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By Sean Gallagher

ST. MEINRAD—When the votes were being announced one by one on June 2, Benedictine Father Kurt Stasiak kept hearing his name called out as he and his fellow monks sat together in a room adorned with paintings of monastic virtues and Christ in glory. Father Kurt closed his eyes and had a “peaceful feeling” as the votes confirmed Archabbot in his mind that his Kurt Stasiak, O.S.B. fellow monks were asking him to serve See related editorial, as their new leader. page 4. When the necessary number of votes for a successful election was reached, the abbot president of the Swiss-American Congregation, an organization of Benedictine monasteries in the United States, asked Father Kurt if he was willing to accept the leadership position. At peace with the will of the community, Father Kurt responded, “With the help of God, I am willing.” Father Kurt thus became Archabbot Kurt, only the 10th abbot and seventh archabbot in the 162-year history of Saint Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad. He succeeds Benedictine Father Justin DuVall, whose Transitional Deacon Anthony Hollowell is deep in prayer during the Transitional Deacon James Brockmeier prepares to proclaim the resignation as archabbot took effect the archdiocesan seminarian retreat on Aug. 11, 2015, at St. Mary Church Gospel during the chrism Mass on March 22 at SS. Peter and Paul same day as the election. in New Albany. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) Cathedral in Indianapolis. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) Elected on Dec. 31, 2004, Father Justin announced in January his intention to resign on June 2. Abbots in the Swiss-American Guided by God’s grace, ‘Light of Christ’ leads Congregation are elected to an indefinite term. From the time of his announcement transitional Deacon transitional Deacon James until the day of the election, the monastic community met several times to discern the Anthony Hollowell begins Brockmeier on the road to qualities they desired in their next leader and which monks might have them. his ultimate adventure the priesthood Soon after Archabbot Kurt accepted his election, news of it was passed on to the By John Shaughnessy By John Shaughnessy See KURT, page 2 The feeling of incredible grace overwhelmed transitional Transitional Deacon James Brockmeier loves movies, Deacon Anthony Hollowell as he stood right next to especially coming-of-age films where the young main Pope Francis. character is initially pictured as shy and uncertain before He watched in awe as Pope Francis raised the Eucharist embracing a moment that reveals his growth and conviction. toward the heavens during a Mass earlier this year at At 26, Deacon Brockmeier had one of those moments in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. And the power of that his own life at the National Catholic Youth Conference in moment continued minutes later as the 34-year-old deacon Indianapolis in November of 2015. He had been chosen to prepared to share a sign of peace with the pope. proclaim the Gospel and serve at the conference’s closing “I laid my head on his shoulder and squeezed his Mass in Lucas Oil Stadium, sharing the word of God with arms hard, and I felt the embrace of a holy man,” recalls 26,000 people from around the country and the world, Deacon Hollowell, who has been in Rome the past four years, including a cardinal, 18 bishops and 250 priests. studying and preparing for the priesthood. Before the Mass, the thought of speaking at “the It was all part of a moment that he considers as “one of biggest experience of being at Church” he’s ever had was the greatest days of my life”—a moment that reflects his nerve-racking and intimidating for him. But when the complete embrace of the Catholic Church and his approaching moment arrived, he found an inner calm—even with a large ordination as a priest in the archdiocese on June 25. camera boom close to his face, projecting his image onto big It was also a moment that Deacon Hollowell never screens inside the stadium. imagined seven years ago. At that time, he was so restless and As he looked out on the youths and remembered being so lost about what to do with his life that he bought a one-way at the same conference when he was 14, he had one prayer ticket to Mexico “to travel, to continue to learn Spanish and to for them. get certified in scuba diving.” “In the midst of this huge celebration of the Eucharist, And yet even that time of restless searching is one of Jesus is giving himself to us for the whole Church, but he’s four defining moments that helps explain the person that also calling each person to receive the Eucharist and be close Deacon Hollowell is, and the priest he will be. to him. It was my prayer that they could feel that kind of See HOLLOWELL, page 8 See BROCKMEIER, page 9 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016

he said. “I feel very much like this is the KURT place where I was meant to be, because it continued from page 1 was so hard to get here. It was so unlikely for me to be here, all things considered— novices and junior monks who have not my birth, my history. So many things yet professed solemn, lifelong vows and had to happen or not happen for me to had not participated in the election. end up here.” They then began to ring all six of Archabbot Kurt came to Saint Meinrad the bells in the monastery’s Archabbey for the first time in 1970 as a Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln. college freshman seminarian for the Hearing those bells shook Archabbot Diocese of Richmond, Va. Although Kurt out of his peacefulness and into turned off at first by the life of the the enormity of what had just happened monastic community, by the time of Above, Benedictine Archabbot Kurt Stasiak in his life. his graduation in 1974, he had come to reflects on his June 2 election as the “It was starting to sink in,” value it enough to seek acceptance as a 10th abbot and seventh archabbot of Archabbot Kurt said during a June 6 novice in it. Saint Meinrard Archabbey in St. Meinrad during press conference. “Oh my gosh. I’m the He professed vows as a monk a year a June 6 press conference at the monastery’s one who was elected abbot. It was an later, and was ordained a priest in 1980. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology. emotional time.” After completing graduate studies in (Photo by Sean Gallagher) The intensity of his emotions only Rome, Archabbot Kurt taught sacramental increased when, a few minutes later— and liturgical theology in Saint Meinrad Left, Benedictine Archabbot Kurt Stasiak, now wearing a pectoral cross and sitting Seminary and School of Theology. right, accepts a pledge of obedience from in the presider’s chair in the Archabbey He has also served in the Benedictine Father Ephrem Carr, left, on Church—he received his fellow monks administration of the seminary as its June 2 in the Archabbey Church of Our Lady one by one. Each ritually placed their director of spiritual formation and of Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. The monks of hands in his as they professed their as vice rector. Saint Meinrad Archabbey had just elected their obedience to him and gave him a In the monastery, Archabbot Kurt has new leader, and one by one ritually pledged sign of peace. ministered as vocations director and as obedience to him and exchanged a sign of peace It was “psychologically, spiritually and secretary to the archabbot. He served with him. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) emotionally profound—very moving,” as prior, second in leadership in the he said. monastery, from 2010 until his election the “very friendly” relationship that you those skills and attitudes to enable “Now I’m their abbot,” added on June 2. the monastic community has had with you to [serve as abbot]. Archabbot Kurt, who will be formally Living as a monk for more than the Archdiocese of Indianapolis from “I want to continue to be grateful, installed in his office during an 40 years and serving in leadership in the its beginning. to be aware of how much I can offer abbatial blessing Mass on July 26 at monastery makes Archabbot Kurt keenly Some 80 percent of current Saint Meinrad by calling out the skills and the monastery. “They’re looking at me aware of both the weight of his office, archdiocesan priests received at least talents of my confreres. That’s what my as their abbot. Not that I’m better, but and the help he will receive from his part of their priestly formation at abbots have primarily done for me over more is being asked of me now. They’re fellow monks. Saint Meinrad. Archabbot Kurt said he the years.” expecting more. That’s a humbling thing “The abbot is far from being a could walk into a meeting of priests Those abbots all wore the pectoral and certainly a privileged feeling.” one-person job,” he said. “That would be serving in central and southern Indiana cross that Archabbot Kurt has worn since It’s a feeling, though, that he readily crushing. That would be impossible. and “see 50 people I taught in class.” his election. admits he could have easily never “When you’re elected abbot, the Most of the archdiocese’s permanent The night after he was elected, he slept experienced if a few things at the community is obviously calling you to do deacons and many lay ministers peacefully until he happened to wake beginning of his life had been different. something. And the way you get that done serving in parishes across central and up at about 3 a.m. and saw the light of a Archabbot Kurt was born in Germany is to turn it around and call the community southern Indiana have also been formed nightlight in his monastic cell reflect on to German parents in 1952. His father to contribute and become more active in for ministry at Saint Meinrad. something unusual. died five weeks after he was born and his the life and the running of the monastery.” While he is aware of the effect he has “I kept on looking at it and twisted my birth mother, with two older sons also to One of the things Archabbot Kurt had on so many of his fellow monks, head,” Archabbot Kurt said. “I had never care for, soon knew that she could not also thinks his fellow monks have called him diocesan priests and lay Catholics through seen this thing before and was trying to provide for her baby. to do is to continue drawing young men to his teaching and ministry as a monk and figure out what this strange thing was. I He was then adopted by the monastery. It currently has 13 monks priest, Archabbot Kurt hopes that his finally realized that it was this.” Joseph Stasiak, an American Air Force in their 20s or early 30s election will change his life. He pointed to his pectoral cross that officer stationed in Germany, and his wife “They give us a lot of hope for the “I think I’m a grateful person and a he was wearing around his neck and was Suzanne. Although baptized a Lutheran, future,” he said. “We want to capitalize on thankful person. I would like to become laying across his chest. Archabbot Kurt was raised in the Catholic that hope, take advantage of that energy that even more,” he said. “When you enter “I thought, ‘Oh my God. I’m the abbot’ faith of his adoptive parents and fully and, those of us who are older, regain something like this, you’re really aware at 3:00 in the morning,” he said. initiated into it. some youthful enthusiasm ourselves.” of the people that have built you up, have He added with a smile, “I moved it the “In so many ways, I shouldn’t be here,” Archabbot Kurt also hopes to maintain made you who you are and have taught next night.” † Pope Francis approves statutes of new office for laity, family, life VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The new Vatican office for The Pontifical Council for the Laity, currently with special attention to the poor and the marginalized.” laity, family and life will begin functioning on Sept. 1, and headed by Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, had been charged The current head of the Pontifical Council for the the separate pontifical councils for laity and for the family with overseeing the apostolate of the laity and “their Family is Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia. will “cease their functions,” the Vatican announced. participation in the life and mission of the Church,” both The new office’s section for life will coordinate Pope Francis has not named the new officers of the as individuals and through organizations and movements. activities to encourage responsible procreation and the expanded office, but the statutes specify that it will be While the new office’s section for the lay faithful will protection of human life from conception to its natural headed by a cardinal or a bishop, will have a secretary continue the former pontifical council’s mission, it will end, the Vatican press release stated. It will also promote “who may be a layperson,” and three undersecretaries also “encourage the active and responsible presence of the “formation on the main issues of biomedicine and of the who will be laypeople. laity in the advisory organs of governance present in the law regarding human life and the ideologies developing in The Vatican published the statutes of the new office on Church at the universal and particular levels.” relation to human life and gender identity.” June 4, and explained that the office would be responsible The section for the family will continue the mission The Pontifical Academy for Life will continue to “for the promotion of the life and apostolate of the lay of the Pontifical Council for Family established by exist as a separate entity studying life issues and will faithful, for the pastoral care of the family and its mission St. John Paul II on May 9, 1981, to promote pastoral refer to the new office in its dealings, according to the according to God’s plan, and for the protection and ministries and apostolates aimed at supporting families new statutes. support of human life.” and the defense of human life. It will also “offer Pope Francis approved the statutes “ad experimentum” Each section—for the lay faithful, for the family, guidelines for courses preparing couples for marriage and (on a trial basis) for an unspecified period of time. Neither and for life—will be led by an undersecretary, the press for pastoral programs to support families in the education the press release nor the statutes provided the official statement said. of young people in faith and in ecclesial and civil life, name of the new office. †

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VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Like the Good Shepherd, good priests do not privatize their time and demand to be left alone, but rather are always willing to risk everything in search of the lost sheep, Pope Francis said at the closing Mass of the Jubilee for Priests and Seminarians. “He stands apart from no one, but is always ready to dirty his hands. A good shepherd doesn’t know what gloves are,” the pope said on June 3. Celebrating the feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus with thousands of priests in St. Peter’s Square, the pope said the feast serves as a call to contemplate two hearts: “the heart of the Good Shepherd and our own heart as priests.” “The heart of the Good Shepherd reaches out to us, above all to those who are most distant. There the needle of his compass inevitably points, there we see a particular ‘weakness’ of his love, which desires to embrace all and lose none,” he said. The feast also serves as a reminder to priests to ask themselves toward which direction their hearts gear and which treasure they seek. “There are weaknesses in all of us, even sins, but let’s go deeper, to the roots. Where are the roots of our weaknesses, of our sins? Where is that treasure that distances us from the Lord?” he asked. A good priest, he continued, does not have a “fluttering heart” that is easily taken by “momentary whims” and “petty satisfactions,” but is “firmly rooted in the Lord” despite his own sins. Departing several times from his prepared homily, the pope gave them advice: seek and include those who are far away, and live joyfully. He also lamented those in the priestly ministry Priests pray the Lord’s Prayer as Pope Francis celebrates Mass for the Jubilee of Priests in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on June 3. The who set aside private time and space, or demand Mass was an event of the Holy Year of Mercy. (CNS photos/Paul Haring) to be left alone rather than give their lives in the service of others. “Woe to the shepherds who privatize their ministry,” he said. “A shepherd after the heart of God does not protect his own comfort zone; he is not worried about protecting his good name; he will be slandered like Jesus. But rather, without fearing criticism, he is disposed to take risks in seeking to imitate his Lord. Blessed are you when they insult you, when they persecute you,” he said. A good shepherd excludes none of his flock and does “not await greetings and compliments,” but is the first one who reaches out to others, listening patiently to their problems and accompanying them with compassion. “He does not scold those who wander off or lose their way, but is always ready to bring them back and to resolve difficulties and disagreements. He is a man who knows how to include,” the pope said. A priest with the spirit of the Good Shepherd is “changed by the mercy that he freely gives,” Above, Pope Francis elevates the Eucharist as he celebrates Mass for and is happy to be a channel of mercy that brings the Jubilee of Priests in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on June 3. Also “men and women closer to the heart of God,” pictured is Nigerian Cardinal Francis Arinze. The Mass was an event of the Pope Francis said. Holy Year of Mercy. “Sadness for him is not the norm, but only a step along the way; harshness is foreign to him, Right, Pope Francis greets priests after celebrating a Mass for the Jubilee because he is a shepherd after the meek heart of of Priests in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican on June 3. The Mass was an God,” he said. † event of the Holy Year of Mercy. Pope Francis to appoint advisory board in removing negligent bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis will set up a adults from abuse, a “serious” lack of due diligence “is Eastern Churches. panel of legal experts to help him in deciding whether to sufficient” grounds for removal. If a bishop’s removal is deemed appropriate, the remove a religious superior or bishop from office for failing The new procedures are “clearly an important congregation will produce, “in the briefest time possible, to protect minors and vulnerable and positive step forward by Pope Francis,” said the decree for removal,” the new norms said. adults from sex abuse. U.S. Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, head of the The congregation will then “fraternally exhort the Vatican offices will continue to Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors. bishop to present his resignation within 15 days. If the investigate claims of negligence The measures are meant to establish “a clear and bishop does not give his response in the time called for, the on the part of bishops, ordinaries transparent means for ensuring greater accountability in congregation will be able to issue the decree for removal,” or religious superiors under their how we, as leaders of the Church, handle cases of the it said. jurisdiction. But the pope—who abuse of minors and vulnerable adults,” he said in a written In every case, the congregation’s decision must be makes the final decision about a statement, released on June 4. “We are grateful that our approved of by the pope, who—before making that final bishop’s removal from office— Holy Father has received the recommendations from our decision—will be assisted by a “college of jurists” he has will now be assisted by a papally commission members, and that they have contributed to this appointed, it said. appointed “college of jurists,” new and significant initiative.” The “college” would be a sort of review board, that is, a according to procedures that take While all members of the Church have a duty to body of advisers and not a tribunal, Jesuit Father Federico Pope Francis effect on Sept. 5. safeguard and protect children and others from abuse, Lombardi told Catholic News Service on June 6. In an apostolic letter given bishops of dioceses and eparchies, apostolic administrators He said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “motu proprio” (on his own initiative), dated June 4, the and vicars, and those who lead a territorial prelature or would not be involved in these investigations since the pope reaffirmed that bishops of a diocese or eparchy and abbacy must be especially diligent “in protecting the accusations do not deal with the crime of abuse, but with those responsible for other kinds of particular churches can weakest of those entrusted to them,” the pope’s letter said. “negligence of governance.” be “legitimately removed” for negligence. It said the heads of religious orders also come under the The proposal last year by the Council of Cardinals to In order for it to be grounds for removal, such same standards of due diligence. have the doctrinal office investigate and judge claims of negligence—either through omission or commission— With the new procedures, wherever there is a serious “abuse of office” by bishops who allegedly failed to protect will have had to cause “serious harm to others,” including indication of negligence, the Vatican congregation charged minors had only been a suggestion, Father Lombardi said, individuals or a community, the letter said, and “the harm with overseeing a particular jurisdiction “can begin an and “it never existed” as an established procedure. can be physical, moral, spiritual” or to property. investigation.” The offices include the Congregation for The new procedures spelled out in the “motu proprio” The letter clarified that it normally takes a “very serious” Bishops, the Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated came after a year of study by numerous experts, he said, lack of due diligence for a bishop to be removed. However, Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, the Congregation for and are meant to address the need for greater accountability when it comes to a failing to protect children and vulnerable the Evangelization of Peoples, and the Congregation for by bishops and superiors of religious orders. † Page 4 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016

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Be Our Guest/Mark Gasper Reader says editorial offers word games, semantics that Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 Most Rev. Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor confuse faithful Catholics Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus I don’t understand what has 1. “The number of unauthorized happened to my Catholic Church. I immigrants in the United States … truly don’t. I’m not a perfect person, leveled off to 11.3 million in 2014.” Editorial just a sinner working toward a place in 2. “The Mexican unauthorized heaven through the grace of God. immigrant population … has I was taught from childhood to love declined … to 5.6 million in 2014.” God, to obey the law, to show charity 3. “ … for more Hispanics to enter toward others. I believe in charity. I this country legally. Right now, it’s also believe in obeying the law—all nearly impossible because quotas laws. fill up so quickly, and the usual In the May 27 issue of wait is 10 years. Would you wait The Criterion, Editor Emeritus that long?” John F. Fink made numerous 4. “Should there be a ‘national law assertions regarding the contentious enforcement effort to deport’ all subject of “illegal aliens”—his immigrants here illegally? … words—in his editorial. 17 percent of the public favored According to any interpretation or such an effort.” definition of the word “illegal,” the 5. “Unauthorized immigrants make word is synonymous with “against up … 5.1 percent of the U.S. labor the law.” I don’t understand why force.” something that is against the law, or One might consider such facts someone doing it, can be a source of from Fink as being damning for confusion or multiple interpretations. anyone who is in favor of condoning It seems that Fink is asking and encouraging further illegal Catholics to apply a selective immigration. But he chooses to treat application of the law in some these facts lightly, and to condemn Benedictine Archabbot Kurt Stasiak stands next to the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of Einsiedeln instances, or to turn a blind eye those who oppose further illegal in St. Meinrad on June 6. The monks of Saint Meinrad Archabbey elected Archabbot Kurt to be their in other instances. He also wants immigration. Is this how we were 10th abbot and seventh archabbot in the monastery’s 162-year history on June 2. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) to change the word “illegal” to taught? Is this how our Lord and “unauthorized.” Savior taught us? Are we to obey As a law-abiding Catholic, I am the laws which are convenient, and Welcome, Archabbot Kurt confused as to how to view such ignore those which are not? Are we games of semantics. Am I now to base our actions on polls, opinions, On June 2, the monks of Saint Meinrad which Benedictines call the Work of God, or allowed to pick and choose which editorials and word games? Archabbey in St. Meinrad elected the in the apostolic works that the community is activities I consider “illegal,” which I I need to know. Catholics need 10th abbot and seventh archabbot in their called to carry out consistent with its monastic consider “unauthorized” and which I to know. We also need to stand community’s history. Benedictine Father way of life. consider “justified”? Would someone up for what is dogmatically right, Kurt Stasiak was chosen by his brother The Bible verse, “If the Lord does not with heavenly insight please explain? and not for an ad hominem attack monks to become their spiritual father and, build the house, in vain do the builders labor” Here are verbatim extracts from on a person or group because they as proscribed by the Rule of St. Benedict, to (Ps 127:1), is as true for monks as it is for the Fink’s editorial, not interpretations hold a different constitutionally take the place of Christ in the monastery. Church as a whole. We must all cooperate with of his meaning or his words—these protected viewpoint. Archabbot Kurt is a soft-spoken, humble God’s grace, but we should never presume that are his actual words. I ask all people man. He has served as prior (second in we can do anything of significance or value of faith, Catholics and otherwise, (Mark Gasper is a member of leadership) for the past six years, and before without it. to decide their level of comfort or St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in that as vocation director and secretary to This means that Archabbot Kurt has his outrage at his assertions: Indianapolis.) † the archabbot. work cut out for him. St. Benedict’s Rule In addition, he has taught sacramental admonishes the abbot to “always bear in mind theology and served as vice-rector, provost what a burden he has taken on himself.” He Letter to the Editor and director of spiritual formation at further counsels the abbot to “be well-versed in Saint Meinrad Seminary School of Theology. the Divine Law, that he may know whence to Hispanic neighbors I am so very glad that our Hispanic He is a man of experience and learning, bring forth new things and old.” brothers and sisters have chosen our and he brings to his new responsibilities the Again, the virtue of discretion is key to the are gentle, kind, great nation to enhance and help to be combination of discretion and moderation abbot’s success. Of course, the abbot must a better place. We have lost our way that St. Benedict admonishes the abbot to himself be a man of virtue. “He must be chaste, thoughtful and in many respects, and we need their possess. “Let him be discreet and moderate sober, and merciful.” selfless, reader says influx to help keep our eyes on the in the tasks which he imposes, bearing in And in words that are especially familiar to prize—Christ—and to remind us of mind the discretion of Jacob when he said: us during this Holy Year of Mercy, St. Benedict Thank you, Mr. John F. Fink, for what is important and what is worth If I cause my flock to be overdriven, they decrees that the abbot must “always exalt your editorial concerning immigration nurturing. I envy their family attitude, will all die one day” (Rule of St. Benedict, mercy above judgment that he himself may find in this country in the May 27 issue of their work ethic and their faith focus. Chapter 64). mercy. Let him love the brethren while hating The Criterion. I am grateful for the We would do well to emulate them. The Church in central and southern their vices.” statistics you provided that help give Indiana welcomes Archabbot Kurt to this Finally, knowing something about the us a clearer picture of what is really Mary Schott new position of spiritual and temporal burdens of abbatial leadership from his own— going on. Indianapolis leadership. Saint Meinrad is a treasure that sometimes painful—experience, St. Benedict I volunteer at the only North has graced this local Church since the first warns the abbot “not to be turbulent and Deanery parish to have an Hispanic monastery—a primitive log cabin—was overanxious, over-exacting and headstrong, outreach. When our Hispanic minister Letters Policy solemnly dedicated on property located jealous and prone to suspicion, for otherwise is present, the door and the phone about six miles south of Ferdinand, Ind., on he will never have rest” (Rule of St. Benedict, are pretty busy. I don’t understand Letters from readers are published March 21, 1854. Chapter 64). a word of Spanish, but I have never in The Criterion as part of the The monks’ prayer and work has enriched To carry out these responsibilities without encountered a person or family in newspaper’s commitment to “the the Church in this region immeasurably. undue anxiety or turbulence, Archabbot Kurt need of services or attention that were responsible exchange of freely-held It has provided a refuge for visitors and will need the help of our prayers. He will also rude, impatient, unkind or pushy. I and expressed opinion among the retreatants from all over the world; it has need the wise counsel and fraternal support have always experienced our Hispanic People of God” (Communio et Progressio, 116). provided exceptional pastoral formation of monks, diocesan clergy and lay leaders neighbors as gentle, kind, thoughtful Letters from readers are welcome for priests, deacons and lay leaders; it has who love Saint Meinrad and wish to see the and selfless. They are very welcoming and should be informed, relevant, given profound witness to the renewal community flourish now and in the future. and patient with my language well-expressed, concise, temperate in of the sacred liturgy and the Church’s Archabbot Kurt, welcome to your new ignorance. tone, courteous and respectful. musica sacra; and it has been a model ministry in the Church as Archabbot of I have attended a few of their The editors reserve the right to of fidelity to authentic Catholic faith and Saint Meinrad. Please be assured of our religious services out of curiosity and select and edit the letters based on practice during times of great turmoil in our prayers, our counsel and our support. May a desire to experience their fervency space limitations, pastoral sensitivity Church’s history. you be a good and faithful steward of the great firsthand. I am astounded at the depth and content. Archabbot Kurt assumes his new role gift that Saint Meinrad is to the Church. And of their dedication to their traditions. Letters must be signed, but, for at a time when the monastic community may our Lord grant you the gift of discretion, It is a beautiful thing to behold. It serious reasons, names may be at Saint Meinrad is stable and secure in its which St. Benedict calls the mother of virtue, reminds me of our glory days of the withheld. witness to the Benedictine way of life. At so that “the strong may find something sixties, when I was always an angel in Send letters to “Letters to the same time, like every other Catholic they will do with zeal and the weak will the processions at Sacred Heart Parish. the Editor,” The Criterion, institution in the United States today, Saint not be disheartened” (Rule of St. Benedict, While I have no idea what gets 1400 N. Meridian Street, Meinrad cannot take its future for granted. Chapter 64). talked about in the office next to the Indianap­olis, IN 46202-2367. Readers with access to e-mail may Nor can it presume growth—in vocations, reception area, I always encounter send letters to [email protected]. in the praying of the Liturgy of the Hours, —Daniel Conway grateful individuals as they walk out the door. They humble me to no end. The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Page 5

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Bible is full of love stories, family crises ope Francis begins his apostolic trivialized or turned into an idol (a false pages of the Bible,” the pope tells us their horrendous sins against him—and exhortation , “Amoris Laetitia” god) but honored as “a true, living icon (“The Joy of Love,” #20). Even the his Father raised him up victorious. Jesus P(“The Joy of Love”), with a … capable of revealing God the Creator Holy Family (Jesus, Mary and Joseph) overcame the horrors of sin and death, reflection on images of love, marriage and Savior. For this reason, fruitful love encountered the violence of King Herod and he assures us that we, too, can rise and family life in the Bible. No modern becomes a symbol of God’s inner life” which caused them to flee to Egypt with him on the last day if only we can family crisis is without precedence in (“The Joy of Love,” #10-11). where they experienced the plight of unburden our hearts and follow him on sacred Scripture. The biblical experiences The loving union of Adam, a man, homeless refugees. “Jesus knows the the way of life. of the Jewish people and the early and Eve, a woman, begins the story of anxieties and tensions experienced by This is the ultimate goal of every Christians fully anticipates the crises we humanity. Their joys, and the sorrows families, and he weaves them into his human life—and of every marriage and experience today—not in their particular caused by their own sinfulness, set parables: children who leave home to family—to be united with Christ at the details, of course, but in the emotional the stage for the drama that unfolds seek adventure (Lk 15:11-32) or who end of our life’s journey when God “will and psychological impacts they have on throughout history. The sin of our first prove troublesome (Mt 21:28-31) or fall wipe away every tear from their eyes, and individuals, families and communities. parents, and the sins of their descendants, prey to violence (Mk 12:1-9).” death shall be no more, neither shall there From the very beginning, the Bible tarnish but do not erase the image of God Jesus is not a naïve romantic or be mourning nor crying nor pain any tells us, families have experienced the that all human beings reflect. Love is optimist. He is the Divine Realist, the more” (Rev 21:4). joys of love and the sorrows of violence. weakened by sin, but it endures through one who knows our troubles and is ready, “Every family should look to the But in the end, love, marriage and the the power of God’s grace. willing and able to help us overcome icon of the Holy Family of Nazareth,” family will endure—as witnessed by the Pope Francis writes that “the idyllic whatever troubles we may face as Pope Francis reminds us. “Its daily prophetic last page of the New Testament picture” presented in the Bible “is individuals, couples or families. life had its share of burdens and even where “We behold the wedding feast of not at odds with the bitter truth found “The word of God is not a series nightmares” (“The Joy of Love,” #30). the Bride and the Lamb” (Rev 21:2, 9). throughout sacred Scripture, that is, the of abstract ideas,” Pope Francis says, When we have marriage or family “The majestic early chapters of presence of pain, evil and violence that “but rather a source of comfort and troubles, let’s look to the Bible. There we Genesis present the human couple in its breaks up families and their communion companionship for every family that can find comfort, inspiration and hope for deepest reality,” the pope writes. “God of life and love” (“The Joy of Love,” experiences difficulties or suffering” the future. created man in his own image, in the #19). God’s word does not minimize (“The Joy of Love,” #22). Jesus, Mary and Joseph, sustain all image of God he created them; male and the crises faced by married couples In the end, love endures. The death of married couples and their families as they female he created them” (“The Joy of and families during the course of Jesus on the cross was the ultimate source seek to be united in love. Help them to Love,” #10; Gen 1:27). human history. of pain and distress for his sorrowing forgive all hurts—real or imagined—and Human sexuality is an image, a visible “This thread of suffering and mother, but it was not the last word. give them the strength to endure now and sign, of God’s creative love. It is not to be violence runs through numerous Jesus forgave his enemies—in spite of always! †

La biblia está repleta de historias de amor y crisis familiares l papa Francisco comienza #10; Gen 1:27). historia humana. madre, pero no fue la última palabra. su exhortación apostólica La sexualidad humana es una imagen, “Es un sendero de sufrimiento y de Jesús perdonó a sus enemigos, a pesar de E“Amoris Laetitia” (“La alegría un signo visible del amor creativo de Dios sangre que atraviesa muchas páginas de los horribles pecados que habían cometido del amor”), con una reflexión sobre que no debe convertirse en algo trivial la Biblia,” comenta el Papa (“La alegría contra él, y su Padre lo resucitó, victorioso. las imágenes del amor, el matrimonio ni en un ídolo (un falso dios), sino que del amo” #20). Incluso la Sagrada Familia Jesús superó los horrores del pecado y y la vida familiar representadas en la debemos honrarla como “la verdadera (Jesús, María y José) enfrentó la violencia de la muerte y nos asegura que nosotros Biblia. Toda crisis moderna tiene un “escultura” viviente [...] capaz de del rey Herodes que los obligó a escapar también podemos resucitar junto con él en precedente en las Sagradas Escrituras. manifestar al Dios creador y salvador. a Egipto donde se encontraron en la grave el día final, pero solamente si deslastramos Las experiencias bíblicas del pueblo judío Por eso el amor fecundo llega a ser el situación de ser refugiados y sin hogar. nuestros corazones y lo seguimos en el y de los primeros cristianos anticipan símbolo de las realidades íntimas de Dios” Jesús “conoce las ansias y las tensiones sendero de la vida. a cabalidad las crisis que vivimos hoy (“La alegría del amor,” #11). de las familias incorporándolas en sus Esa es la meta suprema de cada vida en día. Por supuesto no en cuanto a los La historia de la humanidad comienza parábolas: desde los hijos que dejan humana y de cada matrimonio y familia: detalles específicos, pero sí con respecto con la unión amorosa entre Adán, un sus casas para intentar alguna aventura estar unidos en Cristo al final de la al impacto emocional y psicológico que hombre, y Eva, una mujer. Sus alegrías (cf. Lc 15:11-32) hasta los hijos difíciles jornada de la vida cuando Dios “enjugará causan en las personas, las familias y las y el dolor provocado por sus propios con comportamientos inexplicables las lágrimas de sus ojos. Ya no habrá comunidades. pecados sentaron el precedente del (cf. Mt 21:28-31) o víctimas de la muerte, ni luto, ni llanto, ni dolor” (Ap 21:4). La Biblia nos relata que desde los drama que se desarrollará a lo largo de violencia (cf. Mc 12:1-9).” El papa Francisco nos recuerda que albores de la humanidad las familias toda la historia. El pecado de nuestros Jesús no es un romántico ingenuo ni “ante cada familia se presenta el icono de han sentido la alegría del amor y el primeros padres y los de sus descendientes un optimista empedernido. Es el Realista la familia de Nazaret, con su cotidianeidad sufrimiento de la violencia. Pero al manchan la imagen de Dios que todos los Divino, aquel que conoce nuestras hecha de cansancios y hasta de pesadillas” final, el amor, el matrimonio y la vida seres humanos irradian, pero no la borran. tribulaciones y está listo, dispuesto y es (“La alegría del amor,” #30). Recurramos familiar prevalecerán, según el testimonio El pecado debilita al amor pero este resiste capaz de ayudarnos a superar cualquier a la biblia cuando tengamos dificultades profético que encontramos en la última mediante el poder de la gracia de Dios. problema que enfrentemos como personas, maritales o familiares. Allí encontraremos página del Nuevo Testamento “donde El Santo Padre dice que “el idilio” parejas o familias. consuelo, inspiración y esperanza para el aparecen las bodas de la Esposa y del que se ilustra en la Biblia “no niega una “La palabra de Dios no se muestra futuro. Cordero” (cf. Ap 21:2,9). realidad amarga que marca todas las como una secuencia de tesis abstractas— Jesús, María y José auxilian a los “Los dos grandiosos primeros Sagradas Escrituras. Es la presencia del expresa el papa Francisco—sino como matrimonios y sus familias en su búsqueda capítulos del Génesis nos ofrecen la dolor, del mal, de la violencia que rompen una compañera de viaje también para las de mantenerse unidos en el amor. Los representación de la pareja humana en la vida de la familia y su íntima comunión familias que están en crisis o en medio de ayudan a perdonar todas las ofensas, reales su realidad fundamental,” escribe el de vida y de amor” (“La alegría del amor,” algún dolor” (“La alegría del amor,” #22). o creadas, y les brindan fortaleza para Papa. “Dios creó al hombre a su imagen, #19). La palabra de Dios no minimiza las Al final, el amor prevalece. La muerte prevalecer hoy y siempre. † a imagen de Dios lo creó, varón y crisis que han enfrentado los matrimonios de Jesús en la cruz fue la máxima prueba mujer los creó” (“La alegría del amor,” y las familias en el transcurso de la de dolor y sufrimiento para su afligida Traducido por: Daniela Guanipa Page 6 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016

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June 14 included. Reservations hosted by IndyCatholic Young Scramble, benefits SS. Francis Our Lady of the Greenwood Fourth of July ¡Ole! St. Paul Hermitage, 501 N. and information: Adults, 7 p.m. Information: and Clare of Assisi Parish in Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Festival, 3-11 p.m., music, 17th Ave., Beech Grove. www.catholicbusiness [email protected] or Greenwood and St. Elizabeth/ Greenwood. First Friday entertainment, children’s area, Ave Maria Guild, Guest exchange.org. 317-261-3373. Coleman Pregnancy and celebration of the Most Texas poker, American and Day Luncheon, noon. Adoption Services in Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, Latino food, view downtown June 17-19 June 23-25 Indianapolis, 5:45 p.m., exposition of the fireworks. Information: Information: 317-223-3687, St. Anthony Parish, 337 N. St. Jude Parish, [email protected]. check-in and registration Blessed Sacrament, following 317-637-3983. Warman Ave., Indianapolis. 5353 McFarland Road, noon-1 p.m., immediately Mass until 9:30 p.m., sacrament June 15 “Crossroads of the Americas Indianapolis. Summer followed by a shotgun of reconciliation available. July 6 rides, food, live Calvary Mausoleum Chapel, Festival,” Fri. 7 p.m., music, Festival, start, $60 per person. To Information: 317-888-2861 or Holiday Day World & Splashin’ dance; Sat. 10 a.m.-8 p.m., entertainment, games, free, 435 W. Troy Ave., Indianapolis. register, send name, address [email protected]. Safari, 452 E. Christmas Monthly Mass, 2 p.m. rides, food, music; Sun. June 23, 5-10 p.m.; June 24, and dollar amount for Blvd., Santa Claus (Diocese noon-6 p.m., rides and food. 5-11 p.m.; June 25, 6-11 p.m.; Information: 317-784-4439 or registration and any extra St. Lawrence Church, of Evansville). New Albany Information: 317-636-4828. Information: 317-786-4371. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. contribution for SS. Francis 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Deanery Catholic Youth and Clare and St. Elizabeth/ June 16 June 18 June 25 First Friday Charismatic Ministries Day at the Theme St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Christ the King Parish, 5884 N. Coleman to Steve Coffman, Renewal Praise and Mass, Park, $36, deadline to register St. Joseph Parish, 1375 S. 316 N. Sherwood Ave., Crittenden Ave., Indianapolis. 6035 Deer Cross Place, praise and worship 7 p.m., is June 20. Information and Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. Clarksville. Parish Festival, Summer Social, 5 p.m.- Greenwood, IN, 46143. Mass 7:30 p.m. Information: registration: Third Thursday Adoration, noon-11 p.m.; chicken dinners midnight, live music, kids’ Include check for registration [email protected]. www.nadyouth.org, interceding for women in air-conditioned room, games, “split-the-pot” raffle, and contribution [email protected], experiencing crisis pregnancy, 2–8 p.m.; cakes, quilts, bingo, casino, food, beverages, $1 amount made out to July 2 812-923-8355. 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at children’s play area, midway per person. Information: 2016 Bob Coffman Memorial. Helpers of God’s Precious 5:45 p.m. Infants Prayer Vigil, games/booths, noon-9 p.m.; 317-255-3666. For more information, call Archbishop O’Meara Catholic Terre Haute. 7:30 a.m. Mass beer garden and gambling, Steve Coffman, 317-881-6367. Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., Our Lady of Peace June 26 at the Carmelite Monastery at 4 p.m.; prizes and raffles with Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Cemetery and Mausoleum, first place $5,000, second place Harrison County Fairgrounds, July 1 59 Allendale, 9:25 a.m. parking Marian University chapel, Catholic, educational, 9001 Haverstick Road, $1,000 and third place $500; 341 S. Capital Ave., Corydon. on Ohio Blvd., 9:30 a.m. 3200 Cold Spring Road, charitable and social singles, Indianapolis. Monthly music by DJ Mike Franklin St. Joseph Parish Picnic, assemble on sidewalk in front Indianapolis. 50 and over, single, separated, Mass, 2 p.m. Information: from noon-8 p.m., “The Juice 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., chicken Lumen of Planned Parenthood at 30 S. 317-574-8898 or dinners in air-conditioned Dei Catholic Business 3rd St. for prayers, 10 a.m. widowed or divorced. New Box Heroes” from 8–11 p.m. members welcome. 6 p.m. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. Information: 812-282-2290. dining area, games, quilts, Group, Mass and monthly travel to St. Patrick Adoration $5,000 raffle. Information: meeting, 6:30-8:30 a.m., Chapel at 1807 Poplar St. Information: 317-243-0777. June 17 Helpers of God’s Precious 812-738-2742. breakfast, $15 per person. for Divine Mercy Chaplet, Northside Knights of July 8-9 Infants, Indianapolis. Mass Information: 317-435-3447 or completed around 10:30 a.m. Columbus Hall, 2100 E. St. Catherine of Siena Parish, [email protected]. St. Benedict Church, and Divine Mercy Chaplet at 111 S. 9th St., Terre Haute. 71st St., Indianapolis. Catholic Decatur County, St. Maurice St. Michael Church, 8:30 a.m. at St. Michael the St. Benedict Community Business Exchange, “Making Campus, 1963 N. St. John St., Most Holy Name of Jesus 145 St. Michael Blvd., Archangel Church, 3354 W. Festival, live music, family a Difference: Compassion to Greensburg. Parish Picnic, Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Brookville. First Saturday 30th St., followed by prayer games, casino games, food Karuna,” Dr. Chuck Dietzen, at a local abortion center, and 10 a.m.-3 p.m., all-you-can-eat Beech Grove. First Friday Devotional Prayer Group, booths, beer garden, handmade chief of pediatric rehabilitation continued prayer at the church chicken dinners, games, raffles. devotion, exposition of the prayers, rosary, confession, quilt raffle, 50/50 raffle, medicine at Riley Hospital for those who wish to remain. Information: 812-663-4754. Blessed Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; meditation, 8 a.m. Information: and founder of Timmy Global reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; 765-647-5462. silent auction, tickets sold for Health, presenting. Mass, June 22 Bluff Creek Golf Course, Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the $25,000, $10,000, $5,000, breakfast and program, Bent Rail Brewery, 5301 N. 2710 Old St. Road 37 N., Sacred Heart and prayers for July 4 $2,000, $1,000 and $750, 7-9 a.m., $15 members, Winthrop Ave., Indianapolis. Greenwood. 15th Annual the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. St. Mary Parish, 311 N. 5 p.m.- midnight each day. $21 non-members, breakfast Theology on Tap, free, Bob Coffman Memorial Golf Information: 317-784-5454. New Jersey St., Indianapolis. Information: 812-232-8421. †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to VIPs Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Raymond “Ray” and Eileen (Coons) Day, members of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany, will celebrate June 24-26 Personal Retreat Day, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m., $35 their 50th wedding anniversary on June 11. Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, includes a room for the day and lunch, spiritual The couple was married on June 11, 1966, in the former 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Tobit direction available for an additional fee. St. Anthony Church in Louisville, Ky. Marriage Preparation Weekend, $295 Information and registration: 317-788-7581, They have one child, Jennifer Martin, and two grandchildren. www.benedictinn.org. per couple. Information: 317-545-7681 or Ray and Eileen celebrated their anniversary with a trip to www.archindy.org/fatima. July 8-10 England to visit friends. † June 25 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House, Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 22143 Main St., 5353 E. 56th St., Indianapolis. Twelve Step Oldenburg. Transitions: Crossing Life’s Weekend Retreat for Women. Information: Thresholds, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., $45 317-753-8527. Creighton Model session will be includes lunch, $65 includes lunch and CEU. Information and registration: Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House and 812-933-6437, [email protected], Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. offered in Indianapolis on June 29 www.oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. AA retreat, “Powerlessness, Weakness and Indy FertilityCare, 3802 W. 96th St., Suite 310, in Indianapolis, will offer a Strength in Recovery,” Benedictine Father Creighton Model Intro Session at 6:30 p.m. on June 29. June 28-30 Colman Grabert, presenter, $255 single, Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House and The Creighton Model offers couples a moral, natural method of tracking $425 double. Information: 812-357-6585 or Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. fertility markers. The session teaches couples how to use this method to chart their [email protected]. Midweek retreat, “The Beatitudes: God’s fertility to achieve or postpone pregnancy, and to monitor health prior to receiving Logic in a Crazy World,” Benedictine July 12-14 NaPro Technology medical treatment. Father Vincent Tobin, presenter, $255 single, Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House The cost is $35 per couple for those who register by June 22, and $50 after June 22. $425 double. Information: 812-357-6585 or and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, Registration is due by June 26. [email protected]. St. Meinrad. Midweek retreat, “Monastic For information and registration, contact Liz Escoffery at 317-217-7332 or July 1-3 Practices,” Benedictine Brother [email protected]. † Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House William Sprauer, presenter, $255 single, and Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, $425 double. Information: 812-357-6585 or St. Meinrad. “Basic Bach: Appreciating [email protected]. a Creative Genius,” Benedictine Father Noël Mueller, presenter, $255 single, $425 July 15-17 Saint Meinrad Archabbey Guest House and double. Information: 812-357-6585 or [email protected]. Retreat Center, 200 Hill Drive, St. Meinrad. “Pray Always,” Benedictine Father July 6 Adrian Burke, presenter, $255 single, $425 Benedict Inn Retreat & Conference double. Information: 812-357-6585 or Center, 1402 Southern Ave., Beech Grove. [email protected]. † The King’s Singers to perform at St. Bartholomew Church on July 9 St. Bartholomew Parish will host The King’s Singers in concert at their church, 1306 27th St., in Columbus, at 7:30 p.m. on July 9. This final concert of the parish’s yearlong celebration of its 175th anniversary will feature The King’s Singers, a Grammy Award-winning, all-male British sextet. They will present “Postcards from Around the World,” featuring not only songs from the world, but also tunes from the “Great American Songbook” genre. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $25, and group discounts are available. School tradition For tickets, visit the music office at St. Bartholomew; Viewpoint Books at 548 Washington St. in Columbus; or the Columbus Visitors Center at Every sixth-grade student at St. John Paul II Catholic School in Sellersburg completes at least 506 5th St. in Columbus. Tickets also may be purchased by logging on to 30 service hours in order to earn his or her School Colors by the end of the academic year. This ticketriver.com/event/16850. has been a tradition at the school for more than 30 years. This year’s 27 sixth-graders, pictured For more information, call 812-379-9353, ext. 237. † here on May 4, completed more than 900 hours of service. (Submitted photo) The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Page 7 Survey finds growing interest among Catholics in reading the Bible

WASHINGTON (CNS)—When emerging generation,” Malec said. Deacon Joseph Jensen entered Our Lady Cackie Upchurch, director of Little of Good Counsel Passionist Seminary Rock Scripture Study in Arkansas, the in Warrenton, Mo., in the late 1950s, he largest provider of Catholic Bible study realized he was the only student in his materials in the U.S., said that modern class who had read the Bible. technology provides a “smorgasbord” Deacon Jensen, now a lecturer in of opportunities for Catholics to engage biblical studies at Georgetown University with Scripture. in Washington, credited his Seventh-day Even if Catholics do not join a Adventist grandfather with exposing him Bible study group, she said, they can to Scripture. Largely though, he said, “I find the daily Mass readings on the grew up with the idea that Catholics didn’t U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ read the Bible.” (USCCB) website at www.usccb.org, Such a common misconception could have them sent directly by e-mail from be changing. the USCCB or find daily reflections A new State of the Bible Survey by across the Internet, including Creighton the American Bible Society found that University’s Online Ministries’ website 77 percent of Catholics want to read the at onlineministries.creighton.edu/ Bible more often. Although the percentage CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html. has fluctuated in recent years, it reflects an She said that there are many options for 8 percentage point increase since January Catholic Bible studies. Some individuals 2013, two months before Pope Francis’ and groups adopt an academic approach, election. while others use “popular scholarship,” “There’s come, I think, some very a blend of critical study and prayer. The encouraging data on Catholics” thanks prayer-focused “lectio divina” style of to the so-called “Francis effect,” Jason study also is widely used, she added. A young man is seen reading a Bible in 2010. A new State of the Bible Survey by the Malec, U.S. mission director for the Upchurch pointed out that biblical American Bible Society found that 77 percent of Catholics want to read the Bible more often. society, told Catholic News Service studies are for learning Scripture, so (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World) (CNS). Catholics should not be embarrassed to The American Bible Society has join a study group because they feel they Prentice Hall, for historical criticism. religion credit requirement, but end up responded to Catholics’ growing interest know little about the Bible. Deacon Jensen also recommended “getting wrapped up in how cool this is.” in Scripture with new resources such as Deacon Jensen said that whether The Catholic Prayer Bible, which he “There is a real hunger for the word of digital “lectio divina,” an online version Catholics study in groups or individually, helped translate, for “lectio divina.” God that I just really relish and enjoy,” of the traditional Catholic method of “the guided reading of the Bible is No matter how Catholics engage with Deacon Jensen told CNS. praying with Scripture. The society uses essential.” Scripture, though, Deacon Jensen said The American Bible Society has the survey results to develop techniques to “The Bible is an anthology of the he is excited about the growing passion worked for 200 years to engage people increase engagement with the Bible. literature of an ancient people that reflects for the Bible he sees in the Church, with the best-selling book of all time. The society’s staffers also developed their faith and their time and their culture especially in the Bible study group at the Several notable U.S. historical figures, the Build Your Bible trivia app and a and their environment, so trying to read it Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament including John Jay and Francis Scott Key, second app so that Catholics can follow as a modern work without understanding in Chevy Chase, Md., at which he founded the society in 1816. The along with World Youth Day, set for July the cultural and historical background occasionally speaks, the weekly Bible Philadelphia-based society produced 26-31 in Krakow, Poland. easily allows for misinterpretation and study he leads at the Carmelite monastery the first Braille Bible, developed “I think it’s both looking forward confusion,” he said. in Towson, Md., and in the courses he the Good News Bible translation in and reaching back into the past to find He recommended the New Jerome teaches at Georgetown. contemporary English, and launched the new ways and rediscover ancient ways Biblical Commentary, written by three He described how students often begin Digital Bible Library to house various of engaging with the Scripture for an Catholic priests and published by his classes simply wanting to satisfy their digital translations. † Swiss Church official deplores vote allowing genetic testing of embryos OXFORD, England (CNS)— he said. Swiss Catholic Church officials deplored The measure will allow embryos to be Christ the King the approval by voters of a modification to stored and screened for genetic defects the country’s in vitro fertilization law that before implantation. It was approved would permit genetic testing of embryos, by 62.4 percent of voters on June 5. allowing imperfect human embryos to Switzerland, with about 44 percent of be discarded. its 7.1 million citizens identifying as The president of the Swiss bishops’ Catholic, is the last European country to conference called the revision in voting on approve the practice. June 5 “a step backwards.” Bishop Morerod said medical research “It jeopardizes the full protection of should be “creative and innovative” in human life,” Bishop Charles Morerod finding ways “to accept every life and of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg said cure diseases.” in a statement. However, he added that the newly “It is important for us to reassure legalized practice would eliminate handicapped people that we believe in life “instead of dealing with people,” their full dignity, and rejoice that their in apparent violation of Switzerland’s lives are accompanied by help from many 1999 federal constitution, which states in others. Recognizing the full dignity of its preamble “the strength of a people is all human beings, above all the most measured by the well-being of its weakest vulnerable, is essential for a just society,” members.” †

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HOLLOWELL Deacon Anthony Hollowell continued from page 1 • Age: 34 ‘Ready … FIRE! …Aim’ • Parents: Joseph and Diane Hollowell Before he boarded the plane for • Home Parish: Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in Mexico in 2009, he had lived a life Indianapolis frequently marked by successes and • High School: Roncalli High School in Indianapolis adventures. These successful adventures • College: University of Notre Dame occurred even when his plans, as he says, • Seminary: Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of “followed a very strong pattern in my life Theology in St. Meinrad; Pontifical North American which can be summed up in the phrase, College and Pontifical Gregorian University, both in Rome. ‘Ready … FIRE! … Aim.’ ” • Favorite Scripture verse: Psalm 37:5: “Commit your life Deacon Hollowell was a captain of the to the Lord. Trust in him, and he will act.” 1999 state championship football team • Favorite saint: “Mary. Her intercession has granted me at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. more graces, more gifts and more answered prayers than He has earned a bachelor’s degree and a the intercession of all the other saints combined. She master’s degree from the University of is an unfailing source of hope in the most desperate of Notre Dame. During his years there, he was situations.” the captain of the boxing team, and he spent • Favorite prayer: Rosary. part of a summer leading seven classmates • Favorite spiritual writer: Saint John the Evangelist. “His on a bike ride across the country from Gospel is my favorite because it is the clearest window into Los Angeles to New York. Transitional Deacon Anthony Hollowell shares a smile and a clasp of hands the soul of God that I have found in any book or piece of His joy for travel also led him to spend with Pope Francis before serving as a deacon at a Mass on March 19 at writing.” a summer in Chile learning Spanish, a goal St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican. (Photo courtesy of L’Osservatore Romano) • Hobbies: Reading, riding bikes, hiking, writing, traveling. † that later enabled him to connect better with Latino students and their parents during the two years he taught and coached couple questions. Then, he said, ‘We leave recalls. “Then things began to settle, is where Catholic priests minister, and he at Cardinal Ritter Jr./Sr. High School this house in 10 minutes.’ diocesan infrastructure and insurance could talk to one in Vietnamese if he wanted. in Indianapolis. “That was the end of the conversation. adjustors kicked in, and they finally had Outside the church, the new friends One of his few plans that wasn’t a We all immediately got up and started crews working on the school.” continued their conversation before success involved the four months he spent getting ready. Tony is someone who can— The school opened six weeks after the exchanging e-mail addresses and saying in the Dominican order, exploring the and will—make challenging decisions storm—a re-opening that Matt credits to “the goodbye. possibility of becoming a priest. with the best interest of others in mind. efforts of Tony Hollowell and God’s grace.” Deacon Hollowell later reflected on that And he admits he didn’t have much Thankfully, we were then all safe when the Then Matt shares another story about the fire connection: “I am convinced that it was not of a plan when he landed in Mexico. For hurricane did hit and flood the town we within his brother. only for the good of my soul, but also for the four weeks in Puerto Vallarta, he focused lived in, destroying one of our schools and “On the first day back at school, Tony people I will one day serve.” on eating well, improving his Spanish, gutting the others.” gave a speech to all of his high school attending daily Mass and earning his O’Connor also considers it telling how students about how ‘no college in the The ultimate adventure begins soon scuba certificate. he responded and reacted when, during entire country has a question on their After his ordination, Deacon Hollowell Then came the night that changed his their quick packing to evacuate, one of the application to see if the student has missed will return to Rome for another year of life, a night when he had a conversation younger ACE teachers asked, “What all out on six weeks of school, so it is time to study in moral theology. Yet he is already with God. should we take?” get to work.’ excited about “coming home” to serve the “I literally gave up my will,” he recalls. “Tony’s response was, ‘Anything you “Tony is one of the most natural leaders I archdiocese in 2017. “I told God, ‘I will do whatever you want don’t want to lose.’ Then Tony walked out have ever met.” His roots are deep at Roncalli and me to do in my life. Just tell me what you the door wearing the clothes on his back and Matt also believes all his brother’s Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in want me to do.’ ” carrying one small computer bag containing adventures will add to his priesthood. Indianapolis, where he will celebrate a Mass The next day, he opened his laptop and his computer, an extra pair of underwear and “Those adventures were intended by of Thanksgiving on the evening of June 25, began writing a letter to the vocations a book. That was all he ‘didn’t want to lose.’ God to happen, and Tony will be a better just hours after his ordination. Yet his roots director for the archdiocese. He stunned “This is the type of person Tony is. He is priest because of them,” Matt says. “So are most deeply connected to his parents. himself because he was writing to inquire detached from earthly possessions, enjoying many people, myself included, go to priests He says they have never stopped nourishing about starting seminary to become an them only to the extent they lead him to looking for direction in life. To have a the seeds of faith and family that they archdiocesan priest. Christ. He helped me learn about my own priest who can say, ‘I have wandered, too,’ planted in him and his 10 siblings, including “As I’m writing, I’m looking at this and faith—challenging me to learn more, and will make him all that much more relatable Father John Hollowell, who serves as a thinking, ‘What are you doing?!’ I thought, frankly making being Catholic look fun in a as a person.” priest in the archdiocese. ‘If you send this, you’re going to do this for way that I didn’t see before.” “It is only because of the love that they a year, even if you don’t become a priest.’ She believes he will have that same ‘For the good of my soul’ gave me that I have any clue about what it And I sent it. I told myself that no matter impact in the archdiocese. Those adventures have dramatically means to love, to serve and to be a Father,” what happened, I’d offer up that year for “He is simply a light,” she says. “Maybe increased as Deacon Hollowell has prepared Deacon Hollowell says. “Without the faith all of my young friends who were getting this is partly because you never know for the priesthood. Before entering the and love of my parents, I would never have married and starting families. I prayed for what he is going to do next. He could take seminary, he visited Mexico, Chile and become a priest.” these families every day in the seminary. off sprinting around the block or busting England. During his seminary years, he has Even during his restless years, his parents And it ended up being a wonderful out dance moves the kitchen floor has traveled to 25 countries. kept the faith that their third child would find first year.” never seen. “To see the human condition, to see how his path with God’s direction. In his third year of priestly formation, “He loves his faith. He loves the Lord. the Church operates in all these lands has “He has a good head on his shoulders so he was assigned to study at the Pontifical And he is a regular guy who enjoys living been an incredibly enrichening experience,” I knew he would make good decisions,” his North American College in Rome. He had the life God has called him to. He seems to he says. “God has used that adventurous mother Diane says. “To see a young man a transformation of the heart during his be the perfect embodiment of St. Catherine spirit in my life to help me.” stand up and give his life to the priesthood is second year in Rome in 2014. of Siena’s quote, ‘Be who God meant you to One defining moment occurred in 2013 beautiful. Tony is excited, and our family is “It wasn’t until then that I began to be and you will set the world on fire.’ ” during his summer-long journey to three thrilled for him.” understand my call to the priesthood as continents and six countries, including His father says that one of the gifts that an incredible gift from God, and not as a The full force of the fire Vietnam. There, he was sitting on a bench Deacon Hollowell has is the ability to “relate laborious duty that I had to learn somehow The full force of the fire that is after lunch when a stranger named Hung to people in simple language the deep truths to accept. Deacon Hollowell blazes through in a approached him. of our faith.” “Deep in my heart, I thought, ‘This is it! story that his brother Matt Hollowell “I was listening to music, getting ready “He’s had multiple opportunities to This is the adventure you’ve always longed shares—a story that unfolded in the to lie down because the sun was hot and my preach as a deacon, and people have gone for! This is the desire you’ve been waiting days following the devastating wrath of stomach was digesting a few spring rolls out of their way to tell me how moved to have fulfilled!’ It’s all there for me in Hurricane Katrina, which severely damaged when a Vietnamese asks to sit down exactly they’ve been by his homilies,” Joe Hollowell the priesthood.” Resurrection Catholic High School. where I was already leaning to lie down,” he says. “He knows what he’s called to do, “The school was flooded, sewage and recalls. “I very angrily say, ‘Sure.’ and that’s significant for anyone. When The calm in the middle of a hurricane mud caked the floors and walls,” Matt says, “Luckily, God prevents me from screwing you know your will is in synch with God’s Sarah O’Connor has no doubt adding how stoves and refrigerators in the up the entire thing. We begin to talk about will, it doesn’t get any better. There’s a deep that Deacon Hollowell will become a school kitchen “had been lifted in the flood school. He is studying engineering. ‘Cool,’ peace for him.” “wonderful, holy priest”—a belief she water and were displaced.” I say. ‘What do you do?’ he says. ‘I am As his ultimate adventure as a priest is bases in part on the way her friend reacted The damage was so extensive that a studying to be a Catholic priest,’ I say.” about to begin, Deacon Hollowell gives his when one of the worst disasters in the decision to close the school was discussed at Then the conversation took a turn heart—and the credit—to God. United States in the 21st century was about a diocesan-wide meeting. Deacon Hollowell never expected. When “I have always had a restless heart, but to happen. “Tony had other plans,” Matt says. Hung didn’t know what a Catholic priest or something is different now,” he says. “Every They both were teachers in Notre Dame’s At the meeting, Deacon Hollowell stood a Catholic is, Deacon Hollowell asked him, day of my life, I woke up tired, with a small Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE) up and told the bishop and others, “I will be “Do you know who God is?” feeling inside me that there was something program at Resurrection Catholic School in at the school tomorrow at 7 a.m., and we are Hung said no again, so Deacon Hollowell else I was called to do in my life. For Pascagoula, Mississippi, when Hurricane getting to work, and my Dad is coming with led him to the nearby Catholic cathedral. the past six years, I have never once had Katrina was about to hit in 2005. a bunch of equipment. If you want to help, Inside, he showed Hung a crucifix, that feeling. Less than 60 hours before the hurricane show up.” explaining that Jesus is God and he died to “God has loved me for so long, and I’ve struck, O’Connor and five other ACE Joseph Hollowell, the longtime president save people from their sins. He also showed been late in responding to his love. But in his teachers who shared a house with Hollowell of Roncalli High School, soon arrived from Hung a statue of Mary. mercy, it’s not too late for him. Not only is it were trying to decide what they should do. Indianapolis with power tools, cleaners, When Hung said, “That is Maria!” not too late for God, I have the sense it’s the No conclusion was reached until Hollowell pressure washers—all kinds of equipment Deacon Hollowell noted: “This guy doesn’t perfect time.” returned late that evening. that were sold out within a 300-mile radius know anything about Catholicism, religion “We all immediately barraged him with of Pascagoula. or God, but he knows about Mary.” So he (For more information about a questions about the situation and what we “About 30 kids and parents showed up showed Hung the Mass schedule and told vocation to the priesthood in the should do,” O’Connor recalls. “He stood the next day, and we worked all day, every him he could come to the church any day to Archdiocese of Indianapolis, log on to and listened for a few minutes, asking a day, for four weeks,” Deacon Hollowell pray to Mary. He also told Hung the church www.HearGodsCall.com.) † The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Page 9

BROCKMEIER Deacon James Brockmeier continued from page 1 • Age: 26 closeness to the Church—that the Church • Parents: Don and Norma Brockmeier is huge and they’re part of it.” • Home Parish: St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in On June 25, Deacon Brockmeier will Indianapolis celebrate his place in the Church when he • Education: Marian University in Indianapolis and is ordained a priest for the archdiocese. Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology in His ordination will come five years after St. Meinrad a major turning point in his life—a night • Favorite Scripture passage: “My favorite Scripture during his senior year in college when he passage is always changing with where God is speaking returned from a date. to me at different times in my life. Right now, my favorite “Really juicy stuff here,” he says with passage is Luke 24:32, ‘Then they said to each other, “Were an easy laugh as he prepares to share the not our hearts burning within us while he spoke to us on the details of that evening. way and opened the Scriptures to us?” This passage comes at the end of the Road to Emmaus story. The disciples have Two roads, two possible futures just realized it was Jesus walking with them.” The date in early 2011 had included • Favorite saint: “St. Edmund Campion. He was a priest dinner and a movie, and Deacon who continued to minister to his people despite persecution Brockmeier recalls it as “a really and was eventually martyred for refusing to renounce good time.” the faith.” As he drove home after saying good • Favorite prayer: “My favorite prayer is the Jesus Prayer, night to his date, he suddenly saw the ‘Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a two most likely roads for his future. sinner.’ I like to pray to Mary that she may open my heart to One was to follow the plan that receive Christ’s love and give Christ’s love.” brought him to Marian University in • Favorite book: “There is a little book by Indianapolis—to become a high school Pope Benedict XVI, Called to Communion. To me, it is a religion teacher or youth minister, and to cross between a theology book and a spiritual book, because keep open the possibility of marriage and Transitional Deacon James Brockmeier prays during the April 11, 2015, liturgy it talks about how the life of the Church and the world is family someday. when he was ordained a transitional deacon at Archabbey Church of Our Lady centered in the Eucharist.” The other road led to the priesthood. It of Einsiedeln in St. Meinrad. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) • Hobbies: Fishing, golfing, watching movies. † was a consideration he first had when he was 15 and he heard a talk by a vocations director. That consideration resurfaced many people have walked with me on my excellent priest.” England, France, Italy and Switzerland. just weeks earlier when he talked with a journey to the priesthood,” says Deacon So do his parents, who live in the The scene unfolded as he entered friend who had graduated from Marian Brockmeier, whose life as a seminarian Covington Diocese in northern Kentucky, Sainte-Chapelle (“Holy Chapel”) in Paris. the previous year: Ben Syberg, now an has led him to serve in the parishes of where Deacon Brockmeier grew up Deacon Brockmeier was soon drawn by archdiocesan priest. Holy Family in New Albany, St. Boniface and attended Covington Latin School one of the stunning features of the chapel: “At the time, he was a first- in Fulda, St. Meinrad in St. Meinrad as a teenager. the 15 stained-glass windows—each year seminarian at Saint Meinrad and the parish that he considers home, “He has an ability to empathize with measuring about 50 feet high—that depict [Seminary and School of Theology],” St. Mark the Evangelist in Indianapolis. others,” says his mother Norma. “He feels 1,113 scenes from the Bible. Deacon Brockmeier recalls. “He said he “Community means a lot to me. others’ pain, and he responds to that in a “Each of these stained-glass windows loved Saint Meinrad, and I should think Relationships mean a lot to me. I think loving way. He was always there for his was handmade,” he says. “The theology of about the seminary. It stuck in my mind. about the parishes I’ve been a part of, friends in high school and college, and he the space is that the light of Christ reaches “After the date, the two possible my seminary community, my friends and helped them with their faith. us in the Scriptures. We sit in the midst of futures were very tangible. I knew what family—all the people the Lord has given “The sacraments also mean a lot to him. the word of God, and God’s light shines was at stake. God reached out to me at to me in my life. I see that none of it was That’s one of the reasons he wants to be through these stories. a transition time in my life and made it an accident. These are the people who a priest—to minister the sacraments to “It really communicated the beauty of really easy. I really felt God drawing me have showed me the faith, taught me the people, baptizing them, marrying them, the word of God. And it’s inspiring to look to the priesthood. It was just a moment of faith, showed me the community. They’ve being there for them in the most important at the potential of the Church to create a freedom and clarity.” been a great gift for me. And I hope I’ve points of their lives.” place in the world where the light of the been a great gift for them.” His father Don adds, “Even in high Gospel can shine. We’re called to create ‘None of it was an accident’ school, James always strove to build this beautiful thing in the world.” One of Deacon Brockmeier’s favorite ‘He feels others’ pain’ community. He was president of his senior Deacon Brockmeier can’t wait to movies offers an insight into him as a His gifts as a priest will be numerous, class and president of student council. follow that call as a priest. He has built a person—and a perspective on his journey says Bob Kattau, a member of St. Mark He was always pleased when the class foundation for his future by helping with to the priesthood. Parish who has seen Deacon Brockmeier came together.” parish youth groups, providing campus I Am David is the story of a 12-year-old come of age in the past five years. Future parishioners can also expect ministry at a college, and visiting people boy who has lived his entire life in “We have a group that goes out to two other qualities when he becomes their in hospitals and nursing homes. a Communist, forced-labor camp in breakfast periodically with the priests and priest, says Katie Hibner, a friend from “New priests tell me, ‘You’ll love it.’ Bulgaria. In 1952, a prison guard helps the deacons,” Kattau says. “James has their days at Marian University. It really has to do with the fact that the him escape and directs him to begin a come a long way since we first met him. “He has a dry sense of humor that people of God are so generous with their journey to Denmark that unexpectedly He was one of the shyest guys. In the past surprises people,” says Hibner, a member priests and allow them to enter their lives. leads the boy to a reunion with family. four years, he has really come out of his of St. Mark Parish who teaches religion That’s a great honor. My prayer is that the “It’s a very human story of learning to shell. He’s outgoing and friendly, and he at Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. Lord gives me the grace to love the people trust people and discover the good in the has a wonderful singing voice. He’ll be a “He’s also a very gifted public speaker. I see every day in my parish. I’m looking world,” Deacon Brockmeier notes. “It’s priest you can go out to lunch or dinner I’m just amazed at the homilies he forward to sharing Christ’s love.” his story of seeing things in the world with and just talk and laugh.” gives, and the connections he makes He pauses for a moment before adding, for the first time, of needing people and Kattau especially recalls the impact from the Gospel to the world outside the “I just think Christ is so much closer to our being helped by people as he returns to Deacon Brockmeier made when a bus church doors.” lives than people think sometimes. I want his family.” of St. Mark parishioners visited Saint to help them see that closeness.” While Deacon Brockmeier says there Meinrad Seminary. Sharing the light and love of Christ “are obviously no parallels in the story to “He met everyone and gave the tour,” Deacon Brockmeier offers his own (For more information about a my life,” the themes of the movie resonate Kattau says. “You couldn’t ask for a better vision of his priesthood and the Church. vocation to the priesthood in the with him. guide. We refer to him now as one of It flows from a memorable scene during Archdiocese of Indianapolis, log on to “I have been reflecting about how the parish sons. We think he’ll make an a pilgrimage he made as a seminarian to www.HearGodsCall.com.) † Extreme faith: God makes big demands, gives infinite love, bishop says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Catholicism is a faith and Seminarians in Rome on June 1-3. He presented his of Catholicism that ought to govern us here, and we of extremes where God makes tough demands while talk to English-language speakers at the Basilica of St. shouldn’t fall into the trap of the zero-sum game.” always offering his unconditional Andrea della Valle on June 1. The “genius of the Church,” he said, is that it includes love, a U.S. bishop told priests He said he centered his talk on the Samaritan woman all these facets and allows for a “great symphony of taking part in their jubilee for the at the well in the Gospel according to St. John as a way to voices” in which some who preach the Gospel really Holy Year of Mercy. present four dimensions of mercy: emphasize “the inviting, inclusive side, others that When preaching or • “God’s mercy is relentless. It crosses all boundaries embody this demanding side. communicating Church teaching, and borders. It can never be stressed enough,” he said. “Both should be part of the same chorus, the danger is some priests might emphasize the • “God’s mercy is divinizing. It’s more than just patting reducing the symphony to a monotony,” he said. high ideals needed for holiness us on the head or healing our wounds. It’s drawing us into He said a lot of what Pope Francis says reminds him of and others might underline God’s the very life of the Trinity.” his spiritual mentor, the late Cardinal Francis E. George loving, inclusive embrace of even • Divine mercy is demanding, he said. “It affects a of Chicago. his wayward children, Auxiliary change in us, calls us to conversion.” He said the cardinal once told seminarians at Bishop Robert E. Barron of • It inspires those who receive it to share the good Mundelein Seminary, where Bishop Barron taught for Bishop Los Angeles told Catholic News news, embarking on mission, he said. more than 20 years, that he greatly admired them for their Robert E. Barron Service om June 2. Jesus “makes this very strong moral demand” on the devotion to the truth. But these two poles are not mutually exclusive, he said. woman, and “calls her out” for living with a man who is “But then he said, ‘Remember, you can’t just drop the “We are not an ‘either-or’ religion. We’re the great not her husband, the bishop said. truth on people then walk away. You have to give them ‘both-and’ religion” in which nothing can get in the way But Jesus has also “won her over” with his pleasant the truth and then be willing to walk with them to help of divine mercy—“it moves into the arena of sin, it can approach and appealing offer of grace, he said. And yet them implement it.’ ” never be trumped,” he said. “that grace is not cheap, that grace is a demanding grace.” “I think that’s precisely [Pope Francis’] message. He’s Bishop Barron was one of seven speakers chosen to This was the message he sought to tell the priests not softening the truth, but he’s saying you don’t just drop offer a catechesis on mercy during the Jubilee for Priests in his catechesis: “that it’s the great ‘both-and’ logic it on people, you walk with them,” he said. † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Take the high road, Bishop Coyne tells Catholic communicators

ST. LOUIS (CNS)—In today’s age Church is not immune from such negative of cyberbullying and online vitriol, discourse, saying: “one of the most be sure to take the high road and destructive activities in the Church today build people up rather than tear them is the internecine fighting among people down, Bishop Christopher J. Coyne and groups who claim to be Catholic.” of Burlington, Vt., told Catholic Echoing this message, he quoted communicators attending the Catholic Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, who Media Conference. delivered the keynote address on May 11 “What can I say to make things better? at the Brooklyn Diocese’s observance What are the words that may impart of World Communications Day and grace to those who hear?” the bishop, said: “The character assassination on chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee the Internet by those claiming to be on Communications and former Catholic and Christian has turned it into a auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of graveyard of corpses strewn all around.” Indianapolis, asked the group to consider Father Rosica, CEO of Canada’s Salt on June 2. and Light Catholic Media Foundation, He said he knew the journalists in also described Catholic online the room were “acutely aware of the conversations as sometimes “more a significant decline in the tenor of public culture of death than a culture of life,” the discourse” during the last few years, a fact bishop said. that is readily apparent in publications’ Instead of responding in kind, comment boxes and social media. Bishop Coyne urged the journalists and In such an environment, the bishop communication leaders to follow the urged communicators to lift up good example of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who Bishop Christopher J. Coyne of Burlington, Vt., addresses Catholic media in St. Louis on June 2. examples of humanity, charity and grace saw every task as a chance to make the Each year the Catholic Press Association hosts a conference, where decision makers and those and, if possible, “engage in some form love of God more concrete. interested in Catholic media come together to share information about the changing industry. of active ministry to others: feeding, With this in mind, he said every news (CNS photo/Lisa Johnston, St. Louis Review) housing, counseling, visiting or praying. story, video, blog post, tweet, e-mail “We have to be even more careful to be or response to an online comment can largely non-religious and secular. the first time. reflective rather than reactive,” he added “become an opportunity to manifest “We are now missionaries,” he “And here is something more to saying there is already enough anger and God’s love.” said, which should influence writing, consider,” he said. “One cannot give what coarseness out there. “Let’s just not add He also reminded the group that the podcasts, videos and blog posts because one does not have.” In order to help others to it.” world they are writing in is constantly these forms of communication might be know Jesus, he said, “We must first know Bishop Coyne also noted that the changing and is shifting to one that is bringing people the Gospel message for him ourselves.” † First Amendment, Gospel a ‘double mandate’ for press, Erlandson says ST. LOUIS (CNS)—Catholic communicators “have a said Erlandson. “Our vocation is to be the voice of the instituted in the wake of the crisis, but also addressing the double mandate: the First Amendment of the Constitution Church. That is our responsibility and our privilege.” failures of leadership that occurred and that so wounded and the Gospel,” Greg Erlandson told the Catholic Media Our Sunday Visitor, based in Huntington, Ind., was our Church.” Conference in St. Louis. founded 104 years ago “to be a voice for the Church and He noted the publication’s defense of Catholic Erlandson, former president and publisher of the rights of Catholics,” he said, adding that he is “proud of organizations “that have endured unjust attack,” he said, Our Sunday Visitor (OSV), received the Bishop John any role I have played in this legacy.” pointing in particular to Catholic Relief Services (CRS), England Award on June 2 from the Catholic Press As publisher, Erlandson oversaw OSV Newsweekly and the U.S. bishops’ overseas relief and development agency. Association (CPA) of the United States and Canada. many other OSV periodicals, books and resources. CRS “has been the target of malicious and shameful witch “These are perilous times,” he said in his acceptance He said that in that role, he “sought to defend the hunts,” Erlandson said. remarks. “We are looking at competing ideological agendas Church’s right to speak out on all the issues of the day, to He said he was deeply honored to win the England that too often are incompatible with the Gospel, and that defend the Church’s right to participate in the debates that award and paid tribute to former and current staffers too often threaten the weakest among us—both born and animate the public square, but to do so without rancor or at OSV, including his predecessor as publisher, unborn—the undocumented, the terminally ill, the poor histrionics, to do so without blinders or defensiveness, but Bob Lockwood. and neglected.” in the spirit of loyalty, honesty and intelligence that I hope The England award is named for the Irish-born bishop Catholic communicators’ vocation “is to be their voice,” has defined all that we published.” of Charleston, S.C., who founded The Catholic Miscellany In editorials and articles, OSV Newsweekly “has spoken in 1822. As publisher of the newspaper, Bishop England out in defense of religious liberty and supported— defended separation of Church and state, saying it was good both in court and in our pages—the opposition to the for both entities. He also espoused freedom of religion. HHS [Health and Human Services] mandate regarding Presented annually, the award recognizes publishers in the contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs. We Catholic press for the defense of First Amendment rights, have addressed religious freedom issues worldwide, and such as freedom of the press and freedom of religion. It is defended the rights of migrants and refugees.” the CPA’s highest award for publishers. The publication also has addressed the sex abuse crisis, In 2015, Erlandson received the CPA’s St. Francis de he said, “both saluting the Church for the policies it has Sales Award. †

‘These are perilous times. We are looking at competing ideological agendas that too often are incompatible with the Gospel, and that too often threaten the weakest among us—both born and unborn—the undocumented, the terminally ill, the poor and neglected.’

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By David Gibson

Why do lasting marriages last? Pope Francis apparently wants to start a worldwide conversation centered on this question. Given present-day statistics on divorce, close attention frequently is devoted to its causes. But how prepared are we citizens of the 21st century to converse about the reasons so many marriages actually do survive and even thrive? Certainly the explanation is not that these couples unearth a hidden secret that allows them to escape the stresses and strains of living so closely together for so long. Couples in lasting marriages indeed grow “through pain and sorrow,” Pope Francis observes in “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), his April 2016 apostolic exhortation on marriage and family life (#130). But “after suffering and struggling together, spouses are able to experience that it was worth it because they achieved some good, learned something as a couple or came to appreciate what they have,” he writes (#130). He concludes that “few human joys are as deep and thrilling as those experienced by two people who love one another, and have achieved something as the result of a great shared effort” (#130). A couple kisses after renewing their marriage vows in 2012 at the Golden Wedding Anniversary Mass at Holy Name Cathedral in If Pope Francis pays close attention to marriages that Chicago. Why do lasting marriages last? Pope Francis apparently wants to start a worldwide conversation centered on this question. last in this age of long life spans “for four, five or even (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World) six decades,” this does not mean he lacks interest in couples whose marriages suffer to the point of breaking up of melted cheese over crackers is named for me in the transform [their] love in every new situation” (#164). (#163). The compassion shown in “The Joy of Love” for household of one of our adult daughters! Lasting marriages do not just happen, and couples the divorced and the conversation he wants the Church to I had three young children in tow when my wife cannot simply place their marriages on automatic pilot, pursue with them has been reported widely. graduated on a hot, humid day in May from Georgetown expecting the best possible outcome. Instead, a couple’s I think many couples in long-lived marriages will University in Washington. Completing her degree required “initial decision” to love and marry must “be frequently be surprised by how readily they identify with the real effort on her part—and on all our parts. renewed” (#163). pope’s depiction of the realities of married life. I But it set the stage for a new phase in our lives together, What is the answer, then, to my opening question? can readily identify with his mention of the need for one not clearly anticipated when we married. Ultimately, Why do lasting marriages last? couples to “reaffirm their decision to love,” and “to it meant welcoming the start of her long, demanding Well, a couple needs “a shared and lasting life belong to one another” even amid “confused emotional career in teaching. project,” Pope Francis writes. What does he mean? He situations” (#163). Pope Francis speaks in “The Joy of Love” about the appears confident that if a couple “can come up with” this My wife and I found ourselves in a confused emotional “journey” marriage entails, a journey that fosters each project, “they can love one another and live as one until situation when between the births of our first and spouse’s “personal growth and development” (#163). He death do them part” (#163). second children we suddenly experienced a miscarriage. observes that “even amid unresolved conflicts and confused Pope Francis explains that “the pleasure of Like so many experiences that shape a couple’s life emotional situations,” this journey can celebrate “every belonging to one another leads to seeing life as a together, we were unprepared for this unexpected loss. Yet, step” and “every new stage” (#163). common project, putting the other’s happiness ahead we recognized afterward that this experience changed us During the years of their journey together, a wife and of my own and realizing with joy that this marriage and became part of the history of our shared lives. husband serve as each other’s companion, “one with enriches society” (#221). The strands of real life that are woven together to whom to face life’s difficulties and enjoy its pleasures,” Marriage is a project that requires patience, tolerance create the tapestry of a couple’s marriage include ordinary Pope Francis comments (#163). Their love remains and generosity, he makes clear. It must be “worked on and extraordinary developments that may result in the same love they have known, yet over time it “finds together” by the spouses, who “assume an active and distress or happiness. new forms of expression and seeks new ways to grow” creative role” in their marriage and look to the future that, I was not, to put it mildly, a good cook for our children stronger (#164). with “God’s grace, they are daily called to build” (#218). when, long ago, my wife returned to college on weekends Suggesting that none of this should be taken for granted, and weekday evenings to complete her bachelor’s degree. however, the pope urges couples to make marriage a matter (David Gibson served on Catholic News Service’s I recently learned to my chagrin, in fact, that a “recipe” of prayer, asking the Holy Spirit “to confirm, direct and editorial staff for 37 years.) † Couples who remain faithful in marriage are a sign of God’s ‘age-old love’ By Mike Nelson are told by St. Luke, often reflected “in love for one another. “God proves his “With age-old love I have loved you; her heart” on all that transpired in the life love for us in that, while we were still so I have kept my mercy toward you,” of her young son (Lk 2:19). sinners, Christ died for us” (Rom 5:8). declares the Lord through the prophet Indeed, the presence of children in Translation: God loves us at our Jeremiah (Jer 31:3). any marriage is going to transform that darkest moments, and we are called to This “age-old love” is precisely what relationship in some way—hopefully in do likewise in marriage and in families. Pope Francis speaks of in the section of a way that promotes sharing, sacrifice Indeed, where faith, hope and love “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), and humility, essential components are present, what lies ahead for married his recent apostolic exhortation on family in any marriage built on a foundation couples—salvation through Christ and marriage, addressing what he calls of God’s love. Jesus—is truly joyful, says St. Peter, “the transformation of love” that married Pope Francis further points out in “The even though “you may have to suffer couples experience (#163-164). “It is a Joy of Love” that marriage “finds new through various trials” (1 Pt 1:6). deeper love,” the pope says, “a lifelong forms of expression and constantly seeks And trials, says Pope Francis, lead decision of the heart” (#163). new ways to grow in strength,” made to transformation that strengthens those That “lifelong decision” is, in fact, possible, he adds, by daily effort (#164). committed to their marriage: a reflection of the unconditional love But none of this, he adds, is possible “Even amid unresolved conflicts and God shows for each of us, as Scripture “without praying to the Holy Spirit for an confused emotional situations, [married proclaims throughout the Old and New outpouring of his grace, his supernatural couples] daily reaffirm their decision Testaments, by word and example. strength and his spiritual fire, to confirm, to love, to belong to one another, to And what greater example of “the direct and transform our love in every share their lives and to continue loving New spouses exchange rings as transformation of love” can we find than new situation” (#164). and forgiving. Pope Francis, pictured in the background, in the commitment of Mary and Joseph Or, as St. Paul proclaims, “By prayer “Each progresses along the path of celebrates the marriage rite for 20 couples to one another? Their marriage, though and petition, with thanksgiving, make personal growth and development. On during a 2014 Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica hardly conventional, was, without a doubt, your requests known to God. Then this journey, love rejoices at every step at the Vatican. This “age-old love’ is filled with deep and unwavering love as the peace of God that surpasses all and in every new stage” (#163). precisely what Pope Francis speaks of in they raised the child God had given them. understanding will guard your hearts and “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), his Joseph, assisted by an angel in a minds in Christ Jesus” (Phil 4:6-7). (Mike Nelson is former editor of recent apostolic exhortation on family and dream, was certainly transformed in his Paul also reminds us that our The Tidings, newspaper of the marriage. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) understanding of marriage. And Mary, we imperfections should not overshadow our Archdiocese of Los Angeles.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Twenty Something/ Imperiled Church: Napoleon imprisoned two popes Christina Capecchi To bake is to (Ninth in a series of columns) elect his successor met in Venice under religious marriage ceremony between Austrian protection. After 14 weeks, Napoleon and Josephine. Diplomatic believe: a convert In last week’s column, I wrote about the the cardinals elected Cardinal Luigi relations worsened when Napoleon attempts to destroy the Catholic Church in Barnaba Chiaramonte, who took the name occupied Spain, suppressed many in the kitchen France at the end of the Pope Pius VII in March of 1800. monasteries and closed the Church’s 18th century, first during Pope Pius VII tried to get along with schools and universities. Staci Perry bakes like she lives. She the French Revolution Napoleon, but Napoleon was interested Eventually, enmity became so great that doesn’t measure. She works with what’s and then the arrival of only in using the Church. He recognized Napoleon again sent an army into Rome. already in the fridge. And she Napoleon Bonaparte. the usefulness of having one state religion In 1808, he occupied Rome, annexed scrapes every last bit out of This week, I want to to unify the people, but he found the what was left of the Papal States in 1809, the bowl. write a bit more about authority of the pope over the French and took Pius VII as a prisoner to France. “I don’t do anything Napoleon, who has gone Church annoying. The pope remained in uncomfortable fancy,” she says, sitting down in history as a Napoleon therefore entered into incarceration for almost five years, until in the kitchen of her military genius. He was also a great enemy negotiations with Pius VII, and the his release in 1814 when Napoleon fell century-old farmhouse of the Catholic Church. two men agreed to the Concordat of 1801. from power. two miles north of Verdi, a The first time he imprisoned a pope was The concordat made possible the revival Napoleon’s demise began with his tiny, windswept town by the in 1798 after he and his army occupied of Catholicism in France, but it also gave disastrous invasion of Russia, and Minnesota-South Dakota border. “It’s very Rome. He took Pope Pius VI back to Napoleon the power to exercise extensive culminated when the allied forces of church potluck-ish—bars, brownies, pies, just prison in France. Then he invaded Egypt, control over the Church, including the Russia, Austria, Prussia, Saxony, Sweden your home kind of food. If a recipe calls for a where he won the Battle of the Pyramids. right to appoint bishops. and others captured Paris. Pius VII candy thermometer, I turn the page.” After that, he returned to France where When he proclaimed himself emperor returned to Rome, but a year later had So when a crack appeared in the he led a coup d’etat, thereby becoming in 1804, Napoleon convinced the pope to to seek refuge in Genoa when Napoleon dark-chocolate cheesecake she made last the virtual dictator of France through the travel to Paris and attend his coronation escaped from his prison on Elba. month for an intern, Staci recognized it foundation of the Consulate in 1799. in Notre Dame Cathedral. However, The pope finally returned to Rome for for what it was: “the perfect cranny for the Meanwhile, Pope Pius VI died in the Napoleon crowned himself rather than good on June 7, 1815. After Napoleon was ganache to nestle into like a silk scarf tucked same year in a prison in Valence. Napoleon allow the pope to crown him. finally defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, into a cashmere coat,” she wrote on her blog. thought that he had destroyed the papacy Personal relations between the two men most of the papal kingdom was restored at “I see my life as a work in progress, so I treat but, as I wrote last week, the conclave to worsened when the pope insisted on a the Congress of Vienna. † baking that way too. It’s been a ride!” That ride brought her to this year’s Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes Easter Vigil at St. Thomas More Church in Brookings, S.D., where she joined thousands It seems that parenting is ‘grander’ at every level across the country entering the Catholic Church. She cried when she received her We call them “grands” and “greats” Grandparents, on the other hand, only watching an Anne of Green Gables film first Communion from Father Andrew, who because they are. Grandchildren and feel responsible for the grands’ and greats’ together and Anne rejected her boyfriend, welcomed her with radiant joy. “I felt like great-grandchildren are safety. If the kids don’t want to take the I said, “Why’d she dump him? He’s a God was standing in front of me, looking at wonderful. Of course, our time to brush their teeth, they let it pass. hunk.” Now, I’d never have done these me,” she says. children are also above And if they want another cookie they things with my children, thinking I must The 44-year-old communications specialist average, as Garrison say, why not? They aim for a reasonable maintain dignity. had attended Mass with her boyfriend for Keillor notes, but our bedtime, but if there’s a good TV movie Speaking of the Crash Test Dummies, years, but was turned off by what she saw as relationship with them is on late, they let everyone stay up eating it was a present from a grown son who the Church’s many “rules.” Then she learned entirely different. popcorn together, and then sleep late the shares my taste in music. This rapport Catholicism is the first Christian faith, and When we become next morning. comes when our children become adults, her mind was opened. By the time she’d parents, we are Parents do most of the legwork for but happens early on with the grands begun attending Rite of Christian Initiation overwhelmed with feelings of love children. They go to school conferences and greats. We are friends sooner rather of Adults (RCIA) classes last fall—meeting and the desire to protect, but we also for them, and attend their concerts and than later. every Tuesday evening for an hour-and-a-half feel responsible for everything about ball games. They cart them and their Today, with so many fractured families session that challenged and enlightened her— our children. We think we must work friends around to play dates, then to music in our country, grandparents have often she knew she had found the answer to a deep to make them smart, kind, generous, lessons, and then to school and social taken on the role of the parents. They void. “I came to the realization that I was obedient, healthy, and any other virtue we events. Finally, they teach them to drive have become the primary caregivers for missing something.” can dream up. themselves, much to everyone’s horror their grandchildren, if not their grown It wasn’t lost on her that Catholicism is We believe that we’re the ones who followed by relief. children, trying to fill the gaps in a centered on an altar, a table of plenty that will equip them to face the world. Never On the next level, grandparents get dysfunctional society. At an age when feeds the weary. She found Mass to be sweet mind that we ourselves have probably most of the fun and not much of the grunt they should rightfully be able to relax, and unrushed, like her time in the kitchen, never quite reached these goals, our work. They help out with driving now and they’re forced to start all over again with a where she lets things mix and melt. Baking is kids surely will. So we set out to make then, but are not regularly scheduled to do new generation. a spiritual exercise, she says. “To me, it’s an it happen. so. They go the concerts and ball games, Whatever the family is like, being a act of thanksgiving.” Parents teach us to brush our teeth, and are introduced proudly to teachers grandparent is something special. When Staci feels so blessed that she’s compelled chew with our mouths shut, change our and friends. Parents are more likely these little critters first take your hand to pour that love in and back out. Scalloped clothes, and take other civilized measures taken for granted. with total trust and look at you with pure potatoes for the neighbor who broke her designed to make us acceptable to Parents must be correct and serious, love and admiration, you’ve entered the leg, key lime pie with pretzel crust for her ourselves and others. They also monitor but grandparents can be frivolous with grandparent dimension. Lucky us! boyfriend’s birthday, smoky deviled eggs our eating, making sure that we eat lots of kids. Once, I swept up a visiting little flecked with bacon every Fourth of July. If vegetables and not much sugar. They send granddaughter, and danced her around (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the she can make someone’s day so easily, why us to bed at a certain time, and make sure to the raucous sounds of the Crash Test Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular wouldn’t she? we eat some breakfast. Dummies. Another time, when we were columnist for The Criterion.) † That’s what it all boils down to, the parallel Staci sees between her longtime passion for Coming of Age/Maria-Pia Negro Chin baking and her new love of Catholicism: “the sharing part,” she tells me, cracking Trying to be faithful, seeking the eternal in a busy world an egg and wiping her hands. It’s Saturday afternoon, and she’s making Reese’s Peanut I recently got a reality check from a accomplishing or failing to do that we (most days). Yet, often there is the sense Butter Poppers for a nephew who was in a lemur in a kids’ movie. Or, rather, from can let stress creep in. We forget why that I should focus my energy toward four-wheeler accident. Her blue eyes sparkle Danny Jacobs, an actor we are doing what we are doing. This is other things: I should volunteer more, when she looks around her kitchen filled with who is the voice of something I have seen in exhausted young start that podcast I have talked about object lessons: an antique scale, the pantry King Julien, a lemur in people who rush from one activity to the for ages, and have that game night with made of barn wood, embroidered flour sack the popular Madagascar next. Sometimes the joy of the moment friends I have been neglecting because towels, Grandma Janet’s Sunbeam electric series of movies. Jacobs can escape them. I know, because I’m of work. mixer. “Everything has a story,” she says. was a speaker at an guilty of this. I still stress over my list of what I The Catholic faith that has given Staci a event sponsored by I started struggling with the whirlwind need to do and should be doing. I can sense of home is also propelling her to pursue DeSales Media Group— of activities in high school when— only imagine how young people must bold dreams. She’s drafting a book proposal for whom I work—on after coming to live in Maryland from feel juggling responsibilities inside and to write a cookbook, one that would satisfy an what the Church designates as World my native Peru with my parents and outside of the classroom. unmet niche and advance her baking ministry. Communications Day. siblings—I found out that in addition to Even when we try to be faithful to “It sort of feels like a beginning. My eyes Jacobs, a Catholic and former studies, teenagers in the U.S. are expected God’s love, it is easy to feel overwhelmed have been opened to the possibilities.” seminarian, told the audience that “if you to be involved in extracurricular activities or discouraged, especially when we For cradle Catholics and converts alike, can love yourself the way God loves you, such as clubs, sports, volunteer work, etc. have a lot of homework, extracurricular that is the power of faith and the invitation that is going to allow you to relax” even At the time, I didn’t see these activities activities and work to finish. But of summer: to slow down enough in order when you have a lot of things going on in as an opportunity to meet people or to something Jacobs said that day has stuck to create something. Bake or build or braid. life. Jacobs, the sixth of seven children, learn more or to cultivate a healthier with me: We are “in the world and not of Write something, record something. Sew, has worked on movies, commercials, lifestyle. I saw the activities as obstacles. it.” If we have God’s love, what are we sing. Plant a flower, paint a room, fill a bird video games and earned Emmys for his They seemed to take away time from stressed about? feeder. Find a new use for an old object. work, but he keeps what’s important in studying and from my goal of going to We can have many conflicting thoughts Leave something better than it was before. focus. He spoke of the entertainment college, which I wanted to do to validate and emotions. But, maybe if we identify Create and live out the faith that is ever world’s role in “training society to my parents’ sacrifices. the things that are passing, we can keep ancient, ever new. value and pursue extrinsic things which But later, I found joy in many of those our eyes on the things that are eternal. are passing.” activities. I was grateful. These days, (Christina Capecchi is a freelance writer from It made me think how easy it is to living in the present, which I recognize (Maria-Pia Negro Chin writes for Inver Grove Heights, Minn., and the editor of get wrapped up in what we are doing, as God’s gift, is something I am better at Catholic News Service.) † SisterStory.org.) † The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Page 13

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time/ Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, June 13 Thursday, June 16 Sunday, June 19 St. Anthony of Padua, priest Sirach 48:1-14 Twelfth Sunday in Sunday and doctor of the Church Psalm 97:1-7 Ordinary Time 1 Kings 21:1-16 Matthew 6:7-15 Zechariah 12:10-11; 13:1 Psalm 5:2-3b, 4b-7 Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 Readings Matthew 5:38-42 Friday, June 17 Galatians 3:26-29 Sunday, June 12, 2016 2 Kings 11:1-4, 9-18, 20 Luke 9:18-24 Tuesday, June 14 Psalm 132:11-14, 17-18 • 2 Samuel 12:7-10, 13 1 Kings 21:17-29 Matthew 6:19-23 • Galatians 2:16, 19-21 Psalm 51:3-6b, 11, 16 • Luke 7:36-8:3 Matthew 5:43-48 Saturday, June 18 The first reading for this weekend’s liturgy 2 Chronicles 24:17-25 is from the Second Book of Samuel. Scholars Wednesday, June 15 Psalm 89:4-5, 29-34 refer to First and Second Samuel as historical 2 Kings 2:1, 6-14 Matthew 6:24-34 books. Historical books in Psalm 31:20-21, 24 the Bible do not exactly fit Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18 the description of history books today, not because they are untrustworthy or make-believe, but because the point of the book is to tell a that a woman could commit were prostitution Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle religious story. and adultery. For the authors of these Her gesture of washing the Lord’s feet and works, as well as for the perfuming them was a great act of deference Women have gained a more prominent prophets, nothing was more and humility. place in the Vatican over past decade important in life than being true to God. God’s forgiveness, given in Christ’s mercy, is In this reading, the prophet Nathan confronts so great and unquestioning that the Pharisee, a I read in a recent National Geographic there were only two countries King David about his adulterous relationship specialist in theology, cannot fully comprehend Q in the world which do not allow women to vote. One was with Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, a Hittite what was occurring. Jesus had to explain God’s Saudi Arabia, which for centuries treated women as second-class leader. Ancient Hebrews detested adultery, and love in a parable. citizens—not permitting them to be seen in public, only one thing was worse, namely adultery with a for example, except for their eyes, and prohibiting pagan. Such unions weakened the commitment of Reflection them from driving cars. The other place was Vatican Israel to the one, true God. The place of women in the New Testament City. Since that article appeared, Saudi Arabia has Nevertheless, when David admits the error intrigues many people. As so often is said in the now extended voting rights to women, leaving the of his ways, even in these grave circumstances, Gospels, the Apostles, all males, accompanied Vatican City State as the only exception. How do you Nathan assures him that God forgives him. the Lord. They were Christ’s special students explain that? (New York) St. Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians furnishes the and followers. Also in the Lord’s company were second reading. This passage splendidly reveals several women, including Mary of Magdala, Your question is an understandable one, but a what genuine Christian living is. “I live now not from whom seven demons had been expelled. A bit misleading. In fact, the only election held I, but Christ lives in me” (Gal 2:20). This one The presence of the Apostles verifies their at the Vatican is the one to choose a new pope, and statement, so familiar to and beloved among future role in the development of Christianity. since the 11th century only cardinals of the Church have been eligible to Christians, captures the intimacy of the bond The presence of the women shows the vote. So if you’re one of the 800 citizens of Vatican City State, you don’t between the Lord and true disciples. It is a bond outreach of Jesus. Women, while not Apostles, get to vote even if you’re a man—unless you happen to be one of the created in uncompromising faith. It is a bond that hardly would have been admitted to the cardinal electors. brings salvation to the disciple. company of male figures so important to the You might be interested to know that the number of women working at St. Luke’s Gospel provides the third reading. unfolding of salvation had they been regarded as the Vatican has nearly doubled in the last 10 years, according to a recent It, too, is familiar to Christians. It is the story inferior. study conducted by Vatican Radio. In 2012, a laywoman was named of a sinful woman. The text does not describe Second, these readings teach that the mercy of to the position of undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice this woman as a prostitute, but over the God unquestioningly is given those who humbly and Peace, the first laywoman to hold such a high-ranking post in the centuries Christians usually have assumed that and sincerely ask for it. curial leadership. she was one. The Gospel does not give us the exact details Pope Francis has also recently appointed several women to the Such an assumption only underscores the of the sin of the woman who met Jesus. However, International Theological Commission, which assists the Vatican in depth of God’s love shown in Christ’s forgiving the sin committed by David in his liaison with reviewing doctrinal issues. the woman. This aspect of the story, namely the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, is clear. Together, God’s forgiveness, is the point of this passage. the picture is vivid. The women, as well as I lost my firstborn son five years ago. Now I have another child, The particular nature of the woman’s sin is not David, were guilty of grave sin. Q and I have been trying for a year to find a priest to baptize him. In the point. She was gravely sinful. All, very much Yet, God mercifully forgave them. The key for addition to the lingering grief which comes from losing a child, I have including Jesus, saw her as such. In the Jewish them, and now for us, is to give oneself totally to both mental and physical illnesses which make it difficult for me to get to culture of the time of Jesus, the greatest sins Christ in trust and love. † church every Sunday. In fact, I have not been back to church since my child died, but I do pray, and I look forward to teaching my new little boy to pray and to My Journey to God know about God. I believe that my son will not be able to get into heaven unless he is baptized, and I worry about that every day. My parish said that I would have to attend church for three months before having my child baptized, but I never know how I will feel on a particular Sunday so I can’t guarantee that I will be there. I don’t think it’s Fulfillment fair to my child to deprive him of baptism, of God’s protection and of the chance for heaven just because I am sick. Please tell me what I can do. By Phillip Gammon (City of origin withheld)

What waits for us when birth unfolds? Normally, to baptize a child a priest needs reasonable assurance As lives develop and manifest? A that the child will be raised in the Catholic faith. When neither While seeking life’s purpose, consider parent has been going to church, your parish has evidently chosen Life a revelation, not just a quest! to require three months of regular attendance as a sign of your Matters not what vehicle we take through life, good intentions. But the treasure we keep on board! The parish may be unaware of your personal circumstances and the The key is what we put in and take out, illnesses that make attendance difficult for you. You might make an That develops our eternal soul! appointment with your pastor and discuss your situation. The choices we make are freely given, What you might also do is arrange for another Catholic adult— But consequences are renowned! logically, one of your son’s godparents-to-be—to bring the boy to church If love for others is not forthcoming, as he grows up and to see to his religious education. The pastor of your Emptiness will come and surround. parish may then change his mind and schedule the baptism. If not, you Love, joy, peace, patience, might write to your bishop and explain the circumstances. Kindness, goodness, faithfulness, Regarding your concern about your son’s salvation if he is not able These fruits of the Spirit we should gather in, to be baptized, I first want to commend your desire for the great gift of Along with self-control and gentleness! baptism for him. In ordinary circumstances, it is a principal means by The corners of life we cannot see around. which God the Father shares the life and love of his son Jesus with us and Be led by the Spirit divine! makes us fit for heaven. Then what comes our way we will conquer, At the same time, if baptism isn’t possible for a person, especially for Because of His love sublime! young children, the Church encourages us to cling to the hope that God provides. The Catechism of the Catholic Church does this by teaching (Phillip Gammon attends a Christian church north of Indianapolis. An artist’s depiction of a that “the great mercy of God … and Jesus’ tenderness toward children … scene from the Pentecost appears in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in the city of St. Louis. allow us to hope that there is a way of salvation for children who have The feast, celebrated on May 15 this year, commemorates the Holy Spirit descending upon the died without baptism” (#1261). Apostles 50 days after Christ’s resurrection. Pentecost also marks the end of the Easter season.) (CNS photo/Crosiers) (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Doyle at [email protected] and 40 Hopewell St. Albany, N.Y. 12208.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016

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O’BRIEN, Larry M., St. Joseph St. Mary, New Albany, May 25. , 91, St. Paul, St. Mary, Greensburg, May 30. of four. WILLIAMS, Mary, 98, ETIENNE, Ivo University, Terre Haute, May Wife of Jeffrey Spalding. Mother Tell City, June 1. Husband of Brother of Louis Mauer. ROLAND, Margaret A., 91, of Brittany and Joshua Spalding. St. Mary, Richmond, May 26. 18. Father of Lori O’Brien. Mary Etienne. Father of Mary MILLER, Lillian, 88, St. Mary, St. Jude, Indianapolis, May 26. Daughter of Glenn Kamer. Mother of Shirley Lainhart and Grandfather of three. Ann Bernard, Tracy Schroeder, Rushville, May 30. Mother Mother of Janis Petree and Sister of Nancy Batman, Susan Ann Marcum. Grandmother John, Mark and Tom Etienne. of Gary and Mike Miller. O’CONNOR, Earl, 85, St. Jude, Donald Roland. Grandmother of Jones, Laurie and David Kamer. of three. Great-grandmother Brother of Elsie Flamion and Sister of Elizabeth Valentine. Indianapolis, May 26. Husband 11. Great-grandmother of 15. Grandmother of two. of four. † Prayer powers light Christians must share with the world, pope says VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Prayer you a monument as a benefactor of the mercy “will be a bit murky or dark” and of “looking-glass spirituality” and “is powers the light that Christians are called Church,” the pope said on June 7 during without light because they weren’t rooted something awful.” to share with the world, Pope Francis said. a morning Mass in the chapel of the in prayer, he said. When God asks that Christians be the “You can do many great things for the Domus Sanctae Marthae. “What is the Christian’s battery for light of the world and salt of the Earth, Church—a Catholic university, a school, “But if you don’t pray,” he said, all making light? Simply prayer,” he said, both of these gifts are meant to be shared a hospital—and they will even build of those charitable efforts and works of according to Vatican Radio. with others through good works that The thing that “gives life to Christian render glory to God. light, what illuminates, is prayer” that By recognizing that the gifts come comes from the heart and gives God from God, they will never be exhausted thanks and praise, he said. because he gives freely, the pope said. His However, he said, it is important to gift will “continue to be given to you if share that light and not be tempted to you continue to give it—illuminating and ShelbyShelby UpholsteringUpholstering keep it for oneself, which would be a kind giving. And it will never run out.” †

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IS-5987722 The Criterion Friday, June 10, 2016 Page 15 Parents are kids’ ‘best bet’ to buffer outside world, conference hears

UNITED NATIONS (CNS)—The future of humanity depends on parents’ commitment to protect and nurture their children, instill values and help children mature as human beings, speakers told a United Nations event to mark the fourth annual Global Day of Parents. Despite a global retreat from parenthood and marriage, most children are being raised in stable two-parent families that are associated with good emotional, physical, social and economic outcomes, several speakers said during the June 1 event. “The Importance of Fatherhood and Motherhood for Integral Development” was co-sponsored by the Holy See Mission to the U.N. and the Universal Peace Federation. “The importance of moms and dads, and of their joint commitment in raising the next generation, cannot be overstated,” said Archbishop Bernardito Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N. “The future of humanity depends on how well moms and dads do in their mission as teachers in forming Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project, points to a projection their children in values, socialization, trust, mutual screen as he speaks during a conference at the United Nations on June 1 on respect and responsibility, education, hard work, the importance of motherhood and fatherhood for the integral development Dr. Meg Meeker, a pediatrician and expert on affection, compassion, forgiveness, solidarity and ethical of men, women, children and society. Looking on is Archbishop Bernardito parenting, teens and children’s health, speaks during development,” he said. Auza, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the U.N. The Holy See mission a conference at the United Nations on June 1 on Pope Francis, in his exhortation “Amoris Laetitia” to the U.N. and the Universal Peace Federation were co-sponsors of the the importance of motherhood and fatherhood for (“The Joy of Love”) following a two-year-long synod event, which was held in observance of the U.N.’s Global Day of Parents. the integral development of men, women, children process focused on families, holds motherhood and (CNS photos/Gregory A. Shemitz) and society. fatherhood in the highest esteem, and underscores the value of their harmonious cooperation for the good of Project at the University of Virginia. Likewise, family 34 minutes with their parents, Meeker said it is crucial their children, the archbishop explained. “Their combined instability creates stress, disrupts social networks and for parents to be engaged and available so they can service is greater than the sum of their individual work, leaves less time for caregiving, he said. protect their offspring and set them on a path toward and their children profit most from their complementary Presentations also focused on motherhood, children responsibility and maturity. teamwork,” he said. not experiencing the advantage of a father in their lives, Picking up on that theme, Deborah McNamara, a Paraphrasing Pope Francis, Archbishop Auza said, and the security children gain by seeing a healthy, loving clinical counselor at the Neufeld Institute in Vancouver, “Moms and dads as co-educators either instill in their relationship between their parents. British Columbia, said 21st-century parents are digital children trust and loving respect by their affection, Brian Caulfield, director of the Fathers for Good, an immigrants who must lead their children into a new age. example and trustworthiness, or by their failure to provide initiative of the Knights of Columbus, said there is little Longing for attachment is the greatest human hunger, she in this way, leave their children questioning whether their public discussion about the high number of U.S. children explained, and children can satisfy it through a strong parents are sincerely concerned about them.’ being raised without a father. caring relationship with an adult, rather than virtual Thomas Walsh is president of the Universal Peace “There’s a general feeling that fathers are expendable,” connectivity to their peers. Federation, which has adopted as its motto “the family promoted by media stereotypes of “the doofus Dad,” “Relationship is the most important thing the family is a school of love.” He said the family has underutilized he said. “Having imbibed the brand, many men have offers. It protects our children in adversity. We need to potential for social development on small scales. retreated from making their mark.” protect the relationship at all costs,” McNamara said. Parenthood should be woven into a compelling narrative Pediatrician Meg Meeker said children gain security “We need to believe we are what our children need. We to give voice to social assets, he said. from the relationship between their parents, and strong are our children’s best bet. We have to be the buffer to the Furthermore, two-parent families, compared with character development comes from diverse exposure to world outside,” she added. single parents, “often have more time, money, attention, mother, father and faith. “We cannot send our children into a digital age kinship support and stability to give to their children,” With children spending as much as eight hours a day empty-handed with only their technology in tow. Parents said Brad Wilcox, director of the National Marriage on media and in front of video screens, compared to are still the best devices,” she said. †

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It is hoped Diocese has become a beacon of hope that Father Shortall will have ministered and mercy in all 27 of those communities by the time among local his mission of mercy on wheels ends. communities. “The concept of having priests moving Open church around to rural and remote communities doors and a large is not a new one,” Father Shortall said. banner planted in “During the early settlement times, there church front yards were priests traveling on horseback, and proclaiming, even in our early Jesuit tradition, we have “Missionary of sent out missionaries on foot or horseback Mercy here this for weeks at a time. So you could say week!” also have we’ve just reverted to what we’ve always been the cause of done. I just happen to be on wheels.” much curiosity. Having been accepted as a missionary For the past of mercy, Father Shortall went to Rome 12 weeks, Jesuit Father Richard Shortall in February to attend the commissioning has been traveling in the secondhand Mass with Pope Francis. While on motor home to rural parishes that have no mission since returning, he shares his resident priest. Each Saturday, he parks experience of Rome and unpacks the Jesuit Father Richard Shortall, a missionary of mercy for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, blesses the beside a church, connects to the electricity pope’s message of mercy during his graves of families and friends at St. Patrick and St. Brigid Church in Cooranbong, Australia, on and water, and makes himself at home for daily homilies. May 27. Father Shortall, one of two missionaries of mercy in Australia, is traveling throughout seven days. It’s not a large motor home, At a recent Mass at St. Patrick and the Maitland-Newcastle Diocese in a motor home to churches that have no resident priest. but he says it has everything he needs St. Brigid Church in Cooranbong, he (CNS photos/Fiona Basile) for his travels and ministry during the shared: “We have been discovering over Jubilee Year of Mercy. the week what Francis had in mind in Father Shortall is one of more than calling this Jubilee Year of Mercy, that 1,000 priests—one of two Australians— when we look at the merciful face of who were accepted by Pope Francis to be God, it is a God of compassion, a God of a missionary of mercy during the Jubilee kindness, a welcoming and nonjudgmental Year. He said he was inspired to step God. So as we take these qualities of God forward after reading the pope’s words into our own hearts, when we connect in “Misericordiae Vultus” (“The Face of with the mercy of God, we in turn become Mercy”) instituting the year: “I intend more merciful people. to send out missionaries of mercy. They “On the day of the commissioning will be a sign of the Church’s maternal Mass on Ash Wednesday, [Pope] Francis solicitude for the people of God, enabling was reminding us of ways during the them to enter the profound richness of this Jubilee Year in which we might open our mystery so fundamental to the faith.” eyes. And he always kept coming back to “As soon as I read that, I felt this call. this theme of opening the doors, not only Yes, I want to be one of those missionaries of our churches, but also the doors of our of mercy,” Father Shortall told Catholic hearts. It’s all about that.” News Service (CNS). Opening doors is precisely what Having worked with the people of the Father Shortall does. Each morning, diocese since 2013 and understanding the he opens the doors of the church at particular hurts felt by many of them over which he is staying, and they remain news about clergy sexual abuse, he felt open throughout the day. He celebrates called to take on this ministry. Mass in the morning and remains in the Jesuit Father Richard Shortall, a missionary of mercy for the Jubilee Year of Mercy, speaks during “I had no idea how I’d do it or what church, sitting quietly, reading or praying, Mass at St. Patrick and St. Brigid Church in Cooranbong, Australia, on May 26. was involved in being one of these while waiting for anyone to take up the missionaries of mercy, but when I shared invitation to come through the door. going to judge them. And I know from important thing I will do today is to listen this desire with Teresa Brierley, a vice Father Shortall said his biggest hope watching them and sitting with them, to them and give them my attention. chancellor at the diocese, her eyes lit up. is that people accept the invitation to how important this has been for them. “I’ve heard many people say, ‘Father I She said, ‘Don’t worry, I know how.’ ” experience God’s love and mercy by There is this incredible sense of relief, feel like a great weight has lifted from my Brierley has long wanted a priest walking through the doors he has opened. of being free. And for me, that’s the key shoulders.’ It’s so simple,” he added. “All to travel to remote communities “When I first arrive, I invite people component of a missionary of mercy you need to do is love them and accept without a resident priest. With the to feel free to come and talk to me about during this jubilee. The conversation may them, to be available and present to them approval of Maitland-Newcastle something that may be weighing them lead to the sacrament of reconciliation, and to listen gently, instead of shouting at Bishop William Wright and Jesuit down from the past. Perhaps they’ve but not necessarily, and that’s OK. them and judging them and making things Father Brian McCoy, provincial of the never had an opportunity to share the “When someone is sitting in that difficult for them. Australian Jesuits, Father Shortall is story with anyone else,” he said. chair and I might be feeling weary,” “This is what [Pope] Francis is making her wish possible. “Now they have an opportunity to Father Shortall continued, “I tell myself saying, we must reach out, and make The diocese spans more than share their story to someone who is the most important person I am meeting sure people still feel welcome and part of 13,000 square miles, an area larger listening with compassion and who is not today is that person. And the most the Church.” † What was in the news on June 10, 1966? A new archabbot for St. Meinrad, criticism for stifling dissent against the Vietnam War, and racial equality in purchasing By Brandon A. Evans propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding. There • Laity polled on new bishop was a far deeper cleavage of public opinion in the • Leon Cathedral swept by blaze This week, we continue to examine what was going on Korean War. … Efforts to stifle dissent … continue • Sees ‘crisis of obedience’ in the Church and the world 50 years ago as seen through to take curious turns. … Telling the truth has never • Back right of religious to teacher’s certificate the pages of The Criterion. damaged public morale. Hiding the truth has.” • Futur e superiors of mission society will be elected Here are some of the items found in the June 10, 1966, • Prior Gabriel Verkamp elected new Archabbot of • Pr oposes co-op vocation film issue of The Criterion: St. Meinrad • Cadet kickball crown annexed by Holy Spirit • Participate in Project Equality “ST. MEINRAD, Ind.—Father Prior Gabriel • Varied summer slate on docket for CYO “LANSING, Mich.—Four Michigan Catholic dioceses— Verkamp, O.S.B., who was born a few miles from the • 1,000 churches on drawing board Grand Rapids, Lansing, Marquette, and Saginaw—will 112-year-old Benedictine monastery here, was elected • 11 on Woods faculty given study grants commit their purchasing power to promoting racial as the sixth abbot of St. Meinrad’s Archabbey on • ‘Reasonable to expect’ life on other worlds justice and equal job opportunity. … The four dioceses Friday, June 3. The 66-year-old native of Ferdinand • Institute speaker: Urges new approach in announced their intention to implement the Project will succeed Archabbot Bonaventure Knaebel, who alcoholism laws Equality program of the [National Catholic Conference resigned as monastic superior on May 10, 11 years after • Summer study set for Marian faculty for Interracial Justice], which requires companies doing his election. Archabbot Gabriel, who will be solemnly • La Leche League sets convention business with the dioceses and their institutions to adopt blessed in the office later in the summer, brings to the • Recollection set for women’s group equal employment policies and practices.” position 37 years’ experience as a monk, seminary • Editorial: Guns and glitter professor and official, pastor and religious superior. “President [Lyndon B.] Johnson has demanded that his Since 1963, he had served as prior of the Benedictine Vietnam critics quit being ‘Nervous Nellies’ and stand community at St. Meinrad.” united ‘until the gallant people of South Vietnam have • Appointed rector of seminary their own choice of their own government.’ ‘I do not • Corpus Christi rites set at three sites think that those men out there fighting for us tonight • Rev . Peter D. Fox, Jesuit ordinand, sets think that we should enjoy the luxury of fighting each Mass June 19 other back home,’ he said. We seriously doubt that • Visit to a Czech village: A rainy day in Suchdol Read all of these stories from our stateside differences of opinion about the Vietnam War • Vatican experts drafting guidelines for ecumenism June 10, 1966, issue by logging on to our archives have any measurable effect on the morale of American • Chur ch seeking to serve Latin social revolt, at www.CriterionOnline.com. † battle forces, all the outpourings of Washington-inspired cardinal says