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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Signing his document dedicated to young people, faith and discernment, Pope Francis said Mary, the mother of God, is a source of inspiration and strength for everyone who seeks to understand their vocation and remain faithful to it. Greeting some 10,000 people, many of them families and young people, in Loreto, Italy, on the feast of the Annunciation, the Pope Francis pope said Mary can help all believers Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., preaches during a March 19 Mass in the chapel of the St. Augustine Home for the Aged in dedicate themselves to “the path of peace Indianapolis. The liturgy marked the 150th anniversary of the start of ministry in the U.S. of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who operate the retirement and fraternity, founded on welcoming and facility. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) forgiving, on respect for others and on love as a gift of oneself.” “Mary is the model of every vocation and the inspiration of every vocational Little Sisters of the Poor host apostolic nuncio pastoral program: Young people who are seeking or questioning their future can find to celebrate 150 years of order’s U.S. ministry Mary to be the one who helps them discern God’s plan for them and find the strength By Sean Gallagher St. Augustine Home for the Aged in “For us, to go to America is very far to follow it.” Indianapolis. The St. Augustine Home away,” he said after the Mass. “But to The pope chose to visit the Italian seaside It took more than two weeks by boat has served the poor aged of Indiana since know that 150 years ago, some people town of Loreto on the March 25 feast day to across the Atlantic Ocean from France 1873. from [there] decided to go shows what sign his postsynodal apostolic exhortation— to the United States. Finally, they arrived Archbishop Pierre, like the order’s the Church is all about.” titled in Spanish, “Vive Cristo, esperanza in Brooklyn on foundress, is a native of France. The Archbishop Pierre noted that his nuestra,” (“Christ, Our Hope, Lives”). Sept. 13, 1868. They parish in which he was baptized and mother is still living in France—and The document, based on discussions spoke no English, raised, located in the Brittany region that he feels especially close to the and input garnered from the world Synod these religious of France, was the home parish of Little Sisters because she is cared for by of Bishops on “young people, faith and women of the Little St. Jeanne Jugan. members of the religious order. vocational discernment,” was to be released Sisters of the Poor, It was also the church in which March 19, the solemnity of St. Joseph, to the public on April 2, the anniversary of an order founded by St. Theodora Guérin, Indiana’s first was a fitting day for celebrating the the death of St. John Paul II. The intention St. Jeanne Jugan in saint and foundress of the Sisters of special Mass honoring the Little Sisters was “to connect two pontificates, so loved France just 30 years Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods of the Poor’s 150 years of ministry in and close to the younger generations,” said prior. in 1840, was baptized. America. The sisters hold great devotion Alessandro Gisotti, interim director of the Archbishop How fitting, then, And the Servant of God Bishop Simon to the spouse of Mary and the foster Vatican press office. Christophe Pierre that Archbishop Bruté, the first bishop of the Diocese of father of Jesus, a love fostered by The pope signed the document at the Christophe Pierre, Vincennes, Ind., which later became the St. Jeanne Jugan. altar inside the small, one-room Holy House apostolic nuncio for the United States, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, grew up in “Her devotion to St. Joseph of Loreto, which tradition holds is where should celebrate the order’s 150 years the Archdiocese of Rennes, France, for flowed from her confidence in divine Mary was born and raised and where the of ministry in the United States with a which Archbishop Pierre was ordained a providence,” Archbishop Pierre said Holy Family was thought to have lived Mass on March 19 at the Little Sisters’ priest in 1970. See SISTERS, page 8 See POPE, page 2 Award winner uses heart and hands to help others By John Shaughnessy

A joy for life often radiates from the face of Robert “Lanny” Rossman, and it’s on high beam as he stands in front of a house on the near west side of Indianapolis. Rossman and his nephew Steve Adams spent 14 months tearing down and building up the interior of the once-abandoned house—a complete overhaul that gives the 75-year-old Rossman an overwhelming sense of satisfaction. Yet what brings the true joy to Rossman is knowing that he not only helped to transform the house, he helped to transform a family’s life. The house became a home for a single mother and her three children, a home that the family couldn’t otherwise afford. “I remember she was extremely excited Robert “Lanny” Rossman smiles as he stands in front of the once-abandoned house in Indianapolis and thankful when they moved in,” says that he and his nephew Steve Adams spent 14 months transforming into a home for a single mother See ROSSMAN, page 2 and her three children. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter to speak Public Schedule of at Spirit of Service Awards Dinner Archbishop Charles C. Thompson IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter will be Four individuals will be honored ______the keynote speaker during the Spirit of with Spirit of Service swards during March 30 – April 10, 2019 Service Awards Dinner in Indianapolis on the event: Liz Stanton of St. Luke the April 30. Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, Yan Yan March 30 – 10 a.m. April 6 – 5 p.m. The dinner benefits of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in Archdiocesan Pastoral Council meeting Mass at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Catholic Charities Indianapolis, Robert “Lanny” Rossman at St. Agnes Parish, Nashville Clarksville Indianapolis, which of St. Agnes Parish in Nashville and this year is marking St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis, and March 30 – 6:30 p.m. April 7 – 9 a.m. 100 years of helping Jim Morris, vice chairman of Pacers Mass at St. John the Evangelist Mass at St. Joseph Church, Corydon Church, Indianapolis people in need in Sports & Entertainment. April 9 – 8:30 a.m. the archdiocese. Individual tickets are available for March 31 – 11:30 a.m. Employee Lenten Day of Reflection at The dinner will be $250 while tables of eight are available Mass at St. Susanna Church, Plainfield Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House held at the Indiana for $800. There are also opportunities to Roof Ballroom, help sponsor the event. April 1 – 8 a.m. April 9 – 5:30 p.m. Ed Carpenter 140 W. Washington For tickets, visit www.archindy.org/ Indiana Bishops and Major Superiors Clayton Family Circle of Honor St., in Indianapolis. cc/indianapolis. For information contact Meeting at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Induction Dinner at Marian University, Doors open at 6 p.m. and the evening’s Cheri Bush at [email protected] or House, Indianapolis Indianapolis festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. 317-236-1411. † April 2 – 9 a.m. April 10 – 10:30 a.m. Clergy Lenten Day of Prayer at Our Priest personnel board meeting at Lady of Fatima Retreat House Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara I went to church and prayed. I knew God ROSSMAN Catholic Center continued from page 1 would help me.” April 4 – 10 a.m. He pauses before adding, “I don’t Leadership Team meeting at a smiling Rossman, one of the founding know where I’d be without my faith. It’s Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara (Schedule subject to change.) members of Hearts and Hands of Indiana, given me the belief to help others. It’s Catholic Center, Indianapolis an organization that buys abandoned houses enabled me to keep my marriage going. I in the area and rehabilitates them as homes don’t know where I would be without the for low-income families. “I don’t think man upstairs.” often young people are what their family there’s a greater feeling than that, knowing Rossman also says he wouldn’t be able POPE gave them with their upbringing.” you can provide a home for someone.” to do all he has done for others without continued from page 1 “It is necessary to rediscover God’s Rossman’s efforts with Hearts and Hands the support of his wife of 52 years, Paula. plan for the family,” he said, which is is just one of the reasons he has been chosen “You got to be willing to help people,” when Jesus was a boy. It also is held to be “founded on marriage between a man and for the archdiocese’s Spirit of Service says Rossman, a member of both St. Agnes the place where Mary received the angel’s a woman,” and to emphasize the family’s Award, an honor that he will receive on Parish in Nashville and St. Barnabas Parish annunciation and conceived the Son of “great and irreplaceable” role in serving April 30 in Indianapolis during a celebration in Indianapolis. “You got to be willing to God through the Holy Spirit. According to life and the community. that will mark the 100th anniversary of sacrifice your time. And you’ve got to have tradition, the house was brought from the The pope prayed that God, through Catholic Charities in central and southern a spouse who understands that.” Holy Land to Italy in the 13th century. Mary’s intercession, would help the Indiana. He also gives praise to his brother In his talk to those gathered in the faithful bring the “Gospel of peace and The father of four has also coached Jack and his son Paul for the way they all square in front of the basilica housing the life to our peers, who are often distracted, football and basketball in the archdiocese’s coach CYO football together, putting the sanctuary, the pope said he wanted to sign caught up in material interests” or Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) for emphasis on effort instead of winning. the document on the date and at the place surrounded by a spiritual desert. more than 40 years. And for the past For Rossman, it all reflects the way he of the Annunciation to highlight how the “There is a need for people who are 20 years, he has served as a volunteer with searches for the joy in life. Annunciation reveals what is necessary simple and wise, humble and courageous, the St. Vincent de Paul Society in Brown It all reflects his belief that joy only in the vocational process: listening to poor and generous. In other words, people County. comes in helping and connecting with God’s word and God’s will, inquisitive who, taught by Mary, welcome the Gospel His commitment to making a difference other people. discernment and bold decision-making. without reservation into their life.” in the lives of others can be summed up He says that belief was passed to him God always makes the first move, The pope began his visit to the in a story shared by his longtime friend, by his parents, Ed and Margaret Rossman. offering people the gift of his love, sanctuary with a long moment of quiet Jim Simmons, who recalled when he once “Everything I do has to revolve around Pope Francis said. prayer seated inside the Holy House. He asked Rossman to join him for lunch. happiness. It’s great to receive, but to give “One must be ready and willing to venerated the statue of Our Lady of Loreto, “He declined because he was back is much better. If you took the joy listen and welcome God’s voice,” which which in 1922 was carved out of cedar delivering food for St. Vincent de Paul out of giving, you’d have a sad world to is hard to recognize if life is too “noisy” trees from the Vatican Gardens to copy the and transporting a 78-year-old veteran live in. There is so much to enjoy. or agitated, he said. Quiet and extended 14th-century figure destroyed in a fire. he met during his St. Vincent work to the “We’re only here for a short time, and reflection is necessary, he said, if one is He then celebrated a private Mass Veterans Administration Hospital for his I want to do what I can because I want to going to be able to go below the surface inside the Holy House with a small monthly treatment,” Simmons notes. “It is get to heaven and see my parents again.” and discover the “moral and spiritual number of people, while thousands typical of Lanny’s everyday routine.” forces” at work in one’s life. watched on large screens inside the Rossman’s focus on helping people in (In upcoming issues, The Criterion will And God is always at work, giving and basilica and outside in the square. vulnerable situations stems from his own feature the three other recipients of the providing for his disciples no matter how When Mass was over, the pope signed experience of tough times. archdiocese’s 2019 Spirit of Service Award: “poor and small” they may be, he added. the postsynodal document on the altar, under “In 1981, I got fired from my air traffic Liz Stanton of St. Luke the Evangelist Parish Because young people and families are the image of Mary, so as to entrust to her the controller job,” recalls the grandfather of 13. in Indianapolis, Yan Yan of St. Mark the not two separate realities, he said, pastoral document and its fruitful pastoral outcome. “I went from making $40,000 a year to Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, and Jim programs and outreach must be dedicated The pope also placed a gift on the altar—a being in poverty for more than a year. That’s Morris, vice chairman of Pacers Sports & to both at the same time because “very golden stem of roses in a small silver urn. † when I needed my faith more than ever. Entertainment.) † Pope Francis’ prayer intention for April administrator pro tem of St. Elizabeth Official Appointment Ann Seton Parish in Richmond while remaining pastor of St. Gabriel Parish, • Doctors and their collaborators in war zones—For Effective immediately St. Bridget of Ireland Parish, and dean of doctors and their humanitarian collaborators in war zones, the Connersville Deanery. who risk their lives to save the lives of others. Very Rev. Dustin M. Boehm, V.F., pastor of St. Gabriel Parish in Connersville and (This appointment is from the office of St. Bridget of Ireland Parish in Liberty, and the Most Rev. Charles C. Thompson, (To see Pope Francis’ monthly intentions, go to www.archindy.org/popesintentions.) † dean of the Connersville Deanery, appointed Archbishop of Indianapolis.) †

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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 3 Deacon Frank Roberts was ‘all about service to other people’ By Sean Gallagher Catholic Community, which were wife] Joyce, who was the wind beneath Deacon Miller said his friend often merged together in 2016 as one parish, Frank’s wings.” exposed the Blessed Sacrament, would Deacon Frank Roberts, who ministered St. Elizabeth Ann Seton. Deacon Michael East, archdiocesan spend time afterward in adoration at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish in “Deacon Frank was a true Christian director of deacons, said that Deacon and later in the day preside over Richmond, died on March 19 at Reid Health gentleman and a man of the Church,” said Roberts embodied well the particular Benediction. in the eastern Indiana city. He was 79. Father Riebe, now pastor of Christ the vocation of the diaconate. “I don’t think we’ll ever have adoration The Mass of King Parish in Indianapolis. “He loved the “He was a deacon’s deacon,” said when you go in and sit down that you Christian Burial Church, and the Church was always at the Deacon East. “He was all about service won’t think of Deacon Frank being there,” was celebrated center of his life.” to other people. And he lived it. It was Deacon Miller said. “He talked often on March 25 at Before retiring, Deacon Roberts not about him or any pomp or any of that about it when we were in groups with St. Andrew Church worked as a banker. His put his stuff. It was all about service. He loved different people, about how much joy and in Richmond. knowledge and experience in his career to being a deacon.” peace it brings.” Archbishop Charles the service of the Church by volunteering Deacon James Miller said his friend Frank Anthony Roberts was born on C. Thompson for several years as chairperson of was “in love with God more than anybody Dec. 17, 1939, in Richmond to Harold was the principal the finance committee of the former I know.” and Hilda (Haager) Roberts and grew up celebrant. Deacon St. Andrew Parish in Richmond. “He just loved sharing his love of God as a member of the former St. Andrew Deacon Frank Michael Slinger “Frank would prepare the budget with others,” said Deacon Miller, who Parish in Richmond. Roberts was the homilist. and he would present it to me saying, also serves St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish A veteran of the U.S. Army, Deacon Burial followed at ‘Father, this is a faith-based budget,’ ” in Richmond. Roberts was a graduate of the Earlham St. Andrew Cemetery in Richmond. Father Riebe recalled. “He trusted that Deacon Roberts often shared that love Institute of Executive Growth in Richmond A member of the second class of God would provide and, year after year, with residents of the 11 nursing homes in and attended banking schools of Oklahoma permanent deacons in the history of God responded to Frank’s faith and the Richmond. This wasn’t enough for him, University and the University of the archdiocese, Deacon Roberts was needs of the parish were met, sometimes in though, said Deacon Miller. Virginia. He worked in Richmond for ordained by Bishop Christopher J. Coyne miraculous ways.” “He still took Communion to several Second National Bank and retired as a on June 23, 2012, at SS. Peter and Paul Father Riebe was pastor in Richmond different nursing homes during the week, vice president of First Bank Richmond. Cathedral in Indianapolis. during the years in which Deacon Roberts just to be present to the people,” Deacon Deacon Roberts was a member of the In a profile of Deacon Roberts participated in the archdiocesan deacon Miller said. Knights of St. John. He and his wife of published in The Criterion two weeks formation program. Deacon Roberts, he said, also 60 years Joyce, who survives, enjoyed before his ordination, he said there was “The diaconate gave Frank the shared the love of God with others camping, making rosaries and square “an unrelenting urge in my soul to pursue opportunity to use so many of his gifts through his involvement with and dancing, which they taught for 26 years. this calling. I know that God has a plan and to offer his life in an even greater way promotion of eucharistic adoration, Deacon Roberts is also survived by his for me.” to the Church,” Father Riebe said. “The which happens at St. Elizabeth half-brother Larry Bergfield. Father Todd Riebe knew Deacon parishes in Richmond benefitted not only on Thursdays starting after its Memorial contributions may be sent to Roberts during his many years as pastor from Deacon Frank’s ministry, but also 8:30 a.m. Mass and ending with St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish, of the three parishes of the Richmond from the quiet, steadfast support of [his Benediction at 5:30 p.m. 240 S. 6th St., Richmond, IN 47374. † School safety bills include plans, funding for state’s private schools By Victoria Arthur May 2018 shooting at Noblesville West Elcesser added, however, that “no district—exercises that involve identifying Middle School that injured a student school is immune” to safety breaches and an active threat, locking down the school, John Elcesser was a school and a teacher. Just three months earlier, issues and that everything must be done to barricading students inside classrooms, superintendent in West Virginia on the day school safety had once again dominated protect students and staff from harm. and, if necessary, fighting back. Every that changed everything. the national spotlight when a gunman In her Senate committee testimony, school statewide would be required to He doesn’t recall locked doors in his opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas McNamara described the regular drills conduct one active-shooter drill within the school facilities prior to April 20, 1999, High School in Parkland, Fla., killing 17 that are now routine in her school See ICC, page 9 and he certainly never dreamed of the students and staff members and injuring need for active shooter drills. But the another 17 people. Columbine High The 2018 Indiana School Safety School massacre Recommendations report was the in Littleton, result of a task force led by the Indiana Colo., altered the Department of Homeland Security, the trajectory of life Indiana Department of Education and AMAZING THINGS as everyone knew it. As the nation nears other state agencies. The 18 proposals in Donors Have Made Possible the 20th anniversary of that grim day, the report include requiring active shooter which has been followed by even deadlier drills in every school, adding security 7 mass shootings, lawmakers around the equipment and technology in and around country continue their quest to make school buildings, increasing local law schools safer. enforcement presence inside schools, In Indiana, these issues hit close to and expanding mental health services for home last year with school shootings students. Provide nearly 900 veterans with food, shelter and clothing in Noblesville and Richmond. Now, House Bill 1004, one of the school 1. three bills making their way through the safety bills moving forward in the General Assembly aim to heighten school legislature, encompasses these and other security and offer critical mental health plans, but it’s the last piece—mental Give more than 800 homeless families a safe place to rest services for students to prevent future health—that is the top priority of the 2. tragedies. bill’s author, Rep. Wendy McNamara “Columbine made us look at things (R-Evansville). As a teacher and now that we typically took for granted and school principal in the state’s third-largest Provide education to nearly 1,100 children in the Notre forced us to rethink them,” said Elcesser, school district—Evansville Vanderburgh Dame ACE Academy center-city schools who now serves as executive director School Corporation—she says she knows 3. of the Indiana Non-Public Education firsthand the importance of addressing Association (INPEA). “Today we have students’ mental and emotional well-being. Provide support to seminarians at Bishop Simon Bruté a whole new vocabulary. Sheltering in “There is nothing more important place, lockdown—these were not part in a school’s life than relationships,” 4. College Seminary and St. Meinrad Seminary & School of our vernacular or our practices back said McNamara in presenting her bill of Theology then. Now it is critical that schools have before the Senate Education Committee plans in place to keep people safe. This earlier this month. “We can put in all the is one of the major areas of focus at the bulletproof doors and windows, we can Care for 48 retired priests who have devoted their lives Statehouse this year.” buy all the latest gadgets, and we can 5. to serving others The legislative session began in have a law enforcement officer walking January with 16 bills related to school down the hallway. But it all starts with safety—an unprecedented number relationships, and having a social worker Plan faith-centered activities for nearly 8,500 youth for one issue, according to Elcesser, or mental health professional available 6. whose organization, along with the to our kids is, in my opinion, our Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC), has number-one critical need.” successfully advocated for private schools Tebbe and Elcesser point out that Help countless mothers choose to be included in the enhanced safety one of the strengths of private schools, 7. life instead of abortion proposals. especially Catholic and other religious “We are pleased that our state schools, is that they tend to be smaller recognizes that all students need to be and more attuned to individual students’ protected, whether they attend public, lives and personal issues. YOUR GIFT CAN charter or private schools,” said Glenn “I would contend that one of the strong HELP US Tebbe, executive director of the ICC, suits of non-public schools—faith-based the public policy voice of the Catholic ones in particular—is that students don’t DO EVEN MORE. Church in Indiana. get lost in the numbers, and we can better www.archindy.org/UCA Many of the school safety bills identify and address problems from the introduced this session were in response very start,” Elcesser said. “In addition, the No United Catholic Appeal gifts to a report issued in August by Indiana foundation of our faith-based schools is the are used to settle abuse claims. Gov. Eric Holcomb in the wake of the values we teach, which guide our actions.” Page 4 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019

Opinion Making Sense of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk It’s not just about

Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher the frozen embryos Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus I remember a conversation I had with a locus and setting for the engendering of married Catholic couple a few years ago. new human life. They were feeling lost and desperate IVF is not really a “treatment” for over their inability to conceive a child. infertility, given that the couple remains Editorial They were casting about for options. as infertile after doing IVF as they were They understood before they started the process, with there were moral the underlying cause of their sterility concerns with doing remaining unaddressed and unresolved. in vitro fertilization The procedure offers little more than a (IVF), though they workaround to completely bypass the weren’t sure about marital act—an expensive, complex, the specifics, so they unwieldy substitute, not a genuine asked: “Would it therapy. be OK for us to do Through IVF, husband and wife use IVF as long as we their own (or even another person’s) don’t make any extra sex cells to become “donors,” while embryos, and we’re careful to implant all constructing their own offspring through the ones we make?” a kind of programmed project, with The thinking behind their question the marital act no longer a part of the was understandable, and they clearly equation. recognized it would be wrong to produce In the final analysis, however, only and then store their embryonic sons and when the bodies of our children arise as daughters in the deep freeze. the immediate fruit of our own bodily It’s important to note, however, that and spousal self-surrender can we say the possibility of “spare” embryos ending they have been freely and unconditionally up in “frozen orphanages” would not received as gifts, rather than coerced into be the only reason, or even the main being as the result of human willfulness, reason, that IVF is morally unacceptable. financial planning and scripted biological The immorality of IVF is primarily due technologies. Only then can we say that to the fact that the process turns human we have not dominated the process of procreation into a method of production procreation nor preponderated over the in which children are made, not begotten. origins of our offspring. Embryos certainly face grave risks By yielding to the project of fabricating whenever they are cryopreserved, and our children in the cold, clinical and Catholic Charities volunteers assist victims receiving relief goods at St. Joseph’s Church in a significant percentage of them do not commercial venture that is in vitro Burgaw, N.C., on Sept. 28 in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) survive the steps of freezing and thawing. fertilization, we act against the human The cryostorage of embryos is a form dignity of our offspring by sanctioning of “collateral damage” that routinely inequality and setting up a subclass of occurs when IVF is done. Ethically those who originate in petri dishes and Love God and your neighbor speaking, doing IVF and making extra test tubes rather than in the intimacy of Perhaps, before Lent ends, we could who had been injured by robbers and embryos would be more offensive than the mutual spousal donation that receives take a few minutes to meditate on what who was cared for by a much-despised doing IVF without making extra embryos, life within the protective maternal hearth. St. Paul called the greatest virtue—love alien from the country of Samaria after in the same way that stealing jewels out of These various explanations of the (1 Cor 13:13). both a priest and a Levite passed him the bank vault and shooting the guards on wrongness of IVF can seem distant and We should start with the event that by. We know it as the Parable of the the way out would be more objectionable hard for infertile couples to accept. They Lent leads up to: the amazing fact that Good Samaritan (see Lk 11:25-37). than stealing the jewels nonviolently. yearn intensely for a child. The infertility “God so loved the world that he gave his How do we show love of our Yet the action of absconding with the industry appeals to their desire to be in only Son, so that everyone who believes neighbor? St. James told us clearly jewels remains seriously wrong in either control in an arena where control has been in him might not perish but might have that “just as a body without a spirit case, apart from any considerations about elusive, and part of the allure is also the eternal life” (Jn 3:16). That’s more than is dead, so also faith without works whether the guards are harmed. carefully choreographed assembling of just a sign that is sometimes held up is dead” (Jas 2:17), and he gave us a Similarly, IVF does not become babies who have been planned, screened at sporting events; it’s our belief that good example: “If a brother or sister morally acceptable merely by eliminating and quality controlled. God loves us so much that he sent his has nothing to wear and has no food the collateral damage associated with It is a tragic step when spouses opt for Son, “Who, though he was in the form for the day, and one of you says to the process, whether it’s the freezing of the production of their own offspring in of God” (Phil 2:6), “humbled himself, them, ‘Go in peace, keep warm, and embryos, the “selective reductions” of glassware, because they move forward becoming obedient to death, even death eat well,’ but you do not give them the twins and triplets, or any of the other and violate the deepest meaning of on a cross” (Phil 2:8). necessities of the body, what good is objectionable practices that tend to be part their marital union, rather than holding In return, what does God ask it?” (Jas 2:15-16). of the process. firmly to the truth that their one-flesh for? Jesus answered that question That’s one example. But Jesus was The heart of the IVF process itself, the communion is the unique and privileged very directly: “You shall love the even more explicit. He said that we must practice of joining sperm and egg together interpersonal sanctuary in which a new Lord, your God, with all your heart, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, in the fertility clinic, remains an intrinsic and unrepeatable person appears by a with all your soul, and with all your welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, evil, flowing from the decision to allow power and a will that is not their own. mind. This is the greatest and the care for the ill and visit the prisoner our offspring to be “manufactured.” first commandment. The second is (what we know as the corporal works The domain of procreation is a (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned like it: You shall love your neighbor of mercy). Those who don’t do those delicate arena, one in which our human his doctorate in neuroscience at Yale as yourself. The whole law and things, he said, “will go off to eternal vulnerability is uniquely laid bare. University and did post-doctoral work the prophets depend on these two punishment” (Mt 25:46). We have a particular responsibility to at Harvard University. He is a priest of commandments” (Mt 22:37-40). That’s pretty harsh, to say the least. safeguard our own sexuality and the the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and Love of God and love of neighbor But that’s what he said will happen origins of our children from damaging serves as director of education at The are the most important, and consistent, “when the Son of Man comes in his forces in this arena, which implies a duty National Catholic Bioethics Center in commands to come from the Gospels glory” (Mt 25:31) at the end of the world to respect the marital act as the unique Philadelphia. See www.ncbcenter.org.) † and the letters in the New Testament. and judges us. That’s when the same Perhaps St. John is the most insistent. He person who suffered and died for us will wrote, “Those who say ‘I love God’ and condemn those of us who do not perform hate their brothers and sisters are liars, the works of mercy. for those who do not love a brother or The good news, though, is that Jesus sister whom they have seen, cannot love calls those of us who do perform those Letters Policy God whom they have not seen” works “the righteous,” and he says that (1 Jn 4:20). “the righteous [will go] to eternal life” Letters from readers are published in letters from readers as necessary based on St. Paul, besides telling us that love (Mt 25:46). The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and is the greatest virtue, says that “the The way for us to attain eternal commitment to “the responsible exchange of content (including spelling and grammar). In one who loves another has fulfilled the life, therefore, is clearly set out for freely-held and expressed opinion among order to encourage opinions from a variety law. . . . The commandments . . . are us. We must love God, and we must the People of God” (Communio et of readers, frequent writers will ordinarily summed up in this saying, ‘You shall show our love for God by loving our Progressio, 116). be limited to one letter every three months. Concise letters (usually less than 300 words) love your neighbor as yourself.’ Love neighbor, whoever is in need. And we Letters from readers are welcome and every effort will be made to include letters are more likely to be printed. does no evil to the neighbor; hence, do that through our works of mercy. from as many people and representing as Letters must be signed, but, for serious love is the fulfillment of the law” It’s something to think about many viewpoints as possible. Letters should reasons, names may be withheld. (Rom 13: 8-10). during this Lenten season, and then be informed, relevant, well-expressed and Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” And who is my neighbor? Surely we resolve to do that throughout the rest temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, know the answer to that question, which of the year. sense of courtesy and respect. Indianap­olis, IN 46202-2367. Readers a “scholar of the law” asked Jesus. The editors reserve the right to select with access to e-mail may send letters to Jesus replied with the story of the man —John F. Fink the letters that will be published and to edit [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Story of prodigal son reminds us God always forgives

“Tax collectors and sinners were all we’re desperate, do we cry out for help: generous and loving father—has captured is what the father feels when his long-lost drawing near to listen to Jesus, but the “Father, I have sinned against heaven the imagination of many great artists son returns. It is surely what the son who Pharisees and scribes began to complain, and before you. I am not worthy to and writers during the past 2,000 years. was lost feels when his father greets him saying, ‘This man welcomes sinners and be called your son or daughter.” How It is a story of love and forgiveness that with such overwhelming love and mercy. eats with them’ ” (Lk 15:1-2). does our heavenly Father respond? By can’t fail to inspire us. We can all identify And it is what the older son is invited and rejoicing! By celebrating the fact that with the two brothers. At times, we’re challenged to feel if he can overcome his On the Fourth Sunday of Lent, we were lost and are now found; we like the younger brother who wastes anger and resentment and learn to share the Church proclaims the astonishing were dead and have now been returned his inheritance on loose living and sins his father’s joy. news that God always forgives. The to life! This is the prodigal love of God, of the flesh. At other times, we can feel God’s forgiving love doesn’t erase familiar parable of “The Prodigal the endless mercy and forgiveness that the older brother’s pain and resentment: the effects of our sins, which can be Son” (Lk 15:11-32) is about a father’s are available to us through the power of “Look, all these years I served you and not quite serious. Even the younger son’s willingness to forgive sons who Jesus’ passion, death and resurrection. once did I disobey your orders; yet you behavior had consequences that could have sinned against him—one by We do not need to be stuck in our never gave me even a young goat to feast not be totally erased. Amends have to be squandering his inheritance, and the sins. The cross of Christ has redeemed on with my friends. But when your son made and, in some cases, punishment for other by being angry and resentful that us. Our sins have been forgiven, and we returns who swallowed up your property crimes must be administered. he had to stay home and work while his have been set free. Let us rejoice. We’re with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the During this Lenten season, we too brother was away “sowing wild oats.” not perfect, but we are forgiven. fattened calf” (Lk 15: 29-30)! are invited and challenged to experience During the season of Lent, we Our God is a forgiving God who is The father’s response speaks directly the joy of God’s love and forgiveness. acknowledge that we are a sinful slow to anger and rich in mercy. This is to our hardened hearts: “My son, you Yes, we are sinners—imperfect people people, and that our imperfections hurt one of the primary reasons why we will are here with me always; everything who hurt ourselves and others. Yes, us and others in ways that can be very rejoice during the Easter celebration. I have is yours. But now we must we too often waste the gifts that God damaging. Our experience of Lent and the coming celebrate and rejoice, because your has given us, and we can be resentful As sinners, we usually hurt the people Paschal Triduum focus our attention brother was dead and has come to life and angry when in truth we should be who are closest to us—our parents, on the power and immensity of God’s again; he was lost and has been found” profoundly grateful for all that God has spouses and children, friends and love for us. We are keenly aware of (Lk 15:31–32). given us. co-workers. We make promises that we the lengths to which our loving God There is no greater joy than the We are not perfect, but we are don’t keep. We often take advantage of is willing to go to redeem us from our joy that flows from the experience of forgiven. Let’s thank God for his others’ generosity, and we abuse their trust. selfishness and sin. forgiving love. (The Hebrew word for boundless mercy. Let’s rejoice and be Only when we’ve sunk as low as St. Luke’s story of the prodigal son— “forgiving love” is hesed, which means glad this Lent because God always any human being can possibly go and really the story of two brothers and their the boundless loving mercy of God.) This forgives. †

La parábola del hijo pródigo nos recuerda que Dios siempre perdona

“Todos los publicanos y pecadores se ayuda: “Padre, pequé contra el generoso y amoroso, ha cautivado Dios). Esto es lo que siente el padre acercaban a Jesús para escucharlo. Cielo y contra ti. Ya no merezco ser la imaginación de muchos artistas y cuando regresa el hijo que creía Los fariseos y los escribas llamado hijo tuyo.” ¿Y cómo nos escritores famosos en el transcurso perdido. Ciertamente es lo que siente murmuraban, diciendo: ‘Este hombre responde nuestro Padre celestial? de los últimos 2,000 años. Se trata el hijo que se había perdido cuando su recibe a los pecadores y come con ¡Alegrándose! Celebrando el hecho de una historia de amor y perdón que padre lo recibe con semejante amor y ellos’ ” (Lc 15:1-2). de que estábamos perdidos y hemos sin duda es fuente de inspiración. misericordia. Y es lo que el hijo mayor vuelto; que estábamos muertos y hemos Todos podemos identificarnos con los tiene el reto de sentir, si es capaz de En el cuarto domingo de Cuaresma regresado a la vida. Este es el prodigio dos hermanos; en algunos momentos superar el enojo y el resentimiento, y la Iglesia proclama la maravillosa del amor de Dios, la misericordia y somos como el hermano menor que aprender a compartir la alegría de su noticia de que Dios siempre perdona. el perdón infinitos que recibimos a derrocha la herencia en una vida padre. La conocida parábola del “Hijo través del poder de la pasión, muerte y inmoral y de pecados de la carne. En El amor misericordioso de Dios no pródigo” (Lc 15:11-32) habla sobre la resurrección de Jesús. otros momentos, sentimos el dolor y borra los efectos de nuestros pecados, disposición de un padre para perdonar a No tenemos que quedarnos atascados el resentimiento del hermano mayor: que pueden llegar a ser bastante sus hijos que han pecado contra él: uno en nuestros pecados; la cruz de Cristo “Hace tantos años que te sirvo sin haber graves. Incluso el comportamiento del por dilapidar toda su herencia y el otro nos ha redimido. Nuestros pecados han desobedecido jamás ni una sola de tus hijo menor tuvo consecuencias que por sentirse enfadado y resentido de ser sido perdonados y ahora somos libres. órdenes, y nunca me diste un cabrito no desaparecieron por completo. Es el hijo que se quedó y trabajó, mientras Alegrémonos. No somos perfectos, pero para hacer una fiesta con mis amigos. necesario algún tipo de resarcimiento y, su hermano andaba con mujeres. nos han perdonado. ¡Y ahora que ese hijo tuyo ha vuelto, en algunos casos, administrar castigos Durante la Cuaresma reconocemos El nuestro es un Dios después de haber gastado tus bienes con por delitos cometidos. que somos un pueblo pecador y que misericordioso que tarda en enojarse mujeres, haces matar para él el ternero Durante esta época de Cuaresma nuestras imperfecciones nos lastiman a y es rico en misericordia. Este es uno engordado” (Lc 15:29-30)! se nos invita y se nos desafía a vivir y nosotros y a los demás de formas muy de los principales motivos por el cual La respuesta del padre apela sentir el amor y el perdón de Dios. Sí, dañinas. nos alegramos durante la celebración directamente a nuestros corazones somos pecadores, personas imperfectas Como pecadores, normalmente de la Pascua. Nuestra experiencia en la endurecidos: “Hijo mío, tú estás que nos lastimamos a nosotros mismos lastimamos a quienes están más Cuaresma y el próximo triduo pascual siempre conmigo, y todo lo mío es y a los demás; sí, muy a menudo cerca de nosotros: a nuestros centra nuestra atención en el poder y tuyo. Es justo que haya fiesta y alegría, derrochamos los dones que Dios nos padres, cónyuges e hijos, amigos y la inmensidad del amor de Dios por porque tu hermano estaba muerto y ha ha dado y nos sentimos resentidos y compañeros de trabajo. Hacemos nosotros. Estamos muy conscientes vuelto a la vida, estaba perdido y ha enojados cuando en verdad deberíamos promesas que luego no cumplimos. de lo que nuestro Dios misericordioso sido encontrado” (Lc 15:31-32). estar profundamente agradecidos por A menudo nos aprovechamos de la está dispuesto a hacer para redimirnos No existe una alegría más grande todo lo que Dios nos ha dado. generosidad de los demás y abusamos de nuestro propio egoísmo y del que aquella que emana de sentir un No somos perfectos, pero nos han de su confianza. pecado. amor misericordioso. (En hebreo perdonado. Agradezcamos a Dios por Únicamente cuando hemos caído en La historia del hijo pródigo de existe una palabra para “amor su infinita misericordia y alegrémonos lo más bajo como seres humanos y nos san Lucas, que en verdad es un misericordioso,” hesed, que alude en esta Cuaresma porque Dios siempre sentimos desesperados, imploramos relato sobre dos hermanos y su padre al amor misericordioso e infinito de perdona. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019

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

April 2 April 5 curbside pick-up available. Cuaresmales, 6-8 p.m., fried prayer and meditation, Mass, simple music, silence. Mission 27 Resale, Our Lady of the Most Holy Information: Larry Schulz, and baked fish, fish tacos, reconciliation, $30 through Information: 812-535-2952, 132 Leota St., Indianapolis. Rosary Parish, 520 Stevens St., 317-582-0326, llschultz@ quesadillas, rice and beans, March 23, $40 through [email protected]. Senior Discount Day, every Indianapolis. Fish Fry Friday, outlook.com,. live entertainment, $9 dinners, March 31. Register: mail Tuesday, 30 percent off sponsored by the Santo kids meals and a la carte check payable to Summit St. Paul Hermitage, clothing, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., Rosario Knights of Columbus Women’s Care Center, options available. Information: Seekers, Inc., to Lisa Richart, 501 N. 17th Ave., Beech ministry supports Indianapolis Council #14449, fish and chips 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. 317-546-4065, fishfryfiesta@ 2801 Whitney Ray, Seymour, Grove. Ave Maria Guild, St. Vincent de Paul Society with coleslaw and drink, First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., gmail.com. IN, 47274. Information: 12:30 p.m. Information: Food Pantry and Changing 5-8 p.m., $10 full order, Father Douglas Hunter 812-216-7122, drichart1@ 317-223-3687, vlgmimi@ Lives Forever program. $6 half order, carry out presiding, optional tour of April 6 frontier.com. aol.com. Information: 317-687-8260. available. Information: center to follow. Information: Bishop Simon Bruté College 317-636-4478. 317-829-6800, www. Seminary, 2500 Cold Spring April 7 April 10 April 3 womenscarecenter.org. Road, Indianapolis. Optional Our Lady of Fatima Retreat St. Luke the Evangelist Parish, St. Luke the Evangelist St. Anthony of Padua Race for Vocations Training House, 5353 E. 56th St., 7575 Holliday Dr., E., Parish, 7575 Holliday Dr., School Gymnasium, Our Lady of the Greenwood Event, Mass followed by Indianapolis. Abbey Caskets Indianapolis. Evening of E., Indianapolis. Evening 320 N. Sherwood, Clarksville. Church, 335 S. Meridian St., run or walk, ending with Open House, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Reflection and Lenten of Reflection and Lenten Men’s Club Fish Fry, baked Greenwood. First Friday Theology Over Coffee, Information: 800-987-7380, Supper: “Rerun of the Supper: “Rerun of the and fried fish, oyster and celebration of the Most 7:30 a.m. Information: www. [email protected]. Beatitudes,” Benedictine Beatitudes,” Benedictine shrimp dinners with two Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, raceforvocations.org/events, Father Lambert Reilly, Father Lambert Reilly, sides, cheese pizza, drinks and 5:45 p.m., exposition of the Rick Radar, 317-796-5447, April 8 former Saint Meinrad former Saint Meinrad homemade desserts, prices Blessed Sacrament, following [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Archabbey archabbot, Archabbey archabbot, vary, 5-7:30 p.m. Information: Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament House, 5353 E. 56th St., presenting (last of three), presenting (second of three, [email protected] of Reconciliation available. St. Michael Church, Indianapolis. “Leave the 5:30 p.m. Mass followed by Apr. 10), 5:30 p.m. Mass clarksville.org, 812-282-2290. Information: 317-888-2861 or 145 St. Michael Blvd., Light On” sacrament of simple soup supper, 7-9 p.m. followed by simple soup [email protected]. Brookville. First Saturday reconciliation, 9 a.m.-7 p.m. presentation. Registration supper, 7-9 p.m. presentation. St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish Marian Devotional Prayer Information: Khristine Meyer, requested: dcarollo@ Registration requested: Hall, 10655 Haverstick Road, St. Lawrence Church, Group, Mass, devotional 317-545-7681, kmeyer@ stluke.org. [email protected]. Carmel (Lafayette Diocese). 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. prayers, rosary, 8 a.m. archindy.org, www.archindy. Fish Fry, baked salmon with First Friday Charismatic Information: 765-647-5462. org/fatima. St. Paul Catholic Center, Archbishop O’Meara Catholic crab cakes or all-you-can-eat Renewal Praise and Mass, 1413 E. 17th St., Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., fried pollock, three sides, praise and worship 7 p.m., Our Lady of the Apostle April 9 Bloomington. Catholic Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, cookie and drink, $11 per Mass 7:30 p.m. Information: Family Center, 2882 N. 700 W., Church of the Immaculate Charities in Bloomington Catholic, educational, person, $5 ages 12 and under, 317-546-7328, mkeyes@ Indianapolis. “My Soul Conception, 1 Sisters of Breakfast Benefit, speaker, charitable and social singles, includes children’s indy.rr.com. Thirsts” Women’s Lenten Providence, Saint Mary-of- program updates, breakfast, 50 and over, single, separated, mac-n-cheese meal or Retreat, hosted by Regnum the-Woods. St. Mary-of- freewill offering, 7:45-9 a.m. widowed or divorced. New individual cheese pizza, St. Lawrence Parish, Christi of Indianapolis, the-Woods. Monthly Taizé Information: 812-332-1262 members welcome. 6 p.m. $4 includes drink, $5 shrimp 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. following the Ignatian Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., or Cheri Bush, cbush@ Information: 317-243-0777. cocktails. 5-7:30 p.m., Fish Fry Fiesta/Cenas Spiritual Exercises of silence, silent and spoken prayers, archindy.org. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Personal Day of Retreat, presenting, 7-8:30 p.m., $25. 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. Good Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Information and registration: Holy Week Retreat, retreat $35 includes room for the day 317-788-7581, www. April 15-18 Conference Center, God May be Glorified, director Franciscan Sister and lunch, spiritual direction benedictinn.org. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Benedictine Father Adrian Olga Wittekind facilitating, available for $35. Information House, 5353 E. 56th St., Grove. Popes of the 19th Burke presenting, $465 single, Thurs., 2 p.m.-Sun., noon, and registration: 317-788- April 23-25 Indianapolis. Holy Week Days Century: Leo XII and $735 double. Information: $350 includes lodging, 7581, www.benedictinn.org. Saint Meinrad Archabbey of Silence, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $35 Restoring Monarchy, third of 812-357-6585 or mzoeller@ meals and spiritual direction. Guest House and Retreat per day, includes breakfast and four (April 23), Benedictine saintmeinrad.edu. Information and registration: April 23 Center, 200 Hill Dr., lunch, room to use throughout Father Matthias Neuman 812-933-6437, www. Benedict Inn Retreat & St. Meinrad. Peace, the the day, access to common presenting, 7-8:30 p.m., $25 April 18-21 oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Conference Center, 1402 Benedictine Way, Benedictine areas and grounds. Depending per session. Information and Benedict Inn Retreat & Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Brother Maurus Zoeller on availability, overnight stay registration: 317-788-7581, Conference Center, April 19 Popes of the 19th Century: presenting, $255 single, costs additional $28, $9 cold www.benedictinn.org. 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Benedict Inn Retreat & Gregory XVI and Catholic $425 double. Information: plate dinner when available. Grove. Triduum Retreat, Conference Center, 1402 Modernism, Benedictine 812-357-6585 or mzoeller@ Information and registration: April 17-21 4:30 p.m. Thurs., through Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Father Matthias Neuman saintmeinrad.edu. † Khristine Meyer, 317-545- Saint Meinrad Archabbey 1 p.m. Easter Sunday, 7681, [email protected], Guest House and Retreat $325 per person includes www.archindy.org/fatima. Center, 200 Hill Dr., meals and lodging. Events and retreats can be submitted to The Criterion by logging on to St. Meinrad. Holy Week Information and registration: www.archindy.org/events/submission, or by mailing us at 1400 N. Meridian St., April 16 Retreat—The Leaven of 317-788-7581, www. Indianapolis, IN 46202, ATTN: Cindy Clark, or by fax at 317-236-1593. Benedict Inn Retreat & Christ: That in All Things benedictinn.org. Marian Prayer Service planned at Pregnancy Care Center of SE Indiana to St. Luke the Evangelist on April 7 host annual Walk for Life on April 27 The Knights of Columbus Council of the plight of Christians around the The Pregnancy Care Center $32,000 to enable the care center to #14895 is holding a Marian Prayer world being persecuted for their faith, and of SE Indiana is holding its continue to serve the community and Service for persecuted Christians at to stand in prayerful solidarity with them. annual two-mile Walk for Life at defend the life of the unborn. St. Luke the Evangelist Church, 7575 The service will feature an icon of Our Ivy Tech Community College, This is a free, family-friendly event Holliday Dr. E., in Indianapolis, after Lady Help of Persecuted Christians. 50 Walnut St., in Lawrenceburg on for people of all ages and children. the 11:30 a.m. Mass (approximately For additional information, contact April 27. For more information, to register 12:45 p.m.) on April 7. Mary Ann Atkins at 317-259-4373 or Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. with or to make a donation, visit www. The event is intended to raise awareness e-mail [email protected]. † the walk starting at 9 a.m. supportpccindiana.org, click on Events, The goal of the walk is to raise or call 812-537-4357. † Viewing and panel discussion on Easter Egg run/walk on April 20 will The Third Way documentary planned benefit Society of St. Vincent de Paul at St. John the Evangelist on April 9 The Indianapolis Society of medal, one free beer/soda and the chance A showing of the documentary company. Father John Hollowell, pastor St. Vincent de Paul is hosting its third to participate in an all-ages egg hunt. The Third Way: Homosexuality and the of Annunciation Parish in Brazil and Annual Easter Egg 5K Run/Walk Register online at www.svdpindy.org. Catholic Church, followed by a panel St. Paul the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, and Children’s Fun Run at Military Enter code “SVdP” to benefit discussion, will be held in the Pan Am was executive director of the 2014 film. Park, 100 N. West St., in Indianapolis, St. Vincent de Paul and to receive a Plaza Building parish hall of St. John the The event is co-sponsored by St. John starting at 10 a.m. on April 20. $5 discount per entry. Evangelist Parish, 126 W. Georgia St., in the Evangelist and Our Lady of the Most The cost for adults is $40 through For additional information, contact Indianapolis, at 6:30 p.m. on April 9. Holy Rosary parishes in Indianapolis. April 11, $45 the week of April 12-19, Darlene Sweeney at 317-924-5769, The 40-minute film features Catholics A simple supper will be served. and $50 on the day of the event, plus a ext. 238, or e-mail darlene.sweeney@ with same-sex attraction alongside There is no charge to attend. However, $3 registration fee. svdpindy.org. commentary from renowned Catholic a freewill offering will be accepted. The cost for children is $20 thru Sponsorship opportunities are also speakers like Daughters of St. Paul Sister For additional information, contact April 19, and $25 on the day of the available. Contact Jeff Blackwell at Helena Burns and Chris Stefanick. It was Sheryl Dye at 317-407-6881 or e-mail event, plus a $2.50 registration fee. [email protected] or call 317-965- produced by Blackstone Films, a Catholic [email protected]. † Participants will receive a T-shirt, 5079 for more information. † The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 7 Co-writers, co-producers and co-directors say God planned pro-life film ‘for such a time as now’ By Natalie Hoefer The next day, Konzelman “came into the office with one of those looks,” said As introductions were made and basic Solomon. “I said, ‘Are you OK?’ And information was gathered, the voices of he said, ‘You need to read this [book].’ Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon The way he said it I could tell something were jovial and lighthearted. divine had happened. I read it, and I But their sound changed as they agreed it was definitely a story that began discussing their most recent film, needed to be told” on film. Unplanned, to be released on March 29. It tells the true story of Abby Johnson’s Film is ‘coming out at exact time it’s conversion from pro-choice abortion needed’ facility director to pro-life advocate as Konzelman and Solomon prayed about told in her 2011 book, unPlanned. the project, and both were surprised at the As they spoke about the film, the response they received. voices of the two co-writers, co-producers, “The Lord said, ‘Not yet’!” Solomon co-directors and best friends took on tones recalled, incredulous. “I said, ‘What do at times serious, at times incredulous, and you mean, not yet? Babies are dying!’ We even at times urgent. were bummed out—we were ready to go.” Following are Konzelman’s and Then, Solomon said, he heard the Solomon’s thoughts on the making and words, “Not yet doesn’t mean ‘no.’ It impact of Unplanned during a recent means, ‘Not yet.’ ” phone interview with The Criterion. Four years later, the two were working in the office of their production company, ‘It was a story that needed to be told’ Believe Entertainment, Inc., when a When Solomon moved to Wayne, N.J., peculiar thing happened. Chuck Konzelman, standing, and Cary Solomon, right, review a scene during the filming of in grade school, he made friends with “We both looked up at each other, and Unplanned. The two co-wrote and co-directed the film. They also joined others in co-producing the his next-door neighbor. More than four we both knew at that very moment the time film. (Submitted photo by Annette Biggers) decades later, Konzelman and Solomon [to make the film] was now,” said Solomon. are still best friends—and devout Catholic Both noted in retrospect that the They chose a studio in Stillwater, Okla., your routing number? Where can I wire Christians—who now live on the other moment happened 10 days before the far from Los Angeles. And “somehow you some money?’ I said, ‘Who is this?’ ” side of the country in Los Angeles. election of President Donald J. Trump. by the grace of God, in an age of social The man was Michael Lindell, inventor Solomon noted that he and Konzelman Known for his pro-life stance, President media,” there were no leaks about the of My Pillow and CEO of My Pillow, Inc. are a bit like the television duo Penn and Trump was labeled as “proving to be film, Konzelman said, despite a cast and More importantly, Lindell is a devout Teller, where “I’m Penn, the one who the most fearlessly pro-life president in crew of 1,000 people. Christian. He said he had been praying talks,” he admitted with a laugh. history” in a May 23, 2018, article by the Media silence is not the only grace that and felt called to make a $1 million The two worked Washington Post. occurred during the donation to the together on the secular “If you look at process of making the directors—one-sixth side of the film ‘If you look at what’s what’s happening, film. ‘The great lie is that you can of their $6 million industry for about 17 these infant death “From day one in budget. years. Along the way, happening, these infant death laws … ,” Solomon the office to when we walk into an abortion center, “My bank closes they wrote for major laws … We’ve been preparing said, his voice were on set we had they can erase the baby, and at 5 [p.m.]—do you studios like Warner for a time such as this trailing off. “We’ve miracles, healings, you can walk away and forget want the $1 million Brothers, Paramount, through prayer. [The film is] been preparing for conversions,” said about it. There’s grief the rest or not?” Solomon Sony-Columbia and a time such as this Solomon. “We could recalled Lindell 20th Century Fox; coming out at the exact time through prayer. [The make a movie about of their life, and this movie asking. He rattled for well-known it is needed.’ film is] coming out making the movie.” helps them get past that.’ off the routing producers like Joel at the exact time it is number, “then the — Cary Solomon, co-writer, —Chuck Konzelman, co-writer, Silver and Stan Lee; co-producer and co-director of needed.” ‘Do you want the co-producer and co-director of [computer] screen and for famous actors Unplanned Konzelman $1 million or not?’ Unplanned blinked, and the like Bruce Willis and agreed, even down As an example of account balance was Sylvester Stallone. to the date of the both a healing and a $1,000,013.17.” But in 2008, both men felt called to film’s release. While the official box conversion, Solomon spoke of a woman “come over to serve the Lord” with their office opening is on March 29, some who was “pro-choice and very, very sick ‘Grace, forgiveness, hope, healing, talents, said Solomon. locations showed the film as early as with lupus,” who had somehow gotten redemption’ Since then, they’ve co-written and/or March 25—the feast of the Annunciation hold of a screenplay of Unplanned. The film has been shown to sample co-produced numerous faith-based box of the Lord when “the Word was made “She said just reading the screenplay, groups hundreds of times, Solomon said. office films. Movieguide listed their 2010 flesh” in the womb of Mary. she became pro-life and desperately “Every place we [showed] it, not one film What If… as one of the year’s top “We figure having the film available wanted to be involved in the film,” he said. person said it’s not good. Not one,” he 10 family movies, and their 2014 movie as early as the Annunciation was likely a But when she arrived at the set, it said. “Some are crying, even men— God’s Not Dead film ranked among the decision—but the Lord’s, not ours,” he said. became obvious that her health would not they’re just as affected if they were top 35 grossing films that year. It also won allow for the 20-hour work days. involved in an abortion. And they say they Movieguide’s top award in 2015. Their last ‘We could make a movie about making Suddenly the woman began to cry. feel freed, healed.” film prior to Unplanned was God’s Not the movie’ One of the many priests and ministers Konzelman credits such feelings to Dead: A Light in the Darkness in 2018. To write the script, Solomon said frequently present on the set was called the film’s overall message: “That there is Before all the awards, Solomon interviews with Johnson were done early on. over, and the woman confessed for the grace and forgiveness, hope and healing recalled when, about six years ago, he and “We wanted to make a movie that was first time to having an abortion at age 19. and redemption no matter what you’ve Konzelman were at their “usual haunt, a real,” he explained. “She was just standing there crying done, and particularly for post-abortion coffee shop,” discussing ideas for their next With Johnson’s eight years of about this abortion—and right then and women and men.” project, when a woman approached them experience working in the abortion there, she was miraculously healed” of His hope is that those scarred by with a copy of Johnson’s book unPlanned. industry, they relied on her for technical her illness, Solomon said with a bit of abortion will find healing through the film. “[She] tells us to read this book, and information. awe in his voice. She went on to do office And he hopes they will then become says we need to make it into a movie. And for authenticity, even the actors work for the project. pro-life advocates, “telling others I thought, ‘Yeah, sure—a chick flick! portraying the abortion doctor and nurse Solomon’s favorite conversion story considering abortion, ‘This is the mistake What do I know about being pregnant?’ ” in the film are an actual former abortion hits closer to home. I made. I suffered tremendously for it. Solomon said with a laugh. doctor and nurse who, like Johnson, “My dad is 84, an atheist, liberal, You don’t need to make the same mistake. But they took the book anyway. “had already ceased doing that work and pro-choice, far left, get-along-go-along, If you find yourself in a crisis pregnancy, come to the Lord,” said everything-is-allowed-and-permissible let’s find another way to handle it.’ Solomon. kind of guy,” he explained. “The great lie,” Konzelman continued, When asked how the He asked Solomon to send him a “is that you can walk into an abortion filming of Unplanned clip from the film, which was still being center, they can erase the baby, and you differed from their shot. Solomon sent his dad a 10-second can walk away and forget about it. There’s other Christian clip from a scene of pro-life advocates grief the rest of their life, and this movie movies, Konzelman holding their hands through a Planned helps them get past that.” immediately responded. Parenthood fence, praying over a barrel of Given the current trends and attitude of “None of the other dismembered baby parts. society regarding abortion, Solomon noted projects needed privacy,” “The next day he called,” Solomon that “it’s for a time such as now” that God he said. “Usually recalled. “He said—and he just doesn’t planned Unplanned to be created. when you’re filming, talk this way—he said, ‘The clip you sent “If the world doesn’t end abortion, particularly a faith me, this movie is going to change the the Lord will,” he said. “And we are not movie, you look for all world. You’ve shown us what we didn’t going to like how he does it.” the publicity you can get. want to see. … We need to make the Lord But we knew there was put an end to this abortion thing.” (Unplanned will be available in theaters Abby Johnson, left, is seen on the set of the movie Unplanned with a strong possibility of The movie itself almost came to an end nationwide starting on March 29. How actress Ashley Bratcher, who plays her. The movie details the story protests or sabotage, so one day when its bank account had a mere long the film will continue to be shown of Johnson, a former Planned Parenthood administrator who quit that we shot the film under an $13.17 remaining, with filming yet to go. depends on how well it does on its job to join the pro-life movement after her up-close interaction with assumed name, and we “Before 5 p.m. the phone rang,” said opening weekend. For a list of theaters abortion. (CNS photo/courtesy Unplanned) filmed in secret.” Solomon. “The person says, ‘Hey, what’s and times, go to www.unplanned.com.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 SISTERS continued from page 1 during his homily. “Just as God is the Father who watches over his children, providing for their every need, so too, she saw St. Joseph as the one who could obtain bread for the poor and protect her call and mission.” In his homily, Archbishop Pierre encouraged his listeners to learn from St. Joseph—“to live in a spirit of sacrifice with respect to our vocation.” “We cannot have our vocation on our own terms. Rather, each vocation is a gift from God to be lived on his terms for his kingdom and for the good of the Church,” he said. “St. Joseph forgot himself and lived for his wife Mary and for his son Jesus. This degree of abandonment to divine providence is not so easy for us. “And yet, we see the fruitfulness of this forgetfulness of St. Joseph. He forgot himself and remained faithful to God, living his vocation as a husband and as a foster father.” Archbishop Pierre later said that the way in which St. Joseph protected Mary and Joseph is embodied today in the Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States, elevates a chalice during a March 19 Mass in the chapel of the St. Augustine Home for ministry of the Little Sisters of the Poor. the Aged in Indianapolis. Benedictine Father Julian Peters, left, serves as master of ceremonies for the Mass. Msgr. William F. Stumpf, archdiocesan vicar “In these days, the Little Sisters general, concelebrates the Mass. Archbishop Pierre came to the St. Augustine home to mark the 150th anniversary of the start of ministry in the U.S. of the continue to follow his example in Little Sisters of the Poor, who operate the retirement facility. (Photos by Sean Gallagher) protecting the little ones of the Earth, especially the elderly poor from the Mother Francis Gabriel King, the throwaway culture that threatens human superior of the Little Sisters of the Poor in dignity and the gift of life,” he said. “Your Indianapolis, was grateful that Archbishop accompaniment of these little ones at the Pierre came to celebrate the anniversary end of life’s journey reaffirms the value at the St. Augustine Home on the feast of of each person and points them to eternal St. Joseph. life with God. This is your mission, and “It was like having a little bit of we are grateful for it.” France, a little bit of our heritage and our history with us,” she said after the liturgy. “It reaffirms us to live for God at the hands of St. Joseph’s intercession, who has always, in the history of our congregation, been a powerful intercessor.” In the reception that followed the Mass, three rooms were set up at the St. Augustine Home to highlight the first three cities in the U.S. where the Little Sisters began their ministry in 1868: Brooklyn, N.Y., Cincinnati and New Orleans. In the New Orleans room, where visitors enjoyed beignets, a French pastry popular in the city, resident Dori Hartter told the story of Mother Marie de la Conception, the Little Sister of the Poor who helped start their ministry in the city known as the “Big Easy.” She was dressed The chapel of St. Augustine Home for the Aged in Indianapolis was filled on March 19 for a Mass in a habit resembling the one the members marking the 150th anniversary of the start of ministry in the U.S. of the Little Sisters of the Poor, who of the order would have worn in 1868. operate the retirement facility. Hartter, 80, has lived at the St. Augustine Home for three years and values the hospitality that the Little Sisters of the Poor show to their residents and all their visitors. “They continually give themselves in hospitality,” she said. “It’s understanding Msgr. Joseph Schaedel, pastor of St. Luke the in a different way what our Lord really Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, proclaims the means in terms of going out to the poor Gospel during the March 19 liturgy. himself.” †

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Do not give in to discouragement and do not lose hope.... If you have not already done so, give yourselves over with humility and trust to repentance. The Father of mercies is ready to give you his forgiveness and his peace ... ~Saint John Paul II, The Gospel Life Archbishop Christophe Pierre blesses Claire Schank during the Mass. Claire is a member of SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish in Greenwood. The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 9 Archbishop’s visit to Ritter House brings history to life By John Shaughnessy him get canonized. But what I think this does for people is that we always want NEW ALBANY—As he toured the to think of saints—or people who do childhood home of Cardinal Joseph great things—as a particular breed [that’s E. Ritter in New Albany, different] from us. And hopefully the Archbishop Charles C. Thompson focused people who come here find a person and intently on the major accomplishments of a human being who is just like us. He a man who helped shape the archdiocese, was a Hoosier from New Albany, close the United States and the universal to the Ohio River, who went on to do Church. great things. Archbishop Thompson read “That’s the potential that all of us have. the museum display that noted The last document Pope Francis gave us how Cardinal Ritter desegregated was on holiness. He talked about the call Catholic schools in Indianapolis over to holiness, that it’s not just for a few, it’s the opposition of the Ku Klux Klan for all of us. That’s our baptismal call. and even some of his priests—17 years We’re all called to holiness. We’re all before Brown v. Board of Education, called to become saints. This man born the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme in a room upstairs over a bakery, above Court decision which held that racial where beer was being made, can go on to segregation of children in public schools do the great things he did in Indianapolis was unconstitutional. and St. Louis and the Second Vatican The archbishop also absorbed the Council. It reminds all of us that that reference to Cardinal Ritter’s influence potential is in all of us. during the Second Vatican Council that “God doesn’t call us to anything that reshaped the Church in the 1960s, and God doesn’t give us the grace to do. how Pope Paul VI invited Cardinal So what stands out is that this ordinary When Archbishop Charles C. Thompson came to the childhood home of Cardinal Joseph Ritter to celebrate the first public Mass person, like us, went on to do great E. Ritter in New Albany on March 14, he received a personal tour from David Hock, chairman of the in English in the United States—a 1964 things. And he did it not because he was Cardinal Ritter Birthplace Foundation. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) Mass that drew more than 12,000 people in a privileged position, but he was a man in St. Louis where Cardinal Ritter served of faith who allowed the Spirit to guide at the University of Dayton in Ohio on Still, the archbishop said that he as archbishop following his time as the him, who took seriously his baptismal call March 8. has reminded the strategic steering spiritual leader of the Church in central to serve, to love, to proclaim the Good “With this pastoral letter on racism, committee that “we cannot focus on and southern Indiana. News, to live the faith. And that’s an different dioceses are hosting these [young people] to the detriment of not After heading upstairs in the house, example for all of us.” listening sessions, and we’re hoping being attentive to children, to senior Archbishop Thompson displayed a look During his talk, Archbishop Thompson to do one in Indianapolis. We have citizens, to all people.” of appreciation as David Hock—the board also noted that the challenges of racism to listen. Dayton, Ohio, just had “As Pope Francis pointed out, it’s a chairman of the Cardinal Ritter Birthplace that Cardinal Ritter faced because of his one. A lot of people were getting up two-way street,” he said. “It can’t just Foundation—showed the archbishop desegregation efforts are still with the and sharing their story of how they be, ‘You got to be heard.’ You’ve also the small, second-floor room where United States and the Church today. experienced racial treatment not only got to be able to listen. It’s not just how Cardinal Ritter had been born above his The archbishop mentioned that the in the city, but in our Church. So, it’s do we draw from your gifts, wisdom family’s bakery. United States Conference of Catholic important that we listen.” and strengths, but how are you listening And the archbishop shared a smile Bishops (USCCB) adopted and published The importance of listening is an to the Church that’s been around for and an expression of surprise and delight a pastoral letter on racism in November of approach that Pope Francis has stressed 2,000 years and the people who have when Hock noted that Ritter family 2018. He also referred to his own personal during his time of leading the Church, the gone before you with their blood, sweat members brewed beer in the basement of experience of being in high school in archbishop noted. and tears.” the house during the years of Prohibition Louisville during the first year of busing “People on both sides tend to Archbishop Thompson received a in the United States. there—a time that he has previously misunderstand Pope Francis. He’s never warm reception from the audience, many All those elements came together in described as being marked by “a lot of changed one issue of content of our of whom braved a fierce storm to come the archbishop’s mind later during his violence.” Church. He’s pushing for tone—that we to the event, a storm that knocked out remarks to a standing-room-only audience “To come to the Archdiocese of can listen and dialogue, and encounter the electricity on that evening in the at the annual “Lecture and Irish Coffee” Indianapolis where Cardinal Ritter and come together in those painful, Cardinal Ritter House. event on March 14 at the Cardinal Ritter desegregated the schools, that’s difficult moments. Despite that challenge, Hock and the House. kind of a neat connection for me,” “Pope Francis also talks a lot other volunteers at the event seemed Asked about the impact that the Archbishop Thompson told the about accompaniment. That word to channel—mostly—Cardinal Ritter’s museum and the tour had on him, audience. accompaniment implies movement. He motto of “Work hard, pray hard, don’t Archbishop Thompson said, “I know He then referred to a “listening said to meet people where they are, listen worry.” there are some who would like to see session” on racism that the USCCB hosted to their hurts and then start teaching them. “I was worried a little,” Hock admitted We have to lead them to Christ.” with a smile, referring to the weather and In that regard, the archbishop shared the lack of electricity. ‘We’re all called to holiness. We’re all how the archdiocese is currently in the Still, he kept his focus on the midst of developing a strategic plan archdiocese’s latest archbishop coming to called to become saints. This man born to keep and bring young people into a the birthplace of its first archbishop. in a room upstairs over a bakery, above deeper relationship with God and the “For the most part, Cardinal Ritter was where beer was being made, can go on to Church. always an Indiana boy and an Indiana “One of the things we’re looking at is man,” Hock said. “He really was a do the great things he did in Indianapolis evangelization,” Archbishop Thompson humble person. He always said he just and St. Louis and the Second Vatican said. “That focuses on all ages, but wanted to be a priest. especially youths and young adults. They “It’s really nice that Archbishop Council. It reminds all of us that that say today that the average Catholic is Thompson is here. He was the bishop of potential is in all of us.’ leaving the Church by age 13. That says Evansville, and he grew up in Kentucky. family. You don’t leave at 13 unless your He’s from this area. We’re really glad — Archbishop Charles C. Thompson family has left. That is a group we have to that he’s here to hear Cardinal Ritter’s focus on.” story.” †

and personnel, the state-managed and system that would automatically notify circumvent 911 but notifies all on-duty ICC taxpayer-funded monies may also be used all law enforcement and other emergency and off-duty local, state and federal continued from page 3 to provide for mental health services as personnel within a county to respond officers in the event of an emergency.” preventive measures. immediately in a crisis, even when they The ICC and the INPEA support the first 90 days of the school year if her bill, The ICC and INPEA support the bill, are off-duty. All schools, including bill, which passed the committee by a which passed the House 96-2, is approved which was scheduled Catholic and other non-public schools, 7-0 vote and was by the Senate. for a vote by the would be included within the system. scheduled for a full “We need to do all that we can to Senate Education In testimony Senate vote at press secure our schools and help our kids feel Committee at press before the Senate time. safe when they come in through those time. Another Homeland Security To follow priority doors every day,” she mental health-related and Transportation legislation of the ICC, said. bill, Senate Bill Committee earlier visit www.indianacc. House Bill 1004 266, authored by this month, Porter org. This website also would expand Sen. Michael Crider County Sheriff David includes access to and adjust safety (R-Greenfield), Reynolds described I-CAN, the Indiana funding for schools, Glenn Tebbe passed the Senate the benefits of the Rep. Gregory Catholic Action including Catholic Appropriations system, which has Steuerwald Network, which offers and other non-public Committee unanimously and continues to Rep. Wendy been in operation in the Church’s position schools. The bill advance in the Senate. McNamara the northwest Indiana on key issues. Those who sign up for identifies two separate A third piece of school safety county for four years. I-CAN receive alerts on legislation moving John Elcesser funds for school legislation, House Bill 1225, passed All 75 schools in Porter County are forward and ways to contact their elected safety measures: The unanimously in the Indiana House equipped with the alert system, including representatives. safe schools fund is for public schools of Representatives and is now under private schools. only, while non-public schools are eligible consideration by the Senate. Authored by “One of the problems in all school (Victoria Arthur, a member of St. Malachy for grants from the secured schools fund. Rep. Gregory Steuerwald (R-Danville), shootings is the lack of response time,” Parish in Brownsburg, is a correspondent In addition to funding safety equipment the bill establishes an active warning Reynolds said. “This system does not for The Criterion.) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Archbishop to speak at St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities gala By Natalie Hoefer several months as the organization’s collect are used in St. Elizabeth programs. “Tex’s biggest strength is that he is interim executive director. Not many organizations can say that.” a connector. He knows everyone and When St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities “It was a daunting task,” admits Walker, More comfortable behind the scenes, is not reluctant to talk to them about in New Albany holds its annual “Giving a former banker. “To run an agency Walker says he is a little uncomfortable their opportunity to be involved with Hope-Changing Lives” gala on April 25, it like that for even a few months was a with the recognition offered in the St. Elizabeth.” will mostly resemble those of years past. challenge. But everything fell into place.” Spirit of Hope Award, but that he is also Very and his wife, members of St. John But a few things will be different—a Mark Casper, St. Elizabeth Catholic “surprised” and “grateful” to receive the Paul II Parish in Sellersburg, also serve new venue, and Charities’ current executive director, says honor. as members of the St. Elizabeth Catholic for the first time in that during Walker’s time on the board, His co-recipient Charities’ team that helps the Homeless the event’s history, “Page was very engaged—understanding Very feels the same Coalition of Southern Indiana’s White the archbishop of the issues facing the agency, willing about receiving the Flag effort in New Albany. Once a month Indianapolis will offer to ask the tough questions and always award. between November and March, the team a keynote address. willing to help with a solution that “I was surprised, helps care for those in need of nighttime After all, this is an reflected the ownership he took in really, because there shelter when the temperature is below event four decades in St. Elizabeth’s mission.” are a lot of deserving 35 degrees. the making. Walker, a member of St. Anthony people,” he says. Very says he started helping For 40 years, of Padua Parish in Clarksville, retired In fact, it is St. Elizabeth years ago because he “saw Archbishop Charles St. Elizabeth from the board in 2012. But he still the people of the so many other dedicated volunteers, and C. Thompson Catholic Charities serves on the organization’s development Page Walker organization who thought if I could help, I would.” in New Albany has committee, where Casper says Walker inspire him. And now those people can say the served women, children, families and “helped lead the “The staff is very dedicated, same about him. others in need in southern Indiana. charge in community and they have so many dedicated Receiving the Spirit of Hope For more than half of that time, the and individual donor volunteers,” Very says emphatically. Award “shows you’ve been making a Giving Hope-Changing Lives gala has growth over the last “Mark [Casper] has done an difference,” Very says. “I don’t do it for served as one of the organization’s major 20 years to support outstanding job. He can get so many the acknowledgment. But if it comes, it’s fundraisers. the growth the agency balls in the air and yet seem like he’s appreciated.” As in years past, several people will has experienced to never in a hurry or stressed.” tell their story at the event of how the meet the needs [of all Casper has nothing but praise for Very (The Giving Hope-Changing Lives organization helped them. And as in the programs] we do as well. He notes that Very is in his 12th gala will take place at the Kentucky years past, two of those who helped the today.” year serving on the advisory board and International Convention Center, 221 organization assist others will be honored Tex Very Casper also calls is in his 15th year on the development S. 4th St., in Louisville, Ky., on April 25. with the Spirit of Hope Award for their him “a quarterback” committee—including serving as its A cash bar and silent auction bidding dedicated service. at the organization’s annual fall reverse chairman for the last 11 years. on more than 100 items will take place This year’s Spirit of Hope winners are raffle fundraiser, “making sure the “During Tex’s time as development from 5:30-7 p.m., followed by dinner. Tex Very and Page Walker. event runs smoothly and is financially chair, St. Elizabeth has doubled the After a live auction from 7:45-8:30 p.m., Walker served on the organization’s successful.” amount of sponsorship support for our Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and advisory board from 2003-12, including Walker says he is motivated by the events,” Casper says. “This covered others will speak. The Spirit of Hope four years as vice-president and two years agency’s efforts to “help out so many the cost of the event expenses rising awards will be presented at 9:15 p.m., as president. people in need. as attendance has grown from 300 to and the event will end around 9:30 p.m. During those two years, he encountered “What really impresses me is that 700 supporters, allowing us to engage RSVP by April 4 by calling 812-949-7305 an unusual task: he had to serve for roughly 95 percent of all the funds we more people in St. Elizabeth’s mission. or e-mailing [email protected].) † Speakers at Georgetown dialogue on child sex abuse look at ‘path forward’ WASHINGTON (CNS)—Some 60 years later, sexual Touching a child’s shoulder is fine, but “no hugging.” abuse by a trusted priest is still vivid for Michael Nugent. Also, no contact with children on social media unless a His 2002 accusation against Father Marion Snieg, parent is copied in on the conversation. who abused him at the parish school of St. Jane de And finally, citing the bitter memory of his abuse, “If Chantal in Chicago in 1959, when he was in the eighth there is only one altar server—say Mass alone.” grade, was part of an $8 million settlement in 2003 by The abuse crisis has had its effect even at his current the Archdiocese of Chicago involving 12 priests and parish, Holy Trinity in Georgetown. Asked by an 15 victims. audience member if he had hope for future change, Father Snieg retired in January 2002 and withdrew Nugent replied, “I don’t know. I need evidence. I know from all public ministry in May of that year. He died in just from my own count, the [Sunday] 9 o’clock Mass is 2005. not as well attended as it used to be. They’re gone now. But the pain has never left Nugent, he told a gathering You can’t get them back.” called “A Path Forward: Conversation and Dialogue on U.S. Catholic dioceses and eparchies have followed, Clerical Sexual Abuse” on March 24. The event was since 2002, protocols for addressing abuse spelled out in sponsored by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought the bishops’ “Charter for the Protection of Children and and Public Life at Georgetown University. Young People.” The document spells out strict procedures Nugent is now a member of the child protection for removing credibly accused abusers from ministry, advisory board of the Archdiocese of Washington. for training children and all adults who work with them, Father Snieg, he recalled through tears, “specialized in and also created diocesan and national mechanisms to abusing boys around the age of puberty. He had a bunch monitor compliance. of seventh-graders that he would groom. He was very Last June, the report on the implementation of the smooth. Very experienced.” charter showed a decrease in allegations of clergy sex The priest was even known to take certain boys abuse from the two previous years while indicating the on vacations. “So he would take two boys on his need for continued vigilance since charges were raised Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, president of the Centre for Child honeymoon. Every year, practically.” by more than 650 adults and 24 minors. But accusations Protection at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, prays Father Snieg’s abuse of Nugent involved pinning him against former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick made at the start of the third day of the meeting on the protection of up against shelves in the sacristy, with his considerable public last year, even though they were from many minors in the Church at the Vatican on Feb. 23. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) bulk blocking any view from anyone else who might years ago, have made many American Catholics feel walk in. that cover‑ups have continued. Pope Francis laicized system that you have established.” It took decades of blocking out the painful memories, McCarrick in February. Kathleen Coogan, a member of the pastoral council in addition to an interview with a skeptical Chicago Jesuit Father Hans Zollner, a member of the Pontifical at Holy Trinity Parish, described efforts to make it “a police officer who asked, “Why did you wait so long?” Commission for the Protection of Minors and president of possible model parish” for reporting abuse, even though and the painful disclosure to Nugent’s wife and sons for the Center for the Protection of Minors at the Pontifical there have been no accusations there for the past 40 years. him to process his anguish. Gregorian University, praised the testimony from Nugent Father Zollner said Pope Francis realized, almost from Finally, he was told it was not his fault. “It was the and Holy Trinity’s compliance. the beginning of his papacy in 2013, “that the Catholic beginning of my healing,” he said. “I feel that if each and every single parish does what Church ... needs to face the issue head on,” adding, “He Nugent, a retired international representative for the this parish has done, and so impressively, then things will wants to the whole Church to own the issue.” International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, has change,” the priest said. Before the February Vatican summit on child presented his own list of recommendations for clerical The numbers of credible abuse cases “have dropped protection, this had been problematic, Father Zollner conduct to the advisory board. dramatically, and this is the result of the watertight observed, since bishops from Asia and Africa, particularly, believed “this is a Western issue. This does not happen in my country.” But testimony of abuse survivors at the summit showed this to be untrue. REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW Online Lay Ministry Formation “I believe a lot of them never listened to stories of If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the loneliness, rejection and hurt” that sexual abuse brings, said behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University Father Zollner, one of the chief organizers of the summit. of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: coordinator. 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As a child, I was an overachiever with a strong competitive streak. I couldn’t stand to lose at anything, not even Candy Land! By the time I entered religious life, I had learned to curb the drive to be first in everything, at least outwardly, but I was still a diehard perfectionist—until trying to reach perfection through my own efforts led me to the brink of despair. I was feeling like a complete failure, but my thinking was turned upside down by Pope Francis when I happened to read that his words to cardinals after his election to the papacy were, “I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ.” A few months after his election, he responded to a journalist who asked him, “Who is Jorge Bergoglio?” by confiding, “I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.” “I am a sinner.” If the shepherd of the universal Church could speak these words for all the world to hear, then shouldn’t I be able to admit my creatureliness as well? How liberating his words were! How life- changing! They were for me a source of indescribable joy. I also found the following passage from Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium,” (“The Joy of the Gospel”) transformative: “Whenever we take a step toward Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms. Now is the time to say to Jesus: ‘Lord, I have let myself be deceived; in a thousand ways I have shunned your love, yet here I am once more, to renew my covenant with you. I need you. Save me once again, Lord, Through the parable of the prodigal son, God reminds us that no matter what we have done, or how imperfect we may feel, he is always there, waiting for take me once more into your redeeming us with open arms, ready to renew us in his love. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) embrace.’ “How good it feels to come back to him of Lent. It’s Laetare Sunday, a day of (Jos 5:9), and that whoever is in Christ Is his conversion real, or is he simply whenever we are lost! … God never tires rejoicing! is a new creation (2 Cor 5:17), for our hoping to enjoy the comforts of home once of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of Today, God invites us to don our sins have been cast into the depths of again? Is he bedazzled by the fancy robes in seeking his mercy” (#3). finest robes, to slaughter the fattened the sea (Mi 7:19). which he is clothed, or does he look beyond Our Holy Father’s words spontaneously calf and prepare a lavish feast. But why Today, through the parable of the them to realize the depths of love they came to mind as I contemplated the are we rejoicing? Today, God assures prodigal son, God reminds us that convey? We don’t actually know, nor do we Scripture readings for this Fourth Sunday us that he has removed our shame no matter what we have done or how know whether his return home is permanent. imperfect we may feel, he is always there, We are also left wondering if the older waiting for us with open arms, ready to son will be able to let go of his stubborn renew us in his love. resentment and joyless sense of duty What is required of us is that we believe in order to accept all that the father has in this love, trust in his promises and reserved for him. take the Will he first step allow his toward a ‘Whenever we take a step hardened new life— heart to be toward toward Jesus, we come to softened by Jesus who realize that he is already his father’s loves each there, waiting for us with assurances of us as if of love? we were open arms.’ Will he the only finally —Pope Francis one. Each leave his of us can judgments truly say, and his Christ sterile “has loved me and given himself up for perfectionism behind so that he can enter me” (Gal 2:20). into the joy of his brother’s homecoming? We usually think of the younger son in Jesus allows each of us to finish the the parable as the one who went astray, but parable of the prodigal son. both brothers have distanced themselves Whether we identify more with the from their father’s love. Although he younger son or the older boy, through the remained in his father’s house physically, sacraments of the Church—especially the the older boy also wandered far from sacrament of penance—each of us has the home by isolating himself behind a wall of opportunity to come home and to write the resentment and anger. end of our own story based on the undying, We don’t know why the younger son unconditional love of our heavenly Father. left home in the first place—maybe he On this Fourth Sunday of Lent, how will was bullied by his older brother or felt your story end? crushed by his harsh judgments. Perhaps he knew that no matter how hard he (Sister Constance Veit has been a member tried, he would never live up to his of the Little Sisters of the Poor for 32 father’s expectations. years. She has served in various capacities Pope Francis hears the confession of a priest on March 7 at Rome’s Basilica of St. John Lateran. The In any case, having hit rock bottom, the in the direct care of the elderly and now pope administered the sacrament to several priests during his annual Lenten meeting with the priests younger son humbles himself before his serves as communications director for the of the Diocese of Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) father and begs for mercy. Little Sisters’ U.S. communities.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Perspectives Amid the Fray/Greg Erlandson Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Losing a friend during winter’s chill is twice the loss Family members Growing up on Los Angeles, I never the landscape turns to a dark monochrome. ordinary Catholic in the pew. He was really appreciated the seasons. As the old Winter is like the Lent of the seasons. extraordinarily well-read in Church can encourage joke goes, Southern California has only I’ve never really lived where people make history and a gifted writer who had no two: brushfire season winter a recreational bonanza. In the tolerance for an over-intellectualized faith, each other in their and mudslide season. states where I’ve lived, winter is more a or for those who ape every trend and fad This seems even place where one turns inward. coming down from pooh-bahs of secular Lenten journey more true these days, Dark departures in the morning. Dark culture. He had a big heart, but loathed whether the underlying arrivals in the evening. Neighbors who political correctness. We’ve been in Lent for a good three cause is climate change walk briskly by your house as if racing What Bob was first and foremost was weeks now and have a good three weeks or a failure to rake the to get some exercise before their toes a thoughtful Christian who knew a thing yet to go before we joyfully celebrate the forests. and their fingers go numb. Winter seems or two about sin and about humility, and resurrection of Christ But having lived a time when death has the upper hand. who responded with great charity to all at Easter. a large portion of my Spring seems unimaginably far off. who struggled with faith or addiction or At this point in life in the Midwest I lost a good friend this winter, the the daily challenges of life. our Lenten journey, and East, I have grown to appreciate what writer and publisher Bob Lockwood. My life is much the poorer for his the added spiritual I missed as a kid. I never saw snow fall Losing a friend in winter seems twice absence, but he would not be overly disciplines of prayer, until I was an adult, and I still love the a loss. The absence of the person and the tolerant of my self-pity. In the last fasting and almsgiving muffled softness of a city draped in white. absence of a beloved fellow traveler in column he wrote for OSV Newsweekly, he that we started on Ash I’m less crazy about the humidity of what he labeled The Great Dark. Bob and described the Lent of being in the hospital Wednesday might summer, but the whirr of the cicadas is so I cheered each other up after Christmas by with all its indignities. But lest we get the have begun to be evocative of a hot summer afternoon, the penny ante bets on NFL playoff games. wrong idea, he drew our attention back to challenging. grass just mowed and a glass of lemonade He would never bet on the Giants what really mattered. I’m sure I’m not the We might be tempted to give up on sweating next to me on the patio. because he ached for them to win, and only reader who thought it was a farewell them, at least here and there. I’ll admit And fall, how can I not delight every I usually bet on the Patriots because I message meant for me. that this has been the case with me at year in that riot of color that I never hoped I’d jinx them. It was a modest His last words: “Have a blessed Lent. ... times in the past. At this point in our really knew in LA, with deciduous trees little game of distraction, lasting until And we will meet in joy at Easter morning.” Lenten journey, the enthusiasm we might aflame in reds and oranges and yellows, the Super Bowl. Then winter would get Dear God, I hope so. have felt at the start of this penitential and the crunch of leaves underfoot? It is serious, he’d say, with no football and no season has probably faded, while the joy a bittersweet time of year, when winter’s baseball in the deep freeze to follow. (Greg Erlandson, director and editor-in-chief to be known at its completion can still impending deathlike sleep is not far off, Bob was a deceptively complicated of Catholic News Service, can be reached at seem far away. and yet nature throws one last party before man who was a fierce defender of the [email protected].) † For me, this midway point in Lent can be an image for me of my life as a father For the Journey/Effie Caldarola of five growing boys. I’ve been a father now for 16 years, which at times seems like a long time. Lent is a good time for spring cleaning, soul cleansing And with my youngest son being only By now, almost everyone has heard of touches on a deeper, more fundamental well as their faith in Moses and God. 5, I know I have many more years to go Marie Kondo. part of this issue. Grumbling ensues. God provides quail in before he turns 18 and, theoretically, goes Kondo is the attractive Japanese woman The questions we should ask, along the evening, manna in the morning. off on his own. who has parlayed with “Does this cracked mug I’m keeping But Moses cautions: Harvest the (I know well, of course, that one her penchant for in the cupboard spark joy?” are: Why do manna and consume it all—there’ll be continues being a parent after one’s decluttering into a I buy so much stuff? What need, what more. But, folks have their doubts. Better children become adults according to the personal brand that now emptiness, what insecurity am I trying to tuck away some for tomorrow. Just in law.) includes a Netflix series fill? case. The result is stinking, maggot- My wife Cindy and I have experienced and several books. Americans have joked about “retail filled leftover manna. What a metaphor many great joys in the life we share Her method helps therapy,” as if buying more can boost our for our burgeoning storage spaces and together as parents. They range from you sort through mood and increase our happiness. But this overflowing closets. once-in-a-lifetime events like births, household and is no joke. We’re inundated by plastics that The Israelites’ insecurity made them baptisms and first Communions to seeing personal detritus, wash up on formerly pristine shores and question that God provides. the unique personalities of our boys throwing out, giving seriously threaten the health of our seafood Is there some of that in our constant blossom before our eyes in the everyday away, reorganizing, and always asking, as supply. Our landfills overflow. There’s yearning for more? life we share together. And we know in you look at that dress you haven’t worn not a market for all the clothes we donate. I thought of that the other day as faith that many more are to come. in five years, “Does this bring me joy?” It Recycling worldwide can’t keep up with I hauled items to a thrift store. It had Yet, in this life marked by the effects doesn’t? Then out it goes. us. Our “stuff” threatens the planet. taken me a while to deliver those bags of of original sin, parenting—as with any At the library, I noticed an entire Climate change and overconsumption clothes. Part of it was distance, but part of walk of life—is a sharing in the cross display dedicated to books about disproportionately impact the poor and it was my reluctance to part with “stuff.” of Christ: in moments of sickness and decluttering. Apparently Kondo’s success oppressed, who beg for crumbs from our I look at my large closet and see squabbles, disobedience and disrespect. has given birth to a genre. Something overladen tables. abundance. And I’m trying not to buy Then there’s the countless ways we about getting rid of “stuff” has touched a Our consumption is a moral issue, a more. Yet, all the more excuse to hesitate sacrifice ourselves to serve the needs and chord in our affluent society. Lenten question. at giving away that black sweater that’s desires of our boys that are hidden from Kondo and her ilk are on to something Chapter 16 of the Book of Exodus, already in the bag. What if I want that them, let alone the rest of the world. valuable. But they only touch a small part read at a recent novena service I attended, later? What if I need it? All of these challenges might easily of the problem. It’s spring housecleaning portrays the Israelites escaping from Need? How often do I buy from need? overshadow the moments of joy and season, and they’ve got that. But we are Egypt, traveling through the desert. They More likely, it’s impulse, momentary triumph in parenting were it not for the also in the spiritual season of Lent, which begin to doubt the whole enterprise, as See CALDAROLA, page 15 grace that God poured into our hearts when Cindy and I exchanged our wedding Intellect and Virtue/John Garvey vows on June 9, 2001. Like the loving Father of us all that he is, God encourages each of us during Get hooked on fasting—and fish on Fridays—in Lent Lent—and during the Lenten aspects of I probably shouldn’t admit this in front a pastor in Zurich, defended a local Mass gives us the words of Jesus himself. each of our vocations—to continue on the of my grandchildren, but I am a fan of printer for eating sausage in violation of “When you fast, do not look gloomy like path to the joy of Easter. McDonald’s fish sandwiches. When I the Lenten fast. the hypocrites” (Mt 6:16). And again, In our home, we’ve put up a chart was a young lawyer This was long before the invention of “But when you fast, anoint your head and on the refrigerator that lists the spiritual in San Francisco, my the Filet-O-Fish, but I don’t think it would wash your face, so that may not appear to disciples that each person in our family firm’s office was right have mattered to Zwingli. For him, there be fasting, except to your Father who is has chosen to take up during Lent. We across Market Street was a principle at stake. He thought, as hidden. And your Father who sees what is don’t use it as a way to check up on each from a McDonald’s, Luther did, that we are justified by faith hidden will repay you” (Mt 6:17-18). other and wag our finger when someone and every day for a and not by works; and that the guide These instructions are bracketed with stumbles in a Lenten discipline. Instead, year, I had two fish to Christian life is Scripture alone, not commands about how to give alms (“Do it’s intended to motivate us to encourage sandwiches and a Church rules. Christians, he maintained, not let your left hand know what your each other. chocolate shake for should do as they please about fasting. right is doing,” Mt 6:3) and how to pray To further that worthy goal, we have a lunch. I am ashamed. It remains true that different (“This is how you are to pray: Our Father jar on the mantle of our fireplace where But I still like them. Christian denominations have different ...,” Mt 6:9). Prayer, almsgiving and we can place beans when we see someone As it happens, the Filet-O-Fish was Lenten observances. For most fasting. These are the playbook for Lent. else in the family making a sacrifice for invented in 1962 for people like me. At Protestants, fasting is optional, and Elsewhere in Matthew’s Gospel, Jesus others during the Lenten season. It’s that time, Catholics abstained from meat abstinence from meat is unheard of. foretold not only his own death, but also his been good to see the level of beans in on all Fridays, not just during Lent. The Zwingli’s anti-Lent streak is still a disciples’ subsequent practice of penance the jar slowing growing higher since Ash owner of Cincinnati’s first McDonald’s popular one. I recently read an op-ed and mourning: “The days will come when Wednesday. needed something besides hamburgers to by a thoughtful Reformed pastor the bridegroom is taken away from them, None of this changes the fact that we’ve feed his largely Catholic clientele, and encouraging Christians to “Repent of and then they will fast” (Mt 9:15). gone through a good bit of Lent and still proposed the sandwich to Ray Kroc. It Lent.” Jesus, he wrote, “fasted for 40 The solid scriptural basis helps explain have a good part to go. Lent, like life itself, was a hit. Still is, with some people. days in the wilderness on our behalf, so why Christians fasted from the very is hard. There’s no avoiding that. The business of fasting and we wouldn’t have to; not as a model, earliest days of the faith. In the mid-300s, Never forget, though, that grace makes abstinence has inspired some other, but as a substitute.” On this basis, he the Synod of Gangra already treated “the it possible for us not only to endure the more theologically significant menu argued against fasting altogether. fasts commonly prescribed and observed crosses of life and of Lent, but to, at the alternatives too. The Swiss Reformation But if we’re going to look to Scripture by the Church” as ancient, established very least, look forward while carrying began in 1522 over “the affair of the for direction, there’s little doubt about practices. them to the sure joy God has in store for sausages,” as it is called. Ulrich Zwingli, what we should be doing. Ash Wednesday See GARVEY, page 15 us in our own personal Easter. † The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 13

Fourth Sunday of Lent/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, April 1 Friday, April 5 Sunday, March 31, 2019 Isaiah 65:17-21 St. Vincent Ferrer, priest Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22 • Joshua 5:9a, 10-12 John 4:43-54 Psalm 34:17-21, 23 • 2 Corinthians 5:17-21 John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 • Luke 15:1-3, 11-32 Tuesday, April 2 St. Francis of Paola, hermit Saturday, April 6 This weekend, the Church observes wayward son’s father, who is a symbol of Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 Jeremiah 11:18-20 Laetare Sunday, the name being derived God. Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9 Psalm 7:2-3, 9b-12 from the first word in Latin of the The parable best is understood by entrance antiphon for considering the ancient context. The John 5:1-16 John 7:40-53 Mass this weekend. prodigal son was not the older son. This is the Latin word Therefore, he was not his father’s heir. Wednesday, April 3 Sunday, April 7 for “rejoice.” The The prodigal son had no right to an Isaiah 49:8-15 Fifth Sunday of Lent Church rejoices that inheritance, whether he was good or Psalm 145:8-9, 13c-14, 17-18 Isaiah 43:16-21 salvation, finalized bad. He also had no right to abandon in the sacrifice and his father. This especially would have John 5:17-30 Psalm 126:1-6 resurrection of Jesus, disgusted Jews at the time of Jesus, who Philippians 3:8-14 is near. prized loyalty to parents. Thursday, April 4 John 8:1-11 Priests may wear Most of all, the prodigal son St. Isidore, bishop and doctor rose vestments. Rose rejected the privilege of being part of the Church is red and blue, purple, with a tinge of of the people of God. He repudiated Exodus 32:7-14 gold, reminding us of the first rays of the the primary obligation of this status, sun as they creep across the horizon after to bear witness to God. Finally, he Psalm 106:19-23 a dark night. Pink blends red and white. consorted with prostitutes, scorning John 5:31-47 Gold, the color of daybreak, is essential, the sanctity of marriage, so precious reminding us that Christ, the light of the to Jews, and risked defiling the pure world, is coming. stock of God’s people by begetting Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle The Book of Joshua, the source of children who would be reared by the first reading, looks far back to the pagan, unbelieving mothers. Lenten sacrifices are a personal choice, time when God’s people finished the His sins brought him no reward. He long, threatening trip across the Sinai had to serve not humans, not just animals, not governed by Church law Peninsula, then, as it is now, bleak in but pigs, filthy, ugly predators, the lowest sterility and danger. of the low, in Jewish eyes. My mother was very religious and “as a guide for future generations to advance Along the way, they disowned Nevertheless, the father forgave all Qshe always told us that during Lent, a culture of mutual respect in the awareness God, but God still rescued them from and lavishly gave him an undeserved whatever you gave up—ice cream, candy, of the great divine grace that makes all starvation, sending manna from the sky. inheritance. etc.—you could have on Sundays. Is that human beings brothers and sisters.” Scientifically speaking, what was manna? true? Do Sundays count as part of Lent? The joint declaration, titled “A No one knows, but it was real and Reflection (Wisconsin) Document on Human Fraternity for World appeared unexpectedly. The people could The Church is joyful. Salvation, to be Peace and Living Together,” was signed by not have created it. It was God’s gift. with God in and through Jesus, is near. I’ll answer your second question Pope Francis and Sheikh Ahmad el-Tayeb, With it, the people survived. Wisely, the Church realizes that all its Afirst, because that’s the easier one: a grand imam of Sunni Muslims, during St. Paul’s Second Epistle to the members, to some degree at some time, “Do Sundays count as part of Lent?” The a visit by the pope to the United Arab Corinthians furnishes the second reading. have been prodigal children, wandering clear answer is “Yes.” In Emirates in early February. In the reading is Paul’s urgent appeal to away as the Corinthians wandered. the liturgical books of It calls on world leaders “to work the Corinthian Christians to be reconciled Its message this weekend, however, is the Church, the season strenuously to spread the culture of with God in Christ. Imagine Paul’s not of denunciation and divine revenge. of Lent begins on Ash tolerance and of living together in peace; to frustration as he saw the Corinthians Instead, in the reading from Joshua, Wednesday and ends intervene at the earliest opportunity to stop toying with their old pagan ways. Of precisely with its reference to the manna just before the Mass the shedding of innocent blood and bring an course, urgency literally flowed in his and in the Gospel, with its thrilling of the Lord’s Supper end to wars, conflicts, environmental decay words. story of the forgiving father, the Church on the evening of Holy and the moral and cultural decline that the They revealed his belief that nothing reassures us. Although we may sin, God Thursday. In the Roman world is presently experiencing.” else matters but life in union with God. never abandons the promise to protect us. Missal, for example, The declaration condemns “all those Thus, he implored the people to return to God loves us. He is forever merciful, March 10 this year was practices that are a threat to life such God to be “new creations” in Christ (2 regardless of how far we stray—if we designated as the “First Sunday of Lent.” as genocide, acts of terrorism, forced Cor 5:17). repent. Now, for the more complicated part: If displacement, human trafficking, abortion For its final reading on this weekend, In Jesus, the sacrificial victim you’re fasting from candy for Lent, may and euthanasia.” It notes “that among the the Church gives us from Luke’s Gospel of Calvary, God awaits us with the you eat it on Sundays? The answer is: most important causes of the crises of the the reassuring parable of the prodigal son. Eucharist, manna for our starving souls, It’s your own call. Each of us is required modern world are a desensitized human Much of the parable is self-evident, for which there is no substitute, without in a general way to do penance, but the conscience, a distancing from religious even to us in the 21st century. Quite clear which we starve. particular manner in which this is done values and a prevailing individualism is the unqualified, constant love of the Use Lent, and turn to God. † is a personal choice. There’s no Church accompanied by materialistic philosophies.” law involved or a question of sinfulness— Far from urging, as your question says, you’re offering a small sacrifice to God in “one world religion,” the document states return for the sacrifice Jesus made for us. instead that “the pluralism and the diversity My Journey to God Now it’s true that the Church has of religions, color, sex, race and language always viewed Sunday as a day of are willed by God in his wisdom”—an celebration in remembrance of the observation that has been taken by some Resurrection, a kind of “little Easter,” and Catholic commentators simply to mean that Hope in Spring has never required fasting on Sundays— the variety of religions comes under the so I suppose there’s some warrant, when permissive will of God and indicates the By Natalie Hoefer you’ve adopted a Lenten penance, for natural desire of humans to know God. “taking Sundays off.” But I think it’s probably better to continue (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth the practice throughout the whole Lenten Doyle at [email protected] and O barren tree in winter gray, season, Sundays included. If I gave up 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York candy for Lent but ate it on each of the 12203.) † “Life is no more,” you seem to say. six Sundays, that doesn’t seem like much But cardinal red says, “On a tree of a sacrifice. (Which reminds me that a the Precious Blood won victory. couple of years ago at a school Mass on Ash Be not afraid—the spring has come. Wednesday, I asked the kids what they were Readers may submit prose Have hope in life through Christ the Son.” giving up for Lent. One little boy raised his or poetry for faith column hand and said: “Hitting my sister.” I hope The Criterion invites readers to submit that he didn’t take Sundays off!) original prose or poetry relating to faith or experiences of prayer for possible publication Recently, Pope Francis signed a in the “My Journey to God” column. Qdocument with Muslim leaders Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. about there being one world religion. How “Poems should be no longer than 25 lines can that be? Some of my non-Catholic (including lines between stanzas if applicable) friends are accusing the pope of being out of either 44 characters (including spaces) to of line. What really happened? (Arkansas) allow room for a staff‑selected photo, or 79 (Natalie Hoefer is a member of characters (including spaces) if no photo is St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis and I have read the document to which desired.” Please include name, address, parish and telephone number with submissions. is a reporter for The Criterion. Photo: you refer, and nowhere can I find A cardinal sits in a leafless tree. Spring A Send material for consideration to “My a call for “one world religion.” Instead, it Journey to God,” The Criterion, 1400 began on March 20.) (Photo by Timothy is a plea for peace and nonviolence, a call Dykes on Unsplash.com.) N. 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ALEXANDER, B. Joan, 90, St. Charles Borromeo, Bloomington, March 8. Mother of Angelia Radel and Stephen Alexander. Grandmother of eight. Great- grandmother of 10. RIEDEL BEAVIS, Kathryn L., 90, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, March 18. Mother of Janice Etter, Nancy Everly, Karen Gardner, David, Honoring persecuted Christians Richard, Jr., and Thomas Riedel. Sister of Susie Blair The Colosseum in Rome is lit in red to draw attention to the contemporary persecution of Christians around the world. The ancient Roman stadium was the site of the and Jerry Miller. Grandmother martyrdom of Christians in the earliest days of the Church. (CNS photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters) of 12. Great-grandmother of 13. CARMER, Judith A., 76, Help, New Albany, March 11. Morris, March 17. Father of Morris. Grandfather of four. March 16. Wife of Leon WELLS, Dolores St. Ambrose, Seymour, Great-grandfather of six. (Nicodemus), 92, St. Mary, March 8. Wife of Jerry Carmer. Father of Cherrie Burch, Kim Pam Brown, Beverly Froman, Schindler. Mother of Dana Greensburg, March 17. Mother Mother of JoAnna Garrett, Donahue, Tish Kimbel and Darlene Trusty and Dwight MULLIS, William J., 78, Chappell, Billy, Jr., Danny and of Catherine Alkire, Marilyn Jane Hays and Julie Otte. Sister Michael Filburn. Brother of Jane Lamppert. Grandfather of nine. St. Augustine, Leopold, Jeffrey Newkirk. Stepmother Padgett and Stephen Wells. of Deacon Lawrence French. Roth. Grandfather of eight. Great-grandfather of 10. March 11. Husband of of Kathi Klotz, Jean Minter Sister of Muriel Jelinek, Judith Grandmother of six. Great- FILLENWARTH, Marilyn Charlene Mullis. Father of and Leon Schindler. Sister of LOVELL, Mildred, 91, Schaefer, Donald and Paul grandmother of five. A., 80, St. Therese of the Pam Brown and Beth Hauser. Kenneth Poe. Grandmother of Holy Family, Oldenburg, Nicodemus. Grandmother of Brother of Carolyn Dauby, 18. Great-grandmother of 17. CLEARY, Paul, 86, St. Jude, Infant Jesus (Little Flower), March 13. Sister of Paul five. Great-grandmother of 12. Monica Sicard, Ann Wheatley, Indianapolis, March 10. Indianapolis, March 8. Mother Haverkos. Aunt of several. SULLIVAN, Paula, 67, WITTKAMPER, Catherine Husband of Marlene Cleary. of Diane Jeffries, Deborah Benny, Gary, Merle and St. Luke the Evangelist, MALONE, Alvin L., 96, J., 56, Immaculate Conception, Father of James, Jesse, Mark Kappes, Linda, Bernard, Jr., Rupert Mullis. Grandfather of Indianapolis, March 10. Wife Millhousen, March 8. Wife and Michael Cleary. Brother Greg and Michael Fillenwarth. St. Mark, Perry County, nine. Great-grandfather of 10. of Jim Sullivan. Mother of of Mark Wittkamper. Mother of Linda Maines, Carolyn Sister of Peggy Kennedy and March 14. Father of Dorothy ORSCHELL, Lee W., 82, Elizabeth Griffin and Mark of Samantha, Stephanie and Moulton, Betty Schmidt, John Shepard. Grandmother Steen, Deann, Bob, Jerry, St. Michael, Brookville, Hood. Stepmother of Anne Nicholas Kohlman, Sophia David, Dick, Larry, Leo and of eight. Great-grandmother Joe, John, Pat and Paul Feb. 21. Father of Sheri Marie, Denise, Brian and and Brian Wittkamper. Sister Tom Cleary. Grandfather of of seven. Malone. Brother of Virginia Seeley, Christie, Greg and Jeff James. Sister of Pamela of Jennifer Eads, Veronica Evans. Grandfather of 18. Orschell. Grandfather of five. 16. Great-grandfather of 12. FISHER, Rosemary, 81, and David Blankenship. Henderson, Ann Rolf, Linda Great‑grandfather of 30. FIELDS, Richard E., 74, St. Louis, Batesville, March SCHAUB, Louise V., 95, Grandmother of five. Schuck, Flora and Suzie Christ the King, Indianapolis, 10. Wife of William Fisher. MORRIS, Robert W., 72, St. Roch, Indianapolis, Step‑grandmother of 11. Wagner, Leonard and Matt March 11. Husband of Sandra Mother of Sandra Greenwell, St. Paul, Tell City, March 10. March 11. Mother of Gregory Step‑great-grandmother of one. Brancamp. Amy Jennings and Timothy Fields. Father of Sabrina Husband of Anna Jane Morris. Schaub. Grandmother of eight. WEHLAGE, Richard J., ZORE, Lisa A., 55, Fisher. Sister of Louise Wells. White and Ross Fields. Father of Robin Mushinski Great-grandmother of 29. 84, Sacred Heart of Jesus, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Grandmother of four. Grandfather of one. and Dawn Williams. Brother Great‑great-grandmother of two. Indianapolis, March 8. Brother March 11. Mother of Nicole FILBURN, Richard A., LAMPPERT, Robert A., of Patricia Hundley, Mary SCHINDLER, Minnie C., of Marjorie Henehan and Alice Zore. Sister of Jamalyn, Jonalyn 88, Our Lady of Perpetual 97, St. Anthony of Padua, James, Debbie Vowles and Van 78, St. Mary, Navilleton, Kilgore. Uncle of several. and Jimmy John Zore. † Faith and generosity sustain flood victims in Omaha Archdiocese OMAHA, Neb. (CNS)—For Naoma witnessing the sudden rise of floodwaters, prayer, and we have a deep faith,” Naoma “Niobrara is like a war zone,” said Borgmann, the first sign of trouble was quickly took refuge in the upper level of Borgmann said. While they awaited Father Kizito Okhuoya, pastor of the look on her husband’s face. their home in far northeastern Nebraska rescue, they prayed The Lord’s Prayer and St. William and St. Wenceslaus parishes Although 60-mile-per-hour winds were where they prayed and waited for help. the rosary and gazed upon a crucifix she in Verdigre, a town south of Niobrara that howling and 4- to 5-foot waves were Strong faith and generous spirits are placed on the table. also sustained major damage. crashing on the banks of the Missouri now helping the Borgmanns and other “As we were leaving, I looked at that But people are working hard to get River near their home on March 13, it was Catholics across the Omaha Archdiocese cross, and there was my strength,” she said. things back to normal, he said. the sight of the water on the ground that overcome and recover from the historic Members of St. William Parish in “There’s been an outpouring of shocked her husband the most. flooding in the state. Niobrara, the Borgmanns are thankful generosity and kindness from neighboring “He said, ‘Naoma, I don’t know how Conditions in mid-March were ideal for the local farmer and his father who towns,” Father Okhuoya said, “and the to tell you this, but we are surrounded by for significant floods. With the ground rescued them and the generosity of friends community is coming together.” water.’ ” still frozen and rivers choked with ice, who helped them by providing a rent-free, He said the parish held an ecumenical So, she and her husband, Hubert, heavy rains and melting snow swelled temporary home in Creighton about 37 prayer service on March 15 “to bring people creeks and rivers, miles to the south, where their floral and together and speak a message of hope and causing flooding home decor business is located. faith ... knowing that even now, God walks along major rivers. This was not the first time the couple with us through the waters, and reassuring The flooding has faced tragedy. Their teenage daughter people of God’s love and presence.” affected more died in a car crash 25 years ago, and their Two days later, the town held a than two-thirds previous home was destroyed in a 2011 clean‑up day with people from other of Nebraska’s flood. towns coming over to help. counties, including “You do question why this is happening Both parishes he serves are located many within again,” Naoma Borgmann said, “but you on high ground, so they did not sustain the archdiocese, have to look at what it could have been. damage and were able to celebrate destroying or We’re here, we got out together, and we’re Sunday Masses, he said. These parishes damaging homes, still together. You look at what you have are raising money for relief efforts. businesses, roads and and not what you’ve lost.” “This is the time we need to turn to bridges, crippling After the initial flooding began on God in prayer,” Father Okhuoya said, water and sewage March 13, failure of the upstream dam the “and although people are hurting, they are systems and killing next day brought a destructive, 11-foot hopeful and are focusing on the big picture.” livestock. wave of water and huge slabs of ice into “They have faith that we’re going to Floodwaters surround homes in Peru, Neb., on March 19. Nebraska The floods also the small town of Niobrara, washing away bounce back as a town,” he said. “It could Gov. Pete Ricketts and the state’s National Guard surveyed flooded killed at least three or damaging many commercial buildings. be worse, so people are thanking God farms, homes, bridges and highways, damage Ricketts called people, and stranded Another bridge across the Niobrara River but are grieving their losses and cleaning “devastating” and perhaps the worst in a half-century. At least three thousands of others. was also washed out, cutting off one route up. Their spirit is good overall, so I’m people have been reported killed. (CNS photo/Karen Dillon, Reuters) “We believe in into town. thankful to God for that.” † The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Page 15 Pope in Morocco: Highlighting Catholic-Muslim ‘dialogue of solidarity’

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope allowed them to Francis wanted to go to Morocco in work. December to draw attention to the need The influx for international cooperation in assisting of migrants has migrants, and in alleviating the situations mobilized the Catholic that force people to seek a better life community, including outside their homeland. the Franciscan Protocol dictated that he could not fly Missionaries of Mary, to Marrakech just for the United Nations an order with 45 meeting on migration, sisters from 18 nations so instead migrants working in Morocco. will be one group that Sister Mary receives his special Elizabeth Donlon, attention during a the provincial, told more formal visit Catholic News to Morocco on Service (CNS) that March 30-31. in a country where His meeting illiteracy rates are on March 30 with high among people Pope Francis migrants at the over 50, especially Rabat archdiocesan among women over Caritas center also will highlight the very 50, the sisters also run practical form Catholic-Muslim relations a center for women’s take in the country of more than literacy; they have 35 million people, almost all of whom nurses and social Migrants are seen before disembarking from a dinghy at Del Canuelo in southern Spain on July 27, 2018. By mid-2018, the are Muslim. workers serving in number of migrants arriving in Spain, usually from Morocco, had surpassed the number arriving in Italy. (CNS photo/Reuters) “This is the dialogue of solidarity,” public hospitals and said Father Daniel Nourissat, spokesman clinics; they teach in the right to religious freedom and freedom theology, ecumenism and interreligious for the Archdiocese of Rabat. Christians the nation’s Catholic schools—where all of worship, but proselytism is illegal. dialogue together and make a four- or and Muslims work together to assist of the directors, most of the staff and most Most of the sisters wear a “discreet” five-year commitment to serving their the migrants both at Caritas’ Migrant of the students are Muslims. version of their congregational symbol, fellow Christians in Morocco. Reception Center, which the pope will One of the biggest challenges for the which is a cross on a round medal, she Members of the group will join visit, as well as in the neighborhoods sisters, she said, is to learn Arabic and said. Catholic priests and religious for a and informal settlements where many “enter into the local culture.” “We don’t feel we must deny who we meeting with Pope Francis on March 31 migrants live. The faith of Moroccan Muslims are,” she said. The people they work with in the Rabat cathedral. Perhaps 80,000 migrants are currently “evidently nourishes and is vibrant,” she and serve know they are Christian, but in An international group of Muslim in Morocco, Father Nourissat said. The said. So, the sisters must try to discover sharing what that really means, “there is a students will have their own audience numbers have been increasing steadily “what is the Lord trying to tell us as certain limit.” with the pope when he visits the since 2017 when Italy and Libya began Christian women religious today through The Catholic community in Morocco Mohammed VI Institute, a school for cooperating to prevent migrants from our contact with the Muslim faith, with numbers about 20,000 people, almost imams—Muslim prayer leaders—and setting off from Libya to cross the men and women who are ordinary, all of whom are foreigners, said Father “murshid”—men and women trained as Mediterranean and reach Europe. faithful Muslims?” Nourissat. A significant portion of those Muslim preachers and guides. By mid-2018, the number of migrants Sister Mary Elizabeth said she’s Catholics are students from sub-Saharan The Moroccan government opened landing in Spain, usually from Morocco, been struck by how Muslims focus Africa studying at Moroccan universities. the school in 2015 to promote religious had surpassed the number arriving in Italy. on reconciling with each other during “Our Christian community is very education and to counter what it believes Morocco has been criticized by Ramadan, the month of fasting, and by mobile,” the priest said. “People stay in are fundamentalist interpretations of the human rights groups for forcibly busing how naturally and seriously the Moroccan Morocco on average four years.” faith. Like in most officially Muslim migrants who want to reach Europe out Muslims take their obligation to pray five The influx of Christian students led the countries, the government employs the of informal settlements in the north, times a day. country’s Council of Christian Churches country’s imams and murshid and writes but the country has accepted tens of “The faithfulness to prayer does attract to establish Al Mowafaqa, the ecumenical the sermons used as the basic text for thousands of migrants and refugees, me. It’s so natural, like a skin,” she said. institute of theology, in Rabat. Catholic, the imams at Friday prayer across the given them residency permits and The Moroccan constitution recognizes Anglican and Protestant students study country. †

to us offered this quote from Jesuit Father who worked on Christmas Day instead CALDAROLA Ignacio Ellacurio, who was martyred in El GARVEY of reveling in seasonal joy. For similar continued from page 12 Salvador in 1989: “Always remember that continued from page 12 reasons, we should welcome the modest there is no conversion to God if there is no penitential practices that the Church pleasure, insecurity. Does this spark joy? conversion to the oppressed.” Our mortifications were once quite enjoins on us in the season leading up to What about all those who do not have the Lent is all about conversion. How does severe. They have been significantly Christ’s passion. means I have? Could my money be better my consumption affect my conversion? relaxed. (I doubt I get half credit for eating spent on them? That’s a fundamental fish sandwiches on Fridays.) But fasting is (John Garvey is president of The Catholic Lenten question. (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News something Jesus instructed us to do. University of America in Washington. Its The same preacher who read Chapter 16 Service.) † We would look askance at a Christian website is www.cua.edu.) †

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Page 16 The Criterion Friday, March 29, 2019 Bishops say EPA plan to roll back From the pollution rule would harm the unborn WASHINGTON (CNS)—Unborn regulate hazardous air pollutants from Bishop Simon Bruté ARCHIVES children would face greater health risks power plants because the cost of doing so if the Environmental Protection Agency “grossly outweighs” the benefits gained (EPA) moves to rescind a rule regulating by doing so. hazardous air pollutants emitted by Anthony R. Picarello Jr., USCCB power plants, said the chairmen of two associate general secretary and general U.S. Conference of counsel, opposed the change in a detailed Catholic Bishops’ six-page letter, writing that the current (USCCB) committees. standards “align strongly with key The bishops principles of Catholic social teaching.” argued in a March 22 He expressed concern that although statement that the the proposed rule change does not remove Mercury and Air power plants from the list of regulated Toxics Standards, or pollution sources under the Clean Air MATS, are needed Act, it “greatly weakens legal justification to protect pregnant for the rule and could ultimately cause Archbishop Joseph women as well. great harm to human health and the F. Naumann “The proposed environment.” change to the Mercury Picarello said that Church teaching and Air Toxics Standards rule is troubling “calls us to care of God’s creation and since it is well-documented that pregnant protect the common good and the life mothers and their unborn children are the and dignity of human persons, especially most sensitive to mercury pollution and its the poor and vulnerable, from conception adverse health effects,” said Archbishop until natural death.” Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., “In short, by failing to take into chairman of the bishops’ Committee on account the full range of costs, especially Pro-Life Activities. those imposed on the most vulnerable, the Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla., proposed rule fails to respect the life and chairman of the Committee on Domestic dignity of the human person,” Picarello’s St. Anthony softball champions Justice and Human Development, added, letter said as it outlined a series of “The MATS rule reflects a proper respect technical findings on the danger to health In 1963, the junior boys’ softball team from St. Anthony Parish in Indianapolis for life of the human person and of God’s posed by mercury and other hazardous air defeated the team from St. Philip Neri Parish, also in Indianapolis, by a score of creation—a great example of integral pollutants. 18-7 to win the CYO championship. The championship came at the end of an ecology called for in , “Laudato Si’, on Care The USCCB supported the standards undefeated season for the team. In the back row on the far left is Father James for Our Common Home,” Pope Francis’ when they were proposed by President Byrne, the priest moderator for the team. 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