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By Mary Ann Garber

More than 2,000 years after his birth, Christ the King was honored in a historic way with a massive electronic “holy shout-out” via texts, e-mails and tweets sent simultaneously from cell phones by 23,000 National Catholic Youth Conference and National Catholic Collegiate Conference participants on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. It was a fun and faith-filled way for the Catholic youths and young adults to honor and conclude the 31st biennial national conference. Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and host of the conference, asked the teenagers, collegians and adults attending the closing Mass to text, e-mail or tweet the words “Called to Glory,” the conference theme, to family members and friends throughout the U.S. at the conclusion of the vibrant liturgy. Murmurs began to spread through the quiet football stadium when Bishop Coyne surprised the conference participants by asking them to turn on their cell phones at the end of Mass. “For over two hours now, we have turned this space into a holy place where holy people have listened to holy words and done holy things and received holy gifts,” Bishop Coyne said. “… I want you all to dig out your cell phones, … and turn them on because we’re going to do a holy shout-out. I don’t think this has ever Animators bring the word of God to life in Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the Nov. 18 morning general session of the National Catholic Youth Conference. been done … with a crowd like this, More than 23,000 youths, chaperones and conference presenters spent Nov. 17-19 at the Indiana Convention Center and the stadium learning how they are and maybe the first time at a big “Called to Glory” through their faith. For more coverage of NCYC, see pages 2, 8-13, and 20. Additional coverage can also be found at www.CriterionOnline.com. See NCYC, page 2

Jacqueline Jackson-Morant from St. Charles Borromeo in Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Detroit in the Archdiocese of Detroit sends her “Called to Glory” text message to her mother, siblings, grandmother, aunts and uncles during a simultaneous “holy shout-out” at the conclusion of the National Catholic Youth Conference closing Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator and host of the liturgy on Nov. 19 at 31st biennial National Catholic Youth Conference and National Catholic Lucas Oil Stadium Collegiate Conference, displays a ’ trading card with his picture during in Indianapolis. the closing liturgy on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. In his homily, Bishop Coyne challenged the 23,000 conference participants to respond to God’s call to lives of loving service and charitable sacrifice to help bring forth the kingdom and give glory to the Lord along the road to salvation. Page 2 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011

Christians that told us, “Amen, I say NCYC to you, whatever you did to one of the continued from page 1 least brothers of mine, you did for me” (Mt 25:40).

Catholic gathering. I want you to type in Bishop Coyne’s homily focused on MaryPhotos by Ann Garber ‘Called to Glory.’ ” God’s call to service and charity, and After he announced the “holy included a visual aid and joke. shout-out,” the teenagers, collegians and He held up a poster-sized image of his others in attendance quickly typed in the bishop trading card—designed like a words then awaited his cue to press the baseball card—and said he wants to order “send” button on their cell phones. copies for all of the parishes in central and “When I say, ‘We are …,’ ” southern Indiana. Then he became serious Bishop Coyne told them, “we are going to about the need to live a faith-filled life that shout out ‘Called to Glory,’ and you’re honors God. going to send it out to all those people out Popular culture wants people to there on the Internet that are watching us, believe “the idea that ‘it’s all about me,’ ” and all the people we love. We are going to Bishop Coyne said, “the idea that what I spread that greatness to the call to glory. need is the only thing that matters. … Are you ready? We are … called to glory!” That’s what gets us in trouble.” Jacqueline Jackson-Morant from God calls us to choose what is right St. Charles Borromeo Parish in the and good, and to reject what is sinful and Archdiocese of Detroit sent her “Called to wrong, he said, instead of acting on our parishioner Lydia Slattery of Spencer, Iowa, in the Diocese of Sioux City, receives the Glory” text message to her mother, own selfish needs and desires in daily life Eucharist during the National Catholic Youth Conference closing liturgy on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil siblings, grandmother, aunts and uncles. situations. Stadium in Indianapolis. “It was a great conference,” Jacqueline “Our Christian Catholic faith tells us said at the Mass. “I loved it. I’m blessed to that we need to be down at the bottom of be here today, and I’d like to come again in the hill looking up to the King of the Hill, 2013. I liked seeing all the bishops and Christ the King, on the Cross,” priests and .” Bishop Coyne said. “He is the King of Bishop Coyne was the principal the Hill, and when we follow that [path] celebrant for the closing Mass, which was we are placing ourselves in righteousness concelebrated by eight bishops and before God. We are placing ourselves in 250 priests from throughout the country. the call to glory, and we’re working Thirty deacons and 175 seminarians toward salvation. from many dioceses also participated in the “Our whole call to Christian faith is not Mass with talented teenage lectors and just about doing good things for the right music ministers. reasons because we follow Christ,” he “It’s just wonderful to be gathered said. “It’s about salvation. It’s about living here tonight with all 23,000 of you,” our life with faith so that we are found Bishop Coyne told the gathering at the start worthy in the judgment that we just heard of the liturgy, “and welcome you on behalf from St. Matthew’s Gospel.” Immaculate Heart of Mary Reparatrix Sister M. Christine Nantaba, of the entire Catholic community here in Christians are called to lives of loving right, a teacher at Holy Angels School in Indianapolis, plays an [the Archdiocese of] Indianapolis. It’s been service and charitable sacrifice for God, African drum beat to call people to prayer with help from a glorious three days, and it’s going to be a Bishop Coyne said, to help bring forth the Holy Angels School kindergartner Lamar Guynn of Indianapolis at glorious celebration of the Mass.” kingdom and give glory to the Lord along the start of the National Catholic Youth Conference closing liturgy Above, a National Catholic Youth Transitional Jerry Byrd, a the road to salvation. on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Conference participant prays member of St. Louis Parish in Batesville “The call to glory is the call to our during the closing Mass on who will be ordained on June 2, assisted personal cross,” he said. “It’s the cross to Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Bishop Coyne with the Mass and love, and Jesus says it’s not a heavy cross Indianapolis. proclaimed the Gospel reading. because how can love be heavy. The reading from the Gospel of “We give glory to God every time Left, Benedictine Father St. Matthew spoke of when the Son of God we come together to worship God,” Anthony Vinson, left, will come in his glory before all the Bishop Coyne said. “All those sacrifices Father John McCaslin and nations then separate the people as a that we make, all those gifts that we give, Msgr. Paul Koetter process into shepherd separates the sheep from the all those things we do out of love for God Lucas Oil Stadium in goats to reward those who help the and neighbor, we bring them to the altar Indianapolis at the beginning of poor, hungry, sick and imprisoned … and we join them to Christ’s the National Catholic Youth (Mt 25:31-46). sacrifice—Christ, the King of the Hill, on Conference closing Mass on This Scripture passage reminds the Cross.” † Nov. 19.

NCYC gathering was ‘ at its best,’ local organizer says By John Shaughnessy teenagers from across the country poured into Lucas Oil respectful, patient and joyful. There was one time Stadium. when the lines for reconciliation were so long—20 to For two years, Kay Scoville led the archdiocese’s “It was the first time they were all together,” said 30 people deep. I tried to open another room for effort to make the National Catholic Youth Conference Scoville, the archdiocese’s director of youth ministry. reconciliation, but they said they were fine, that they in Indianapolis a memorable “Seeing them in all their colorful hats and shirts, it was didn’t mind waiting. They even gave some of the event that would touch the lives just beautiful.” volunteers high-fives and cheers for helping them.” and deepen the faith of the She also recalled the opening and closing Masses of Such moments made all the hard work and all the 23,000 people in attendance. the conference. And she says she will be forever grateful long meetings of the past two years worthwhile. When the three-day conference to the 600 volunteers who often worked extra shifts to “At the start, you don’t think it’s ever going to come ended on Nov. 19, Scoville was make the conference run smoothly—a group that together,” she said. “But when you start seeing things among the people who had their included the seminarians of the archdiocese. falling into place, you know it’s the grace of God that own set of special memories. Most of her memories focus on the teenagers who brings it together. One of her best memories was attended the conference. “The conference truly brought glory to God, and that the opening session of the “The youths themselves kept amazing me,” Scoville was the focus. Everybody was connected. It was the Kay Scoville conference on Nov. 17 when the said. “Their reverence, and the way they were so Catholic Church at its best.” †

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By Sean Gallagher have an everyday attitude about struck during the Mass as we it—“Here’s another presentation began to use those that it’s no For two years, Father Patrick about the Mass.” That hasn’t longer talk anymore. Beidelman has called the weekend happened with you? “It’s no longer something of the of Nov. 26-27 a “new moment” in A. “No. You would think it future, but, as we get to use these the life of the Church in central would. And sometimes, as I’m sung parts of the Mass a little MaryFile photo by Ann Garber and southern Indiana. leaving the office to go out and earlier, I was aware that it had This is the weekend on which give another talk or workshop on arrived and, in a sense, what would the first new translation of the the , I feel a little be available to us for the whole Mass in a generation will begin to fatigue as I head in that direction Mass was beginning. be used in churches across because I have a lot on my plate in “It was exciting, and sent chills the country. these final days of preparation. up and down my spine.” As archdiocesan director of “But when I get there and when Q. Do you have any particular liturgy, Father Beidelman has been I start interacting with people hopes for what the implemen- hard at work preparing Catholics about this new moment in the life tation of the third edition of the across the archdiocese and beyond of our Church, I just am really Roman Missal will do for to pray those new words of much filled with a spirit that does individual Catholics and parish the Mass. not tire me, but invigorates me. communities in central and In dozens of presentations and And I mean that sincerely. southern Indiana? workshops, some of which lasted “It happened just last night. I A. “I hope it opens our eyes and for eight hours, Father Beidelman gave a talk with a young adult ears a bit more to the power and has spoken about the new Mass group that meets pretty regularly mystery of God at work in our translation with priests, parish that’s called Faith on the Rocks— everyday lives, and to what God is leaders, school administrators, an initiative that was originally truly offering us and what God is faith formation directors, youth founded to serve young adults truly asking of us each and every and young adult ministers, and from anywhere, but primarily week as we gather as faith families music and liturgical ministers. from the Indianapolis parishes of for the Eucharist. He has also helped priests in Holy Trinity, St. Anthony and “The Mass primarily is our the Lafayette Diocese and the St. . worship of God. I hope that we archdioceses of Cincinnati and “They meet at a bar. And it’s can increase or intensify our focus Miami kind of like . And on giving thanks and praise to God See related editorial, learn I realized that I felt like I was in our worship. But I also hope page 4. about the talking about it for the first time. that the Mass opens our eyes and new “Probably it was because I was our ears to what is possible with words talking to people, many of whom God as a result of us worshiping that will be prayed at Mass. were hearing these things for the him week after week in the fullest On top of all of that, first time. And I was excited to be way possible and with all Father Beidelman has spoken able to share with them some of our hearts. before more than 20 parish or what I’ve come to know about the “So I hope it makes us holy. I school communities in the new translation and about the Mass hope it calls us deeper into the archdiocese. as a result of this new translation.” sanctification that is proper to each All this travel and work Q. Have the weeks member of the faithful.” intensified in the weeks leading up immediately before the Q. When you went through Father Patrick Beidelman processes with a Book of the Gospels during a to the implementation of the new implementation of the new Mass the in the mid-1990s, June 29, 2007, Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis that Mass translation. translation been even a busier you may have heard stories of celebrated the centennial of the dedication of the cathedral. As archdiocesan But Father Beidelman found time for you than it has been up what it was like to implement director of liturgy, Father Beidelman has been busy for two years helping to some time to sit down with until now? the reform of the Mass during prepare Catholics across central and southern Indiana for the implementation of The Criterion to reflect on his A. “It’s probably less involved and following the Second Vatican the new translation of the Mass that takes place on Nov. 26-27. experience of this “new moment” on preparing for talks and Council. Did you ever think at in the life of the Church. workshops because I’ve been doing that time that you would be in a The following is an edited it long enough that I have a good similar position, that you would version of the interview. repertoire of material to share. But be called on to implement a it is a little busier because we’re significant change in the words

Q. Has leading the also preparing for other things in we pray at Mass? MaryPhoto by Ann Garber archdiocesan preparations for the archdiocese. A. “I can’t say that I recall the implementation of the “I’m very involved with thinking that I would be a part of third edition of the Roman assisting with the preparations for helping to prepare our local Missal helped you grow in your the National Catholic Youth Church for the reception of a new own knowledge of the liturgy Conference, which is the translation of the new edition of and of the Mass in particular? weekend before the date of the the Roman Missal. A. “This process has helped me implementation. “But I would say that, as I look grow in my understanding of how “And, through the Providence of back on that time, I remember the deeply connected and attached God, our seminary [Bishop Simon stories of the implementation of people are to the eucharistic Bruté College Seminary] has the developments in the Mass of celebration. grown to 35 students this year. the as “From priests expressing their That means that I’ve doubled the being a time of great enthusiasm, a love for the Eucharist—priests of number of students with whom I time of great energy and Serving as the liturgy’s master of ceremony, Father Patrick Beidelman stands with all stripes, of all generations, work in formation, from seven to commitment to the liturgy on the seminarians during the National Catholic Youth Conference closing Mass on sharing how central the Eucharist 14. It’s the happy problem of part of a broad spectrum of folks. Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. is to their lives—to seeing God’s good work being “And I hope that continues volunteers show up for lengthy accomplished in the Church. because I think what was begun at called away to was the like at a parish in rural Indiana or in sessions to prepare themselves to “So my time is divided. But it is the Second Vatican Council University of the Holy Cross in the center city of Indianapolis or in serve others while expressing all connected to good work. And continues to unfold in this new to study liturgy at the a high school Mass. some enthusiasm and excitement you just put one foot in front of the moment and will continue to do so graduate level. People might “When I’ve been able to that is infectious had a great other and rely on lots of good in the future. think that such studies are accomplish that, that’s when I’ve impact on me. people around you.” Q. How would you say that abstract. Did your studies there been effective in assisting people to “It was a joy. I haven’t been to Q. Will you be glad when the parishes and schools in and the conversations that you prepare to receive the new a session or a workshop in which I Nov. 28—the Monday after the which you’ve served over the had with your professors and translation of the Mass. I hope that was teaching or talking about the weekend in which the new Mass years helped prepare you for fellow students have a that’s happened more often third edition of the Roman Missal translation is implemented— what you’ve been doing in this discernible effect upon what than not.” that has not been gratifying in comes around? important moment, as you’ve you’ve been doing in the Q. What you’ve been doing some way. So it’s been wonderful A. “I’m sure there will be a described it, in the life of our past year during all of the over the past two years to help work to do. sense that we have arrived at a Church? presentations you’ve been the Church in central and “And for people who work in moment of culmination of a lot A. “The parish and school making about the new Mass southern Indiana prepare for the the Church, it is a privilege to be of work. communities in which I’ve served translation? implementation of the new able to focus on that which is at “But I’m eager to see what’s have formed me best by loving me A. “Where I rely on my formal translation of the Mass isn’t a the center of all that we’re about, next with regard to people truly and supporting me as a priest. And theological studies is that I’ve typical ministry of a parish which is the Mass. It’s at the very beginning to use these words for I’ve experienced that wherever I’ve been exposed to a broader range priest. But how has this been an heart of who we are as Catholics. our prayer, and truly beginning to been in their patience and their of the Church’s thought, both from important part of the living out It’s at the very heart of our faith take the opportunity to experience kindness in our work together of its history as well as in its present of your priestly identity and family. And it’s really nice to get a fuller expression of the Mass.” building up God’s kingdom. articulation, of how we pray and ministry? to talk about it over and over again Q. Have you given any “So their example of putting worship, and particularly in some A. “I have had the opportunity to with people and to hear their love, thought to what it will be like for their faith in action and their of the finer points of what the witness people’s great hunger for their devotion, their joy and hope you to use those words for the witness to Christ’s love, Church calls us to and why. understanding their faith. And I’ve for the future in our celebration of first time? particularly to me as I served in “What I’ve tried to do is had the opportunity to witness the Mass.” A. “I have. I celebrated Mass their midst, impacts how I strive to translate that into the way people people’s great love for their faith in Q. People could look at the within the last couple of weekends serve other people as I’ve been speak and think in their everyday a variety of settings throughout the schedule that you’ve kept up, at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in called away from them to lives. It may be not in higher, archdiocese that have encouraged especially over the past year, and Indianapolis. And they had begun new work.” abstract theological expression, me and inspired me and given me think that it would be easy to using the new sung texts. I was Q. One of the places you were but rather in what that would look hope that the Church is alive.” † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011

OPINION Be Our Guest/John Garvey Muslim students are welcome at The Catholic University of America Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Most Rev. Christopher J. Coyne, S.L.D. Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher A law professor at a local university Here is the interesting part. As last year’s GregApostolic A. Otolski,Administrator, Associate Publisher Publisher • Mike Krokos, EditorMike • Krokos, John F. Editor Fink, Editor Emeritus recently filed a complaint with the District of Post story noted, we have an atmosphere that John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Columbia’s Office of appeals to our Muslim students, particularly Human Rights, claiming those who are religiously observant. that The Catholic At public universities, the University of America First Amendment requires that we take no Editorial discriminated against account of religion. At most private univer- Muslim students. sities, it is treated as a private matter and This came as something that is slightly uncomfortable to something of a surprise talk about. to us. But at Catholic University, there is nothing Last year, strange about fasting during Ramadan or praying five times a day or covering your

CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy reported that the Muslim population at head. Our students fast during Lent and pray Catholic University had grown from 41 to 91 daily. who study here cover their heads. students in three years, and that the students Our single-sex residence halls are appealing had a positive experience. That story was to more traditionally religious parents picked up on National Public Radio and and students. elsewhere. Since then, our Muslim population Muslim and Catholic students are able to has increased to 122. talk about these things and to form No matter. The law professor complained friendships that embrace their shared religious that Muslim students “must perform their commitments—and their differences. prayers surrounded by symbols of The law professor who filed the Catholicism—e.g., a wooden crucifix, proceeding against us had to confess that A page from the new Roman Missal shows a change in the paintings of Jesus, pictures of priests and none of our students had joined in his people’s response when the priest says, “The Lord be with you.” theologians, etc.—which many Muslim complaint. The congregation responds, “And with your spirit.” New missals are students find inappropriate.” One of them, speaking to the student on the way to parishes throughout the United States for use Worse, some “must do their meditation in newspaper, said, “I’m not sure where he got” beginning the first Sunday of Advent on Nov. 27. [or near] ... ‘the cathedral that looms over the the idea that “Muslims can’t pray in a room entire campus—the Basilica of the National that displays Catholic symbols. … It is Shrine of the ,’— not true.” The gift of the Mass hardly a place where [Muslim] students … All this says something important about are likely to feel very comfortable.” the state of religious liberty in modern he changes in words we pray at the the Mystery, the Tradition (Doubleday, There is some truth in these observations. American society. There is a danger in trying TMass will begin this weekend. We $21.99), co-authored by Mike Aquilina. Our undergraduate population is to translate religious ideas into secular values. will start praying an English translation Catholics of all stripes—Latin Rite, 81 percent Catholic. Though we have chapels The local law in Washington, D.C., allows that is more accurate to that of the Eastern Rites, traditional, progressive, in a number of places on campus, and Masses almost anyone to file a complaint with the original Latin version of the liberal, conservative—meet Christ at frequently during the day, we do not set aside Office of Human Rights—even someone who Roman Missal. Mass. So do the members of Orthodox worship space for other faiths. We do not—as doesn’t understand the religion of the group We have already published a Churches. Of course, we also have some Catholic universities do—hire chaplains that he is trying to protect. considerable amount about these preaching as the Protestant communities of other faiths. Nor do we have on the The human rights office focuses much of changes. This editorial, though, will not do. undergraduate level officially sponsored and its attention on the right to equality and the be specifically about the changes. The Introductory Rites and the Liturgy supported non-Catholic religious evil of discrimination. Those are very Rather, it is an encouragement for you of the Word, which Protestant organizations. important concerns. But we could treat to use the opportunity of the changes to communities have, are important parts of We make no bones—in our marketing and Muslims equally with Catholics by think more deeply about the wonderful the Mass, and Christ is truly present in our life on campus—that we are withdrawing support from both. gift of the Mass. during these parts of the Mass. But the The Catholic University of America. There is an aphorism in liberal political Whenever one does something central act of the Mass occurs when bread But it is entirely consistent with all this theory that says that “the right is prior to the frequently, it is easy—perhaps and wine are turned into the true body and that we welcome Muslim students and good.” The idea is that, in a modern society, unavoidable—that he or she will fall into blood of Christ, which we receive into our students of all other faiths to our university. people cannot agree on questions of value— a routine. Is it humanly possible to bodies at Communion. Our Catholic teaching instructs us to embrace good and bad, right and wrong. Therefore, the concentrate on the words and actions of These elements retain the our fellow human beings of all faith organizing principle should be to give people the Mass every time we attend? appearance of unleavened bread and wine, traditions. They enrich us with their presence, as much freedom—the right—as possible. As we start praying the new but their substance is changed into the and help to promote interreligious dialogue The problem with this ideology is that it translation, we will have to concentrate substance of the body and blood of Christ. and intercultural understanding. See GARVEY, page 19 on the words. Let us use that necessity to Thus, we believe that Christ is substan- refresh our understanding of what the tially present. Mass is. The declining percentage of We believe that Christ is fully present Letter to the Editor Catholics who participate in the Mass under the form of both, and either, the each week indicates that too many of us consecrated bread and the consecrated New Mass translation is long overdue, reader says don’t have a proper appreciation for what wine. However, the of the A letter in the Nov. 11 issue of Novus Ordo, the very least we should it is. Catholic Church reminds us that the “sign The Criterion requires a response. expect is a correct translation of the official What is the Mass? In simple terms, it of communion is more complete when Most Catholics are unaware of the major Latin missal. It is long overdue. is the perpetual memorial of God’s love given under both kinds, since in that form dissimilarity between the traditional Latin The mission to do so is to have the Mass for us. Christ instituted this sacrament at the sign of the Eucharistic meal appears Mass and the Novus Ordo—the expurgations, conform to the official Latin his Last Supper to be a memorial of his more clearly” (#1390). mistranslations and rubrics. Missale Romanum, not any non-English death and resurrection, by which he Thus, the Mass, besides being a The Novus Ordo has four Eucharistic translation—be it German, French, Italian or accomplished our salvation. sacrifice, is also a holy meal. Christ Prayers the last time I counted. Spanish. When we say that it is a memorial, we becomes part of our human bodies, just as Eucharistic Prayer No. 1 is primary and the The letter writer may rest assured there is mean more than just a remembrance. It we hope some day to become part of his least offensive, but still has numerous no intention of our reformers to undo makes present in a sacramental manner divine body throughout eternity in heaven. mistranslations of the revised Vatican II. the sacrifice of the cross of Christ. Therefore, we must receive the Eucharist Missale Romanum. These mistranslations are John Paul II explained it worthily. no accident. Kenneth de Maillé this way in his 2003 encyclical “Ecclesia St. Paul warned, “Whoever eats Considering the many aberrations of the Bloomington de Eucharistia” (“Church of the the bread or drinks the cup of the Eucharist”), “When the Church Lord unworthily will have to answer for Priest is example of all our clergy, who serve the celebrates the Eucharist, the memorial of the body and blood of the Lord. A person our Lord’s death and resurrection, this should examine himself, and so eat the people of God in unsung ways ever y day central event of salvation becomes really bread and drink the cup” (1 Cor 11:27- I wish to make you aware of one of the Father Beidelman held the attention of present and the work of our redemption 28). “unsung” deeds done by Catholic clergy in 1,400 of us for the 45-minute presentation. is carried out” (#11). This means that we must examine our the Archdiocese of Indianapolis to help He was extremely knowledgeable with his We Catholics believe that, as the consciences before receiving Communion spread the word of God. topic, spoke without notes, and cleared up United States Catholic Catechism for to determine our worthiness to receive Recently, at Cathedral High School in some of the misperceptions that some of Adults says, “In this divine sacrifice Christ’s body and blood, including our Indianapolis, we held an all-school us had regarding these changes and the which is made present in the Mass, fidelity to the moral teachings of the assembly to instruct our faculty, staff and reasons for them. especially in the Eucharistic Prayer, the Church. students about upcoming changes in He is an example of all of our priests same Christ who offered himself once in As we begin to pray the new the liturgy. who work diligently, frequently in many a bloody manner on the altar of the Cross translation of the Mass prayers, let us Our guest presenter was Father Patrick different jobs, and who serve the people of offers himself in an unbloody manner” make a resolution to come to Mass Beidelman, a 1990 graduate of God in many unsung ways. (p. 221). prepared to participate more fully in Cathedral High School, who also serves as “The Mass is what Catholics do,” Christ’s sacrifice and his holy meal. sacramental minister at St. Anthony and L. Worland Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl Holy Trinity parishes, vice at Bishop Principal writes in his book The Mass: The Glory, —John F. Fink Simon Bruté College Seminary and Cathedral High School archdiocesan director of liturgy. Indianapolis The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 5 Events Calendar

November 29 1347 N. Meridian St., www.benedictinn.org. Christmas smorgasbord charitable and social singles, 317-236-1569, 800-382-9836, Marian University, Ruth Lilly Indianapolis. Office of Young breakfast, 8 a.m.-noon, 50 and over, single, separated, ext. 1569, or Adult and College Campus Holy Family Parish, 129 W. free-will offering, pictures with widowed or divorced, new Student Center, 3200 Cold [email protected]. Spring Road, Indianapolis. Ministry, Advent Lessons and Daisy Lane, New Albany. Santa, 9:30-11:30 a.m. for a members welcome, 6:30 p.m. Marian’s Adult Programs Carols, 7 p.m. Information: New Albany Deanery, nominal fee. Information: Information: 317-370-1189. December 8-10 (MAP) information meeting, 765-561-2924 or young adult mini-retreat, 812-623-2631 or [email protected]. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Information: [email protected]. December 8 Marian University, 6 p.m. Information: 812-945-2000 or Providence Cristo Rey 3200 Cold Spring Road, 317-955-6271 or December 3 High School, 75 N. [email protected]. O’Connor House, Indianapolis. “Christmas at [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and 45 Village Drive, Carmel, Ind. Belleview Place, Indianapolis. Marian University,” December 2 Conference Center, St. Mary Church, 415 E. (Diocese of Lafayette). Winter open house, 1402 Southern Ave., noon-7 p.m. Information: Madrigal dinner and Sacred Heart of Jesus Church, Eighth St., New Albany. Open house, ministry assists Beech Grove. Louisville. “A Family women in crisis pregnancies, 317-860-1000 or choral concert, chapel, 1530 Union St., “Shop INN-Spired [email protected]. Indianapolis. Lumen Dei, Christmas at St. Mary’s,” 2-5 p.m. Information: Thurs., Fri. and Sat., 6 p.m., Christmas/Holiday chorus, 2 p.m., adults $18, 317-844-9562. Mass, 6:30 a.m., breakfast Shopportunity,” photos with seniors $15, students $6. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Thurs. and Fri., $28 per person, following Mass at Pure Eatery. Santa, pick-up for pre-ordered Information: 812-944-0417. December 7 Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Sat., $30 per person, Information: Springerle cookies, handmade Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Indianapolis. Catholics United $24 seniors, students and [email protected]. items, Nativity sets, December 4 Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., for the Faith, Abba, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: St. Paul School, 9788 N. Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Father chapter, meeting, parties of 10 or more. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 317-788-7581 or Dearborn Road, New Alsace. Catholic, educational, 6:30-8 p.m. Information: Information: 317-955-6176. †

Retreats and Programs VIPs December 7 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. William and Alene (Knecht) Schuman, members of November 28 56th St., Indianapolis. “Come Away and Rest St. Peter Parish in Franklin County, celebrated their Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Awhile,” silent reflection day, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., 60th anniversary on Oct. 22. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Friends of Fatima $30 per person includes continental breakfast The couple was married on Oct. 20, 1951, at St. Peter Monthly Mass and Social,” 9 a.m., breakfast and lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. Church in Franklin County. following Mass. Information: 317-545-7681 or They are the parents of eight children: Dolores Alexander, [email protected]. December 9-11 Wilma Brannan, Lisa Longshore, Michele Shumate, November 29 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Laura Soos, Arlene Wuestefeld, Diana Yee and Dan Schuman. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “A Holy They also have 19 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. † 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Advent,” Getaway–Silent Night, Silent Day,” Advent Faith Building Institutions (FBI) program, silent retreat, Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, 5:15 p.m. evening prayer, 6 p.m. dinner and presenter. Information: 317-788-7581 or program. Information: 317-788-7581 or www.benedictinn.org. African Mass to be celebrated www.benedictinn.org. December 10 December 2-4 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Finding the Light and Word Within,” on Dec. 4 at St. Rita Church 56th St., Indianapolis. “From Darkness to Advent retreat, Franciscan Sister Olga The archdiocesan African Catholic attend the Mass are encouraged to wear Light,” Father Jim Farrell and Mary Weber, Wittekind, presenter, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Ministry will celebrate an African Mass African attire. presenters, $153 per person. Information: $45 per person includes lunch. Information: at 3 p.m. on Dec. 4 at St. Rita Church, A reception in the Father Bernard 317-545-7681 or 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Ave., in Strange Family Center will follow [email protected]. December 10-11 Indianapolis. the Mass. December 3 Mount St. Francis Retreat Center, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, For more information, call Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Mount St. Francis. New Albany Deanery, apostolic administrator, is scheduled to Sally Stoval at 317-269-1276, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Faith Remix Retreat,” registration deadline be the principal celebrant of the Mass. Missionary Sister of Our Lady of “A Thomas Merton Advent Retreat,” Nov. 28. Information: 812-945-2000 or It will feature prayers and readings Africa Sister Demetria Smith at 9 a.m.-5 p.m., $55 includes book and lunch. [email protected]. proclaimed in several African languages 317-545-6375 or send an e-mail to Information: 317-788-7581 or and African liturgical music. Those who [email protected]. † www.benedictinn.org. December 11 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. December 4 “Coffee Talk–Advent: A Walk with Mary Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. and ,” Franciscan Sister Patty Campbell, “Youth Night at the ‘Burg,” 6:30-8 p.m. presenter, 9:30 a.m. liturgy, free-will offering. liturgy, free-will offering. Information: Information: 812-933-6437 or 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. [email protected]. ‘Advent Lessons and Carols’ December 5 December 12 Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. service is Dec. 2 at cathedral 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. “Seeking 56th St., Indianapolis. “A Morning for Moms The archdiocesan Office of Young Adult Catholics of all ages are invited to Hope–What Does it Mean to Hope?” Day of Reflection–Remember What’s and College Campus Ministry is attend the service then young adult Advent reflection evening, Benedictine Sister Important,” Rick Wagner, presenter, sponsoring an “Advent Lessons and Catholics will go caroling throughout Angela Jarboe, presenter, 6:30-9 p.m., 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., $31 per person, child care Carols” service at 7 p.m. on Dec. 2 at downtown Indianapolis. $25 per person includes dinner. Information: available. Information: 317-545-7681, ext. 15, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, For more information on the service, 317-788-7581 or www.benedictinn.org. or [email protected]. † 1347 N. Meridian St., in Indianapolis. contact Megan Fish at The service will include exposition and [email protected]. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament, the For more information about caroling in reading of Scripture passages related to the downtown Indianapolis, contact birth of Christ, and the singing of carols. Matt Faley at [email protected]. † Submitted photo Submitted photo

Scecina’s roots Wheelchair bowling Mitch Singleton, a captain of the Father Thomas Scecina Memorial High School football team, Members of the Council #769 pose on Oct. 16 at the Rushville bowling alley shakes hands with Rose Sparks, a first cousin of the late Father Scecina, before the start of with Father Jeremy Gries, administrator of St. Mary Parish in Rushville, front row at left, and the Indiana High School Athletic Association 1A semi-state game between Scecina and brother knight Ross Sickbert, front row at center, who has physical and mental disabilities. The Linton-Stockton High School on Nov. 18 at Key Field on the campus of the University of Rushville-based council and members of St. Mary’s confirmation class participated in a Indianapolis. Linton was the hometown of Father Scecina and Sparks, who still lives in Linton. wheelchair bowling fundraising event that benefited ARC of Rush County, an organization that She flipped the coin before the start of the game to decide who would receive the ball first. gives support to people with mental and physical disabilities. More than $7,000 was raised in the Scecina won the semi-state match 17-0 and will face Lafayette Central Catholic High School in event. The other knights are Dave Hasecuster, front row at right, John Byrne, back row at left, Lafayette in the 1A state championship game on Nov. 25 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Tim Niedenthal, Bill Cravens, Steve Sickbert and Tom Giesting. Page 6 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011

PAID ADVERTISEMENT Amazing “Before & After” Photo Illustrates Impact of Catholic Outreaches Serving The Poor Overseas

Jim Cavnar looked at the two photographs on this desk and found it hard to believe they were taken of the same boy. One child is gaunt, glassy- eyed and limp in the arms of a caretaker. The other boy is healthy, alert and focused on play.

“...doctors didn’t think he would survive through the week.” James Cavnar, President of Cross

How could this possibly be the same child — Javier from Honduras? “We see before and after photos like this often, but I never cease to be amazed by them. It makes you marvel at the human body’s ability to rebound from trauma. It makes you realize that even someone who appears to be at death’s door can be rescued and revitalized,” explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross International Catholic Outreach. “When Javier was brought in to the Prince of Peace Nutrition Center that Cross Javier’s “before and after”photos provide a shocking reminder of how the poor live — and how important our help is in their lives. supports, he was 10 months old and weighed less than 9 pounds. The doctors organization with a committed staff, donor is the catalyst or trigger. Their whole new levels,” Cavnar said. “When a didn’t think he would survive through the but their programs would be paralyzed financial support is critical in turning a parish wants to launch a new feeding center, week, but the staff at Prince of Peace did without a regular stock of food, medicines tragic ‘before’ into a triumphant ‘after’ for we can partner with them and supply the food. a marvelous in nursing him back to and other supplies. They couldn’t properly a child like Javier. So I don’t take their When a poor rural village is facing problems health. The before and after pictures were feed or care for the children,” Cavnar role lightly. I give the credit where the with an unsafe water source, we can dig the taken only four months apart — you can explained. “Providing those resources is credit is due — to those who contribute to well or tap the spring to bring relief. Whether see the profound difference their care Cross International Catholic Outreach’s make success stories like this possible,” the need is for a clinic to treat the poor made for yourself.” role. Our support helps them obtain the Cavnar said. “In the simplest terms, or for a school to serve an impoverished As one of America’s leading Catholic food and other supplies they need to without the donor there wouldn’t be community, we can be there to help. relief agencies, Cross International treat children like Javier. It’s all about a ‘before and after’ story at all. Javier “Whatever their need, Cross has the Catholic Outreach is literally in the teamwork. The churches overseas wouldn’t have recovered. He wouldn’t potential to turn a tragic situation into business of creating success stories like provides the daily services, and Cross have survived.” something wonderful,” he added. “We this one in developing countries around and its donors help provide the material According to Cavnar, the scope of offer American Catholics the same the globe. Cross achieves this goal by resources needed for their outreaches.” work being funded by American Catholics opportunity. It’s a chance to do something enlisting support from U.S. Catholics Cavnar is clearly grateful to the American has been growing in recent years. As meaningful and profound in God’s name who share Cavnar’s concern for the poor Catholics who have chosen to support the more and more people learn about Cross and for His glory.” and his passion for rescuing children Cross International Catholic Outreach’s International Catholic Outreach in their Readers interested in supporting from needless suffering and death. It work. He emphasizes them often, pointing local parish or through stories in Catholic Cross International Catholic Outreach, channels its support through Catholic out that they are the real key to every newspapers, they add their support, allowing can use the brochure inserted in this partners already in place overseas — success story. Cross to further expand its outreach into issue or send tax-deductible gifts to: outreaches like the Prince of Peace “Dramatic turn-arounds like Javier’s new countries, touching more lives. Cross International Catholic Outreach, Nutrition Center that cared for Javier. are only possible because people step “With more support from American Dept. AC00814, PO Box 63, Akron, “Prince of Peace is a wonderful forward and offer a helping hand. The Catholics, we can take this outreach to OH 44309-0063. Cross Recognized, Endorsed by Nearly 50 U.S. Catholic Bishops

As Cross International Catholic Outreach elicit their prayerful and financial support of the people in south Mississippi in (CICO) continues its range of relief work for the service you provide to the less the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will to help the poor overseas, its efforts are fortunate around the world.” always be remembered and greatly being recognized by a growing number Bishop Kevin Vann of Fort Worth was appreciated,” he said. “Thank you for all of Catholic leaders in the U.S. just as enthusiastic about Cross Catholic the good you do, and may God bless you “We’ve received an impressive number and its mission. “I also know that many and your ministry.” of endorsements and letters of support from of the Bishops in Texas think very highly In addition to praising the work CICO American Bishops and Archbishops — and endorse the work and mission of accomplishes, many of the Bishops and nearly 50 Catholic leaders at last count,” Cross International Catholic Outreach Archbishops are also impressed by the explained Jim Cavnar, president of Cross — as well as do other Bishops whom I unique collaborative relationship Cross has International Catholic Outreach. “They’re know from my days of graduate studies with the Pontifical Council Cor Unum in Bishop Kevin W. Vann, a director on the impressed by the fact that we’ve done in Rome. Please know of my prayers and Rome. This allows the charity to participate board of Cross International Catholic outreaches in more than 40 countries and support for this vital work...” in the mercy ministries of the Holy Father Outreach, at a recent meeting with Pope that we undertake a variety of projects; In Archbishop Gregory Aymond’s case, himself. In his praise of CICO, Archbishop Benedict. everything from feeding the hungry the endorsement came with a personal Dennis Schnurr of Cincinnati underscored and housing the homeless to supplying note of thanks for the role Cross Catholic this unique connection. CICO president, Jim Cavnar, explained safe water and supporting educational played in helping families hit hard by “Cross International Catholic Outreach’s the significance of this connection. opportunities for the poorest of the poor.” Hurricane Katrina. close collaboration with the Pontifical Council “Our collaboration with Cor Unum Archbishop Robert Carlson of St. Louis “I’m happy to acknowledge that Cross Cor Unum is a source of encouragement,” the allows us to fund outreaches in virtually sent one of the more recent letters of International Catholic Outreach was of Archbishop said. “The has unique any area of the world, and we have encouragement, writing: “It is my hope that tremendous help to the Archdiocese of knowledge of local situations throughout used that method in special cases — to this ministry will continue to flourish and New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina,” the world through its papal representatives help the victims of natural disasters, for reach as many people as possible. I will he said. in nearly two hundred countries and through example,” he said. “It only represents a inform the priests of the Archdiocese of Bishop Thomas Rodi of Biloxi had its communications with Bishops and others small part of our overall ministry, but it St. Louis of the important work that Cross similar praise. who care for the poor and needy in every can be a very important benefit in those International Catholic Outreach does and “Your quick response to the needs corner of the world.” special cases.” The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 7

PAID ADVERTISEMENT U.S. Catholics “Spark A Miracle” — Ultimately Blessing Families On Other Side Of The Globe

In the stifling heat of a Mozambique summer dawn, the shrill cry of a hungry baby startles the young man from his dreamless sleep. It is still dark outside the flimsy hut, and his body screams for more sleep. But there are hungry children who will soon awaken, and he needs to prepare what little food is available. Suppressing the momentary temptation to escape from the overwhelming responsibility of this new day, he takes the baby a rusty cup half- filled with the last of the milk. He still grieves the loss of the baby’s mother, and wishes she were here to help him. It isn’t a selfish wish. At age 14, Camal Tila only wants what any young teenager in Mozambique would crave — a few less responsibilities, more time with his friends in the village and a decent education, the starting point for greater opportunities in his life. He wasn’t yet ready for this role of head of household to his younger siblings. Camal Tila, whose own father, mother and three younger siblings all died of AIDS within the last six years, now cares for 12 younger siblings and child relatives, including his baby sister. Hardly beyond childhood himself, Camal must now struggle to keep the family intact and alive. His dreams of independence and a family of his own fade with each passing day, leaving him to pray for a miracle and some small beacon of hope. “Tragically, Camal’s heartbreaking Camal (at right) is just one of thousands of orphans who have been helped by Cross. The orphan story is repeated across much of Africa, housing program is particularly effective — it allows entire families of orphans to stay together. where AIDS is decimating the population in many countries — and we are determined American Catholics who make up the One director of a program in Zambia to help as many of these poor orphans as Cross family of benefactors. described how ministries found a solution: possible,” explained Jim Cavnar, president “You could say that Cross International “We have made the care of orphans a of Cross International Catholic Outreach, Catholic Outreach is one of God’s funnels. partnership in which we all share the one of the nation’s leading relief ministries He pours resources through us to help responsibility and burden. We assure the to the poor. “Thankfully, it’s possible the poorest and neediest people on earth. families that if they will provide basic for us to make a difference. Serving as a The orphan crisis in Africa staggers our shelter, we will provide what they can’t give tool in God’s hands, we can help answer imagination and at times almost defies the children: the extra food, the access to the prayers of these children — spark a belief. But we remember that this is God’s health care, additional clothing and fees and miracle, if you will, on their behalf.” work and we are simply His channel. supplies needed to provide an education.” As Cavnar explains it, the “miracle” came So we continue to do everything we can Because the costs are shared, the amount to the Tila family through the generosity with the gifts God gives us,” he says. needed to provide food, clothing, health for that family of orphans. I hope they of American Catholics who responded to “Seeing things this way also helps us to care, education or other services is will see it for what it was — an act of Cross’ plea for help in diocesan newspapers keep the correct perspective on our work. surprisingly small — just $68 per child God’s mercy made possible by God’s and on Christian radio. Helping just one orphan family may not per year! faithful people. And I hope they will see “We explained the plight of the children seem like a world-changing accomplishment “It is amazing what can be done for it as one significant step in a greater, and the contributions we received enabled to a skeptic... but we know Camal Tila so little. Most people are also shocked more wide-reaching plan,” he added. us to partner with a Catholic orphan-care and his brother and sisters. We know to learn how little it can cost to supply “We celebrate one victory, knowing that ministry in Mozambique called Reencontro. that the help they received changed their a house and keep a family of orphans scores of other children have yet to be Among other things, the support allowed world forever, and we can celebrate that together. It’s just $3,500 to $5,000 to helped. And we can do that because we us to build a safe, concrete block house human triumph.” build a multi-room, cement-block house,” have no doubt that God will touch other for Camal and his family, and to supply Ultimately, the goals of Cross Cavnar said. “This is another value to hearts to respond generously, answering food and medical care to meet their basic International are to further expand its working through partnering African the prayers of other children like Camal. human needs,” Cavnar said. “Providing outreach to AIDS orphans through other ministries run predominately by volunteers. There is no more compassionate body of mentoring and building simple houses partnering ministries and to avoid putting It allows you to stretch donated dollars believers than the Catholic Church, and to keep orphan families together is these children in institutions if at all and have a bigger impact in the lives of I am confident my Catholic brothers and just one of several creative solutions possible. As Cavnar explains, “keeping the poor.” sisters in the U.S. will continue to respond that Reencontro has employed since orphans in their own culture and in the “I hope every American Catholic who where the needs are greatest. Jesus came its inception in 1988, when a devout homes of relatives or family friends is has supported us in this outreach will to save the whole world, one lost soul at a Catholic woman, Olinda Mugabe, was really the best option, and most Christian join me today in celebrating Camal’s time. He is our example, so we will never compelled by a love of Christ to do what ministries are committed to that strategy. new home and the hope it represents lose heart.” she could for the orphans in Mozambique. That’s why we give a priority to supporting She and her group are a treasure and a organizations that integrate orphaned blessing to the poor, and it’s our privilege children into existing families within to help them with their outreach.” their own villages or districts.” How to Help: Describing the support provided by The problem is that most poor African Cross as “help” is an understatement. families are already struggling under the Your help is needed for Cross International Catholic When the ministry first encountered weight of poverty and find it difficult to Outreach to bring Christ’s mercy to the poorest of Reencontro, it served 600 to 700 children. add one more mouth to feed, let alone the poor. Use the enclosed postage-paid brochure The support from Cross has allowed the two or three. If they hesitate to accept to mail your gift or send it to: Cross International group to expand its capacity significantly another child, it isn’t because they are Catholic Outreach, Dept. AC00814, 490 White Pond in a few short years — it now is a lifeline unwilling — they are simply unable to Drive, PO Box 63, Akron, OH 44309-0063. to more than 7,000 children like Camal. make ends meet on their already limited For this, Cavnar again credits the many resources. Page 8 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Teenagers celebrate their faith during opening session of NCYC

By John Shaughnessy

As soon as the doors opened, three teenage girls rushed toward the floor Rich Clark Photo by of Lucas Oil Stadium, wanting to reach front-row seats for the event they had been waiting for months to happen. Maggie Johnson, Alexis Black and Rachel Kennedy nudged past other youths who had arrived 90 minutes early for the opening session of the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis on the evening of Nov. 17. The three friends raced past seats that soon would be filled with 23,000 other youths, many of them proudly wearing a wonderfully crazy assortment of headwear that included white, feathery halos, flashing pink, green and blue glow-in-the-dark headbands, and hats that showcased the heads of cows, sharks, frogs, chickens and horses. Finally, the three girls from Illinois— wearing headwear that looked like a Chicago- pepperoni pizza—made it to the front-row seats for an event that would be part rock concert, part church revival, and all a strong reminder or revelation that the youth of the Catholic Church thirst for and respond to a lively, intense and heartfelt faith experience that matches their love of God, and their longing to be part of Youth animators perform during the Thursday night opening session of the National Catholic Youth Conference at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis on Nov. 17. a community that draws them even closer to him. as animators, who sang and danced “I’m hoping to get a deeper experience with Jansen. with God and feel the connection,” said Annie Quigley, a member of Christ the Alexis, 16, a member of St. Thomas the King Parish in Indianapolis, told the Rich Clark Photo by

Apostle Parish in Naperville,Ill., in the audience that the conference was a way to John Shaughnessy Photo by Archdiocese of Chicago, along with “become much closer to Christ.” Maggie and Rachel. Charlie Wessel, a member of St. Simon “I want to get in touch with my faith the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis, talked more,” noted Maggie, who is 16. about the importance of Catholic teenagers “I’m hoping to make new friends living their Christian values. and get deeper in my religion,” Rachel, The evening’s motivation talk came 15, added. from Bob McCarty, executive director of Knowing that longing in the National Catholic Federation for Catholic teenagers, emcee and Youth Ministry. Calling the youths entertainer ValLimar Jansen used the “a wonderful sign of the presence of opening night two-hour session to tap God” and “a hopeful sign for the into the youths’ desire to sing, dance, Catholic Church,” McCarty also challenged Alexis Black, left, Rachel Kennedy and Emcee ValLimar Jansen uses singing, dancing sway, clap, chant, laugh, reflect and the teenagers to embrace the conference‘s Maggie Johnson, all of Naperville, Ill., in the and reflection to get young people fired up celebrate their faith together in moments theme, “Called to Glory.” Archdiocese of Chicago, enjoy their front-row seats about their faith during the Thursday night that ranged from the silly to the serious. “When you are feeling overwhelmed, during the Thursday night opening session of the opening session of the National Catholic “We are all members of what I call the when you’re feeling lost, when you’re National Catholic Youth Conference on Nov. 17. Youth Conference on Nov. 17. love tribe,” Jansen exclaimed in a voice that feeling confused, ‘Come to me,’ Jesus radiated with joy, humor and warmth said,” McCarty declared. yes, Lord!” experience surpassed the high expectations throughout the evening. “Because they will It all flowed toward the evening’s most She then closed with a plea to the of Alexis, Rachel and Maggie. know we are Christians by our love.” memorable scene—when Jansen led the teenagers to “make a connection with “It was awesome!” Alexis said The longing of Catholic teenagers also 23,000 teenagers to a powerful moment Christ” during the weekend, and share as Rachel and Maggie nodded showed in the faith-sharing moments by that had them dancing, clapping and “the love of Christ” with each other. enthusiastically. The faces of the two of the 82 youth performers, known singing “Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Yes, From their front row seats, the three friends all glowed with joy. † Speaker encourages youths to read Scripture for guidance and support By Mary Ann Garber International, husband and father of three daughters from the relationship.” Phoenix reminded the teenagers that they should be proud When we sin, we are running away from God, Hart Never forget, Mark Hart told 23,000 National to share their Catholic faith with others. said. “The sheep can run, but the shepherd runs faster. Catholic Youth Conference participants, that God “Faith moves you forward,” he said. “Faith gets … You can’t outrun God. No sin is too great. No sin is created you, loves you and seeks a closer relationship God’s attention.” too large.” with you. And faith reminds you that sin doesn’t have power Turn around and run back to God, he said, who has “Prayer is your relationship with God,” Hart over you, Hart said, if you follow God’s commandments. “a bigger Kleenex” available through the sacrament of emphasized in his keynote address to teenagers on The Bible is “God’s love story for us,” he said. “[In the reconciliation. Nov. 18 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Book of Genesis], in the beginning, you hear about a God “God knows that nothing else in this world will “This morning, we have been proclaiming the word so mighty, so sovereign, so powerful that he creates satisfy you or bring you the joy or the peace that of God, searching for Christ, seeking Christ,” he said. everything out of nothing. Think about this. He said the you desperately desire except him,” he said. “In the Book of James, there is a beautiful little verse. … Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was “Blessed John Paul II, my hero, reminded us that it is It changed my life when I first read it. It says, ‘Draw near God, and everything sprung into existence” (Gn 1). Jesus that you seek when you dream of happiness. He to God and he will draw near to you’ ” [Jas 8]. The Book of Genesis also recounts how and Eve is the only one who is going to satisfy the deepest, most The executive vice president of Life Teen disobeyed God then hid from him in the Garden of Eden, ardent desires of your heart.” Hart said, but the Lord searched for them in “the world’s When you “get into your faith,” Hart said, “you’ll first game of hide and seek” to draw near to them again. like the way it makes you feel. … Jesus is your Savior. “Sin separates us, it divides us, from God,” he said, but It’s by the name of Jesus Christ that you will be saved. God’s grace multiplies and is far greater than any type … He is the Savior of the world. Until we wrap our of sin. heads around that, we’re never going to have the kind

Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber “We believe that this [conference] is about us seeking of intimate relationship with God that he wants to have God,” Hart told the teenagers. “You got on planes. with us. … It’s in prayer—it can be a prayer of You got on buses. You got in vans. You put on really great desperation, it can be a prayer of joy—it’s in prayer … T-shirts and insanely cool hats, and you came to seek that the cross changes shoulders.” God, … to deepen that relationship that already exists.” Catholics should take great pride in the word of God, Raising his well-worn Bible, he encouraged the youths he said, because “it was our Church that compiled to read Scripture for guidance and support. this book of holy Scripture—73 books written over “One of the best gifts we have in this beautiful story, 1,600 years by 45 authors—4,000 promises in this book this love story that God gives us, is this reminder made to you.” Life Teen executive vice president Mark Hart of Phoenix urges constantly that sins separates,” he said. “… When we fail God draws near to us in the Eucharist, reconciliation National Catholic Youth Conference participants to read the to pray, when we remain silent, when we don’t draw near and the other sacraments, Hart said. “The God of the Bible during his keynote address on Nov. 18 at Lucas Oil to God, oftentimes that silence is because there is sin universe loves you so much that he would rather die Stadium in Indianapolis. [in our life]. Oftentimes, that silence is because we broke than risk spending eternity without you.” † The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 9 NCYC participants encouraged to connect with Christ By Sean Gallagher

The 23,000 National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC) participants who gathered at Lucas Oil Stadium on the evening of Nov. 18 were encouraged to connect with Christ, Sean Gallagher Photo by each other and their own identity. That encouragement happened from the very start when the attendees made their way into the stadium, and were met by smiling youths holding up signs that read, “Free hugs.” Many took up their offer. Trying to raise her voice over the loud music that echoed in the stadium, teenager Pickett Lee of Jefferson City, Mo., gave a simple explanation for why she was offering free hugs—“Because God is love!” Sophia Ess, a youth from Adel, Iowa, gave her own thoughtful answer. “It increases fellowship and it shows everybody that there is somebody out there who really loves you,” she said. The three speakers for the evening expanded upon the theme during their presentations. Christina Lamas-Lujan, San regional coordinator of the Office of Religious Education for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, told listeners how a young woman from Nigeria named Patricia taught her how to connect with Christ. Lamas-Lujan met her during a 2008 Catholic Relief Services trip to Nigeria. Three months later, Patricia visited Lamas-Lujan in Los Angeles. “When she was at my house, she taught all of us who interacted with her that Christ is present in every single moment of our lives,” Lamas-Lujan said. “When we are Young people enjoy music as they prepare for the Nov. 18 evening session at the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis. desperately in need of Christ, Christ is there. In our joys, Christ is there. When we have nothing, Christ is there. The final speaker, Bishop Luis Zarama, was “My brothers and sisters, my question to you is, ‘Have you born and raised in Colombia before emigrating to the U.S. seen the connection? Are you connected to Christ?’ ” He told participants that, as a youth, he resisted his Singer, songwriter and speaker Joia Farmer of Wyoming mother’s call to participate in a retreat. He had even prayed Rich Clark Photo by told the young people to make connections with Christ, each that the bus he was traveling on to attend it would break other and themselves. She shared the story of her daughter, down so that he could go back home. Ava, whom she and her husband, Brad, adopted from an “When I reached that place, I cried for two days,” said orphanage in China. Bishop Zarama, an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Ava’s birth mother left her on a bench in front of the Atlanta. “I didn’t eat because the food was awful. But, at the orphanage when the baby was a week old. Soon thereafter, an end of the third day, through the intercession of Mary, I old man walking past noticed the baby and took her into the made my first confession in six years. orphanage. “Now, because of my mom, you have a bishop here who “You might think that her mother abandoned her,” Farmer loves you.” said. “I have a different way of seeing abandoned. Some Referring to the friends that many young people have on people see it as bad. But in that instance, her mother was the Internet social media website Facebook, Bishop Zarama my hero.” encouraged them to consider the quality of their friendship Contemplating that action taken by Ava’s birth mother led with Christ. Farmer to realize that she, too, knows what it means to be “Where is Jesus in all of the friends?” he asked. “Does he Above, Auxiliary Bishop abandoned and adopted. have a space in your life? Do you have time for him? You Luis Raphael Zarama of “I felt like an orphan at times,” she said. “I felt that I was have time for 10,000 friends all around the world, but when Atlanta encourages not connecting with Christ. I was not connecting with God. do you have time for Jesus? Rich Clark Photo by young people to I felt that he had abandoned me.” “That is the challenge. Connect with Jesus.” consider the quality of Farmer noted that Christ on the Cross knew what it was The Friday evening general session ended with their friendship with like to be abandoned by his friends—but not by his mother. participants praying an ancient prayer form called Christ during the “He gave us to her,” Farmer said. “And that is a moment lectio divina—holy reading. Nov. 18 NCYC evening worth noting. We are all orphans. We have all been adopted. They listened to a Scripture passage, proclaimed, session. In fact, [the night] before Jesus died, he said, ‘I will not leave meditated upon it and prayed a decade of the rosary. you orphans. I will come to you’ (Jn 14:18). NCYC animators proclaimed and acted out the passage, Left, singer, songwriter “My brothers and sisters, he comes to you. In your time of which was the Annunciation of the Blessed Mary and speaker need, in your time of sorrow, when you think that he’s not (Lk 1:26-38). Joia Farmer of there, that he’s abandoned you, he is in that moment, that They then meditated upon the passage with the assistance Wyoming tells young moment of your weakness.” of sand artist Joe Castillo, who created images from the life people during the Farmer explained that we connect to God when we do his of Christ that could be seen throughout the stadium on big Nov. 18 evening session will for us and give loving service to other people. screens above its stage. at NCYC to make “My brothers and sisters, love is a verb,” she said. “It is an One of the last steps of the lectio divina was connections with action. It is loving other people in our lives whom we can’t contemplation. It turned the cavernous stadium that, just Christ, each other and stand or maybe we’ve been hurt by or who need us. That is minutes earlier, boomed with loud worship and praise music themselves. an action. It is a verb.” into a silent house of prayer for about five minutes. † Youth conference attendees make sacrament of reconciliation a priority By Sean Gallagher It was where some 100 priests and bishops heard “In our town, there’s not a lot of Catholics that are confessions from a steady stream of youths and chaperones around our age,” Janna said. “To see so many people go While Lucas Oil Stadium and the many conference for 12 hours over two days. to confession and going to adoration is a great rooms and exhibit halls in the Indiana Convention Center As each penitent left those areas, they were given a experience.” were buzzing with laughing, singing and cheering during sticker that read, “I’m forgiven.” “Everyone is open about it [faith] here,” Alexandra the National Catholic Youth Conference (NCYC), there Countless conference participants could be seen wearing said. “No one’s going to get made fun of for praying. were some rooms in which the only sounds that could be the sticker on their clothing. Hopefully, that will travel back with us when we go heard were quiet whispers. The group included Logan Patrick, 18, of home. Maybe we can say a prayer before we eat lunch in Des Moines, Iowa. our cafeteria or something like that.” “It’s really inspiring,” he said. “It’s great to see so many The youths were not the only ones impressed by the Catholics get together to have their sins forgiven before the lines of NCYC participants waiting to go to confession. Eucharist on Saturday.” So was Bishop Luis Rafael Zarama, an auxiliary Photo by Rich Clark Photo by Madison Beagley, Janna Schulte and Alexandra Ptacek bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. are three friends from Russell, Kan., population 4,280, who “I was amazed to see the long lines waiting for attended NCYC. They were impressed by the lines of people confession,” Bishop Zarama said during Friday night’s waiting to go to confession and then showing everyone, by general session at Lucas Oil Stadium. wearing their sticker, that they had been forgiven. The 23,000 attendees at the conference, including “Nobody is being forced to do it,” Madison said. “Kids volunteers and chaperones, cheered in response. are doing it all on their own without them being told that “And why were you making a line for confession?” they have to. It shows how strong our faith is, and how it’s Bishop Zarama asked. “For one simple reason. When going to continue.” you make a confession, you see and have that Janna was in part moved by the sheer numbers of experience of connection with [Christ]. It’s how you Catholics her own age—more than 20,000—approximately experience love, the love that forgives you, the love Priests listen to teenagers’ confessions in a room at the five times the population of her hometown, at the that holds you. That is why you were making a line— Indiana Convention Center on Nov. 18 during the conference who practiced their faith, including going to to put aside selfishness and sin, and taste and see the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis. confession, so openly. love of God in Jesus.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 11

Retired Bishop Gerald A. Gettelfinger of Evansville, Ind., left, and Archbishop George J. Lucas of the Achdiocese of Omaha, Neb., discuss the Catholic faith with National Catholic Youth Conference participants during a bishops’ roundtable session on Nov. 18 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber ‘Called to Glory’ Youths live out their faith at National Catholic Youth Conference Photo by Sean Gallagher Sean Photo by

National Catholic Youth Conference emcee ValLimar Jansen, left, talks with conference participant Brogan Resch from the Diocese of LaCrosse, Wis., about her brother’s miraculous recovery following a hunting accident during the Friday morning general session on Nov. 18 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Father James Bonke, left, defender of the bond for the archdiocesan Metropolitan Tribunal and Indianapolis. associate pastor of Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, applauds during the National Catholic Youth Conference closing Mass on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. With Father Bonke are, from left, Bishop Timothy L. Doherty of the Lafayette Diocese; Bishop Matthew Clark of the Diocese of Rochester, N.Y.; Bishop Peter F. Christiansen of the Diocese of Superior, Wis.; and Bishop William F. Medley of the Diocese of Owensboro, Ky. Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber

Above, with multicolored lights flashing, 23,000 National Catholic Youth Conference participants fill the floor and lower National Catholic Youth Conference participants, from left, Owen, Tommy Gunderson, seats of Lucas Oil Stadium on Nov. 18 at the start of the conference’s Friday night general session. Andrew Eilert and Steven Gunderson from St. Parish in Beloit, Kan., in the Diocese of Salina, Kan., pray during the closing Mass on Nov. 19 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.Right, a member of the Felician Sisters speaks about her order on Nov. 17 with Ellarose Stewart of Port Orange, Fla., right, in the National Catholic Youth Conference’s “Vocations Village” at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Dozens of Bishop Simon Bruté College seminarians, from left, Andy Hirsch of Holy Cross Parish in religious communities from around the country spoke about their charism and ministries with thousands of youths during Fort Branch, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese; Cody Sandschafer of Sacred Heart Parish in the three days of the conference. Effingham, Ill., in the Diocese of Springfield, Ill.; Luke Hassler of St. Philip Parish in Mount Vernon, Ind., in the Evansville Diocese; and Patrick Hammans of Holy Spirit Parish in Below, Jean-Rene Tardie of Shreveport, La., talks with Bishop Paul D. Etienne of Cheyenne, Wyo., on Nov. 18 in the Indianapolis pray during the archdiocesan Mass on Nov. 17 at St. Church in National Catholic Youth Conference’s thematic park at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. Bishop Etienne, Indianapolis at the start of the three-day National Catholic Youth Conference last week. previously a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, was one of 29 bishops attending the conference. Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber

Sydney Speka of the Diocese of Dubuque, Iowa, from left, and Janelle and Kim Gengler of the Diocese of Salina, Kan., enjoy the music during the opening night general session of the National Catholic Youth Conference on Nov. 17 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by The Catholic Moment Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by

Photo by Bob Nichols/ Photo by Father Dustin Boehm, associate pastor of Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber Photo by MaryPhoto by Ann Garber St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, carries the monstrance during a eucharistic procession from St. John the Evangelist Church to the Indiana Convention Center on Nov. 17 in Kevin Souza, left, handles a new batch of freshly baked chocolate chip cookiesDemarco at the Paschall, left, from the Diocese of Indianapolis. The procession was part of the Indiana Convention Center on Nov. 17. A member of St. Christopher Parish in Lansing, Mich., tries to use a fishing pole to biennial National Catholic Youth Conference, a Bishop Chatard High School freshman Galt, Calif., Kevin, 16, joined in the community service project that eventually deliveredstand up a bottle on Nov. 18. The game was three-day experience of prayer, community and one of the many carnival-like challenges at a Christ the King parishioner and North CentralCharlie Wessel from St. Simon the Apostle Parish the cookies to women in prison. empowerment for Catholic teenagers and their booth set up by Salesian sisters, brothers High School senior Annie Quigley of in Indianapolis welcomes National Catholic Youth adult chaperones. and priests in the Victory Park area of the Indianapolis sings during the Friday morningConference participants to the opening night Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by National Catholic Youth Conference. general session of the National Catholic Youthgeneral session on Nov. 17 at Lucas Oil Stadium Conference on Nov. 18 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Page 12 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Eucharistic procession leads teens to deeper faith

By John Shaughnessy

In a soft voice touched with reverence, 17-year-old

Nicole Richardson recalled one of the most poignant Rich Clark Photo by moments of the National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis on Nov. 17-19. It was a moment that revealed the depth of faith that many young Catholics share, a moment that showed the hope and the promise of the Catholic Church now and for the future. The moment occurred as Nicole walked toward the Indiana Convention Center in the late afternoon of Nov. 17 with her group of 34 teenagers and adults from Holy Cross Parish in Orlando, Fla. Across the street, the heavy wooden doors of St. John the Evangelist Church suddenly opened and a eucharistic procession of about 2,000 people—mostly teenagers from the Archdiocese of Indianapolis—flowed down Capitol Avenue and toward the main entrance of the convention center, stopping traffic at rush hour in the heart of the city. Seeing the Eucharist on display in a new 3-foot-high monstrance made in Poland, Nicole and the others in her group knelt on the sidewalk as the procession passed on a cold, windy and gray day. “It was so beautiful to see in such a busy city how quiet and reverent it was,” Nicole recalled later. “Even if you weren’t Catholic or you don’t have religion, it would have showed you how faith can change people, how faith can change the world.” Moved by the scene, the group from Holy Cross Parish joined the end of the procession, adding their voices to the people who repeatedly and softly sang the refrain from the hymn Ubi Caritas—“where charity and love are, God is there.” As the procession weaved its way through the crowded halls of the convention center toward a chapel that had been created in one of the ballrooms, teenagers and adults lined the route, most standing quietly, others bending to kneel, some wiping away tears. “With everyone singing the same chant, it just felt like we were all one,” said Justus Schremmer, 17, a member of St. Mary Parish in Russell, Kan. “There was that Seminarian Timothy Wyciskalla of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis leads the eucharistic procession through the Indiana Convention feeling of unison. It was the feeling of being part of Center in Indianapolis during the opening day of the National Catholic Youth Conference on Nov. 17. something bigger.” That same feeling had marked the Archdiocese of Calling upon that spirit, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne people to get to know our faith,” Bishop Coyne said. Indianapolis’ opening Mass of the conference, just used his homily to encourage the archdiocese’s Thirty minutes later, that spirit and faith touched more before the eucharistic procession. St. John Church contingent to show their hospitality to the 23,000 people lives as the eucharistic procession flowed from the overflowed with young worshipers as the sacred choir of who came to the conference from across the country. church, into the street and through the convention center. Marian University in Indianapolis set the mood for the “It’s a moment for us to be hosts, to be people of “I had never done anything like that,” said an awed Mass with these lyrics from the entrance song, “The spirit great, warm hospitality who invite people to get to know Briana Killian, 16, a member of St. Jude Parish in of God is deep within us.” us, who invite people to get to know our city, who invite Indianapolis. “It’s just pure amazement to me.” † The ‘parable of the iPod touch’ applies to faith sharing By John Shaughnessy session, began his parable of the iPod touch, an electronic playing like we’re a doorstop, and some of us are device that can shoot video, make video calls, and play playing like we’re a paperweight because we’re scared to Before he shared “the parable of the iPod touch” to make music, videos and games. take the chance to really be what we were made to be,” a point about faith, Mike Patin used a touch of humor to Patin shared how he received the electronic device as a Patin told the audience. “St. said, connect with the 23,000 teenagers at the National Catholic Christmas gift last year from his 19-year-old daughter, ‘Be who you are called to be, and we will set the Youth Conference in Indianapolis. Megan. He also shared how he received a stern lecture world ablaze!’ ” Patin recalled a moment from trying to teach the from her when he was so intimidated by the device that he Patin said he understands how people get caught up in Catholic faith to small children at his Louisiana parish—a first decided to use it as a paperweight and then as a comparisons to others, leaving them with the feeling that time when he asked the boys and girls, “Where is God?” door stopper. they’re not the right person to share their faith. One boy kept waving his hand, a boy that fit Patin’s belief “She said, ‘Excuse me, do you know how much I “But your playlist is not supposed to be like the that “every class has one person you should not call upon.” sacrificed for you to have this because I know what you person next to you,” he said. “Because I guarantee you, Still, in a moment of kindness or weakness, Patin called love? Do you know how hard it was for me to give up there are some of us here who are like, ‘Share Christ? upon the boy. certain things so that you could have this? Do you know Not me. I’m too shy. I’m too short.’ ” “He looked me square in the face and said, ‘God is in my what you can do with this? You can listen to music, you can He paused and then challenged everyone, “Be who bathroom,’ ” Patin recalled in his rich Cajun accent. “Now, do videos, you can download applications, you can have we were called to be.” I’m over 50 and hard of hearing, and I thought it was my e-mails, you can download games and play ticked-off birds “You’re going to hit places I ain’t ever going to be hearing so I said, ‘What did you say?’ He said, ‘God is in or whatever it’s called.’ able to hit—the mall, Facebook, your friends, your my bathroom.’ I said, ‘What do you mean God is in your “I looked at her and said, ‘Yeah, Meg, I got it, but school,” he continued. “I’m asking you as a teenager bathroom?’ He said, ‘Every morning, when I wake up, to go there’s so much in there. I don’t know how to run it all. I’m who’s struggling and trying to find Christ and working to school, I go out in the hallway, and my daddy is banging not going to use half the applications that are there. Meg, at staying connected to learn to use your style, on the bathroom door, ‘My God! Are you still in there?!’ ” it’s just all right. Let it go.’ She said, ‘Yeah, you can use it your playlist. The crowd inside Lucas Oil Stadium roared with laughter as a doorstop, but you know that’s not what it was made “We share Christ by giving our care and our gifts and during that morning general session on Nov. 18. The for, and you’re insulting me.’ ” our talents to others. Do you understand that you’re the laughter continued as Patin, the keynote speaker for the After mentioning how “it’s something when your hands and the feet [of Christ]? Are you willing to make daughter dresses you down,” Patin made the connection for room to let him in, and let him use you so you can leave the audience between his fear and uncertainty in using the this place and be his presence out there?” electronic device and many people’s fear and uncertainty in Holding the iPod touch, Patin shared one more sharing their faith. thought. Photo by Rich Clark Photo by “Everybody in here is an iPod, but some of us are “I got to play it. I ain’t a doorstop.” † T-shirt messages vividly express Catholic faith By John Shaughnessy displayed on T-shirts at the conference. “He died for me. I live for him.” Teenagers often make fashion and social statements with “Cool to be Catholic.” the T-shirts they wear. “Catholicism is not a spectator sport.” At the National Catholic Youth Conference in “DORK— of the Risen King.” Indianapolis on Nov. 17-19, T-shirts that captured thoughts “God has assigned as a duty to every man … the Mike Patin used humor and storytelling to connect with the about the Catholic faith were naturally among the most dignity of every woman.”—Pope John Paul II 23,000 people who attended the Nov. 18 morning session at popular souvenirs for the 23,000 teenagers who attended. “Catholic Church. Refreshing our faith since Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis during the National Catholic Here are six of the Catholic “messages” that were 33 A.D.” † Youth Conference. The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 13 Bishops enjoy seeing vibrancy of youths’ faith at confer ence By Mary Ann Garber entertainment. It really is about learning our faith in Christ and witnessing to Christ. To see our young people excited about As they picked up pens, the bishops smiled at the teenagers that excites me as a bishop. waiting in line for their autographs on special trading cards in “It’s good to see everybody enjoying themselves and to see Victory Park, the theme park at the National Catholic Youth so many of the Indianapolis people that are volunteers and the Sean Gallagher Photo by Conference, on Nov. 18 in Indianapolis. crew behind the scenes that make all this possible,” he said of During the three-day conference, 29 bishops participated in friends from his home archdiocese. liturgies, general assemblies, roundtable discussions and “I think our young people in general have a greater autograph sessions. awareness of the role of the bishop in terms of being a spiritual “It’s really an awesome experience to see so many of our father and being that person of Christ in the midst of the young people gathered in faith,” said Bishop Kevin C. Rhodes diocese,” Bishop Etienne said. “I’ve sensed that energy and from the Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend in that love, if you will. It’s very heartening.” northern Indiana. Bishop Earl A. Boyea from the Diocese of Lansing, Mich., “It’s kind of like a mini-World Youth Day,” Bishop Rhodes paused from signing his trading cards to reflect on the meaning Bishop Charles C. Thompson of Evansville, Ind., left, gives a signed said. “I was with our young people in Madrid [last August], of the national youth gathering. trading card of himself to Catherine Nguyen of New Orleans on and this kind of brings back memories of that. It’s always “I think it’s just great that we can help these young people Nov. 18 in the National Catholic Youth Conference’s thematic park uplifting to see their joy in the faith, and also to see their attach themselves to Christ and find out how much Christ is at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. prayer together. I just came from a holy hour with many of attached to them,” Bishop Boyea said. “I really think that’s the young people, and it was so prayerful, so intense in a way, the key.” take their faith seriously and want to know how they can live with all of us worshiping Jesus.” Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz from the Archdiocese of it more fully as adults. It’s been a great, great experience Bishop Paul D. Etienne of Cheyenne, Wyo., a native Anchorage, Alaska said spending time with Catholic teenagers here.” of Tell City and former priest of the Archdiocese of and young adults is “a great support for my own faith.” Bishop Peter Christiansen from the Diocese of Indianapolis, said 20 teenagers from his diocese participated He did this in part during the conference in the bishops’ Superior, Wis., said participating in the National Catholic in the national conference. roundtable discussions with Catholic teenagers from across the Youth Conference “should be a required event for every “It’s wonderful to see so many people come together, country. bishop after the Baltimore meeting because it really especially so many young people at the opening session “The discussion I had this morning … was wonderful,” rejuvenates your faith. The enthusiasm and the energy of the last night and again this morning,” Bishop Etienne said, “and Archbishop Schwietz said, “talking to them about their youths are very contagious.” to see their energy and to see the content of the faith being struggles in their faith and asking me questions about how they discussed in the presentations. It’s good that it’s not just about can be stronger in their faith. It’s wonderful to see how they (Reporter Sean Gallagher contributed to this story.) † Teens answer the call to service at NCYC by helping people in need By John Shaughnessy more than 5,000 backpacks with school supplies and Rachel Schmidt, personal hygiene items for children in Indiana’s 17, a member of Kevin Souza put freshly baked chocolate chip cookies into foster care system. St. Pius X small baggies, knowing they would be part of a delivery to women The youths sewed more than 200 dresses for children Parish in in prison. in Haiti. They also donated enough non-perishable food

Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by Urbandale, “We saw that they needed help, and they put us to work,” items to fill 15 pallets for the St. Vincent de Paul Society Iowa, creates a said Kevin, 16, a member of St. Christopher Parish in Galt, Calif. Food Pantry and Gleaners Food Bank, two organizations that Christmas card “We’re doing this for a women’s prison.” help the poor in central Indiana. for an American Rachel Schmidt used scissors to trim an image of the Kendall Howell, Megan Gafvert and Elyse Quast were soldier serving Blessed Mother and the baby Jesus, part of an effort to send among the many Catholic teenagers who donated money to overseas during Christmas cards to American soldiers serving overseas during support a project that provides water purification systems the holidays— the holidays. and wells in Haiti. part of the “The soldiers are doing so much for us,” said Rachel, 17, a “Drinking water is an important staple for every service member of St. Pius X Parish in Urbandale, Iowa. “Who knows what community,” said Elyse, 17, a member of St. Apollinaris emphasis that kind of Christmas they’ll have under fire while I’m at home with my Parish in Napa, Calif., along with Megan and Kendall. marked the family, unwrapping presents. They deserve something good from us.” “The whole point of this conference is to give back while we National The efforts and attitudes of Kevin and Rachel reflected the strong learn about our faith.” Catholic Youth commitment to service that was a key part of the National Catholic “I’ve just been offered so much in my life, and sometimes Conference in Youth Conference in Indianapolis on Nov. 17-19. I take things for granted,” said Kendall, 15. “Small things Indianapolis on During the conference, Catholic teenagers baked more than can make so much of a difference. It’s our job as this Nov. 17-19. 5,000 cookies for distribution to people in prison. They also filled generation of Catholics to do what we can to help others.” †

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Expires 12/10/11 Expires 12/10/11 Expires 12/10/11 Page 14 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Advent penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled communal penance services for Advent. The following is Advent, a season of joyful expectation a list of services that have been reported to The Criterion. Advent resources before Christmas, begins on Nov. 27 this year. The Advent wreath, with a candle Batesville Deanery are available on marking each week of the season, is a Nov. 29, 7 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg archdiocesan Web site traditional symbol of the liturgical Dec. 4, 1 p.m. for Immaculate Conception, Millhousen; MaryF i le photo by Ann Garberd period. This Advent wreath was on St. Denis, Jennings County; and St. Maurice, During the season of Advent, the Archdiocese of display at St. John the Evangelist Parish Napoleon, at St. Maurice, Napoleon Indianapolis will have a special Web page at in Indianapolis in 2007. Dec. 5, 7 p.m. at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception, www.archindy.org/advent. Aurora The page contains various Advent resources, including service schedules, images of past Criterion Dec. 7, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Shelbyville links to the daily readings, past reflections from Christmas Supplement covers and links of interest to Dec. 7, 4-5:30 p.m. and 6:30-7 p.m. at St. Peter, Archbishop Emeritus Daniel M. Buechlein, penance other Advent Web sites. † Franklin County Dec. 13, 6:45 p.m. for St. Anne, Hamburg; St. John the Evangelist, Enochsburg; and St. Maurice, St. Maurice, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. , Fortville Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at St. Paul, Sellersburg at St. Maurice, St. Maurice Dec. 20, 7 p.m. for SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County St. Mary at St. Mary New Albany Dec. 14, 4-5:30 p.m. and 6:30-7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the- Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton Rock, Franklin County Indianapolis North Deanery Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyds Knobs Dec. 14, 7 p.m. for St. Charles, Milan; St. Pius, Dec. 11, 2 p.m. deanery service at St. Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. , Bradford Ripley County; St. Mary Magdalen, New Marion; and Dec. 13, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Luke the Evangelist Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Charlestown St. John the Baptist, Osgood, at St. John the Baptist, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. deanery service at St. Luke the Evangelist Dec. 18, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight Osgood Dec. 18, 3 p.m. at Holy Family, New Albany Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg Indianapolis South Deanery Dec. 19, 7 p.m. at St. , Clarksville Dec. 17, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. for St. Joseph, St. Leon; Nov. 29, 7 p.m. at St. St. Paul, New Alsace; St. John the Baptist, Dover; and Nov. 30-Dec. 21, 6-6:30 p.m. at St. Barnabas Seymour Deanery St. Martin, Yorkville, at St. John the Baptist, Dover Dec. 11, 3 p.m. at Good Shepherd Dec. 11, 2 p.m. for Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, and St. Rose of Dec. 20, 7 p.m. for St. Nicholas, Ripley County, and Dec. 12, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus Lima, Franklin, at St. , Franklin St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, at St. Anthony of Padua, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m. at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Dec. 13, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Vevay, Morris Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Jude and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of Peace, Dec. 22, 7 p.m. at St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Roch Madison Bright Dec. 19, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, Greenwood Dec. 14, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Providence, Brownstown, Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at St. Ann and St. , Seymour, at St. Ambrose, Seymour Bloomington Deanery Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Bartholomew, Columbus Dec. 11, 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. for St. , Indianapolis West Deanery Dec. 19, 7 p.m. for St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, Bloomington; St. Paul Catholic Center, Bloomington; Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace, Danville North Vernon; and St. Joseph, Jennings County, at and St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington, at St. Charles Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Malachy, Brownsburg St. Joseph, Jennings County Borromeo, Bloomington Dec. 6, 7 p.m. at St. Gabriel the Archangel Dec. 21, 6 p.m. at St. Patrick, Salem Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. Monica Dec. 22, 6 p.m. at American Martyrs, Scottsburg Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. , Mooresville Dec. 20, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville Dec. 14, 7 p.m. at St. Michael the Archangel Tell City Deanery Dec. 21, 7 p.m. at St. Jude, Spencer Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph Dec. 11, 2:30 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. at St. Susanna, Plainfield Dec. 14, 6:30 p.m. at St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad Indianapolis East Deanery Dec. 21, 6:30 p.m. at St. Augustine, Leopold Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield New Albany Deanery Dec. 5, 7 p.m. for Our Lady of Lourdes, St. Therese of Nov. 29, 7 p.m. for Sacred Heart, Jeffersonville, and Terre Haute Deanery the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) and St. Bernadette at St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, at St. Augustine, Dec. 1, 7 p.m. at Holy Rosary, Seelyville St. Bernadette Jeffersonville Dec. 11, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Rockville Dec. 7, 1 p.m. for Holy Cross and St. Philip Neri at Nov. 30, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Corydon Dec. 13, 7 p.m. at St. , Greencastle St. Philip Neri Dec. 4, 4 p.m. at St. Mary, Lanesville Dec. 15, 1:30 p.m. at St. Ann, Terre Haute Dec. 13, 6:30 p.m. at St. Rita Dec. 5, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph, Sellersburg Dec. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph University, Terre Haute Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m. at Holy Spirit Dec. 11, 4 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany Dec. 15, 12:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton † State high court says backers of Proposition 8 have standing to appeal ruling SAN FRANCISCO (CNS)—The faith-based groups that discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation and gender. “it is essential to the integrity of the initiative process ... that sponsored Proposition 8, the state’s 2008 voter-approved ban As the circuit court took up the issue, its judges needed to there be someone to assert the state’s interests in an on same-sex marriage, have the right to appeal a federal resolve a question—Do the backers of the proposition have initiative’s validity on behalf of the people when the public judge’s 2010 ruling that the ban is unconstitutional, the the legal right to defend it in court when two elected officials who normally assert that interest decline to do so.” state’s high court said. officials, the former governor and the former attorney general That was a victory for ProtectMarriage.com as a The California Supreme Court issued a unanimous refused to do so? proponent of Prop 8, and it allows the 9th Circuit now to opinion on Nov. 17. The appellate judges put the case on hold and asked the resolve the critical question in the case—whether or not Catholics are among the backers of Prop 8 who appealed California Supreme Court to decide the matter. Chief Justice Prop 8 is constitutional—although it is expected that the to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals the ruling that it Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, writing for the court, said that U.S. Supreme Court will have the final word. †

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By David Gibson “God’s family” also should reach poor,” the pope noted. “beyond the frontiers of the He said, “As the Church grew, I remember how the words Church,” the pope made clear in this radical form of material leapt off the page for me when his encyclical. He explained that communion could not, in fact, be L’Osservatore Romano L’Osservatore Pope Benedict XVI, early in “the parable of the good preserved. But its essential core

January 2006, characterized the Samaritan remains as a standard remained: Within the community CNS photo/ Church as “a gathering of which imposes universal love of believers, there can never be friends” who are each other’s toward the needy, ... whoever room for a poverty that denies committed “companions.” they may be.” anyone what is needed for a He said this in a homily for Still, without intending to dignified life” (#20). the of 10 infants in the detract “from this commandment Is the love that Pope Benedict Vatican’s Sistine Chapel. of universal love,” Pope Benedict describes still possible in our Departing from his prepared text, insisted that “the Church also world? the theologian- has a specific It is, he stressed, and he pope proceeded to responsibility: said that “we are able to describe the bonds Within the practice it because we are among the ‘Within the ecclesial family, created in the image of God.” Church’s members community of no member Pointing to the encyclical’s in both the should suffer purpose, Pope Benedict said, strongest and believers, there through being in “To experience love, and in this warmest of terms. can never be need.” way to cause the light of God to “Through room for a In the enter into the world—this is the baptism, each child encyclical, invitation I would like to extend” is inserted into a poverty that Pope Benedict (#39). gathering of denies anyone recalled the It is important to recognize the friends who never what is needed portrait of the possibility of love and the value abandon him in early Christian of the bonds among human life or in death for a dignified community beings in these times of because these life.’ drawn by the economic difficulty, companions are Acts of the Cardinal Adam J. Maida God’s family,” Apostles (#20). suggested in a late 2008 pastoral Pope Benedict —Pope Benedict XVI The early letter titled “Christ Our Hope.” said. Christians The cardinal retired in 2009 as “This group of accepted Detroit’s archbishop. friends, this family responsibility for “We grow and thrive by of God, into which the child is each other’s well-being, sharing being in relationships and by now admitted, will always their possessions and dividing being in families, and in accompany him. Even on days of them “among all according to communities of faith and suffering and in life’s dark nights, each one’s need” (Acts 2:44-46). service,” Cardinal Maida wrote. it will give him consolation, We are told in the Acts of the “We are all at our best when we comfort and life.” Apostles that the very early are part of a healthy flow of Pope Benedict XVI baptizes an infant in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican on Pope Benedict’s words Christians “devoted themselves to giving and receiving in respectful Jan. 8, 2006. During the celebration of the sacrament, the pope described the that day foreshadowed his the teaching of the Apostles and relationships.” Church as “a gathering of friends who never abandon him in life or in death.” first encyclical, titled “God Is to the communal life, to the In uncertain times, people may Love,” released just 17 days later. breaking of the bread and to the feel they “have little power over and sons of God. … We all need Charity, said Cardinal Maida, It, too, emphasized the strength prayers. … All who believed the circumstances” surrounding to receive, and we all need “is a way of giving in which the of the bonds within the Church were together and had all things them, Cardinal Maida observed. to give.” other is always affirmed and community. The pope suggested in common” (Acts 2:42, 44). “Yet,” he said, “each of us has Furthermore, he pointed out strengthened, ennobled and that these bonds should prompt The “element of communion” the power to hear God’s word, that together with Christmas, the dignified.” He added that, “in the Church and her people to encompassed by that description and to use our time and talents to Advent season provides Christian charity, we strive to see serve the well-being of all. of early Christian life was express concretely and creatively “countless opportunities for the face of Christ in the other, and “The Church is God’s family discussed by the pope in the our solidarity with our brothers charity”—charity that might take we want the person receiving our in the world. In this family, no encyclical. This element “consists and sisters,” many of whom the form of “something as simple charity to see Christ’s face in us.” one ought to go without the in the fact that believers hold all suffer profoundly. as a smile, a ‘thank you’ to the necessities of life,” the encyclical things in common and that The cardinal spoke of charity grocery bagger, taking a tag from (David Gibson served on said (#25). among them, there is no longer as “a lifelong calling that comes the Giving Tree or helping the Catholic News Service’s editorial But the care extended within any distinction between rich and from being baptized daughters homebound.” staff for 37 years.) † Mystery binds together God’s almighty power and our freedom By Fr. Lawrence E. Mick This author asks an unusual question: “Why do you let If there was a drought, God was punishing people. us wander, Lord, from your ways, and harden our hearts so If the rains came, God relented. As we begin the season of Advent, we read from the that we fear you not?” (Is 63:17). We frequently see such views in the Bible. final section of the Book of . Scholars tell us that It almost sounds as though the prophet is blaming God Today, however, we are much more aware of natural this portion of the book was likely not written by Isaiah, for the people’s sinfulness and hardness of heart! processes that cause weather changes and disease and but by a later author who was a disciple of Isaiah. The line raises a fundamental question that has puzzled death. While we still believe that God is in charge of the believers for centuries: What is the relationship between universe, we recognize that God normally works through God’s almighty power and our free will? these natural processes rather than by direct intervention. There is no question that God can do whatever he wants At the same time, the words of Isaiah remind us that to do as long as it is not self-contradictory. (God cannot we are dependent on God’s grace. We do not have the create a square circle, for example.) power to create a relationship with God on our own. It is But God could force us to do the right thing if that was possible only because God offers us the grace to enter the way he wanted the universe to work. into a loving friendship. CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters Rivas, CNS photo/Oswaldo Instead of maintaining that kind of control, however, God does not harden our hearts, but it is the grace of God has given us free will. We are able to choose to follow God that softens our hearts. God’s will or to turn away from him. God does let us wander from his way, but he also Looking around our world, we might think that God constantly seeks to bring us back. made a bad choice. Human beings so often use their During Advent, the refrain of one responsorial psalm free will to embrace evil. says: “Lord, ... let us see your face and we shall be But if we did not have free will, we could not really saved” (Ps 17:15). love God or one another. A love that is forced is no real As such, Advent reminds us that God has come to love at all. share our human life in Jesus. When we see God’s face People kneel in prayer in front of a crucifix at the In ages past, many people had a very direct view of in Jesus, we are drawn to God and turn away from sin. Metropolitan Cathedral in Managua, Nicaragua on March 26, 2010. God’s control of the universe: The relationship between God’s omnipotence and human free will If a storm came up, God sent it. (Father Lawrence E. Mick is a priest of the has been a profound mystery for believers for centuries. If a person died, God took him or her. Archdiocese of Cincinnati.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Biblical readings: Beginning the Book of Isaiah Want faith-filled The Book of Isaiah is read as part of the composed sometime after the exile. eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. children? Take Office of Readings throughout Advent and Next week’s readings in the Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, again between the feasts Office of Readings are taken from the hear the orphan’s plea, defend the widow” them to Mass of Epiphany and the first 21 chapters—Chapters 1 and 2 and parts (Is 1:16-17). Baptism of Jesus. This of 5, 16, 19 and 21. They skip Chapters 6 to Because of their sins, God will take Thanksgiving is a quintessential emphasizes both the 12. That is surprising because those are vengeance on his foes, but then, “Zion shall American holiday. book’s importance and known as the Immanuel Prophecies, be redeemed by judgment, and her repentant Its roots go back to the first days on its length. It is predicting the coming of a Savior, which you ones by justice” (Is 1:27). This verse is the this land of some of considered the most would expect to read during Advent. They key to the whole Book of Isaiah. After our first settlers. And valuable Old Testament undoubtedly are skipped because passages God’s judgment, Zion’s survivors will return it is a holiday that book for the from them are read during some of the to God. tempers a typically New Testament, Masses in Advent, and it didn’t seem Then, Isaiah says, “The mountain of the American attitude—to and it is also the second longest book in necessary to duplicate them in the Lord’s house shall be established as the take pride in pulling the Bible after Psalms. Office of Readings. highest mountain and raised above the hills. ourselves up by our The Book of Isaiah is an anthology of The book begins with an indictment of All nations shall stream toward it” (Is 2:2). bootstraps. poems, beautifully written by the greatest of Israel and Judah for being a “sinful nation, From Zion, God “shall judge between the Thanksgiving the prophets and by his disciples. It is really people laden with wickedness, evil race, nations, and impose terms on many peoples. encourages us to give three books spanning three centuries up to corrupt children! They have forsaken the They shall beat their swords into plowshares thanks for the help we about 500 B.C. The first 39 chapters were Lord and spurned the Holy One of Israel” and their spears into pruning hooks; one have received from other people and, likely written by the prophet Isaiah, who (Is 1:4). nation shall not raise the sword against especially, from God. lived in Jerusalem from about 765 B.C. until Isaiah takes the people to task for not another, nor shall they train for war again” Thanksgiving can also be a sometime after 701 B.C., although there are caring for the needy. He quotes God as saying (Is 2:4). quintessential holiday for Catholic additions by his disciples even here. that he has had enough of their sacrifices of Chapter 19 is a prediction of the Americans since the Eucharist, which Chapters 40-55, known as Second Isaiah, lambs and goats. He will not listen to their conversion of Egypt and Assyria, when means “thanksgiving,” is at the heart of were written near the end of the prayers because their hands are full of blood. “Israel shall be a third party with Egypt and our faith. Babylonian Exile in the sixth century B.C., Instead of all their festivals, God says, Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the land” But this year, we have special reason to and Chapters 56-66, Third Isaiah, were “Put away your misdeeds from before my (Is 19:24). † value this day on which families and friends gather to share a meal and Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes give thanks. It is because on this weekend after Thanksgiving can honor the darndest things Thanksgiving, Catholics across this country will be using a new translation of Thanksgiving is a uniquely American through all the stages of grief, including whom we had never met, who came to help the prayers we pray at Mass. holiday. Our foreparents invented it, FDR denial, blame-laying and, finally, us move out furniture. We discovered the Over the past year, pastors and religious declared it a national acceptance. kindness of strangers over and over again. educators have been encouraging us to see holiday and we’ve been But with the grief came more blessings Another potential disappointment this moment as a chance to grow in our celebrating it ever since. than I can name. One was the realization became a blessing when our only daughter love and understanding of the Eucharist. Surely we’re not the that “bad” things happen to good people married a German and moved to Hamburg. That is good advice for us as only people in the world like us, things we did not cause and over She has lived there for more than 30 years, individuals and as parish communities. to have cause to thank a which we have no control. It was a providing us along the way with But it is also a great opportunity for good God for all our reminder that we’re not in charge of the two wonderful grandchildren, three families as well. blessings, but I’m proud universe despite all our noble intentions, “greats,” and a raft of German and No matter how well organized a that we’re the ones who cleverness or diligence. It taught us that expatriate American friends whom we have parish’s efforts might be in its catechetical recognize the how we deal with events without whining come to love. It’s given us a great excuse to efforts surrounding the implementation of importance of about “Why us?” would be the final arbiter travel around Europe, to experience other the new Mass translation, it will always commemorating it. of our family’s success. cultures in depth and to better understand rest on the foundation of faith laid within Giving thanks means many things to Our other children profited from their world politics. the life of our families. many people. Some folks are grateful for brothers’ disabilities as well. Instead of The dings of aging have provided us There are all kinds of ways that parents good health or a decent job or being in complaining because they had to help the with greater appreciation for things we can plant seeds of faith in their children— loving relationships. Some thank God boys, or sometimes give up what they formerly took for granted—things like from teaching them their prayers and because they have more money than anyone wanted because their brothers’ needs came seeing and hearing and unlimited energy. helping them learn Church doctrine to could imagine, a home so lavish that it might first, they felt responsible and empathetic. We seem to savor a tasty meal more than fostering in them a desire to do good and appear in an issue of Architectural Digest or They learned how to be good parents. ever, and to really enjoy a good night’s avoid evil. membership in an exclusive country club. Even the neighbor kids learned sleep. We can rest and reflect and be silent But regular attendance at Sunday Mass And some are glad they belong to a favored compassion and tolerance of others who are without feeling an urgent need for action. is absolutely vital. When children go to race or a powerful nation. What’s different from themselves, and all of us Instead, we can make life a constant Mass with their parents, they receive meaningful to one person may mean nothing enjoyed their sweetness and humor. prayer of gratitude for whatever life brings. grace to nurture all other aspects of their to another. Then there was the time when our house Thanksgiving is indeed a major lives of faith. If you live long enough, you learn to be caught on fire from lightning while we were American holiday, but it’s also something And a good portion of that grace grateful for the darndest things, things that away, and the roof was burned off. We had we can experience every day of the year. comes through children simply seeing you might think are painful or destructive. to move to an apartment for six months, their parents pray and value prayer For example, I’ve always been grateful which gave us greater appreciation of our (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the enough that they make sacrifices to do so. for having had children with disabilities. home. It also revealed the goodness of Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular I saw my own parents do that in a Naturally, it was hard at first, when we went friends and fellow parishioners, some of columnist for The Criterion.) † special way when I was a young boy, and it made such an impression on me that I Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli still remember it vividly to this day. It happened when my family and I This season and always, will you accept the gift of God’ s love? attended a wedding of a cousin in northern Indiana. The reception went on Our Bible study group adopted the With that, he was gone. delivering the presents; the homeless man, well into a Saturday night. struggling family of a business associate for Megan and I began moving presents for whom I felt overpowering It would have been easy for my parents Christmas. from my trunk to hers when another person compassion; and an old dear friend, to choose to sleep in the next morning and Keeping the project approached, pointed to me, and said, offering everlasting love and skip Sunday Mass, especially since we discreet, I met my “Don’t I know you?” understanding. were scheduled to drive from there to co-worker, Megan, in I looked into the eyes of an old, dear I cared for each of them equally. Detroit for a family vacation. an abandoned parking friend that I hadn’t seen in years. Mysteriously, I felt no division in my love Instead, they made sure that we got up lot to deliver the “Rosa!” I shouted. She was walking for the business associate, the stranger or early so we could all go to Sunday Mass. presents. I had parked through the parking lot to meet a friend for the old friend. I now have a family of my own. And my car and opened the lunch at a nearby restaurant. Smiling, we This must be how God loves us. We although taking our young, rambunctious trunk when a man with hugged and swapped stories about our are all unique. We are all at differing boys to Mass can be challenging, my messy red hair, a current lives before parting. stages in our relationship with him. wife, Cindy, and I are dedicated to doing tattered shirt and Finally, Megan and I put the last of the And, yet, he loves each one of us, so each Sunday. missing teeth suddenly appeared. Christmas gifts into her car. It was a toy without limit, without preference and That practice, in itself, can reap great He carried a few limp daisies, and said wrapped with green paper depicting the without bounds. dividends in our children’s lives of faith. he was selling them for money to rent a Nativity. Megan stood quietly, surveying This Christmas, give yourself the gift In this time when a new translation of room that night. I hesitated, but he kept his all the presents, and swallowed the lump that keeps on giving by believing in the Mass will begin to be used, children distance, gently awaiting my decision. After in her throat. God’s love for you. No matter if you may very well ask their parents questions assessing the situation, I decided to “buy” a “Your church group has done so much,” consider yourself stranger or friend, about it. couple of his flowers. she whispered. “Thank you. Merry whether you’ve stumbled or persisted, Parents can get some basic information Hoping to help him, I searched my Christmas.” wandered far or stayed close. There is to help their children learn about the new wallet, but found only coins. Disappointed, We hugged, and I fought back tears. no division in his love for us. He loves words that we are praying at Mass by I dug out every quarter, nickel and dime We parted, but I couldn’t shake the us all equally. logging on to www.usccb.org/romanmissal then handed them to him, and he offered day’s events or the powerful message that As St. Augustine said, “God loves each or by viewing informative videos about the me a flower. I started to take one, but they delivered. of us as if there were only one of us.” new translation at www.lifeteen.com. instead thanked him and suggested that he In a few short minutes of my life, I At this time when our attention will be keep them to sell to someone else. learned something about the love of God. (Debra Tomaselli lives in Altamonte drawn in a special way to giving thanks at He offered a smile as he turned to leave, There, in the back of that parking lot, Springs, Fla. Her column appears in Mass, let us pray that the Eucharist will then stopped and looked back at me. love greeted me in many forms—my several diocesan newspapers. Her e-mail be more and more at the root of the life of “Thank you,” he said. “God bless you.” business associate, to whom I was address is [email protected].) † all Catholic families. † The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 17

First Sunday of Advent/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Nov. 28 Friday, Dec. 2 The Sunday Readings Isaiah 2:1-5 Isaiah 29:17-24 Psalm 122:1-9 Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 Sunday, Nov. 27, 2011 they moved. Matthew 8:5-11 Matthew 9:27-31 St. Mark’s Gospel is the source of the • Isaiah 63:16b-17, 19b, 64:2-7 last reading. • 1 Corinthians 1:3-9 It offers us a theme found quite Tuesday, Nov. 29 Saturday, Dec. 3 • Mark 13:33-37 often in the New Testament, namely that Isaiah 11:1-10 St. , priest Christ will come to Earth again. In this Psalm 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17 Isaiah 30:19-21, 23-26 This weekend, the Church begins the Second Coming, the Lord will be the Luke 10:21-24 Psalm 147:1-6 season of Advent. great victor and the judge of all creation. Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5a, 6-8 It also begins the use of biblical By the time the Gospels were written, readings from Year B even in the case of the Gospel of Mark— Wednesday, Nov. 30 of its three-year cycle. perhaps the oldest of the four Gospels as St. Andrew, Apostle Sunday, Dec. 4 Advent also marks they now exist—Christians were Romans 10:9-18 Second Sunday of Advent the start of a new numerous enough, and geographically Psalm 19:2-5 Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 liturgical year. Each distributed widely enough, to catch the Matthew 4:18-22 Psalm 85:9-14 liturgical year is public eye, but not numerous enough or carefully planned so powerful enough to stand against their 2 Peter 3:8-14 that the seasons, and enemies. Thursday, Dec. 1 Mark 1:1-8 the major feasts, guide The culture was an enemy. Soon the Isaiah 26:1-6 us through our worship political system would be an enemy. Psalm 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a into a closer Problems, if not dangers, lay ahead for Matthew 7:21, 24-27 relationship with God in Christ. the early Christians. The atmosphere was Finally, and important for everyone, this tense, uncertain and frightening. is the weekend when the Church begins to Thoughts of the Second Coming were use the new English translation of the naturally quite appealing to the people. Roman Missal. The reading, quoting the Lord, reminds Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle The first reading is from the us that we, in fact, do not know the third section of Isaiah, composed when future. For any one of us, life can change the Jews were in a quite difficult situation. dramatically and suddenly. Church forbids Catholics to join Years before, the exiles had been The only permanent reality is God. If allowed to return to the Holy Land from we are with God, we need not fear what Babylon, but this return brought the exiles lays ahead in life. , which is a religion home to a place that was far from paradise. Are Catholics allowed to join the 37 to seven—thus fostering again the Life was miserable for them there. Reflection QMasons? I know that a pope a long misunderstanding that Catholics were The prophet called for faith in God, not The new translation of the time ago said no, but is now free to join the Masons. only as the Almighty Lord, but also as true Roman Missal means much more that still in force? This necessitated the publication by the to the covenant, to the belief that God than semantics and translating Latin If Catholics aren’t doctrinal congregation, later in 1983, of would protect the Chosen People. into English. allowed to join, the quite specific prohibition against The prophet appeals to God, in the True, it is an attempt to conform the why is this so? joining, which I quoted above. name of the people, for relief, but without English version of the Missal to the Latin (Colonial Heights, Va.) Canon #1374, effective on Nov. 27, saying that the people are being treated edition. It also provides an opportunity to 1983, replaced canon #2335 of the unfairly, at least in terms of God’s care for ponder what the words of the Missal, of The clearest 1917 codification. It states: “A person them. Catholic worship, say to us. In turn, this Aanswer to your who joins an association which plots The prophet makes clear that sin has led study prompts the question of how much first question comes against the Church is to be punished with the people away from God, and this religion means to each of us. Are we from quoting the a just penalty; however, a person who estrangement has produced their woes. good Catholics? declaration issued in 1983 by the Vatican’s promotes or directs an association of this St. Paul’s First Epistle to the St. Mark’s Gospel greatly assists us. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith kind is to be punished with an interdict.” Corinthians provides the next reading. Nothing else is as permanent, or as (CDF): “The Church’s negative judgment in Why the prohibition? Counseling the Christians of Corinth important, as the reality of God. regard to Masonic associations remains The reason is that Freemasonry is, at was a challenge for Paul. Not only did Advent is an opportunity to achieve unchanged since their principles have its heart, not a social club but a religion. temptation and vice surround them at union with God, to realize God’s love always been considered irreconcilable with It is a religion of rationalism, which, as every side, the people also argued among for us. the doctrine of the Church, and, therefore, Pope Leo XIII stated in his 1884 themselves. The very busy nature of the season membership in them remains forbidden. encyclical “Humanum Genus,” has as its Paul had to call them to faithfulness, merely serves to remind us to sharpen our The faithful who enroll in Masonic fundamental doctrine “that human nature and also had to try to influence them to put focus. If we respond to this opportunity, associations are in a state of grave sin and and human reason ought in all things be aside their differences with each other. then Christmas becomes not just a national may not receive holy Communion.” mistress and guide,” and it denies “that He saw disciples as having enormous holiday and religious commemoration, but That declaration of the CDF was signed anything has been taught by God.” religious potential, able to draw more also the moment when we truly bring God by its then-prefect Cardinal Joseph According to Freemasonry, God is the closely to God and to infuse the goodness into our lives, having prepared ourselves Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI. It was great architect of the universe, reachable of Christianity into the circles in which for this wondrous encounter. † approved and ordered to be published by by reason alone, and the possibility of Pope John Paul II, and it remains in divine revelation is rejected. force today. As a 1985 report by the U.S. bishops’ My Journey to God What prompted the CDF to issue the Committee on Pastoral Research and statement requires a bit of history. Practice explains, “the lodge honors Jesus For the two-and-a-half centuries prior, at Christ as it honors Socrates, Buddha and least seven had consistently Muhammad. It cannot acknowledge any prohibited Catholics from joining the special spiritual claims by Jesus since this The Chalice Masons. would violate the basis of Freemasonry.” I noticed it at 4 years old Canon #2335 of the Church’s The awkwardness of this prohibition The glisten and shine of the precious 1917 Code of Canon Law stated: “Those comes from the fact that more than metal who join a Masonic sect or other societies 3 million American men are Masons, Gold or silver of the same sort, which plot against the and that the majority of Americans— Its unusual shape Church or against legitimate civil authority, including many Masons themselves— Its unique design MaryPhoto by Ann Garber incur excommunication.” probably view Masonry as chiefly a social The way it stood refined In 1974, Cardinal Franjo Seper, and philanthropic fraternity. Atop the white altar linen then-prefect of the doctrinal congregation, Certainly, the impetus of the Like a piece of fine china in a letter to Cardinal John Krol of Second Vatican Council has been to Used only for the most special of Philadelphia, concluded that “Canon #2335 collaborate with all people of good will occasions regards only those Catholics who join on projects that are worthy. For the most special of guests. associations which plot against the Church.” But this does not override the fact that I watched how it was lifted up and moved Commemorating love. Cardinal Seper evidently meant that, if a a Catholic who joins the Masons and who about I am older now and particular Masonic society did not plot takes the time to examine its core beliefs With such ceremonious intent When I receive the Blood of Christ against the Church, while membership will discover that he has joined another, With devotion, reverence and My “Amen” acknowledges and says for Catholics was still forbidden, a very different religion. prayerfulness “thank you” for Catholic who did join was not thereby Masonry’s fundamental tenets are Awaiting its sacred purpose. The sacrifice excommunicated. simply incompatible with Catholic faith And as I bring the chalice to my lips But understandably, some dioceses in and practice, which explains why the At 4 years old I grasp miracle and mystery the United States misinterpreted the U.S. bishops’ committee felt compelled to I didn’t understand the water and the wine Literally Seper letter to mean that membership in conclude in its 1985 letter that “the The depth of sacrifice In the palms of my hands. the Masons could now be permitted. As a position of the Church remains what it The Precious Blood it becomes result, a number of American Catholic has been for many years: Catholics in the The meal we share together By Cathy Lamperski Dearing men did join the organization. United States and elsewhere may not be In 1983, when the new—and current— Freemasons.” (Cathy Lamperski Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. This Code of Canon Law was published, no historic ciborium and chalice were used during the celebration of the eucharistic mention was made of the Masons by (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth liturgy during the National Catholic Youth Conference closing Mass on Nov. 19 at name. The offenses punishable by Doyle at [email protected] and Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.) excommunication were reduced from 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011

David and Jeffrey Moorman. Brother of Katy Schroeder and Don Moorman. Grandfather of six. Great-grandfather of four. Rest in peace O’NEILL, Alice Anne, 90, St. Charles Borromeo, Please submit in writing to our GILLMAN, Ronald Louis, 70, Bloomington, Nov. 3. Mother of office by 10 a.m. Thursday St. Louis, Batesville, Nov. 9. Eileen Huber and Daniel O’Neill. Reuters Fedosenko, CNS photo/Vasily before the week of publication; Husband of Mellonne Gillman. Grandmother of two. be sure to state date of death. Father of Joan Brockman, Jenny Obituaries of archdiocesan Gibbons, Chris and Tom RICHARDSON, Joan C., 84, priests serving our archdiocese Gillman. Stepfather of Chad and St. Gabriel, Connersville, Nov. 6. are listed elsewhere in Trevor Moeller. Brother of Jayne Mother of Kathy Favorite, Alice The Criterion. Order priests Enneking and Peggy Peters. Saylor and James Richardson. and religious sisters and Grand father of 20. Great-grand - Sister of Alice Marie Nobbe. brothers are included here, father of one. Grandmother of seven. Great- unless they are natives of the GOGEL, Magdalena grandmother of six. archdiocese or have other Katherine, 92, St. Meinrad, SCHAEFER, Raymond J., 95, connect ions to it; those are St. Meinrad, Nov. 1. Mother of St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad, separate obituaries on this Kathy Ebert, Linda Goeppner, page. John, Joseph, Leroy, Raymond Oct. 16. Father of Darlene ABELL, Patricia Margaret and Robert Gogel. Sister of Ann Englert, Doris Hammers, (Cecil) Niggle, 83, Engelke, Lucille Gunter and Charles, Dan, Hilary, Marvin, Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, Bertha Wiederkehr. Grandmother Randal, Sam and Tom Schaefer. Nov. 9. Mother of Laura of 22. Great-grandmother of 28. Brother of Hilda Ebert. Grand - Plunkett, George Abell, Gregory, GORSKI, Diana L., 49, father of 18. Great-grandfather of Philip and Timothy Niggle. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, 29. Great-great-grandfather of Stepmother of Carolyn Jones, Nov. 5. Mother of Melissa, one. Prayers on All Day Alfred and Raymond Abell. Nicole and Thomas Gorski. SCHINDLER, Norbert, 84, Sister of Beverly Braun, Carol Sister of Marie Ferber, Carol Graham, Shirley Skelly and St. Anthony of Padua, An elderly woman prays near a grave at a cemetery in the village of Ivenets, southwest of Minsk, Gregorio, Lynn Ross, Daniel, Clarksville, Nov. 4. Husband of Robert Cecil. Grand mother of Richard and Robert Schamber. Belarus, on Nov. 1. Catholics in Belarus marked All Saints Day by visiting the graves of their Ann (Elliott) Schindler. Father of 17. Great-grandmother of four. Grandmother of one. relatives. Phyllis Endris and Brad CLINTON, Col. Earl F., HUNTER, Harold J., 74, Schindler. Brother of Jack U.S.A.F., Ret., 89, St. Lawrence, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Schindler. Grandfather of two. Indianapolis, Nov. 8. Father of New Albany, Nov. 7. Husband of Kathleen, Marilyn, Nancy, Keith Mary (Batliner) Hunter. Father of SCHMITZ, James E., 70, Cardinal Wuerl says U.S. ordinariate for and Timothy Clinton. Grand- David, Eric and Michael Hunter. St. Luke the Evangelist, father of six. Great-grandfather Brother of William Hunter. Indianapolis, Nov. 13. Husband former Anglicans to be created on Jan. 1 of nine. Grand father of two. of Marjorie (Manion) Schmitz. BALTIMORE (CNS)—A new “I remain convinced that this FERNANDEZ, Ann R., 73, MASCHINO, Thelma Louise, Father of Laura Keefe, Lisa ordinariate—functionally similar to a ordinariate will be a true expression of the St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Nov. 7. 83, St. Joseph, Jennings County, Rodrigues and John Schmitz. diocese—will be created on Jan. 1 to Catholic Church because of your Wife of Julio Fernandez. Mother Nov. 4. Mother of Jane Meyer, Grandfather of four. Great- bring Anglicans into the Catholic Church in engagement in the steps leading up to the of Julie Boser, Jennifer, David, Janet, Bill, Dennis, Eddie, Jim, grandfather of two. the U.S., announced Washington Cardinal acceptance of the candidates for ordination, James and Joseph Fernandez. Kenny, Larry, Lester, Robert and VANDERBURG, Leo Arthur, Donald W. Wuerl during the annual meeting and for your involvement in the Sister of Mary Lewis, Kathy Tom Maschino. Brother of Ruth of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops catechetical formation of the members of Merrick, Janet Shaw, Tom 89, St. Paul Hermitage, Holley, Kathryn Robbins and on Nov. 15. the congregation seeking membership in Conyers, Bill Godbey and Steve Bettie Wright. Grandmother of Beech Grove, Nov. 14. Brother Powers. Grandmother of 20. 27. Great-grandmother of 21. of Irene Friddle, Mary Anne Gin, Cardinal Wuerl also said 67 Anglican the ordinariate,” he said. “Your involvement Wanda Vanderburg and priests have submitted their dossiers seeking is one of the guarantees of the well-being FROHLIGER, William, 82, McCALLEY, Eleanora, 88, Poor Sisters of St. Francis Sister ordination in the Catholic Church, and 35 of of the ordinariate as it is established and St. John the Apostle, St. , Mary Lawrence Vanderburg. those have begins to receive both clergy and Bloomington, Nov. 1. Husband Indianapolis, Nov. 5. Wife of Uncle of several. received initial congregations.” of Gertrude Frohliger. Father of Richard McCalley. Mother of Kathy, Mary, Patty, Peggy, Catherine Barney, Peggy VARVEL, Michael, 66, approval from the The U.S. ordinariate will be Bill Jr., Jim, John and Tom McCullough, Mary Meyers, Sacred Heart, Clinton, Sept. 12. Congregation for the the second one created under Frohliger. Grandfather of 14. Andrea Perkins, Patty Roach, Husband of Linda Varvel. Father Doctrine of the Faith. “Anglicanorum coetibus.” The Great-grand father of 15. Jeanne TeKolste, Christopher, of Libby Donna, Katie Wake, Joe That means they Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham FULTZ, Patricia Ann, 76, John, Joseph, Kevin, Thomas and and Mick Varvel Jr. Brother of can move to the was established for England and Wales in St. Paul the Apostle, Timothy McCalley. Grandmother Curtis and Delbert Varvel. Grand- second stage of January of this year. It is led by of 34. Great-grandmother of Greencastle, Nov. 4. Mother of father of seven. approval, which Msgr. Keith Newton, a former Anglican Donna Bolte, Kathleen Cline, seven. includes a criminal bishop who is married and was ordained a VENTURA, Anna Helen Suzanne Roll, Patricia and MOORMAN, Justin H., 86, , 86, background check, Catholic priest. It includes about William Fultz. Grandmother of St. Louis, Batesville, Nov. 14. Our Lady of the Most Holy psychological 1,000 individuals in 42 communities. Its Cardinal eight. Great-grandmother of Husband of Evelyn Moorman. Rosary, Indianapolis, Nov. 13. Donald W. Wuerl evaluation, and priests include five former Anglican three. Father of Cindy Heidt, Steffani, Mother of Marie Faulk and recommendations bishops, according to background Antoinette Ridenour. Grand- from the Catholic bishop where he lives and information distributed by the USCCB. mother of four. Great-grand- from his Anglican ecclesiastical authority, The Catholic Church does not allow Online Lay Ministry Formation mother of seven. he said. married priests—whether those in WALTER, William M., 70, Cardinal Wuerl told reporters after Eastern rites that allow priests to be The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the Annunciation, , Oct. 29. University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) the session with the bishops that married or former clergy from other to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: Husband of Penelope Walter. Anglican parishes with a total of about churches who have become Catholic—to Father of Katherine Songer and 2,000 members have so far asked to become become bishops. • Courses on the Catechism of the Catholic Church from CDU Robert Walter. Brother of Edward part of the Catholic Church through the Therefore, the new ordinariate may be • All 12 classes for a Certificate in Lay Ministry available online Walter. 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Marjorie Herbert, Rose Ann of an ordinariate to bring in Anglicans—or Cardinal Wuerl did not say where the Sturgis, Leo and Louis Wenning. Episcopalians as they are known in the Anglican communities seeking to become Grandfather of seven. Great- United States—who seek to leave their faith Catholic are located. Two such parishes grandfather of 14. community and join the Catholic Church, have already completed the transition, WILLIAMS, Mary Natalie, 89, but retain certain elements of the Anglican one in Fort Worth, Texas, and the other in Trusted and Compassionate Care St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, liturgy and traditions. Bladensburg, Md., which were accepted in • Dedicated to meeting your non-medical homecare needs Oct. 28. Mother of Connie Addis The process was established to ceremonies in September and October. • Licensed and insured and Gerald Williams. 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Great- erected. Cardinal Wuerl said he assumed Catholic Church through new ordinariates grandmother of 14. † that an ordinary will be named at that time. instead of through existing dioceses. † The Criterion Friday, November 25, 2011 Page 19 In Africa, pope asks Church to be model of reconciliation COTONOU, Benin (CNS)— push them a little. But do not hesitate to On a three-day visit to Benin, do so. God is that important!” he said. Pope Benedict XVI urged African Catholics Later, he pulled a rosary from his to witness the hope of the Gospel in their pocket and asked the young people to daily lives, and make the Church a model learn how to pray it. Each child was given via Catholic Press Photo of reconciliation for the entire continent. a rosary. In a particular way, the Church must be On Nov. 19, the pope traveled to the “attentive to the cry of the poor, the weak, coastal city of Ouidah, a former slave the outcast,” the pope said at a Mass on trading post on the Atlantic, to sign his Romano L’Osservatore Nov. 20 for more than 50,000 people who follow-up document to the 2009 Synod of CNS photo/ filled a stadium in Cotonou. Bishops for Africa. The 138-page text “I would like to greet with affection all said the Church should lead the way in those persons who are suffering, those promoting respect for human dignity and who are sick, those affected by AIDS or life at every stage, fighting against by other illnesses, to all those forgotten economic imbalance and environmental by society. Have courage! The pope is degradation, providing health care to close to you in his thoughts and prayers,” those with AIDS and other diseases, he said. educating the young and reconciling The 84-year-old pontiff delivered his human hearts in places of ethnic tension. homily in French, English and Portuguese, In a brief talk before the signing, the adding a few words in Fon, the local pope said that in the face of Africa’s indigenous language. He occasionally problems, “a Church reconciled within wiped his brow as temperatures rose during herself and among all her members can the morning liturgy. become a prophetic sign of reconciliation The pope stressed the urgency of in society,” and help guide the struggle evangelizing and said the Church must against “every form of slavery” in the make a special effort to reach those modern world. “whose faith is weak,” and who think Ouidah is known as a center of voodoo Pope Benedict XVI kisses a child during his visit to the “Peace and Joy” Center of the Missionaries of selfish satisfaction and easy gain is the practices in West Africa, and in a meeting Charity at St. Rita Parish in Cotonou, Benin, on Nov. 19. goal of human life. with Catholic faithful there the pope “The Church in Benin has received underlined the need to reject customs “From this place, I launch an appeal to much from her missionaries. She must in incompatible with Christianity. all political and economic leaders of turn carry this message of hope to people Understood correctly, he said, the African countries and the rest of the

who do not know or who no longer know Christian faith “liberates from occultism world. Do not deprive your peoples of Haring CNS photo/Paul the Lord Jesus,” he said. and vanquishes evil spirits, for it is moved hope! Do not cut them off from their The pope’s message was aimed beyond by the power of the Holy Trinity itself.” future by mutilating their present!” the borders of Benin, a small West African He also encouraged lay Catholics to he said. country with a population of nearly defend the institution of the family “built The pope also cautioned the 3 million Catholics out of a total population according to the design of God” and the international community against viewing of nearly 9 million. He came to Africa to Christian understanding of marriage. Africa solely as a place of problems and unveil a document, “Africae Munus” Parents should transform family life failures. Often, this perspective is fueled (“The Commitment of Africa”), that through the power of prayer and by by prejudices, he said. outlined pastoral strategies and urged transmitting values to their children by “It is tempting to point to what does Catholics to become “Apostles of their own example, he said. not work. It is easy to assume the reconciliation, justice and peace” across the In a Ouidah church, Pope Benedict judgmental tone of the moralizer or of the troubled continent. prayed at the tomb of Cardinal Bernardin expert who imposes his conclusions and At every one of his public events, Gantin, who worked for many years with proposes, at the end of the day, few useful Africans—including many pilgrims who the future pope in the . The solutions,” he said. came from neighboring countries—gave pope said that over the years, the two men He warned of the related risk of seeing the pontiff a lively welcome, blending had met many times, engaged in deep Africa only in terms of vast resources that song, dance and prayer in a spirit of discussions and prayed together. can be easily exploited. religious celebration. The smiling pope Addressing diplomats, civil authorities Relations between Christians and clearly appreciated the reception. and religious representatives on Nov. 19 Muslims in Benin are generally good, and One of the most animated encounters in Cotonou, the pope said Africa’s representatives of Islam were among those saw the pope surrounded by several challenges reflect wider issues common present at the Cotonou meeting. The pope A woman bows after receiving the Eucharist hundred schoolchildren, who to all humanity, including scandals and emphasized that “everyone of good sense” from Pope Benedict XVI during Mass at the accompanied him in a rhythmic injustice, corruption and greed, and understands the need for interreligious stadium in Cotonou, Benin, on Nov. 20. procession and cheered him inside a “too much violence which leads to misery dialogue today and rejects the attempt to parish church. In a talk, the pope told the and death.” justify intolerance or violence. word, the sacred Scriptures or the name children to ask their parents to pray He urged world leaders to put the “Aggression is an outmoded relational of God to justify our interests, our easy with them. common good at the center of their form which appeals to superficial and and convenient policies or our violence, is “Sometimes you may even have to policies. ignoble instincts. To use the revealed a very grave fault,” he said. †

others. and that the government shouldn’t interfere liberty, this little vignette is a reminder that GARVEY We celebrate religious freedom—and not, with efforts to do this. people of all faiths are on the same side. continued from page 4 say, the freedom to go trout fishing or We should listen to religious people—and practice ophthalmology—because the people not their self-appointed defenders—in (John Garvey is president of can’t explain why the Constitution of the who wrote the Constitution thought that it deciding what accommodations are necessary. The Catholic University of America in United States elevates some freedoms above was important to know, love and serve God, In today’s struggles to protect religious Washington.) †

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By Sean Gallagher She professed her final vows last year. “That was the opportunity that I got Indianapolis wasn’t the destination for to learn about Mother Clelia,” said just the 23,000 youths and chaperones Sister Angela in a Nov. 19 telephone who participated in the National Catholic interview with The Criterion. “And I only Sean Gallagher Photo by Youth Conference (NCYC) from got literature. It wasn’t like someone sat Nov. 17-19. down and told me about her. Also coming here were represen- “It just changed my life because I tatives of 76 religious orders to staff realized that I didn’t need to be afraid of booths in the conference’s Vocations a vocation. And I found a community Village and thematic park known as where I really felt God was calling me. “Victory Park.” I’m very happy here.” During the three days of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus conference, thousands of teenagers went Sister Bridget Smith was one of the from booth to booth learning about the members of the order who staffed their religious communities, their ministries booth in Indianapolis this year. and having fun along the way. She was glad to see that there was a “I like to go around and see what all large increase in the number of the different orders are about,” said communities at NCYC from the last Ellarose Stewart, 17, of Port Orange, Fla. conference held in 2009 in Kansas City. “I’ve never known much about them all. “The word is out. If you need And now I can explore them.” vocations in the Church, you can’t sit Amelia Bickler, 15, of Williston, N.D., back on your laurels,” Sister Bridget explored Vocations Village at the same said. “We have to be out there. For a Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz of Anchorage, right, plays Wii baseball with Madelyn Kelty of time as Ellarose. lot of vocation directors, it’s their Louisville, Ky., on Nov. 18 in the National Catholic Youth Conference’s Vocations Village at the “It’s eye opening,” Amelia said. “You first time here. I tell them, ‘We’re here Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. don’t really realize how many different to cultivate and plant that seed vocations are devoted to helping spread [of vocations].’ ” brothers and sisters is one way to Des Moines, Iowa, had a personal the word of God. It’s just amazing. Taking a break from playing nurture vocations. Praying for them reason for praying for vocations before “I never knew that there were so many Wii baseball with some youths at the is another. the Blessed Sacrament at NCYC. people interested in [vocations]. I thought booth of the U.S. bishops’ Committee That happened during NCYC in a “I’m a senior in high school and I don’t that it was just a few, select people.” on Clergy, Religious Life and Vocations, holy hour of eucharistic adoration for know what I want to do,” Logan said. “I’ve Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus Archbishop Roger L. Schwietz of vocations on Nov. 18. been praying for vocations lately. It helps Sister Angela Gertsema was like Anchorage, Alaska was pleased with the “The Lord has created each and every you out with what you’re trying to do.” many of the youths who toured the number of orders represented in one of us a destiny, a purpose,” said Seeing all the youths learning about and Vocations Village during NCYC when she Vocations Village and the many Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of praying for vocations made transitional went to the conference in 1999 in St. Louis. teenagers learning about them. Oklahoma City in a homily during the Deacon Jerry Byrd happy. She had never heard of the religious “I think it’s a sign that the Spirit is holy hour. “[He wants us] not only to “There are 23,000 young people community or its foundress, really working in our young people,” become saints, but to become the unique here,” said Deacon Byrd, who is Mother Clelia Merloni, before Archbishop Schwietz said. “And it’s saints that God calls each one of us to scheduled to be ordained a priest for the attending that NCYC gathering. certainly a big encouragement for the be along whichever path the Lord has Archdiocese of Indianapolis on June 2. But after hearing a presentation by bishops who have been working hard to prepared for us, utilizing our unique “That’s the future of our Church one of the order’s members and receiving create a positive atmosphere for gifts and talents and opportunities—all right there. some literature about its foundress, vocations within the parishes and of those things which shape and form “How many priests will be called Sister Angela stepped onto the path that within families.” our lives—and placing them at the from that group? How many sisters will led to where she is now—teaching at Handing out literature and having service of the Lord.” be called from that group? We don’t St. Raphael School in Bridgeport, Conn. conversations with priests and religious Logan Patrick, 18, of know. But my guess is that it’s a lot.” † Fun and faith draw Catholic teens to Victory Park at youth conference By John Shaughnessy 2,000 pounds of clay, and dip their hands in paint so they could make an imprint on a 24-foot-tall canvas tree. One of the most popular places during the “The kids love to leave their mark,” said Dave Gehrich, an National Catholic Youth Conference was Victory Park, adult volunteer in the Creative Corner who is a member of a theme park inside the Indiana Convention Center in St. Maurice Parish in Decatur County. “They love to let Photo by John Shaughnessy Photo by Indianapolis that featured everything from games and people know they are here.” free gifts to college information and a coffee-house Getting silly with the Salesians—Hoping to win a yo-yo, setting for music. beach ball or flying disc, teenagers flocked to a carnival-like Here are glimpses of five of the most popular area staffed by Salesian sisters, brothers and priests. Prizes activities that teenagers enjoyed during the conference on were earned for such achievements as bouncing a marble into Nov. 17-19. a thimble, knocking down milk bottles with bean bags, Posing with the pope—The opportunity to get a throwing metal rings onto a bottle’s neck, and knocking over picture taken with Pope Benedict XVI was just soda cans by shooting rubber bands. too irresistible for many teenagers, including Being a kid—The fun continued in the play area of Brenden Popson and Sam Murphy of Our Lady of Victory Park where teenagers jumped in a moon bounce, Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. competed in a human foosball game, jousted with large It didn’t even matter that it was just a cardboard figure padded sticks, and raced through an inflated obstacle course. of the pope. When asked why he wanted the souvenir Chalking it up to the power of music—More than Tierra Scott, front, and Savannah Burton carve their names into photo, Brenden shared a sentiment similar to other 45 singers and bands performed in a coffee house a wall made of 2,000 pounds of clay in the Creative Corner teenagers: “Why not? He’s here for pictures!” furnished in comfortable couches and chairs with tables made section of Victory Park, a theme park of fun and faith at the Leaving a mark—The Creative Corner was a of black chalkboard. Each table had a bucket of colored chalk National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis on Nov. 17. section of Victory Park where many teenagers embraced which teenagers could use to draw artwork and write The teenagers are members of Holy Trinity Parish in the opportunity to paint a small canvas, sign a 9-foot- messages. One message read, “May the pieces of our lives be Glenburnie, Md., in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. high graffiti wall, carve their names into a wall made of an offering to you! From Iowa with love!” † Roncalli senior sings before thousands, lives dream of being ‘Called to Glor y’ By John Shaughnessy the piano while she sings has always been an emotional so much energy. She just had a lot of presence. From a comfort to her. Instead, she was told, she would be singing parent standpoint, it was like, ‘Wow!’ The Holy Spirit has On any other day, the three marriage proposals on the center stage, just her and a microphone. given her so many opportunities, and she’s used her gifts for would have been the most memorable experiences for Yet as Francesca—who had never previously performed other people.” Francesca “Chessie” LaRosa. in front of more than 500 people—walked on stage to sing Hours after her performance, Francesca still rode the But Nov. 18 wasn’t just another before 23,000 people, she found a perfect way to calm her emotional wave of her moment in the spotlight. day in the life of the 18-year-old nerves. She decided to sing for just one person. “I don’t even have words right now,” she said. “It was senior at Roncalli High School in “I was terrified because my piano is my crutch,” such an amazing experience. My dream was to become a Indianapolis. This was a day when said Francesca, a member of St. Barnabas Parish in singer and share the word of God in music with people. It even her longtime dream didn’t Indianapolis. “I had to wing it because I was standing didn’t matter to me that there were 23,000 people. I wanted compare to the incredible reality of up. I focused on singing directly to Jesus. That made me to touch just one.” singing in front of 23,000 people at feel better.” Her singing created a new group of fans who, throughout Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis So did the support of her friends and family in the the day, asked her for her autograph, bought her CD and told during the National Catholic audience. Her Roncalli friends held up signs encouraging her that they think she will make it “big” in the future. Youth Conference. her. Her parents, Dr. Joseph and Chris LaRosa, whispered Her performance also apparently had a strong effect on at Just two days before, Francesca prayers that God would be with her in this moment. Her least three young men who each proposed to her during Francesca LaRosa had received notice that she would grandparents—Joe and Dee LaRosa, and Jack and the day. be singing the ballad version of the Shirley Carroll—felt, once again, the special love that binds “I had three guys kneeling on the ground, professing their conference’s theme song, “Called to Glory,” during the grandparents and their grandchildren. love for me,” Francesca said with a shy laugh. “They asked morning session on Nov. 18. The crowd swayed as Francesca sang. Many youths me to marry them. I told them I’m just 18.” Just one day before, during a rehearsal, she had also started to sing with her. And when her performance ended, Eighteen and living her dream of singing for God’s glory. learned that she wouldn’t be sitting at a piano while she the audience erupted in cheers. “I never thought I’d sing in front of so many people doing sang—a revelation that made her “terrified” because playing “My wife and I were crying,” her father said. “There was what I love,” she said. “This has just been the best day.” †