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WASHINGTON (CNS)—Two significant religious liberty victories occurred at the U.S. Supreme Court on July 8. On that day, the court reaffirmed the right of religious schools to be free from governmental intrusion in employment decisions, and ruled that the administration of President Donald J. Trump was free to give employers Justice Samuel Alito the ability to opt out of providing contraceptive, abortifacient and sterilization coverage in their health plans. The 7-2 schools ruling came in a combination of two cases: St. James School v. Biel and Our Lady of Guadalupe School v. Morrissey-Berrum, both involving schools in the Los Angeles Archdiocese. The 7-2 health care plan ruling likewise Providence Associate Priscilla Hutton speaks during a press conference on the morning of July 13 outside the Federal Correctional Complex in came in a combination of two cases: Terre Haute. Behind her, Providence Sister Paula Damiano holds a banner. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania. It involved the order of women religious who care for the elderly poor. Bells toll, sharing the piercing news The schools ruling, written by Justice Samuel Alito, said: “What matters, at bottom, is what an employee does,” noting of the first federal execution in 17 years that, even though the elementary school teachers “were not given the title of By Natalie Hoefer execution in the nation, explained The decision was immediately appealed ‘minister,’ ” they still had been hired to help Providence Sister Paula Damiano. to the U.S. Supreme Court by the form the faith of the students in religious TERRE HAUTE—On the grounds of But that morning, “For the first time federal Department of Justice. schools. the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary- in 17 years,” she said, “a sister tolled the At 2 a.m. on July 14, the Supreme “The religious education and of-the-Woods near Terre Haute, news of bells following [a] federal execution.” Court overturned the ruling. Lee was formation of students is the very the execution pierced the morning quiet The bells announced the 8:07 a.m. executed and pronounced dead six hours reason for the existence of most private on July 14. death of Daniel Lewis Lee. later, according to a Reuters report. religious schools, and therefore the The bells of the Church of the Less than 24 hours before, a In sharing her reaction with selection and supervision of the teachers Immaculate Conception toll after any temporary stay of all scheduled federal The Criterion, Sister Paula said the upon whom the schools rely to do this executions was announced by the sisters “believe that forgiveness is work lie at the core of their mission,” See related editorial, page 4, and U.S. District Court of the District of vital to faith. We are called to forgive Alito wrote. related Question Corner, page 9. Columbia due to evidence that the drug every day.” Dissenting votes were by Justices Ruth to be administered causes severe pain. See EXECUTION, page 7 Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor. See COURT, page 2

A graduation surprise: $1,000 gifts for the ‘fortunate few’

By John Shaughnessy them the special gift—as a sign of their support for the senior class that Curt Gardner wanted to add a touch was impacted in so many ways by the of drama before the graduating seniors coronavirus during their final months learned which of their classmates of high school. would receive a special $1,000 “I would like each graduate to graduation gift. remove the envelope that is currently When the revelation came, it taped under your seat,” Gardner stunned the graduates—and nearly instructed the members of the Class of everyone else at the graduation See GRADUATION, page 7 ceremony of Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Jason Minnick, a senior at Father Michael Madison on June 21. Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in As the school’s principal, Gardner Madison, opens an envelope to see if he is told the 19 graduates that an one of the “fortunate few” of his graduating anonymous group of Shawe alumni class to receive a $1,000 gift from an wanted to give a “fortunate few” of anonymous alumni group. (Submitted photo) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020

Berru, who had taught both fifth and COURT sixth grades since 1999, saying she had a Public Schedule of continued from page 1 problem keeping order in her classroom and Archbishop Charles C. Thompson meeting expectations under a new reading ______Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, program. Morrissey-Berru sued, alleging chairman of the Committee for Religious age bias under the Age Discrimination in July 22-23, 2020 Liberty of the U.S. Conference of Employment Act of 1967. Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Bishop In both cases, federal district courts July 22 – 2 p.m. CDT July 23 – 2 p.m. CDT Michael C. Barber of Oakland, Calif., ruled in favor of the schools, citing Installation of Belleville, Ill., bishop- Installation of Peoria, Ill., coadjutor chairman of the bishops’ Committee on ministerial exception. But two separate elect Michael G. McGovern at bishop-elect Louis Tylka at Cathedral Catholic Education, issued a statement panels of the U.S. Court of Appeals for Cathedral of Saint Peter in Belleville. of St. Mary of the Immaculate regarding the schools decision. the 9th Circuit reversed these decisions. Conception in Peoria. “Education is a The 2012 decision these schools central aspect of the were standing on is Hosanna-Tabor Church’s mission,” Evangelical Lutheran Church and School the bishops said. “As v. Equal Employment Opportunity The statement was issued by no longer steal our attention from our institutions carrying Commission, where a teacher at a Archbishop Wenski, and Archbishop calling.” out a ministry of the Lutheran school in Michigan said she Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., A recap of the sisters’ involvement Church, Catholic was fired for pursuing an employment chairman of the bishops’ Committee on in this case goes back to 2013 when schools have a right, discrimination claim based on a disability. Pro-Life Activities. religious groups and houses of worship recognized by the In that ruling, the court said The case examined if the expansion were granted a religious exemption by the Constitution, to select the ministerial exception to anti- of the conscience exemption from the Supreme Court from the government’s Archbishop people who will discrimination laws meant that religious Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive, mandate to include contraceptive, Thomas J. Wenski perform ministry. organizations couldn’t be sued for firing abortifacient and sterilization mandate abortifacient and sterilization coverage in The government an employee classified as a minister. violated the health care law and laws their employee health plans. has no authority to second-guess those Richard Garnett, law professor at governing federal administrative agencies. Three years later, religious nonprofit ministerial decisions.” the University of Notre Dame Law It highlighted—as it has before when groups challenged the requirement The Archdiocese of Indianapolis also School and director of the university’s the Affordable Care Act’s mandate has to comply with the mandate and the issued a statement on the ruling, saying Program on Church, State and Society, come before the high court—the Little court sent the cases back to the lower “We welcome the Supreme Court’s said at the time of the oral arguments Sisters of the Poor. The sisters were courts with instructions for the federal decision recognizing that Catholic schools that, even though these teachers were represented, as they have been previously, government and the challengers to try to must be free to make decisions about not giving theology instruction and were by Becket. work out an agreeable solution. those entrusted to educate and form not ordained clergy, “their role is, and The U.S. bishops said there had been Then in 2017, religious groups students in the Catholic faith. Catholic is understood as, a ministerial one, and “multiple opportunities for government were given further protection from the educators play a vital role in guiding their secular courts are not in a good position officials to do the right thing and exempt mandate through an executive order students, by word and deed, and passing to second-guess or override religious conscientious objectors. Time after time, issued by President Trump requiring the on the faith to future generations.” institutions’ decisions about their administrators and attorneys refused to U.S. Department of Health and Human The schools case examined if courts ministerial employees’ role.” respect the rights of the Little Sisters Services to write a comprehensive can hear employment discrimination He also said the cases were not, of the Poor, and the Catholic faith they exemption to benefit religious ministries, claims brought by teachers at Catholic “as some have complained, about a exemplify, to operate in accordance including the Little Sisters of the Poor, elementary schools. It involved supposed right of churches to ‘ignore’ with the truth about sex and the human from the contraceptive, abortifacient and California Catholic school teachers who civil-rights laws. Quite the contrary. person.” sterilization mandate. claimed they had been victims of job These cases are about protecting the civil Thomas, describing HHS provided this exemption in 2018, discrimination, and the schools that fired and constitutional rights of religious the work of the Little but several states challenged it, including them that said they were exempt from institutions to decide religious questions Sisters of the Poor California, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, anti-discrimination laws due to ministerial for themselves.” and their involvement saying HHS didn’t have the power to give exception spelled out in a previous In a tweet after the decision was in this case, wrote: this exemption. Supreme Court case about a fired teacher announced, Garnett said it was no surprise “For over 150 years, Pennsylvania and New Jersey obtained at a Lutheran school. that the court reaffirmed “its Hosanna- the Little Sisters have a nationwide injunction against the rules At St. James School in Torrance, Tabor decision and the religious-freedom engaged in faithful protecting religious objectors from the Calif., former fifth-grade teacher Kristen rights of schools and reverses the Ninth service and sacrifice, contraceptive mandate; that injunction Biel said she was fired after informing Circuit’s narrowing of that decision.” motivated by a was then upheld by the 3rd U.S. Circuit school administrators that she had breast The health plan decision, written Justice Clarence religious calling to Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia. cancer and would have to take time off by Justice Clarence Thomas, said the Thomas surrender all for the In one of the two consolidated cases, for surgery and chemotherapy. She sued administration had “the authority to sake of their brother. Trump v. Pennsylvania, the administration under the Americans with Disabilities provide exemptions from the regulatory … But for the past seven years, they—like argued that the exceptions to the mandate Act of 1990. Biel died last summer, but contraceptive requirements for employers many other religious objectors who have for religious groups were authorized by her husband is seeking damages. Becket, with religious and conscientious participated in the litigation and rulemakings the health care law and required by the a nonprofit religious liberty law firm objections.” leading up to today’s decision—have had to 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, representing the schools, said that in Dissenting votes were by Ginsburg and fight for the ability to continue in their noble known as RFRA. 2015, the school chose not to renew Biel’s Sotomayor. work without violating their sincerely held Lawyers for Pennsylvania and New one-year contract based on classroom “This is a saga that did not need to religious beliefs.” Jersey said the administration lacked performance. occur. Contraception is not health care, Mother Loraine Marie Maguire, the statutory authority to issue such regulations Our Lady of Guadalupe School in and the government should never have order’s U.S. provincial, said the Little and said the government did not follow Hermosa Beach, Calif., did not renew the mandated that employers provide it in the Sisters of the Poor were “overjoyed proper administrative procedures. contract in 2013 for Agnes Morrissey- first place,” the USCCB said. that, once again, the Supreme Court has The second case examines whether the protected our Little Sisters of the Poor had the standing right to serve to appeal the 3rd Circuit ruling since a Online Lay Ministry Formation the elderly separate court order had already allowed REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW without them to refuse to provide contraceptive, The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on violating our abortifacient and sterilization coverage in University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance faith. 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Meridian St. • Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020 Page 3 Fire ravages historic mission, community vows to rebuild LOS ANGELES (CNS)—The fire that In late June, statues to the California ravaged Mission San Gabriel Archangel missionary were toppled in San Francisco Church in the predawn hours of July 11 and in Los Angeles, and the weekend left behind a haunting scene. before the fire, a long-standing St. Junipero In a matter of minutes, the mission’s statue outside the state Capitol in 230-year-old roof was nearly gone. The Sacramento was felled. sunlight pouring down through the holes The July 11 blaze at San Gabriel was revealed the charred planks that had part of a weekend that saw churches crashed down on the church’s pews. The vandalized in other parts of the country. altar, along with the mission’s bell tower Statues of Mary were damaged in Queens, and museum, were spared, but the thick N.Y., and in Boston; in Ocala, Fla., a man adobe walls were blackened. drove a minivan into a Catholic church As bad as the damage is, it could have before pouring gasoline in the foyer and been worse. Because the church had been setting fire to the building. undergoing renovations, much of the While there was no immediate word artwork in the sanctuary, including historic on the cause of the fire, investigators from paintings and other devotional artifacts, a regional task force and from the U.S. had been removed prior to the fire. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and But for Anthony Morales, tribal chief Explosives spent the afternoon of July 11 of the San Gabrielino Mission Indians and investigating. a member of San Gabriel, the damage was Local Catholics who showed up at Mission San Gabriel Arcangel in San Gabriel, Calif., caught fire before sunrise on July 11. (CNS photo/ more than material. the mission the next day to pray were Victor Aleman, Angelus News) “These are my roots,” said Morales, suspicious. The timing of the fire—and holding back tears as he surveyed the scene the broader attacks on St. Junipero statues just hours after the fire had been contained. and other church properties—was too “This is my church. All my ancestors much of a coincidence for them. are buried in the cemetery next door. Six Resilience was the theme that morning Proud supporter of the thousand of my ancestors are buried on inside the mission’s Chapel of the 2  Annual Marian University these grounds, and this is the church that Annunciation, where the mission’s pastor, Founders Classic Golf Outing they built. It’s just very devastating.” Claretian Father John Molyneux, made a The devastation was just the latest bold pledge to Archbishop Jose H. Gomez honoring the Sisters of St. Francis, blow to be suffered this year by Los of Los Angeles. Oldenburg, Indiana Angeles’ oldest Catholic outpost. “You will be back to celebrate our As 2020 started, preparations were 250th anniversary in a rebuilt church,” September 22, 2020 underway to celebrate a “Jubilee Year” Father Molyneux promised the archbishop Prairie View Golf Course leading to the 250th anniversary of at the start of Mass. St. Junipero Serra’s founding of the “This fire changes nothing,” the Marian.edu/FoundersClassic mission on Sept. 8, 1771, which has been archbishop said in his homily. “Mission postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus San Gabriel will always be the spiritual pandemic. heart of the Church in Los Angeles, the As the church reopened for public place from which the Gospel still goes Masses, waves of anti-racism protests had forth.” broken out across the country, protests that included attacks on public monuments (The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and statues of figures from U.S. history, has created the San Gabriel Mission including statues of St. Junipero, like those Restoration Fund: https://lacatholics.org/ found on the mission’s campus. restoration.) †

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Opinion Sight Unseen/Brandon A. Evans More important than knowledge When I was in high school, my science a bad one. Histories begin with stories. classroom had a poster of Albert Einstein Imagination is the conduit by which Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher with a short and powerful quote— our stories form, by which we share the Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus although one that beauty of the world with one another, seemed a bit odd for a and its horrors. The power of sub- place of learning. creation does not lie in strength, nor It was something money, nor influence, nor even learning: Editorial published in a its nascent seed is in each of us—the 1929 issue of sparkle that won’t die at the center of our Pope Francis is seen in a The Saturday consciousness. file photo making a point. In his revision of the Evening Post at the By our nature we are creative and by Catechism of the Catholic point in Einstein’s our imagination flows the light which Church in 2018, the pope life that he had illumines our paths, which gives shape to made it clear that the come up with the the formless. Our songs, our poems, our death penalty should no General Theory of Relativity, become a works of art: they all require patience and longer be a part of society. scientific celebrity and won the Nobel knowledge and practice and skill, but they (CNS photo/Paul Haring) Prize in Physics. require imagination more. Those are accomplishments that Imagination, even more boldly put, is take a great deal of knowledge, which the pathway God uses to bring wisdom he certainly had in abundance, and not to the simple. It is a focusing lens that just any knowledge, but the type that inverts our perception of who are actually befuddles many of us: calculus, physics, the greatest among us. geometry. As if proving the point, a recent article In our age, such things are highly in a Catholic publication mentioned valued, and most certainly necessary that the bulk of St. Thérèse of Lisieux’s as the raw fuel for expanding our education came from two books: the Bible Scheduled executions remind us technological grasp over the world we and The Imitation of Christ. inhabit. Two books. And yet, in her of dignity of all human life But Einstein saw something more: that remarkably short life and having there is a spark required for knowledge to produced only a scant amount of The Catholic Church believes that all But our faith teaches us that God’s be useful; there is a shining jewel beyond writing, she gave to Christianity such a human life is sacred—from conception forgiveness is available to each of us—if the reach of the merely intellectual that treasure through her “Little Way” that to natural death. And there are no we truly seek repentance for our sins, even can be obtained without any academic she was proclaimed not only a saint, but exceptions to that tenet. the most heinous ones. And the priests, degree at all. a doctor of the Church. As our faith teaches us, that includes deacons, religious and lay Catholics who His simple quote is a note of A simple girl, derided at times by her the unborn, the hungry, the homeless, the minister to incarcerated men and women inspiration spoken to a world of progress peers and a mischievous glint always elderly. Even the prisoner on death row. can share stories of conversion by the and learning: barely hidden in her smile, was given We are all God’s children. most hardened of criminals. “Imagination is more important than a title of authority rarer than cardinal, But understanding how those who Despite several legal challenges, knowledge.” or queen, or even pope; one of only 36 have committed heinous crimes— death-row inmate Daniel Lewis Lee It seems at first like an all-too-smart bit people to have walked the Earth in the including taking the lives of young, was executed by lethal injection at the of arrogance from a person already gifted 2,000 years since Christ did to earn it. innocent children—can still be loved by Federal Correctional Complex (FCC) in with a great mind. She is his lesson to us, his reflection God and others is a challenge for many Terre Haute on the morning of July 14. But he was quite serious. To come and his admonition to the prestigious and members of society. Lee was the first federal prisoner put to up with the idea of relativity took clever and learned of each generation; a And how some individuals have the death since 2003. looking at things in a new way. It reminder the Spirit blows where it wills, courage to minister in prison to those who As The Criterion went to press this meant imagining beyond the entire and you never know upon whose head the have committed these capital crimes is week, the future of three other death- framework of Newtonian physics to a invisible crown of wisdom will come to another life lesson many don’t understand. row inmates scheduled for execution at cosmos wherein matter could become lie. We do not condone the unthinkable the FCC was uncertain. energy, and gravity could bend light and For God is the master of imagination, crimes committed by such inmates. We The July 17 execution of Dustin Lee velocity could alter time. and the keeper of the keys of the invisible pray for the victims’ families, that God Honken was still scheduled to take place— And Einstein proved it on paper, doors through which light comes into is with them and helps them heal from even though Cardinal Tobin has written a it took an absolutely brilliant stroke each mind—light which allows the unseen their deep and personal wounds. letter to President Donald J. Trump asking of imagination on the part of another to be seen and the unimagined to become Here in central and southern Indiana, that he grant him clemency. Cardinal Tobin researcher to come up with the idea of real. we’ve had three shepherds in recent ministered to Honken on death row while proving once and for all by observing times who have made it a priority to he was shepherd of the Archdiocese of the stars just on the edge of a solar (Sight Unseen is an occasional column minister to those in prison: the late Indianapolis. eclipse. that explores God and the world. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein; Another death-row inmate, Wesley When looking at the real history of the Brandon A. Evans is the online editor Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, now shepherd Purkey, was granted a temporary stay world, at the actual levers of power that and graphic designer of The Criterion of the Archdiocese of Newark N.J.; and of his July 15 execution by the U.S. create change, it often begins not with a and a member of St. Susanna Parish in Archbishop Charles C. Thompson. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit on fact but with an idea—be it a good idea or Plainfield.) † All three visited men and women July 6. A fourth inmate, Keith Nelson, who were incarcerated to let them is scheduled to be executed in Terre know they were not forgotten, and that Haute on Aug. 28. As part of their guilty Letters to the Editor Christ’s love was still available to them. verdicts, all were convicted of killing Archbishop Thompson said as much children in separate crimes. when he visited the Indiana Women’s Pope Francis, in his revision of the Our faith calls us to stand up Prison in Indianapolis in 2018 and Catechism of the Catholic Church in baptized and confirmed two inmates, and 2018, made it clear the death penalty for victims of injustice, racism later gave them their first Communion. should no longer be a part of society: Our Christian faith calls us to stand was crucified for this. “These are the ones that Pope Francis “Today … there is an increasing up for those who suffer injustice. Our We, too, know that by being Christ’s reminds us are on the margins, on the awareness that the dignity of the person Christian faith also calls us to stand up for followers and working for those who peripheries, that society tends to want to is not lost even after the commission those who are victims of racism. are victims of racism, sexism, unfair brush aside or forget,” the archbishop said of very serious crimes. In addition, a Often we can make excuses in order practices, violence, we can also, as Jesus, during his visit. “We have to remember new understanding has emerged of the to avoid issues of justice because such be put on a cross. that Christ is present here, and remember significance of penal sanctions imposed action is not popular. Jesus stood up for the goodness and dignity of every person.” by the state. Lastly, more effective systems people who were ignored, not the “right Ron Stegman The vision of the Archdiocesan of detention have been developed, which kind.” He stood up for sinners, and he Guilford Corrections Ministry, led by Deacon ensure the due protection of citizens but, at Marc Kellams, is to build a Christ- the same time, do not definitively deprive centered Catholic community that the guilty of the possibility of redemption. Chrism Mass reminds us of our upholds the dignity of every human “Consequently, the Church teaches, person touched by crime in order to in the light of the Gospel, that ‘the death ‘unity with God and our neighbors’ practice mercy and foster hope and penalty is inadmissible because it is an The pastoral message from our the world. We celebrate every day the peace. Its mission is to create an attack on the inviolability and dignity shepherd, Archbishop Charles mystical communion of Christ in the environment of trust through a lens of of the person,’ and she works with C. Thompson, at the June 29 chrism Eucharist. Catholic social teaching by witnessing determination for its abolition worldwide” Mass at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in In solidarity, we confront and make the Gospel to the incarcerated, formerly (#2267), the updated catechism reads. Indianapolis was the core of our prayer an effort to convert and transform the incarcerated and victims/families, As our Church leaders, including our and mission: “unity with God and our adversities within our human condition. through healing and mentoring processes. Holy Father, have said, we believe the neighbors.” We as a Catholic Church, a Church We understand that practicing mercy death penalty is another act of violence. This unity is exemplified in the instituted by Christ, desire with him to and fostering hope and peace are no And like our shepherds, we believe life existential within our Church, which is bring fully to his creation his divine grace easy tasks, especially when talking without parole also offers justice. an immediate presence in action of unity and presence. about individuals who have committed amid diversity. Daily we celebrate this grave criminal acts. —Mike Krokos divine reality through grace. Gary Taylor We are a presence of life and love to Milan The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Longing for God’s kingdom in today’s troubled times

“The kingdom of heaven is like a longing in powerful ways. Our governs us. “For power, whenever you impatient—or to expect the effects of sin mustard seed that a person took and Lord’s life, death and resurrection will, attends you. And you taught your and evil (the weeds that choke the healthy sowed in a field. It is the smallest of have overcome the evil effects of sin people, by these deeds, that those who plants) to be removed too soon. “Let all the seeds, yet when full-grown it is and death. They proclaim Christ’s are just must be kind; and you gave them grow together until harvest; then at the largest of plants. It becomes a large unconditional victory over all the forces your children good ground for hope that harvest time I will say to the harvesters: bush, and the birds of the sky come and of gloom and doom, and they make it you would permit repentance for their First collect the weeds and tie them in dwell in its branches” (Mt 13:31-­32). possible for us to truly be people of sins” (Wis 12:18-19). Our hope is based bundles for burning; but gather the wheat hope and joy. on God’s mercy and compassion for into my barn” (Mt 13:30). The day of Although it’s only mid-July, it’s We are rightly sad to witness the sinners like us. reckoning will come. On that day, Jesus already been a rough year for all of devastating effects of evil and injustice In the second reading, St. Paul tells says, evildoers will be punished and “the us—especially for those seriously in our world. But as missionary us that “The Spirit comes to the aid righteous will shine like the sun in the affected by grave illness, economic disciples of Jesus Christ, our response of our weakness; for we do not know kingdom of their Father” (Mt 13:43). hardship, racial injustice, violence, fear cannot be disillusionment or despair. how to pray as we ought, but the Spirit During these troubled times, we and anxiety. We understandably raise Jesus tells us in the Gospel reading for himself intercedes with inexpressible should not lose hope. The kingdom of our voices heavenward and cry out: next Sunday (Mt 13:24-43) that we are groanings. And the one who searches God is coming. In fact, it is already “Thy kingdom, come!” called to be “sowers of good seeds” hearts knows what is the intention of here in seminal form waiting to be Longing for a better world where who prepare for a better world to the Spirit, because he intercedes for sown, cultivated and harvested by us. peace and justice reign, and where every come by planting, cultivating and then the holy ones according to God’s will” We dare not give in to darkness and tear will be wiped away because there is harvesting the fruits of God’s bounty. (Rom 8:26-27). We don’t have to worry despair, but we also can’t afford to take no more sadness, suffering or fear, is an Our job is to work together with all about what to say or do in the face of things for granted. integral part of the human condition. our sisters and brothers everywhere to injustice or violence. If we’re listening As missionary disciples of Jesus, Regardless of who we are, where we prepare for, and build, the kingdom of attentively to God’s word, the Holy we are called to be women and men come from, or what we believe, we all God. As Pope Francis says, our work is Spirit will show us the way. of hope who work tirelessly for desire something more—often much to build bridges, not walls, and to share Of course, we are impatient. We peace through justice and mercy, the more—than we experience here and the joy of the Gospel with everyone we want the kingdom of God to come hallmarks of God’s reign among us. now in what is sometimes referred to as encounter in our daily lives. “now” and we balk at the idea that we Let’s pray for the grace to overcome “this vale of tears.” In the first reading from the Book must wait for the smallest of seeds our doubts and fears. Let’s work hard As Pope Francis reminds us of Wisdom, we are told that although planted by us, and many others, to for the kingdom that is to come by frequently, the Good News that Jesus the Lord is almighty, he judges with become full-grown plants. making this world a far better place preached addresses this universal clemency, and with much lenience he Jesus admonishes us not to be than it is right now. †

Anhelar el reino de Dios en los tiempos difíciles de hoy en día

“El reino de los cielos es como un universal de manera poderosa. La nos gobierna. “Porque puedes usar los efectos del pecado y el mal grano de mostaza que un hombre vida, la muerte y la resurrección de tu poder en el momento que (las malas hierbas que asfixian a sembró en su campo. Aunque es la de nuestro Señor han superado los quieras. Actuando así, enseñaste a las plantas sanas) se erradiquen más pequeña de todas las semillas, malos efectos del pecado y la muerte. tu pueblo que el hombre justo debe rápidamente. “Dejen que crezcan cuando crece es la más grande de las Proclaman la victoria incondicional ser bondadoso, y llenaste a tus hijos juntos hasta la cosecha. Entonces hortalizas y se convierte en árbol, de de Cristo sobre todas las fuerzas de una bella esperanza, al darles la les diré a los segadores: Recojan modo que vienen las aves y anidan de la penumbra y la perdición, y oportunidad de arrepentirse de sus primero la mala hierba, y átenla en en sus ramas” (Mt 13:31-32). hacen posible que seamos realmente pecados” (Sab 12:18-19). Nuestra manojos para quemarla; después personas de esperanza y alegría. esperanza se basa en la misericordia recojan el trigo y guárdenlo en mi Aunque tan solo estamos Tenemos justa razón para estar y la compasión de Dios por los granero” (Mt 13:30). El día del a mediados de julio, ya ha tristes al ser testigos de los efectos pecadores como nosotros. juicio final llegará. Ese día, dice sido un año difícil para todos devastadores del mal y la injusticia En la segunda lectura, san Pablo Jesús, los malvados serán castigados nosotros, especialmente para en nuestro mundo. Pero como nos dice que “el Espíritu nos ayuda y “los justos brillarán en el reino de los que se han visto seriamente discípulos misioneros de Jesucristo, en nuestra debilidad; porque no su Padre como el sol” (Mt 13:43). afectados por enfermedades nuestra respuesta no puede ser la sabemos orar como debiéramos, En estos tiempos difíciles, no graves, dificultades económicas, desilusión o la desesperación. Jesús pero el Espíritu mismo intercede por debemos perder la esperanza. El injusticia racial, violencia, miedo nos dice en la lectura del Evangelio nosotros con gemidos indecibles; y Reino de Dios viene; de hecho, ya y ansiedad. Comprensiblemente del próximo domingo (Mt 13:24- aquel que escudriña los corazones está aquí en forma de una semilla elevamos nuestras voces al cielo y 43) que estamos llamados a ser sabe cuál es el sentir del Espíritu, que espera ser sembrada, cultivada exclamamos: “¡Venga a nosotros tu “sembradores de buenas semillas” porque Él intercede por los santos y cosechada por nosotros. No nos reino!” que se preparan para un mundo conforme a la voluntad de Dios” atrevamos a ceder a la oscuridad Anhelar un mundo mejor donde mejor que vendrá por plantar, (Rom 8:26-27). No tenemos que y la desesperación, pero tampoco reinen la paz y la justicia, y donde cultivar y luego cosechar los frutos preocuparnos por qué decir o hacer podemos darnos el lujo de dar las cada lágrima sea enjugada porque ya de la bondad de Dios. frente a la injusticia o la violencia. cosas por sentado. no hay tristeza, sufrimiento o miedo, Nuestro trabajo es trabajar junto Si escuchamos atentamente la Como discípulos misioneros es una parte integral de la condición con todos nuestros hermanos de palabra de Dios, el Espíritu Santo de Jesús, estamos llamados a ser humana. todas partes para preparar y construir nos mostrará el camino. mujeres y hombres de esperanza que Independientemente de quiénes el reino de Dios. Como dice el Pero, por supuesto, somo trabajan incansablemente por la paz a seamos, de dónde vengamos, o en papa Francisco, nuestro trabajo impacientes; queremos que el través de la justicia y la misericordia, qué creamos, todos deseamos algo es construir puentes, no muros, y reino de Dios venga “ahora” y nos los sellos distintivos del reino de más (a menudo mucho más) de lo compartir la alegría del Evangelio resistimos a la idea de que debemos Dios entre nosotros. que experimentamos aquí y ahora con todos los que encontramos en esperar a que la más pequeña de Recemos por la gracia de en lo que a veces se denomina “este nuestra vida diaria. las semillas plantadas por nosotros, superar nuestras dudas y temores, y valle de lágrimas.” En la primera lectura del Libro de y muchas otras, se conviertan en trabajemos arduamente por el reino Tal como el papa Francisco nos la Sabiduría, se nos dice que, aunque plantas adultas. que está por venir, haciendo de este recuerda a menudo, la Buena Nueva el Señor es todopoderoso, juzga con Jesús nos advierte que no seamos mundo un lugar mucho mejor que el que Jesús predicó aborda este anhelo clemencia, y con mucha indulgencia impacientes, ni esperemos que actual. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020

Announcements for couples celebrating 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or more years of VIPs marriage are accepted. Go to bit.ly/2M4MQms or call 317-236-1585. Ted and Barbara (Thompson) Brindle, members of St. Simon the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 6. Ronald and Barbara (Meyer) Cooper, The couple was married in St. Peter Church in members of St. Michael Parish in Brookville, Fort Wayne, Ind. (Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese), on celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on June 6, 1970. July 2. They have two children: Douglas and Matthew The couple was married in St. Michael Brindle. Church in Brookville on July 2, 1960. The couple also has three grandchildren. † They have four children: Kathy Orschell, Heidi Reece, Phil and Scott Cooper. The couple also has 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. † Peter and Pam (Pflumm) Chermansky, members of St. Simon the Apostle Parish in Indianapolis, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 20. The couple was married in Holy Name of Ralph and Beverly (Cross) Hahn, members Jesus Church in Beech Grove on June 20, 1970. of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, celebrated They have two children: Melanie Brown their 60th wedding anniversary on July 9. and Brett Chermansky. The couple was married in Holy Family The couple also has two grandchildren. † Church in Richmond (now a campus of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Parish) on July 9, 1960. They have four children: Karla Billieu, Robin, Michael and the late Stephen Hahn. Larry and Peggy (Cissell) Richards, members of The couple also has seven grandchildren and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany, two great-grandchildren. † celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 27. The couple was married in St. Agnes Church in Louisville, Ky., on June 27, 1970. They have four children: Ellen Woods, Jack, Larry and Nathan Richards. The couple also has eight grandchildren. †

Stephen and Nancy (Dale) Beyer, members of St. Mary Parish in Rushville, celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on June 13. The couple was married in St. Vincent Paul and Suzanne (Lassuy) Whalen, members de Paul Church in Shelby County, on June 13, of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, celebrated their 1970. 50th wedding anniversary on June 27. They have three children: Brian, Joe and The couple was married in St. Mark the Evangelist Scott Beyer. Church in Indianapolis on June 27, 1970. The couple also has eight grandchildren. † They have four children: Theresa Harvey, Colleen Sicuso, Erin and P.J. Whalen. The couple also has nine grandchildren. †

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of the home stretch of their senior year, GRADUATION a time usually marked with a number of continued from page 1 senior-related traditions. “The thing I missed the most was the 2020. “I want you to open that envelope normalcy—missing all the people I would very carefully. Then if you find a $1,000 see on a day-to-day basis,” says Nate, check in your envelope, you are a winner the class valedictorian, student council and one of the ‘fortunate few.’ And I president and a pitcher on the varsity want you to stand and remain standing, baseball team. so that your family and friends can see “I missed going to baseball practice your good fortune.” and seeing the teammates and the As the students reached under their coaches. I missed the teachers and seats and opened their envelopes, a few my classmates. I wished I was in the leaped to their feet quickly, their smiles of classroom with them.” surprise and delight showing their good He says that feeling reflects the fortune. Then others stood, holding their closeness of the 19 graduates, 18 of checks high. And when everyone had whom will attend college while the other finished opening their envelopes, they one has enlisted in the U.S. Navy. realized that each of them had received “Shawe, it means family,” Nate says. $1,000 from the alumni group. “Being such a tiny school, your entire As the surprise and smiles spread class becomes your family. You learn throughout the school’s gym, Gardner told things about them, and you’re surrounded the graduates that they are now part of by them for more than eight hours a day if Social distancing was a priority during the June 21 graduation ceremony of the 19 members of the the “fortunate few” to become alumni of you do sports and other extracurriculars. Class of 2020 of Father Michael Shawe Memorial Jr./Sr. High School in Madison in the school’s gym. Shawe. He also encouraged the graduates You build that relationship with (Photo courtesy of Laura Jayne Gardner Photography) to remember this gift as they go forward them that goes past friendship or an in their lives. acquaintanceship. It’s family.” Beyond the special features of the “One alum contacted me,” recalls Kahn, “In the future, find ways to bring this That feeling is shared by Ambar graduation ceremony, Nate also praised a 1987 graduate of Shawe. “The discussion same happiness to others,” the principal Materano-Sanchez, who arrived at the school’s administrators for “the ton of started out just asking about the senior said. “Be charitable.” the school 2 1/2 extra effort they did to make the seniors class and how they were holding up during years ago after feel special” as their time in high school this difficult school year. ‘It was like a ‘wow’ moment’ her family moved came to an end. “I told this person that they were a As one of the 19 graduates in this from Venezuela to He mentioned the yard signs the very strong group and have handled it as year’s class at Shawe, Nate Pawlak says Madison. Even with a administrators delivered to each of their well as you could expect. They were very it’s a moment he will starting point of very homes, signs marked with their name and positive and supportive of the school and never forget. limited English when the news of their graduation from Shawe. each other. We are very proud of each one “My classmates and she came to Shawe, “They also had a parade for us,” he of them.” I have talked about she ended up as the says. “We got in our cars and drove From that conversation, a group of it a lot since then. I class salutatorian. past the school, and all the teachers and alumni donors came up with a plan to remember thinking Ambar Materano- “I feel love for parents were cheering us on. give each of the seniors $1,000— “as a initially that this is Sanchez Shawe because they “The administration had already done scholarship to help with any expenses awesome that a few of helped me with so much for us, and it was the icing on they have for college or their futures,” us would be getting it. everything,” Ambar says. “I feel all the the cake that an alumni group would do Kahn says. But I thought, ‘There’s support my teachers and classmates gave this for us. It was like a ‘wow’ moment.” The members of the alumni group just Nate Pawlak no way this is going me. When I started at Shawe, I didn’t insisted that they remain anonymous. to happen for me.’ All know much English, but I felt welcome. The start of the surprise “I thought this was a great example the people I’ve been It was just like a family, and it was like I As the president of Prince of Peace of how strong the ‘Shawe Family’ really talking to had the same feeling. was a part of that family.” Schools in Madison, Phil Kahn was is,” Kahn says. “This group of alumni is “When we all started standing up, I Her voice also fills with joy in talking one of the few people at the graduation older, but still worried about the students thought, ‘This just makes sense.’ This is about the gift from the alumni group. ceremony who wasn’t surprised by the graduating today. awesome that we all got it.” “It was really cool,” says Ambar, $1,000 gifts to the graduates. Yet even “Shawe is a special place. This is just Nate says his class especially who will use the gift to help begin her though he knew it was coming, he was one more example of how, from the start, appreciates the alumni group recognizing education in nursing. “When everyone got still delighted by the generosity that the the Shawe family looks out for each how hard it was for them to lose so much it, it was a big surprise for everyone.” alumni group showed. other.” †

The Supreme Court decision also affects federal “But they are also people who deserve love, mercy EXECUTION inmates Dustin Lee Honken and Keith Dwayne Nelson, and justice,” she added. “We don’t have to love the continued from page 1 whose executions were previously set for July 17 and actions, but we have to love the people—it’s the Gospel Aug. 28, respectively. message. To do anything less would be to deny the She noted that many sisters “past and present” have The July 15 scheduled execution of Wesley Ira Gospel. … [E]very person can change their lives.” visited death-row inmates at the FCC, including one Purkey was already temporarily stayed through a Priscilla Hutton agreed. The member of the Sisters of deceased sister who visited Lee. separate case. Providence’s lay association spoke at the press conference “We will pray for Daniel Lewis Lee, his family, and As The Criterion went to press at noon on July 14, through her role with the international organization Social the victims of the tragedy from 1996 and their family,” the status of Purkey’s, Honken’s and Nelson’s pending Justice Sector for Charter for Compassion. she said. executions were not known. “I visit a man on death row here in Terre Haute,” she Lee was convicted of murdering a gun dealer, the man’s Deacon Steven Gretencord, who has ministered said. “From all I know of the criminal justice system, wife and her 8-year-old daughter in Arkansas in 1996. to death-row inmates at the FCC for nearly 10 years, and as I’ve walked these halls in the penitentiary, I’m shared his reaction to the news in an early morning call here to say that many of these people are good people. with The Criterion. And all we need to do is give them a chance.” “I just am amazed that we as a nation continue to use It’s not only the prisoners about whom the Church such draconian methods of punishment,” he said. is concerned when it comes to execution, according to “We’re so intent on revenge that we seem to lose Archbishop Charles C. Thompson. He explained why in sight of what justice is about. We only have one true a recent statement regarding the rescheduled executions. judge, and all of us will face that judge. … The “underlying Catholic teaching on [the death “It’s just such a very sad, sad, state of affairs,” he penalty] is grave concern for the care of souls of all said. “This is not going to bring closure to anyone. All involved—including the judge, jury, prison personnel, it does is reopen the wounds and prove that we have no families of these officials and society itself,” he said. idea about justice, and certainly not about mercy.” “Taking the life of any human being, even one who is guilty of grave crimes against humanity, weighs on the ‘Every person can change their lives’ conscience of both individuals and society as a whole.” Delayed, appealed, overturned, appealed, overruled, Karen Burkhart agrees. The member of St. Susanna temporarily delayed, appealed, overturned. Like a Parish in Plainfield spoke at the press conference rapid-fire legal tennis match, the decisions on two cases through her role as the Indiana death penalty abolition unfolded in the courts between July 10 and 14. coordinator for Amnesty International USA. At 10 a.m. on July 13, a press conference hosted by But she had other reasons for being present. Death Penalty Action and Terre Haute Death Penalty “I’m here because I want to protest the death penalty, Resistance was underway across the street from the but also because I feel just awful that people are being FCC, where federal executions take place. killed in my name,” Burkhart told The Criterion. At that time, Lee’s 4 p.m. execution was in question “America is supposed to be one of the best countries in pending a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on a denied the world, and we’re doing things that most [nations] have appeal for a delay until travel was safer from the risk of abolished. … It’s just an awful example to kill people who contracting the COVID-19 virus. kill people, to show that killing people is wrong.” At about 10:15 a.m., the press conference was interrupted by news of the D.C. federal district court’s (For information and updates on federal and state ruling to temporarily stay all federal executions. executions, go to catholicsmobilizing.org. For Cheers and applause erupted among death penalty information on local efforts to oppose the death penalty, opponents present at the press conference. go to Terre Haute Death Penalty Resistance’s Facebook Providence Sister Paula Damiano speaks during a Death Speaking at the event on behalf of the Sisters of page at www.facebook.com/terrehautedpr. To sign Penalty Action press conference on the morning of July 13 Providence, Sister Paula said her congregation was petitions opposing the death penalty and to learn about outside the Federal Correctional Complex in Terre Haute. (Photo “well-aware of the heinous crimes of those now on national efforts for the abolition of the death penalty, go by Natalie Hoefer) death row. to deathpenaltyaction.org.) † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020 Perspectives Worship and Evangelization Outreach/Jim Wood Amid the Fray/Greg Erlandson Daughter offers reminder why Mass and Sunday still matter Mass in three Our daughter, Sarah, was about something far greater: the wisdom of a for an interesting morning of feeling out 7 when, on New Year’s Eve, some young girl, who to this day still believes of place. Yet, being the professionals they dimensions 90 minutes before midnight, she Sunday is a special day because of Mass. are at Catholic Radio Indy, it turned out exclaimed, “Hey, I’m I have completed my first year of to be an awesome show about the great once again going to bed because service with the archdiocese in the role things we do in the Office of Catechesis. I’m tired and we have of coordinator of catechetical resources. We recently returned to Mass at Have you started going back to Mass Mass in the morning. During this time, I became familiar with the St. Simon the Apostle Church in Indianapolis yet? I suggest you guys inner workings of the Archbishop Edward last month after a three-month interruption. Recently, I went to my first Mass in come to bed, too!” T. O’Meara Catholic Center in Indianapolis, Not only was our obligation commuted, but three months. I had My wife Andrea in particular the Office of Catechesis. our physical presence had been forbidden. been watching Masses and I looked at each As a lifelong Catholic, I was amazed Watching Mass from home, even with livestreamed weekly, other, then in unison by the things I did not know about a missal in hand, presented its challenges. but of course it didn’t we laughed out loud. catechesis, evangelization and worship. I Do we need to fast for an hour, or can I feel the same. I looked Sarah was not pleased, thought I could take on this position and sip coffee during the homily? Should we forward to being able and she stormed off, running up the stairs. put a fresh spin where everyone would pat kneel and ring bells, or sit with phone in to return to a Mass A few minutes later, we followed, and Sarah me on the back and wonder why I wasn’t hand, checking our favorite app? celebrated in three had tucked herself in. Since she was still here sooner. Yet, as humble a statement The Office of Catechesis strives to bring dimensions. awake, we sat on her bed and said we were as that is, I realized that not only does the understanding and appreciation of Before I returned, sorry for laughing. She said it was OK. my work matter to many people, but also Sunday Mass to the forefront of our work in I thought absence Then she said something I’ll never Sunday matters to many as well. order to help our parishes continue to create might make the heart more mystical. The forget: “I want us to be fresh for Mass We have recently returned to work disciples of Jesus. The joy of returning heavens would open, and a booming voice tomorrow because it’s a special day.” Then full time at the office after a three-month amid restrictions brought back a flood of would announce, “This is my son, who in unison Andrea and I both shed tears. period of working from home. Not only memories and a prayer of thankfulness. has been extraordinarily patient.” I relate that story not because it might was our commute to the office severed, I was reminded by Sarah’s insight as a In truth, however, my first Mass draw an air of sentiment, which it should. but our obligation to attend Mass on young child to never take for granted our was, well, extraordinarily ordinary. The I relate it because even a kid can have a Sunday was detached, too. freedom to worship, the need to be fresh celebrant didn’t even remark on our long notion of the transcendent goodness of Working from home had its challenges, for Mass, and the desire of returning to time apart. Perhaps for all of us, what we Mass. Albeit, that holy day of obligation yet we were able to complete many tasks the greatest hope we have—the liturgy. had been doing for decades, our spiritual on Jan. 1 may not have been a Sunday, yet and remain functional as an office. Thank you, Sarah. muscle memory, kicked in. The routine it was important for all of us as a family to Back in May, director of catechesis that is ritual swept me along. It didn’t feel come together to celebrate Mary, the Holy Ken Ogorek and I recorded a spot for (Jim Wood is archdiocesan coordinator like I had been away three months. In an Mother of God, and to receive all the grace Catholic Radio Indy. Not being there in of catechetical resources and a diaconal abnormal year, it still felt normal. from God through the holy Eucharist. person to record, not being able to see candidate for the Archdiocese of There is a great deal of concern in And although that New Year’s Eve we our colleagues, not being able to gain Indianapolis. He can be reached at church circles that I’m in the minority. did not make it to midnight, we received insight if our effort was well done, made [email protected].) † Parish staff worry about how many people will return, or if they’ll return. Diocesan finance officials worry that people who For the Journey/Effie Caldarola stop going stop giving, which will cripple parish and diocesan services worse than they already are. Reflecting on the ‘Holy Saturday’ we are experiencing There is reason for concern. More than It was the Friday before the July Fourth holiday, and as I disappointment, sorrow, the brutal dashing of hope, exhaustion. one person has told me about the ease of cleared the dinner dishes I said to my husband, “It’s seemed For Christ’s disciples on Holy Saturday, optimism was absent. watching Mass on TV. No dressing up. No like Saturday all day today.” Friends scattered and mourned. They hiked to Emmaus to get crowds. No shame in getting up for water. “Every day is Saturday,” he jokingly away, or like Thomas, they coupled their sorrow with doubt. Others have commented on the wide replied as he filled the dishwasher. Maybe we’ve reached our COVID Holy Saturday moment. selection available to them on the Internet. Welcome to the summer of COVID-19. It was almost easier in the beginning, when we all accepted If they wanted high Church with incense If you’re going to work outside your shutdown, when we felt like we were in this together, when the and chant, they found it. If they wanted home each day, Saturday may still have rules seemed to apply to everyone, when we hoped it would a quick Mass with a meaty sermon, they meaning. But if you’re working from home, end quickly. found it. Suddenly the streaming Church the days blur. Shutdowns are up to states, sometimes to cities. The had become a supermarket of options. Like millions of Americans, I’ve missed governor of South Dakota tells people at the Mount Rushmore How can the local parish compete? the coffee dates, the committee meetings, ceremony to disregard social distancing; the Texas governor And if going to Mass might seem dinner parties, restaurants, date nights pleads with his citizens to wear masks. And our numbers, normal, there are still a lot of changes. in movie theaters, volunteer activities, among the worst in the world, frighten us. Limits on attendance. No holy water. Masks pilgrimages to the local library, Mass in person at my parish. Knowing that this pandemic will drag on, we adjust. Our required. Hand sanitizer encouraged. I did not board a flight for a scheduled trip to Europe. I have parishes begin to reopen, but in restricted ways, older folks Since we continue to live in a plague year, not flown to see my kids. My mother-in-law died, and was warned away. it is even possible that our churches could cremated without our presence. Her memorial service awaits a Holy Saturday reminds us this too shall pass. We’re in a close again this fall (as some already have). time when we can all travel from several states. limbo we didn’t choose, but which we accept as Christians. We Should there be a second wave, we might be After dinner, sitting on the front porch on not-Saturday, I accept this may be a nadir for our nation right now, a dreary sent back to our domestic catacombs. thought about one of the most significant Saturdays of the year, Holy Saturday but one from which we will emerge stronger. If you are trying to decide what to do, Holy Saturday. Unlike the disciples who did not yet understand the Resurrection, please keep these things in mind. First, Maybe I should sit in Holy Saturday for a while and feel the we have the joy of placing our faith and hope in the risen Christ. if you are vulnerable and worried about reality of the Holy Saturday we are experiencing as a nation. We spend time on our personal Holy Saturday with our contagion, it is OK to be cautious. I’ve heard it said we live much of our lives in a Holy Saturday risen Jesus, who reminds us once again not to fear. But Mass on a screen or a prayer in your frame of mind. Between the horror of Good Friday and the glory heart is not the same as being present at the of Easter, that day was lived in questions. It encompassed bitter (Effie Caldarola writes for Catholic News Service.) † Eucharist. Mass is about community, not spectators. Flesh and blood come together to share the flesh and blood of Jesus. Guest Column/Richard Etienne As Pope Francis said, the pandemic created a difficult situation to which Find quiet moments in your life to listen to God speaking to you the Church responded. “But the ideal of the Church is always with the people I have a memory of my mother response? I find this upsetting because my people, I will speak,” and in and with the sacraments—always,” he saying, sometimes quite forcefully, it conveys the message that, in some Psalm 49:2, “Hear this, all you peoples!” stressed. It is communal, not virtual. “Did you hear me?” way, I am not there. My presence is I also mention the Apostles, who Second, the Church is struggling. I was recently irrelevant or of no value, or something seemed slow to understand what Jesus Your parish, your diocese, your Church, reflecting on a more important has captured their was saying and to see the larger picture all are hurting right now. Some Catholic person’s need to be attention. as they moved toward Jerusalem. They schools have closed and many more are in heard. Do you like to Why do we spend so much time often initially could not comprehend the danger of closing. Some people have kept feel that you are being talking on our cell phones? Is it a human message he was preaching. How often did giving—electronically or with envelopes— heard and understood? need to be heard by another and validated Jesus say, “Amen, amen, I say to you?” to their parish, but many people have not. I believe that humans as persons? In Psalm 61:2, we hear the For many, it is even harder to see what If you have a job or have a steady income, have a basic need to be psalmist say, “Hear my cry, O God.” In is happening in the present. What message consider upping your gift. If you give listened to and, maybe Psalm 80:2, we hear “O, Shepherd of is God trying to send to his people? What infrequently or never, consider giving now. more importantly, to Israel, lend an ear.” is not being heard or acted on in my own And if you are reading this in a diocesan feel that the message There was a video a few years ago that life right now? publication, support it. The Church is they are trying to communicate is being went viral on the Internet where a young These questions are surely worth losing its voice as it closes more of its local received by the listener. boy repeatedly asks to be heard. reflection during the moments of silence publications. A bishop said recently that “we But I have noticed there is a good deal This makes me wonder if God has a that one has to carve out of the noisy and must maintain our capacity to tell our story.” of frustration when a person has a need to similar need to be heard as well. I am busy life that surrounds so many of us. The Church has responded with share something, and it becomes apparent reminded of the Israelites who rebelled Do you have a plan to find those quiet patience, generosity and even heroism that no one is receiving—much less repeatedly in the desert. It is easy for us moments in your life today? What do you during this pandemic. That is the story we comprehending—the message being sent. to look back, and see how they would hear the Lord saying to you? must be proud to tell today. For example, have you ever started to not listen to or act upon the messages explain something or started to answer that God had sent through Moses. Many (Richard Etienne is a member of St. John (Greg Erlandson, director and editor-in-chief someone’s question only to realize they passages start with the phrase, “Hear, O the Baptist Parish in Newburgh, Ind., in of Catholic News Service, can be reached at aren’t listening or waiting for your Israel!” In Psalm 50:7, we read, “Listen, the Evansville Diocese.) † [email protected].) † The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020 Page 9

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, July 20 Psalm 36:6-7b, 8-11 St. Apollinaris, bishop and martyr Matthew 13:10-17 Sunday, July 19, 2020 Micah 6:1-4, 6-8 • Wisdom 12:13, 16-19 Psalm 50:5-6, 8-9, 16bc-17, 21, 23 Friday, July 24 • Romans 8:26-27 Matthew 12:38-42 St. Sharbel Makhluf, priest Jeremiah 3:14-17 • Matthew 13:24-43 Tuesday, July 21 (Response) Jeremiah 31:10-13 St. Lawrence of Brindisi, priest and Matthew 13:8-23 The Book of Wisdom provides the first in his field would have been understood doctor of the Church reading for Mass this weekend. Wisdom by all who heard the Lord. Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 Saturday, July 25 is the name not only of this book of the Jesus said that the story illustrates the Psalm 85:2-8 St. James, Apostle Old Testament, but kingdom of God. Each component—the Matthew 12:46-50 2 Corinthians 4:7-15 of an entire set of landowner, the slave, the enemy, and so Psalm 126:1b, 2-6 writings. Collectively, on—fits into the overall picture. Wednesday, July 22 Matthew 20:20-28 the purpose is to To recall the story, an enemy came at St. Mary Magdalene convey in human night and sowed the seeds of weeds in the Song of Songs 3:1-4a Sunday, July 26 language, and for landowner’s field, tended by the slaves. In or 2 Corinthians 5:14-17 Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time situations in human time, both grain and weeds come forth. Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 1 Kings 3:5, 7-12 life, the wisdom that One yield is good, the other bad. God John 20:1-2, 11-18 Psalm 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-130 comes only from God. will separate the good from the bad. He Romans 8:28-30 Always important will decide. Thursday, July 23 Matthew 13:44-52 as a backdrop in Another parable followed, the story of St. Bridget, religious or Matthew 13:44-46 reading the Wisdom literature, or in a mustard seed, which is tiny. Although Jeremiah 2:1-3, 7-8, 12-13 reading any Scripture for that matter, is only a seed, this insignificant particle has the admission that humans necessarily are the potential of life and growth. In time, it limited. We cannot understand everything. can become a great tree. Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle We cannot see everything. Even what we Finally, Jesus gave the Apostles a see at times, and perhaps more often than special and much more detailed lesson. Catechism now universally opposes not, is distorted and blurred. He prepared them to carry the Gospel to We need God. We simply cannot the world. survive without divine wisdom. God offers the use of capital punishment this wisdom in the revealed Scriptures. Reflection My home state recently made unjust aggressor.” This weekend’s reading salutes The first step in learning about Q national news with the decision But in the new wording, at Pope God, the Almighty, the perfect, and Christianity is to accept the Church’s to go forward with the executions of Francis’ direction, the catechism now the perfectly just and all-knowing. The doctrine of original sin and its effects on several inmates on death row. As a universally opposes the use of capital reading is highly poetic and lyrical, all people. God created everyone, vesting Catholic, I do not understand the idea punishment. Explaining the change, the almost as if it were a hymn. free will in each. Some use this will to of returning death new text states: Marvelous for us, this supreme, perfect be loyal to God; others choose disloyalty. for death, and I see “Today, however, there is an God assists us despite our limitations. The devil tempts us to sin. executions as being increasing awareness that the dignity We have nothing to desire or to fear if we So, in God’s creation, people are saints more about revenge of the person is not lost even after the listen to God, the source of all good. and sinners, blossoming plants or weeds. than any kind of commission of very serious crimes. St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans is the The devil’s seeds produce weeds. justice. In addition, a new understanding has source of the second reading, which is In the end, God will right all wrongs. Surely life in emerged of the significance of penal very brief. Justice will prevail. In the meantime, it prison would suffice, sanctions imposed by the state. Lastly, Stressed here are our weaknesses and is essential that faith is a seed within us, and perhaps the more effective systems of detention our limitations. Even our prayers are planted by God. We must nourish it and inmate might be have been developed, which ensure weak, handicapped by our sinfulness protect it. rehabilitated at some the due protection of citizens but, and selfishness all too frequently. God, We can allow and assist the seed point and even ask forgiveness from at the same time, do not definitively however, supplies. As disciples of Jesus, within us to grow to maturity, which is the victim’s family. As Catholics, I deprive the guilty of the possibility of truly born again in his life, we also speak personal sanctity and final reward with believe that we are called to more than redemption” (#2267). with the life and strength of the Holy God in heaven. Or we can reject God and this—called to be advocates for peace, Spirit. fill our hearts with weeds. love and life. Can you comment? We are blessed to have a For the last reading, the Church With our free will, we choose to be (Indiana) Q seminarian assigned to our parish presents a parable from St. Matthew’s faithful to God, or not. for the summer to assist and to learn. Gospel, using agricultural imagery. At the God’s kingdom is filled with life You make the case against the death He is not yet an ordained priest, yet time of Jesus, the planting and growing of and reward, but it is not foisted upon A penalty with cogency and eloquence. he wears the Roman collar at Mass crops and the keeping of herds were the us. God does not invade our souls. We I agree with you completely—and more and at meetings. This has led to some most popular livelihoods. This familiar must choose God, even as we endure life important, Pope Francis does, too. In confusion, with many parishioners story of the sower who planted good seed among the weeds. † fact, in August 2018, the pope directed addressing him as “Father.” Is it that the wording appropriate for him to be wearing the of the Catechism collar? (New York) My Journey to God of the Catholic Church be So the question is: When, in changed to reflect A the course of his study, is it the fact that, in permissible for a Catholic seminarian The Greatest Giver the Church’s to begin to wear clerical garb, view, the death including a Roman collar? And the By C.S. Likins penalty is now no answer—perhaps unfortunately—is longer admissible this: There is no universal norm. The under any practice varies from diocese to diocese circumstances. and from seminary to seminary. The Giver Previous In my own time in the seminary, to that, the we didn’t wear the collar until our is the Gift catechism did not final year of study—the same year we exclude use of were ordained as deacons. Until then, of life the death penalty our “dress-up” clothes consisted of a in “very rare, if black suit, white shirt and black tie. of love not practically Today the practice is different, and nonexistent” seminarians seem to begin wearing of peace cases (#2267). the collar at an earlier point—in many That earlier cases, as they begin their studies in of hope and joy text said this: theology (the final four or five years “Assuming that before ordination to the priesthood). to all the guilty party’s In some seminaries, the collar is identity and worn even sooner, especially when the receive the Gift responsibility seminarian is engaged in a ministerial have been fully function, such as teaching religion and thank Him determined, or visiting a hospital. In the situation the traditional you mention, I don’t see it as a major follow Him teaching of the problem that some parishioners call Church does the young man “Father.” He should to life everlasting not exclude be acting like a priest anyway, getting recourse to the used to the behavior people expect death penalty, if from one called to a religious vocation. (C.S. Likins is a member of St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg. Photo: Father Joseph Espaillat, spiritual this is the only director of the Archdiocese of New York’s youth ministry office, elevates a monstrance during eucharistic possible way (Questions may be sent to Father adoration on June 25, 2016, as part of the Steubenville New York youth conference at St. John’s University in of effectively Kenneth Doyle at askfatherdoyle@ Jamaica, N.Y.) (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic) defending human gmail.com and 30 Columbia Circle lives against the Dr., Albany, New York 12203.) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020

COFFEY, Genevieve W., 94, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, March 20. Mother of Jane, Mary, Elliott, Michael and Timothy Coffey. Sister of John Rest in F. Coffey. Grandmother of 16. Great-grandmother of 16. peace ELLIOTT, Charles, W., 93, St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, May 29. Father of Frances Please submit in writing Ann Parrella, Susan to our office by 10 a.m. Robertson, Charles, Mark and Thursday before the week of Tony Elliott. Brother of Ann publication; be sure to state Schindler and Bill Elliott. date of death. Obituaries of Grandfather of 10. Great- archdiocesan priests serving grandfather of six. our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. ENDERS, Edward, 71, Order priests and religious St. Michael the Archangel, sisters and brothers are Indianapolis, June 1. Husband included here, unless they are of Patty Enders. Father of natives of the archdiocese or Cory Enders. Brother of have other connec­tions to it; Theresa Sublett. those are separate obituaries ENDRES, Leonard G., 87, on this page. St. Christopher, Indianapolis, June 7. Husband of Kathryn Endres. Father of Sally BATES, Elicia S., 22, Burnell, Suzy Evans, David St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis, and Mike Endres. Grandfather June 2. Daughter of Leon and of 10. Great-grandfather of Celesta Bates. Sister of Phillip five. Bates and Christopher Jones. Granddaughter of Leon Bates, FIELDS, Michael D., 64, Jr. Niece and cousin of several. St. John Paul II, Sellersburg, June 3. Husband of Carla BOERGER, John, 92, Fields. Father of Deanna COVID concern St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Taylor and Liz Fields. Son June 3. Father of Sharon of Charles and Betty Fields. A UNICEF worker helps an internally displaced Afghan girl put on a protective mask at a makeshift camp in Jalalabad in late June Freson, Janice Scheeler, Brother of Shirley Vaughn and during the COVID-19 pandemic. (CNS photo/Parwiz, Reuters) Charlene, Jim and Jerry Robert Fields. Boerger. Grandfather of 11. FIEREK, James H., 80, Great-grandfather of 15. GUIDI, Shirley M., 90, KELLY, Mary, 80, St. Jude, MEYER, Darlene (Freeland), Rhonda Novak, Phyllis St. Malachy, Brownsburg, St. Joseph, Shelbyville, April 27. Indianapolis, May 22. Mother 84, St. Mary, Greensburg, Richardson, Jody Webb and BOWMAN, Patricia A., 77, June 6. Father of Susan Hays, Mother of John and Robert of Dan Stevens, Keith and May 29. Wife of Leon Meyer. John Senefeld. Sister of St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Annie, Mary, Katie, Edward Guidi. Grandmother of 10. Mike Kelly. Grandmother of Mother of Christy Bokelman Jeroma Brown. Grandmother (Little Flower), Indianapolis, and Joe Fierek. Grandfather Great-grandmother of 17. two. Great-grandmother of and Suzanne Ritter. Sister of 13. Great-grandmother of June 8. Mother of Angelina of 11. and Elizabeth Bowman. HOFFMAN, Steven W., 61, five. of Jeanne Duvelius, Louise 25. FOLEY, Rita, 96, St. Theresa Sister of Kathy McGarvey. Holy Family, New Albany, KESSANS, Maxine, 83, Hammerle, Leroy and Walter SHEEHAN, Eileen M., 55, of the Infant Jesus (Little Grandfather of six. June 4., Husband of Terri St. Paul, Tell City, June 2. Freeland. Grandmother of five. St. Joseph, Shelbyville, May 3. Flower), Indianapolis, May 28. Hoffman. Father of Cheryl Wife of Dennis Kessans. Great-grandmother of six. Mother of Maureen Sheehan, CLEVENGER, Richard, Mother of Theresa Ball, Mary and Nick Hoffman. Brother Mother of Denise Schultz MOONEY, III, William J., Terri Strouse and Carol Pogoni. 95, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Hoover and Denise Shurts. of Karen Combs, Christy and Marty Kessans. Sister of 86, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Sister of Michael Sheehan. Richmond, June 5. Father of Lisa Grandmother of nine. Great- Hoffman-Smith, Sandy Helen Schaefer. Grandmother March 23. Husband of Shiela Pabst, Kate, James, Steve and grandmother of 21. Great- SHREWSBURY, Howard St. Louis, Bobby and Perry of three. Moynahan. Father of Kathleen Tom Clevenger. Grandfather of great-grandmother of two. F., 82, St. John Paul II, eight. Great-grandfather of 15. Hoffman. Grandfather of five. KOCH, Rose, 81, Mooney Jeffers, Patricia Sellersburg. June 1. Husband St. Nicholas, Ripley County, Mooney Lautenbach, Maura of Shirley Krum Shrewsbury. April 9. Wife of Ken Koch. Mooney Lee, Bridget Mooney Father of Beth McCubbins Mother of Sherry Colvin, Barb McIntyre, Eileen Mooney and Theresa Shrewsbury. Providence Sister Marianne Mader Houston, Doug, Jeff and Russ Waithall, Erin Mooney Young, Grandfather of two. Robert and William Mooney, IV. Koch. Sister of Kathy Case, SONNTAG, Robert, 85, ministered in Indianapolis for 35 years Don and Richard Feldman. Brother of Mary Jo Mooney Furgeson Carr, Anne Mooney All Saints Parish, Dearborn Grandmother of five. Great- County, June 9. Husband Providence Sister Marianne Mader (formerly ministered as an educator, librarian and in grandmother of three. Degnan and Michael Clune Sister Ann Eugene) died on June 7 at Mother other fields in Indianapolis for 35 years. She Mooney. Grandfather of 26. of Diana Sonntag. Father LEWIS, Patricia, 68, of Pamela Brashears, Julie Theodore Hall at the motherhouse of the Sisters was a teacher at the former St. Catherine of St. Bartholomew, Columbus, O’BRIEN, Michael D., 68, Douglas, Traci Jansen, Jodi of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods in Siena School from 1971-72 and at St. Philip June 9. Wife of Bob Lewis. St. Joan of Arc, Indianapolis, Lovell, Christine Upton, Scott St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 73. Neri School from 1972-77. Sister Marianne Mother of Kristin Crawford. June 13. Husband of Jackie McAdams, Robert and Steven Because of the coronavirus pandemic, served as a librarian at Community Hospital Sister of Al Roszczyk. Nytes. Father of Patrick Sonntag. Grandfather of 20. a virtual funeral service was held. Burial from 1978-93 and Holy Angels School from Grandmother of one. O’Brien. Brother of 12. Great-grandfather of eight. followed at the sisters’ cemetery. 2002-06. She worked as a medical information LITZINGER, Delores A., ODDI, Anthony P., 86, STITH, Sarah L., 86, Sister Marianne was born on Jan. 15, 1947, assistant at Crossroads Rehabilitation Center 79, St. Anthony of Padua, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, St. Mary-of-the-Knobs, in Indianapolis and grew up as a member of 1997-98 and as an instructional assistant at Morris, May 28. Wife of Emil June 13. Husband of Karen Floyd County, June 6. Wife St. Philip Neri Parish, and graduated from the Holy Spirit School from 1998-2002. Litzinger. Mother of Bob Oddi. Father of Katy Dukes, of Raymond Stith, Sr. Mother former St. Mary Academy. She entered the Returning to the motherhouse in 2006, Sister and Roger Litzinger. Sister Robin Langston, Cheryl Oddi- of Lisa King, Teresa Sims, Smith, Andrea and Kara Oddi. Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the- Marianne served on its archives staff from 2006-17 of James, John, Martin and Raymond, Jr., and Terry Stith. Robert Glaub. Grandmother Grandfather of nine. Great- Grandmother of six. Great- Woods on Aug. 30, 1967, and professed final and as a consultant to the archives from 2017-19. grandfather of two. vows on March 8, 1975. She is survived by two sisters, Roseanne of five. Great-grandmother of grandmother of nine. Sister Marianne earned a bachelor’s degree Huckleberry of Greenfield and Catherine Odle five. PEONI, Rosemary, 85, THORNBURG, Trent, 25, Good Shepherd, Indianapolis, in elementary education at Saint Mary-of-the- of Charlottesville, Ind., and two brothers, LOFTUS, Mary M., 92, Holy Family, Oldenburg, June 9. Mother of Paul Peoni. Woods College and a master’s degree in library Eugene and Gerald Mader, both of Greenfield. St. Mary, New Albany, June 2. June 2. Son of Mark Thornburg Mother of Gigi Gilstrap, Mary Sister of Carmela Kidwell. and Susan Bohman. Stepson science at Rosary College (now Dominican Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters Grandmother of two. University) in River Forest, Ill. of Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Ann Pinter, Dawn Quinlin and of Dale Bohman. Brother of Danny Loftus. Sister of Betty PEREZ-CASTRO, Jose M., Kayla Bork, Joseph Bohman, During her 53 years as a member of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- Hutchinson. Grandmother of 67, Prince of Peace, Madison, Devin Childers, Branson and the Sisters of Providence, Sister Marianne Woods, IN 47876. † 11. Great-grandmother of 18. May 31. Husband of Maria Matthew Thornburg. Grandson MATTINGLY, Barbara Ann, Bolivar De Perez. Father of Dick and Patricia Moeller 93, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, of Cesar, Jose and Manuel and Willard and Regina Providence Sister Edna Scheller March 12. Mother of Perez-Bolivar. Brother of Williamson. Step-grandson of Dolores Koepfer, Alice, Nahir and Felipe Perez-Castro. Richard and Paula Bohman. served in Catholic schools for 43 years Carol and Edward Mattingly. Grandfather of five. Nephew and cousin of several. Grandmother of three. RICKE, Rita J., 93, TUMILTY, Linda L., Providence Sister Edna Scheller died on California, Illinois, Indiana and North Carolina. MCCAULEY, Caroline M. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Mary, Greensburg, June 9. June 8 at Lourdes Hall at the motherhouse of In the archdiocese, she served in (Lynch), 90, Prince of Peace, New Albany, May 30. Mother Sister of Betty Hamilton, the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the- Indianapolis at the former St. Catherine of Madison, June 6. Wife of Donald of Kathy Kidd and Jeff Ricke. Margaret Hash, Sharon, John Woods in St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 88. Siena School from 1956-57, the former McCauley. Mother of Deborah Grandmother of two. Great- and Thomas Tumilty. Aunt of Because of the coronavirus pandemic, St. Bridget School from 1957-65, St. Luke Cross, Lynn Hughes, Donna, grandmother of two. several. a virtual funeral service was held. Burial the Evangelist School from 1965-68 and Daniel and Darren McCauley. ROBERTS, Suzanne, 90, URBANCIC, Louise, 92, followed at the sisters’ cemetery. St. Thomas Aquinas School from 1968-70. Grandmother of eight. Great- St. Lawrence, Indianapolis, St. Michael the Archangel, Sister Edna was born on May 28, 1932, She also ministered at the former Sacred Heart grandmother of seven. May 22. Mother of Barbara Indianapolis, June 1. Mother in Evansville, Ind. She entered the Sisters of School in Clinton as principal from 1993-2000. MCKELL, William E., 65, Stroud, Jane and Pete Roberts. of Lisa Maddingly, Leslie Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods on Sister Edna served at the motherhouse as St. Mary, Greensburg, May 30. Sister of Nancy Maley. Stonehouse, and Loren Grandmother of four. Urbancic. Grandmother of Jan. 8, 1950, and professed final vows on health care administrator from 1988-93 and as Brother of Connie Lonneman. three. Great-grandmother two. Aug. 15, 1957. a driver and coordinator of transportation from Uncle of several. SEIPEL, Donald L., 88, Sister Edna earned a bachelor’s degree in 2001-17. MERCER, Gerald, 78, St. Joseph, Corydon, May 28. VOWELS, Dianna, 71, education at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College She is survived by a brother, Thomas St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Father of Melissa McPhillips Nativity of Our Lord Jesus and Mark Seipel. Brother of Christ, Indianapolis, June 9. and a master’s degree in education at Indiana Scheller of Evansville. March 8. Father of Jill and Paul Seipel. Grandfather of two. Wife of Richard Vowels. University. Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters of John Mercer. Brother of Carol Sukolics and Chester Mercer. SENEFELD, Frances, 91, Mother of Megan Smith, During her 70 years as a member of the Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, Saint Nathan and Nolan Vowels. Sisters of Providence, Sister Edna ministered Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN Grandfather of five. Great- St. Michael, Brookville, June 5. grandfather of four. Mother of Linda Buchta, Grandmother of three. † as an educator for 43 years in schools in 47876. † The Criterion Friday, July 17, 2020 Page 11

Looking for a spiritual lift? ‘Choose’ this TV series By Ann Margaret Lewis faith-centered consultants, including a divinity make you want to Catholic priest, to give feedback. The follow him—as he should. During the primary months of content is therefore respectful of most, if Roumie has also appeared the COVID-19 shutdown, many of us not all, Christian faith traditions. as Jesus in the one- suddenly had time to catch up on our It is not a literal rendering of woman touring show of favorite shows. I personally binge- Scripture, though, but a work of biblical St. Faustina, so he might watched as many Jane Austin/Dickens- fiction that extrapolates plausible appear familiar to some. type costume dramas as I could. But situations from what we know from He is also an on-fire as Easter grew closer, I wanted to view Scripture. It does not deviate from the Catholic who leads the something more spiritually edifying. Bible, but creates a “universe” in which rosary and Divine Mercy By chance, my Facebook timeline biblical events occur and change the chaplet both on Facebook served up an ad for the first-ever lives of the people involved. Live and Instagram for his multi-season show on the life of Christ Characterization: Unlike most many virtual followers. called “The Chosen.” First launched in Christ-centric films, including the Other outstanding December of 2019 and independently acclaimed Zeffirelli mini-series “Jesus performances are those produced by evangelical filmmaker and of Nazareth,” each character in “The of Paras Patel as a quirky Pictured is a scene from “The Chosen,” the first-ever multi-season director Dallas Jenkins, it is hosted on Chosen” is unique. (possibly on the autism show on the life of Christ. (Photo courtesy of VidAngel Studios) the VidAngel streaming service and These first eight episodes highlight spectrum) Matthew, offered free through a downloadable select characters, namely Mary Shahar Isaac as a passionate, strong- series, they encourage you to contribute phone application (app) that can be cast Magdalene, Simon Peter, Matthew and willed Simon Peter, and Elizabeth to its further production by sharing it onto a smart television. Nicodemus. Tabish as a particularly sensitive Mary with a friend. Initially, I was dubious, as most But other characters, even minor Magdalene. By doing this, Jenkins and his crew Christian productions I’ve encountered ones—some mentioned in the Bible, Production value: This show is the have made a complete end-run around lacked depth and production value. But some not—stand out in their own way, number one crowd-funded project of the Hollywood system, ensuring his after seeing some clips, I decided to give including Andrew, James the Greater, all time at $10 million. Therefore, the production remains free of tinsel-town it 10 minutes of my time. James the Lesser, Thaddeus, Thomas and budget for each of the eight episodes is a marketing constraints. Brilliant. I downloaded the app to watch, and John; the Romans Quintus and Gaius; bit more than $1 million each. It shows. This is a great series to watch if you that 10 minutes turned into an hour, Zebedee and his wife and the denizens The costumes, locations, set design and can. It is available in 50 languages—so which then turned into binge-watching of what is called “the Red Quarter” of special effects are all top-notch. far. The first eight episodes were shared the entire eight episodes non-stop. I was Capernaum. Of special note is the “miracle of on YouTube during Holy Week and Easter hooked and excited for a second season, Jesus himself is featured in the third the fish,” a digital effect that looks and, as of this printing, at least the first which is now gearing up to go back into episode interacting with local children, spectacular, and the soundtrack which episode is still on its YouTube channel. production. where we see his humanity along with has a modern bluesy feel. (Believe it or Meanwhile, “The Chosen” app is As of this writing, I find that the flickers of his divinity, not so much in not, it works.) available through the Apple Store or series has been viewed 41 million what he says, but in how he reacts. The The only production element I’ve Google Play, and is consistently ranked in times and climbing. Likely this is Blessed Mother is also wonderfully heard criticized is the opening credit the top 50 entertainment apps on IOS and due to viewers watching it more than portrayed, especially when we reach the sequence, which I found compelling, Android. You can also watch it online at once. Before the end of Easter week, wedding feast at Cana. (I will not spoil being reminiscent of the credit sequences VidAngel.com or TheChosen.tv. I personally had watched through the it for you). designed by Hollywood legend Saul If you don’t have a computer or smart series three times to find all the details Acting: The most recognizable actor Bass (North by Northwest, Vertigo). phone or access to the VidAngel streaming I’d missed the first time. in the show is Erick Avari (Stargate, Funding: It’s odd to mention funding service, you can purchase the DVD through So, what makes this series so Independence Day, The Mummy), who in a review, but as I noted before, the TheChosen.tv website. It’s well worth watchable? plays Nicodemus. While the name might this was the world’s most successful the cost, and you’ll be contributing to Writing: This series is expertly not be familiar, his face is well-known as crowdfunding project, and the first future episodes by doing so. written with punchy, sometimes even a solid Hollywood character actor, and four episodes of its second season have Binge away! humorous, dialogue that flows easily, his performance here is outstanding. He already been funded this same way. and a complex storytelling structure literally made me weep for his character While the series is provided free on (Ann Margaret Lewis is executive and pacing that keep viewers engaged. multiple times. its phone app, viewers have the option assistant in the archdiocesan Office Interweaving storylines all lead to a Jonathan Roumie, who plays Jesus, is of “paying it forward” as a gift to others, of Communications and the author of strong season conclusion. also a standout. His warmth and gentle something that appeals to a Christian several books. E-mail her at alewis@ Jenkins also assembled a team of manliness combined with subtle hints of ethos. In other words, if you like the archindy.org.)​ †

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Recovered from coronavirus, retired priest finds joy in community By Sean Gallagher of Father Geis, were determined to do all they could to help him. Meals were prepared for him and delivered As he approached Holy Week in early April, retired to his home. He also received more than 125 cards Father John Geis started to carry his own cross. expressing parishioners’ prayers and support. The 84-year-old priest began experiencing symptoms of “Maybe that’s why I got better,” Father Geis said with the coronavirus. He lives in Decatur County which, at the a laugh. “God got tired of hearing people praying for me.” time, was a “hot spot” in the state for infections of the virus. His own prayer was important to him as he suffered He was soon tested for the virus in Batesville and from the virus. learned on April 6, Monday of Holy Week, that he had “Going through this brought me closer to God,” tested positive. His condition was good enough, though, Father Geis said. “You depend on his grace, help and that he did not have to be hospitalized and was able to healing. God is good. He’s got things in control whether remain at home. He lived there with his brother Albert, we think so or not.” who had also tested positive and later recovered. He celebrated Mass at home by himself, but the He is the only archdiocesan priest thus far to have experience helped him recognize the importance of tested positive for the virus. praying with parishioners. Throughout the solemn days leading up to Easter, “Celebrating with the community in prayer, is really, Father Geis ran a fever. Breathing deeply was difficult. for me, the thing that I missed the most,” Father Geis And he had little energy so accomplishing even the said. “I said Mass here at home. And I appreciated that smallest tasks was a challenge. privilege. But it’s just not like celebrating it with people.” “It really took the sap out of you,” he said. Prayer remained important for him as he recovered. Father Geis turned a corner, however, on April 12, Even though he suffered with symptoms of the Easter Sunday. That evening was the first time in about a coronavirus for a little more than a week, his recovery week that Father Geis no longer had a fever. time took several weeks. “It was wonderful,” he recalled in a recent interview “It took me a while to get back on my feet again,” with The Criterion. “It gave me life. I felt that I was he said. “I was totally out of breath. I’d try to go out to going to recover from this. I guess the Lord wanted me walk, and I’d be huffing and puffing trying to get my to get back to work.” breath back.” Work for the past nine years for him has included being He had recovered enough that he could return to a sacramental minister for St. Maurice Parish in Napoleon. St. Maurice and celebrate Mass with the parish on June As he suffered from the virus, Franciscan Sister 14, Trinity Sunday. Shirley Gerth, St. Maurice’s parish life coordinator, kept “It was just a joy to be with the people and to in touch with him. celebrate God’s presence,” Father Geis said. “It really “It was sad news,” she said. “Father John and I had stood out for me. What an experience.” been friends for a long time. I was very fearful that he “I’m not sure if I can put it into words,” said Sister might end up in a hospital on a ventilator. So, I was most Shirley. “It was so good to see him celebrate the grateful that that didn’t happen.” Eucharist. I knew he had such a desire to do that. It was Considering his age, previous health challenges he had so good to have him back.” experienced and that he was living in an area of the state Mary Bultman, a member of St. Maurice Parish, shared Father John Geis celebrates Mass on July 5 at St. Maurice especially hard hit by the virus at the time, the virus posed in the joy of having back the priest who has celebrated the Church in Napoleon. The 84-year-old retired priest has been a a real danger to Father Geis’ life. But he wasn’t worried. sacraments in the Batesville Deanery faith community. sacramental minister at the Batesville Deanery faith community “It didn’t bother me all that much,” he said. “I guess “Everybody felt so happy to see him and welcome him since 2011. He is the only archdiocesan priest thus far to have I thought about [the possibility of dying], but I didn’t back,” Bultman said. “He’s part of our family. We missed tested positive for the coronavirus. He was diagnosed with it in dwell on it. I just wanted to get better.” him when he wasn’t there. For him to recover from COVID April, but was able to return to Napoleon to celebrate Mass on Sister Shirley and her parishioners, as well as relatives at his age and health situation was like a miracle.” † June 7. (Submitted photo)

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