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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican is preparing to issue a set of instructions to promote “greater caution and more accuracy” in the opening of new sainthood causes by local dioceses, a top Vatican official said. Cardinal Jose Editor’s note: The Criterion he notes. “I was impressed and I Saraiva Martins, invited readers to share their considered the fact that they must have head of the stories of how the faith of a such a strong faith to be able to deal Congregation for friend, family member or with their very personal tragedy while Saints’ Causes, said stranger during a difficult also taking care of us—allowing us to Cardinal Jose Saraiva the instructions were time in their life had a grieve, cry and laugh with them. Martins needed to reflect dramatic impact on their own “There were hugs and words of the “new spirit faith. Here are three stories encouragement that everything would introduced by Pope Benedict XVI in that show that impact. Thank be all right. Having not been raised as a beatification procedures.” you to everyone who shared Catholic, I wondered just what their The new instructions should not affect their stories. faith was all about and how they could the Cause of Canonization of the Servant be so giving when they were suffering of God Simon Bruté since it was opened By John Shaughnessy such a great loss of their own.” by the archdiocese in 2005 with the Looking back, Jon McKamey During the next few years, approval of the Holy See. marvels at how the grace of McCamey sometimes thought about the Cardinal Saraiva Martins said the new two grieving strangers changed his life. Catholic faith, but he never investigated document will be addressed to all resident McCamey’s story starts when he the Church until he moved to bishops, instructing them on procedures was a senior in college and tragedy struck the Cincinnati in 1988. regarding the family of a classmate named Jeannine. Her While driving to the grocery store Artist creates portrait opening and younger sister, Heather, a college freshman, one Saturday, he passed a Catholic of Bishop Bruté, advancement of The example of two grieving was killed in an accident involving a train and church that had a sign that read, page 7. sainthood strangers led Jon McKamey on a a car. McCamey was part of a group of “Course on Catholic faith begins causes. It will journey of faith that helped him to Jeannine’s friends who traveled from Sept. 20.” The sign also included a underline how meet his wife, Joan—a union of Terre Haute to Elkhart, Ind., for Heather’s phone number for information. the “theology of the local Church” is family that also includes their funeral Mass and burial. McCamey called the number and soon manifested in such causes, he said. daughter, Claire. “The day of the funeral, my friend’s parents began the Rite of Christian Initiation of The cardinal said the beatification of a Submitted photo invited all of us to come to their beautiful home Adults (RCIA) program. local member represents an intense moment to get ready for the day,” McKamey recalls. During that same fall, he also met a of faith and joy for Church communities. “We had food, a shower and a place to change young woman, Joan Eckstein. When he “But precisely because of this new value clothes. Sadly, it was also my friend’s parents’ was baptized on Easter in 1989, she and this additional fervor implied by such 25th wedding anniversary. All of the children sent him a card congratulating him. events, it is necessary to proceed with even had done a surprise portrait for their parents Their relationship began to develop greater caution and more accuracy,” he said. before Heather was killed. They presented their after they sat together one Sunday at The congregation intends to bring the parents with the portrait on the day they were Mass. new instructions to the attention of the burying their daughter and celebrating their “She invited me to come with her to hundreds of postulators who guide sainthood anniversary.” a young adult faith-sharing group she causes, possibly through a day of study, he Jeannine’s parents were touched by the gift, was involved with,” McCamey says. said. and McCamey was touched by the love they “We then started seeing more of each Asked if the new instructions would showed toward Jeannine’s friends. other, began to date, and by October of help put an end to stories about the “When they were so very sad and suffering, that year had decided to get married. Church’s “saint factories,” Cardinal Saraiva they reached out to a bunch of strangers, took We were married on Nov. 3, 1990, at Martins said the term does not even merit a us into their home and offered us all they had,” See FAITH, page 2 response. The Church does not make saints; it merely follows procedures so that they are recognized, he said. † Pope warns diplomats that conflicts threaten global stability VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Addressing The pope also condemned “continually of global troubles. It cited positive diplomats from around the world, perpetrated attacks” against human life in economic and social developments in Pope Benedict XVI warned that numerous areas ranging from the death penalty to Latin America, hailed the dismantling of armed conflicts and biotechnology, and criticized efforts to North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, social disorders have left weaken the traditional family and the and noted progress in intercultural dialogue global stability in a institution of marriage. and, more particularly, in the Church’s own fragile situation. The world’s problems illustrate that real dialogue with Muslims. In Iraq, the pope said solutions must be “solidly anchored in However, the pope said a rapid on Jan. 7, the latest natural law, given by the Creator,” the pope overview of the world shows that “the attack on Christian said. security and stability of the world are still Churches reflects a “This is another reason why God can fragile.” continuing climate of never be excluded from the horizon of man That is clearly the case in Iraq, he said, terrorism and violence in or of history. God’s name is a name of where reconciliation is urgently needed. Pope Benedict XVI the country and illus- justice; it represents an urgent appeal for “At present, terrorist attacks, threats trates the need for peace,” he said. and violence continue, especially against constitutional reform to safeguard the rights The pope delivered the annual talk, the Christian community, and the news of minorities. sometimes called his “state of the world” which arrived yesterday confirms our On nuclear weapons, he urged the inter- address, to representatives of the 176 states concern,” he said. national community to undertake a joint that have diplomatic relations with the Church officials said on Jan. 6 that effort to prevent terrorists from gaining Vatican. bombs had damaged four churches and access to weapons of mass destruction. The papal speech was not merely a litany See DIPLOMATS, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which DIPLOMATS enshrined human dignity. continued from page 1 CNS photo/Reuters “In every continent, the Catholic three convents in Baghdad and Mosul in Church strives to ensure that human rights what appeared to be coordinated attacks. are not only proclaimed but put into Several people were reported injured. practice,” he said. In Iraq, the pope said, “it is clear that “The Church willingly undertakes this certain difficult political issues remain service to the true dignity of human unresolved. In this context, an appropriate persons, created in the image of God. And constitutional reform will need to on the basis of these considerations, I safeguard the rights of minorities.” cannot but deplore once again the continual He said those affected by the Iraq War— attacks perpetrated on every continent including refugees and their host against human life,” he said. countries—need generous aid from the In bioethics, new discoveries or techno- international community. logical progress should not require people Turning to Iran, Pope Benedict to choose between science and morality— expressed his support for “continued “rather, they oblige us to a moral use of and uninterrupted pursuit of the path of science,” he said. diplomacy” in resolving the issue of Iran’s He said he rejoiced at the recent nuclear program. U.N. support for a moratorium on the On the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, death penalty and added: “I earnestly hope he praised the results of the recent that this initiative will lead to public debate Annapolis, Md., peace conference, which on the sacred character of human life.” he said pointed toward the “abandonment Echoing a number of speeches to of partisan or unilateral solutions.” The Pope Benedict XVI meets with Vatican-accredited diplomats on Jan. 7 at the Vatican. In his annual address political and other groups over the last important thing now is to implement the to diplomats, the pope said that security and stability in the world was “fragile” and urged the international two years, the pope defended the traditional commitments that were made, he said. community to work to prevent nuclear weapons from getting into the hands of terrorists. family. In Lebanon, a country shaken by trials “I regret, once again, the disturbing and violence, the people need to be able to The pope began remarks on Africa by armaments, the pope urged the international threats to the integrity of the family freely decide their future, and political expressing his “deep anguish” at the community to make “a global commitment founded on the marriage of a man and a leaders should put aside selfish interests ongoing cycle of hunger and death in on security” that can deal in particular with woman. Political leaders of whatever kind and pledge themselves to dialogue, he said. Darfur, a western region of Sudan where new threats from terrorism. should defend this fundamental institution, The pope pointed to several “crisis hundreds of thousands have perished, and “A joint effort on the part of states to the basic cell of society,” he said. situations” in Asia, including Pakistan and he said he hoped a new aid effort there can implement all the obligations undertaken He said religious freedom is still not Afghanistan, two countries torn by bring some relief. He urged an end to and to prevent terrorists from gaining fully respected in many parts of the world. violence, and Sri Lanka, where he said military operations in Somalia to allow the access to weapons of mass destruction would The pope closed his talk with a reflection there can be no further delay in ending the delivery of humanitarian supplies, and said undoubtedly strengthen the nuclear nonpro- on peace, which he said must involve “immense sufferings” caused by continuing he was worried about the abrupt outbreak liferation regime and make it more various areas of human development: civil strife. He offered a prayer for a of ethnic violence in Kenya. effective,” he said. food, water and energy resources, access “season of dialogue” and respect for human In Europe, he said, a definitive status for The pope also encouraged the reduction to medicine and technology, and even the rights in Myanmar. Kosovo needs to be determined in a way of conventional weapons and cluster bombs, monitoring of climate change. He did not mention China in his that respects the rights of all the inhabitants considered a particular threat to civilians. In confronting these serious problems, speech. Last year, he wrote a lengthy and avoids a return to “the specter of In a passage that hinted at a potential diplomats should build on the positive, he letter to Chinese Catholics promoting violence” in the Balkans. theme for his planned U.N. visit in April, said, telling them, “Diplomacy is, in a greater Church-state cooperation. Addressing the danger of nuclear the pope noted that 60 years ago the certain sense, the art of hope.” †

“It was a sad moment but a thankful one when I was about 10 years old, I was crying Indianapolis. “He was checked by an FAITH as I offered a prayer for Heather and her because I was hungry and afraid there opponent and dropped immediately to the continued from page 1 wonderful family, who played a big part in wouldn’t be anything for us to eat. I ice. Later, he was pronounced dead at a bringing me to where I am today.” remember Mom putting her arm around me local hospital. The check had nothing to St. Louis Church in Batesville, her home and saying, ‘Don’t cry, son. Jesus fed do with it. Brian had an undiagnosed heart parish.” The song of a mother 5,000 people and there are only eight of us!’ condition. He was 16 when he died. Seventeen years later, the core of For Jim Welter, there’s no forgetting the “I am now in the autumn of my years “The following day, my sister had a McCamey’s life is built around his family example set by his mom, Lou Ellen Welter. and I have faced many of life’s problems: prayer service at her house with our priest. and his faith—just as Jeannine’s parents As a single mother, she guided the lives job loss, sickness, the worry parents have In the midst of this prayer service, Jimmy, built the foundation of their life. of her seven children as they lived on a for their children, and the death of loved who was 13 at the time, announced that “We are members of St. Michael Parish farm in northern Indiana in the 1950s. ones. It’s usually after I have exhausted all they must get in touch with the boy who in Brookville with a seventh-grade daugh- “My mother went home to the Lord more of my own efforts and have no place else was on the other hockey team—to make ter at St. Michael School,” McCamey than 12 years ago,” says Welter, a member to turn that I think of Mom’s faith and I certain he was OK and that he knew it says. “I feel like I’ve been a Catholic all of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. “But remember the hymn, ‘Oh, what peace we was not his fault. my life, and raising our daughter, Claire, I can still hear her humming an old Baptist often forfeit/Oh, what useless pain we “To this day, that moment of complete in the faith is great. Even though no one hymn from her childhood as she worked bear/All because we do not carry/every- unselfishness and true Christian spirit on in my family of origin is Catholic, I around the farmhouse: thing to God in prayer.’ ” the part of a 13-year-old nephew touches cannot imagine having a different faith “Oh, what peace we often forfeit/Oh, my heart every time I see him.” † life. I think often about my friend from what useless pain we bear/All because we A moment of Christian spirit college and her family.” do not carry/everything to God in prayer.” Thomas Flood is still touched by the McCamey recalls another trip he made “Mom took everything to God in prayer. incredible example of faith that his nephew to northern Indiana. As a single parent struggling to raise showed eight years ago in the midst of a Official Appointment “When Jeannine was married several seven kids on a broken-down old farm, family tragedy. Rev. C. Ryan McCarthy, currently years ago, we traveled to South Bend for without resources and cut off from neighbors Flood’s nephew, Jimmy Knuerr, completing graduate studies in Rome, to the wedding and made a visit to the by distance and lack of transportation, many was 13 when his older brother died playing pastor of St. Joseph Parish in St. Leon cemetery in Elkhart where Heather is times she had nowhere else to turn. a sport he loved. and St. John the Baptist Parish in Dover, buried. I knew the approximate location of “Mom prayed with expectation. She “Almost eight years ago, his brother, effective Feb. 27, 2008. the gravesite, but it stood out to me simply expected God to do what he had said Brian, died of a heart attack in the because there on the grave was a flower he would do. It was an oft-repeated scene at third period of a high school hockey game This appointment is from the office of the arrangement just like the flowers from the our house: no money, no food, and no way in the Chicago suburbs,” recalls Flood, a Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., wedding. to get to town to get anything. One day, member of St. Simon the Apostle Parish in Archbishop of Indianapolis. †

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By Mary Ann Wyand Mary and Joseph, and other groups are inside the houses. Mary and Joseph Eighty St. Monica parishioners in [dressed in costumes] keep going to Indianapolis are starting the New Year as houses … until they are received. friends thanks to a bilingual faith-sharing “While we are waiting for the posada, Wyand MaryPhotos by Ann program during Advent. we pray the rosary at the Nativity set and The 2,880-household, multicultural then we share food, the food of the parish offers six Masses each weekend— season,” he said. “Usually, in Mexico, including a Misa en Español—so many that is tamales, cookies and hot chocolate. parishioners never meet the Catholics … It is very beautiful, and also we share who attend other liturgies. the piñata. It is to represent the evil so it In December 2006, only 10 Latino and has to be destroyed. The only ones who Anglo parishioners participated in might destroy the evil is the children St. Monica’s first bilingual Advent because they are innocent. … After they faith-sharing group organized by the destroy the evil, good comes from it. That Hispanic ministry committee. is represented by the candies in the In December 2007, 80 Hispanic, piñata.” African-American and Anglo parishioners Last year, Dimas said, the outdoor overcame the Spanish and English posada was “a little cold” so they language barrier by sharing their stories celebrated it inside at the parish this year. through pictures, creating Advent “Maybe our posada won’t be close to decorations and—most of all—making what we do in Mexico,” he said, “but we new friends with help from translators. are trying a little bit to live the same way. Jason Figueroa, left, and Amber Tlaxcala portray Joseph and Mary as part of the posada on Dec. 23 at “I feel like these weeks of coming I hope you can enjoy it and feel the St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis. together is a real proof that love is the meaning of Christmas as Christians.” common language that bonds, that unites, Many Hispanic Catholics are not able amazing how people react to one another us all together as one, which was clearly to return to their homeland for Christmas, now that they know each other. I look manifested in today’s gathering,” Dimas said, so the parish celebration of forward to this program continuing.” Benedictine Sister Anna Marie Megel, Feliz Navidad is very important to them In addition to the posada presented by pastoral associate for Hispanic ministry, as they pass these holiday traditions on to Hispanic children, members of the explained after the Feliz Navidad their children and grandchildren. faith-sharing group exchanged celebration and posada on Dec. 23 at the Father Scott Nobbe, associate pastor of inexpensive gifts at the suggestion of a Indianapolis West Deanery parish. St. Monica Parish, said about one-fifth of Latino participant. St. Monica parishioner Gerardo Dimas the parish membership is Hispanic, and Parishioner Pinkie Evans, who is of Indianapolis helped translate during he is happy to see members of the African-American, knitted a prayer shawl faith-sharing conversations and explained Anglo and Hispanic communities become for Maria Pimental-Gannon, who is the posada tradition cherished by Latinos. friends. Hispanic, and prayed for unity in “In Mexico, we do this [posada] from “To jump … to 80 people in one year diversity. the 16th to the 24th of December,” Dimas just shows that there is a big desire for “We’re all on a journey,” Evans said. told the group. “We do songs and some parishioners to know one another that “Everyone has different life stories. There people are asking for shelter, representing don’t actually have a lot of interaction are all these people that go to the same throughout the course of church I do, and I don’t know them. My their daily journeys,” whole purpose in coming was to meet Father Nobbe said. “So new people, to make new friends, in our especially during big parish.” St. Monica parishioners Maria Pimental- Advent, when we focus The Advent faith-sharing program is Gannon, left, and Pinkie Evans of Indianapolis on preparation for the “all about Jesus and new life and hug on Dec. 23 after Evans gave Pimental- coming of Christ, it’s friendship and new ways of being Gannon a handmade prayer shawl during the good for us to come Church,” committee member Dede bilingual Advent faith-sharing group’s gift together every Sunday Swinehart said. “It’s our parish exchange. to share friendship, to together.” share faith, to share Committee member Lynne Brennan “It’s good for us because we are traditions and to share said Hispanics who cannot go home for wanting to celebrate Jesus Christ coming stories from their Christmas are “happy they can welcome … because that is hope,” he said. “When families. A lot of people the Christ Child in their own way here.” you have God in your heart, you have St. Monica parishioners Maria Pimental-Gannon, from left, Jerry have such diverse Parishioner Marcos Payamos, a native everything. … When you have Swinehart, Gerardo Dimas and Gloria Olson of Indianapolis enjoy a backgrounds within this of the Dominican Republic who became a Jesus Christ, you don’t have differences. gift exchange and wish each other “Feliz Navidad” on Dec. 23 as part small [faith-sharing] U.S. citizen last March, has been a It is the same people, the same blood, the of the bilingual Advent faith-sharing group’s celebration of Christmas. community. It’s St. Monica parishioner for seven years. same Jesus Christ, the same God.” † St. Padre Pio’s body to be exhumed, briefly displayed for veneration SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy months beginning in mid-April.” (CNS)—The body of St. Padre Pio will In addition to marking the be exhumed, 40th anniversary of Padre Pio’s death on studied and Sept. 23, 1968, the public veneration of displayed for his remains also will coincide with the public veneration 90th anniversary of the day on which he from mid-April to was believed to have received the late September, stigmata, bloody wounds recalling the said the crucifixion wounds of Jesus. archbishop who According to the Capuchins, oversees the Padre Pio received the stigmata on shrine where the Sept. 20, 1918. saint is buried. Immediately after Archbishop St. Padre Pio Archbishop D’Ambrosio announced the exhumation Domenico of Padre Pio’s body, Italian newspapers D’Ambrosio, papal delegate for the and television stations began reporting shrine in San Giovanni Rotondo, that members of his family were announced on Jan. 6 that he and the opposed to the move, and were Capuchin friars of Padre Pio’s threatening to sue the archbishop and community had decided it was important the Capuchins. to verify the condition of the saint’s But a spokesman for the family body and find a way to ensure its denied the rumors and Archbishop preservation. D’Ambrosio told Avvenire, the Italian “It is my personal conviction and that Catholic daily newspaper, that he had of the confreres of St. Pio that we have been in contact with the family and they an obligation to give the generations that raised no objections. will come after us the possibility of Padre Pio was born Francesco venerating and preserving in the best Forgione on May 25, 1887, in possible way the mortal remains of Pietrelcina, Italy. As a Capuchin, he was St. Pio,” Archbishop D’Ambrosio said. a famed confessor and preacher, and had “A further motive for rejoicing,” he a widespread reputation as one whose said, stems from the fact that the prayers were effective in procuring Capuchins, with Vatican approval, “have miraculous cures. Pope John Paul II authorized the exposition and public beatified him in 1999 and canonized veneration of the saint’s body for several him in 2002. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

OPINION Faith & Precedent/Douglas W. Kmiec A lesson for the new year

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 from my father’s solitary life Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher He was born in an obscure village. He In the movie August Rush, a musical Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus worked in a carpenter’s shop until he was 30. prodigy in an orphanage employs the power He then became an of music and the love beneath it to reunite itinerant preacher. He with his parents who—like so many never held an office. He moderns—place career and individual Editorial never had a family or aspiration over family. owned a house. He never There is a sense of “think what we would went to college. He was have missed” if either the young Tebow or only 33 when the public Rush had been taken from us. turned against him. He was Until a recent visit with my own elderly turned over to his enemies. father, however, I doubt I grasped the He was deserted by his meaning of “One Solitary Life.” An friends. He went through afternoon with my father, you see, can be File photo by Mary Ann Wyand MaryFile photo by Ann the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross embarrassing. Since my mother’s passing a between two thieves. While he was dying, his few years ago, his clothing has taken on a executioners gambled for his clothing. He was very definite tie-dyed look. laid in a borrowed grave. His diet is irregular and often part of his Twenty centuries have come and gone, and wardrobe as well. And perhaps most today he is still the central figure of the human distressingly, in public places he no longer race. All the armies that ever marched, all the seems capable of modulating his voice. navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that Unlike his more reticent and private son, my ever sat and all the kings that ever reigned have father thinks nothing of strolling loudly not affected the life of man on this Earth as through public libraries and offices much as that one solitary life. distributing Christmas greetings in We are now in a new year full of potential. 28 different languages. The rereading of the poem “One Solitary Life” And so it was with sadness more than Father Eric Johnson, from left, vocations director; Father Stephen Giannini, vicar of clergy summed up above, more than any other holiday discomfort that I thought: How does my and parish life coordinators, formation and personnel; and Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel, vicar tradition in our family, captures the significance father’s solitary life matter? general, lay their hands on the heads of Fathers Thomas Kovatch, Rick Nagel and Randall of both Christ’s birth and our own personal After all, unlike Tebow’s headlining of the Summers at their ordination Mass on June 2, 2007, in SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral. obligation in the year ahead to choose life in the sports pages or movie reviews of fullest sense of the Gospel. August Rush, there is little sense that on the The message of “One Solitary Life” is day God calls Dad home, his contemporaries Our multiple vocations anything but one of detachment or distance. To will stop to take notice. the contrary, we are reminded how a single life But suddenly there it was, the true his first issue of the calendar year have multiple vocations. God calls us to impacted the universe. meaning of this poetic holiday classic: It is Ttraditionally includes our annual serve society and the Church by using Three contemporary lives have helped me not that each solitary life must prove to the “Religious Vocations Supplement.” We our unique talents, whatever they might better understand the meaning behind the poem. world’s satisfaction that it has great value—it hope you’ll read on pages 13-22 what be. When we choose our profession, Consider, if you will, the lives of Tim Tebow, is simply that it does. we believe are stories about some surely God isn’t calling us to pick the young college football sensation who won That my father’s solitary life, or our own inspirational men and women who something only because it will enable the Heisman Trophy, the life of August Rush in for that matter, may never eclipse the have accepted God’s call to the us to earn the most money. Our calling the movie of the same name, and a brief achievements of quarterbacks or admirals or religious life. is to use God’s gifts for the benefit of encounter I will tell you about that I had presidents says nothing about the love that it We decided, though, to use this others. recently with my aging father. can convey and the difference it can make in editorial space to remind you readers The early part of our careers usually The common denominator in all three lives the lives of others—yes, sometimes even in that all of us have vocations. We all corresponds to the early years of our and in “One Solitary Life” is this: the power of 28 different languages. have calls from God to use the unique marriages and the raising of our love. gifts and talents he has given us to families, and our vocation is to do that Tim Tebow was loved by a mother who (Douglas W. Kmiec, a professor at the accomplish his will for us. to the best of our abilities and energy. refused to accept a prenatal medical diagnosis Pepperdine University School of Law, writes Furthermore, we receive more than As we age, though, surely the urging that he be aborted. for Catholic News Service.) † one call. We receive many calls as we opportunities we have for volunteer proceed through life, and we must services should be seen as God’s call. never stop trying to discern what God Such opportunities seem endless in both is calling us to do—now. God’s call society and in our parishes. might be different when we are in our We need good men and women to 40s, 60s or 80s than when we were in serve in governmental positions, either our 20s. elected or appointed, and God calls some It’s true that our primary vocation of us to do that. He calls others to serve might not change. The first thing we in the military or as police or firemen. He should discern is whether or not God is calls others to serve the poor by calling us to be a priest, brother or volunteering for work with the religious sister, or to married life, or to St. Vincent de Paul Society or by helping the single life in the world. But that’s people like Lucious Newsom in his work only the first step. at the Lord’s Pantry in Indianapolis. If a man believes that he has a God calls volunteers in our parishes vocation to be a priest, is it as a to be lectors, extraordinary ministers of diocesan priest or as a member of a holy Communion, ushers, choir religious order? If a young woman members, collection counters, members believes that she has a vocation to be a of school commissions or parish sister or a nun (one who belongs to a councils, or religious education religious order with solemn vows), is it teachers. Some men are called to be to a contemplative order or an permanent deacons. apostolic order? Our society has come to accept what All religious men and women are we call second vocations, changes in also called to specific ministries within professions during middle age. Many their primary vocation, depending upon men and women have recognized their the talents God has given them. It vocations to the priesthood or religious seems obvious, but some priests are life after years spent in secular called to be pastors, others teachers, occupations. others missionaries, others chaplains, Does that mean that they missed others administrators—all in addition their vocations earlier in life? Probably to the priestly duties of celebrating the not. In all likelihood, they were Mass and the sacraments. Bishops or following God’s call both times because religious superiors, with the help of he continually calls us to serve him and personnel committees, help them others in different ways. discern how best to use their talents. How can we know what God is The same is true for women calling us to now? The same way as religious, of course. There was a time always: by prayerfully and honestly when they were mainly teachers or considering our talents and interests, nurses, but today there are many other perhaps in consultation with people opportunities for them to use their who know us well. talents in service to the Church. But we lay men and women also —John F. Fink The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 5

ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO DANIEL M. BUECHLEIN, O.S.B.

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Consistent prayer is the secret to peace and justice in our world s I write this column, my mind must continue with our prayerful and be made, mean that our intercessory prayer sincere prayer moves world leaders to be turns to a new year and what we strong moral support of those who serve in is fruitless? open to the promptings of the Holy Spirit Amight expect. the armed forces, and do so for our safety No, even though we can’t coerce God to because we know God won’t coerce the When I became a bishop 21 years ago, and at great peril to their own lives. take away free human choice, we need to acceptance of his free gifts of the I would not have expected that the horror We had great hopes for peace with the pray. We need to get on our knees and Holy Spirit. of war would become the stuff of everyday advent of a new Christian millennium, and recognize that there is a power greater than God works miracles, but in the end, he news reports. I wouldn’t have thought of yet we are in the eighth year of grave human power. doesn’t destroy the gift of human freedom. war as something our world would have to instability in our world. Prayer is an important way we and Even if our prayers for the end of war live with day in and day out. One time in an interview with a everyone in the world remember that there seem to go unanswered, we won’t quit Conflict and tension in the Mideast had religious news reporter, I was asked what is a God who is greater than any terrorist or praying. We will keep on praying calmly been a specter for years, but the peculiar would happen to people of faith if, despite peacemaking leader. and with deep faith because prayer is our circumstances which have escalated to all the intensity of their prayer, peace Prayer reminds us that we are a human way of remembering who we are and what perturbing warfare today were not always eludes us and war continues unabated family and it is possible to love and be at life and death is all about. so evident. Presently, the situation is anyway. peace with one another because there is a We pray that freely more of us embrace further complicated because our country Would that mean prayer is fruitless? God who loves us first and he is the author the mystery of God’s love and thus are has become polarized about how to move Might it mean that God really does not act of human life. moved to respect all people. † toward a reasonable transition out of the on intercessory prayer? The questions are In prayer, we remember that even if war in Iraq—and when to do so. important and they point to a more some people do not believe in God as we Terrorism is a reality of our day, and it complicated theology than we can handle do, his love is for all of us, equally, even Do you have an intention for is a crime against humanity. Our nation has in a newspaper or this column. when we are enemies. Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? a moral right and even a grave obligation God’s wisdom is infinite, ours is not. Consistent prayer, day in and day out, in You may mail it to him at: to defend the common good against And in his wisdom, God has never taken times of crises and in times of peace, leads terrorism and to protect its people. back the gift of free will which he gave us more and more of us to live the Archbishop Buechlein’s Bolstering homeland security, denying humans when he created us. commandment of love which God gave us. Prayer List funding to terrorist organizations and a Therefore, even critical decisions about Therein lays the secret to peace and justice Archdiocese of Indianapolis wide range of non-military measures must war and peace, such as those faced by in our world. 1400 N. Meridian St. be pursued. Military action may be world leaders today, depend on free human We also pray that the spirit of God P.O. Box 1410 required. It seems clear, nonetheless, that choice. might move world leaders to seek peaceful Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 for the good of all concerned it is time to God does not remove human choice solutions to human crises. We hope that find a resolution to the enduring situation even if a choice might be made for evil in in Iraq. the world, even if the choice seems to Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for Januar y What can we do as individuals? Our come down to the fact that one party in the greatest contribution begins with prayer for conflict needs “to save face.” Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to peace and for those who are responsible as Does the fact that God doesn’t take back consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. leaders of nations. Needless to say, we human freedom, even if a bad choice may

La oración constante es el secreto para la paz y la justicia en nuestr o mundo ientras escribo esta columna, mi responsables como líderes de las naciones. ¿Acaso el hecho de que Dios no elimina la orientación del Espíritu Santo porque pensamiento se vuelca en un Obviamente debemos continuar con nuestro el libre albedrío humano, aunque tomemos sabemos que Dios no forzará la aceptación Mnuevo año y en aquello que apoyo piadoso y moral para aquellos que una mala decisión, significa que nuestras de los dones libres del Espíritu Santo. esperamos. sirven en las Fuerzas Armadas y lo hacen oraciones de intercesión son infructuosas? Dios obra milagros, pero al final, no Cuando me convertí en obispo hace por nuestra seguridad, arriesgando No. A pesar de que no podemos obligar destruye el don de la libertad humana. 21 años, nunca habría imaginado que el enormemente sus propias vidas. a Dios a eliminar el libre albedrío humano, Aunque pareciera que nuestras horror de la guerra se transformaría en el Con la llegada del nuevo milenio debemos rezar. Debemos arrodillarnos y oraciones para que termine la guerra no tema cotidiano de las noticias. Nunca me cristiano teníamos grandes esperanzas para reconocer que existe un poder superior al son escuchadas, no dejaremos de rezar. habría imaginado que la guerra sería algo la paz y sin embargo, nos encontramos en poder humano. Continuaremos rezando con sosiego y con lo cual nuestro mundo debería vivir día el octavo año de profunda inestabilidad en La oración es una forma importante para profunda fe porque la oración es nuestra tras día. nuestro mundo. que nosotros y todo el mundo recuerde que forma de recordar quiénes somos y la El conflicto y las tensiones han sido En cierta ocasión durante una entrevista existe un Dios y no se trata de terroristas o verdadera razón de la vida y la muerte. espectros que han rondado el Medio con un reportero religioso, se me preguntó líderes que buscan la paz. Recemos para que cada vez más de Oriente durante años, pero las qué le pasaría a las personas de fe si, a La oración nos recuerda que somos una nosotros reciba libremente el misterio del circunstancias peculiares que se han pesar de la intensidad de sus oraciones, la familia humana y es posible amar y estar amor de Dios y por consiguiente, nos agravado hasta llegar a las perturbadoras paz nos eludiera y la guerra continuara en paz unos con otros porque existe un sintamos movidos a respetar a todas las hostilidades de hoy en día, no siempre incesante, de todos modos. Dios que nos ama primero que nada y es el personas. † fueron tan evidentes. En estos momentos la ¿Significaría eso que la oración es autor de la vida humana. situación se ha complicado aun más porque infructuosa? ¿Acaso significaría que Dios En la oración recordamos que, aunque ¿Tiene una intención que desee nuestro país se ha polarizado respecto a verdaderamente no acude al llamado de las algunas personas no crean en Dios como incluir en la lista de oración del cómo avanzar hacia una transición oraciones de intercesión? Estas preguntas nosotros, Él nos ama a todos por igual, Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar razonable para salir de la guerra en Irak y son muy importantes y apuntan a una aunque seamos enemigos. su correspondencia a: cuándo hacerlo. teología mucho más complicada de la que La oración constante, día tras día en El terrorismo es una realidad de nuestra podemos abordar en un periódico o en esta momentos de crisis y en momentos de paz Lista de oración del Arzobispo época y constituye un crimen contra la columna. guía a un número creciente de nosotros a Buechlein humanidad. Nuestro país tiene el derecho La sabiduría de Dios es infinita, la vivir el mandamiento del amor que Dios Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis moral, e incluso la solemne obligación, de nuestra no. Y en su sabiduría, Dios nos entregó. Es allí donde se esconde el 1400 N. Meridian St. defender el bienestar común contra el nunca nos ha quitado el don del libre secreto para la paz y la justicia en nuestro P.O. Box 1410 terrorismo y de proteger a su pueblo. albedrío que nos entregó a los humanos mundo. Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 Se debe ir en pos del refuerzo de la cuando nos creó. Asimismo, rezamos para que el espíritu seguridad territorial, denegar los medios Por lo tanto, incluso las decisiones más de Dios impulse a los líderes mundiales a para financiar organizaciones terroristas, así cruciales sobre la guerra y la paz, tales buscar soluciones pacíficas a las crisis como una amplia gama de medidas no como las que enfrentan los líderes humanas. Esperamos que la oración sincera Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa, militares. Quizás las acciones militares sean mundiales hoy en día, dependen del libre impulse a los líderes mundiales a abrirse a Language Training Center, Indianapolis. necesarias. Sin embargo, resulta evidente albedrío humano. que por el bien de todos los involucrados, Dios no elimina el libre albedrío La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero ha llegado el momento de encontrar una humano, aunque se tome una decisión en solución a la situación que persiste en Irak. perjuicio del mundo, aunque la decisión Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus ¿Qué podemos hacer como particulares? parezca reducirse al hecho de que una de hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para ser vir en la iglesia, especialmente como Nuestra mayor contribución comienza con las partes del conflicto necesite “salir airosa sacerdotes y gente religiosa. la oración por la paz y por aquellos que son de una situación.” Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Events Calendar January 12 Center, Rexville, located on Pro-Life Mass, Father Eric St. Athanasius the Great Byzan- James T. Morris, former PTG spaghetti dinner, 5-8 p.m., St. Roch Parish, Family Center, 925 South, .8 mile east of Johnson, celebrant, 8:30 a.m., tine Church, St. Mary Hall, executive director of United $7 adults, $4.50 ages 4-12, 3603 S. Meridian St., Indian- 421 South and 12 miles south of followed by rosary outside abor- 1117 Blaine Ave., Indianapolis. Nations World Food under 4 free. Information: apolis. Single Seniors meeting, Versailles. Confession, 1 p.m., tion clinic and Benediction at Catholic Charismatic Renewal Programme, speaker, Mass, 317-319-3061. 1 p.m., age 50 and over. followed by holy hour, Mass, church. Information: Archdioce- of Central Indiana, prayer 6:30 a.m., buffet breakfast and 2 p.m., groups of 10 pray the san Office for Pro-Life Ministry, meeting, 7:15 p.m. Information: program, $12 per person. Information: 317-784-1102. Cordiafonte House of Prayer, new Marian Way, 1 p.m., 317-236-1569 or 800-382-9836, 317-592-1992, Information: www.catholic 3650 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Roncalli High School, Father Elmer Burwinkel, ext. 1569. www.inholyspirit.org or businessexchange.org. 3300 Prague Road, Indianapolis. celebrant. Information: [email protected]. Silent prayer day, 9 a.m.- Makeup date for high school 812-689-3551. St. Vincent Women’s Hospital, SS. Francis and Clare Parish, 2:30 p.m., brown bag lunch, placement test for incoming January 13-March 2 8111 Township Line Road, January 24 5901 Olive Branch Road, free-will offering. Registration: freshmen, 7:45-11:15 a.m. St. Malachy Parish, 326 N. Indianapolis. Couple to Couple St. Christopher Parish, 5301 W. Greenwood. Program for 317-543-0154. Information: 317-787-8277, Green St., Brownsburg. League of Greater Indian- 16th St., Indianapolis. Substance young adults, “Friday Night ext. 234. “Divorce and Beyond” apolis, Natural Family Addiction Ministry (SAM), at the Movies,” 7 p.m., January 27 program, 6-8 p.m. Information: Planning (NFP) class, 9-11 a.m. “How Addiction Affects the Father Rick Nagel will host Indiana War Memorial, 431 N. January 13 317-852-3195. Information: 317-228-9276. Family,” 7-8:30 p.m. small-group discussions, Meridian St., Indianapolis. St. Anthony Parish, 379 N. Information: 317-241-6314. child care provided. Informa- Right to Life of Indianapolis, Warman Ave., Indianapolis. January 19 January 22 tion: 317-289-8489. pro-life prayer service followed Euchre party, 1:30 p.m., St. Michael the Archangel St. Pius X School, 7200 Sarto January 25 $3 per person. Church, 3354 W. 30th St., Drive, Indianapolis. Open Knights of Columbus Hall, January 26 by memorial walk to Indianapolis. Helpers of house, 6:30 p.m. Information: 2100 E. 71st St., Indianapolis. St. Mark School, 535 E. Monument Circle, 2-3 p.m. MKVS and Divine Mercy God’s Precious Infants 317-466-3361. Catholic Business Exchange, Edgewood Ave., Indianapolis. Information: 317-585-1526. †

Information: 812-933-6437 or e-mail 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. “Bread Blessed,” Franciscan Sister Olga Retreats and Programs [email protected]. Wittekind, presenter, 2-3:30 p.m. and 7- February 1-3 8:30 p.m., $10 per session. Information: 812- January 14 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. January 12 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Tobit Weekend” for Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., 56th St., Indianapolis. “The Spirituality of engaged couples. Information: 317-545-7681 or February 23 Oldenburg. “Fully Alive! Fully Franciscan!,” Aging,” Dominican Sister Romona Nowak, www.archindy.org/fatima. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 9-11:30 a.m., Franciscan Sister Diane Jamison, presenter, 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Information: February 2 Women at the ‘Burg, “Poems, Prayers and presenter, $20 per person. Information: 812- 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Promises,” 9-11:30 a.m. Information: 812-933- 933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. St. Christopher Church, 5301 W. 16th St., 6437 or e-mail [email protected]. January 26 Indianapolis. Seventh annual Indianapolis January 13 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. Catholic Men’s Conference, “Unity and Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Women at the ‘Burg, “Disciplines of a Diversity in the Catholic Church,” 8:30 a.m.- 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Liturgy 301,” Beautiful Woman,” 9-11:30 a.m. Information: 3:45 p.m. Information: 317-241-6314, ext. 126, “Lectio Divina: A Contemporary Connection Father Rick Ginther, presenter, 7-9 p.m. 812-933-6437 or e-mail or e-mail [email protected]. to an Ancient Form of Christian Prayer,” Information: 317-545-7681 or [email protected]. 10 a.m.-6 p.m., registration deadline Jan. 28, www.archindy.org/fatima. February 8-10 January 27 Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., $60 includes lunch. Information: 317-788-7581 “Weekend Retreat on or e-mail [email protected]. Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Oldenburg. John’s Gospel,” Franciscan Sister Barbara 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana Program” February 24 Leonhard, presenter. Information: 812-933- “Woman Prayer: A Morning of Grace,” for engaged couples. Information: Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 6437 or e-mail [email protected]. 8:45 a.m.-1 p.m., $25 per person, reservation 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana Program” deadline Jan. 5. Information: 317-788-7581 or February 10 for engaged couples. Information: 317- e-mail [email protected]. January 28 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 236-1596 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Reconciliation 101,” Oldenburg Franciscan Center, Oldenburg. 56th St., Indianapolis. Mass, 9 a.m., continental Father Don Schmidlin, presenter, 7-9 p.m. February 25 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. “Evensong,” Scripture, Taizé music, 4-5 p.m. breakfast, no charge. Information: Information: 317-545-7681 or 56th St., Indianapolis. Mass, 9 a.m., continental www.archindy.org/fatima. breakfast, no charge. Information: February 12 317-545-7681 or www.archindy.org/fatima. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. “Morning for Moms,” February 28 Father John McCaslin, presenter, 8:30 a.m.- Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. 1 p.m. Information: 317-545-7681 or 56th St., Indianapolis. Silent reflection day, Photos by Carolyn Noone www.archindy.org/fatima. “Make Time for the Quiet Moments for God Whispers and the World Is Loud,” 8 a.m., February 13 $25 per includes continental breakfast and Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. lunch. Information: 317-545-7681 or 56th St., Indianapolis. “Spring Planting for www.archindy.org/fatima. Spiritual Growth,” Benedictine Sister Mildred Wannemuehler, Mass, 5:30 p.m., dinner and February 29-March 2 presentation following Mass, $30 per person. Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, Information: 317-545-7681 or St. Meinrad. Retreat, “Reflections on the Life www.archindy.org/fatima. and Message of Jeremiah the Prophet,” Benedictine Father Eugene Hensell, presenter. February 14 Information: 800-581-6905 or e-mail Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., [email protected]. Oldenburg. Lenten Lecture Series, “Bread Blessed,” Franciscan Sister Olga Benedict Inn Retreat and Conference Center, Wittekind, presenter, 2-3:30 p.m. and 7- 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. 8:30 p.m., $10 per session. Information: 812- “Lovers Leap! Twists and Turns of 933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. Married Life,” Father Clem Davis and St. Monica Parish Small Church Community Team February 15-17 presenters, registration deadline Feb. 15, Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. $280 per couple. Information: 317-788-7581 or 56th St., Indianapolis. “Loving and e-mail [email protected]. Forgiving,” Father Jim Farrell, presenter, $150 per person or $280 per couple. March 8 Information: 317-545-7681 or St. Christopher Church, 5301 W. 16th St., St. Louis www.archindy.org/fatima. Indianapolis. Sixth annual Catholic Women’s February 16 Convocation, “God’s Work of Art,” 8 a.m.- pilgrimage 3 p.m., $40 per person. Information: 317-241- Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., 6314, ext. 122, or e-mail nmeyer@saint Above, from left, Franciscan Sister Rita Oldenburg. “Fully Alive! Fully Franciscan!,” christopherparish.org. 9-11:30 a.m., Franciscan Sister Diane Jamison, Vukovic, a teacher at Cardinal Ritter presenter, $20 per person. Information: Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., Jr./Sr. High School in Indianapolis; 812-933-6437 or e-mail Oldenburg. “Fully Alive! Fully Franciscan!,” Ruth Buening, a member of St. Michael [email protected]. the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis; 9-11:30 a.m., Franciscan Sister Diane Jamison, and Elaine Nolan and Carmen Toerne, February 17 presenter, $20 per person. Information: 812- 933-6437 or e-mail [email protected]. both members of St. Ambrose Parish Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. in Seymour, enjoy supper on Dec. 15 at 56th St., Indianapolis. “Pre-Cana Program” March 13 for engaged couples. Information: the Bevo Mill restaurant in St. Louis Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., 317-236-1596 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1596. during a Dec. 14-17 Advent pilgrimage Oldenburg. Lenten Lecture Series, sponsored by the archdiocese. February19-21 “Bread Blessed,” Franciscan Sister Olga Wit- Saint Meinrad Archabbey, 100 Hill Drive, tekind, presenter, 2-3:30 p.m. and 7-8:30 p.m., Left, from left, Leo and Patty Gasper, St. Meinrad. Midweek retreat, “A Personal $10 per session. Information: 812-933-6437 or members of St. Anne Parish in Preparation for the Paschal Mystery,” e-mail [email protected]. Jennings County, and JoDonna and Benedictine Father Jeremy King, presenter. March 14-15 Roger Crandall, members of St. Mary Information: 800-581-6905 or e-mail [email protected]. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, 5353 E. Parish in Mitchell, sit in prayer before 56th St., Indianapolis. “A Lenten Retreat Mass on Dec. 17 at the Shrine of Our February 21 with Dominican Sister Romona Nowak.” Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Ill. Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., Information: 317-545-7681 or Oldenburg. Lenten Lecture Series, www.archindy.org/fatima. † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 7 Prayer helps artist create portrait of Bishop Bruté

By Mary Ann Wyand you” note to Sister Diane. two priests and served as Archbishop Buechlein Our Lady of “The portrait of bishop of the Diocese of officially opened the cause the Most Colorful brush strokes Bishop Bruté is splendid,” Vincennes from 1834 until of canonization for Holy Rosary bring the dramatic oil the archbishop wrote, his death in 1839. In only Bishop Bruté, who is now parishioner painting of the Servant of offering his congratulations five years, he earned a rightly called a “Servant of Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann Kara Halla of God Simon Bruté to life. to the artist. reputation as a holy priest God.” Westfield, Ind., Artist Kara Halla Kara (Coleman) Halla recently prayed to God and Mary grew up in Our Lady of painted this as well as to Bishop Mt. Carmel Parish in portrait of the Simon Guillaume ‘I read a little bit about his Carmel, Ind., graduated Servant of God Gabriel Bruté de life and prayed to from Carmel High Simon Bruté as Rémur—who was Bishop Bruté to help me to School and attended the a commis- named the first bishop Art Institute of Chicago. sioned gift for of the newly created make him [look] the way Halla lives in Archbishop Diocese of Vincennes in he should be. I had all my Westfield, Ind., with her Daniel M. 1834—while she holy cards and my crucifix husband, Jason, and Buechlein. The painted the French 8-year-old son, Liam, painting will be priest’s portrait in with me, and I prayed the who is a fledgling artist. hung in the December. rosary.’ They attend the parlor at the With divine help, traditional Latin Mass at Cathedral Halla said, she was able — Kara Halla Our Lady of the Most Parish rectory to complete the painting Holy Rosary Parish in in Indianapolis. of the bishop—which is Indianapolis, where 3 feet wide and 4 feet “My warmest Sister Diane serves as high—in about 18 hours by thanks to you,” he added to and hard-working bishop. director of religious using a preliminary sketch Sister Diane. “Please extend The Diocese of education. that she drew in June as a the same to the generous Vincennes—now the Halla, who also would like to paint a last year on the day before guide. donors.” Archdiocese of volunteers for the portrait of St. Theodora her canonization, we were “I read a little bit about Bishop Bruté was born in Indianapolis—was created archdiocesan Birthline Guérin, foundress of the able to see her relics,” his life and prayed to Rennes, France, on March by Pope Gregory XVI on pro-life telephone ministry, Sisters of Providence of Halla said. “To be able to Bishop Bruté to help me to 20, 1779. He came to May 6, 1834. said she enjoys creating Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. experience that was make him [look] the way Indiana with only In the fall of 2005, religious artwork and “When we went there amazing.” † he should be,” she said. “I had all my holy cards and my crucifix with me, and I prayed the rosary.” In her painting, Bishop Bruté is shown holding a crucifix with the Old Cathedral in Vincennes at the top left. A horse symbolizes his missionary travels during the early years of the diocese. At the time, the diocese included all of Indiana and the eastern portion of Illinois. The painting was commissioned by Servants of the Gospel of Life Sister Diane Carollo, director of the archdiocesan Office for Pro-Life Ministry, as an anniversary gift for Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein to commemorate his 15 years as Archbishop of Indianapolis and 20 years as a bishop. The Missionary Servants of the Gospel of Life, a lay order dedicated to pro-life ministry in the archdiocese, and archdiocesan Birthline volunteers also helped sponsor Halla’s artistic endeavor. One team. Sister Diane gave the painting to Archbishop Buechlein on Dec. 19 at Unmatched capabilities. the Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Center. It will be One name to know. hung in the parlor at the Cathedral Parish rectory. “In gratitude for his The St. Francis Colorectal Cancer Center. We’re 15 years as our faithful nationally recognized for our lifesaving outcomes, shepherd,” Sister Diane explained, “I asked and distinguished by our unique single-team approach Kara Halla, a very talented to care. Our physician experts work across disciplines local artist, to paint a portrait of Bishop Bruté to provide our patients with truly comprehensive for Archbishop Buechlein. treatments. We aggressively manage every stage and “Through Bishop aspect of colon cancer. We have a dedicated Patient Bruté’s life of extra - ordinary sacrifice, charity Navigator to hold each patient’s hand along the way. and missionary zeal, the And we never lose faith. Church in Indiana began its historical roots,” Sister Diane said. “Bishop Bruté’s life of Colon cancer is preventable—if caught early. humble and generous service continues to serve Call 1-877-888-1777 today for your FREE screening guide. as a model for all of us today.” Archbishop Buechlein expressed his appreciation for the unique and historical gift in a “thank Page 8 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Looking ahead: What American Catholics can expect in 2008 WASHINGTON (CNS)—Those who mid-December 100,000 pilgrims— Pedestrians walk put stock in the expression “an idle brain is including 38,000 from the U.S.—were in front of the devil’s registered for the event with large St. Patrick’s workshop” can contingents attending from the Cathedral in take heart that United States, Italy and Germany. New York on

American A few weeks after World Youth Day Reuters CNS photo/Jeff Zelevansky, Dec. 25. The Catholics concludes, the Summer Olympics will New York won’t give the begin in Beijing, and once that coverage Archdiocese devil much to wraps up everyone will be narrowly marks its work with in a focused on the 2008 elections—if they 200th anniversary very busy weren’t already. in 2008 and 2008. In anticipating, and trying to ward off, Catholics there are Four arch- Catholic voter confusion, the U.S. bishops looking ahead to a dioceses— wrote a 10,000-word document on political major Church Boston, responsibility, “Forming Consciences for event when New York, Faithful Citizenship,” overwhelmingly Pope Benedict XVI Philadelphia and Louisville, Ky.—will be approved during the bishops’ fall meeting. visits as part of celebrating their 200th anniversaries with The document is part of a series that has his April 15-20 trip special events slated throughout the year. been issued before every presidential to the The archdioceses were erected from the election for more than 30 years. “Faithful United States. Baltimore Archdiocese in 1808. Citizenship” outlines for voters in 2008 New York Catholics will also have seven key themes: right to life and dignity major Church events on April 18-20 when of the human person; call to family, Pope Benedict XVI visits their city as part community and participation; rights and of his six-day visit to the United States. responsibilities; option for the poor and During the pope’s New York stay, he vulnerable; dignity of work and the rights will address the U.N. General Assembly; of workers; solidarity; and caring for participate in an ecumenical event; God’s creation. celebrate a Mass for priests, deacons and The document has received a mixed religious; meet children with disabilities; reaction. Some praised it for its clarity and and join a youth rally. emphasis on the needs of the poor while He is also scheduled to visit others said it was not strong enough in Ground Zero for a ceremony with condemning Catholic politicians who take responders to the 2001 terrorist attack and positions contrary to the Church on victims’ family members. The pope will abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and conclude his visit by celebrating Mass at other life issues. Yankee Stadium. U.S. Catholics will be taking a close Prior to the New York visit, the pope look not only at where candidates stand on will spend two busy days in Washington those issues, but also at how politicians for a White House reception, a visit with respond on major issues that intersect with the U.S. bishops, a Mass at Nationals Catholic teaching, such as the ongoing war Stadium, a meeting with Catholic in Iraq, immigration, marriage and educators and an interreligious gathering. civil unions, and capital punishment. law by Gov. Jon Corzine on Dec. 17 and a attacks on immigrants with a focus on Another foreign trip the pope has Opposition to the death penalty made vote by the U.N. General Assembly the policy solutions. scheduled for 2008 is for World Youth Day news at the end of 2007, with New Jersey’s next day calling for a moratorium on In November, the need for embryonic in Sydney, Australia, on July 15-20. By abolition of capital punishment signed into executions. stem-cell research was called into question The topic continued to be on the by studies showing that human skin cells front burner at the beginning of 2008 as can be reprogrammed to work as M ARRIAGE S UPPLEMENT the U.S. Supreme Court heard effectively as embryonic stem cells, whose arguments in a Kentucky death-penalty use has long been opposed by the Church case on Jan. 7. The ruling on this case because it involves the destruction of will determine the constitutionality of human embryos. lethal injection and whether the most The bishops will also continue to speak commonly used combination of drugs out against state legislatures seeking to Marriage for lethal injections constitutes cruel legalize same-sex civil unions and NNOUNCEMENTS and unusual punishment. Until the court denounce U.S. involvement in the war in A rules, more than a dozen states have Iraq, which they have already described as stopped executions. “unacceptable and unsustainable.” Be a part of our Marriage Supplement Congress failed to pass immigration Across the country, some dioceses will reform legislation in 2007 and will likely continue to be impacted by the Church February 8, 2008, issue of steer clear of the issue during an election sex abuse scandal as they make payments The Criterion year, but that does not mean Church on multimillion-dollar settlements reached officials will keep quiet about it. with abuse victims and modify the At year-end, bishops in Oklahoma, ministries they provide. f you are planning your wedding between January 30 and July 1, 2008, we I Maryland and California called for action Judge Michael Merz, chairman of the invite you to submit the information for an announcement on the form below. on immigration, stressing the human rights National Review Board, said the Church’s Pictures of undocumented people and their need response to the abuse crisis will be You may send us a picture of the bride-to-be or a picture of the couple. Please do not for an opportunity to legalize their status. ongoing. cut photograph. The picture must be wallet-size and will be used as space permits. Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony “Church efforts for prevention, healing We cannot guarantee the reproduction quality of the photos. Please put name(s) on wrote letters to all the presidential and vigilance will be demanded for the rest the back of the photo. Photos will be returned if a stamped, self-addressed envelope candidates in December urging them to of our days,” he said in a December is enclosed. “show leadership on the issue of statement coinciding with the group’s E-mailed photos immigration” and to replace verbal five-year report on the abuse crisis. † Photos should be saved in jpg format, be a minimum 200 dpi/resolution and at least 3 inches or 600 pixels wide. Please send your photo as an attachment to the Italian cardinal says it’s logical to e-mail. 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Mailing Address City State Zip Code obtained regarding the death penalty, it “It is truly inadmissible to proceed might be logical to call attention to the with an abortion when the fetus is at an Bride’s Parents theme of abortion,” the cardinal said in a age to survive on its own,” he said. Dec. 31 television interview. Italy led the campaign to convince the City State Cardinal Ruini told the Canale 5 news United Nations to support a universal

BRIDEGROOM First Middle Last program that the proposal for a moratorium on using the death penalty. moratorium on abortion, launched before The resolution was passed in early Bridegroom’s Parents Christmas by the Italian newspaper December. Il Foglio, was an opportunity to The campaign’s success has led several City State “stimulate, reawaken the consciences of pro-life Italian politicians to consider Wedding Date Church City State all to help them recognize that a baby in ways to demonstrate to the public, which Photo Enclosed its mother’s womb really is a human overwhelmingly supports a total ban on No Picture Signature of person furnishing information Relationship Daytime Phone being,” and that abortion is the taking of a capital punishment, that protecting human human life. life includes protecting the unborn. † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 9 Pope’s calendar confirms life doesn’t slow down after 80 VATICAN CITY (CNS)—As ecumenical encounters in Rome and Pope Benedict XVI looks at his 2008 cal- around the world. The pope wants modern endar, he’s no doubt recognizing that life Christians to draw inspiration from the doesn’t slow Apostle’s missionary energy, and that’s a down after 80. theme he’ll be talking about in coming Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy With three months. foreign trips, a The Synod of Bishops runs Oct. 5-26 world Synod of on the theme, “The Word of God in the Bishops on the Life and Mission of the Church.” The Bible, a jubilee pope chose the topic of Scripture, and he year dedicated to is expected to follow the proceedings St. Paul, an closely. The synod’s working document is important dia- due out earlier in the year. logue with The pope is himself working on at least Muslims, and an one document, a new encyclical that Pope Benedict XVI encyclical and a addresses social issues. There’s no target new book in the date, but officials expect it during the works, 2008 is shaping up as perhaps the first half of 2008. busiest year of his pontificate. And sources said the pope is continuing The pope will celebrate his 81st birth- to work on another project dear to his day in Washington on April 16, the day heart: the second volume on the life of he is scheduled to meet with President Jesus, following publication of Jesus of George W. Bush at the White House and Nazareth last spring. with U.S. bishops at the Basilica of the Day to day in 2008, much of the pope’s National Shrine of the Immaculate time will be taken up by rounds of Conception. There’s bound to be a birth- “ad limina” visits made by heads of dio- day cake somewhere along the way. ceses, audiences with world leaders and The April 15-20 trip to the United speeches to ambassadors. He will States and the United Nations will be the welcome Mary Ann Glendon as the new pope’s first journey outside Italy in 2008. ambassador of the United States, as well In Washington, the pope also is expected as new representatives from Israel and to say Mass in the Nationals’ baseball Iran. stadium and hold meetings with In early January, the Jesuits are gather- educators and interreligious leaders. ing to elect a new superior general. The In New York, in addition to his pope will meet with delegates of the order U.N. visit, the pope’s tentative schedule and their new leader in February. includes a meeting with ecumenical In ecumenical affairs, 2008 marks the representatives, Mass in St. Patrick’s 100th anniversary of the Week of Prayer Cathedral, an encounter with seminari- for Christian Unity, and the pope is ans, a visit to Ground Zero and Mass in expected to preside over a prayer service Yankee Stadium. marking the centenary. In late July, the pope will travel to Muslim representatives are coming to Australia—by far the longest trip of his the Vatican early in 2008 to lay the pontificate—to preside over World Youth groundwork for a potentially important Day celebrations. Sometime during the dialogue with the Vatican. The pope had year, he is expected to visit Lourdes, invited a group of Muslim scholars to France, to mark the 150th anniversary of meet with him and with the Pontifical Marian apparitions there. Council for Interreligious Dialogue. Meanwhile, the pope also has made Other Vatican agencies will be hosting plans for several major trips inside Italy, important meetings during the year. The Young people sit on the grass in front of St. Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney, Australia, in mid-September. beginning with the Ligurian seaports of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace In late July, Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Australia, by far the longest trip of his pontificate, to Genoa and Savona in mid-May. In has proposed a series of international preside over World Youth Day celebrations. It will be one of three foreign trips on his 2008 calendar. Savona, which hasn’t hosted a pope since conferences on social development issues, 1815, the announcement of the pope’s such as poverty, corruption, disarmament, removing ambiguities, and will sign off on Arinze, head of the Congregation for visit was front-page news. prisons and the ethics of taxation. the new document. Divine Worship and the Sacraments; In mid-June, the pope will visit the Sometime early in the year, the In April, Pope Benedict’s pontificate Portuguese Cardinal Jose Saraiva southern Italian region of Puglia, and in Pontifical Commission “Ecclesia Dei” enters its fourth year. He gradually has Martins, head of the Congregation for early September will make a one-day plans to issue a document clarifying ques- replaced top aides, and that’s bound to Saints’ Causes; and Italian Cardinal stop on the island of Sardinia. tions that have arisen regarding the pope’s continue. Six Roman Curia heads are Renato Martino, head of the Pontifical On June 28, Pope Benedict plans to 2007 document relaxing restrictions on already at the normal retirement age of 75 Council for Justice and Peace and the inaugurate the “year of St. Paul,” which use of the traditional Latin Mass. Sources or will reach it in 2008. Pontifical Council for Migrants and will feature liturgies, conferences and said the pope personally is interested in They include Nigerian Cardinal Francis Travelers. † Pope, marking new year, reiterates support for traditional family

VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Ushering in Thousands of people filled St. Peter’s the new year, Pope Benedict XVI said Basilica for the New Year’s liturgy. attempts to weaken the traditional family Among the crowd was a group of inevitably undermine social harmony and children wearing cardboard crowns in world peace. memory of the three kings who traveled

“The natural family, founded on mar- to Bethlehem. CNS photo/Dario Pignatelli, Reuters riage between a man and a woman, is the Prayers for peace were offered in cradle of life and love and the first and five languages; in Arabic, the prayer indispensable teacher of peace,” the pope asked that the world’s populations would said at a Mass on Jan. 1, which the “overcome suggestions of violence and Church marks as the World Day of Peace. war and commit all their energy and The family thus constitutes the primary resources to building a stable peace.” agency of peace, and attempts to deny or In his homily, the pope said people restrict family rights “threaten the very should recognize that true peace is not foundations of peace,” he said. merely the result of human efforts or Later, at a noon blessing, the pope political agreements. Above all, he said, returned to the theme of the family and peace is a divine gift that people need to what he called its “strict connection” to continually implore. social peace. He quoted from his World The pope also noted that Jan. 1 Peace Day message on the theme “The marked the feast of Mary, Mother of Human Family, a Community of Peace.” God. He said Mary can serve as a guide “Whoever, even unknowingly, circum- to modern Christians who have trouble vents the institution of the family under- believing that Jesus is both God and mines peace in the entire community, man. Pope Benedict XVI greets children as he celebrates a Mass to mark the World Day of Peace in national and international, since he weak- “At the ‘school’ of Mary, we can St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on Jan. 1. Ushering in the new year, Pope Benedict said attempts to ens what is in effect the primary agency accept with the heart that which the eyes weaken the traditional family inevitably undermine social harmony and world peace. of peace,” he said. and the mind cannot perceive by them- The pope was not specific about efforts selves,” he said. In his talk to pilgrims after the Mass, angels at Bethlehem take ever deeper root to weaken the family, but in the past he The mystery of the Incarnation and the pope expressed the hope for a “serene in men’s hearts and inspire the whole has spoken out against gay marriage and Mary’s divine maternity should be wel- and productive” 2008 and extended human family to live in harmony, justice laws that give full legal recognition to comed in faith “even without understand- New Year’s greetings in seven languages. and fraternal solidarity,” he said in cohabiting couples. ing everything,” he said. “May the peace proclaimed by the English. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

have to give? Haitian children Catholic News Around Indiana Volunteer Kathy Lazzara posed that question to her pose for a picture three sons—all soccer players—before she left on the wearing their new

• Diocese of Gary mission trip. Their old jerseys came to mind. The Catholic Moment soccer shirts • Diocese of Evansville “It was a way to allow my boys to participate in the donated by • Diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana mission, even though they wouldn’t be with me,” she said. children from • Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend “It turned out to be a very special thing.” Photo courtesy Our Lady of Later, collection sites were set up for more soccer Mt. Carmel Parish DIOCESE OF LAFAYETTE donations. in December 2006. “The response that I have received from friends, family and the Church has been wonderful,” Lazzara said. Soccer gifts are “Everyone has been so willing to be able to give this equipment that they have just laying around, and they are happy to know that it’s going to other children who will a big hit with cherish it.” Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Karen Jung is moving there in February, and will take Haitian children the donated equipment with her. “Things we take for granted here—all of the activities By Lisa Wilson-Cotillier and teams that we have as well as the fact that we have The Catholic Moment access to clean water and that we have lodging—you gain a greater appreciation for after visiting there,” she said. CARMEL—After soccer season ends, many parents “Soccer jerseys are a great example.” wonder what to do with the used soccer jerseys and soccer The children are happy to receive even the smallest gifts, balls. Jung said, adding that, “They are just so appreciative of Haiti Ministry volunteers at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel anything that we can give them, whether it’s something plastic bags and tie them up to make a ball to play. It’s just Parish decided to collect them for soccer-crazy Haitian material or just spending time with them kicking around a a way of connecting with the people down there. We try children who are too poor to afford new equipment. Dozens soccer ball, and they’re so open with people, so willing to very hard to connect with them on a more personal level, of donated balls and shirts were collected in December and share their culture and invite you into their world. and this offers an opportunity for us to have a greater will be delivered in February. “The gift of a soccer ball or a jersey is something so connection with them.” The venture began humbly, said Haiti Ministry chair and simple, but it’s something the children always remember,” “It’s human nature that you want to have fun,” project organizer Laura Moehling. Jung said. Jung said. “You want to play, you want to laugh, and you “Last December [2006], I led a group of nine to Haiti and More than 50 soccer balls and at least 12 bags of soccer want to make friendships. Whether you can speak in a volunteer took a small bag of jerseys down to give to jerseys have been donated by individuals, groups and words is irrelevant, when you find a common activity—in children waiting for medical care,” she said. “They were just athletic teams, including The Carmel Dads Club and this case it’s soccer—you have a friend for life. ecstatic to have them, and very thankful. It was really St. Theodore Guérin High School in Noblesville. “I think it’s an outstanding way for us to build a something that touched all of our hearts.” “The support for this has been overwhelming,” Moehling connection … through soccer, a bond was built that could The project began with a simple question: What do we said. “Soccer is big down there, and we’ve seen kids get old not have been built otherwise.” † Southern Catholic leaders called helpful in ending segr egation WASHINGTON (CNS)—More than 50 years ago, Earlier, Bishop Waters—who was in charge of the early ‘60s—five adult blacks and the first three Catholics were a distinct minority in the South’s religious Raleigh see for nearly 30 years—had decreed that the diocese African-American children to be enrolled at Sacred Heart’s landscape. Still, there were some Catholic leaders would no longer build separate churches for black and white grade school. who used their moral authority to help another minority— Catholics. Because Catholics were so scarce in southern Virginia, the African-Americans—overcome the burdens of Jim Crow and With these mandates, Moore said, “equal rights would be sisters were immediately recognizable—helped in part by a make desegregation possible. in effect in the Church in North Carolina” and “racial habit redesign that made the pages of Time magazine. Speaking on Jan. 4 during a panel presentation at the prejudice would be a heresy in North Carolina.” But after they participated en masse in a civil rights American Catholic Historical Association’s meeting in The nuns in Danville took seriously the charge in the demonstration, Moore said, they were told by Washington, Cecilia Moore pointed to a North Carolina 1931 papal encyclical “Quadragesimo Anno” to “reconstruct Bishop John Russell of Richmond that all clergy and bishop and a convent in Danville, Va., as two leading lights in society in the name of Christ,” Moore said. Their efforts, she religious were forbidden from taking part in public the fight against segregation. added, were a combination of high-profile visibility and demonstrations. The sisters could help the civil rights movement Moore, a professor at the Marianist-run University of subterfuge. from their convent, he added. Dayton, in Ohio, identified Bishop Vincent Waters of When Hazel Carter, a black woman and the only Catholic That they did. At the convent, they hosted teach-ins by the Raleigh, N.C., and the Society of Christ Our King, which had in her Baptist family, started attending Sacred Heart Parish in Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the many a convent in Danville, in her presentation, “Living With Danville—the only Catholic church in a 35-mile radius, civil rights groups springing up in the civil rights era in the Jim Crow in Virginia and North Carolina: Black and White Moore estimated—she took on the custom of sitting in the South. Committee members stayed at the convent when partici- Catholic Experiences of Racial Segregation.” back of the congregation. pating in a civil rights march in Danville, the last capital of the The two-hour panel focused on race, religion and gender The sisters took note of this and, one Sunday, sat where Confederate States of America. Later, Dorothy Day, co-founder issues in the South in the 35 years following World War II. black worshippers tended to sit. Carter sat in the pew in front of the Catholic Worker Movement, also gave a teach-in at the At the time of Bishop Waters’ episcopal ministry, Moore of the sisters, according to Moore. The following Sunday, the convent and spent the night there prior to a march. said, North Carolina had the lowest percentage of Catholics sisters all moved up one pew, prompting Carter to do the Moore said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stopped by the of any state in the nation, hovering at about 1 percent. Yet the same. This continued for several weeks until Carter was in the convent late one night to thank the sisters for all their efforts. bishop of what was then a statewide diocese decreed in 1954 middle of the congregation on Sundays. The story cannot be verified; only the mother superior was that there would be no more segregation in Catholic high Moore said Carter responded in part by serving as the awake at the time, “and she didn’t wake any of the sisters” to schools. A year later, he ordered that Catholic elementary godmother for eight baptisms in the late 1950s and meet Rev. King, Moore said. † schools also be opened to African-American students. Churches demand access to help victims in India’s troubled Kandhamal region BHUBANESWAR, India (CNS)—Churches in India have him against taking the cardinal to the region. how demanded access to the troubled Kandhamal region to “I feel sad that I am helpless to reach out to my people in a can we multiply distribute relief and visit the families affected by the recent situation like this,” the archbishop added. your violence in eastern Orissa state. Meanwhile, he said, “Any government in its senses could “We demand that credible national organizations such as the have anticipated this orgy of violence.” Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and [the] National Archbishop Cheenath pointed out that, weeks before the Council of Churches should be permitted to send their team of violence started on Christmas Eve, Hindu groups had been dollar? people to meet with the affected people to express solidarity threatening to kill Christians unless they converted. Despite and provide relief materials for all people, irrespective of caste Christians complaining to top government and police officials, and creed,” said the Churches in an appeal. nothing was done to prevent the violence, he said. How can the Society of St. Vincent de Paul multiply Representatives of various denominations read the appeal at Catholic officials prepared a paper—distributed at the press your Dollar by a factor of 14 for food and 7 for a Jan. 7 news conference at the archbishop’s house in conference—detailing the violence, which began with Hindus household items? Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state. The Kandhamal destroying Christmas decorations at the local market. Church • We can because we are a 100% Volunteer Society. district is about 210 miles southwest of Bhubaneswar. officials have said the attack on Christians was to provoke them. We have no payroll. “The hapless [Christian] victims of violence had to take In retaliation, Christians burned Hindu shops and houses, • We can because we qualify for surplus government shelter in forests for many days without proper food and followed by widespread violence over 600 square miles and food. We serve the poor regardless of race or religion. sanitation. As of now, few have turned either to relief camps or four days. • We can because a great deal of the household to their relatives, but the situation is far from satisfactory,” the Five Catholic churches, 48 village chapels, two seminaries, items are donated to us. Churches said in the statement. half a dozen hostels and four convents were destroyed. Dozens So if you want to stretch your charitable dollar, the They said that “those in [refugee] camps are receiving an of Hindu homes and hundreds of Christian homes were burned Society of St. Vincent de Paul can give inadequate supply of quality food and clothing, and the living and looted. you GREAT VALUE for every dollar by conditions are less than hygienic.” “This is diabolic violence,” said Father Babu Joseph, multiplying it many times over! At the press conference, Archbishop Raphael Cheenath of spokesman for the bishops’ conference. Cuttack-Bhubaneshwar said, “I was cautioned [by the He said the “intensity of violence and the scale of The Society of St.Vincent de Paul government] not to visit my people.” destruction” showed that “it was systematically planned and P.O. Box 19133 He said Cardinal Telesphore Toppo of Ranchi, president of clinically executed.” Indianapolis, IN 46219 the bishops’ conference, traveled to Orissa in early January to The local tribal people could not have caused such www.svdpindy.org meet those hiding in the jungles, but Archbishop Cheenath told destruction “without the support of outside forces.” They used Catholic News Service on Jan. 7 that the government advised flammable chemicals to speed up the fires, he said. † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 11 Kenyan bishop says his appeals for aid have been met quickly NAIROBI, Kenya (CNS)—A Kenyan $5,000 through the Diocese of bishop said his appeals for humanitarian Bungoma in western Kenya. The assistance for the Diocese of Eldoret have local affiliates of Caritas Interna- been met quickly following the violence tionalis, the international Catholic sparked by the country’s disputed Dec. 27 umbrella aid agency, and the general elections. English and Welsh bishops’ Reuters CNS photo/Tim Cocks, Bishop Cornelius Arap Korir of Catholic Agency for Overseas Eldoret told Catholic News Service things Development have made similar gradually were taking shape as agencies financial commitments, said such as the United Nations, the Kenyan MacLean. government, the Red Cross and other He said aid agencies were Churches were joining Catholic relief challenged to quickly make agencies in sending financial and material available food, medicine, mosquito assistance. nets and tents for the heavy “As I speak to you, the camped people concentration of needy people. are being fed, those sick [are] being Tens of thousands of people treated and makeshifts [are] being were scattered throughout Eldoret constructed. This for me is very pleasing and an estimated 42,000 were and hope-giving,” he added. outside the city, MacLean said. Bishop Korir said on Jan. 7 that “shops The people are camped in schools, have now opened, [and] banks are church compounds and police operative as closed roads are now stations in the heat, he said, adding opened.” that Sacred Heart Cathedral is Catholic relief agencies were among housing an estimated 8,000 people. the first to respond to the humanitarian Janet Mangera, national crisis. executive secretary of Caritas Ken MacLean, country representative Kenya, told CNS that her office has for Catholic Relief Services, said his been mandated to coordinate Bishop Cornelius Arap Korir speaks with displaced people outside Sacred Heart Cathedral in Eldoret, Kenya, Nairobi-based office had moved three of humanitarian and emergency on Jan. 4. The cathedral has sheltered some 9,000 people fleeing post-election violence. Human rights its emergency response officers to the activities on behalf of the organizations said more than 300 people have died since the Dec. 27 presidential election in which worst-hit area of Eldoret, about 125 miles Kenya Episcopal Conference. President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner. northwest of Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. “We have already sent out CRS is the U.S. bishops’ international appeals [to] our partners, and we expect President Mwai Kibaki was declared the Thousands of ethnic Kikuyus, who development and relief agency. positive responses,” she said. winner. Among those dead were up to have dominated Kenya’s political and MacLean told CNS on Jan. 7 that CRS Human rights organizations said more 50 people burned alive in an Assemblies economic life since independence from has committed $10,000 to the crisis than 300 people have died since the of God church where they had sought Britain in 1963, have been forced to flee through the Diocese of Eldoret and Dec. 27 presidential election in which refuge in Eldoret. rampaging gangs. Kibaki is a Kikuyu. † Christians, Muslims pray at memorial ser vices for Benazir Bhutto LAHORE, Pakistan (CNS)—Christians Lahore Archdiocese, concelebrated the A supporter of slain and Muslims joined in memorial services memorial Mass at the cathedral. opposition leader for former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Similar gatherings took place in other Benazir Bhutto in churches around the country as they churches, where Catholic and Protestant lights a candle called for an independent inquiry into her leaders as well as political workers—both during a memorial

assassination. Christians and Muslims—prayed together. CNS photo/Mohsin Raza, Reuters service in Bhutto’s More than 300 people—including nuns, Father Nisari said the killing of a honor at Sacred human rights activists and political leaders woman of Bhutto’s caliber was the worst Heart Cathedral in from Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party— example of social illiteracy and ignorance. Lahore, Pakistan, gathered at Sacred Heart Cathedral in He urged all present to pray for change in on Jan. 6. Bhutto, Lahore for a special Mass on Jan. 6, the minds of terrorists. former Pakistani reported UCA News, an Asian Church Jehangir Badar, general secretary of the prime minister and news agency. They placed garlands, Pakistan People’s Party, said: “We vow, in leader of the bouquets and candles near large portraits this holy assembly, to continue the mission Pakistan People’s of Bhutto in front of the altar and at the of our courageous leader, who respected Party, was entrance of the cathedral. the Christian community and considered assassinated Banners read: “We salute Benazir them equal citizens.” He reiterated his during a political Bhutto for struggling for the restoration of party’s demand for a U.N. commission to rally on Dec. 27 in minorities’ rights and prosperity for the investigate the murder. Rawalpindi. poor,” “She was a hope for minorities” and Pakistan’s Interior Ministry first “We demand immediate arrest of the reported that Bhutto died from a bullet or killers of Bhutto.” shrapnel wound, but later announced the The All Pakistan Minority Alliance, a cause of death was a skull fracture Christian political party, had called for a suffered when she hit her head on a that Interior Ministry spokesman “I am not fully satisfied,” Musharraf National Prayer Day on Jan. 6 to honor sunroof latch inside her vehicle after shots Javed Iqbal Cheema said that President said, acknowledging reports that the Bhutto, 54, who was killed in Rawalpindi, were fired or an explosive device was Pervez Musharraf had said British detectives crime scene had been hosed down near Islamabad, on Dec. 27. detonated. “were totally free to conduct their probe, quickly after the killing, possibly Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of A visiting team of British detectives and no one will interfere in their affairs.” destroying evidence. Lahore, president of the Pakistan Catholic from Scotland Yard in London is helping At a news conference in Islamabad on Bhutto’s family and political party have Bishops’ Conference, and Father Andrew Pakistani police with the investigation. Jan. 3, Musharraf expressed his dissatis- expressed concern over the investigation Nisari, vicar general of the The Associated Press reported on Jan. 8 faction with the investigation. and insisted she died of gunshot wounds. †

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholics in the pews sing fairly well, in the judgment of music ministers at U.S. parishes. The Catholics in the pews themselves, though, hold a less favorable view of their own singing ability. Krokos Mike File photo by In an online survey conducted in 2007 by the National Association of Pastoral Musicians, 72 percent of music ministers said that the singing in the assembly was either “very strong” or “somewhat strong.” By contrast, only 39 percent of those not involved in music ministry believed that congregational singing in their parish was strong. Despite the difference of opinion, both groups participating in the survey said the singing in their own parish is better than the general state of congregational singing in the United States. Among musicians, 39 percent of music ministers gave a positive rating to U.S. Catholic singing overall, and only 27 percent of nonmusicians did the same. In both categories of respondents, 53 percent rated congregational singing in the U.S. as “somewhat weak.” About 1,400 people took part in the survey, with musicians making up about three-fourths of all respondents, according to J. Michael McMahon, the musicians’ association president. The poll was taken in the fall, and results were announced on Dec. 21. Asked by Catholic News Service in a Jan. 2 Participants sing a hymn during the July 11, 2007, Mass celebrated at the National Association of Pastoral Musicians national convention telephone interview which side he tends to believe in Indianapolis. In a recent online survey conducted by NAPM, 72 percent of music ministers said that the singing in the assembly at their more, McMahon replied, “Both.” parish was either “very strong” or “somewhat strong.” By contrast, only 39 percent of those not involved in music ministry believed that An organist and music director—McMahon plays at congregational singing in their parish was strong. St. Agnes Parish in the Washington suburb of Arlington, Va.—he said, “When I sit on the [organ] deadens the sound and prevents people in the pews bench sometimes I think, ‘Wow, they’re singing really from sensing the strength of the singing. Can Catholics Sing? well today.’ ” “One of the things I learned” from the survey, Parish members rate their But as someone who “sat in the pews most Sundays” McMahon told CNS, “was to pay more attention to congregations’ singing as... for about five years until taking his current organist job, what it’s like to be in the congregation, ... and I think SOMEWHAT McMahon said, “It takes only a quarter of the people that’s really hard to do.” STRONG singing so that it sounds like a pretty good choir.” This was the third online poll conducted by the 39% One reason suggested by McMahon was that music National Association of Pastoral Musicians in as many VERY 23% ministers can often hear the full sound of the assembly, years. STRONG 11% VERY WEAK while congregants can hear only themselves and those While the number of respondents was lower this 27% closest to them, assuming they’re singing. time than in the first two years, McMahon said, “we’ve Another reason that McMahon offered was church had such a good response to it, it will probably become SOMEWHAT WEAK acoustics. The use of sound-absorbing materials an annual thing.” † Source: National Association of Pastoral Musicians ©2008 CNS Visit Thinking about a will? us Request a free Wills Kit from CRS. “Providing quality service with Learn what you need to know online! compassionate care” before you see an attorney. www.CriterionOnline.com Companion and skilled nursing care 1-800-235-2772 ext. 7318 Infant, pediatric, and adult services Intermittent visits and extended hourly $"5)0-*$
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By Fr. Eric Johnson that first invitation. Just as Christ had called the disciples women who helped us to listen, to see Christ’s Director of the archdiocesan Office that day on the shore, so they were to call others to miracles, to share our gifts in ministry, to of Priestly and Religious Vocations Christ. They were to become fishers of a different sort, acknowledge God’s presence and to encounter his “As Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he casting their nets for people, drawing all people to Christ. saving love. saw two brothers, Simon who is called Peter, and his The call to fish for people continues to lie at the center It is important that we do this. Through their brother Andrew, casting a net into the sea; they were of the Church’s mission. It stands behind the Church’s celebration of the sacraments, countless prayers, fishermen. He said to them, proclamation of the Gospel, gives substance to its prayer, preaching, counseling, teaching, works of charity, ‘Come after me, and I will make informs its teaching, and shapes its life and ministry. ministry, community, presence, and joyful witness to you fishers of men.’ ” The following pages are filled with stories of men and faith and hope, priests, religious brothers and sisters (Mt 4:18-19). women who have embraced the call to priesthood, the and permanent deacons draw us closer to the love of At this invitation, the permanent diaconate and the religious life. They, too, are God offered to us in Christ Jesus. They cast their nets, two brothers immediately stories of a relationship, stories of learning from Christ, and we and the Church are richer for it. dropped their nets and followed witnessing his miracles, participating in his ministry and Perhaps most of all, priest, deacons and religious him. coming to recognize him as the Messiah, the Son of the remind us of our own call to be fishers of people. In the Thus began a relationship in Living God. Though each story is different, all are united ways we seek to love others, forgive, nourish, challenge, which these first disciples came in the desire and commitment to draw others to the love support and witness to our faith with joy, all of us are to know Jesus. They learned of Christ. called to draw others into a relationship with God. from his teaching, witnessed his miracles, participated To some degree, the purpose of this supplement is to Such a call begins with an invitation, and I have in his ministry and came to recognize him as the celebrate the unique ways in which the vocational call to come to believe that part of this call involves Messiah, the Son of the living God. This relationship fish for people is lived out by priests, permanent deacons, personally inviting men and women to consider led the disciples through the experience of Christ’s and religious brothers and sisters. embracing a vocation to the priesthood or religious suffering, death and resurrection, and reached its But these stories also afford us an opportunity to life. We need their witness. Such an invitation culmination when he commissioned them to go forth gratefully acknowledge the gift their response to God’s nourishes their gifts, and affirms the importance of and make disciples of all nations. call is to us as the Church. They provide us with an these gifts to the life of the Church so that all of us At the center of this relationship was the promise of occasion to remember with gratitude those men and can more faithfully cast our nets. † Page 14 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Community, service mark seminarian’s vocation By Sean Gallagher Ann Wadelton for a long time. “Once you see the poverty and the

Whether they are near or far away, hurting that’s going on, it just kind of Submitted photo seminarian Chris Wadelton loves to give of comes naturally,” she said. “I always have himself to help people in need. been involved in that kind of thing.” His family has known that for a long It was that love of community that first time through his regular phone calls to led Chris Wadelton to consider a call to the check in with them, and the one-on-one priesthood when he was a student at time he makes for dozens of nieces and Indiana University Purdue University at nephews. Indianapolis (IUPUI) and was active in its The children of Pedro Atala orphanage close-knit Newman Center community. in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, have also Wadelton majored in electrical experienced Wadelton’s engineering technology love firsthand in his and graduated in 1990. mission trips there to ‘There are missionary For the next 12 years, improve their living opportunities right he worked in research conditions and show and for companies them Christ’s love. here in central and related to the computer This heartfelt southern Indiana.’ industry. dedication to family, But through it all, faith and serving others —Seminarian Chris faith and service was a was instilled in Wadelton constant. As exciting as Wadelton in a dramatic the computer industry way in 1974 when he was during its rapid was only 8. growth in the 1990s, Ann Wadelton That was when his father Tom died recalled that her son wasn’t satisfied. suddenly at the age of 47 of a heart attack. “Chris had interesting jobs and traveled “My father’s death definitely brought a lot,” Ann Wadelton said. “But he always our family together,” said Wadelton, a said, ‘It’s just a job.’ ” member of Immaculate Heart of Mary This perspective on his career had an Seminarian Chris Wadelton holds a boy who is a resident of the Pedro Atala orphanage in Parish in Indianapolis. “Everybody kind of impact on Wadelton’s prayer life. Tegucigalpa, Honduras, during a mission trip he took in the summer of 2006. pulled together after that.” “My prayer was generally, ‘Give me He also learned that his parish, which clarity on what direction you want my life actually been has been a bunch of little Franciscans, Wadelton knew that God was was across the street from his home, was to go in,’ ” he said. bitty decisions here and there, opening calling him to serve where he grew up. He there for him, too. Wadelton eventually worked through little doors. also realized that mission work was “Kind of like the family being a very exercises common in the business world “Eventually, I was in the seminary. always right around the corner. secure place, the Church probably was that help people determine what career That retreat would have been one of those “There are missionary opportunities too,” Wadelton said. “It was comfortable to would best suit their talents and desires. small doors.” right here in central and southern Indiana,” go to school and to church over there. We “The priesthood was always there on A few years into his priestly formation he said. were well-known in the parish. It was just the short list,” he said. for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Wadelton’s ordination as a diocesan part of the family.” In 2002, Wadelton went on a vocations Wadelton felt that he was being called to priest is about a year and a half away. He His mother also helped him learn the retreat sponsored by the Archdiocese of the religious life as a Franciscan. said remaining close to his nieces and connection between faith and service. Portland, Ore., where he lived at the time. Wadelton had come to admire many nephews will continue to be important to Ann Wadelton spent many years serving At first, he was anxious because he Franciscans, including his uncle, him once his priestly ministry begins. on the parish’s peace and justice thought he would soon have to make a Franciscan Father Jeremy Harrington. “Hopefully, I will model for people committee. For 11 years, she was the decision that would change his life forever. Wadelton entered the novitiate of a good family relations in that they’ll see communications director for the He learned, however, that the choice to Franciscan province based in California that my family is very important to me,” Indiana Catholic Conference, which serves enter the seminary wasn’t as looming as he that does mission work in Wadelton said. as an advocate for the Church and Church- had once thought. Central America and ministers to Wadelton is also trying to shape the related causes in state government. “I kept waiting for some huge decision Hispanic Catholics in the United States, consciences of his nieces and nephews. At Volunteering in the Church to build a where I would have to make this lifetime two forms of ministry that attracted him. his suggestion, his family put aside their better community has been important to commitment,” he said, “and what it’s But after nearly two years with the See WADELTON, page 18 Benedictine sister helps college students find God

By John Shaughnessy was almost killed,” she recalls. “I was in the hospital for five weeks. I was in a

The story of a young woman who wheelchair and on crutches for a couple Submitted photo overcame hatred, fear and her own of months so I had a lot of time to think. doubts before she finally found peace in I realized then we only have today to her life is not one that Benedictine live. I was 21 at that point, but I realized Sister Jennifer Mechtild Horner tells too I needed to live my life today as God is often. calling me to do.” Still, the story of her own life helps Before the accident, she was Sister Jennifer when she counsels struggling to deepen her relationship college students who come to her with God. She grew up in South Africa, seeking advice and comfort from their the daughter of a Presbyterian minister stresses and challenges. who stood and spoke against that Sister Jennifer knows the necessity of country’s system of apartheid which making every day in life count after she discriminated against non-whites. Her was nearly killed in a traffic accident. father’s stance led him to be hated by She personally knows the difficulty certain people, which created difficulty of trying to tell your parents what you for the family. They eventually moved to really want to do with your life—even Idaho when she was 15. when you believe it will cause them When she entered Boise State deep heartache. University, she started attending She knows the struggles of searching different churches, searching for a for a place in the world and wanting to spiritual home. Her college roommate, a be closer to God—longings that she Catholic, invited her to Mass. At first, believes define many young people she declined, but she finally decided to today. give it a try. “The students who come to me are “When I knelt down, I knew it was searching for God and they are really home for me,” she recalls. “It was just a longing for community,” says feeling within me of a sense of Benedictine Sister Jennifer Mechtild Horner, left, helps sort boxes with University of Indianapolis Sister Jennifer, a chaplain and the director comfort.” student Michelle Stephens during a community service project at Gleaners Food Bank in Indianapolis. of the Lantz Center for Christian Still, she dreaded the discomfort of Vocations and Formation at the University telling her parents that she wanted to was what I needed to do. I joined the Benedictine sisters in Idaho. of Indianapolis. “For the most part, I see become a Catholic. She had always Catholic Church on my birthday in students who have a desire to change the admired her parents for standing against 1986—March 29.” Finding a home for others world and be part of a community that apartheid even though that stance Later that year, she attended “I felt I was definitely called to the serves God and one another.” resulted in hatred toward them. Besides, Christmas services with her parents at a Benedictines, that prayer and That desire has marked her own life she loved them and didn’t want to Presbyterian church. Following the community and seeking God in every ever since she almost died when she was disappoint them. service, she told her mother she was part of my life is what brings me joy in college. Yet the accident convinced her to going to a Catholic church for midnight and lets me serve others,” Sister Jennifer follow her desire to join the Church. Mass. Her mother asked to come with says. “At first, my parents felt they were ‘I knew it was home for me’ “When I told my parents, it was very her. The close bond with her parents had losing me. Then they joked that they “In the spring of my junior year, I hard for them,” she says. “They initially endured. It was tested again three years didn’t lose a daughter, they gained so was in a horrible traffic accident and I tried to talk me out of it, but I knew it later when she joined a community of See BENEDICTINE, page 21 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Religious Vocactions Supplement Page 15 Carmelite nuns celebrate 60 years at Terre Haute

By Sr. Mary Grace Melcher, O.C.D.

TERRE HAUTE—The first years of our foundation resembled the journey with Jesus up Mount Tabor. The climb was steep as we labored to build our monastery, answering a call to be alone Haute Terre Submitted photos/Carmel of with the Lord in prayer and sacrifice at the heart of his Church. Yet, at the same time, we were always in his company—for Jesus, who summoned us up the mountain,climbed it at our side as he once climbed with Peter, James and John. With the marvelous help of his Providence and the loving assistance of many friends whom he inspired to support us, the goal was reached at last. Peter’s dream of erecting three tents on the mountain to honor Jesus and his prophets was realized on the hill of St. Joseph Monastery in Terre Haute on Oct. 7, 1947, the feast of the Holy Rosary. We rejoiced in all that God had done for us. A colonial style house served as our temporary monastery while our new monastery was slowly built in those first 25 years of our foundation. The cornerstone laid on Feb. 19, 1970, read, “Carmel of St. Joseph—the Gift of Friends” and “Lord, it is good for us to be here!” The monastery seems to be frozen at the moment of the Apostles’ first passing glimpse into the Lord’s glory on Mount Tabor, but behind the walls, as the years marched on, our community has Above, Discalced Carmelite been called forward into other stages of Sisters Susanna Choi, left, and the journey. We have tried to follow the Mary Joseph Nguyen, who are Lord faithfully into the dusty life of the novices, lead an Advent plain, into our unique encounters with the procession of the nuns at the full range of his human experience. Monastery of St. Joseph in With all our brothers and sisters in Terre Haute in December. the mystery of the Church, we have found one reality to be constant. On the mountain, as in the valley, in light as in Left, the Carmelite Monastery the darkness, on Tabor as on Calvary, the of St. Joseph was founded on reality is a person: Jesus. Oct. 7, 1947, the feast of the Our cloistered life is rooted in silence, Holy Rosary, at 59 Allendale in solitude, generous work, reliance on God Terre Haute. A colonial style alone, unceasing prayer for the needs of house served as the temporary the Church, a spirit of joy, sisterly love monastery while the “three- and cooperation in community as we tented” monastery was continue to build our foundation in love constructed on top of a from shared experiences of the passing secluded hill near U.S. 41 in years together. Vigo County. The Carmelite nuns welcomed guests during (For more information about the an open house on Sept. 9 in Discalced Carmelite nuns of the honor of the 60th anniversary Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute, of the Terre Haute Carmel. log on to www.heartsawake.org.) †

Right, the Carmelite nuns eat dinner as they listen to a sister read Scripture and spiritual books in the refectory at the Monastery of St. Joseph.

Below, Carmelite Sisters Martha Hall, left, and Teresa Griffith bake bread in the monastery kitchen.

Carmelite Sister Susanna Choi arranges flowers for display in the monastery during the Advent and Carmelite Sister Mary Grace Melcher reads in her cell Christmas seasons. at the Monastery of St. Joseph. Page 16 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 The beauty of seeking God Benedictine brother finds God, draws others to God thr ough art

By Sean Gallagher Archabbey is, in a sense, itself a work of art. ST. MEINRAD—Surrounded by the Brother Martin joined stillness and beauty that one often finds in the Marianist order in Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by the wooded hills of southern Indiana, 1971 when he was 17. Benedictine Brother Martin Erspamer works At the time, he was quietly in an art studio just down the hill drawn to artistic work from Saint Meinrad Archabbey. and liked the fact that He seeks to make beautiful works of art the Marianists had that will lead others closer to God. brothers who dedicated Brother Martin has created stained-glass themselves to art. windows for churches across the country, For periods, he studied using methods and tools that have largely art in Boston, worked as remained the same as those used in the an artist in St. Louis and Middle Ages. He has also sketched helped extend his order thousands of drawings in a largely medieval into India, where he also style that have made their way into took in some of the fine missalettes and worship aids used by points of traditional Indian millions of Catholic Americans. art styles. How he came to join Saint Meinrad In the mid-1980s, Brother Martin found himself back in St. Louis. As he was trying to establish himself as an Benedictine Brother Martin Erspamer works on a stained-glass window at an art studio near Saint Meinrad Archabbey last artist for the general October. He joined the monastery after spending 30 years in the Marianist order and many years working as a religious artist. public, a studio turned down a group of his works for a showing Saint Meinrad were planning the renovation of proclaiming the Gospel and attracting Photo by Br. Martin Erspamer, O.S.B. Martin Erspamer, Br. Photo by because the art was “too religious.” of their church and Brother Martin, still a others to God. “I got really angry and brought it home member of the Marianists, agreed to create a But he sees himself doing this and put it all in a dumpster,” he said. “At that triptych—or three panels of paintings— evangelizing in an indirect way. point, I decided to start working exclusively about the life of their holy patron. It’s not me going out and preaching the for the Church.” He came to Saint Meinrad for meetings Word,” he said. “It’s the work of my hands He soon began to work with Emil Frei on a nearly monthly basis in 1995. It was that’s doing it, and a lot of times, perhaps, in Associates, the St. Louis-based stained-glass during that time that he started to consider softer and more subtle ways than in actually studio that, decades earlier, had created the that God might be calling him to live out using words.” stained-glass windows in Saint Meinrad’s more fully a contemplative and monastic The work of Brother Martin’s hands may Archabbey Church. impulse that had kept re-emerging within be evangelizing on a broader scale in the Brother Martin also continued to create him for years. months and years to come. A collection of This detail of a stained-glass window created by pottery and liturgical furniture. Although attracted to the life of the photos of his artwork has recently been Brother Martin for St. Joseph Church in monks at the time, it would be 10 more years published by Oregon Catholic Press. Fayette, Mo., portrays the parable of the sower of Renovations until he joined the community. If the Titled The Work of Our Hands: The Art the seed. In the mid-1990s, the monks of solemnly professed monks of Saint Meinrad of Martin Erspamer, O.S.B., the book approve, Brother Martin will profess solemn includes photos of art that Brother Martin vows in the community in August. has created for books and other publications, Still, he looks back on that experience of stained-glass windows, liturgical furniture creating the triptych, which stands today at and pottery. the entryway from the church into the “I hope people enjoy looking at them,” 2008 Summer monastery, as a key point in his monastic Brother Martin said. “I hope they find them discernment. inspiring. I tend to look at my own artwork “I worked on the renovation of the as once they leave me, they live or die on Spirituality Institute church, and the Benedictines worked on the their own. I wish them well. renovation of me,” said Brother Martin, who “But I guess my attitude toward art is acknowledged that he is still a work in that the best ones are still yet to come.” June 23-27, 2008 progress. A week of lectures, courses and evening (For more information about The attractive power of beauty The Work of Our Hands or to purchase presentations centered on the theme of Although Saint Meinrad Archabbey a copy, contact local Catholic bookstores, “Spirituality in the 21st Century.” stands in a long Benedictine tradition of call Saint Meinrad’s Scholar Shop at promoting beauty in its liturgical music, 812-357-6571 or log on to churches and other monastic buildings, www.saintmeinrad.edu/shop.) † KEYNOTE SPEAKER Brother Martin was attracted to the community by seeing beauty there in Mary Jo Weaver, Ph.D. a much wider scope. “It was the beauty of this place “Back to the Future: Spirituality that attracted me,” he said. “And not Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by for the 21st Century” just the physical surroundings—in terms of nature—but the beauty of A widely respected professor the people, the beauty of the liturgy, and scholar who is well-known the beauty of the music. It just really, for her early works dealing really spoke to me.” with Catholic reform and Benedictine Father Harry Hagan, Saint Meinrad’s novice and junior feminism in the church. master, is Brother Martin’s superior. He also worked with him in 1995 on the renovation. COURSE TOPICS Father Harry thinks that beauty is an important way that people can be Spirituality in Health Care drawn closer to God. Spirituality/Theology and Science “We … know God by beauty, by Spirituality and Pastoral Counseling things that are beautiful and that take us really beyond this present moment Religious Education for the 21st Century and give us some sense of that which The Role of the Laity in the 21st Century transcends,” said Father Harry. Personal Spirituality and Wellness “Things that are beautiful are extremely important.” For Brother Martin, the actual For more information, please visit www.msj.edu/spirituality process of creating something that is or call (513) 244-4496. beautiful can draw him close to God. “When you create something, I think it’s probably as close as a Benedictine Brother Martin Erspamer painted this portrait human being can get to being like of St. Meinrad receiving the assistance of a woman as he God in some way,” he said. started his life as a hermit. He created the painting in the COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH • CINCINNATI, OHIO mid-1990s while he was still a member of the Marianist Attracting others to God order. Brother Martin joined Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Brother Martin sees his work as 2005. The painting stands in the Archabbey Church next an artist as his apostolate, as his way to the entryway from the church into the monastery. The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 17 Building up one body of Christ Father Todd Goodson works to bring people together

By Sean Gallagher unity. Although they

SEYMOUR—Father Todd Goodson are one in the Submitted photo likes spending time with the people he Catholic faith serves. they share, On a recent Sunday morning in differences in December, he welcomed newcomers to language and St. Ambrose Parish in Seymour—where culture have kept he serves as pastor—by presiding over them apart in the the Rite of Acceptance, a ritual in the past. Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults. “While there From there, he celebrated Mass in the are tremendous packed church. challenges with After Mass, Father Goodson chatted that, it’s a real with parishioners as they browsed grace-filled through Catholic books, videos and gift journey,” items that were on sale in the parish life Father Goodson center. said. “I really Later, he went to Our Lady of feel that this is Providence Parish in Brownstown, where something that he also serves as pastor, to celebrate God has kind of Mass. placed in my In the afternoon, Father Goodson was care.” back at St. Ambrose to celebrate Mass in The grace- Spanish for the parish’s Hispanic filled journey is community. one that he wants He said he enjoys “just seeing Christ to make with a in the people you serve. growing number “There are some tremendously of traveling Father Todd Goodson, fourth from left in the back row, poses with children wearing traditional costumes after a Dec. 12 Mass in powerful ministerial experiences that you companions. honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe celebrated at St. Ambrose Church in Seymour. Standing to his left is Father Kenneth Taylor, director have in just being with your folks,” “He tries to of the archdiocesan Office of Multicultural Ministry. Father Goodson said. get to know Just as he values being with his everybody one-on-one,” said Wanda more and more of us parishioners to all together,” she said. “He works so hard parishioners, Father Goodson is trying Hunt, a member of St. Ambrose Parish. help him with some of the things that he for that. I think that’s one of his biggest to persuade them to spend more time “He’s the same all the time. He is so has to do. He wants dreams.” with each other and help them grow in caring, but so busy. He tries to draw in everybody involved.” Father Goodson saw One person that ‘There are some the beginnings of the Father Goodson has tremendously powerful fulfillment of that dream gotten involved is ministerial experiences at a bilingual Mass on Prayer anchors busy Ana De Gante, who Ash Wednesday in 2007. helps coordinate the that you have in just Laverne Carr, a Spanish-language being with your folks.’ lifelong member of liturgies at St. Ambrose St. Ambrose Parish Seymour Deanery priest Parish. —Father Todd Goodson who helps plan its By Sean Gallagher and seemingly do nothing in prayer? De Gante liturgies, was in Father Goodson chose the latter. appreciates how her attendance. SEYMOUR—Being the pastor of “That parish council meeting was probably pastor is working to bring people together “He came to tears on two parishes with members that come from a the most fruitful and productive parish council in the parish. Ash Wednesday,” she said. “It was so variety of cultural meeting we had had in the “He wants to have just one community, touching to see him so touched. He backgrounds takes a two years that I had been brings us all together.” lot of time and effort. ‘… because I’m there,” he said. Although he works to Still, Father Todd All of the one-on-one bring people together in Goodson, pastor of anchored in [prayer], I ministry that all sorts of situations, St. Ambrose Parish in see God in day-to-day Father Goodson does to Father Goodson said the Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by Seymour and [events].’ nurture greater unity in his unity is expressed the Our Lady of parishes can be best at Mass. Providence Parish in —Father Todd Goodson challenging. “This is where you Brownstown, always But it is prayer that see the power of the makes time for prayer. gives him the strength to Eucharist to unite “I find it’s important to me to anchor see his dream through to the end. people who wouldn’t, myself in some sort of prayerful routine,” “Jesus never said that our way was going to perhaps, ordinarily be Father Goodson said. “I don’t necessarily be a piece of cake,” Father Goodson said. “In united,” he said. “You have any sort of powerful experiences during fact, he said just the opposite. really see the grace of that prayer time. But because I’m anchored “But, he did say that he would give us the the Eucharist in in that, I see God in day-to-day [events].” grace to get us through. And that’s why this moving us—pushing Once, he had a free hour prior to a anchoring in prayer, anchoring in the spiritual Father Todd Goodson preaches a homily during a Dec. 2 Mass at us, really—to come parish council meeting. Should he get some gifts of your parishioners, is what gets you St. Ambrose Church in Seymour. He is pastor of St. Ambrose Parish and together as a notes together for the meeting or sit down through.” † Our Lady of Providence Parish in Brownstown. community.” † Page 18 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Little Sister of the Poor enjoys ser ving God and the elderly

By Mary Ann Wyand health care, and is licensed as a nursing home administrator in Indiana and several Beatrice Spurgeon’s face lit up with joy other states. She served as the superior of as she showed family pictures to Sister the Little Sisters home in Pittsburgh for Margaret Banar on Dec. 22 at the nine years during the 1990s. Wyand MaryPhoto by Ann St. Augustine Home for the Aged in In Indianapolis, she helps Sister Judith Indianapolis. Meredith, the superior, with a variety of The 94-year-old resident moved to the responsibilities at the 40-year-old home St. Augustine Home in 2003 and enjoys located at 2345 W. 86th St. The sisters visiting with the Little Sisters of the Poor, currently serve 95 elderly residents who who are now part of her extended family. live in apartments, assisted living or the The residents, happy family atmosphere infirmary at the immaculately kept home. and daily Mass at the home are among the Sister Margaret’s current ministry title is reasons that Sister Margaret loves her “begging sister” or “collections sister,” ministry as a member of the international which encompasses public relations and women’s religious order dedicated to development efforts as well as weekday serving the elderly poor. outings in the sisters’ “Caring for the “begging van.” elderly is a very ‘Caring for the elderly She visits Indian- rewarding ministry,” is a very rewarding apolis-area distribution Sister Margaret said on warehouses, businesses Sister Margaret Banar, a member of the international Little Sisters of the Poor order, looks at photographs Dec. 22. “We prepare ministry. We prepare and trucking companies with St. Augustine Home for the Aged resident Beatrice Spurgeon of Indianapolis. Sister Margaret said her the residents for heaven. the residents for to ask them to support habit “opens doors” that otherwise would not be accessible in her ministry. We prepare them to the Little Sisters’ meet their Maker, and heaven.’ ministry by donating Every few years, each sister receives a After graduating from high school, she it’s a great grace to do —Sr. Margaret Banar, food, money and other new assignment, she said, and she has joined the Little Sisters of the Poor more that.” supplies. She also gotten to know sisters and residents at many than 30 years ago and was a postulant then She said the L.S.P. discusses the sisters’ homes throughout the U.S. a novice for two years before deciding to residents, staff mission during Mass “That’s a grace,” she said of each discern her future. She worked at a hospital members, volunteers, appeals at parishes in the ministry assignment, “because it’s for a year as a licensed practical nurse benefactors, friends and relatives of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and Diocese of abandonment to God’s Providence.” before rejoining the order. residents all contribute to the family Lafayette. When Hurricane Katrina decimated the “I still had that feeling of a calling atmosphere at the home. “My job is to keep in touch with people Gulf Coast in August 2005, the mother from God,” she recalled, “and I didn’t “We are extremely grateful to all the in the business world … to make our provincial in Baltimore asked her and want to spend a lot of time out of the people who support our ministry,” ministry known and make it possible for several sisters from other homes to help care convent if that’s where God wanted me Sister Margaret said. “Without their them to be part of our mission,” she said. for displaced residents of their New Orleans to be.” support—whether it’s financial, volunteer “As I tell people during church collections, home who were evacuated to safe quarters A religious vocation is a calling from or prayers—we could not fulfill our not everybody can be a Little Sister of the at a nursing home in Baton Rouge, La., God, she said, but it is difficult for people mission as Little Sisters of the Poor. We’re Poor, but by their donations or volunteer hours before the storm. She served in to hear God’s call today because of all the a team and we all need one another. That’s work they can be a part of the team— Louisiana for about three weeks. noise and distractions of popular culture. how our foundress, Blessed Jeanne Jugan, God’s team—with the Little Sisters.” The Little Sisters have a great devotion “To hear this call from God, you have wanted it to be—a family where the sisters The congregation was founded by to God, Jesus, Mary and St. Joseph, who is to listen,” Sister Margaret said. “I think are dedicated to caring for the elderly.” Blessed Jeanne Jugan in 1839 in St. Servan, their patron saint and special intercessor for today it’s very difficult for young or Sister Margaret completed coursework France. The Little Sisters operate 32 homes prayer requests. They trust that God will middle-aged persons to listen to God as a licensed practical nurse, earned a in the U.S. and 205 homes in 31 countries provide for the residents’ needs each day, because of the noise and constant bachelor’s degree in special studies in throughout the world. and do not have endowments. interruptions in our culture and the fear of A native of Detroit and the second oldest being in silence. I think many people of five siblings, Sister Margaret felt called to today turn the radio or TV on the minute religious life while attending the former they get home—even if it’s just for Rosary High School and volunteering at the company—so it’s very difficult for God to We Pray for Vocations Little Sisters’ home there. She enjoyed talk to you if you’re always listening to helping the elderly. other things. I think that might be a “I think the roots of my vocation came deterrent to a person really thinking early in my life,” Sister Margaret said. “I about, ‘Is God calling me to a dedicated always kind of thought I felt called to life?’ religious life or some other dedicated life of “I think faith is an atmosphere you service. I always felt—although I have a have to live in every day,” she said. “It’s great respect for marriage and children— trusting in God. I think one of the most that my heart was larger than to have just a important things about my life as a family with several children. I felt that I had Little Sister of the Poor, as a religious, is a universal love for many people. So that the witness value. My habit is a sign, a and my love for God were probably the symbol, a witness, that I have dedicated seeds of my vocation.” my life to serving God and people.” †

for her and her family and the love he WADELTON gives to those in need in Central America. continued from page 14 “With our family, he’ll call and go out to dinner with one cousin and then the usual gift exchange this past Christmas. next cousin. He makes a lot of personal The family’s children and teenagers time for every single person,” she said. instead bought gifts for the children living “And then when he’s down there, it’s the at Pedro Atala. Wadelton and five family same thing. He’s always the first to help. Won’t You Pray With Us? members then went to Honduras to He’s just really generous with everything deliver the gifts and do mission work. he has, and in reaching out and taking the His niece, Kellie Moore, a member of extra step.” St. Pius X Parish and a senior at North Father Todd Goodson had a chance to Central High School, both in Indianapolis, observe Wadelton last summer when the traveled to Honduras with him in 2006. seminarian ministered at St. Ambrose The Knights of Columbus She sees a connection between his love Parish in Seymour and Our Lady of Providence Parish in are in solidarity with Brownstown, where Father Goodson serves as pastor. He thinks Wadelton will

Photo by Sean Gallagher Photo by be a “tremendous asset” to Pope Benedict XVI the archdiocese in large part because of the way that he approaches caring Our bishops, and our priests for people, an approach whose roots go back to the early years of his ¦ childhood. “Chris wants to minister to people, and the more the Norman Stoffel – State Deputy better,” Father Goodson Seminarian Chris Wadelton collects used computer parts on said. “It’s a part of who he Fr. Ron Rieder, O.F.M. Cap. – State Chaplain Oct. 20 in a parking lot at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in is. Chris likes to bring the Indianapolis, where he is a member. Wadelton helped organize the Gospel to people. He likes collection of the parts, which were to be transported to Honduras to be the presence of Christ and used in a vocational school. to people.” † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Religious Vocations Supplement Page 19 Sisters of Providence use biomass energy to care for the Earth

By Dave Cox by planting seeds, pulling Special to The Criterion out weeds and harvesting crops. Submitted photo SAINT MARY-OF-THE-WOODS— Today, those roots of St. Theodora Guérin, foundress of the organic gardening and Sisters of crop control thrive in the Providence of congregation through the Saint Mary-of- White Violet Center for the-Woods, came Eco-Justice and ministries from France to a that maintain a commitment dense forest in to being creative re-users of western Indiana natural resources and in 1840 to sow protectors of the Earth’s the seeds of hope: gifts. hope that a new Sister Dana Augustin, congregation of previously a member of women religious St. Mary Parish in could flourish, Richmond, is involved in a Sr. Dana Augustin, S.P. hope that the complementary ministry that, word of God in some ways, brings full could be spread among pioneers, hope circle the practice of reusing that children could be educated. materials for new benefit. In 1854, in a letter to another Sister of She serves as supervisor Providence, she wrote, “Well, my of Biomass Processing at daughter, ours is a preparation for the Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. generation that will succeed us, and Just as Mother Theodore eminent good will be done this way by and her sisters had to rely on us. You may not live to see it, but you fallen trees, limbs and other will have sown the seed, and your Sisters materials to burn for heat, so will come to reap what will have been will today’s sisters when the Providence Sister Dana Augustin stands next to natural materials that will soon be re-used in a biomass energy process sown.” biomass energy process is to provide heat for her congregation’s motherhouse at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Many generations of St. Theodora’s soon fully operational. daughters have continued to sow the Biomass energy uses all plant and before she joined the congregation. “Our recycling program is growing a seeds of hope through a variety of plant-derived materials, such as wood “Recycling is something we had lot. I see this entire campus as a shrine ministries in devotion to works of love, and other forest residues, grasses, husks always done in my family. I have always to Mother Theodore, but also as a model mercy and justice in service among and straw from crops, and some had some consciousness of doing things of sustainability where we try to use all God’s people. construction debris. The emission in an eco-friendly way,” she said. of our materials by recycling as much as Indeed, one of the congregation’s most standards are the same as for natural gas. Her awareness increased as she we can,” Sister Dana said. prominent ministries today grew from The system will provide heat and progressed through herinitial formation “As far as moving in a direction for a roots literally planted by St. Theodora. electrical energy at significant, long-term with the Sisters of Providence. sustainable Earth, we have to work with She and other founding sisters cost savings. “The eco-justice piece comes up a lot industry. We have to say, ‘There are worked hard to maintain their version of Perhaps St. Theodora never envisioned during formation. It’s part of the different ways you can operate that are organic gardens, which provided food for this opportunity for the sisters of this postulancy training. It is part of our study more beneficial for you and for our the sisters. Mother Theodore, often in generation, but for Sister Dana, it is a of spirituality during environment. Here frail health, would work in the gardens natural progression from her lifestyle our canonical are some things you novitiate,” she said. ‘I see this entire campus might want to look Here are examples as a shrine to Mother at.’ I would hope the of how the Sisters of Theodore, but also as a Sisters of Providence Providence biomass could be a model for project is reusing model of sustainability that kind of work,” materials: where we try to use all of she added. Drawing by Sr. Ruth Johnson, S.P. Sr. by Drawing • Pallets, crates and our materials by And Sister Dana other materials from believes opportunities manufacturing recycling as much as abound for women in companies are being we can.’ all eco-justice gathered to use for endeavors. fuel. “There are many • Charred wood —Sr. Dana Augustin, S.P. needs to be met. from a grocery store What the Sisters of fire is being sawed. Larger pieces are Providence have done for me through the being planed and used for lumber. years is open my eyes to opportunities in Smaller pieces are being used for cabi- all kinds of places to work for justice. I netry and trim at two new hermitage think we’re going through a change right houses being built with mostly recycled now in our world and I want to be part of materials. that change,” Sister Dana said. • Mineral oil is being accepted from Thus, the seeds and renewable energy manufacturers, cleaned and resold to them sowed by St. Theodora through her to reduce dumping the oil into the ground. leadership and in her gardens during the • Cooking oil is being collected and congregation’s foundation years continue In this drawing by Providence Sister Ruth Johnson, St. Theodora Guérin stands next to a garden. The transformed into biodiesel fuel where it to harvest fruit for today’s Sisters of foundress of the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods often worked in her congregation’s can be used without any kind of alteration Providence who are sowing their own garden. The Sisters of Providence are continuing to carry on her tradition of caring for the Earth by to a standard diesel engine. seeds for the future. † re-using natural materials in biomass energy. What the catechism says about vocations FARIS MAILING By Sean Gallagher priests in the celebration of the divine is none other than that of Christ. The mysteries, above all the Eucharist, in exercise of this authority must Priests, deacons, and men and the distribution of Holy Communion, therefore be measured against the INCORPORATED women religious have been an integral in assisting at and blessing marriages, model of Christ, who by love made Introducing Our Giant Mail Box To Handle part of the Church throughout its in the proclamation of the Gospel himself the least and the servant of all. The Growing Needs Of Your Business history and continue to be so today. and preaching, in presiding over ‘The Lord said clearly that concern for • Inkjet Addressing The Catechism of the Catholic funerals, and in dedicating his flock was proof of love for him” Automatic inserting Church teaches that these vocations are themselves to the various ministries (#1551, quoting Lumen Gentium and ultimately rooted in Christ and are an of charity” (#1570). St. John Chrysostom). 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It depends entirely on can both show forth Christ and cannot be removed and which Christ and on his unique priesthood; it acknowledge herself to be the Savior’s Analysis of mailing requirements configures them to Christ, who made has been instituted for the good of men bride. Religious life in its various himself the ‘deacon’ or servant of all. and the communion of the Church. forms is called to signify the very “Among other tasks, it is the task “The sacrament of Holy Orders charity of God in the language of 317-246-3315 of deacons to assist the bishop and communicates a ‘sacred power’ which our time” (#926). † 5517 W. Minnesota St., Indianapolis Page 20 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Deacon candidate travels long road to ordination By Sean Gallagher St. Patrick’s parishioners. In his native Puerto Rico, deacon “I remember candidate Emilio Ferrer-Soto grew up going back to the worshipping at a church named after taxi and the bill Sean Gallagher Photos by St. Patrick that had been built by his was $84,” Emilio grandfather. said with a laugh. After entering the U.S. Army in 1971, It wasn’t long he went far away from his Caribbean before he got home, serving for periods in Europe, involved at his Central America and South America. new parish. After retiring from the military, “I remember Emilio’s travels eventually brought him telling to New York in 1999 where he began Father Tom, ‘I working for the Social Security want a job,’ ” Administration. Emilio said. Near the end of that year, he was He eventually asked to work in Indianapolis as a became a member bilingual claims representative. of the parish Emilio had never set foot in the city council and before, and didn’t know where to go for served as a lector. Mass celebrated in Spanish, his native A few years language. later, Emilio told “I called a taxi and told the taxi his wife, Maria driver to take me to a Spanish-speaking Torres-Gonzalez, church,” he said. that, if he were Where did he end up? At a church back in named after St. Patrick, a reminder of Puerto Rico, he the one he worshipped at as a boy back would seek to Deacon candidate Emilio Ferrer-Soto, who works for the Social Security Administration, gives a presentation about Social Security in Puerto Rico. become a to a group of people who will soon become U.S. citizens during a naturalization ceremony held on Dec. 6 at the U.S. Federal When he got there, he asked the taxi permanent deacon. Courthouse in Indianapolis. Ferrer-Soto has found opportunities in his work to direct Hispanic Catholics in the Indianapolis area to driver to wait for him. Just a few St. Patrick Parish—where he is a member—and the services it can offer them. Franciscan Father Tom Fox weeks later, celebrated the Mass and, at the end of Father Tom approached Emilio and told him The deacon formation program balance all these activities in a way that the liturgy, asked if there were any that the archdiocese was going to begin its requires several hours a week. But, in he can remain a good husband and newcomers. first deacon formation program and that he addition to that, Emilio is also pursuing father.” Emilio introduced himself and, would be a good candidate for it. an online master’s degree in religious Once he is ordained, Emilio hopes to afterward, chatted with some of “I couldn’t speak,” Emilio said. “And education through Felician College in have a positive impact on Hispanic Maria was looking at me. I told him that I New Jersey. Catholics in the archdiocese. He is needed to speak to Maria. Maria told him, He and his wife are also involved in already doing that through work when ‘Father, two weeks ago, he told me that he the Third Order Franciscans. Hispanics come to the Social Security wanted to be a deacon.’ ” To top it off, Ferrer-Soto is striving to office for assistance. The rest, as they say, is history. be a good husband, father and “I’m always asking them if they go to Ferrer-Soto applied to the deacon Social Security employee. church,” he said. “I try to guide them to formation program and was accepted. Franciscan Father St. Patrick, and there I If all goes according to plan, he and Arturo Ocampo, pastor offer the services of 24 other men will be ordained to the of St. Patrick Parish, is ‘You have to humble the St. Vincent de Paul diaconate on June 28 at SS. Peter and Paul amazed by Emilio’s yourself every day. You Society. A lot of these Cathedral in Indianapolis. They will be the balancing act. have to pick up your people are in need.” first group of men ordained as permanent “Emilio is really As men who work deacons in the history of the Archdiocese disciplined and cross and carry it in the marketplace and of Indianapolis. dedicated,” every day. That’s the who are, in a sense, Emilio’s journey to that historic day Father Arturo said. “He embedded among the began under the patronage of St. Patrick has a great love for way that I see laity, permanent long ago and far away in Puerto Rico. It ministry and for the portraying Jesus.’ deacons are in a has continued under that same saint’s Church.” unique position. By care in Indianapolis. Emilio credited —Deacon candidate virtue of their “I saw that connection as [a sign of] Maria’s presence in his Emilio Ferrer-Soto ordination, they are a my calling,” Ferrer-Soto said. life as making a big special sign of Christ Another confirmation of his calling difference through the years of his and can have a positive influence in ways to the diaconate has come over the formation. that aren’t ordinarily available to priests four years of his formation in his ability “She’s been with me along every step of and bishops. to successfully balance a growing the path,” said Emilio. “I don’t know if I For Emilio, that opportunity is a call number of commitments. would have been able to do it without Maria. to show Christ to others through Emilio and Maria are involved in the She is the power behind me.” humility. Deacon candidate Emilio Ferrer-Soto speaks with St. Vincent de Paul Society and assist in Maria, however, looks even deeper for “You have to humble yourself every Ana Maria Magana, a native of Guadalajara, Mexico, marriage preparation at St. Patrick the strength that has helped her and day. You have to pick up your cross and on Dec. 6 in the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Indian- Parish. He has ministered in the parish’s Emilio along the path to ordination. carry it every day,” he said. “That’s the apolis just prior to a naturalization ceremony at which Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, “I think that the balance of all my way that I see portraying Jesus. Magana became a U.S. citizen. Ferrer-Soto was in made hospital visits and Communion involvement in Emilio’s formation is “It’s going to be in your job, in your attendance to answer questions about the calls, and helped lead people through centered in Jesus as the center of our family, through the parishioners. 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She raised the question on death. One Sunday morning, I got a call at Submitted photo who are parish life coordinators “Family Night” at the parish, hoping to a quarter to seven. Someone was dying in in the archdiocese pose for a get the parents and the children to share Community Hospital East in Indianapolis. photo at their congregation’s their answers about “What are you I never got dressed so fast. I was there motherhouse in Oldenburg. grateful for?” when they made the decision to take her Sister Margie Niemer, front row, Franciscan Sister Patty Campbell off the life support. Just to be there with left, leads St. Peter Parish in smiled as she listened to one child say them was important to them.” Franklin County. Sister Shirley “love,” another mention “our health,” and While the presence of a parish life Gerth, front row, right, leads a third child proclaim “each other.” coordinator makes a difference to the St. Anne Parish in New Castle Considering the question herself, faithful, parish life coordinators also rely and St. Rose Parish in Sister Patty mentioned the special heavily on the lay members of the parish. Knightstown. Sister Christine relationship she has with the members of “In today’s Church, the laity takes a lot Ernstes, back row, left, leads St. Mary-of-the-Rock Parish in Franklin more responsibility to get things done,” Immaculate Conception Parish County, where she serves as the parish life says Sister Margie Niemer, the parish life in Millhousen and St. Denis coordinator. coordinator at St. Peter Parish in Franklin Parish in Jennings County. “They’re like a second family to me,” County. “It’s not all up to me to Sister Patty Campbell, back row, says Sister Patty, who is 81. “They’re very coordinate or lead. The lay people step right, leads St. Mary-of-the-Rock accepting. They accept me like I am.” right up and volunteer for committees. Parish in Franklin County. While the role of a parish life The challenge of this particular job is coordinator is basically to help parishes learning to be organized enough so you Sister Shirley, who is now the parish life or just for men or just for those in stay open, become more active and grow divide your time wisely. In the smaller coordinator of St. Anne Parish in New religious life,” she says. “This is a in the faith—during a time of a limited parishes, you have to be careful you don’t Castle and St. Rose Parish in Knightstown. ministry of leadership and service that is number of priests—the bond that forms call on the same people all the time.” “This lets me be involved in the lives of open to all Catholics who have the desire between coordinators and their parishes Sister Margie pauses and adds, “This is parishioners in a more personal way than I to do what is necessary to develop the often becomes a deep one. the ministry I waited for all my life. I was ever had before. People reflect many qualifications that are desired.” Just ask Sister Patty and three other a teacher for 25 years and that was nice. different qualities of God to me. I see the There’s one qualification that these Franciscan sisters in the archdiocese who This is where I want to be. I’m glad the love of God, the compassion of God, the four sisters consider essential. serve as parish life coordinators. archdiocese has a position like this. Not gentleness of God.” “I feel the purpose of my entire All of them are members of the every diocese does.” She’s also seen the pain a parish ministry is to call others to Christ,” says Congregation of the Sisters of the Third Sister Shirley Gerth has fulfilled that sometimes has to face together. In April, Sister Margie. “As I organize spiritual, Order of St. Francis, which is based in key role at parishes in the archdiocese an arson fire destroyed St. Anne Church. educational and social events, I constantly Oldenburg. since 1991. “As a parish, we’re learning we’re more ask myself: To what segment of the parish “Part of what I enjoy about it is you Sister Shirley served as the parish life than a building,” Sister Shirley says. “We will this appeal? Will people appreciate touch every aspect of people’s lives— coordinator for St. Anne Parish in are the body of Christ.” themselves, their neighbors and their God baptism, first Communion, confirmation, Hamburg, St. John the Evangelist Parish Sister Margie shares that belief. She more after participating in this?” graduation, the new life of a married in Enochsburg and St. Maurice Parish in believes people should also have that For Sister Patty, all the questions from couple,” says Sister Christine Ernstes, the St. Maurice from 1991-95. approach toward becoming parish life her 81 years of life lead her to one parish life coordinator of Immaculate “The Church is blessed with the gifts coordinators. answer: “Calling others to Christ is the Conception Parish in Millhousen and that both men and women can bring,” says “This is not a ministry just for women mission of every Christian.” †

figuring out who they are and their “It’s one thing to say you’ll accept important for young people to see.” BENEDICTINE relationship with God. It’s not just, someone ‘just the way they are, right Sometimes, the college students even ask continued from page 14 ‘What is their major?’ where they are,’ ” her about the choice she has made for her It becomes larger: How Cartwright notes. “It’s life, and whether she’s happy about it. many more because of all the sisters. I am I going to live my ‘One of the gifts I can another thing to really “I tell them about the joy I have in the made my final vows in 1995.” life? What values are give to students as a do it. Jennifer does it community here,” Sister Jennifer says. She felt called again by God when a important to me? What Benedictine sister is a with a listening heart. “That’s an important part of living out position opened in 1998 as the director of does it mean to be a She points them back our Christian vocation—that we have an spirituality for the Benedict Inn Retreat Christian in today’s sense of commitment.’ to the Gospel witness inner joy. For me, that joy is living in and Conference Center in Beech Grove. world? Those are tough of Jesus, the disciples community with other sisters who are During the next two years, she lived at questions. I feel called —Sr. Jennifer Mechtild and Mary.” seeking God in the same way I am. We Our Lady of Grace Monastery and fell in to be part of that Horner, O.S.B. The daughter who can support each other on the journey. love with the community of religious journey with them.” learned to live a life of “Because I made the commitment I sisters there. She asked to transfer her She is a great faith from watching her have, it allows me to serve God’s Church. vows to Our Lady of Grace Monastery. traveling partner in that journey with parents now provides her own example. That’s the call of every Christian—to She also served as the parish life young people, says her boss, “One of the gifts I can give to students learn how to serve.” † coordinator at St. Paul the Apostle Parish Michael Cartwright, the dean of as a Benedictine sister is a in Greencastle before joining the staff at ecumenical and interfaith programs at the sense of commitment,” the University of Indianapolis in 2003. University of Indianapolis. Sister Jennifer says. “A lot She’s found her home in helping In working with students from different of people haven’t seen college students find their place in the faith backgrounds, Sister Jennifer offers commitment lived out We’ve been world. an approach that combines down-to-earth fully. To realize one can “College is such an important time in advice with a gracious respect for people, live out their life in God saying our their lives,” Sister Jennifer says. “They’re Cartwright says. and live that visibly is prayers for Superior sees bright future for religious vocations 150 years. TOLEDO, Ohio (CNS)—The families, increased opportunities for can advocate for women and superior general of one of the largest women and a more empowered laity children in need throughout the congregations as factors that have contributed to the world. of vowed decline in religious vocations around Sister Mary Sujita said the sisters women the world. continually challenge themselves to religious in Shrinking membership has forced see what more God is asking. the world the sisters to shift from thinking in “I like that search and quest for believes terms of big institutions to consider more,” she said. “I always call it the religious life new ways to be present in the holy restlessness inside.” is changing, Church. The Sisters of Notre Dame serve but says she “It’s not only a matter of [the] under a variety of conditions in has number of sisters, it’s not a matter of different countries, but Sister Mary “absolutely doing something we always did, but Sujita says their mission remains the Sr. Mary Sujita no fear” that it is a matter of giving our energy same: to be Christ to the world Kallupurakkathu, S.N.D. it will die out. where we are needed the most,” said today. “The vocations will continue to Sister Mary Sujita. “The heart of the mission is to see Priestly ministry rests on a solid come, that I believe—because it’s “God doesn’t need huge the individual and the society foundation of prayer. For a century God’s work. People are always numbers,” she added. “God needs through the eyes of Jesus, and to and a half, diocesan seminarians have there to respond to that, all through people with the hearts to respond.” give a response that is fitting,” she learned from Saint Meinrad’s stable history,” said Notre Dame Sister Across the international congre- said. Mary Sujita Kallupurakkathu, a gation, the superior general has Sisters in the United States have community, in a rich environment of native of Kerala, India, who has led observed a growing desire to reach made concrete steps to be with those Benedictine values that prepares men the nearly 2,400 Sisters of Notre out to the poor, especially women, in people living on the margins of for priesthood. We prepare priests not Dame in 15 countries since 1998. the fields of education, health care society, she said. just for the parish, but for life. “But we have to change our and social services. “We cannot change the world, pattern of thinking,” she added. “God The congregation has applied for but there is something beautiful that For information, write: Director of Enrollment, Saint Meinrad is making something new.” nongovernmental organization status we can contribute to that School of Theology, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad, IN 47577 or call Sister Mary Sujita cited smaller at the United Nations so the sisters transformation,” she added. † (800) 634-6723, www.saintmeinrad.edu Page 22 Religious Vocations Supplement The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

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For more information about Priestly Vocations, contact the Office of Priestly and Religious Vocations at: P.O.Box1410,Indianapolis,IN46206 317-236-1490 • www.archindy.org A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2007 by Catholic News FaithAlive! Service. Traditional Latin Mass enriches faith and cultur e By Fr. Robert L. Kinast extraordinary forms of the Mass. who adhere to the The ordinary form is the missal of earlier liturgical On July 7, 2007, Pope Benedict XVI 1970, promulgated by Pope Paul VI tradition.” issued an apostolic letter giving after the Second Vatican Council. Such groups may World Catholic New permission directly to priests to This is the form of Mass that most request the extra - celebrate Mass according to the Catholics are familiar with. It is the ordinary form and Roman Missal published by Blessed norm for celebrating Mass everywhere pastors should Pope John XXIII in 1962. in the world. respond for the CNS photo/Karen Callaway, CNS photo/Karen Callaway, This Mass is often referred to as the It is not to be replaced on a regular or sake of their traditional Latin Mass because it is permanent basis by the missal of 1962, spiritual welfare. celebrated according to the missal and even when the latter is used there Celebrating promulgated by Pope Pius V after the should be specific pastoral reasons for Mass in the extra - Council of Trent, which served as the doing so. ordinary form is not base for the 1962 missal. When these conditions are met, the intended, therefore, While Pope Benedict’s action was not 1962 missal may be used as an to satisfy the unexpected, it nonetheless raised extraordinary expression of the Church’s curiosity of a new questions about why he took this step. liturgy. generation, and it Based on a reading of his letter, The term “extraordinary” should be certainly should not three reasons stand out. taken literally. The 1962 form of the be a rallying point First of all, for some time there had Mass is extra-ordinary in the sense that for competing been a significant number of requests it is outside of or different from the preferences or and “insistent prayers” from groups of ordinary way that Mass is celebrated. It opposing attitudes the faithful for greater use of the is an exception, a special instance. It is among members of 1962 missal. not extraordinary in the sense that it is the same parish or Pope John Paul II had given serious superior, more highly valued or more diocese. consideration to these requests. beneficial than the ordinary form. In fact, the pope Pope Benedict writes that “no small As the pope makes clear, these are makes clear that the numbers of faithful adhered and two usages of the one Roman rite. use of the continue to adhere with great love and The conditions for using the traditional Latin affection to the earlier liturgical forms.” 1962 form lead to the second factor Mass must Pope John Paul II had already given motivating the pope’s decision. harmonize with the permission for this form of celebration, People whose spiritual life was general pastoral and Pope Benedict extended it by nurtured by the previous rite may not care of the parish. allowing priests who are qualified to experience the same effect from the It should not be a offer the traditional Latin Mass to current rite. Perhaps they have not been cause of division, respond to requests for it without first adequately instructed about the ordinary but a source of getting the approval of their bishop. form of Mass or perhaps their culture diversity, But why is permission needed since makes it difficult for them to participate recognizing the the missal of 1962 was never withdrawn in certain ways that the 1970 missal special needs of Father Anthony Brankin, the pastor, center, prays with two other priests or abrogated and is still a valid form of calls for during Mass. certain people and during a traditional Latin Mass celebrated at St. Odilo Church in Berwyn, Ill. the Mass? Whatever the reasons, the pope’s responding to Pope Benedict XVI’s permission to use the 1962 Roman Missal is intended The answer lies in the pope’s permission to use the 1962 missal is them. for “a stable group of faithful who adhere to the earlier liturgical tradition.” distinction between the ordinary and intended for “a stable group of faithful A third factor influencing the pope’s letter is the pope Church unity does not require himself. uniformity. There is more than one way Worship begins with hospitality As a scholar and traditionalist, he to celebrate our common faith. Different values the role which the extraordinary usages reflect the multifaceted quality By Carole Norris Greene Mass or the Lord’s Supper ... Christ is form of Mass played from the time of of the faith. really present to [and in] the assembly the Protestant Reformation to the Finally, by encouraging groups of Whether you prefer the Mass in Latin gathered in his name; he is present in the modern, pre-Vatican II era. It is an lay faithful to request the extraordinary or in your own vernacular language, it is person of the minister, in his own Word, important and irreplaceable part of form of Mass, this document implicitly good to remember that ritual must never and indeed substantially and permanently Catholic history, especially in Europe— acknowledges the right of the laity to take the place of relationship. under the eucharistic elements.” one of the pope’s chief concerns. make their spiritual needs known and to The Church gives us rituals to foster Each of these four ways in which His appreciation for this part of take the initiative with regard to them as our relationship with Christ, but they Christ reveals his presence demands a Catholic history and his decision to Vatican II affirmed in the Constitution must not become so paramount that response of reverence from us, one that make it more available to the faithful on the Church (“Lumen Gentium”), #37. they distract from continually prompts us to welcome our Lord into who desire it reminds everyone that the The pope intends his action to have strengthening an intimate relationship our community and into our lives. Catholic Church has a long tradition. the same effect as earlier liturgical with our Savior. “This is the true hospitality needed,” The pope doesn’t want this form of reforms, namely to enrich both the faith Catholic tradition speaks of four a liturgist said, “whenever the Church Mass with its particular qualities and and culture of many people and be a presences of Christ during Mass that are gathers for worship.” emphases to be forgotten, but rather spur to their spiritual life. not distinct but which build on each other. given “due honor for its venerable and The Church’s General Instruction of (Carole Norris Greene is associate ancient usage.” (Father Robert L. Kinast is a pastoral the Roman Missal puts it this way: “At editor of Faith Alive!) † The pope’s decision also affirms that theologian in Prairie Village, Kan.) † Discussion Point God is love and light in our lives This Week’s Question He’s everything and everywhere. We can’t know, but hope, [that] we’ll find out some day.” (Loraine Collins, How would you respond if someone asked you what Pottstown, Pa.) God is like? “He’s my best friend in good times and in bad. He’s “Pretty wonderful, powerful, awesome. Nothing can someone to rely on. Without him, I wouldn’t be who I explain [exactly] what God is like because we’re am.” (Anne Loewen, Kenosha, Wis.) looking at him like [we would look at] a human being.” (Joe Collins, Lebanon, Tenn.) Lend Us Your Voice “To me, God is love and light. I think of him as being a loving father who loves us unconditionally, like a An upcoming edition asks: What is your favorite good parent would do.” (Mary Beth Rauser, Shelton, psalm? What does it express for you? Conn.) To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to “He’s like the sun, moon, stars, beautiful weather and [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at all the good things in life all together, all the time. 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS photo/Crosiers Page 24 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Biblical women: Jezebel, Ahab’s wicked wife Christina Capecchi Keep your year (Twenty-second in a series) Elijah put his bull on an altar and had them of Naboth. Furthermore, he predicted, dogs pour water over it until water lapped around would devour Jezebel. Later, the prophet wide open to God Jezebel was evil. (Her story is told from the altar. He called on God, and the Lord’s Elisha, who succeeded Elijah, repeated the 1 Kgs 16:31 through 2 Kgs 9:37.) fire came down and consumed the holocaust, prediction. Somewhere along the line, optimism got a The daughter of the wood, stones and water. Then Elijah had the Three years later, King Ahab of Israel and bad rap. It was linked to Pollyanna, and it king of Sidon, modern crowd seize the 450 prophets of Baal and he King Jehoshaphat of Judah went to war never escaped the Lebanon, she was the slit their throats. against Aram, modern Syria. A lucky arrow association. Over time, wife of Ahab, king of After Ahab reported to Jezebel what had struck Ahab between the joints of his it morphed into a the northern kingdom of happened, she sent a messenger to Elijah breastplate, and he died, his blood flowing to synonym for naiveté and Israel, which included telling him that she would kill him. Elijah the bottom of his chariot. After they returned ignorance. Samaria and Galilee. fled to the kingdom of Judah. to Samaria and the chariot was washed, dogs Meanwhile, cynicism She brought the worship Sometime later, while Ahab and Jezebel licked up his blood. was married to the of Baal and Asherah to were in their palace at Jezreel, Ahab tried to Ahaziah, Ahab’s and Jezebel’s son, Simpsons and hence, it Israel, and enticed Ahab buy the vineyard of his neighbor, Naboth. succeeded Ahab, but he ruled Israel for only became cool. To be to build a temple to Naboth refused to sell it. Jezebel wrote two years. He was succeeded by his brother, cynical is to be savvy Baal. She murdered Israel’s prophets. Ahab’s letters to the elders and nobles in Jezreel Joram, who reigned for 12 years. He was and witty, a wisecracking pessimist, nobody’s vizier, Obadiah, managed to save 100 of telling them to get two scoundrels to accuse murdered by Jehu, chosen by God to return fool. them by hiding them in two caves. Naboth of having cursed God and king. Israel to worship of the true God. Jehu rode American public life, with its steady string Elijah was Jezebel’s mortal enemy. He They obeyed, led Naboth out of the city and into Jezreel, where Jezebel put on makeup of scandals, molds this cynical disposition. confronted Ahab and told him to bring the stoned him to death. and fixed her hair. When Jehu saw Jezebel at We, the onlookers, learn to expect the worst. 450 prophets of Baal and the 400 prophets When Jezebel learned that Naboth was an upstairs window, he sent eunuchs to throw If a politician is peaking in the polls, we wait of Asherah to Mount Carmel. He told them dead, she told Ahab to go take possession of her down. They did, and her blood spurted for the other shoe to drop. “He’ll butcher the to place a bull on an altar and call upon Baal the vineyard. However, he met Elijah while against the wall and against the horses. debate,” we predict. “A skeleton will come to send down fire to burn it. he was on his way. Elijah told Ahab that Hours later, when Jehu sent orders to have out of her closet.” The prophets prayed, danced and cut God would punish him by having dogs lick Jezebel buried, the attendants discovered that We’re equally cynical of actors and themselves while Elijah taunted them. Then up his blood where they licked up the blood dogs had devoured her. † athletes. “She’ll be back in rehab,” we say. “I wonder how the Vikings will blow this lead.” Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes And we apply this thinking to our personal lives, making cynical remarks to provoke chuckles and to prepare ourselves: low Onward and upward through trying times expectations make for minimal disappointment. With apologies to patriotic sentiment, stress and lose their enthusiasm for the tasks still in recent memory. When we fall into this mode of the following quote seems appropriate to they have set for themselves. They skip a Christmas beats human resolutions every thinking, we don’t fret; cynicism seems to consider at this time workout or sneak a few cookies, shove the time as the answer to all that be a choice like any other. Are you a Coke of year as well: “These remaining clutter into a storage room or put accumulated guilt. It’s The Way we can or a Pepsi person? A glass half-empty or a are the times that try War and Peace on a higher shelf. This is actually improve ourselves and our lives, glass half-full? men’s souls.” where the “trying times” part comes in. namely by trusting in the grace of God But that cliché strips outlook of its Women’s, too. Or, for It’s human nature to lose heart when we as we try to do God’s will. Christ’s spiritual essence. Optimism is not a casual that matter, bodies of are attempting something outside of our coming brings not only the hope of preference; it is a belief in an infinitely either sex. usual comfortable routine or something we redemption, but also the authority to do generous Lord who repeatedly fills the cup That’s because this think is hard or distasteful. So it’s easy for what we know is good and right. until it overflows. is the time of year—a us to rationalize our way out of the Unfortunately, we live in a material This idea was a cornerstone of the new year—when we New Year’s resolutions, even if that adds a world managed by humans who are prone preaching and writing of St. Francis de Sales, take stock and try to bit to our total guilt tally. to human error. We are forced to suffer war, a 17th-century French bishop. He identified it reform, lose weight, get fit, work harder, be We figure we’ll finish this next month, disease, cruelty and many other sorrows as a virtue and gave it a wonderful name: nicer or whatever. Somehow, Jan. 1 of any we’ll wait until better weather or we’ll get caused mainly by mistaken human choices. joyful optimism. year impels most of us to plan strategies for through Grandma’s birthday and next Even when we “play by the rules,” we may St. Francis didn’t lead a charmed life. He dealing with our accumulated guilt. week’s houseguests before continuing the experience grief or pain or desperation. If knew suffering and injustice. But he also People use different means to achieve plan. And soon, sometimes sooner than some hardship doesn’t enter our lives, we knew the greater power of God’s redeeming their goals. Some join gyms or go on diets. later, we’re back in the groove of snapping are probably not really living. love and the greater possibility of God’s Some attack the cleaning of closets, at people or snarfing down Big Macs every But, if we remember God’s promises in inspiring hope. And he worked to help others drawers or garages. Some even mount day. We are spending too much time on the Christ, we know that we can trust the know it. self-improvement agendas to read the computer and too little time listening to impulses for justice and goodness which we When his friend, St. Jane de Chantal, was classics, learn a second language or, when Junior when he gets home from school. As all have. These may conflict with selfish recovering from illness, he wrote her an really desperate, consult a plastic surgeon. usual. “needs” and desires, some fostered by false encouraging letter: “Keep your heart, my dear Some folks wind up feeling better about Well, maybe we should remember cultural values, but when they do we will Daughter, wide open before God; always go themselves. Others only make themselves Christmas, that wonderful holy day we just have the strength of Christmas to deny joyously in his presence. He loves us, he more miserable while upsetting everyone celebrated. Not that we should remember them. Happy New Year, indeed. cherishes us, he is all ours, this sweet Jesus.” around them. As in, if Mama ain’t happy, the time of gifts and eggnog and partying, Francis and Jane founded a school ain’t nobody happy. but rather the Christmas of Christ entering (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the called the Institute of the Visitation of the So, a couple of months into the new our world as a redemptive gift from our Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular Blessed Virgin. Across the ocean and year, many people seem to tire of all this loving God. After all, The Twelve Days are columnist for The Criterion.) † centuries later, Visitation students still learn about joyful optimism. It blossoms Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister in various ways. Take Mary Engelbreit, who attended Visitation Academy in St. Louis. If you don’t How does faith play a role in our lives? recognize her name, you’ve seen her greeting cards with their signature checks and cherries. Shortly after freelance writer Beth Dotson for teens, she thought, “What could be more Many, of course, are born into the faith. Joyful optimism is infused in her illustrations. Brown, a native of Lawrenceburg, received affirming and uplifting while going through Some leave and return, sometimes because Engelbreit’s art has been given a label that an artist-in-residence grant from the chemotherapy than to hear stories people of life-changing experiences. Some are makes her bristle: cute. The half-compliment Kentucky Foundation for Women so she had to tell about their faith?” converts. Each has a story. seems to insinuate, “What an idealistic little could write a fiction She finished intensive chemotherapy Dotson Brown is not only a world you draw.” book, she received an two years ago this month then moved freelancer, but an editor. Her work Her response: “What’s wrong with that? e-mail from a into radiation therapy while finishing the appears in many Catholic publications Don’t you wish you lived there, too? ... What Saint Mary’s Press last of 39 interviews she did for Yes! I and she has earned distinguished awards I draw is taken from my life. I honestly had a editor. am Catholic: How Faith Plays a Role in for her writing. wonderful childhood.” The message My Life. Yes, I Am Catholic: How Faith Plays a Despite the sorrow Engelbreit has known, surprisingly suggested By that June, her chemotherapy was Role in my Life is her first nonfiction book. she chooses to focus on the joy and to share it that she agree to write a easier to handle and the draft of the book She lives in Lancaster, Ky., but grew up in with others. nonfiction book. This was finished. the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and was We are all called to practice this virtue, good news, however, What a book it is! Both teenagers and co-president of the Catholic Youth and the New Year offers a perfect chance. We was followed by an adults appreciate it because of the wide Organization at St. Lawrence Parish in must tackle that blank calendar with joyful unpleasant surprise when she was diagnosed variety of reasons that the people she Lawrenceburg. optimism, keeping our hearts wide open with breast cancer and needed surgery, interviewed shared with her. Some are The CYO newspaper even won before God. chemotherapy and radiation therapy. celebrities whom we all recognize, each archdiocesan awards. In fact, after attending Yes, 2008 will bring changes and Ten days after her surgery, with approval with a unique story to tell, and some are a CYO convention in Kansas City, she challenges—in public and private spheres. from her doctor, she packed her notes and priests (one a recording star), a bishop, wrote a short piece about it that a Criterion But the year also holds surprising laptop computer and spent a week at mothers and fathers, a trucking manager, a columnist used. blessings from a creative, generous God. So Hopscotch House in Kentucky. She dealt housekeeper, nurses, retired businessmen, This was “my first foray into the move toward them! with oncologists and further tests upon her political figures, a sculptor/painter, students, Catholic press,” Dotson Brown says. For Joyful optimism begins simply: Rise each return. teachers/professors, inspirational speakers, a more on her story and her work, log on to morning, inhale deeply and whisper, “Here At Hopscotch House, she thought about deacon/principal, social workers, volunteers her Web site (www.bethdotsonbrown.net). we go, God!” the Saint Mary’s Press (www.smp.org) offer and more. to write a book for teenagers about why The backgrounds and the work of each (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer people choose to be Catholic. of the 39 people are so varied that I now Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is from Inver Grove Heights, Minn. E-mail her Not only had she always wanted to write wonder about all the Catholics that I know. a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † at [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 25

Feast of the Baptism of the Lord/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion The Sunday Readings Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 14 Friday, Jan. 18 Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008 that Peter offered salvation, not just to 1 Samuel 1:1-8 1 Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22a Jews—whose heritage Peter shared—but Psalm 116:12-19 Psalm 89:16-19 • Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 also to pagans, indeed even to the brutal Mark 1:14-20 Mark 2:1-12 • Acts of the Apostles 10:34-38 Romans whose military conquest and • Matthew 3:13-17 occupation of the Holy Land had resulted in so much misery, death and despair. Tuesday, Jan. 15 Saturday, Jan. 19 This weekend, the Church celebrates Peter’s preaching leads to one 1 Samuel 1:9-20 1 Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1a the third of its great feasts introducing us conclusion. Salvation is in Jesus alone. (Response) 1 Samuel 2:1, 4-8 Psalm 21:2-7 to the reality of Jesus came as God’s representative. In Mark 1:21-28 Mark 2:13-17 salvation in Christ God’s love, Jesus went about “doing good Jesus. works” and healing the sick. This weekend, we St. Matthew’s Gospel offers the last Wednesday, Jan. 16 Sunday, Jan. 20 celebrate the feast of reading, revealing not only the event of 1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 Second Sunday in Ordinary the Baptism of the the story of the Lord’s baptism in the Psalm 40:2, 5, 7-10 Time Lord. The other two River Jordan by John the Baptist, but also Mark 1:29-39 Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 of these great feasts the importance of the event for us and for Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-10 were Christmas and all believers. the feast of the Ritual washings, or baptisms, were Thursday, Jan. 17 1 Corinthians 1:1-3 Epiphany of the Lord. popular in certain Jewish circles in the Anthony, abbot John 1:29-34 Each of these feasts, through its first century A.D. so homes had 1 Samuel 4:1-11 Liturgy of the Word, introduces us to a ceremonial bathtubs. Archeologists who Psalm 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25 vital dimension in the identity of Jesus excavated the ruins of Masada, the great Mark 1:40-45 and an important consideration for Jewish fortress high on a mountaintop Christians as they seek to follow the Lord. overlooking the Dead Sea, discovered Supplying the first reading for this such baths there. weekend is the Book of Isaiah. Being baptized, or bathing in these Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen Isaiah writes about a loyal servant of special pools, symbolizes the yearning of God, a servant who is steadfast in his a person to be rid of sin. It was as if sin faithfulness despite enduring the stained not just the body, but also the Couple’s marital status confuses hostilities of others around him and the soul. unhappy twists of his fortune. This John the Baptist salutes Jesus as servant is therefore the most perfect God’s anointed. Then, marvelously and their children as well as friends servant. Regardless of the injustices miraculously, God appears and identifies My friend had her first marriage maybe along with her mother, to help surrounding him and the temptation to Jesus as the Son of God. Qannulled after meeting a widowed her deal with her feelings about her forsake God, the servant never falters. God could be seen and heard. man who became her stepfather. This reading—and three others that are However, to clarify the message even second husband. It’s also possible that she needs to quite similar in Isaiah—are called the more, God speaks and gestures in ancient The second understand more clearly the reasons why “Songs of the Suffering Servant.” They Old Testament words and symbols that no marriage was at Mass. what her mother is doing is not morally form a major part not only of Scripture, Jew would have misunderstood. Both were practicing wrong. Depending on where she is in the but also of the liturgy because they are Catholics. She soon teenage years, she may not be able to used in Holy Week when the faithful Reflection found it impossible to assimilate the gray areas present here. concentrate on the sacrifice of Jesus on This feast of the Baptism of the Lord live with her new You’re either married or you’re not, Calvary. reveals to us the Lord’s identity. He is the husband’s children and if you’re not then you shouldn’t have The second reading from the Acts of Son of God. He is the Savior, rescuing us and a civil divorce this kind of intimacy. Period. In this case, the Apostles reveals what life was like in from eternal death by assuming our sins followed. she may be more ready to accept an the first generation of Christianity. It and by making amends to God for our Although they are keeping separate explanation if it comes from someone verifies the structure of the Church even sinfulness. He unites us with God. He is households, she claims that they plan to other than her mother, like an adult friend as this structure exists today. the mediator. remarry when their children are grown. or a priest whom she trusts. Peter is central. He appears before The Church makes the words of Peter In the meantime, they spend a night or Your friend surely realizes that she and Cornelius, whose name indicates Roman to Cornelius its own words. It calls us to weekend together in her home whenever her “ex-husband” are in a most unusual origins. Peter preaches in the very name recognize the Lord as our Savior. they feel the need. This upsets her teenage relationship arrangement. They need to deal of Christ. He is discharging his responsi- The Church also calls us to admit that daughter, who has started to be a behavior patiently with anyone who is puzzled by it. bility as an Apostle, a responsibility given we are sinners. We need Jesus as Jesus problem. to him by the Lord. reconciles us with God. He is our hope. My friend says it is OK to sleep with I have opportunities to join bus tours The reading is revealing since it shows He is life. He is God’s love. † her ex-husband since they are still Qwhere the schedule does not coincide married in the eyes of the Church. with Sunday Mass times along the way. What is the Church’s view of this Is it permissible to go on these tours My Journey to God situation? (Illinois) when that is the case? (North Carolina) She is correct. According to Church Participation in Sunday Mass is an Alaw, they are still married. And I Aessential part of Catholic life—as it The Holy Man’s Words assume they still believe they are married has been throughout Christian history. in the eyes of God. If one otherwise faithfully participates Some day, A sense of belonging, They still apparently have a sexual, in Sunday Mass, however, Church law Right after one of your homilies, Family, emotional and intimate sharing of their does not prohibit Catholics from I’d like to distribute a pen and piece of Courage to go on, lives except that they don’t live together, occasionally missing Mass in the situation paper Inexplicable joy, which—under the circumstances—seems that you describe here. To each and every parishioner. A Presence felt, to be the only way that they can continue A belief in something more. their relationship. (A free brochure on ecumenism, including I would ask them to take a few I wonder, first of all, why they got questions on intercommunion and other moments I would gather all these pages up. divorced. If their present situation and ways of sharing worship, is available by To note a word or phrase, They could not be contained in a single future plans are as you describe them, sending a stamped, self-addressed Maybe something more, book. there was no need for civil action. They envelope to Father John Dietzen, Relate a personal story And proof to you, the Holy Man, could have lived separately without that, Box 3315, Peoria, IL 61612. Questions Of how the Holy Man’s words they just That what you say truly matters. and possibly avoided all the problems may be sent to Father Dietzen at the same heard The power of your words revealed, they’re encountering now. address or by e-mail to Spoke to them, touched them, Blessed with the Holy Spirit’s seal. So maybe there is something more [email protected].) † In some way. involved that she hasn’t told you or A famous poet once wrote that, perhaps that she herself does not know. Perhaps it was a solace, “A word is dead when it is said, some Perhaps her daughter has a strained Readers may submit prose A greater sense of peace, say— relationship with her new stepfather, and A burden lifted, I say it just begins to live that day.” her acting out is her way of expressing or poetry for faith column A new way of seeing. her unhappiness with her mother for The Criterion invites readers to Faith strengthened, Words are life, continuing that involvement. submit original prose or poetry relating Hope renewed, The Word Is Life, Or maybe she is, as you indicate, to faith or experiences of prayer for An action to be taken, And this the Holy Man knows unaware that her mother and the new possible publication in the “My Gratitude, And understands. husband are still in a sacramental Journey to God” column. A forgiveness realized, marriage and, from that aspect at least, Seasonal reflections also are Love experienced more deeply, By Cathy Dearing are acting in a morally permissible appreciated. Please include name, manner. address, parish and telephone number (Cathy Dearing is a member of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis. She wrote this Whatever the reason, the problem that with submissions. poem “after listening to a beautiful homily by Father Jim Farrell on the feast of the your friend faces is a human problem, not Send material for consideration to Holy Family.” She said her poem about her pastor also “expresses an appreciation an explicitly religious one, and she needs “My Journey to God,” The Criterion, and gratitude to all our priests, who preach to us each and every weekend and to find out why her daughter is reacting P.O. Box 1717, Indianapolis, IN 46206 whose words inspire, heal and tell us about the love of God.”) the way she is and then deal with that. or e-mail to [email protected]. † The daughter may need some counseling, Page 26 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

Lawrence, Carol and Jerry Higgins, Carol Bennett, Gail Patrick, Philip and Timothy PIERSON, Delores, 83, Dunlevy Jr. Brother of Janet Jones, Cathy McMahon, Jim, McFarland. Brother of David and Holy Name of Jesus, Lewis. Grandfather of 16. Great- John, Pat and Steve Harlow. John McFarland. Grand father of Beech Grove, Dec. 8. Wife of grandfather of 14. Brother of Blanche Sevier and 15. Great-grandfather of three. Ted Pierson. Mother of Darlene Rest in peace ELMER, Marie F., 92, Vada Vaughn. Grandfather of 19. McKINSEY, Elizabeth, 96, Pierson-Ford and Gary Pierson. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Great-grandfather of one. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Sister of Mary Wiltsee and Daniel Keller. Grandmother of Please submit in writing to our Husband of Alvina Brink - New Albany, Dec. 10. Mother of HARTRICH, Margaret (Little Flower), Indianapolis, three. Great-grandmother of one. office by 10 a.m. Thursday sneader. Father of Yvonne Paula Britt, Mary Jane, Jerome Elizabeth (O’Connor), 99, Dec. 9. Mother of Larry and before the week of publication; Adams, Kevin and Randy and Paul Elmer. Sister of Carl St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 8. Phillip McKinsey. POLSTON, Pauline, 85, be sure to state date of death. Brinksneader. Brother of Shirley Ott. Grandmother of seven. Mother of Lois Kattau and MIDDENDORF, Agnes L., 86, St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 25. Obituaries of archdiocesan Garrett, Marilyn Lawson and Great-grandmother of six. Franciscan Father Kurt Hartrich. St. Mary, Greensburg, Dec. 18. Mother of Betty Bopst, Marie Grandmother of three. Great- priests serving our archdiocese Virginia Ramsey. FANGMAN, Paul A., 74, Wife of Raymond Middendorf. Schneider and Charles Polston. grandmother of six. Sister of Vestina Rudolph. are listed elsewhere in CARRICO, Marie K., 81, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Mother of James and Jerry Grandmother of nine. Great- The Criterion. Order priests St. Mary, North Vernon, Dec. 9. Dec. 7. Husband of Carol HENDRIX, Harold William, Middendorf. Sister of Mary Ann grandmother of 16. and religious sisters and Mother of Pamela and Thomas Fangman. Father of Kathleen 72, Holy Name of Jesus, Bruzzio and James Krieger. brothers are included here, Carrico. Sister of Paul Silliman. Carrel, Phyllis Jenkins, Ann Beech Grove, Dec. 9. Husband Grandmother of two. Great- PRAIRIE, Joseph A., 53, unless they are natives of the Grandmother of three. Reeves, Lee Carole Roseman, of Patricia (Lovell) Hendrix. grandmother of one. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, archdiocese or have other Kris Short, John and Scott Father of Julie Craig, Cindy Dec. 17. Father of Katy and CHAPMAN, Mary A. MURPHY, Daniel T., 52, connec tions to it; those are Fangman. Grandfather of 27. Haisten, Kathleen Maddox, David Prairie. Son of Marian (McEvilly), 96, St. Mark the St. Malachy, Brownsburg, separate obituaries on this Great-grandfather of 15. Patty McIntosh, Barbara Turk Dec. 19. Husband of Lucinda Updike. Brother of Rebecca, page. Evangelist, Indianapolis, and Harold Hendrix. Grand - GESWEIN, George C., 88, Murphy. Brother of eight. James and Thomas Prairie. Dec. 16. Mother of Judith father of 18. Great-grandfather AKERS, Mildred E., 86, St. Michael, Bradford, Dec. 13. Grandfather of one. RANDALL, Florence, 94, Proctor, James, John and Joseph of 12. St. Anne, New Castle, Dec. 14. Husband of Garnetta Geswein. Chapman. Grandmother of 10. MURPHY, M. Joann (Teipen), St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 27. Mother of Mary Jo Baker, Kathy Father of Gary, Glenn, Gordon HUCK, Thomas Ray, 58, Great-grandmother of six. 75, Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, Mother of Gloria Tanner and Burge, Betty Hards, Susan Kirby, and Greg Geswein. Brother of St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, CORD, Helen C., 85, Dec. 27. Mother of Kathleen Sally Young. Grandmother of 15. Donna Maddox, Carolyn, Pat Huth, Louise Stilger, Francis Dec. 22. Husband of Kathleen St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby McBride, M. Kay, Kevin and Great-grandmother of 26. Great- Donald, Larry and Samuel Akers. and Joe Geswein. Grandfather of (Ponder) Huck. Father of Erin County, Dec. 12. Mother of Michael Murphy. Sister of Mary great-grandmother of nine. Grandmother of 20. Great-grand- six. Great-grandfather of seven. Keller. Son of Dorothy May mother of 17. Great-great-grand- Rosie Swain, Marilyn Tempel, Huck. Brother of Diana Huck. Lou Dunlop, Dolores and RECEVEUR, Pauline E. GIN, Gan Fee, 77, mother of one. Dan, Jim and Tony Cord. Sister Grandfather of two. Providence Sister Mary Maxine (Gettelfinger), 72, Holy Family, of Trudy Arians, Teresa Rafial, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Teipen. Grand mother of one. New Albany, Dec. 12. Mother of ATCHER, Mary, 55, Catherine Roell, Rita Teal, Dec. 13. Husband of Mary Anne KALB, Joseph F., 61, St. Mary, Darell, Gary and Dr. Ronald Sacred Heart, Jeffersonville, MURRAY, Rosemary Bernard and Bill Beyer. Gin. Father of Catherine Barnes, New Albany, Dec. 12. Husband Receveur. Sister of Ann Knable, Nov. 25. Wife of Stephen Atcher. Margaret, 89, St. Roch, Grandmother of 12. Great- Virginia Maher, Florence of Barbara Kalb. Father of Mary Ellen Sprigler, Marcella Mother of Melissa and Jeff Indianapolis, Dec. 28. Mother of grandmother of 14. McCloskey, Theresa Stevason, Randy Kalb. Brother of Suzanne Atcher. Sister of Raymond and Helen Alexander, Kathleen, Stumler, Delores Striegel, Hilda Dianna, Benjamin, Gan, Duncan and Kathleen Kalb. Thomas Branch. Grandmother of DIEKHOFF, Richard E., 77, Frank and John Murray. Thieneman, David, Harland and Lawrence and Michael Gin. Grandfather of two. two. St. Jude, Indianapolis, Dec. 22. Grandmother of three. Great- John Gettelfinger. Grandmother Brother of four. Grandfather of Husband of Barbara (Starkey) KAZAKEVICH, Joe, 91, grandmother of five. of six. BIRD, Martha L., 87, 19. Great-grandfather of four. Diekhoff. Stepfather of Lynelle Sacred Heart, Clinton, Dec. 15. St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Dec. 25. NORRIS, Kenneth William, 70, SCHAUST, Donald, 84, Lindle, Donna Shipley, Sandra GLOWNER, Robin, 45, Husband of Esther (Cox) Mother of Daniel, David and St. Joseph, Indianapolis, Dec. 8. Christ the King, Indianapolis, Stone and Robert Kennard. Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, Kazakevich. Father of Larry and Steven Bird. Grandmother of Husband of Cheryl Norris. Father Dec. 16. Husband of Shirley Brother of Barbara Laudick and Dec. 24. Father of Annie, Ronald Kazakevich. Stepfather five. Great-grandmother of four. of Debbie Crowe, Lisa Newkirk, Schaust. Father of Kathy Marsh, Edward Diekhoff Jr. Grandfather Crystal, Kristen and Jacob of Terry Ferguson. Grandfather Great-great-grandmother of one. Christopher and Shawn Norris. John and Tom Schaust. Grand - of seven. Great-grandfather of Glowner. of three. Great-grandfather of father of 18. Great-grandfather of BIRKENHEUER, Mary Ann, two. Brother of Shirley Fellers, Carl five. GRAVES, Elizabeth J., 83, three. 66, St. Michael, Brookville, and Gary Norris. Grandfather of St. Luke the Evangelist, KING, James P., 86, Dec. 17. Wife of William DIERCKMAN, Melanie A., eight. Great-grandfather of one. SCHUTTE, William L., 74, 45, St. Louis, Batesville, Indianapolis, Dec. 6. Mother of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Birkenheuer. Mother of Teresa OBERTING, Clarence, 93, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Dec. 27. Daughter of Elmer Anne Crosser, Jane Noel, Mary Jeffersonville, Nov. 30. Father of Dickens, Angie Race, David and Sacred Heart of Jesus, Dec. 11. Husband of Norma Dierckman. Sister of Ellen Anne and Robert Graves. Christine Miller, Benedictine Michael Birkenheuer. Sister of Indianapolis, Nov. 30. Husband Schutte. Father of Lisa Bunch, Eckstein, Lola Fisher, Barb Father Jeremy King and Michael Joanne Sottong, Jerry and Paul GRINKMEYER, Charles H., of Clara Oberting. Father of Cathy Johnson, Sherry Roosa, Kruthaupt, Linda, Lisa, Bill, King. Grandfather of four. Harnishfeger. Grandmother of 86, St. Gabriel the Archangel, Mary Jane McVey and Anthony Daniel, James, Jeff and Jerry Bob, Dennis, Roger and Steve four. Indianapolis, Dec. 13. Husband KLAVE, Marie, 90, St. Jude, Oberting. Grandfather of six. Schutte. Brother of Robert Dierckman. of Dolores Grinkmeyer. Father Indianapolis, Dec. 18. Mother Great-grandfather of 12. Great- Schutte. Grandfather of 22. BISCHOFF, Viola, 89, of Cheryl Blevins, Donna Great-grandfather of three. St. Joseph, St. Leon, Dec. 10. DONNENHOFFER, of Chuck, Jerry, Kerry and great-grandfather of four. George P., 86, Sacred Heart of Steven Grinkmeyer. Brother of Kirschbaum, Jacqueline Young O’DONNELL, Lorayne TRAGESER, Pauline, 87, BOEHM, William Frank, 82, Jesus, Terre Haute, Dec. 19. Ruth Gregg and Delores and Frank Klave II. Grand - , 90, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Husband of Margaret Paolello. Grandfather of six. mother of seven. Great-grand- Indianapolis, Dec. 2. Mother of New Albany, Dec. 1. Husband of Donnenhoffer. Father of Connie Great-grandfather of six. mother of 15. Dec. 12. Mother of Kathy, David, Dennis and Jack O’Donnell. Marianne Arnold and Jennifer Rita (Youchem) Boehm. Dawson, Carol Taiclet, Clarence KLEEMAN, Martin, 93, GRUNER, Kenneth E., 92, Grandmother of 11. Great-grand- Hackett. Sister of Helen Bufkin BOOTH, John, 76, St. Michael, and Dan Egan. St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 13. St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, mother of eight. and Nicholas Petrakis. Grand - Bradford, Nov. 30. Husband of DOYLE, William C., 83, Dec. 7. Father of Patricia Father of Brenda Connor and mother of two. Julia Booth. Father of Dawn Janet Preece. Grandfather of O’NEILL, Emily T., 88, St. Joseph, Indianapolis, Pittman. Grandfather of seven. WITCHGER, Kathleen A. Crawford, Christopher and John five. Great-grandfather of four. St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Dec. 14. Dec. 14. Husband of Great-grandfather of 10. Great- (Deasy), 60, St. Pius X, Booth. Brother of Loretta, Mother of Kathleen (Kloka) June Doyle. Father of Patty, great-grandfather of three. LANTIS, Norman, 37, Indianapolis, Dec. 18. Wife of Margaret, Roberta, Wilma, Skwiera. Terry and William Doyle. Sacred Heart of Jesus, William J. Witchger. Mother of Eugene and Vincent Booth. GUSS, Marlyn M., Sr., 85, Brother of Catherine Wildman. St. Mary of the Immaculate Indianapolis, Dec. 12. Son of PAULL, Mary Louise, 93, Theresa Carender, Colleen BORNSTEIN, Florence E., 83, DUNBAR, Elizabeth L., 78, Conception, Aurora, Dec. 8. Lucille Lantis. Brother of St. Anthony of Padua, Furey, Kathryn Mayer, Mary, Prince of Peace, Madison, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Husband of Mary C. Guss. Kathryn and Patricia Lantis and Clarksville, Nov. 20. Mother of David and William Witchger II. Dec. 24. Mother of Mary Nov. 26. Mother of Suzanne Father of Tracy Bowling, Tina Frank Figley. Betty Ann Hutt and John Paull. Sister of Elizabeth Larkin, Grubbs, John and Phillip Sister of Joseph Karthman. McLaughlin, Kerry and Ted Cheek, G. Jay Facemire, Glena LATHROP, Patricia J., 62, Margaret Markes, David, Bornstein. Grandmother of 13. Dunbar. Sister of Lorna Booth Schultz, Michelle Snyder, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Dec. 5. Grandmother of eight. Great- John Jr. and Thomas Deasy. Great-grandmother of 10. and Virginia Endsly. Grand- Marlyn Jr. and T. Richard Guss. Wife of Jim Lathrop. Mother of grandmother of 16. Grandmother of two. † BRINDLEY, Mary V., 85, mother of five. Grandfather of 15. Great-grand- Jennifer Brunt, Christina Lathrop St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, DUNLEVY, Jerry J., Sr., 86, father of 10. Great-great-grand- and Julie Rowland. Daughter of Daughter of Charity Marillac Dec. 14. Mother of Barbara Vitt, St. Gabriel the Archangel, father of two. Ruth Clifford-Kunkel. Sister of Joyce Wassel, Alisa and Christine Indianapolis, Dec. 11. Husband HARLOW, Harold E., 77, Ann, John and Tom Clifford. Clarke served in six states Brindley. Grandmother of six. of Antoinette (Coon) Dunlevy. Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Grandmother of three. BRINKSNEADER, Benjamin, Father of Joan Cimyotte, Gail Dec. 9. Husband of Betty LOZAR, John P., 77, Daughter of Charity again at Allen Memorial Home 71, St. Paul, Tell City, Nov. 22. Clute, Mary Huffman, Kathleen Harlow. Father of Aileen St. Bartholomew, Columbus, Marillac Clarke died at Seton from 1972-76. Dec. 10. Husband of Mary L. Residence in Evansville, Ind., She became administrator (Plummer) Acton Lozar. Father on Dec. 14. She was 101. and local superior in 1976 when of Teresa Baker, Angela Szal - The Mass of Christian Burial she went to St. Vincent Day kowsky, Cathy Wiggins, Dwight was celebrated at Seton Chapel Care Center in Evansville. and William Acton, Michael and in Evansville on Dec. 18. Burial In September 1978, John Lozar. Brother of George followed at St. Joseph Cemetery Sister Marillac took a spiritual and Joe Lozar. Grand father of 10. in Evansville. renewal program in St. Louis at Great-grandfather of 11. Mary Elizabeth Clarke was Marillac College. In born on Oct. 30, 1906, in August 1979, she was sent to LYNCH, Joseph C., 71, St. Indianapolis. She completed her Montgomery, Ala., to serve as Anthony, Indianapolis, Dec. 7. secondary education and administrator and develop a Husband of Phyllis Lynch. entered the Daughters of program for seniors at Seton Brother of Angie Bauman, Pat Charity on Feb. 15, 1934, in Haven. She administered that Baxter and Tom Lynch. St. Louis. program until 1993 when she “Professional Yet Personal” MASCARI, Mary Rose, 94, Her first mission in 1935 became assistant administrator. Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, was at St. Mary’s Hospital in She came to Seton Dec. 22. Aunt of several. Milwaukee, where she worked Residence in Evansville and Nora Chapel Smith Carmel Chapel in the accounting department. became active in the ministry of McCARTHY, Joseph Charles, In 1941, she went to prayer in October 1997. 69, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, St. Thomas Hospital in Sister Marillac is survived 740 E. 86th St. 900 N. Rangeline Rd. Dec. 16. Father of Colleen Nashville, Tenn., as the busi- by two brothers, Paul Clarke of Indianapolis, IN 46240 Carmel, IN 46032 Winkler. Brother of Margaret ness manager. Indianapolis and Francis Clarke Ann McCarthy and Mary Ellen Sister Marillac also worked of Carmel, Ind.; two sisters, 317-844-3966 317-846-2091 Wills. Grandfather of three. in accounting at O’Connor Sister Mary Joseph Clarke of McFARLAND, Robert H., 94, Hospital in San Jose, Calif., Evansville and Patricia DeVault www.leppertmortuary.com St. Mary, Greensburg, Dec. 23. from 1950-56, St. Anne’s Home of Indianapolis; and many Husband of Rosemary in St. Louis from 1956-65, nieces and nephews. Locally owned & operated McFarland. Father of Natalie Allen Memorial Home in Memorial gifts may be sent to Armstrong, Karen Hardesty, Mobile, Ala., from 1965-70, the Daughters of Charity John T. Leppert — Parishioner, St. Luke Catholic Church Anita Kendall, Kathleen St. Vincent Hospital in Foundation, 9400 New Harmony Whitmore, Prudence, Donald, Indianapolis from 1970-72 and Road, Evansville, IN 47720. † The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008 Page 27

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Mark Drewes Interested applicants contact: St. Michael’s Catholic Church 519 Jefferson Blvd. Elberta Caito Greenfield, IN 46140 Assistant to the President Or via email at: Bishop Chatard High School [email protected] [email protected] Need help Director of Worship Parish Administrator Holy Spirit Catholic Church is seeking a professional to Saint Alphonsus Liguori Parish in northwest focus on the business affairs of the parish, including the advertising Indianapolis is seeking a full-time Director of Worship supervision of parish staff and school principal, and the and Music. The growing Parish of 1000 families has a appropriation of physical, financial and human resources new church and is eager for development and like functions. This committed, practicing Catholic must possess growth in the sacred music program. Catholic liturgy a four-year degree or equivalent—MBA and or religious your snow experience and a sol id background in Church Music studies a plus—and be wi lling to work towards Archdiocesan certification to become a parish administrator. Ability to are required. The position is responsible for directing exercise judgment and diplomacy in a wide variety of parish choirs, liturgy and music preparation, and training and situations, reliable in meeting deadlines, well organized, scheduling ministers. A commitment to work with a consensus builder, skilled communicator, and possess strong removal professional Parish Staff building a community is knowledge of computers and busi ness applications. The necessary. Please send a cover letter, résumé, candidate must maintain confidentiality of any information s/he encounters. references, and salary requirements to: For a detailed job description please visit www.hspirit.org Director of Worship Search Committee business? Please submit your résumé and salary requirements to: Saint Alphonsus Liguori Parish Parish Administrator Search Committee 1870 West Oak Street Holy Spirit Catholic Church Zionsville, IN 46077 3345 Lexington Rd Call or e-mail Dana 236-1575 or Electronic mail to: [email protected] Louisville, KY 40206 [email protected] Résumés will be accepted through Jan. 20, 2008 We Conduct Background Checks Post your ad in the Criterion! Page 28 The Criterion Friday, January 11, 2008

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