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CriterionOnline.com February 21, 2020 Vol. LX, No. 19 75¢ Pope shares ‘I see his ‘dreams’ for Amazon region, God its Catholic here’ community VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis said he dreams of an Amazon region where the rights of the poor and indigenous are respected, local cultures are preserved, nature is protected, and the Catholic Church is present and active with “Amazonian features.” In his apostolic exhortation “Querida Amazonia” (“Beloved Amazonia”), Pope Pope Francis Francis made no mention of the idea of ordaining married men to the priesthood so that far-flung Catholic communities would have regular access to the Eucharist. Instead, he said “every effort should be made to ensure that the Amazonian people do not lack this food of new life and the sacrament of forgiveness. See related “A specific and editorial, page 4. courageous response Dee Traub of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany, standing, shares in conversation as Mark Russell, second from left, and two other is required of the guests enjoy a hot meal at the White Flag shelter in New Albany on Feb. 7. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Church” to meet the needs of Catholics, he said, without dictating what that response would be (#85). However, Pope Francis opened the document saying he wanted “to officially Volunteers learn homeless ‘are not present the final document” of October’s Synod of Bishops for the Amazon (#3). The final document asked for criteria to a stereotype’ at New Albany shelter be drawn up “to ordain as priests suitable and respected men of the community By Natalie Hoefer of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany. White Flag homeless shelter. It fills a with a legitimately constituted and stable The group spans the demographic gap in the need for shelter from Nov. 15 family, who have had a fruitful permanent NEW ALBANY—It’s a cold gamut—men, women, young and not- through April 15 when nighttime diaconate and receive an adequate February night in New Albany, with the so-young. Some work full- or part-time temperatures dip below 35 degrees. formation for the priesthood, in order to temperature hovering near 30 degrees jobs. Some are veterans. Some are Our Lady of Perpetual Help, along sustain the life of the Christian community and a windchill of about 20. But it’s retired, and some are trying to find jobs. with St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities in through the preaching of the word and the warm in the Salvation Army gym where One other difference is that four New Albany, is one of several parishes celebration of the sacraments in the most more than 20 people enjoy a warm meal are volunteers. The others are seeking that help provide volunteers for the shelter. remote areas of the Amazon region.” and friendly banter. shelter from the cold, with nowhere else Katelyn Stumler coordinates Our Lady Speaking about the final document, Pope “We go back and forth like you do to turn. of Perpetual Help volunteers with her Francis wrote that the synod “profited from with anyone,” says Peggy Richards, one They’re gathered at the Homeless husband Craig. the participation of many people who know of four members present from Our Lady Coalition of Southern Indiana’s (HCSI) See WHITE FLAG, page 8 better than myself or the Roman Curia See AMAZON, page 9 Love of God and reverence for Mary mark installation of Gary Bishop Robert J. McClory GARY, Ind. (CNS)—Bishop Robert J. McClory embraced the people of the Diocese of Gary with these words: “I will love you and honor you all the days of my life.” This brought to a close his episcopal ordination and installation Mass on Feb. 11 that established him as the diocese’s fifth bishop in 64 years. The Detroit native chose the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes for the liturgy establishing him as the new shepherd for the northwest Indiana counties of Lake, Porter, LaPorte and Starke. Reverence for Mary was a recurring theme during the Mass. “Today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, and she is willing to help us when we ask for help and protection,” said Archbishop Archbishop Charles C. Thompson ritually lays his hands on Bishop Robert J. McClory Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the U.S., during his ordination and installation Mass as shepherd of the Gary Diocese at Holy See MCCLORY, page 15 Angels Cathedral in Gary, Ind., on Feb. 11. (Photo by Anthony D. Alonzo, Northwest Indiana Catholic) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020

A memorial stone is seen at Public Schedule of the burial site of 2,411 aborted Archbishop Charles C. Thompson babies, whose ______remains were February 23 – March 3, 2020 interred on Feb. 12 at February 23 – 2 p.m. March 1 – 2 p.m. Southlawn Rite of Election at SS. Peter and Paul Rite of Election at SS. Peter and Paul Cemetery in Cathedral, Indianapolis Cathedral South Bend, Ind. (CNS photo/Indiana February 24 – 5 p.m. March 3 – 10:30 a.m. Office of the Attorney Catholic Legislators dinner at Ruth’s Priest Personnel Board meeting at General) Chris Steakhouse, Indianapolis Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center February 25 – 1 p.m. Council of Priests meeting at March 3 – 3 p.m. Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Finance Council meeting at Archbishop Catholic Center, Indianapolis Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center

February 26 – noon March 3 – 7 p.m. Remains of aborted babies in final Ash Wednesday Mass at SS. Peter and Confirmation for youths of Paul Cathedral St. Christopher Parish in Indianapolis, resting place in Indiana cemetery at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral February 27 – 10 a.m. SOUTH BEND, Ind. (CNS)—A cold, among us. And so, we brought them home, Leadership Team meeting at Archbishop (Schedule subject to change.) gray, wintry day in South Bend seemed back to Indiana.” Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Center like an appropriate setting for the burial of The attorney general said that not only 2,411 aborted babies, whose remains were was it Indiana law that fetal remains be February 29 – 10:30 a.m. interred in Southlawn Cemetery in the buried, it was fitting and proper for the Rite of Election at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs city on Feb. 12. aborted babies to receive a final resting Church, Floyd County The babies had been aborted between place, just as it is appropriate for any 2000 and 2003 by the late Dr. Ulrich human being. He observed that people February 29 – 6 p.m. “George” Klopfer, who operated abortion hoped it could never happen that 2,411 Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital centers in Indiana since the 1970s and unborn human beings would have been Gala at JW Marriott, Indianapolis performed an estimated 30,000 abortions terminated, discarded, lost and forgotten. before having his license revoked in 2016. “But friends, we will not forget,” The medically preserved remains Hill said. “We therefore honor and of those fetuses had been transported memorialize these unborn that their lives across state lines and stored for years on be remembered not for their brevity, but Pope Francis, bishops discuss Klopfer’s Illinois property, in his garage for how their discovery has impacted our and in the trunk of a car. The grisly collective conscience. May each of the possible themes for 2022 synod discovery of the remains was made after 2,411 buried here rest in peace.” his death on Sept. 3 last year. Hill thanked Indiana, Illinois and local VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis did feel “the need to urgently express Neither his family nor authorities have authorities who worked together to bring has decided the next general assembly of its solidarity with brothers and sisters been able to determine why Klopfer kept the babies to their final resting place, and the Synod of Bishops will be held in the involved with the tragedy of forced the remains instead of properly disposing acknowledged the many offers of assistance fall of 2022, but he has not announced the migration.” of them. Indiana law now requires fetal by countless others across the state. theme for the gathering, the Vatican said. In a message released by the Vatican remains to be cremated or buried. In a statement, Indiana Right to Life Meeting with the press office on Feb. 15, the ordinary Records found with the remains President and CEO Mike Fichter said, pope on Feb. 6-7, council of the Synod of Bishops reflected indicated the abortions had taken place in “Today’s burial brings closure to the brief members of the “on the consequences of the migration South Bend, Fort Wayne and Gary, and tragic lives of these 2,411 little ones ordinary council phenomenon” caused by economic so Indiana Attorney General Curtis who were denied the opportunity to take of the Synod of inequality, unemployment, religious T. Hill Jr. took possession of them. their first breaths. They now rest together Bishops formally persecution, terrorism and environmental Originally, an effort was made to for all eternity, never to be forgotten.” presented the devastation. determine in which city each abortion took Palmer Funeral Home donated the pope with three “People are disoriented, families place so that the remains could be returned burial space at its Southlawn Cemetery possible themes destroyed, young people traumatized home for burial. The state received several and a memorial stone, which reads: “In and discussed the and those left at home are induced to offers of burial locations, including an memory of the 2,411 precious unborn work accomplished despair,” the statement said. “Sometimes Pope Francis offer by Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades of Fort buried here on Feb. 12, 2020.” by the council after these people suffer in refugee camps Wayne-South Bend for space and services The attorney general also thanked the synod on young and some even end up in prison. at Catholic Cemetery in Fort Wayne. the 200-plus mourners for coming to people in 2018, the Vatican said on Women and young people are forced However, Klopfer’s records were so “personally honor and memorialize these Feb. 15. into prostitution; they are physically, incomplete and inaccurate that Hill’s 2,411 precious unborn who now stand The Vatican statement did not list the socially and sexually abused. Children office was unable to determine where each as a reminder of the fragility of life and three possible themes, although in his are separated from their parents and abortion occurred. Thus, it was decided to of the obligation of the state and of the closing speech to the Synod of Bishops deprived of the right to grow up in the bury the remains together, “each connected nation to preserve human dignity and for the Amazon in October, Pope Francis security of a united family.” by their common fate,” Hill explained at respect for all.” had said “synodality” was among the The ordinary council of the Synod the burial service. South Bend was chosen After Hill left the podium to conduct three themes “voted on and that obtained of Bishops expressed support for as the site because it is the most central of a news conference, a multifaith prayer a majority” of support from synod governments and non-governmental the three cities involved. service took place, led by a variety of members. organizations that seek to help In his opening remarks at the burial religious leaders. Among them was Father “I do not know whether it will be migrants and refugees and called for service, Hill told a somber crowd of Glenn Kohrman, pastor of South Bend’s chosen; I have not decided yet,” the pope cooperation in the fight against human more than 200 mourners: “The shocking Holy Family and St. John the Baptist had said. “I am reflecting and thinking, trafficking. discovery of 2,411 medically preserved fetal parishes and a board member of Catholic but I can certainly say that we have “We entrust our suffering brothers and remains in Illinois left in a garage and in the Charities and Right to Life Michiana. journeyed a lot and we must still journey sisters to Mary, mother of humanity, who trunk of a car was horrifying to anyone with Father Kohrman offered a modified more along this path of synodality.” first knew the pain of leaving her home normal sensibilities. Regrettably, there is no version of the Catholic Church’s prayer While the themes proposed at the and country together with her family in shortage of depravity in our world today, of Commendation of an Infant Who Died February meeting were not disclosed, search of security and peace,” the council including due regard for the most vulnerable Before Baptism. † the Vatican said the ordinary council said. †

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In her testimony, Judge ‘Treating someone whose brain hasn’t fully as young as 12 to the adult criminal Marilyn Moores noted that Indiana was developed as an adult without knowing how justice system the second state in the nation to adopt a the child came to be involved in a crime doesn’t has passed the juvenile court system more than a century benefit the child or our society.’ Indiana Senate ago because the legal community and and now awaits lawmakers “recognized that children are —Angela Espada, executive director of the Indiana Catholic consideration in the fundamentally different than adults.” Conference House. “A plethora of research confirms that Senate Bill 449, authored by the brains of children and youth are Sen. Erin Houchin (R-Salem), would not fully developed … and they are not reduce the age from 13 to 12 for a minor fully developed until the age of 25,” said correctional system is the question of to be tried as an adult in certain cases, Moores, a juvenile court judge in Marion Following its Feb. 4 passage by the what the child needs—not punishment increase penalties for attempted offenses, County. Senate in a 31-18 vote, the bill has been that leads to extreme trauma and and open the door to hundreds of teenagers Calling the adult criminal justice referred to the House committee on courts permanent impacts on the child and the being automatically transferred from the system “a patently dangerous system and criminal code for consideration. The entire community. juvenile to the adult court system. There, for kids,” Moores also pointed to coalition that opposed and ultimately “We are working very hard to prevent a opponents argue, young people would research demonstrating that the rates of succeeded in defeating Houchin’s hearing on this bill in the House.” be placed in a potentially dangerous recidivism—that is, repeat offenses—are proposed legislation last year must stand To follow Senate Bill 449 and other environment where the emphasis is on higher for juveniles who are treated as firm against this bill as well, said JauNae priority legislation of the ICC, visit punishment rather than rehabilitation—at adults. Hanger, an attorney and president of the www.indianacc.org. This website includes an age when numerous studies show the “Waiver-to-adult court causes juveniles Children’s Policy and Law Initiative of access to I-CAN, the Indiana Catholic brain is still developing, and behavior can to reoffend more seriously, more quickly Indiana. Action Network, which offers the be changed with positive reinforcement. and more violently,” Moores said. “It just “It’s hard to fathom why legislators Church’s position on key issues. Those Houchin sponsored a similar bill last doesn’t work.” are even considering this,” Hanger said. who sign up for I-CAN receive alerts on year that passed the Senate before stalling In addition, she and other child “We know that children are different legislation moving forward and ways to in the House. Her proposed legislation advocates raised serious concerns about from adults. 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Opinion Reflection/Brandon A. Evans Missing from the Shroud of Turin There is something missing from the though wounded, has a certain serenity. Shroud of Turin. The Jesus of the shroud waits peacefully Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Something so obvious, and so strange, and gives us the chance to not only come Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus that it would be altogether noticed—and close to him but to see what cost love paid rather quickly—if not for the context of for our souls, and to be grateful to him. the image, which is that of a dead man. This is Christ the King as he begs us to Still, it’s something that very nearly see him in the Gospels. Not a conqueror or Editorial every painting or a tyrant, neither rich nor proud, but a man drawing or depiction of meekness and courage who stood face to Deacon Shainkiam Yampik of Jesus Christ face with death and despair and loneliness Wananch leads a liturgy with indigenous Achuar contains, even those for us, and defeated those fiercest of people at a chapel in of him dying on the demons using only his weakness. Wijint, a village in the cross. This is a God who, to paraphrase Peruvian Amazon, on I would dare say it C.S. Lewis, stoops to save, and is not too Aug. 20, 2019. The Vatican would have been his proud to help us “even though we have released Pope Francis’ most striking feature, shown that we prefer everything else to postsynodal apostolic and that its absence him.” exhortation, “Querida could very well be a One possible religious explanation for Amazonia” (“Beloved providence to all who look upon the relic how the Shroud got its unique image is Amazonia”), on Feb. 12. with weakened, human hearts. that is was burned there by a supernatural (CNS photo/Maria Cervantes, It is odd, in a sense, because the light at the Resurrection, making the Reuters) Shroud of Turin holds nothing back. shroud, like Christ himself, a place where The figure it depicts is naked, front and the worldly and the divine intersected. back. It is covered in wounds of flayed It would also mean that the image we open skin and puncture marks. Blood has see was taken in the very last moment that posthumously flowed onto the fabric. death had reign over the world. The man The man’s nose looks crooked from of defeat we see became—at that very ‘Querida Amazonia’ surprises, a beating. His beard and mustache are instant—the Risen Christ, the cause of our unkempt and, like his hair, matted with joy and salvation, the head and heart of critiques and inspires dried blood. His countenance is one of a the Church, the life of the world and the person who, having given everything, has King of heaven and Earth. “Our dream is that of an Amazon the people, and for their environment, ceded to death. Half a second later something region that can integrate and promote is absolutely necessary if we want to There is, of course, debate around the happened that Jesus seems to have all its inhabitants, enabling them to prevent the callous destruction caused Shroud of Turin, just like many other specifically willed not to be shown on the enjoy ‘good living.’ But this calls for a by indifference, corruption and grave Catholic relics, and there always will be. Shroud of Turin. prophetic plea and an arduous effort on injustice on the part of individuals and The initial carbon dating 30 years ago, He opened his eyes. behalf of the poor. … We do not need an institutions in society and in the Church. along with the written historical record of The eyes that could see through flesh environmentalism that is concerned for Secondly, Pope Francis dreams that its existence, suggest a medieval origin. and bone to the hearts of men both wicked the biome but ignores the Amazonian “the distinctive cultural riches” of the But other evidence, equally scientific and and saintly; the eyes that could discern peoples” (Pope Francis, “Querida Amazon can be preserved so that “the logical, suggest a lineage far older. intention, and from which no truth could Amazonia,” #8). beauty of our humanity” can shine forth If one assumes that the Shroud of Turin hide even among the cleverest of lies. in many varied ways (#7). The pope was the actual cloth used to wrap the The sight of those eyes is what gave Pope Francis is a man of surprises. reminds us that it is possible “to develop body of Jesus Christ after he was taken the most wretched of sinners and the most Just when you’re willing to bet the intercultural relations where diversity from the cross, then the image—placed crippled of bodies a hope beyond hope. store that he will say or do what you’re does not mean threat, and does not justify only on the tips of the linen fabric by a But they also drove to fury and hatred the expecting, he does something different. hierarchies of power of some over others, method not yet able to be reproduced—is arrogant and self-assured. In the case of his postsynodal apostolic but dialogue between different cultural quite miraculous. We will see those eyes in person one exhortation “Querida Amazonia” visions, of celebration, of interrelationship For it is more than an image: it’s a day and they will do the same to us, one (“Beloved Amazonia”), the Holy Father and of revival of hope” (#38) photograph from the distant past. It is the way or the other. side-stepped months of speculation Third, the Holy Father dreams of a face of Christ lay dormant in a negative They will be a balm to the afflicted and in order to call attention to two of his land where people and nature—both gifts image 1,800 years before photography a horror to the proud. They can be nothing signature themes: 1) care for the poor and from God—can live together in harmony. was invented and another 70 years before other. There is no middle ground there; if vulnerable, especially those on the margins Quoting his immediate predecessor, Pope anyone thought to apply the principles of the eyes are the window to the soul, then the of society; and 2) care for all God’s Emeritus Benedict XVI, Pope Francis film to the shroud. It’s a face that speaks eyes of Jesus are a window to eternity and a creation, especially our common home. says that “alongside the ecology of to us in the language of modernity: a devastatingly honest mirror for each person. Pope Francis does not like to be nature, there exists what can be called a photorealistic image unlike anything we But for now, that terrible gaze is pressured into addressing the hot- ‘human’ ecology which in turn demands have prior to 1826, least of all from the closed, and we are spared its finality. button issues on which the news and a ‘social ecology.’ All this means that time of the Roman Empire, and even more What remains of our lives is nothing less entertainment media like to dwell. He humanity … must be increasingly least of all from the most important person than the time to draw nearer to the living also resists playing the games with conscious of the links between natural in the history of human life on the planet. Jesus, who calls out to us—even from a which so-called “experts” in the Church ecology, or respect for nature,” and Supposing that Jesus meant for us to photograph—to come closer and closer seem obsessed. respect for human life (#41). have this image, this one image, of his until our souls, unafraid and pure, can In “Querida Amazonia,” he Finally, the pope dreams of a Church human likeness, why? Why something so stand in the fire of those eyes. deliberately does not repeat all of the that can “journey alongside the people gruesome? So sad? issues that were discussed during the of the Amazon region” and can faithfully Perhaps because the image on the (Brandon A. Evans is the online editor synod held in Rome last October. He proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ shroud is imminently approachable. No and graphic designer of The Criterion strongly urges us to read the synod’s (#61). “If we devote our lives to their one could fear to draw close to such a and a member of St. Susanna Parish in final document, “The Amazon: New service, to working for the justice and man. He is beaten and laid low. His face, Plainfield.) † Paths for the Church and for an dignity that they deserve,” the Holy Integral Economy.” There is plenty of Father says, “we cannot conceal the fact This color negative controversial information here, and the that we do so because we see Christ in of the Shroud of pope has no desire to stir it all up again. them and because we acknowledge the Turin is taken Instead, the Holy Father offers what immense dignity that they have received from the original he calls a “synthesis of some of the larger from God, the Father who loves them photograph shot by concerns” that he hopes will “guide us with boundless love” (#63). Barrie Schwortz in to a harmonious, creative and fruitful All of the hot-button issues discussed in 1978 and includes reception of the entire synodal process.” the October synod are rooted in the pope’s places where the What are these larger concerns? dream of a Church that is incarnational— relic was damaged Pope Francis identifies four key areas fully present to the peoples of Amazonia in a fire. Schwortz that constitute his “dreams for the and informed by their wisdom, experience was the official Amazon region, a multinational and and cultures. Pope Francis dreams of documenting interconnected whole, a great biome accomplishing this “cultural retrieval photographer for shared by nine countries: Brazil, Bolivia, through a precious synthesis with the the Shroud of Turin Columbia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, preaching of the Gospel” (#72). Research Project Surinam, Venezuela and the territory of Not surprisingly, many news reports in 1978—the first French Guiana.” focus on what Pope Francis did not extensive scientific First among the pope’s four concerns say or do. Both sides of the either/or examination of one is a vision for the future health and political and ecclesial divides can find of the holiest relics vitality of the Amazonian peoples and something to cause disappointment of Christendom, their beloved homelands. He dreams of (even “outrage”) in “Querida which is housed in “an Amazon region that fights for the Amazonia.” Thank God we have a pope the Turin Cathedral rights of the poor, the original peoples who surprises, critiques and inspires us in Italy. (©1978 Barrie and the least of our brothers and sisters, with his reflections on Gospel joy. M. Schwortz Collection, where their voices can be heard and STERA, Inc.) their dignity advanced” (#7). Care for —Daniel Conway The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Love your enemies, pray for those who persecute you

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You people have been subjected to extreme and pray for those who persecute us. “Let no one deceive himself. shall love your neighbor and hate hatred and hostility. At the time Jesus As the first reading for next If any one among you considers your enemy.’ But I say to you, love said, “Love your enemies and pray for Sunday’s Mass (Lv 19:1-2, 17-18) himself wise in this age, let him become your enemies and pray for those who those who persecute you,” the Romans makes clear, Jesus’ words are grounded a fool, so as to become wise. persecute you, that you may be children were the enemy, but they were not the in the Jewish Scriptures: For the wisdom of this world is of your heavenly Father, for he makes first, or the last, in a long line of anti- “You shall not bear hatred for your foolishness in the eyes of God” (1 Cor his sun rise on the bad and the good, Semitic haters who have persecuted the brother or sister in your heart. 3:18-19). and causes rain to fall on the just and Jews. Though you may have to reprove Hatred and hostility are foolish in the unjust. For if you love those who Unfortunately, that line extends to your fellow citizen, do not incur sin the eyes of God. They cause bitter love you, what recompense will you our present day and even to our own because of him. division and make healing extremely have?” (Mt 5:43–46). communities. That fact alone makes Take no revenge and cherish no difficult. As strange as it may seem Jesus’ words challenging for us. He is grudge against any of your people. to the wisdom of this world, the only The Gospel reading for this speaking to us directly, telling us not to You shall love your neighbor as way to make genuine peace among weekend, the Seventh Sunday in hate anyone, but also telling us that we yourself” (Lv 19:17-18). those who are deeply divided is to love Ordinary Time, presents us with one must love, and pray for, anyone who The leaders of the long suffering, our enemies and pray for those who of Jesus’ most challenging statements: hates us. persecuted and hated Jewish people had persecute us. “Love your enemies and pray for those Most of us don’t have readily learned the hard way that as tempting This paradoxical truth applies to who persecute you” (Mt 5:44). We’re identifiable enemies. We may have as it may be to nourish grudges and small divisions as well as large ones. familiar with this saying because we’ve people who don’t like us, or who take revenge, that is not the way to It applies to married couples and read it or heard it so many times. But strongly disagree with us, but are these happiness or peace. families as well as to neighbors and how seriously do we take it? really our enemies? Still, there were those in Jesus’ day fellow citizens. It applies to nations and According to Webster’s New World We don’t have to look very far to see who had a hard time accepting this. religions that don’t agree on matters Dictionary, an enemy is “a person who hateful, hostile words spoken against They were looking for a Messiah who of policy or principle. And it certainly hates another, and wishes or tries to political figures or ways of thinking would avenge their wrongs and punish applies to people who are tempted to injure him; a person hostile to an idea and acting that others despise. Social their persecutors. “You shall love your give in to the sins of racism, nativism, or cause; an adversary or foe.” What media is filled with hate speech, and neighbor as yourself” might be OK for anti-Semitism, homophobia or any makes someone an enemy is the degree the rest of the news and entertainment those closest to us (our own kind), they other form of blind hatred and hostility of hatred or hostility that accompanies media seem to encourage division and would say, but it surely doesn’t apply to toward others. his or her opposition or hostility toward hostility among people who are on our sworn enemies! Let’s pray for the wisdom and the an individual, a group or even an entire opposing sides of moral or political In the second reading for this courage to take Jesus’ words seriously. nation or way of life. positions. This is the complete opposite Sunday (1 Cor 3:16–23), St. Paul Let’s love our enemies and pray for Throughout history, the Jewish of Jesus’ instruction to love our enemies admonishes us: those who persecute us. †

Amen a sus enemigos y oren por los que los persiguen

“Ustedes han oído que se dijo: que Jesús dijo “amen a sus enemigos contrario a la instrucción de Jesús de “Nadie se engañe a sí mismo. Si ‘Amarás a tu prójimo y odiarás a tu y oren por los que los persiguen,” los amar al enemigo y orar por el que nos alguien de ustedes se cree sabio según enemigo.’ Pero Yo les digo: amen a romanos eran los enemigos, pero no persigue. este mundo, hágase necio a fin de sus enemigos y oren por los que los fueron ni los primeros ni los últimos Tal como lo expresa claramente llegar a ser sabio. Porque la sabiduría persiguen, para que ustedes sean hijos de una amplia lista de grupos que han la primera lectura de la misa del de este mundo es necedad ante Dios” de su Padre que está en los cielos; repudiado, odiado y perseguido a los próximo domingo (Lv 19:1-2, 17-18), (1 Cor 3:18-19). porque Él hace salir Su sol sobre judíos. las palabras de Jesús se basan en las El odio y la hostilidad son malos y buenos, y llover sobre justos Lamentablemente esa lista se escrituras judías: conductas tontas a los ojos de Dios e injustos. Porque si ustedes aman a extiende hasta nuestros días y sobrepasa “No odiarás a tu compatriota en tu ya que causan amargas divisiones y los que los aman, ¿qué recompensa incluso las fronteras de nuestras corazón; ciertamente podrás reprender dificultan enormemente el proceso de tienen?” (Mt 5:43-46). propias comunidades. Ese hecho por a tu prójimo, pero no incurrirás en sanación. Aunque para la sabiduría sí solo hace que las palabras de Jesús pecado a causa de él. No te vengarás, mundana resulte muy extraño, la La lectura del Evangelio de este fin sean un reto para nosotros. Nos habla ni guardarás rencor a los hijos de tu única forma de lograr la paz genuina de semana, el séptimo domingo del directamente y nos dice que no odiemos pueblo, sino que amarás a tu prójimo entre aquellos que se encuentran Tiempo ordinario, nos presenta una de a nadie, pero también nos dice que como a ti mismo” (Lv 19:17-18). profundamente divididos es amar a las afirmaciones más desafiantes de debemos amar y orar por aquellos que Los responsables del prolongado nuestros enemigos y rezar por quienes Jesús: “amen a sus enemigos y oren nos odian. sufrimiento, persecución y odio hacia nos persiguen. por los que los persiguen” (Mt 5:44). La mayoría de nosotros no tenemos el pueblo judío aprendieron a las malas Esta verdad paradójica se aplica Estamos familiarizados con este adagio enemigos que podamos identificar que aunque resulte tentador alimentar tanto a pequeñas diferencias como a porque lo hemos leído o escuchado claramente. Quizá no seamos del odios y tomar venganza, ese no es el grandes desavenencias. Se aplica a muchas veces. Pero ¿qué tan en serio agrado de algunas personas o tal vez camino hacia la felicidad o la paz. los matrimonios y a las familias, así nos lo tomamos? haya gente que no esté de acuerdo con Sin embargo, en la época de Jesús como también a los vecinos y a los De acuerdo con el Diccionario nosotros, pero ¿acaso son realmente había a quienes se les dificultaba conciudadanos; se aplica a naciones de la Real Academia Española, un nuestros enemigos? aceptar esto y buscaban un mesías que y a religiones que no concuerdan en enemigo es una “persona que tiene No tenemos que buscar mucho para vengaría las faltas cometidas contra cuestiones de política o principios, mala voluntad a otra y le desea o hace encontrar palabras de odio y hostilidad ellos y castigaría a sus perseguidores. y ciertamente se aplica a quienes mal.” Lo que convierte a alguien en pronunciadas en contra de figuras Nos dirían que eso de «amarás a tu se sienten tentados a sucumbir al un enemigo es el grado de odio u políticas, de formas de pensar o de prójimo como a ti mismo» tal vez sea pecado del racismo, el nativismo, el hostilidad que acompaña su postura o actuar que otros desprecian. Las redes algo aceptable para los más cercanos antisemitismo, la homofobia o cualquier discordia hacia una persona, un grupo sociales están plagadas de discursos de a nosotros (nuestros iguales), pero otra forma de odio ciego y hostilidad o incluso toda una nación o forma de odio, en tanto que los demás medios ¡ciertamente no se aplica a nuestros hacia los demás. vida. de comunicación y de ocio parecen enemigos declarados! Oremos para tener la sabiduría y el A lo largo de la historia, el pueblo alentar la división y la hostilidad En la segunda lectura de este valor de tomarnos las palabras de Jesús judío ha sido objeto de hostilidades y entre aquellos que tienen posturas domingo (1 Cor 3:16-23), san Pablo en serio. Amemos a nuestros enemigos odio extremos. En el momento en el morales o políticas opuestas. Esto es lo nos advierte: y oremos por quienes nos persiguen. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020

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

February 24 Lenten Devotions, adoration fish, fried fish, oysters, shrimp, members welcome. 6 p.m. 11 a.m.-6 p.m., dinners prayer, reflection and lunch, St. Bartholomew Church, noon-6 p.m., rosary 6 p.m., adults $9-11, children $3-$7. Information: 317-243-0777. $11.50-$14 includes two sides, registration not required, free 1306 27th St., Columbus. Mass 6:30 p.m., Stations of the Information: 812-282-2290. dessert, soda; sandwiches or will offering. Information: “Christus Vivit”: Implications Cross with Benediction 7 p.m. March 5 entrées $10-$12.25; www.mountsaintfrancis.org, of Ministry Today and Information: 317-283-5508, February 29 The Atrium Banquet and à la carte items available for 812-923-8817. Beyond, Paul Jarzembowski, [email protected]. St. Mary-of-the-Knobs Conference Center, purchase, pre-order for pick- author and USCCB assistant Church, 5719 Saint Marys 3143 Thompson Road, up 317-536-1047, 317-632- Women’s Care Center, director for laity, marriage, St. Matthew School Road, Floyd County. Rite Indianapolis. Retirement 9349, ext. 111. Information: 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. family life and youth Gymnasium, 4100 E. 56th St., of Election, 10:30 a.m. Dinner in honor of outgoing [email protected] First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., presenting, co-sponsored Indianapolis. Fish Fry, all- Information: Christina Tuley, Roncalli High School Father Patrick Beidelman by several archdiocesan you-can-eat breaded fish [email protected], president Joseph St. Matthew the Apostle presiding, optional tour of offices, for youth ministers, dinners, $8 per person; 317-236-1483. Hollowell, doors open 6 p.m., School Gymnasium, center to follow. Information: directors of religious breaded and grilled shrimp, dinner 6:30 p.m., business 4100 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. 317-829-6800, www. education and college campus cheese pizza, clam chowder, March 1 casual attire, all are welcome, Fish Fry, all-you-can-eat womenscarecenter.org. ministers, $30 fee accessed fettuccine alfredo, macaroni SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, $25 per person with a portion breaded fish dinners, $8 per through archdiocesan parish and cheese available à la carte, 1347 N. Meridian St., of each ticket sold benefiting a person; breaded and grilled Our Lady of the Greenwood assessment, includes lunch. 5-7:30 p.m. Information: Indianapolis. Rite of Election, scholarship, cash bar available, shrimp, cheese pizza, clam Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Registration: bit.ly/30L5vrj 317-257-4297, spines@ 2 p.m. Information: Christina reservations requested by chowder, fettuccine alfredo, Greenwood. First Friday (case sensitive). Information: saintmatt.org. Tuley, [email protected], Feb. 20. Reservations and macaroni and cheese available bilingual celebration of the Emily Mastronicola, 317-236-1483. information: www.roncalli. à la carte, 5-7:30 p.m. Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, [email protected], St. Rita Parish, 1733 Dr. org, 317-787-8277, ext. 239, Information: 317-257-4297, Mass, 5:45 p.m., exposition 317-592-4006. Andrew J. Brown Ave., SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, [email protected]. [email protected]. of the Blessed Sacrament, Indianapolis. Fish Fry, 1347 N. Meridian St., following Mass until 9 p.m., February 27 11 a.m.-6 p.m., dinners Indianapolis. Rite of Election, March 6 St. Anthony of Padua Parish, sacrament of Reconciliation Archbishop O’Meara Catholic $11.50-$14 includes two sides, 6 p.m. Information: Christina St. Joan of Arc Church, 4217 316 N. Sherwood, Clarksville. available. Information: Center, 1400 N. Meridian dessert, soda; sandwiches Tuley, [email protected], Central Ave., Indianapolis. Fish Fry, 5-7:30 p.m., baked 317-759-7309 or mross1@ St., Indianapolis. Caregiver or entrées $10-$12.25; 317-236-1483. Lenten Devotions, adoration fish, fried fish, oysters, shrimp, hotmail.com. Support Group, sponsored à la carte items available for noon-6 p.m., rosary 6 p.m., adults $9-11, children $3-$7. by Catholic Charities, 5:30- purchase, pre-order for pick- March 4 Mass 6:30 p.m., Stations of the Information: 812-282-2290. Events can be submitted to 7 p.m. Information: Monica up 317-536-1047, 317-632- Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Cross with Benediction 7 p.m. The Criterion online at Woodsworth, 317-261-3378, 9349, ext. 111. Information: Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Information: 317-283-5508, Mount Saint Francis Center archindy.org/events/ [email protected]. [email protected]. Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, [email protected]. for Spirituality, 101 submission, or by mailing Catholic, educational, St. Anthony Dr., Mt. St. Francis. us at 1400 N. Meridian St., February 28 St. Anthony of Padua Parish, charitable and social singles, St. Rita Parish, 1733 Dr. First Friday Devotion Indianapolis, IN 46202, St. Joan of Arc Church, 4217 316 N. Sherwood, Clarksville. 50 and over, single, separated, Andrew J. Brown Ave., to the Sacred Heart, ATTN: Natalie Hoefer, or Central Ave., Indianapolis. Fish Fry, 5-7:30 p.m., baked widowed or divorced. New Indianapolis. Fish Fry, following 11:45 a.m. Mass, by fax at 317-236-1593. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Catholic Sisters Week is March 8-14 Fifty-two weeks a year, women More ideas, a toolkit and resources March 6-8 Grove. The Mystery of Mass available Saturday and religious stand with the poor and can be found at catholicsistersweek.org. Providence Spirituality the Cross Lenten Retreat, Sunday, $200 per person (private immigrants, teach children, fight Women religious orders with a and Conference Center, facilitated by Benedictine room, shared bathroom), $400 injustice, care for the sick, share convent or monastery in the archdiocese Community Room, 1 Sisters Sister Carol Falkner and Patty per married couple (private room spirituality, empower the weak, include: of Providence, Saint Mary-of- Moore, prayer, silence, video and bathroom), includes five encourage care for creation, promote • The Congregation of the Sisters the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- presentations, discussion, meals and snacks. Information peace, foster community and offer of the Third Order of St. Francis in Woods. Healing from Sexual 6:30 p.m. check-in Friday and registration: Jennifer Burger, hope. Oldenburg. Abuse: A Retreat for Women through 1 p.m. Sunday, 317-545-7681, jburger@ Catholic Sisters Week, coordinated • The Discalced Carmelite Nuns in Religious, Rachel Waltz and $250 per person includes archindy.org, www.archindy.org/ by Communicators for Women Oldenburg. Providence Sisters Jan Craven, lodging and meals. fatima. Religious, was established as part of • The Discalced Carmelite Nuns of Paula Damiano and Marie Registration: www. Women’s History Month—celebrated in St. Joseph Monastery in Terre Haute. McCarthy facilitating, benedictinn.org/retreats- March 7 March since 2015—to acknowledge the • The Sisters of St. Benedict of Our Fri. 1 p.m.-Sun. 2 p.m., programs. Information: Oldenburg Franciscan Center, contributions of women religious. This Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech $250 per person includes [email protected], 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. year the dates are March 8-14. Grove. meals and lodging, register 317-788-7581. Celebrating Our Struggles Some ideas of ways to honor a • The Sisters of Providence of Saint by Feb. 20. Registration and Writing Workshop, writing religious sister during this week Mary-of-the-Woods in St. Mary-of-the- information: 812-535-2952, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat facilitator for Women Writing include: sending a thank you card Woods. [email protected] or www. House, 5353 E. 56th St., for (a) Change Kelly Richey or letter; inviting a religious sister For a complete list and contact spsmw.org/event. Indianapolis. Silent Preached presenting, 9:30 a.m.- to lunch; visit a retired sister; send a information of women religious Lenten Weekend Retreat, led 2:30 p.m., $45 includes lunch. donation to a religious congregation; orders and sisters serving or living Benedict Inn Retreat and by Father Jeffrey Godecker, Information and registration: volunteer time in honor of a religious in the archdiocese, go to bit.ly/ Conference Center, 7 p.m. Friday through 812-933-6437, www. sister. WomenReligious. † 1402 Southern Ave., Beech conclusion of lunch Sunday, oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. † Retrouvaille weekend for marriages in crisis is set for March 13-15 A Retrouvaille weekend for those and a loving relationship in your whose marriage is in crisis is set for marriage. Tens of thousands of couples March 13-15 in Tipton, Ind. (Lafayette headed for divorce have successfully Diocese), with follow-up sessions in saved their marriages by attending the Indianapolis. weekend and follow-up sessions. Retrouvaille (pronounced retro-vi To learn more about the program or with a long i) means “rediscovery.” A to register, go to www.retrouvaille.org Retrouvaille weekend is not a spiritual or www.HelpOurMarriage.com, email retreat, sensitivity group, seminar or [email protected] or call 317- social gathering. Rather, it is a chance 489-6811 for confidential registration to rediscover yourself, your spouse information. †

Fish fry and pizza dinner on March 6 will benefit Indianapolis inner-city youths

‘Give Back’ winner The Men’s Group of Immaculate The Men’s Group has worked Mimi Holsapple poses with her first-grade students at SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi School in Heart of Mary Parish in Indianapolis closely with the school for almost Greenwood after a ceremony on Feb. 5 recognizing her selection as a winner of the Give Back will host a fish fry/pizza dinner in 20 years. This year’s event will offer Contest sponsored by Catholic Financial Life. The annual contest seeks nominations of Catholic the school gym, 317 E. 57th St., in drawings for prizes donated by local school teachers who “exhibit a remarkable dedication to transforming the lives of their students.” Indianapolis, from 5:30-8 p.m. on organizations and parishioners. Nominated teachers were featured on a website for public voting. Then a panel determined the March 6 to benefit the students of The suggested donation for the event winners based on number of votes, the impact the teacher made and additional stories and St. Anthony School, a Notre Dame ACE is $8 per person or $30 per family. comments shared. Holsapple was one of just three winners out of 134 contestants from around Academy for Indianapolis inner-city Beer and wine will also available. For the country. She received a personal check, as well as a $4,000 donation to the school. To read youths whose families face financial more information, contact Matt Javit at about the many reasons Holsapple received the award, go to bit.ly/2USoEqB. (Submitted photo) difficulties. [email protected] † The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Page 7

Lenten penance services are scheduled at archdiocesan parishes

Parishes throughout the archdiocese have scheduled • March 30, 7 p.m. for St. Thomas More, Mooresville, communal penance services for Lent. Below is a list of and St. Ann (Indianapolis South Deanery) at Lenten disciplines services reported to The Criterion. St. Thomas More • April 3, 7 p.m. for St. Michael the Archangel, include fasting, Batesville Deanery St. Gabriel the Archangel and St. Monica, at • March 2, 6 p.m. at St. Mary of the Immaculate St. Michael the Archangel almsgiving, prayer Conception, Aurora • Wednesdays in Lent (except Ash Wednesday), • March 6, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. (confession only, no service), 6-7 p.m. at Mary, Queen of Peace, Abstinence from meat is to be observed by all for All Saints, Dearborn County, at St. Martin Campus, Danville Catholics 14 years and older on Ash Wednesday and Yorkville on all Fridays of Lent. Ash Wednesday is on Feb. 26. • March 9, 6 p.m. at St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg New Albany Deanery Fasting is to be observed on Ash Wednesday by • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Greensburg • March 5, 6:30 p.m. for St. John Paul II, Sellersburg, at all Catholics who are 18 years of age but not yet 59. • March 11, 6:30 p.m. at St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby County St. Paul Church, Sellersburg Those who are bound by this may take only one full • March 20, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. (confession only, no service) • March 12, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Lanesville meal. Two smaller meals are permitted if necessary at St. Joseph, Shelbyville • March 16, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, Navilleton to maintain strength according to one’s needs, but • March 24, 7 p.m. at Holy Family, Oldenburg • March 18, 7 p.m., at St. Michael, Bradford eating solid foods between meals is not permitted. • March 26, 7 p.m. for St. Catherine of Siena, • March 19, 7 p.m. at St. Mary, New Albany The special Paschal fast and abstinence are Decatur County, at St. John the Evangelist Campus, • March 25, 7 p.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, prescribed for Good Friday and encouraged for Enochsburg Floyd County Holy Saturday. • March 29, 1:30 p.m. at St. Maurice, Napoleon • March 26, 8 a.m.-8 p.m. (confession only, no service) By the threefold discipline of fasting, • March 31, 6:30 p.m. at St. Michael, Brookville at Our Lady of Perpetual Help, New Albany almsgiving and prayer, the Church keeps Lent • April 1, 7 p.m. at St. Louis, Batesville • April 1, 7 p.m. at St. Anthony of Padua, from Ash Wednesday until the evening of Holy • April 2, 6:30 p.m. at St. Peter, Franklin County Clarksville Thursday, which is on April 9. † • April 3, 9 a.m.-9 p.m. (confession only, no service), for All • April 5, 1 p.m. at St. John the Baptist, Starlight Saints, Dearborn County, at St. Martin Campus, Yorkville The following additional confession times are part of Bloomington Deanery New Albany Deanery’s “The Light is on for You” • March 12, 7 p.m. for St. Mary, Mitchell, and CATECHISM St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, at St. Vincent de Paul • Wednesdays in Lent (except Ash Wednesday): • March 31, 7 p.m. at St. Agnes, Nashville St. Michael, Charlestown, 5:45-7:30 p.m. with CORNER • March 31, 6 p.m. at St. John the Apostle, Bloomington adoration; and St. Mary, New Albany, 6:30 p.m. • April 1, 6:30 p.m. at St. Jude the Apostle, Spencer • Thursdays in Lent: St. Francis Xavier, Henryville, • April 2, 7 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours, Martinsville 5:45-7:30 p.m. with adoration • April 8, 6-9 p.m. for St. Charles Borromeo, What the Catechism Bloomington, and St. Paul Catholic Center, Seymour Deanery says about Lent Bloomington, at St. Paul Catholic Center • March 10, 7 p.m. for Most Sorrowful Mother of God, Vevay, and Prince of Peace, Madison, at Prince of The season of Lent is mentioned in the Catechism Connersville Deanery Peace of the Catholic Church in various sections. • March 11, 6:30 p.m. at St. Bridget of Ireland, Liberty • March 18, 6:30 p.m. at St. Patrick, Salem It is brought up in #540 in the section that • March 19, 6:30 p.m. at St. Mary, Rushville • March 19, 6 p.m. at American Martyrs, explains Christ’s public ministry. • March 23, 6 p.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Scottsburg In #1095, Lent is discussed in regards to the way in Cambridge City • March 25, 7 p.m. at St. Ambrose, Seymour which the Church, especially in its liturgy, sees Christ • March 29, 6 p.m. for St. Elizabeth Ann Seton at • March 26, 7 p.m. for Holy Trinity, Edinburgh, prefigured in various ways in the Old Testament. Holy Family Campus, Richmond and St. Bartholomew, Columbus, at Finally, in #1438, the penitential nature of Lent St. Bartholomew is discussed in the section on the sacrament of Indianapolis East Deanery • April 1, 6:30 p.m. for St. Ann and St. Joseph, Jennings reconciliation. • March 10, 6-8 p.m. at St. Philip Neri County; St. Mary, North Vernon; and St. Ambrose, #540 “Jesus’ temptation reveals the way in which • March 11, 7 p.m. at Holy Spirit Seymour, at St. Ambrose the Son of God is Messiah, contrary to the way • March 12, 7 p.m. for Holy Angels (Indianapolis West Satan proposes to him and the way men wish to Deanery) and St. Rita, at St. Rita Terre Haute Deanery attribute to him (see Mt 16:21-23). • March 19, 7 p.m. for St. Théresè of the Infant Jesus • March 24, 2 p.m. at St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute “This is why Christ vanquished the Tempter for (Little Flower) and Our Lady of Lourdes, at • March 31, 7 p.m. at St. Joseph University, us: ‘For we have not a high priest who is unable to St. Théresè of the Infant Jesus (Little Flower) Terre Haute sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in • March 24, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at St. Mary • April 1, 7 p.m. at Sacred Heart, Clinton every respect has been tested as we are, yet without • March 26, 7 p.m. at St. Thomas the Apostle, Fortville • April 6, 7 p.m. at St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle sinning’ (Heb 4:15). By the solemn forty days of • March 27, 6-8 p.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield • April 8, 11 a.m. at St. Joseph, Rockville Lent, the Church unites herself each year to the • March 28, 9-11 a.m. at St. Michael, Greenfield • April 8, 7 p.m. at Annunciation, Brazil mystery of Jesus in the desert.” #1095 “… the Church, especially during Advent Indianapolis North Deanery Additionally, the following confession times are offered and Lent and above all at the Easter Vigil, re-reads • March 9, 7 p.m. at St. Matthew the Apostle in the Terre Haute Deanery and re-lives the great events of salvation history • March 10, 7 p.m. at St. Matthew the Apostle in the ‘today’ of her liturgy. But this also demands Saturdays in Lent: that catechesis help the faithful to open themselves Indianapolis South Deanery • St. Margaret Mary, Terre Haute, 3-3:45 p.m. to this spiritual understanding of the economy of • March 10, 7 p.m. for Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Sacred Heart, Clinton, 3:30-4 p.m. salvation as the Church’s liturgy reveals it and and St. Jude, at Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ • St. Joseph University, Terre Haute, 3:30-4:30 p.m. enables us to live it.” • March 11, 7 p.m. for St. Roch, St. Barnabas and • Sacred Heart of Jesus, Terre Haute, 4 p.m. #1438 “The seasons and days of penance in the St. Mark the Evangelist, at St. Roch • St. Benedict, Terre Haute, 4 p.m. course of the liturgical year (Lent, and each Friday • March 19, 7 p.m. for Holy Name of Jesus, Beech • St. Paul, Greencastle, 4-4:45 p.m. in memory of the death of the Lord) are intense Grove, and Good Shepherd, at Holy Name of Jesus • St. Patrick, Terre Haute, 7:15-7:45 p.m. moments of the Church’s penitential practice. • March 25, 7 p.m. at Our Lady of the Greenwood, • First Saturday of the month (March 7, April 4), “These times are particularly appropriate for Greenwood 9-11 a.m. at Annunciation, Brazil spiritual exercises, penitential liturgies, pilgrimages • March 30, 7 p.m. for St. Ann and St. Thomas More, as signs of penance, voluntary self-denial such Mooresville (Indianapolis West Deanery) at Sundays in Lent: as fasting and almsgiving, and fraternal sharing St. Thomas More • St. Patrick, Terre Haute, 8-8:30 a.m. [charitable and missionary works].” • April 4, 9 a.m. at SS. Francis and Clare of Assisi, • Annunciation, Brazil, 8-8:45 a.m. Greenwood • Noon at St. Paul the Apostle, Greencastle (To read the Catechism of the Catholic Church • First Sunday of the month (March 1, April 5) online, log on to www.usccb.org/catechism/text/.) † Indianapolis West Deanery 8:30 a.m. at St. Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- • March 4, 7 p.m. for St. Anthony and St. Christopher, Woods at St. Anthony Tell City Deanery • March 12, 7 p.m. for Holy Angels and St. Rita Tuesdays in Lent • March 11, 6 p.m. at St. Meinrad, St. Meinrad (Indianapolis East Deanery), at St. Rita • St. Joseph, Rockville, 4:30 p.m. • Sundays during Lent: 3-4 p.m. at St. Paul, Tell City • March 12, 7 p.m. at St. Malachy, Brownsburg • March 18, 7 p.m. for St. Susanna, Plainfield, and Thursdays in Lent (An updated version of this list, along with other Lenten St. Joseph, at St. Susanna • St. Joseph University, Terre Haute, 7-8 p.m. resources, can be found at www.archindy.org/lent.) † To prevent spread of COVID-19, Hong Kong Diocese cancels Masses HONG KONG (CNS)—The threat of spreading the “Some Church members may be disappointed” with U.S. officials reported 15 confirmed cases. coronavirus has forced Catholic officials in Hong Kong the diocesan move, the cardinal said in his Feb. 13 Hong Kong, which has open borders with China, has to suspend all Church programs on Feb. 15-28, including pastoral letter. “This is not an easy decision.” reported 50 confirmed cases and one death. The densely Sunday Masses and the Ash Wednesday liturgy that The move comes amid global fears that the epidemic, populated Hong Kong city-state of 7.4 million people is marks the beginning of Lent. now called COVID-19, has worsened in China against on high alert to check the virus, ucanews.com reported. Ucanews.com reported Cardinal John Tong, apostolic the prediction of experts. The epidemic, first reported Cardinal Tong said he wanted Catholics to fulfill their administrator of Hong Kong, said the “disappointing” in Wuhan city of Hubei province, has spread across the Mass obligation by participating in Mass online, receiving decision had been made “because the next two weeks will world and claimed more than 1,700 lives, with more than holy Communion spiritually and meditating on the be a crucial time to suppress the epidemic. 70,000 confirmed cases as of Feb. 17, mostly in China. Scriptures or saying the rosary at home. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020

services it developed, with a focus on WHITE FLAG filling the gap of shelter availability on continued from page 1 dangerously cold nights. “White Flag” is a term used nationally “It’s a powerful experience to know I’m by homeless shelters. To protect as many in some way saving people’s lives by not lives as possible on frigid nights, a white letting them sleep in the cold,” she says. flag is placed near a shelter’s entrance indicating they will accept those in need A ‘distinctive’ program beyond their regular capacity. Each January, “point-in-time” (PIT) counts The program in New Albany, however, of those living on the streets are conducted “is a bit distinctive,” explains Dr. Melissa around the state. The 2019 PIT count for Fry, who led the 2013 study. “In our Clark, Floyd and part of southern Indiana, we have only four other counties one general-population homeless shelter was 288. serving a 14-county region. That shelter But that number is consistently overcrowded. This means is deceptive. they don’t have any room to expand According capacity for White Flag nights.” to the HCSI So HCSI created a volunteer-based website, “private program similar to one in Chicago developers that rotates the shelter location among multiply the participating churches. Point-in-Time The New Albany program launched in Peggy and Larry Richards of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany prepare the city’s local count by five the fall of 2016 using the gym—complete Salvation Army gym as the White Flag shelter for those in need of protection from the cold on Feb. 7. when assessing with a kitchen and showers—donated by (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) a community’s the local Salvation Army. Katelyn and Craig Stumler true number From Nov. 15 through April 15, “They’ve learned that these people aren’t Pettit agrees. of individuals White Flag conditions are announced a stereotype—they’re actual people “Putting your faith in action makes you experiencing homelessness.” when temperatures are forecast below struggling with different issues that appreciate the compassionate Christ,” she To address the needs of those lacking 35 degrees for four consecutive hours put them in this position. And many of says. “You just know that each and every one shelter in the New Albany area, a study between 7 p.m.-7 a.m. On those nights, homeless are actually working.” of us is a gift, and each person we encounter of local resources for the homeless volunteers staff the shelter to provide Mark Russell is one example. is someone’s daughter or son. Theology was conducted in 2013. It resulted in air mattresses and linens, a hot meal, The Criterion spoke with him as he becomes actually your life, not just an idea.” a document called “Vision 2025: A breakfast and a sack lunch for the guests. enjoyed a hot cup of coffee at the White But eradicating homelessness “is not a Strategic Plan to End Homelessness in HCSI, a non-faith-based organization, Flag shelter on Feb. 7. quick fix. It’s not something that will go Clark and Floyd Counties.” recruited organizations, parishes and Russell, 32, aged out of foster care and away overnight,” says Stumler. “We really Mark Casper, agency director for other congregations to adopt one or more has spent the last 13 years “on and off the need to keep this [shelter] open to provide St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities in New nights each month to provide three shifts streets.” He works part time as a chef at a a safe place for people to get a good Albany, served on a planning committee for of volunteers if White Flag conditions are local restaurant. But the pay is not enough night’s sleep in a warm place.” the study. The committee’s goal, he says, announced. to afford housing, and he has struggled to The numbers prove the need. From Nov. “was to look at the data [collected], identify According to Casper, with five parishes, find additional work. 15, 2019, through Feb. 6, the White Flag the gaps [in resources] and create a new St. Elizabeth Catholic Charities volunteers “I understand the need to help [people] shelter was open 29 nights and had a total organization to oversee implementation of and HCSI board members with ties to overseas,” says Russell. “But there are of 237 visits from 69 unique guests. Since the recommendations” in the document. St. Elizabeth, there are now “10 or 11 nights people right here in need. There are its inception, the shelter has provided 197 HCSI was created as the overseeing covered with ties to the Catholic Church.” several veterans on the street, and that’s nights of respite from the cold, adding up organization. White Flag is one of the just not right. … to 1,716 visits from 240 individual guests, ‘These people aren’t a stereotype’ “People look at the homeless as lazy, and averaging 20 guests per night. Katelyn says Craig was one of the drug addicts or bums. It’s true that some on But more help is needed. first volunteers for the program after it the streets want to be there. But for some, “We still have 22 un-adopted nights launched. things in their life just didn’t work out.” for the rest of this season,” says Celeste “My personal response was I thought This was true for a couple Pettit Cook, White Flag senior site captain. She it was a great cause, and I was glad my encountered. She met them at a Christmas is one of three hired staff who work from husband was involved. But it was December, day open house for the homeless her 6:30 p.m.-7:30 a.m. to handle situations which is super busy for me preparing the parish started two years ago, since should they arise. Christmas liturgy,” says Katelyn, director of “everything is closed that day and they “We’re here to keep everything safe liturgical music ministries for Our Lady of have nowhere to get out of the cold.” and happy for everyone,” she says. Perpetual Help Parish. The woman had been in a devastating “We like to give our volunteers a good But one night when White Flag accident that resulted in a broken spine and experience so they keep coming back, conditions were called, Craig needed injuries to internal organs. The man quit his and we want our guests to have a someone to cover his shift for two hours. job to care for her. Medical bills piled up, good experience so they feel safe and “Begrudgingly, I said I’d do it,” and they could no longer afford housing. comfortable when they’re here.” Katelyn admits. “It was an incredible “You see how one incident in life put Russell expresses his gratitude for the experience. … That was the spark that lit them in a situation where they had no shelter and its volunteers. the flame of my personal involvement and control on where they lived,” says Pettit. “I always say God will make a way dedication to this cause.” “It makes you think how, but for the grace and give you what you need when you Stumler is not alone in finding the of God, that could be me.” need it,” he says. “Here, I get a warm bed, service transformative. a good meal, the volunteers are all nice Mary Pettit of St. Mary Parish in New Albany, “I’ve heard a number of parishioners ‘I see God at work here’ and friendly. … I see God at work here.” left, delivers donations for the city’s White Flag talk about how they have really changed Helping those in need is “service to shelter on Feb. 7 as volunteer Dee Traub of Our the way they view homelessness,” says God that we’re all called to do,” says Larry (For more information about New Albany’s Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany Mary Pettit, White Flag coordinator Richards, who has volunteered for White White Flag program or to volunteer or looks on. for St. Mary Parish in New Albany. Flag with his wife Peggy since its inception. donate, go to www.soinhomeless.org.) † Here’s how you can help New Albany’s White Flag program

By Natalie Hoefer They also prepare sack lunches for guests for the following Donations day, take stock of donations and perform other light tasks. White Flag welcomes donations of easy-to-open To provide shelter for the homeless on nights between The third shift is from 5:30-7:30 a.m. Volunteers portable canned meals, tea bags, hot chocolate, and Nov. 15 through April 15 when temperatures will be below on this shift wake the guests, prepare and serve a light easy-to-serve breakfast items such as cereal and boxes 35 degrees for four consecutive hours between 7 p.m.-7 breakfast, see that guests are out by 7 a.m., put away of single-serve flavored oatmeal packets. Home-cooked a.m., the Homeless Coalition of Southern Indiana’s (HCSI) the mattresses and straighten the gym so it’s ready for items are prohibited due to health regulations. White Flag shelter in New Albany is in constant need of Salvation Army programs by 7:30 a.m. Non-food items always in demand include gift cards volunteers and donations. Here’s how you can help. Parishes can form one team or multiple teams. (preferably for Kroger, which is near the shelter site) and 99 Groups within parishes can also form a team, such percent alcohol for cleaning the air mattresses after each use. Shift volunteers as men’s or women’s clubs, prayer groups, rosary Donations can be dropped off at the HCSI offices at There are currently 22 nights in need of adoption societies, small Church groups, etc. 1015 E. Main St., New Albany, IN 47150. by a team or individual volunteers should White Flag The contacts for parishes currently providing Donations can be made online at www.soinhomeless. conditions be declared on those days. Each night volunteers are: org/donate.html. Checks can be made out to “Homeless requires at least seven volunteers split into three shifts. • Most Sacred Heart of Jesus and St. Augustine Coalition of Southern Indiana” with “White Flag” Volunteers are contacted before 3:30 p.m. when White parishes in Jeffersonville: Karen Singleton, karen. written on the memo line, and mailed to Homeless Flag conditions have been declared for that night. [email protected]. Coalition of Southern Indiana, PO Box 1871, New First-shift volunteers serve from 6:30-10:30 p.m. and • Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish, New Albany: Albany, IN 47150. are responsible for setting out air mattresses and linens, Katelyn Stumler, [email protected]. heating and serving a frozen meal or serving a meal • St. Mary Parish, New Albany: Mary Pettit, Restaurant donations prepared and donated by a local restaurant, and making [email protected]. Because health regulations prohibit home-cooked guests feel welcome. This shift allows for the most A men’s prayer group from St. John Paul II Parish in food from being served, local restaurants have adopted interaction with guests. Sellersburg will also soon be volunteering. nights to provide cooked meals should White Flag The second shift runs from 10:30 p.m.-5:30 a.m. Other parishes or groups interested in volunteering conditions be called on that date. Restaurant owners Volunteers on this shift keep watch to help guests if needed can contact Celeste Cook at 812-768-6142 or ccook@ interested in adopting a night can contact Celeste Cook or to notify the hired White Flag site captain of any needs. soinhomeless.org. at 812-768-6142 or [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Page 9 ‘Powerful words of understanding’: Pope backs indigenous in Amazon LIMA, Peru (CNS)—Saying the sometimes draw criticism from others in world has much to learn from Amazonian the Church, but the pope has made clear indigenous peoples, Pope Francis declared that “they can’t call you communist” the Catholic Church their ally in their for opposing industries or infrastructure struggle to protect the region’s forests and projects that threaten communities, she rivers. added. In “Querida Amazonia” (“Beloved The exhortation “is a response from Amazonia”), the apostolic exhortation Pope Francis to the cry of pain of the issued on Feb. 12, the pope called on Amazon, from its peoples, nations and Catholics to respond to environmental indigenous organizations,” Jose Gregorio destruction in the Amazon region with Diaz Mirabal, coordinator of an umbrella outrage and indignation while building organization of Amazonian indigenous networks of solidarity with its traditional groups, said in a statement released on inhabitants. Feb. 12. The document is Pope Francis’ “These represent powerful words response to recommendations made by of understanding, solidarity and a participants in the Synod of Bishops for commitment to stand with us against the the Amazon, held in October 2019 at the pain, murders and criminal prosecution of Vatican. the unique and legitimate defenders of the With its often lyrical language, the Pachamama” or Mother Earth, Diaz, who exhortation takes another step toward a was an observer at the synod, said in the closer relationship with native peoples, statement. which the pope launched in Peru in Pope Francis’ message comes as January 2017. At an encounter there with threats against the environment and those several thousand Amazonian indigenous who defend it are on the rise in Amazonia people, Pope Francis asked his listeners and other parts of Latin America and the Indigenous people are seen on the banks of the Xingu River during a media event in Brazil’s Xingu to help Church leaders understand their world. Indigenous Park on Jan. 15. (CNS photo/Ricardo Moraes, Reuters) culture and their lives. Widespread fires in southern Brazil With the exhortation, the pope has and northern Bolivia, where forests were political statement, Archbishop Roque teach their children. made it clear that the Church—and the razed for farming and ranching, made Paloschi of Porto Velho, Brazil, told CNS. The mission is important for the world—must listen to them and recognize international headlines in 2019. Africa’s The pope’s words “make us aware that Church, he said, because some early them as equals, said Moema Maria Congo basin, which faces similar threats, we must respond to the cry of God in the missionaries punished children for Marques de Miranda, a lay Franciscan also suffered a fierce fire season. cry of the poor and the cry of creation,” speaking their native languages in who was an observer at the synod. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Archbishop Paloschi said. “More than school, although other missioners learned “After 500 years, indigenous peoples has submitted draft legislation to that a political impact, it needs to have an languages, compiled dictionaries and are recognized in their wisdom and their country’s Congress seeking to open impact on the Church and require us to translated Scripture into native languages. abilities. That is a paradigm change,” indigenous territories to extractive take a united stand.” Language, he said, enables Miranda told Catholic News Service (CNS). industries. Nevertheless, the Church “must missionaries “to experience the world That message is woven into the “The businesses, national or become more and more prophetic” in from another point of view.” It also document from the beginning, where international, which harm the Amazon speaking out against policies that threaten underscores the great cultural diversity Pope Francis describes four dreams. He and fail to respect the right of the original indigenous peoples and the environment, that exists in the Amazon basin along with says he dreams of an Amazonia that fights peoples to the land and its boundaries, and Brazilian Sister Rose Bertoldo, a the region’s biological diversity. for the rights of indigenous peoples, to self-determination and prior consent, Missionary Sister of the Immaculate The message of “Beloved Amazonia” an Amazonia that preserves its cultural should be called for what they are: Heart of Mary who was an observer at the should echo far beyond the region’s riches, an Amazonia that preserves its injustice and crime,” the pope wrote (#14). synod, told CNS. boundaries, Josianne Gauthier, executive natural beauty, and Christian communities When businesses seek profit above For Sister Rose, one notable omission secretary of CIDSE, an international that give the Church “new faces with all, corrupt authorities give companies in the exhortation was the concept of consortium of Catholic development Amazonian features” (#7) easy access to timber and minerals, and “ecological sin.” Synod participants agencies and an invited guest at the That image of dreams has a double companies “raze the forests and pollute had recommended that actions like synod, told CNS. meaning. For most Westerners, dreams the environment, economic relationships pollution, environmental destruction and Catholics worldwide can learn from express hopes for the future, but for are unduly altered and become an environmental injustice that endanger the synod process, which has involved “so indigenous people, they transmit instrument of death,” he added (#14). future generations be recognized as much listening—listening to the voices messages from God, just as they did for For those who defend their lands “ecological sins of commission or of the people, listening to the Amazon, some Biblical figures, Miranda said. against loggers, miners and ranchers, the omission against God, against one’s listening to the cries, the screams,” she Such dreams are visions “that connect stakes are high. At least 164 people were neighbor, the community and the said. with something very deep within the killed worldwide in such efforts in 2018, environment.” “There’s something we need to learn person,” said Medical Mission Sister according to the nonprofit organization Archbishop Paloschi said that in from that—how do we listen?” she said, Birgit Weiler, who works in Peru and was Global Witness, which says the figure is leaving that out of the exhortation, the adding that people can practice that in an expert at the synod. “It commits you to probably low. In many cases, the killers pope chose to encourage the Church their own parishes. taking a new path.” are never brought to justice. toward a necessary conversion rather than Catholics can also respond to the One message that stands out clearly The deadliest countries include Brazil, taking a punitive approach. exhortation’s invitation to seek ways of in the exhortation, she said, is that the Colombia, Guatemala and Mexico. The Helping indigenous people defend their “just standing back and learning to love Church sides with indigenous people pope’s exhortation was issued on Feb. 12, rights, their land and their culture takes creation and nature in the way traditional who defend their lands against extractive the anniversary of the 2005 murder of various forms, Father Ron MacDonell, peoples do,” she added. industries like logging and mining or the Notre Dame Sister Dorothy Stang, who a Scarboro missionary from Antigonish, And they can respond to the synod’s encroachment of industrial-scale farming worked with small-scale farmers in Brazil. Nova Scotia, told CNS. call to envision new ways of being and ranching. Although Pope Francis warns that A linguist, he works with indigenous Church. That is also a sign the Church workers extractive industries are a new form of groups in Brazil, including the Macuxi “Can we bring something from the “have the backing of the pope” when colonialism in a region where the Church and Kokama, to help them recover their synodal process into our parishes?” she they accompany communities in those must work to dismantle the vestiges of languages, which are in danger of being said. “Can we learn to listen again, to struggles, Sister Birgit said. Such efforts a colonial past, the exhortation is not a lost if parents and grandparents no longer each other and to ourselves?” †

“incarnate” in a local culture, taking on In his exhortation, Pope Francis said the as if the lands on which they live do not AMAZON local characteristics that are in harmony idea that women’s status and participation belong to them” (#12). continued from page 1 with the faith and giving the local culture in the Church could come only with The destruction of the forest, the values and traits that come from the ordination “would lead us to clericalize polluting of the Amazon River and the problems and issues of the Amazon universal Church. women, diminish the great value of what its tributaries and the disruption and region” (#3). “There is a risk,” he said, “that they have already accomplished and subtly contamination of the land by mining Having a Church with “Amazonian evangelizers who come to a particular make their indispensable contribution less industries, he said, further impoverish the features,” he said, also will require greater area may think that they must not only effective” (#100). region’s poor, increase the chances that efforts to evangelize, official recognition communicate the Gospel, but also the Instead, he called for including women in they will become victims of trafficking of the role women have and continue to culture in which they grew up” (#69). roles “that do not entail holy orders,” but that and destroy their communities and play in the region’s Catholic communities, Instead, he said, “what is needed is are stably established, publicly recognized cultures, which are based on a close and a respect for popular forms of piety and courageous openness to the novelty of and include “a commission from the bishop” care-filled relationship with nature. greater efforts to inculturate the Catholic the Spirit, who is always able to create and a voice in decision making (#103). “The inescapable truth is that, as things faith in Amazonian cultures (#7). something new with the inexhaustible Peppered with poetry praising stand, this way of treating the Amazon In the document, Pope Francis did riches of Jesus Christ” (#69). the region’s beauty or lamenting its territory spells the end for so much life, not mention the theft during the synod One of the characteristics of many destruction, much of the document for so much beauty, even though people of wooden statues of a pregnant woman, Catholic communities in the Amazon, he looks at the exploitation of the Amazon would like to keep thinking that nothing is usually referred to by the media as wrote, is that, in the absence of priests, region’s indigenous communities and happening,” Pope Francis wrote (#47). “pachamama” or described as a symbol of they are led and sustained by “strong poor inhabitants and the destruction of its Yet, he said, “from the original life and fertility by synod participants. and generous women, who, undoubtedly natural resources. peoples, we can learn to contemplate the But he insisted, “Let us not be quick to called and prompted by the Holy Spirit, “The Amazon region has been presented Amazon region and not simply analyze it, describe as superstition or paganism certain baptized, catechized, prayed and acted as as an enormous empty space to be filled, and thus appreciate this precious mystery religious practices that arise spontaneously missionaries” (#99). a source of raw materials to be developed that transcends us. We can love it, not from the life of peoples” (#78). While the idea of ordaining women [and] a wild expanse to be domesticated,” simply use it, with the result that love can The pope devoted several long deacons was mentioned at the synod, it the pope wrote. “None of this recognizes awaken a deep and sincere interest. Even passages to the theme of “inculturation,” was not included in the bishops’ final the rights of the original peoples; it simply more, we can feel intimately a part of it the process by which the faith becomes document. ignores them as if they did not exist or acts and not only defend it” (#55). † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 GO &Make Disciples www.archindy.org/UCA

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I first met Glenn in the summer of 2000 after I had begun a weekly ministry on Ohio’s death row. In early 2006, I presided at his funeral Mass a few days after his execution. Glenn’s story is of a good-looking star high school athlete whose life fell apart when he lost himself in drugs and violence. After two brutal killings, he was arrested and given the death penalty. Of course, I did not know him at that time. During his years in prison, often in solitary confinement, he was given hope by people who reached out to him. Eventually, he heard about Catholicism and wanted to pursue it. My immediate predecessor, Father Gary, baptized him a couple months before I met him. For Glenn, his faith journey was almost that of a modern-day prodigal son. His was not a jailhouse religion, nor a way of denying his crimes. Instead, he learned to pray, practiced living virtuously and developed a devout relationship with Christ in the Eucharist. He also showed incredible concern for the families of his victims. Shortly before his execution, he told me that he had decided what his final words would A priest prays with a death-row inmate at Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Ind. “Repentance is tied in with redemption. It has to be. Otherwise, be. He chose not to ask the families for repentance is all based on our own efforts and designs,” writes Father Herbert Weber. (CNS photo/Tim Hunt, Northwest Indiana Catholic) forgiveness, something he truly wanted, because he feared that would place a new He was nervous about it, but with the the innocent person placing himself in same time, he was drawn closer to the burden on them. blessing of his chancery he said yes. the place of the guilty and taking on our Lord and discovered a more profound Instead, he chose to emphasize his Repentance is tied in with redemption. sentence of death. faith with Jesus than he had ever imagined sorrow and regret, knowing that he could It has to be. Otherwise, repentance is all Once we accept that, then true was possible. not undo the harm that he had caused. He based on our own efforts and designs. repentance makes sense. To repent is more All the work of repentance is could not bring back to life either of the As Lent begins and we hear the call than people simply saying they are sorry, impossible on the human side alone. young women whose lives he had taken. to repentance, most will not picture as important as that is. Many people are Repentance is a response to redemption As I learned later, one victim’s brother themselves as another Glenn. Thankfully. very good at saying they are sorry, often a given to us by God as a free gift. Because chose to forgive him. The others did not. Yet repentance is still a requirement. As lesson learned when they are quite young. people have been given a new beginning, Because Glenn had not had a Catholic important as it is, it cannot be seen in Repentance has an element of sorrow, repentance is always about a fuller parish growing up, we had to search for a isolation; it has to be a response to the but also acknowledges a need to change. life. Just as the death of Jesus bridged church near his hometown for the funeral. death of Jesus on the cross. Repentance, in the example of Glenn, humanity with God, humans accept that He recalled one time when he was on The word “redemption” comes, meant that he had, with the help of God’s they are able to walk that bridge to God the streets that he walked into a Catholic literally, from the term to buy back. grace, to turn his life around. when they repent. church and found peace there. Playing The redemptive act of Jesus’ death on He had to admit his sins, ask for On the morning of Glenn’s execution, detective, I tracked down that church and the cross is a way for God-as-man to forgiveness and then do what was he allowed the brother of one of his asked the pastor to allow this funeral. have bought back our salvation. He is necessary to atone for his sins. At the victims to come and see him. The guards were nervous about it. Those in charge told him he had no duty to do so. But Glenn and the brother talked quietly with nearly a dozen guards watching every movement. I was standing next to them at the time. After a very heartfelt conversation, the brother left and then awaited the execution in a room apart from the rest of his family. Suddenly, he called the chaplain and asked that one more message be conveyed to Glenn. When the chaplain asked what, the brother simply said, “Please tell him I forgive him.” The chaplain told this to Glenn right before his death. Glenn cried at the news.

(Father Herbert Weber is founding pastor of St. John XXIII Parish in Perrysburg, Ohio. His weekly podcast can be found at 23.church.) †

An inmate receives ashes from a religious sister on Ash Wednesday at the Suffolk County Correctional Facility in Riverhead, N.Y. As Lent begins, Catholics and other Christians hear the call to repentance. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) Page 12 The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Perspectives Reflection/Mike Krokos Worship and Evangelization Years later, Gabriel is still a strong testimony to life Outreach/Fr. Patrick Beidelman His name was Gabriel, and little did I or other sites are encouraged to visit not. They believed in life and believed in Gospel calls know that his brief life would have such a www.40daysforlife.com. eternal life.” profound influence on me and be one of Gabriel’s story goes back 20-plus I still am moved as I reflect on the the things that came years, but it’s still worth sharing. family’s decision to choose life for their us to repentance to mind as I began A column, “Gabriel was strong newborn—despite the extreme sadness offering prayers for testimony to life,” was written by the and heartbreak that would soon envelop and renewal the upcoming late Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of the their world. 40 Days for Life Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis. It But as I reflect on Archbishop Flynn’s during Lent spring campaign told the story of a family dealing with the poignant column, it reaffirms for me our which runs from brief life of their son, Gabriel, who was faith tradition’s unwavering commitment to Next week, we will celebrate Ash Feb. 26-April 5. diagnosed in his mother’s womb with all life—from conception to natural death. Wednesday on Feb. 26 and begin the great As we have a fatal heart condition, and the parents’ We see it at the Indiana March for Life season of Lent. previously reported in decision to carry the pregnancy to full in Indianapolis, at the national March for As we begin the The Criterion, term. Life in Washington, and in many other Lenten season, we 40 Days for Life is an international Knowing the child had little time to venues. do several things campaign held twice a year—spring and live after he was born in August of 1999, We are blessed because we have a that are familiar. The fall—that seeks to end abortion through the baby’s uncle rushed from Children’s shepherd, Archbishop Charles vestments that the peaceful prayer vigils at abortion centers, Hospital in St. Paul to the archbishop’s C. Thompson, and clergy and religious who priests and deacons and to raise community awareness of the residence to see if a priest could come to have an unabashed commitment to life. wear is the penitential consequences of abortion. the hospital to baptize the newborn infant. While many voices in the secular world color of violet. We During the campaign, individuals Baby Gabriel passed on to eternal life voice their support for abortion and other sing songs about God’s silently pray during one-hour time slots before Archbishop Flynn arrived at the life-ending measures, the 40 Days for mercy and about our in front of abortion centers around the hospital shortly thereafter, but the child’s Life campaign affords us an opportunity need for forgiveness. world, including outside the Planned father had baptized him just moments before. to plant seeds of faith and, God willing, Almsgiving, prayer and fasting will be the Parenthood facility in Indianapolis, The family’s story, albeit an extremely shine a light in times of darkness. tools of our trade these next few weeks. 8590 Georgetown Road, and the one in sad one, was a testimony to all life’s Like Gabriel’s parents, may we use this And on Ash Wednesday, we receive ashes, Bloomington at 421 S. College Ave. There sacredness, the archbishop wrote. opportunity to be witnesses to the truth of remembering that some things are temporary are also 40 Days for Life campaigns in “The parents knew that the child the Gospel. and other things are eternal. We make our Cincinnati, Louisville and Evansville, would not live long after birth. They could commitments to be better disciples … things and those interested in praying at those have terminated the pregnancy. They did (Mike Krokos is editor of The Criterion.) † we give up and things we pledge to do. We know the routine, and it seems to me that there’s a part of us—a part deep For the Journey/Effie Caldarola within—that is grateful for it, for this routine, which calls us back to the core of we are. It helps us to open our hearts Gift of faith makes a difference in the mornings, days ahead wider and to remember and give thanks Waking up in a cold bedroom, bundled You can’t make things any more direct We stick around when we’re in doubt. more consistently and completely for the up under layers of blankets, I was happy or simple than that, can you? It’s the crux, We say the rosary in the early morning as love of the God who does not abandon us. to feel good. I was the beneficiary of a the center, the foundation of our faith. well as in the dark hours. In our tradition, the beginning of these sound sleep. This is not That empty tomb is the bottom line. Soon, I went downstairs and made 40 days of penance is marked with the always the case for me, You either believe that that dead man coffee in the chilly kitchen, turned the austere symbol of ashes. The use of ashes often struck as I am rose or you don’t, and that makes all the thermostat up and pulled up the window is from an ancient practice which sinners by nighttime anxiety. I difference in what you spend your whole shades to reveal a white, foggy landscape. who converted submitted themselves to felt refreshed and very life doing and loving. Good thoughts as Some of my neighbors get up very early, doing significant acts of penance. grateful for another Lent nears. bathroom lights heralding their preparation. The Directory on Popular Piety and the day. A journalist I greatly admired once Some had already left for work, tire tracks Liturgy reminds us: “The act of putting on The dawn was visited a class I was taking. He was there punctuating the two inches of fresh snow ashes symbolizes fragility and mortality, breaking, although the to be interviewed by our group of fledgling the night had deposited on their driveways. and the need to be redeemed by the gloomy, foggy winter writers, but my question was of a more There seems to be a contest among some mercy of God. Far from being a merely weather that had hung personal nature. I knew his family, a large of the retirees on the block. Who can get external act, the Church has retained the on for weeks did its best to hide the sun. Irish Catholic clan, and I had known his their driveways cleared first? The buzz of use of ashes to symbolize that attitude of My husband wasn’t awake yet, and it old father at my cathedral parish where he snowblowers punctuated the morning air. internal penance to which all the baptized was early, so I found my rosary under my served as an usher for years. Yet this writer, I love morning. Morning is always are called during Lent” (# 125). Our goal pillow and began to pray. The glorious a columnist, was clearly a critic of the a new beginning, a clean slate. Mary is conversion and to be renewed in our mysteries, a gift. How much of this do I Church and no longer a Catholic. Magdalene went to the tomb and made commitment to Christ this Easter. really believe? I asked myself. I repeat I asked him about that, and he agreed her discovery in the early morning. Babies The sacrifices of Ash Wednesday and that prayer, “I believe. Help my unbelief.” with my assessment and was gracious in and little kids get you up early in the this Lenten season allow us to intensify I thought of a remark by the newly his response. morning. School buses trundle through our focus on the Lord Jesus. However, this appointed archbishop of Philadelphia, “You know,” he said, “I’ve been told the neighborhood, then eager neighbors deepening of our mindfulness of Christ and Nelson J. Perez, who had served as bishop of faith is a gift. And I guess I haven’t been crank up their snowblowers. of God’s people is not a wish that things will Cleveland. He once told a group in Cleveland given that gift.” In the morning, we begin again and ask get better. In fact, our returning to the Lord a story about someone asking him if he had All these years later, I still ponder his yet again for the gift of faith, the gift that will and our preparation for our recommitment hope in the midst of such a troubled world. answer. Yes, faith is a gift, the gift of a make all the difference in the day ahead. to him at the great celebration of Easter is “I told him I gave my life to a faith that God who is always seeking us, gift in a sure and certain hope for you and me to believes a dead man came back to life,” the hand. But it’s also something for which (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News grow in our friendship with Jesus. For the then-bishop said. “So yes, I have hope.” we search. We knock at the door, we ask. Service.) † Lord, who sees and knows what is really within us, what we really hope for, will be there to comfort and guide, console and The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick heal, commission and strengthen. Our righteous deeds not only show our devotion to and our desire to please the Lord, Follow Christ’s admonition to shine your light, be countercultural but they also help to advance the kingdom It goes without saying, Christ’s encourages us to foster a morally sound life. of each toward the other; if not, they will of justice, love and peace that Jesus came to admonition to let our light shine applies When we are baptized, we receive disintegrate. Every falsehood can destroy establish. So, we put our faith in action this more than ever given the present the gift of sharing in Christ’s prophetic the community.” Lenten season, using the familiar disciplines circumstances. What do mission. The prophets were known for And it can be added: Untruthfulness, of prayer, fasting and charity, not only for we need to understand earnestly addressing the evils of their like a growing cancer, can destroy the ourselves but also so that Christ can work to follow it? times even though they risked their lives. very fabric of life. through us for the good of others and for his First, we need to So too does our baptism require us to Philosopher Josef Pieper points us greater glory in the world today. see he is pointing us follow their example of shining our light to means used to falsify truth: “slight Because of that, the call of the Gospel to moral imperatives. for God’s moral order to reign. retouches, displacements [taking challenges us to begin and to continue our Moral imperatives A moral imperative especially something out of context], discolorations, efforts for repentance and renewal this are the voice of needed for our disturbing times is omissions, shifts of accent.” Lenten season, not for praise and reward conscience obliging truthfulness. The falsities we are Some argue we live in a postmodern here and now, but rather so that God can us to pursue goodness. experiencing is dumbfounding. Our new culture in which truthfulness, honesty, continue to form us and help others to They include age of the media and myriad conflicting integrity and righteousness aren’t what know, love and serve him more faithfully honesty, virtue, goodness, righteousness, commentaries is confusing the truth. they used to be. They point to history through the family of the Church. respectability and integrity. This is calling for our light to shine on saying, “This has always been and always As we evangelize others with our A moral imperative is envisioned as truthfulness no matter the cost. will be. It is part of today’s culture. Don’t commitment to purity in body, mind and a conscience in which the divine voice Father Romano Guardini tells why the let it upset you.” spirit and as we employ the tools of our trade is speaking through our human spirit. urgency is so imperative: Christ, in prompting us to shine in our stepping back into this season of joyful Having seen people experience wholesome “The truth of the word is ever more our light, is encouraging us to be repentance, let us be guided by the example changes of heart has often prompted me to important. This is applicable to every kind countercultural: to proclaim pure of Jesus our brother and have confidence: no ask, “What caused you to change?” of relationship—above all to those upon truth in an age that prefers matter-of- matter what struggles lie ahead and no matter Frequently, I hear them say that a which life in the proper sense depends: factness about falsehoods and to counter what is in our past. Our future is with God. voice deep within said, “This is not only friendship, collaboration, love, marriage indifference with prophetic zeal. the right thing to do, but what I must do and the family. Associations that are to (Father Patrick Beidelman is executive because it is vital and possesses urgency.” endure, to grow and become fruitful must (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for director of the archdiocesan Secretariat Christ imploring us to shine our light become ever more pure in the truthfulness Catholic News Service.) † for Worship and Evangelization.) † The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Page 13

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, February 24 Friday, February 28 Sunday, February 23, 2020 James 3:13-18 Isaiah 58:1-9a Psalm 19:8-10, 15 Psalm 51:3-6b, 18-19 • Leviticus 19:1-2, 17-18 Mark 9:14-29 Matthew 9:14-15 • 1 Corinthians 3:16-23 • Matthew 5:38-48 Tuesday, February 25 Saturday, February 29 James 4:1-10 Isaiah 58:9b-14 The first reading for Mass this weekend on a hillside to a multitude. Psalm 55:7-11, 23 Psalm 86:1-6 is from the Book of Leviticus, one of the The background is the Jewish Mark 9:30-37 Luke 5:27-32 five books of the Pentateuch, the Torah, the preoccupation with keeping God’s law. In the basic revelation by God covenant, so basic to Judaism, God called the to the chosen people. Jews to obedience. By obeying divine law, Wednesday, February 26 Sunday, March 1 This reading recalls they would indeed be God’s people, and God Ash Wednesday First Sunday of Lent the day when God would protect them and bless them. Joel 2:12-18 Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7 spoke to Moses. “I Here, in this passage from St. Matthew’s Psalm 51:3-6b, 12-14, 17 Psalm 51:3-6, 12-13, 17 the Lord, your God, Gospel, the Lord sets forth a series of am holy,” says God. admonitions. He gives a fundamental 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2 Romans 5:12-19 He continues that basis for obeying the law, separating a Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 or Romans 5:12, 17-19 no one must hate truly Christian response to the law, which Matthew 4:1-11 another, using the is love for God and others, from a series Thursday, February 27 term “brother” as if to of merely expedient rules. Deuteronomy 30:15-20 emphasize the point (Lv 19:2, 17). Psalm 1:1-4, 6 The reading sets the stage for the Reflection message from St. Matthew’s Gospel that God has revealed to us the divine Luke 9:22-25 will follow as the third reading. law. It is no set of rules for the sake of St. Paul’s First Epistle to the rules. Rather, it is the blueprint by which Corinthians provides the second reading. we can live in a way that more fully Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle A favorite image employed by Paul resembles the perfection and love that throughout his writings was that, through dwells in the Holy Trinity. Therefore, the faith and in baptism, Christians literally law of God is vitally important. Candles are traditionally blessed on the bond with Christ. In Christ, they become In each of the statements of Jesus heirs to eternal life. In Christ, they recorded in this reading from St. Matthew’s feast of the Presentation of the Lord receive the Holy Spirit, bringing into their Gospel, Jesus draws a significant We just celebrated the feast of the answer to your people’s prayers, you may very being divine grace and strength. distinction. Realizing that God’s law as QPresentation of the Lord, but in our be pleased to sanctify with your blessing Having made this point, the Apostle revealed to Moses is of God and cannot parish there was no blessing of candles. I these candles, which we are eager to carry then continues to remind the Corinthian be abridged or cancelled, the Lord did not am aware that in some in praise of your name, so that, treading Christians that they are not ultimately discount or belittle it. other parishes, the the path of virtue, we may reach that light wise. They may be wise in a worldly On the contrary, Jesus reaffirmed the faithful are permitted which never fails.” sense, but often genuine wisdom comes law. He clarified the law’s purpose and to bring their own across as foolishness to the worldly. the ideal response to it. Observing God’s candles to be blessed, Could you explain what the Church’s It was a fitting reminder. Corinth was law does not mean simply going through along with the candles Qposition is on the use of the Latin totally immersed in the pagan world of the motions, as positive as the results might be. that the parish is going language in the Mass? In one nearby Roman empire. Everything extolled the More profoundly, it means obeying God to use for the year. parish, much of the Mass is celebrated in majesty of Roman culture. After all, this because of our trust in and love for him. A young priest in Latin most of the time. (Atlanta) culture had created the legal system that God is love, and at the root of faith our parish said that the brought order to human society, a system in God is realizing that his love for us is blessing was designed Priests are permitted to celebrate Mass that still lives, being an important basis of unlimited. Enriching God’s law is mercy. to be a communal event where everyone Ain the Latin language. In fact, the law in Western civilization to this day. Revenge is out. Settling scores, however, carries a small candle in procession; Second Vatican Council’s “Constitution The wonders of Roman architecture just a grievance, is out. God’s love he said that since our parish struggles on the Sacred Liturgy” said: “The use of and art reaffirmed the depth and greatness perfects. If we react because of our love financially, we could not afford to do this the Latin language is to be preserved in of human wisdom in the empire. for God, then we obey fittingly. and so the blessing was omitted. Please the Latin rites. But since the use of the Against this backdrop of the splendor The reading finally reveals to us the clarify what is proper. (Virginia) mother tongue, whether in the Mass, the of all things Roman and pagan, Paul tells identity of the Lord. God gave the law. administration of the sacraments or other the Corinthians that there is much more. Only God, as lawgiver, can truly interpret The feast of the Presentation of the parts of the liturgy, frequently may be of It is life with God in Christ. the law. Jesus acts in a divine role by ALord is celebrated 40 days after great advantage to the people, the limits of St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the last authoritatively answering questions about Christmas and marks the time when Mary its employment may be extended” (#36). reading. The context is the Lord’s sermon the law. He is God. † and Joseph brought the infant Jesus to the In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued Temple to be dedicated to the Lord, as was a “motu propio” letter, “Summorum the Jewish custom for the firstborn male. Pontificum,” which said that any priest My Journey to God Since at least the 11th century, the of the Latin-rite Church may, without blessing of candles has been a regular any further permission from the Vatican part of this feast. The solemnity of that or from his bishop, celebrate the blessing may vary, and it may or may not extraordinary form of the Mass. The first Divine Directions include a procession of the faithful. More missal containing the extraordinary form, often, in my experience, worshippers which is also known as the Tridentine By Patricia Robak simply hold lighted candles in their pews rite, was published by St. Pius V in 1570. while the priest says the blessing. The rite was revised occasionally, the Are you using your GPS? Sometimes parishes provide the final revised version being published in candles; sometimes parishioners are 1962. This form of the Mass became You do know it’s written in stone. encouraged to bring their own. Everyone is “extraordinary” when the new ordinary If you’re looking for God’s Plan for Salvation, invited to bring their candles home, ideally form of the Mass was promulgated in to be used at times of family prayer. 1969 after the Second Vatican Council. Remember you can’t do it alone. In explaining this long-standing Virtually every diocese in the United (Patricia Robak is a member of St. Michael custom, Pope Benedict XVI, writing then States now has at least one regularly as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, explained scheduled Mass each Sunday in the But there is help along the way: Parish in Greenfield. Photo: People read the Bible in his book Seek That Which Is Above extraordinary form; in addition, some Read your Bible and pray every day. during a workshop in that “the warm candlelight is meant to be dioceses also offer the ordinary form a tangible reminder of that greater light of Mass celebrated in Latin. Catholics Our life on Earth is brief, you see. St. Ignatius, Guyana, in this photo from July 5, 2019.) that, for and beyond all time, radiates desiring to participate in Latin Masses are from the figure of Jesus.” best off contacting their local diocese to So heed HIS words: “Come follow me.” (CNS photo/Paul Jeffrey) One of the prayers of blessing offered find out when those Masses are scheduled. for the priest’s use has, I think, a particular beauty. It says: “O God, source and origin (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth of all light, who on this day showed to the Doyle at [email protected] and just man Simeon the Light for revelation 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York to the gentiles, we humbly ask that, in 12203.) †

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ANDRETTI, John A., 56, SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Indianapolis, Jan. 30. Husband of Nancy Andretti. Father of Amelia, Olivia and Jarett Andretti. Son of Aldo and Caroline Andretti. Brother of Mary Jo Andretti Dial, Carolyn Andretti Molander, Adam and Mark Andretti. BEATY, Charles, Jr., 82, St. Anne, New Castle, Jan. 18. Husband of Judy Beaty. Father of Lori Foster, Michelle Geis, Moon over St. Peter’s Marianne Van Zile, Brian, The moon is pictured between statues of Christ and saints on the facade of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Feb. 13. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Dan, Keith and Tim Beaty. Brother of Shirley Reese. Grandfather of 30. Great- Mansfield and Donald Grable. Leonard, Thomas and Tony Indianapolis, Feb. 8. Husband County, Feb. 6. Wife of Jerry WALKER, Joann, 87, grandfather of 37. Grandfather of seven. Great- Dattilo. Grandmother of three. of Jean Quinn. Father of Shirley. Mother of Geri and St. Charles Borromeo, BOSTON, Dolores M., 90, grandfather of nine. Great-grandmother of six. Heather, John II and Michael Dale Shirley. Sister of Darlene Bloomington, Feb. 4. Mother St. Christopher, Indianapolis, HALLA, Michael M., MENDEZ, Vincent P., 56, Quinn. Grandfather of four. Stoeffler and Vincent Jacobi. of Mary Anne Thacker and Jan. 27. Wife of Odie Boston. 96, St. Charles Borremeo, Christ the King, Indianapolis, RUDOLECH, Larry D., 70, Grandmother of three. John Walker. Grandmother of Mother of Susan Eshcoff, Bloomington, Jan. 27. Father Jan. 27. Father of Cassidy, Prince of Peace, Madison, Feb. SULLIVAN, Larry E., 90, four. Great-grandmother of Donna Hall, Mary Jo Newman of Linda Matrise and Michael Mackenzie, Brandon and 11. Husband of Janis Rudolech. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, five. and Carol Rost. Sister of Halla. Grandfather of four. Cameron Mendez. Son of Father of Misty Warren and Indianapolis, Jan. 27. Husband WHITE, Rosalind I., 93, Roselyn Griffith, Jean Jett, Great-grandfather of three. Grace Mendez. Brother Tabatha Williams. Brother of of Judith Sullivan. Father of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Mary Frances Powers, Dave, of Denise Gamboa, Lori Marianne and Steve Rudolech. Amy Bonte, Bonny McCabe, (Little Flower), Feb. 2. Mother Edward and Nick Porten. HERRMANN, Janet S., 78, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Grable and Michele Mendez. Grandfather of eight. Great- John, Mark and Michael of Rose Irby and Mike White. Grandmother of six. Great- Grandfather of two. grandfather of three. Sullivan. Brother of Colleen Sister of Frank Bergman. grandmother of six. Richmond, Feb. 8. Wife of Edward Herrmann. Mother of QUINN, Richard M., 85, SHIRLEY, Agnes C., 81, McVay. Grandfather of eight. Grandmother of four. † BOYLE, James P., 74, Brenda Oler, Beth Wagoner St. Luke the Evangelist, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, Floyd Great-grandfather of three. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus and Brian Herrmann. (Little Flower), Indianapolis, Grandmother of six. Feb. 8. Brother of Mike Boyle. Shirley Vogler Meister was a columnist for The Criterion Uncle of several. HOUSTON, Brenda, 78, St. Mary, Rushville, Feb. 7. Criterion staff report at the Belleville News-Democrat. CARSON, Alfred E., 91, Wife of Nelson Houston. The family moved to Indianapolis in 1959, and several years St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Mother of Patricia Rupert and Retired Criterion columnist Shirley Mae Vogler Meister died afterward Shirley joined her daughters in college, graduating Feb. 6. Husband of Dorothy Melynda Turner. Grandmother on Jan. 28 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s summa cum laude with a degree in English from Indiana Carson. Father of Ann of five. Hartman, Patti Lamb, Jeannie disease. She was 83. University-Purdue University in Indianapolis in 1985. Legge, Ceil Roebuck, Mary KANNAPEL, Jeanette, 88, A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at Shirley was a freelance writer and became a Shaughnessy, Katie, Ed, Phil Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Christ The King Church in Indianapolis at 10:30 a.m. renowned poet and columnist, and began writing her and Tom Carson. Grandfather New Albany, Feb. 5. Mother on Feb. 22. A celebration of life will follow in the column “Faithful Lines” in The Criterion in 1997. She of 25. Great-grandfather of 18. of Jennifer Hamm and William St. Joseph’s Room at Christ The King School. graced the newspaper’s Perspectives page for 15 years, Kannapel, Jr. Sister of Mary Shirley was born in Belleville, Ill., to the late retiring in 2012 because of health issues. DUERSTOCK, Arthur J., Ann Jenkins and Robert 79, St. Mary, Greensburg, Sajnovsky. Grandmother of Lester and Irene (Huber) Vogler. She and her husband She is survived by her husband; three daughters, Feb. 7. Brother of Jerry and seven. Great-grandmother of Paul were married for 61 years, and they have three Diane and Lisa Meister and Donna Simmons; a sister, Robert Duerstock. Uncle and one. grown daughters. Beverly Thurman; a brother, Michael Vogler; and two great-uncle of several. Shirley’s career in newspapers began as a Shirley Mae Vogler grandsons. LOHRIG, Marina, 88, Prince Meister GRABLE, Franklin D., 86, of Peace, Madison, Feb. 9. proofreader at the Belleville Daily Advocate in Memorial contributions can be made to the St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Mother of Connie Combs and Belleville. She was later the editor of the society page Alzheimer’s Association at bit.ly/38pVlPL. † Feb. 6. Husband of Rose Joey Kring. Sister of Donna Marie Grable. Father of Jackson, Clarita Wesbecker, Teresa Hvidston, Karen Ursuline Sister Annunciata Muth served for 59 years in Catholic education, including in Indiana schools Ursuline Sister Annunciata Muth, a member of the Ursuline in 1958 and a master’s degree in education at Creighton Online Lay Ministry Formation Sisters of Louisville, Ky., died on Feb. 9 at the Nazareth Home- University in Omaha, Neb., in 1960. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the Clifton in Louisville. She was 93. Sister Annunciata ministered in Catholics schools for University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Feb. 13 at the 59 years in in Indiana, Kentucky, Nebraska and Ohio. In the (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: Motherhouse Chapel. Burial followed at St. Michael Cemetery in archdiocese, she served at Pope John XXIII School in Madison • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry Louisville. from 1968-73. • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program Sister Annunciata was born on March 29, 1926, in Louisville. Surviving is a sister, Dorothea Muth Redmon in Louisville. • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church She joined the Ursulines of Louisville on July 2, 1945, and Memorial gifts may be sent to the Ursuline Sisters, Mission • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners professed final vows on July 6, 1950. She earned a bachelor’s Advancement Office, 3105 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY For more information, please log on to degree in education at the former Ursuline College in Louisville 40206. † www.archindy.org/layministry Franciscan Sister Alice Retzner dedicated her life to serving REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW in parishes and Catholic schools across the Midwest If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on Franciscan Sister Alice Retzner, formerly Sister Francile, died Indianapolis, and pursued graduate studies at Seattle University behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim on Feb. 6 at the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Sisters in Seattle. of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance of the Third Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg. She was 77. During 59 years as a member of the Sisters of St. Francis, coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on Feb. 14 at the Sister Alice ministered in Catholic education for 17 years in Ethics Point Motherhouse Chapel in Oldenburg. Burial followed at the sisters’ schools in Indiana, Missouri, Montana and Ohio. She later 1 Confidential, Online Reporting www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 cemetery. served in parish ministry in Indiana, Kentucky and Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator Sister Alice was born on March 20, 1942, in Sunman. She New Mexico. 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 grew up as a member of St. Nicholas Parish in Ripley County. Surviving is a sister, JoAnn Amberger of Sunman, and a 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 Sister Alice joined the Sisters of St. Francis on Feb. 2, 1961, brother, Louis Retzner of Cincinnati. [email protected] and professed final vows on Aug. 12, 1966. She earned Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of St. Francis, P.O. a bachelor’s degree in English at Marian University in Box 100, Oldenburg, IN 47036-0100. † The Criterion Friday, February 21, 2020 Page 15

a priest of the archdiocese on May 22, MCCLORY 1999. continued from page 1 Following Archbishop Thompson, more than 30 concelebrating bishops who read the Holy See mandate and came forward individually to lay their apostolic letter verifying Pope Francis’ hands on the bishop-designate before the appointment of then-Msgr. McClory as accompanying ordination prayer. the bishop of Gary on Nov. 26, 2019. Father Michael Yadron, pastor of The new bishop spoke of giving St. Thomas More Parish in Munster, Ind., thanks and honor to Our Lady of Lourdes whose tenure as diocesan administrator when introducing the recessional hymn, ended with Bishop McClory’s ordination, “Immaculate Mary,” sung daily during the called the laying on of hands “a very procession of pilgrims to the Grotto of powerful moment” for the new bishop. Our Lady of Lourdes in France. The priest was named diocesan Msgr. McClory, 56, made that administrator after then-Gary Bishop pilgrimage himself last fall, dedicating Donald J. Hying was appointed bishop himself to Mary just days before he of Madison, Wis., in April 2019; he was learned of his episcopal appointment. installed there last June. After the mandate and letter was Father Yadron said the most memorable presented to the diocesan college of part of the Mass for him came when he consultors and the bishops, priests and shared the sign of peace “with all of the deacons in attendance, the soon-to-be Indiana bishops who I served with, seeing ordained bishop carried it through Holy them [as colleagues] for the last time.” Angels Cathedral, happily displaying it to He called the liturgy “spirit-filled, the congregation. authentic, holy and welcoming. That was the most memorable moment Archbishop Thompson’s homily was just for Marie Arter, principal of Queen of All fantastic, and Bishop McClory’s talk after Saints School in Michigan City, Ind. “If Communion was very authentic,” he said. you didn’t get goose bumps, you never In his homily before the ordination rite, will,” she told the Northwest Indiana Archbishop Thompson called the bishop- Bishop Robert J. McClory displays the papal bull appointing him to head the Diocese of Gary, Ind., Catholic, Gary’s diocesan newspaper. designate a “pastor, shepherd, teacher during his ordination and installation Mass at Holy Angels Cathedral in Gary on Feb. 11. Bishop “I was so honored to be here. When he and administrator,” and pondered why he McClory, a native of Detroit, most recently served as rector of the National Shrine of the Little Flower walked around the church with that letter would say “yes” “to an assignment he had Basilica in Royal Oak, Mich., before becoming the fifth bishop of the Gary Diocese. (Photo by Anthony was what I’ll remember most.” to know would change his life drastically D. Alonzo, Northwest Indiana Catholic) High school senior Isaiah Martin, a and take him away from his home, member of St. Mary Parish in Kouts, archdiocese and family. ordination Mass “took my breath away. I Diocese by its founding prelate, Bishop Ind., described the Mass as “astounding,” “His vision of serving knows no will remember most when they gave him Andrew G. Grutka. and said his favorite part was the laying boundaries,” the archbishop said, his insignia—the miter, crosier and ring.” Waiting in line to greet Bishop on of hands by principal consecrator answering his own question. “Thank you The crosier chosen for the ordination McClory at the reception following Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of for saying ‘yes’ to the call. Mass, representing the bishop’s call his ordination Mass, Father Patrick Indianapolis, followed by co-consecrators “The same Spirit that came upon the to pastor his flock, once belonged to Wainwright, of the Miles Christi religious Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit Apostles” will empower Gary’s new bishop Archbishop John F. Noll. He was the order in Detroit, said he got to know and retired Bishop Dale J. Melzek of “to share the Good News of salvation in bishop of what was then named the the new prelate as chancellor of the Gary, both chosen for the honor by the Jesus Christ,” he said. “Trust in the Lord, Diocese of Fort Wayne from 1925 until Archdiocese of Detroit. bishop-designate. who has chosen you, and on this feast of his death in 1956. Pope Pius XII gave him “He’s very kind, priestly, caring and At the time of his appointment to Our Lady of Lourdes, remember that we the personal title of archbishop in 1953. a holy shepherd, as well as organized,” Gary, then-Msgr. McClory was rector of came to Jesus through her.” Out of that diocese, now the Fort Wayne- said Father Wainwright, who dubbed the the National Shrine of the Little Flower Alice Gorski, a member of the Parish South Bend Diocese, the four-county Diocese of Gary event “perfect.” Basilica in Royal Oak, Mich., in the Life Committee at St. Joan of Arc Parish Gary Diocese was created in 1956. His message to the bishop? “God bless Detroit Archdiocese. He was ordained in Merrillville, Ind., said later that the The Noll staff was given to the Gary him, protect him and guide him.” †

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