‘Chuc mung nam moi’ celebrates lunar New Year Mass with Vietnamese Congregation, page 16. Serving the Church in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com February 14, 2014 Vol. LIV, No. 18 75¢ A turbulent year that strengthened Natalie Hoefer Photo by ‘I just the papacy want to (CNS)—When Benedict XVI announced, on Feb. 11, 2013, that he would become the first pope in nearly 600 years to resign, speculation was as right a varied as it was excited about the long-term consequences of his historic act. But one common line of thought held that, for better or worse, his decision might leave the papacy wrong’ a less exalted and powerful office, bringing the supreme pontiff closer to the level of other , clergy and faithful. Might the presence of two living inside the Vatican sow confusion over where governing authority actually lay, or, at least, dilute the prestige of the unique role of Vicar of Christ? Might the precedent of resignation make it easier to drive a future pope from office, thus introducing a new kind of political pressure into the leadership of the Church? The background of Pope Benedict’s Marianne Anderson smiles as she is introduced to speak at the Great Lakes Gabriel Project dinner on Feb. 6 at the Southside decision added to the sense of crisis. Although Council #3660 building in Indianapolis. Anderson worked for two-and-a-half years as a nurse at the Planned Parenthood facility at 86th St. and the 85-year-old pope said he was stepping Georgetown Road in Indianapolis, where the most abortions occur in the state. down due to deteriorating “strength of mind and body,” it was easy to believe that a year of scandal and controversy—over leaked Former local Planned Parenthood nurse correspondence documenting corruption and incompetence in the Vatican—had helped convince him he was “no longer suited to an shares her story of walking away from evil adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry.” From that assumption, it was a small (Editor’s note: Due to the graphic nature abortion center. up their conscious sedation program stretch to wonder whether the demands of portions of this article regarding The mother of two and grandmother of [which allowed clients to purchase of the 21st-century papacy—in terms of abortions and general operations at one has begun to talk about her experiences mild to moderate sedatives to be given communications, management and travel— Planned Parenthood, adults may want at the abortion facility. intravenously before an abortion]. Plus had grown too heavy for any man, especially to review its contents before sharing it Anderson, who now works as a nurse the job was very close to my house.” one as old as most popes. with children.) at Community North Hospital, shared her Q. Did you know what they were When the newly elected story at two recent events sponsored by about, what they did? stepped out on the loggia in front of By Natalie Hoefer the Great Lakes Gabriel Project, which A. “I did. And I must admit I was kind St. Peter’s Basilica on the evening of offers help and support to women in crisis of on the fence about abortion. I think a March 13, 2013, his words and gestures Marianne Anderson recently pregnancies. Many Catholics across central lot of it came from working at Wishard seemed to encourage predictions of a drove with her mother past the and southern Indiana are involved in this [Hospital], and seeing girls that had downscaled papacy. The new pontiff broke Planned Parenthood facility at 86th Street pro-life initiative. attempted abortion themselves and ended with usual practice by asking for the people’s and Georgetown Road in Indianapolis, The following are excerpts from a recent up with hysterectomies, or boyfriends blessing before he gave them his own, and the state’s largest provider of abortions. interview she had with The Criterion, beating them because they were pregnant. referred to himself simply as the “I told my mom, ‘To think that that during which Anderson revealed her My thought was, ‘Well, you need a safe of . building exists for no other reason than to experiences at the Planned Parenthood place [for an abortion]. People shouldn’t Was Pope Francis signaling his intention kill unborn babies.’ I still get a knot in my facility and the support she received from be doing it on their own. And people are to play a less commanding role than his stomach when I drive by there.” members of the Great Lakes Gabriel going to be doing it anyway, so why not predecessors, demoting himself to the The knot returns despite the fact Project in her efforts to leave. provide them a safe place to do it?’ ” status of first among episcopal equals, in a that Anderson hasn’t worked at the Q. When and why did you start Q. When did you start having move toward some sort of democratization Planned Parenthood facility since July working for Planned Parenthood? qualms or misgivings about working See PAPACY, page 9 of 2012. Prior to that, she worked for A. “I started working for for Planned Parenthood? two-and-a-half years as a nurse at the Planned Parenthood in 2010 to start See ANDERSON, page 9 Speakers stress commitment to culture of life at Great Lakes Gabriel Project fundraiser

By Natalie Hoefer Council #3660 building in Indianapolis. According to their website, Marianne Anderson was nervous as Great Lakes Gabriel Project is a she walked up to the stage and turned non-profit network of volunteers in Photo by Natalie Hoefer Photo by to face the crowd. various churches. They provide “peer It was the nurse’s first time ever counseling about abortion, and offer to speak in public, and the crowd assistance to women and families numbered more than 165 people. experiencing difficult or unplanned But she had a story she pregnancies.” needed to tell. The organization’s founder and “My name is Marianne executive director, Eileen Hartman, Anderson,” she started. “I’ve been offered emotional, spiritual and a nurse for 32 years, including even practical help to Anderson as Christine Lopez, coordinator of the Gabriel Project at two-and-a-half miserable years at the nurse sought to leave her job at SS. Francis and Clare in Greenwood, and her Planned Parenthood.” the Planned Parenthood facility at husband, Ryan, listen as Marianne Anderson shares Anderson was one of two keynote 86th Street and Georgetown Road in her experiences working for the state’s largest abortion speakers at the Great Lakes Gabriel Indianapolis, where the most abortions provider during a Great Lakes Gabriel Project dinner on Project’s fundraiser dinner held on Feb. occur in the state and where Anderson Feb. 6 in Indianapolis. 6 at the Southside Knights of Columbus See FUNDRAISER, page 8 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Pope: Sacrifice key to reaping wealth of God’s love, fighting misery

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Courageously and violations against human dignity, follow in seeking out the poor which often cause the material poverty and sinners, and in making difficult suffered by those who lack the basic rights sacrifices in order to help and heal others, to food, water, work, development and Pope Francis said. “equal access to education and health

Christians are called to confront the care,” he said. Shemitz CNS photo/Gregory A. material, spiritual and moral destitution Sometimes the unjust social conditions of “our brothers and sisters, to touch it, to that rob people of their dignity lead to make it our own and to take practical steps moral destitution—a kind of “impending to alleviate it,” the pope said in his first suicide,” he said. message for Lent, which begins on March 5 Think of how much pain is caused for -rite Catholics. by people, especially the young, when Saving the world will not come about they turn to alcohol, drugs, gambling, “with the right kind of human resources” pornography or other vices because they and token alms, but only “through the “no longer see meaning in life or prospects poverty of Christ,” who emptied himself of for the future,” he said. “How many have the worldly and made the world rich with lost hope!” God’s love and mercy, he said. “By loving and serving the poor, we Released by the Vatican on Feb. 4, the love and serve Christ,” he said, but such text of the pope’s message focused on the service also entails conversion. theme of Christ’s poverty, with the : “He “When power, luxury and money became poor, so that by his poverty you become idols, they take priority over the Franciscan Father Thomas Walters distributes ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. might become rich” (2 Cor 8:9). need for a fair distribution of wealth. Our Church in New York in 2013. Ash Wednesday marks the start of the penitential season of Lent, a time Pope Francis said he chose the passage to consciences thus need to be converted to of reflection, prayer, fasting and charity before Easter. This year Ash Wednesday is on March 5. explore what St. Paul’s references to poverty justice, equality, simplicity and sharing,” and charity mean for Christians today. he said. There are many forms of poverty, he said, While Lent is a time for “self-denial,” like the material destitution that disfigures don’t forget that real sacrifice and poverty the face of humanity and the moral have a “dimension of penance” and pain, Be an answer destitution of being a slave to vice and sin. he said. But “there is only one real kind of “I distrust a charity that costs nothing poverty: not living as children of God and and does not hurt,” he said. to prayers. brothers and sisters of Christ,” he said. “God did not let our salvation drop People experiencing the spiritual down from heaven, like someone who destitution of believing they don’t need God gives alms from their abundance out of a Even the smallest gifts and can make it on their own “are headed sense of altruism and piety,” the pope said. for a fall,” the pope wrote. “God alone can God operates according to “the logic make a big difference. truly save and free us.” of love, the logic of incarnation and the “The Gospel is the real antidote to cross”—to be with those who need him spiritual destitution,” he said, and the most, “to take upon himself the burden Faith Formation • Catholic Education • Vocations Priests’ Retirement • Caring for People in Need greatest treasure of all is “boundless of our sins” and to comfort, save and free confidence in God” and the desire to always people from their misery. do his will. “What gives true freedom, true All Christians are called “to proclaim salvation and true happiness is the the liberating news that forgiveness for sins compassion, tenderness and solidarity of committed is possible, that God is greater his love, Christ’s poverty, which enriches than our sinfulness, that he freely loves us,” he said. us at all times and that we were made for Cardinal Robert Sarah, president of the communion and eternal life.” Cor Unum, the office Make your online gift now. Spreading the joy of the Gospel, which handles the pope’s charitable giving, Help us reach our goal. consoling broken hearts and offering real presented the Lenten message at a Vatican hope means “following and imitating Jesus, news conference. Your gift is tax deductible and will serve the who sought out the poor and sinners,” and The cardinal said the pope’s message many needs of our Church family. by opening up “new paths of evangelization reminds people that their “bourgeois and human promotion” with courage, consciences” cannot be put to rest merely he said. by denouncing the lack of resources Imitating Christ also includes for others or denouncing the structural confronting the abuses, discrimination underpinnings of poverty. †

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What are the needs of the parishes? What do people need to be good parents When Rebecca Niemerg was hired and form good bonds with their families? by the archdiocese last summer, she was How do they teach their children about challenged with their own dignity?” File photo by Sean Gallagher File photo by many tasks. Niemerg seeks to help parishes form “One thing I was a pro-life committee if they do not commissioned to have one, and to help existing parish do was to combine pro-life committees. the offices of Pro-Life Ministries Pro-life is integrated with families and Family Life To accomplish this, she draws Ministries into greatly from material provided by the one Office of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Pro-Life and Family (USCCB). Students and teachers of Lumen Christi in Indianapolis kneel in prayer during Life,” she said. “The USCCB has a document called the the Jan. 22 Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral that commemorated the 41st anniversary of the Rebecca Niemerg She is moving ‘Pastoral Plan for Pro-Life Activities,’ ” Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton U.S. Supreme Court decisions that legalized abortion across the forward with that Niemerg explained. “They outline the country. The Church in the U.S. now observes the date as the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection mission, and not just out of obligation. four areas that parish pro-life committees of Unborn Children. The archdiocesan Office of Pro-Life and Family Life coordinates the Mass and “I think that it really makes a lot of sense, and offices of pro-life should focus on: local March for Life that follows the liturgy. if you consider that it’s within a family, pastoral care, information/education, public hopefully, that we come to know our own policy and prayer and worship. being aborted, so you’re covering prayer,” of the whole person, from conception to dignity and who God is,” said Niemerg, who “There are many things that fall she said. natural death.” serves as director of the archdiocesan Office under both pro-life and family life,” she “It’s informational and educational of Pro-Life and Family Life. explained. “For example, health care falls because, as part of the program, parishes ‘A leaven within society’ “It is in that context that we come under education and information, but it also are invited once a month to share Between the many ministries offered by to know that truth about ourselves falls under pastoral care. information on the development of the the Office of Pro-life and Family Life (see and about others. “So if you read that [document], you can unborn child. article below) and reaching out to parishes “It’s only when we know our own see that even as the bishops speak about “The ending of the program is normally in regard to these areas, Niemerg hopes to dignity that we can give ourselves fully pro-life efforts, how much it is integrated a baby shower, so you donate those items make families and the Church a “leaven in a vocation, whether that is religious into the work of families,” she said. to Birthline, a local pregnancy care center within society.” life, married life or fully given as a or the Gabriel Project. So there’s pastoral “There are times when we don’t come single person. I think that the wisdom of ‘Dignity of the whole person’ care,” she explained. to know [God’s love] in our family,” combining those two areas really flows and Niemerg also draws upon USCCB That is just one activity covering she said. “That’s when the rest of the makes sense.” material when suggesting parish one aspect of pro-life ministry. Niemerg Catholic community needs to step forward pro-life activities. emphasized the diversity in topics covered and be that fatherly figure or motherly ‘My goal now is … ’ “There are many activities that use the by packets of pro-life material distributed figure of Mary. Niemerg has spent her time in the material in the ‘respect life’ packet [the by the USCCB every year. “But the family is the fundamental archdiocese coordinating the combining USCCB] provides every year,” she said. “Domestic violence, hope and healing unit of society. The Church doesn’t work of the two offices of pro-life and family “A good beginning activity is a after an abortion, pregnancy after rape, against society—we are a part of and a life ministries. While that effort is moving spiritual adoption program. The reason religious freedom, what does our culture leaven within society. forward, she is ready to go out to the I recommend that is because it covers look like after the institution of abortion, “The family is called the domestic parishes and start talking with people. three of the four areas with one activity. end-of-life issues,” she said, rifling through Church. We need to live that faith first in “My goal now is to find out what it is “You’re inviting parishioners to the brochures in the packet. “Parish pro-life our family, so we can live it out in our that people need so that we can serve them spiritually adopt a child who is in danger of committees are concerned about the dignity Church community and out in the world.” † Events and ministries of the archdiocesan Office of Pro-life Office of Pro-Life and Family Life and Family-life The archdiocesan Office of Pro-Life and Helpers of God’s Precious Infants—Prayer Family Life recognizes that the family plays a special vigils held monthly in Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Sanctity of Life Dinner role throughout the life of each person. Participants attend Mass and provide a prayerful Sustained through prayer and worship, the office presence in front of local abortion facilities. set for March 6 seeks to provide educational, pastoral, and advocacy Local Solemn Observance of Roe v. Wade— programs that support the family and promote the Held annually at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in dignity of each human person, made in the image and Indianapolis on Jan. 22 to witness and pray for the in Indianapolis likeness of God, from the moment of conception to legal protection of the unborn. The Sanctity of Life Dinner, sponsored by the natural death, in order to build a culture of life and Natural Family Planning (NFP)—Reflects the archdiocesan Office of Pro-Life and Family Life, will civilization of love. dignity of the human person within the context of be held at Primo Banquet Hall and Conference Center, The office provides assistance and resources to marriage and family life, promotes openness to life, 2615 National Ave., in Indianapolis, at 6 p.m. on March 6. parish pro-life committees to accomplish this task and recognizes the value of the child. By respecting “The evening is really about us coming together as a through public information and education on the the love-giving and life-giving natures of marriage, Catholic community, first of all to be joyful in our own sanctity of life; pastoral care for pregnant women, NFP can enrich the bond between husband and wife. dignity and celebrate that together,” said Rebecca Niemerg, those suffering from past abortions, and for those The office promotes NFP through class listings director of the Office of Pro-Life and Family Life. who are disabled, sick, and dying; public policy throughout the year, as well as activities during “It’s also about supporting the work, ministry and mission efforts restoring legal protection to the lives of unborn Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, the third of the Office of Pro-Life and Family Life.” children and those vulnerable to pressures to end their week in July. During the event, Michael Velasco, the Knights of lives by assisted suicide; and prayer and worship Project Rachel—A compassionate and confidential Columbus’ Indiana State Council pro-life director, will be efforts asking that the culture of life may flourish. ministry, extending God’s unconditional love and honored for his work to further the pro-life cause. He is the Here are the office’s programs and events: forgiveness, to women and men who experience the first person to hold the pro-life director’s position for the Birthline—Provides assistance to pregnant tragedy of abortion. Project Rachel offers a yearly Knights’ State Council. women and mothers of infants in need. More than retreat as well as referrals to counselors and priests. “He was chosen first of all because the Knights of 1,500 mothers are served annually and are provided Respect Life Sunday—Celebrated nationally each Columbus are phenomenal in their efforts of building a material goods such as maternity clothes, baby clothes, year on the first Sunday of October to bring awareness culture of life and a civilization of love,” Niemerg said. diapers, baby shampoo and other necessary supplies. of the gift and dignity of each human life. The Mass As pro-life director for the state council, Velasco compiled Bereavement Ministry—Provides assistance is celebrated at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in a list of 16 things for councils to utilize in coming up with for those who have lost loved ones through retreats, Indianapolis for the archdiocese. ideas for pro-life activities and pro-life fundraising efforts. conferences and peer support. Substance Abuse Ministry (SAM)—Provides Also, through Velasco’s leadership, the Supreme Council of Divorced and Separated Ministry—Provides education about addictive disease, increases awareness the Knights of Columbus now has enough money to donate as assistance for those who have experienced separation of the pain in peoples’ lives, provides guidance many as seven ultrasound machines to from their spouses, through retreats and peer support. to where help can be found, and offers support, pregnancy centers. Golden Wedding Jubilee—Honors couples who acceptance, understanding and healing. Available in “When I spoke with him, telling celebrate 50 or more years of marriage. Celebrated parishes throughout the archdiocese. him we’d like to honor him,” said annually by Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin at SS. Peter Niemerg, “the first thing he said he and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Office of Pro-Life and Family Life Staff: wanted to be clear was that he would Health Ministry—Provides assistance to parishes • Rebecca Niemerg, Director be happy to receive the award on by promoting the compassionate healing power of • Elizabeth Ricke, Program Coordinator behalf of all the Knights of Columbus Jesus Christ, encouraging health and wholeness of • Jená Hartman, Birthline Coordinator within the archdiocese and every body, mind and soul for all of God’s people through • Deb Van Velse, Divorce Ministry and Bereavement council’s good work.” education and advocacy. Ministry Coordinator Tickets for the event are $50 The office provides assistance to parish nurses • Joni LeBeau, Health Ministries Coordinator per person, or $40 per student. through training, education and programming for such • Keri Carroll, Administrative Assistant Michael Velasco Registration deadline is Feb. 20. activities as CPR and AED, training for ushers and Registration is available online liturgical ministers, caregivers’ seminars, Safe Sitter (For information on any of these ministries, by logging onto www.archindy.org/prolife/, or by calling classes, senior education, and programing that contact the Office of Pro-Life and Family Life at 317-236-1521, or 800-382-9836, ext. 1521. † supports the mission of parish health ministry. 317-236-1521, or 800-382-9836, ext. 1521.) † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014

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Making Sense of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholoczyk Difficult moral decisions in

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 brain death and pregnancy Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor CNN recently profiled the case of a a ventilator in these circumstances be Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus woman named Marlise Munoz, who was considered extreme? Could such life- both pregnant and sustaining measures be considered abusive brain dead. of a corpse? These are hard questions, in Its report noted part because people can give their bodies Editorial that Munoz was over to a variety of uses after they die. Some “33 years old and donate them to science so students can open 14 weeks pregnant them up, look around inside and learn about with the couple’s anatomy. Others donate their organs to help second child when strangers who need transplants. her husband found Similarly, a mother’s corpse—no longer

CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul her unconscious useful to her—may be life-saving for her on their kitchen child. Wouldn’t a mother, carrying a child floor [on] Nov. 26. in her womb, and having expended so much Though doctors had pronounced her brain effort to foster that new life, naturally want dead and her family had said she did not to offer her child this opportunity to live, want to have machines keep her body even after her own death? alive, at John Peter Smith Hospital The medical literature documents several in Fort Worth, Texas, argued that state law cases where such a child has been delivered required them to maintain life-sustaining later by cesarean section and fared well. treatment for a pregnant patient.” Thus it can clearly be reasonable in certain The family sought a court order to have situations for medical professionals to make Munoz disconnected from the ventilator a serious effort to shuttle a pregnancy to the because she had shared that she never point of viability, for the benefit of the sole Pope Francis greets Sri Lankan dancers after a Mass for Sri Lankan pilgrims wanted to be on life support. It remained remaining patient, i.e. the child. in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 8. The pope arrived after Mass unclear, however, whether Munoz would As Munoz’s pregnancy approached 22 and greeted an estimated 12,000 Sri Lankans living in who were in have felt the same way about life support if weeks —with 23 weeks generally being attendance. she knew she were pregnant and nurturing considered “viable” for life outside the a child. womb—lawyers for the family declared As weeks on the ventilator turned that the child was “distinctly abnormal,” Building bridges instead of walls into months, Munoz began to manifest with significant deformities in the lower It’s too early to evaluate the impact practice of our Church for 2,000 years. overt signs of death: her skin texture extremities. The child was also reported to of Pope Francis on the Church or But of course, it’s not always been changed, becoming cool and rubbery like a suffer from hydrocephalus and a possible the world. He’s not even been pope emphasized the way Pope Francis mannequin’s, and her body began to smell heart defect. Some commentators even for a year! does it. of deterioration. speculated that the defects of the unborn But there’s no question that The Holy Father knows that none Maintaining a mother’s corpse on a child may have been “incompatible Pope Francis has had an impact. Ask of us lives the Christian life perfectly, ventilator requires significant effort and with life.” anyone what they think about the including the pope who describes expense, and imposes real burdens on In prenatal cases, depending on the new pope. himself first and foremost as “a sinner.” family members, who would like to be able likelihood of survival until viability, efforts Many will say, “I really like him!” All of us—regardless of who we are or to grieve their loss, and are not fully able may be made to at least offer a cesarean Some will say, “I like what he says, but what we do—need to be reminded that to do so while their loved one remains in a section and provide baptism. Often the I’m worried that he’s moving too fast.” as disciples of Jesus Christ we are called state of suspended animation—deceased, family, with the assistance of perinatal Some will express reservations or to build bridges, not walls. yet not quite ready to be buried because hospice, can hold and name their child right concerns about various aspects of his New York Cardinal Timothy she is still supporting a living child. after such a delivery, even as his or her pastoral approach. A few people may M. Dolan has offered a wonderful Munoz’s case raises challenging brief life draws to a close. This can provide say outright that they dislike Pope image for our most recent popes. He questions: Should the continued use of See PACHOLOCZYK, page 5 Francis, but the fact remains: He’s hard said that Blessed John Paul II, the not to like! philosopher, spoke to the soul (the Reflection/Sean Gallagher A recent statement by our new human spirit), Pope Emeritus Benedict Holy Father sums up the message that XVI, the teacher, spoke to the mind (our Winter weather’s redeeming quality: he’s been delivering since he became understanding of the faith), and that Bishop of Rome last March: “Christians Pope Francis, the pastor, speaks to the It gives us the chance to help others who are afraid to build bridges and heart (the way we live as Christians). prefer to build walls are not sure of their Of course, this is an I have to go back several years to find a He took me along with him in the middle faith, not sure of Jesus Christ.” oversimplification of the ministry and time when I was a fan of winter weather— of the cold, snow and wind. I recall seeing Building bridges is the work of teaching of all three popes, but it does probably back to snow drifts that rose above a porch roof evangelization, the work of going out to call attention to the unique gifts of these the age of some on a building at the farm. Our truck got the whole world to proclaim the Good three popes and the marvelous ways of my boys. But stuck in the snow. And then a tractor my News of our salvation in Jesus Christ. that we have all been blessed by their probably not the dad got out to free the truck also got stuck. Building walls is what fearful, insecure leadership and service as the successors older ones, since Thankfully, a family friend came by with a people do to protect what they have and of St. Peter, the Vicar of Christ. I was a paperboy big four-wheel drive truck to help us out. to keep others out. Pope Francis says that he “longs for at their age and Perhaps 35 years from now, my Pope Francis wants to build bridges a Church that is poor and for the poor.” delivered papers in four older boys will tell stories of how they that everyone can cross. He is especially He also said that he chose the name the snow and cold. worked as a shoveling crew. They’ve not conscious of the poor and those who Francis because the saint from Assisi As I’ve gotten only cleared our driveway and sidewalks of have been marginalized, social outcasts chose to be poor, to be a man of peace older, it’s just been snow and ice. They’ve also done the same kept on the fringes of society. and to proclaim from the mountaintops harder and harder for our neighbors who’ve needed help. Like his namesake, St. Francis of his love for all God’s creation. This for me to find any redeeming qualities to And they did this simply out of the Assisi, the Holy Father wants to open is not the easiest way to be pope—or the snow, cold temperatures and short days goodness of their hearts. They didn’t ask his arms and embrace modern-day to follow Jesus. It’s not easy to move of winter. to be paid. They simply went out at the lepers. And he wants all of us, the beyond our comfort zones, to enter by For the past six weeks, I’ve had more suggestion of my wife, Cindy, and I and Church, to do the same. the narrow gate or to take up our crosses than my fair share of winter storms to went to work. The only reward that they In his recent , and follow him. with here in central and southern Indiana. expected out of it was the hot cocoa that “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the It’s OK if we stumble and fall, But I think I’ve started to turn over a Cindy always had waiting for them when Gospel”), Pope Francis invites—and Pope Francis says. God always forgives new leaf—a phrase that leads me to think they came in from the cold. challenges—all of us to move beyond us. He gives us the grace to get back of spring—and see the good that has come Each day of our lives, we’re given our “comfort zones.” He wants us to be on our feet and continue on our pilgrim out of the challenging start to 2014. opportunities to help other people in need. warm, welcoming and forgiving when journey. It’s OK to be a sinner who At the very least, these past weeks will And much of the time we take advantage we are inclined to be stand-offish. This seeks God’s forgiveness, and who tries give my boys memories that they can share of those chances. With the help of God’s should not be surprising. and fails and tries again. well into the future. At bedtime, they ask grace, we forget our own needs and It’s the way St. Francis lived his Our Church, all of us, has been me to share stories about what it was like desires, at least for a few moments, and do life, the way he chose to model the greatly blessed by the ministry of when I was growing up. One that I have something good for another person. teaching and example of Jesus Christ. popes who can speak to our souls, our told them several times (they don’t mind These good deeds often happen in Pope Francis wants us to eat with tax minds and our hearts. We should thank stories being repeated) is my experience of the course of the ordinary days that fill collectors and sinners; he wants us to God for St. Peter’s successors, and the Blizzard of 1978. up our lives, so we can easily not take forgive the woman caught in adultery pray for them. I was 7 at the time that the historic notice of them or forget them soon after (while admonishing her to sin no more); May they inspire us to build bridges storm struck our state. My dad turned 40 we’re finished. he wants us to welcome and respect and to tear down the walls that separate right in the middle of it. His birthday cake To a certain extent, this forgetfulness is foreigners (even our enemies), and, us from each other and from our couldn’t be picked up from the bakery, a good thing. Christ calls us to shun alterior above all, not to judge others. merciful God. and his party had to be cancelled. But motives when doing good for other people: None of this is new. It’s the Gospel blizzard or no blizzard, he had to get out “When you give alms, do not let your left message. It’s been the teaching and —Daniel Conway to his parents’ farm a few miles east of hand know what your right is doing, so that Shelbyville to care for some hogs there. See GALLAGHER, page 5 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Page 5 ICC’s legislative priorities make it to halfway point By Brigid Curtis Ayer Tebbe expects there will be attempts in the Senate to restore HJR 3 to its original The Indiana Catholic Conference’s (ICC) form by adding the second sentence back ‘If all goes well, these bills will be assigned to a legislative priorities successfully reached into the resolution. committee, scheduled for a committee hearing, the halfway point in the Indiana General In order for a proposed state be passed by the committee, then get a second Assembly, also known as “crossover.” constitutional amendment to be placed on and third reading for final passage. During this Among the ICC priority bills that have a ballot, two separately elected legislatures process, almost anything can happen. A bill can be advanced to “crossover” are a measure to need to have approved it without strengthen amendment. Because of this, if the amended amended, remain the same, die or pass.’ traditional version of HJR3 is passed by the Senate, marriage, and it will not appear on this fall’s ballot but —Glenn Tebbe, executive director of the bills to improve would have to be approved again without Indiana Catholic Conference early childhood amendment by the next legislature. education A bill to give low-income families and child care safety. Legislation to clarify with young children access to an early Senate and move forward. Bill 1264 and Senate Bill 162, which insurance coverage for abortion, and a bill education voucher passed the House on A bill to clarify insurance for elective would have added unnecessary government to provide better follow-up care after an Jan. 16, receiving a bipartisan vote of abortion, House Bill 1123, passed regulation to the school voucher program, abortion also moved forward. 87-9. House Bill 1004 establishes the early the House with bipartisan support by and Senate Bill 62, a proposal to add Glenn Tebbe, executive director for the education scholarship pilot program. The an 80-14 vote. The bill, authored by more out-of-state gaming operations to ICC, who serves as the spokesman program would provide supplemental Rep. Jeffery Thompson, R-Lizton, would compete for Indiana limited charitable for the in Indiana on public funding for eligible children receiving prohibit elective abortion coverage in gaming dollars. policy matters, said, “The majority of the qualified services from certain early standard health insurance plans. The bill What happens next in the bills we have supported this year have passed education providers. The bill gives a child would make elective abortion coverage legislative process? the first chamber with bipartisan support.” or a sibling of a child who receives an available only as a separate rider for health “The process starts over again. House Joint Resolution 3 (HJR 3), early education scholarship and meets insurance policies purchased privately and Existing Senate bills will ‘crossover’ to authored by Rep. Eric Turner, R-Cicero, certain other applicable criteria access in group coverage. It now goes to the Senate the House to be considered by the House, seeks to solidify current law regarding to the Choice Scholarship program from for consideration. Tebbe expects the bill and House bills will ‘crossover’ to the marriage by placing before the state’s voters kindergarten through 12th grade. to get a hearing in the Senate and move Senate to be considered by the Senate,” in this fall’s general election a proposed The bill is co-authored by three forward in the process. Tebbe explained. amendment to Indiana’s Constitution that Indianapolis lawmakers, Rep. Bob Behning A bill to enhance follow-up care after “If all goes well, these bills will be would define marriage as exclusively and House Speaker Brian Bosma, both an abortion passed the Senate 34-14 assigned to a committee, scheduled for between one man and one woman. Republicans, and Rep. Shelli VanDenburgh, on Feb. 4. Senate Bill 292, authored by a committee hearing, be passed by the HJR 3 passed the House by a 57-40 vote a Democrat. Tebbe expects the bill to get Sen. John Waterman, R-Shelburn, provides committee, then get a second and third on Jan. 28, after being amended the previous a hearing in the Senate, but noted that the clarity to the current abortion statute reading for final passage,” he said. “During day. HJR 3 currently contains only the Senate has been less receptive of early by requiring written documentation of this process, almost anything can happen. statement that a marriage is between one childhood education legislation. admitting privileges and better notification A bill can be amended, remain the same, man and one woman. A bill to improve child care regulations of where follow-up care can be obtained die or pass.” On Jan. 27, the House voted 52-43 to for day care centers passed the House on should complications follow an abortion. The Indiana General Assembly must remove the second sentence which prohibits Jan. 28 by a 71-24 vote with bipartisan Tebbe said the fate of this bill is uncertain adjourn by March 14. any legal status “identical or substantially support. House Bill 1036, authored by due to the controversial nature of similar to that of marriage” for unmarried Rep. Kevin Mahan, R-Hartford City, abortion legislation. (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent individuals. Turner argued to keep the increases accountability and improves group When discussing some other bills that for The Criterion. For more information second sentence because it provides a sizes of children, food, health, safety and were considered by the General Assembly, about the Indiana Catholic Conference, stronger definition of marriage between sanitation standards. The specific standards Tebbe said, “The Church sometimes works log on to www.indianacc.org. To explore one man and one woman. would be determined by the Division of to defeat legislation which, if passed, could the ICC’s electronic public policy tool As this newspaper went to press, Family and Children. The bill moved to have a harmful effect.” and join the ICC legislative network, go to HJR 3 was scheduled for a hearing before the Senate for further consideration. Tebbe Tebbe explained that a few bills the ICC the ICC Web page and click “Legislative the Senate Rules Committee on Feb. 10. expects the bill to get a hearing in the was successful in halting included House Action Center.”) † Cardinal says pope wants to ‘stir things up,’ let people ask questions BALTIMORE (CNS)—U.S. Cardinal Edwin F. O’Brien his first year. because the group of eight will meet again and come up doesn’t know what will come out of the on Cardinal O’Brien, of the Equestrian Order with formal recommendations.” the Family set for October, but the former archbishop of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, was present in the Cardinal O’Brien highlighted several themes of of Baltimore believes it will room when Pope Benedict announced he was stepping Pope Francis’ young papacy, among them the importance be significant. down in 2013. The cardinal was also part of the conclave of expanding the pope’s circle of advisers, subsidiarity, “Hold onto your seats,” that elected the new pope. solidarity with the poor, evangelizing at the periphery of Cardinal O’Brien told a gathering As head of the Buenos Aires Archdiocese, the future the culture and acting as a missionary Church. of seminarians and faculty Pope Francis dealt as an outsider with the curia that helps The cardinal cited the pope’s interview with an Italian at St. Mary’s Seminary and govern the Church, Cardinal O’Brien said, an experience atheist newspaper editor, and the pope’s strong focus on University in Baltimore. “I think that helped shape how he would interact with the curia mercy as examples of his willingness to reach out to others. Pope Francis wants to stir things up when Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became pope. The pope has opened up discussions with those who feel and allow people to raise questions. “He’s seen its strengths and its weaknesses,” Cardinal alienated from the Church, Cardinal O’Brien said. I don’t think we’re going to see a O’Brien said, noting that the pope’s establishment of an The pope is modeling an example of being prepared change in doctrine, but we will see eight-member council of cardinals from around the world to go anywhere and share the faith with anyone, a change in tone, and we might see shows that the pope believes he needs advisers both within Cardinal O’Brien said. Cardinal some disciplinary modifications.” and outside the curia. Inspired by the pope’s focus on the poor, Edwin F. O’Brien Those modifications might The principal job of the council of cardinals, Cardinal O’Brien said he has become more conscious include adjustments in annulment Cardinal O’Brien said, is to “completely rewrite the central of how many times the Old and New Testaments make procedures, Cardinal O’Brien said. administration of the Catholic Church.” The cardinal references to the poor. It reminds him to question himself “I think most bishops are very concerned that they have said the curia will somehow have to relate to the new and think about what the readings mean in light of what the more say in annulments in a responsible way,” he said on council of cardinals. pope is asking people to do in reaching the poor. Jan. 27. “I think a year from now, we’ll hardly know what the Noting that Pope Francis often compares the Cardinal O’Brien’s comments were part of a structure was, there will be so many different things that Church to a mother, the cardinal said a mother never wide-ranging address that touched on the retirement of will have taken place,” Cardinal O’Brien said. “Maybe the deserts her children. Pope Benedict XVI, the election of Pope Francis and a heads of some conferences of bishops will be involved. “She’s always available to listen and always to extend look at how Pope Francis has governed the Church in I don’t know. But we will know by the end of February mercy,” he said. †

her deceased body as an incubator to “preserve the PACHOLOCZYK fetus she carried.” GALLAGHER continued from page 4 In the end, a judge in Fort Worth ordered continued from page 4 Munoz’s corpse to be disconnected from life valuable healing and closure for the family. support, even though the pregnancy had been your almsgiving may be secret. And your Father who sees in secret will Whether Munoz’s unborn child—later named successfully maintained for nearly two months and repay you” (Mt 6:3-4). Nichole by her father—had defects that were Nichole was a mere stone’s throw from viability. But as a parent, I see the good in my boys recognizing when they’ve genuinely “incompatible with life,” or whether she While it was clearly a difficult and heart- done God’s will, put aside their own desires and helped someone in would have simply been born with handicaps, is an wrenching situation for all involved, including the need. That awareness can help them build up a habit of doing good important question. Extensive prenatal testing was courts, this legal decision seemed questionable, in their lives. Indeed, this awareness can be as good for us adults as it rendered difficult by the machine-driven, ICU-bound given the uncertainty surrounding Nichole’s actual is for children. body of Munoz. medical condition and her apparent proximity to That’s why when we pray as a family before going to bed, we invite The possibility that a child might be born with being able to be delivered. the boys to give thanks to Jesus for a specific good thing that he helped handicaps, of course, should not become the them accomplish during the day. equivalent of a death sentence for the unborn, as (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. earned his Well, they’ve had plenty of chances during the first six weeks of members of the disability community are quick to doctorate in neuroscience at Yale University and 2014 to help out other people. Hopefully, they’ll continue to cooperate remind us. We should love and welcome those with did post-doctoral work at Harvard University. He with God’s grace in doing good in the months of the year that are more disabilities as much as anyone else. is a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and civilized in their climate. Public reaction to Munoz’s case ranged from serves as director of education at The National strong support and hope that her child would be Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. See (Sean Gallagher is a reporter for The Criterion, newspaper of the born, to claims that hospital officials were treating www.ncbcenter.org.) † Archdiocese of Indianapolis.) † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014

Events Calendar February 15 olgmarriageministry@ St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. Charismatic Mass, praise and Father Eric Augenstein, March 5 Our Lady of Grace gmail.com. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. worship, 7 p.m. Information: presenter, 6:30 p.m. Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Monastery, 1402 Southern February 16 Third Thursday adoration: 317-846-0705. gathering, 7:30 p.m. program. Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Ave., Beech Grove Interceding for Women Information: 812-379-9353, . Sisters Catholic Community February 22 Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, of St. Benedict, “Souper Experiencing Crisis ext. 241. of Richmond, 701 N. The Slovenian National Home, Catholic, educational, Bowl,” see artisans in action, Pregnancy, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.. “A” St., Richmond. 2717 W. 10th St., Indianapolis. March 1 charitable and social singles, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., $15 per person Information: 317-244-9002 or Charismatic prayer Simply Cabin Fever Party, St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. 50 and over, single, separated, or $25 for two includes [email protected]. group, 7 p.m. Information: 5 p.m., $5 per person, please Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. widowed or divorced. New lunch and hand crafted bowl. [email protected]. February 21 bring an appetizer, side Health Ministry presentation: members welcome. 6:30 p.m. Registration: 317-787-3287. Serving the health February 19 Northside Knights of dish or dessert to share. Information: 317-370-1189. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. Information: 317-632-0619 or needs of St. Joseph and Marian University, Ruth Calvary Cemetery, 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic [email protected]. St. Ann Parishes, luncheon, March 7 Lilly Student Center, Mausoleum Chapel, Business Exchange, Mass, reservations due no later St. Mary Church, 317 N. 3200 Cold Spring Road, 435 W. Troy Ave., Indianapolis. February 25 breakfast and program, than Feb. 23. Information: New Jersey St., Indianapolis. Indianapolis. Adult programs Monthly Memorial Northside Knights of “The Pope and Capitalism,” 317-339-6503. Young Adult Group, information meeting, Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Columbus Hall, 2100 E. presenter Peter Rusthoven, first Friday adoration, 10 a.m., reservations requested. 317-784-4439 or 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic March 1-2 partner of Barnes & Thornburg 7 p.m., dinner and social, Information: 317-955-6271 or www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Radio of Indianapolis Kokomo High School, LLP and former Associate 8 p.m. Information: [email protected]. 10th anniversary celebration, 2502 S. Berkley, Kokomo. Counsel to President Ronald February 20 dinner, $60 per person. Indiana Holy Family Catholic [email protected]. Our Lady of Peace Reagan, 6:30-8:30 a.m., $15 Our Lady of the Greenwood, Information: 317-870-8400. Conference, “Faith, Hope and Madonna Hall, 335 S. Meridian Cemetery, Mausoleum members, $21 non-members. Love—Use It or Lose It?,” March 8 St. Roch Parish, Family Life St., Greenwood. Marriage Chapel, 9001 N. Haverstick Reservations and information: February 26 admission $50 per single adult, Enrichment Ministry, Road, Indianapolis. www.catholicbusiness The Columbus Bar, $90 per married couple, $30 Center, 3603 S. Meridian St., “Celebrate Romance in Monthly Memorial exchange.org. 322 4th St., Columbus. per teen (not registered with Indianapolis. Single Seniors Marriage,” 6:30-10:30 p.m., Mass, 2 p.m. Information: on Tap, “Could you their family, $125 per family. meeting, 1 p.m., age 50 $35 per couple. Information: 317-574-8898 or St. Pius X Church, speak up, Lord?—Listening Information: 317-865-9964 or and over. Information: 317-888-2861 or www.catholiccemeteries.cc. 2100 Sarto Drive, Indianapolis. to God’s voice in your life,” holyfamilyconference.org. 317-784-4207. † Retreats and Programs Antoinette Purcell, presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., free- Saint Meinrad will host will donation. Information: 317-788-7581 or February 14-16 [email protected]. Black History Lecture on Feb. 18 Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill Drive, February 19 St. Meinrad. “Love Is Here to Stay,” Benedictine Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Greg C. Adams, an archivist at the an accomplished player of “classic Father Noël Mueller, presenter. Information: Contemplative Prayer, 3-4:30 p.m., free- Smithsonian’s Center for Folklife and banjo” from the turn of the 20th century, 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. will offering. Information: 812-933-6437 or Cultural Heritage, will deliver the annual and was grand prize winner in the February 16 [email protected]. Black History Lecture in St. Theater old-time three-finger category at the Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, February 21 at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of 2009 Charlie Poole Music Festival. 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Always Loving Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Theology in St. Meinrad, at 7 p.m. CST on Currently a contractual processing Our Children,” 4-9 p.m., light dinner, free- 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Girls’ Night Feb. 18. archivist at the Smithsonian’s Center will donation. Information: 317-545-7681 or Out: Women Helping Women, 7-10:30 p.m., Adams will discuss “The Banjo and the for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, [email protected]. $45 per person with a portion of the proceeds American Experience: Looking Behind he recently co-produced the album, going to the Julian Center. Information: the Mask of ‘America’s Instrument.’ ” “Classic Banjo from Smithsonian Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 317-788-7581 or [email protected]. He will trace the development of what Folkways.” He also serves as an Coffee Talk: Clay in the Hands of the Potter, is known as the modern banjo from its independent archival consultant for the Ron Galyen, presenter, 10:45 a.m.-noon., free- February 21-23 Mount Saint Francis Center for Spirituality, African origins through American slavery Maryland State Arts Council’s Maryland will offering. Information: 812-933-6437 or to the present time. Traditions Program. [email protected]. 101 St. Anthony Drive, Mt. St. Francis. Silent Retreat for Women. $150 covers Adams is an archivist, The lecture is free and open to the February 18 retreat, room, lunches and dinners. ethnomusicologist and musician who public. Parking is available at St. Bede Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, 7 p.m. Feb. 21-2 p.m. Feb. 23. Register has been studying the banjo for nearly Hall and in the Guest House and student 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. by Feb. 19. Information: 812-923-8817 or 20 years. He is a highly acclaimed parking lots. For more information, Information Night, Benedictine Sister [email protected]. † banjoist of 19th-century “minstrel” era call Mary Jeanne Schumacher at technique (or stroke style down-picking), 812-357-6501. † Second annual ‘Lecture and Irish Coffee Night’ set for March 13 at Cardinal Ritter birthplace in New Albany Right to Life of Indianapolis The second annual “Lecture and Irish Coffee Night” will be offers pro-life apologetics training held at the Cardinal Ritter House, 1218 Oak St. in New Albany, at 7 p.m. on March 13. Right to Life of Indianapolis will be High School, 5225 E. 56th St. in Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, who serves as offering two “Pro-Life Apologetics 101” Indianapolis, from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. on president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, will workshops in Indianapolis. March 1. The cost is $5, which includes speak about the work of the bishops’ conference, reflect The first offering is geared toward materials. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m. on the papacy of Pope Francis and address the role of college-aged individuals, young adults The workshops will be led by ecumenism in the Church as a reflection of the work of the late and adults. It will be held in the library Michael Spencer, Midwest director of Cardinal Joseph E. Ritter. auditorium at Marian University, training for the Life Training Institute. Attendees of the event, hosted by The Cardinal Ritter 3200 Cold Spring Road in Indianapolis, The workshops will equip participants Birthplace Foundation, may also visit the new Cardinal Ritter from 7-9 p.m. on Feb. 28. There is no cost, to engage in the battle for life by Archbishop Museum. but a $5 booklet is available. Registration teaching apologetics and providing Joseph E. Kurtz The event is free and open to the public. Reservations are begins at 6:30 p.m. the tools needed to educate others and requested by March 7. The second offering is geared toward change the culture. To make a reservation, call Indiana Landmarks at high school students. It will be held in For more information, contact 812-284-4534. † the Student Life Center at Cathedral [email protected], or call 317-582-1526. † Fieldhouse Submitted photos hoops

Oldenburg Academy’s girls’ and boys’ varsity basketball teams pose after playing at Banker’s Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis on Jan. 18. The girls played a rescheduled game against Milan High School, and the boys played International High School. Both Oldenburg teams won their respective games. The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Page 7 Boy’s heroism spurs players’ trip to New York for his funeral

MANITOWOC, Wis. (CNS)—For newspaper of the Diocese of Green Bay. the first 20 minutes of their 12 ½ hour “I thought, ‘We have to do something. bus ride from upstate New York back to This boy’s a hero—a hero in every sense Manitowoc, head coach Phil Budervic and of the word.’ ” five members of the Silver Lake College of Budervic contacted the local fire the Holy Family men’s basketball team sat department in New York, which in turn silent. spoke with Tyler’s family. The family It was a time for reflection, considering was so moved by the team’s offer to what they’d just been part of. help that they invited the coach and “And then that’s when I asked them, players to attend. ‘How did it make you feel to put a smile Several members of the Lakers for a few minutes on the faces of a family basketball team volunteered to be going through the worst day of their pallbearers, but Budervic had to whittle CNS photo/Annette Lein, courtesy and Chronicle Media Group Democrat lives?’ ” Budervic said. “One of the players them down to five. said, ‘It was the best feeling in the world The players who traveled nearly to do that.’ That’s when I knew we had 1,600 miles round trip to pay their respects done the absolute right thing to go. We to Tyler and show support for his family helped a family and paid our respects to a and friends were Chris Jones, Austin Allen- true hero.” Walker, Darius Barnes and Aaron Davis. It was only one day earlier, on Jan. 28, One player wished to remain unnamed. that the Silver Lake College contingent Budervic said he and his players met boarded a bus and traveled close to privately with Tyler’s mother, father Rochester, N.Y., to honor 9-year-old Tyler and stepfather shortly before the funeral Doohan, a boy none of them knew but at St. John of Rochester Church in whose heroism touched people’s hearts Fairport, N.Y. around the world. “They personally thanked us for On Jan. 20, the fourth-grader was coming,” Budervic said. “That was really Members of the Silver Lake College of the Holy Family men’s basketball team in Manitowoc, Wis., carry sleeping over with several other people at a surreal moment for me and the players. the coffin of Stephen D. Smith after the Jan. 29 funeral Mass for Smith, Tyler Doohan and Lewis J. Beach his grandfather’s trailer home in Penfield, a I think that was when it really hit us. at St. John’s of Rochester Catholic Church in Fairport, N.Y. The players traveled 12 ½ hours from suburb of Rochester, when a fire broke out She [Tyler’s mother, Crystal Vrooman] Manitowoc to be pallbearers after hearing how Tyler, age 9, died saving six relatives from a fire that at about 4:45 a.m. gave each of us a hug. It was just a very destroyed his grandfather’s upstate New York home. Beach and Smith also died in the fire. Tyler went through the trailer and emotional moment. helped save six people, including “People really appreciated that we and the players serving as pallbearers help, we will help them,” he said. “With two children. He went back in to try to save came to show our support, and we were at the funeral. our program, it’s first and foremost two remaining relatives—one of whom happy to help in any way we could,” Budervic said he wishes all the things about life lessons—our core values are had lost a leg because of diabetes and used Budervic added. people do to help others could receive as compassion and community; basketball a wheelchair—but none of the three came The coach said he was extremely proud much attention, especially efforts by those comes second.” out alive. of his players. in the Silver Lake College community, At the end of the day, though, Budervic Budervic was looking at his computer “You really get to see what genuine, whether it be the school’s president, Chris said, the team’s New York trip was all screen when news about the tragedy classy individuals they are,” he said. Domes; faculty, staff and students; or the about Tyler. flashed on the screen. “Some of the best kids in the world are in Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, the “He’s the hero here,” Budervic said. “I saw the face of that boy and read our program.” order that sponsors the school. “He’s the one we all should try to be like in about what he did, and it just moved me Among the digital images transmitted “Helping others is what we do at our lives—doing whatever you can to help to tears,” Budervic told The Compass, around the world was one of Budervic Silver Lake College. If someone needs others. He’s just an absolute hero.” † What was in the news on Feb. 14, 1964? Comprehensive civil rights bill up for a Senate vote, and The Beatles invading America viewed as a passing fad By Brandon A. Evans been endorsed by many religious organizations and do for us what 1776 did not. They may free us, at long spokesmen.” last, from that lingering twinge of inferiority toward things This week, we continue to examine what was going on • Aid needy, pope urges children British—the spurious ‘U’ accent, the faint awe of royalty, in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through • Rev. Thomas G. Fields dies at the age of 58 the snob appeal of the imported Mayfair secretary in the the pages of The Criterion. • Limited aid to schools supported Indianapolis law office. Britannia today rules the waves of Here are some of the items found in the Feb. 14, 1964, • Pope and exchange greetings teenage goofiness. Welcome to the colonies, Beatles.” issue of The Criterion: • Propagation of the Faith drive opens • Question Box: Why is the Church against • Civil Rights measure up for Senate action • Liturgical Day set at Providence High ‘the pill’? “WASHINGTON—The House of Representatives • Lenten Forum scheduled at Chatard High School • Two council bodies meet presented the nation with an early Lincoln’s birthday • Prelatial robes to be conferred on February 20th • Pope praises ideal of a united Europe gift—passage of the biggest civil rights bill in history by • Interview with Bishop Wright: The role of the • Science colloquium at Woods to deal with evolution an overwhelming vote of 290-130. The comprehensive • New Albany’s Catholic library moves to new • Lecture series set on Vatican Council measure, designed to quarters • Set investiture of parish Scouts obtain equal treatment for • Bishops veto plan for Catholic party • Writing to be topic at Brebeuf meeting all Americans in voting, • Editorial: The Beatles • Woods observes Brotherhood Month jobs, education, public “Fret not, parents. Despite 17 press agents in the • Faculty-student ‘dialogue’ slated at the Woods accommodations, and federally entourage of the Beatles, the yeh-yeh-yeh too will • Parents blamed for marriage rise among teenagers assisted programs, now goes pass. A nation that survived the marathon dance craze, • Much can be done now in lay participation to the Senate. It faces a hard fight there, including the Bonnie Baker, Ish Kabibble, two Sinatras and one • ND to honor astronaut likelihood of a southern filibuster. The Senate is not Elvis Presley is durable. Given haircuts, the loose-jointed • Unity body to study schema expected to begin debate on the bill before the end emissaries from Liverpool would look just like nice kids of February. The bill bars discrimination on grounds next door, which they probably are at heart. Dwell, then, (Read all of these stories from our Feb. 14, 1964, issue by of religion and national origin as well as race. It has on the loftier thought that these animated dust mops may logging on to our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014

“I’d see these girls come in with FUNDRAISER sweatshirts from Catholic schools, continued from page 1 Christian schools, everywhere under the sun. worked as a nurse from early 2010 through “The cycle just has to be broken,” Natalie Hoefer Photo by July of 2012. she said. “In 18 months I did over 1,000 IVs The secretary of the Indiana Knights [for sedation], and only about half [of the of Columbus, Steve Cunningham, who women receiving an abortion] got IVs in spoke first during the event, shared with that time,” Anderson said. the crowd one story in which the cycle of Among the experiences she shared (see abortion was broken. related story that begins at the top of page He spoke of a young woman attending 1), Anderson described what happened to Indiana State University in Terre Haute the babies aborted at the abortion center. who became pregnant. “The doctor would come into the POC Her parents helped her choose life, and [products of conception] room with the she gave her baby boy up for adoption. dirty instruments in one hand and a jar in “That was 44 years ago,” said the other,” she said. Cunningham. “And I am that baby boy. “In that jar was the products of “I stand before you now as the state conception. He would take the contents secretary of the Indiana Knights of of that jar, pour it into a big strainer, sift Columbus, as a Catholic gentleman, through it to make sure all the parts were devoted husband and loving father of Eileen Hartman, founder and executive director of Great Lakes Gabriel Project, addresses the crowd at there, and then flush it down the toilet. three, because standing out in the rain the organization’s fundraiser dinner on Feb. 6 in Indianapolis. “The first time I saw that I just and praying in front of an abortion center about threw up,” the mother of two and for even one woman can turn her away need, we try to be there for them. are available. grandmother of one admitted. from the doors of an abortion center,” said “We just want to let the mothers out “And it turns out that Ken is Anderson saw an advertisement for Cunningham. there who feel like there’s no out, to know pro-life,” Hartman added. “It turns Abby Johnson’s book, unPlanned, and The messages that speak of “civil that there’s somebody who does love out that Ken, in fact, goes to St. Jude ordered it. She contacted Johnson, whose rights” and a “war on women” are them and wants to be there for them,” [Parish in Indianapolis]. book detailed her role as director of a large prevalent in society today, he said. said Lopez. “So now we have this wonderful design, Planned Parenthood facility in Texas and “Where has our message been lost? Hartman announced during the which they told us we could have ready how she left the abortion industry and What have they done with our message of evening that First Choice for Women, a in a week, and the $100,000 RV has come became a pro-life advocate. compassion and love?” he asked. service supported by the organization, down to half that price.” Through Johnson, Anderson was put Great Lakes Gabriel Project strives to made great strides recently toward With more than 165 pro-life advocates in touch with Hartman, who encouraged see that that message of compassion and preventing abortions. attending the Feb. 6 dinner, and more than the nurse in her efforts to leave love is not lost. First Choice for Women is a 250 people taking part in a similar dinner Planned Parenthood. Christina Lopez, coordinator of the pregnancy resource center offering free at the Northside Knights of Columbus Anderson now works as a nurse Gabriel Project at SS. Francis and Clare peer counseling, pregnancy tests and Council #3433 building on Feb. 11, performing outpatient services at Parish in Greenwood, attended the event, ultrasounds. The center is located just a Hartman said she hoped the RV would soon Community North Hospital, where and described the organization’s role. few blocks from the Planned Parenthood be paid for. she isn’t seeing girls and women from “What we try to do is assist moms facility where Anderson worked. Hartman was singled out by Anderson “everywhere under the sun” receive who are in crisis pregnancies,” Lopez That was the service’s only location, during the former Planned Parenthood abortions. explained. until recently. employee’s speech. “I took care of doctors getting “Maybe they just need a friend, some Seeking mobility and knowing a van “I don’t know what I would have abortions, nurses, young girls,” said spiritual, emotional or material support. would be too small to provide ultrasound done without you,” she said to Hartman Anderson. “I think the youngest was 13. We try to fill the void and, whatever they services, Hartman and a few of her from the podium. colleagues recently attended an RV show. “The worst thing I ever did in my life “We talked to this guy about what we was work at that Planned Parenthood were looking for, and he said to talk with [facility] for those two-and-a-half years,” Ken [Eckstein] of Mount Comfort RV.” she told the crowd. They did, and a design was drawn “It’s been an ongoing journey for me, ‘The worst thing I ever did in my life was up to make a workable space out of the and it still is,” said Anderson. “Talking work at that Planned Parenthood [facility] company’s smallest RV to allow room for about it is painful, but talking about it is intake and an ultrasound. healing at the same time.” for those two-and-a-half years.’ “So now we can be at more than one abortion center,” said Hartman, a member (For more information on of St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus. Great Lakes Gabriel Project, log on to —Marianne Anderson “We can go to churches. We can be there www.glgabrielproject.org. For more for women just considering what they information on First Choice for Women, want to do, get a free ultrasound, and get log on to www.glgabrielproject.org/ to know us and find out what other options 1stchoice.htm.) † ‘Unjust’ criticism won’t force Vatican to drop treaty, spokesman says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican said it the Catholic Church,” the spokesman said, adding that The recommendations, he said, demonstrated a lack of would continue to adhere to the Convention on the the committee’s suggestions reveal an “ideological understanding about how the is different from Rights of the Child and give an attentive response to vision of sexuality.” other states that signed the convention. the U.N. committee monitoring adherence to the treaty, “Certainly, while the Holy See was the object of an The Vatican, Father Lombardi said, has repeatedly despite what it views as unfair criticism and suggestions initiative and media attention that, in our view, was explained in detail to the committee and to other U.N. from the committee that would violate Church teaching. unjustly pernicious, it must be recognized that the agencies that it has direct legal jurisdiction over those The Vatican will follow the procedures foreseen by the committee itself has attracted serious and well-founded who live and work in the small territory of Vatican City treaty “with openness to criticisms criticisms” for its Feb. 5 report, Father Lombardi said. State. While it has canonical and spiritual jurisdiction that are justified, but it will do so Many Catholic commentators encouraged the Vatican to over Catholics around the world, priests and bishops are with courage and determination, withdraw its adherence to the Convention on the Rights of subject to the laws of their own nations. without timidity,” said Jesuit the Child. “Is this impossible to understand or do they not want to Father , the In 1990, the Vatican became one of the first countries understand it?” he asked. “In both cases, one has a right to Vatican spokesman. to ratify the children’s rights treaty because of the be surprised.” Father Lombardi issued a Church’s historic commitment to the good of children, Father Lombardi said the tone of the criticism and statement on Feb. 7, two days Father Lombardi said. Not recognizing all the Church the mention of specific cases, including the treatment of after the U.N. Committee on the has done for centuries through its schools, hospitals and young Irish women in the so-called Magdalen laundries Rights of the Child insisted the charitable agencies is to ignore reality. and of young men by the , seems to Vatican was not doing enough While the Vatican “will continue its commitment” to indicate the committee “gave much greater attention to to prevent clerical sexual abuse fulfilling the requirements of the treaty, he said, it cannot well-known organizations” representing victims than to Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J. of children and even suggested pretend that the committee’s observations did not present the testimony of Vatican representatives. that, for the good of children, “serious limits.” “These organizations typically do not want to the Catholic Church change its teaching on abortion, The committee “did not adequately take into account recognize how much the Holy See and the Church have contraception and homosexuality. the responses—both written and oral—given by done in recent years to recognize errors, renew norms Committee members went “beyond their competence representatives of the Holy See” before and during a and develop measures for formation and prevention,” and interfered in the doctrinal and moral positions of Jan. 16 hearing in Geneva, he said. Father Lombardi said. † Pope Francis tells Polish bishops relativistic ideas of marriage lead to divorce VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis said of the “new challenges” the Church faces in their society, that they do not feel excluded from the mercy of God, contemporary ideas of marriage as an arrangement including the “idea of liberty without limits, tolerance the fraternal love of other Christians and the Church’s defined by personal needs promote a mentality of divorce, hostile to or wary of the truth, or resentment of the solicitude for their salvation,” and help such persons keep and he called for better preparation of engaged couples as Church’s justified opposition to the prevailing relativism. the “faith and raise their children in the fullness of the well as ministry to Catholics whose marriages have failed. “Marriage today is often considered a form of Christian experience.” The pope’s remarks appeared in a message distributed emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way The pope has said Church law regarding marriage, on Feb. 7 to Polish bishops making “ad limina” visits to or modified at will,” he said. “Unfortunately, this vision divorce and separation is a topic that exemplifies a general Rome to report on the state of their dioceses. Pope Francis also influences the mentality of Christians, causing them need for mercy in the Church today, and that it will be met with the group but, as he frequently does, dispensed to resort easily to divorce or de facto separation.” a subject of discussion at this October’s extraordinary with reading out his prepared text. Pope Francis said pastors should search for ways Synod of Bishops on the “pastoral challenges of the In his message, the pope warned the bishops of some to minister to divorced and separated Catholics, “so family in the context of evangelization.” † The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Page 9 Living in remodeled monastery, retired pope is not cloistered, aides say

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—In retirement, Pope Archbishop Ganswein and the consecrated laywomen Emeritus Benedict XVI follows a daily schedule similar who assist the retired pope join him for lunch at 1:30, and via Reuters to that of any retired bishop or religious: He prays, reads, a nap always follows, he said. Pope Benedict spends the strolls, talks with people and offers them spiritual advice, afternoon dealing with his correspondence and listening the Vatican spokesman said. to music until 4 p.m., when he and the archbishop recite Although he “lives in a low-key way, without public the while walking in the garden behind the former attention, that does not mean he’s isolated or enclosed in Vatican convent where he lives. They eat dinner at 7:30,

a strict ,” Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi told and watch the evening news at 8. Romano CNS photo/ L’Osservatore . Archbishop Ganswein said Pope Benedict had told him Marking the one-year anniversary of Pope Benedict’s he was retiring long before the Feb. 11 announcement, but resignation on Feb. 11, Father Lombardi and Archbishop under the strictest secrecy. “Instinctively, I said, ‘No, Holy Georg Ganswein, the retired pope’s longtime personal Father, it’s not possible,’ but I realized immediately that secretary, spoke about the very normal daily life of a man he wasn’t communicating something he wanted to discuss, who is in the unusual position of being a retired pope. but a decision already made.” Archbishop Ganswein, who continues as Pope The archbishop said the “VatiLeaks” scandal, which Retired Pope Benedict XVI greets Pope Francis at the Mater Benedict’s personal secretary while also serving Pope saw the publication of confidential papal correspondence Ecclesiae monastery at the Vatican on Dec. 23, 2013. Francis as prefect of the , summarized and internal Vatican documents, “did not cause or even the retired pope’s day as filled “with prayer most of all, influence the resignation.” have done so since the evening Pope Francis was elected. with study, with personal correspondence and visits. “The pope did not flee a responsibility, but was “I was in the to greet the new pope “The day begins with Mass, then with the breviary, courageous” enough to realize he no longer had the and promise him obedience,” the archbishop said. followed by breakfast,” he told Famiglia Cristiana, a strength to carry out the papal ministry, he said. “Immediately, Pope Francis asked me about Pope Benedict Catholic magazine. “The morning usually is dedicated to Archbishop Ganswein also confirmed that Pope Francis and said he wanted to call him. I dialed the number and prayer and study, to the mail and to receiving guests.” and Pope Benedict speak frequently on the telephone and handed him the telephone.” †

Within the Vatican, the pope has establishment of a special commission on Even the presence of the retired PAPACY not hesitated to replace officials in key sex abuse, which he approved in December pope, living quietly in his successor’s continued from page 1 positions and launch a process leading to less than a day after hearing the proposal. shadow within the Vatican walls, has a major overhaul of the Church’s central Pope Francis has spoken of the proven not a hindrance to Pope Francis, of the Church? administration, the . importance of the Synod of Bishops, but instead a major asset. Pope Francis The prospect of a weakened papacy may While Pope Francis has stressed the but his most eloquent statement on its has told reporters that he consults with have seemed plausible in the wake of Pope importance of collegiality, or consultation role may be his apostolic exhortation his predecessor as he would with a Benedict’s announcement, but over the with his brother bishops, his institutional “Evangelii Gaudium” (“The Joy of the “wise grandfather.” subsequent year, the world has watched his application of that principle has so far Gospel”), published in November in No less importantly from the point successor assert his leadership in ways that taken the form of the Council of Cardinals, response to the October 2012 synod on of view of the faithful, the two men’s have made the office only stronger. an eight-member panel he named to advise the new evangelization. Previous popes affectionate relationship has reinforced a With his informal charisma, plain him on reform of the Vatican bureaucracy have typically based such documents sense of fundamental continuity between speaking and spontaneous style, Pope and governance of the universal Church. on a draft by synod officials, which their pontificates, despite their striking Francis quickly garnered colossal popularity, By streamlining the process through synthesized recommendations by bishops stylistic differences when it comes to whether measured by record turnouts which recommendations from bishops at the gathering. Pope Francis scrapped evangelization and celebration of the at papal events or by the intensive and reach the pope, the council has only the draft provided to him and wrote his liturgy. Such reassurance is invaluable, almost entirely favorable coverage by made it easier for him to make executive own document, in his distinctive voice and given the pope’s essential role in secular media. decisions in his own name, such as the focusing on his particular concerns. preserving Church unity. †

to avoid ‘those people’ [the sidewalk the parts. ‘Come on, little arm, I know vibrating in my pocket. It was Community ANDERSON counselors] because we need the money. you’re here! Now you stop hiding from North [Hospital] calling about the job, to continued from page 1 We were to tell them, ‘Don’t make eye me!’ It just made me sick to my stomach. say it was looking good. They called again contact with them, and don’t stop in “The sound the suction machine made the next Monday and said the job was A. “I started feeling uneasy working the driveway. If you make eye contact when it turned on still haunts me.” mine if I wanted it! I love my job now. I there when people came from [the] with them or if you stop and roll down Q. Did you ever interact with the work with wonderful, Christian people. I national [office] in New York City to your window, they’re going to try their sidewalk counselors? just love it.” teach us the conscious sedation process. darnedest to talk you out of it.’ A. “One day I was coming in, and I’d Q. How are you handling your regret It was disgusting. These two ladies had “You have to have so many [abortions] written out a note to one of the [sidewalk over working in the abortion industry? this chant they would do: ‘Abortion all a month to stay open. In our meetings counselors] that said, ‘I’ve worked here A. “I went to Abby’s retreat [through the time!’ I thought, ‘I’ve got to get out of they’d tell us, ‘If abortions are down, you for a little over two years. I’m actively And Then There Were None, a non-profit here.’ That was about six to eight months could get sent home early and not get as looking for something else. Please pray organization that Abby Johnson started after I started. many hours.’ for me. I don’t want to be here.’ All I to help former Planned Parenthood “Those women from New York acted “They would allow girls to have could do was hand it to her. She tried to workers heal]. like an abortion was a rite of passage. ultrasounds that were obviously way too give me a pamphlet, but I told her no, I “We did a lot of sharing and exercises. They were like, ‘How can you not offer far along [the legal limit for having an had to go because there are cameras that They wanted us to pick out a name every abortion to women? It’s their body. abortion in Indiana is 13 weeks and six watch the drive.” day for one of the babies whose abortions They should be able to do whatever days]. They said, ‘If they want to be seen, Q. How did you finally start talking we were a part of, and pray for that child. I they want. How can you force them to you just put them through, no problem,’ to Eileen Hartman [founder of the still do that. I can’t remember the number have a baby? Abortion should be free to just taking advantage to make money. Great Lakes Gabriel Project]? [of abortions] I came up with, but I figure anybody, anytime.’ ” “I was always getting in trouble for A. “I used to get the Focus on the it will take me several years before I get Q. How many abortions are done at talking too long to the girls, asking if they Family e-mails by James Dobson. The through the list.” the Georgetown facility per day? were sure they wanted to do this. book unPlanned by Abby [Johnson] was Q. What made you decide to start A. “In the upper 20s to low 30s, “It was absolutely miserable advertised on his website. I ordered it talking publicly about your experience? including medical abortion by pill. going in there.” immediately, right then and there. A. “The [Right to Life of Indianapolis’ Abortions are done there every Tuesday Q. What experiences stick with you? “I read it in two or three days. I ‘Celebrate Life’] dinner downtown and Friday, and then they alternate A. “One young girl came in with Googled her and sent her a message and [on Sept. 17]. I felt so much love and between Thursday and Saturday.” her mom. She was about 16. Her mom gave her my phone number, and she called acceptance in that room. I wandered Q. Were there ever any difficulties had made the appointment. That’s not me. We’ve talked several times. around there looking at how happy the with the abortion procedures? supposed to be how it works. It’s supposed “She asked if it was OK with me if she people were, how much they’re really A. “Several times, there were to only be the patient who makes the gave my name to someone locally who I trying to help other people. I thought, ‘I difficulties with abortions while I worked appointment. I checked her in, and she could talk to. So she gave my number to want to be a part of that.’ I thought I could there, where they had to call the hospital thought she was there for a prenatal Eileen, and Eileen called me. We talked all start by telling my story, then maybe later to come pick the woman up. checkup. The mom was pushing it. She the time.” I could be a sidewalk counselor. “One girl almost bled out. She blindsided her own daughter. Q. How did Eileen and the “God didn’t give us the right to take was passing clots, her blood pressure “This guy brought in a Korean girl. I sidewalk counselors help you out of another life. I don’t seek revenge. I just was dropping. had no doubt in my mind this girl was a Planned Parenthood? want to right a wrong.” “A lot of the cases we had were sex slave. This guy would not leave her A. “Eileen was the biggest help. She Q. Is there anything else you’d like from excessive bleeding or reactions to side. They could barely communicate. He was there for me to talk to her any time I to add? the sedation. wanted to make all the arrangements. wanted. She offered me services to help A. “The journey to abortion happens “When we had to call 911 for an “During the ultrasound, she told one of with my résumé and interviewing, which long before the girls show up at Planned ambulance, we were told never to say the the nurses that there were lots of girls in I did take her up on. They offered prayers Parenthood. These young girls who are word ‘abortion’ because they don’t want the house, and that the man hits them. She all the time. I got e-mails constantly that 13, 14 years old—they’re looking for love that broadcast. They knew that the calls never came back for the abortion. I always they were praying for me every day. That and acceptance. By the time they get to were recorded, and could be made public.” wondered what happened to her. One of alone was comforting. Planned Parenthood, they’ve already been Q. What was it like working there? my co-workers said, ‘You’re better off to “I never for one second felt judged through some awful stuff. A. “It was a money-grubbing, evil, very just let it go.’ or put down by anybody. I felt so much “Where do you start educating these sad, sad place to work. “These girls would start crying on the criticism from inside that building versus girls? High school? Junior high? It’s “We would get yelled at if we didn’t table, and Dr. [Michael] King [the abortion the love I felt [from those] on the outside.” getting younger and younger. answer the phone by the third ring. They doctor for whom Anderson worked] would Q. How did you end up leaving “There’s something wrong with the would tell us we’d be fired [if we didn’t] say, ‘Now you chose to be here. Sit still. I Planned Parenthood? family that this is happening, these because they needed the money. don’t have time for this.’ A. “I was fired in July 2012. I was mad single parent families, these dads in “They would remind us in our weekly “One doctor, when he was in the POC because I wanted to quit! I was planning prison. The journey to prevent this starts staff meeting that we need to tell everyone [products of conception] room, would talk on quitting just two days later. way before they get to the door of any [who called to schedule an appointment] to the aborted baby while looking for all “As I was being fired, my phone was abortion center.” † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Syrians fleeing to Jordan say Homs residents starving from lack of food

MAFRAQ, Jordan (CNS)—Syrians Nations on Feb. 6 to evacuate hundreds fleeing to neighboring Jordan from the of trapped civilians from besieged parts besieged central city of Homs said some of Homs, according to its state-run TV. people there are starving to death for lack Homs Gov. Talal Barrazi was quoted as of food. saying the evacuation would take place “People are dying of hunger, especially “very soon.” babies and young children,” said But a Dutch priest trapped in the siege CNS photo/Thaer Al Khalidiya, Reuters CNS photo/Thaer Al Khalidiya, Um Mohamed, a mother of four children, on Homs’ Old City was cautious about who fled with her family to this northern the Syrian-U.N. agreement, preferring to Jordanian town in mid-2013 after her son see if it would be upheld and whether the was hit in the chest with shrapnel from an proposed evacuation and delivery of aid exploding bomb. would take place. “There is no milk, no basics are Jesuit Father Frans van der Lugt, available,” she said, citing phone who has served in Syria since 1966, told conversations with family members stuck Catholic News Service on Feb. 6: “There in Homs. has been no food. People are hungry and “It’s almost impossible to leave Homs,” waiting for help. No injured people have said another former resident of Homs, been allowed to leave. Abu Ha’il, whose family of six made the “Families have been hoping to get out long and perilous journey to Jordan in of the siege and out of the fighting between late January. “The city is surrounded. We the two sides,” he told CNS by phone, risked our lives to get out. through an interpreter. “Government planes fly overhead, and “The wounded have not received bombs are going off. There is torture, proper treatment, so healing has been hunger. In some places there is food, but difficult. Newborns die very quickly it’s not enough or there is simply no food because of a lack of milk,” he said. “There at all,” he cited as the reasons why his have been cases of death due to hunger family decided to risk their lives leaving. and starvation.” “The international community is not Syrian Jesuit Father Ghassan Sahoui, able to deliver food or heating fuel in who visited Beirut in early February, told A boy pushes a stroller holding water and another child past destroyed buildings in the besieged area the dead of a very cold winter,” said the CNS, “The cordon around the Old City [of of Homs, Syria, on Feb. 2. Syrians fleeing to neighboring Jordan from Homs said some people there gaunt man, explaining that this has added Homs] has prevented badly needed foods are starving to death for lack of food. immeasurably to the city’s woes. and medicines from entering the area.” The U.N.’s World Food Program has Father Ghassan serves in a community alternative meal. “We are trying to help them to live been demanding access to besieged areas about half a mile from Father Frans. He Father Ghassan said his Jesuit together and to live in reconciliation,” in Syria, but with only limited success. said the loss of work due to the conflict community is trying to help Syrians by Father Ghassan said. It said that it has reached about 3 million added to hardships suffered by the Syrians. distributing some food and helping to pay The news of the proposed truce between people with food aid inside the conflict- “Stealing is taking place, sometimes rent for people in Homs. the government and rebels to provide aid to ridden country undergoing a civil war for because of hunger,” said Father Ghassan. “We receive everybody, Muslims as Homs could not come soon enough for Um almost three years. “People are hungry, and they cannot buy well as Christians. Muslims from any Sahige, a woman who fled Homs with her But the organization believes there food and heating fuel.” background, Sunni and Alawite,” he said. immediate family to Jordan late last year. are still about a million more people who For some, the little food available Broadly speaking, Sunnis are the “We’ve spoken with our families by desperately need food, and among these consists of bulgur, a kind of cereal, and Muslim community siding mainly with phone. I got the worrying news that my are the residents of Homs. some olives, and people with access are rebel troops, while the Alawites are the brother-in-law has fainted from this lack The Syrian government said it making soup of bulgur and water. The Muslim community to which Syrian of nourishment. He is so weak now that he reached an agreement with the United priest said people eat a few olives as an President Bashar Assad belongs. cannot move,” she said. †

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By Daniel S. Mulhall

The story goes like this: Following Mass one Sunday, a parishioner asks the pastor, “When did the Church start spying for the U.S. government?” The pastor, surprised by the comment, asked, “What do you mean?” The man replied, “Well, several times during Mass today you spoke about the importance of our CIA. I figured that it Shemitz, Long Island Catholic CNS photo/Gregory A. had something to do with spying.” In response, the pastor burst into laughter but managed to say, “The Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, RCIA.” Re-establishing the RCIA—also known as the catechumenate in the early days of the Church—as the official path for adults who wished to become Catholics was one of the great gifts of the . By approving this rite, the Church made new again an important practice. Since its reintroduction more than 40 years ago as the RCIA, it has changed the process of adult initiation for newcomers and become a model for all catechesis for children and adults. Its title proclaims that it is concerned with initiation, the gradual process by which one becomes a part of a group or organization. In some ways, the man confused by the concept of “our CIA” has it exactly right: Just as one country spies on another to understand it and its intentions more fully, so, too, do people seeking to enter the Catholic Church spy on all that the Church does, believes, and practices until they become one with the Church and know how to act as Catholics. Unlike spying, however, there is no intent to deceive or mislead. A priest baptizes a catechumen at St. Jude Church in Mastic Beach, N.Y. The bishops at the Second Vatican Council paved the way for the The purpose of the catechumenate is to form the renewal of the ancient way of receiving adults into the Church, which is now called the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. attitudes, beliefs, practices and values of seekers so that they become part of the fabric of the Catholic faithful. their experience into Catholics. There are some adults who have been part of different They learn Catholic attitudes about God and neighbor, That is why the period known as the catechumenate can Christian communities, but now wish to enter the Catholic about prayer and sacraments. They learn what the Church last for months or in some cases even years: Such a transition Church. They go through a similar process of formation believes, and they make these beliefs their own through takes however long it takes for conversion to occur. so that they, too, learn the attitudes, beliefs, practices and daily living, gradually, little by little. When this is achieved, the RCIA leads them fully into the values of the Church. They learn to dip their fingers into holy water and make Catholic Church with a series of public rituals that include However, they are not baptized once again—if they the sign of the cross when they enter a Catholic church, the celebration of baptism, confirmation and Eucharist at the were already validly baptized Christians. Conditional and why Catholics make this sacramental gesture. They Easter Vigil. baptism is permissible if no record of a valid baptism can also learn to light candles when they pray. They learn why It is important to remember, however, that these be found. While the rite differs for the baptized, the focus Catholics value life from conception until natural death, and sacraments don’t in and of themselves initiate a would-be remains on initiation, preparing these seekers to live fully, why Catholics support the sanctity of marriage. Catholic. Rather, their celebration signifies and culminates consciously and actively as Catholics. The RCIA, then, is much more than a classroom course the initiation that has taken place in people’s lives “Our CIA” continues following the Easter Vigil of study, as important as learning the content of faith is during the process. sacraments with a brief period called “mystagogy.” for newcomers and Catholics of all ages. In some ways, Thus, in baptism, when the catechumens have water During this period, the new member of the Church the RCIA is similar to what takes place when someone poured over them or are plunged under water in baptism, explores the mysteries of the faith. joins the military. they willingly “die” to their old ways of living in order While this final period of the RCIA lasts about a month, Over the course of a number of intense weeks of training, to be raised by Christ Jesus and into a new way of life. it serves as a sign of what lies ahead. Our growth in faith the recruit learns how to live as a member of the military. They are then anointed with oil through the sacrament of begins with the sacraments of initiation, but continues One doesn’t just learn about the Army or the Marines; one confirmation to strengthen them for what lies ahead. Then, throughout life. becomes a soldier or a leatherneck. A similar transition they are nourished by the bread of life, the Eucharist, to show takes place during the catechumenate. Seekers don’t simply that they are part of the body of Christ and united with the (Daniel S. Mulhall is a freelance writer and a catechist for learn about the Catholic Church; they are transformed by Catholic Church. adults. He lives in Laurel, Md.) † Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults is a blessing for all the faithful By Fr. Eugene Hemrick feelings from those they helped. world for the first time. As a child is captivated with One way to envision what we know as the RCIA is to the newness of something that he or she is experiencing Working with those wanting to become Catholic and see it as an exciting journey. It’s not just a classroom, for the first time, so, too, those experiencing the faith those leading them along the path has been one of the but a community on an adventure exploring God’s life. for the first time feel something wonderful. Christ takes most rewarding experiences of my life. No doubt Sts. Paul and Peter felt this in their journeys on new meaning, as do the sacraments, the graces they As a priest, I have seen the exuberance of those when proclaiming the Gospel of Christ. Remember, the let flow into our lives and our Church’s mission. working with what we know as the Rite of Christian RCIA is based on what the early Christians did when But they’re not the only ones who benefit. Initiation of Adults (RCIA), and I’ve seen the grateful initiating unbaptized adults into Christianity. Teachers also see ideas in new and exciting ways The Gospel of Matthew tells us to “make disciples and embrace them. To teach in the RCIA, one must of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, enter fully into the matter he or she is presenting and and of the Son, and of the ,” and to teach become one with it. This in turn draws teachers deeper “them to observe all that I have commanded you” into the understanding of God and the gift that comes Tennessee Register Tennessee (Mt 28:19-20). with being part of the Church. And that’s what a lot of RCIA catechists take on, but In a world that sometimes seems full of wars, remember that it is not a journey for one person but for corruption and injustice, seeing it through the new eyes

CNS photo/Andy Telli, CNS Telli, photo/Andy an entire community. Yes, those wishing to become of faith, hope and love that our teachings contain gives Catholics are the focus, but in the process of teaching the power to conquer disillusionment. them about Catholic values, history and faith, others As adults study our faith for the first time, I often learn from them, too. wonder about the thoughts that go through their minds It is easy to hear the Gospels and take them for and the comfort the Church’s teachings give them. granted. We see one or two lessons in them. However, As a Church, we are blessed with the new members when we teach the Gospels to others—sometimes we inherit. Our parish life also is blessed as the Holy Those preparing to enter the Church through the Rite of those reading them for the first time—it prompts us to Spirit creates a celebration for all. Christian Initiation of Adults participate in the annual Rite explore their numerous dimensions. of Election and the Call to Continuing Conversion at the For some, they see working with these adults like (Father Eugene Hemrick is an author and columnist Cathedral of the Incarnation in Nashville, Tenn. working with a child who sees something unique in the for Catholic News Service.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Old Testament: The story of Jacob and Rachel Christina Capecchi Come in from (Sixth in a series of columns) blind old man. He wanted to pass on his Laban, though, had an older daughter, birthright to Esau, his older son, and told Leah. During the wedding ceremony, the the cold: Finding Chapters 27-29 of Genesis tell us him that he would do so after Esau caught bride was veiled. That night, the couple the great love story between Jacob and some game and made an appetizing dish consummated their marriage in the dark. mercy in the city Rachel, but it begins for him. The next day, Jacob discovered that he had It’s 15 below zero with a wind chill of with dishonesty and Rebekah overheard the conversation. been tricked and that he had married Leah. minus 39 when I arrive at the cathedral trickery. When reading She got some of Esau’s clothing and fixed Laban simply explained that it was not tonight. The holy water it, we must remember Jacob up so that he felt hairy, as Esau was. the custom in that country to marry off is partly frozen. that the story is meant She prepared a dish she knew Isaac liked, a younger daughter before an older one. Perched atop to show how God’s and Jacob took it to his father before Esau However, he then proposed that Jacob Summit Hill in St. Paul, promise to Abraham returned. Isaac gave his blessing to Jacob, marry Rachel, too, in return for another Minn., the Cathedral and Isaac continued making him his heir and master over Esau. seven years of work for Laban. Jacob of St. Paul is the through Jacob. When Esau learned of the trick, he agreed, and thus he was married to both mother Church of the It’s not a pious resolved to kill Jacob. Rebekah saved Leah and Rachel. Archdiocese of St. Paul biography of a saint, Jacob by convincing Isaac to send It happened that Leah was quite fertile, and Minneapolis, a but rather a saga about Israel’s ancestors. Jacob off to his uncle Laban back in but Rachel was not. Leah began having Vatican-appointed The ancient readers would see Jacob as Mesopotamia, where Isaac and Rebekah children while Rachel remained barren. national shrine of the clever and wise. had met. There, Jacob met Rachel, Laban’s So Rachel gave her maidservant to Jacob, Apostle Paul and a towering presence in the There are also some sexual practices daughter, who ran off quickly to tell and the maidservant had a son. Then Leah capital city. in this story that we definitely would not Laban that Rebekah’s son arrived. Laban ceased to bear children, and she, too, gave And tonight, the first Monday of January, approve of today. immediately took Jacob in. her maidservant to Jacob, and she, too, had it is a refuge for 18 homeless people who will Esau and Jacob were the twin sons of Rachel was “well formed and beautiful” a son. sleep on cots in the basement choir room. Isaac and Rebekah, but Esau was the older (Gen 29:17), and Jacob fell in love with But then Leah became fertile again When I join them, they are snacking one. When they grew up, Isaac preferred her. He told Laban that he would work and bore two more sons, plus a daughter, on yogurt parfait, chicken salad and Esau because he was a skilled hunter, but for him for seven years if he could have Dinah. Finally, Rachel had two sons, Ritz crackers, quietly visiting as a Rebekah liked Jacob better. Rachel in marriage. Laban agreed, and Joseph and Benjamin. Thus Jacob had curly-haired toddler scoots around. Toy Story The trickery began when Isaac was a Jacob worked for him for seven years. 12 sons and a daughter by four women. † plays on a corner TV, and a teenaged mom feeds her 10-month-old daughter, whose Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes eyelashes are speckled with yogurt. I strike up a conversation with a woman Romantic love’s the goal, but, remember, nobody’s perfect wearing a pink hooded sweatshirt and holding a 2-year-old named Lucy. She Lovers celebrate love every day of the often share information in social situations her family’s annual camping trips. The tells me two things: First, she’s afraid her year, but on Valentine’s Day it becomes merely with a raised eyebrow or the tiny first night at the campsite she’d yell, cry, daughter has a high fever, and second, she is official. Of course, smile at the corner of the lip. stamp her feet and throw things. The Catholic. Her daughter was named after the love includes love of Romantic love continues throughout a husband and kids would stay far away, woman’s late grandmother, Lucille Anna, a God, love of beauty lifetime together, although the nature of it setting up the tent and ignoring her. devout, rosary-praying Catholic. Being in the or love of friends, changes. From early passionate attraction, Nothing was ever said. cathedral, she says, feels like a homecoming. children and parents. it develops into steady devotion and finally On the other hand, her husband The 12-year-old sitting at my right seems But on this particular comfortable unity. Of course, there are ups was not famous for his social instincts. equally comfortable in the gold-leafed day, we celebrate and downs all along, crises and triumphs, When company came, if he got bored church. “I love it,” he tells me. romantic love. anguishing moments and tenderness. he’d pick up a book and read while the When I ask his name, he warms at the For most of Sacramental grace carries a marriage conversation flowed around him. Again, question. “Everyone wants to know my us, romantic love through all of these, good or bad. One of my nothing was said. name. I’m making a whole bunch of friends.” culminates in marriage. friends was married to a wonderful man who Couples may argue once in a while, I am reminded of a century-old quote It’s a sacramental union, meaning that it is developed multiple sclerosis while still fairly slam doors and then make up. They may from Archbishop John Ireland, who dreamed life-giving in the same way that God, who young. They had small children and limited communicate or not, find each other funny of a cathedral on a hill and commissioned is love, gives life to us. Without the benefit income, but they depended upon God’s love or not, share interests or just accommodate its building: “There should be no one who, of sacramental grace, I believe it’s only a to carry them along. My friend nursed her each other cheerfully. Some couples argue entering the cathedral, is not able to say, ‘It use arrangement. husband, and they continued to enjoy each as part of their usual communication, and is mine.’ ” Recently, an old friend called to say other’s company until he died. To this day, some talk out everything from politics to Tonight it belongs to this bright-eyed boy, hello. He and one of my friends from he is in her words as he is in her heart. children problems. But in the end, they get Charles, who squirts a mound of whip cream kindergarten had been married for many Some couples share the joys and pains of along. on his yogurt parfait, gobbles up a second years when she died. Although time raising children, and sometimes handicapped In the movie, Some Like it Hot, the one and does a victory dance when he beats has modified his grief, he said he’s still children. But some, who don’t have children rich playboy portrayed by comedian Joe me in ping pong. Archbishop Ireland would surprised at how they had become like one for whatever reason, have shared their E. Brown, wants to marry a pretty show be pleased. person over time. He’s not a religious man, maternal and paternal gifts with relatives and girl. But when the “girl” reveals “herself” “We want to be responsive,” Father John but he understands the scriptural phrase that friends who can use the help. Others have to be Jack Lemmon and thus can’t marry Ubel, of the cathedral, says when I in a marriage “two shall become one.” weathered obstacles we might envy: honest him, Brown smilingly replies, “Well, ask about Project Home, the local interfaith This phenomenon is something that I’ve accumulations of wealth, or necessary nobody’s perfect.” He sure had that right. † program that houses families like Charles’ noticed in long-married couples, including changes of location for work. who are on a waiting list for a more my grandparents, friends, and my husband Loving couples learn to accommodate (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the permanent shelter. “It’s one thing to preach and me. In such marriages, husbands and each other’s foibles. I know a wife who Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular the Gospel, but we also have to live it.” wives finish each others’ sentences, and always became frazzled preparing for columnist for The Criterion.) † That’s the message behind Kerry Weber’s new book published by Loyola Press, Mercy Looking Around/Fr. William Byron, S.J. in the City: How to Feed the Hungry, Give Drink to the Thirsty, Visit the Imprisoned, Our need for reasoned argument where critical issues are concerned and Keep Your Day Job. In it, Kerry, the 31-year-old managing editor of the Jesuit “Barbarism,” wrote the great Jesuit argument is the schools, especially those and international communities if only magazine America, chronicles her attempt intellectual Father John Courtney at the higher level that promote and protect interacting minds, locked in reasoned to practice all the corporal Murray more than the liberal arts. argument, can succeed in delivering while maintaining her regular life. 50 years ago, “is the Families as well as elementary well-reasoned conclusions. “It’s not always easy, and sometimes it lack of reasonable and secondary schools have much to In the book, We Hold These Truths, involves sacrifice,” she tells me. “It’s being conversation according contribute to the cultivation of reasonable Father Murray asked: “If then society is willing to give up some of those small things, to reasonable laws.” conversation, but that won’t happen unless civil when it is formed by men locked in not saying, ‘I’ll never watch TV again,’ but I often think of that we listen and speak to one another in some argument, the question rises, what is the realizing there’s a good kind of tired and a as I observe gridlock orderly fashion. argument about?” bad kind of tired. The good kind is when you in the U.S. Congress We need reasonable conversation within In response, he offers three major go to bed thinking you’ve done something to today, and the absence the context of reasonable laws, of course, themes: The argument is about those help build the kingdom of God. The bad kind of reasoned argument but unless gridlock, prejudice and ignorance things that are for the advantage of the is when you’re thinking, ‘Ooh, I should’ve in so many other yield to reasoned argument, progress on the public; the argument concerns the affairs stopped binge-watching “House of Cards” areas of contemporary life. I hesitate to legislative front simply will not happen. that are, at least in part, beyond the two hours ago.’” call what I observe barbaric, but it does Where is reason when we need it? It is scope of government, matters that bear Kerry was inspired by the wide-ranging give me pause. locked in closed minds that need to begin upon the quality of common life; and the interview of Pope Francis published in Father Murray was fond of quoting thinking in an orderly fashion. Leadership argument is about consensus, arrived at America last September, especially his Dominican philosopher and theologian is needed on many fronts in order to release by the people, that reflects its “sense of creation of the gerund “misericordiando”— Father Thomas Gilby’s observation the results of orderly thinking. purpose as a collectivity organized for “mercy-ing”—a word she added to her that “civilization is formed by men [he Elected officials must let us hear it in action in history.” Twitter biography. would surely include women today] their spoken remarks. Editors have to help The absence of consensus on so Mercy-ing, she says, begins by being locked together in argument. From this us see it in print. Religious leaders have many critical issues today in America present, by looking for little ways you can dialogue, the community becomes a to preach it in word and action. Educators is a measure of how far we have to go dignify a stranger or lend a hand. It begins political community.” need to deliver it in new and more effective in becoming the civilization we blithely by following the lead of a Church that The absence of true political community formats. Business leaders have to live it believe ourselves to be. opens its doors and rolls out the cots on the in our cities, states and nation, not to every day. Scientists and engineers have to coldest nights. mention the wider world, is beyond discover it and put it in place in support of (Jesuit Father Byron is university regrettable. The only remedy capable of human progress. professor of business and society at (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer meeting this need is reasoned argument, Modern telecommunications could St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia. from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. She can be and the best place for cultivating reasoned serve to inform local, regional, national E-mail him at [email protected].) † reached at www.ReadChristina.com.) † The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014 Page 13

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Sunday Readings Monday, February 17 Friday, February 21 The Seven Holy Founders of St. Peter Damian, bishop and Sunday, February 16, 2014 the Servite Order • Sirach 15:15-20 familiar to every Christian as they were James 1:1-11 James 2:14-24, 26 • 1 Corinthians 2:6-10 familiar to the Jews who heard Jesus, the Psalm 119:67-68, 71-72, 75-76 Psalm 112:1-6 • Matthew 5:17-37 Lord expounds on the meaning of several Mark 8:11-13 Mark 8:34-9:1 of these rules for life given by God to The Book of Sirach, the source of Moses on Sinai. this weekend’s first reading, is part of a This process reveals two important Tuesday, February 18 Saturday, February 22 collection of biblical writings that in their factors. The first is that God’s law is James 1:12-18 The Chair of St. Peter the very origin teach an permanent and unchanging. This is Psalm 94:12-15, 18-19 Apostle important lesson. logical. It touches very basic instincts and As various fortunes, conditions among humans, all attached Mark 8:14-21 1 Peter 5:1-4 political, economic and deeply and intrinsically to human nature Psalm 23:1-6 individual, changed and itself, and as such it is not open to Wednesday, February 19 Matthew 16:13-19 reversed among God’s qualifications or to changes that humans James 1:19-27 people in the decades might wish to make. after the Babylonian Secondly, here the Lord speaks with Psalm 15:2-5 Sunday, February 23 Captivity, and as new authority. He defines and explains the law Mark 8:22-26 Seventh Sunday in alien empires seized of Moses. Jews did not regard the law Ordinary Time the Holy Land, Jews of Moses as merely a set of principles Thursday, February 20 emigrated from the homeland of their composed by Moses. Rather, Moses was Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 ancestors to other places. the medium through which God revealed James 2:1-9 Psalm 103:1-4, 8, 10, 12-13 Understandably, many went to places the divine law to humanity. God is the Psalm 34:2-7 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 where opportunities were more plentiful. author of the divine law. He is the author Mark 8:27-33 Matthew 5:38-48 While certainly some of these emigrants of the commandments. He is the lawgiver. not only survived, but possibly did well By defining and making more precise in their new surroundings, one thing was this law, the Lord acts as God. It is an lacking. It was living in a society in which important revelation of the identity all acknowledged the God of Israel. of Jesus. So to record their ancient religious Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle beliefs and, very importantly, to pass these Reflection beliefs along to oncoming generations, This weekend looks to the past weeks, Jewish scholars composed books and feasts, as background, and it looks Catholic News Service movie ratings such as Sirach. ahead. In both cases, it confronts us with The essential point in Sirach was that the realities of our nature. It places us in can be a valuable resource for parents human reason and honoring God are not relationship with God. It shows us that What is a Catholic’s obligation being there with iPads and movies. ideas at odds with each other. Obeying God loves us with a divine love. Qregarding the movie ratings issued We used to believe that children could God, logic can prove, is the way to order, At Christmas, the Epiphany, and at the by the Catholic News learn self-control by sitting quietly at peace, justice and reward in human life. baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River by Service? Are they Mass, and not needing to be entertained. St. Paul’s First Epistle to the Corinthians John the Baptist, the Church celebrated binding? For example, (La Crosse, Wis.) is the source of the second reading. Paul, the events of salvation achieved for us by is it a sin to see films who would have been no stranger to this Christ, but it also told us about the Lord. It rated “O--Morally Topics like this are always chancy notion of a compatibility between divine identified the Lord. Offensive?” Not that Abecause people have a range of revelation and human wisdom, as he In these readings, the Church tells any good Catholic opinions, often strongly held. But I’ll run was so well trained in Judaism but also us that to wander away from God’s law would want to see the risk and give you my take. exposed to Greek philosophy, added a and follow our instincts or our limited most of these films, It depends a lot on age. By the time new dimension to the story. Revelation is reasoning is folly. Humans, impaired but on occasion there a child is 4, I would hope that he or she of a reality that human knowledge often by original sin, always have trouble is an “O” film where were starting to pay some attention in cannot comprehend. understanding this lesson. the rating seems unwarranted. Or what if church, or at least sitting quietly. But He refers to “hidden wisdom” and Before too long, the Church will lead a parent allows a teen to see a movie rated when the child is 2, let’s say, I have no “mystery” (1 Cor 2:7). We as humans us into Lent. It will be a time in which “A-III--For Adults?” (Columbus, Ohio) problem with bringing toys for him or simply cannot understand everything. In we strengthen ourselves to know our her—depending on the toys. great love, God therefore has revealed to us limitations and conform ourselves to The ratings are meant as guidelines. My least favorite are trucks and what otherwise we would never know. what we are, human beings, but humans AThey do not bind in conscience. Super Balls. We have a sloped church, The Gospel reading is from St. Matthew. destined for eternal life with God, At the same time, they offer a valuable and more than once I’ve been “attacked” Speaking of God’s commandments, in Jesus. † resource, particularly for parents in at the altar by a rumbling 18-wheeler toy choosing what is appropriate for their truck or a high-bouncing spheroid. children. The ratings and reviews evaluate Though not a toy, Cheerios are on my My Journey to God a film from a spiritual, moral and artistic “non-preferred” list. (I’d rather not spend point of view against the background Sunday afternoons picking cereal out of of the Church’s teachings and of Judeo- seat cushions.) Coloring books would be Christian values. So I don’t believe that a fine, except that they involve crayons, faithful Catholic should take them lightly. which leave reminders of their presence. Thank After you have read a review, I Bringing stuffed animals is fine, and would recommend deciding whether books with the thick pages are acceptable to attend based on what you know (although even they can become you God of yourself, avoiding what might be noisemakers should toddlers decide to By Dorothy Gettelfinger Crupi, Catholic CourierCNS photo/ Mike troublesome morally. throw them or bang them against pews). Films are classified as “O” or “morally Having said all that, I’m just delighted offensive” when they “feature excessive to see little children in church, and I Thank you God violence, gratuitous sexuality or are admire and applaud parents with the For our eyes to see laden, for no artistically valid reason, patience to bring them. The wonderful things with non-stop vulgarity,” according to the You created for me. ratings page of Catholic News Service. (Questions may be sent to Films that directly contradict Church Father Kenneth Doyle at Thank you God teaching on such matters as suicide, [email protected] and For our ears to hear, adultery, euthanasia, abortion or violent 40 Hopewell St., Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † All the words you spoke revenge also get this rating, “no matter From far away and near. how lauded some of them may be by the secular press.” Readers may submit prose Thank you God Such a rating is not given lightly, so I or poetry for faith column For my mouth to speak, would agree with you that rarely would Comforting others, seeing a film rated “O” be justified. The Criterion invites readers to submit So humbly and meek. As for whether to allow your teenager original prose or poetry relating to faith to see a film rated as acceptable only for or experiences of prayer for possible Dorothy Gettelfinger is a member Thank you God for hearts to love, adults, if it were my child I would want publication in the “My Journey to God” of St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Parish To share with others to first see the film to make a safe and column. in Floyd County. Ashley Steffes, a From the heavens above. informed judgment as to how he or she Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. student at Franciscan University might receive it and react. Please include name, address, parish and in Steubenville, Ohio, kneels to But most of all God, telephone number with submissions. pray during the closing Mass for We thank you When are priests going to tell parents Send material for consideration the National Prayer Vigil for Life For our health, family and friends. to leave the children’s toys at home? to “My Journey to God,” on Jan. 22 at the Basilica of the Q I see tractors and cars roaming across The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian St., National Shrine of the Immaculate pews, little soldiers conducting wars Indianapolis, IN 46206 or e-mail to Conception in Washington. and even monster figures. We are just a [email protected]. † couple of ticks away from every child’s Page 14 The Criterion Friday, February 14, 2014

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be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of Romano CNS photo/ L’Osservatore Pope Francis looks at a life-sized archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are replica of himself made entirely listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests out of chocolate in Paul VI Hall and religious sisters and brothers are included at the Vatican on Feb. 5. Made of here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connec­tions to it; those are separate 1.5 tons of cocoa, the chocolate obituaries on this page. image was given to the pontiff during his general audience, BOOK, Patricia A. (Miller), 66, St. Mary-of-the- according to Vatican newspaper Knobs, Floyd County, Jan. 25. Wife of David C. L’Osservatore Romano. Book. Mother of Lisa and Brian Book. Stepmother of David W. Book. DARCHE, Albert G., 78, Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Indianapolis, Jan. 28. Husband of Mari Kay Darche. Father of Stephanie Smith, Susan Stephens and Scott Darche. Brother of Lucille Burke. Grandfather of seven. DRYER, Rosemarie, 64, Annunciation, , Jan. 6. Mother of Jennifer Bailey, Angie Freeman, Jessica Gorby, Maggie and Mark Dryer. Sister of Kathleen Dryer, Dave, Father Joseph, Michael and Steven Mader. Grandmother of three. FURMAN, Foster C., 100, Holy Angels, Indianapolis, Jan. 7. Father of Ann Sumler. Grandfather of three. Providence Sister Ann Francis Hammersley taught 45 years in Catholic schools Great-grandfather of three. Great-great-grandfather of six. Providence Sister Ann Francis Hammersley degree in education at Saint Mary-of-the- After retiring from education in 1997, died on Jan. 29 at Mother Theodore Hall at Woods College in St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Sister Ann Francis ministered at Woods Day GORTON, Bernardine A., 77, St. Therese of the St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 87. and a master’s degree in education at the Care/Pre-School for nine years. Beginning in Infant Jesus (Little Flower), Jan. 28. Wife of Lawrence The Mass of Christian Burial was University of New Hampshire. W. Gorton. Mother of Susan Smith, Jane York, Jill, 2006, she dedicated herself entirely to prayer. celebrated on Feb. 4 at the Church of the During 66 years as a member of the She is survived by three brothers, Lori, Billy, Jake and Joe Gorton. Sister of Jane York. Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the- at the motherhouse. Arnold Hammersley of Malden, Mass.; Grandmother of 12. Great-grandmother of five. Burial followed at the sisters’ cemetery. Woods, Sister Ann Francis ministered in Edward Hammersley of Bradenton, Fla.; and LETTELLEIR, Joseph T., 86, St. Monica, Dorothy Gertrude Hammersley was born on Catholic education for 45 years in schools Jan. 25, 1927, in Malden, Mass. in Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts and Richard Hammersley of New Smyrna, Fla. Indianapolis, Nov. 24. Husband of Barbara (Meyer) Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters Lettelleir. Father of Peggy Horstman and Sara She entered the Sisters of Providence of Washington, D.C. In the archdiocese, she ministered at the of Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Lettelleir. Brother of Theodore Lettelleir. Grandfather Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on July 22, 1947, and professed final vows on Jan. 23, 1955. former St. James School in Indianapolis from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- of two. Sister Ann Francis earned a bachelor’s 1955-56. Woods, IN 47876. † OBERLE, Ronald, 78, Holy Family, Richmond, Jan. 31. Husband of Eleanor Oberle. Father of Franciscan Sister Constance Smith ministered for 50 years in Catholic schools Kathleen Bateman, Rebecca and John Oberle. Grandfather of six. Franciscan Sister Constance Smith died She entered the Sisters of St. Francis on Oldenburg and the former St. Mary Academy on Feb. 1, 2014, at the motherhouse of the Sept. 15, 1942, and professed final vows on in Indianapolis. SHIKANY, Sadie, 101, St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Congregation of the Sisters of the Aug. 12, 1948. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Jan. 28. Mother of Sally of St. Francis in Oldenburg. She was 91. During 71 years as a Sister of St. Francis, Sister Dorothy is survived by two sisters, White, Alfred and Joseph Shikany. Grandmother of 10. The Mass of Christian Burial was Sister Constance ministered as an educator Mary Jo Fry of Batesville and Mildred Great-grandmother of six. celebrated on Feb. 3 at the Motherhouse for 50 years in Catholic schools in Indiana, Schaedel of New Smyrna, Fla.; and a brother, SMILEY, Patrick W., 27, Annunciation, Brazil, Chapel in Oldenburg. Burial followed at the Missouri and Ohio. In the archdiocese, she Norbert Smith of Carmel, Ind. sisters’ cemetery. ministered at Father Thomas Scecina Memorial Jan. 18. Son of Tony and Linda Smiley. Brother of Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of Annie and Laura Smiley. Grandson of Patricia Roberts. Loretta Smith was born on Nov. 28, 1922, High School in Indianapolis, Oldenburg in Batesville. Academy of the Immaculate Conception in St. Francis, Oldenburg, IN 47036-0100. † SMITH, Madonna Rose, 70, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Jan. 31. Wife of Tommy Smith. Mother of Lisa Smith Taylor, Jeannine and Thomas Smith. Franciscan Sister Mary Peter Sterwerf ministered 36 years in Catholic schools Sister of Mary Anne Murphy. Grandmother of eight. Franciscan Sister Mary Peter Sterwerf died She entered the Sisters of St. Francis School in Indianapolis, St. Mary School in SORCE, Arlyn K., 75, St. Louis, Batesville, Jan. 30. on Dec. 11, 2013, at the motherhouse of the on Sept. 5, 1948, and professed final vows North Vernon, and at the former St. Mary Wife of Joe Sorce. Mother of David, Joseph, Paul and Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Order on Aug. 12, 1954. School in New Albany. She later ministered at Steven Sorce. Sister of Darla Benz, Ella Laker, Mary of St. Francis in Oldenburg. She was 83. During 65 years as a Sister of St. Francis, Mays, Daniel and Richard Fichtner. Grandmother The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated Sister Mary Peter ministered as an educator St. Peter Parish in Chillicothe, Ohio. of five. on Dec. 16 at the Motherhouse Chapel in for 36 years in Catholic schools in Indiana, Sister Mary Peter is survived by several Oldenburg. Burial followed at the sisters’ Missouri and Ohio. In the archdiocese, she THOMAS, Andrew H., Sr., 98, Holy Angels, nieces and nephews. Indianapolis, Dec. 19. Father of Hazel Thomas. cemetery. ministered at the former Holy Family School in Grandfather of eight. Great-grandfather of 23. Great- Mary Louise Sterwerf was born on Feb. 7, Richmond, St. Gabriel School in Connersville, Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of great-grandfather of 15. † 1930, in Hamilton, Ohio. St. Joseph School in Shelbyville, St. Lawrence St. Francis, Oldenburg, IN 47036-0100. †

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NEW ORLEANS (CNS)—Faced with the looming permit that was approved by the city of New Orleans in construction of a multimillion-dollar, regional abortion December, experts have determined that Planned Parenthood facility by Planned Parenthood Gulf South, New Orleans could perform “upwards of 30 abortions per day,” Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond has cautioned local Archbishop Aymond said. Catholics and businesses they would be “cooperating “This is a staggering increase in the number of abortions with the evil that will take place” at the center if they in light of the 3,496 abortions performed in 2012 in Orleans participated in its preparation or construction. and Jefferson parishes,” the archbishop wrote.

In an open letter, published on the front page of the The archbishop’s letter cited the Catechism of the Clarion Herald Jr., Finney CNS photo/Peter Feb. 1 issue of the Clarion Herald, the archdiocesan Catholic Church, saying the Church since the first century newspaper, Archbishop Aymond said the caution extends has considered abortion “a grave evil.” to any person or business “involved in the acquisition, “We cannot be silent in view of the grave injustice preparation and construction of this [abortion] facility.” presented by the abortions that will be performed The archbishop also indicated the archdiocese would at the proposed Planned Parenthood facility,” not do future business “with any person or organization Archbishop Aymond wrote. that participates in actions that are He said there was “no justification, including economic essential to making this abortion hardship,” that would make either a direct or indirect facility a reality.” relationship with Planned Parenthood or any abortion “This policy applies to all provider “acceptable.” businesses, regardless of religious Archbishop Aymond added that any “affiliation or affiliation or nonaffiliation,” support” of Planned Parenthood by Catholics would be “a Archbishop Aymond wrote. “Our matter of serious scandal.” fidelity to Church teaching and our Benjamin Clapper, executive director of Louisiana conscience necessitates this stance.” Right to Life, praised the archbishop for the letter, saying his Planned Parenthood currently stance was “edifying and strengthens what we are doing.” operates two facilities in “It should be a model for other religious leaders, not only A young girl holds a candle during a prayer service last November Louisiana—in New Orleans and in this state but in other areas,” Clapper said. “Most of the on a lot near the proposed Planned Parenthood abortion center Archbishop Baton Rouge—but does not perform time people expect the bishop to say things and to teach in New Orleans. New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond Gregory M. Aymond abortions in the state. principles, but I don’t believe most people expect a bishop has cautioned local Catholics and businesses they would be In its public statements about the proposed 7,000- to to make this real-life, declarative statement that actually “cooperating with the evil that will take place” at the center if they 8,000-square-foot facility, located about five minutes from impacts the corporate world. participated in its preparation or construction. two universities and on a site easily accessible by public “When you have such a powerful institution in this city transportation, Planned Parenthood Gulf South indicated it saying this, it makes people notice who Planned Parenthood that are blind to the destruction caused by abortion,” and would seek a state license to perform abortions. really is,” Clapper added. “Planned Parenthood is selling he invited Planned Parenthood officials and supporters to There are five, free-standing abortion facilities in itself as one thing and they are another thing. He’s “prayer and dialogue.” Louisiana—in New Orleans, Metairie, Baton Rouge, technically not doing anything new—he’s just applying “There are many issues, from violence in the streets to Shreveport and Bossier City—but Archbishop Aymond said Catholic principles to a situation. We have a leader willing to poverty, which hurt this community,” he wrote. ”A regional the proposed regional abortion center will be “the largest of go to the wall for this cause and give us the strength and the abortion center will not solve our problems; it will only its kind in Louisiana.” energy to stand for life.” create more. This is not the future the New Orleans Using information obtained from a construction Archbishop Aymond asked Catholics to pray “for those metropolitan area needs.” † Pope: Don’t skip Sunday Mass; people need communion with God, Church VATICAN CITY (CNS)—It’s so important to go to caused by days of heavy rain. with all the saints we will have the unimaginable joy of Mass every Sunday because that’s where people receive To help visiting pilgrims who were ill or with contemplating God face to face. Christ who saves, forgives and unites everyone to his disabilities and their caregivers keep warm and dry in the “We will never thank the Lord enough for the gift he Father, Church and each other, Pope Francis said. bad weather, the pope said he had them go indoors to the gave us with the Eucharist,” the pope said. It’s also “important that children are well prepared Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall to watch the audience on “It’s such a great gift, and that’s why it’s so important for first Communion because ... after baptism and the big screens set up inside. to go to Mass on Sundays,” he said. confirmation it is the first step toward belonging strongly, The pope arrived about 25 minutes later than his usual Mass is a time “not just to pray, but to receive really strongly, to Jesus Christ,” he said on Feb. 5 at his start time in the square because, as he later explained, Communion—this bread that is the body of Christ weekly general audience. he first had gone to greet those pilgrims seated inside that saves us, forgives us, reunites us to the Father. It’s The pope continued a series of talks on the sacraments the hall. beautiful to do this.” of Christian initiation, focusing on the Eucharist as the In his catechesis, Pope Francis said that by celebrating Mass on Sundays is particularly important, he said, source and summit of the life of the Church. the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ, “we because “it is the day of the resurrection of the Lord, “In fact, every authentic journey of faith, communion participate in the mystery of the passion, death and and with the Eucharist we feel our own belonging to the and witness springs from this sacrament of love,” he said. resurrection of Christ. Church, to the , to the body of God, to The pope began his audience talk by greeting the “By making himself broken bread for us, the Lord Jesus Christ.” estimated 13,000 people huddled under umbrellas and Jesus pours out to us all of his mercy and his love, At the end of the audience, Pope Francis met and raincoats as heavy rain beat down on St. Peter’s Square. renewing our heart, our existence and our way of relating spoke briefly with Lidia Guerrero, the mother of Victor “Dear brothers and sisters, good morning, but not good to him and our brothers and sisters,” he said. Saldano, an Argentine national who has been on death day, huh? It’s a bit nasty,” he said. Taking part in the Eucharist “conforms us in a unique row in Texas since 1996. Guerrero was accompanied by a The pope also prayed, at the end of the audience, for all and profound way to Christ,” he said, granting Christians representative of the Community of Sant’Egidio, which is those in Tuscany and Rome affected by severe flooding a foretaste of with God in heaven, “where active in the fight against the death penalty. †

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Above, Minh (foreground) and Khieu Nguyen place incense sticks in front of a small shrine in honor of all ancestors during the Vietnamese Tet (lunar New Year) Mass. The ceremony, a Tet tradition, was adopted for liturgical use for the Mass.

Left, children in traditional Vietnamese costumes perform a traditional drum dance during the Feb. 2 reception held after the Vietnamese Mass celebrating the Lunar New Year. ‘Chuc mung nam moi’: Archbishop celebrates lunar New Year Mass with Vietnamese Catholic Congregation By Natalie Hoefer our ancestors as well as our parents and forward and pick a scroll from the tree. on this day we ask how shall we live, what family members.” “We reviewed both of those [ideas] in choices shall we make? Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin looked out The Mass incorporated two Vietnamese the planning and preparation of the liturgy,” “As we stand in these new days in a new upon the Vietnamese Catholic Congregation New Year traditions—the honoring of said Father Patrick Beidelman, executive year, we should wish each other happiness at St. Joseph Church in Indianapolis. ancestors, and picking a bud from a tree. director for the archdiocesan secretariat for and prosperity and good fortune. We should “Chuc mung nam moi,” he said, “Honoring our ancestors is an important Spiritual Life and Worship, of the ancestral remember our fathers and mothers in faith receiving an outburst of applause. part of the new year traditions,” said remembrance and the Scripture-bearing because Mary remembered Abraham and He had just wished the Congregation Father Duong. “We show respect and tree. “Both were very consistent with what his wife, Sarah, and all the people of Israel “Happy New Year” on Feb. 2, the day of gratitude for our ancestors and deceased. We we’re about when we come together to who led her to God. Mary, through her this year’s Vietnamese lunar New Year. thank them for all they’ve done for us.” celebrate Mass.” mother and father, came to know that God is The celebration is known as To honor this tradition, four St. Joseph Church, which serves as home faithful. Tet Nguyen Dan or “Tet.” In the U.S., generations—represented by two members to the Vietnamese Catholic Congregation “So today we give thanks to God for our it is celebrated over the course of three per generation—processed up the aisle to a in Indianapolis, was filled beyond capacity, ancestors, our fathers and mothers in faith. days, said Father Minh Duong, associate shrine, bowed to the sound of a gong, and with temporary seating also filling the We thank God not only for our families, pastor of St. Joseph Parish and chaplain of placed a burning incense stick in a bowl of narthex. but for all the holy people who have gone the Vietnamese Catholic Congregation in sand before a small shrine. “We usually have around 150 [people] before us. We thank God for St. Andrew and Indianapolis. “The first bow is to show we honor come to Masses on Sunday,” said the martyrs, who witnessed to Jesus by their “For the Vietnamese Catholic Church, God,” said Kachelmyer. “We ask him Father Duong of the two Vietnamese blood and confirmed the faith in Vietnam. we spend the first three days [of the to take care of us, him who made Masses held at St. Joseph Church each “We ask our Mother Mary to help us not New Year] to pray for different things— the whole universe. Sunday. “But for this Mass we usually have to be afraid, to know what is important, and peace in Vietnam and the world on the “The second bow is for Vietnam. We ask over 300 people.” to live as a daughter and son of God,” the first day, the second [day] for ancestors and God to care for it. And the third bow is for Archbishop Tobin began his homily with archbishop concluded. those who passed away, and the third day our ancestors,” she said. a comment about the special occasion. Having the archbishop celebrate the Mass we pray for work and for employment,” As for picking a bud from a tree, “It is wonderful to celebrate this day with was special to the Vietnamese Catholic Father Duong explained. Father Duong explained that in Vietnam, you, a feast of family, a feast of community, Congregation, said Father Duong. Chau Kachelmyer, a member of the this tradition is done on the lunar New Year a feast of faith. A feast when we think about “We were very excited to see him Vietnamese Catholic Congregation, spoke to bring luck through the upcoming year. the gift of time. here. Everyone was very happy with that, of the celebration as a combination of To incorporate the tradition into the “Our lives and each day is a gift,” especially on the first day of the New Year,” Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Tet Mass, a tree with flowers and scrolls the archbishop continued. “Not only do he said. “Most people, especially the elderly Eve in the . with Scriptures passages tied to the branches we have breath to live, but we have the people in attendance, told me that the “People enjoy eating, drinking and social was brought forward. The archbishop possibility to choose how we will live, lunar New Year Mass that the archbishop activities,” she said. “But mostly, it is time blessed the “Tree of the Word of God,” how we will accept each day, what will be celebrated is the most sacred and solemn for family reunions and paying respect to and the congregation was invited to come the most important values in our lives. So they have seen in their life.” †

Right top, members of the congregation celebrating the Vietnamese Mass Lunar

Photos by Natalie Hoefer Photos by New Year (“Tet”) select scrolls with Scripture passages tied to a tree. The ceremony was modified for the Mass from the Vietnamese Tet tradition of selecting a bud from a tree to bring luck in the new year.

Right bottom, at the reception held in the basement after the Vietnamese Tet (lunar New Year) Mass on Above, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin smiles Feb. 2 at St. Joseph Church as he receives a gift given on behalf of the in Indianapolis, a dragon Vietnamese Catholic Congregation during the processes around the crowd Tet (lunar New Year) Mass. Archbishop Tobin as is the custom in Vietnam concelebrated the Mass with Father Minh during the lunar New Year. Duong, associate pastor of St. Joseph Parish In this photo, the dragon and chaplain of the Vietnamese Catholic stops by the table of Dabrice Congregation in Indianapolis, Holy Cross Bartet, left, and Tran Thi. Father Martin Lam Nguyen, and Fathers Robert Thi, of Vietnamese descent, Hausladen and Glenn O’Connor. will come into the Church during the Easter Vigil Mass Right, Trina Le, left, Ngan Nguyen, Tien Le at St. Monica Parish in and Khieu and Minh Nguyen bring forward Indianapolis, with Bartet as traditional Vietnamese lunar New Year offerings her sponsor. during the Tet Mass, including flowers and fruit.