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CriterionOnline.com June 26, 2020 Vol. LX, No. 37 75¢ Rescheduled executions ‘add violence on top of violence’

By Natalie Hoefer

The federal Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on June 15 that the executions of four prisoners have been rescheduled for July and August at the Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in Terre Haute, within the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. Five executions were originally slated to take place in December 2019 and January 2020. Archbishop Charles One inmate received C. Thompson a stay of execution. In the other four cases, lawyers challenged a new protocol for the executions, resulting in a preliminary Patrice Payne, left, Tim Nation, Joseph Smith and Eileen Walthill are some of the members of the Race and Culture Committee at St. Thomas Aquinas injunction. Parish in Indianapolis that has strived to increase diversity in the parish and improve race relations in the community. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) In April, an appeals court overruled the preliminary injunction, leading to the recent rescheduling of four of the executions: Danny Lee, Wesley Ira Purkey, Dustin Lee Honken and Keith Dwayne Nelson. Parish paves a path to help overcome deep “We offer our sincerest prayers pain of racism through a more profound faith See Archbishop for the murder Charles C. Thompson’s victims and their By John Shaughnessy have a family from India move in as our “Even though we are no longer statement in English loved ones,” next-door neighbors. I had never had any neighbors, we still get together several and Spanish, page 2. Archbishop Charles On the road to change regarding previous experience with anyone from times a year.” C. Thompson said race relations in America, Patrice Payne that culture. As the years progressed, we The closeness and beauty of that in a statement offers one part of the road map needed to socialized often and shared meals and relationship has guided Payne as she regarding the announcement. “The suffering get there. music and customs. Our children played has helped to lead the Race and Culture and sorrow that family and friends of such It’s the story of how two families together, and we went camping together. Committee at St. Thomas, an effort victims have experienced is heartbreaking. from different cultures and backgrounds We met each other’s extended families.” that started in late 2018 when parish We must do what we can to help them heal came together through their efforts to The mother of four added, “Our leaders thought their church-and-school from the deep and personal wounds they understand and appreciate their common family approached our relationship with community was no longer as diverse have suffered.” humanity. our neighbors with open hearts and and as active in working to improve race In his statement, the archbishop noted “Twenty years ago, we moved into minds. We loved learning about each relations as it was in the 1970s and ‘80s. the wording of Pope Francis’ August 2018 a neighborhood that was a mixture of other’s culture. When I learned about “It was felt that parishioners and revision of paragraph 2267 of the Catechism various races, cultures and religions,” Sikhism and found out that some of their families needed to become more informed of the Catholic Church, that “the death says Payne, a member of St. Thomas tenets were, ‘belief in one God, and the and more active in the area of race penalty is inadmissible because it is an Aquinas Parish in Indianapolis who is way to become closer to God is to be of relations,” Payne says. “It was hoped that attack on the inviolability and dignity of the African-American. service to each other,’ I was fascinated parishioners would then go out and make person.” “Our family was very fortunate to by the similarities. See RACISM, page 8 “The basis of this revision is consistent See EXECUTIONS, page 9 Indianapolis streets ‘covered in prayer’ during Soldiers for Peace Rosary Walk By Natalie Hoefer Evans went on to explain that as he walked and prayed the rosary— As Matt Evans watched the his normal exercise regimen—the destructive riots take place in week prior, he got an idea: Why not Indianapolis on May 29-31, “It have Catholics walk the streets of kind of left a really bad taste in my Indianapolis praying the rosary for mouth,” he said. “It’s the city I grew peace in the city? up in. I felt helpless watching it.” That idea launched the June 17 The member of St. Barnabas Parish event, which he called Soldiers for in Indianapolis shared the story with Peace Rosary Walk. a large group of people gathered near He said the idea was inspired by the steps of Our Lady of the Most Father Richard Heilman, a priest Holy Rosary Church in the capital of the Diocese of Madison, Wis., Matt Evans, left in green shirt, leads a prayer city on the evening of June 17. The who started the United States Grace outside of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary name of the church was significant Force. The priest walks the streets of Church in Indianapolis on June 17 before leading to his story and the reason for the Madison praying a rosary for peace, a group of about 60 people on a rosary walk for gathering. See ROSARY, page 10 peace around the capital city. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020

A statement from Archbishop Charles Public Schedule of Archbishop Charles C. Thompson C. Thompson concerning upcoming ______federal executions in Indiana June 25-29, 2020 The resuming of federal executions, families of these officials and society June 25 – 7 p.m. June 27 – 7:30 p.m. scheduled from July 13 to August 28, to itself. Taking the life of any human Confirmation for youths of Good Confirmation for youths of Our Lady be carried out in Terre Haute, falls within being, even one who is guilty of grave Shepherd Parish in Indianapolis at of the Most Holy Rosary Parish in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. As crimes against humanity, weighs on St. Patrick Parish, Indianapolis Indianapolis at Holy Rosary Parish such, the supreme the conscience of both individuals and law of the Church, society as a whole. June 27 – Noon June 28 – 10 a.m. the salvation of Since the pontificate of Pope St. John Reception honoring seminary graduates Mass at St. Maurice Church, Napoleon souls, demands that Paul II, it has been the Catholic position at Bishop Simon Bruté College I speak out on this that today’s prison system is quite Seminary, Indianapolis June 29 – 2 p.m. very grave matter at adequate to protect society from inmates Chrism Mass at SS. Peter and Paul hand. We offer our escaping or being unlawfully set free. Cathedral, Indianapolis sincerest prayers for Keeping in mind the fate of the the murder victims so-called good thief traditionally known and their loved ones. as Dismas, hanging on the cross next Archbishop Charles The suffering and to Jesus, the Church has long held the Declaración del arzobispo Charles C. Thompson sorrow that family belief in conversion as a lifelong process and friends of such that remains a possibility for each and C. Thompson sobre las próximas victims have experienced is heartbreaking. every person until the final moment of We must do what we can to help them death. ejecuciones federales en Indiana heal from the deep and personal wounds Certainly, the grave criminal acts for they have suffered. which those on “death row” have been La reanudación de las ejecuciones de los individuos y de la sociedad en su In accordance with the revision of found guilty of committing can never be federales, programadas del 13 de julio al conjunto. paragraph 2267 of the Catechism of the overlooked, diminished or forgotten. For 28 de agosto, que se llevarán a cabo en Desde el pontificado del papa san Juan Catholic Church, as promulgated by Pope the welfare of the common good, anyone Terre Haute, Indiana, recae en el territorio Pablo II, la posición católica ha sido que el Francis, “the death penalty is inadmissible who commits such crimes must not be de la Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis. Por sistema penitenciario actual es muy adecuado because it is an attack on the inviolability allowed to return to society. consiguiente, la ley suprema de la Iglesia, para proteger a la sociedad y evitar que and dignity of the person.” The basis Yet, humanity cannot allow the la salvación de las almas exige que me los reclusos que se escapen o se los libere of this revision is consistent with the violent act of an individual to cause pronuncie sobre este asunto tan grave. ilegalmente. teachings of the last three popes—namely, other members of humanity to react in Ofrecemos nuestras más sinceras oraciones Teniendo en cuenta el destino del llamado Pope St. John Paul II, Pope Emeritus violence. The taking of life, no matter how por las víctimas de asesinato y sus seres buen ladrón conocido tradicionalmente como Benedict XVI and Pope Francis. The “sanitary” or “humane,” is always an act queridos. El sufrimiento y el dolor que la Dimas, colgado en la cruz junto a Jesús, la Church has consistently held up the of violence. While the Church is certainly familia y los amigos de tales víctimas han Iglesia ha defendido durante mucho tiempo la dignity of the person and sacredness of concerned with the soul of every person, vivido resultan desgarradores. Debemos creencia en la conversión como un proceso de life from the moment of conception to including those on death row, I make hacer lo que podamos para ayudarles a sanar toda la vida que sigue siendo una posibilidad natural death. this plea against the death penalty out of las heridas tan profundas y personales que para todas las personas hasta el momento The Church’s teaching on the moral ultimate concern for the eternal soul of han sufrido. final de la muerte. inadmissibility of the death penalty humanity. De conformidad con la revisión del Ciertamente no se pueden pasar por is not meant in any way to condone Together, let us seek the intercession párrafo 2267 del Catecismo de la Iglesia alto, disminuir ni olvidar los graves actos criminal behavior and despicable acts of Blessed Virgin Mary, as we pray for Católica, según lo promulgó el papa criminales de los que se ha declarado of evil violence. Rather, underlying divine grace of wisdom and perseverance Francisco: “la pena de muerte es inadmisible, culpables a los que están en el “corredor de Catholic teaching on this particular in carrying forth the Gospel of life in the porque atenta contra la inviolabilidad y la la muerte.” En aras del bien común, no debe matter is grave concern for the care name and mission of Jesus Christ our dignidad de la persona.” El fundamento de permitirse que quien cometa tales delitos of souls of all involved—including Savior. In him, may we seek to glorify esta revisión es coherente con las enseñanzas regrese a la sociedad. the judge, jury, prison personnel, God, the author of all life. † de los últimos tres papas, a saber, el papa san Sin embargo, la humanidad no puede Juan Pablo II, el papa emérito Benedicto XVI permitir que el acto violento de un y el papa Francisco. La Iglesia ha sostenido individuo haga que otros miembros de Rev. Jonathan P. Meyer, pastor of siempre la dignidad de la persona y el la humanidad reaccionen con violencia. Official All Saints Parish in Dearborn County, carácter sagrado de la vida desde el momento Tomar una vida, no importa cuán appointed to an additional term. de la concepción hasta la muerte natural. “sanitario” o “humano” se considere, es Appointments Las enseñanzas de la Iglesia sobre la siempre un acto de violencia. Aunque la Effective July 1, 2020 Rev. Patrick F. Hyde O.P., inadmisibilidad moral de la pena de muerte Iglesia ciertamente se preocupa por el administrator of St. Paul Catholic Center no significan de ninguna manera condonar el alma de cada persona, incluyendo a los Rev. J. Nicholas Dant, pastor of in Bloomington, appointed pastor of the comportamiento criminal y los despreciables condenados a muerte, hago este alegato St. Matthew the Apostle Parish in parish. actos de violencia maligna. Más bien, la contra la pena de muerte, en definitiva, por Indianapolis, appointed to an additional enseñanza católica subyacente en este el alma eterna de la humanidad. term. Effective September 9, 2020 asunto particular es una gran preocupación Busquemos juntos la intercesión de la por el cuidado de las almas de todos los Santísima Virgen María, mientras oramos Rev. Michael C. Fritsch, pastor of Rev. Carlton L. Beever, pastor of involucrados, incluyendo el juez, el jurado, por la gracia divina de la sabiduría y la Mary, Queen of Peace Parish in Danville, St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis, granted el personal de la prisión, las familias de estos perseverancia para llevar a cabo el Evangelio appointed to an additional term. permission to retire from active ministry. funcionarios y la sociedad misma. Tomar de la vida en el nombre y la misión de la vida de cualquier ser humano, incluso de Jesucristo nuestro Salvador. Que, en Él, Rev. John J. Hollowell, pastor of Rev. Patrick J. Beidelman, rector of alguien que es culpable de graves crímenes busquemos glorificar a Dios, el autor de toda Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis contra la humanidad, pesa en la conciencia la vida. † Mary Parish in Brazil, St. Paul and executive director of the Secretariat the Apostle Parish in Greencastle, for Worship and Evangelization, appointed and Catholic chaplain at DePauw pastor of St. Mary Parish in Indianapolis Pope Francis’ prayer intention for July University in Greencastle and the while remaining rector of SS. Peter and Putnamville Correctional Facility, Paul Cathedral and executive director of the appointed to an additional term as Secretariat for Worship and Evangelization. • Our Families—We pray that today’s pastor of the parishes while continuing families may be accompanied with love, as Catholic chaplain at DePauw (These appointments are from the office respect and guidance. University in Greencastle and the of the Most Rev. Charles C. Thompson, Putnamville Correctional Facility. Archbishop of Indianapolis.) †

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Chrism Mass to be celebrated on June 29, will be livestreamed

The annual archdiocesan chrism Mass of the virus, seating in the cathedral for Joined by several has been rescheduled for 2 p.m. on the liturgy will be by invitation only priests serving in the June 29 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral and will be limited to priests, parish life archdiocese, Archbishop in Indianapolis. The date is the Solemnity coordinators and a small representative Charles C. Thompson of SS. Peter and Paul, the patronal feast group of deacons, seminarians, religious blesses chrism oil during of the cathedral and the ninth anniversary and lay Catholics from across central and the annual chrism Mass of the episcopal ordination of Archbishop southern Indiana. on April 16, 2019, in Charles C. Thompson, the principal A livestream of the chrism Mass will be SS. Peter and Paul celebrant of the liturgy. available at www.archindy.org/streaming. Cathedral in Indianapolis. Originally scheduled for April 7, the During this annual liturgy, ordinarily Assisting in the liturgy Tuesday of Holy Week, the chrism Mass celebrated during Holy Week, priests renew are then-transitional was postponed due to the coronavirus their ordination promises. Also, oils used Deacon Vincent Gillmore, pandemic. throughout the archdiocese to celebrate second from left, and Because of continued necessary social certain sacraments and to dedicate churches seminarian Justin Horner. distancing measures to slow the spread and altars are blessed during the Mass. † (File photo by Sean Gallagher)

Racial issues need ‘honest discussion,’ not destruction, says archbishop SAN FRANCISCO (CNS)— around 9:30 with no arrests or reports of He was the first president of the California that trace their inspiration back to San Francisco’s archbishop said on injuries,” according to the paper. mission system, and personally founded nine him have been exemplary of not only June 20 the “toppling and defacing” of The protesters’ actions are being of the state’s 21 missions. It is estimated serving, but identifying with, the poor a statue of St. Junipero Serra and other repeated around the country as that during his ministry, St. Junipero Serra and downtrodden and giving them their statues in the city is the latest example of demonstrators in a number of cities topple baptized about 6,000 native people. rightful dignity as children of God. some people using the current movement statues of Confederate generals and In 2015, some people objected to the St. Junipero Serra is no exception.” against racial injustice as a reason for other figures from U.S. history that they canonization of the Spaniard, like critics The archbishop said the saint “made violence, looting and vandalism. consider monuments to white supremacy. did of his beatification in 1988, because heroic sacrifices to protect the indigenous “The memorialization of historic figures “What is happening to our society?” of questions about how Father Junipero people of California from their Spanish merits an honest and fair discussion as to asked Archbishop Cordileone. “A renewed treated the native peoples of California and conquerors, especially the soldiers,” he how and to whom such honor should be national movement to heal memories and about the impact of Spanish colonization said. given,” said Archbishop Salvatore correct the injustices of racism and police on native peoples throughout the America. “St. Junipero Serra also offered them J. Cordileone. “But here, there was no brutality in our country has been hijacked “Everyone who works for justice and the best thing he had: the knowledge such rational discussion; it was mob rule, by some into a movement of violence, equality joins in the outrage of those who and love of Jesus Christ, which he and a troubling phenomenon that seems to be looting and vandalism.” have been and continue to be oppressed. his fellow Franciscan friars did through repeating itself throughout the country.” St. Junipero Serra, who was canonized It is especially true that followers of Jesus education, health care and training in the The Mercury News daily newspaper by Pope Francis on Sept. 23, 2015, during Christ—Christians—are called to work agrarian arts,” he added. reported that on the night of June 19, a his pastoral visit to Washington, is known tirelessly for the dignity of all human However, the archbishop acknowledged group of about 100 protesters toppled the for spreading the Gospel in the New beings. This is a cornerstone of our faith,” that “historical wrongs have occurred, Serra statue as well as statues of Francis World during the 18th century. Archbishop Cordileone said. even by people of goodwill, and healing Scott Key and President Ulysses S. Grant The Franciscan priest landed in Mexico, “Our dear city bears the name of of memories and reparation is much and defaced a monument to Spanish writer then made his way on foot up the coast one of history’s most iconic figures needed. Miguel Cervantes, author of Don Quixote. of Mexico and to California, where he of peace and goodwill: St. Francis of “Historical wrongs cannot be righted “Police were called to the area just after established a chain of missions that are now Assisi,” he continued. “For the past by keeping them hidden,” he said, noting 8 p.m., and said people in the group threw the names of well-known cities such as San 800 years, the various Franciscan that historical wrongs also cannot be objects at the officers. The crowd dispersed Diego, San Francisco and Santa Barbara. orders of brothers, sisters and priests righted “by rewriting the history.” †

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Opinion Reflection/John Shaughnessy The great gift of a second chance It may be the best story ever of the Peter will betray him three times in one difference that giving someone a second night. And Peter doubts Jesus even as Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher chance makes. Jesus stands before him, and he betrays Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus It’s also the story Jesus just as Jesus said he would. of the great blessing Many of us on either side of that of having someone in kind of friendship would have cut the your life who gives bond at some point. Yet Jesus keeps Editorial you that opportunity. seeing the value and the promise of To get the full Peter’s life, and Peter keeps trying to impact of that real- live up to the potential and the promise life story, imagine that Jesus sees in him. All those yourself at the center second chances from Jesus eventually of it. transform Peter. The doubts and the You have a friend fears he had give way to a resolve who has always wanted the best for and a courage to fearlessly share you, a friend who has always given you the message of Jesus, including the the best of himself. Yet in the toughest teaching to forgive “70 times 7.” moment of his life, a moment when In their actions, we see more than he desperately needs you—if only to the essence of the friendship between know you are there for him—you deny Jesus and Peter. We see the essence of you even know him, letting him fend friendship itself—of any relationship— for himself against people who want to starting with a desire to keep moving destroy him. And he knows you have closer and a continuing willingness to done this, and it strikes him to the heart forgive. We are also offered a view of the even more than the words and the actions friendship that Jesus extends to all of us, of his enemies ever could. a friendship in which we will be given A man in Phoenix protests racism and injustice during the “Peaceful, Prayerful Protest” on In that moment, you are ashamed of numerous second chances. June 13. (CNS photo/Tony Gutierrez) how you have let down and betrayed It’s there for anyone who’s ever felt someone who had so much faith in lowly and despised, in the same way you, so much love for you. In that that Christ befriended tax collectors, moment, you desperately wish you had prostitutes and people who were an opportunity to redeem yourself, even physically lame. It’s also there for anyone Our need for God, and God’s while you are convinced it can never who has ever worried that it’s too late happen. Then something extraordinary to turn to God, as Christ offered that does happen. opportunity to the good thief dying next need for us to be there for others Your friend comes to you to him on the cross. “Now more than ever before, our world, it’s OK to practice it in our church unexpectedly. Even more stunning, It’s there for all of us. our society, our human family—indeed buildings, but not in public. he never mentions your fear or your At some point, we will be called to our Church—need to be reminded that But our faith demands more of us. betrayal. He shows no anger toward follow Christ’s example—to give a second we need God.”—Archbishop Emeritus As missionary disciples, we are you. Instead, he has already forgiven chance to someone in our lives, to help Daniel M. Buechlein, Surprised by reminded that we must live out our faith you in his heart. And he expresses his them live up to the potential and the Grace: Memories and Reflections After in all we say and do. And we are also love for you and his faith in you by promise that God sees in them. 25 Years of Episcopal Ministry, page 111. called to plant seeds of faith to all who asking you to do something special for And there’s no doubt that we will cross our path. him. Humbled and revived, you embrace need a second chance—multiple Are we people of prayer? Being a Christian today can be a that second chance with all your heart second chances—to become the people That question seems appropriate to daunting experience, but we must not let and soul. God calls us to be. God will continue ask as we continue moving into what fear take hold of our hearts. That’s the essence of the friendship to give us those opportunities for appears for many of us to be uncharted During the praying of the Angelus on between Jesus and St. Peter, the only redemption. territory. June 21, Pope Francis invited Christians two people in the history of the world When those times come, offer someone A new illness that has taken to “have no fear” in the face of hostility, who are known to walk on water—even a second chance. Make the most of a hundreds of thousands of lives across persecution and even in the feeling of if it was for the briefest of moments in second chance. the globe. Violence marring the streets being abandoned by God. That is never Peter’s case. Yet that unique connection of Indianapolis, where more than 100 the case, he noted. isn’t what makes their friendship so (John Shaughnessy is the assistant editor people have been murdered in less “The life of disciples lies firmly in amazing—or so important for our own of The Criterion. This reflection has been than six months. Several people across the hands of God, who loves us and lives. adapted from his book, Then Something the U.S. unjustly killed by police looks after us. … The Father takes care At different points in their relationship, Wondrous Happened: Unlikely encounters officers, which has resulted in civil of us, because our value is great in his Jesus calls Peter “Satan,” chastises him and unexpected graces in search of a unrest that reminds us that people of eyes,” the pope said. “What is important for his pride, and publicly declares that friendship with God.) † all races are created in the image and is the frankness of our witness of faith likeness of God, even if some people … the condition of salvation, of eternal fail to recognize this basic truth of our life with him in Paradise.” Letter to the Editor common human condition. As we continue on this earthly Now may be a good time to remind journey, we first and foremost must Dialogue must include law enforcement, ourselves—and our neighbors—about be people of prayer, unafraid to be our brothers and sisters. witnesses of Christ in both public and If Christ appeared today, and asked, private. Sometimes, our efforts will who put their lives on the line each day “Who are your brothers and sisters,” lead others to step outside their comfort I recently received the June 12 edition element and a radical group that is intent what would your response be? zones and allow the light of Christ to of The Criterion, and I would like to on revolution. Would they include: the unborn shine through in their actions. comment on the article “Panelists discuss I did not hear of the federal law child? The “Dreamers” who moved to “In prayer, we speak to God and he ‘virus’ of racism, praise protesters enforcement officer that was ambushed the United States from a foreign country speaks to us. We become open to God, demanding justice.” and killed protecting the U.S. Federal as young children with their parents? and he directs us away from our I am a retired deputy sheriff that served Building in Oakland, Calif. I did not read The African-American born in the self-centeredness to the service of others,” the community for 32 years. Anytime a about the police officer that was shot in U.S. living down the street from you? the late Archbishop Emeritus Daniel “bad cop” was discovered in our midst, the head in Las Vegas. The growing number of victims of M. Buechlein wrote in his 2012 book, the entire law enforcement family would No one in our profession will ever violent crime in our cities? The inmate Surprised by Grace: Memories and become that person’s worst critic, and condone the treatment of George Floyd. I on death row waiting to be executed? Reflections After 25 Years of Episcopal every effort was made to remove that agree with the article that “it was hard to Our faith teaches us that all of these Ministry. “This is how prayer teaches us to person from our profession. watch.” individuals—and each of us—are brothers hope—by reminding us that we are never I would like to think that Archbishop Law enforcement officers in the and sisters in Christ. Together, we are the alone and by placing us in the presence of Wilton D. Gregory would certainly U.S. make several thousand contacts with masterpiece of humanity that God created. God, the true source of our hope.” understand that there are “bad people” the community daily, including the worst Each of us is unique in our Creator’s We must also stand up to any wrongs in any profession, including “bad elements of society, and do the best they eyes, and much is demanded. None of we see in society, not be afraid to priests.” I feel the law enforcement can in a very dangerous profession. us is perfect, but we must strive to see challenge the status quo, and work for profession has done a much better job There are many issues that need to Jesus in others and be Jesus for others. systematic change. of removing “bad employees” than the be discussed, including black-on-black The words sound so simple, but living As Archbishop Buechlein wrote, Church has done. crime, single parents raising children, out that tenet in today’s world is a “Now more than ever before, our world, While the article mentioned “dialogue,” drug abuse and racism. challenge for many. our society, our human family—indeed the participants were lacking in any The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in a It doesn’t help when some in society our Church—need to be reminded that kind of diversity. How can a dialogue speech, mentioned judging people by their bring divisiveness to our message we need God.” be started when you do not hear from character, and not the color of their skin. of faith, hope and love—each so As we face society’s challenges and the group that you are demeaning and It would be nice if the so-called experts desperately needed in today’s world. all that awaits us, may his words always criticizing? could keep this in mind instead of being They try to tell us to keep our faith guide us. I did not read any mention of the so one-sided. inside our churches and not bring it hundreds of law enforcement officers to the public arena. In their opinion, —Mike Krokos that have been injured during the recent Mike Robison protest, which often contain a violent Lawrenceburg The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Scripture readings about life and death provide paradoxes “If, then, we have died with Christ, we this because our Lord himself tasted the kingdom of heaven. And no amount sins, that he descended into hell in believe that we shall also live with him. the bitterness of death and overcame it. of tunneling to the center of the Earth order to liberate us from the power of We know that Christ, raised from the He descended to the dead (“into hell” will ever uncover the fiery (or some say death and to “open the gates” for all. dead, dies no more; death no longer some translations read). In so doing, he frozen) regions of hell. We believe that he rose again on the has power over him. As to his death, he experienced the worst possible human Heaven and hell are states of being. third day and ascended into heaven died to sin once and for all; as to his emotions—the fear of being abandoned Simply put, we are in heaven when we where he now sits at the Father’s right life, he lives for God. Consequently, you by God and the loss of all hope for the are with God, and we are in hell when hand. We affirm that Christ will come too must think of yourselves as dead to future. we have cut ourselves off from God again at the end of time to judge the sin and living for God in Christ Jesus” Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has by our selfishness and sin. The choice living and the dead. (Rom 6:8-11). written, “If there were such a thing as that each of us must make is clear: Do Is this a frightful thing—to be held a loneliness which could no longer be we want to spend all eternity united accountable for how each one of us The Scripture readings for this penetrated and transformed by the word with God in the joy of heaven, or do has used (or abused) the gifts God weekend (the Thirteenth Sunday of of another … then we should have real we prefer to go our own way and risk has given us? It doesn’t have to be. Ordinary Time) speak to us about total loneliness and frightfulness, what suffering the total loneliness and fear God’s love has transformed death. His the mysteries of life and death. They theology calls hell.” of hell? forgiveness is freely given, and his reveal two fundamental paradoxes of We believe that Christ experienced The decisions that we make every grace is always available to help us live Christianity: 1) In Christ, we are dead this “real total loneliness and day determine our readiness to face the better lives in communion with Jesus to sin and living for God (Rom 6:11), frightfulness” when he suffered death Last Judgment. Am I in a state of grace, Christ and all the saints. and 2) Whoever finds his life will lose for our sake. But we also believe that close to the Lord? Do I communicate The frightful loneliness of hell can it, and whoever loses his life for Jesus’ his love was stronger than death. As a with him in prayer, by my reception be avoided by the power of God’s sake will find it (Mt 10:39). What do result, death has lost its finality. Life is of the sacraments, and by my service grace, and the joy of heaven can be these apparently contradictory ideas victorious and, as we sing in the Easter to “the least of these” Christ’s sisters ours if we trust ourselves to him. mean for our daily lives? liturgy, death has lost its sting! and brothers who are hungry, thirsty, “Consequently, you too must think of We Christians believe that death Heaven and hell are concepts naked or in prison (Mt 25:40)? Or yourselves as dead to sin and living has been transformed by Jesus from that modern minds struggle with. do I find myself on the road to hell’s for God in Christ Jesus,” as St. Paul the bitter end of life—a time of Surely there are no such “places” frightful loneliness because of my self- says (Rom 6:11). absolute loneliness and the cruel loss geographically speaking. Traditional centeredness and my refusal to keep Let’s pray for the grace to live in of everything we have known and imagery points to the skies above and God’s commandments and live as he Christ so that we will experience the loved—to the point of entry into a new speaks of God’s dwelling place, but no directs me? joy of his presence—now and in the life and better life with God. We believe spaceship will ever accidentally enter We believe that Christ died for our to come. †

Las lecturas de las Escrituras sobre la vida y la muerte plantean paradojas “Ahora bien, si hemos muerto con entrar en una nueva y mejor vida con pero ninguna nave espacial entrará vivir como él me dirige? Cristo, confiamos que también Dios. Creemos esto porque nuestro accidentalmente en el reino de los Creemos que Cristo murió por viviremos con él. Pues sabemos que Señor mismo probó la amargura de cielos. Y ninguna cantidad de túneles nuestros pecados, que descendió al Cristo, por haber sido levantado la muerte y la superó. Él descendió hacia el centro de la Tierra descubrirá infierno para liberarnos del poder de de entre los muertos, ya no puede a los muertos (“al infierno,” dicen jamás las regiones ardientes (o la muerte y “abrirnos las puertas.” volver a morir; la muerte ya no tiene algunas traducciones). Al hacerlo, algunos dicen congeladas) del Creemos que resucitó al tercer día dominio sobre él. En cuanto a su experimentó las peores emociones infierno. y ascendió al cielo donde ahora muerte, murió al pecado una vez y humanas posibles: el miedo a ser El cielo y el infierno son estados está sentado a la derecha del Padre. para siempre; en cuanto a su vida, abandonado por Dios y la pérdida de del ser. En pocas palabras, estamos Afirmamos que Cristo volverá al final vive para Dios. De la misma manera, toda esperanza en el futuro. en el cielo cuando estamos con Dios, de los tiempos para juzgar a los vivos también ustedes considérense muertos El papa emérito Benedicto XVI y estamos en el infierno cuando nos y a los muertos. al pecado, pero vivos para Dios en escribió que: “Si existiera una soledad hemos separado de Dios por nuestro ¿Acaso es esto algo espantoso, Cristo Jesús” (Rom 6:8-11). que no pudiera ser penetrada y egoísmo y pecado. La elección que tener que rendir cuentas de cómo transformada por la palabra de otro cada uno de nosotros debe hacer cada uno de nosotros ha usado (o Las lecturas de las Escrituras de … entonces deberíamos tener una es clara: ¿Queremos pasar toda la abusado) de los dones que Dios nos este fin de semana (el 13º domingo soledad y un miedo totales, lo que la eternidad unidos a Dios en la alegría ha dado? No tiene por qué serlo. El del tiempo ordinario) nos hablan teología llama infierno.” del cielo, o preferimos seguir nuestro amor de Dios ha transformado la de los misterios de la vida y la Creemos que Cristo experimentó propio camino y arriesgarnos a muerte. Su perdón se da libremente, y muerte, y nos revelan dos paradojas esta “verdadera soledad total y sufrir la soledad total y el miedo al su gracia siempre está disponible para fundamentales del cristianismo: 1) En espantosa” cuando sufrió la muerte infierno? ayudarnos a vivir mejor en comunión Cristo, estamos muertos al pecado y por nosotros. Pero también creemos Las decisiones que tomamos cada con Jesucristo y todos los santos. viviendo para Dios (Rom 6:11); y 2) que su amor fue más fuerte que la día determinan nuestra disposición a La espantosa soledad del Quien encuentre su vida la perderá, muerte. Como resultado, la muerte enfrentar el Juicio Final. ¿Estoy en infierno puede ser evitada por el y quien pierda su vida por causa de ha perdido su finalidad. La vida estado de gracia, cerca del Señor? poder de la gracia de Dios, y la Jesús la encontrará (Mt 10:39). ¿Qué es victoriosa y, como cantamos en ¿Me comunico con Él en la oración, alegría del cielo puede ser nuestra significan estas ideas aparentemente la liturgia de Pascua, la muerte ha en la recepción de los sacramentos y si nos encomendamos a Él. “Por contradictorias para nuestra vida perdido su aguijón. en el servicio a «los más pequeños» consiguiente, también vosotros debéis diaria? El cielo y el infierno son conceptos de los hermanos y hermanas de pensar que estáis muertos al pecado y Los cristianos creemos que la contra los cuales se rebelan las Cristo que tienen hambre, sed, que que vivís para Dios en Cristo Jesús,” muerte ha sido transformada por Jesús mentes modernas. Seguramente desde están desnudos o en la cárcel? ¿O como dice san Pablo. desde el amargo final de la vida— el punto de vista geográfico esos me encuentro en el camino de la Oremos por la gracia de vivir en un tiempo de absoluta soledad y la “lugares” no existen. Las imágenes espantosa soledad del infierno debido Cristo para que experimentemos la cruel pérdida de todo lo que hemos tradicionales apuntan a los cielos a mi egocentrismo y a mi negativa a alegría de su presencia, ahora y en la conocido y amado—hasta el punto de y hablan de la morada de Dios, guardar los mandamientos de Dios y a vida futura. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020

Announcements for couples celebrating 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or more years of VIPs marriage are accepted. Go to bit.ly/2M4MQms or call 317-236-1585. James and Rita (Simon) Bedel, members of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 2. Bobby and Virginia (Dupont) O’Dell, The couple was married in St. Maurice members of St. Paul Parish in Tell City, Church in Napoleon on May 2, 1970. celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary on They have three children: Angela June 19. Bousman, Laura Meyer and Tamara Padgett. The couple was married in St. Paul Church The couple also has seven grandchildren. † in Tell City on June 19, 1965. They have two children: Bobby O’Dell, Jr., and the late Randy O’Dell. †

Carroll and Judy (Kunkel) Lanning, members of St. Michael Parish in Brookville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 20. Steven and Rita (Caito) Beck, members The couple was married in Holy Guardian of SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi Parish in Angels Church in Cedar Grove on June 20, Greenwood, celebrated their 50th wedding 1970. anniversary on June 14. They have two children: Trisha and Robert The couple was married in Our Lady of the Lanning. Most Holy Rosary Church in Indianapolis on The couple also has 10 grandchildren. † June 14, 1970. They have two children: Rory Small and Patrick and Linda (Keller) Newett, Josephine Kelley. members of Our Lady of the Greenwood The couple also has six grandchildren. † Parish in Greenwood, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 6. The couple was married in St. Simon the Apostle Church in Indianapolis on June 6, 1970. They have two children: Josh and Justin Newett. Bruce and Janice (Laker) Meyer, The couple also has four grandchildren. † members of St. Catherine of Siena Parish in Decatur County, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 30. Donald and Dorothy (Butcher) Striegel, The couple was married in St. John the members of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis, Evangelist Church in Enochsburg (now a celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on campus of St. Catherine of Siena Parish) on June 6. May 30, 1970. The couple was married in the former They have one child, Ben Meyer. St. Martin Church in Whitefield, Ind., on The couple also has two grandchildren. † June 6, 1970. They have two children: Darlene Seymour and Kevin Striegel. The couple also has three grandchildren. They celebrated with a Mass, special blessing and family dinner. †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—“It’s DACA; it’s good.” “I’ve been going since Monday to the Supreme Court care she needed from their family. Those were the words Giovana Oaxaca wrote to her staff, with a group of young people, and as we were walking At the time, Aguirre thought he could visit her in a few hands trembling, when she heard the Supreme Court ruled to the Supreme Court at 10 a.m. together and waiting for short months. However, in September 2017, DACA was in favor of recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood the decision [on June 18], we got a text message saying rescinded and he has not seen his mother since; he could Arrivals program, or DACA. “I prayed for this moment that the decision had come out and we didn’t know what not leave the U.S. and expect to come back in. for you and your brother and here we are,” was the only it was,” Quinonez explained. “Later on, we found out that Like his peers, Aguirre feels a sense of relief from the sentence the 23-year-old DACA recipient’s mother could we had a favorable decision.” Supreme Court ruling, but he knows the fight is far from over. muster in between tears, as the two rejoiced in this small Quinonez attributes all that she has accomplished to Citizenship is the only thing that will end the victory in a battle that is far from over. DACA. Without the Social Security card that has enabled her uncertainty for DACA recipients and guarantee the On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling to enroll in school, get a driver’s license and find work, she security that many others take for granted, as well as the said President Donald J. Trump could not stop the would have no place in this country to exert her ambition. privilege to travel, so in Aguirre’s case, he could go see program with his 2017 executive order. DACA protects “I feel like ever since DACA was rescinded in 2017, I’ve his mother. about 700,000 young people who qualify for the program been living under so much uncertainty,” said Quinonez. “Before DACA, I was undocumented, so it was always from deportation and allows them to work, go to college, “We don’t know the exact details of what this decision unsure. With DACA, at least I had an opportunity to kind get health insurance and obtain a driver’s license. means, but I have a feeling that I will be able to plan ahead of pretend like I was a part of society, but the last two The program was established by President Barrack and look forward. And not just exist but continue to live.” years I was reminded of the harsh reality that it is not a Obama with an executive order in 2012 to allow young In 2017, when Trump issued the executive order, the permanent fix,” said Jose Arnulfo Cabrera, the director people brought into the country illegally as minors by administration stopped considering new applications for of education and advocacy for migration with Ignatian their parents to stay in the United States. DACA, but allowed current DACA recipients with a permit Solidarity Network. Oaxaca works as a government relations associate for set to expire before March 5, 2018, the opportunity to apply “What we have been advocating, what we have been Network, a Catholic social justice lobby. Part of her job is for a two-year renewal if they applied by Oct. 5, 2018. talking about, is just that. This was not intended to be a being an activist and advocate for immigrant rights. Because various lawsuits were filed to challenge the permanent solution,” he said. “This is not the end game, “I was filled with, I use this word not lightly but, executive order, an injunction was put on Trump’s plan and we have been for the last few years and continue trepidation because every sign pointed to the decision until the suits made their way through the courts, with the today to fight for a pathway to citizenship.” being unfavorably toward DACA,” said Oaxaca in an case finally ending up at the Supreme Court. The court “My family and I were open to getting bad news. We interview with the Catholic News Service (CNS). agreed to hear the case in June 2019. were like, OK, we’re not sure if they’re going to continue “I grew up thinking that I was going to have DACA “Growing up as a DACA recipient or as an immigrant in the DACA program, but whatever it is, God is in control,” for an uncertain amount of time and there would be general, you don’t really know what to expect,” said Tania said Ewaoluwa Ogundana. a solution eventually,” she continued. “And when this Hernandez-Orozco, a nursing student at Delaware University Born in Nigeria and currently studying at Trinity administration came around in 2016, all of those hopes and a TheDream.US scholar. “You just listen to the news and Washington University, Ogundana explained her fear were immediately whisked away. pray that your family isn’t the next to get separated.” was more for her brother, who may not have the same “Because that’s what the administration ran on, and This fear for Hernandez-Orozco has been fellow opportunities DACA and the TheDream.US scholarship that’s what the administration had been proposing—an TheDream.US scholar Christian Aguirre’s reality. have given her. end to DACA. So, for several years now, I’ve felt this lack Around March 2017, Aguirre was separated from his “When I got the notification, I quickly opened it and I of support, lack of acknowledgment that there is a need mother. After she was diagnosed with dementia, he and screamed, ‘Oh my gosh!’ It’s such an answer to a prayer,” for a solution here,” she continued. his family made the difficult decision for her to move she exclaimed, relieved to have been given more time to Though the June 18 decision was favorable, Oaxaca back to Guadalajara, Mexico, where she could get the fight for the right to become a U.S. citizen. † believes the immigration system in the U.S. as a whole is not. “If the Supreme Court had elected to allow the administration to go through with ending DACA, there’s Online Lay Ministry Formation a very real possibility that I would not have been unable 40th Wedding Anniversary to renew my DACA on time, and I would not be able to The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University work legally in the country,” she explained. “And that’s in (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: the midst of an economic and public health crisis.” Jon and Julie • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry This is the reality for many DACA recipients and their • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program (Kreutzjans) families. Oaxaca and activists like her have worked for • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church Webster, years to create a permanent solution for “Dreamers.” • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners members Congress has considered the proposed Development, For more information, please log on to of St. Mary Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, or DREAM Act, Parish in which would grant temporary conditional residency to these www.archindy.org/layministry young people. First introduced in 2001, it has yet to pass. North Vernon “I think it shows that we’ve taken DACA nearly as will celebrate far as you can go, and we’ve done everything we can as their 40th organizers, as immigrant rights activists and advocates, to REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW wedding anniversary on show that a program like DACA needs to exist with full If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on protections, meaning pathway to citizenship eventually behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim June 28. being made available,” said Oaxaca, reiterating her of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance commitment to fighting for immigrant rights. coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: The couple was married in St. Mary’s “Dreamer” Claudia Quinonez, a recent graduate of Ethics Point 1 Confidential, Online Reporting Church in North Vernon on June 28, 1980. Trinity Washington University in the District of Columbia www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 and also a DACA recipient, came to the United States in Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator They have three children Ellie Bright, 2011 from Bolivia with her mother. 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 “We came together fleeing political instability and Annie Stock and Jonathan Webster. The 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 couple also has eight grandchildren. climate change. My mother wanted me to have a better life, [email protected] better education [and] better opportunities,” she told CNS. Page 8 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Can change lead us from fear to fairness, friendship? By John Shaughnessy with black people before,” she says. “Even though he attended IU [Indiana Marcha Bennett never expected the University], he lived in a frat house ‘I have learned through the committee that in situation to end in friendship. where everyone was white, and he was order to effect change at the local and national In fact, the situation could have more in the business school where it was easily led to distrust and even hatred. predominantly white. So this was a new level, there has to be education on both sides The situation unfolded in the late experience for him. of the equation. There must be an orderly 1970s when Bennett moved from “We talked about our differences, process. That is the only way we can be sure Chicago to Indianapolis to take a job which was mainly about color, and what that change will occur and stick.’ as a management trainee at a large, his expectations had been. He just didn’t local bank. As part of her training, have a clue. In the end, we became good — Marcha Bennett, a member of the Race and Culture Bennett, who is black, was assigned to a friends, and he helped paint our first Committee at St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianapolis branch where both the manager and the house.” assistant manager were white. That story matches the goal of the Race “For the first couple of months, the and Culture Committee at St. Thomas— assistant manager never called me by “That They All May Be One.” Bennett And change is what she continues to sustainable change in this country where my name,” recalls Bennett, a member was instrumental in starting the committee long for against the backdrop of recent everyone is treated the same and not of St. Thomas the Aquinas Parish in in late 2018, with the hope of creating events in Indianapolis and across the feared because of their skin color.” Indianapolis. “He would kind of wait more diversity at the parish and better country. At the same time, there is one change until we made eye contact and give me understanding of race relations. While she Bennett has long seen the need for that gives her a measure of hope, a something to do or explain a procedure. has worked toward those goals, Bennett change in the routine traffic stops of black change that reminds her of a time from One day, three or four months in, I says she has also gained some insights men by police. As a wife, a mother and a earlier in her life when two people from looked up, and he pointed at me and about the best way to pursue them. grandmother, she finds it demoralizing that different races became friends. said, ‘You, come here.’ “I have learned through the committee “Indiana is way down the list” regarding “I think that’s what’s going on with “I was appalled.” that in order to effect change at the infant mortality in the black community. the younger generation now,” she says. Bennett left her chair, approached the local and national level, there has to be She also is aware of the difference “They have gone to school with black assistant manager and said, “We need to education on both sides of the equation,” between the number of black men and kids, played on sports teams with black talk with the manager now.” she says. “There must be an orderly white men in prison and the difference in kids, and even spent the night at their “Long story short, he grew up west process. That is the only way we can be sentencing they often receive. homes. We are one, but we have to have of Indianapolis and had never interacted sure that change will occur and stick.” “I truly hope that before I die I see a more of these interactions.” †

growing in humility at times. more of the struggles and inequalities that Smith believes that all Catholics, all RACISM “I have learned that there are wonderful black people face in America. people have a part and a responsibility to continued from page 1 humans of all different backgrounds, He has also felt the devastating pain end racism. cultures and social status that have an that comes when people who share the “There must be an ability to open up a difference in their communities.” amazing spirit to help,” Samperio notes. same Catholic faith don’t live that faith our own heart and head to the facts of More than 1 1/2 years later, the “I have also learned that it is incredibly toward others. It’s a feeling he learned racism,” he says. “Admit that there is committee has created a road map that difficult to decide what actions one should early, as a child. racism, and combat it together.” offers directions for how Catholics and their take to channel this helping spirit. “I have had to bend and twist and turn parishes can work to improve race relations “Mostly, I have learned that effective every day of my life to exist in this world,” Working to change hearts and minds in their community and the country. At a change is within me—and the actions that Smith says. “I have learned that from the Payne shares that same belief. time of riots, peaceful protests, despair, I take every day—to make a difference. first day I entered Holy Angels School as “I have learned that it takes everyone hope, senseless deaths and calls for the need This country needs Martins [Luther King], one of the first African-Americans to walk working together on the issue of race,” to listen and live together, Payne shares Rosas [Parks] and Susans [B. Anthony]. into that previously all-white Catholic she says. “Each person has wisdom and some of the parts of that road map. But it also needs everyday people effecting school in 1949. knowledge to share. If we don’t listen “Work to integrate neighborhoods,” she a change within their community.” “I looked for Christ, and I did not see with intentionality and compassion, plans says. “Educate yourself about the daily Walthill believes that people who him when we sang songs such as ‘Ole and activities won’t be as successful. struggles of African-Americans. Find ways are white have to make a commitment Black Joe,’ and the class turned to me and You need as many voices as possible that to make a more just and equitable society. to create and support changes that will laughed at me. But being in America, I represent all entities of the population.” Keep an open mind and heart, and have a lead to equality in jobs, education and had to accept that humiliation. On an individual level, she says that desire to change, learn and grow.” healthcare for people who are black. “That was my pain of being a student working toward ending racism involves “a She includes another direction that’s “One of the things I have learned in a Catholic school in America in the lifetime of learning, reading, listening and especially personal to her. about race in our country is the lack of ‘40s. The integration of my church/school doing.” “Develop meaningful relationships. interest, support and will of white people did not remove racism in the ‘40s. And That approach continues to be Doing so can help lives become fuller to actually walk alongside black people not a lot has advanced toward removing imperative in the wake of recent events, and more complete—just like ours did and do the work needed to change the that deep, settled effect of racism.” she says. because of our neighbors from India.” systemic racism in this country,” she says. While that pain is settled deep in him, “As events within the last weeks “We—whites—must be willing to he has also stayed deeply committed to his have unfolded, many of our hopes have Listen. learn and share educate ourselves on the inequality in our Catholic faith through the years. His passion been doused,” Payne says. “But hope Eileen Walthill is one of the 10 women country, to accept that we created the issues to work for change hasn’t wavered either. springs eternal. After a period of time and the 10 whites who are part of the in our country and then fight for change.” “This parish really wishes to overcome for grieving, members started to develop 17-member committee at St. Thomas. Both Walthill and Samperio believe the obstacles of racism—and tackle the plans to lead our parish into next steps.” Jose Samperio is the only Latino on the their Catholic faith has an important part root causes,” he says. “We realize that A virtual prayer service was set up in committee, which also includes six members in helping work toward the committee’s there is a need for reconciliation, and we early June for the parish to “pray for and who are black. goal, “That They All May Be One.” can begin to reach out to listen and lead. lament” the loss of black lives at the hands Walthill and “I am a white female who often does Our faith is strong, and we truly seek of police officers. She says future plans Samperio have not have patience for my faith to catch up methods and approaches to educate include a proposed meeting “for police and been part of the with my actions,” Walthill says. “Yet, I our fellow parishioners with passion, civilians to calmly discuss ways to make committee’s efforts to realize if I don’t have my faith front and with material such as books, films and changes, followed by prayer.” provide parishioners center in my life then I react to situations workshops. And honest dialogue.” It’s all guided by a commitment to with opportunities in a very frustrated and angry way. Which That honesty sears through in his effort keep their Catholic faith at the core of to listen, learn and usually gets a very negative result.” to help white people understand what everything they do. share—including Samperio says, “We need to continue black people have to endure. “Have faith that ‘God has this,’ and being part of dinners to have faith in the better angels of our “We were born in a nation which that the Holy Spirit is moving within with people from nature. I fundamentally believe in the identifies humans by the pigments of people now to make a change of hearts Jose Samperio different races and good spirit of human beings. We need to their skin. And this is so ingrained in all and minds,” Payne says. “Pray without ethnic backgrounds, channel the love for positive action and of us that we do not know it. ceasing. Read the Bible, especially the having discussions of books and movies accept that we can be wrong.” “No white brother of mine can truly Acts of the Apostles, and notice how on the issue of race in America, and comprehend what it feels like to be the Holy Spirit touched the disciples to inviting speakers to the parish to provide A deep pain, a deeper faith wrapped in my skin. Why, you may ask? boldly proclaim the Word of God and live training on improving race relations. At 78, Joseph Smith is one of the six Because you, my brother, do not have together in community. Samperio and Walthill say they have black people on the St. Thomas committee. to. It is something I have lived with for “Finally, ask God to show you what grown from such experiences, including He has seen more of life than the others, nearly 80 years now.” actions to take, so that all may be one.” † Recommendations offered for improving race relations By John Shaughnessy childhood and young adult years. Think about what community are represented in decision-making roles. biases are a part of your world, what assumptions you • “If you don’t know what to do, start by doing As the head of the Race and Culture Committee at make about people of color/Caucasians, and what history one small action. This can be the beginning of a St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Indianapolis, Patrice Payne you were taught. transformation for yourself and those around you.” was asked to share recommendations that would help • “Research information that will help you grow in the individuals, their communities and the United States to area of race relations. (The Race and Culture Committee at St. Thomas has move toward racial equality. • “Turn your new awareness into action. also created a list of movies, books, podcasts, articles Here are some of her recommendations: • “Develop relationships with someone of a different and other resources to help people learn more about • “Pray for forgiveness for injustices that have been culture than you. improving race relations. The list is available on the done, both historically and currently. • “Help redistribute the imbalance of systemic racism parish’s website at www.staindy.org/church/race- • “Do an honest self-inventory. Reflect on your by making sure people of color in your workplace or relations-resources.) † The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Page 9

executions. We’re trying to bring about EXECUTIONS healing, and we don’t bring about continued from page 1 healing by killing. “That’s where my profound sadness with the teachings of the last three comes in,” Deacon Gretencord popes, namely, Pope St. John Paul explained. “The fact II, Pope-emeritus Benedict XVI and that I know these Pope Francis,” Archbishop Thompson men, yes, that hurts. explained. “The Church has consistently But on a spiritual held up the dignity of the person and level, the concept of sacredness of life from the moment of execution makes no conception to natural death.” sense. It’s archaic. It Rather than condoning criminal serves no purpose. behavior and despicable acts of evil It’s not a deterrent— violence, he said, the “underlying that’s been proven Catholic teaching on this particular Deacon Steven time and time matter is grave concern for the care of Gretencord again.” souls of all involved—including the Providence Sister judge, jury, prison personnel, families of Barbara Battista, who serves as Justice these officials and society itself. Taking Promoter for the Sisters of Providence the life of any human being, even one of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, said she Archbishop Charles C. Thompson offers a reflection at Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Terre who is guilty of grave crimes against was also “surprised” by the timing of the Haute on Nov. 5, 2019, during a prayer vigil for five federal prisoners originally scheduled for humanity, weighs on the conscience of announcement. execution in December 2019 and January 2020 at the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute. both individuals and society as a whole.” “I do think it’s important to put this One received a stay of execution, while a preliminary injunction halted the other four. Those four When Deacon Steven Gretencord [rescheduling of the executions] in the executions have been rescheduled for this summer. (File photo by Natalie Hoefer) heard the news of the rescheduled context of the violence that has been executions, he felt “profound sadness.” and is being inflicted on communities of in fact, innocent persons have been Resistance group, of which Sister Barbara Deacon Gretencord has ministered to color across the nation,” she said. “Eyes executed,” she said. “It’s not debatable— is a member, is working on ways for men on death row at the FCC in Terre are being opened across the country to the facts are there. citizens to petition against the DOJ decision, Haute for nearly 10 years. the depth of the violence and how long “To resume executions in the midst of and on plans for those who wish to pray or “Our country has just gone through it’s been happening.” this awakening just adds more violence protest to be allowed on the prison grounds a time of terrible turmoil in the racial Sister Barbara said the Sisters of on top of violence.” during the executions should they occur. confrontations because of our lack of Providence and many others see this In the statement issued by the DOJ, it is Meanwhile, Deacon Gretencord respect of human life,” he said. “And decision “as another act of violence.” noted that the four inmates in question have noted, the focus needs to remain on the now our country is doing it again, “We know the criminal justice system exhausted their number of appeals, “and no dignity of all human life. not respecting lives by carrying out is deeply flawed, racially biased, and legal impediments prevent their executions.” “Yes, these men made terrible mistakes,” Sister Barbara, however, said that he said. “For some it was a matter of her “sources, folks who work for the passion. And yes, sometimes it was even abolition of capital punishment and the cold-blooded. But they were mistakes. ‘We know the criminal justice system is death penalty, tell me in fact the inmates “They’re human beings. In order to deeply flawed, racially biased, and in fact, have not completed all of their appeals.” teach that all life matters, we have to live Additionally, the Supreme Court it, we have to believe it and act on it. innocent persons have been executed. It’s not expedited a cert petition (petition of writ “Their lives are just as important as debatable—the facts are there. To resume of certiorari) on behalf of the inmates any other life.” executions in the midst of this awakening seeking to overturn the lower court’s just adds more violence on top of violence.’ April ruling against the preliminary (To stay informed on local actions to injunctions. On June 26, the justices will participate in to oppose the upcoming — Providence Sister Barbara Battista, who serves as discuss and possibly decide whether executions and the death penalty, search Justice Promoter for the Sisters of Providence of to consider or decline the petition. If on Facebook for “Terre Haute Death Saint Mary-of-the-Woods they choose to accept it, the upcoming Penalty Resistance.” To sign the National executions will likely be stayed. Catholic Pledge to End the Death Still, the Terre Haute Death Penalty Penalty, go to catholicsmobilizing.org.) †

Pandemic showed just how much people need each other, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—During the darkest, most points of reference” for the sick and for their families conscience and responsibility of each one of us. Not deadly days of the COVID-19 pandemic in northern who were not allowed to visit them. alone, though; only together and with the grace of God. Italy, medical professionals and volunteers were “silent The sick “found in you, health care workers, almost “God created us for communion, for fraternity, and artisans of a culture of closeness and members of the family, able to unite professional now more than ever it has been demonstrated how tenderness,” a culture that cannot be competence with the kind of attention that includes illusory is the claim of counting only on oneself—it’s allowed to disappear, Pope Francis concrete expressions of love,” the pope said. “The illusory—and of making individualism the guiding said. patients often felt like they had ‘angels’ alongside them, principle of society,” the pope said. In one of his first large-group helping them recover their health and, at the same People must be attentive as the pandemic slows meetings since the pandemic struck time, consoling and supporting them and sometimes because “it’s easy to slide, it’s easy to fall back into this Italy in late February, Pope Francis accompanying them to the threshold of their final illusion,” he said. “It’s easy to forget” that all people need on June 20 welcomed to the Vatican encounter with the Lord. others. doctors, nurses, paramedics, civil “Now is the moment to treasure all of this positive Pope Francis said that although during the lockdown protection volunteers, priests, bishops energy that was invested,” the pope said. “It can and must people were not able to attend Mass in person, “they did Pope Francis and civil officials from Italy’s bear fruit for the present and the future.” not stop feeling part of a community. They prayed alone Lombardy region. To honor the sacrifices, the suffering and the death, or with their families, including through the means of The coronavirus struck the region much harder than he said, people must make a commitment to continuing social communication, spiritually united and perceiving any other area of Italy; as of June 21, close to 93,000 of the witness of “generous and gratuitous love, which the Lord’s embrace.” the region’s residents had contracted the virus, and 16,570 have left an indelible mark on consciences and on the Many priests showed “pastoral zeal” in obeying the of them had died. Italy as a whole has had some 238,500 fabric of society, teaching how much need there is for rules and regulations put in place by government officials cases of COVID-19 and 34,630 deaths. closeness, care and sacrifice to increase fraternity and “to safeguard the health of the people,” while also finding Pope Francis told the group that most Italians had civil coexistence.” ways to reach out to their parishioners, phone the sick faced the pandemic with “generosity and commitment,” “We can come out of this crisis spiritually and morally and lonely, feed the poor and help those who could not but medical personnel truly led the way, becoming “sure stronger,” Pope Francis said. “That will depend on the leave their homes. † Pope recognizes martyrdom of sister, brings others closer to sainthood VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis had planned to stab her six times each to miracle attributed to a candidate’s • Father Francis Mary of the Cross advanced the sainthood causes of three indicate the biblical “number of the beast.” intercession as a condition for Jordan, founder of the Salvatorians, which men and two women, including an Italian Born near Milan in 1939, Sister Maria beatification. Even for martyrs, a miracle includes the men’s Society of the Divine nun who was brutally murdered by three had dedicated her life to helping those is required for canonization. Savior and the women’s Congregation teenage girls who claimed it had been a excluded by society, particularly drug Among the other decrees signed on of the Sisters of the Divine Savior. satanic sacrifice. addicts, juvenile delinquents, the poor and June 19, the pope recognized the miracle Born Johann Baptist Jordan in 1848 in The pope signed the decrees on sex workers. Her killers had known Sister needed for the beatification of Jose Gregorio Germany, he also founded the Catholic June 19 during a meeting with Cardinal Maria from catechism class when they Hernandez Cisneros, a Venezuelan doctor Teaching Society, in which members Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation were younger. born in 1864. He was a Third Order would defend and proclaim the faith. He for Saints’ Causes. The Vatican published When they ambushed and attacked her, Franciscan and became known as “the doctor died in 1918 in Switzerland. the decrees the same day. she prayed for the girls, asking that God of the poor.” He was killed in an accident in • Pope Francis also signed a decree The pope recognized the martyrdom forgive them. The young women were found 1919 on his way to help a patient. recognizing the heroic virtues of Sister of Sister Maria Laura Mainetti, a 60-year- guilty of murder with reduced sentences The pope also signed decrees Speranza Elizondo Garcia, also known old member of the Congregation of the because the court determined they were recognizing the miracle needed for the as Sister Gloria Maria of Jesus. Born in Daughters of the Cross, who had been partially insane at the time of the crime. beatifications of: Durango, Mexico, in 1908, she was elected killed “in hatred of the faith” when she Except in the case of candidates • Bishop Mamerto Esquiu of Cordoba, the superior general of the Congregation of was murdered on June 6, 2000, the sixth officially recognized as martyrs, the Argentina. He was born in 1826 and died Missionary Catechists of the Poor in 1961 day of the sixth month. The three girls Catholic Church usually requires a in 1883. and died in 1966 in Monterrey. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 ROSARY continued from page 1

“and he’s pushing for other cities to cover their streets in prayer,” said Evans. “Once I got that idea in my head, I kept thinking about it,” he continued. He called his friend and fellow Catholic Eric Slaughter, “the one who really organized this event,” he noted. Using social media, they spread the word of the event: a 4.5-mile rosary walk from Holy Rosary following the path of the city’s original mile-square boundaries, praying the rosary and the Divine Mercy chaplet for peace in Indianapolis. “I just saw [the event] in an email the other day,” said Joannie Johnson of St. Jude Parish in Indianapolis. “I called Matt. ... He said he was afraid he might be the only one [participating].” Instead, approximately 60 people gathered for the event. They came from parishes around the city and beyond, including Mary Patout, a member of Holy Spirit Parish at Geist in Fishers, Ind., in the Lafayette Diocese. She came with friends from St. Luke the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. “I almost didn’t [come] because of fear,” she said. “Then I decided I wasn’t going to let that stop me. That’s exactly what the evil one wants us to do is to be afraid. This [rosary walk for peace] is a very good reason to come, and I’m very glad I did it. I’m not in the least bit afraid. And we’ve got our weapons to protect us!” she said with a smile, holding up her rosary. Part of a group of about 60 Catholics walk 4.5 miles around downtown Indianapolis praying the rosary for peace in the city on June 17. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) Also joining in the walk were Clare and Micah Nantz, both 28, of St. John the hard time,” said Joannie. “And it’s a long Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis, which time coming.” sustained damage during the late May Larry agreed, noting the need for the riots. The couple, expecting their third Catholic Church “to be proactive.” child later this year, alternated carrying “Talk is cheap,” he said. “Things like their sons Joel, 4, and John Paul, 1, and this get something done. [The May protests] pushing them in a stroller during the were very sincere and with good cause, and walk. the Catholic Church should help keep it a “It shows [the boys] we care about peaceful protest. Things like this help.” prayer, that prayer is powerful, and that Except for the voices of those praying they can be a part of it even if they don’t the rosary, the city was quiet on the understand everything,” Micah said of evening of June 17. choosing to bring their children on the “Praised be to God, we didn’t encounter 4.5-mile walk. any major conflicts,” said Evans as the group Clare called the event “powerful and again gathered around the steps of Holy peaceful, and a good way to support the Rosary to conclude the event with prayer. fight against racial injustice.” The goal moving forward is for folks A van carrying chilled bottled water to walk and pray on downtown streets as followed the group. Joannie and her they can, he explained. husband Larry Johnson, both 80, also “All you have to do is walk and pray,” found respite in the van after walking Evans said. “No bull horn, no sign, no some distance. chanting. Just simply hold your rosary. “I told Matt I didn’t think we’d be able That’s the only sign we need.” to walk the whole way, but he told us to For now, Evans and Slaughter ask that come and just do whatever we could,” participants notify them when a street has Clare Nantz pushes Joel in a stroller while her husband Micah Nantz holds John Paul as they said Joannie. been “covered in prayer.” The two hope participate in a rosary walk for peace around downtown Indianapolis. The Nantzes and their sons are She and her husband “believe that at some point an interactive map can members of St. John the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis. wholeheartedly” in what Evans and be put online so participants can mark the Slaughter are seeking to accomplish. streets themselves. your neighborhood and in your local (For more information, to report a “This cause [peacefully opposing racial But the effort doesn’t stop with inner- communities. prayed-upon street or to offer to create injustice] needs to have some positive city roads. “If we can do that, if we can start a an interactive online map, contact Matt action taken on it, something in good “A lot of you don’t live around prayer revolution with the rosary and Our Evans at [email protected], faith and not violent, to show that we’re downtown,” Evans acknowledged. Lady, I think we can start to turn things or Eric Slaughter at ericslaughter@ in support of the people who are having a “So try to do a rosary walk around around a bit.” sbcglobal.net.) †

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A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2020 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. Returning to Mass a chance to experience God’s power anew By Katie Prejean McGrady

The first weekend of quarantine, my husband and I decided we were not going to attend Mass. Things weren’t publicly suspended yet in our diocese, but I’d just returned home from Missouri and was self-isolating for fear I might have been exposed to COVID-19 while traveling. We watched Mass using the CatholicTV app and made a spiritual Communion. The second weekend of quarantine, with the dispensation from the bishop in place and rumors Mass would be canceled publicly in the coming week, we still stayed home. At 13 weeks pregnant, with a squirmy toddler who has never met a stranger, I was hesitant to pile into crowded pews. Here we are, 10 weeks later, Louisiana is in phase 2 of reopening, and part of me is still hesitant to return now that 50 percent capacity is allowed in the buildings. I miss the Eucharist, desperately. The last time I received Jesus was in an airport chapel. My hunger for the Lord is intense, weighing heavy on my heart. But I hesitate to go back to Mass, not just for fear of the virus, but because of a worry that Mass won’t feel like Mass in the way I want. There will be all the familiar Mass parts, though we won’t sing, we’ll be donning masks and the toddler’s favorite part (the sign of peace) will be omitted. Jesus will still be present, the Eucharist still given to us, our knees still on the ground as we pray and worship, and what Father Michal Sajnog of Our Lady of the Wayside Parish in Chaptico, Md., gives Communion to a woman on Pentecost Sunday on May 31. It’s expected for good news that is! us to be unsure of what to do as things feel and look different as Masses resume during the pandemic, but one thing is certain and unchanging: Jesus will But will it feel the same? After nearly be present in the Eucharist, and we will get to receive him. (CNS photo/Andrew Biraj, Catholic Standard) three months away, will I feel the same? Will I be relieved we are home, happy time, nervous my 2 1/2-year-old will distanced assigned seating, staring at The Apostles huddled together not to be back in the church where we were touch someone, lick the pew or run off dear friends I haven’t seen in weeks knowing what was to come, but were married, our daughter baptized, where at top speed, her mask flying in the wearing colorful masks with only their confident of Jesus’ promises—even in I’ve gone my whole life? wind? Will I be at peace as I sit down eyes visible? their anxious hiding. Then, in the most Or will I be anxious the entire in our favorite spot or stressed by the But perhaps, after weeks of unexpected of moments, the Holy Spirit uncertainty and nearly unhealthy doses descends upon them and they experience of hopelessness, our church is precisely the power of God in a new way, one they the place we can bring those feelings— never could have predicted, and they anxiety, fear and nervousness—and lay it rush to the streets to preach, baptize, heal down at the altar. and literally change the world with the Even if the common things we’ve Gospel. grown used to are gone, like handshakes Perhaps then this moment of at the sign of peace, coffee and donuts returning to worship at Mass—even in the narthex after Mass, and even with the necessary changes like choosing our own seat (by friends with signing up online a week before, whom we go to brunch after), we are worshipers sitting in every other pew, still gathering to worship the Lord in wearing a mask, not singing and the way he invites us to: at the altar, in having to postpone our usual large community, receiving his precious body parish gatherings—will be a chance to and blood. That remains unchanged, experience God’s power in a new way, constant and steady, a source to give us giving us strength to continue bringing life and a summit we can approach with the Gospel to the world. great joy. It’s OK if we are nervous. It can When things change in life, big give way to hope. It’s good that we are or small, I find it best to approach cautious. It can give way to joy. that change by first acknowledging It’s expected for us to be unsure my anxiety and fears, giving myself of what to do as things feel and look permission to “feel my feelings.” As I different, but one thing is certain and do, there’s a chance to think through the unchanging: Jesus will be present in the experience that’s coming my way. In Eucharist, and we will get to receive some sense, by first allowing myself to him. Mask wearing, no sign of peace, be nervous and worried, calm and peace no singing and assigned seating or not, is then possible. Jesus will be there—and God’s power So too with returning to Mass. We can will pour into our hearts in a new, yet cling to what is sure to never change—the familiar way. Eucharist being present—and then we can calmly think through the various scenarios (Katie Prejean McGrady is an of what may look, feel and even sound international Catholic speaker and different. author of four books from Ave Maria As I ponder what may feel different, Press. She hosts the Ave Explores A man takes the temperature of a nun before she enters St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on May 18. and give myself permission to be worried podcast and writes for various outlets, As Masses throughout the world reopen to the public, there will be assigned seating, mask wearing, or anxious about what our first Mass back including Blessed Is She and Catholic no sign of peace, no singing but Jesus will be there—and God’s power will pour into our hearts in a may look like, I can’t help but think of News Service. Katie lives in Louisiana new, yet familiar way. (CNS photo/Stefano Dal Pozzolo) Pentecost, the birthday of the Church. with her family.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Perspectives Corrections Corner/Susan Hall Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Peanut butter, prisoners and a pandemic perspective Love family One thing I’ve learned during the last face pressed against a window offering a room we use has windows. Their cells few months is that during a shutdown a high-five with two grandchildren. There contain only a small sliver of a window. and friends more lot of peanut butter is eaten! was such love in that face, but agony as There has also been a rise in domestic I’ve heard from well. abuse during the pandemic shutdown. through God’s many prisoners that Prisoners in the general population can Domestic partners have been forced to during lockdowns they have visits with family and friends, but remain together indefinitely. The same is timeless eyes eat a lot peanut butter. visits are monitored and strict rules on true between prisoners. Cells are small During the recent touching are in place. Those in solitary and frustrations many. My wife Cindy and I celebrated our coronavirus pandemic have limited visits, and no touching is Most of us have kept in touch during 19th wedding anniversary earlier this and shutdown, many allowed—ever. this time with family and friends through month. One of the ways that we marked friends—including During the pandemic, we have been social media and phone calls. Prisoners the occasion was by myself—have survived assured that “this too shall pass,” and pay for their phone calls but are not watching part of a partially on peanut we can, once again, go back to touching allowed to use social media, restricting video of our wedding butter. Prisoner or free, all those we love whenever we can. The how much contact they can have with day with some of our we have peanut butter in common. prisoners’ lives remain static. loved ones. boys. Looking back on the last few months, During our pandemic shutdown, we When we count our blessings at the I hadn’t viewed there has been a lot of time during the have been able to leave our houses for end of the day, may we remember the it in many years. It pandemic shutdown to reflect and to see essential purposes. At least we have had prisoners and the lives that we paralleled turned out to be a how our lives run parallel to prisoners’ the knowledge that a couple of times a in a small, small way during the moving experience lives in several ways. In no way have week we could go outside, get in our cars, pandemic. in ways that I did not our isolated lives completely mirrored and drive around a bit. It’s been a boring May our prayers be focused on God in expect in advance. prisoners, but it does make for interesting inconvenience for many people, a state of their lives, giving them what they need to Of course, I loved watching my insight into a little bit of what they go depression for others. carry their burdens courageously and with beautiful bride and me. We were the stars through, day after day, year after year. Consider the prisoner in solitary who hope. of the show. Pictures and memes on social media may get to leave his cell for an hour a But, in some ways, my attention was have shown the agony that parents and day for exercise only and nothing else. (Susan Hall is a Prisoner Visitation and caught more by all of our friends and grandparents have gone through in not Volunteer work at our county jail recently Support volunteer. She is also a member loved ones who were on hand for that being able to hug or touch their children resumed, and the prisoners who came to of St. Benedict Parish in Terre Haute and blessed liturgy at the old St. Bartholomew and grandchildren. religious studies were able to see outside of the archdiocese’s Corrections Advisory Church in Columbus and at the reception In one picture, I saw a grandfather’s for the first time in months because the Committee.) † at the nearby Commons Mall. I saw a niece and nephew who were only babies then but are now college For the Journey/Effie Caldarola sophomores. Then I saw a number of friends and family who have died. After protests, we must work for racial justice in society They included my mom, Cindy’s two grandmothers and a college friend of I grew up in farm country where community was maintained most segregated hour in America begins at 11 a.m. on Sunday? Cindy and I who died last fall. by certain customs. Still true. Seeing a video of these people whom If a farmer was taken seriously ill or died near harvest time, We feel frustration and anger. We can’t do everything. But I love very much, made at a time when a cadre of neighboring farmers would maybe we can do something. they and I were so different than we are appear to take in his harvest and deliver it The heroes of every movement toward freedom did not now, maybe gave me a fleeting glimpse of to the mill. No questions asked. spend time in anger. Righteous anger, yes, but not the soul- God’s infinite love for each of us. Likewise, if there was a death in your eroding kind that ties you up in knots. Not the social media, My love for the family and friends I family, food in copious amounts would arrive personal insults kind of anger. saw in the video seemed so much more at your door. Sometimes people are tongue- We begin with prayer. That’s a given. Does my day include intense as I saw them as they were 19 tied expressing condolences or reticent about silence and reflection? If not, why not? Starting first with an years ago, remembering my relationship hugs. So, handing someone a ham, a cake or encounter with that rebel Jesus helps me to ask for guidance with them through the intervening years, those ubiquitous casseroles was a neighbor’s and listen. and seeing them in my mind’s eye as they way of saying, “I’m sorry for your trouble.” Showing up at the ballot box is another given. Am I are now. Many of us are looking at the current educated about the candidates, especially the down ticket ones My love for them wasn’t any less moment in our nation’s history and wondering, what can I do? that I may not know much about? Much change begins locally. before watching the video. It’s just that at The response for many—for millions—has been to show support Educate myself. Someone said, “Information is power, but you other times I’m focused on the moment by showing up at memorials, protests, peaceful demonstrations. decide what to do with it.” I have my senators and congressperson in which I’m living or carrying out the It has been inspiring to see the crowds, the banners and in my phone contacts, and they hear from me often. duties I’m called to take up at the time. “Black Lives Matter” painted on the boulevard near the Let’s be in touch with our pastors and our bishop. These are all good. Living in the White House. It’s as if a sleeping giant has been aroused, an Encourage homilies and prayers of the faithful that support life moment can open us to God’s loving America we’ve been yearning to see. issues of concern to our Church, including abortion, abolishing presence right before our eyes in our But in the “what can I do” category, a protest is sort of a the death penalty, climate concerns and racial justice. friends, family and even complete national way of delivering a casserole. It’s heartfelt, it’s well- Trying to get information from a wide variety of sources strangers. Doing what we’re called to meaning, it’s important and it needs to be done. But it’s a helps me widen my perspective. do at a particular time is nothing less gesture that must be followed by more. The book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, than fulfilling God’s will for us in that Maybe now we need to bring in the harvest. is a memoir of one of my heroes, Bryan Stevenson, and an moment. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Lightning makes no sound until impactful look at our country’s justice system. A bonus: The But perhaps we can understand God’s it strikes.” Boom. We’ve seen the strike, we’ve heard the thunder. movie based on this book is now available to stream for free on boundless love for us a little more by Now we have work to do. many platforms through June. Visit the Equal Justice Initiative realizing that he sees the entirety of our We’re called to examine our entire criminal justice system, the at www.eji.org to learn ways you can help. lives in one instant, in what might be housing discrimination that was systemic and state-sanctioned Jesus said, “The harvest is abundant, but the laborers are few” described as his “eternal now.” even as black American soldiers came home from World War II. (Lk 10:2). The country is ripe for change. Let’s do our part. In one glimpse, he sees the times when We still have much de facto segregation in housing and we cooperated with his grace to do his schools. And in our Church. Remember the old adage that the (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News Service.) † will in many small and sometimes large moments of our lives—loving others who might be hard to love or giving of ourselves to our children, family and The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick friends at inconvenient times. In one glimpse, he sees the many moments when we tried but failed to do The spiritual roots of protest and bending a knee to God his will, or even sought our own will Hordes of protesters have flooded the provocative and sensational? to one’s protest, who feel threatened instead of his, but repented of it later. streets over burning concerns crying to be Creating a forum on issues like the and angered by it, who even regard the In one glimpse, he sees us bear addressed. Will racism continue to divide ones above is one of the positive results protester as a traitor. suffering, both in hard times that are society? Will those of a protest march. When conducted with “After all, what protest at its best aims forced upon us and in trials of our own protecting law and dignity, protests contain powerful means at is not just to make a dissenting noise, but making. Perhaps especially in these order become more for the governed and those who govern to to help others think freshly about our social moments, the love God has for his Son, neighborly with those live true democracy. order and the self-destructive direction in who suffered for all of us, finds an echo they protect? Will To be effective, reasonable expectations which we are going. The protester needs to in his love for us, his adopted sons and African-Americans and are needed for protests to succeed. Jim remember that no one is converted by anger, daughters. Hispanics continue to Forest, in his memoir, Writing Straight self-righteousness, contempt or hatred. ... So, when I watched our wedding die from COVID-19 at a With Crooked Lines, reflected on a three- “If it is to be transformative, protest video with my family, my love seemed higher rate? day retreat given by Thomas Merton on needs to be animated by love, not love a little more timeless and expansive for Will the realization the spiritual roots of protest. in the sentimental sense but in the sober family members who have grown from that immigrants enrich Forest wrote: “Merton forced us to biblical sense of the word. Hence Christ’s infancy to young adulthood or who, our country grow? Will access to heath care consider that protest, if it is to have any insistence on love of enemies.” please God make it so, have gone from increase for all? Will the less advantaged hope of constructive impact on others, has People bending their knee during this life to the heavenly wedding feast of receive more opportunities for an education? to be undertaken not only for good reason the marches was touching. It would be the Lamb. Will the rich share their wealth more but with great care for those who feel equally touching if it caused everyone to Maybe with the help of God’s grace, generously with the destitute? Will the word accused and judged by acts of protest. bend a knee to God. we can view in our daily lives our family “politician” connote humble selfless service “What is needed, Merton argued, was and friends in such an expanded way and and wisdom? Will the media strike a better genuine sympathy and compassion for (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for love them a little more like our heavenly balance between inspirational news and the those who don’t understand or who object Catholic News Service.) † Father does. † The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Page 13

Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, June 29 Thursday, July 2 SS. Peter and Paul, Apostles Amos 7:10-17 Sunday, June 28, 2020 Acts 12:1-11 Psalm 19:8-11 • 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a Psalm 34:2-9 Matthew 9:1-8 • Romans 6:3-4, 8-11 2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18 Matthew 16:13-19 Friday, July 3 • Matthew 10:37-42 St. Thomas, Apostle Tuesday, June 30 Ephesians 2:19-22 The first reading for Mass this them to authorities to save themselves. The First Martyrs of the Church of Psalm 117:1b-2 weekend is from the first of two books This passage from Matthew, in effect, Rome John 20:24-29 in the Bible that bear a name suggesting reassured believers who feared the worst. Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 that they are about The terrible consequences were worth the Psalm 5:4b-8 Saturday, July 4 the kings of Israel. price of being with the Lord forever. Matthew 8:23-27 Amos 9:11-15 Kings indeed are Indeed, many early Christians proved Psalm 85:9ab, 10-14 mentioned, but from the point. They were martyred, but they Wednesday, July 1 Matthew 9:14-17 a very particular point live now in glory with Jesus. St. Junipero Serra, priest of view. Kings were Amos 5:14-15, 21-24 Sunday, July 5 judged on how well Reflection Psalm 50:7-13, 16b-17 Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time they led the people to A line in the musical, Oklahoma!, Matthew 8:28-34 Zechariah 9:9-10 abide by the covenant says that “everything’s up-to-date in Psalm 145:1-2, 8-11, 13-14 and to love and obey Kansas City!” Well, in the first decades Romans 8:9, 11-13 God. of Christianity, everything was up-to-date Matthew 11:25-30 Nothing else in life was as important. in Rome, more than in any other place on So, the prophets were very important Earth. It was a glittering city, with every as they taught the people to follow God. opportunity and comfort the human heart This reading is about Elisha, who visits could desire. Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle a household in which lives a wealthy It was impossible, however, to enjoy woman. She receives him. She has no all the wonders and pleasures of Rome children, but the prophet assures her that while being true to the Gospel. The Sabbath, a weekly Jewish holy day, she will bear a child by divine power. As if this were not enough, professing In the second reading, St. Paul Christianity was a major crime, as already is distinct from the Lord’s Day encourages and challenges the Christians noted. Roman justice operated on the hunch, Is it true that the Church changed goes on to say that “the celebration of Rome. He reminds them that living as does American justice today, that the death Q the day of the Sabbath? I have of Sunday observes the moral with Christ also means dying and penalty deterred others from committing always felt that the Sabbath occurred commandment inscribed by nature in ultimately rising with Christ. similar crimes, namely becoming Christian on Saturday, but I the human heart to render to God an Death is inevitable for all human beings, and living the Christian life. have learned that outward, visible, public and regular but it had an especially fearful context for The example of countless martyrs the early Church worship” (#2176). Christians in Rome. Being a Christian was proved the folly of this hunch, but the decided to celebrate a capital crime. Death was the penalty, and temptation to forsake the Lord was still the breaking of bread My beloved husband of 35 years unless the Christian was a citizen, as was heightened by the aspect of dying for on Sunday because Q passed away two years ago, and I Paul—and few were citizens—executions the crime of Christianity, and executions that was the day of have had great difficulty attending Mass were agonizing and brutal. were horrifying in the Roman system. Christ’s resurrection. since his death—it invariably causes me The Gospel reading from Matthew Crucifixion was not the only way (Nigeria) to feel lightheaded and to cry. (I have begins quite solemnly. Indeed, it can be criminals in the Roman judicial system usually had to sit down for the entire puzzling. Jesus says that if anyone loves were killed in agony and viciousness. The Church did Mass, so as not to get dizzy.) father or mother more than the Lord, they As had the prophets of old, Paul and A not change the My husband and I (we had no are not worthy to be his disciple. He says Matthew insisted that living in obedience day of the Sabbath. It is still a weekly children) always went to Mass together, that the true disciple must also carry a cross. to God was the only thing that mattered, Jewish holy day that begins at sundown and it was the highlight of our weekend. Put these verses in the context in and its reward humbled all the glories and on Friday and ends with sundown on I am 68 years old, and I often watch which they were written. Families were the pleasures of mere human existence, Saturday, marking the fact that God Sunday Mass on television—although divided, maybe often, when a member even if this existence occurred in Rome, rested from creation on the seventh day. even the television Mass fills me with converted to Christianity. Anyone the very crown of human life at the time. In the very earliest days of memories and causes me to weep. convicted of being a Christian literally The readings call us to reality. Win Christianity, believers—who were Every day now, I listen to a sermon had to carry her or his cross and be the lottery. Receive $300 million. Will mainly Jewish—observed the Sabbath on my iPhone, and I read my Bible and crucified like Jesus was. it subtract one week from an aging life? with prayer and rest; but very quickly pray to the saints daily. Each night, When the first Christians heard these Will it erase the pain of grief? Will it give (as Col 2:16 shows) Christians began before I go to bed, I say one decade of words, they knew very well that persons a sense of purpose to life? It will not. to see this as no more obligatory than the rosary. And my sister-in-law, who considered very dear, for self-survival, Only the spiritual rewards endure. This Jewish rules on food and drink. The is an extraordinary minister of holy might desert them and even denounce world will pass away. † followers of Jesus gathered instead to Communion, often brings me holy break the bread of Communion. the Eucharist on My husband was a popular cantor My Journey to God the first day of the at several different churches; being week (Acts 20:7)— present at Mass reminds me of him in the day which the hardest ways imaginable and seems Jesus, completing more than I can handle. So, my question GOD STOPPED BY a New Covenant, is this: Is it still a sin if I do not attend had made sacred Mass physically? A friend told me it’s By M. Lynell Chamberlain by rising from the not a mortal sin to miss Mass after the dead. It came to age of 65. (Ohio) be known in the Light gray clouds, rippled and swirled, God stopped by to talk with me Church as “the Please relax and be at peace. Float across the sky. On this soft summer day, Lord’s Day.” A In your situation, you are not The sun peeks through a tiny hole, By peering through the rippled clouds The Catechism committing a mortal sin—or any sin Its sunbeams flashing by. And coming out to graze. of the Catholic at all—by not going to Mass. Your Church explains emotional condition, which is as real A doe steps out from the wooded hill the relationship as any physical illness, exempts you Into the silken field, (M. Lynell Chamberlain is a member of between Sunday from the obligation to attend. And Then stops to graze in measured steps St. John Paul II Parish in Sellersburg. and the Sabbath: your regular habit of personal prayer is As I watch from up the hill. Photo: Deer graze in Richmond Park in “Sunday is surely pleasing to the Lord. Richmond, United Kingdom.) (Photo by expressly I do want to comment, though, Johan Mouchet on Unsplash.com) distinguished on your friend’s contention that the from the Sabbath obligation of Sunday Mass ceases at which it follows age 65; that is not true. If a person’s chronologically health enables him or her to be present, every week; the responsibility of Sunday Mass for Christians attendance continues. its ceremonial It should also be noted that, at observance present, many bishops across the country replaces that of the are continuing to give dispensations from Sabbath. In Christ’s the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays Passover, Sunday and holy days of obligation because of fulfills the spiritual the coronavirus pandemic. This is the truth of the Jewish case in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis Sabbath and until Aug. 15. announces man’s eternal rest in God” (Questions may be sent to Father (#2175). Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@ The catechism’s gmail.com and 30 Columbia Circle Dr., following section Albany, New York 12203.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020

Husband of Doris Boyd. Father of Anthony, Bruce and Robert Boyd. Brother of Nancy Lee Dills and Larry Ray. Grandfather of nine. Rest in Great-grandfather of 12. BRUNS, Mary E., 53, peace St. Mary, Greensburg, April 21. Wife of Paul Bruns. Mother of Stephanie Volz and Aaron Please submit in writing Bruns. Sister of Phil Geis. to our office by 10 a.m. Grandmother of one. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state CARR, Ellen C., 80, date of death. Obituaries of St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, archdiocesan priests serving April 7. Wife of Dan Carr. our archdiocese are listed Mother of Mary Findlay, Julie elsewhere in The Criterion. McAfee, Joseph, Michael and Order priests and religious Vincent Carr. Grandmother sisters and brothers are of six. included here, unless they are CLIDINST, James R., natives of the archdiocese or 68, Our Lady of Lourdes, have other connec­tions to it; Indianapolis, April 18. Brother those are separate obituaries of Rose Marie Houff. Uncle on this page. of one. CREBBE, Kenneth R., 76, St. ARMBRUSTER, Eugene Malachy, Brownsburg, April 5. W., 90, St. Mary of the Father of Carrie Lange, Susan Immaculate Conception, Sonoyama and Neil Crebbe. Aurora, April 18. Husband of Brother of Pamala Fyffe, Betty Patricia Armbruster. Father Hysell, Linda Zimmerman, of Diana, John, Richard and Doug and Scott Crebbe. Robert Armbruster. Brother Grandfather of six. of Mary House and Patricia DANT, Thomas J., 63, School assists health care workers Schonegg. Grandfather of 10. St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Great-grandfather of 13. March 29. Husband of Noreen Anthony Pennock, a seventh-grade student at St. Bridget School in Richmond, Va., prints a door grabber on his 3D printer on May 8. Students from the Catholic school have been busy using 3D printers to make important gear for health care workers during BEDEL, Virginia F., 81, Dant. Father of Alycia Iaria, the coronavirus pandemic. (CNS photo/courtesy St. Bridget School) St. Louis, Batesville, April 16. Christine, Meagan, Jeremiah, Mother of Shirley Ellison, and Tommy Dant. Brother of Beth Derwin, Kathy Candy Kennedy, Cynthia Hawkins, Debbie Reimsnyder and Paul Schoettelkotte. Mcnutt, Marie, Loraine and RUETH, Kenneth M., 79, Henderson, Chris, Gary, Napier and Larry Bedel. Sister and James Fisher, Jr. Brother Grandmother of seven. Great- Clarence Braun. Grandmother St. Elizabeth of Hungary, George, Greg, Harold, Jerry, of Donnalene Holman, Lydia of Jack and Robert Fisher. grandmother of two. of three. Great-grandmother Cambridge City, April 15. Smith, David and Vincent Tim and Father Nicholas Dant. Grandfather of 14. Great- FURNISH, David E., 62, of three. Father of Susan Schaeffer, Herbert. Grandmother of 13. Grandfather of nine. grandfather of 17. Prince of Peace, Madison, MATTHEWS, Gloria Carol and David Rueth. Great-grandmother of 18. DEES, Judy B., 82, FORSTON, Elizabeth C., 41, April 13. Husband of Sherri (Ewing), 86, Our Lady of Brother of Judith Rezy and St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, BENNETT, Larry W., 59, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Lynn Furnish. Father of Bryce Lourdes, Indianapolis, April 6. Frederick Rueth. Grandfather April 14. Wife of John Dees. St. Joseph, Corydon, April 21. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Furnish. Son of Earl Furnish. Wife of Joseph Matthews. of five. Mother of Julie, Charlie, Sr., Father of Rachel Dunaway, April 15. Daughter of Ronald Brother of Alan Furnish. Mother of Julie Brown, Susan SCHMIDT, William, 94, Son of Betty Bennett. Brother and John Dees. Sister of one. and Faye Nicholls. Sister of HAMILTON, Harriet M. McCauley, Eddie, Joe and Holy Family, New Albany, of Pamela Martin and Mark Grandmother of nine. Great- Molly Cox, Emily Roggenburk (Bunarek), 83, St. Therese Tony Matthews. Grandmother April 5. Husband of Anna Bennett. Grandfather of three. grandmother of two. and Jessica Watkins. Aunt of of the Infant Jesus (Little of 23. Great-grandmother of Schmidt. Father of Daniel and FISCHER, Vaughn A., 5, BILLMAN, Catherine A., 70, several. Flower), Indianapolis, 36. Gregory Schmidt. Brother of All Saints, Dearborn County, St. Anthony of Padua, Morris, FRIEDMAN, Nancy M., 68, April 11. Wife of Robert MAUCK, Jolene, 81, Evelyn Banet. Grandfather of April 8. Son of Brad and April 13. Sister of Jeanette Christ the King, Indianapolis, Hamilton. Mother of Dawn St. Bernard, Frenchtown, four. Shelly Fischer. Brother of Cuellar. Aunt of several. April 10. Garcia, Lisa Gibbons and April 6. Mother of Leisa Roll SINKHORN, Edward W., 88, Carmen Fischer. Grandson of Cheryl Vaughan. Stepmother and Charles Mauck. Sister St. Mary, Navilleton, April 15. BORNHORST, John L., 81, Dan and Kris Schneider and FULLENKAMP, Viola A., of Rebecca Arnold, Beverly of Joyce Briscoe, Linda Husband of Thecla Sinkhorn. St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Bob and Betty Fischer. 80, St. Joseph, Shelbyville, April 13. Husband of Nancy April 14. Mother of Lisa Phalen and Anthony Hamilton. Rothrock, Phyllis Whittaker Father of Cathie Schneider, FISHER, James, 80, Bornhorst. Uncle of several. Kern, Renee Strukel and Grandmother of six. Step- and Larry Colin. Grandmother Benedictine Sister Michelle St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Michelle Wagner. Sister of grandmother of nine. Great- of 15. Great-grandmother of Sinkhorn, Dan, Dave and Tim BOYD, Bob, 68, All Saints, Richmond, April 9. Husband of Mary Bossert, Dorothy, John grandmother of two. Step- seven. Sinkhorn. Grandfather of 13. Dearborn County, April 12. Patricia Fisher. Father of Kim great-grandmother of two. MEYER, Edith, 97, Great-grandfather of nine. HILL, Erma Belle, 94, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, SNODDY, William, M., 92, St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, Cambridge City, April 5. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Mary Elizabeth Gallagher, mother of April 8. Mother of Melanie Mother of Jennifer Dieselberg, April 20. Husband of Rita Kaelin, Joe and Tom Hill. Betsy Schultz, Jill, Brian, Snoddy. Father of Suellen Father John Peter Gallagher, died on April 12 Grandmother of eight. Great- Christopher, Glen, Jeff, Bertram, Mary Houston, grandmother of 11. Mark and Michael Meyer. Cynthia Pate, Stacey, Mary Elizabeth “Libby” (Moore) Gallagher, working for 20 years in medical records at Major HOLTHOUSE, Ronald, Grandmother of 14. Great- Meade and Stephen Snoddy. the mother of Father John Peter Gallagher, Hospital in Shelbyville, Gallagher assisted in the 83, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, grandmother of 10. Grandfather of 13. Great- pastor of Our Lady of the Springs Parish in after-school program at St. Joseph School. Richmond, April 21. Husband MILLER, Frederick J., 88, grandfather of 10. French Lick and Our Lord Jesus Christ the She loved her family, especially her of Regina Holthouse. Father St. Lawrence, Indianapolis SVARCZKOPF, Anthony King Parish in Paoli, died on April 12, Easter grandchildren, and never met a stranger. of Rene Chronert, Rebecca April 8. Husband of Shirley S., 87, Christ the King, Sunday, at Morristown Manor nursing home in She is survived by her daughters Ann Hamlin, Randy and Ross Miller. Father of Theresa Indianapolis, April 8. Father Morristown. She was 88. Gallagher of Indianapolis, Beth Gallagher of Holthouse. Brother of Russell, Andrew and Eric of Cheryl Bertovich and Because of restrictions related to the Lincoln, Neb., Kathryn Gallagher of Omaha, Kathleen Kutter and Tom Miller. Grandfather of six. Stephen Svarczkopf. Brother Holthouse. Grandfather of 11. Great-grandfather of seven. of Irene Lohmeier and George coronavirus pandemic, only private funeral home Neb., and her sons David Lee Gallagher of Great-grandfather of eight. Svarczkopf. Grandfather of and graveside services were held. She was buried Indianapolis, Father John Peter Gallagher, Kevin NIEDENTHAL, Alice, 94, HORAN, Teresa, 89, St. Mary, St. Mary, Rushville, April 17. seven. Great-grandfather of at St. Joseph Cemetery in Shelbyville. Gallagher of Fort Collins, Colo., Patrick Gallagher seven. Gallagher was born on March 8, 1932, in of Shelbyville, and R. T. Gallagher of Crane, Ind., Greensburg, April 8. Mother Mother of Mary Aulback, of Nancy Buening, Kathleen Joanne Parrett, Cathy Rohrer, SWANEY, Dorothy, 90, Shelbyville to Flavia and Lelia Moore. 12 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. Cunningham, Susan Huey, Donald, Joe and Louis St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, She was a longtime member of St. Joseph Memorial gifts may be sent to Saint Meinrad Sharon Kreuz, Anthony, Niedenthal. Grandmother of Richmond, April 5. Aunt of Parish in Shelbyville and a Benedictine oblate of Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN, Dennis, Joseph, Thomas and 16. Great-grandmother of 26. several. Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad. After 47577. † William Horan. Sister of Great-great grandmother of TESTERMAN, Sharon A., Catherine Mauer. Grandmother three. 81, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, of 39. Great-grandmother of O’CONNOR, Edgar C., 89, April 15. Mother of Denise Conventual Franciscan Brother Jeffrey 31. Sacred Heart, Indianapolis, Schreier, Ruthanne Williams, LITMER, Jeanette M., 88, April 16. Father of Eileen Phyllis, Mark and Matthew Hines served at Ohio shrine for 22 years St. Catherine of Siena, Decatur Ellis, Carol Simpson, Sharon Testerman. Sister of Roberta County, April 14. Mother of VanTilburg, Kathleen and Russell. Grandmother of seven. Conventual Franciscan Brother Jeffrey years at the province’s Our Lady of Consolation Jeff Litmer. Sister of Carol Marie O’Connor. Brother of Great-grandmother of 11. Hines, a member of the Our Lady of Shrine in Carey, Ohio, giving pastoral care to the Ann Litmer. Grandmother of Harlan and Richard O’Connor. WILSON, Charles D., 66, Consolation Province based in Mount thousands of pilgrims that came there annually. two. Grandfather of five. Great- St. Bartholomew, Columbus, St. Francis, died on April 11 in Bloomington, He also ministered as director of Franciscan LUNG, Donald J., 93, grandfather of seven. April 18. Husband of Luann Minn. He was 81. Retreats and Spirituality Center in Prior Lake, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd POWERS, Hayden M., 19, Wilson. Father of Elizabeth Because of the coronavirus pandemic, a Minn., and in the education and formation of County, April 6. Husband St. Mary, Greensburg, April 15. Beers, Jonathon and Nicholas memorial Mass for Brother Jeffrey will be friars in their first years in religious life. of Vivian Lung. Father of Son of Chastity Powers and Wilson. Brother of James and celebrated at a later date. Burial will follow at Brother Jeffrey’s love for the Our Lady of Roxanne Banet, Mary Anne David Heath. Grandson of John Wilson. Grandfather of Lynch, Daniel, Donald and Angela Miller. three. the friars’ cemetery. Consolation Shrine continues on in a history of Randall Lung. Grandfather of REDELMAN, Dorothy, 94, YOUNG, Rita Mae, 99, Richard Joseph Hines was born on the shrine which he wrote, and in a prayer book six. Great-grandfather of six. June 24, 1938, to Charles and Marie Hines for pilgrims to the shrine. St. Mary, Greensburg, April 10. St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, in Minneapolis. He entered the Conventual He is survived by his brothers, Jerry and MARSHALL, Anna Marie Mother of Linda Blake, Mary April 7. Mother of Barbara (Braun), 98, Nativity of Jane Bedel, Diana Deiwert, Temple, Mary Jo Withered, Franciscans when he was 20, professed simple Tom Hines. Our Lord Jesus Christ, Rita Gutman and Karen Stier. James, Jay and Jerry Young. vows on July 14, 1962, and solemn vows on Memorial gifts may be made to the Indianapolis, April 16. Mother Sister of Robert Schoettmer. Sister of Jack Lemm. July 26, 1965. Province of Our Lady of Consolation, Mission of Theresa Keenan. Sister of Grandmother of 10. Great- Grandmother of nine. Great- Marked by a great devotion to the Blessed Advancement Office, 103 St. Francis Blvd., Celestia Bergfeld, Delephine grandmother of 17. grandmother of nine. † Virgin Mary, Brother Jeffrey served for 22 Mount St. Francis, IN, 47146. † The Criterion Friday, June 26, 2020 Page 15 Retired pope returns to Vatican after visiting his brother in Germany VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Retired Pope Benedict XVI returned to the Vatican on June 22, five days after flying to Germany to spend time with his ailing, 96-year-old brother. During his last morning in Regensburg, the 93-year-old retired pope visited his brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, one last time before being driven to the airport in Munich. Msgr. Ratzinger was director of the renowned Regensburg boys’ choir from 1964 to 1994, when he retired. Markus Soder, minister-president of Bavaria, was at the airport to say farewell to the retired pope, who was flown to Germany on June 18 aboard an Italian Air Force jet. Soder tweeted two photographs and said saying farewell was emotional. “We are very proud of our Bavarian pope.” In addition to celebrating Mass each day with his older brother and visiting him every morning and each evening, Pope Benedict also used his visit home as an opportunity to pray at the graveside of his father, mother and sister, Maria, who had run his household in Rome when he was a cardinal. She died in Germany in 1991. Retired Pope Benedict XVI smiles at Germany’s Munich Airport before his departure to Rome on June 22,. Pope Benedict, who is 93, traveled to Germany Pope Benedict and Msgr. Ratzinger to see his ailing older brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who is 96. (CNS photo/Sven Hoppe, pool via Reuters) were ordained to the priesthood together in 1951 and have always been close. issued a statement asking the public to Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer of Regensburg, After praying at his family members’ While his brother was pope and even after respect his privacy and that of his brother, who accompanied him to the city and back graves on June 20, he went to the he stepped down from the papacy, who was not well. to the airport when his visit was over. Regensburg suburb of Pentling and visited Msgr. Ratzinger would come to the “It may be the last time that the two The retired pope traveled with his the house where he lived as a professor Vatican to spend Christmas and a summer brothers, Georg and Joseph Ratzinger, see personal secretary, Archbishop Georg from 1970 to 1977 and which he used for holiday with his brother. each other in this world,” the diocesan Ganswein, one of the consecrated vacations as archbishop of Munich and When the retired pope arrived in statement said. laywomen who cares for him and his Freising and as prefect of the Congregation Germany, the Diocese of Regensburg He was met at the Munich airport by household, a doctor, a nurse and the for the Doctrine of the Faith. vice commander of the Vatican gendarme He continued to own the house even corps, said Matteo Bruni, director of the after being elected pope in 2005 and spent Vatican press office. a few hours there in 2006 during a papal Special Care While in Germany, he was transported trip to Germany. In 2010, he transferred Classified Directory in his wheelchair in a specially equipped ownership of the house to the Pope van belonging to Malteser International, the Benedict XVI Institute, which runs it as a medical service of the Knights of Malta. museum and study center. †

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