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CriterionOnline.com May 29, 2009 Vol. XLIX, No. 33 75¢ Obama nominates New York Latina to Supreme Court WASHINGTON (CNS)—President Barack Obama has nominated federal appeals court College couple faces Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the difficult choices Supreme Court. If she is confirmed, the about their faith New York native of Puerto Rican descent and their future would become the first Hispanic to serve By John Shaughnessy on the high court. Obama announced During the summer before their senior year his choice of in college, Lindsey Loffer and Scott Knust Judge Sonia Sotomayor Sotomayor, 54, at a faced the questions that challenge many brief event at the couples who have dated for a few years: White House on May 26. If confirmed by the What will our lives be like a year from Senate, she would join the court when the next now? term opens in October, replacing retiring Where is our relationship headed? Justice David Souter. Do I want it to lead to marriage? At the White House announcement, At the same time, they each wrestled with a Sotomayor described herself as “an ordinary personal choice about where God was leading person who has been blessed with extra - them in their lives. ordinary opportunities and experiences.” At 21, Lindsey struggled with a decision Sotomayor has been a judge on the about whether she should continue to live her 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998, life of faith as a Baptist, or whether she should nominated to that post by President Bill follow a growing pull within her to become a Clinton. member of the Catholic Church. Before that, she spent six years as a For Scott, also 21 in the summer of 2008, U.S. District Court judge in New York, the choice was even more dramatic: Should he nominated to that position by continue to date Lindsey or should he follow President George H.W. Bush in 1991. his interest in the priesthood—a path that She also served as an assistant New York Scott had been considering before he met her? County district attorney and worked in private There were no easy answers for either practice. Scott or Lindsey. Only one point seemed clear She was joined at the White House by her to both of them: The choices they would make mother, Celina Sotomayor; her mother’s would change their lives forever. husband, Omar Lopez; her brother, Juan Sotomayor, a New York physician, ‘We might be more than friends’ and his wife and children. Long before they end up in love or In announcing his choice, Obama called heartbreak, all couples experience that moment Submitted photo Sotomayor “an inspiring woman,” who “has of first connection that attracts them to the never forgotten where she began,” describing other person. For Lindsey and Scott, that her childhood in a housing project in moment came during their freshman year at New York’s South Bronx section, where she the University of Indianapolis. Through mutual was born in 1954. Her parents moved to friends, they became part of a group one night New York from Puerto Rico during the that watched the horror movie classic Second World War. Halloween. Obama noted that Sotomayor’s mother had “I remember that she laughed a lot that been in the Army during World War II, night, and she smiled a lot, and that attracted beginning a family tradition of public service me,” Scott recalls. “And she screamed a lot and high aspirations. Sotomayor’s father, a during the movie, too. Before their senior year in college at the University of Indianapolis, Scott Knust and Lindsey Loffer factory worker who had only a third-grade “From there, we hung out as friends, and were confronted by several life-altering questions, including whether their relationship would education and spoke little English, died when See FAITH, page 12 someday lead to marriage or whether Scott would follow his interest in the priesthood. she was 9. See JUSTICE, page 12 Cardinal George, congressmen urge action by President Obama on conscience protection WASHINGTON (CNS)—The president of president, Reps. James Sensenbrenner, reducing abortions. the U.S. bishops’ conference and two members R-Wis., and Chris Smith, R-N.J., urged Obama “A government that wants to reduce the of Congress have to forgo rescinding the Bush administration’s tragic number of abortions in our society called on President conscience-protection regulation. They also will also work to ensure that no one is forced Barack Obama to asked Obama to “commit to defending to support or participate in abortion,” make good on conscience protections in future rule-making.” Cardinal George’s statement said, “whether something he said in In his statement, Cardinal George said through directly providing or referring for his May 17 speech to health care professionals and institutions abortions or being forced to subsidize them University of “should know that their deeply held religious or with their tax dollars.” Notre Dame moral convictions will be respected as they Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of graduates, namely that exercise their right to serve patients in need.” Health and Human Services proposed he wished to “honor He noted that since 1973 federal laws have rescinding the conscience clause that gives the conscience of protected the conscience rights of health care federal protection to the conscience rights of those who disagree providers. health care providers. Cardinal with abortion.” Protecting conscience rights “will strengthen The rule, which took effect two days Francis E. George In a May 22 our health care system and enhance many before Obama took office, codifies statement, Cardinal Francis E. George of patients’ access to necessary life-affirming three longtime federal statutes prohibiting Chicago said he was grateful for Obama’s care,” the cardinal said. discrimination against health professionals promise to support conscience clauses. He said he welcomed working with the who decline to participate in abortions or At a May 19 press conference in administration and other policymakers to other medical procedures because of their Washington and in a letter sent that day to the advance goals that Obama has set out for See CONSCIENCE, page 3 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Archbishop announces clergy, parish assignments

Official Appointments West Deanery while continuing as pastor of Holy Angels Rev. Msgr. Mark A. Svarczkopf, pastor of Our Lady of Parish in Indianapolis and director of the archdiocesan the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, reappointed pastor of Effective June 30, 2009 Office of Multicultural Ministry. Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood for a term of six years. Rev. Julian Peters, O.S.B., administrator pro-tem of Rev. Daniel J. Staublin, currently pastor of St. Malachy SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish in Indianapolis and Parish in Brownsburg, to dean of the Batesville Deanery, Rev. Clement T. Davis, pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish interim director of liturgy for the archdiocesan Office of concurrent with his appointment to pastor of St. Lawrence in Columbus, reappointed pastor of St. Bartholomew Parish Worship, returning to Saint Meinrad Archabbey. Parish in Lawrenceburg. in Columbus.

Effective July 1, 2009 Rev. Jonathan Fassero, O.S.B., a monk of Saint Meinrad Rev. John Geis, pastor of St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish in Archabbey, to associate director of Spiritual Formation for Floyds Knobs, reappointed pastor of St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Rev. John A. Meyer, pastor of Prince of Peace Parish in Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis. Parish in Floyds Knobs. Madison and Most Sorrowful Mother of God Parish in Vevay, chaplain of Father Michael Shawe Memorial Rev. John Fink, pastor of St. Michael Parish in Bradford Rev. Stanley J. Herber, pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Jr./Sr. High School in Madison, attending to the spiritual and St. Bernard Parish in Frenchtown, and administrator of Connersville and dean of the Connersville Deanery, needs of students at Hanover College in Hanover and dean St. Joseph Parish in Crawford County, reappointed pastor, reappointed pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville and of the Seymour Deanery, reappointed dean of the for a term of six years, of St. Michael Parish in Bradford, continuing as dean of the Connersville Deanery. Seymour Deanery while continuing as pastor of Prince of and continuing as pastor of St. Bernard Parish in Peace Parish in Madison and Most Sorrowful Mother of Frenchtown and administrator of St. Joseph Parish in Rev. Paul F. Richart, pastor of St. Paul Parish in God Parish in Vevay, chaplain of Father Michael Shawe Crawford County. Sellersburg, reappointed pastor of St. Paul Parish in Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison and attending to Sellersburg. the spiritual needs of the students at Hanover College in Rev. Robert Gilday, pastor of St. Therese of the Infant Hanover. Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in Indianapolis and Rev. James R. Wilmoth, pastor of St. Roch Parish in vice vicar judicial of the archdiocesan Metropolitan Indianapolis, chaplain of Roncalli High School in Rev. Paul D. Etienne, currently pastor of St. John the Tribunal, reappointed pastor, for a term of six years, of Indianapolis and dean of the Indianapolis Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis and vice rector of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Parish in South Deanery, reappointed pastor of St. Roch Parish in Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary in Indianapolis, to Indianapolis and continuing as vice vicar judicial of the Indianapolis while continuing as chaplain of dean of the Tell City Deanery, concurrent with his archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal. Roncalli High School in Indianapolis and dean of the appointment to pastor of St. Paul Parish in Tell City and Indianapolis South Deanery. St. Mark Parish in Perry County. Rev. Stephen T. Jarrell, pastor of St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, and chaplain of DePauw University Rev. Msgr. Harold Knueven, administrator of Rev. Msgr. Paul D. Koetter, currently pastor of St. Monica in Greencastle and the Indiana State Farm in Putnamville, St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, reappointed administrator of Parish in Indianapolis and dean of the Indianapolis reappointed pastor, for a term of six years, of St. Paul the St. Mary Parish in Greensburg. West Deanery, to dean of the Indianapolis East Deanery, Apostle Parish in Greencastle and continuing as chaplain of concurrent with his appointment to pastor of Holy Spirit DePauw University in Greencastle and the Indiana State Rev. Paul Landwerlen, administrator of St. Vincent Parish in Indianapolis. Farm in Putnamville. de Paul Parish in Shelbyville, reappointed administrator of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelbyville. Rev. Kenneth E. Taylor, pastor of Holy Angels Parish in Rev. Vincent Lampert, pastor of SS. Francis and Clare Indianapolis and director of the archdiocesan Office of Parish in Greenwood, reappointed pastor of SS. Francis and These appointments are from the office of the Most Rev. Multicultural Ministry, to dean of the Indianapolis Clare Parish in Greenwood for a term of six years. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Archbishop of Indianapolis. † In Internet age, Church cannot avoid debate, Vatican spokesman says

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Recent Vatican communi- Father Lombardi cited three of Pope Benedict XVI’s compromise, rather than authentic communication,” he cations controversies have shown that, in the Internet age, actions that have drawn what he called “sensational” said. The courage to speak the truth and “not to become the Church cannot avoid debate media-driven criticism: his speech on faith and reason that enslaved to the desire for approval” means the Church will and in fact must be prepared to touched on Islam in Regensburg, Germany, in 2006; his often go against the grain of society, he said. explain its teachings more lifting of the excommunication of Bishop Richard Father Lombardi said the Internet and other new media convincingly through new media, Williamson, who had denied the extent of the Holocaust; tools have risks, and “enormous potential for manipulation the Vatican’s spokesman said. and his more recent comment that condom distribution is and moral corruption.” But he said the Church cannot “In a world such as ours, we not an effective way to stop the spread of AIDS. ignore the great potential of online media if it wants to would be deluding ourselves if we The Vatican spokesman said that in each case the “keep the truths of the faith in close touch with the thought that communication can criticism had provoked some “real hard thinking” and emerging culture and the younger, growing generations.” always be carefully controlled, or additional Vatican responses. Although these responses One of the challenges of the Internet is that it can that it can always be conducted arrived rather late, he said, they were serious, penetrating destroy or confuse the hierarchy of information-providing smoothly and as a matter of and well-argued, and in the end enriched the public that Church agencies have worked so hard to set up, he Fr. Federico course,” the spokesman, discussion. said. Another huge challenge is interactivity, a complex Lombardi, S.J. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, As a result, he said, the question of Christian-Muslim task that requires an enormous commitment of resources, said in a lecture on May 18 at the relations has been addressed more frankly, the positions of he said. Westminster seminary in London. the pope on the Holocaust are more widely known and “Being able to receive comments is not enough. We Father Lombardi said that, like any great institution Catholic-Jewish relations have been strengthened, and the need to develop a structural capacity to respond clearly today, the Catholic Church is going to come in for debate over condoms is leading to better understanding and competently to the questions that arise—and that frequent criticism. Thanks in large part to the Internet, the about truly effective AIDS prevention. takes manpower, time and money,” he said. “chorus of voices” that takes part in such debates is larger Father Lombardi said it is inevitable that the Church’s At the same time, he said, Catholic communicators and more diverse, he said. message will sometimes be misunderstood, distorted or cannot ignore “old media” because many less developed The Church’s strategy should be to enunciate its rejected by an increasingly secular world. countries around the world still rely on traditional positions, evaluate criticism, and then give a clearer and “We cannot fool ourselves into thinking that a perfect technologies. more penetrating response, he said. communications strategy could ever make it possible for The Vatican spokesman said the task of Catholic “It is a mistake to think that we ought to avoid debate. us to communicate every message the Church has to offer communicators is to keep working harder to develop and We must always seek to conduct debate in a way that in a way that avoids contradiction and conflict,” he said. use new media to communicate the Gospel and promote a leads to a better understanding of the Church’s position— “Truth be told, success in this sense would be a bad culture of dialogue. If successful, he said, the Church can and we must never get discouraged,” he said. sign—at the very least, it would indicate ambiguity or one day say that “the Internet is truly blessed.” †

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BALTIMORE (CNS)—Go home and Basilica of the National Shrine of the recovery from prepare to die. Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary inoperable liver

That’s what Mary Ellen Heibel’s in Baltimore. The archbishop also cancer in 1966 could Review Catholic doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical appointed a group to investigate the case not be explained by Center in Washington told her on May 11, and listen to testimony from Heibel, her doctors. The 2004, after they discovered that the Gibson and other witnesses. miracle needed for cancer that had attacked Heibel’s The commission’s findings will be sent canonization could esophagus in 2003 and then a lymph node to Father Antonio Marrazzo, Redemp- be the Heibel case. later that year had spread throughout her torist postulator general in Rome, who “We’re very happy Jr., Matysek P. photo/George CNS body. will then take them to the Vatican’s that the archbishop Given about six months to live, the Congregation for Saints’ Causes. If the has opened the longtime member of St. Mary Parish in healing is deemed miraculous, investigation,” Annapolis underwent a new form of Blessed Seelos could be canonized by Father Kingsbury chemotherapy at the Johns Hopkins Pope Benedict XVI. said. “I’m glad Hospital in Baltimore as a palliative “It calls to mind the blood, sweat and Mary Ellen was treatment to extend her life. But doctors tears that have gone into the building of healed no matter warned it would only the Church of what—and, if it’s postpone the inevitable. Baltimore,” [Blessed] Seelos and At the suggestion of Archbishop O’Brien it helps his cause, it a Pittsburgh priest, ‘It calls to mind the said before the would be wonderful.” Heibel began praying a blood, sweat and tears May 19 Mass. In the nearby novena in 2005 to “Blessed Seelos is Diocese of Blessed Francis X. that have gone into the typical of many priests Metuchen, N.J., Seelos, a 19th-century building of the Church and members of the another sainthood Redemptorist pastor of of Baltimore.’ faithful throughout the cause made headlines her parish who died of archdiocese who have on May 18 when yellow fever in 1867 in taken their faith Bishop Paul G. New Orleans. —Archbishop seriously, and lived it Bootkoski formally One week after she faithfully and shared it opened an investi- began the novena at her Edwin F. O’Brien with others in an gation of a possible parish, Heibel’s cancer inspiring way,” he said. miracle in the disappeared. Gone Father Gilbert Seitz, sainthood cause of were tumors in both lungs, her liver, back the archbishop’s episcopal delegate in the Mother M. Angeline Mary Ellen Heibel, a member of St. Mary Parish in Annapolis, Md., sits and sternum. When Dr. Michael Gibson, inquiry, said members of the investigative Teresa McCrory. next to a statue of Blessed Francis X. Seelos at her parish. Heibel her doctor at Hopkins, called with the group include Dr. Larry Fitzpatrick of She was the believes her cancer was cured through Blessed Seelos’ intercession. news, Heibel couldn’t believe it. Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, who foundress of the “I was just so excited. I called will serve as a medical expert; Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm possible miracle has been attributed to everyone,” the 71-year-old mother of Capuchin Franciscan Father William and several care facilities in the U.S. and prayers made for the intercession of four remembered. “I never thought in a Graham, promoter of justice; and Ireland. She died in 1984 at the age of 91. Mother Angeline Teresa. million years this would happen.” Deacon Neil Crisp and Leslie Engle, Her sainthood cause was formally opened Albanese, who will serve as notary for Told by her doctors that the notaries. in 1992. A confirmed miracle is needed the investigation, said she could not unexplained healing could not be the Redemptorist Father John Kingsbury, for her beatification. reveal the identity of the child because of result of her chemotherapy, Heibel is pastor of St. Mary Parish, said the “This afternoon we are reminded of the rules of confidentiality, though she did convinced that Blessed Seelos interceded possible healing is a “major important role of the saints in the life of say the child and the family reside in the on her behalf. breakthrough” in the canonization effort. our Church,” Bishop Bootkoski said in the Metuchen area. “I know this had to be a miracle,” she Two miracles that occur after death are chapel of the St. John Neumann Pastoral Bishop Bootkoski took an oath to keep told The Catholic Review, newspaper of generally needed for a sainthood Center. “This is a very happy occasion the details of the case secret, as did others the Baltimore Archdiocese. candidate to be canonized. Acceptance of and a historic occasion for us in our involved in the inquiry: Msgr. William Archdiocesan officials are currently a first miracle through the intercession of diocese.” Benwell, vicar general and moderator of investigating whether Heibel might just the German-born Redemptorist led to his According to diocesan chancellor the curia, who will serve as the episcopal be right. beatification by Pope John Paul II in Lori Albanese, the alleged miracle delegate for the inquiry; Msgr. David Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien opened 2000. involves a child who was diagnosed with I. Fulton, diocesan promoter of justice; an archdiocesan inquiry into the alleged The confirmed miracle was the cure of a genetic condition prior to birth but was Dr. Palma Formica, medical expert; and healing with a May 19 Mass at the a Louisiana woman whose complete then born without the condition. The Albanese. † National Institutes of Health plan for embryonic CONSCIENCE stem cells called objectionable and obsolete continued from page 1 religious or moral objections. WASHINGTON (CNS)—The National Institutes of Msgr. Malloy said NIH “has prematurely dismissed as The letter from Sensenbrenner and Smith to Obama Health’s draft guidelines for embryonic stem-cell research being of secondary interest and limited benefit” the stressed that the president should use all the tools at his support “a course of action that is both morally objectionable advances being made in stem-cell research involving adult disposal “to keep conscience protections in place and and, increasingly, scientifically obsolete,” the general and cord-blood stem cells, as well as induced pluripotent reduce the number of abortions in the United States.” secretary of the U.S. bishops’ cells—which do not require the destruction of human “The religious and moral views of health care workers conference said in comments to NIH. embryos. should be respected,” Sensenbrenner said during the press Msgr. David J. Malloy submitted He said those advances have prompted leading conference. “Workers should have the right to refuse to the 11-page comments on behalf of stem-cell researchers “to declare that this is ‘the beginning participate in an abortion procedure without the fear of the U.S. Conference of Catholic of the end’ of embryonic stem-cell research and its losing their job or being discriminated against.” Bishops on May 22, four days before attendant moral controversy.” In his speech at the University of Notre Dame in the end of a 30-day period of public “Here is a new common ground for Americans of many Indiana, Obama called on people with differing views on comment on the proposed guidelines. different moral views, a path to cure we can all live with,” abortion to find common ground. Calling the draft guidelines “more Msgr. Malloy said. “Yet this administration seems to be “Let’s work together to reduce the number of women permissive than any policy approved stuck in the ideological battles of the past, as if embryonic seeking abortions by reducing unintended pregnancies, and in the past by any branch of the stem-cell research must receive priority attention and making adoption more available, and providing care and federal government,” Msgr. Malloy funding precisely because so many Americans have raised support for women who do carry their child to term,” Msgr. David J. Malloy said NIH “is missing an enormous moral objections.” Obama said. opportunity to show how sound In addition to his general comments that “the guidelines “Let’s honor the conscience of those who disagree with science and responsible ethics can not only coexist, but overall are morally unacceptable, medically unnecessary abortion, and draft a sensible conscience clause, and make support and enrich each other.” and legally flawed,” Msgr. Malloy also cited problems sure that all of our health care policies are grounded in The draft guidelines—drawn up at the request of with some specific aspects of the informed consent clear ethics and sound science as well as respect for the President Barack Obama after his March 9 executive order provisions of the draft guidelines. equality of women,” he added. overturned President George W. Bush’s partial ban on federal For example, he said, there are “no actual safeguards” Smith noted that he and Sensenbrenner were simply funding of research involving the destruction of human to prevent researchers from seeking to influence parents’ asking the president to make sure “that his deeds match his embryos—would allow the use of federal funds for decisions, prior to the creation of embryos for fertilization words.” embryonic stem-cell research only on embryos created for attempts, about whether they would later donate any He said that the president could act on the words of his reproductive purposes at in vitro fertilization clinics and no “spare” embryos for research purposes. commencement speech by stopping the efforts of his longer needed for that purpose. “Nothing in the guidelines prevents fertility clinics from administration to rescind current conscience regulations. They specifically ban funding “for research using deliberately overproducing embryos [ostensibly for “Protecting conscience is the truly pro-choice position embryonic stem cells derived from other sources, including reproduction] for parents choosing that option, to ensure and respects the diversity of opinion in our society as well somatic cell nuclear transfer, parthenogenesis and/or that a number of embryos will later be available for as the sanctity of life,” Smith added. IVF embryos created for research purposes.” federally funded research,” the USCCB official said. “In Dr. David Stevens, president of the Christian Medical Also prohibited is funding of research in which stem cells practice, then, the guidelines could invite exactly the abuse Association, said in a May 18 statement that if Obama is “are introduced into nonhuman primate blastocysts” or they claim to prohibit.” “truly concerned about finding common ground, he should research “involving the breeding of animals where the meet with doctors and patients who would be affected” by introduction of human embryonic stem cells or human- (Editor’s note: The full text of Msgr. David J. Malloy’s the lack of a conscience-protection clause. induced pluripotent stem cells may have contributed to the comments is available online at He said the regulation was needed to protect doctors, germ line.” www.usccb.org/prolife/NIHcomments.pdf.) † nurses and other health care professionals from discrimination based on their religious beliefs.† Page 4 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009

OPINION Letters to the Editor Let us pray that spouses be open Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 to God’s plan for their family Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Millions of women all over the world and in Committing such an evil is a mortal sin. the United States use oral contraceptives. Until the 1930s, all Christian Churches Sadly, many of these women who would taught that the practice of birth control was never even consider a surgical abortion are, in intrinsically evil. Because the Catholic Editorial fact, causing “silent abortions” in their wombs. Church is divine, it cannot change or revoke The pill is an abortifacient, that is, a drug this teaching. that causes an abortion. The Church does, however, allow spouses Marble sculptures of According to Dr. John Wilks, an Australian to space the births of their children through angels are seen on the pharmacist who also has earned a Ph.D., the Natural Family Planning or NFP. Sant’Angelo bridge in pill retards monthly thickening of the womb’s According to Dr. Sean P. Tierney, “The Rome on May 1. The lining. When the lining is too thin, as with pill success of NFP is in the 98 percent range, bridge plays a part in users, implantation of the fertilized egg will be and those couples who actively practice it

CNS photo/Chris Reuters Helgren, novelist Dan Brown's unsuccessful. have a 3 percent divorce rate.” This figure is book "Angels & Some researchers, using very conservative considerably low as compared to the current Demons," which was figures, have calculated that the pill directly U.S. divorce rate of 48 percent. adapted to a film causes between 1.53 million and 4.15 million Let us pray that spouses be open to life starring Tom Hanks chemical abortions per year in the U.S. (“The and to God’s plan for their family. and directed by Facts of Life,” Human Life International). Let us also pray that God gives the graces Ron Howard. The Since the beginning of its inception, the needed, through his Blessed Mother, to single movie premiered in Catholic Church has taught that the practice of people and homosexuals to remain chaste Rome on May 4 at a birth control to render procreation impossible is and to resist temptations against purity. theater a mile away “intrinsically evil” (Cathechism of the Catholic Rhonda Branham from Vatican City. Church, #2370). Bloomington Program provides powerful tools to help Catholic congregations

The April 17 article by Sean Gallagher Working with Saint Meinrad School of (“Survey says … Gallup programs geared to Theology’s Office of Youth and Young The Church and scientific truths strengthen parishioner engagement”) was a Adult Formation, we are enrolling five of wonderful treatment of a successful our high school youths in Saint Meinrad’s his editorial was prompted by the found, to assure its freedom and to program for promoting engagement and acclaimed “One Bread, One Cup” Youth Trelease of the movie Angels & promote its research.” The academy leadership within many parishes of the Liturgical Leadership Conference. Demons. It is not a review because we includes 80 of the world’s most famous archdiocese. Additionally, our leadership team, which haven’t seen the movie. Some who scientists. The Clifton StrengthsFinder surveys and the will include the youth graduates of the have seen it, though, have criticized it The academy has scheduled a Discover Your Strengths books and resources “One Bread, One Cup” program, will be for its attack on Catholic beliefs, symposium from Oct. 31 to Nov. 4 on are powerful tools that are available through conducting a retreat at the Saint Meinrad especially the canard that the Church is “Scientific Insights into the Evolution the Gallup Faith Practice division to help Guesthouse. opposed to science. of the Universe and of Life.” That will Catholic congregations discover their innate We believe strongly that the Holy Spirit The movie is an adaptation of a be followed on Nov. 6-11 by a week strengths and unique gifts. is pointing the way to an exciting horizon novel by Dan Brown, who also wrote dedicated to astrobiology, jointly In fact, coinciding with the article’s for Sacred Heart and its members. We the anti-Catholic The DeVinci Code. sponsored by the Vatican Observatory appearance, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in believe as well that we are being called to In the book Angels & Demons, and and the Pontifical Academy of Indianapolis received word that our respond positively and urgently to discern apparently also in the movie, he claims Sciences. Leadership Excellence program had been that horizon and to begin to act. that the Catholic Church murdered Astrobiology studies the possibility funded in part through the Indianapolis-based These important tools, along with the scientists who were dedicated to of life in other parts of the universe. Center for Congregations. resources provided by the Center for scientific truth. Astronomers are searching for what Like the parishes cited in the article, Congregations, the Marian College Center Unfortunately, the idea that the they call a “Goldilocks planet,” one that Sacred Heart worked very closely with the for Catholic Stewardship, the Office of Church opposes scientific truth remains is not too hot or too cold, but just right Marian College Center for Catholic Stewardship Education and Saint Meinrad widespread, mainly because, in 1633, to sustain life. Stewardship and the archdiocesan Office of School of Theology, will equip us as a the Holy Office condemned the It is not true that most scientists are Stewardship Education to apply for the funding community to respond to the call of the writings of Galileo Galilei for teaching atheists. Catholic scientists have long support for the Gallup resources. Spirit. that the Earth revolves around the sun. been involved in discoveries that Unlike the other parishes, however, Fr. Frank Kordek, O.F.M. It was an error on the part of the unlock the mysteries of creation, Sacred Heart included a component to Pastor, Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish Church’s officials of that era which including Nicolaus Copernicus, promote youth leadership development. Indianapolis was officially corrected in 1992. considered the father of modern But the Galileo case is an exception astronomy in the 17th century. And it’s to the norm. For centuries before it and not true that the Church murdered him. Notre Dame graduate: Alma mater is for centuries since then, the Church has He died of a stroke at age 70. been dedicated to the notion that the Father Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian true to mission of Catholic Church universe can be understood through priest and astronomer, was one of those scientific research because it came into responsible for formulating the Overcome with a tremendous feeling of joy differently. being through its intelligent Creator. Big Bang theory for the origin of the and a profound sense of inner peace, I My formation at Notre Dame and in this We are in the midst of the Interna- universe. After one of his seminars on celebrated my graduation from the University of archdiocese has only affirmed that as tional Year of Astronomy, established the theory in 1933, Albert Einstein, Notre Dame the weekend of May 16-17. Christians we must always seek to reach out to by the United Nations to coincide with who was in the audience, stood up and With exuberance, I joined my classmates in others with “hearts overflowing with the the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first said, “This is the most beautiful and naming Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins our inexpressible delight of love” use of the telescope to observe the satisfactory explanation of creation to senior class fellow and in welcoming (Rule of St. Benedict, Prologue). cosmos. The Vatican Museums, which I have ever listened.” President Barack Obama as our commencement On May 17, the president named this as our Vatican Observatory and various other Fred Hoyle is another scientist speaker. common call as Christians: “The call to treat Vatican offices are participating in the associated with the Big Bang theory, I could not be more proud of my senior class one another as we wish to be treated. The call observance with special programs. and the one who gave it its name. The for the level of respect and courtesy they to love. The call to serve. To do what we can to At the beginning of the astronomy theory reverses the earlier belief that demonstrated toward each other and toward the make a difference in the lives of those with year, the Vatican described Galileo as the universe always existed. campus community, even amidst upsetting whom we share the same brief moment on this “a believer who tried, in the context of Now scientists know that it is protests and frenzied media coverage steps Earth.” his time, to reconcile the results of his continuing to expand, which also beyond our cherished university. The external obsession on demonizing scientific research with the tenets of means that it must have had a The atmosphere on campus throughout the messages and jeers aimed at our nation’s the Christian faith.” beginning. Hoyle was converted from weekend was not one of discord or division, but president and the school that I am pleased now Pope Benedict XVI praised Galileo atheism when he came to realize that was instead wrapped together in the message of to call my alma mater could not be any further as a man of faith, “who saw nature as a the Big Bang couldn’t have come about that Sunday’s Gospel: “Love one another as I from the very simple Gospel directive to love book written by God.” He said that the by accident, but required an intelligent love you” (Jn 15:12). as Christ has loved us. That was not and never discoveries of science and astronomy cause. Father Jenkins turned our attention to these will be Notre Dame. can help people better appreciate the Don’t let anyone tell you that the words of Christ first at the commencement Welcoming the stranger as Christ himself, wonders of God’s creation. Church is opposed to scientific truths. liturgy, and President Obama continued this openly sharing the faith with humility and The Church’s attitude toward It cannot be because it knows that God theme in his address to the graduates. compassion, and celebrating common ground science is indicated by the mission is the author of all truth, whether it be If we are truly to be one human family, we amidst dissimilarity—this is Notre Dame, and I statement of the Pontifical Academy of scientific or theological. must not channel our energy into words and daresay the mission of the Catholic Church. Sciences. It says that it “seeks to pay actions that merely glorify our own positions, Geoffrey Mooney honor to pure science, wherever it is —John F. Fink tear others down, and refuse to engage in New Albany conversion with those who think and act Notre Dame Class of 2009 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Page 5

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

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR

The Holy Spirit is working in our lives to draw us closer to God

n the evening of the first day of the week, presence of the Spirit are universal gifts They had been to the mountain with our Christian mission; and the servile fear the doors were closed in the room where forever present wherever the Church Jesus. They had seen him betrayed and of human life gives way to an honest and “Iithe disciples were, for fear of the Jews” gathers. suffer, and they had seen him die. They wholesome fear, an awe of the Lord our (Jn 20:19). Pentecost was one of the three great knew him to be risen. They knew he had God. Tradition has it that the room with Jewish feasts. We are told that the feast gone to prepare a place for them, and they We have the recurring need to return to closed doors where the disciples waited in originated from an ancient thanksgiving knew he would send the gift of the the Cenacle, doors closed; we need to go to fear of the Jews was the Cenacle, the celebration, in gratitude to God for the Holy Spirit to help them. a place where the Spirit’s gift of wisdom upper room where, the night before he yearly harvest about to be reaped. The feast of Pentecost completes their and understanding helps us remember what died, Jesus and the Twelve had celebrated Later, another purpose was added: It Passover story. In a room, doors closed, the we are about. the Passover of the new dispensation. was the remembrance of the promulgation disciples prayerfully wait for the gift of the We relive the waiting of the Twelve with In the Holy Land, there are churches of the Law given by God to Moses on Spirit as a community, to guide them as Mary for the coming of the Spirit. Today, and shrines built at the sites of the Mount Sinai. This was celebrated 50 days they would walk the way that Jesus we refresh our understanding and Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity, after the Passover. walked, and to carry on the mission to the appreciation of the presence of the Gethsemane, the Holy Sepulcher and the By God’s design, the harvest which the world. Holy Spirit among us. Resurrection, among others. Jews celebrated with such joy has become What is the meaning of this feast for us? In the Cenacle, we recall that by the But at the legendary site of the Cenacle, a feast of great joy in the new dispensation: First, as I mentioned last week, what an grace of the Holy Spirit, our discipleship the upper room that would mark the the coming of the Holy Spirit, the important part of Christian life is the chore begins and ends in prayer. † institution of the Eucharist and the Counselor and Comforter promised by of waiting. priesthood, the room where the era of the Jesus. After Jesus went to the right hand of the Church began with the descent of the In fear of the Jews, the Apostles were Father, the disciples waited to be Do you have an intention for Holy Spirit on the Apostles gathered with waiting, in a hidden room, doors closed, empowered by the Holy Spirit to carry out Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? Mary, the Mother of the Lord, the John writes. They were waiting for the gift their mission to baptize and to teach and You may mail it to him at: legendary site of Pentecost is not marked of the Spirit, which Jesus had promised. preach the forgiveness of sins. with a church or shrine. In the beginning of their faith journey, Secondly, fear is so much a part of life. Archbishop Buechlein’s As I have thought about whatever the the disciples gathered in the Temple to “They waited behind closed doors” even Prayer List reasons might be for that, I can see a listen to Jesus tell the story of the Father. after the Easter greeting of Jesus to “Be not Archdiocese of Indianapolis certain appropriateness that the place of They were struck by the authority with afraid.” 1400 N. Meridian St. the institution of the Eucharist at which the which he taught them. The role of the Holy Spirit with the gifts P.O. Box 1410 Church is sacramentally most visible, and At the end, after he had ascended to the of courage and fortitude is central if we are Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 the site where the Holy Spirit descended throne of the Father as High Priest, after he to appreciate the meaning of our lives and on Mary and the Twelve and thus charged them with the mission of evange- empowered the Church to carry on Christ’s lization, they waited in the Cenacle for the Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for May mandate to evangelize the world, would gift of his Spirit to help them understand not be identified with a particular shrine or the meaning of his words, to understand Seminarians: that they will be faithful to prayer and study, and persevere in their place. the meaning of his life and death and desire to serve God and the Church as priests. The eucharistic mystery and the resurrection.

El Espíritu Santo obra en nuestras vidas para acercarnos a Dios l atardecer de aquel primer día de la Espíritu Santo son dones universales, Vieron cómo fue traicionado, le vieron Tenemos la necesidad recurrente de semana, estaban reunidos los presentes para siempre dondequiera que la sufrir y morir. Sabían que había resucitado. volver al cenáculo con las puertas cerradas. “Aidiscípulos a puerta cerrada por Iglesia se reúna. Sabían que se había ido a preparar un lugar Debemos ir a un lugar donde el don de la temor a los judíos” (Jn 20:19). Pentecostés era una de las tres festividades para ellos y sabían que él enviaría el don del sabiduría y el entendimiento del Espíritu Según la tradición, el salón donde los judías más importantes. Se sabe que esta Espíritu Santo para asistirles. Santo nos ayuden a recordar nuestro discípulos esperaban con las puertas fiesta se originó a partir de una antigua La fiesta de Pentecostés completa la propósito. cerradas por miedo a los judíos era el celebración de acción de gracias, como historia de la Pascua. En un salón con las Revivimos la espera de la venida del cenáculo, el salón en la parte superior donde muestra de gratitud a Dios por la cosecha puertas cerradas, los discípulos esperan el Espíritu Santo de los Doce junto con María. Jesús y los Doce, la noche antes de su anual que estaban a punto de recoger. don del Espíritu Santo como comunidad en Hoy refrescamos nuestro entendimiento y la muerte, celebraron la Pascua del nuevo Más adelante, se le añadió otra intención: la oración, para que les guíe mientras valoración de la presencia del Espíritu Santo orden. se conmemoraba la promulgación de la Ley caminen por la senda de Jesús y para entre nosotros. En Tierra Santa hay iglesias y santuarios que Dios entregó a Moisés en el Monte difundir la misión por todo el mundo. En el cenáculo recordamos que por la construidos en los lugares de la Sinaí. Esta celebración tenía lugar 50 días ¿Qué significado tiene esta fiesta para gracia del Espíritu Santo nuestro Anunciación, la Visitación, el Nacimiento, después de la Pascua. nosotros? Primero, como comenté la discipulado comienza y termina en la Getsemaní, el Santo Sepulcro y la Por designio divino, la cosecha que los semana pasada, la importancia de la labor oración. † Resurrección, entre otros. judíos celebraban con tanto júbilo se ha de la espera en la vida cristiana. Pero el legendario local del cenáculo, el convertido en una festividad de gran gozo en Después de que Jesús se sentara a la salón localizado en la parte superior donde el nuevo orden: la venida del Espíritu Santo, derecha del Padre, los discípulos esperaron ¿Tiene una intención que desee se instituiría la Eucaristía y el sacerdocio, el el Consejero y el alivio prometido por Jesús. a que el Espíritu Santo les facultara para incluir en la lista de oración del salón en el cual comenzó la era de la Iglesia Juan relata que los apóstoles estaban proseguir con su misión de bautizar, enseñar Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar con el descenso del Espíritu Santo sobre los esperando en un salón oculto y con las y predicar el perdón de los pecados. su correspondencia a: apóstoles reunidos con María, la Madre del puertas cerradas, por miedo a los judíos. Segundo, el miedo forma parte de la Señor, el legendario lugar de Pentecostés, no Esperaban el don del Espíritu Santo que vida. “Esperaban a puertas cerradas,” Lista de oración del Arzobispo está señalado con ninguna iglesia ni Jesús había prometido. incluso después del saludo pascual de Jesús: Buechlein santuario. Al comienzo de su travesía de fe, los “No teman.” Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis Mientras reflexionaba acerca de los discípulos se reunían en el templo para El papel del Espíritu Santo con los dones 1400 N. Meridian St. posibles motivos de dicha omisión, pude ver escuchar a Jesús contar la historia del Padre. del valor y la fortaleza son cruciales si P.O. Box 1410 cierta pertinencia en el hecho de que el lugar Les sorprendía la autoridad con la cual les queremos apreciar el significado de nuestras Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 de la institución de la Eucaristía, en el cual enseñaba. vidas y nuestra misión cristiana; y el temor la Iglesia se hace más visible Al final, después de su ascenso al trono servil de la vida humana da paso a un temor sacramentalmente, y el lugar donde el del Padre como Sumo Sacerdote, luego de honesto e integral: el temor reverencial al Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, Espíritu Santo descendió sobre María y los haberles encargado la misión de la Señor, nuestro Dios. Language Training Center, Indianapolis. Doce y, en consecuencia, concedió el poder evangelización, esperaban el don del Espíritu a la Iglesia para sacar adelante el mandato Santo en el cenáculo, para que les ayudara a La intención de vocaciones del Arzobispo Buechlein para mayo de Cristo de evangelizar el mundo, no entender el significado de sus palabras, para estuviera señalado con algún santuario o comprender el sentido de su vida, muerte y Seminaristas: ¡Que ellos sean fieles a la oración y estudien, y continúen en su deseo local. resurrección. de servir a Dios y la Iglesia como sacerdotes! El misterio eucarístico y la presencia del Habían estado en el monte con Jesús. Page 6 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Events Calendar

May 29 “Mary–and the Mystery of June 4 St., Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Bishop Chatard High School, June 12-14 Saddlebrook Golf Club, Pentecost,” Benedictine Plum Creek Country Club, meeting, Mass, 6:30 a.m., instructional youth Lacrosse St. Gabriel the Archangel 5516 Arabian Run, Indian- Brother Christian Raab, 12338 Medalist Parkway, Mass, breakfast and program at Camp, 9 a.m.-noon, $100 per Parish, 6000 W. 34th St., Priori Hall, Michael Hurst, apolis. Fourth annual presenter, 2 p.m. Information: Carmel, Ind. (Diocese of camper. Information: Indianapolis. “International program director for Coalition 317-508-3180 or Catholic Business Exchange 800-682-0988 or e-mail Lafayette). Right to Life of Festival,” Fri.-Sat. 5 p.m.- golf outing, Mass, 6:30 a.m., Indianapolis, 10th annual for Homelessness Intervention [email protected] [email protected]. midnight, Sun. 5 p.m.-10 p.m., breakfast, shotgun start “Respect Life Charity Golf and Prevention (CHIP), food, games, rides. 8:30 a.m., lunch, $85 per MKVS, Divine Mercy and Tournament,” 10:30 a.m. presenter, $20 per person. June 9 St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. Information: 317-291-7014, person. Register: www.catholic Glorious Cross Center, registration, lunch, 12:15 p.m. Information: 317-919-5316 17th Ave., Beech Grove. ext. 27. businessexchange.org. Rexville, located on 925 South, shotgun start, Florida scramble, or e-mail [email protected]. Ave Maria Guild, guest day .8 mile east of 421 South and $150 per player. Information: May 29-31 picnic, noon. Information: 12 miles south of Versailles. www.rtlindy.org. St. Anthony Parish, 337 N. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus St. Francis Hospital, 8111 S. 317-885-5098. Warman Ave., Indianapolis. (Little Flower) Parish, 1401 N. Mass, noon, on third Sunday June 4-6 Emerson Ave., Indianapolis. “Summer Festival,” food, Bosart Ave., Indianapolis. holy hour and pitch-in, St. Simon the Apostle Parish, Couple to Couple League, St. Nicholas Parish, 6461 E. trash-to-treasures sale, games, “Summerfest,” Fri. 5 p.m.- groups of 10 pray the new 8155 Oaklandon Road, Natural Family Planning St. Nicholas Drive, Sunman. Thurs. 6 p.m.-10 p.m., Fri. and 11 p.m., Sat. 3 p.m.-11 p.m., Marian Way, 1 p.m., Indianapolis. Parish festival, (NFP), 7-9 p.m. Information: Pro-life Mass, 7 p.m., Sat. 6 p.m.-11 p.m. Sun. 11:30 a.m.-5 p.m., rides, Father Elmer Burwinkel, 5 p.m.-midnight, rides, games, 317-462-2246. discussion on pro-life matters games, food, entertainment. celebrant. Information: entertainment, food. Information: 317-636-4828. June 5-7 following Mass. Information: Information: 317-357-8352. 812-689-3551. Information: 317-826-6000, 812-623-8007. ext. 3. St. Louis School, 17 St. Louis June 13 May 30 June 1 Place, Batesville. Rummage June 11 St. Roch Parish, Family Center, Pike Performing Arts Center, Cathedral High School, 5225 June 4-7 sale, Fri. 8 a.m.-7 p.m., Marian College, Allison 3603 S. Meridian St., Indian- 6701 N. Zionsville Road, Our Lady of the E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Sat. 8 a.m.-4 p.m., half-price Mansion, 3200 Cold Spring apolis. Single Seniors, Indianapolis. St. Monica Parish Greenwood Parish, 335 S. “Drama Camp,” June 15-26, sale noon-4 p.m., Road, Indianapolis. Catholic meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 and and Knights of Columbus, $150 per student, registration Meridian St., Greenwood. Sun. 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., over. Information: Christian rock concert, Ceili “Summer Festival,” Charities Indianapolis deadline June 1. Information: $1 bag sale. Information: Holy Family Shelter, wine 317-784-4207. Rain, 7-10 p.m., $7 per person. 317-968-7344 or Thurs. 5 p.m.-11 p.m., Italian 812-934-3204. Information: 317-733-1950. dinner, 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m., and cheese event, $35 per [email protected]. Fri. 5 p.m.-midnight, fish fry, June 7 person, 6 p.m. Information: St. Ambrose Parish and May 31 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Good Shepherd Parish, 1109 E. 317-592-4072. Our Lady of Providence Parish, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, June 3 St. Mary Parish, 317 N. Sat. 2 p.m.-midnight, pork Cameron St., Indianapolis. June 12-13 325 S. Chestnut St., Seymour. 1347 N. Meridian St., Indian- chop dinner, 4 p.m.-7:30 p.m., 40th anniversary Mass “St. Ambrose Kermesse,” New Jersey St., Indianapolis. Our Lady of the Most Holy apolis. Catholic Charismatic Sun. noon-9 p.m., fried chicken celebrating Father Jeffrey Solo Seniors, Catholic, Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., food festival, 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Renewal, Mass for Pentecost dinner, noon-3 p.m., rides, Godecker’s anniversary of educational, charitable and Indianapolis. 26th annual Information: 812-522-5304. Sunday, 2:30 p.m. Infor - games, food. Information: ordination, 11 a.m. social singles 50 and over, “Italian Street Festival,” mation: [email protected]. 317-888-2861, ext. 236. Information: 317-783-3158. single, separated, widowed or Fri.-Sat. 5 p.m.-11 p.m., Italian Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Saint Meinrad Archabbey, divorced, new members June 5 June 8-12 foods, music, rides, religious 2322 N. 13½ St., Terre Haute. 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. welcome, 6:30 p.m. Our Lady of the Most Holy Wyandotte School, 3575 E. procession. Information: Parish auction, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monte Cassino pilgrimage, Information: 317-370-1189. Rosary Church, 520 Stevens 79th St., Indianapolis. 317-636-4478. Information: 812-466-1231. †

Retreats and Programs [email protected]. Erspamer, presenters. Information: 56th St., Indianapolis. Silent non-guided 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. retreat, “Come Away and Rest Awhile,” June 8-10 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $25 per person includes 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Woman Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, July 7 continental breakfast and lunch. Information: Talk: Life Lessons for Women by Women” 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. † series, “Woman Talk: To Your Health,” Seventh annual garden retreat, “How Does 6:30-9 p.m., $25 includes dinner. Your Garden Grow?,” 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $45 per Information: 317-788-7581 or person per session, includes lunch, space [email protected]. limited, reservations due May 18. Hand-painted religious icons are Information: 317-788-7581 or June 19-21 [email protected]. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. Retreat, “The Lost Saint: on display at Providence Center June 13-20 St. Anthony of Padua,” Benedictine Father Monastery Immaculate Conception, Noël Mueller, presenter. Information: Religious icons hand-painted by The artistic tradition was developed to Kordes Center, 841 E. 14th St., 800-581-6905 or [email protected]. three Sisters of Providence are on display communicate theological truths to the Ferdinand, Ind. (Evansville Diocese). at the Providence Center at Saint Mary-of- faithful and provide in pictures what sacred “Centering Prayer Retreat: Intensive and June 20 the-Woods. Scripture provides in words. Post-Intensive.” Information: 812-367-1411 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Michaela Farm, The icons on display were created by Rich in symbolism and meaning, icons “100th Anniversary Barn or [email protected]. Oldenburg. Providence Sisters Marilyn Therese Lipps, attempt to give us a window into the divine Celebration.” Information: 812-933-6437. June 16 Marianne McGriffin and Mary Lou Ruck. rather than a realistic portrayal of earthly Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, June 23-25 The sisters are not trained artists, but they scenes. The icons depict religious symbols 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, were able to develop their skills through the that help tell a story. Several layers of paint “Introduction to the Enneagram,” St. Joseph St. Meinrad. Midweek retreat, “Beauty as a guidance of other Sisters of Providence. are used to develop each image. Sister Wanda Wetli, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., $50 per Pathway to God: Religious Art and Icons have been used for centuries, and Prayer cards printed with the icons person includes lunch. Information: Symbols in the Spiritual Life,” Benedictine refer to images of holy subjects painted on are available in The Gift Shop at the 317-788-7581 or Brothers Silas Henderson and Martin wood. Providence Center. The painting and veneration of icons is The icons are available for viewing from an ancient tradition, well-developed by the 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Monday through third century A.D., tested by the iconoclastic Friday, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on controversies of the eighth and Saturday and Sunday.

Submitted photo ninth centuries, then brought to full flower The Gift Shop hours are 10 a.m. to in the Byzantine age and later in the 4 p.m. on Monday through Friday and from Orthodox Christian Churches of 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday and Eastern Europe. Sunday. †

NCEA honors two grade schools in center city of Indianapolis Two center city grade schools of the More than 50 school families, Archdiocese of Indianapolis were honored parishioners and neighbors contributed during the recent National Catholic over $40,000, and more than 50 people Educational Association (NCEA) volunteered to help with installation of the Convention in Anaheim, Calif. new playground equipment. St. Joan of Arc School and St. Andrew St. Andrew and St. Rita Catholic and St. Rita Catholic Academy were Academy received the NCEA 2009 Catholic recognized with national education Schools for Tomorrow Award for innovations Historic crucifix awards. in education from Today’s Catholic Teacher. St. Joan of Arc School’s Families The honor was for their innovative This crucifix was presented to the Sisters of Providence who went to China to begin a mission in Supporting Faculty received the service-learning program titled that country in 1920. The Sisters of Providence were the first United States religious congregation NCEA 2009 Distinguished Home and “Jesus’ Helping Disciples.” to serve there. A visual story of pictures and anecdotal stories about the mission can be viewed School Association Award. The school is part of the Mother Theodore in the Heritage Museum at the Providence Center at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. The mission The school’s parent and teacher organi- Catholic Academies, a consortium of continues today in Taiwan, where the sisters moved when Communist rule took over China. The zation sponsored a project to create and Catholic urban schools. The student group Heritage Museum is open on Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and on Saturday fund “Monarch Parc” to replace the integrated the social teachings of the Church and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. It is open to the public without charge. school’s old playground equipment. with acts of service. † The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Page 7 St. Luke School students’ ‘Wax Museum’ project raises money to help feed the hungry in Indianapolis

By Kamilla Benko came up with the idea after seeing street performers in New Orleans. A boy in suspenders, white cotton shirt “People would be frozen in a position, and straw hat stands frozen in a school and when you dropped coins in their basket gymnasium. He leaps to life when they came to life,” she said. “So I decided to Benko Kamilla by Photos two kindergartners drop a nickel and take that idea and turn the coins into a two dimes into a collection box charity.” “ ‘AAH! AAH!’ I heard all the screamin’ This year, the wax museum donated so I ran out to the back yard to find the $5,128.36—enough money to feed problem,” shouts Max Habegger, a student 1,500 families, said Wynn Tinkham, portraying Indiana hero Levi Coffin, a co-founder of The Food Link. conductor on the Underground Railroad. “I really think the money will make a “I saw three black difference for all the men in a blacksmith’s hungry people in Indian- shop being beaten by a ‘I really think the apolis,” said Sam Dattilo, burning anvil,” money will make a a fourth-grade student. Max continues as he difference for all the Standing in a raises his voice to be Larry Bird jersey, Sam heard over students hungry people in said the Wax Museum portraying St. Theodora Indianapolis.’ experience had been fun. Guérin, John Purdue, Not only do the students Gene Stratton-Porter and get to help people through other notable people —Sam Dattilo donations, he said, but “we from Indiana history. also get to teach everyone Max was one of 69 fourth-grade students about Indiana history.” Above, Avalin Senefeld, left, impersonates who participated in St. Luke School’s “Wax Mary Grace Marxer, a seventh-grade Gene Stratton-Porter, the author of A Girl of the Museum” on May 14 in Indianapolis. student and one of nearly 1,000 people who Limberlost, during the St. Luke School The Wax Museum was a chance for the attended the Wax Museum, said she enjoyed Wax Museum on May 14. Fourth-grade students students to demonstrate their knowledge of the interactive learning. researched Indiana historical figures and Indiana history and raise money for “I’ve learned a lot about people you presented two-minute speeches about their lives The Food Link, a hunger relief organization usually don’t learn too much about in while students and parents listened. based in Indianapolis. regular school and how they affected The “wax” figures in the museum were Indiana,” Mary Grace said. Left, fourth-grader Camille Urbanski gets a few students who had spent weeks researching “If you live in Indianapolis or Indiana,” minutes of rest before resuming her speech about important historical figures with Indiana ties. Max said, “you should know about what has Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph. Money The fourth-graders dressed as their happened in our state and who has made a earned by the students’ presentations was characters and stood frozen in place until difference.” donated to The Food Link, a local hunger relief coins were dropped into collecting cans But the Wax Museum shows a person organization founded by Camille’s grandparents. placed in front of them. Only then did they doesn’t have to be featured in the pages of move from their position and give a history books to impact the community. two-minute presentation about the life of “This project,” said Land, “is about their character. seeing the kids realize the difference they’re Tara Land, fourth-grade teacher and making and seeing how proud they are of coordinator of the Wax Museum, said she what they’ve accomplished.” † Couple’s idea provides food to thousands of people in local area each month

By Kamilla Benko they could take the food. problem is not getting food on a daily basis, student, said working at The Food Link The couple, who are members of which we need to do in order to keep made her happy, but she was saddened by A date at a dinner theater is the reason St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indian- stocked.” the long lines of hungry people. that 1,000 people in Indianapolis are fed apolis, loaded the food The Food Link needs “Service is a big part of the Catholic every month. into a small van and food and money to help faith,” Jessica said. “When you serve, you “My husband took it to city shelters. ‘God gives each of us a the hungry during these help people. And that’s what God wants you and I found out That was the beginning job to do on Earth. If tough economic times, to do.” God’s calling for us of The Food Link. you find that job, it’s Tinkham said. And Tinkham believes that with at the Beef and Now, 25 years “The people in line are The Food Link, she is doing exactly what Boards Dinner later, The Food Link wonderful because you not on welfare,” Tinkham God wants. Theatre one serves more than just take off with it. explained. “These are “God gives each of us a job to do on night,” said 10,000 people in the You never stop until people who have just lost Earth,” Tinkham said. “If you find that job, Wynn Tinkham. Indianapolis area and their jobs.” it’s wonderful because you just take off with After watching a relies on a truck from you are finished.’ The Food Link also it. You never stop until you are finished.” show, Dick and Gleaners Food Bank to depends on volunteers to Since that night at Beef and Boards, the Wynn Tinkham Wynn Tinkham carry 10,000 pounds of distribute the food. Tinkhams have never stopped serving. wondered what food to inner-city —Wynn Tinkham Thirty-five St. Luke The next Food Link distribution will be would happen with the uneaten food. When churches twice a month. fourth-grade students took June 13 at the Jubilee Center. Learn more they discovered that the company threw “We always have to have food coming part in a recent Saturday distribution. about The Food Link by logging on to away the leftovers, the Tinkhams asked if in constantly,” Tinkham said. “Our biggest Jessica Vaughan, a St. Luke fourth-grade www.thefoodlinkindy.org.† Kamilla Benko is summer intern at The Criterion Heating and Air Conditioning In this week’s issue, Kamilla Benko A 2008 graduate of Bishop Chatard contributes three articles as a new staff High School in Indianapolis, Benko member of was the co-features editor and design The Criterion. editor for her high school newspaper, The first two The Trojan Tribune. During high school, stories by our she also was a “Fresh Thoughts” columnist summer intern for The Indianapolis Star. feature an interesting Discussing her goals for her internship, www.callthiele.com look at a fun and Benko says, “I hope to improve my writing SERVICE & REPLACEMENT SPECIALISTS unusual “wax technique, but I also hope to learn more John & Kara Traub museum,” an event about the archdiocese—the parishes, Owners SERVICE CALL in which the fourth- organizations and people who connect the Furnaces as low as $99900* Our staff has over 100 years $ 95 grade students at community together.” of Catholic education 59 St. Luke the That focus shows in her third story in Kamilla Benko Evangelist School in The Criterion this week—a story on SAVE Indianapolis dress and act as noteworthy page 13 about two women who have $ 00 figures in Indiana history to raise money for increased their faith and the faith of others 30 local hunger relief efforts. by completing the Ecclesial Lay Ministry Feature writing is an area of emphasis for formation program. Expires 6/29/09 317-639-1111 Coupons must be Benko, who recently finished her freshman She is the 19-year-old daughter of presented at time of year at Indiana University in Bloomington, Marguerite and Zoltan Benko, and a 50,000 BTU “INDY’S OLDEST purchase. Cannot be UPFLOW combined with any where she is one of 18 Ernie Pyle Scholars member of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish EATING OOLING COMPANY other offer! *Flue liner, Taxes, Permits, H & C ” in the honors journalism program. in Indianapolis. † Misc. Material Not Included SINCE 1883 639-1111 Page 8 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Answer to a prayer Volunteers share occupational therapy outreach that could be model for other schools

By Mike Krokos allow their child to participate in the occupational therapy BLOOMINGTON —When program, which is provided at no

Janie Kabrick heard Dr. Kevin Kathman cost to the family or school. Krokos Mike Photo by speak at a The occupational therapists Parent Teacher work with students in Organization first- through eighth-grade, and meeting at Indiana University students who St. Charles are considering careers in occupa- Borromeo School in tional therapy or education are Bloomington in also part of the volunteer effort, November of 2007, said Kathman, who is employed it was an answer to by Orthopedics of Southern a prayer. Indiana in Bloomington and Kathman, who earned a doctorate at began volunteer- Creighton University. Dr. Kevin Kathman based occupational Kathman’s son, William, 7, is therapy at the school in the fall of 2006, was a special-needs student, and the concerned that a new job he had just second-grader works with accepted might limit his volunteer schedule Kabrick through the volunteer at the school. occupational therapy outreach at Enter Kabrick, a stay-at-home mom with the school. children enrolled at St. Charles Borromeo Though his son attended a School, who also happens to be a licensed public school for kindergarten, occupational therapist interested in helping Kathman said William feels very with Kathman’s volunteer ministry. much at home in a parochial “For a person of faith, that was a school. The lessons of faith complete answer to prayer,” Kathman said, that are part of the curriculum are “of how we could do more.” evident to the father of seven, too. “I just thought it was really amazing, that “I feel like the Catholic school Volunteer Janie Kabrick helps William Kathman, a second-grade student at St. Charles Borromeo School in he [Kathman] had the passion and initiative environment, and this one in Bloomington, with a handwriting lesson on April 1. Kabrick is an occupational therapist who works with first- and to kind of start this on his own,” said particular, has been positive at second-graders one day a week at the school. Kabrick, who has a daughter, Katie, in the making it a community responsi- sixth grade, and another daughter, Hannah, bility to educate,” he said. “I think the the outreach. know there is really a need.” in kindergarten, at the school. teachers and many of the parents have not lost “I am impressed because Dr. Kathman Kathman and Kabrick, who are members The school-based occupational therapy at sight that that education is not just that child and Mrs. Kabrick are two people that really of St. Charles Borromeo Parish, are St. Charles Borromeo is designed to with a special need, or anyone that’s different, know their profession, but more committed to continuing to help build enhance students’ ability to fully access and but for the quote ‘normal’ or the exceptional importantly, in my eyes, they truly profess community through their volunteer be successful in their learning environment, person that is very gifted because now they the volunteerism of the Catholic faith,” ministry. reads the mission statement for occupational learn that they are responsible for their he said. “Giving of their time to help “Teachers are becoming more therapy on the school’s Web site. brother. That’s the big lesson.” students improve their skills is a true asset comfortable [with us],” said Kabrick, who “This might include working on fine Jennifer Urbanski, who teaches the to the St. Charles community.” earned a bachelor of science degree in motor skills, such as handwriting, helping combined second- and third-grade class at Parents and teachers are grateful for the occupational therapy at Indiana University. organize the working environment, and St. Charles Borromeo School, said having the program, Mayer said, and the ministry is “Kevin has done talks to the PTO, and I’ve working with the student and teacher to occupational therapists and IU students an example of building community. done one in-service [program] for the modify or adapt learning materials to volunteer at the school is a plus for “Collaboration between teachers, teachers on a very developmental approach facilitate successful participation in the St. Charles students and teachers. parents and volunteers is what makes us so to handwriting. From that, it’s amazing how classroom,” the Web site notes. “It alleviates a lot of stress for kids who successful at St. Charles Borromeo,” many times somebody will catch you in the An occupational therapy pre-referral need extra help,” she said. “We can also he said. “We could not do all the things we hallways and say, ‘What do you suggest in form is available as a guide to see how a utilize them [the volunteers] for the things do without parents and volunteers.” this situation?’ ” student compares to other children of that we just don’t have time to do,” like Father William Stumpf, pastor of While St. Charles Borromeo has become similar age and experience. It is meant to helping a small group of students with a St. Charles Borromeo Parish, agreed. a more diverse school and parish in recent help teachers and parents refer students to certain skill that they don’t understand, “It’s [this program] a wonderful gift to years, the respect and acceptance shown for the appropriate occupational therapy she said. our school and our children. We really programs like the occupational therapy service. “It just gives us [teachers] more time, can’t provide this on our own,” he said. volunteer outreach has grown as well, Some of the areas of question on the which I never have enough of,” The pastor said the school community is Kabrick said. pre-referral form include: Urbanski added. grateful to Kathman, Kabrick and all the “That’s what community is supposed to • Ability to stay in seat. Students love the volunteers, Urbanski people who have volunteered with the be,” Kathman said. • Legibility of handwriting. said, because “it’s a new person with a new program “for starting this and following • Waiting/walking in line. smile, somebody else to love.” through on it.” (For more information on the volunteer • Frequency of letter/number reversals. Though Kathman admits the Father Stumpf added that he hopes other occupational therapy outreach at • Ability to tie shoes. volunteer ministry is still “a program schools use it as a model. St. Charles Borromeo School, log on to • Paper management skills. in development,” people like “I really hope they start this [type of www.stcharlesbloomington.org/school/ Parents must sign a permission slip to Principal Alec Mayer are impressed with program] in other schools,” he said. “I ot.php?n=1.) †

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By John Shaughnessy Madison. “It’s been a very good school for 1980. Hailey’s great- my family. We have so much talent in our grandfather on her Like many parents and grandparents at school. It’s because of the teachers, the mother’s side helped raise this time of year, Janet Jones knows she principal and Father John [Meyer]. They money to build the Marta by Photo Belt will experience a range of emotions when have a special outpouring for the children school. And she’s always she watches one of her granddaughters there. The children are the No. 1 priority. felt a special bond to her graduate from high school. It’s so sad that I’m not going to have any grandmother, Janet Jones. The grandmother expects to react with more grandchildren go through Shawe.” “I’m graduating pride and joy when Hailey Jones receives At 18, Hailey Jones is dealing with her 50 years after her. It’s a her diploma from Father Michael Shawe own emotions as she nears graduating with neat thing to talk about,” Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison her 23 classmates. Hailey says. “She is a on May 31. “I’ve been excited to this point, but I’m wonderful woman. I love Jones also figures she will be sad, too. starting to realize I’m leaving all my spending time at her That’s because Hailey’s graduation from friends and all the things I’ve known the house. It’s always fun. Shawe will mark the end of a special past four years,” Hailey says. “So it’s been She loves me uncondi- connection that the 67-year-old Jones has bittersweet lately.” tionally. She sees me had with the school for more than 50 years. She will also miss the guiding influence through the hard times. First, she graduated from Shawe in of her high school teachers. It’s nice to have a For Janet Jones, left, and her granddaughter, Hailey Jones, the May 31 1959. Then she made sure her “I really enjoy being around all the grandmother like her.” graduation ceremony at Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. three children—Kevin, Keith and Kim— teachers,” she says. “We appreciate all the While Hailey will High School in Madison will create another bond between them. Hailey also benefited from a Catholic education in time they’ve given us. They’ve always continue her education at will be graduating from Shawe 50 years after her grandmother did. high school. And she has savored the time taught us to be different and to accept the University of that Hailey and her older sister, Paige, a ourselves as who we are, as individuals. Evansville, her grandmother hopes to considering another approach to stay 2007 Shawe graduate, have spent at the I’m not afraid to be myself.” continue her connection to Shawe. connected to the high school that means so school. She’s also proud of her family’s After Hailey’s graduation, Janet Jones much to her. “Shawe has always been an important longstanding connection to Shawe. Her plans to return to the school in August to She laughs and says, “I think I’m part of my life,” says Janet Jones, a parents, Kevin Jones and Lisa Dattilo support her son, Kevin, the coach of the going to have to adopt a student there member of Prince of Peace Parish in Morgan, both graduated from the school in girls’ volleyball team. She’s also next year.” † Aid agency heads say economic crisis increases suffering of refugees ROME (CNS)—The global economic crisis is having a refugees titled “Respecting Strangers: Replacing Fear With he said. doubly negative effect on migrants and refugees. Low-wage Welcome.” Knight cited U.N. statistics which indicate that one in jobs are disappearing and resentment of foreigners is Father Balleis, whose agency organized the exhibit every 50 people—more than 150 million people around the growing, said the head of Caritas Internationalis. with Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center, said world—lives outside his or her homeland as a migrant or Lesley-Anne Knight, secretary-general of the umbrella the photographs show the dignity and courage of the refugee. organization of Catholic Charities, said, “As the world sinks refugees. She said that while the Rome photo exhibit visually deeper into economic recession, borders are closing, jobs “They are just normal people who have been thrown into narrates stories of courage in the face of hardship, if the are disappearing and life is becoming harder for refugees abnormal circumstances by powers beyond their control, exhibit had a soundtrack, unfortunately it would consist of and migrants everywhere.” driven by economic and political interests, often far “the sound of doors slamming shut. Knight and Jesuit Father Peter Balleis, international removed from their lives,” the Jesuit said. “As people become fearful for their own futures, the director of the Jesuit Refugee Service, spoke on May 20 in While they are seeking safety and protection in a foreign stranger becomes the target of anger and resentment,” Rome at the opening of an exhibition of photographs of land, refugees too often are greeted with fear and hostility, she said. †

Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School Congratulates the Graduates of the Class of 2009 who have received scholarships and awards totaling $16,101,366 and acceptances from the following colleges, universities and special programs…

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would go for it.” FAITH She became a member of the Church during the Submitted photo Submitted continued from page 1 Easter Vigil on April 11 at St. Mark the Evangelist Church in Indianapolis. then we reached the point where we were thinking we “Going to Communion the first time, it was like, might be more than friends. We talked together late ‘I’m home. I’m finally here,’ ” Lindsey says. one night about where we felt God was leading us. At that “Afterwards, I was crying. It was really exciting.” point, we didn’t know. We just felt there was something Scott’s decision took more time. He spent part of there. It was a time of discernment about whether we the summer at the University of Notre Dame. should be more than friends.” “I was still discerning whether to be in the Two hurdles complicated their relationship. priesthood,” he recalls. “I had a lot to think about. I “One was that he had been discerning the priesthood for still didn’t decide until we came back to school. I did a while,” Lindsey says. “Another one was because I was not a lot of praying in the adoration chapel at Our Lady a Catholic. If he was going to get married some day, he of the Greenwood [Church in Greenwood].” wanted to be married to a Catholic. So there were some His answer came as he was praying, an answer things we needed to cross there.” that gave him great peace and joy. He just worried Three weeks later, they still couldn’t deny the attraction. about whether Lindsey would feel the same way They decided to become a couple. But the two challenges when he told her. stayed a part of their relationship until they each knew they After struggling with questions about their faith and their relationship, had to confront them in the summer of 2008. A moment that changes two lives Lindsey Loffer and Scott Knust rejoiced when they made one decision that Scott shared his decision with Lindsey on will shape their future: the decision to marry each other. Their wedding is ‘I had tears in my eyes’ Sept. 25, 2008. planned for July 18 at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Indianapolis. Lindsey had grown up as a Baptist, but her interest in the It came at the end of a long day when Lindsey’s Catholic faith grew the more she was with Scott, who was dog died. Jesus Church in Indianapolis. The wedding Mass will be the president of the Catholic Student Association at the It came at the end of a long day when Scott planned a celebrated by Father Rick Nagel, associate pastor of University of Indianapolis. late-night picnic for the two of them, a day when he bought Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish. “He’s such a huge advocate for the faith, and he’s so her a container of her favorite ice cream, a day when he Father Nagel laughed when he heard about the way Scott knowledgeable,” she says. “From the beginning, I was kept looking at the engagement ring he had chosen to offer proposed to Lindsey. open-minded, but I wasn’t going to change my faith for a Lindsey. “When I first heard about it, I was surprised she didn’t guy. We had a lot of good talks. I went to Mass with him After giving a faith-related talk that night at the hit him,” Father Nagel says. “She had a rough day and she every Sunday, and then we went to whatever service I went university, Scott asked Lindsey if she would come with him was done with the day, but he’s a guy. He has a plan, and to. After a while, I became hungrier and hungrier to become to pray at the adoration chapel at Our Lady of the he’s going to get his plan done. The fact that she came part of the Catholic faith, but I was afraid of what my Greenwood Church. down to pray with him shows the depth of their family would say.” “It was 11:30 at night and my dog had died that day. I relationship.” Her choice became clear when she was part of a group was tired and I was ready to be done with the day,” Lindsey It’s why Father Nagel rejoices in their decision to marry of mostly non-Catholic friends that started debating the recalls. “Scott said, ‘Why don’t we go to OLG and pray?’ even though he is the associate director of vocations for the Catholic faith one time last summer—a group that didn’t I said, ‘Honey, I’m really tired. I want to go to bed.’ ” archdiocese. include Scott. Scott told her he had made a picnic for her. So they went “It’s a match made in heaven,” Father Nagel says. “They “A lot of times, we’ll get into theological discussions to the chapel, they prayed, and then he set up the picnic in a both have this great sense of the sacredness of married life. with friends,” Lindsey recalls. “We started talking about the grassy area near the chapel. They were friends first. I think that’s always a great Catholic faith, and I found myself really standing up for the “I thought he packed me a nice little picnic to pick me indicator of a relationship, with God at the center of it. faith for everything. I had tears in my eyes. I was so hungry up,” Lindsey says. “He had my favorite ice cream—mint Then they gave each other space to decide what needed to for the Eucharist, and to be a part of everything. I decided I chocolate chip. We were sitting there eating it and he told be done. It’s beautiful how God works when we’re faithful me to close my eyes because he had made something else like that.” for me. Finally, he had me open my eyes and he was down Scott and Lindsey can’t wait for their wedding day and Our Lady of the Greenwood on one knee. He wrote a really sweet poem for me. He said, the beginning of a new life together. 335 S. Meridian St. Greenwood, Indiana ‘Will you be my best friend forever? Will you be my wife?’ “I have great love for Lindsey and for God, seeing how (East of US 31 on Smith Valley Road) Then he pulled out a ring.” he’s worked things out for us,” Scott says. “I’ll really be License #117147 Stunned, Lindsey said, “Wait a minute, are you filled with love when we marry.” proposing?” Lindsey touches Scott on the arm and says, “I think it’s Scott told her yes. And she told him yes. going to be wonderful. It’s been a long journey of discernment and prayer. It really has been God-centered as ‘It’s a match made in heaven’ we’ve tried to focus on what God’s will is for us. It’s The couple will be married on July 18 at Sacred Heart of apparent that God wants us to be together.” †

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By Mary Ann Wyand at the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center or old.” in Indianapolis. Stay true to your core values A promise to practice sexual abstinence “The early mentors really cleared a path as a Christian, he urged the until marriage continues to grow in strength for you,” Hendricks said, “and they have teenagers, in order to live a and numbers among young people in the challenged you to continue [to share] that happy, healthy and successful Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann Archdiocese of Indianapolis. [abstinence] message. That’s what we are life. This promise dates back 15 years, and celebrating today. We’re here to celebrate Overcoming challenges and has changed the lives of tens of thousands you.” adversities in life helps people of adolescents, teenagers and young adults Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein thanked become stronger, Tichenor said, in central and southern Indiana who have the teenagers for their dedicated service to and more faithful to God. said “yes” to God’s call to live a chaste life. God and the Church as chastity peer mentors. As a teenager, he volunteered Their lives changed for the better thanks “Thank you for your time to help our as a chastity peer mentor for the to the “A Promise to Keep: God’s Gift of youth,” the archbishop said, “helping them to Peers Educating Peers Human Sexuality” program initiated by understand and to appreciate the importance abstinence education program, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and of the virtue of being chaste. I hope you’re a secular version of “A Promise archdiocesan Office of Catholic Education aware that God gave us the help to be people to Keep,” coordinated by staff members in 1994. who respect the dignity of other people. I Eve Jackson for the Indianapolis On April 23, the archbishop and think you’re aware that the grace of the Public School System. Office of Catholic Education staff sacraments of our Church, especially the “I’m so happy I had these members honored the high school peer Eucharist and the sacrament of reconcil- [ministry] encounters,” Tichenor mentors who presented the “A Promise to iation, strengthen us to live out our love for said. “I want to leave a legacy to Keep” program to middle school students God through chastity. all my peers and loved ones and at Catholic schools and parish religious “A young man recently told me that people that are around me, even education classes during the 2008-09 when he is faced off and on with the in my job, that I can be a academic year. challenges, with the temptations, of Christian and I can stand up for “This annual ‘Promise to Keep’ safeguarding his chastity, he thinks about what is right. … You can be a luncheon is quite a tribute to this ministry, all the good things that God has given virgin, and feel free and feel to the [chastity] message, and to the him and he thanks God for giving him happy about who you are.” commitment that all of you have made to those gifts,” Archbishop Buechlein Several “A Promise to Keep” serve God and our archdiocese,” explained. “He said this act of thanks- peer mentors also spoke during Margaret Hendricks, coordinator of giving [to God] is a very, very the program. adolescent growth programs, told the helpful way for him to protect Bishop Chatard Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein talks with “A Promise to teenagers during the recognition luncheon the challenge of remaining High School senior Keep” chastity peer mentors during the annual recognition chaste in his own life. I thought Sarah DeNardin of luncheon on April 23 at the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic that was a very interesting and Indianapolis told the Center in Indianapolis. very effective way [to make the teenagers that her right decisions in life] because it parents, teachers and coaches “realize that the epitome of a person’s reminds us that God is with us, taught her about morals and character shines through what [he or she] God loves us and God graces values, and she enjoys sharing stands for.” us.” the abstinence message with Now, more than ever, he said, “it is Keynote speaker adolescents. vital that we rise to the occasion and Kevin Tichenor of Indianapolis, the Sarah DeNardin “I want the best for all of speak out, promoting a life of physical first faith-based coordinator for the these kids,” Sarah said. “I find it integrity and respect. … That is why the Marion County Prosecutor’s helpful … to encourage them to teaching of abstinence is so essential to Office, helps connect the area faith choose sensible paths in their the creation of a promising future. That community with the criminal life.” is why I am so grateful to this program justice system to minister to at-risk Serving as a chastity peer for providing students like myself with youths and adults. He also serves mentor “has strengthened my direction.” as an associate minister at Victory morals and values,” she said, “so Teenagers are called “to defend each Tabernacle of the Apostolic Faith that I will be able to uphold them other’s lives, even when we make mistakes,” Keynote speaker Kevin Tichenor of Indian- in Indianapolis. throughout my life.” Josh said. “… True love will wait. … We apolis, the first faith-based coordinator for the “I want to leave a lasting legacy Cardinal Ritter High School must make the right choices. By age 18, Marion County Prosecutor’s Office, encouraged as a Christian,” Tichenor said, senior Josh Miller of Indian- over 50 percent of people have had the teenagers to leave a lasting legacy by living “which is something that everyone apolis said completing four years premarital sex. Don’t be a statistic. Be a Christian life. is able to do, whether young Josh Miller of high school has helped him yourself.” † Two women complete Ecclesial Lay Ministry formation program

By Kamilla Benko Standing with Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, in the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in After hundreds of hours and thousands of miles, Indianapolis on May 14 are Paula Slinger, left, and Darlene Cole, two women received a certificate and an archdiocesan lapel right, the most recent graduates of the archdiocese’s Photo by Kamilla Benko Photo by pin for completing the Ecclesial Lay Ministry (ELM) Ecclesial Lay Ministry formation program. formation program. Family and friends surrounded Darlene Cole and Paula Slinger at the Blessed Sacrament Chapel at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis as they were honored during a prayer service on May 14. Cole is a pastoral associate at St. Michael Parish in Bradford. Slinger is the music director at Holy Spirit Parish in Indianapolis. ELM, a program led by Edward Isakson, archdiocesan director of human resources, and Marcia Hodde, associate director of lay programs at Saint Meinrad School of Theology, provides theological, spiritual and pastoral formation for lay ministers in the dioceses of Lafayette and Representing The Archdiocese since 1975 Evansville and the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Participants attend many retreats and workshops in serve others,” Cole said. different locations throughout Indiana. Saint Meinrad With her new understanding of the Church, Cole said School of Theology provides the instructors and leadership she hopes to put her knowledge to work by developing for most of the required elements of the program. programs at St. Michael Parish. Isakson addressed the women, and said that the Slinger said she took the classes in order to become ceremony had two purposes. closer with the Scriptures. She said she looks forward to “In addition to recognizing your hard work over many putting her learning into action by sharing Scripture with Mercer Belanger, providing legal years in the lay ministry foundation program,” he said, others. services in the areas of Real Estate, “today is about sending you forth for many years of Isakson referenced Scripture to describe the impact that continued service to the Church.” Slinger and Cole have had on the community. Corporate Litigation, Adoption, After the ceremony, Slinger’s eyes brimmed with tears, “As the reading from Romans 16 says so well, the Estate Planning and Wills & Trusts. but she said they were tears of joy. greatest treasure is the people,” he said. “We are blessed by “Getting to know people in the archdiocese,” Slinger the people we minister to and the people we minister with. For more information, said, “and seeing how we all are working together to reach Paula [Slinger] and Darlene [Cole], the Church has been call 317.636.3551 or out to everyone is wonderful.” blessed by your devotion.” Cole said she traveled 25,000 miles over her eight years visit www.indylegal.com. in the program. While the program was a lot of hard work, (For more information about ELM, log on to she said, ultimately her faith was strengthened. www.archindy.org/layministry or call 317-236-7325 or “I participated in ELM so I would be better prepared to 800-382-9836, ext. 7325.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009

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By Joseph Kelly positive approach. Cardinal Bea also insisted that Pope John XXIII had a strong this approach would focus upon dedication to ecumenism, wishing to religious issues and not with approach non-Catholics in a positive and Zionism or the state of Israel, a appreciative way. concern of bishops from In 1960, he created the Secretariat for Arab countries. Photo Press Catholic / photo CNS Promoting Christian Unity to further But as the council moved toward ecumenism. When the pope opened the a statement on the Jews, bishops Second Vatican Council in 1962, he made from the Middle East and Asia this a major focus. He died a year later, asked: Should not the Church speak however, and was succeeded by about its relationship to all non- Pope Paul VI, who also favored Christian religions, including Islam, ecumenism. Buddhism and Hinduism? The council put the issue of relations The council fathers agreed, with other Christian communities and non- and instead of a statement just Christian religions in a decree on religious on the Jews, they produced freedom, that is, a decree which would “Nostra Aetate,” formally approved recognize the right of all people to by Pope Paul on Oct. 28, 1965. worship according to the promptings of “Nostra Aetate” means “in our their conscience. time,” an approach to other faiths However, while this met general fitted for the contemporary approval, some bishops believed that more situation. was needed, specifically, a statement on Concerning the Jews, the the Church’s relationship with the Jews. document recognizes Abraham as Some bishops from some Spanish- the spiritual father of Christians and Bishops fill St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome as Pope Paul VI presides over a meeting of the Second Vatican Council. speaking countries had reservations about Jews. It also emphasizes the Sessions were held in the later months of 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965. In “Nostra Aetate” (“In our Time”), the such a statement, based upon the belief Jewishness of Jesus, his mother and bishops fostered the Church’s dialogue with non-Christians around the world. that the Jews had responsibility for Jesus’ all his first disciples. It wishes “to death. Biblical scholars pointed out that foster and recommend mutual interreligious activities with Jews, doing so to combat anti-Semitism wherever it is the Gospels teach that the sins of humanity understanding and respect,” and “deplores with a new attitude. found, and to promote respect and esteem caused the death of Jesus, who had to die the hatred, persecutions and displays of In 2000, Pope John Paul II visited Israel for the members of every people, tribe, to redeem all people from their sins. anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at and said in a prayer he placed at the language and nation across the globe.” But opposition persisted, so to the any time and from any source.” Western Wall of the Temple, “We are Two millennia of history do not go podium went Jesuit Cardinal In short, it says, “What happened in deeply saddened by the behavior of those quietly away, and Catholic-Jewish Augustine Bea, a German and president of Christ’s Passion cannot be blamed upon all who in the course of history have caused relations will encounter the occasional the Secretariat for Promoting the Jews then living, without distinction, these children of yours to suffer, and, bump in the road, but the strong Christian Unity. nor upon the Jews of today.” asking your forgiveness, we wish to commitment of both groups to fraternity He spoke meaningfully about the While these statements did not commit ourselves to genuine brotherhood and understanding shows every sign of anti-Semitism which had caused the eliminate anti-Semitism, no more could with the people of the Covenant.” prevailing. Holocaust. He vigorously insisted that the bigots claim the support of the Catholic Pope Benedict XVI, in his pilgrimage Church could not take any action which Church for their attitudes. earlier this month to the Holy Land, (Joseph Kelly chairs the Department of could be seen as supporting After Vatican II, Catholic leaders and said that anti-Semitism “is totally Religious Studies at John Carroll anti-Semitism, but instead must take a institutions around the world engaged in unacceptable. Every effort must be made University in Cleveland.) † Second Vatican Council’s Declaration quotes from ‘Nostra Aetate’ By Catholic News Service to God’s saving design, the beginnings of her faith and theological studies as well as of fraternal dialogues. her election are found already among the patriarchs, • True, the Jewish authorities and those who followed Following are excerpts from the Second Vatican Moses and the prophets. their lead pressed for the death of Christ; still, what Council’s Declaration on the Relationship of the Church • God holds the Jews most dear for the sake of their happened in his Passion cannot be charged against all the to Non-Christian Religions (“Nostra Aetate”): fathers; he does not repent of the gifts he makes or of the Jews, without distinction, then alive, nor against the Jews • The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and calls he issues. ... In company with the prophets, ... the of today. holy in [other] religions. She regards with sincere reverence Church awaits that day, known to God alone, on which all • Furthermore, in her rejection of every persecution those ways of conduct and of life, those precepts and peoples will address the Lord in a single voice. against any man, the Church, mindful of the patrimony teachings which, though differing in many aspects from the • Since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians she shares with the Jews and moved, not by political ones she holds and sets forth, nonetheless often reflect a ray and Jews is thus so great, this sacred synod wants to reasons, but by the Gospel’s spiritual love, decries hatred, of that Truth which enlightens all men. foster and recommend that mutual understanding and persecutions, displays of anti-Semitism, directed against • The Church of Christ acknowledges that, according respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and Jews at any time and by anyone. † Discussion Point Catholics are called to respect Jewish faith This Week’s Question was a Jew. ... Those not converted ... just don’t believe the Messiah has come.” (Evelyn Hamilton, Vatican Council II, in its text “Nostra Aetate,” said Brandon, Fla.) that, “although the Church is the new people of God, the Jews should not be presented as rejected or “The Catholic catechism [updated after Vatican II] accursed by God, as if this followed from the reminds us that the old covenant was not cancelled out Holy Scriptures.” Did this affect your view of Jews? for Jews faithful to God under that covenant. ... The Jews definitely should not be considered rejected by “Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II have been God for their ‘unbelief.’ And we should remember that trying to make gestures toward both Judaism—as it faith is a gift.” (Tess Schoen, Shoreline, Wash.) stands in Israel—and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. ... Once they stop talking, there is nothing. So as long as they keep talking, there’s ... forward movement.” Lend Us Your Voice (Brian Benjamin, Red Bank, N.J.) An upcoming edition asks: As one whose children are “[Our] Church came from [the Jews’] foundation so now adults living on their own, what advice would you much of their beliefs are seen in the New Testament. I give to families with young children and teenagers? wouldn’t look down at them. God expects us to live together peacefully.” (Judy Gruel, Baltimore, Md.) To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at “I never had a quarrel with the Jews. After all, Jesus 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † Datta, Reuters CNS photo/Arko Page 16 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Basic Catholicism: The marks of the Church Forget yourself (Sixteenth in a series of columns) saints who have shown us how to follow The Church has had a checkered in serving others Christ. These people found their holiness history, to say the least. It has survived I was asked once to give a talk on in the Catholic Church, and we can do some simply awful popes in the My family recently celebrated the why I’m a Catholic. likewise. They are our role models as 15th century, who thought more of seventh birthday of our oldest son, I said that I’m a well as our intercessors. enriching their families than in being Michael, and the Catholic because I’ve The Church really is catholic, or spiritual leaders, or who fathered second birthday of our learned through the universal. It really does exist everywhere illegitimate children and plotted to youngest son, Victor. years that the in the world. It has both great diversity murder their opponents. Their birthdays are Catholic Church is and unity in its universality. There have been 37 antipopes in the four days apart. what it claims to be in The Catholic Church is apostolic. It Church’s history, men who claimed or Grandparents, the Nicene Creed: alone can trace itself back to the exercised the papal office in an godparents and a few one, holy, catholic Apostles. Many converts to Catholicism uncanonical manner. aunts, uncles and and apostolic. have been converted mainly for that During one period of history, 1378 to cousins were on hand It is one Church in reason. 1417, there were two and sometimes for the party. After its teachings—always the same whether One of the most famous is three men claiming to be pope, each dinner, my wife, you’re in the United States, Europe, John Henry Newman, who was a leader with followers who thought that their Cindy, cut up a cake while I dished out South America, Asia or anyplace else in in the Anglican Church’s Oxford man was the legitimate pope. ice cream. Everyone gathered around the the world. Every Catholic church is Movement in the 19th century. He began My feeling is that, if the Church dining room table to get their serving. ultimately under the jurisdiction of the to write a book showing that the could survive all of that, and more, it At one point, as Cindy was handing out pope. Anglican Church was the via media— must be divinely protected in order to slices of cake, she asked, “Have I It is holy because it has the Eucharist the middle way—between Catholicism last all these centuries. forgotten anyone?” In response, our and the other sacraments that help us to and Protestantism. One, holy, catholic and apostolic— 4-year-old son, Raphael, said, “You forgot become holy. To receive the body and But as he studied the Church’s history, those are what we know as the yourself, Mommy.” blood of Jesus is the ultimate in intimacy he had to acknowledge that Catholicism four marks of the Church. Now Raphael literally meant that with God this side of heaven. was indeed the same Church founded by There’s also a fifth: The Catholic Cindy hadn’t given herself any cake or The Church also makes available Christ and spread by the Apostles. Church fosters and promotes devotion to ice cream yet. But although he probably numerous opportunities for those who Newman went on to become the greatest Mary, the mother of God. I feel that only didn’t know it at the time, he offered us want to become closer to God—to theologian in the Catholic Church in the the Catholic and Orthodox Churches an important spiritual lesson in his become holy—through prayer. 19th century, and eventually was named give to Mary the devotion to which she four little words, a lesson that runs The Church can present a large list of a cardinal. is entitled. † distinctly counter to the wisdom of the world. The Bottom Line/Antoinette Bosco This lesson, rooted firmly in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is simple but challenging: true happiness is found not in Bishops underscore ending the death penalty “looking out for No. 1,” but in forgetting yourself. Once again, I have been surprised and What kind of society do we want to be?” discarded. Believe it or not, when you put the saddened that all too many Catholics are The death penalty, Bishop DiMarzio I well remember when the bishops needs of others before your own, you unaware that the said, is “not a liberal issue, but a life first called for an end to the death don’t end up on the losing end. You U.S. bishops have issue. ... In the matter of life and death, penalty 25 years ago. I was proud of my discover a joy that you never imagined been calling for the no mistake is acceptable. Death is Church then, and I am now for its possible and learn that the happiness the end of the death irreversible.” unwavering stand on how we must be world offers is short-lived, like a wispy penalty for many The bishops also requested people who always affirm life. cloud that fades away on a summer day. years now. testimonies from two other lay people, Now our bishops have been Such a perspective borders on being In February, I was David Kaczynski and Kirk Bloodsworth. “renewing this call to seize a new viewed as absurd, perhaps even evil, by honored to be part of Kaczynski’s brother, Ted, is the murderer moment and a new momentum ... to many in a society where wealth and fame a Catholic Awareness called the Unabomber. (Imagine what he bring about an end to the use of the are treated like idols, and freedom divorced Day in my state of had to go through when he had to tell his death penalty in our land.” They have from responsibility is its guiding light. Connecticut. It dealt mother about her son’s crimes.) published a booklet titled “A Culture of How else can you explain the results of with life issues: abortion, domestic And Bloodsworth was an innocent Life and the Death Penalty.” In it, they a 2008 study by Harvard psychology violence, adequate health care for all man wrongly convicted for the rape and stress why the United States should professor Daniel Gilbert which showed and the death penalty. I was there as a murder of a 9-year-old girl. He spent forgo the use of the death penalty: that contentment in many married couples member of the Connecticut Network to nine years on Maryland’s death row, “The sanction of death, when it is not is high early on before children are born, Abolish the Death Penalty. became a Catholic and was exonerated necessary to protect society, violates takes a noticeable dip once children arrive The gathering was sponsored by the when the real killer claimed another respect for human life and dignity. and only increases once the couples Connecticut Catholic Conference, and child victim. “State-sanctioned killing in our names become empty nesters? the bishops who head the four dioceses I am the mother of murder victims. My diminishes all of us. If you’re a parent and you live your life in Connecticut were a major presence. son, John, and his wife, Nancy, were killed “Its application is deeply flawed and with this mindset, you’re going to have a In May 2005, Connecticut carried out as they slept in their newly purchased home can be irreversibly wrong, is prone to hard time making your own what Jesus the first execution in New England in in Montana, blown away by the 18-year-old errors and is biased by factors such as said of himself: “… the Son of Man did 45 years. It now has 10 men on death row. son of the people from whom they had just race, the quality of legal representation not come to be served but to serve …” A few months after that execution, I bought the house. and where the crime was committed. (Mt 20:28). was invited by the U.S. bishops to go to The three of us were faced with the “We have other ways to punish No, the path to happiness that Jesus set Washington to participate in their results of murder in different ways, but criminals and protect society.” before us is the way of the cross: Catholic Campaign to End the Use of all three of us held to the same bottom Our bishops deserve our gratitude and “Whoever wishes to come after me must the Death Penalty. line: Unnatural death is an evil, no attention! deny himself, take up his cross, and Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of matter whose hand stops the breath. follow me. For whoever wishes to save his Brooklyn set the tone then, asking: Regardless of the circumstances or the (Antoinette Bosco writes for Catholic life will lose it, but whoever loses his life “What does the death penalty do to us? horror, the sanctity of life is never to be News Service.) † for my sake will find it. What profit would there be for one to gain the whole The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick world and forfeit his life? Or what can one give in exchange for his life?” (Mt 16:24-26). To kiss or not to kiss? That is the question There’s the haunting paradox of the Christian faith: You find your life by When dioceses notified parishioners to The “bacio della morte” is one kiss you point us to all the warm, loving kisses we losing it, by forgetting yourself. keep a distance from each other at the kiss definitely don’t want to receive because it received throughout life: “All those lips We live in a culture where a different of peace because of indicates you are going to die at the hands that had kissed me, those hearts that had wisdom is trumpeted from the the swine flu, I began of the mob. loved me [it is with the heart one loves, is mountaintops of our media. It challenges to wonder about the In Scripture, the betrayal kiss of Judas it not, or am I confusing it with something us every day. Having to choose in the future of the kiss. reflects deceit and hypocrisy. else?].” little and big things of everyday life, As word of a Kisses like these are demeaning and The lingering power of a kiss is played whether to follow the world’s wisdom or pandemic spread, it without value. in a heart-wrenching song in the movie Jesus’, can be like standing on the edge was as if all kissing On the other hand, a proper kiss is Casablanca: “You must remember this, a of a cliff looking down into an endless was forbidden. Even heavenly. Take, for example, Pope John kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh; the abyss. the French took Paul II kissing the ground upon entering a fundamental things apply as time goes Jesus tells us to step off that precipice, precautions to avoid country as a sign of respect and gratitude. by.” and has promised that he’ll hold us up. the traditional cheek- How often did our mother kiss a Most important of all, a kiss is But our minds tell us such a choice is to-cheek kiss. painful bump we received to acknowledge imperative to our spiritual life. madness, that it’s much safer to be on And, too, the business world is now she also felt it and was trying to make it Mary Magdalene washes the feet of solid ground. requiring employees and employers to go away? Christ and then kisses them out of love If you bring your reason and faith attend sexual harassment sessions that Then there is the life-changing kiss. for Christ. together, though, you’ll see that millions counsel: better not to kiss, no matter the “He kissed me and now I am someone No matter the present suspicions of souls before you have taken that step. circumstances. else” by Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral. surrounding a kiss, it will always have a They not only didn’t fall. They were lifted Are we entering an age in which any British poet Robert Browning pictures a future because of its divine origins. up by grace to the heights of happiness. kind of kissing is suspect? kiss as a sigh: “What of the soul was left, So take that step each day by forgetting To answer this, let’s look at its many I wonder, when the kissing had to stop?” (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for yourself while serving cheerfully the sides. Irish writer Samuel Beckett would Catholic News Service.) † needs of those around you. † The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Page 17

Pentecost/Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, June 1 Friday, June 5 Sunday, May 31, 2009 Justin, martyr Boniface, bishop and martyr Tobit 1:3; 2:1a-8 Tobit 11:5-17 • Acts 2:1-11 Psalm 112:1-6 Psalm 146:2, 7-10 • 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 The disciples had locked the doors. They Mark 12:1-12 Mark 12:35-37 • John 15:26-27 quivered and retreated in their fear. The barred doors meant nothing to Jesus. He simply passed through them and stood Tuesday, June 2 Saturday, June 6 This weekend, the Church celebrates the among the disciples. Marcellinus, martyr Norbert, bishop great feast of Pentecost. He bid them to be at peace. He showed Peter, martyr Tobit 12:1, 5-15, 20 It corresponds with, them the marks of the Crucifixion. He had Tobit 2:9-14 (Response) Tobit 13:2, 6-8 and builds upon, an survived Calvary. He truly had died, but ancient Jewish feast. had risen again to life. With such power to Psalm 112:1-2, 7-9 Mark 12:38-44 As such, it is the only protect them, the disciples had no cause for Mark 12:13-17 Jewish feast still, albeit fear. Sunday, June 7 indirectly, commem- Then the Lord breathed on the disciples, Wednesday, June 3 The Most Holy Trinity orated by the Church. employing another Old Testament symbol Charles Lwanga, martyr Deuteronomy 4:32-34, 39-40 The Jewish feast of transmitting divine power. He then celebrated the empowered the disciples to forgive sins. and his companions, martyrs Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-20, 22 gathering together of Sin was, and is, an act defying God. Only Tobit 3:1-11a, 16-17 Romans 8:14-17 the Hebrew people into God can forgive sin. Now the disciples, Psalm 25:2-9 Matthew 28:16-20 one nation, God’s Chosen People. through Jesus, possess such power. Mark 12:18-27 Acts again is the source of the first reading. Reflection Thursday, June 4 It is a passage abundant in meaning. The This weekend, the Church celebrates believers are assembled together. They hear Pentecost. In so doing, the Church Tobit 6:10-11; 7:1bcde, 9-17; a noise similar to a strong wind—an image celebrates its own identity as the instrument 8:4-9a the Old Testament used on occasion to by which redemption reaches humans, and Psalm 128:1-5 indicate the presence of God—then tongues the one vine from which Christians receive Mark 12:28-34 of fire appear before them. Fire was the nourishment of eternal life and bond another image found in the Old Testament with God in Jesus. It celebrates its own to describe God’s presence. The burning beginnings. bush, seen by Moses on Mount Sinai, was The Church is not simply an organi- Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen one such appearance of God in fire. zation. It is the body of people whose faith All the Apostles received the Holy bonds them with Christ and therefore with Spirit. The Apostles then went out to the each other. They share the one life of Dispensation is required for public. In Jerusalem for the feast of Christ, given to them in grace. They share Pentecost were devout Jews from many the Holy Spirit. places. There was no common language, The Church’s magisterium has called marriage outside the Church yet everyone was able to understand what this great company “The Mystical Body of the Apostles were saying about God. Christ.” My grandson, who is Catholic, will joy and pride of the Hebrew people, First Corinthians provides the next As a body, the believers represent Christ Qbe married in a Methodist church to cementing their covenant with the Lord. reading. on Earth. In this body of believers, they live a girl of that The Decalogue appears in two major The reading is frank. Faith is God’s gift. with Christ, hearing the word, receiving the denomination. forms in the Bible—the Book of Exodus No one can sincerely and earnestly say that grace of the sacraments. Their holy lives Will this marriage (Ex 20:2-17) and the Book of Jesus is Lord unless prompted by the bear witness to the Lord, obedient unto the be valid in the Deuteronomy (Dt 5:6-21). Holy Spirit. The same Holy Spirit gives death of the cross and risen to everlasting Catholic Church? Or Their content is similar, but there are a believers many gifts. All have special life. does there need to be few differences, especially in the talents and instincts. Everything comes We are the bearers of divine love. a priest present? motivation for the commandment about together in the common vocation to love Indeed, as awesome as it is, we bear the (Iowa) observing the Sabbath. God, in Christ, and to serve God. Lord into our world. Exodus bases the law on God’s rest on No accidentals mar the absolute unity In this body, Jesus still speaks through Normally, as you the seventh day of creation in Genesis among all people who love the Lord. those whom the Lord commissioned to Aknow, a Catholic (Gn 2), while Deuteronomy bases it on a Ethnicity means nothing. Gender means teach us, namely the Apostles. must be married before a priest or deacon humanitarian motive. Because the Jews nothing. Advantage, in the earthly sense, First Corinthians calls us to be open to for the marriage to be valid according to were slaves in Egypt, they should now means nothing. the Spirit. And it calls us all to remember Church law. give a day of rest to their own slaves as As its last reading, the Church proclaims that we—individually and in the However, the bishop of the diocese well as to themselves. a passage from the Gospel of John. community of the Church—must continue may grant a dispensation allowing that In addition, Exodus lists a man’s wife It is a Resurrection Narrative, and it is the redemption of Christ, with its mercy, marriage to take place before a judge, as merely part of his property along with very compelling in its lesson for us. justice and peace. † minister or other licensed official for the rest of his possessions, while marriages in that state. This is referred to Deuteronomy names her separately, as as a dispensation from the canonical form one not to be coveted by another. My Journey to God of marriage. Apart from the commands not to Even when such a dispensation is worship false idols and honoring the obtained, the couple is required to Sabbath, the Ten Commandments reflect participate in whatever marriage the common wisdom of human preparation programs are offered by the experience and are found in other ancient Come, Holy Spirit! diocese. cultures as well. The dispensation would be requested Jesus did not wipe them out, of course, Come, Holy Spirit, to end abortions by toil in the vineyard. through the priest or other parish staff but developed them in his teachings, which life is drawn and asunder torn, Come, Holy Spirit, that embraces the helping the bride and groom prepare for particularly summarizing all ancient That we may all rise up and be heard in greater family with whom we are marriage. laws in his two “greatest commandments” defense of the helpless unborn. raised, If your grandson and his bride have of love of God and of neighbor Come, Holy Spirit, to avoid the temptation That for the gift of life we unite in obtained this dispensation, a priest might (Mt 22:36-40). of indiscreet “posting” our face, giving universal thanks and praise. attend, but his presence is not required for For reasons too complicated to discuss That we may be spared the torment of Come, Holy Spirit, that our heart, mind the marriage to be valid. here, some Protestant Christians, in painful pitfalls in cyberspace. and soul proclaim Your mighty If the couple has not obtained the accord with the above background, split Come, Holy Spirit, to halt the plague of deeds, dispensation, the marriage before a the prohibition against false worship (our trafficking in the least, That it may be done not for selfish Methodist minister or other civil official first Commandment) into two, and joined That we stop innocents’ abduction and wants, but for Your insightful needs. would not be valid. the two “coveting” commandments into exploitation by the “beast.” Come, Holy Spirit, that we disavow and The presence or absence of a priest at one, forming the Protestant list of the Come, Holy Spirit, to cleanse us from decry chaos among the nations, the ceremony would not be relevant in Ten Commandments. obsessive idolatry of goods, That everyone may see the sign of the that situation. The Catholic Church, however, and That we embrace His gift of discomfort for Cross as the way to salvation. Lutherans traditionally use the form that the common good. Come, Holy Spirit, that all in His image Why is there a difference between we are familiar with, as noted in the Come, Holy Spirit, for insight to spurn the seek with faith and conviction Qthe Catholic and Protestant listings Catechism of the Catholic Church distorting lens of drugs, His Way, of the Ten Commandments? (Indiana) (#2066). That we may see eternal truth and beauty That we shall not be eternally in the simplest shrubs. confounded, but embrace His Cross, What we know as the (A free brochure in English or Spanish, Come, Holy Spirit, to block the siren’s call We humbly pray. ATen Commandments, or Decalogue answering questions that Catholics ask in the pop culture bard, (literally “10 words”), are some of more about baptism practices and sponsors, That we applaud the honest labor of daily By Gary D. Vestermark than 600 laws of ancient Judaism, is available by sending a stamped, believed to have been given to the Jews self-addressed envelope to Father John (Gary D. Vestermark is a member of St. Louis de Montfort Parish in Fishers, Ind., in by God through Moses. Dietzen, Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612. the Lafayette Diocese. The descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles is described in They are embodied in the Pentateuch, Questions may be sent to Father Dietzen Acts 2:1-41.) the first five books of the Old Testament. at the same address or by e-mail in care Obedience to this Torah was the great of [email protected].) † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009

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Please submit in writing to our LUEBKE, George, 86, Christ the photo/CharlesSubmitted Schisla office by 10 a.m. Thursday King, Indianapolis, May 14. Father before the week of publication; of Linda Collins, Jeanne Cox, be sure to state date of death. Mary Anne Jaynes, Jane Obituaries of archdiocesan Kirkpatrick and Diane Marschke. priests serving our archdiocese Brother of Mary Margaret Glynn. are listed elsewhere in Grandfather of 11. Great- The Criterion. Order priests and grandfather of three. religious sisters and brothers MARTIN, Kimberly, 53, are included here, unless they St. Mary, Rushville, May 12. are natives of the archdiocese or Mother of Jennifer Simmons and have other connec tions to it; Michael Martin. Sister of Mike those are separate obituaries on Coffin. Grandmother of one. this page. NORD, Mary M., 46, ALLEY, Phyllis Louise, 72, Holy Family, New Albany, Most Holy Name of Jesus, May 19. Daughter of Robert and Beech Grove, May 16. Mother of Mary Ann Nord. Sister of Angela, Susan Belcher and Paul Alley Sr. Andrew, Joseph and Thomas Lord. Grandmother of nine. Great- Aunt of several. grand mother of 12. O’BRIEN, Edna M., 88, BARNES, Leanna G., 86, Holy Family, Oldenburg, May 11. Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, May 11. Race fans Mother of Maria Berger, Tara Mother of Kathy Bryan, James, O’Brien-Cockson, Cathy, Peggy, John, Robert, Thomas and Father Glenn O’Connor, left, pastor of St. Joseph and St. Ann parishes in Indianapolis, talks with Archbishop Daniel M. Bill, Dan, Terry and Tom O’Brien. William Barnes. Grandmother of Buechlein and Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar general, before the 93rd running of the “Indianapolis 500” on May 24 at the Sister of Rita Schuler, Stella 13. Great-grandmother of one. historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Father O’Connor, who also serves as the Catholic chaplain at the Indianapolis Interna- Tertinsky, Albert and Howard tional Airport, works as a mechanic on a driver’s pit crew every May. This year, he helped driver A. J. Foyt IV as a member of the BECKER, Eugene J., 79, Roth. Grandmother of two. St. Louis, Batesville, May 9. A. J. Foyt Racing crew. Foyt finished the race in 16th place. Archbishop Buechlein delivered the prayer before the start of the O’BRIEN, Rose, 72, St. Agnes, Cousin of several. 500-mile race, which was broadcast all over the world. This year marks the 100th anniversary of the famous racetrack. Nashville, May 5. Wife of Terrence BEDEL, Martha L., 90, O’Brien. Mother of Christiana and St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, Stephen O’Brien. Sister of Joanne May 8. Sister of Alma Armstrong. Partipilo. Grandmother of three. Aunt of several. ONOCHIE, Stephen, 83, New Vatican document again encourages BIRCHLER, Edith F., 83, St. Michael, Indianapolis, St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute, March 18. Husband of Felicia May 16. Sister of Staley Rhodes. Onochie. Father of Mrs. Nzekuw, Chinese Catholic communities to reconcile Grandfather of three. Josephine, Rosemary, George, VATICAN CITY (CNS)— BUENNAGEL, Charles, 83, Henry, Michael, Richard, Stephen Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, May 5. and Victor Onochie. Grandfather Pope Benedict XVI knows the full structural Father of Donna Scott, Steve and of 24. unity of Catholic communities in China will Tim Buennagel. Grandfather of RUSH, Ray, 54, St. Joseph, take time, but the spiritual reconciliation of five. Shelbyville, March 25. Brother of Chinese Catholics “can and must take place CNS photo/Vincent Du, Reuters Du, photo/Vincent CNS CAHILL, Jerry P., 77, Jay Rush. Cousin of several. now,” said a new Vatican document. St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute, SAUER, Joseph W., 88, Marking the second anniversary of May 16. Husband of Jo Ann St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Pope Benedict’s 2007 letter to Chinese Cahill. Father of Nanetta Banion, (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Catholics, the Vatican published a reading Frances Goodwin, Dennis and May 3. Brother of Mary Scott. guide and summary of the letter to clarify Shawn Cahill. Brother of Thomas certain points and help people understand it SIEFERMAN, Mary B. Cahill. Grandfather of 13. Great- (Howard), 97, Prince of Peace, better. grandfather of six. Madison, May 8. Aunt of several. The 2007 letter established new guidelines CONDON, Rose Ellen, 81, to favor cooperation between clandestine SULLIVAN, Jean A., 90, Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville, Catholic communities and those officially Christ the King, Indianapolis, May 9. Mother of Lois Gallagher- April 28. Mother of Sylvia Gray registered with the government. Ball, Beth Haver, Fran and Patricia Witt. Grandmother of The papal letter strongly criticized the limits Simmerman, Bob, John, Mark, 10. Great-grandmother of 14. placed by the Chinese government on the Mike, Philip, Ray and Sean Church’s activities. But on several key issues, Chinese Catholics hold candles during the Easter Vigil Mass at a church in Condon. Sister of Martha THOMAS, Mary Jo (Litsey), 68, including the appointment of bishops, it invited Xiaohan village of Tianjin municipality, China, on April 11. Roseman. Grandmother of 18. St. Mary, New Albany, May 15. Great-grandmother of 16. Great- Mother of Angie Brown, Patty civil authorities to a new and serious dialogue. great-grandmother of two. Browning, Mary Nolan, Judy Sapp The new compendium of the papal letter, released at When dealing with government agencies, “the pope and James Thomas. Sister of Judy the Vatican on May 24, used a question-and-answer recommends bishops and priests to do all possible to avoid DIEBOLD, Simone D., 89, McGaughey, Ernest and James format quoting the original letter, but it also included giving rise to situations of scandal,” it said. St. Pius X, Indianapolis, May 10. Litsey. Grand mother of 20. Great- Mother of Alain, Marc and Paul several new footnotes and appendixes to clarify questions The compendium emphasized once again Pope Benedict’s grandmother of 18. Diebold. Sister of Rosette raised in the past two years. position that determining whether or not to cooperate with the Del Rue. Grandmother of five. TURNER, Lillian M., 88, The original letter contained directives aimed at government is a decision that must be made by the local St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, bridging the gap between Catholic communities that have bishop in consultation with his priests, since government HEADLEE, Martha L., 94, April 30. Mother of Linda St. Joseph, Shelbyville, May 15. registered with the Chinese authorities—and therefore officials in different parts of China place different conditions Andersen, Barbara Conlin, Betty Sister of Gertrude (Roell) Nickles. operate under certain official limits—and Catholic on cooperating bishops. Huffman, Mary Lou Weber and Stepmother of Nancy Huber and communities that have practiced the faith in a more “The pope neither excludes the possibility of accepting or Thomas Turner. Sister of Patricia Jack Headlee. Step-grandmother clandestine fashion, professing full loyalty to the pope. seeking government recognition nor encourages doing so. to several. Step-great-grandmother Bauerla, Mildred Leezer and The compendium said Pope Benedict was urging The ideal would be to abandon the clandestine condition, but to several. Jo Ann Leuthart. Grandmother of Chinese Catholics to begin a process of spiritual reconcil- everything depends on the constraints imposed,” the 16. Great-grandmother of 26. FRENGEL, James L., 81, Great-great-grandmother of three. iation even before “a structural merger of official and compendium said. Most Holy Name of Jesus, unofficial Catholic communities can take place.” It also reaffirmed the pope’s plea to Chinese Catholics to UPDIKE, Rachel Beech Grove, May 7. Husband of , 98, Reconciliation is a journey that will not be concluded avoid making “judgments and mutual condemnations” of Nora (O’Shea) Frengel. Father of Holy Trinity, Indianapolis, May 5. overnight, the compendium said, but the necessary steps those who do not make the same choices regarding Aunt of several. Jacqueline Dunham and James cannot “be postponed because—or on the pretext that— cooperation with the government and official registration with Frengel. Stepfather of Donna VEA, Virginia Y., 72, they are difficult since they require the overcoming of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. Gunn, Julie Winters and Jeff St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, personal positions or views.” The compendium gave individual Catholics wide latitude Nichols. Brother of Lois Ann April 15. Mother of Elizabeth In addition to praying for one another, Catholics in in deciding whether or not to receive the sacraments from Vea-Smith, Gwendolyn, Rosemarie Waterman and Robert Frengel. China must take concrete steps, including sharing pastoral bishops and priests who are recognized by the government Grandfather of five. Great-grand - and Gilbert Vea. Grand mother of father of eight. Great-great-grand - six. projects and undertaking common initiatives, it said. but have not requested recognition from the pope. father of six. “It is by means of practical steps that spiritual “If the bishop or the priest celebrant is in communion with VOLK, Raymond J., 90, reconciliation, including visible reconciliation, will the pope, the faithful ‘should not hesitate’ to receive the JENKINSON, Martha, 84, St. Louis, Batesville, May 17. gradually occur, which will culminate one day in the sacraments from him,” it said. Most Holy Name of Jesus, Uncle of several. Beech Grove, May 6. Mother of complete structural unity,” the compendium said. If Catholics cannot find pastors in communion with the WALTERS, Naomi Ruth, 86, The compendium also reaffirmed Pope Benedict’s pope and if they feel they need the sacraments at that moment Debra Foster, David and Mark St. Jude, Indianapolis, May 14. Jenkinson. Grandmother of four. insistence that some aspects of the official Chinese for their spiritual good, the final decision on whether or not to Mother of Chuck, John, Joseph and Catholic Patriotic Association “cannot be reconciled with receive them is up to the individual, it said. Great-grandmother of two. Larry Walters. Sister of Donna JOHNES, Leona M., 90, Van Winkle, Carl, Curt, Doyle, Catholic doctrine,” particularly its claim to be above the In addition to affirming or explaining points contained in Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, Mike and Tony Elliott. Grand - individual bishops in guiding the Catholic community and the 2007 letter, the compendium also clarified that priests are May 13. Mother of Bob, Dave mother of six. Great-grand mother its professed independence from the Vatican. authorized to celebrate Mass in the homes of the faithful if a and Jerry Johnes. Grandmother of of eight. At the same time, the compendium—like the church or chapel is not available, and it called on priests to two. Great-grandmother of one. WARNER, Lynette, 37, 2007 letter—opened the door to registration with the follow canon law regarding accepting monetary stipends for LEX, Joseph R., 83, St. Roch, St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, government by bishops and Catholic communities, saying the celebration of Masses for special intentions. Indianapolis, May 16. Father of May 7. Mother of Kelsey and this was acceptable as long as it does not compromise Laura Martin, Martha Wheeler, Zakary Warner. Daughter of Dick principles of the faith and Church communion, and as (The English text of the new compendium is posted Amy, Cynthia and Joseph Lex. and Karen Dunaway. Sister of long as it does not force Church leaders to perform online at http://www.vatican.va/chinese/pdf/ Grandfather of three. Great-grand - Deanna Slay. Granddaughter of actions contrary to their consciences as Catholics. 7Compendium_en.pdf.) † father of four. Dorothy Dunaway. † The Criterion Friday, May 29, 2009 Page 19

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The Bishop Chatard High School Class of 2009 has left an indelible mark. Through their commitment to faith, learning, leadership and service, BCHS seniors have enhanced the lives of those in their school, church and civic communities. Congratulations Bishop Chatard Class of 2009! Under the leadership of the Class of 2009: Christopher T. Adkins Jacob F. Isler Christopher M. Proffitt Robert T. Akin Mitchell T. Jacki Ralph D. Purcell • Seniors have received nearly Kenneth E. Andrews Stefan J. Janowiak T. Nathan Queisser $11.7 million in scholarships and Patrick A. Archey Brock O. Johnson Rebecca A. Rauh awards to attend colleges and Amanda E. Armstrong Quinn A. Johnson Stephen P. Rea universities throughout the Katherine J. Bates Luke J. Johnstone Taylor L. Reuter United States. Andrew J. Battiato Patrick M. Kennedy Dana R. Riordan Shalei E. Benjamin Lauren E. Kenney Roderic J. Rivelli • Honors earned include Claire J. Bidmead Lauren P. Kessing Benjamin L. Rolfsen National Merit Finalist, Indy Star Emily R. Boyce Leah M. Kilbane Matthew D. Ruffing Academic All-Star, Academic Alexander M. Brodnik Emily S. Kilies Brian I. Sacks All-American, Academic Christopher R. Brown Matthew J. Kirby John W. Sahm All-State and more. John R. Brumleve Dylan M. Labita Christen E. Salyer • 52 seniors were inducted into the John M. Bryant Thomas D. Larson Collin J. Sanner National Honor Society. Kathryn R. Burkert Hannah M. Lechner Daniel M. Savka • 158 units of blood were donated Mackenzie P. Calwell Kathleen A. Lee Elizabeth A. Schaffner Adrienne K. Coghlan Mark J. Lee Daniel E. Schroeder during the 2009 Senior Stephen P. Commiskey Kaitlin M. Loughery Erin M. Schultheis Blood Drive. Amy J. Coutz Kellie M. Maexner Michael R. Seib • $36,400 was raised to fight Kourtney L. Crawford Elizabeth A. Maher Matthew J. Seidl childhood illness during the Colleen A. Curtin Steven P. Maniago Caitlin M. Selby Dance Marathon for Mallory M. Curtin Christopher J. Mark Matthew B. Sergi Riley Hospital. Sarah N. DeNardin Megan C. Marler Margaret C. Sheetz • More than 20,000 cans and boxes Anthony F. DeRose Zachary E. Martin Matthew D. Siler of food were donated to local James P. Delehanty Ruth L. Maust Allison C. Smith charitable organizations through Andrew D. Dickinson Kathryn N. McCalley Sarah N. Smith the Thanksgiving food drive. Timothy J. Dossman James P. McDonald Paige A. Snyder Alexander W. Dummer Henry P. McDonough Carly A. Sobolewski • BCHS newspaper and yearbook Bailee E. Early Molly A. McGlinchey Abigail E. Specht staffs earned state and national David M. Eaton Sabbath J. McKiernan-Allen Joseph C. Staab honors. Grace C. Fahrbach Jack J. McLaughlin Parker K. Stevens • 37 fall and winter athletes earned Bridget A. Feeney Audrey L. McReynolds Michael A. Stewart Academic All-State status. Spring Kari L. Feldhaus Alexandria K. Metzger Que-Area M. Stewart awards are expected to increase Allie M. Ferraro Alex R. Miller Colleen A. Stimpson that number. Thomas P. Flynn Gabrielle R. Mitchell Ryan N. Sturgeon • BCHS students visited Dylan A. Foran Angela E. Monger Conner R. Sullivan Daniel G. Ford Blake E. Moon Katherine A. Sullivan North Deanery grade schools, Ethan S. Fow James T. Mundell Kellie L. Tekulve tutoring and exploring their faith Chad A. Gage Andrew G. Najjar Keith R. Thibodeau with young students. Robert M. Garfield Angela M. Nebesny Tracy A. Thibodeau • Class members donated more Robert E. Graham Shawn A. Nickleson Selina J. Tillman than 15,000 hours of school, Kellee D. Grahn Kelsey M. Nickol Brian D. Tiplick parish and community service Matthew S. Green Kalie C. Noll Christopher J. Tiplick while BCHS students. Rebekah K. Gross Kevin J. O'Brien Robert F. Turk Matthew J. Grote Michael R. O'Hara Kimberly A. Tyler Krista M. Haluska Braylon T. Parham Wil J. Van Dyke Zachary F. Hartley Jessica F. Parry Jackson S. Webber Eric M. Hill Maureen A. Parsons Steven M. Webster Chase A. Hofmeister Michael F. Parsons Thomas P. Welch Jacob D. Holzhausen Michael P. Pasotti Gretchen E. Wert Vincent G. Hornbach Amy A. Pauszek Kathleen R. Wessel Andrew M. Howard Jessica T. Payne Eleanor E. Williams Abbie M. Huffine Sara M. Perry Carolyn S. Williamson www.BishopChatard.org Daniel F. Hurrle Emily A. Plaia Alexander G. Willis Evan J. Huxhold Jon A. Poore Colleen M. Winship