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SALT LAKE CITY (CNS)— Salt Lake City Bishop John C. Wester has urged Catholics to hold off celebrating the Christmas season until it officially begins on the Church calendar on Dec. 24. In his first pastoral letter as Salt Lake City’s bishop, he urged the state’s Catholics to keep true to the spirit of Bishop John C. Wester Advent—a season of preparation which he said has been “neglected in many places,” and often “overshadowed by the holiday season.” The bishop, who was installed in 2007 as the shepherd of the statewide Catholic diocese, noted that in the rush and busyness of the Christmas season, many people miss out on its true meaning. “By the time that the actual solemnity of Christmas arrives, many of us are burned out. We are already tired of all the ‘Christmas hype.’ Christmas has become anticlimactic,” A frightening football injury to Nick Schnell, center, led many people in the Indianapolis Catholic community to pray for him after the Oct. 17 incident. he wrote. Following his recovery, he posed for a photo with his mother, Angie Schnell, and Kevin Watson, his fifth-grade teacher at St. Roch School in Indianapolis. Issued on Nov. 24, the letter is titled “Waiting in Joyful Hope.” It was published in the diocesan newspaper, Intermountain Player’s football injury brings Catholic Catholic, which is online at www.icatholic.org. Some priests read the letter or referred schools and faith community together to it in homilies during the weekend of Nov. 27-28, the first Sunday of Advent, By John Shaughnessy Indianapolis. my legs.” which this year coincidentally fell between When the play ended, one of a parent’s What happened in the next hours and Black Friday and Cyber Monday—customary As the ambulance rushed to the football worst nightmares began for the Schnells. days would be part of one of the most shopping starts of the Christmas season. field where their 10-year-old son laid An assistant coach for the St. Roch frightening times ever for the Schnell In the letter, Bishop Wester described the motionless, Angie and Jay Schnell both team, Jay Schnell ran toward Nick when family. It would also remind them of Christmas holiday season as one where many knelt beside him, making their silent he saw that his son wasn’t getting up from one of the great blessings in their life. “rush from one thing to the next,” stirring prayers and pleas to God. the ground after the tackle. momentum “to get all the decorations up, Just minutes before, they had watched Jay asked his son, “Are you OK?” From competition to concern celebrate the event and quickly dismantle all the youngest of their three children, Nick, Nick answered, “I can’t move.” As Nick was placed in the ambulance, the decorations” to move on to the next event. drop back to pass as the quarterback of the Moments later on that Sunday afternoon he kept thinking, “I hope my neck’s not In contrast, he said, the Church’s liturgical fifth- and sixth-grade football team of on Oct. 17, Angie was on the field, too. broken.” season of Advent enables people to “witness St. Roch Parish in Indianapolis. Just as Noticing the concern on her husband’s When the ambulance left the football God’s profound love and mercy to the world,” Nick let go of the ball, he was crunched on face, she tried to stay calm. She didn’t field, Angie rode with her son. One last and can refocus Catholics and remind them both sides of his body by two players on want to scare Nick more, even when he scene on the field caught her attention. As that “Christ has changed the world.” the team from St. Pius X Parish in told her, “I can’t move my arms or See COMMUNITY, page 2 See WESTER, page 8 As Proposition 8 appeal begins in Califor nia, religious leaders commit to protect marriage WASHINGTON (CNS)—New York Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan joined 25 other religious leaders in renewing their commitment to protect traditional marriage as oral arguments were to begin in an appeal of a California judge’s ruling that a voter-approved initiative to define marriage as between one man and one woman was unconstitutional. The commitment came on Dec. 6 in a three-paragraph letter signed by Catholic, Anglican, Baptist, evangelical, Lutheran, Mormon, Orthodox and Sikh leaders. CNS photo/Eric Risberg, pool via Reuters Civil union bill passed in Arguments were to begin the same day in the Illinois, page 13. case involving California’s Proposition 8, which Judge Vaughn Walker, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, ruled to be unconstitutional on Aug. 4. The judge based his decision in part on the claim by opponents of the initiative that defining marriage as between a man and a woman lacked any rational basis and reflected only religion-based hostility to homosexual Senior Judge Michael Daly Hawkins and Judges Stephen R. Reinhardt people. and N. Randy Smith of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Walker then ruled on Aug. 12 that same-sex marriages in California San Francisco listen to oral arguments during a hearing on California’s could resume unless a higher court were to issue a stay within six days. Proposition 8 on Dec. 6. Proposition 8, which defines marriage as a union On Aug. 16, a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of of one man and one woman, was approved by California voters in 2008, See MARRIAGE, page 8 but this August was ruled unconstitutional by a lower court. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010

Angie says. “It was about 9:30 that night that COMMUNITY he came. I don’t know how many priests would do that for a student. But Father continued from page 1 doesn’t think of the school kids as students.

she looked out the window of the He thinks of them as family.” John Shaughnessy Photo by ambulance, she saw the players and coaches A short while later, the doctors at from both teams kneeling in prayer. Community Hospital South in Indianapolis “That was very moving,” she says. decided to transfer Nick to Riley Hospital On the ride to the hospital, Nick regained for Children in Indianapolis as a precaution. some of the movement in his arms and his At Riley, doctors told Angie and Jay that toes, but he still couldn’t move his legs. At they determined that Nick had a concussion. the hospital, another complication At 2 a.m. on Oct. 18, Nick was released developed. from the hospital to go home with “He was getting his strength back, but his parents. every time we moved him, he was getting sick,” Angie recalls. “He was tired, and Rediscovering the blessing noises were bothering him.” Nick stayed at home for the next During that time, the Schnell family two days, recovering under his mom’s care. received a phone call from one of the During that time, Bill Herman, the principal Catholic Youth Organization football at St. Pius School, called Joseph Hansen, the referees who officiated at the St. Roch and principal at St. Roch School, to ask about St. Pius game. He called to check on Nick. Nick, and to tell him that he was in the There were also phone calls from prayers of the St. Pius School community. Angie Schnell and her son, Nick Schnell, hold the “Get Well” poster that he received from the fifth- and members of St. Roch Parish. Several of When Nick returned to school and his sixth-grade football team at St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis. those callers told Angie and Jay that fifth-grade classroom that Wednesday, his members of St. Pius Parish had called them, friends and classmates were thrilled to [Indianapolis] Catholic school and a community. The prayers of the St. Pius concerned about Nick. have him back. He also received a south side Catholic school, and they come School community. The “Get Well” poster. Later that evening, Father James surprise that day when a parent from together when they let their shields down,” For the Schnell family, all those Wilmoth, the pastor of St. Roch Parish, St. Pius School brought a “Get Well” Watson says. “It sums up what CYO sports elements were almost as uplifting as seeing came to Nick’s hospital room. poster to St. Roch School for him. The are all about—from the competition to the Nick healthy and active again as he geared “He asked if he could do a blessing poster was signed by the players and concern and love and care.” up for his CYO basketball season. on Nick,” Angie says. “We said, ‘Of coaches of the St. Pius fifth- and Angie Schnell had a similar reaction as “Having gone through something like course.’ Within three or four minutes of sixth-grade football team. she looked back at all the moments that this, we realized how blessed we are to Father blessing him, Nick said, ‘Father, I “I was kind of happy they did it,” unfolded after Nick crumpled to the have our kids in Catholic schools, where think it worked. I feel better now.’ We all Nick says. ground: The two teams kneeling in prayer they learn to care for each other and show smiled and laughed.” The concern from the St. Pius School on the field. The phone call from the concern for each other,” Angie says. “I Nick could move his legs. The color in community also left an impact on Nick’s CYO official. The visit at the hospital by don’t know if you get that everywhere. I his face also returned to its natural tone. fifth-grade teacher, Kevin Watson. Father Wilmoth. The phone calls from just know it was very moving to witness “Father [Wilmoth] was just wonderful,” “Here you have a north side friends and strangers in the Catholic something like that.” † Coach’s unique approach brings football team together By John Shaughnessy second goal—having every one of those 15 players score a card in math for the first quarter,” Dolan says. “We had touchdown or an extra point during the season. quizzes before and after practice on the day before exams. When Darrell Dolan set his three special goals for the “It turned out to be a lot more difficult than I anticipated,” And we had review sessions during practice if there wasn’t sports season, he knew they would be a challenge for his Dolan says. an exam the next day. We had nine of the 17 kids get an ‘A’ players and, even more, for him as a coach. One of the main challenges was that there were just in math, and the team average was 95.062. We were very He just hoped that the three goals would bring out the best five regular season games. And after those five games, proud of that.” in him and the boys. which included three losses, there were still six players who When players earned an ‘A’ on a test, quiz or homework Maybe they could even serve as part of a blueprint for hadn’t scored. assignment for math, Dolan gave them a special decal to put keeping sports enjoyable for children who are just beginning “In the first game of the playoffs, I got four more kids to on their football helmets. Earning an ‘A’ in a math situation to play. score,” Dolan says. “But going into the second playoff game, was the only way a player could receive a decal. The first goal was completely within the control of Dolan, I had my doubts about getting that opportunity for the other “It inspired us to get a lot of good grades,” Andrew says. the head coach of the third-grade football team at St. Simon two kids because the teams get stronger, and sometimes you His father described the season as a “terrific, very the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. don’t score at all.” positive” experience for his son and his teammates. Even though the Catholic Youth Organization requires Before that second playoff game, one of the best “Playing time was distributed very fairly, and the athletic that each football player gets to be on the field for at least moments of the season took place during a recess on the ability of the child never mattered,” Phil Squier says. “And eight plays during a game, Dolan vowed that each of his playground at St. Simon School. One of the football players when they were allowed to run the ball, let alone score, they 17 players would get to play at least half of every game— who had scored during the season was practicing handoffs were just ecstatic. It made their year.” even if his team was fortunate enough to play for the city with one of the two players who still hadn’t scored. Those reactions made for a successful season for their championship. The scene showed that the goal of the coach had become head coach, too. And Dolan met that goal. the goal of the team. The goodness of that moment matched “I think the kids had a wonderful season,” Dolan says. The second goal proved to be far trickier to accomplish. Of the joy of the scene a few days later when everybody on the “It’s hard to keep 17 kids and 17 sets of parents 100 percent the 17 players on the team, 15 of them were under the weight team celebrated that boy’s score during the second satisfied, but overall the level of satisfaction was very good. limit—85 pounds—to be able to run the ball. So Dolan set his playoff game. When kids are having fun, and they don’t have the priority of “We were all telling him, ‘Good job,’ and patting him on winning, they feel more like a team.” † the back,” recalls Andrew Squier, a third-grade player. “It was pretty cool that everybody got to score. Everybody was Submitted photo really happy.” Official Appointments Winning that game put the St. Simon team into a city championship game. Dolan again played every player at Effective Jan. 12, 2011 least half of the title game. Even though the team lost that game, Dolan has no regrets. Rev. Paul M. Shikany reappointed to a second term as “By setting a standard of every child scoring and every pastor of St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis, child playing at least half the game, it can be a winning and continuing as the part-time vice vicar judicial for the formula for 8-year-olds,” Dolan says. “It’s age-appropriate archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal. Coach Darrell Dolan huddles with the players from the third-grade coaching. It resulted in the kids having a lot of fun.” football team at St. Simon the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis during Then there was the third goal for the team. This appointment is from the office of the Most Rev. Daniel the 2010 season. “Every child was supposed to get an ‘A’ on his report M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Archbishop of Indianapolis. †

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BEIRUT (CNS)—With his ready smile and engaging conversation skills, 35-year-old Frederic possesses all the qualities needed to be an unofficial

ambassador of Message de Paix (Message Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy of Peace) center in Lebanon. Nestled in the mountain town of Bikfaya about 15 miles northeast of Beirut, the center is a light of hope, offering a bright world of opportunities for the developmentally disabled. It boasts a candle-making operation and a working kitchen, where individuals learn the value of teamwork. “I make all kinds of candles—round, square, big, small, red, blue and yellow. All kinds. I love this work so much. It’s very important to me,” Frederic proudly told a recent visitor. Before he became part of Message de Paix, Frederic stayed at home with nothing to do. “I had no work,” he recalled. Helping disabled individuals become part of society and having a purpose in life is a primary mission of the center, which was founded in 1996 and operates under the patronage of Maronite Auxiliary Bishop Guy-Paul Noujaim of Beirut. Melkite Bishop Joseph Kallas of Beirut and Jbeil has provided the space— a former Catholic school—where the center has operated rent-free since 2008. Many of the center’s income- A worker displays a Plexiglas box in a production room at the Message of Peace center in Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 8. The center, founded and run by lay generating projects have received funding Catholics, provides work, training and support for developmentally disabled adults and people recovering from addiction. from the Catholic Near East Welfare Association. be used in brilliantly multicolored, restaurants for an ingredient so Message de Paix is a model of decorative Christmas candles as essential to Lebanese cuisine. coexistence, where Christians and Mohammed, 29, cleaned and “This is training them to be Muslims work together, learning lessons perfected the creations, readying able to work, to have the patience in cooperation and the value of them for the big sale. to keep at a task,” Nehme said. Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy developing real life skills. Down the hall, candle designs “At the same time, they feel that “We help them to be active and encased in gel inside small society needs them.” responsible, to be part of decisions,” glasses were produced. Pierre, 27, Because everyone in the operations manager George Nehme said created colorful waves by program returns home each night, of the center’s 70 participants, who range alternating layers of pink, green the staff members strive to involve in age from 16 to 60. and blue sand. parents so they, too, can actively He said the 18 staff Recently made participate in the new skills their members offer items drying on son or daughter learns. encouragement, ‘Message de Paix is a the worktable During a recent gathering of assistance and, most of model of coexistence, included glasses parents in a cozy meeting room, all, love. adorned with their children, the newest group Frederic and his where Christians miniature enrolled in the center’s programs, colleagues were busy and Muslims work Christmas and offered them cookies and cake. preparing for together, learning garden scenes Holding up a drawing of a Message de Paix’s as well as tiny wheelbarrow, social worker Dec. 4-26 Christmas lessons in cooperation icons of Jesus, Anita Khoury explained to the bazaar. Items from a and the value of Mary and parents that just as cement is separate Plexiglas developing real life Lebanon’s needed to construct a building, the company at the beloved saints, youth and young adults at the center—it helps skills.’ Charbel, Rafqa center are learning the virtues recovering drug addicts and Hardini. necessary for building a society. learn new skills—were In another “What characteristics are we also sold at the annual bazaar. room, a small group of putting into our wheelbarrow?” During last year’s bazaar, individuals who are more she asked the participants. 1,000 candles were quickly sold during developmentally challenged were Responses came eagerly: “To the opening day. The center’s decorative immersed in making cardboard love each other.” “To be sociable.” votive candles also are popular crafts. Fadia, 36, paused from her “To be generous.” “I took throughout the year for weddings, task of folding Message de Paix initiative.” “Cooperating with each Valentine’s Day and Easter. Parents often brochures to tell Nehme, “I love other.” “Happiness.” “I love choose them as souvenir gifts for family you,” then blew three kisses to everyone!” and friends to mark the birth of a child or him. “We are strong,” concluded a child’s first Communion. Downstairs in the kitchen, other Tendresse, 24, raising her fists in a Rows of ribbon-wrapped candles sit in the decorating room at the In the candle-making room, rows of participants prepared lunch. victory stance. “When we want Message of Peace center in Beirut, Lebanon, on Nov. 8. The center, molds filled with melted wax, each with a Josephine, 52, and Gretta, 49, something, we can do it!” she founded and run by lay Catholics, provides work, training and wick in the center, cooled. Nearby, Pierre, carefully peeled cloves of garlic, said, eliciting a chorus of cheers support for developmentally disabled adults and people recovering 23, cut small cubes of green wax that will fulfilling orders placed by from her fellow teammates. † from addiction. Arsenic-loving microbe expands definition of life, says Jesuit VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The discovery of the high levels of salinity, alkalinity and arsenic. 300 sextillion, or 300 followed by 21 zeroes. first known microorganism on Earth to thrive on the “Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and The new tally comes after scientists discovered there toxic chemical arsenic will help expand scientists’ sulfur are the six basic building blocks of all known forms are more red dwarf stars than previously calculated, understanding of the definition of life, said the head of of life on Earth,” a NASA press release said on Dec. 2. particularly in elliptical galaxies. the Vatican Observatory. However, GFAJ-1 is able to thrive and reproduce using Father Funes wrote that the greater number of stars in “It’s clear that if we are searching for life forms in the arsenic since it substitutes the toxic chemical for the universe might mean “the proportion of dark matter in universe, we have to at least know what to look for—that phosphorus in its cell components, the press release said. the galaxies” is less than previously estimated. is, to define what a living being is,” said Jesuit Father Father Funes wrote, “In short, it’s a microbe that A greater number of stars also “very probably” would Jose Funes. breathes arsenic.” increase the number of planets, “and with this, increases The recent discovery of a life form based on a “The study of planets with atmospheres outside the solar the probability of life in the universe,” he wrote. completely different chemistry “will surely contribute to system reintroduces the question of the possibility of life in However, he wrote, scientists may never know expanding our conceptual horizons on the subject” of what the universe,” wrote the Jesuit astronomer. because the galaxies under question are too far away— could be life and living matter, he said in an article in the Another series of discoveries recently published in making observation of the individual stars within them Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, on Dec. 4. Nature magazine also have interesting consequences on too difficult. A team of astrobiology researchers—funded by science’s understanding of the universe, wrote Father Funes. “Not even the wildest fantasies of the writers of NASA—recently discovered a microbe strain, called Researchers have determined that there may be triple ‘Star Trek’ and Star Wars imagined the possibility of GFAJ-1, in California’s Mono Lake, which has unusually the number of stars, bringing the estimated total to exploring other galaxies,” he wrote. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010

OPINION Making Sense Out of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk Humans in ‘frozen orphanages’

A key argument in the embryonic visualize why we should not discard Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 stem-cell debate—widely invoked by embryos or sacrifice them for research. Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher scientists, patient Imagine a typical fertility clinic with a Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus advocacy groups large room where several tanks filled with and politicians— liquid nitrogen were holding a few hundred involves the fate of cryopreserved human embryos, a kind of frozen embryos. “frozen orphanage,” as these tanks are Editorial President Barack sometimes called. Obama put it this In the building next door, there happens way in 2008: “If we to be a real orphanage filled with toddlers Let us follow pope’s lead are going to discard between the ages of 1 and 3 years old, who those embryos, and are awaiting adoption. we know there is Suppose that the owner of the and continue our Advent potential research that could lead to orphanage happens to be a shady character curing debilitating diseases— who has recently decided to take some of prayers for defense of all life Alzheimer’s, Lou Gehrig’s disease—if the “unadoptable” infants and clandestinely that possibility presents itself, then I discard them into the dumpster behind the eople of faith might call it a think that we should, in a careful way, go orphanage where they eventually die. Pbattle between good and evil. ahead and pursue that research.” Suppose also that when the local mayor Other folks might say it pits The head of the National Institutes of learned about the children being put into the secular versus the sacred. Health, Dr. Francis Collins, embraced the dumpster, he had the gall to suggest No matter how you look at it, this same line of reasoning by asking a that since they were going to be thrown out we think the numbers share a rhetorical question during a recent anyway, we should start sacrificing them

telling story—for the defense of Rellandini, Reuters CNS photo/Stefano CNN interview: “Ethically, isn’t it more for scientific research and harvesting their all human life from conception justifiable, if those embryos have been organs for transplantation into sick patients. until natural death. created, to use them for a purpose that Our first instinct would be to recoil with Think our prayers to end might help somebody with a disease as abhorrence at the proposal. We might abortion, which we know are opposed to simply discarding them?” prosecute the orphanage owner—and drum immeasurable by human This argument sounds reasonable on the mayor out of office as well. We would standards, aren’t making a first hearing. We prefer to recycle insist that each infant in the orphanage difference? aluminum cans rather than uselessly deserves full protection. Our children in Think again. tossing them into landfills. It seems as if frozen orphanages deserve the same While media outlets were we should handle surplus frozen embryos protection and care. quick to report that a Nebraska in a similar way, getting some benefit out Most of us, upon reflection, have a doctor was planning to open of them rather than discarding them. practical awareness that embryos ought not late-term abortion facilities in Yet this argument has a deceptive, be discarded. Indianapolis, Iowa and the even seductive character because of the A few years ago, The New York Times Washington, D.C., area, many of way that it sets up a false dichotomy: ran a piece titled, “The Job Nobody at the those same outlets have not been Either one discards the embryos or Fertility Clinic Wants.” That job was the as thorough in sharing recent one destroys them in the laboratory to destruction of spare embryos. good news on the pro-life front. obtain miraculous cures for diseases. Medical staff members, when Yes, newspapers were justified An important third option is often not interviewed, said they dreaded being in their November headlines even mentioned—namely, that we picked to carry out the discarding of reporting that Dr. LeRoy Carhart continue to store the embryos in their embryos when patients requested it. A of Omaha was opening those new current, frozen state as part of our moral clinic director in Chicago described how abortion clinics, but there is more duty to care for our own offspring. often he had to destroy the embryos news on this life-and-death issue They could be cryopreserved until a himself because his staff found the task so that is worth sharing—and morally acceptable option for rescuing distasteful. The staff understood and had offering thanks to God. Pope Benedict XVI celebrates the beginning of them presents itself—if such an option, seen firsthand how these same embryos, A Nov. 30 story written by Advent during an evening prayer liturgy at in fact, exists—or until they eventually when implanted, would yield beautiful, editor Steven Erfelt on the St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Nov. 27. die of their own accord in the deep bubbly babies who brought joy and website www.LifeNews.com freeze. happiness to their parents. reveals that, during the past 12 months, Life included prayers for overturning Discarding an embryo, it is important They seemed to appreciate instinctively, we have seen a decrease in the number laws that permit the destruction of to be clear, means ending the life of a as each of us should, how living human of abortion centers in the U.S. innocent lives, and for the healing of young human being, the tiny life that embryos, even in the deep freeze, should During that time, 31 abortion those who have acted against each of us once was at an earlier time. never be discarded down the chute into businesses closed while nine new innocent life. The embryos to be discarded are the biohazard disposal or used as centers were opened. For those keeping In his Nov. 27 homily, the usually first thawed, and many do not “raw material” for possible medical track, as Erfelt states in his story, that Holy Father said that the Church’s survive this first step. Those that do are advances. is “a net drop of 22 abortion facilities.” teaching against abortion comes from summarily discarded as medical waste. Kudos to pro-life nurse and blogger its teaching about the dignity of every A few years ago, Cardinal Sean (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D., Jill Stanek, who spoke in the human life and its concern that the O’Malley of Boston described the reality earned his doctorate in neuroscience at Archdiocese of Indianapolis last April unborn are most vulnerable to “the of what happens in the fertility clinic this Yale University and did post-doctoral work about the atrocity of abortion. She selfishness of adults and the clouding way: “In discarding these embryos, the at Harvard University. He is a priest of the noticed a recent rash of abortion center of consciences. medical staff become their unwilling Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves as closures and wanted to get some solid “There are cultural tendencies that executioners, but executioners the director of education at The National figures, and asked Operation Rescue, seek to anesthetize consciences with nonetheless.” Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. one of the leading pro-life Christian spurious arguments,” the pope said. Perhaps an analogy can help us better See www.ncbcenter.org.) † activist organizations in the nation, to Those false arguments seem to be provide her with the hard data. less attractive to more and more “As of now, a total of 689 surgical people. Polls in recent years show that abortion clinics remain in the U.S., the majority of Americans oppose Holiday Cheer from a high of almost 2,200 in 1991,” abortion, and people of numerous faith Stanek told www.LifeNews.com. “This traditions are praying for the day when number does not include abortion mills Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton are no that solely commit medical abortions, longer the law of the land. 58% will spend less on gifts than last year i.e., distribute the abortion pill, As the Holy Father discussed the RU-486.” human embryo and its complexity as Since 1991, including the 31 centers an organism, he noted, “It’s not a that Stanek noted, more than two-thirds question of a collection of biological 60% will decorate their home this holiday season of abortion centers have closed that material, but of a new living being, were operating nearly 20 years ago. dynamic and marvelously ordered, a That, we would argue, is evidence that new individual of the human species. our prayers are being answered. “This is how Jesus was in Mary’s It also seems providential womb; this is how we each were, in 49% consider holiday shopping a fun experience that www.LifeNews.com shared our mother’s wombs,” he said. the findings only days after When it comes to life, there is, for Pope Benedict XVI welcomed the us, that connection to God. beginning of Advent with a prayer for During this Advent season and each 69% life and a defense of the human day in the new year, let our prayers for prefer stores to use “Merry Christmas” on signs embryo. Parishes in the archdiocese life always share that truth. and throughout the world joined in the vigil to pray in support of life. —Mike Krokos Survey of 1,000 U.S. Adults Conducted Nov. 28-29, 2010. The Vigil for All Nascent Human Source: Rasmussen Reports ©2010 CNS The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Like John the Baptist, let’s be witnesses of faith and hope he third Sunday of Advent reality would be challenged and darkened. we do experience times when life seems tear will be wiped away. No dark anticipates the joy of Christ’s And so it should be no surprise that, dark? Are there not times when our outlook confinement will last forever. Evil does not Tcoming birthday. I can hardly from prison, John the Baptist would want on life becomes narrow? and will not triumph. believe that it is fast approaching—this reassurance from Jesus for whom he was On occasion, we hear folks say—maybe Christ our hope, prophesied by John the Sunday. confined in the first place. No surprise that we think it, too—if there is a God, why do Baptist, became incarnate as one of us at The Gospel of the day features John the he would want to be assured that the bad things happen to good people? the first Christmas. We anticipate that Baptist, who is an important figure as we one whom he had prophesied, the How could Hurricane Katrina or 9/11 joyful news on the third Sunday of Advent approach Christmas 2010. John, with his one whose way he had prepared, was happen to so many innocent people? How as we proclaim our joy, even if there is question “Are you the one who is to indeed out there and was about the work of can people terrorize a world in the name some darkness in our lives. come?” (Mt 11:3), is a figure with whom salvation. of religion? Like John, we continue in faith, and we we can identify. John has always been a And so we hear the reassuring words of These kinds of confining thoughts can can rejoice in hope. We are so blessed to favorite patron of mine. Jesus: “Go back and tell John what you come even closer to home if, for example, have a Savior who brings light in times of One time on pilgrimage to the hear and see: the blind see again, and the we lose a loved one in sudden tragedy or to darkness, and healing and life in times of Holy Land, we visited a church which, lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the the long anguish of battling a cancer or if a illness. according to tradition, stands at the place deaf hear, and the dead are raised to life lovely young child is taken from our midst. He is our hope. Christmas is a feast of where on the night before Jesus was and the Good News is proclaimed to the And so we, too, like John the Baptist, may hope. † crucified, St. Peter denied—three times poor, and happy are the people who do not sometimes pray with the words, “Are you before the cock crowed—that he even lose faith in me” (Mt 11:4-6). the one who is to come?” (Mt 11:3) knew Jesus. This was indeed reassuring to John in And that’s OK because in prayer we, Do you have an intention for In the crypt under that church, there is a his confinement. His faith was affirmed too, find the answer of Jesus—there is also Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? deep, dry stone cistern—I would say it is because, as a faithful prophet familiar with healing and mercy in this life, and there is You may mail it to him at: about 10 feet deep and, at most, it is about the Word of God, he would have a community of faith which carries on the three feet in diameter. It is said that, down recognized those words of Jesus as healing mission and ministry of Jesus. Archbishop Buechlein’s in that cistern, is where Jesus was deriving from the writings of prophets And in prayer, especially in these days Prayer List imprisoned the night that he was like Isaiah. of Advent, we recall that life in this world Archdiocese of Indianapolis condemned to be crucified. It was painful In the confinement of prison, all John is not the end of the story. 1400 N. Meridian St. to imagine spending a lonely night in that could do was rely on his faith in Jesus— In our Advent prayer, we notice the P.O. Box 1410 cistern surrounded by nothing but a dark and that was a lot! And he could be at repeated theme of praying with patience for Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 stone wall. peace and full of hope. The story of the coming of the Kingdom, where every When I was reflecting on the Gospel John the Baptist’s confinement in prison about John the Baptist being in prison, I illustrates the power of faith in Jesus, who Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for December thought of that cistern. How confining it is our hope. John is a witness of faith would be, how a tendency to panic because and hope. Catholic Grade Schools: that they may teach our children the Catholic faith and assist of claustrophobia would not be surprising, We may not be confined in a them in hearing and answering God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and how at the very least one’s vision of claustrophobic cistern, but is it not true that or religious.

Al igual que Juan el Bautista, seamos testigos de fe y esperanza l tercer domingo de Adviento encarcelado. No resulta sorprendente que ¿Cómo tantas personas inocentes El Cristo, nuestra esperanza, que anticipa el júbilo del próximo quisiera recibir confirmación de que aquél pueden ser víctimas del huracán Katrina o profetizó Juan el Bautista, se encarnó Enacimiento de Cristo. Casi no puedo que él había profetizado, aquél para quién del 9/11? ¿Cómo puede la gente sembrar el como uno de nosotros en la primera creer que se acerque a paso tan acelerado, él había preparado el camino, estuviera de terror en el mundo en el nombre de la Navidad. Anticipamos esas noticias al igual que este domingo. hecho allí y llevando a cabo la obra de la religión? alegres en el tercer domingo de Adviento El Evangelio del día presenta a Juan el salvación. Este tipo de pensamientos limitantes mientras proclamamos nuestro júbilo, Bautista quien es una figura importante a Y de este modo, escuchamos las pueden resonar aún más fuerte si, por aunque haya algo de oscuridad en medida que nos acercamos a la Navidad de palabras de confirmación de Jesús: “Vayan ejemplo, perdemos a un ser querido en una nuestras vidas. 2010. Juan, con su pregunta: “¿Eres tú el y cuéntenle a Juan lo que están viendo y tragedia repentina o en una larga y Al igual que Juan, continuamos en la fe que ha de venir?” (Mt 11:3) representa una oyendo: Los ciegos ven, los cojos andan, angustiosa batalla contra el cáncer, o si un y podemos regocijarnos en la esperanza. imagen con quien podemos sentirnos los que tienen lepra son sanados, los sordos pequeño niño se va de nuestro lado. Y de Qué bendición es tener un Salvador que identificados. Juan siempre ha sido uno de oyen, los muertos resucitan y a los pobres esta forma nosotros, al igual que Juan el brinda luz en tiempos de oscuridad y mis patronos predilectos. se les anuncian las buenas nuevas. Dichoso Bautista, quizás recemos a veces con las consuelo y vida en tiempos de enfermedad. En una ocasión, en peregrinación a el que no tropieza por causa mía” palabras “¿Eres tú el que ha de venir?” Él es nuestra esperanza. La Navidad es Tierra Santa, visitamos una iglesia que, de (Mt 11:4-6). (Mt 11:3). una festividad de esperanza. acuerdo a la tradición, se erige en el lugar En efecto, esto resultó una confirmación Y está bien porque en la oración donde la noche anterior a la crucifixión de para Juan en su prisión. Su fe se vio nosotros también encontramos la ¿Tiene una intención que desee Jesús, San Pedro negó tres veces siquiera reafirmada ya que como profeta fiel respuesta de Jesús: también existe el incluir en la lista de oración del conocerlo, antes de que cantara el gallo. enterado de la Palabra de Dios, reconocería consuelo y la misericordia en esta vida y Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar En la cripta debajo de la iglesia hay un esas palabras de Jesús, según las escrituras existe una comunidad de fe que lleva a su correspondencia a: pozo hondo de piedra, yo diría que tiene de profetas tales como Isaías. cabo la misión y el ministerio de alrededor de diez pies de profundidad y, En el encierro de la prisión Juan tan sólo consuelo de Jesús. Lista de oración del Arzobispo como mucho, tres pies de diámetro. Se dice podía confiar en su fe en Jesús ¡y eso era Y en la oración, especialmente en estos Buechlein que Jesús estuvo prisionero en ese pozo la muchísimo! Lo único que podía hacer era días de Adviento, recordamos que la vida Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis noche que fue condenado a la cruz. Es estar en paz y sentirse lleno de esperanza. en este mundo no constituye el fin de la 1400 N. Meridian St. doloroso imaginarse pasar una noche El relato del encierro de Juan el Bautista en historia. P.O. Box 1410 solitaria en ese pozo rodeado de nada más prisión ilustra el poder de la fe en Jesús, En nuestra oración de Adviento Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 que la oscuridad de sus paredes de piedra. quien es nuestra esperanza. Juan es un observamos el tema repetitivo de rezar con Mientras reflexionaba acerca del testigo de fe y esperanza. paciencia para la venida del Reino donde Evangelio sobre Juan el Bautista en prisión, Tal vez no estemos confinados en un toda lágrima será enjugada. Ningún pensé en ese pozo. Qué enclaustrado debe pozo claustrofóbico, pero ¿acaso no es encierro oscuro durará para siempre. El Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, sentirse uno; no sería sorprendente experi- cierto que vivimos momentos en los que la mal no triunfa nunca. Language Training Center, Indianapolis. mentar una tendencia al pánico a causa de vida parece sombría? ¿No existen épocas la claustrofobia y como mínimo, poner en cuando el panorama de nuestra vida hace La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en diciembre duda y nublar la propia visión de la más estrecho? realidad. En ocasiones escucho a la gente decir: Escuelas primarias católicas: que ellos puedan enseñar la fe católica a nuestros niños Y por tanto, no es de extrañar que, desde “Si existe un Dios, ¿por qué les suceden y puedan ayudarles a oír y contestar la llamada de Dios para servir en la Iglesia, sobre la prisión, Juan el Bautista quisiera recibir cosas malas a las personas?”; tal vez todo como sacerdotes o religiosos. una confirmación de Jesús por quien fue nosotros también lo pensemos. 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December 10 Information: 812-339-5561. Global Studies, speaker series, Rexville, located on 925 South, Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. Precious Infants, pro-life Our Lady of the Greenwood “Annual Global Studies .8 mile east of 421 South and Christmas Mass, 2 p.m. Mass, Father Todd Goodson, Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Prince of Peace Church, 413 E. Address,” Sen. Richard 12 miles south of Versailles. Information: 317-574-8898 or celebrant, 8:30 a.m., followed Greenwood. Our Lady of Second St., Madison. Lugar, presenter, 7 p.m., Mass, noon, on third Sunday www.catholiccemeteries.cc. by rosary outside abortion Guadalupe celebration, Mass, Our Lady of Guadalupe free admission. Registration holy hour and pitch-in, clinic and Benediction at 6:30 p.m., reception following celebration, Mass, 11 a.m., required. Reservations: groups of 10 pray the Planned Parenthood, 421 S. church. Information: Mass. Information: procession, reception. http://www.marian.edu/LFCGS Marian Way, 1 p.m., College Ave., Bloomington. Archdiocesan Office for 317-888-2861. Information: 812-265-4166. /Pages/SpeakerSeries Father Elmer Burwinkel, “40 Days for Life,” “Empty Pro-Life Ministry, Registration.aspx. celebrant. Information: Manger Prayer Vigil,” 9:30 317-236-1569 or 812-689-3551. St. Francis of Assisi Church, St. Andrew Church, 235 S. a.m. Information: 317-330- 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. 1960 Bardstown Road, 5th St., Richmond. Our Lady Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 1535. of Guadalupe celebration, House, 5353 E. 56th St., December 14 December 19 Louisville, Ky. St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Mass, 9:30 a.m., fiesta with Indianapolis. Carmelite December 17 St. Michael the Archangel “Merton–From Jazz to 17th Ave., Beech Grove. music and folkloric dances. Secular Order, meeting, Northside Knights of Chant,” 6:30-7:45 p.m., $10 Ave Maria Guild, Christmas Parish, 3354 W. 30th St., suggested donation. Information: 765-962-3902. noon-4 p.m. Information: Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Indianapolis. Second annual 317-259-4936 or party, installation of officers 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Information: 502-899-1991. and pitch-in luncheon, noon, “Lessons and Carols,” St. Joseph Church, 125 E. [email protected]. Business Exchange, Mass, bring canned goods for food 6:30 p.m., free-will donations December 11 Broadway St., Shelbyville. breakfast and program, pantries. Information: accepted. Information: St. Roch Parish, Family Life Our Lady of Guadalupe St. Maurice Parish, 1963 N. Richard Mourdock, state 317-885-5098 or 317-926-7359. Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., celebration, Mass, midnight, St. John St., Greensburg. treasurer, presenter, 6:30-8:30 Indianapolis. Single Seniors, St. Anne, St. John and [email protected]. a.m., online reservations only. re-enactment of the Richmond Catholic meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and apparitions. Information: St. Maurice parishes, “Living Reservations and information: December 15 Community, 701 N. “A” St., over. Information: 317-398-8227. Nativity,” Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum www.catholicbusiness 317-784-4207. 4:30-6:30 p.m. exchange.org. Richmond. Charismatic Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., prayer group, 7 p.m. St. Vincent Hospital, 13500 N. Indianapolis. Christmas Mass, Information: St. Lawrence Church, 6944 E. Meridian St., Carmel, Ind., Mother of the Redeemer 2 p.m. Information: Holy Spirit Church, [email protected]. 46th St., Indianapolis. (Lafayette Diocese). Retreat Center, 8220 W. 317-784-4439. 10350 Glaser Way, Fishers, Our Lady of Guadalupe 22nd annual “Living State Road 48, Bloomington. Ind. (Diocese of Lafayette). celebration, Mass, 7 p.m., Nativity,” 5 p.m., 6 p.m. and Introductory meeting for St. John the Evangelist Church, Charismatic praise and December 21 music and reception following lay associates of the worship, 7 p.m., Mass, 7 p.m. Information: 126 W. Georgia St., St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. Mass. Information: 317-338-2273. Franciscans of the 7:30 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Advent prayer Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. 317-546-4065. Immaculate Mediatrix, series, “Ignatian Prayer,” 317-849-9245. “Advent and Christmas December 12 Mass, 9 a.m. Information: Jesuit Brother Michael Concert,” musicians St. Paul Catholic Center, Marian University, 812-825-4642, ext. 200, or Rossman, presenter, 7 p.m. 1413 E. 17th St., Bloomington. Hackelmeier Memorial Library, [email protected]. December 18 Tony Avellana and Our Lady of Guadalupe 3200 Cold Spring Road, December 16 St. Michael the Archangel Linda Yu-Picard and vocalist celebration, Mass, 12:30 p.m., Indianapolis. Sen. Richard G. MKVS, Divine Mercy and Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Katie Stark, presenters, 7-9 fiesta following Mass. Lugar Franciscan Center for Glorious Cross Center, Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s p.m., free-will offering. †

Retreats and Programs Wilberding, presenter. Information: Indianapolis parish offers 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. December 11 December 31-January 1 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Christmas CD to benefit school Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Advent: The Amazing Mystery of God’s 56th St., Indianapolis. “New Year’s Eve St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Word–We Wait for God’s Revelation,” Retreat.” Information: 317-545-7681 or (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis has Franciscan Sister Barbara Hileman, presenter, [email protected]. released “Christmas through the Rose 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 per person includes Window II,” its third compact disc of lunch. Information: 812-933-6437 or January 7-9 recordings made by parishioners involved [email protected]. Sisters of St. Benedict, Monastery Immaculate with its music ministry. December 11-12 Conception, 802 E. 10th St., Ferdinand, Ind. The music on the CD, which Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, (Evansville Diocese). “Come and See” retreat, includes many Christmas favorites, is 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. women between the ages of 18-40. Information: sung by members of the parish’s “Thomas Merton,” Advent retreat, Benedictine 800-734-9999 or [email protected]. Adult Choir, Youth Choir and Sister Julie Sewell, presenter. Information: January 10 Children’s Liturgical Choir. 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. The new CD sells for $15. “Christmas through the Rose Window” and Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., “Christmas through the Rose Window II” 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mount St. Francis. can be purchased as a set for $25. All New Albany Deanery Catholic Youth Ministry, $25 per person includes light breakfast and three CDs produced by the parish can be “Faith Remix Retreat,” $85 per person. lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or Information: 812-945-2000 or [email protected]. purchased for $30. [email protected]. Proceeds will benefit the tuition 4720 E. 13th St., in Indianapolis. For more January 14-16 assistance fund at Little Flower School. information on the recordings, call December 17-19 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. The CDs can be purchased at the 317-357-8352 or send an e-mail to Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend,” Little Flower Parish Center, [email protected]. † St. Meinrad. “Joy to the World–Christ in marriage preparation retreat. Information: Carols,” Benedictine Brother Zachary 317-545-7681 or [email protected].† Submitted photo Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by

Crisis Office donations St. Catherine of Siena Award Debbie Whitaker, left, Tammy Dokey, Stephanie Davis and Dan Drzewiecki display clothing Mary Jo Thomas Day, center, the administrator of religious education at St. Monica Parish in donations on Nov. 22 at the Catholic Charities Indianapolis’ Crisis Office, 1425 N. Illinois St., in Indianapolis, receives the Indiana Conference of Catechetical Leaders’ St. Catherine of Siena Award Indianapolis. About 200 articles of clothing were donated by members of St. Lawrence Parish and from Cindy Flaten, right, ICCL board president and the director of religious education at Christ the King the Knights of Columbus St. Joseph Council #5290, both in Indianapolis. Whitaker and Dokey are Parish in Indianapolis, on Nov. 9 at St. Thomas More Parish in Mooresville during the ICCL’s biennial volunteers, and Davis is the director of the Crisis Office. Drzewiecki is a member of St. Lawrence conference. The award is given to catechetical leaders who exhibit leadership in the field of parish Parish and the chancellor of the Knights of Columbus Council. For information about making ministry and creative programming, model lifelong faith formation, and serve as mentors of colleagues donations or referrals to the Crisis Office or helping as a volunteer there, call 317-236-1556 or in catechetical ministry. Standing at left is Cathy Smith, an ICCL board member and the director of 800-382-9836, ext. 1556. religious education at Sacred Heart Parish in Warsaw, Ind., in the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese. The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Page 7 Teenagers, college students and young adults are invited to participate in archdiocesan pilgrimages to National March for Life By Mary Ann Wyand archdiocesan Young Adult and College Campus Ministry Want to promote respect for life pilgrimage, which includes in a big way? air travel.

Teenagers, college students and The cost of this pilgrimage is Alea Bowling File photo by young adults who would like to $219 for students and $299 for support the Church’s pro-life non-students. Reservations must be advocacy efforts can still register made by Dec. 17. for the archdiocesan bus pilgrimage For more information, send an to the 38th annual National e-mail to Matt Faley, the program March for Life on Jan. 24 in coordinator for young adult Washington, D.C. ministry, at [email protected]. Kay Scoville, the director of To register for the combined youth ministry for the archdiocese, pilgrimage to Washington and said high school students, Baltimore, log on to collegians, young adults and adult www.indycatholic.org. chaperones can travel in one of four These pilgrims will also need to archdiocesan buses to the nation’s register for the FOCUS conference capital from Jan. 22-25 for the at http://focusconference.org/ peaceful and prayerful baltimore. pro-life demonstration. In past years, the archdiocesan The cost of the bus pilgrimage is Office for Pro-Life Ministry has $175 per person by Dec. 21 and collaborated with the archdiocesan Walking together during the 37th annual March for Life on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C., are, from left, St. Patrick parishioner $185 per person by the Jan. 7 final youth and young adult ministries Tom McBroom of Terre Haute; Servants of the Gospel of Life Sister Diane Carollo, director of the archdiocesan Office for registration deadline. Early staffs to coordinate the March for Pro-Life Ministry; and Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary parishioner Branden Stanley of Avon, who volunteered as a registrants will receive an Life pilgrimage. videographer for the Jan. 21-22 pro-life pilgrimage. archdiocesan pro-life sweatshirt. For the first time, Servants For more information about the of the Gospel of Life Sister Mass at the cathedral as we National Shrine of the Mass,” Scoville said. “From bus trip, call the youth ministry Diane Carollo, the director of the always do,” she said. “Then we are Immaculate Conception, the bus there, we will participate in the office at 317-236-1430 or pro-life office, is coordinating a going to drive through the day, pilgrims will not participate in March for Life from noon until 800-382-9836, ext. 1430, or log on local, solemn pro-life observance which is different than what we that liturgy this year. 3:30 p.m. then load the buses and to the pilgrimage website link at on Jan. 24 in Indianapolis, which have done in the past. We are Instead, they will participate in travel all night home.” www.archindy.org/youth/ begins with Mass at noon at staying at Georgetown Preparatory the “Life Is Very Good” rally in She expects about 1,000 people MarchforLife.html. Registrations SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and School in Bethesda, Md., in their Arlington, Va., which includes from throughout the archdiocese to must be made with a parish youth continues with a march from the school gymnasium, and they are Mass as well as a concert by travel to Washington for the minister or school campus minister. cathedral to Veterans Memorial going to provide meals.” Catholic musician Matt Maher. pro-life march with parish and College students and young Plaza for a downtown prayer rally. On Jan. 23, these pilgrims will On Jan. 24, members of both school groups. adults who want to participate in Scoville said youth and young have an opportunity to tour pilgrimage groups will participate “We have seen a lot of the National March for Life on adult participants in the pilgrimage historic sites and museums at the in a pro-life Mass at 9:30 a.m. in conversion of hearts as a result of Jan. 24 in Washington as well as by bus will gather at the cathedral National Mall in downtown the Crypt Church at the basilica, this pilgrimage,” Scoville said. the national conference of the for a 6 a.m. Mass on Jan. 22 Washington. which will be celebrated by “We plant the seeds and hope that Fellowship of Catholic University before the group departs for Due to overcrowded conditions Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. the youths will keep [pro-life Students (FOCUS) on Jan. 21-23 in Washington. each year during the National “Anyone from the archdiocese advocacy] going in their Baltimore can still register for the “We are gathering for a send-off Mass for Life at the Basilica of the is welcome to join us for that parishes.” † Keeping current: Pope would welcome electric popemobile, official says VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Pope Benedict XVI would welcome Christmas having an electric popemobile as a further sign of his commitment to protecting natural resources and Haring CNS photo/Paul safeguarding the Earth, said a top TV MASS Vatican official. Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, for Shut-Ins president of the commission governing Vatican City State, said if a sponsor offered the pope an This beautiful 30-minute Mass will be produced from the Crypt Church at the electric-powered vehicle that “was in Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. working order, efficient and suitable, why not? It would be a sign of his environmental concern.” X X X The cardinal and others spoke during a Vatican news conference on Dec. 1 to present a new book, The Energy of the CW4/WTTV Sun in the Vatican, about the Vatican’s solar power initiatives. Saturday, December 25 Through the generosity of the 6:30 a.m. Bonn-based company SolarWorld, the Vatican installed 2,400 solar panels on The TV Mass can be seen at 6:30 a.m. every Sunday on CW4/WTTV. the roof of the Paul VI audience hall in 2008 and, in 2009, the Vatican set up X X X several high-tech solar collectors to help heat and cool its buildings. Solar panels are seen on the roof of the Paul VI We invite you to participate in the financial underwriting of this program. Some 305 tons of carbon dioxide audience hall at the Vatican on Dec. 1. The 2,400 solar emissions, or CO2, have been panels on the roof were installed in 2008 thanks to Please send contributions to: avoided because of the Vatican’s solar the work of Bonn, Germany-based Solar World. The Catholic Communications Center, P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 installations, said a Vatican press Vatican is now open to the idea of having an Write or call for a free copy of the weekly missal for your use at release on Dec. 1. electric-powered popemobile. home. (317) 236-1585 or 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1585. Pier Carlo Cuscianna, the director of technical services for Vatican City, told far, he said, and “we have to discuss [it] Sponsored by: reporters that plans to supply Vatican City with [Vatican] security” to assure them that with a fleet of electric vehicles were in a the car would be safe, secure and fast. “well-advanced” stage. Security personnel would need the car to Milan Nitzscke, head of communication have “fast acceleration,” he said, adding for SolarWorld, told reporters that it would that an electric car can go from 0 mph to be possible for the popemobile to be 62 mph in 3.5 seconds. powered with electricity—even from its A biomass project that would use garden own solar panels. and organic waste to generate electricity or Because the popemobile is bulletproof, produce heat, however, is still in the study the car would be heavier than most electric stage, said Mauro Villarini, the Vatican vehicles, “but it is possible and it would be engineer in charge of the project. a very good symbol” for promoting The Vatican has said its aim is to use environmental awareness and concern, he renewable energy sources for 20 percent of said. its energy needs by 2020, the target date set An electric popemobile is just an idea so by the European Union for its members. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010

surrounded by a society which, Nora Tucker, 10, WESTER while claiming to be Christian, does adjusts one of the candles on the continued from page 1 not take the time to reflect and prepare as the Church calls us to World Catholic New Advent wreath that He described the season as a time do,” he wrote. she made as her of preparation for Christ’s coming The bishop offered some sister, Sheila, 5, into the world, and a time to reflect alternatives to typical decorations, looks on during a on Christ’s second coming. saying schools and parishes could Nov. 13 Advent “It is thus a season of joyful and decorate with just wreaths and CNS photo/Karen Callaway, presentation, spiritual expectation,” he said, noting greenery, and families could prayer service and that it is “not a penitential season,” highlight Advent wreaths and hold wreath-making day but a time to “gather and quietly wait off on decorating Christmas trees. at St. Joseph in hope for the coming of Christ.” Postponed Christmas Parish in Bishop Wester urged Catholics to celebrations need not be short-lived Libertyville, Ill. tap into this liturgical season, noting though. He said the season Salt Lake City that they should “celebrate Advent continues until Jan. 9, the feast of Bishop John C. differently,” and be less consumed the Baptism of the Lord, and should Wester has urged with decorating and shopping than be marked during that time with Catholics to hold with prayer. He said the spiritual parish gatherings and events with off celebrating the preparation should also be an family and friends. Christmas season “example of patience, silence, and “We should leave the decorations until it officially joy to our hurried and anxious which are testimonies to our joy up begins on the society. for the entire season. There is plenty Church calendar “I know it is an enormous of time for us to celebrate our joy at on Dec. 24. challenge to remain faithful to the Christ’s birth, and we should make Advent season when we are the most of it,” he added. †

“Today is the moment to stand for marriage and its Bishop H. David Burton, presiding bishop of the unchangeable meaning,” Archbishop Dolan, president Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; MARRIAGE of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in Archbishop Robert Duncan of the Anglican Diocese of continued from page 1 a statement. Pittsburgh; Leith Anderson, president, National Appeals issued the stay to prevent the state from “The broad consensus reflected in this letter ... is Association of Evangelicals; Dr. Richard Land, president conducting same-sex marriages while the appeal of clear. The law of marriage is not about imposing the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Walker’s ruling was under way. religion of anyone, but about protecting the common Southern Baptist Convention; Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, Proposition 8 was approved by voters by a margin good of everyone,” he said. “People of any faith or no president, National Hispanic Christian Leadership of 52 percent to 48 percent in the November 2008 faith at all can recognize that when the law defines Conference and Manmohan Singh, secretary general, election. In overriding a May 2008 California marriage as between one man and one woman, it World Sikh Council— American Region. Supreme Court ruling that enlarged the definition of legally binds a mother and father to each other and state-sanctioned marriage to include all couples, the their children, reinforcing the foundational cell of (Editor’s note: A downloadable version of the letter can Archbishop initiative defined state-sanctioned marriage as limited human society.” be found online at www.usccb.org/defenseof Timonthy M. Dolan to a man and a woman. Among those signing the letter were marriage/shared-commitment.) † Pope and ecumenical leader discuss fate of Christians in Middle East VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The the world. The Catholic Church is not a Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of member of the council, although it does the World Council of Churches, gave participate in many council activities, Pope Benedict XVI a wooden box carved in including the WCC’s Faith and Order Syria as a sign of ecumenical concern for the Commission, which deals with fate of Christians in the Middle East. theological issues. Pope Benedict and Fykse Tveit, a Norwegian Fykse Tveit told Vatican Radio that he Lutheran pastor and theologian, met privately at hoped the celebration on Jan. 18-25 of the the Vatican on Dec. 4. Week of Prayer for Christian Unity would “We had a very open and friendly draw the attention of all the world’s conversation,” Fykse Tveit told Vatican Radio. Christians to the special role and unique He said that the pope emphasized the importance challenges facing Christians in the of the World Council of Churches, particularly Middle East. on theological issues and in strengthening the The theme for the week is: “One in the visible unity of Christian Churches through Apostles’ teaching, fellowship, breaking cooperation on a wide variety of issues. of bread and prayer.” Christians in The WCC represents 349 Orthodox, Jerusalem prepared the materials for the Anglican and Protestant communities around 2011 celebration. †

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Confidentiality is Vatican officials and watchers said. not unique to diplomacy, and it does not necessarily conflict CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul The content of the communications between the with the public interest. U.S. government and its diplomatic missions abroad does “not “We believe our friends and allies understand the need for seem capable of substantially changing relations between the frank, internal discussions and share our view that the release United States” and its 274 embassies around the world, said of these documents is reprehensible,” the U.S. ambassador the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, the day after wrote, adding that the U.S. government had already the WikiLeaks website launched “Cablegate” on Nov. 28. improved on securing sensitive information and remains Among the quarter of a million alleged diplomatic cables committed to guaranteeing confidentiality. that WikiLeaks said it would release over the coming Cardinal Cheli, who served as a Vatican diplomat for months, sources in Rome said 850 documents concern 36 years, working in Guatemala, Spain, Italy and at the communications between the U.S. State Department and the United Nations, said there should be transparency in U.S. Embassy to the Vatican. everything that is of public concern as long as the While U.S. government employees would not comment on information would not have negative effects on the Miguel Diaz, U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, left, walks with a any of the content that is being released, the Vatican seemed to public good. Vatican usher as he arrives for a Mass with new cardinals be downplaying the perceived crisis and showed a heavy dose “However, some government documents could have bad celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at St. Peter’s Basilica at the of skepticism. consequences if published. That is why there are state secrets Vatican on Nov. 21. Diaz said the release of alleged diplomatic For one thing, the Vatican has made no plans to make any in every government in the world,” Cardinal Cheli said. correspondence by Wikileaks was “reprehensible.” preemptive statements, according to one Vatican source, Another Vatican diplomat, who asked that his name not be especially since the authenticity of the leaked documents used, told CNS that people need to consider what the real role necessarily belong to them, he said. cannot be verified. of diplomacy is. “The right of the public to know is very important, but is A longtime Vatican diplomat, Cardinal Giovanni Cheli, “Is it to complicate things” by never allowing people to this news really something that will enrich public knowledge told Catholic News Service on Dec. 2, “First, it’s necessary to speak in confidentiality or have frank and honest discussions, or will it cause more damage to the institutions?” And who see if these documents are authentic. What proof is there?” “or is it to really try to push the right things across the board” decides? Is it done on an international level or country by On the other hand, the storm already seemed to be dying by basing negotiations on a solid and well-researched country? he asked. down just a few days after the start of the leaks, he said. understanding of reality on the ground? he asked. While the actual content of the WikiLeaks’ dossier “After the early alarm, people aren’t taking much notice Massimo Franco, the author of a respected book on concerning the Vatican had not yet been released as of anymore, at least not in the countries that have already been U.S.-Vatican relations, Parallel Empires, told CNS that the Dec. 3, the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, got 18 documents mentioned in some revelation,” he said. balance is tipping decidedly away from secrecy and heavily from the U.S. Department of State by making a request When the clouds lift, he said, “I think, in the end, nothing toward the public’s right-to-know, even at the cost of privacy through the Freedom of Information Act. Some of the will have happened.” rights and national security. correspondence concerned an assessment by the Miguel Diaz, the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, told CNS The WikiLeaks phenomenon “could be very useful U.S. Embassy to the Vatican about the conclave and in an e-mail response to questions, “Regardless of the release because it forces every serious institution to prepare a legal election of Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. of alleged reports, we will continue to work with the Vatican framework for this new phenomenon of lawlessness,” The content didn’t reveal much more than what people to advance shared interests, such as international peace and he said. already knew—that many Americans had placed their papal security, human rights, religious freedom, global health and “The problem is nobody tends to consider [the leaked bets on a cardinal from Latin America and that the election many other priorities.” material] a secret” that should be protected, he said. of the 78-year-old German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was “a The WikiLeaks’ site said one of the many reasons that Franco likened WikiLeaks’ extensive information grab to surprise for many.” it wanted to make the classified government documents public the California Gold Rush that began in 1849 where “there Franco said a more fascinating find would be the was to show citizens what is going on behind closed doors. were no boundaries and the first to occupy the land could correspondence pertaining to the United States and the Cablegate, in fact, reopened an ethical dilemma: What keep it.” Slowly, laws aimed at bringing order and justice to Vatican establishing formal relations in 1984. is the proper balance between guaranteeing the public’s the chaos were enacted, he said. “It would be interesting from a political and historical right-to-know, and protecting the common good, privacy and “It’s the same for WikiLeaks. There are no boundaries” on point of view to know when exactly and how it was decided national security? the Internet, and people are laying claim to things that don’t to have full diplomatic relations,” he said. †

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God desires that all of his creation live in harmony. The peaceable kingdom described by the prophet Isaiah (Is 11:1-10) was the focus of Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann Father Kenneth Taylor’s homily during the African Catholic Mass on Dec. 5 at St. Rita Church in Indianapolis. “On this Second Sunday of Advent, as we come together in prayer and faith,” Father Taylor said, “we want to take to heart the words of John the Baptist in the Gospel to repent so that we will be prepared for the Lord to come to us” (Mt 3:1-2). Advent is a time of anticipation for the coming of the Messiah, he said, but in order to prepare for the Lord we must cleanse our lives of division and discord so there will be harmony in the world. “I think that is a powerful image, a powerful vision,” the pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis said, “because harmony is such an important part of African spirituality— harmony not only amongst people but also harmony with God’s creation.” Father Taylor, who serves as the director of the archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry, was the principal celebrant for the African Mass and also celebrated a Mass with Vietnamese Catholics on Dec. 5 at St. Joseph Church in Indianapolis. “If we are convinced that this [peaceable Above, Father Kenneth Taylor, left, and Father Eusebius Mbidoaka kingdom] is going to happen,” he said, “then elevate the Body and Blood of Christ during the African Catholic we will want to do things now that will lead us Mass celebrated on Dec. 5 at St. Rita Church in Indianapolis. on the way to the fulfillment of that vision. … Father Taylor is the pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Indianapolis As John the Baptist says in the Gospel, repent and the director of the archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry. and prepare the way of the Lord … by Father Mbidoaka is the pastor of St. Rita Parish. Father Pascal promoting harmony ourselves, which means Nduka, the administrator of St. Anthony of Padua Parish in Morris, that we make a commitment that we will not and Benedictine Father Boniface Hardin, a monk of Saint Meinrad do things that are divisive or bring about Archabbey in St. Meinrad and the founder of Martin University in discord. … We will live in such a way that we Indianapolis, also concelebrated the multicultural liturgy. will not only try to bring God’s people together, but we will also live in harmony with Left, Holy Angels parishioner Karrington Abstone of Indianapolis God’s creation and the environment.” dances with the Global Children, African Dancers during the As we prepare to celebrate the birth of African Catholic Mass on Dec. 5 at St. Rita Church. Christ, Father Taylor said, “we need to repent of the times that we have created division and discord, and have moved further away from the Benedictine vision of harmony.” Father Boniface To experience the vision of Advent, he said, Hardin, a “there are things we need to get right within monk of ourselves before we celebrate Christmas, … so Saint Meinrad we can be ever closer to God and ever more Archabbey in ready to receive the Messiah, who is coming St. Meinrad and to us. the founder of “The spirituality of Africa holds harmony as Martin University a high value, a high ideal,” Father Taylor said. in Indianapolis, “So if we work toward harmony, not only will listens to a we be trying to bring the prophetic vision to Scripture life, but we will also be reconnecting with our reading during [African] roots, reconnecting with the idea that the African God originally intended that all he created Catholic Mass would be complementary to each other.” on Dec. 5 at After the liturgy, which was celebrated in St. Rita Church. 10 languages, St. Rita parishioners served African and American foods during a festive reception. St. Rita parishioner JoAnn Combs of Indianapolis said she likes to participate in the African Mass because it celebrates the diversity of African languages, cultures and music. “I enjoy bringing everybody together under the roof of the church,” Combs said, “and then sharing the meal and eating the [different] foods. … It’s an exchange that I think is wonderful. The music and dancing are beautiful. I pray that the African Mass will continue to grow. We would love to see even more people.” Holy Angels parishioner Sally Stovall of Indianapolis serves as the chairperson of the African Catholic Ministry in the archdiocese, and helps coordinate the traditional African Mass celebrations in June and December. “We are challenging all of the Africans to Above, Holy Angels parishioners Sheila Amenga, left, and please get involved in the ministry,” Stovall Ikenna Stovall of Indianapolis dance with other Global Children, said. “This ministry was formed for us to African Dancers during the African Catholic Mass on Dec. 5 at express our African cultures in the archdiocese. St. Rita Church in Indianapolis. Our African choir is open to anybody who is interested. You will learn about the Left, at the conclusion of the multicultural liturgy on Dec. 5, African culture and the African languages.” Holy Angels parishioner Sally Stovall of Indianapolis thanks participants for their continued support of the African Catholic (For more information about the African ministry, and encourages them to invite more people to the Masses Catholic Mass, contact the archdiocesan held in June and December at St. Rita Church. Office of Multicultural Ministry at 317-236-1562 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1562.) † The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Page 11 Jesus’ name always should be on lips of Catholics, says ar chbishop SEATTLE (CNS)—Saying the name of Jesus should the new archbishop’s ministry. be on the lips of Catholics in all parts of their lives, Archbishop Sartain, in a homily delivered in English Archbishop J. Peter Sartain was installed on Dec. 1 as and Spanish, praised the multicultural makeup of his the fifth archbishop and ninth bishop of the new archdiocese, and he welcomed newly arrived Archdiocese of Seattle. immigrants, saying that they may be new to the state of Penney CNS photo/Mike A standing-room-only gathering of 2,200 people Washington, but they “are not new to the Church. For packed St. James Cathedral for the installation of the centuries, God has blessed the Church with your 58-year-old prelate, who was appointed to Seattle by witness of faith, piety and culture. Pope Benedict XVI on Sept. 16. “I wish that I could speak all the languages spoken The congregation broke into prolonged applause in the Archdiocese of Seattle,” he said. “Clearly my when he accepted the pastoral staff from his brain can’t accomplish such a feat—but through the predecessor, Archbishop Alex J. Brunett, 76, who love of Christ, my heart can. And so can your hearts. retired after 13 years of leading western Washington’s Together we will proclaim that the love of God does 972,000 Catholics. not know barriers of culture, language or nationality.” A native of Memphis, Tenn., he most recently was The Mass was attended by Cardinals Francis E. bishop of the Diocese of Joliet, Ill., where he had George of Chicago, Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles served since 2006. He was bishop of the Diocese of and Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C., along with Little Rock, Ark., from 2000 to 2006. 24 archbishops and bishops, and more than 200 priests. Well-known for his prayerfulness, Archbishop Msgr. Jean-Francois Lantheaume, charge d’affaires at Sartain kept baskets of prayer intentions from the the apostolic nunciature in Washington, represented faithful in his home chapel while in Little Rock and Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the Joliet. At the reception following the installation Mass, United States, who was unable to attend. he made prayer intention cards available for the people Archbishop Sartain’s sister, Dominican Sister Marian of the Archdiocese of Seattle. Sartain of Nashville, Tenn., was one of the lectors. His He said in his homily that a bishop’s duty to his three other siblings, Marie Looney, Sally Hermsdorfer flock is to follow Jesus, and that the name of Jesus and Jennie Alexander, were gift bearers. should be on people’s lips everywhere, in every homily, The entrance procession from the rectory to the Retired Seattle Archbishop Alex J. Brunett, right, applauds after parish, school mission statement and in individual 103-year-old cathedral next door was held under clear presenting Archbishop J. Peter Sartain with his crosier during his daily life. skies and temperatures in the 40s. As the cathedral successor’s installation Mass at the St. James Cathedral in Seattle “As we go through the day, we should pray his bells pealed, the participants wound their way up the on Dec. 1. Archbishop Sartain had been the bishop of Joliet, Ill., for name silently to remind ourselves of his nearness and 33 steps into the church then to the altar as all sang a four years when he was appointed in September to head the seek his protection,” he said. Moments of transition, hymn commissioned for the occasion. archdiocese in western Washington state. and times of confusion, anxiety, distraction and The hymn is titled “Of you my heart has spoken,” temptation are all opportunities for prayer, which is Archbishop Sartain’s episcopal motto, taken “our awesome call to serve in the name of Jesus, we Archbishop Sartain said. from Psalm 27. As he passed up the aisle, people stood will continue to ask pardon for the times we have not He said that a bishop, in following Jesus, must on tiptoes and held digital cameras high to capture a been faithful to that call, and especially seek God’s “surrender everything trustingly to him—everything. glimpse of their new shepherd. healing for his little ones who have been harmed by “It is especially important to bishops, priests, Once the official letter of appointment from the pope clergy and others acting in the name of the Church.” deacons and consecrated religious that Jesus remain was read, Archbishop Sartain said he accepted the In his concluding remarks, Archbishop Sartain literally in our minds and in our hearts at all times,” pastoral care of the archdiocese, resolving “to serve promised to be proactive in encouraging young people Archbishop Sartain said, “that we recognize he is faithfully the spiritual needs of this local Church.” to consider religious vocations, saying he would be always before us and we are to follow.” He then took his seat in the cathedra—the bishop’s doing the Church and its people a “disservice” if he The two-hour installation liturgy highlighted the chair—and clutched the 14-pound crosier in his left didn’t challenge people to open their hearts to God. archdiocese’s diversity of cultures, with prayers of hand as the assembly erupted in applause. The crook of He said he also looks forward to his ministry in the welcome said in English, Spanish, Vietnamese, Korean, the crosier—which was given to Archbishop Brunett in Archdiocese of Seattle. Tagalog and Polish, and offered at times by people in 2008 upon his 50th anniversary of ordination—depicts “Together for many years to come we will love the Lord, native dress. At the conclusion of the Mass, members of Jesus washing the feet of the Apostles. will proclaim Christ, and we will ask the Holy Spirit to the Lummi Indian Reservation from the archdiocese’s In his homily, the new archbishop referred to the guide us in every way,” he said. “And together we will love northern region, using drum beats and chanting, blessed issue of clergy sexual abuse of minors, noting that in as the Lord Jesus has asked us to love.” † Washington’s new cardinal thanks people of archdiocese for their faith WASHINGTON (CNS)—New had presided at a consistory at St. Peter’s is now retired but was the archbishop of also gives us the grace to respond, to Washington Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl Basilica in Rome, creating 24 new Washington from 1973 to 1980 and later accept what he says to our ears and celebrated a Mass of thanksgiving on cardinals from around the world, including served as a Vatican official. hearts.” Nov. 28, thanking the people of his two U.S. prelates—Washington’s Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Cardinal Wuerl noted that the archdiocese for their faith and archbishop and Cardinal Raymond Arlington, Va., Cardinal Wuerl’s congregation at the Mass included encouraging them to share Jesus’ good L. Burke, a Vatican official. neighboring bishop in northern Virginia “people of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, news with others. A standing-room-only crowd of and his former seminary classmate, also cultural heritage and economic and social “Jesus never tired of reminding his 4,500 people attended the Mass of concelebrated the Mass, along with about condition.” What unites them all, the disciples as he prepared to return to his thanksgiving at the national shrine. 50 priests and with Washington Auxiliary cardinal added, is “our belief in God and Father that we were to be his witnesses. Scores of Knights of Columbus, wearing Bishops Francisco Gonzalez, Martin our faith in his son and our Lord— We, his Church, are to be witnesses to the plumed hats colored gold, purple, red, D. Holley and Barry C. Knestout. Jesus Christ.” truth, to Jesus’ way,” the cardinal said in green and white, processed into the Bishop Knestout, the moderator of the The Catholic Church offers a “visible, his homily at the Basilica of the National shrine at the beginning of the liturgy and curia for the archdiocese, offered the new structured manifestation of the glory of Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. formed an honor guard along the aisles of cardinal words of welcome at the God, his kingdom at work in our world,” “The recent call by the pope and the what is the largest Catholic church in beginning of the Mass, noting that just as the cardinal said. emphasis in this archdiocese of the new North America, saluting Washington’s new families had gathered together around the Washington’s archbishop thanked the evangelization is a reminder that this is our cardinal as he processed by. Thanksgiving meal, that at the Mass the people of the archdiocese for reflecting mission, and we are to give thanks to God Concelebrants at the Mass included cardinal’s archdiocesan family of faith Christ’s face to their community and their for the gift of faith, and the call to be not Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, retired was gathering with him around the world. only a disciple, but a disciple who shares archbishop Washington, who was eucharistic table. “As I said five weeks ago when it was the good news—to be an evangelist.” succeeded by then-Archbishop Wuerl in In his homily, Cardinal Wuerl noted, first announced that Pope Benedict XVI Eight days earlier, Pope Benedict XVI 2006, and Cardinal William W. Baum, who “We have just celebrated our nation’s civic had appointed me to the College of holy day—Thanksgiving—and so we are Cardinals, this honor reflects the most mindful that it is good for us to come significant place that the Church of together to say, ‘Thank you,’ to offer thanks Washington has as the Catholic Church

Submitted photo to God. Today we do this in the context of in the capital of the most influential the Church’s great prayer of thanksgiving, nation in our world today,” he said. the Eucharist.” Cardinal Wuerl noted that he Cardinal Wuerl noted that the first thing had received a cardinal’s ring in Rome, to be thankful for is “God’s great gift to us as a sign of his special bond to of his word made flesh, Jesus Christ.” Pope Benedict, the successor to St. Peter, With the Mass falling on the first and his cardinal’s ring, he said, Sunday of Advent, the cardinal blessed symbolizes “the special tie of the Church the national shrine’s Advent wreath later in of Washington to the pope.” the liturgy. After the Mass, the cardinal greeted He noted in his homily that during people for nearly two hours at a reception Advent Catholics commemorate what the held in the lower level of the shrine. faithful have celebrated for 2,000 years, “My prayer is that God will give him that “God so loves us, he sent his only strength to shepherd his people. A lot is Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, who is the episcopal advisor to Catholic Purchasing Services, is shown Son—his Word—to us. God became one of demanded of him,” said Teresa with some of the organization’s officers after the new cardinal’s Mass of Thanksgiving on Nov. 28 at us so he could talk to us in human words— Nwankwo, a Nigerian Catholic who is a the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. From left, words that we could hear, grasp and member of St. Joseph Parish in Largo, Richard Wasilauskas, president of Catholic Purchasing Services; Catherine Rowan, secretary; understand—words of everlasting life. Md. She wore a traditional African Susan Wasilauskas; Cardinal Wuerl; Mary Lou Crowley; Steve James, director of purchasing for the “We also thank God for the gift of headdress, colored purple, and said that Archdiocese of Indianapolis, who serves as Catholic Purchasing Service’s chairman; his wife, faith,” he added. “Not only does God give the cardinal’s message of sharing the Helen James; and Jack Crowley, treasurer. us the great gift of speaking to us … but he faith was important for today’s world. † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Myanmar priest serving in Kansas is named bishop of his home diocese

SALINA, Kan. (CNS)—The new bishop of the Diocese of Pyay in Myanmar will have one immediate challenge—leaving behind the friends he made in Kansas. On Dec. 3, Pope Benedict XVI named Father Alexander Pyone Cho the bishop of his home diocese. The priest has been serving in the Diocese of Salina since early Reuters Subprasom, CNS photo/Chaiwat 2007. He is currently the pastor of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parish in Osborne and St. Mary Parish in Downs. “I love the people here,” said Bishop-designate Cho. He succeeds Bishop Joseph Thaung Shwe, who turned 75 in October. Under canon law, bishops must submit their resignation at age Bishop-designate Alexander Pyone Cho 75. The new bishop, 61, will leave his parishes shortly after Christmas to return to Myanmar, also known as Burma. He is among four priests from Myanmar serving in the Salina Diocese. He expects to be ordained in late March. “We are all very grateful for Father Alexander for his ministry among us these years,” said Salina Bishop Paul S. Coakley. “Though I knew he would return one of these days, I was not expecting it to happen so soon, nor as a Thai police escort a group of Myanmar refugees crossing from Myawadi, Myanmar, to Mae Sot, Thailand on Nov. 9. Church workers rushed bishop. ... He’ll be a good shepherd.” humanitarian aid to thousands fleeing to Thailand to escape fighting between an ethnic militia and Myanmar’s military. Father Alexander Bishop-designate Cho said he was not especially Pyone Cho, chosen by Pope Benedict XVI as the next bishop of Pyay, Myanmar, has ministered since 2007 in the Diocese of Salina, Kan. surprised when the papal nuncio called to tell him of his He said that the Church’s freedom in his home country is limited by its military dictatorship. appointment. His fellow priests there had been telling him for months that he should be their next bishop. 24,000 Catholics out of a total population of 9 million. parish pastor for 23 years, the rector of his diocese’s Twice before, he said, he was on the list of candidates The diocese covers 31,000 square miles along the minor seminary twice for seven years and the spiritual to be named a bishop. western coast of Myanmar. There are 35 priests and director of the country’s national major seminary for “In our diocese, I am one of the senior priests. I am on 72 women religious serving in the diocese. eight years. good terms with them. They want me there. That made me Bishop-designate Cho said his nearly four years in After arriving in Kansas in 2007, he was the parochial think it might be that I would be the one chosen this time,” Kansas have better prepared him for his new role. vicar at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Hays before he said. “I have learned a lot here from other priests,” he said. being assigned to the Osborne County parishes in So he prayed to God. “I love the people here. I always feel the people here September 2008. † “I said, ‘I am not worthy, I am not qualified, but if you have the Christian culture. There is love in their way of choose me, you must be the one to help me,’ ” he said. living. I also feel love from them. That has been a very “I have been trying to reflect on Scripture passages, good thing for me,” he added. Preparations for Christmas trying to take courage. When I received the message from That contrasts sharply with his homeland, where he said the nuncio, I said, ‘Yes, I’ve been praying, and now I the people are more aggressive and there is often in-fighting. The accept it as the will of God.’ I do not know how heavy the People with more influence have more rights, he said. Vatican’s burden is for me, but I put it in the hands of God to do my “Here, everyone is very equal. This culture, I love it,” Christmas best,” he told The Register, Salina’s diocesan newspaper. he said. tree is CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul It is an entirely different world in Myanmar, Archbishop Charles Maung Bo of the erected in Bishop-designate Cho said. An oppressive military Yangon Archdiocese has overseen administration of St. Peter’s dictatorship has ruled the country since 1962. the Pyay Diocese, since its apostolic administrator, Square on “The government suppresses all religion, even Auxiliary Bishop Gregory Taik Maung, resigned in July Dec. 3. The Buddhism. We feel free to do our liturgy, but for external because of ill health. He asked Bishop-designate Cho to tree, from activities, we must ask permission,” he explained. return to Myanmar as soon as possible so he could begin the northern “We try to make friends with government officials, the transition, not only for his new role, but to reacquaint Italian first the local authorities, then higher up. It works. But we himself with the political environment. province of are expected to give them gifts to stay on good terms,” “Here, I can speak openly. There, I have to be Bolzano, is he added. careful before I speak, to see who is there listening,” more than Less than three-tenths of 1 percent of the population of Bishop-designate Cho said. 100 feet tall Pyay Diocese is Catholic. There are about Bishop-designate Cho was ordained in 1975. He was a and grew for 94 years. CHRIST’S COMING IN CHRISTMAS Please join Archbishop Daniel M. 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LONDON (CNS)—Catholic actor Hooper said that Lewis, an Anglican, Liam Neeson said that he thinks had offered Aslan “as an answer to the

the magical lion of C.S. Lewis’ question: What would Christ, the Son of CNS photo/Fox The Chronicles of Narnia series not God, be like if he had been born in the only represents Christ, but also land of Narnia instead of being born in symbolizes other great spiritual leaders. Bethlehem?” Neeson is the voice of Aslan the lion in He attributed Neeson’s remarks to The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, a 20th- “political correctness” and a desire to be Century Fox film premiered for “very multicultural,” and said, “I don’t journalists in London on Nov. 30. It will know Liam Neeson or what he is thinking open in U.S. theaters on Dec. 10. about ... but it was not Lewis’ intention.” At a Dec. 2 news conference, But Georgie Henley, 16, who has Neeson explained what the character played the character of Lucy Pevensie in meant to him. the Narnia movies, defended her co-star. “As we know, C.S. Lewis, who wrote She said that Neeson had not discussed the books, was a famous atheist who then his interpretation of Aslan with any of the became a famous convert to Christianity. I cast, but they were “very excited” to hear have read quite a lot of his books other his remarks during the news conference. than The Chronicles of Narnia. “I can see where he is coming from,” Georgie Henley is pictured with a lion named Aslan, voiced by Catholic actor Liam Neeson, in the “Yes, Aslan symbolizes a Christ-like she said. movie The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Neeson said he thinks the magical figure, but he also symbolizes for me “Aslan represents more than Jesus or lion of C.S. Lewis’ film not only represents Christ, but also symbolizes other great spiritual leaders. Mohammed, Buddha, and all the great God for a wide range of people,” she told spiritual leaders and prophets over the CNS in a Dec. 2 telephone interview. sacrificing his life to save Narnia from the Neeson, who comes from Ballymena in centuries,” he said. “He can be the epitome of wisdom or grip of the evil white witch before rising County Antrim, Northern Ireland, also gave “That’s who Aslan stands for as well the epitome of courage, for instance, and triumphantly from the dead. his voice to Aslan in the earlier two Narnia as a mentor figure for kids—that’s what it is very important that people can have The themes of The Voyage of the Dawn movies: The Lion, the Witch and the he means for me,” he added. their own interpretation of what he Treader, the third of the books to be made Wardrobe in 2005 and Prince Caspian Walter Hooper, C.S. Lewis’s former represents rather than have something into a film, involve the Christian themes in 2008. secretary and a trustee of his estate, forced upon them,” she said. of temptation, sin and redemption. He has spoken publicly of his disagreed with Neeson’s assessment. Clive Staples Lewis, a native of The story follows the adventures of admiration for The Spiritual Exercises “Lewis would have simply denied Belfast, Northern Ireland, wrote the Edmund and Lucy Pevensie, and their written by St. Ignatius of Loyola, the that,” said Hooper, an American Catholic seven books of The Chronicles of Narnia obnoxious cousin, Eustace Scrubb, as founder of the Jesuits. who lives in Oxford, England. between 1949 and 1954, and the books they sail to the end of the world in search Neeson also has starred in the roles of “He [Lewis] wrote that the ‘whole have since sold millions of copies around of seven missing Narnian lords. such historically significant Catholics as Narnian story is about Christ,’ ” he told the world. Throughout their journey, the the Irish revolutionary leader Catholic News Service in a Dec. 2 The series is infused with Lewis’s mysterious presence of Aslan guides the Michael Collins, the Scottish rebel telephone interview. “It is nothing thinly veiled Christian beliefs. The climax children, helping them to avoid evil and to Rob Roy MacGregor, and Oskar Schindler, whatever to do with Islam. Lewis could of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, do good, and heals them on the occasions the German entrepreneur who saved scores not have been clearer.” the first of the books, sees Aslan when they succumb to temptation. of Jewish lives from the Holocaust. † Illinois Catholic leaders call passage of bill legalizing civil unions r egrettable SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (CNS)—The Catholic Conference own essential properties and purpose,” the conference said offer little protection in the context of litigation [that] of Illinois, which represents the state’s bishops on public in a statement. “The Church did not invent marriage and religious institutions may soon encounter in relation to policy matters, said it regretted the passage of a bill neither has any state. charitable services, adoption and foster care.” legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples. “No ideology can erase from the human spirit,” it In an earlier statement, the conference said that without The legislation, approved by the House on Nov. 30 and continued, “the certainty that marriage exists solely between “explicit protections for religious liberties,” it expected the the Senate on Dec. 1, provides spousal rights to same-sex a man and a woman, who by personal gift, proper and General Assembly or the courts will soon: partners in a civil union and grants them legal rights in exclusive to themselves, mutually commit to each other in • Require faith-based institutions that provide adoption surrogate decision-making for medical treatment, order to cooperate with God in the procreation and or foster care services “to place adoptive or foster children survivorship, adoptions, and accident and health insurance. upbringing of new human lives.” with couples who have entered into a same-sex civil union.” Gov. Pat Quinn, a supporter of the measure, has said he The conference said that besides essentially redefining • Compel Catholic parishes or agencies that provide will sign it into law. marriage, the measure also “contains the potential for a social services—including retreats, religious camps, The Catholic conference said the measure will serious conflict with religious liberty,” and it urged homeless shelters, senior care centers and community “explicitly grant these unions the same status as marriage in policymakers to take such concerns seriously and work out centers—to make those services available to individuals in state law. “additional conscience protections” in the coming months. same-sex civil unions. “Marriage is not just any relationship between human While the bill states that nothing in its wording “should • Refuse “to protect small employers who do not wish beings. Marriage has been established by our Creator in interfere with or regulate the religious practice of any to extend family benefits to employees in a same-sex harmony with the nature of man and woman, and with its religious body,” the conference said that its language “may civil union.” †

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We’ve just Southern Sudan referendum on independence, said a practiced this for the last five years, and participate in a Catholic bishop in the war-torn you can see the difficulties [that] we’ve Jeffrey CNS photo/Paul procession African country. encountered. There’s an absence of proper through the “People expect a lot. They think that laws, little respect for law and the dignity streets of Juba independence means milk and honey, that of persons. Most government personnel on Nov. 20 to all will be OK. And while ordinary people came from the fighting forces, and they’ve pray for a think that, the politicians are only thinking just been converted into civil servants. With peaceful January of having power and the riches it can independence, there could be new referendum on bring,” said Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro competition among them, a new struggle secession. The Kussala of Tombura-Yambio. for power,” he said. independence The Church should help people The bishop warned that some of the vote has from both groups understand the new dangerous practices of political leaders in widespread responsibilities that independence— northern Sudan, such as control of the support the expected outcome of the media, limited free speech, corruption, throughout referendum—will bring, the bishop nepotism and tribalism, have begun to Southern Sudan, told Catholic News Service. emerge in the South. including among “The Church must help people “We don’t want to see dictators replaced Catholics and understand that we have to take upon by other dictators, so we’re designing our other Christians. ourselves the noble duty of building our programs so we can keep talking to those own nation,” Bishop Kussala said. “We are who take power, as well as to the people of the privileged generation that is going to be Southern Sudan, to help them see that they government now want to forget that history want to see another baby losing its mother voting and laying a strong foundation. We have to be the founding fathers of and ignore the moral voice of the Church. in the same way. If I have any power to need to help instill pride in being a nation democracy, a people who will uphold the To help prevent the entrenchment of power promote a culture of harmony and peace, I and help people understand that they have a rule of law and show respect for each among a few leaders, the Church has will do it.” God-given right to be free. They can only other,” Bishop Kussala said. designed pastoral work to include civic Bishop Kussala also appealed to do that together with one another, not just The Catholic Church in Southern Sudan education so people understand their rights, Catholics in the United States to become within their own ethnic group. We are a played a major role during the liberation identity and citizenship, he said. aware of the situation in Sudan. multicultural, multireligious community, struggle, said John Ashworth, an adviser to The prelate also expressed concern that “Especially at this moment, we need and we need to respect one another. the Sudan Ecumenical Forum, which some government officials in Khartoum, the their solidarity. We need them to continue “For the politicians, it’s the same,” he includes the Catholic Church. The Church Sudanese capital, will not respond well to praying for us and being close to us,” continued. “There’s a need to engage them was the only institution that stayed with the Southern Sudan’s independence, and will he said. and help them create a vision. No one is people during the long war. seek to make trouble for the “We need them to raise their voices with talking much these days about vision. Most “Everything else collapsed,” Ashworth fledgling nation. the U.S. government. The CPA came about politicians don’t seem to see where we’re told CNS. “There was no government, no “For our neighbors in northern Sudan, in part because of the American people. going. We need a group thinking ahead of NGOs, no U.N., no civil society, and the separation is not going to be a cup of tea. The pressure that the U.S. government us because we’re not going to have the traditional [tribal] leaders were seriously They are not happy about it. Many officials brought to the conflict enabled the fighting international community with us forever.” weakened and divided. The Church took on have made strong statements that if the to stop,” he said. The January vote on independence was many of the roles of government, providing South breaks away, then southerners who “The Church from the U.S. and around stipulated by the 2005 Comprehensive basic human services and aid, schools and live in the North are going to be denied their the world has continued to accompany us Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended decades clinics. We didn’t have guns, but the rights. Such behavior will pull us toward for these last five years, and now we come of civil war between Sudan’s North and presence of the Church provided a degree war and cause chaos in the South,” he said. to the most critical part of this process South. Southerners are expected to vote of protection and safety. It provided moral “My mother was killed by northern when we choose between unity or overwhelmingly for secession, and and political leadership.” government soldiers when I was just separation. We need their accompaniment Bishop Kussala said creating a functional Bishop Kussala said some in the 2 months old,” Bishop Kussala said. “I don’t now more than ever,” he said. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2010 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. John the Baptist helps us deepen our commitment to Christ By Fr. Lawrence E. Mick and resurrection of Christ, which surpasses the proclamation of John that the Messiah Jesus makes a very interesting had arrived. statement at the end of the portion of None of this implies that John himself Long Island Catholic St. Matthew’s Gospel that we hear on the was not an important figure in salvation Third Sunday of Advent this year: “Amen, history, of course. The Church presents I say to you, among those born of women John to us on the second and there has been none greater than John the third Sundays of Advent each year because Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of of his pivotal role in the coming of Christ heaven is greater than he” (Mt 11:11). and his revelation to the world. Shemitz, CN S photo/Gregory A. Many people, scholars included, have John’s message is still an important been puzzled about what Jesus meant by one for us to hear and follow. He calls us his strong statement about the importance to repentance for the forgiveness of sins. of John the Baptist, placing him above He calls us to make straight the way for people like Abraham and Moses and all the Lord, to clear away whatever hinders the earlier prophets. the coming of the kingdom. Jesus goes on to tell John’s voice is a us that the least clarion call in the important person in the season of Advent, kingdom is greater than challenging us to John. This suggests that ‘John’s voice is a prepare for the you and I and all those second coming of the who follow Christ are clarion call in the Lord as fully as he greater than season of Advent, prepared the way for John the Baptist! challenging us to the first coming The “kingdom of of Christ. heaven” is Matthew’s prepare for the In addition, the term for the kingdom of second coming of the liturgy presents God so the statement Lord as fully as he John the Baptist as doesn’t apply only to someone we should those who are already in prepared the way for imitate. Just as he heaven, but to all who the first coming of challenged people to have embraced the repent and turn away kingdom that Jesus came Christ.’ from sin, so we are to to proclaim. invite people to It is possible that embrace the mercy of Jesus is really speaking God and reform their of himself here. Since he came as a lives. We are to proclaim the presence of servant—the least—this would be a claim that kingdom in our world and invite people that Jesus is greater than John, which is to embrace the reign of God in their lives. true, of course. John’s preaching eventually cost him Most scholars, however, see the his life after he confronted King Herod statement as applying to all those who about his sinfulness. John was so dedicated accept the Good News that the kingdom to his mission that his whole life and even is at hand. By their acceptance, they are his death witnessed to Jesus. greater than John in several ways: We can hope, of course, that leading Gospel readings for the second and third Sundays of Advent feature John the Baptist, whose example • They have a fuller and more intimate people to God does not lead to our death can guide Catholics today into greater faithfulness to Christ. knowledge of Jesus than John did. as it did for John, but we know that it will • They share eternal life through involve suffering and self-denial. first coming of Christ at Bethlehem and commitment to the kingdom of God. baptism into Christ Jesus. As John said of Jesus, “He must yearn for the coming of the kingdom in its • And they are called to proclaim the increase; I must decrease” (Jn 3:30). fullness, John the Baptist guides us in (Father Lawrence E. Mick is a priest of Good News of salvation through the death As we prepare to celebrate the many ways to deepen our faith and our the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.) † Homeless advocates seek to give joy and hope in Advent

By Maureen E. Daly tragedy of homelessness and the wants to go again,” Greene said, seemingly hopelessness of addiction adding that the retreats “are the piece Lynda Greene had only 10 tickets for more than 20 years. that was missing. There is an agency to give away for the Houston Astros How can one keep hold of Advent for social benefits, for mental health,

CNS photo/William Rieter game—and 100 residents to joy in the midst of that? for clothing, but people need more choose from. “Work with homeless veterans than that. We were missing the Greene is the community director every day, and you will see hope spirituality part” that offers hope. of a single-room-occupancy residence where you think there is no hope,” On Dec. 21, which is National for homeless male and female she said, recalling some of their Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day, veterans in Houston, DeGeorge, at stories. Houston agencies serving the homeless Union Station. The six-story former “I was moving a veteran into will hold a candlelight vigil, calling out hotel is located one block from one of our smaller rooms, and I the names of all the homeless of the Houston’s baseball stadium. apologized that it was the only room region who have died during the past Greene picked five names by the we had left,” Greene said. “I saw the year. There were 100 names on the luck of the draw. She gave each strangest look on his face. He told memorial list in 2009. person a pair of tickets. me, ‘When you’ve been living in the “After the vigil, we give out One recipient told Greene that he woods for three years in a blankets, coats and a hot meal to would take his son to the game since refrigerator crate, this is heaven.’ people living on the streets and in it was the boy’s 16th birthday. Then “That put everything into encampments,” Greene said. “We he started crying. perspective.” made their Christmas last year with a “He was so frightened,” she said. She sees hope in the hot meal, a smile and a blanket. “He told me, ‘I have never been clean Ignatian Spirituality Project, whose “I think everyone should and sober on his birthday, including website is www.ignatianspirituality experience homelessness, not to the day he was born.’ ” project.org, which offers overnight give up your home, but to work The man took his son to the game, and daylong retreats for homeless and walk among them,” Greene said. and stayed clean and sober, Greene men and women recovering from “You learn that hope means different recalled. addictions in Chicago, Cincinnati, things and you learn to appreciate Advent readings tell us to be Dayton, Ohio, and 14 other cities what you have.” Ernest Marshall, a volunteer at West Side Catholic Center in patient and hopeful because “the nationwide. Two more cities will be Cleveland, sits in the facility in 2009. Those who minister to Lord God keeps faith forever.” added starting in 2011. (Maureen E. Daly is a freelance homeless people seek to give them joy and hope in Advent. In her work, Greene has faced the “Everybody that goes on retreat writer in Baltimore, Md.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Christina Capecchi Wisdom of the saints: St. John of the Cr oss St. John of the Cross, whose feast is on The Ascent of Mount Carmel in the to our ancestors through the prophets; in Snapshots of Dec. 14, is known as the Doctor of Mystical Office of Readings for last Monday during these last days, he spoke to us through his Theology. He was a this second week of Advent. Son” (Heb 1:1-2). Therefore, John said, grace: Capturing mystic, theologian and In it, John explained that, prior to the God “has now said everything in Christ. He poet. His treatises birth of Christ, prophets and priests has given us everything, his own Son.” the sacred in include the Spiritual sought from God revelations and visions We would be committing an offense, he Canticle, The Ascent of since the Gospel law had not yet been said, if we looked for some other vision or daily life Mount Carmel, Living established. revelation instead of focusing entirely on Flame of Love, and In his turn, God spoke at times through Christ. It would be as if we were desiring Funny how a single picture can change Dark Night of the Soul. words and visions, and at other times in something other than Christ or beyond him. everything. Thomas Merton said signs and symbols. However he responded, But there is nothing more. God has told In the tiny town of Bovey, Minn., four years of him, “In St. John of though, and what he revealed were us that in his Word he has already said into World War I, an old man peddling foot the Cross, we find darkness and light, mysteries of our holy faith, “either partial everything, John said. “Fix your eyes on scrapers knocked on Eric Enstrom’s door. suffering and joy, sacrifice and love united glimpses of the whole or sure movements him alone for in him I have revealed all, Eric was 43, a Swedish immigrant who had together so closely that they seem at times toward it.” and in him you will find more than you bought land, opened a photography studio and to be identified.” Now, though, our faith is rooted in could ever ask for or desire.” raised his children to speak perfect English. He John, who lived from 1541 to 1591, Christ, John said, and the law of the Gospel God the Father told us, John said, that fed the peddler and studied him. There was was a partner with St. Teresa of Avila, has been proclaimed. There is no longer the with his Holy Spirit he came down upon something striking about reforming the Carmelite men as Teresa did need to seek him in the former manner Jesus during the Transfiguration and told us the man, a gentle strength the women. because “by giving us, as he did, his Son, to hear him. Therefore, you don’t need any in his deep wrinkles and Pope John Paul II had a particular his only Word, he has in that one Word said new teachings or ways of learning. When straggly beard. devotion to St. John of the Cross. He wrote everything. There is no need for any further God spoke before Christ was born, it was Sitting before a loaf of his doctoral dissertation on St. John’s revelation.” about Christ who was to come, in whom is bread and a bowl of teachings, and thought about becoming That’s what the Letter to the Hebrews every good. porridge, the peddler a Carmelite. meant, John said, when it said, “In times This, he said, was the whole teaching of closed his eyes and The Church includes an excerpt from past, God spoke in partial and various ways the evangelists and Apostles. † dropped his head into his folded hands. Eric flashed Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes his bulb and pressed his accordion-like Bellows camera. Poof! Happy Holy-day! And Merry Christmas, too! “Grace” was born, the picture that has been Has anyone wished you “Happy event? Well, there’s Frosty the Snowman We make decisions which turn out to be hung in kitchens and living rooms across the Holidays!” yet? Or should I ask, How many and The Littlest Angel and even Rudolph the wrong because they were self-serving, or world, a call to gratitude, a symbol of faith that thousands of times Red-Nosed Reindeer. There’s also Scrooge because they were driven by a need to is both sturdy and hushed. lately have you heard or the Peanuts gang or the Little Drummer belong, or the desire to prevail over Eric had long embraced its meaning, leading this well-meant Boy, all of them at least peripherally someone else. We do this on a smaller his family in grace before every meal. His third greeting? connected to Christmas by some feel-good scale in our families or workplaces born, Warren, tagged along on fishing trips and On the other hand, message of generally acknowledged virtue. with bickering and unreasonable photo shoots of Minnesota’s Scenic State Park. how few folks outside But nowhere may we see the true “reason competitiveness, and on a large scale as Warren watched his dad shoot panoramas, of church have been for the season,” namely Christ. nations with dubious ambitions and the turning a slow circle that seemed to sweep in brave enough to wish The Holy Family, with the baby Jesus at ability to make war. every detail. you a “Merry its center, the crèche, is forbidden to be But when Christ who is God entered our When Warren departed for England to serve Christmas”? Think placed in public places. Traditional carols world as another human, he came to show in World War II, he packed a 116 camera. about it. which mention Christian themes or Christ’s us the way through this life. The salvation “I took quite a few,” he said, “but not as Perhaps it is the politically correct who birth are doctored to avoid religious terms or he brings is simply the knowledge that we many as I should have.” should think about it, those who insist on simply omitted from the airwaves. So, are loved by a just and merciful God. We The photographer’s son can still see the bus “Happy Holidays” instead of using the instead of an inspiring “Ave Maria,” we get are thus freed to believe in the good he rode when the Nazis captured him and the original name of the Christian celebration. drivel about a Grinch—whatever that is— intentions of others, and to be generous and machine gun fire that granted him an escape That’s because “holiday” means “holy-day.” who stole Christmas. open in our dealings with them. We can three days later. Horror of horrors. It seems to me that if people understood regain the innocence of little children. His favorite war-time snapshot—a black and No one, politically correct or not, wants what Christmas means, they would insist on Peace flows from justice, and hope is its white photograph that is missing from his album to give up the pleasures of this festive the (truly) correct name for it. We say it is a channel. That is essentially what we but vivid in his mind—shows a uniformed season. It’s a nice break from the dreary, time of hope, peace and joy, but what does celebrate at Christmas when we welcome Warren sitting by the entry of a small Austrian cold weather, and it fits just right in the that really mean? God’s great gift. That may indeed be a church right after the war ended. “I look pretty public school schedule. Besides, it offers Unfortunately, as human beings we live religious statement, but it’s what Christmas happy,” he said. “Oh, God, the war was over.” great food and gifts, and an excuse for in a scary world. That is just a fact. We is all about. Warren went on to work as a construction shopping. suffer from physical ailments, emotional Like it or not, this day marks a religious superintendent, and throughout his life “Grace” So, rather than deny themselves this fun, damage, selfishness in ourselves and others, celebration. That’s why it’s a holy-day. was never far from him. He was once given the correct dream up euphemisms to obscure and a general tendency to think, believe and Thank you, God. more than 200 pictures, and he framed every the religious, and specifically Christian, act out the worst possibilities. When things one before sharing them with friends. His wife focus of the—er—holiday. It’s “yuletide” or are going well, we are waiting for the other (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the embroidered the image. “jolly days” or “winter festival” or whatever. shoe to drop, and when it does we say we Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular “She won first prize in that category at the And who are the correct heroes of this knew it was coming. columnist for The Criterion.) † Texas State Fair,” he boasted. Decades later, when she passed away and The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick Warren began receiving food from Meals On Wheels, a volunteer noticed the picture in his room and was inspired to feature it in a History: Great for our peace of mind in facing r eality promotional postcard. Have you ever desired to escape to a experiences as best as possible. together. Solon never gave up on finding Today, Warren is 95, one of five or far-off island to find peace of mind from Solon, the great Athenian statesman unique ways for creating harmony. six residents at Juliette Fowler Homes in Dallas the era of discontent and lawgiver, is a good example of a This was not easy! who hung a “Grace” portrait in his apartment to in which we live? person who must have desired to escape Where two or more people come make it feel like home. He has given talks about To feel discontent from it all, but hung in together, more often the photograph and hands out a “Grace” is to feel like things there to become an than not, each has his brochure to everyone who will accept it. are falling apart. exalted leader. or her own agenda Promoting the picture gives him purpose. One look at the news Solon was forever From Oman, we learn and the expectation “I think that’s the most pleasant thing I’ve with its daily reports confronted by the rich, that life has been, is that it should take done,” he said, “except my wife and I went to of divisions and who were trying to and always will be priority. Hawaii once.” disunity reveals how protect their wealth, The history of Isn’t that how grace works? It comes as a true this is. It would and by the poor, who illogical. Most of the Solon teaches us that flicker, a sprinkle of the sacred. But at any be great if we could wanted the rich to time, it doesn’t pan out where the desire for moment, any one of us can capture a shot of it, escape this, but we can’t. If escape is not share their land so that the way that we think unity is present, so creating a permanent record, a legacy that possible, what can we do to maintain our they would not be too is disruptive inspires generations. peace of mind? forced to seek a haven it will. self-interest present. Last weekend brought our first snow of the May I suggest that we turn to history? in another country for Ultimately, this can season. I woke and grabbed my camera, The great historian Charles Oman gives sustenance. lead to frustration. preserving an image of the old oak that had us one good reason for saying this, “The Solon tried to create equality, but, as To counter this, there must be been made new. Friends exercised the same human record is illogical ... and history history reveals, he offended both sides. sagacity—a tenacious mind forever at impulse, blogging in their pajamas. Deep down, is a series of happenings with no So both those rich and poor looked work looking for alternatives. we understood what Pope John Paul II wrote to inevitability about it.” elsewhere for better results. Frustration often leads to a sense of artists—that beauty is “an invitation to savor life From Oman, we learn that life has In seeing this, Solon declares, feeling sorry for oneself, as if the person and to dream of the future.” been, is and always will be illogical. “Formerly they boasted of me vainly; were the only one suffering. The holidays can be dizzying, but we have Most of the time, it doesn’t pan out the with averted eyes. Now they look A down-to-earth lesson of history is the ability to press pause, to wade through way that we think it will. askance upon me; friends no more, but to stop feeling self-pity, to face reality scattered wrapping paper, grab a camera and History teaches us understanding, and enemies.” and to diligently try to search for ways process the world through its grateful lens. helps us realize that those in the past Solon eventually was hailed as a great of working with reality peacefully. have had similar experiences. It also leader for his tenacity and for devising (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from points out that those who have gone clever ways of unifying his people. (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be reached before us worked through their chaotic The word “law” means to bind Catholic News Service.) † at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Page 17

Third Sunday of Advent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Dec. 13 Friday, Dec. 17 Sunday, Dec. 12, 2010 After all, this had been promised. Lucy, virgin and martyr Genesis 49:2, 8-10 The reading from James reassures Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17a Psalm 72:3-4, 7-8, 17 • Isaiah 35:1-6a; 10 Christians, calling them to await the Psalm 25:4-9 Matthew 1:1-17 • James 5:7-10; Lord’s coming in virtue and patience. But, Matthew 21:23-27 • Matthew 11:2-11 the reading insists, the Lord indeed will come again! Saturday, Dec. 18 Historically, this weekend has been called St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the Tuesday, Dec. 14 Jeremiah 23:5-8 “Gaudete Sunday,” taking its name from the last reading. John of the Cross, priest and Psalm 72:1, 12-13, 18-19 first word in the Again, as last weekend, John the Baptist doctor of the Church Matthew 1:18-25 Latin Introit, the is the central figure. Imprisoned, John hears Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 Entrance Antiphon. of Jesus. He wonders if Jesus, of whom he “Gaudete” means “to hears stories, is truly the promised Messiah Psalm 34:2-3, 6-7, 17-18, 19, 23 Sunday, Dec. 19 rejoice.” The Church calls of Israel or if Jesus is someone else. Matthew 21:28-32 Fourth Sunday of Advent us to rejoice, not that the John sends emissaries to Jesus to discover Isaiah 7:10-14 penitential season is the Lord’s identity. Wednesday, Dec. 15 Psalm 24:1-6 closing soon, but that the Responding, Jesus describes a situation Isaiah 45:6b-8, 18, 21b-25 Romans 1:1-7 coming of Jesus at that clearly informed John. The lame walk, Psalm 85:9-14 Matthew 1:18-24 Christmas is near. the blind see, and the poor hear the To symbolize this Good News of hope and salvation. Luke 7:18b-23 joyful expectation, the old rubrics required the By contrast, Jesus knows who John is. celebrants at Mass to wear vestments of rose Jesus sees John as a prophet and holy man Thursday, Dec. 16 color, not a diluted violet or purple. Rather, it who speaks the word of God. Isaiah 54:1-10 was the somber violet lifted by the brilliant Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-13 gold of the distant sunrise of Christ’s coming. Reflection Few biblical readings could be more joyful Advent is the season in which the Church Luke 7:24-30 and excited than this passage from the bids us to prepare for the coming of Christ. Book of Isaiah. Of course, it looks ahead to the liturgical The reading is a proclamation of event of Christmas that recalls the actual vindication and salvation. God’s majesty and birth of Jesus as a human. The Son of God, goodness are triumphant, vindicating not only Jesus truly was the human son of Mary. He Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen the fidelity of the truly loyal believers, but also was born in Bethlehem. the constant mercy of God. With James, the Church anticipates the The reading is a celebration of salvation. future, final coming of Jesus. All will be Catholic understanding of biblical God’s people, long at risk and indeed made right. Jesus truly will be victorious. downtrodden, are saved by God’s These readings excitedly look forward to timelines is based on truths of the faith almighty power. Christmas and the Second Coming. Surely contributing to the eloquence of this More directly, the readings summon us to During Advent, our parish Bible original beauty and harmony was in the passage is its splendid imagery of geography make the coming of Christ a personal event Qstudy group is discussing the mind of God. in the Middle East, particularly in the by transforming ourselves through prayer, Annunciation, Nativity In other words, we always need to Holy Land, and its references to human penance and determination to become and other seasonal approach the creation stories, like all of difficulties overcome by the loving power of worthy dwelling places for the living Christ. topics. Scripture, very carefully to separate what God. Thus, the Church in these weeks of The conversation is “for the sake of our salvation” from the For its second reading, the Church this Advent asks us to prepare ourselves for the turned to how much vehicles of language and culture—the weekend presents a selection from the Lord. If we have paused after these first three we really know about images, allegories, fables, parables and Epistle of St. James. weeks, the Church calls us to renew our when things happened other literary devices—that God uses to This reading recalls a mood very prevalent determination to be ready for Christmas and in the Bible. convey his messages of revelation to us. in the early Church. Problems beset for our personal reception of Jesus. As children years The most recent exhaustive and Christians, not the least of them hostilities The Gospel focuses upon Jesus. The Lord ago, we were told of nuanced Catholic document on the springing from the materialistic, pagan, alone can guide us to God. Jesus knows the Adam and Eve as our Interpretation of the Bible in the Church Roman imperial culture. Of course, eventually answer to every question. He knows every first parents, of their children, Cain and is the 1993 publication of the these hostilities would lead to political acts. person’s true identity. No human, however Abel, and what happened to their Pontifical Biblical Commission, with that Christians would be persecuted. good, can be as trustworthy and sure a guide. descendents. title. Understandably, Christians yearned to see He knows all. He is God, coming to us. He is From time to time, we read news While inspiring the authors of the Jesus return in splendor and victory to Earth. our salvation. † reports about the discoveries of bones and Bible, it states that God made use of all artifacts of humans who, according to the ways that language can express ideas. carbon dating and other tests, lived At the same time, God recognized the My Journey to God hundreds of thousands or millions of years limitations of human language. No human ago. words can ever adequately express any of How do these huge time periods relate, these divine mysteries. for example, to the stories about Adam “Proper respect for inspired Scripture,” Advent of Winter and Eve? When exactly did God create the document says in its conclusion, our first parents? (Louisiana) “requires undertaking all the labors Where do I look for God? necessary to gain a thorough grasp of Do I look upward to the sky above? We have no idea when or how God its meaning.” Is He there in the ever-changing clouds? Acreated the first human beings. With that in mind, the [Catholic] Is it there that I find His love? Historical sciences, despite their New American Bible notes in its remarkable modern discoveries, still introduction to the first chapters of Do I look for God in the wind that blows? cannot pinpoint when, or even where, the Genesis that the truths contained in these Is He in the rustling of the fall foliage? first “humans” appeared on Earth. Nor can chapters must be clearly distinguished Do I seek His hand that colors autumn the Bible tell us. from their literary garb. leaves? To see why this is true, we need to keep Forgetting those cautions can lead to Is He always present on nature’s stage? in mind a few facts about Catholic some awesomely eccentric beliefs.

Submitted photo by Thomas J. Rillo Thomas J. Submitted photo by understanding of the Bible. During the 17th century, for example, Can God be in the animals that face winter? First, we believe that the Scriptures Archbishop James Ussher, a leader in the Does His hand guide their preparations? Is His image reflected in the still lake teach “solidly, faithfully and without error Protestant Church of Ireland, after Does God open nature’s horn of plenty? water? that truth which God wanted put into the carefully adding up figures from the book Are all creatures allowed their due Is He among the flowers that bloom sacred writings for the sake of our of Genesis, determined that the world was portions? with quiet beauty? salvation” (Second Vatican Council, created in 4004 B.C. Do I look for Him in nature’s expansive Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Later, English biblical scholar Is God with farmers who harvest their theater? Revelation, #11). John Lightfoot of Cambridge University crops? This means, for example, that we do “proved” that the exact moment of God’s Can I find Him in the cornfields and the A quiet voice is heard inside the ear of not read the Bible as if it were a book of creation of Adam was “Oct. 23, 4004 grain? my mind. scientific history or anthropology. B.C. at 9 o’clock in the morning.” Is God in the hay bales as they are stored in “Look for Me ever closer inside your The truths of faith that God reveals to That’s the kind of weirdness that can barns? heart. us in the Genesis stories of creation are happen when we try to squeeze the Bible Do I find God in all who ready for winter’s “You will find Me always there first and many. for information that the Scriptures were quarantine? foremost. God created the world, including not meant or intended to provide as facts. “Then look for the works of My hand.” humans, as a free act of his love, and God Can God be found on majestic desires to share his goodness and life. (A free brochure describing basic mountaintops? By Thomas J. Rillo As it came from God’s hands, all Catholic prayers, beliefs and moral creation was “very good” (Gn 1:31). precepts is available by sending a (Thomas J. Rillo is a member of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington and is a Later, sin, disharmony and suffering stamped, self-addressed envelope to Benedictine oblate of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad. Inspiration for this poem entered the world, coming not from the Father John Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, came from the advent of winter and God’s presence in it. This mountain scene was Creator, but in some way from sinful Ill. 61612. Questions may be sent to photographed at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, where winter comes early.) human pride. Father Dietzen at the same address or by Yet, already a plan to restore the e-mail to [email protected].) † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010

Shepardson, James, John, Kenneth, Kevin, Raymond and Catholics in Congress Thomas Mader. Brother of Agnes Hall, Viola Higgins, Rest in peace Alfreida Streit and Edwin Catholics in Congress haavve decreased, but they will Mader. Grandfather of 28. Great-grandfather of 17. still make up about 28 percent of the 535 members. Please submit in writing to our Grandmother of 12. Great- office by 10 a.m. Thursday grandmother of 19. McALLEN, John J., 79, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, before the week of publication; HAAG, Virgil W., 89, St. Mark be sure to state date of death. Nov. 28. Husband of Beryl the Evangelist, Indianapolis, McAllen. Father of Anne Obituaries of archdiocesan Nov. 29. Husband of Albina priests serving our archdiocese Martino, Air Force Maj. Haag. Father of Veronica Boyle, Maureen McAllen and John are listed elsewhere in Mary Beth Braitman, Margaret The Criterion. Order priests McAllen Jr. Brother of Dorothy Watson and Paul Haag. Grand - McAllen. Grandfather of four. and religious sisters and father of nine. brothers are included here, McGRAW, Margaret, 76, unless they are natives of the HEMBRY, Verda E., 94, St. Rita, Indianapolis, Nov. 26. archdiocese or have other St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Mother of Conseuella McCary, connec tions to it; those are Nov. 29. Mother of Mary Jo Joy Richardson, Ida, Ranklin separate obituaries on this Harper. Grandmother of three. and Ronald McGraw. Sister of page. Great-grandmother of eight. Frances Washington. Grand - Great-great-grandmother of six. BEACH, Herman G., 87, mother of several. Great-grand - St. Michael, Bradford, HOLST, A. Lee, 88, mother of several. Nov. 26. Father of Joyce Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, MILANO, Thomas L., 52, Coleman, Beth and Theresa Nov. 22. Husband of Mary Jo St. Gabriel, Connersville, Gettelfinger, Joan Purucker, Holst. Father of Denise Nov. 25. Brother of Lillian Jerry, Glenn, Keith, Kenneth Hollingworth, Karen Lunn, Baney, Frances Hopping, and Marc Beach. Grandfather John and Rodney Emmons. Anthony and Joseph Milano. of 27. Great-grandfather of 12. Brother of Rosellen Uncle of several. Holst-Shoaf. Grandfather of 10. BROYLES, Elmer B., 76, Great-grandfather of seven. MILLER, Margaret, 91, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Nov. 23. Husband of Fayerene HUNT, Colum, 83, Indianapolis, Nov. 4. Mother of Broyles. Father of Jennifer St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Jackie Miller. Nov. 29. Husband of Evelene Baker, Charles, Edward Jr. and MROZ, Lucille, 88, Jeffrey Broyles. Brother of Hunt. Father of Daniel Hunt. Catholic members down in Congress, Grandfather of two. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Verla Burns, Marie Frazier, Nov. 15. Mother of Rich Mroz. Thressel Owens, Vula Pressley HUNT, Edna Barbara, 100, Sister of Hedwig Kutzki. but about equal in both major parties and Sherwin Broyles. Grand - St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Grandmother of two. father of six. Great-grand - (Little Flower), Indianapolis, WASHINGTON (CNS)—With more than own campaign website—list Republican father of two. Nov. 11. Aunt of one. OATHOUT, Norma Jean (Wilson), 86, St. Thomas the three dozen Catholic Democrats voted out of Sen.-elect Marco Rubio of Florida as a CASSIDY, Robert E., 77, JONES, Irene F., 97, Apostle, Fortville, Nov. 27. office or choosing not Catholic, he and his family worship most St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 27. St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Mother of Cassandra Hanafee, to run in the frequently at Christ Fellowship in Husband of Margie Cassidy. Cambridge City, Nov. 26. Gayle Spalding, Chris and November election, a Palmetto Bay, Fla., a nondenominational Father of Melissa Polen, Mother of Barbara Gibson, Michael Wilson. Sister of decline in the number Christian Church. Teresa Whalen and Robert Ross and Tom Jones. Grand - Camilla Smith. Grandmother of of Catholics in the Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, on the Patmore. Brother of Ruth mother of eight. Great-grand - seven. Great-grandmother 112th Congress would other hand, is a Presbyterian who regularly mother of five. Gamboe and Alma Merrifield. of five. seem inevitable. attends St. Ann Catholic Church in Grandfather of seven. Great- KAISER, Victor E., 91, grandfather of one. ROUTON, Stanley L., 86, But the decrease is Wilmington, Del. He and his wife, Annie, St. Louis, Batesville, Nov. 28. St. Charles Borromeo, not nearly as steep as who is Catholic, are raising their CHINN, Catherine W., 86, Husband of Juanita Kaiser. Bloomington, Nov. 29. might be expected because of the 33 new three children in the Catholic faith. Coons St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Father of Lisa Kaiser. Step- Husband of Lorraine Routon. father of Michelle Holmes and Catholic Republicans preparing to take was sworn in on Nov. 15 because he was Nov. 24. Wife of Charles Father of Linda Eisenhauer, Pat office when the 112th Congress convenes on elected to complete Biden’s term and took Chinn. Mother of Dianna Lynn Stires. Brother of Betty Feldhake, Sue Melsheimer, Jan. 3. his seat during Congress’ lame-duck session. Heinz, Victoria and Steve Holtel and Rita McGreevy. Rick and Tom Routon. Brother Chinn. Grandmother of two. Grandfather of one. Step- of Jimmy Routon. Grandfather With one House race still contested as of For the purposes of this article, Catholic Great-grandmother of four. grandfather of three. of 10. Great-grandfather of five. Dec. 3—between Rep. Timothy Bishop, a News Service counts Rubio but not Coons as New York Democrat who is Catholic, and Catholic. CLAPP, Patricia Ann (Page) KAUFMAN, Catherine, 85, , SCHEIB, John E., 84, Randy Altschuler, a Republican who is At least one new Catholic member of 73, St. Rose of Lima, Franklin, St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 22. St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Jewish—the number of Catholics in the Congress makes no bones about his faith. Nov. 26. Mother of Eric Mother of Rebecca Vincent, Nov. 26. Husband of Barbara Clapp. Sister of Cynthia Darrel and David Kaufman. (Clements) Scheib. Brother of 112th Congress will be 149 or 150, Rep.-elect Bobby Schilling, a Cronin and Diana Page. Sister of Pauline Glotzbach and Frank Scheib. Uncle of several. compared to the 162 senators and Republican from Illinois, runs St. Giuseppe’s Grand mother of three. Dorothy Patten. Grandmother representatives who identified themselves as Heavenly Pizza in East Moline, a restaurant of nine. Great-grand mother SHERMAN, Joseph F., 87, Catholics as the 111th Congress began two that closes on Sundays so that the Schillings COX, William T., Sr., 84, of 14. St. Jude, Indianapolis, Nov. 27. St. Gabriel, Connersville, Husband of Frances (Raisor) years ago. and their employees can spend time with Nov. 23. Father of Garry, KELLEY, Dr. Annetta Sherman. Father of Frank The latest number is more in line with their families. Mark, Wilbur and William (Seulean), 89, Sacred Heart of Sherman. Grandfather of five. the 155 Catholics at the start of the “People warned them that this would Cox Jr. Brother of Rose Mary Jesus, Indianapolis, Nov. 12. Great-grandfather of four. 110th Congress or the 109th’s 153 Catholics. doom their business to failure,” it says on Mother of Constance Brenner, Dula, Margaret Feller, Alta SIMON, Charles W., 53, The change since the last Congress means Schilling’s campaign website. “With faith Meier, Donald, Louis and Kitty Madden, Anna Marie that Catholics will now make up about and persistence, the business has not only Sullivan, Suzanne, Brian, St. Pius, Troy, Nov. 25. Father Richard Cox. Grandfather of of Samantha, Brandon and 28 percent of the members of Congress, sustained itself, but has grown.” six. Great-grandfather of two. Dr. Charles, Jim, Joe, John and compared to 30 percent when the Schilling also has strong union ties, Michael Kelley. Sister of Joshua Simon. Son of Mary DeHART, Don E., 73, Dr. Myron Seulean. Grand - Agnes Simon. Brother of Jane 111th Congress began. But both figures are having served as a shop steward for Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, mother of 24. Great-grand - Bunner, Judy Simon-Biever, higher than the percentage of Catholics in the the International Paper Workers Union Nov. 27. Husband of Kay mother of 15. Edward, Jim and Paul Simon. U.S. population—24 percent. for four years and as treasurer for DeHart. Father of Teresa THIEKEN, Louis J., 89, For the first time in recent memory, the the United Food and Commercial Tribble, David, Donald II, KITE, Patrick T., 65, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Christ the King, Indianapolis, number of Catholic Republicans in the Workers Union while working at Mark, Michael, Paul and Nov. 25. Husband of Marjorie House—61—nearly equals the number of Prudential Financial insurance Stephen DeHart. Brother of Nov. 10. Husband of Helen Kite. Father of Karen Sensney (Boles) Thieken. Father of Jerry Catholic Democratic House members, at company from 1987 to 1995. Rosemary Sangers, John, and Tom Thieken. Grand father 64 or 65. That marks a dramatic shift since He and his wife, Christie, have Joseph, Herman and Russell and James Kite. Brother of Daniel Kite. Grandfather of four. Great-grandfather of the last Congress convened two years ago 10 children and one grandchild. The family DeHart. Grandfather of 17. one. Great-grandfather of two. of three. with a Catholic House contingent of attends St. Malachy Parish in Geneseo, Ill. VISSING, William Raymond, 98 Democrats and 38 Republicans. Although the House leadership will DIRKS, Loretta, 97, KREUTZJANS, Joseph A., Jr., 85, St. Ann, Jennings County, 91, St. Augustine, In contrast, the Catholic membership in change parties in January, a Catholic will St. Louis, Batesville, Nov. 27. Jeffersonville, Sept. 30. the Senate has remained relatively stable. remain as Speaker of the House. When Sister of Ethel Seevers and Nov. 29. Father of Karen Begeman, Loretta Nelson, Marie Husband of Frances Vissing. Among Republicans, four Catholics left and Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California Virginia Yargus. Aunt of Father of Barbara Donahue. several. Rayburn, Jovita Williams, four new Catholic senators were elected, steps down, Republican Rep. John Boehner Michael and Paul Kreutzjans. Grandfather of two. Great- grandfather of two. keeping the total at nine. The number of of Ohio will take the post. He will not GAUGHAN, Eleanor Jean, Brother of Marcella Magateaux, Catholic Democrats in the Senate went from formally claim the post until Jan. 5, when he 79, St. Jude, Indianapolis, Al, Ed and George Kreutzjans. WESPISER, William E., 93, 17 at the start of the 111th Congress to is expected to receive a majority of votes Dec. 3. Wife of David Grand father of 10. Great- St. John the Evangelist, 15 now, but two of the 17 were now- from the full House. Gaughan. Mother of Alice grandfather of three. Enochsburg, Dec. 2. Father of Miller, Mary, Timothy and Vice President Joe Biden, who resigned from Pelosi was elected on Nov. 17 to be LONE, Edna Mae, 91, Michael and Thomas Wespiser. Vincent Gaughan. Sister of the Senate shortly after the session began, minority leader. St. Michael, Bradford, Nov. 30. Grandfather of four. Great- William Harrell. Grandmother and Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, No Catholics will be serving in either Mother of Marlene Hayden, grandfather of five. of 12. Great-grandmother who died in August 2009. party’s other top leadership spots in the next Murrel Schweitzer, Melanie, WILHELM, Helen L., 88, of two. The Congress that convenes in 2011 will Congress. Reps. Eric Cantor of Virginia, Kip, Paul and Phillip Lone. St. Gabriel, Connersville, GOLD, Myrl (Fahrbach), 90, Sister of Bertie Gentry, Eileen Dec. 1. Mother of Ann be, incidentally, the first in 64 years that does who is Jewish, and Kevin McCarthy of Most Holy Name of Jesus, Kessler and Harry Heisman. Brubaker and John Wilhelm. not include a member of the Kennedy family. California, a Baptist, will be majority leader Beech Grove, Oct. 17. Mother Grandmother of 21. Great- Sister of Donald and Harold John F. Kennedy, who was elected the and majority whip, respectively, in the new of Susie Frye, Linda Hess, grandmother of 25. Great-great- Meyer. Grandmother of six. first Catholic president in 1960, first served Republican-led Congress. Marilyn Shipp and Ron Gold. grandmother of two. Great-grandmother of 19. in the House in 1947. Ted’s son, Reps. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, a Grandmother of eight. Great- MADER, Alfred, 91, Great-great-grandmother of Patrick Kennedy, who represented Rhode Baptist, and James Clyburn of grandmother of one. four. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Island in the House since 1995, decided not South Carolina, a member of the African GRAHAM, Mary Ruth, 99, Indianapolis, Nov. 19. Father of WILSON, Edna, 102, to run for re-election in 2010. Methodist Episcopal Church, held the St. Gabriel, Connersville, Agnes Anderson, Theresa St. Andrew, Richmond, Compiling numbers on the Catholics in majority posts in the 111th Congress, but Nov. 21. Mother of Sally Dillon, Linda Eads, Mary Nov. 21. Grandmother of Congress is not always easy, however. will serve beginning next year as minority Harris and Lois West. Louise Jones, Patricia several. † Although several sources—including his whip and assistant leader, respectively. † The Criterion Friday, December 10, 2010 Page 19 Advent penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled Dec. 15, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X communal penance services for Advent. The following is a list of services that have been reported to The Criterion. Indianapolis South Deanery Dec. 12, 3 p.m. at Good Shepherd Batesville Deanery Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Dec. 12, 1 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, Millhousen, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Jude and St. Maurice, Napoleon, at St. Maurice, Napoleon Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Ann Roller CNS photo illustration/Bob Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Rock, Franklin County Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood Dec. 14, 7 p.m. for St. Anne, Hamburg; St. Maurice, Dec. 21, 7 p.m. at St. Mark the Evangelist Decatur County; and St. John the Evangelist, Daily, 11 a.m. at St. John the Evangelist Enochsburg, at St. John the Evangelist, Enochsburg Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. for St. John the Baptist, Dover, and Indianapolis West Deanery St. Joseph, St. Leon, at St. Joseph, St. Leon Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Monica Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg Dec. 17, 7 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, New Albany Deanery Bright Dec. 12, 4 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany Dec. 21, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, Morris Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Bradford Advent, a season of joyful expectation before Christmas, Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Albany began on Nov. 28 this year. The Advent wreath, with a Bloomington Deanery Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton candle marking each week of the season, is a traditional Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, Clarksville symbol of the liturgical period. Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville Dec. 19, 4 p.m. at Holy Family, New Albany Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford Seymour Deanery Advent resources Connersville Deanery Dec. 15, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Providence, Brownstown, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, and St. Ambrose, Seymour, at St. Ambrose, Seymour are available on Cambridge City Dec. 16, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at Holy Family, Richmond Dec. 20, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, archdiocesan Web site North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at Indianapolis East Deanery St. Joseph, Jennings County During the season of Advent, the Archdiocese of Dec. 15, 1:30 p.m. for Holy Cross and St. Philip Neri at Indianapolis will have a special Web page at St. Philip Neri Tell City Deanery www.archindy.org/advent. Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville Dec. 12, 4 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City The page contains various Advent resources, Dec. 15, 7 p.m. for St. Mary and SS. Peter and Paul including links to the daily readings, reflections from Cathedral at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Terre Haute Deanery Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein, penance service Dec. 10, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Rockville schedules, images of past Criterion Christmas Indianapolis North Deanery Dec. 14, 1:30 p.m. at St. Ann, Terre Haute Supplement covers and links of interest to other Dec. 12, 2 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph University, Terre Haute Advent websites. † Dec. 14, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Pius X Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle † Cardinal Tauran says Pakistan’s president wants to revise blasphemy law VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pakistan’s president may “to reexamine the blasphemy law with a view toward blasphemy law is often abused as a way to harm a not have the political strength needed to abolish the possibly eventually abrogating it,” Cardinal Tauran said. Christian with whom one has a complaint or grudge. anti-blasphemy law that places Christians at risk, “I told the president and everyone else I met that Cardinal Tauran told Vatican Radio, “The president is but he has promised to try to revise the law, said Christians in Pakistan are under the impression that they are aware of the fact that authorizing a revision of the law Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran. considered second-class citizens,” Cardinal Tauran said. would expose him to strong criticism. But I sincerely The cardinal, president of the Pontifical Council for The country’s blasphemy laws make insulting the Quran, believe that he realizes this law must at least be revised.” Interreligious Dialogue, spent four days in Pakistan in late the sacred book of Islam, an offense punishable by life In mid-November, Pope Benedict XVI added his voice November and met there with President Asif Ali Zardari, he imprisonment, while being found guilty of insulting the to international calls for the release of a 37-year-old told Vatican Radio on Dec. 1. Prophet Mohammed brings an automatic death sentence. Christian woman, Asia Bibi, who faces the death penalty in “He demonstrated great interest in the Holy See’s The Catholic Church, other Christian groups and human Pakistan after being convicted of blasphemy. Vatican Radio position on religious freedom,” the cardinal said. rights observers repeatedly have complained that making an reported that the charges were filed against Bibi after she President Zardari has formed a commission accusation is so easy and disproving it is so difficult that the had an argument with a group of Muslim women. †

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