. • Isaiah speaks of the restoration of My earliest experiences of that the people of God, a promise fulfilled in pleasure were in my years in the our salvation through Christ Jesus. A Boy Scouts, and the campfire was second passage from Isaiah speaks of CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, CNS photo/Gregory A. often the occasion for telling stories the banquet that God has prepared for passed on from older Scouts to younger us. It is a fitting anticipation of the ones through the years. Eucharist that we celebrate on this Telling stories around the fire is holy night. really an ancient practice, probably • A passage from the prophet Baruch going back before recorded history. offers a poem in praise of divine Something very similar happens wisdom. The Christian tradition has when we celebrate the Easter Vigil. We long seen Jesus as the incarnate wisdom gather around the Easter fire then go of God, showing us the way to live and inside the church and tell stories that the way to the Father. remind us of who we are. • The final prophetic passage comes The ancient texts we read on this from Ezekiel. It is another reading that most holy night recount the history of promises the restoration of God’s people, God’s dealings with humanity. Thus, but Ezekiel stresses the need for purifi- they set the stage for our own cation through water, an apt image of experience of God’s actions in our baptism’s power to set us free from sin. midst today. After hearing several of these The Liturgy of the Word on that night readings from the Jewish Scriptures, we begins with the Genesis account of turn to the New Testament and hear creation. As we prepare to celebrate the St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, which new creation accomplished through the describes baptism as a sharing in death and resurrection of the Lord, we Christ’s death and resurrection. recall the first creation where it all The Gospel reading varies over a began. three-year cycle, but all three passages The second reading, also from recount the discovery of Christ’s Genesis, recounts the story of resurrection from the dead. Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his This proclamation of the central truth only son to fulfill God’s will. That was of our faith brings our storytelling to its not God’s will, but the story serves as a climax and leads us into the celebration symbol of God’s love revealed in of baptism, where new members of our sending his only Son to save us. community will experience in their own The third reading is the central lives God’s power to save us and bring account in the Jewish tradition of God’s us to new life. saving power, the story of the Exodus from Egypt. This night, we celebrate (Father Lawrence Mick is a priest of the Father Sean Gann lights the paschal candle at the beginning of the Easter Vigil in 2007 at Christ the Christ’s “exodus” through death to Archdiocese of Cincinnati.) † King Church in Commack, N.Y. Cathedral Gardens 1314 Hebron Church Road, Henryville, IN 47126 Out of This World buy! 12 unique gardens within 15 acres of flowers, EVERY WEDNESDAY ponds, fountains and statuary from around the world! EVERY 10% OFF NON-PRESCRIPTION Garden tours, ITEM IN THE STORE weddings, PLATINUM SAVINGS PLAN is back! pavilions for small YOU WILL SAVE! reunions No cost to you – no cards. The more you buy, the more you save. Open May thru October with tours daily at 9, 11, 1 and 3pm EDT- Mon thru Sat Only available at ... Tours $15 each- discount group rates for 10+. Golf carts/escorts at no extra charge 4076 S. Keystone Ave. 3 minutes off I- 65 at Henryville- 20 min north of Louisville/90 min south of Indianapolis PLEASE CALL 812-294-3193 FOR RESERVATIONS. 317 787-7205

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"#! Page 16 Easter Supplement The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Ethnic customs for Easter are celebrated around the world By Louise McNulty Capuchin Franciscan Catholic News Service Father Bob Marva, pastor of the predominantly When the members of some Cleveland African-American parish, World Catholic New parishes participate in “The Walk” on said their walk doesn’t Good Friday, they are continuing a custom contain any special long practiced in Puerto Rico, Mexico and cultural features. parts of South America. “We walk around the CNS photo/Sandy Bertog, But it is more than a Lenten practice neighborhood and plant a essential for appreciating the full magnitude cross for each station, of Easter, said Deacon Miguel Figueroa, who giving witness to our serves at St. Michael the Archangel and Our faith in a neighborhood Lady of Lourdes parishes on Cleveland’s that has lots of crime, lower west side. violence and drug It is part of the Easter celebration of the problems,” he said, primarily Hispanic parishes. adding that their He explained that the walk “is Palm Sunday procession important to people because it connects and other church services them to the suffering of Jesus just as it incorporate African later connects them to the liberation of his dance, drums and resurrection.” rhythmic traditions. For the past 12 years, one walk has started The parish also has a at noon and covered the seven miles between “Wisdom Council” St. Michael and La Sagrada Familia comprised of members parishes. One man represents Christ and 65 or older who are carries a cross. Other parishioners portray recognized for wisdom Mary, the mother of Jesus, as well as and leadership in the Veronica, the soldiers and others who figured community. They serve in prominently during Christ’s Passion. an advisory capacity to Members of the two parishes take turns the pastor, parish and deciding where the walk will start and parish council much like finish, stopping at a halfway point at a a council of elders Cardinal Francis E. George blesses Easter baskets at St. Ferdinand Parish in Chicago on April 6, 2007. The blessing of third parish, where they will take part advises the tribal leader in baskets of food to be prepared for Easter dinner is a Polish custom. in a service at St. Patrick Church on most African villages. Bridge Avenue. Their particular role in the Easter Vigil St. Stanislaus administrator Bojdan Polish Lamentations, a devotion based Deacon Figueroa estimates that around is one that they carry out for all parish Pieniak said 75 percent to 80 percent of on the psalms. 300 people participate annually, including baptisms. the parish’s 1,200 registered families are “On Holy Saturday, we have the “people who join us on the way, some [of “We baptize by full immersion,” Father of Polish descent. The parish draws blessing of food on the hour from whom] aren’t even Catholic.” Marva explained, “and after the newly from all parts of Cleveland because of 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,” Pieniak said. “The Walk” at Our Lady of Lourdes baptized are led out to change into their its emphasis on Polish traditions. “People bring anything that they would Parish was started two years ago and doesn’t Easter clothes, the council members On Easter and throughout the rest of be using on Easter. Being Polish, that include role playing. carrying African leadership staffs lead the year, the parish’s 10 a.m. Mass is usually includes foods like kielbasa, St. Agnes/Our Lady of Fatima Parish them back into church.” said in Polish. During Lent, weekly ham, bread, eggs and butter.” is another community that sponsors a St. Stanislaus Parish in Cleveland also Stations of the Cross are said on Fridays Good Friday walk on Cleveland’s near-east has strong cultural ties. It isn’t far from at 5:30 p.m. in Polish and at 7 p.m. in (Louise McNulty is a freelance writer side. St. Agnes/Our Lady of Fatima Parish. English. The parish also offers the in Akron, Ohio.) †

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Wade decision, Schaedel, which has resulted in the Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann vicar general, deaths of more than 51 explained in his million unborn babies. keynote address “One of four babies dies during the by choice,” he said. “It’s fourth annual legal to obtain an abortion Catholic during all nine months of Pro-Life Dinner pregnancy for elective on March 8 in reasons in all 50 states in downtown this country.” Indianapolis. Planned Parenthood, the To combat largest abortion provider in the culture of the U.S., recently completed Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel death in a a $7 million fundraising troubled world, campaign in Indianapolis, he said, pro-life supporters must act lovingly Msgr. Schaedel said, to and charitably, offer hope and help to those upgrade their existing who need it, and pray for God’s intervention centers and pay for a new in the eternal battle of good against evil. abortion facility constructed The dinner was sponsored by the at West 86th Street and Catholic Life Network and Catholics United Georgetown Road. for the Faith to raise funds for the “Some very fine civic archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Ministry and leaders in our [Indianapolis] Gabriel Project of Indiana director Eileen Hartman of St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus presents a Catholic Life Gabriel Project of Indiana. community have given to Network Pro Vita Award to Robert Rust of Greensburg, who is a member of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Enochsburg, Catholic Life Network Pro Vita Awards for Planned Parenthood,” he during the fourth annual Catholic Pro-Life Dinner on March 8 in Indianapolis. Five other pro-life volunteers also were distinguished service were presented to said. “They’ve made honored during the program. St. Anthony parishioner Kathleen Naghdi of significant gifts to that Indianapolis, a longtime Birthline volunteer; campaign. young people. in 1968 reaffirmed the Church’s teaching Our Lady of the Greenwood parishioner “Planned Parenthood is not interested in As Christians, he said, “we have to know that artificial contraception is wrong. … Pam Leffler of Greenwood, a Rachel’s either planning or parenthood,” the vicar what we are up against because charity Pope Paul VI made four general prophecies Vineyard Retreats volunteer; and SS. Francis general said. “Human life has become cheap. always seeks solutions to problems and we or predictions about what would happen if and Clare of Assisi parishioner Kim Stecher It’s disposable.” have plenty [of problems] in the U.S. In all the Church’s teachings on contraception of Greenwood, a volunteer pro-life youth Planned Parenthood also aggressively honesty and charity, we have to say—with our were ignored.” event coordinator. promotes the use of artificial birth control Lord on the cross—‘Father, forgive them, for Pope Paul warned that artificial Also honored with Pro Vita Awards for methods to young people, Msgr. Schaedel they know not what they are doing.’ ” birth control would result in increases in distinguished volunteer service to the noted, while encouraging them to become Fortunately, he said, there are signs of hope immoral behavior, conjugal infidelity, Gabriel Project were St. Therese of the Infant sexually active. in American culture. divorce, out-of-wedlock pregnancy and Jesus (Little Flower) parishioner Anita Moody “Planned Parenthood isn’t interested in “The number of abortions and abortion sexually transmitted diseases, the vicar of Indianapolis; Robert Rust of Greensburg, births,” he said, “and they’re not interested in providers in the United States and in the state general said. The pope also warned that men who is a member of St. John the Evangelist control either.” of Indiana has been decreasing for about the would lose respect for women, people would Parish in Enochsburg; and St. Elizabeth Ann The abortion provider is using the guise of last 20 years,” the vicar general said. “The treat each other as objects for pleasure, Seton parishioner Jane Blanchard of health education about human sexuality to Alan Guttmacher Institute reports statistics for artificial contraception would become a Carmel, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese. market their abortion services, he said, despite Planned Parenthood. Their report from last dangerous weapon in the hands of public “Pope Benedict XVI’s first encyclical is the serious moral and medical problems January says that the abortion rate for authorities and people would think they have about charity,” Msgr. Schaedel told the associated with sexual promiscuity. women ages 15 to 44 is the lowest it’s been unlimited dominion over their bodies. gathering. “In ‘Deus Caritas Est’—‘God Is “We know that in our culture, the role of since … the [U.S.] Supreme Court made “Forty years ago this year, Paul VI was Love’—the Holy Father points out that there parents, the family, is undermined in very abortion on demand legal in all 50 states. right,” Msgr. Schaedel said. “The Church’s are various kinds of love. He also points out subtle ways,” Msgr. Schaedel said. “Recently, Then they report, with a tear in their eye, moral teaching is right. … In all charity, we in that very same encyclical that our society the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that underage that 86 counties out of 92 in Indiana have no realize that the world is a mess when it has many problems that need to be remedied.” girls can seek abortions without their parents’ abortion providers. … That’s a sign of hope.” comes to respect for life issues. … There are To do that, the vicar general said, “we have consent. … But if one of those same girls is Another sign of hope is the archdiocesan a lot of people that need our prayers because to look at some of the challenges in our injured at school on the playground, the school “A Promise to Keep: God’s Gift of Human in terms of the natural law—and that’s society to suggest remedies. We have to know nurse or even the hospital cannot treat her Sexuality” peer mentor abstinence program, God’s law—they’re wrong.” what we are up against, and we have to do it without her parents’ consent. … School he said, which honored 350 teenage Pro-Life Action League founder and in charity for the sake of others.” officials in Portland, Maine, have decided to volunteers on March 6 and featured a speech national director Joseph Scheidler of Last December, he said, Atlanta Falcons allow children as young as 11 years old to by Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman, who emphasized Chicago, who attended the fundraiser, said quarterback Michael Vick was sentenced to obtain contraceptives without their parents’ the value of waiting for marriage. (See related he appreciated Msgr. Schaedel’s remarks. 23 months in prison for organizing and knowledge.” story on page 18.) “The crisis of our time is that we as a promoting the cruel and illegal practice of Children are seen as consumers, he said, The National March for Life held each society have lost respect for life,” Scheidler dog-fighting. and companies spend millions of dollars a year January in the nation’s capital is yet another said. “… To take life so lightly that you can Yet in 1973, Msgr. Schaedel said, the for advertising targeted at influencing sign of hope, he said. “This is the 35th year kill children, you can practice euthanasia, for that march. Tens of thousands of young you can treat people like things, like sick people from all over the country marched in animals, is just appalling. … But we are Washington, D.C., to protest the Roe v. Wade seeing a rebirth of respect for life. … There’s Sustaining the Spirit Ministry Convocation decision by the Supreme Court.” great hope in the pro-life movement. 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By Mary Ann Wyand determine how many opportunities you have in the future and also what those opportunities It’s critically important to make wise and will be. I want to assure you that it is possible Peer mentors discuss value of healthy choices in daily life, Lt. Gov. Becky to have everything you want, but it’s not Skillman told possible to have everything you want at the A Promise to Keep program 350 Catholic high same time.” school students from Skillman said every change in her life “I chose to be a mentor because marriage. Chastity is about how I live central and southern brought exciting new challenges that were A Promise to Keep promotes great my life on a daily basis, even when no Indiana on March 6, worth waiting for years. morals and lifestyles one is watching. … and it’s equally “Don’t wish away even one season of your that I can relate to. I Talking with the important to wait until life,” she said. “I’ve always been content to enjoy and appreciate younger students the time is right to really live what I’ve been given. I chose to be the program so much. about real love is make major life content and enjoy what was before me, not … My [public grade] always an adventure. choices. quick to wish away even one season of my life school did not have … I have come to “Don’t steal from to get on with another. I think one of the most A Promise to Keep. see myself and other your future,” she precious secrets to life is to enjoy the passage Now that I am a members of Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman emphasized in her of time, no matter what it holds for you.” mentor, I can make A Promise to Keep as keynote address during the 14th annual Everyone has dreams and goals for the sure that kids will have this program to true leaders and role models to both the awards luncheon for the archdiocesan A future, Skillman explained, but it’s important guide them. A Promise to Keep has middle schoolers we teach and friends Promise to Keep: God’s Gift of Human to remember to stay “fully invested” in the prepared me for the future challenges within our peer group. … I believe I Sexuality peer mentor chastity program at the present. in college. It has also strengthened my am ready and well prepared to face Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center in “Waiting for the next thing doesn’t have to values so that I am a better person and whatever challenges [that] college Indianapolis. be a completely frustrating undertaking,” she will make the right decisions.” brings me through what I have learned The lieutenant governor arrived at the said. “The waiting can make you even happier Johnny Harkey in the A Promise to Keep program. Catholic Center in an ethanol-powered SUV when the things you finally acquire come Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Amy Dickman and made time for several media interviews your way.” junior Cathedral High School senior before the program. Skillman said her husband is four years Indianapolis Indianapolis Indiana has lots of bright and talented older so they waited several years to begin young people who are making a difference in dating. After their marriage, they had to wait “Through the A Promise to Keep program, “I chose to be a mentor for A Promise the Hoosier state now, she said in an 10 years until their only child was born. students have an equal opportunity to to Keep because I was encouraged by interview, and who will continue to improve “Our son, Aaron, was born one day before learn about God’s my older sister, and I the quality of life here for many years. our 10th anniversary and he was one message of chastity also wanted to help “One of my favorite quotes comes from celebrated little baby,” she said. “He was the from dedicated inform others about [President] John Quincy Adams, who said, ‘If first grandchild and also the first great- high school students the consequences of your actions encourage others to dream more, grandchild on my side of the family. The who live this calling premarital sex. I have to learn more and to become more, then you satisfaction of just holding him in our arms throughout their daily really enjoyed are a leader,’ ” Skillman said. “Doesn’t that was greater than we had ever anticipated. I lives. … Programs such working with the [quotation] so perfectly apply to these youth know all parents love their children, but with as A Promise to Keep students, and mentors we have in this program because their so many years of waiting for ours I was just are always there for a encouraging them to actions speak volumes, and encourage others overwhelmed with joy for our son. He was sort of ‘refuge’ from secular pressures. practice self-control and make the to learn more, dream more and become more.” worth all those years of waiting.” While the world may change, God’s correct choices. A Promise to Keep has She noted that teenagers carry their Skillman said her grandfather was a special message does not.” greatly strengthened my conviction to personal histories with them throughout their role model in her life, and she recognizes the Frank Therber stay abstinent. It has given me the tools adult lives. importance of good mentors for young people. Father Thomas Scecina Memoral High I need to achieve God’s plan of saving After the teenage peer mentors greeted “Your present is such a rich, wonderful School senior myself for marriage. I believe this Skillman with enthusiastic applause, she told time,” she said. “It has a lot to offer if you just Indianapolis program does a great job in them that the good things in life evolve slow down and enjoy it. … In a world that is establishing a solid foundation for the one day at a time as a result of hard work and screaming at us to have everything we want “I joined Cathedral’s A Promise to students to remain chaste, and I am dedication, and should be savored and enjoyed and to have it right now, I think we all know Keep program as a junior because I honored to be a part of A Promise to as important accomplishments. that it’s usually the hardest things in life that believe that by saving myself for my Keep. “The governor [Mitch Daniels] and I want are the most worth doing. Savor this time and husband I am giving him the best gift I Michael Zimmerman to build a very strong future for you right here don’t get ahead of yourself. Choose wisely. I can offer. … I have discovered that Bishop Chatard High School senior in Indiana,” she said. “We want to keep our think you’ll be very happy with the results.” chastity is not just about saving sex for Indianapolis bright, talented young individuals here within Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, the state. I know you’re all looking for represented Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein opportunities that will lead you to the right at the awards program. to thank you, as the lieutenant governor also recognized by Indianapolis Mayor Greg school, to the right career. The governor and I “You can always choose to do the right already alluded to, for taking choices Ballard, who sent a proclamation honoring are doing all we can to open the right doors thing,” Msgr. Schaedel said. “A Promise to seriously. Never forget, in terms of the peer mentors from Bishop Chatard High for you.” Keep is really about many, many things, but A Promise to Keep or any other decisions School, Father Thomas Scecina Memorial A native of Bedford, Skillman said she has most of all it is about what kind of choices that you will make from now on, … [that] High School, Roncalli High School, been married to her high school sweetheart, that you make, and what kind of choices you our choices make us who we are and what Cardinal Ritter High School, Cathedral High Steve, for 38 years and they have one son, encourage or teach others to make. … You are we want to be.” School and Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory Aaron. She served 12 years in the Indiana leaders right now so the choices you make, Margaret Hendricks, program coordinator School in Indianapolis. Senate before Daniels asked her in 2004 to and the choices that you make others think of the A Promise to Keep peer mentor Chastity peer mentors from Seton serve as his running mate and lieutenant about, can make a tremendous difference.” program, said more than 350 Catholic high Catholic High School in Richmond, governor if he was elected to the state’s He said one choice—one 30-second school students in Marion County alone have Oldenburg Academy of the Immaculate highest office. decision—can change the course of a person’s been mentors to more than 5,000 middle Conception in Oldenburg and St. Agnes “You have some waiting to do,” she life forever. school students during the 2007-08 school Parish in Nashville also were honored for reminded the teenagers. “You have a number “There’s no going back once we make year. their volunteer service in the abstinence of choices to make, and those choices will certain choices,” Msgr. Schaedel said. “I want Their distinguished volunteer service was education program. † Pope steps up appeals for end to bloodbath, hatr ed tearing apart Iraq VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope “tragic loss” of Chaldean Catholic the body’s decomposition. The archbishop footsteps, carrying a heavy cross, remaining Benedict XVI stepped up appeals for an end Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, had no bullet wounds, and he appeared to faithful “to the law of love” and paying to the bloodbath and hatred tearing apart Iraq. 65, who was have been dead a week, reported the British witness to the truth, not only for his Mentioning the recent tragic death of an kidnapped on news agency Reuters. “martyred country” but also for the whole Iraqi archbishop and the upcoming Feb. 29 in an attack Pope Benedict celebrated a memorial world, said the pope. fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-led that left his driver Mass on March 17 for Archbishop Rahho in Again he urged the country’s Christians to campaign against Iraq, the pope issued “a and two bodyguards the Redemptoris Mater Chapel of the continue dedicating themselves to building a loud and concerned outcry.” dead. Vatican’s Apostolic Palace. peaceful, harmonious society. “Enough with the bloodshed, enough with The archbishop He praised the archbishop for being “a Archbishop Rahho’s funeral and burial the violence, enough with the hatred in Iraq,” had paid “beautiful man of peace and dialogue” who dedicated were on March 14 outside Mosul, a northern he said immediately before reciting his witness of himself to helping the poor and Iraqi city considered to be a stronghold of noonday Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square faithfulness to handicapped. al-Qaida. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al- on March 16. Christ, the Church He asked that Archbishop Rahho’s Maliki blamed al-Qaida for the archbishop’s He launched an appeal to all Iraqis, “who and his people, example inspire “all Iraqis of good will, death. Archbishop for the past five years have borne the Paulos Faraj Rahho whom he did not Christians and Muslims, to build a peaceful Thousands of people turned out for the consequences of a war that has caused the want to abandon coexistence founded on brotherhood and archbishop’s funeral, at which the Chaldean upheaval of civil and social life.” despite numerous threats,” the pope said. mutual respect.” patriarch, Cardinal Emmanuel-Karim Delly “Beloved Iraqi people: Lift up your heads The archbishop’s body was recovered on He also encouraged the nation’s of Baghdad, presided. and let it be you yourselves who, in the first March 13 after the kidnappers told Catholic Christians to persevere and know that they “There is no doubt that [Archbishop] place, rebuild” the life of the nation, he said. leaders in Iraq where he had been buried. can find the strength in their faith in God Rahho is a martyr,” the apostolic nuncio to “May reconciliation, forgiveness, justice Police were unclear whether and Christ “to not lose heart in the difficult Iraq, Archbishop Francis Chullikatt, told the and respect for the civil coexistence among Archbishop Rahho had been killed. He situation they are living through.” Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano. tribes, ethnicities and religious groups” be the suffered from a heart condition and needed The pope denounced the “inhumane “And I hope this sacrifice can serve to harmonious path the people take so as to medication, Church officials said. way” the archbishop died as well as his draw the whole world’s attention to the Iraqi achieve peace in God’s name, the pope said. An autopsy was inconclusive about the “indecent burial” by his kidnappers. crisis,” he said in the paper’s March 16 In his address, the pope recalled the cause of death due to the advanced state of The archbishop had followed in Christ’s edition. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2008 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. New life for Christians takes a eucharistic for m

By Fr. Gerald O’Collins, S.J. St. John identifies Jesus as the bread of life, even “Life” itself. That theme runs right through his At Easter, many parishes around the world are revitalized Gospel. when newly baptized adults make their first Just in case any reader may have missed the point, holy Communion. the Gospel clearly states its intentions at the end of the Some communities may have grown lethargic, but they chapter in which the risen Jesus appeared to Mary receive an injection of fresh life when a line of men and Magdalene and the other disciples then conferred on women step forward to receive the Eucharist for the first them the vigorous power of the Holy Spirit: “But time and enjoy an intimate communion with their risen Lord. these are written that you may come to believe that New life for Christians, Pope Benedict XVI said, takes a Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that through eucharistic form. this belief you may have life in his name” (Jn 20:31). We can see that happening year by passing year when we When Jesus showed himself gloriously alive to greet people at the Easter Vigil or on Easter Sunday. Mary Magdalene, Peter, Thomas and the rest, he We can feel how, raised from the dead and charged with transformed their existence. He changed their attitudes the infinite vitality of his glorious life, the risen Jesus shares from despair to radiant hope, and enlisted them in his his love and spiritual energy through the Eucharist with all mission of love and service to the whole world. CNS photo/Crosiers the faithful—the newly baptized, cradle Catholics, young For us to experience the risen Jesus now in the and old. Eucharist is to experience one who offers us “Life” is a magic word. We all want to live and live fully. dynamic life in abundance. He is the fullness of Innumerable advertisements promise customers a richer, life—“Life” itself. more satisfying life. Buy this cell phone and “live beyond The promises made by commercials cannot be frontiers.” Pay for this sports channel and “live the legend.” fulfilled. What we buy and own is not going to fill the Color supplements present us with the glittering lifestyles of emptiness of our hearts. Yet the commercials have the glamorous celebrities and try to make us desperate to follow merit of reminding us vividly that we all yearn for life them. and the fullness of life. Advertisers know that we all hunger for a full and utterly Real life comes through experiencing Jesus in the worthwhile life. But what we buy, own and consume will Eucharist, receiving from him some of the vitality of never provide us with the true fullness of life and may leave his risen life, and sharing that with others. us as dissatisfied as ever. Years ago, Franco Zeffirelli directed the classic In his book Jesus of Nazareth, Pope Benedict commented film Jesus of Nazareth. One of its masterly features on the rich glutton in the parable of Dives and Lazarus: “His was the way that Zeffirelli brought together for carousing was only an attempt to smother the interior dramatic effect separate episodes from the life of emptiness” of his existence. Where is real life to be found? Christ. He combined, for instance, the feeding of the What will deliver us from our emptiness and truly satisfy us? 5,000 with Mary Magdalene finding Christ. A memorable camera shot picked her out in the crowd as she bit on a hunk of bread before bursting Disciples’ faith in Jesus enabled into tears of joy. them to believe in Resurrection With her hands tightly grasping the bread and her moist eyes fixed on Jesus, she knew that she had By Carole Norris Green found the one who is life itself. Her hungry heart had found the one who promises, “Whoever comes to me The Gospels, which give many details about Jesus’ will never hunger. I am the bread of life” (Jn 6:35). suffering and death, are strangely silent about Christ’s That scene from Zeffirelli’s film matched perfectly resurrection, said Bishop Edward Braxton of Belleville, Ill., a line from a prize-winning hymn: “You satisfy the in his 2007 pastoral letter on Lent and Easter. hungry heart.” Jesus’ resurrection “was not a grand illusion like a Yes, Jesus does satisfy our hearts fully and forever. David Copperfield feat that ‘proved’ to the disciples that he When we come to him, we will never hunger. was the Son of God,” he said. “It was their faith in Jesus as At every Eucharist and, above all, in our the Messiah that enabled them to believe the Resurrection.” Easter liturgies, the risen Jesus shows himself to be Christ’s resurrection “is not a separate event that follows utterly satisfying and totally fulfilling. He is charged after his Passion and death,” Bishop Braxton explained. with infinite vitality and a spiritual energy that can “Since Jesus is the designated victim, lamb and appointed sweep away our lethargy. priest in this total sacrifice, the giving over of himself is This is what Jesus promises us: eternal life. It is his immediately acceptable to God. to give because he is Life itself. With him and through “For this reason, Good Friday and Easter Sunday [death him, we can truly “live beyond frontiers” and live and resurrection] must be seen as two aspects of a single and forever! united reality,” he said. “Thus, there is no need ever to wonder if Good Friday would retain its saving force even if (Jesuit Father Gerald O’Collins has published nearly Easter had not followed. Because Jesus is the Christ, Easter 50 books, most recently Jesus Our Redeemer and When Jesus showed himself gloriously alive to Mary Magdalene, Peter, was inevitable.” Salvation for All, published by Oxford University Thomas and the rest, he transformed their existence. He changed their Press, and Jesus: A Portrait, published by Orbis Books attitudes from despair to radiant hope, and enlisted them in his mission of (Carole Norris Greene is associate editor of Faith Alive!) † in 2008.) † love and service to the whole world. Discussion Point Families enjoy Easter customs This Week’s Question as a family and dress for the occasion because it is such a special feast.” (Carolina Ramos, Presidio, Describe a special Easter custom observed in your Texas) family. “We make a small Easter tree that we set up in the “Of course, we always start with Mass, which is what house. We take a tree branch, paint it white, and place [Easter is] all about. But we [also] have a family religious ornaments and symbols of life on it. It get-together ... about 40 people. Something would be symbolizes the Resurrection and celebrates new life.” missing without getting together for this holiday after (Andrew Gill, Irving, Texas) the observance of Lent when we follow Jesus by abstaining.” (Jackie Snyder, Minot, N.D.) Lend Us Your Voice

“When I was young, every year we got new Easter An upcoming edition asks: What are some ways that outfits—head to toe. The new clothes signified rebirth other people can help a family when an aging parent is and the beginning of our new life with the resurrected living with his or her adult child? Christ.” (Barb Trenor, Fairlawn, Ohio) To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to “Going to church, especially during the holy days just [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at before Easter. Then we [would] go to Mass [on Easter] 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS file photo/Karen Callaway Page 20 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Go and Make Disciples/John Valenti Biblical women: The woman at the well Are we Thirty-second in a series) with Samaritans, especially Samaritan Jesus replied that, although salvation is women, whom they regarded as ritually from the Jews, it is not only for the Jews, The fourth chapter of John’s Gospel tells impure. but for all who adore God. happy yet? us about Jesus’ meeting with a Samaritan The animosity between Jews and The most startling part of the conver- woman at Jacob’s well Samaritans went all the way back to the sation happened when the woman said that It’s a part of our American culture to in Samaria. years after Assyria conquered the Kingdom she knew that the Messiah was coming. pursue happiness. The pursuit of John calls the town of Israel in 722 B.C. Thousands of Jews Jesus replied, “I am he,” which could happiness is one of Sychar, but St. Jerome were deported to Assyria and people from also be translated “I am,” God’s name in the those inalienable identified it as 10 other nations were allowed to fill the void Old Testament. This was the first time he rights secured in our Schechem, the capital of in Israel. The Jews who remained in Israel, had acknowledged to anyone that he was Declaration of the Kingdom of Israel now called Samaria, intermarried with the the Messiah. Independence. But and, later, Samaria. It is newcomers, resulting in a mixed race with a When Jesus’ disciples returned with short of being modern Nablus, and mixed religion. After the Jews—who later food, they were shocked to find him talking hedonistic, it is Jacob’s well is still there. were exiled to Babylon after the fall of the with a Samaritan woman. While Jesus interesting to run I visited it before Kingdom of Judah—returned to their talked with them, the woman quickly ran across some statistics pilgrims stopped going there because of the homeland, they refused to accept the into the city and told her neighbors, “Come about what exactly Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Samaritans. see a man who told me everything I have makes people happy. Jesus was traveling from Judea back to The woman at the well wasn’t the most done [a bit of an exaggeration]. Could he According to a Pew Research Center Galilee. Normally, Jews would take a route savory of women because she had had possibly be the Messiah?” survey published in 2006, which can be across the Jordan River to avoid walking five husbands and was then living with A footnote in John’s Gospel says the accessed at http://pewresearch.org,just through Samaria, but Jesus decided to take another man. Nevertheless, she engaged woman is thus presented as a missionary. one-third (34 percent) of adults in our the more direct route. His disciples went into Jesus in a conversation about the differences Some of the people returned to the well country say they are very happy. town to buy food while Jesus sat by the well. in belief between the Jews and Samaritans. with the woman and asked Jesus to remain Another half say they are pretty happy At noon, a Samaritan woman came to get She said that her ancestors worshiped on with them, which he did for two days. Thus and 15 percent consider themselves not water and Jesus asked her for a drink of Mount Gerizim in Samaria (in a temple they did Jesus make his first non-Jewish converts too happy. water. This was surprising, to say the least, built in the fourth century B.C.) while the as a result of his meeting with the woman In this survey, several statistics stand since Jews never used anything in common Jews worshiped in Jerusalem. at the well. † out. People who attend religious services weekly or more are happier Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes (43 percent are very happy) than those who attend monthly or less (31 percent) or seldom or never (26 percent). Easter is our only hope—Alleluia! Alleluia! This correlation between happiness and frequency of church attendance has Sometimes we become jaded about by real parents, teachers and doctors. in a hand-basket, as old folks always do. been a consistent finding in the General events like Easter. We know it’s the greatest Young men are sent to war by old men And as always, they are correct in some of Social Surveys taken over the years. feast of the Church who think they’ve earned the right to their judgments and way off base in others. The same pattern applies within all year, but over time we omniscience. Politicians cynically create The world lurches on, back and forth, up major religious denominations. may forget its real tensions and foster divisions, sometimes and down in its crazy human fashion, For example, 38 percent of all meaning and its between countries, just to keep their lucrative dragging all our imperfect selves along with Catholics who attend church weekly or astonishing importance offices. Bosses lie and workers cheat on time it. Grief, pain, meanness and sin in general more report being very happy, while for us. and performance, trying to increase their continue as they inevitably will, with just 28 percent of Catholics who attend Just imagine a world financial profits or just “stick it” to someone goodness appearing periodically, seemingly church less often say they are very that is a place where they resent. to point up the irony of our existence. happy. children are routinely Immigrants, legal or illegal, work harder To be truthful, the foregoing paragraphs One reason is that religious people abused by adults with and longer for less pay than most Americans. seem to describe our world fairly correctly. tend to have lots of social support and more authority, power Some are trying to become part of the We do indeed suffer from all these connection, one of the chief ingredients or physical strength than they have. American Dream, but others merely want to problems, faults and sins. That’s why God, for happiness. They also live with the Imagine a world where men and women profit from quick financial gain without who loves us beyond measure, sent Christ to sense of purpose and grand design that couple promiscuously, sometimes carelessly bothering to follow our laws. Either way, save us from ourselves. Easter is thus a religious faith provides in daily life. producing many of the children who are they’re often preyed upon by unprincipled celebration of love, not just a festival of This helps people live meaningfully and abused later on. employers and politicians who choose to Spring’s natural renewal illustrated with make sense of life’s difficulties. People use each other sexually, materially forget that we were all immigrants once, and baby chicks and flowers. Married people (43 percent are very and emotionally. If they express feelings of that immigrants are entitled to respect and Easter is the greatest feast because it happy) are a good bit happier than disappointment or anger at these situations, criminals are not. declares that hope in a better life and a unmarried adults (24 percent), and this they’re ignored or sent to expensive therapy Entertainments, such as television, movies better world is not only possible, but too has been a consistent finding over or left to continue the cycle of despair in and popular music, present false, tawdry imminent. We just need to believe in that many years and in many surveys. It which they operate. Many become examples of current life, which the young and promise to live in hope. Hope is the one holds up for men as well as women and sentimental “victims” of their own bad gullible believe are true, acceptable and even essential we must carry on through an also for the old as well as the young. choices. necessary to being a modern person. If such imperfect life in an imperfect world on Interestingly, people who have Victimhood, in fact, becomes a popular people don’t follow the media examples, our way to the perfect God. And it’s hope children are no happier than those who cause for anyone disaffected by anything. they’re considered to be either ignorant or that will bring us joy. don’t, after accounting for marital Spurious “experts” offer advice, workshops, pathetically out of sync with their peers. status. That is, married people with pills or whatever other lucrative methods Immature teenagers especially feel a need to (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the children are about as happy as married they can dream up to solve such imaginary be in sync with others. Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular people without children. And unmarried problems. Real problems tend to be handled Old folks think the world is going to hell columnist for The Criterion.) † people with children are about as happy as unmarried people without children. Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister Also, retirees are no happier than workers and pet owners are no happier than those without pets. An ‘Easterly’ understanding of ‘WWJD?’ There is virtually no difference in happiness by gender and only a bit of Last week, I suggested that it’s prudent do?” could be misleading because of the Jesus think right now? Waffling on those variance in happiness by age. But the to ask ourselves “What would Jesus do?” “would.” It could seem as though Jesus kinds of issues is the way we might be age data runs counter to the prevailing in difficult or uncomfortable situations. I were not part of here-and-now situations. more likely to deny that we are a disciple ethos of the popular culture, which is even called it a There’s a big difference between “What of Jesus.” forever extolling the blessings of youth. “cliché.” would Jesus think I should do?” and After each reading in The Little Black It turns out that the young are less Right after writing “What does Jesus think I should do?” Book is this note: “Spend some quiet time happy than the middle-aged or old. that column, I read a Recently, in a column about a with the Lord.” There are many things in this world daily Lenten message basketball injury to a spectator who is a I like to do that all year long, not just that can bring us temporary happiness— to my husband that friend, I suggested that—in such a during Lent. sufficient money, business success, changed my spiritual situation and any other times of indecision This makes me think of a wise good health, a loving family, loyal perception of the once when reacting to something bad that is Protestant friend whom I considered to be friends. But no worldly thing can bring very popular happening to someone near us—we a cross between a mother and older sister enduring joy and happiness. We might “WWJD?” should immediately think about “What to me. Janie and I often held hands and become poor, fail at business or lose our My husband and I would Jesus do?” spent quiet times with the Lord. She health, even our spouse or our friends. have been faithfully following The Little However, since Jesus should be a always prayed in the present tense, Even if we gain all these things and Black Book of inspiring Lenten messages. part of the present moment in everything knowing that Jesus was, indeed, present. manage to keep them, sooner or later It stresses the Passion of Christ according that Christians do, we should put our Whatever she prayed was simple, direct we must leave them all behind. to John’s Gospel. We have done this every question in the now-moment, i.e., “What and offered with the assurance that Christ God wants us to be happy. The good Lent since our parish began providing the do you want me to do, Lord?” After made our twosome a threesome. news is that Jesus, the Prince of Peace, booklet that comes from the Diocese of all, we claim he is with us no matter The Little Black Book is published by assures us, “In the world you shall have Saginaw, Mich. It is based on the what or when. Little Books of the Diocese of Saginaw. tribulation, but be of good cheer; I have writings of Bishop Kenneth Untener, who The little book’s message continued: For more information, call 989-797-6653 overcome the world” (Jn 16:33). died in 2004. “Asking ourselves what Jesus thinks about or log on to www.saginaw.org. In a February reading, based on the a given situation can change our (John Valenti is the associate director of second denial that Simon Peter made after perspective. Pick any issue—killing the (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of Evangelization and Faith Formation for the arrest of Jesus, an excellent point is unborn, using/storing weapons of mass Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. E-mail made: The question “What would Jesus destruction, retaliation. … What does a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † him at [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008 Page 21

Easter Sunday/Feast of the Resurrection of the Lord Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, March 24 Friday, March 28 Acts 2:14, 22-33 Acts 4:1-12 The Sunday Readings Psalm 16:1-2a, 5, 7-11 Psalm 118:1-2, 4, 22-27a Matthew 28:8-15 John 21:1-14 Sunday, March 23, 2008 crucified on Calvary. He is the source of eternal life. • Acts of the Apostles 10:34a, 37-43 St. Paul’s Epistle to the Colossians Tuesday, March 25 Saturday, March 29 • Colossians 3:1-4 provides the second reading. Acts 2:36-41 Acts 4:13-21 • John 20:1-9 This reading emphasizes that Psalm 33:4-5, 18-20, 22 Psalm 118:1, 14-15b, 16-21 Christians, by baptism and by their John 20:11-18 Mark 16:9-15 Rejoicing and exclaiming its great faith, possess new life. They live faith and hope for humanity, the Church because they are bonded with the living today celebrates Christ. As Christ is in heaven, so the Wednesday, March 26 Sunday, March 30 Easter, the feast of thoughts of Christians must be on Acts 3:1-10 Divine Mercy Sunday the Resurrection of heaven. Psalm 105:1-4, 6-9 Acts 2:42-47 the Lord. For its last reading, for its excited Luke 24:13-35 Psalm 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24 The Church’s proclamation of the Resurrection, the 1 Peter 1:3-9 first celebration of Church presents to us a passage from the Lord’s victory John’s Gospel. Thursday, March 27 John 20:19-31 over earthly death It is an account of the first Easter Acts 3:11-26 occurs in the morning. Mary Magdalene went to the Psalm 8:2ab, 5-9 marvelous liturgy of tomb, but found it empty so she rushed Luke 24:35-48 Holy Saturday, the to inform Peter. Again, in this book of Easter Vigil, when most parishes receive the New Testament quite separate from new members into the Church. In this Acts, the importance of Peter is vigil liturgy, the symbols of fire, light and revealed. Reaching Peter, she anxiously Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen water magnificently reveal the mystery said that the Lord’s body had been and the promise of the Resurrection. taken away. The readings cited above are read in “The disciple whom Jesus loved,” Stations of the Cross devotion the Mass on Easter Sunday. traditionally thought to have been the The first reading is from the Acts of Apostle John even though the Gospel the Apostles. never identifies him as such, and Peter dates back to late Middle Ages Scripture readings from Acts will hurried to the tomb. The disciple occur again and again during the arrived first, but he waited for Peter, Questions have arisen in our parish Via Dolorosa (Sorrowful Way) in Easter Season. Acts is very interesting, another indication of Peter’s status. Qthis Lent concerning the Stations Jerusalem today are comparatively giving us insight into the life of the Peter entered the tomb, saw that it of the Cross. Obviously, some stations recent. first Christians. was empty, but evidently did not realize have no basis in the As you note, some of these events are Gathered in Jerusalem, around the that Jesus had risen. The disciple, Bible. not found in Scripture. The fourth station, Apostles, with Mary among them, they however, realized what had occurred. How did they for example, commemorates a meeting of lived in charity, prayer and faith. Their Implied is this disciple’s absolute love. originate? Is there a Jesus and his mother. lives are examples to us. Their It gives him perception. connection between Luke notes that Jesus stopped along reverence for the Apostles, and obvious them and the route the way to speak to “many women who submission to the Apostles, teach us Reflection our Lord took to mourned and lamented him,” but he even as we live in the structure of the These readings have critical lessons Calvary on the way doesn’t say Mary was among them. Church today. for all people. The first is that Jesus is to be crucified? John places Mary at the foot of the Readings from Acts also tell us that Lord. He triumphed over death, the (Missouri) cross, but not on the road. we are not separated from the miracle most universal of human experiences The eighth station where Veronica of Jesus in the world. The Apostles link aside from birth itself, and for all living For those who are not familiar with wipes the face of Jesus is also not us with the Lord. Led by Peter, they things the end of earthly life. Athis Catholic devotion, the Stations described in the Gospels. preached in the name of Christ. They However, his earthly life has not of the Cross is a series—today usually Thus, more than half of the stations cured the sick in the Lord’s name. They ended. It endures. He lives! He lives in 14—of images depicting scenes from are based more on ancient tradition guided the people toward God, just as and through the Church. the Good Friday journey of Jesus from than on Gospel accounts. Jesus had guided people toward God. Easter wonderfully reassures us. Pontius Pilate’s headquarters to the Interestingly, beginning in 1991, Today’s reading recalls Peter’s Because of the Church, the Lord Crucifixion on Calvary. The person or Pope John Paul II was the first pope to preaching. Notice that Peter speaks for touches us. We hear Jesus. We meet group “making” the stations prays and employ a Bible-based format for the all the Apostles. Scholars call this Jesus. We share in the Lord’s reflects briefly on each incident. traditional papal commemoration of the sermon “kerygmatic,” from the Greek everlasting life. The practice originated with early Stations of the Cross in Rome’s word for “message,” which is All this is because the Apostles pilgrims to the Holy Land, who desired Colosseum on Good Friday. “kerygma.” formed the Church, first given the to follow the way our Lord walked on Pope Benedict XVI used the same This reading and the other readings strength and life of the Holy Spirit by the day he died. The devotion as we form in 2007. for Easter Sunday are crisp but Jesus. They guided it in their times on know it, however, developed only The biblical format used by Pope John profound in giving the fundamental earth, and they provided for their during the very late Middle Ages, Paul and Pope Benedict may be found on points of the Gospel. Jesus, God’s successors to guide it and nourish it generally the 1200s and the 1300s. the Internet by typing in “biblical messenger, also was the Savior, after they died. † These were tumultuous and painful stations of the cross” on times when most Christians found www.google.com. practicing and passing on their faith In any of these formats, the Stations of My Journey to God extremely difficult. Into this picture the Cross remain one of the rich treasures came religious figures that helped in Catholic tradition for reflection on our popularize a variety of expressions of Lord’s suffering and death. prayer and faith, such as the rosary (the A Lenten Reflection Dominicans) and the Christmas crèche (A free brochure in English or Spanish, (St. Francis of Assisi). answering questions that Catholics ask As I sat in the quiet at the St. Francis The Stations of the Cross was one of about baptism practices and sponsors, Hospital Chapel in Indianapolis, I looked these devotions, serving as both a is available by sending a stamped, up and saw that I was sitting by two very prayer and a sort of catechism about the self-addressed envelope to Father John

familiar Stations of the Cross. The Southern Cross sufferings of Christ. Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612. The first station depicts Christ carrying Franciscan communities, who had Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen the cross and the Roman soldier telling already been given charge of the holy at the same address or by e-mail in care Simon to help Jesus with His burden. places in Jerusalem for Latin-rite of [email protected].) † The other station portrays Jesus stopping Catholics, helped popularize the for a moment on His journey and receiving Stations of the Cross devotion, which water from a woman. evolved into many forms over the

We often perceive Lent as a time of Turnbloom, CNS illustration/Lucas years. Readers may submit prose sadness, being gloomy and having to At one time, they numbered as many or poetry for faith column continually throw ashes on ourselves. We as 43 stations, including seven falls are focused on our sins and ourselves. under the cross. The 14 stations as we The Criterion invites readers to As I sat in the quiet of the chapel, I saw know them became fairly stabilized by submit original prose or poetry relating that ever familiar story a little differently. We were given water for our journey. Pope Clement XII in 1731. to faith or experiences of prayer for No matter how difficult our journey, how We do not carry our cross by ourselves. In recent decades, some publications possible publication in the “My weary we are and how heavy our cross, We are never alone on our journey. of prayers for the Stations of the Cross Journey to God” column. God sent His Son to help carry our burdens. Our Father has provided us with have included a 15th station or Seasonal reflections also are And anytime while we are on our everything we need for our journey. meditation calling to mind the victory appreciated. Please include name, journey, we can always stop, rest and of Jesus over death in the resurrection. address, parish and telephone number receive the living water that God provides By Martha Ardis The city of Jerusalem was leveled by with submissions. through our prayers and the Scriptures. the Roman armies about 40 years after Send material for consideration to Jesus’ death, making the precise “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, (Martha Ardis resides in New Palestine and is a member of St. John the Evangelist locations of his falls, for example, on the P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 Parish in Indianapolis. The hand of Christ is depicted by artist Lucas Turnbloom.) way to his crucifixion impossible to or e-mail to [email protected]. † determine. The markings along the Page 22 The Criterion Friday, March 21, 2008

Wilhelm. Grandfather of 11. RUEGAMER, Paul E., 76, GOEBEL, Joseph, 75, St. Pius St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, Author and grief counselor X, Indianapolis, March 6. March 10. Husband of Pat Husband of Mary Jane (Fleming) Ruegamer. Father of Sherri to present programs in April Rest in peace Goebel. Father of Julie Nagel, Dugger, Vickie Yaggi, James and Kathryn Schlichte, James, John, Paul Ruegamer. Grandfather of By Mary Ann Wyand Joseph, Robert and Thomas four. Please submit in writing to our Denny. Grandmother of six. What is the difference between grieving and mourning? office by 10 a.m. Thursday Great-grandmother of six. Goebel. Brother of Jerome SCHMITT, Amelia Goebel. Grandfather of 10. (Sustersick), Grieving is a private, interior experience that follows the before the week of publication; CAIRNS, Joan, 85, St. Luke 83, Holy Trinity, be sure to state date of death. Great-grandfather of three. Indianapolis, Feb. 24. Mother of death of a loved one, Dr. Alan Wolfelt explained, and the Evangelist, Indianapolis, mourning is an external experience of sharing the loss with Obituaries of archdiocesan March 8. Mother of Mary HEILMAN, Patricia, 83, Prince Martha Ferguson, Mary priests serving our archdiocese Kubley, Jane Drascic and of Peace, Madison, Feb. 27. Meadows, Rosemary, Anthony, others. are listed elsewhere in Michael Cairns. Sister of Mother of Diane Schaefer. Christopher, Herman, John, Both grieving and mourning are necessary for bereaved The Criterion. Order priests Geraldine Ralston. Grandmother of two. Great- Louis and Michael Schmitt. people to begin the difficult process of healing and start and religious sisters and grandmother of five. Grandmother of 25. Great- CLINE, Patricia A. (Braun), living life in new ways, the nationally known author, brothers are included here, grandmother of 49. Great-great- 53, St. Gabriel the Archangel, HEPPNER, Albert W., 73, educator and grief counselor from Fort Collins, Colo., unless they are natives of the grandmother of two. Indianapolis, Feb. 19. Wife of Holy Family, Oldenburg, explained in a brief telephone interview on March 17. archdiocese or have other Donald Cline. Mother of March 11. Husband of Charlotte SCHULER, Fred R., 91, Wolfelt will discuss “The Wilderness of Grief: Finding connec tions to it; those are Monica, Theresa, Victoria, Heppner. Brother of Betty Ann, St. Paul, Sellersburg, Feb. 21. Your Way” during a three-hour community seminar from separate obituaries on this Donald and Scott Cline. Jerry and Jim Heppner. Father of Kathleen Belt, Joyce page. 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. on April 8 and “Living in the ‘Shadow Daughter of Josephine Braun. HESS, Orman M., 65, St. Mary, Cecil, Mary Lawson, Ruth of the Ghosts’ of Grief,” a one-day seminar for anyone who ANDRES, Helen, 92, St. Paul, Sister of Sandy Routh, Jane New Albany, March 4. Brother Snyder, Margaret Wade, Charles, provides care for bereaved people, from 9 a.m. until Sellersburg, March 2. Wife of Schaedel, Betty Ulrich, Rob and of Mary Ann, Jay, Jerry and Francis, Richard and Robert 3:30 p.m. on April 9 during a two-day visit to Indianapolis. Philip Andres. Mother of Tim Braun. Grandmother of six. William Hess. Schuler. Brother of Aloysius Both programs will be held at the Community Life Dorothy Bertrand, Donna Schuler. Grandfather of 24. COSTELLO, John Richard, HUBER, Joseph H., Jr., 74, Center at Washington Park Cemetery, 10612 E. Washington Whiteley and Ronald Andres. 79, St. Roch, Indianapolis, St. John the Baptist, Starlight, Great-grandfather of 25. Sister of Alleen Allen. St., in Indianapolis. Registrations are required by March 28. Feb. 27. Husband of Mildred March 10. Husband of Bonnie SEAY, Patricia (Davis), 73, Grandmother of six. Great- His community program is sponsored by Flanner and (Beeman) Costello. Father of (Kruer) Huber. Father of Beverly Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, grandmother of 10. Buchanan Inc. The registration fee is $30 and includes Kathy Gayheart, Lynn Reames, Engleman, Kimberly Kaiser, Feb. 15. Wife of Robert Seay. ARMBRUSTER, Douglas J., John and Mark Costello. Brother Charles, Joseph III and Lewis Mother of Mary, Dr. David and handout materials. 54, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, of Jerry and William Costello. Huber. Brother of Cecilia Dr. Robert Seay II. Grandmother Wolfelt’s program for caregivers is jointly sponsored by Feb. 29. Husband of Rebecca Grandfather of 11. Great- D’Apice, Carol Griswold, Doris of three. Flanner and Buchanan Inc., the archdiocesan Catholic Armbruster. Brother of Betty grandfather of three. Wathen, Maryknoll Sister Cemeteries Association and the archdiocesan Office of SHEARN, Helene M., 82, Groff, Barbara, Jim, Paul and Rosemary Huber, Benedictine CRUTCHFIELD, Frances St. Paul, Tell City, Feb. 24. Family Ministries as their sixth annual mission day. The Phillip Armbruster. Pauline, 91, St. Gabriel, Sister Kathryn Huber, David, registration fee of $30 includes lunch and handout John and Norbert Huber. Mother of Donna Clark, Carla BEETS, Doris Catherine, 82, Connersville, Feb. 27. Mother of King, Joe, Rick and Tom Shearn. materials. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Maria, Donald, Gregory and Grandfather of 12. Great- During the community program for persons experiencing grandfather of one. Sister of Ruth Blanford, Maxine New Albany, Feb. 23. Mother of Steven Crutchfield. Grandmother Flaherty, Durward and Leonard grief in their lives, Wolfelt will explain how the capacity to Diane Condiff, Donna Karcher, of 13. Great-grandmother of 13. KING, Louella, 87, St. Paul, Cassidy. Grandmother of nine. love requires the need to mourn with others after the death Jannie Vires, Debra Wier, Rick, DAVIS, Gesina M., 85, Tell City, March 1. Mother of of a loved one. Stephen and Tim Beets. Curtis, David, Edward, James, SIMON, Donald J., 68, St. John St. Anne, New Castle, March 2. the Baptist, Osgood, Dec. 7. He will discuss how to open to the presence of your loss, Grandmother of seven. Great- Mother of Mary Krzywickt. Michael and Ralph King. Sister grandmother of two. of Gilbert Esarey. Grandmother Father of Barbie Bultman, Karen dispel misconceptions about grief, embrace the uniqueness Sister of John Demeter. Carroll, Shirley England, Dana of your grief, explore your feelings of loss, recognize that BICKLE, Philip J., 60, of 16. Great-grandmother of 27. DeVINNEY, Phyllis June, 78, Montgomery, Donna Sparks, you are not crazy, understand the six needs of mourning, St. Simon the Apostle, Indian- McCLELLAN, Teresa A., 49, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, James, Vincent and Wayne nurture yourself, reach out for help, seek reconciliation apolis, Feb. 19. Husband of Prince of Peace, Madison, Cambridge City, Feb. 29. Mother Simon. Brother of Rita Bedel, Cathy (Toney) Bickle. Father of Feb. 29. Wife of Michael rather than resolution, appreciate your transformation and of Lori and Sue Favorite, Jill Mary Gilland, Amelia Walter, Marcus, Paul and Philip Bickle McClellan. Mother of Amy “The Mourner’s Bill of Rights.” Mohr, Pam, Christine, Bill, Linda Wissell, Arthur, Charles, Jr. Brother of Patsy Behrers, Massie, Jodi Wells and Curtis The mission day for caregivers is designed for clergy, David, Douglas and Jeffery Dale and Gene Simon. Doris Korman, Ron and Wayne McClellan. Daughter of Robert pastoral ministers, bereavement ministers, chaplains, DeVinney. Grandmother of 18. Grandfather of 23. Great- Bickle. Grandfather of six. Great-grandmother of 17. and Nancy South. Sister of lay ministers, physicians, nurses, social workers, Sandra Brandt, James, Jerome, grandfather of 10. BILLMAN, Ray, Jr., 76, former DONNELLY, Cecelia M. counselors, educators, psychologists, hospice personnel, member of St. Louis, Batesville, John and Robert South. SOLOMON, Terrie L., 50, funeral directors, cemetery workers and others who provide (McAllen), 85, St. Pius X, St. Joseph, Shelbyville, March 2. Feb. 26. Husband of Diane Indianapolis, March 3. Mother of MELTZER, Emil H., 81, care for bereaved people. (Simpson) Billman. Father of St. Joseph, Shelbyville, March 5. Wife of David Solomon. Mother Wolfelt will address the “shadow of the ghosts” of grief Cathleen and Celestine Donnelly. of Sarah and Daniel Solomon. Brett Billman. Brother of Sister of Dorothy and John Husband of Agnes (Kieffer) and how to understand the evolution of this phenomenon as Daughter of Fredrick and Lois Bernice Freeman. McAllen. Grandmother of three. Meltzer. Father of Karen well as explain the potential “fall out” consequences of Transtad, Dale, Keith and (Breeden) Heichelbech. Sister of BLAGBURN, Lucille M. carried grief. He will also talk about how to acknowledge EBERLE, Frances S., 76, William Meltzer. Grandfather of Fredrick Heichelbech Jr. (Schafer), 85, St. Lawrence, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, the five phases of the wounding process, define grief four. Great-grandfather of six. STARLING, Laura C., 92, Indianapolis, March 5. Mother of Floyds Knobs, March 9. Mother avoidance response styles and explore the value of St. Joseph, Shelbyville, March 2. Judy Huntsman, Robert and of John and Robert Eberle. Half- MULVANEY, Thomas Patrick, “catch-up” mourning. William Blagburn. Sister of sister of Joy Louden-O’Brien 86, St. Luke the Evangelist, Mother of Dorcas Dorsett, Indianapolis, March 12. Deanna Reinhold, Tony Sipes He said people living in the “shadow of the ghosts” of Mary Concannon. Grandmother and James Slucher. Grandmother grief have symptoms which suggest that the pain of their of five. Great-grandmother of and J. Patrick Starling. Sister of of eight. Great-grandmother of RAY, Mary Anna, 94, grief has been inhibited, suppressed or denied and that eight. one. St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Sarah Davis and Clara Dwigans. Grandmother of eight. Great- adversely affects their daily life experiences. BOHMAN, Margaret L., 73, March 10. Cousin of several. FELDMAN, Clarence H., 95, grandmother of seven. Marilyn Hess, associate director of healing family SS. Francis and Clare, St. Mary, Greensburg, Feb. 27. REYNOLDS, Elizabeth J., 74, ministries for the archdiocesan Office of Family Ministries, Greenwood, Feb. 18. Wife of St. Paul, Sellersburg, Feb. 22. WEIDENBENER, Paul A., 88, Husband of Margaret Roselyn heard Wolfelt speak during a national bereavement Anthony Bohman. Mother of Feldman. Father of Dottie Wife of Robert Reynolds. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Deborah Beeson, Monica Klammer, Anne McEvoy, Mother of Charlotte Hopper, Feb. 28. Husband of Golda conference and is pleased that he will present two programs DuBois, Peggy Pearcy, Rebecca Theresa Siefker, Mary and Debbie Mathes and Patsy (Oestreicher) Weidenbener. in Indianapolis. Peterson, Denise Richardson, Stephen Feldman. Grandfather of Reynolds. Sister of Dorothy Father of Donna and Robert “Every person grieves differently,” Hess explained. Natalie and Tony Bohman. Sister 13. Great-grandfather of 16. Hecker and Bill Horsley. Weidenbener. Grandfather of “Grief affects your life on every level—physically, of Janet Jackson, Martina FOX, Harry, 77, St. Pius X, Grandmother of five. Great- one. emotionally and spiritually—and sometimes it can cause McMullen, David and Jack Indianapolis, March 5. Father of grandmother of one. WITT, Tammy L., 37, St. Luke grievers to ask new questions about God and their faith.” McMasters. Grandmother of 14. Harry III, Kevin, Mark and ROHM, John M., 62, St. Luke the Evangelist, Indianapolis, BOUSLOG-WILSON, Betty Michael Fox. Brother of Mary the Evangelist, Indianapolis, Feb. 4. Daughter of Robert Pont (For more information or to register for either of Dr. Alan M., 90, St. Anne, New Castle, Ellen Kraeszig, Dorothy Neff, Feb. 11. Brother of Teresa and and Sherry Allan. Sister of Wolfelt’s bereavement programs, call Flanner and Feb. 22. Mother of Mary Kay Anna Marie Trimpe and Joan Frank Rohm. Katrina Schneider. † Buchanan Inc. at 317-387-7000 before March 28.) †

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