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Flags, including those of his homeland of , are held up by pilgrims as make his way through the crowd in St. Peter’s Square before celebrating his inaugural at the Vatican on March 19. Pope Francis begins ministry as head of Church (CNS)—Although attempts were point, gave a thumbs up to the faithful. He also kissed together, caring for one another ... caring for life. Care for made to simplify the liturgy, Pope Francis officially three babies held up to him by the chief of Vatican the family, care for nature, care for children, care for the inaugurated his ministry as pope and of in security, Domenico Gianni, and other officers. aged. Let there be no hatred, no fighting, put aside envy a Mass filled with biblical symbolism and signs of the But he climbed out of the open jeep used as a and don’t gossip about anyone.” universality of his mission. to greet a severely disabled man. As the Mass began, tens of thousands of pilgrims, But before the solemn rites began on March 19, the Before entering St. Peter’s Square, he addressed by faithful and tourists continued to arrive, filling St. Peter’s feast of St. Joseph, Pope Francis—known for choosing satellite thousands of his fellow Argentines gathered Square and crowding around the large video screens public transportation over chauffeur-driven limousines— in Plaza de Mayo in , where he had been placed along the boulevard leading to the square. By the took his first ride in the popemobile, blessing the tens of before his election as pope. time of , the Vatican said there were between thousands of people who arrived in St. Peter’s Square as He thanked the people for their prayers and told them: 150,000 and 200,000 people present. early as 4 a.m. to pray with him. He waved and, at one “I have a favor to ask. I want to ask that we all walk See MASS, page 8 Spirit of Service Awards will honor first-ever youth winner By John Shaughnessy why the agency wanted to start the honor. “We felt it was important to recognize At 17, Amanda Rulong has a refreshing the good works of young people, especially and inspiring attitude toward being honored for those who are helping the poor and by the archdiocese with the first-ever vulnerable in the community,” Bethuram Youth Spirit of Service Award. said. “We hope that recognizing the youth “I like to serve people,” says Amanda, volunteers will inspire others—both youths a junior at Bishop Chatard High School in and adults—to volunteer and help those the best. I’m following in his footsteps. I’m Indianapolis. “I feel that’s what we’re called in need.” expanding his legacy. I’ve always wanted to to do. It helps me get closer to God.” Fittingly, Amanda was inspired to be like him, and this is my chance.” Amanda’s attitude is shared by the three help others by the example of her older As the outreach coordinator for her adults who also will be honored during brother, Nick. school’s student council, Amanda led a the Spirit of Service Awards Dinner on “He always wanted to go to the canned food drive that raised 30,000 cans April 18 at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in St. Vincent to benefit six agencies that help the poor— Indianapolis—Gary Ahlrichs, Paul Corsaro de Paul [Society] Catholic Charities, St. Vincent de Paul and Adonis Hardin. warehouse,” Amanda Society, The Food Link, Holy Family Here are the stories of this year’s recalls about Nick, Shelter, St. Augustine Home for the Aged recipients: who graduated from and Christ’s Storehouse Food Pantry. Bishop Chatard in “She does her service with an immense Amanda Rulong 2012. “I would go amount of love and compassion for those When David Bethuram shared the news with him, and bring she serves,” said Tyler Mayer, director of that Amanda would receive the first-ever my friends. And student life for Bishop Chatard. “It is clear Youth Spirit of Service Award, the director of our whole family that she is dedicated to the dignity of all by Catholic Charities Indianapolis also explained Amanda Rulong would go. Nick is See AWARDS, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013

Adonis Hardin in more than 30 years of coaching in the God for all the blessings he has given me. I AWARDS Adonis Hardin keeps one goal in focus Catholic Youth Organization. like doing it, plus it’s our responsibility to continued from page 1 as she works the fish fry, sings in the “Helping kids develop their abilities and help others.” , plans the Valentine Day’s dance get ready for a fulfilling life has always In recent years, many of the influences the way she dedicates herself to their needs.” and coordinates been important to me,” said Corsaro, a of Corsaro’s life have blended as he joined That dedication led her to spend the income tax father of six and a grandfather of 17 who with former high school classmates and her spring break on a mission trip to preparation program will celebrate 50 years of marriage to his teammates to establish Hearts & Hands of El Salvador. for low-income wife, Francie, in June. Indiana, a grassroots organization that offers “I want to know their stories,” Amanda families at Corsaro has also lived those lessons in hope and the opportunity for a new home to said about the people in El Salvador. “I want Holy Angels Parish his numerous volunteer efforts that have low-income families in the struggling areas to hear how God has changed their life and in Indianapolis. included Goodwill Industries, St. Mary’s of Holy Trinity and St. Anthony parishes in moved them.” “I never look at it Child Center in Indianapolis, his alma mater Indianapolis. She has experienced that change in her as volunteering,” said Joseph’s College in Rensselaer, Ind., “If we can build a house over there own life. Hardin, who also the archdiocese’s Catholic Community and put a stable family there, that’s like “Every time I serve another person, I Adonis Hardin counts the Sunday Foundation and Catholic Cemeteries a beacon of light in that area,” he said. feel I’m becoming just like Jesus,” said collection at Holy Association, and his home parish, “Hearts & Hands also gives me the Amanda, the daughter of Karen Rulong and Angels and leads the parish’s effort to make St. Barnabas in Indianapolis. opportunity to work with my high school Scott Rulong and a member of St. Simon the baskets for people in need. “I just “My grandparents, my parents, my wife classmates. That was the foundation for me Apostle Parish in Indianapolis. “He died for see it as doing what needs to be done for my and I have all been taught to help other growing up. It’s neat to work with them, us, so we can give our time to do something Church family. I love the fellowship and just people,” said Corsaro, a lawyer. “Jesus and it’s neat to give a family a place to live nice for somebody.” seeing Church members, family and friends Christ gave service to other people, and that they would never have. For me, those come together to enjoy each other.” we’re trying to do the same. I want to thank are defining moments.” † Gary Ahlrichs Indeed, one of the main lessons that Gary Ahlrichs often gets his exercise Hardin learned as the daughter of Adelaide by riding his bike Long is that when it comes to Church and to visit friends in family, the connection runs deep. For years, Tables are available for annual nursing homes. Hardin watched her 74-year-old mother He has helped a direct the choir, clean the church and manage Spirit of Service Awards Dinner 70-year-old woman the kitchen at the school while taking care of named Ella learn her five children. Criterion staff report 5:30 p.m., and dinner is at 6:30 p.m. to read through an So when Hardin received the news that Tables for eight can be purchased at Indianapolis literacy she was chosen to receive the Spirit of The Spirit of Service Awards Dinner these levels—$10,000 for a benefactor, program. Service Award, she told her mother that the on April 18 will benefit and celebrate the $5,000 for a patron, $1,750 for a partner, He also serves award was hers, too. Her mother beamed at efforts of Catholic Charities Indianapolis and $800 for a parish table sponsor. Gary Ahlrichs as a tutor and Hardin and said, “You really deserve it.” to help people in need. The funds raised by the awards dinner mentor to Joshua, an That feeling is shared by many at The dinner at the Indiana Roof will help to support the efforts of Catholic 11-year-old boy from the Ivory Coast who Holy Angels. Ballroom in Indianapolis is also an Charities Indianapolis to provide family he met through the archdiocese’s Refugee “There never seems to be a task too big opportunity for business, community and support, eldercare, crisis assistance and Resettlement Program. or too small that Adonis doesn’t give it her social service leaders to help celebrate shelter while serving as an advocate for “My dad was an immigrant from all,” said Amanda Strong, a fellow member this year’s four honorees who have peace and social justice. ,” noted Ahlrichs, 73. “He didn’t of Holy Angels. “Her work is consistent dedicated their lives in a spirit of service “The people we serve are our neighbors speak English, and a lot of people went out with the mission of Catholic Charities. In to others—Gary Ahlrichs, Paul Corsaro, who might otherwise be unknown, of their way to help him.” all that she does, she says she just asks the Adonis Hardin and Amanda Rulong, the forgotten or marginalized people who have The immigrant’s son has made helping Lord to give her strength, and she will get it recipient of the first-ever Youth Spirit of shown courage emerging from despair people a big part of his life. done somehow.” Service Award. and humiliation into the hope and light of For the past 13 years, Ahlrichs has led Hardin downplays the praise for herself “The Spirit of Service Awards Dinner Catholic Charities,” Bethuram says. “We the men’s group from Immaculate Heart of and passes it along to others, including to is about blessings,” says David Bethuram, are grateful for the generosity of so many Mary Parish in Indianapolis in an outreach her husband, Nathaniel, for his support. She agency director of Catholic Charities who help us serve.” mission to make a difference in the lives of even makes a special point of mentioning her Indianapolis. “They are the blessings Catholic Charities Indianapolis served students at Padua Academy in Indianapolis nieces and nephews, and her grand-nieces our services bring to the poor and the 44,331 people during the past year. [formerly St. Anthony School], a charter and grand-nephews, for helping out with vulnerable, the blessings our clients bring school operated by the archdiocese. the parish fish fry. Mostly, she gives to those who are privileged to touch their (For more information about the awards Through his leadership, the men’s group credit to God. lives, and the blessings our donors bring dinner, individual tickets or to make has bought music books and renovated the “I just love working for the Lord,” by making the work of Catholic Charities reservations, call Valerie Sperka at playground. said Hardin, who has a son and three possible.” 317-592-4072 or send an e-mail to her at “For the , the ministry grandchildren. “My ultimate goal is to get The event begins with a reception at [email protected].) † really belongs in the inner city,” Ahlrichs to heaven and serve him. The older I get, the said. “The highlight for me is walking easier I find it to open my heart to the will of through the hallways of the school God. I just try to walk the walk. I want others and seeing Immaculate Heart men to see Christ in me.” Lenten penance services are scheduled tutoring there.” Parishes throughout the archdiocese have New Albany Deanery Ahlrichs has always been there for his Paul Corsaro scheduled communal penance services for • March 24, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, parish and Church, too. He and his wife of As an All-City middle linebacker at . The following list of services was Starlight 51 years, Shirley, were sponsors for engaged the former Sacred Heart High School in reported to The Criterion. couples for more than 20 years. The father Indianapolis in 1960, Paul Corsaro learned Seymour Deanery of five and the grandfather of 11 coached a number of lessons Indianapolis East Deanery • March 25, 6:30 p.m. for sports at the parish for more than 10 years. about life that • SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral Parish in St. Ann, Jennings County; St. Mary, And he has coordinated the parish’s blood have continued to Indianapolis will have reconciliation North Vernon; and St. Joseph, drive since 1979. guide him. the remaining Sundays during Lent Jennings County, at St. Joseph, “It’s all a way of showing gratitude for all Make the most (March 24) from 4 to 5 p.m. will Jennings County † the wonderful things in our lives—family, of the talents that follow at 5 p.m. health, great friends, a great neighborhood, God gives you. Be financial support,” he said. “Life has been responsible to the Indianapolis South Deanery good to us. I like to share that. people who take the • March 25, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the “So many people in the world are field with you. Give Greenwood, Greenwood Correction forgotten about. In my prayers, I always Paul Corsaro everything you have • March 27, 6 p.m. at St. Barnabas try to remember Ella and Joshua and the in the time you have. In the Feb. 22 issue of The Criterion, students and teachers at Padua. Because And have some fun along the way. Indianapolis West Deanery an obituary for Providence Sister Sharon that’s my connection to the real world. They Corsaro has shared those lessons with the • March 23, 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Sullivan mistakenly identified her as keep me grounded.” countless number of youths he has helped St. Michael the Archangel Providence Sister Sharon Thompson. †

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By Sean Gallagher

Less than 24 hours after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was elected the Church’s

266th pope and took the name Francis, Archbishop Joseph Sean Gallagher Photos by W. Tobin celebrated a Mass to give thanks and pray for the new pontiff in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis on March 14 with approximately 300 Catholics. Before the start of the Mass, Dabrice Bartet, a member of St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, spoke of why she took time out of her day to attend the Mass. “It is very important for us to get together as a community to pray for the new pope,” said Bartet. “He has a lot of challenges that he has to face.” Bartet was born in Paris and grew up in Togo in West Africa. She appreciated having a pope elected from outside of Europe. “It’s very exciting,” she said. “Like in Latin America, in Africa we do a lot of praising [in worship]. We have a lot of celebration during Mass. We’re pretty similar.” In his , Archbishop Tobin noted how many Above, Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin delivers a homily during a people beyond the Church were also excited by the papal March 14 Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis election. Yet he recognized that this broad enthusiasm for to celebrate the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of the new pope might not last, noting that “you can be a Buenos Aires as Pope Francis, which occurred the previous day. peacock today and a feather duster tomorrow.” Instead, Archbishop Tobin suggested more lasting Right, Yellow and white bunting decorates the main doors of reasons for being excited about the election of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis after a March 14 Pope Francis, namely that in the Holy Father, the faithful, Mass that celebrated the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario the flock of Christ, can recognize Christ’s voice. Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Pope Francis. The flag of Vatican “The first commission of the Holy Father, of City features yellow and white. Pope Francis, is to make the voice of Jesus recognizable,” Archbishop Tobin said, “for without that a shepherd Could it be his prayer to make the Holy Father especially the poor and for the defenseless among us, [including] cannot do what the God shepherd wants to do—bind up an instrument of God’s peace? It could be all of that.” the unborn.” the wounded, lead those [who are] astray, bring people In the end, Archbishop Tobin said that Pope Francis “is Leo Soliven was also filled with excitement at the home. Sheep will run from a voice they don’t recognize.” our leader and our brother. And we pray that the Lord will election of the new pope. A native of the Philippines, Archbishop Tobin also reflected on the choice of confirm him so that he may strengthen us.” Soliven moved to Indianapolis in 1970. He is a member of Francis as the pope’s new name. Sean Belby, a member of St. Luke the Evangelist St. Michael the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis, and was “That excites our imagination,” Archbishop Tobin Parish in Indianapolis, was excited by the election of at a meeting of its spiritual life committee at the parish said. “What characteristics of [St.] Francis [of Assisi] is Pope Francis, and said that he attended the Mass “to when the new pope was announced. he thinking of? His simplicity? The austerity that Francis take a moment and give thanks for the gift of our new “After the meeting, we saw the white smoke and stayed showed in his own self? His union with the poor? His Holy Father.” there for a while,” said Soliven with a laugh. “Then we preference for those that were lost? Could it be Francis’ “I’m still learning a lot about this man,” said Belby, toasted the new pontiff.” commission from the Lord to rebuild his Church? who is involved in a variety of pro-life ministries. “But “Could it be Francis’ willingness to go to Cairo to from the early indications, he’s a very holy and pious (For more coverage of the election of Pope Francis, speak to the sultan about what Jesus Christ really means? man. He certainly has a place in his heart and mind for log on to www.archindy.org/pope.) †

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Opinion

Making Sense Out of Bioethics/Fr. Tad Pacholczyk Facing the downstream effects

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 of same-sex parenting Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor In March, the British newspaper Yet Wilson goes on to explain the Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus The Independent ran an article titled, deeper reasons that need to motivate “Children in gay adoption: “A child in need of adoption adoptions at no is a child who is in extraordinary and disadvantage: Research abnormal circumstances—he is a child Editorial confirms same-sex without parents. Adoption seeks to ‘create,’ couples are just as from a social and legal point of view, good at parenting as a relationship similar to what would be Angels are evangelizers and heterosexuals.” natural for the child, meaning a family The article, relationship—mother, father, [and] child. good stewards of all God’s creation based on a study at “This relationship would not be, for “Angels have been present since Cambridge University, example, two fathers and a mother, or three creation and throughout the history of concluded there women, or a single man because this does salvation, announcing this salvation was “no evidence” to support the claim not exist in the natural biological filiation,” from afar or near and serving the that children’s masculine or feminine Wilson added. “The love and affection of accomplishment of the divine plan. … tendencies were affected by having gay one, two or five people isn’t enough. In CNS Wiechec photo/Nancy They protect Jesus in his infancy, serve or lesbian parents, nor were the quality order for a child to develop into a well- him in the desert, strengthen him in his of their family relationships significantly balanced and fully mature person, he needs agony in the garden. … Again, it is the different. the presence of a father and a mother.” angels who ‘evangelize’ by proclaiming The studied outcomes, however, were In recent years, adults who were the Good News of Christ’s Incarnation limited to children 4-8 years of age, so that raised by same-sex couples have started and Resurrection.” any later effects, as they passed through to recount and write about some of their —Catechism of the puberty, for example, and “came of age,” childhood experiences. Catholic Church (#332) were not included. Robert Oscar Lopez, who has described sense, however, begs the himself as a “bisexual Latino intellectual, e don’t talk about angels as much question—how capable would two men be raised by a lesbian, who experienced Was we should. If they exist, and at helping their adopted daughter with very poverty in the Bronx as a young adult,” we Catholics believe they do, then they female matters pertaining to growing up now works as a professor at California are worth talking about. and maturing physically? State University. He described the notable The Catechism of the Catholic For daughters, this is often an issue challenges that he faced growing up. Church (#329) makes an important requiring ongoing support, communication “Quite simply, growing up with gay distinction between what angels are as and sharing. It is not something men parents was very difficult. … When your spiritual beings, and what they do as can just read up on in a book. It can be a home life is so drastically different from God’s messengers and the guardians of delicate, personal matter, closely connected everyone around you, in a fundamental all God’s creation. to a young woman’s sense of self-identity, way striking at basic physical relations, Angels are intelligent persons and it is reasonable to conclude that there you grow up weird,” he said. “My peers who are pure spirit. They have no are real advantages to the empathy shared learned all the unwritten rules of decorum bodies or material properties. The between a mother and her daughter. and body language in their homes. They mission entrusted to them by God is to A statue of an angel is seen in historic Although The Independent claims this understood what was appropriate to say proclaim good news—or sometimes to Glenwood Cemetery in northeast was the first study to look at how children in certain settings and what wasn’t. They communicate solemn warnings—and to Washington in this 2006 file photo. God in non-traditional families fared when learned both traditionally masculine and guard and defend what God has created, sends angels to help people as they make compared with heterosexual households, traditionally feminine social mechanisms. especially us human beings, against the their way through life and toward eternity at least two other major studies addressing “I had no male figure at all to follow, corruption of sin and the abuse of what with him, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI said the question were published during 2012, and my mother and her partner were both is good and holy. on Sept. 29, 2008, the feast of the Archangels one by Mark Regnerus, a sociologist at unlike traditional fathers or traditional Angels are evangelizers. They Michael, Gabriel and Raphael. the University of Texas in Austin, and mothers,” he continued. “[B]eing strange is proclaim God’s word. Angels are also the other by Loren Marks, a researcher at hard. It takes a mental toll, makes it harder stewards. They serve as guardians or one who nurtured and cared for the child Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. to find friends, interferes with professional caretakers of God’s most precious gifts. Jesus every day of his young life. Both studies presented compelling growth, and sometimes leads one down a Think of your favorite angel story. We don’t think much about our own evidence countering the claim that a child’s sodden path to self-medication in the form Mine is when the angel Gabriel appeared guardian angels except, perhaps, when psychosocial growth is equally supported of alcoholism, drugs, gambling, antisocial to Joseph to tell him the good news we have miraculously escaped from in lesbian and gay environments as it would behavior and irresponsible sex. The that Mary’s pregnancy really was good danger (a car accident or an illness or a be in heterosexual parenting environments. children of same-sex couples have a tough news. It was not the result of infidelity. threatening situation that didn’t turn out Common sense, instead of common road ahead of them. I know, because I have It was not a shameful or embarrassing as badly as it might have). clichés, ought to serve as our starting point been there.” thing—for her or for him. It was God’s “Someone was sure watching over in discussions about adopting children. A compassionate society seeks to intervention into human history with me,” we hear ourselves say. But we One of the clichés we hear is that help and assist orphaned children, but no the gift of his Incarnation and his don’t pay much attention to who that adopting children is really just a matter of reasonable society intentionally deprives saving power. “Rejoice, Joseph!” God’s someone might be—the messenger who the “rights of parents.” those children of a mother or a father. messenger seems to say. “This really is a warns us or the guardian who reaches As Phoebe Wilson noted in an article in That is, however, what placing them great moment in your life and in the life out and protects us from harm. the New Woman: “If adoption is going to into a same-sex home invariably does. of all God’s people.” We should pay more attention be debated as a ‘right,’ then the rights of Gabriel’s good news to Joseph also to angels—not the superficial or the child [innocent and defenseless] are the (Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, Ph.D. contained a privileged responsibility sentimental images we see on greeting rights that prevail. Adoption exists for earned his doctorate in neuroscience at that he was to carry out for the cards, but the powerful messengers-in- the benefit of the child, not for the couple Yale University and did post-doctoral work rest of his life. Joseph was to be, disguise—who joyfully proclaim good who adopts him.” at Harvard University. He is a of the in Blessed John Paul II’s term, news, and the brave souls who guard Same-sex couples who seek to adopt Diocese of Fall River, Mass., and serves redemptoris custos—the Guardian of the us against everything that seeks to a child can doubtless be motivated by as director of education at The National Redeemer. Joseph’s assignment was to bring us down. the best of intentions and by genuine Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. nurture and care for God’s only-begotten The catechism teaches that “the compassion for the plight of an orphan. See www.ncbcenter.org.) † Son, and his mother, through some whole life of the Church benefits tough times (Herod’s persecution of from the mysterious and powerful innocent children and the Holy Family’s help of angels” (#334). Angels are not Letter to the Editor sojourning to and from Egypt), and wimps. They are strong advocates for through times (Jesus’ life as a everything that is good and true, and New Holy Father is a and sisters. The Church and the countries boy growing up in Nazareth). they are not afraid to tell us the truth of the world need to do what they can to Our faith teaches us that every (if only we will listen), or to point us pillar of hope, patience make sure that everyone feels welcome, human being has a guardian angel— in the right direction (if only we will and charity respected and cared for. someone who watches over us and take their advice). • I will oversee the flock with a “look of guards us when we are confronted by Let’s talk more about angels. Let’s Pope Francis is a spiritually interior togetherness,” caring for everything which evil. I like to think that St. Joseph had listen to their voices—often rejoicing but pope of hope, prudent patience and maintains the cohesion of the flock. special help from the angel Gabriel, sometimes weeping in the face of human compassionate charity. These paraphrased • I will hold up with patience the processes who warned him in dreams and who cruelty. Let’s allow them to guide us and thoughts are at the spiritual heart of our through which the Lord carries ahead the undoubtedly traveled with him on those defend us when the going gets tough. new representative of Christ: salvation of his people. difficult journeys from Nazareth to And in our quiet moments, let’s • I care for “hope”—the hope of the • I will strive to maintain an interior Bethlehem, from Bethlehem to Egypt remember, and recite, that simple child’s merciful Father who keeps watch over spirituality which is more meek, more and from Egypt home to Nazareth. prayer: “Angel of God, my Guardian the process of the hearts of his children. patient, and more constant in giving Gabriel’s role was to communicate dear, to whom God’s love commits me This caring hope is manifested and charity. God’s will to Joseph and then to help here, ever this day be at my side, to light consolidated in the parrhesia of the Long live this holy pillar of hope, him keep the child out of harm’s way. and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.” , who display this hope “without patience and charity. Gabriel was a guardian (custos) of the altering the Cross of Christ.” Christ child’s guardian, a steward of the —Daniel Conway • I am pro-active for keeping watch for Gary Taylor God’s people! All people are brothers Salem The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 5 Education reform rocks Statehouse during recent rally By Brigid Curtis Ayer

Education reformers rocked the Statehouse in Indianapolis during a March 11 rally. Music pounded. Students performed. Schisla Charles J. Photos by Gov. Mike Pence and lawmakers revved up a crowd of more than 2,000 rally participants— mostly students— who chanted, “Ed reform rocks!” Keynote speaker Jalen Rose, a former Indiana Pacers player, engaged an already pumped up crowd saying, “I know you guys have seen a lot of YouTube videos with the music that plays something called the ‘Harlem Shake,’ right? So for fun, because I like to make education fun … I want us to break out into something we’re gonna call the ‘Education Shake.’ ” At the count of three, an ignited crowd instinctively whipped out cell phones to video him, Rose brought down the house doing the “Education Shake.” Jalen Rose, a former Indiana Pacers player and school choice advocate, thanks a crowd of more than 2,000 people for their hard work in making school Rose, who started a charter school in choice a reality in Indiana during a March 11 education reform rally at the Statehouse in Indianapolis. his hometown of Detroit, gave Gov. Mike Pence revved up the crowd a “shout out” to saying, “Welcome to your statehouse. parents, thanking We are here to stand with these beautiful them. He told children, with these colleagues in the

students, “There General Assembly, with all of you today. Schisla Charles J. Photos by are people in our “Education Reform does rock in country that don’t Indiana,” he said. ‘We know we have made have people that progress, but for the sake of the kids we love them. They are going to demand great schools in every don’t have people community, serving every child in the state waking them of Indiana.” Gov. Mike Pence up, taking them Senate President Pro Tem David to school in the C. Long, R-Ft. Wayne, told rally morning or patting them on the back and participants that “school choice telling them that it’s gonna be OK. creates competition” which “creates “I had a great mom and a support group, better schools.” and it means a lot to young men and young House Speaker Brian Bosma, women today. So, thank you parents!” R-Indianapolis, added, “This is more Rose gave a “shout out” to teachers, fun and energy in this building than I’ve calling them the “most important seen for 30 years. In 2011, when we were people,” and saying they had to be not successful in getting choice legislation only “educators” but “counselors and passed, I don’t think any of us knew that we Bob Tully, chairperson of campus ministry at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis, is pictured with baby sitters.” would have 9,400 folks make that decision students who attended the March 11 education reform rally. “I’m going to tell you a ,” he this year to be in a school of their choice.” told the students. “If you don’t succeed Mike Obergfell, a social studies scholarship, which is approximately organize the event, said the goal of the rally at school, it’s going to be very tough to teacher at Bishop Dwenger High School 3.8 percent of the student body. was to “show lawmakers our appreciation succeed in life. … So it’s very important in Fort Wayne, brought 17 students and Mike Pepa, a teacher’s assistant at the for the reforms they have made, celebrate” that you take advantage of the opportunity. two teachers to the rally. Charter School of the Dunes in Gary, said all the successes, and also “an opportunity “Indiana is at the forefront of change in “We came to show our support for he loved the “energy and enthusiasm” for the students to learn about the the educational paradigm. I’m here to take education reform and how it has benefited during the rally. He called the event a legislative process.” notes, to pay homage, and give you guys our students,” he said. “We should stand “great learning experience” for the group Last month, the Indiana House passed congratulations for all the great work you and support good things like the expansion of students that he brought to the rally. a proposal to expand access to school have done as legislators, parents, teachers of educational opportunities,” especially for Gene Koch, a seventh-grade teacher choice vouchers. To become law, the [and] as students,” said Rose. “I want to those with limited means. at Lutheran South Unity School in Indiana Senate must also approve the bill. take this back to the state of Michigan. “Parents have a duty and right to educate Fort Wayne, brought a group of 45 students The Indiana Catholic Conference (ICC) “It is unfortunate that in our society that their children in schools they feel best to the rally. supports the bill. the education you get is based on the zip meets their needs—that includes Catholic “I love this. It is such a positive The Senate is expected to consider the code you live in,” he continued. “I ask you schools,” Obergfell added. “It’s pretty hard feeling that kids and their parents have a proposal before the end of March. to do one thing. You may think you have not to be energized when you’re surrounded choice in education,” he said. “It is nice only one voice, but collectively that voice by 2,000 kids! I think it sent a good to see that Indiana is really pushing for (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for is very huge. How do you get your voices message to our legislators.” more reforms.” The Criterion. For more information about heard? Don’t ask. … Demand quality Bishop Dwenger High School has Lindsey Brown, executive director the Indiana Catholic Conference, log on to schools!” 39 students who received a choice of School Choice Indiana, which helped www.indianacc.org. ) † Pope pledges renewed cooperation, Jewish leaders praise his election VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis said he plans reported Rabbi di Segni planned to attend the “The relations between the Vatican and the Jewish renewed cooperation to further Catholic-Jewish relations installation Mass. people are now at their best in the last 2000 years, and I and hopes to contribute to a world where all people live The rabbi sent his best wishes to the new pope, hoping hope they will grow in content and depths,” the president in harmony with the “will of the his leadership would be graced said, adding that the new pope “represents devotion, the Creator.” with “strength and wisdom in love of God, the love of peace, a holy modesty and a new In a message to Chief Rabbi the formidable task that has been continent which is now awakening. Riccardo di Segni of Rome, the entrusted” to Pope Francis. “We need, more than ever, a spiritual leadership and pope said he “profoundly hopes to “In the past decades, Rome not just a political one. Where political leaders may be able to contribute to the progress has been a privileged place where divide, spiritual leaders may unite—unite around a vision, that Jewish-Catholic relations have historical steps have been taken unite around values, unite around a faith that we can make seen starting from the Second in Christian-Jewish relations,” the world a better place to live. May the Lord bless the Vatican Council, in a spirit of Rabbi di Segni wrote the pope. new pope,” Peres wrote. renewed collaboration.” Pope Francis’ election as bishop Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the He said he also hoped to be “at of Rome “gives us the hope that the Anti-Defamation League, called Pope Francis’ election the service of a world that may journey of friendship, respect and “a significant moment in the history of the Church” Pope Francis grow in harmony with the will of Shimon Peres fruitful collaboration will continue,” that will foster positive relations in the wake of “the the Creator.” he wrote. transformational papacies of Pope John Paul II and The pope sent his “cordial greetings” to the head of Israeli President Shimon Peres congratulated Pope Benedict XVI—pontiffs who launched historic Rome’s Jewish community the evening of his election on Pope Francis, inviting him “to pay a visit to the Holy Land reconciliation between the Catholic Church and the March 13, and told the rabbi his installation Mass would at the earliest possibility. Jewish people,” he said in a March 13 statement. be held on March 19. The Vatican released a copy of the “He’ll be a welcome guest in the Holy Land, as a man “There is much in his record that reassures us about message to journalists on March 15. of inspiration that can add to the attempt to bring peace in a the future,” Foxman said, including “the new pope’s The Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, stormy area,” he said in a written statement on March 14. sensitivity to the Jews.” † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013

Events Calendar March 22 or lemonade; $4.00 dinner Georgia St., Indianapolis. caregiver support group, charitable and social singles, April 5 St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. includes pizza or grilled cheese, Rosary , following 5:30-7 p.m. Information: 50 and over, single, separated, Marian University, French fries and one side. 12:10 p.m. Mass, pray and 317-261-3378 or widowed or divorced, new 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Bishop Chartrand Chapel, Ave Marie Guild, rummage Children 2 years and under are process through the streets [email protected]. members welcome, 6:30 p.m. 3200 Cold Spring Road, sale, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. free. Contact church office at of downtown Indianapolis. Information: 317-370-1189. 317-546-4065. Information: faithful. March 29 Indianapolis. Lumen Dei Information: 317-865-0910 or Calvary Cemetery, Mausoleum [email protected]. April 4 meeting, Mass, 6:30 a.m., [email protected]. March 23 Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., St. Monica Parish, 6131 N. breakfast following Mass. Benedict Inn Retreat March 27 Indianapolis. Way of the Michigan Road, Indianapolis. Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish and Conference Center, Information: 317-435-3447 or Marian University, theatre, Cross, noon. Information: Social Justice Committee, Hall, 1125 S. Meridian St., 1402 Southern Ave., 3200 Cold Spring Road, 317-784-4439 or [email protected]. Hoosier Environmental Indianapolis. Lenten fish fry, Beech Grove. Shop INN- Indianapolis. Global Studies www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Council, Kathy Licht, 5-7 p.m., $7 adults, $3 children. spired, spring sale, Speaker Series, “Making April 8-May 13 presenter, 7 p.m. Information: Information: 317-638-5551. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Information: Music Across Cultures Our Lady of Peace Cemetery, St. Luke the Evangelist 317-253-2193. 317-788-7581 or and Nations: The Vision Mausoleum Chapel, 9001 N. Parish, 7575 Holliday Drive, St. Lawrence Catholic Church, [email protected]. of a Young Conductor,” Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. April 4-June 6 E., Indianapolis. Office Fr. Conen Hall, 4644 E. Indianapolis Symphony Way of the Cross, 2 p.m. 46th St., Indianapolis. Lenten Holy Name School, 21 N. St. Simon the Apostle Parish, of Family Ministries, Orchestra and Krzysztof Information: 317-574-8898 or 8155 Oaklandon Road, Fish Fry, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 16th Ave., Beech Grove. Urbanski, presenters, 7 p.m. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. “Divorce and Beyond Indianapolis. Office of Family $7 dinner ($6 if age 65+) Society Annual Spring Program,” six sessions, includes: one entrée (baked Ministries, “Seasons of Rummage Sale, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. March 28 April 3 7-9 p.m., $30 per person, fish, hand battered fried Information: 317-784-5454. Fairview Presbyterian Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Hope-Bereavement Support fish, pizza or grilled cheese), Church, 4609 N. Capitol Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Group,” six-week program, includes program materials. two sides, French fries, biscuit St. John the Evangelist Ave., Indianapolis. Catholic Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, 7-9 p.m. Information: 317-826- Information: 317-236-1586 or with apple butter, iced tea Church, 126 W. Charities Indianapolis, Catholic, educational, 0006 or [email protected]. [email protected]. †

Retreats and Programs Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Sisters of Providence of Saint “A Triduum Retreat: Silent Monastic March 22-27 ,” Annie Endris, facilitator. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Information: 317-788-7581 or Mary-of-the-Woods offer ‘Come 56th St., Indianapolis. “Holy Week Silent [email protected]. Days and Nights,” spiritual direction and See’ weekend on April 5-7 available. Information: 317-545-7681 or April 5-7 archindy.org/fatima. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. The Sisters of Providence of minister in the United States and Asia. “Retreat” Cosmology, Christ and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are hosting a The congregation is committed to March 24 Us,” Jesuit Father Ed Kinek, presenter. “Come and See” weekend on April 5-7 at breaking boundaries and creating hope Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Information: 812-933-6437 or Saint Mary-of-the-Woods motherhouse in by performing works of love, mercy and “ RCIA Retreat: Know God’s oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. justice in service among God’s people. Love,” Franciscan Sister Clare Teixeira, Single Catholic women ages 18-42 are The theme for the weekend is “I have presenter, 1-5:30 p.m., $45 per person April 7 invited to the motherhouse to meet Sisters come that they might have ‘life’…” includes supper. Information: 812-933-6437 or Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. of Providence, including young women in (Jn 10:10), and runs from Friday evening 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Office of formation, as well as to spend some time until Sunday at 2 p.m. The weekend event, March 27-31 Family Ministries, Pre-Cana conference, with other women considering religious including lodging and meals, is free. 1:15-6 p.m., registration required, $45 per Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 200 Hill life. Prayer, reflective sharing, a ministry Saint Mary-of-the-Woods is located couple. Registration: www.archindy.org/fatima. Drive, St. Meinrad. Holy Week Retreat, visit and social time are all on the agenda. six miles northwest of Terre Haute, “Reflections on the Triduum,” the Very April 8 The Sisters of Providence of 77 miles west of Indianapolis and Reverend Benedictine Father Denis Robinson, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Saint Mary-of-the-Woods are a 190 miles south of Chicago. presenter. Information: 812-357-6585 or “Men’s Night,” Benedictine Father congregation of Roman Catholic women For more information or to register, [email protected]. Carl Hawver, presenter, 7-8:30 p.m., free-will religious sisters founded by Saint Mother go to www.SistersofProvidence.org, call March 28-March 31 offering. Information: 812-933-6437 or Theodore Guérin in 1840. Sister Editha at 812-535-2895 or e-mail Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. † Today, approximately 350 sisters [email protected]. †

Holy Week liturgies are set at Spanish classes for adults offered cathedral, Saint Meinrad and at Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Spanish classes for adults will be The cost is $70 and includes a offered on Thursday evenings from April 4 workbook and CD. Spanish teachers Holy Week liturgies at SS. Peter and Church of the Immaculate Conception through May 23 at Our Lady of Lourdes Marwilda Betancourt from Puerto Rico Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis, the Church • March 24—11 a.m. Mass for Parish in Indianapolis. There will be and Judith Nichols will team teach. of the Immaculate Conception in St. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion eight sessions from 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m. in the To enroll, e-mail [email protected] Mary-of-the-Woods and the Archabbey • March 28, Holy Thursday—4 p.m. Parish Center. or call the parish office at 317-356-7291. † Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln in Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. Saint Meinrad are open to the public. • March 29, Good Friday—3 p.m. Liturgy Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, vicar of the Passion and Death of the Lord. general, is scheduled to be the principal • March 30, Holy Saturday—7 p.m. celebrant of the Mass for Palm Sunday Vigil

of the Lord’s Passion at SS. Peter and • March 31, Easter Sunday—11 a.m. Submitted photo Paul Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in Easter Sunday Mass. Indianapolis on March 24. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin is the scheduled celebrant Archabbey Church of Our Lady of for the rest of the cathedral’s Holy Week Einsiedeln and Easter Sunday liturgies listed below. • March 24—9:15 a.m. Blessing and Starting times for all liturgies at the procession with palms, followed by Mass Archabbey Church of Our Lady of for Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion; Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad are central time. 5 p.m. Vespers. Due to space constraints, The Criterion • March 28, Holy Thursday—5 p.m. is only able to list these three Holy Week Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper; liturgical schedules. For information about no Vespers. liturgies at parishes or other religious • March 29, Good Friday—3 p.m. Liturgy communities, contact them individually. of the Passion and Death of the Lord; no Vespers. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral • March 30, Holy Saturday—5 p.m. • March 24—10:30 a.m. Mass for Vespers; 8 p.m. Easter Vigil. Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion. • March 31, Easter Sunday—8 a.m. • March 26—3 p.m. chrism Mass. ; 11:30 a.m. Midday Prayer; • March 28, Holy Thursday—7 p.m. 5 p.m. Vespers. Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper • April 1, Easter Monday—9:30 a.m. followed by until Mass; 5 p.m. Vespers. 10 p.m. • April 2, Easter Tuesday—7:30 a.m. • March 29, Good Friday—3 p.m. Liturgy Mass; 5 p.m. Vespers. † Statehouse visit of the Passion and Death of the Lord. • March 30, Holy Saturday—9 p.m. Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin, the sixth archbishop of Indianapolis, meets with Easter Vigil. Lt. Gov. Sue Ellspermann, left, and Sen. Jean Leising, R-Oldenburg, at the Statehouse in • March 31, Easter Sunday—10:30 a.m. Indianapolis on March 12. Archbishop Tobin offered the prayer that day prior to the Senate Easter Sunday Mass. convening. Leising had invited him to the Statehouse as a special guest. The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 7 Monk, seminarians in St. Peter’s Square to see new pope By Sean Gallagher singing, praying and laughing. It was a beautiful sight.” On the evening of March 13, seminarian While Hollowell saw the white Anthony Hollowell was doing homework in smoke on his computer monitor, Submitted photo his room at the Pontifical North American Rodriguez was in the square College (NAC) in Rome when he glanced watching it in person. over at his computer monitor that showed “When we first saw the white a live video feed of the chimney of the smoke, I felt something inside me,” said Sistine Chapel. Deacon Rodriguez, a native of Mexico. “I The previous day, Hollowell had felt so much energy like I wanted to run proclaimed the first reading at the Mass and scream ‘Es blanco!’ [‘It’s white!’] celebrated in St. Peter’s Basilica just “In fact, I did scream a lot and cheered prior to the start of the conclave to elect a for the new pope. It was something that new pope. was just indescribable.” When he looked at the monitor, he saw He was also excited because the what millions of Catholics around the world cardinals had elected a Latin American had been waiting for during the previous like himself as the new bishop of Rome. 24 hours—white smoke. But Deacon Rodriguez’s pride “I yelled ‘Habemus papam!’ and extended beyond his ethnicity when he sprinted out the door. I was in the square in saw fellow Catholics from around the Seminarian Matthew Tucci, left, transitional Deacon Martin Rodriguez, seminarian Anthony Hollowell three minutes,” said Hollowell, a member of world surrounding him in the square. and transitional Deacon Douglas Marcotte pose on March 12 in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in “There were people from the U.S., It was the first day of the conclave that elected Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as Indianapolis. from France, from China, from Colombia pope. The seminarians, who are receiving their priestly formation at the Pontifical North American The NAC is built on a hill overlooking and from India,” said Deacon Rodriguez, College in Rome, were in the square the next night to see Pope Francis introduced. the Vatican. About an hour later, Hollowell a member of St. Mary Parish in and some 200,000 other people filling and Indianapolis. “The whole Church was first words were ‘bona sera’ (“good Deacon Marcotte is scheduled overflowing out of St. Peter’s Square heard represented at the square and we were evening”), not “buona sera”, which is to be ordained a priest, along with French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran say the there for the same reason—to welcome standard Italian,” Father Paul said. “The taxi Deacon Rodriguez and transitional same words that Hollowell had shouted our new shepherd.” driver said that Romans say ‘bona sera,’ Deacon John Kamwendo, in about in his room, which are Latin for, “We Deacon Marcotte shared that and that he thought the new pope was two months. have a pope!” excitement and pride as well. intentionally using Roman dialect to appeal Deacon Marcotte said that Pope Francis’ Also in the square that night were “It was easily the most exciting night to the people that he will serve. humble gestures and simple prayers on the three other archdiocesan seminarians of my life, a time of great joy and a time “Pope Francis has shown an informal, night of his election are good examples for receiving their priestly formation at the to celebrate with the whole Church,” humble style. The fact that his first public him to follow. NAC—Matthew Tucci and transitional said Deacon Marcotte, a member of words were a simple ‘good evening’ in the “Pope Francis practices what he Douglas Marcotte and St. Michael Parish in Greenfield. “It was Roman dialect seems like the perfect start.” preaches,” Deacon Marcotte said. “As a Martin Rodriguez. as if the whole world was gathered in the The new pope demonstrated his humility future priest, I know my actions will be just Also present to witness the historic square to celebrate.” shortly after stepping onto the balcony as important as anything I could preach moment was Benedictine Father Paul Nord, The appearance of Pope Francis on when he asked the crowd and people from the ambo. If my life as a priest is one a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica had around the world to pray for him, and then lived in relationship with Jesus Christ, my St. Meinrad who is doing graduate studies a positive effect on Tucci. And like his bowed down. joy will be what ultimately draws many to in Rome. fellow seminarians, he was impressed by Deacon Rodriguez was impressed by hear the Good News.” All of them shared their experience of seeing so many Catholics from around how the people in the square, who had been After racing to St. Peter’s Square at the papal election the world. screaming moments earlier, all stood silent the first sign of white smoke, Hollowell in e-mails sent to “This experience has shown me that in prayer for the new pope. eventually made it back up to the NAC The Criterion. the Church is very alive throughout “In that moment, I realized that we have a where he and the other seminarians As Hollowell the world,” said Tucci, a member of new Holy Father and his first commandment prayed before the in made his way to the Holy Family Parish in New Albany. is to pray,” said Deacon Rodriguez. “I gratitude for the new pope. Then they square bursting with “The Holy Father even said that the actually got goose bumps when the entire had a celebration and watched cardinals excitement, he saw cardinals went to the end of the world to square, and many people in their homes, from the United States be interviewed lots of people doing find him. Christ goes that far.” remained in silence. It was truly a beautiful after the cardinals made their way back to the same. Although the pope is the shepherd of testimony of ecclesial prayer.” the seminary. “There were the universal Church, he is also bishop Father Paul called the pope bowing down “[The papal election] has impacted my many people of Rome. “a very profound moment.” But he was also soul and my vocation in a serious way,” running to the Father Paul got an appreciation of moved by him leading the crowd in prayer said Hollowell. “I am still processing so Fr. Paul Nord, O.S.B. square, and there how Pope Francis is trying to make for Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. much of it. If it doesn’t make me into a was so much energy connections with Romans when he spoke “It seems simple, but that is really the holier, more loving person, then it was and excitement,” he said. “People kept with a taxi cab driver the next day. pope’s primary role, to lead us all in prayer all a waste of time, so I hope that it bears coming in from all sides, and there was “He pointed out that Pope Francis’ before God,” Father Paul said. much fruit.” †

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To Donate: www.archindy.org/UCA Page 8 The Criterion Friday, March 15, 2013 mass continued from page 1 CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul In his homily, Pope Francis asked prayers that he would be able to protect the Church like St. Joseph protected Mary and Jesus, “discreetly, humbly and silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, even when he [found] it hard to understand.” He said in the Gospels, St. Joseph “can look at things realistically, he is in touch with his surroundings, he can make truly wise decisions.” But more than anything, he said, the patron of the universal Church teaches Christians that the core concern of their lives must be Christ. “Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation,” Pope Francis said. He called for special efforts to protect “God’s plan inscribed in nature,” and to protect one another, especially children, the aged, the poor and the sick. Although according to Church law he officially became pope the moment that he accepted his election in the Sistine Chapel on March 13, Pope Francis received important symbols of his office just before the inauguration Mass—the Book of the Gospels, the , St. Peter, and the pallium, a woolen band worn around the shoulders to evoke a shepherd carrying a sheep. With members of the dressed Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 19. in gold gathered before the main altar in St. Peter’s Basilica and brass players sounding a fanfare, Six cardinals, representing the entire College of the rites began at the tomb of St. Peter. Pope Francis Cardinals, publicly pledged obedience to the pope. venerated the relics of his predecessor as head of the While many Christians acknowledge the special role of Church, and was joined there by the heads of the Eastern the bishop of Rome as the one who presides over the entire CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul Catholic Churches. Christian community in love, the way the papacy has been Processing behind the Eastern Church leaders and exercised over the centuries is one of the key factors in the the cardinals, Pope Francis—wearing a simple, mostly ongoing division of Christians. white and his black shoes—came out into For the first time since the Great Schism of 1054 St. Peter’s Square while the choir chanted a special split the main Christian community into East and West, to Christ the King. the ecumenical attended the installation Mass. French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, who had Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, first among announced Pope Francis’ election to the world six days equals of the Eastern Orthodox, sat in a place of honor earlier, placed the pallium, which had been worn by near the papal altar. Pope Benedict XVI, around the new pope’s neck. The Catholicos Karekin II of Etchmiadzin, patriarch of retired pope did not attend the Mass. the Armenian Apostolic Church, also attended the Mass “The Good Shepherd charged Peter to feed his lambs along with delegations from 12 other Orthodox Churches, and his sheep. Today you succeed him as the bishop of 10 Anglican and Protestant communities and three this Church to which he and the Apostle Paul were fathers international Christian organizations, including the World in faith,” Cardinal Tauran said. Council of Churches. Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College After the Lord’s prayer, Pope Francis exchanged of Cardinals, presented Pope Francis with the fisherman’s a sign of peace with Patriarch Bartholomew and with ring, a gold-plated silver band featuring St. Peter holding Catholicos Karekin. keys, a reminder that Jesus told St. Peter: “I will give you The Chief Rabbinate of Israel, the Jewish community of the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on Rome and several international Jewish organizations sent Earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose representatives to the ceremony, as did Muslim, Buddhist, on Earth shall be loosed in heaven” (Mt 16:19). Sikh, Jain and Hindu communities and organizations. Giving the pope “the ring, the seal of Peter the Also present were representatives of 132 governments, fisherman,” Cardinal Sodano told the pope he was called, led by the presidents of and Argentina, the reigning Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re kisses Pope Francis’ ring as he as bishop of Rome, to preside over the Church with royals of six countries—including Belgium’s king and pledges obedience during the new pope’s inaugural Mass in charity. He prayed the pope would have “the gentleness queen—and 31 heads of state. Vice President Joseph St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 19. Six cardinals, and strength to preserve, through your ministry, all those Biden led the U.S. delegation while David Lloyd Johnston, representing the College of Cardinals, pledged obedience to who believe in Christ in unity and fellowship.” governor general, led the Canadian delegation. † the pope. Pope Francis begins papacy pledging to protect Church, human dignity VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis formally began the crowds applauded enthusiastically when Pope Francis “Be protectors of God’s gifts.” his ministry as bishop of Rome and as pope by pledging said, “We are close to him with our prayers, full of affection When people fail to respect creation, when they ignore to protect the Catholic Church, the dignity of each person and gratitude.” “God’s plan inscribed in nature,” or when they treat each and the beauty of creation, just like St. Joseph protected The new pope stood at a lectern to read his homily, other with disrespect, he said, “the way is opened to Mary and Jesus. sticking to the text that he had prepared in advance. At destruction, and hearts are hardened. “To protect creation, to protect every man and every times his voice was extremely soft, and other times it was “Tragically, in every period of history there are woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to quite loud. He punctuated with clenched fists his remarks ‘Herods’ who plot death, wreak havoc and mar the open up a horizon of hope,” he told between 150,000 and about the strength required to be tender and compassionate countenance of men and women,” he said. 200,000 people gathered under sunny skies in St. Peter’s to others. Pope Francis asked the government leaders present Square and the nearby streets. “In the Gospels,” he said, “St. Joseph appears as a strong and all those with responsibility in the field of economics, With representatives of other Churches and Christian and courageous man, a working man, yet in his heart we see politics and social life to stand firm when destruction communities, delegations from 132 countries, Jewish great tenderness, which is not the virtue of the weak, but and death threaten human dignity, human life and the and Muslim leaders as well as Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs rather a sign of strength of spirit and a capacity for concern, environment. He met with the heads of the government and Jains present, Pope Francis preached the , for compassion, for genuine openness to others, for love. delegations after the Mass. but insisted the values it espouses are essentially human, “We must not be afraid of goodness, of tenderness,” Caring for others, he said in his homily, must begin “involving everyone.” Pope Francis said. with watching over one’s own heart, mind and actions, While the rites and rituals of the inauguration of The new pope said exercising the role of protector as resisting “hatred, envy and pride” and emotions that can his ministry as pope took place immediately before St. Joseph did means doing so “discreetly, humbly and tear others down. the Mass, the liturgy itself was a celebration of the silently, but with an unfailing presence and utter fidelity, Pope Francis told the people he realized his new feast of St. Joseph, patron of the universal Church and even when he finds it hard to understand.” ministry included “a certain power,” but it is the same “also the name day of my venerable predecessor,” The Gospels present St. Joseph as a husband to Mary, power Jesus conferred on St. Peter, which was the “power Pope Benedict XVI, the former Joseph Ratzinger. “at her side in good times and bad,” and as a father who of service” seen in Jesus’ charge to St. Peter: “Feed my The retired pope was not present at the liturgy, but watched over Jesus, worried about him and taught him a lambs. Feed my sheep” (Jn 21:15, 17). trade, the pope said. “Let us never forget that authentic power is service St. Joseph responded to his call to be a protector “by and that the pope, too, when exercising power, must enter being constantly attentive to God, open to the signs of God’s ever more fully into that service which has its radiant presence and receptive to God’s plans, and not simply his culmination on the cross,” he said.

CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul own,” the pope said. “He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and Fidelity to God’s word and God’s plan for individuals faithful service which marked St. Joseph and, like him, and for all of creation makes the difference, he said, calling he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and on everyone to be sensitive and loving toward those in their embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, care, especially toward children, the aged, the poor and especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important,” the sick. Pope Francis said. Cardinals attend Pope Francis’ inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s “In the end, everything has been entrusted to our “Only those who serve with love are able to protect,” Square at the Vatican on March 19. protection, and all of us are responsible for it,” he said. he said. † The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 9 Pilgrims rise early to get spot to welcome Pope Francis VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Many in the crowd, holding aloft Michael Vazquez of Windermere, Fla., cameras, banners and flags from different woke up at 4:30 a.m. just to be sure he countries, cheered the pope’s arrival at the and his friends got to St. Peter’s Square square. Some ran from side to side in the on time for the inaugural Mass of square’s center, where there was still some Haring CNS photo/Paul Pope Francis. empty space, to catch a glimpse of him in When the gates opened, he was the popemobile prior to the start of Mass. surprised at how fast everyone ran to When he passed, they cheered, waved stake out their spots, either close to the and took a lot of pictures. front or along a fence, as he was, to see Prior to Mass, they waited in almost the pope as he passed by. quiet anticipation. There was none of the Vazquez, a junior at England’s dancing and singing in the square that took Oxford University visiting Rome on place prior to his March 17 Angelus. Many a semester break, said the pope has a in the crowd just talked with one another or “refreshing, simple style” that appeals to tried to locate friends and family members young people. in the square by cellphone. His friend, Shaun Bailham, studying Almost everyone, it seemed, took for his master’s degree at Oxford, said pictures. Some placed towels, blankets Pope Francis had shown a unique way of and even trash bags on the cobblestones reaching out to people, but he also said he to sit. A few had portable chairs. Many was “fond of Pope Benedict [XVI]” and prayed quietly, fingering rosaries or reading was waiting to see what the new pope prayer books. would do. “I’m happy to see the pope with my own In the meantime, while the Church eyes,” said Sister Grace Rayola, a Sister was still getting to of the Sacred Heart of know the new pope, Ragusa, Sicily, who he said, “We should described the Mass as buckle our seat belts ‘Today is a big event in a “great, joyous day for and enjoy the ride.” the Church and for the the whole world, and The two were not just for Catholics.” among more than and the Father Philip 150,000 people rest of the world. We Massawe, a member gathered in St. Peter’s expect the pope to bring of the Congregation of Square under a blue new life in the Church.’ the Holy Spirit based in sky and sunshine after Rome, said he “came to days of rain to greet — Augustin Mulia, be part of history.” Pope Francis at his He said he felt the inaugural Mass on a first-year seminarian Church had been given March 19. from Congo studying at “new impetus and The crowd, some the Pontifical Gregorian new inspiration” with A man waves Argentina’s flag as Pope Francis celebrates his inaugural Mass in St. Peter’s Square at of whom had been University in Rome Pope Francis, whom he the Vatican on March 19. waiting in line for described as a “pastor hours before the who wants to be close square opened at 7 to his flock and walk a.m. for the 9:30 a.m. Mass, came not with his flock,” helping the Church minister only to see their new pope but to be part to the poor.

of history. Others saw the moment as The Zimbabwean priest said he was CNS photo/Chris Warde-Jones the beginning of a new inspiration in afraid he would not get into the square the Church. when he saw the streets were packed early “We came to see the pope,” said a nun in the morning. who identified herself as Sister Juby, a The crowd size did not surprise him, Sister of St. Ann based in Rome. though. She quickly added that the experience “There is a lot of enthusiasm for the of attending the pope’s inaugural Mass pope,” he said. “We are waiting for things with such a large crowd was more than to happen. We all want to be here.” just something historic or exciting. Augustin Mulia, a first-year seminarian “This is just the beginning. Today from Congo studying at the Pontifical we have euphoria, but this is not like Gregorian University in Rome, had a going to a movie or a soccer match similar reaction. where we just go home when it’s over,” “Today is a big event in the Church and Sister Juby said. She said the pontificate for the Diocese of Rome and the rest of the of Pope Francis will be the start of a new world,” he said. “We expect the pope to challenge for Catholics, who should show bring new life in the Church.” their affection by following “what he asks Mulia, who held an umbrella, just in case of us.” it rained, also noted that he did not expect a “Just as God has given him a grace, sunny day. he will give all of us a grace, too,” “For that, we thank our Creator,” A priest gives Communion to a journalist working atop the colonnade during the inaugural Mass of she added. he added. † Pope Francis in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on March 19. Pope chooses silver ring and pallium style in keeping with predecessor VATICAN CITY (CNS)—With his gave Archbishop Macchi for Pope Paul. fisherman’s ring and the pallium—the Pope Francis’ ring was made from main symbols of the Petrine office— the same wax cast of the ring meant Pope Francis chose styles in continuity for Pope Paul, who never wore it, with two of his predecessors. Father Lombardi said. Haring CNS photo/Paul The fisherman’s ring that During the installation Mass on

Pope Francis chose is made of March 19, Pope Francis received the Rellandini, Reuters CNS photo/Stefano gold-plated silver, and is based on the newly made ring from the dean of the same design of a papal ring handed College of Cardinals, Italian Cardinal down from Pope Paul VI’s personal Angelo Sodano. secretary. It shows an image of St. Peter The pallium that Pope Francis received holding the two keys—one key from French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran represents the power in heaven, and the during the Mass was the same one other indicates the spiritual authority of Pope Benedict XVI used—a short woolen Above, Pope Francis, left, receives his ring the papacy on Earth. band that the retired pope re-introduced from Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the The ring, which represents the in 2008, and similar to the kind worn College of Cardinals, during his inaugural pope’s role as a “fisher of men,” by Blessed John Paul II. It is worn over decorated with six red crosses symbolizing Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on was designed by a late-Italian artist, the shoulder and has a 12-inch long strip the wounds inflicted on Christ during the March 19. Enrico Manfrini, who was very close hanging down the front and the back. Passion, Father Lombardi said. He said to Pope Paul and his late-secretary, The pallium is a woolen band that the crosses on for metropolitan Above left, the pallium is fitted on Archbishop Pasquale Macchi. signifies the pope’s or the archbishop’s archbishops are black to make clear the Pope Francis during his inaugural Mass Pope Francis had about three authority over the Christian community. It diversity of jurisdiction. in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on models of rings to choose from, also represents the shepherd’s mission of The end piece, like all palliums, is March 19. With his fisherman’s ring and the said the Vatican spokesman, Jesuit placing the lost, sick or weak sheep on his made of black silk, a symbol of the lost pallium, the main symbols of the Petrine Father , and the shoulders. sheep that the shepherd rescues and carries office, the pontiff chose styles in continuity pope chose the design that Manfrini The pallium the pope wears is over his shoulder back to the flock. † with two of his predecessors. Page 10 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 11 Portenos paint Pope Francis as kind, outspoken, good administrator Pope Francis Jorge Mario Bergoglio BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNS)—Oscar Justo, 60, Gabriel Castelli, a member of the board of directors at begs for bills and coins from a perch next to St. Joseph the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina, said the Is the first pope… Parish in Barrio de Flores, the neighborhood where new pope “always had the ability to say what he thinks.” • From the Americas Pope Francis was born. He put a priority on providing attention to his • From Jesuit order As Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires, . He had a cellphone reserved just for his nearly • To take name Francis Pope Francis passed by often, walking from the bus stop 4,000 diocesan priests, and each morning he reserved Is known to… or surfacing from a nearby subway station. But he always one hour to take their calls. • Take the bus and subway took time to greet Justo, offer a blessing and provide a “He was very committed to his priests, which is CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, Reuters • Cook his meals few pesos. difficult with such a large archdiocese,” Castelli said. • Have strong devotion to Mary “He always gave me something ... sometimes Many in the Church, like Poirier, speak of his • Visit the poor 100 pesos [$20],” said Justo, 60, who lost both legs in a administrative skills in Buenos Aires. • Be very spiritual railway accident. “He’s not an intellectual [like Pope Benedict], • Have low-key style Such stories of kindness abound in Buenos Aires, rather a man of government, with great political and • Love soccer and tangos where Pope Francis was archbishop for 15 years, administrative abilities,” Poirier said. until being elected pope on March 13. Portenos, as Priests had to keep their parishes in order, Speaks locals here are known, came to know Pope Francis Poirier said. • Spanish, Italian, English, as an unpretentious , who took public transit, He said Pope Francis preferred the shanties to high French and German “Now let's begin this journey, bishop showed preoccupation for the poor and challenged the society. He never dined out or went to parties. He and people… a journey of brother- authorities. cooked for himself and read voraciously. He especially hood, love and trust among us.” The new pope is mostly portrayed as a pope for liked Latin American literature and Fyodor Dostoyevsky the poor and common people. But a more complex novels. He did not use a computer or e-mail and listened picture—as a priest, administrator and soccer fanatic— to games of his favorite soccer team, San Lorenzo, on the comes from Argentina, where vendors now peddle his radio. Then Cardinal Jorge pictures and posters, and where Peronists—the political Barrio de Flores is a working class neighborhood. Mario Bergoglio poses movement founded by former President Juan Peron and The new pope’s father was a railway worker, his mother with young soccer players his second wife, Eva Peron—have blanketed Buenos a homemaker. As a youth, the pope studied in public from the San Lorenzo Aires with posters proclaiming him one of their own. schools, which included technical certification as a soccer club, of which he is He ascended in the Church, something attributed to chemist. known to be a fan. his force of personality and ability to remember names He returned often to the barrio, to St. Joseph Parish, and faces. where he was scheduled to celebrate Mass on Palm Dec. 17, 1936 1957 March 11, 1958 “He has a prodigious memory,” said Father Andres Sunday. Born in Buenos Aires, At age 21, falls gravely ill; Enters novitiate of the Aguerre, Jesuit vice provincial in Argentina. “You tell At St. Joseph, parishioners shared memories. Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio washes and kisses the feet of residents of a shelter for drug users during Holy Thursday Mass Argentina, to Italian eventually severe pneumonia him your birthday once and he remembers.” “He always carried his own bags,” recalled Zaira in 2008 at a church in a poor neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The 76-year-old Jesuit became the first Latin American pope on immigrant parents is diagnosed, right lung In the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires, Pope Francis Sanchez, 72. March 13, taking the name Francis. partially removed adopted the attitude that the Church belongs in the After Mass, “People would wait outside, and he would street. He built chapels and missions in poor areas and bless all of them and talk to them,” before leaving on sent seminarians to serve them. public transit, she said. He spoke out often against injustice, such as the He took time for causes, too—such as Fundacion March 12, 1960 1960 1961-1963 treatment of migrant workers from neighboring Alameda, which sought support from Pope Francis for Takes first vows as Studies humanities in Padre Studies philosophy at countries and those lured into the sex trade, and against its work against the exploitation of migrants working in Jesuit Hurtado, Chile San Miguel Seminary, social issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage. Argentina. It also works to prevent migrant women from Buenos Aires He criticized the late President Nestor Kirchner being lured into the sex trade. and President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who The foundation’s director, Olga Cruz, knew the then- CNS photo/Enrique Garcia Medina, Reuters succeeded her husband in 2007, and their way of cardinal previously—he baptized both her children, who doing politics—by building patronage groups, instead were not infants, after she asked him personally. 1964-1965 1966 1967-1970 of alleviating poverty, he alleged. They responded by “He said it would be an honor,” recalled Cruz, a native Teaches high school Teaches at prestigious Studies theology at San going to other churches instead of the cathedral for of Bolivia. literature and psychology Colegio del Salvador Miguel seminary important ceremonies. Pope Francis embraced the migrants’ cause, making at Jesuit secondary school secondary school in “They went off to the provinces ... where there public statements and celebrating Mass for the in Santa Fe Buenos Aires was a more friendly Church,” said Jose Maria Poirier, foundation. director of the Catholic magazine El Criterio, who has “He told me, ‘Don’t be afraid’ ... that I can confront interviewed Pope Francis frequently over the years. this,” Cruz told Catholic News Service. Dec. 13, 1969 1970-1971 “Here in Buenos Aires, he was a man politically at Cruz also recalled him coming at a moment’s notice to Is ordained priest Spends “tertianship,” or odds with the government, very much loved by the poor provide spiritual and moral support for women rescued Third Probation period and members of the opposition. ... But, fundamentally, from the sex trade, who were sometimes sheltered in of Jesuit formation in he’s a pastor and political man,” he said. parishes. Spain “Bergoglio is very demanding . ... He demanded a lot Parishioners at St. Joseph showed mixed emotions of discipline and obedience. He also considered himself about Pope Francis having to leave Argentina for a a privileged interpreter of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and higher calling. 1971-1973 1973 this caused controversy,” said Poirier. “Half [of the “Once he got to know you, he knew you for life,” said Serves as master of novices Takes perpetual Jesuits] liked him a lot, but half wanted nothing to do St. Joseph parishioner Gloria Koen, 73. “Unfortunately, and vice chancellor, San profession as Jesuit with him.” we had to share him with the world.” † Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio presides over a 2012 confirmation service at Our Lady of Caacupe Chapel in a poor section of Miguel seminary Buenos Aires, Argentina.

1973-1979 1979-1985 1986 In Buenos Aires slum, Catholic Church counters drugs and evangelicals Serves as superior of Serves as rector of Colegio Goes to Germany to Jesuit province of Maximo and theology finish doctoral thesis BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNS)—Mass at the Christ The liturgy starts as the sun sets, with children and local serving hot meals and organizing youth groups and drug “He used to come to the villas, sip mate [an infusion] and Argentina and teacher the Worker Parish is celebrated on a cement soccer field. youth beating drums and dancers dressed in blue and white rehabilitation programs. visit with the people,” Father di Paola said. Uruguay There, parishioners sit on portable pews and relax on the costumes—similar to the national patroness, Our Lady of He also denounced drug use, drug decriminalization and “People can show you photos of him in their house,” he embankment of an overpass. Shipping containers soar over Lujan—circling the field. drug dealing—especially paco, a form of crack cocaine added. “Humble people can’t believe that he came to my the fence behind the altar. The Mass unfolds like any other—readings, homily, processed with sulfuric acid and kerosene and sold in ‘villa,’ my barrio, and now he’s pope.” consecration, handshakes and Communion. the villas. In 2009, the pope’s denouncements forced Maria Laura, 20, said, “It’s pretty strange to say that I was June 27, 1992 June 3, 1997 Feb. 28, 1998 Is ordained auxiliary Is named coadjutor Is installed as The chapel near the soccer field is part church, part Father di Paola, 50, to temporarily leave the villas after he confirmed by the pope.” bishop of Buenos archbishop archbishop of Buenos community center and serves Villa 31, one of the more received death threats. She participates with a youth group at Christ the Worker than 500 shanties surrounding the Argentine capital, places None of that slowed down the mission work, which Parish, and said her group tried to help “a lot of kids getting Aires Aires

CNS photo/David Agren CNS photo/David where the authorities are often absent and drug dealing is Father di Paola suspected has been successful because into drugs.” rife. Christ the Worker Parish has six chapels in Villa 31 and priests actually live and work in the villas and become part The youth groups also provide a path for young men to adjacent areas. of the community. Their numbers grew under Pope Francis, enter the seminary, although many seminarians and priests It is an example of the outreach to outcasts and the poor going from “eight or nine” priests to more than 20, he said. not from the villas are sent to serve them. 2001 Feb. 21, 2001 2005 employed by Pope Francis during his 15 years as archbishop “This has stopped evangelicals” from moving in, added Father Martin Carrozza, 36, grew up near the Co-presides over Is elevated to cardinal Receives second-highest of Buenos Aires, where he wanted the Church brought closer Father di Paolo, 50, who looks like a man in his late 30s archdiocesan seminary, but was asked by Pope Francis to Synod of Bishops number of votes in conclave to the people and sent seminarians and priests to serve them. with his shaggy hair, thin beard and black tennis shoes. serve the villas. that elected Cardinal Joseph “The outskirts of Buenos Aires”—where many “villas de It also gives a sense of community to those originally “He said, ‘If you don’t like it, I [will] remove you Ratzinger as pope emergencia,” or shanties, are located—“were the center for from other places. Father di Paolo said priests often from them,” recalled Father Carrozza, vicar at Christ the him, not the downtown,” said Father Jose Maria di Paola, incorporate customs that Catholics bring from the Worker Parish. or, “Padre Pepe,” perhaps the best-known of the priests who neighboring countries into their celebrations. Father Carrozza said he would not consider leaving the 2005-2011 March 13, 2013 live and work in the villas. Pope Francis frequently visited the villas, places polite community, explaining, “The people made me feel at home. Serves as president, Is elected pope by “The orientation of the archdiocese has been directed society members, and some taxi drivers, avoid. He arrived They really opened their hearts.” Argentine Bishops conclave of 115 Father Jose Maria di Paolo, “Padre Pepe,” poses prior to Mass toward the most needy,” Father di Paola said, adding that the on the bus or collective transport, walked the rutted roads With his former archbishop now in the Vatican, Conference cardinals in the Villa 31 shanty of Buenos Aires, Argentina, on March 17. Church at times has provided more social assistance in the and baptized and confirmed the children of the residents— Father di Paolo expects pastors like him to be a priority in The archdiocese made building chapels and serving people villas than the state has provided. many of whom worked as bricklayers and maids or came the papacy of Pope Francis. living in the shanties a priority during the administration of The villas were such a priority for Pope Francis that from countries such as Bolivia, Peru and Paraguay in search “Any priest working with the poor will have a pastor Sources: Catholic News Service, , Jesuit Conference of Argentina and Uruguay, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis. he established chapels and missions, providing education, of better economic opportunities. close by,” he said. † Archdiocese of Buenos Aires.

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)— Society of Jesus” in 1773. one is chosen to serve as his vicar on Pope Francis said that “as things got The pope told the media, Earth. But Christ is the center, the dangerous” in the conclave voting, “You’ve really been working, focal point.” he was sitting next to his “great haven’t you?” Thanking the reporters again for friend,” Brazilian Cardinal Claudio While the Church includes a all their hard work, Pope Francis also Hummes “who comforted me.” large institution with centuries of asked them to continue trying “to When the former Cardinal Jorge history, he said, “the Church does discover the true nature of the Church Romano) CNS photo/L’Osservatore Mario Bergoglio went over the not have a political nature, but a and its journey through the world, 77 votes needed to become pope, spiritual one.” with its virtues as well as its sins.” he said, Cardinal Hummes “hugged Pope Francis told reporters Communications, he said, me, kissed me and said, ‘Don’t it was the Holy Spirit who led requires study, preparation and a forget the poor.’ ” Pope Benedict XVI to resign, special attention “to truth, goodness Pope Francis told thousands of and it was the Holy Spirit who and beauty,” which is something journalists on March 16 that he took guided the conclave. the Church has in common with to heart the words of his friend, who The pope acknowledged how journalism. before being appointed a bishop difficult it is for many media to He ended his talk by telling was a Franciscan, and chose to be cover the Church as a spiritual, reporters he hoped they would grow called after St. Francis of Assisi, “the rather than a political institution, in their knowledge of “the Gospel man of poverty, the man of peace, and he offered special thanks “to of Jesus Christ and the reality of the the man who loves and protects those who were able to observe and Church. I entrust you to the protection creation,” the same created world recount these events in the story of of the Blessed Virgin Mary, star of the “with which we don’t have such a the Church from the most correct new evangelization.” good relationship.” perspective in which they must be After personally greeting dozens “How I would like a Church that read, that of faith.” of journalists and representatives of is poor and that is for the poor,” The Church, he said, “is the the Vatican press office, the Pontifical he told the more than 5,000 media people of God, the holy people Council for Social Communications, representatives who came from of God, because it is journeying the Vatican newspaper and Vatican around the world for the conclave toward an encounter with Jesus Radio, the pope came back to the and his election. Christ.” microphone. The meeting took place in the No one can understand the “I know that many of you are Vatican’s Paul VI audience hall. Church without understanding its not Catholic or are not believers, Pope Francis also said some spiritual purpose, he said. so I impart my heartfelt blessing to had suggested jokingly that he, a “Christ is the pastor of the each of you silently, respecting your Jesuit, should have taken the name Church, but his presence passes consciences, but knowing that each of Pope Francis greets a man with a guide dog as he conducts a Clement XV “to get even with through the freedom of human you is a child of God. May God bless general audience in the Paul VI hall for members of the media at Clement XIV, who suppressed the beings,” he said. “Among them, you,” he said. † the Vatican on March 16. Vatican releases Pope Francis’ coat of arms and motto by English saint VATICAN CITY (CNS)— gave to the Apostle Peter and his red, representing Jesus and the significantly with his merciful Pope Francis’ papal motto is successors, is on the new papal religious order in which the pope understanding of men. CNS based on the Gospel account of coat of arms and has been part of was ordained as a priest in 1969. “He saw the tax collector and, the call of St. Matthew, the tax papal emblems for centuries. Below are a five-pointed because he saw him through the collector, in a homily given by The papal emblem uses a gold star and the buds of a spikenard eyes of mercy and chose him, St. Bede the Venerable. key to represent the authority flower, which represent he said to him: ‘Follow me.’ The pope decided to keep his in heaven and a silver key to respectively the Blessed Virgin This following meant imitating episcopal motto and coat of arms indicate the spiritual authority Mary and St. Joseph, according the pattern of his life—not just for his pontificate with just a few of the papacy on Earth. The red to Jesuit Father Federico walking after him. St. John minor adjustments in line with a cord that unites the two keys Lombardi, Vatican spokesman. tells us, ‘Whoever says he papal emblem. For example, the alludes to the bond between the The papal motto, like his abides in Christ ought to walk coat of arms adds the bishop’s two powers. episcopal one, is the Latin in the same way in which he miter and the keys of St. Peter. Something Pope Francis phrase “Miserando atque walked’ ” (1 Jn 2:6). The miter was something that seems to have changed is to have eligendo,” which means St. Bede continued: “This Pope Benedict XVI established removed the pallium, the woolen “because he saw him through the conversion of one tax collector in 2005, putting an end to band symbolizing a bishop’s eyes of mercy and chose him” or gave many men, those from his the three-tiered tiara that, for authority, to the elements more simply, “having mercy, he own profession and other sinners, The coat of arms of Pope Francis centuries, had appeared at the top surrounding the shield. The called him.” an example of repentance and borrows much from his former of each pope’s coat of arms. pallium was a new element that The phrase comes from a . Notice also the happy episcopal emblem. On the blue shield The simple, more modest Pope Benedict added to his coat homily by St. Bede—an English and true anticipation of his future is the symbol of the Society of Jesus. miter has three gold stripes to of arms in 2005. eighth-century Christian writer status as apostle and teacher of Below it is a five-pointed star and the mirror the threefold ministry The new papal coat of arms and doctor of the Church. the nations. No sooner was he buds of a spikenard flower, which of the pope to govern, sanctify contains the same symbols St. Bede’s homily reflects converted than Matthew drew represent respectively Mary and and teach the people of God. A Pope Francis had on his episcopal on Mt 9:9-13, in which Jesus after him a whole crowd of St. Joseph. The papal motto is the Latin vertical gold band connects the coat of arms. saw the tax collector, Matthew, sinners along the same road to phrase “Miserando atque eligendo,” three stripes in the middle to The dark blue shield is sitting at a customs post and said salvation.” which means “because he saw him indicate their unity in the pope. divided into three sections—each to him, “Follow me” (Mt 9:9). Pope Francis was appointed through the eyes of mercy and chose The ’s insignia of which has its own symbol. St. Bede explained in his homily, auxiliary bishop of Buenos Aires him” or more simply, “having mercy, he of two crossed keys, which On the top is the seal of the “Jesus saw Matthew, not merely in 1992 and became archbishop called him.” The phrase comes from a symbolize the authority Christ Society of Jesus in yellow and in the usual sense, but more of the archdiocese in 1998. † homily by St. Bede.

Muslim leaders express hopes for improved relations with Catholics VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Muslim leaders expressed been chosen from Latin America, where religion is strong over the election, and said it believed “the new pontificate hopes the new pope would help improve relations and “where people live their faith in ways similar to us.” is a sign of a true opening and universal recognition” between Muslims and Catholics. “With the new pope ... we hope to find suitable terrain toward all monotheistic faith communities. It said it A spokesman for Sheik Ahmad el-Tayeb, president to work together ... for humanity,” Azab said. hoped “an authentic spiritual harmony” among these of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, said he hoped Essam el-Erian, a leading member of the Muslim communities would be strengthened. Pope Francis’ election would help normalize relations Brotherhood in Egypt and adviser to President In addition, the group said it was hopeful that “the with the world of Islam. Mohammed Morsi, said the new pope’s election “opens a fraternal collaboration may be a strong point for a new “We are hoping for better relations with the Vatican new and important phase.” intellectual and spiritual orientation of humanity and its after the election of the new pope,” said Mahmoud Azab, He suggested in a report in the Vatican newspaper role in the world.” adviser to el-Tayeb on interfaith issues, on March 13. L’Osservatore Romano on March 15 that one of the new It noted the special significance of the pope taking his Egypt’s Al-Azhar University, a world-renowned center pope’s tasks should be “to re-establish dialogue with name from St. Francis of Assisi who, it said, represents of Sunni Islam scholarship, suspended dialogue with the other churches, but especially with Al-Azhar” University. “a great example of holiness and openness toward the Vatican in 2011 to protest Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks What the pope says and does will greatly influence the East and Islam.” about anti-Christian violence in Egypt and the need to world given that he leads more than 1 billion Catholics The group also praised the “other great saint,” protect religious minorities there. around the globe, el-Erian said. St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, Azab told Catholic News Service that the university May the new pope “be a turning point in the world the pope’s religious order. The Italian Islamic community was pleased with a pope from Latin America, but said [working] on behalf of the poor, human rights, dialogue said St. Ignatius “recalls that sense of seeking to know it was waiting for “positive signs” before agreeing to with the Arab and Islamic world and peace,” el-Erian told God, which is at the heart of every true spirituality.” resume dialogue with Rome. the newspaper. Rome’s Imam Mohammed Hassen also sent greetings “We congratulate the Catholic world and hope to The Arab World Association in Italy sent greetings to to Pope Francis, saying he hoped for good “relations of re-enter into dialogue when there are positive signs ... the new pope and said America should increase efforts dialogue between us and the Vatican for the good of all of which encourage us. It is up to the Vatican,” he told CNS. aimed at “promoting peace in the world and in Palestine.” humanity. We pray to God that he help carry out this new He said that Al-Azhar was pleased that a pope had The Italian Islamic Religious Community expressed joy mission with success.” † The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 13 Priest’s book serves as spiritual guide through Easter season Reviewed by John Shaughnessy The journey also takes the on side trips that range Father Noah Casey often from a monk’s cell to the parking views life with a touch of humor lot of a Target store, from a and an appreciation for the daily visit to a grocery store with a ‘Conversion is not a matter challenges and everyday wonders young child to a procession to a of becoming someone else. of the world. cemetery to bury a great-aunt. Deep, spiritual conversion He also considers our spiritual Each day and each stop lives as “a spiraling series of new provides a glimpse of the is a matter of discovering, beginnings.” down-to-earth wisdom and the accepting and becoming the All those ingredients—flashes keep-your-eyes-on-God approach of humor, the search for God in that has guided Father Casey person God has made us to the ordinary, and the potential during 37 years as a priest, be in the first place.’ for a fresh start spiritually— including 30 years as a monk come together in Father Casey’s at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in first book, From Death to Life: St. Meinrad. —Father Noah Casey A Walk with Christ through the Consider these reflections in his new book Easter Season. from Father Casey’s book: So does his belief that the On how Christ’s resurrection instructions for life from a should shape our lives to love fifth-century monk still have the God and our neighbor: power to change and deepen the “As he did with his frightened celebrate the presence of Christ you sit alone in your car having fragments of our lives.” faith of modern-day Christians. disciples in those first days risen from the dead? We might just left the doctor’s office, where That call to love God and love “The uniqueness of this small following the resurrection, he look at it this way. The concept you were informed of a terminal our neighbor is a continuing theme volume lies in its foundation does now with us. Walking of ‘less is more’ is gaining some illness … in those moments, that runs through Father Casey’s in the Rule of St. Benedict through the doors of our fears and popularity in decorating. There trusting alone in God is hard. spiritual guide. That call connects from the fifth century,” writes apprehension, he continuously is a thin line between tastefully “At some point, faith demands to a defining question that Father Father Casey, rector of SS. Peter greets us with the words, ‘Peace decorated and cluttered. What the that I alone place my hand in Casey hopes his readers will seek and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. be with you. Do not be afraid.’ spiritual life seeks to promote is the hand of Christ, the faithful to answer: What will bring me “Benedict found himself seeking If we find ourselves to be ‘less is more’ both spiritually and companion. We must invite him closer to God? a new path, a new way of life in reluctant lovers, we have only physically.” into our aloneness.” “Conversion is not a matter response to the societal ills and to remember that we do not love On Benedict’s advice to On Benedict’s call to live of becoming someone else,” decadence of his day. alone. He who first loved us place your hope in God alone: by God’s commandments Father Casey writes. “Deep, “For Benedict, the instruments loves through us and we through, “Placing one’s hope in God every day: spiritual conversion is a matter of good words in chapter 4 of with and in Him. Herein lies our alone is always more challenging “Living by God’s of discovering, accepting and the … Rule are intended to guide Paschal peace.” and even sometimes painful commandments every day, while becoming the person God has the monastic person into an On Benedict’s call to when we are, in fact, alone. sounding like a spiritual sound made us to be in the first place. ever-deepening life with God. discipline your body, refrain When a spouse stands alone at bite, helps in staying focused God spends our lifetime trying These instruments have a timeless from pampering yourself, and the open coffin after the others on God. The commandments of to convince us of our innate value and are just as helpful in the love fasting: have left, staring down into love of God and neighbor keep goodness.” 21st century.” “Are we having fun yet? the mortal remains of a partner calling us to return to the practice Father Casey uses Benedict’s This ascetically unit of three suddenly taken away; when you of loving and its centrality in our (To order From Death to Life in a instruments as the foundation injunctions has the appeal of stand alone in a conviction about receiving and responding to the hardcover, paperback or e-book for 50 days of daily reflections standing neck-deep in mud on justice and peace and know gift of discipleship. Loving gives version, contact Xlibris Corp. by that take the reader on a spiritual a July day in southern Indiana. the opposition and ridicule of us a focus that guides, comments phone at 1-888-795-4274 or visit journey from Easter to . How do these practices help us to everyone else around you; when on, and illuminates the various the website www.Xlibris.com.) †

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (CNS)— has led advocacy efforts against The Maryland House of Delegates capital punishment in Maryland. passed legislation on March 15 to Maryland is the 18th state to repeal repeal the state’s death penalty, the death penalty, and the first state an act the Maryland Catholic below the Mason-Dixon Line to Conference called “a historic do so. moment.” During floor discussion before The conference advocates for the vote, Delegate William J. Frank public policy measures on behalf told lawmakers that he had been Catholic Review McCarthy Jr., CNS photo/Tom of the state’s Catholic bishops, a longtime supporter of the death who are longtime supporters of penalty but changed his mind repealing the death penalty. because of the influence of the The House passed the bill with Catholic Church. a vote of 82 to 56. The Senate A Baltimore County passed the bill in February. The Republican and a Catholic, bill now goes to Gov. Martin Frank was a member of the J. O’Malley, a Catholic, who has Maryland Commission on promised to sign it into law. His Capital Punishment, which signature will come after the end recommended death penalty repeal of the legislative session, which is in 2009 to the Legislature. He stood on April 8. with the minority vote at the time. “I applaud the Maryland Also on the commission was General Assembly for choosing to Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Denis meet evil not with evil, but with a J. Madden, a repeal advocate whom justice worthy of our best nature Frank said influenced his decision as human beings,” said Baltimore to change his mind. Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore testifies in support of the repeal of Maryland’s death penalty during a hearing of the Archbishop William E. Lori in a His newfound position on the House Judiciary Committee in Annapolis, Md., on Feb. 14. The Maryland House of Delegates passed legislation on March 15 statement. death penalty is part of his pro-life to repeal the state’s death penalty, and Gov. Martin O’Malley has said he will sign it into law. Mary Ellen Russell, the view, he said. conference’s executive director, “The most important and think it will lift the state,” he said Archbishop Lori testified executing criminals, nor can we said in a statement that her compelling issue for me is to of the passed legislation. “I would before the House and Senate restore the lives of the innocent by organization is “grateful to view the issue from a consistently hope that more states would in support of the measure ending the lives of those convicted the many members of the pro-life perspective,” he said. undertake this.” in February. of their murders. General Assembly who considered “Those five men on death row, the After the vote, O’Malley was “As people of faith who “In this week,” Archbishop Lori this issue with great deliberation worst of the worst, are, believe it joined at a news conference by live in a civilized nation, we continued, “when Catholics over the last two weeks, and or not, created in the image and Benjamin Jealous, president of recognize that those who have celebrate the election of our new who followed their conscience in likeness of God.” the National Association for the done great harm to others deserve Holy Father, Pope Francis, so too supporting repeal and the value of Bishop Madden praised Frank’s Advancement of Colored People, punishment,” Archbishop Lori do we pray that this vote is a step all human life.” about-face, and said he was pleased and Jane Henderson, executive said in his statement following the forward in creating a culture that The Maryland Catholic with the vote outcome. The state’s director of Maryland Citizens vote to repeal the death penalty. respects the dignity of all human Conference is a partner bishops have worked for repeal for Against State Executions. They “However, we must also recognize life, in solidarity with the teachings organization of Maryland Citizens 25 years, he said. applauded the Catholic Church for that every life has value and that of our Catholic faith and our new Against State Executions, which “It’s very much needed, and I its role in death penalty repeal. we cannot overcome crime by Holy Father.” † North Dakota Senate passes ban on abortion when fetal heartbeat detected BISMARCK, N.D. (CNS)—The womb,” he said in March 12 testimony North Dakota Catholic Conference before the Senate Judiciary Committee. applauded the state Senate’s passage “The Supreme Court chose viability ‘A heartbeat, however, is a marker that on March 15 of a bill that would ban because it understood viability to abortions for the purpose of sex selection be a significant marker of human actually reflects the development of the or genetic abnormality, and another development. Close reflection, however, unborn child. It is wrong that the courts will bill that would ban abortion after the reveals that viability is not a measure of only allow states to protect some unborn detection of a fetal heartbeat, which could human development,” he continued. be as early as six weeks. “A heartbeat, however, is a marker that children and not all of them.’ The bills were already approved by actually reflects the development of the the House, and now head to the desk of unborn child. It is wrong that the courts —Christopher Dodson, Gov. Jack Dalrymple. will only allow states to protect some executive director of the The conference, which is the public unborn children and not all of them,” policy arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, Dodson said. “However, if the courts North Dakota Catholic Conference urged the governor to sign the measures. insist on only allowing protections for If he does, North Dakota would become unborn children that are developed to a the first state to prohibit abortion for certain extent, the existence of a heartbeat The American Civil Liberties Union tool for sex-selection or the elimination of reasons of genetic abnormality. provides a better basis than viability.” urged Dalrymple to veto “this dangerous children with genetic abnormalities,” the After a failed attempt to strip the House Bill 1456 does not specify ban and to take this complex and deeply conference statement said. genetic abnormality portion from the time frame when a fetal heartbeat personal decision out of the hands of “Sex-selection abortion has drastic House Bill 1305, the Senate passed can be detected, but medical experts politicians, and put it back in the hands effects on society. An estimated the bill 27-15. House Bill 1456, the say it occurs about six to seven weeks of a woman, her family and her doctor 163 million girls are missing in the world fetal heartbeat bill, passed 26-17 with into a pregnancy. The measure allows where it belongs.” because of sex-selection abortions,” it no debate. abortion to save the life of the mother, but The Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, said, adding that these kinds of abortions The bill to prohibit abortions when the prohibits it in the cases of rape or incest. or House Bill 1305, bans abortions for are “not limited to other countries. heartbeat of the unborn child is detected If the bill becomes law, physicians the purpose of sex selection or genetic “Several studies have documented the “does raise some new legal questions,” would be prosecuted for violating it, abnormality. practice of sex-selection abortions in the but the questions are without merit, said not the woman who has an abortion. The North Dakota Catholic Conference United States and Canada,” it added. Christopher Dodson, executive director of If convicted, a doctor could face a fine in a statement said the bill furthered Republican state Sen. Spencer Berry, the Catholic conference. of $5,000 and a maximum sentence of “several important public interests that who voted for both bills, was quoted as “Currently, the U.S. Supreme Court five years in prison. Doctors also could form the basis of a civil society. saying that “a woman’s right to choose only allows states to protect unborn life lose their medical license. “No matter where a person stands on has not been found to be absolute. This is after the point of viability, which is when Opponents say if the bill becomes law abortion, we should, as a society, agree a matter of looking at the principles and an unborn child can survive outside the they will fight it with a legal challenge. that abortion should never be used as a how they weigh against each other.” † Seton Hill University mourns death of lacrosse coach and her unborn child in crash GREENSBURG, Pa. (CNS)—Seton Hill University in a Kristina Quigley, 30, who was six months pregnant, and the was a boy they had planned to name Jackson. statement said the school community is “deeply saddened driver, Anthony Guaetta, 61. “The university extends [its] deepest sympathy by the tragic bus accident” the morning of March 16 that Guaetta, who was from Johnstown, died at the scene. to Quigley’s husband and family,” the school’s took the life of the head coach of the women’s lacrosse Quigley died from her injuries at the hospital. Doctors could statement said. team and her unborn child, and not save her unborn child. In its statement, the university also said it was “sensitive also killed the driver and injured More than 700 people crowded into St. Joseph Chapel to the emotional well-being of our students and the 13 players. on the Seton Hill campus for an evening Mass responders who were involved in this tragic accident.” It The bus was carrying 23 people on March 17 celebrated by Father Jeremiah O’Shea. News offered the help of counselors at the student center and from Seton Hill to an NCAA reports said mourners included Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt through campus ministry to those seeking counseling. Division II match at Millersville of Greensburg, the diocese in which Seton Hill is located. According to the university, Quigley had just begun University in Millersville. It Bishop Brandt, in a statement posted on his diocese’s her second season with the Seton Hill women’s lacrosse crashed about 50 miles from website, expressed “deep sadness” about the tragic accident. program. She led the Griffins to 11 victories in her first Millersville in central Pennsylvania. “Our prayers and heartfelt sympathy,” he said, “go out to season. A Baltimore native, Quigley came to Seton Hill Police were investigating the Seton Hill community” as well as the coach’s family most recently from Erskine College in Due West, S.C., what caused the bus to veer off and the family of the driver and those injured. where she started the NCAA Division II program. Prior to the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Quigley is survived by her husband, Glenn, and the that post, Quigley worked as the assistant lacrosse coach at Kristina Quigley crash into a tree, killing Coach couple’s young son, Gavin. The child they were expecting Duquesne University, her alma mater. † A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2013 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. Palm Sunday, Holy Week show the fickleness of human hearts By Marcellino D’Ambrosio

We now come to the Sunday with a split personality.

It starts with an upbeat Gospel recounting Jesus’ CNS photo/Reuters triumphal entry into Jerusalem. It is a festive affair, complete with a parade route strewn with palm branches instead of ticker tape and confetti. But we quickly progress to the stark reading of Jesus’ Passion, bearable only because we already know its happy ending. Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ did us a favor in reminding us how shockingly brutal the whole business really was. And so there are two names for the same day— Palm Sunday and Passion Sunday. I propose a third name—Fickle Sunday. The same people cheering during the parade also were jeering a few days later. They’d been wowed by Jesus’ sermons, fed with multiplied loaves and fish, healed of their diseases and delivered of their demons. But as soon as the tide began to turn, so did they. Their cries of “” turned to shouts of a very different kind: “Crucify him!” Of course, Christ was not surprised in the least. The Gospels tell us that he knew the human heart all too well. He was not fooled by all the acclamations and fanfare. Flattery could not swell his head. He had no illusions of grandeur or ambition for worldly glory. In fact, St. Paul tells us that he had willingly emptied himself of heavenly glory in pursuit of his true passion— his Father’s will and our salvation. He set his face “like flint” (Is 50:7). He was on a mission, and nothing would deter him. He barreled through barriers that usually stop us dead in our tracks— fear of ridicule, fear of suffering, abandonment by our closest companions. In this file photo, Catholics carry palm branches as they process into the cathedral in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on Passion Sunday. The He was willing to endure the sting of sin to blot out sin, varying reactions by the crowd to Jesus during Holy Week shows how changeable and unfaithful the human heart can be. and was eager to face death in order to overcome it. He did indeed have a “well-trained tongue” (Is 50:4). His words had mesmerized the crowds, intrigued Herod and even made Pilate stop and think. But now his lips are strangely silent. ‘[Christ] was not fooled by all the acclamations and fanfare. Flattery could not All the Gospels point out that he said very little during swell his head. He had no illusions of grandeur or ambition for worldly glory.’ his Passion, collecting only seven brief statements from the cross. Maybe this was to fulfill the Scripture that said, “Like a lamb led to slaughter or a sheep silent before shearers, he did not open his mouth” (Is 53:7b). Actually, everything that happened in these fateful hours silence. Though Jesus was destined to preach on Good And though Christ’s life is human and therefore fulfilled Scripture. Isaiah 50 had foretold the beating and Friday, the message was not to be delivered in words. The vulnerable, it is also divine and infinite in value, and his mockery. Psalm 22 lays it all out hundreds of years before language of this sermon was to be body language. gift of giving up his life is so valuable that it outweighs it happens—his thirst, the piercing of his hands and feet by Good Friday, according to Jewish reckoning, actually every offense committed from the dawn of time until Gentiles (called “dogs” by the Jews), and the casting of lots began at sundown on Holy Thursday. So on the beginning of the end of the world. It is an act so powerful that it melts for his clothing. The opening line of this psalm happens his final day, Jesus gave us the verbal caption of his last and hearts, opens the barred gates of paradise and makes all to be “My God, my God, why have you abandoned me?” greatest sermon: “This is my body, which is given for you” things new. (Ps 22:1). (Lk 22:19). Could it be that the Lord uttered this phrase to remind us “I love you” is not so much something you say as (Marcellino D’Ambrosio writes from Texas. He is that this was all in the plan? something you demonstrate. Diamonds may be a moving co-founder of Crossroads Productions, an apostolate So the virtual silence of his well-trained tongue was testimony to love, but the laying down of one’s life is even of Catholic renewal and evangelization. For more to fulfill Scripture. But there was another reason for his more compelling. information, log on to www.crossroadsinitiative.com.) † Isaiah’s songs of the ‘suffering servant’ help us endure life’s trials By Father Lawrence E. Mick back” (Is 50:4-5). “I gave my back to suffering servant. Although their author those who beat me, my cheeks to those may not have had Jesus in particular in Every year on Palm Sunday, we hear who plucked my beard; my face I did not mind when he wrote them, they fit the proclaimed the stunning song of the shield from buffets and spitting,” he insists experience of the Lord’s Passion and the “suffering servant” from the Book of (Is 50:6). meaning of his suffering amazingly well. Isaiah. This year, we hear the third of four Being God’s servant was not an easy At the same time, they challenge us such songs found in this prophetic book. life. Proclaiming God’s word did not bring to imitate the ancient servant and Jesus We hear the fourth one every year on thanks and great rewards. This is why he himself. In our own lives, we all face

CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic CNS photo/Gregory A. Good Friday. was tempted to rebel and to turn back. times of suffering that we must endure. There has been much debate among But he did not weaken. He continued How we respond in such situations scholars about who the servant was, to carry out the mission that God had is up to us. We can rail against our fate, and they have not been able to agree on entrusted to him. questioning why God should do this to any clear answer to the question. Some The final lines of the reading make it us or even doubting whether God exists. suggest that it was a king or a prophet. clear how he was able to do this. “The Or we can humbly accept the truth that Others suggest that the servant was Israel Lord God is my help, therefore I am not suffering is part of human life and that itself personified as one man. disgraced; I have set my face like flint, God is with us to sustain us through There is little question, however, that knowing that I shall not be put to shame” it. If even Jesus himself had to endure the Christian use of these songs identifies (Is 50:7). suffering, why should we expect to the servant with Jesus. He is the suffering The servant relied on God’s power avoid it? servant who “was pierced for our at work in him as his source of strength. Moreover, we have an advantage that Jesus’ Crucifixion is depicted in a stained- offenses, crushed for our sins” (Is 53:5). He trusted that God would uphold him the servant in Isaiah did not have. We glass window at St. Mary of the Isle Church The image painted in the third song and that, in the end, he would rescue him have seen the glory of Easter Sunday in Long Beach, N.Y. The “suffering servant” that we use on Palm Sunday is of a from shame. morning. We know how the story ends. songs of the prophet Isaiah help Christians faithful and steadfast servant. He hears It is hard to think of better texts to lead understand the profound meaning of Christ’s God’s word “morning after morning,” us into the celebration of Palm Sunday (Father Lawrence E. Mick is a priest of own suffering, death and resurrection. and he has “not rebelled,” has “not turned and Good Friday than these songs of the the Archdiocese of Cincinnati.) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Reflection/Steve Seitz Year of Faith: The feast of the Annunciation of the Lord Lessons from On March 25, the Catholic Church referred to above. something like, “What a strange question, a basset hound ordinarily celebrates each year the events It has long seemed strange to me that the Mary. After all, you are betrothed to Joseph. described in verses 26 to feast to be celebrated Monday is called the It’s going to happen the way children are Driving away from the kennel one 38 in the first chapter of Annunciation because far more happened usually conceived.” Isaac, Samson, Samuel chilly, recent day, a “close moment with St. Luke’s Gospel—the during the Annunciation than just an and John were all conceived naturally. Christ,” as those appearance of the angel announcement. But the angel doesn’t say that. Instead, moments are known Gabriel to Mary to ask By observing the feast of the Annunciation he says, “The Holy Spirit will come upon to fellow Cursillistas, her to be the mother nine months before Christmas, the Catholic you ” (Lk 1:35). was the furthest thing of Jesus. It is the feast Church celebrates the fact that God became We learn about the Trinity. Verse 35 from my mind. of the Annunciation of human when Mary agreed to be his mother, mentions all three persons of the Trinity. That is partially the Lord. not nine months later in Bethlehem. We have to wonder what Mary, a Jewish due to the fact that This year, this Those 13 verses in Luke’s Gospel are girl, thought about that, but there it is: “The very close to mind— great feast has been packed with Christian doctrine. First is the Holy Spirit will come upon you and the and my sense of moved to April 8 because March 25 falls doctrine that angels exist. Luke certainly power of the Most High will overshadow smell—was our dog, within Holy Week. Ordinarily, feasts on the believed in angels. This was the second time you. Therefore the child to be born will be the basset hound, who Church’s liturgical calendar that fall within an angel appeared in his Gospel, and it is still called holy, the Son of God” (Lk 1:35). has allowed me, her “co-master,” to serve Holy Week and the week after Easter are the first chapter. Earlier, the angel appeared This was the second time that Gabriel said her these past nine-plus years. I should not celebrated at all. The Church views the to Zechariah. that Jesus was divine, the Son of God. But briefly explain that my partner in this Annunciation as so important, however, that The second doctrine is that of the virgin he was also fully human. Not only was he to “co-mastership” is my youngest son, who it continues to observe it and simply moves it birth. The story starts out like others in the be born of a human mother, but Gabriel also named this creature before she was even to a later date. Bible—the four women who were told they said that God would “give him the of a sparkle in her father’s eye. That will be It is a feast for all Bible-believing would conceive after they were past the usual David his father ” (Lk 1:32). a significant fact momentarily, so please Christians because it celebrates one of the age for childbearing. We had stories of Sarah We must also consider Mary’s fiat: “I am stick with me. fundamental doctrines of Christianity—the and Isaac, Samson’s mother and Samson, the maidservant of the Lord. Let it be done Now, as it often happens, I somehow Incarnation. It is the belief that the eternal Hannah and Samuel, and Elizabeth and John. to me according to your will” (Lk 1:38). It became the primary caretaker of the dog Son of God assumed a complete human But those four women were old and barren. is the perfect prayer—“Thy will be done.” some years back. That was solidified nature and was conceived within the womb Mary was a young woman. Jesus taught it as part of the Lord’s Prayer when Eric, our son, moved off to college. of the Virgin Mary by the power of the Isn’t Mary’s question a bit odd: How is years later, but Mary prayed it first—and My fate was sealed at that moment. Holy Spirit—just as it says in the Bible verses this to happen? You’d expect the angel to say probably taught it to Jesus. † The dog’s name is Domino. Believe me, no religious implications Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes were ever intended. Indeed, there were no intended implications in the choice Believe it or not, Death must come before Life of her name, but when that name was chosen, more than 10 years ago, I am sure In considering Church feasts, we may which is horrifying enough, but also the mini- Passion and death, and its relationship to our that God was fully aware that he would secretly prefer Christmas over Easter, even deaths, “the thousand natural shocks that flesh own lives—and deaths. We need to repent use this short, flop-eared, bloodshot- though Easter is actually is heir to” of suffering, disease, injustice or and plan. eyed creature to teach me, a particularly the greater event. whatever. Now, in these last days of Lent, we’re stubborn student, some important lessons. That’s because When we’re little, we have no conception coming down to the wire. Soon, Jesus will He knew that he would, through this Christmas is composed of death. If we’re taken to Grandpa’s funeral, ride triumphantly into Jerusalem, his way creature, instruct me in patience. She of joyful anticipation we understand that it’s a solemn occasion, paved with palm branches, and onlookers obeys at her convenience. He knew she followed by the birth but we don’t realize that it means Grandpa is cheering in joyful anticipation. They’re would also teach me humility as I stooped of a precious baby, and gone from our lives forever. That realization expecting a king who will end oppression and to pick up after her as I say hello to the homage is paid to him grows as we age, and its reality can be create for them a temporal kingdom of peace neighbors. He knew she would teach me by shepherds and Magi intimidating. and prosperity. his love. alike. Easter, on the So being human, we ignore the subject What they don’t understand is that Jesus This particular lesson came as I drove other hand, is preceded or go into denial of it. In order to deal will not bring a temporal kingdom, but away from the kennel that day with by 40 days of Lenten disciplines and death with death, we make fun of it. We tell rather a spiritual kingdom of hope for eternal Domino pacing back and forth across the on the cross. gallows humor jokes, dress up in scary freedom, peace and joy. And it will come back seat. She was notably fragrant that It’s easy to forget why Easter is so outfits on Halloween, and revel in spooky with a high price of pain, suffering and death. day, as I had opted against a bath prior to important. Sometimes, I long for the days of Friday the 13th kinds of movies because we The Cross must come before triumphant Life. her pick up. Live and learn. dressing up in new clothes for Easter Mass. can handle what’s just pretend. As we age, we realize the truth of death. As I drove, I planned when I might Not the hat and gloves, maybe, but just the Of course, when we’re young we really And in faith, we prepare for it so that one have an opportunity to vacuum the back idea that this day is so special that we need don’t believe that we will ever die. We’re day we’re able to say, “Happy Easter!” and seat. Her hair seems to grow and shed to look our best to celebrate it. strong and vigorous and can’t imagine the understand what it really means. before my eyes, and the black upholstery Christmas brings us the promise possibility of it. Maybe we’re busy bargaining Here’s a “Reflection” by poet of the car is a magnet for it. When would of salvation, but Easter provides its with God or just postponing thinking about it. Alice Freeman Palmer in St. Anthony I have time to clean the nose prints off the culmination. Christmas seems all about life, It’s like “Talk to the hand because the mind Messenger magazine which seems to sum it back windows? Can’t she just lie down? while Easter is necessarily preceded by the isn’t listening.” up well: “For I remember it is Easter morn, Why do I do this? As I sat there in cross. And this brings us to the elephant in What we need is a change of heart, and and life and love and peace are all newborn.” traffic, I thought of that evening when the room, so to speak, which is death. Lent is the time set aside by the Church for Eric declared that he had “selected the Death is probably the scariest thing that us to contemplate what that means. With the (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the name Domino for the basset hound” that we humans will ever face, and we know it is help of prayer, Scripture reading and self- Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular we had promised to get him. I realized inevitable. And it’s not just corporeal death, denial, we consider the meaning of Jesus’ columnist for The Criterion.) † that at that time—when she was no more than a name to me, and it was all so Coming of Age/Karen Osborne perfect, so tidy and odor-free—it seemed like a dream. Letting go of Hollywood stereotypes depicting teens Then it hit me. There was a time, let’s say “some If you made my teenage years into a my memories. We were as ordinary as can that a boy who doesn’t respect her isn’t number of years ago,” when I was no television show like “Glee” or “Pretty Little be. So, how did my high school become worth her time? more than a name—a name known only Liars,” you’d probably some sort of high-school Camelot, a shining That’s why stereotypes are so damaging. to God at that time. The difference is think Niskayuna High city on the hill—or, at least, a crazy Escher They make us discount what we really want he had no need of idyllic dreams of my School was a pretty painting where upside down is right-side up? out of life to “fit in.” They make us see existence. No, he knew every detail weird place. The answer is simple: It wasn’t. My ourselves as cardboard characters and not of every moment of my life. He knew Sure, we had jocks, high school was just like every other as real human beings, with a full range of everything! nerds and preps. We high school in the country. feelings and a full slate of dreams. We start He knew every half-truth, every full had bullies and stoners The stereotypes in film and television seeing ourselves as what we do or what lie. He knew all of it, even (especially?) and scholars and the are not accurate because you can’t shove clothes we wear instead of who we really those things that I wish I did not even same glowering kids complicated, intricate, amazing people into are. We stop creating our lives and instead know about myself. And yet … in detention every day, such tiny little boxes and expect them to fit let others do it for us. Did he change his mind? Did he say, just like you’d find at comfortably. Next time you’re in the halls at school, “Well, maybe not that one.” any stereotypical Hollywood high school. By trying to put a finger on the “typical take a moment to open your eyes and look No, rather, he came into this place in a But that’s where comparisons ended. At high school experience,” Hollywood is around at your classmates. See that your body like mine. He lived this life to feel my school, the popular kids weren’t always helping create and foster the kind of limiting, classmates are just like you—complicated what I feel, to hurt like I hurt. He came to the empty-headed football quarterbacks or damaging stereotypes that keep teens from people with complicated feelings who are show me that his love is real and true, and the fashion-obsessed blonde cheerleaders discovering their dreams and who they are. trying to find a place to belong. They might larger than anything this world can throw you’d expect. There’s no “typical high school be wearing cheerleader uniforms or pocket at it. Instead, those kids proudly joined the experience.” All there is is your high school protectors but all have the same goal—to be He came to show me the way home. National Honor Society, starred in the experience. happy and successful. He came because he loves me. He school musicals—which were so popular That’s the complicated part: How do I guarantee it’ll change the way you see loves you. All of us! they always sold out—and wrote humor you fit in with a crowd while staying true your school. Having just been the catalyst for this columns for the school newspaper. To top to yourself? Sometimes an athlete feels Don’t limit other people’s interests or remarkable revelation, Domino got an it all off, I remember our jaw-dropping like he can’t be seen as too smart or he’ll activities because they don’t line up with a extra Milkbone and, her favorite, a slice gorgeous junior prom queen being nothing lose his coolness factor, or a quiet girl feels stereotypical subculture—let people be who of cheese when we got home. but nice to me—me, a total uncool nerd— like she has to put on slutty clothes to get they are, including yourself. during all four years. a boyfriend. Why can’t the athlete feel (Steve Seitz is a member of St. Louis The more I look back, the more I wonder comfortable with hitting the books as well as (Karen Osborne writes for Catholic News de Montfort Parish in Fishers, Ind., in the why the stereotypes in the movies didn’t fit the gridiron, or why can’t a girl understand Service.) † Lafayette Diocese.) † The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013 Page 17

Palm Sunday/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Saturday, March 30 Daily Readings Holy Saturday The Sunday Readings Holy Saturday Night— Monday, March 25 The Easter Vigil Genesis 1:1-2:2 Sunday, March 24, 2013 the congregation to be involved. Monday of Holy Week Each Gospel contains a highly Isaiah 42:1-7 or Genesis 1:1, 26-31a • Luke 19:28-40 detailed and lengthy account of the trial Psalm 27:1-3, 13-14 Psalm 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10, 12-14, • Isaiah 50:4-7 and execution of Jesus. Each evangelist John 12:1-11 24, 35c • Philippians 2:6-11 was an individual person who had his or Psalm 33:4-7, 12-13, 20, 22 • Luke 22:14-23:56 own insights into what happened on the Genesis 22:1-18 first Good Friday. Tuesday, March 26 The Church this weekend leads us to In general, Luke’s Gospel sees Jesus as Tuesday of Holy Week or Genesis 22:1-2, 9a, 10-13, the climax of Lent, the observance of the embodiment of God’s mercy, literally Isaiah 49:1-6 15-18 Holy Week, by offering God in human flesh, the son of Mary, a Psalm 71:1-4a, 5-6ab, 15, 17 Psalm 16:5, 8-11 the impressive liturgy woman not an angel or a goddess. Jesus John 13:21-33, 36-38 Exodus 14:15-15:1 of Palm Sunday. bears eternal life. He makes all things (Response) Exodus 15:1-6, Recalling the right. He seeks out the wayward and 17-18 triumphant entry of the despondent. He reconciles sinners Wednesday, March 27 Jesus into Jerusalem, with God. All this is completed in the Wednesday of Holy Week Isaiah 54:5-14 for St. Luke the utter Lord’s sacrificial death on Calvary, so Isaiah 50:4-9a Psalm 30:2, 4-6, 11-12a, 13b apex of the entire everything is a prelude to those final days Isaiah 55:1-11 ministry of the Lord in Jerusalem. Psalm 69:8-10, 21bcd-22, 31, 33-34 (Response) Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, since in Jerusalem Human nature is human nature. People 5-6 the Crucifixion and are obtuse, at times devious, even vicious. Matthew 26:14-25 Resurrection would occur, these readings Still, the love of God will not be thwarted. Baruch 3:9-15, 32-4:4 bring us to the heart of the Church’s Salvation will come because it is God’s will Thursday, March 28 Psalm 19:8-11 teaching regarding salvation. Jesus is Lord that salvation will come. Holy Thursday Ezra 36:16-17a, 18-28 and Savior. 42:3, 5bcd; 43:3-4 When the palms are blessed, and the Reflection Isaiah 61:1-3a, 6a, 8b-9 Psalm 89:21-22, 25, 27 or, when is celebrated, solemn procession, ideally of all in the Few sections of the Scriptures are as (Response) Isaiah 12:2-3, 4bcd, congregation, forms, the Church offers us powerful as the four Passion Narratives Revelation 1:5-8 a reading from Luke. This reading recalls presented to us in the successive Gospels. Luke 4:16-21 5-6 the plans for the arrival of Jesus in the Luke’s Passion Narrative is definitely Holy Thursday Evening or Psalm 51:12-15, 18-19 Holy City as well as the arrival itself. among these in its capacity to teach us and Romans 6:3-11 An element of inevitability, of to call us to Christ. Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper Psalm 118:1-2, 16ab-17, 22-23 Providence, surrounds the event. Jesus tells On Palm Sunday, the crown of the Luke 24:1-12 Pharisees who object to it all that even if Liturgy of the Word is the awesome Exodus 12:1-8, 11-14 the disciples were silent, the very stones proclamation of the as Psalm 116:12-13, 15-16bc, would shout the Good News of salvation understood by St. Luke. The Church takes 17-18 Sunday, March 31 in Christ. God wills that we have in Christ us most movingly to the Lord’s entry 1 Corinthians 11:23-26 Easter Sunday of the eternal life. into Jerusalem. He is destined to redeem John 13:1-15 Resurrection of the Lord For the first reading in the Liturgy of the world. Salvation had to come. Such Acts 10:34a, 37-43 the Word, the Church gives us the third of was God’s will and God’s love. Some Psalm 118:1-2, 16ab-17, 22-23 the four “Songs of the Suffering Servant” cooperated, some did not, burdened by Friday, March 29 from the third section of Isaiah. Scholars their ignorance or pride. Good Friday of the Passion of Colossians 3:1-4 debate the identity of this servant. Was he a The readings from Isaiah and the Lord or 1 Corinthians 5:6b-8 prophet? A collective symbol for the people Philippians further focus our minds upon John 20:1-9 of Israel? In any case, Christians have Jesus. He is Lord! Celebration of the Lord’s Passion or Luke 24:1-12 always seen in these songs the image of the Finally, magnificently, the or, at an afternoon or evening innocent, constantly loyal servant of God, Passion Narrative reveals the depth of Isaiah 52:13-53:12 the Lord Jesus. the Lord’s giving of self despite the Psalm 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-17, 25 Mass, The second reading is from St. Paul’s intrigue of the trial and the awfulness Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 Luke 24:13-35 Letter to the Philippians. It is thought to be of the crucifixion. We are flawed by our John 18:1-19:42 an ancient Christian hymn, used in early own sin. Figuratively, because of our liturgies, compelling in its eloquence and in sins, we stood with the enemies of Christ. its intense faith. God nevertheless loves us with a perfect, As the last reading, the Church uncompromising, unending love. He will dramatically offers a reading of Luke’s not be deterred in giving us salvation if Passion Narrative. The very rubrics provide simply we love in return. † Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle My Journey to God Praying before altars of repose on Holy Thursday night is a Catholic tradition When I was growing up on the The custom of visiting seven churches Q south side of Chicago in the 1940s, on Holy Thursday evening seems to my mother would have developed in Rome during the CNS photo/Debbie Hill CNS photo/Debbie take us to six or 16th century, and is often credited to seven churches on St. Philip Neri, who was the pastor of a Holy Thursday evening parish there. People would visit seven to say some prayers. prominent basilicas in Rome, saying The Blessed Sacrament prayers and watching in some moments of was often displayed adoration at each one. on the altar all night. Gradually, the custom spread I’ve lived several throughout the Catholic world, and it has different places since been particularly strong in Italy, Poland, then, and people seem Mexico and the Philippines. to be unfamiliar with this custom. Was it just a “Chicago thing,” or did it take place (Questions to Father Doyle may be sent elsewhere? (Poynette, Wis.) to him at [email protected] or 40 Hopewell St., Albany, NY 12208.) † In churches throughout the Catholic Aworld, Mass is celebrated on Holy Thursday evening to commemorate Readers may submit prose Christ’s institution of the at the or poetry for faith column Palm Sunday By Linda Abner . Following the Mass, the altar is stripped of its sacred linens, and the The Criterion invites readers to submit Eucharist is removed from the tabernacle original prose or poetry relating to faith Clouds part, and placed on what is traditionally called or experiences of prayer for possible Sun peaks through on an “altar of repose” where parishioners publication in the “My Journey to God” Pink crabapple, purple plum, crimson can kneel in adoration. column. And amethyst tulips (Linda Abner is a member of Many parishes now end this period Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Quivering in the wind. Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in at about 10 p.m. with night prayer, after Please include name, address, parish and Church doors open, Indianapolis. Franciscans dance which the church is locked. It is during telephone number with submissions. Children spill out and wave palm branches during this period of adoration that a considerable Send material for consideration Waving their palms while the Palm Sunday procession on the number of Catholics still visit neighboring to “My Journey to God,” Twirling and prancing, Mount of Olives in Jerusalem on churches. I know it’s not just a “Chicago The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian St., Exuberant in concert April 17, 2011.) thing” because I did it with my parents in Indianapolis, IN 46206 or e-mail to With the glorious dance of Spring. upstate New York when my sisters and I [email protected]. † were young. Page 18 The Criterion Friday, March 22, 2013

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CNS photo/Max Rossi, Reuters “The Lord never tires of forgiving,” the “Cardinal Kasper said that to feel pope said on March 17, before leading his mercy, this word changes everything,” the listeners in praying the midday Angelus. “It pope said. “A little mercy makes the world is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.” less cold and more just.” Pope Francis, who was elected on The Argentine pope also recalled an March 13, spoke from his window in the encounter more than 20 years ago with an for the first time. Despite elderly woman in Buenos Aires, who told gray skies, a crowd easily numbering him: “If the Lord did not forgive all, the 150,000 turned out to see the pope for his world would not exist.” first scheduled appearance in St. Peter’s Pope Francis said he had wanted to Square since the night of his election. ask her if she had studied at Rome’s He opened with an expression of prestigious Pontifical Gregorian University what has already become his trademark because her words reflected the “wisdom informality, greeting listeners with a simple that comes from the Holy Spirit—interior “buongiorno!” wisdom regarding the mercy of God.” Commenting on the day’s Gospel reading Following the Angelus, the pope offered (Jn 8:1-11), Pope Francis noted that Jesus a particular greeting to Romans and other Pope Francis gestures as he leads his first Angelus from the window of his private apartment at the addresses a woman caught in adultery, not , noting that he had chosen for his Vatican on March 17. with words of scorn or condemnation, “but that of St. Francis of Assisi, only words of love, of mercy, which invite which he said “reinforces my spiritual tie special ability to forget.” Afterward, outside the church, the her to conversion: ‘Neither do I condemn with this land, where—as you know—my At the end of Mass, Pope Francis drew pope personally greeted each of the you. Go, and from now on do not sin any family origins lie.” attention to the presence of Father Gonzalo approximately 200 members of the more’ ” (Jn 8:11). Earlier that morning, Pope Francis Aemilius, founder of the Liceo Jubilar Juan congregation, then walked over to the Pope Francis referred to a book on the celebrated Mass at the Church of St. Anne Pablo II, a high school in Montevideo, nearby St. Anne’s Gate and greeted subject of mercy by German Cardinal Walter inside Vatican City, where his homily also Uruguay. He described the priest as one members of a crowd that had formed on the Kasper, retired president of the Pontifical treated the subject of divine mercy. “who has long worked with street kids, other side of the boundary separating the Council for Promoting Christian Unity, “It is not easy to trust in the mercy of with drug addicts. He opened a school for Vatican from Italian territory. whom he described as a “superb theologian.” God because that is an incomprehensible them, he has done so much to make them He also sent his first Tweet from “But don’t think I’m advertising my abyss,” he said. “But we must do it.” know Jesus.” @pontifex: “Dear friends, I thank you from cardinals’ books. That’s not it,” the pope said Jesus likes us to tell him even our worst “I don’t know how he came to be here my heart and I ask you to continue to pray in the sort of spontaneous aside that listeners sins, the pope said. “He forgets. He has a today,” the pope said. “I’ll find out.” for me. Pope Francis.” † What was in the news on March 22, 1963? The pope works to help end world hunger, and takes a new approach to six curial appointments By Brandon A. Evans Organization. … ‘Considering the prodigious increase in of the pope’s authority and jurisdiction. The patriarchs— transportation and travel facilities in the modern world,’ five heads of various Eastern Rites, and the sixth and only This week, we continue to examine what was going on in [the pope] said, ‘one can no longer say that the hunger Latin Rite patriarch in the Middle East—have been made the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through the and undernourishment prevalent in certain regions of the what is called ‘aggregate members’ of the Congregation pages of The Criterion. globe are due solely to an insufficiency of available natural for the Oriental Church. The congregation is headed by the Here are some of the items found in the March 22, 1963, resources. What is missing is organizing a coordinated pope himself as prefect and has 28 cardinals as members. issue of The Criterion: intelligence capable of ensuring fair distribution,’ he Two of the 28 are cardinals of Oriental Rites.” • Work to wipe out hunger, pope urges science leaders stressed, adding the hope that world organizations might • Exam papers awaiting Hoosier Peace Corpsman “VATICAN CITY—One of the most distinguished strive to promote everywhere better utilization and better • Latin American efforts applauded groups ever received in audience by sharing of human and material resources. • Time article draws fire of Chicago churchmen Pope John XXIII heard the pontiff urge • 3 Harvard talks slated by cardinal • Editorial: Pope soft on Reds? international organizations to help • Plans are announced for NCCW institute • British writer critical of Church in America promote better utilization of human and • High honor accorded to patriarchs • Church as peacemaker ‘not morally neutral’ material resources to banish hunger “VATICAN CITY—His Holiness Pope John XXIII • At beatification rite: Pope hails work of from the world. Pope John greeted has named six Catholic patriarchs in the Middle East Mother Seton 30 eminent scientists, authors and sociologists, including to associate membership in the Sacred Congregation • C.U. ouster draws fire from priest nine Nobel Prize winners, who were in Rome for a special for the Oriental Church. Until now, only cardinals have assembly on ‘The Human Right to Freedom from Hunger’ been admitted to membership in any of the dozen Roman (Read all of these stories from our March 22, 1963, issue by sponsored by the United Nations Food and Agriculture congregations, which serve as the administrative organs logging on to our archives at www.CriterionOnline.com.) †

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