Saying goodbye Priest and widower’s friendship was a model for loving your neighbor, page 9. Serving the ChurchCriterion in Central and Southern Indiana Since 1960 CriterionOnline.com January 19, 2007 Vol. XLVII, No. 14 75¢ A conscientious choice Grandmother’s arrest is about taking a stand for the poor, oppressed

By John Shaughnessy

On the day before she was arrested by military police, Val Fillenwarth put on a white T-shirt decorated by the

brightly colored handprints of her 17 grandchildren, includ- Photo by John Shaughnessy ing the one who had died too soon. At 64, Fillenwarth thought the shirt was the right one to wear as she joined other women in the group called “1,000 Grandmothers”—one part of the 22,000 protesters who had come to Fort Benning, Ga., to demonstrate peace- fully against a United States Army school that they believe trains soldiers from Latin America to torture and kill. The school has been a concern for Fillenwarth’s conscience since 1980 when she heard the news that four Catholic women—three religious sisters and a lay missionary—had been murdered in El Salvador, murders that implicated men who had been trained at the school. In the years since then, Fillenwarth has protested and given talks about the former School of the Americas that is now known as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Yet, on Nov. 19, 2006, the commit- ment of Fillenwarth—a member of St. Lawrence Parish in Indianapolis—took an even more personal turn. As the 22,000 protesters marched in a solemn, funeral- like procession near the gates of Fort Benning, Fillenwarth and 15 others broke ranks from the march. While members of the crowd said aloud the names of Latin American people—many of them poor—who have been killed by soldiers, the 16 protesters walked toward a hole in the Ed and Val Fillenwarth hold a family portrait of their seven children and 17 grandchildren that is displayed in their Indianapolis home. fence at Fort Benning. As they took turns climbing through the hole, they knew reared their seven children and opened their hearts to their has Catholic roots. Maryknoll Missionary Father Roy they were breaking a law against trespassing on govern- 17 grandchildren. As the sun streamed into the house on that Bourgeois started it in 1990, a year after six Jesuit ment property. They also knew that people who had been winter afternoon, Fillenwarth was just days from returning to priests, their housekeeper and her daughter were killed arrested for trespassing at Fort Benning in previous years Georgia for her Jan. 29 trial on the trespassing charges. in El Salvador by soldiers, many of whom had been had received prison sentences ranging from three months to “I’m not scared,” she said. “We did a lot of talking to the trained at the then-School of the Americas. The school’s six months. Still, Fillenwarth children and the grandchildren to graduates also included Manuel Noriega of Panama and didn’t flinch from her act of make sure they’ve understood it. Roberto D’ Aubuisson of El Salvador, two leaders civil disobedience as military ‘There’s this consistent ethic to They’ve been great. whose regimes were marked by violence, terror and police officers ran to arrest life—that we need to care for the “The one thing I want to stress is death. her and the others. poor, the oppressed, people who that this protest is not against our The name of the school was changed in 2001 to the There was no turning troops. It’s against the training of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. back for Fillenwarth. Her are taken advantage of. To me, military personnel from Latin Defenders of the school say its curriculum requires turning point had been that’s a very important part of America. I want our grandchildren coursework in human rights and democratic values. reached in August of 2005 being a Christian. ’ to see that we can love our country Supporters also say the school shouldn’t be accountable when her 17-year-old grand- enough to speak out when we know when some of its graduates distort the purpose of the son, Ben Fillenwarth, died in — Val Fillenwarth something is wrong; that dissent is training. a traffic accident in patriotic. “The government says it’s a different school, but it Indianapolis. “Also, as Christians, as follow- isn’t,” Fillenwarth said. “New name, same shame.” “His death was the final conviction to do it,” the grand- ers of Jesus, we need to do whatever it takes to stick up for She hopes the makeup of the newly-elected mother recalled, “because I can see how a death like that the poor. There’s this consistent ethic to life—that we need U.S. Congress will eventually lead to the school being affects the family. You think of all the thousands and thou- to care for the poor, the oppressed, people who are taken closed. In June 2006, an effort in the U.S. House of sands of families who have lost a child in Latin America advantage of. To me, that’s a very important part of being a Representatives to suspend funding for the school because of this school. When a family loses a child, it’s Christian. The Catholic Church’s teachings call us to work failed by a vote of 218 to 188. never the same again.” for justice for everyone, that we’re all equally precious to The pastor of Fillenwarth’s parish says he takes no While she talked, Fillenwarth sat at the kitchen table of God.” sides in the controversy. Still, the support of Father John her Indianapolis home, where she and her husband, Ed, The annual November protest and vigil at Fort Benning See GRANDMOTHER, page 12 Bishop Skylstad says Iraqi security, dignity are key to policy

WASHINGTON (CNS)—Every within the framework of “a key moral the Holy Land, issued his statement from U.S. action or policy in Iraq “ought to be question that ought to guide our nation’s Jerusalem, but it was released through evaluated in light of actions in Iraq: How can the U.S. bring the USCCB offices in Washington. our nation’s moral about a responsible transition in Iraq?” He noted that the U.S. bishops and the responsibility to help He said “benchmarks” for progress Vatican had expressed “grave moral con- Iraqis to live with secu- toward such a transition include “mini- cerns about the military intervention in rity and dignity in the mally acceptable levels of security; eco- Iraq” and its potential for uncontrollable aftermath of U.S. mili- nomic reconstruction to create employ- negative consequences. tary action,” said ment for Iraqis; and political structures “In light of current realities, the Holy Bishop William S. and agreements that help overcome divi- See and our con- Skylstad of Spokane, sions, reduce violence, broaden partici- Bush’s new plan ference support Wash., president of the pation and increase respect for religious draws support, broader regional Bishop William S. U.S. Conference of freedom and basic human rights.” criticism, page 19. and international Skylstad Catholic Bishops. “Any action or failure to act should be engagement to In a statement measured by whether it moves toward increase security, stability and recon- released on Jan. 12, Bishop Skylstad said these benchmarks and contributes to a struction in Iraq,” he said. the new U.S. policies announced by responsible withdrawal at the earliest “Another necessary step is more sus- President George W. Bush on Jan. 10 or time,” he added. tained U.S. leadership to address other any alternatives to them must be viewed Bishop Skylstad, who was traveling in See IRAQ, page 2 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007

for the men and women in the U.S. mili- U.S. soldiers tary who serve bravely, generously and secure a road in IRAQ Baghdad, Iraq, in continued from page 1 at great risk.” He said, as religious leaders and this Nov. 5 photo. deadly conflicts in this region, especially human rights defenders, the bishops In an address to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the “have expressed particular alarm at the the nation on crisis in Lebanon,” he added. deteriorating situation of Christians and Jan. 10, President George

He said the bishops’ conference has other religious minorities in Iraq.” CNS photo/Mahmoud Raouf Mahmoud, Reuters repeatedly called for “substantive, civil Their special vulnerability highlights W. Bush said he and nonpartisan discussion of ways to the dangers being faced by all Iraqis, wants to send bring about a responsible transition in including Sunnis and Shiites, he said. 21,500 additional Iraq.” A day after Bush announced he wants U.S. troops to “Such civil dialogue is even more to send more soldiers to Iraq, anti-war Iraq. He admitted essential and urgent at this moment of activists held protests in a number of that it was a national discussion and decision,” he U.S. cities, including San Francisco, mistake not to said. Boston, Washington and New York. have more troops In his Jan. 10 address on national tele- Demonstrators said the buildup planned on the ground. vision, Bush outlined a plan to boost by the president will cause more blood- U.S. troop strength in Iraq by about shed and give insurgents new American 21,500 and set a series of benchmarks targets. the Iraqi government is expected to meet Organizers of the protests said they in coming months to stabilize the coun- were a prelude to a Jan. 27 march in try and promote its economic recovery. Washington, which will “send a strong, Bishop Skylstad did not comment clear message to Congress and the Bush directly on specifics of the Bush plan. administration” that the American He said the bishops “are deeply con- people want Congress to act to end the cerned for the lives and dignity of the war in Iraq and “bring the troops home people of Iraq who suffer so much and now.” † Pope marks migration day, urges policies to benefit families VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Political policies and on Jan. 14, the pope used his Sunday Angelus address going through official channels. humanitarian assistance to help migrant and refugee to ask the international community and individual Each of those people is part of a family or even the families stay together or reunite will benefit host societies nations to adopt policies aimed at safeguarding the head of a family, the pope said. because they help newcomers integrate, Pope family bonds of migrants and refugees. Pope Benedict said nations Benedict XVI said. In the Gospel account of Jesus, Mary and Joseph must develop policies to regulate Marking the World Day for Migrants and Refugees being forced to flee to Egypt, he said, people can see migration in a way that respects “the painful situation of many migrants,” especially the rights of each person, pro- refugees, the displaced and the persecuted. motes family unity, safeguards Forced to leave their homes because of poverty, war women and children and, at the or persecution, the families of the migrants can become same time, encourages an extremely fragile, the pope said. orderly and legal movement of Pope Benedict told a crowd gathered at St. Peter’s peoples. Square that the United Nations estimates there are “The proper integration of 200 million migrants in the world who have left their [migrant] families into the homes for economic reasons, 9 million refugees forced social, economic and political to flee and about 2 million young people who have left Pope Benedict XVI systems of the countries that their home countries in order to study. welcome them,” he said, will be To the official figures, he said, one also must add the possible only if the human dignity of the migrants is millions of people who have been displaced within their respected and if the migrants recognize the values of the own nation and those who have immigrated without society offering them a home. †

Official Appointments Parish in Beech Grove, effective July 3, 2007.

Rev. Mathew Joseph Choorapanthiyil, O.C.D., Rev. Henry Tully, pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist chaplain for the Sisters of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at Parish in Indianapolis, granted a medical leave, effective the Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute, to temporary Feb. 7, 2007. administrator of Holy Rosary Parish in Seelyville, effective Jan. 10, 2007. Rev. Patrick Doyle, pastor of Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ Parish in Indianapolis, appointed temporary Rev. Scott Nobbe, Hispanic ministry in the Indianapolis administrator of St. Mark the Evangelist Parish in West Deanery, liaison for Hispanic ministry in the Indianapolis and continuing as pastor of Nativity of Our archdiocese and part-time assistant to Archbishop Daniel Lord Jesus Christ Parish in Indianapolis. M. Buechlein, to associate pastor of St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis and Hispanic sacramental assistance for Rev. Robert Robeson, rector of Bishop Simon Bruté St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish in Indianapolis while College Seminary at Marian College in Indianapolis continuing as part-time liaison for Hispanic ministry in and providing weekend sacramental ministry at the archdiocese, effective Jan. 10, 2007. St. Monica Parish in Indianapolis, to weekend sacramental ministry at St. Mark the Evangelist Parish Rev. Gerald F. Burkert, pastor of Holy Name of Jesus in Indianapolis and continuing as rector of Parish in Beech Grove, previously granted permission to Bishop Simon Bruté College Seminary at Marian retire effective Jan. 17, 2007, will remain pastor until College in Indianapolis. July 3, 2007. These appointments are from the office of the Most Rev. Stanley Pondo, completing graduate studies in Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Archbishop of Rome, appointed administrator of Holy Name of Jesus Indianapolis. †

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By Brigid Curtis Ayer the Catholic Church as “the original cell of to move forward in the process. Conference will publish the “I-CAN social life” (#2207) will be the focus of a Sen. David Long (R-Fort Wayne), the Update” on its Web page. Every January, 150 lawmakers, better number of the ICC’s legislative initiatives newly elected president pro tempore in “The conference’s role is to be the eyes known as the Indiana General Assembly, this year. the Senate, succeeds the nearly three- and ears for the Catholic Church, to help descend The Christian family is “a domestic decade term of former President Pro those interested stay in touch and to enable upon the Church [that] is a sign and image of the Tempore Sen. Bob Garton (R-Columbus), people to take part in the process,” Tebbe state communion of the Father and the Son in the who was defeated in the primary said. “The ‘I-CAN Update’ will provide a Capitol Holy Spirit” (#2204-2205). “The family election. In the Senate, the Republicans summary of legislative actions and should in must be helped and defended by appropriate hold a 33-17 majority. give people sufficient information to follow Indian- social measures” (#2209). “The political Rep. Patrick Bauer (D-South Bend) was up on those issues of personal importance.” apolis to conduct some of the state’s most community has a duty to honor the family, elected the new Speaker of the House when In addition to the “I-CAN Update,” important business. to assist it, and ensure freedoms, … the Democrats regained a narrow archived updates, ICC positions and other And every year, the Indiana Catholic protections, … rights …” (#2211). 51-49 majority in the Indiana House of background information are also at the ICC Conference (ICC), the Church’s official Guided by the five Indiana bishops and Representatives. Web page at www.indianacc.org. Interested public policy five lay board members, ICC Executive Not only is there new leadership in the parties may also join the I-CAN network by watchdog and Director Glenn Tebbe will support several House and Senate this year, but there are visiting the ICC Web page. More detailed advocate, gears up pro-family legislative initiatives, including several new faces elected in 2006 who have information regarding the bills and detailed to bring Catholic efforts to extend parental choice in become part of the Indiana General information about the legislative process are principles to the education in the form of tax credits for Assembly (see story below). available on the Web at public square by families sending their children to Catholic During the next four months, both the www.state.in.us/legislative/session/calendars sharing a consistent schools, increasing Indiana’s minimum ICC and Indiana General Assembly have a .html. life ethic that every wage, working to uphold the sanctity of full plate. Even though property tax relief, Indiana Catholic Conference Executive human being, marriage through a constitutional health care reform and education top the list Director Glenn Tebbe’s report on the week’s created in the image amendment which defines marriage as a of many legislators this year, state legislative activities follows Archbishop and likeness of union between one man and one woman, lawmakers are charged by the Indiana Daniel M. Buechlein’s weekly radio God, deserves working toward a permanent earned income Constitution with accomplishing only one broadcast at 11:05 a.m. on Saturday and Glenn Tebbe dignity. tax credit for the poor, improving health duty—passing a new two-year budget Sunday mornings on Indianapolis Catholic Bringing this fundamental moral care for the uninsured, and improving life package by the April 29 deadline. radio station WSPM 89.1 FM. principle to light in the legislative arena has for immigrant families and children living “Much of the legislative work done by Indiana Catholic Radio also streams on taken many forms in the past 40 years, in Indiana. the Indiana Catholic Conference this year the Internet and can be heard anywhere in including efforts to ban embryonic stem-cell The success of the ICC’s pro-family will be overshadowed by the budget-making the world by going to research; reduce abortions; provide basic legislative agenda this year will also be process,” Tebbe said, “but because the www.catholicradioindy.org and clicking on needs for the poor, disabled and elderly; determined in part by the willingness of the budget affects the dignity of people in the “Listen Now” button. limit and abolish the death penalty; and newly-elected leadership in the House and Indiana, the conference will be paying close protect the family and family life in Indiana. Senate to have these bills heard in attention to its contents.” (Brigid Curtis Ayer is a correspondent for The family, defined by the Catechism of committee, which will allow the proposals Each week, the Indiana Catholic The Criterion.) † New members of Indiana General Assembly include several Catholics

There are many new faces that will be Twenty-three are members of the voting on legislation in 2007 at the Indiana Indiana House of Representatives, Statehouse, and the new group of including Speaker of the House, legislators include several Catholics. Rep. Patrick Bauer (D-South Bend). The new Catholics in the House of Other Catholics in the House include: Representatives include: • Rep. Ryan Dvorak (D-South Bend) • Rep. Mara Candelaria Reardon • Rep. Scott Pelath (D-Michigan City) (D-Munster) • Rep. Duane Cheney (D-Portage) • Rep. David Niezgodski • Rep. Chester Dobis (D-Merrillville) (D-South Bend) • Rep. Donald Lehe (R-Brookston) • Rep. Nancy Dembowski (D-Knox) • Rep. Robert Kuzman (R-Crown Point) • Rep. Tom Dermody (R-LaPorte) • Rep. Jeb Bardon (D-Indianapolis) • Rep. Philip GiaQuinta (D-Fort Wayne) • Rep. Joe Micon (D-Lafayette) Rep. Mara Candelaria Rep. David Niezgodski Rep. Nancy The sole new Catholic in the Indiana • Rep. Sheila Klinker (D-Lafayette) Reardon Dembowski Senate is Sen. Robert Deig • Rep. Timothy Neese (R-Elkhart) (D-Mount Vernon). • Rep. Philip Pflum (D-Milton) Out of the 150 members of the Indiana • Rep. Robert Bischoff (D-Greendale) General Assembly, 33 of them are Roman • Rep. Paul Robertson (D-DePauw) Catholic. • Rep. Suzanne Crouch Ten are state senators, including the (R-Evansville) Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Richard • Rep. Matt Bell (R-Avilla) Young (D-Miltown). • Rep. Michael Murphy Other Catholic senators include: (R-Indianapolis) • Sen. Frank Mrvan (D-Hammond) • Rep. Phil Hinkle (R-Indianapolis) • Sen. Sue Landske (R-Cedar Lake) • Rep. John Day (D-Indianapolis) • Sen. John Broden (D-South Bend) The Web site • Sen. Joseph Zakas (R-Granger) www.in.gov/apps/sos/legislator/search, can Rep. Tom Dermody Rep. Philip GiaQuinta Sen. Robert Deig • Sen. Thomas Wyss (R-Fort Wayne) help you identify your legislator and • Sen. David Ford (R-Hartford City) provide some easy ways of making contact. • Sen. Jeff Drozda (R-Westfield) To track legislative action or to contact • Sen. Timothy Skinner your state legislators, log on to Indiana House of Representative at Indiana State Senate, call 317-232-9400 or (D-Indianapolis) www.in.gov/legislative or call the 317-232-9600 or 800-382-9842. For the 800-382-9467. †

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OPINION

Be Our Guest/Ron Dierkes When it comes to praying,

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 semantics shouldn’t play a role Most Rev. Daniel M. Buechlein, O.S.B., Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher We have been hearing lately a lot Bible where Jesus healed without entering Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus concerning the “new” Mass response the requesting person’s roof: the father being changed from “Lord, I am not whose child was dying, and the centurion’s worthy to receive you” to “Lord, I am not servant. Even Jesus was amazed that they worthy that thou should enter under my had such faith. Editorial roof.” In each case, Christ told them that his This subject has been addressed on child and his slave were healed and lived. Pope Benedict XVI the Opinion page in recent issues of The next day, the father, upon returning blesses the faithful The Criterion. home, was told that at the seventh hour the during Mass on the I have been listening to the thoughts of fever had left his child. It was at that hour feast of the Epiphany others, which also includes a homily by that Jesus said to the father “your child in St. Peter’s Basilica Father Shaun Whittington at a Mass for lives.”

CNS photo/Tony Gentile, Reuters Gentile, CNS photo/Tony at the Vatican on high school students. In his homily, he was And it was the same way with the Jan. 6. In his homily, concerned about how long it would take centurion. When he returned home, his the pope said that the for the phrase “under my roof” to trickle servant lived. age of globalization is down to all congregations at Roman When we pray, whether privately and/or challenging political, Catholic Masses. publicly, we should be praying with scientific and Over the past 20 years, I have read the heartfelt humility. We should be praying to religious leaders to Bible through each year. In those years, I the Blessed Trinity first, for others next, shape a new world have also written over 160 prayers to our then ask our Lord to have mercy upon us order based on Lord Jesus Christ in a manuscript named last. spiritual values. “Book of Prayers to Our Lord Jesus Jesus first, others next, yourself last Christ.” And, at the end of every prayer, it spells “joy.” does not end in “I pray,” but rather, “we Semantics should not mean much in our pray, Amen.” prayers. Jesus wants sincerity and Whether praying privately or publicly, wholeheartedness, whether simply long or Pope Benedict teaches the words “I pray” sound so proudful for short. All prayer is talking to/with God. our blessings that we are leaving others He knows what we are going to think the joy of Christian faith around us out of our prayer. or say even before we do. But he wants us In our prayer, why don’t we include all to say it to carry on a dialogue with him. emember the anxious hand-wringing wavers in his conviction that “Jesus in attendance under our Lord’s roof where The prayers we say only in this earthly Rthat religious pundits around the Christ is the meaning of my life and of we are assembled? Take out the “I, me and realm will decide our fate when we meet world engaged in when Cardinal Joseph the world.” mine” and put in “we and ours.” him face to face at the judgment seat of Ratzinger was elected pope? Pope Benedict has a deep love and “Lord, we are not worthy to receive you Christ. Many feared no less than the return of reverence for the Eucharist, and he under our roof, but only say the word and the Inquisition. Many others appeared to firmly believes that adoration (contem- we shall be healed.” (Ron Dierkes is a member of Prince of welcome the fire and brimstone plation) is the necessary prerequisite for There are at least two miracles in the Peace Parish in Madison.) † housecleaning that they were certain the Christian charity (social and political new pope would initiate as soon as he action in the world). He does not assumed the papal throne. condone apathy or smug religious Letters to the Editor Apparently, they all believed the observance. He challenges all believers cartoon images of “God’s rottweiler” and to live their faith and, in so doing, to America: A welcoming that it has always been. the conservative “Grand Inquisitor” that transform the world. Our nation was founded on Christian for many years filled the religious and In a recent address to lay leaders in land and the great ideals and generosity. We should all strive secular press whenever Cardinal Italy, the pope described the to live by those ideals and generous Ratzinger carried out his responsibilities Resurrection as a historical event to hope of the world Christian principles today. as Prefect for the Congregation for the which the Apostles were the witnesses, I was happy to see the pastoral letter Greg Dant, Indianapolis Doctrine of the Faith. not the inventors. The Resurrection, he from our Indiana bishops concerning Obviously, they didn’t really know said, was not simply a “return to earthly immigrants. Sisters of Providence this man. No one who had read his many life, but the greatest ‘mutation’ that ever It troubles me to witness the attitude of sensitive and insightful writings, or occurred, the definitive leap toward a so many people, Catholics included, fostered many students listened to his homilies, or observed him profoundly new dimension of life, the concerning the influx of Hispanics that we in Catholic education in his dealings with people ought to have entry into a different order.” have witnessed in Indiana and America believed the negative, iron-hearted and This new order, in which love over the past few years. Cynthia Dewes struck a chord with me dogmatic stereotype that was readily triumphs over sin and death, continually We are a nation of immigrants after all, in her Jan. 12 column in The Criterion. assigned to this gentle man. penetrates and transforms our world, he and how many of us truly know if our She said, “[Kitty Burns] Florey recalls Yes, he was vigilant in carrying out said. The concrete way in which this ancestors came here legally? diagramming and her entire parochial his official responsibility to clarify happens is through the life and witness What about the English, French, Irish, school education with affection, a pleasant Church teaching and to point out of the Church. Scottish, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainians, change from some of the bitter memoirs practices and points of view that strayed Christianity, he said, is like a great Germans, Vietnamese, Koreans, etc.? we’ve read recently.” from authentic Catholic faith. Yes, he “yes” to human life, human freedom and Perhaps we should all consider Jesus’s I say to Ms. Dewes, “Amen!” was outspoken in his personal views on human intelligence, and that should be admonishment for those without sin to cast We did have a good time at Catholic liturgical practices and other aspects of seen in what the Church says and does. the first stone? school. And in retrospect, I would like to life in the post-Vatican II Church. Essentially, he said, the faith My father’s family came to America tell all of the Sisters of Providence that Certainly you could disagree with him. should bring joy to the world. nearly 400 years ago and, quite honestly, I had me to teach, “Thank you!” But call him mean-spirited? Intolerant? “Christianity, in fact, is open to all don’t know (or care) if they came here I can add, subtract, multiply, divide Hard-hearted? Never. that is just, true and pure in cultures legally, but I do know why they came here. and diagram sentences faster than almost Joseph Ratzinger began his ministry and civilizations, to whatever brings They came to America to escape religious anyone I know. I was given a love of as Pope Benedict XVI with a bold, but cheer, comfort and strength to our persecution due to being Roman Catholic. learning that continues to this day. radically simple, affirmation of Christian existence,” the pope said. One-hundred fifty years later, they fled These sisters fostered in me a desire to faith: “The Church is alive, and young!” Pope Benedict went on to briefly across America for the same reason. I’m learn and eventually led me to higher Then, in his first encyclical, allude to a number of contemporary glad that they made the choices that they education in my chosen field. I like to Deus Caritas Est (“God Is Love”), he issues like abortion, gay marriage and did and took the risks involved. Our family think I have “done them proud.” reminded us that God is not found in state aid to Church schools—perennial is certainly better off because of those There were tough sisters like Sister anger or vengeance or indifference. topics on Italy’s political and social choices, and I refer not only to economics. Mary Patricia, but she developed math Where love is, God is found. horizon. He asked Italian Catholics to Many Hispanics patronize our business skills in my head that I didn’t know I had. We are called to be loving, too, and help resist encroaching secularization and for the most part, they seem to be There were lovely sisters like Sister generous and welcoming of all God’s that tends to exclude God from public hard-working, family oriented, religious Viola Marie, who showed me what it was people regardless of who they are or life. But he said none of this will happen people. They want the same things that like to be elegant and graceful and smart. where they stand in the midst of life’s unless the faithful understand that being past immigrants have wanted—freedom. There were Sister Superiors who loved journey. a Christian begins with a personal Freedom to earn a living, freedom to movies and gave me a love of them that Even when he unintentionally caused encounter with Christ—not with a social worship, freedom to educate their continues to this day. When Sister Eileen an uproar in the Muslim world by or political program. children and freedom from worry, to Marie was at the former Holy Trinity quoting (without approval) the harsh Can you take a firm and uncompro- name a few. School in New Albany, we had movies words of a Byzantine emperor, he did not mising stand on issues such as these and We welcome them and wish them well. almost every week. retreat from his persistent call for still proclaim Christianity as the most While we hope that they are in America We had holy cards, some edged in interfaith dialogue and a complete profound source of joy that human legally, we are not going to condemn them crochet with loving care. We had order abandonment of the idea that human beings have ever experienced? This pope for coming here to feed their families, and discipline and prayer at intervals all problems can ever be solved by violent believes the answer is an overwhelming regardless of their circumstances. day. It was wonderful. means. and enthusiastic “Yes!” None of us should treat America as I think a lot of us received wonderful This pope is a lover, not a fighter. He some exclusive club (we got ours, you get educations that we would not have is a passionate man of ideas who never — Daniel Conway yours), but instead as a welcoming land of otherwise had. plenty and as the great hope of the world Dianne (Young) Schladand, New Albany The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Page 5

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

SEEKING THE FACE OF THE LORD BUSCANDO LA CARA DEL SEÑOR Prayer: A powerful tool for respecting all life, human dignity have placed a large number of petitions consciousness of what a great gift it is to of human life is not particularly visible in Prayer is a powerful way to participate in my house chapel for which I have be healthy. everyday life, one can forget about it. The in the cause of the right to life and human Ibeen asked to pray. I am pleasantly I think the same realization applies to passing of 34 years since the infamous dignity. Sometimes we underestimate the surprised at the number of requests I have spiritual illness. In the latter case, though, Roe v. Wade decision does not lessen its value of praying because we tend to received as a result of my invitation in often people don’t know what they are moral gravity. discount the worth of our personal prayer. The Criterion to pray for your intentions. It missing until they return to favor with a I agree with the assertion of Blessed It is good to remember that it is the is a privilege to do so! wholesome spiritual life. A truthful Teresa of Calcutta that a society which is Holy Spirit who makes something good of It shouldn’t surprise anyone that many conscience is the best promise of spiritual willing to kill the innocent unborn is one our prayer. It is also crucial to remember of the requests for prayer concern people health. that will experience unbridled violence. We that with God all things are possible. who are sick. The requests cover those On Monday, Jan. 22, we observe the see the fulfillment of Mother Teresa’s Besides prayer and attending to our own who are terminally ill, those who are anniversary of the Supreme Court decision prophecy day after day. moral integrity, we look for opportunities disabled in any way, and youth and Roe v. Wade (1973). The General I believe people who are terminally ill to influence the spiritual and moral children who suffer gravely. Instruction of the Roman Missal states for or at least seriously ill are more likely to consciousness of our legislative and Many of the requests come from the dioceses of the United States that this size up the gravity of the termination of judicial representatives. Progress may be grandparents who are deeply concerned for day shall be observed in all dioceses as a innocent life, not only in the womb but in slow in this regard, but we march forward their children and grandchildren. Some particular day of penance for violations to other forms as well. Some of the prayer with faith and hope. † come from spouses who suffer alongside a the dignity of the human person committed requests in my house chapel ask that I pray spouse who is ill. And, of course, parents through acts of abortion. It is to be a day of for the end to abortion and other violations worry about their children. prayer for the full restoration of the legal of the dignity of the human person. This is Do you have an intention for I am edified by the large number of guarantee of the right to life (GIRM, #373). a part of my prayer as a matter of course, Archbishop Buechlein’s prayer list? people who worry about their loved ones; It is recommended that the Mass “For but it is encouraging to hear from other You may mail it to him at: family, friends and acquaintances who Peace and Justice” be celebrated with people who sense this need. seem to be spiritually sick. A large number violet vestments. Praying for the end of abortion and Archbishop Buechlein’s of parents and grandparents ask for prayers The instruction of the Roman Missal other violations of the right to life is not Prayer List that their loved one(s) might return to the underscores the gravity of the illness only the responsibility of bishops, priests Archdiocese of Indianapolis practice of their Catholic faith. our society suffers because of the loss and religious. We all share this responsi- 1400 N. Meridian St. I am sorry for the anguish I sense in of respect for human dignity and the bility, not only as Catholic people of faith P.O. Box 1410 many of the prayer requests I receive. I right to life. It is only in addition to but also as upright citizens of our society in Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 pray for the petitioners as well. Ash Wednesday, Good Friday and the the United States. Those who are sick or recently have Fridays of Lent that the Church urges a been so will agree that we tend largely to particular day of penance and prayer. Archbishop Buechlein’s intention for vocations for Januar y undervalue good health. Only when we are The prescription should serve as a sick do we begin to realize what a gift wake-up call lest we become complacent Parents: that they may remain faithful to their vocations and encourage their children to healthy life is. Sickness and physical about the spiritual and moral illness that consider God’s call to service in the Church, especially as priests and religious. suffering bring with them the keen affects our society. Because the deprivation

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e colocado un gran número de despiertan la conciencia viva del gran infame decisión de Roe vs. Wade no participar en la causa del derecho a la peticiones en mi capilla privada obsequio que es estar saludable. disminuye su gravedad moral. vida y de la dignidad humana. Muchas Hpor las cuales se me ha pedido Pienso que la misma caída en cuenta Estoy de acuerdo con la afirmación de la veces subestimamos el valor de la oración que rece. Me siento agradablemente sucede en el caso de los padecimientos Beata Teresa de Calcuta de que una porque solemos restarle importancia al sorprendido del número de peticiones que espirituales. Sin embargo, en este último sociedad dispuesta a matar a un inocente valor de nuestra oración personal. Es he recibido como resultado de mi caso, por lo general la gente no sabe lo que nonato experimenta unos niveles de bueno recordar que el Espíritu Santo es invitación en The Criterion para rezar por se pierde hasta que vuelve a congraciarse violencia desenfrenados. Vemos cómo día quien saca provecho de nuestra oración. sus intenciones. ¡Es un privilegio hacerlo! con una vida espiritual plena. Una tras día se cumple la profecía de la Madre También es fundamental recordar que en No debería sorprendernos que muchas verdadera conciencia es la mejor promesa Teresa. Dios todo es posible. de las peticiones de oración tienen que ver de la salud espiritual. Creo que la gente que padece de una Además de la oración y de ocuparnos con personas enfermas. Estas peticiones El lunes 22 de enero observamos el enfermedad terminal o al menos se de nuestra propia integridad moral, van por aquellas personas que padecen aniversario de la decisión de la Corte encuentra gravemente enferma, es mucho buscamos oportunidades para influenciar enfermedades terminales, aquellos Suprema de Justicia en el caso Roe vs. más propensa a sopesar la gravedad de la la conciencia espiritual y moral de incapacitados de cualquier forma y por los Wade (1973). La Instrucción General del eliminación de una vida inocente, no nuestros representantes legislativos y jóvenes y niños que sufren intensamente. Misal Romano indica que las diócesis de solamente dentro del vientre, sino judiciales. Tal vez avancemos lentamente Muchas de estas peticiones vienen de Estados Unidos deberán observar este día también de otras formas. Algunas de las en esta área, pero marchamos hacia abuelos que se encuentran profundamente como un día particular de penitencia por peticiones de oración que recibo en mi adelante con fe y esperanza. † preocupados por sus hijos y nietos. violaciones a la dignidad de la persona capilla privada son para que rece por que Algunas vienen de cónyuges que sufren humana cometidas por medio del acto del se ponga fin a la práctica del aborto y a junto a un cónyuge enfermo. Y por aborto. Debe ser un día de oración para otras violaciones de la dignidad de la ¿Tiene una intención que desee supuesto, padres que se preocupan por sus restituir completamente la garantía legal del persona humana. Esta petición forma incluir en la lista de oración del hijos. derecho a la vida (GIRM, #373). Se parte de mi repertorio habitual de Arzobispo Buechlein? Puede enviar Me siento conmovido por el gran recomienda que la misa “Por la paz y la oraciones, pero resulta alentador escuchar su correspondencia a: número de personas que se preocupan por justicia” se celebre con vestimentas color que otras personas también sienten esta sus seres queridos; familiares, amigos y violeta. necesidad. Lista de oración del Arzobispo conocidos que parecen padecer espiri- La instrucción del Misal Romano Rezar para poner fin a la práctica del Buechlein tualmente. Un gran número de padres y subraya la gravedad del padecimiento de aborto y otras violaciones del derecho a Arquidiócesis de Indianápolis abuelos piden oraciones para que sus nuestra sociedad debido a la pérdida de la vida no es únicamente responsabilidad 1400 N. Meridian St. seres queridos vuelvan a la práctica de su respeto por la dignidad humana y el de los obispos, sacerdotes y religiosos. P.O. Box 1410 fe católica. derecho a la vida. Además del Miércoles de Todos compartimos esta responsabilidad, Indianapolis, IN 46202-1410 Lamento la angustia que percibo en Ceniza, el Viernes Santo y los viernes de la no solamente como pueblo católico de fe, muchas de las peticiones de oración que Cuaresma, la Iglesia nos exhorta a tener un sino también como ciudadanos correctos recibo. También rezo por los peticionarios. día particular de penitencia y oración. de nuestra sociedad en Estados Unidos. Traducido por: Language Training Center, Aquellos que se encuentran enfermos o La fórmula debería servir como un La oración es una forma poderosa de Indianapolis que lo han estado recientemente estarán de llamado a fin de que no nos volvamos acuerdo en que solemos restarle condescendientes con los padecimientos La intención del Arzobispo Buechlein para vocaciones en enero importancia al valor de gozar de buena espirituales y morales que afectan a nuestra salud. Solamente cuando estamos enfermos sociedad. Debido que la carencia de la vida Padres: Que ellos puedan permanecer fieles a su vocación y puedan alentar a sus empezamos a darnos cuenta del gran humana no es particularmente visible en la hijos a considerar la llamada de Dios para ser vir en la iglesia, especialmente como obsequio que es llevar una vida sana. La vida cotidiana, solemos olvidarnos de ella. sacerdotes y gente religiosa. enfermedad y el sufrimiento físico Los 34 años que han pasado desde la Page 6 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Events Calendar January 18-March 20 apolis. Retrouvaille weekend. call to mission, 4 p.m., dinner, Oldenburg. “Divorce and January 25 14th St., Ferdinand, Ind. “Satur- Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Information: 317-236-1586 or 5 p.m. mission; Mon. 9:30 a.m. Beyond,” 10-week program, St. Joan of Arc Church, 4217 N. day Morning at the Dome,” Catholic Center, Benedictine 800-382-9836. and 7 p.m. Mass; Tues. 7 p.m. Franciscan Sister Janet Born, Central Ave., Indianapolis. Benedictine sisters, presenters, Room, 1400 N. Meridian St., Information: 317-546-1571. 7-9 p.m. Information: 812-933- North Deanery parishes, “The 9:30 a.m.-noon. Information: Indianapolis. Saint Meinrad January 20 6437. St. Michael the Archangel Seven Pillars of Catholic Spiri- 812-367-2777, 800-880-2777 or School of Theology, ELM January 21 Church, 3354 W. 30th St., tuality,” Matthew Kelly, pre- [email protected]. classes, “What is the Old Tes- MKVS and DM Center, Rexville January 23 Indianapolis. Helpers of God’s St. Pius X School, 7200 N. Sarto senter, 7:30 p.m., free-will offer- tament?” 1:30-4:30 p.m. Infor- (located on 925 South, .8 mile January 28 Precious Infants Pro-Life Drive, Indianapolis. Open ing. Information: 317-283-5508 mation: 812-357-6721 or 800- east of 421 South, 12 miles south Indiana War Memorial, audito- Mass, 8:30 a.m., followed by house, 6:30-8 p.m. Information: or e-mail [email protected]. 334-6821. of Versailles). Mass, 1 p.m., rium, 1 Monument Circle, rosary outside abortion clinic and with Father Elmer Burwinkel. 317-466-3361. Indianapolis. Right to Life of January 19 Benediction at church. Informa- Information: 812-689-3551. Cathedral High School, 5225 E. Indianapolis, annual Memorial Knights of Columbus Hall, 2100 tion: Archdiocesan Office for Anderson City Building, audito- 56th St., Indpls. Theater, “Who Service for the Unborn, E. 71st St., Indianapolis. Pro-Life Ministry, 317-236-1569 January 22 rium, Eight St. and Main St., Done It …. And To Whom,?” 2-3 p.m. Information: 317-582- Catholic Business Exchange, or 800-382-9836, ext. 1569. St. Bartholomew Parish, 1306 Anderson. St. Mary Parish, 4:30 and 7 p.m., $5 per person. 27th St., Columbus. “Divorce 1526. Mass, 6:30 a.m., buffet breakfast Social Justice committee, “Dead Ticket line: 317-968-7436. and program, $10 per person. Holy Name of Jesus Parish, 21 and Beyond” class, session Man Walking: The Journey three, 7-8:30 p.m. Information: St. Christopher Parish, 5301 W. Information: www.catholic N. 17th Ave., Beech Grove. Continues,” St. Joseph of St. Athanasius the Great Byzan- Health Fair and Blood Drive, 812-379-9353, ext. 333. Carondelet Sister Helen Prejean, 16th St., Indianapolis. Euchre businessexchange.org. tine Church, St. Mary Hall, 1117 “Mind, Body and Spirit Health presenter, 7 p.m., free-will offer- party, Blaine Ave., Indianapolis. 1:45 p.m., $3 per person. St. Pius X Church, 7200 Sarto Fair,” 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Informa- January 22-March 26 ing. Information: 765-843-8856 Holy Cross Parish, 125 N. Catholic Charismatic Renewal Information: 317-241-6314, Dr., Indianapolis. Focolare tion: 317-784-5454, ext. 5. or e-mail [email protected]. ext. 100. Movement, “A Celebration of Oriental St., Indianapolis. of Central Indiana, praise, the Week of Prayer for Christ- January 20-24 St. Francis Weight Loss January 24 worship and healing prayers, St. Andrew the Apostle Parish, Center, weight management St. Pius X School, 7200 N. Sarto 7:15-8:45 p.m. Information: 317- St. Gabriel the Archangel Parish, ian Unity,” 7 p.m. Information: 6000 W. 34th St., Indianapolis. 317-257-1073. 4052 E. 38th St., Indianapolis. and wellness program, 5:30- Drive, Indianapolis. Open 592-1992, www.inholyspirit.org Parish mission, “The Experi- 6:30 p.m. $100 per person. Infor- house, all-school Mass, or e-mail [email protected]. Men’s Club, Catholic Schools January 19-21 ence of Being Church,” Father mation: 317-637-2620, ext. 406. 8:30 a.m., reception following week kickoff, pancake Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Jim Farrell, presenter, Sat. Mass, Mass. Information: 317-466- January 27 breakfast, 7-11 a.m. Informa- House, 5353 E. 56th St., Indian- 5:30 p.m.; Sun. Mass 10 a.m., Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 3361. Kordes Retreat Center, 841 E. tion: 317-733-0915. †

Beech Grove. Prayer group, 2:30-3:30 p.m. 6:15-7:15 p.m. Information: 317-632-9349. 335 S. Meridian St., Greenwood. Faith-sharing Regular Events Information: 317-784-5454. group, 7:30-9 p.m. Information: 317-856-7442. St. Thomas Aquinas Church, Chapel, 46th and St. Joan of Arc Parish, 4217 Central Ave., Illinois streets, Indianapolis. Prayer service for St. Lawrence Church, chapel, 6944 E. 46th St., Weekly events Indianapolis. Bible sharing, 7 p.m. Information: peace, 6:30-7:15 p.m. Information: 317-253- Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacra- Sundays 317-283-5508. 1461. ment, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Mass. Information: 317- Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church, 546-4065. 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. Tridentine St. Luke the Evangelist Church, 7575 Holliday Holy Trinity Parish, 2618 W. St. Clair St., (Latin) Mass, 9:30 a.m. Information: 317-636- Drive E., Indianapolis. Marian Movement of Indianapolis. Poticas for sale, noon-2 p.m. St. Rita Parish, 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown 4478. Priests, prayer cenacle, Mass, 7-8 p.m. Infor- Information: 317-634-8025. Ave., Indianapolis. Adult Bible study, 6 p.m. mation: 317-842-5580. Information: 317-632-9349. St. Joseph Church, 1375 S. Mickley Ave., SS. Francis and Clare Church, 5901 Olive Indianapolis. Mass in Vietnamese, 1 p.m. Cordiafonte House of Prayer, 3650 E. 46th St., Branch Road, Greenwood. Mass, 6:30 a.m., Christ the King Church, chapel, 1827 Kessler Information: 317-244-9002. Indianapolis. Tuesday silent prayer hour, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, 7 a.m.- Blvd., E. Drive, Indianapolis. Marian prayers 7 p.m. Information: 317-543-0154. 8 p.m., rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet, for priests, 5:30-6:30 a.m. Information: 317- Christ the King Church, 1827 Kessler Blvd., 11 a.m., Benediction, 8 p.m. Information: 317- 255-3666. E. Drive, Indianapolis. Exposition of the St. Joseph Church, 2605 St. Joe Road, Sellers- burg. Mass, 7 p.m., eucharistic adoration fol- 859-HOPE. Blessed Sacrament, 7:30-9 p.m., rosary for Fatima Knights of Columbus Hall, 1040 N. Post lowing Mass until 7 p.m. Wed. Information: world peace, 8 p.m. Information: 317-255-3666. Our Lady of the Greenwood Church, Chapel, Road, Indianapolis. Euchre, 7 p.m. Information: 812-246-2512. 335 S. Meridian St., Greenwood. Rosary and 317-638-8416. St. Gabriel the Archangel Church, 6000 W. St. Joseph Church, 125 E. Broadway, Shelby- Chaplet of Divine Mercy, 7 p.m. Information: 34th St., Indianapolis. Spanish Mass, 5 p.m. ville. Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet after 317-888-2861. Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, Parish Hall, 1125 Information: 317-291-7014. 8 a.m. Mass. Information: 317-398-8227. S. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Adult religious St. Francis Hospital and Health Center, 438 S. education, 7:30 p.m. Information: 317-638- Holy Trinity Parish, 2618 W. St. Clair St., St. Francis Child and Adolescent Behavioral Emerson Ave., Greenwood. Wellness Commu- 5551. Indianapolis. Poticas for sale after 9 a.m. Mass. Health Center, 650 E. Southport Road, Suite C, nity, cancer support group, 6-8 p.m., interview Information: 317-634-8025. Indianapolis. “Awesome Kids,” therapeutic required before joining group. Information: 317- Cordiafonte House of Prayer, 3650 E. 46th St., program for 5- to 13-year-olds grieving from 257-1505. Indianapolis. Thursday silent prayer group, Mondays 9:30 a.m. Information: 317-543-0154. St. Thomas the Apostle Church, 523 S. Merrill the loss of a loved one. Information: 317-783- St. Denis Church, 12155 N. County Road 600 St., Fortville. Rosary, 7:30 p.m. Information: 8383. E., Westport. Liturgy of the Hours, morning St. Mary Church, 415 E. Eighth St., 317-485-4102. St. Francis Child and Adolescent Behavioral prayer, 7 a.m. Information: 812-591-2362. New Albany. Shepherds of Christ prayers for lay and religious vocations, 7 p.m. Informa- Our Lady of the Greenwood Church, chapel, Health Center, 650 E Southport Road, Suite C, St. Thomas More Church, 1200 N. Indiana St., tion: 812-944-0417. 335 S. Meridian St., Greenwood. Prayer group, Indianapolis. “Teens Grieving Teens,” thera- Mooresville. Mass, 6 p.m. Information: 317- 7:30 p.m. Information: 317-888-2861. peutic program for high school students grieving from the loss of one or more teenage 831-4142. St. Joseph Church, 125 E. Broadway, Shelby- ville. Rosary and Divine Mercy Chaplet after St. Roch Church, 3600 S. Pennsylvania St., friends, 7-8 p.m. Information: 317-783-8383. Thursdays 8 a.m. Mass. Indianapolis. Holy Hour, 7 p.m. Information: Wednesdays Holy Name of Jesus Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., 317-784-1763. Divine Mercy Chapel, 3354 W. 30th St. (behind Beech Grove. Adoration of the Blessed Fridays St. Charles Borromeo Church, chapel, 2222 E. Marian Center, 3356 W. 30th St., Indianapolis. St. Michael the Archangel Church), Indiana- Sacrament, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Benediction, 5 p.m., polis. Marian prayers for priests, 3-4 p.m. Mass, 5:30 p.m. Information: 317-784-5454. Third St., Bloomington. Adoration of the Prayer group, prayers for priests and religious, Blessed Sacrament, noon-3 p.m., second, third 9 a.m. Information: 317-253-2964. Information: 317-271-8016. St. Malachy Church, 326 N. Green St., Browns- and fourth Fridays. Information: 812-336-6846. Cordiafonte House of Prayer, 3650 E. 46th St., Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, 5692 Cen- burg. Liturgy of the Hours, 7 p.m. Informa- St. Susanna Church, 1210 E. Main St., Plain- Indianapolis. Monday silent prayer group, tral Ave., Indianapolis. Marian Movement of tion: 317-852-3195. field. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, 8 7 p.m. Information: 317-543-0154. Priests for laity, prayer cenacle, 1 p.m. Infor- mation: 317-253-1678. Our Lady of the Greenwood Church, chapel, a.m.-7 p.m. Information: 317-839-3333. † Tuesdays Holy Name of Jesus Parish, 89 N. 17th St., Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church, 520 Stevens St., Indianapolis. Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, between Masses, noon- World Day of Consecrated 5:45 p.m. Information: 317-636-4478. Life Mass is on Feb. 4 St. Rita Church, 1733 Dr. Andrew J. Brown Photo by Mike Krokos Ave., Indianapolis. Young adult Bible study, The archdiocese’s observance of the World Day of Consecrated Life will VIPs occur on Feb. 4. Clarence and Clara Oberting, mem- A Mass in honor of religious sisters, bers of Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish in brothers and priests who minister in Indianapolis, central and southern Indiana will begin will celebrate that day at 2 p.m. at SS. Peter and Paul their 70th wed- Cathedral, 1347 N. Meridian St., in ding anniversary Indianapolis. on Jan. 23. The Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein couple was mar- will be the primary celebrant of the ried on Jan. 23, Mass. 1937. They have Included in the Mass will be a two children: special blessing for all religious who Mary McVey are celebrating jubilees in the coming and Anthony Cards for the archbishop year. Oberting. They First- and second-grade students from Lumen Christi School in Indianapolis visited the Arch- Catholics throughout the archdiocese have six grand- bishop O’Meara Catholic Center on Dec. 21. They recently read about St. Ambrose, and one of the are invited to attend this special Mass children, 13 great-grandchildren and one suggested activities for them was to make a card for Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. They deliv- on Feb. 4. † great-great-grandchild. † ered the cards with their teachers, Theresa Pottratz and Darlene Griffiths. The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Page 7 Masses honoring St. Theodora to be celebrated next week By Sean Gallagher

Last November, a series of Masses in all 11 archdiocesan deaneries celebrating the canonization of St. Theodora Guérin began at St. Joan of Arc Church in the Sean Gallagher Photo by Indianapolis North Deanery. The liturgies will continue in the coming week in two more deaneries. The faithful in the Connersville Deanery are invited to attend a 7 p.m. Mass on Jan. 23 at St. Mary Church, 720 N. “A” St., in Richmond to honor Indiana’s first saint. The next morning, Jan. 24, a Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. at St. Jude Church, 5353 McFarland Road, in the Indianapolis South Deanery. Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein will be the primary celebrant at both Masses. Catholics throughout the archdiocese, but especially from the deaneries in which the Masses will take place, are invited to attend. The Jan. 24 Mass at St. Jude Church will honor St. Theodora’s foundational work in establishing Catholic † schools in the archdiocese. Students from several schools in the deanery, including nearby Roncalli High School, will take part in the Mass. Similar Masses will be celebrated in deaneries throughout the archdiocese approximately once a month for much of the rest of year, continuing in central and southern Indiana the celebration of St. Theodora’s sainthood that began with her canonization in Rome last Oct. 15. From left, Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and Father Gerald Kirkhoff, pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Indianapolis, pray the doxology at the (For a schedule of future deanery Masses in honor of end of the eucharistic prayer during a Mass in honor of St. Theodora Guérin celebrated on Nov. 29, 2006, at St. Joan of Arc Church in the St. Theodora Guérin, log on to www.archindy.org/guerin.) Indianapolis North Deanery. 2006 was a tough year for aid workers in Darfur

WASHINGTON (CNS)—A Church aid worker in Darfur said 2006 was tough for humanitarian workers, but noted that the United States and United Nations have increased their efforts in the western Sudanese region. Mark Snyder, head of the North Sudan program for Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ interna- tional aid and development agency, said U.N. observers and logistical staff have been deployed to Darfur. The Sudanese government has agreed to set up a “protection force,” he said, without providing further details. The U.S. “is by far the largest donor contributing emergency services,” he said in response to journalists’ questions during a conference call from CRS head- quarters in Baltimore on Jan. 10. Snyder has been based in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, since 2005. The conflict in Darfur began nearly four years ago, when rebel forces attacked the government because they thought the government was neglecting the region politically and economically. Humanitarian efforts have been blocked by violent clashes that involve government forces; government-backed Arab militia, or Janjaweed; and rebel groups, some of whom fight among themselves. The Janjaweed militias are especially notorious for pillaging villages and raping women. In May 2006, a cease-fire agreement between the government and one rebel faction was reached, but deadlines have been ignored. The situation has become more complex as violence increases then wanes. Nongovernmental organizations estimate that more than 400,000 people have been killed, and more than 2 million civilians have been displaced—some live in camps in Darfur while others have fled to neighboring Chad. In areas where the situation is more stable, CRS has been working to train students to work so they can return to their homes. The Khartoum vocational program has successfully trained and facilitated the return of more than 300 displaced students to their homes in southern Darfur, Snyder said. Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Jan. 10 that U.N. peacekeeping forces are not needed, and the thousands of African Union troops in the region are sufficient to provide security. African Union troops have expressed their willingness to step aside. Meanwhile, the violence and ground fighting that increased in 2006 kept CRS from reaching some people in need, and many of the programs suffered, Snyder said. But, he added, the group food distribution program was successful because of CRS’ strategy of coordi- nating local leaders and the U.N. World Food Program. The local leaders distribute the food packages to families, he said. Snyder said the local leaders make it easier to manage large numbers of people who converge on food drop-off points. CRS feeds approximately 150,000 people in 40 rural communities and 20 camps for displaced Sudanese. † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Three Providence sisters celebrate 75 years of ser vice The Criterion staff report sacristy staff from 1934-45, as a cook Parish in Malden and professed Aug. 22, 1931, from St. Rita Parish in from 1961-64 and as a residential perpetual vows on Aug. 15, 1939. Chicago and professed perpetual vows Three Sisters of Providence of Saint services staff member from 2000-02. Sister Ann Veronica graduated from on Aug. 15, 1939. Mary-of-the-Woods recently celebrated In the archdiocese, Sister Mary Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College with a She graduated from Saint Mary-of- their 75th anniversary of their entrance Eymard ministered as a cook at St. Philip bachelor’s degree the-Woods College with a bachelor’s into their religious community. Neri School in Indianapolis from in education. degree in English They are Providence Sisters Mary 1948-50 and at the former St. John In the then earned a Eymard Campeggio, Ann Veronica Wall Academy in Indianapolis from 1950-51. archdiocese, master’s degree in and Mary Joanita Walsh. She served as a housekeeper at the Sister Ann business A native of Ladd, Ill., Sister Mary former Ladywood Academy in Indian- Veronica taught at education at Eymard Campeggio currently ministers apolis from 1956-58. St. Patrick School Indiana State in prayer at Saint Sister Mary Eymard also served at the in Terre Haute University in Mary-of-the- Providence Retirement Home in from 1938-41, Terre Haute. Woods. New Albany on the food service staff from St. Charles In the She entered the 1967-78, as a dietitian from 1978-82, as Borromeo School archdiocese, congregation on food service director from 1982-84, as in Bloomington Sister Mary Aug. 18, 1931, sacristan in 1984 and from 1987-99, as a Sr. Ann Veronica from 1941-43 and Joanita taught at from Our Lady of receptionist from 1984-85 and on the Wall, S.P. St. Joan of Arc Sr. Mary Joanita the former Sorrows Parish in community service staff from 1985-87. School in Indianapolis from 1952-55. Walsh, S.P. St. Agnes Chicago and She also ministered in California, Illinois, She also ministered in Illinois, Academy in Indianapolis in 1934 and professed Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. North Carolina, Maryland, the former St. John Academy in Indian- perpetual vows on A native of Malden, Mass., Sister Ann Massachusetts and New Hampshire. apolis from 1957-58. Jan. 23, 1939. Veronica Wall currently ministers in A native of Chicago, Sister Mary She ministered on the community Sr. Mary Eymard At the prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Joanita Walsh currently ministers in services staff at Saint Mary-of-the- Campeggio, S.P. motherhouse, She entered the congregation on prayer at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. Woods from 1993-96 and also served in Sister Mary Eymard served on the Aug. 14, 1931, from Sacred Hearts She entered the congregation on Illinois and Oklahoma. † Peace is not final aim of dialogue, Vatican officials tell conference

ROME (CNS)—Dialogue between opening of a Jan. 11-12 conference at in the world, the cardinal said. afraid of differences.” religions is necessary for peace, but that is Rome’s Pontifical Urbanian University. Ignoring religious and cultural As dialogue reinforces social not the final aim of Cardinal Dias told the conference, differences, he said, will not make them tranquility, he said, it gives each person the Catholic which focused on dialogue in societies disappear and will not help anyone live life “greater space for reflection and growth Church’s commit- marked by growing religious and cultural in accordance with enduring religious and regarding the meaning of life and who ment to dialogue, diversity, that “otherness, plurality and cultural values. God is.” two Vatican diversity are a richness, not a threat.” “When faith is separated from life, it is Cardinal Poupard said politics alone officials said. Because it knows that all people are not credible, and it is not capable of will never be able to meet the challenges “A Christian is created in the image of God, the Catholic making a difference in the way we live of tolerance, respect and peaceful one who opens Church engages in its mission to proclaim together,” Cardinal Dias said. coexistence raised by increasing himself to others,” God’s love to all people and sees dialogue French Cardinal Paul Poupard, diversity. said Indian as part of that mission, he said. president of the pontifical councils for “Only on the basis of values, which Cardinal Ivan Dias, “Dialogue is not just sharing the Culture and for Interreligious Dialogue, basically have a common source, can Cardinal Paul Poupard prefect of the Gospel, but also discovering the seeds of told conference participants, “It is people live together peacefully without Congregation for truth in the other,” learning more about important each day to demonstrate the joy giving up their own faith and culture,” he the Evangelization of Peoples, at the God and highlighting how God is at work of living together, of a faith that is not said. †

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By John Shaughnessy While the friendship left its mark on Father workers at the hermitage, it also caused John

Father John Mannion still smiles and people to marvel at Father Mannion’s Submitted photo Mannion laughs as he shares stories about his friend, dedication to Ressler. and Charlie Ressler. Yet the tears come quickly, Father Mannion is the director of Charlie too, these days. spiritual care services at St. Francis Hospital Ressler The priest acknowledges he has been on and Health Centers in Beech Grove. The celebrate a “rollercoaster” of emotions ever since 65-year-old priest from the Lafayette Father’s Ressler died at 89 on Jan. 2, ending a diocese supervises a staff of 21 people, Day in remarkable relationship that many people including 19 full- or part-time chaplains. He 2006. have described as a model of how we should chairs the hospital’s institutional ethics care for one another. committee and reviews hardship cases for Their relationship began nine years ago employees. Yet he still made time for when Father Mannion received a page one Ressler. night, calling him to the hospital room of a “I think we came at it from two different dying woman. perspectives, which made the bond so deep, Entering the room, the priest realized he so significant,” Father Mannion says as he had never met the woman or her husband sits in his office. “Charlie was very lonely, who sat by her side, praying that their very opinionated and very set in his ways. 41 years of marriage weren’t coming to an Why not? He was 80 at the time. end. “I have a tendency to be very gentle, soft- Father Mannion administered last rites to spoken, and God gave me a talent to be a Rita Ressler. When she died minutes later, good listener. In the course of time, those the priest tried to comfort her husband as he two approaches melded together. I listened whimpered, “I lost my Rita. I lost my Rita. to him reminisce. I listened to him cry. I What am I going to do?” could hear the pain of After Charlie Ressler ‘Father John became the his loneliness. Once he mentioned they had no son that Charlie never trusted me, it was children, he looked into almost like a rosebud the eyes of the priest and had. And Charlie became that opened up.” asked, “Will you help the father that Father John A fellow chaplain at take care of me?” had lost. It was the most St. Francis saw the Father Mannion beautiful father-son relationship blossom. promised he would. He relationship. Everyone “Having had a kept that promise for nine here loved to see them.’ mother in an extended he told Father Mannion that it was the date him. Charlie was a smart man. He would years, spending part of care facility, I saw John of his 50th wedding anniversary. He also always help bring me back to what’s really nearly every day taking as a model of how you told the priest he wanted to give his late important.” care of him. In the —Benedictine Sister Sharon care for an aging parent wife flowers and asked Father Mannion to For the funeral, Father Mannion honored beginning, after Rita’s Bierman, administrator or relative,” says the drive him to the cemetery. Ressler’s request to have the Mass at Sacred death, Ressler came to the at St. Paul Hermitage in Rev. Annette Barnes, a As they walked together to Rita’s Heart of Jesus Church in Indianapolis, hospital every night and Beech Grove Christian Church- gravesite later that afternoon, Father where Charlie and Rita had been longtime waited for Father Disciples of Christ Mannion whispered to God, asking for parishioners. In the casket, he also placed Mannion to finish work. Then Father minister. “Even on days he didn’t feel well, forgiveness for helping a friend who had the picture of Rita that Charlie kissed every Mannion would take him home and talk to he was faithful. stolen flowers from the hermitage. night in Charlie’s hands. him for at least an hour. “It also shows the need for people in “He kissed a picture of Rita every night,” During the funeral Mass on Jan. 5, Father A story about Father Mannion and extended care facilities to have someone Father Mannion says. “That was his love. Mannion gave the eulogy, talking about how Charlie’s special friendship was published in who loves them regardless of their physical For the last two months, he would relent- Ressler had taught him about the beauty and March 2006 in The Criterion. condition. It was a real indicator of the lessly say, ‘Rita, come get me. Please come pain of love. He also stressed how his friend During the past four years, while Ressler commandment, ‘Love your neighbor as you get me.’ It wasn’t a death wish. He just had showed him that life is for living, not resided at St. Paul Hermitage in love yourself.’ John really loved his wanted to go with Rita.” existing. Beech Grove, Father Mannion visited him neighbor.” Ressler got his wish at 5:45 a.m. on He also drew smiles and laughs from his twice a day, seven days a week. Father Mannion insists the connection Jan. 2. On the night before, Father Mannion fellow mourners as he recalled stories of “Father John cooked for him, he shared touched his life just as much. did what he has done for nearly every day of how Ressler never tired of their trips to meals with him and he was the last person He laughs as he tells the story of the first the past nine years. He made dinner for White Castle and Dairy Queen. Charlie saw at night,” says Benedictine day he brought Communion to Ressler, a Charlie, he helped him get ready for bed, he “How many people at 89 have a Sister Sharon Bierman, who is the daily ritual that would mark their nine years hugged him, and he told him he loved him. White Castle apron, cap and golf shirt?” he hermitage’s administrator. “And every as friends. Ressler told Father Mannion he loved him, said. morning at 7 o’clock, Charlie would call “The first time I took him Communion, I too. When the priest arrived at Charlie’s The smiles and laughs continue as he Father and say, ‘My eyes are open. I’m still said all the prayers,” he recalls as a sheepish room the next morning to check on him, a talks about Ressler in his office. The tears breathing.’ smile marks his face. “After I gave him nurse told him his friend had just died. come again, too. “Their relationship meant the world to Communion, he said, ‘If you’re going to “Love gives life, and energy and “I miss him. I miss him,” he says. “I sure both of them. Father John became the son bring Communion again, those prayers have purpose,” Father Mannion says. “At the miss him. But that’s the way it’s supposed to that Charlie never had. And Charlie became to get much, much shorter.’ ” same time, it can be painful. The pain for be.” the father that Father John had lost. It was He smiles at the memory of one of the me now is the lack of phone calls and the the most beautiful father-son relationship. lunches they shared last year at St. Paul extra time on my hands. It’s left a void. The (To read the earlier article about Father Everyone here loved to see them. It just Hermitage, a lunch when all the tables were other chaplains recognize there’s a void for Mannion and Ressler, log on to made everyone happy to see the love decorated with bud vases filled with daisies. me. I miss the confiding in Charlie. 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WASHINGTON (CNS)—It’s apt that But as happened with a wage-increase Lights glowing in the start of the new congressional term bill on the table near the end of the last the dome of the coincides with the time of year when congressional session, some members of U.S. Capitol people are optimistically making Congress want to attach provisions that indicate New Year’s resolutions. would cut into other members’ support. Wiechec CNS photo/Nancy lawmakers still at Lose weight, get to the gym more often, Some in the Senate have indicated they work on the pass comprehensive immigration reform, want to add provisions to protect small evening of Jan. 9 raise the minimum wage, make sure the businesses. After the Jan. 10 vote, the in Washington. farm bill reauthorization helps protect White House indicated it opposed the Democrats family farmers ... you know, the usual. House measure because it “fails to provide control both With Democrats controlling both houses relief to small businesses.” houses of of Congress for the first time in 12 years, Thomas Shellabarger, who tracks policy Congress for the the dynamics behind what legislation on urban issues for the USCCB, noted that first time in advances will differ from what they have advocates have been working on a 12 years. been under the Republican majority, which minimum wage increase since the last could be good news for some long-standing increase, which was in 1997. wish lists. For five years, Shellabarger also has Increasing the minimum wage has long been trying to get funding for an affordable been a top priority for advocates in the housing trust fund to help low-income Catholic Church and for a growing families rent, buy or fix up housing. coalition of religiously motivated groups Democrats in Congress have been function under continuing resolutions will have a bill moving toward approval and individuals, such as Call to Renewal, supportive of the effort, Shellabarger said, through the end of this fiscal year. by spring and that the House will get to it which has an anti-poverty campaign but now that they’re the party in power, it’s If that happens, Father Small said, over the summer. addressing wages, affordable housing and not so clear they’re willing to sign off on anti-poverty programs funded through “But we’re not taking anything for health care. the estimated $5 billion a year it would take foreign aid appropriations will actually granted,” he cautioned. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., to fully fund it. get less money this year than they might A broad coalition of Churches, labor included raising the minimum wage to Curran and Shellabarger’s colleague, if Congress passed the budget put forward unions, civil rights groups, business $7.25 an hour, from its current level of Oblate Father Andrew Small, a policy by the president. owners and farmers united in the last year $5.15, among the priorities for the House’s adviser who focuses on international Along with the USCCB, the Catholic to support immigration legislation that first 100 hours of business. economic development, said he was Health Association is pushing for would establish a guest worker program, On Jan. 10, the House passed a bill concerned about the Democrats’ plan to improvements to the State Children’s dramatically change the current system calling for a minimum wage of $7.25 by extend the funding of federal operations Health Insurance Program and for for family reunification immigration, and 2009; under the measure, it would go to through a continuing resolution. When the expansion of Medicaid to include make a path for the estimated 12 million $5.85 in 60 days, to $6.55 a year later and 109th Congress concluded in December, impoverished low-income legal illegal immigrants in the United States to then $7.25 in two years. The Senate could only two of the 12 departmental appropri- immigrants. CHA also includes on its legalize their status. take up the measure as early as Jan. 18. ations bills for the 2007 fiscal year— policy agenda legislation that helps A Senate bill addressing those points Before the House vote, Kathleen Curran, which began on Oct. 1—had been protect conscience clauses for health care could never be reconciled with a House bill interim director of the Office of Domestic approved. providers and improvements in palliative that emphasized only enforcement, and Social Development for the U.S. Confer- Instead, Congress passed a series of care. both pieces of legislation evaporated at the ence of Catholic Bishops, said it was likely short-term continuing resolutions, which After a year of dramatic fits and starts, end of the 109th Congress. A House bill the minimum wage increase would pass the mean the agencies are operating as if their comprehensive immigration reform is still approving 700 miles of fence along the House and was optimistic about its chances 2006 budgets were replicated. Rather than at the top of the agenda for the USCCB’s Mexican border passed into law, but no in the Senate. start the 110th Congress by trying to clean Migration and Refugee Services. Kevin provision was made to fund its “The question will be whether it passes up their Republican predecessors’ leftover Appleby, director of migration and construction. in a veto-proof way,” she said, adding that funding bills, Democratic leaders suggested refugee policy, said although immigration Appleby said he also is pushing for President George W. Bush has telegraphed they would concentrate on getting the is not among Pelosi’s top priorities in the legislation that helps protect minors who some support for an increase. 2008 budget passed and let the government House, there’s a good chance the Senate are caught up in human trafficking. † Pro-life official decries passage of ‘misguided’ stem-cell bill WASHINGTON (CNS)—A pro-life problem—constructive research that is effective, ethical stem-cell research. news on Jan. 7 based on a report from official of the U.S. Conference of Catholic already beginning to help patients with Before the vote, Philadelphia Cardinal scientists at Wake Forest and Harvard univer- Bishops criticized House passage on Jan. 11 dozens of conditions in clinical trials.” Justin Rigali, chairman of the bishops’ sities that said the amniotic fluid surrounding of a bill that would expand federal funding “Unlike embryonic stem-cell research, Committee on Pro-Life Activities, urged a child in the womb can be the source of of stem-cell research that involves the research using stem cells from adult tissue, House members to “consider the medically useful stem cells. The report was destruction of human embryos, but umbilical-cord blood, amniotic fluid and fundamental moral line” they would cross if published in an online edition of the journal expressed confidence that an expected other sources is showing enormous promise they approved H.R. 3, the Stem Cell Nature Biotechnology. presidential veto of the “misguided and and is likely to produce new treatments for Research Enhancement Act of 2007. In a letter to House members, Cardinal unethical legislation” would stand. patients now living,” he added. Cardinal Rigali called it a “sad reality” Rigali said they should support “better Richard Doerflinger, deputy director of Noting that most Americans prefer that other forms of stem-cell research have solutions” than the “most speculative and the bishops’ Secretariat for Pro-Life stem-cell research that takes place “without received inadequate funding and attention most divisive type of stem-cell research,” Activities, said in a statement that the harming or destroying human life at any while there has been “an exaggerated and which involves the destruction of embryos. 253-174 vote indicated that there were not stage,” Doerflinger said, “the truly states- almost exclusive focus on destructive “On a practical level, embryonic stem-cell enough votes to override the veto that manlike approach to this issue would be to embryo research in the political and policy- research has been as disappointing in its President George W. Bush has promised. take up this challenge, supporting medical making arena.” results as it has been divisive to our society,” The bill now goes to the Senate for a progress that all Americans can live with.” “Even the national cord-blood stem-cell he said. “After almost three decades of vote; if it passes there, it will be sent to the During the House debate on the bank that Congress approved a year ago, research in mouse embryonic stem cells and White House for action by Bush. legislation, Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., which could benefit many thousands of nine years in the human variety, researchers But Doerflinger said both houses of decried the abundance of misinformation Americans immediately, has received can scarcely point to a safe and effective Congress should turn their attention “to surrounding the debate on stem-cell research minimal funding,” he said. ‘cure’ for any condition in mice let alone stem-cell research that poses no moral and called for federal resources to go to Other forms of stem-cell research made human beings” using embryonic stem cells. †

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Holy Angels sixth-graders Charles Davis, left, and Desmond Huskie carry a banner on Jan. 12 during the school’s annual march honoring the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Students from St. Anthony School also participated in the march and memorial Mass.

By Mary Ann Wyand

Holy Angels sixth-grade student Deon Holder thought about marching in his school’s annual tribute to the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Deon had just completed the Jan. 12 march with class- mates and St. Anthony School students along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Street in Indianapolis. and participated in the memorial Mass at the Church of the Holy Angels. He looked a little wistful as he discussed the school celebration honoring the late civil rights leader, who was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn. “This will be my last year here at Holy Angels,” Deon said. “I’ll be leaving. Next year, I’ll be going to a new school.” Deon said the annual tribute to King “means a lot because if he didn’t come to the world we’d probably still Barbers Ron be slaves or doing things we don’t want to do.” Alexander, left, It’s important to honor King’s memory, Deon said, and Darrell Lee because he taught us “the right way to be.” of Indianapolis As a student at Holy Angels School, Deon said he greet Holy appreciates “the new friends I made and how fair the teach- Angels and ers have been to me. It’s been a lot of hard work …. St. Anthony singing, morning prayer and helping out all the others students as they below me so they can reach the same level I’m at.” walk past the Fifth-grader Nia Franklin said the King celebration barber shop “meant a lot to me because he’s a real role model and I can during the follow him in any kind of way. He was a minister. He was a Jan. 12 march. civil rights leader. He did a lot.” Nia said she likes going to Holy Angels School. “I like the teachers and how they try to teach you the most they can,” she said. “I want to be a psychiatrist. I want to help people get over their problems and be in tune with Jesus.” Fourth-grader Ralita Searcey said people need to remem- ber King’s message of peace and love for every person. “He let freedom ring,” Ralita said. “He was a really great person.” Ralita said she likes helping her friends with their schoolwork, and knows that is one way to share love and make the world a better place. During the march, Holy Angels and St. Anthony students walked by Lil’ Ron’s Barber Shop, where barber Darrell Lee opened the door to greet the children. “I think it’s the most wonderful thing that I’ve ever seen with the young people,” Lee said, “because it’s the young people that we need to lead and guide us into the future.” Barber shop owner Ron Alexander said he thinks the march gives people hope. “It’s good to see that there is hope out here because with all the violent things going on today … that’s not the way it should be,” Alexander said. “For them to get together like Holy Angels second-grader Chayla Holder carries a picture of the late this is pretty good.” civil rights leader during the march along Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of Holy Angels Parish, Street in Indianapolis on Jan. 12. walked with the students and teachers in the annual march. “It’s important that we pass on the legacy of Dr. Martin the message that we can accomplish more in a spirit of non- Luther King for the children so they don’t forget about the violence than if we turn violent on each other. Our children are Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of Holy Angels Parish, elevates the fight for justice and equality,” Father Taylor explained. giving [people] the message to keep all that Rev. Martin Blood of Christ during a memorial Mass on Jan. 12 that honored “We hear so many bad things about today’s youth and how Luther King worked for alive and strong in our society today.” the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Father Taylor apathetic or nonchalant they are, but when we do this it In his homily, Father Taylor reminded the students that the encouraged the children to be servants of God and practice shows that they are keeping the dream alive and they are Scripture readings talk about working for justice for all. King’s dream of justice, equality and nonviolence. going to make their own personal commitment to continue “We are all servants of God,” he said. “We are all being [King’s work] so that all people might live in justice and called by God to help bring about the kind of world that God Luther King was saying, ‘God wants us to live in justice. equality. wants us to have. … And if we are going to be servants of God wants us to be people of hope. God wants us to “Nonviolence was a major part of his mission,” Father God then we have to promote God’s mission of love and love one another.’ Martin Luther King was trying to get Taylor said. “When the kids study [the life of] Martin Luther peace in the world.” us to be the kind of people that God wants us to be. … King, they learn how much nonviolence can accomplish. Jesus was doing God’s will, he said, and always stayed true Our celebration is also a reminder to us [to ask], ‘How is Hopefully, that will show them the folly of turning to vio- to his mission. God calling me to be a servant? What kind of things lence any time anything goes wrong. That’s another impor- “Today we honor another servant of God who worked to does God want me to help bring about? Is there a better tant reason to keep this dream alive—so that our city can get bring justice to the people,” Father Taylor said. “Dr. Martin way that I can live for God and do what God wants?’ ” † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007

her. You sometimes have to make a stand when something is wrong, and she is willing

GRANDMOTHER Submitted photo continued from page 1 to make this stand.” Still, the two sisters needed a touch of Beitans is deep for Fillenwarth as a person. comic relief to get them through the “Spiritually, I’ve been an admirer of her moment when they knew their mother was for many years,” Father Beitans said. “Val headed toward being arrested. As they has always been concerned about the safety watched their father and mother walk of people who do good work, because of toward the fence, Schultz turned to Mays Christ, in dangerous places. I admire her and said, “Do you think Mom and Dad will because she’s a wise person and a tough ever take up golf?” cookie. She didn’t do what she did without “My daughter said it the best,” said considering all the consequences.” Schultz, also a member of St. Lawrence As her court date approaches, Fillenwarth Parish in Indianapolis. “She said, ‘I’m just so draws strength from the memory of her proud of her.’ My daughter is 9. Her name is Nov. 19 commitment and her family’s Valerie. She’s named after Mom.” support of her decision. The fate of one grandchild led her to Before she climbed through the fence, she cross a line. The words of another grandchild marched in the procession with her husband show the depth of a family’s love and sup- of 42 years, Ed—a retired labor lawyer and port. The handprints of all 17 grandchildren a board member of Witness for Peace, an touch the heart of a woman and her commit- organization that supports the cause of ment to what she considers her larger family. peace, justice and sustainable economies in “For me, it’s the closest I can get to the Americas. She also walked with two of being in solidarity with these people who her children, Diane Schultz and Sheila have been mistreated,” she said. “I’m Mays. honored and privileged to be able to “It was hard saying goodbye, knowing follow my conscience. I know this sounds she was going through the fence,” Mays presumptuous, but I’m just trying to be as recalled. “But she prayed about it, and we much like the non-violent Jesus as I can be. Sheila Mays, left, and Diane Schultz, center, help hold a banner in support of their mother, Val knew she wanted to do it so we supported I’m just doing the best I can.” † Fillenwarth. Judy Bike, right, also lends her support. Wearing a T-shirt marked by

Submitted photo handprints of her Indianapolis parish is hosting 17 grandchildren, Val Fillenwarth, left, poses for a prayer service for local protesters picture with A short prayer service will be Institute for Security Cooperation, a Providence Sister held in Indianapolis on Jan. 25 for school that the protesters believe Susan Dinnin the 16 protesters who were arrested trains soldiers from Latin America during a protest on trespassing charges at Fort to torture and kill. near Fort Benning, Ga. Two protesters with Indianapolis Benning, Ga. The prayer service will begin at ties—Val Fillenwarth, 64, and 7 p.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Whitney Ray, 17—were among the Church, 5692 Central Ave. protesters who were arrested. They The 16 people were arrested on will go on trial in late January on Nov. 19 while protesting against the the misdemeanor charge of trespass- U.S. Army’s Western Hemisphere ing on government property. †

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By Fr. Kenneth R. Himes, O.F.M.

Every day we face moral issues and make important decisions. CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul There are the large and obvious ones that appear as headlines in newspapers and stories on television news programs—war, embryonic stem cell research, refugees, homelessness. There are also the less dramatic but still significant choices that we make about raising our children, being loyal to friends, doing good work, speaking truthfully and similar sorts of daily decisions involving moral values that affect us as well as our family. We act the way we do more because of character than due to some set of abstract principles to be applied to a situation. By character, I mean the kind of person one is—the person’s inner life of motives, attitudes, virtues and vices. When we “size one another up” or “take the measure of a person,” when we say we want to see “what someone is made of,” we are addressing the character issue. If character is so important, we must be concerned with how we acquire it. Like faith, character is caught as much as it is taught. Character develops over time and is the gradual formation of habitual ways of Seventeen-year-old Kristian Hilber talks with his sister, Morgan, who is 16, near their lockers at C. Milton Wright High School in Bel Air, Md. Every day, people seeing, thinking, valuing and acting. face moral issues and make important decisions that affect their own lives as well as the lives of their family members and friends. Character develops over Without question, the most powerful time and is the gradual formation of habitual ways of seeing, thinking, valuing and acting. Like faith, character is caught as much as it is taught. influence on character is example. We become people of good character by being I suggest there are four elements that there is clear teaching available from our publicized you could face others without in the presence of other people with good should play a part in a good discernment religious community. regret or embarrassment? character. process. • Bring our decision to prayer—Can we In the moral life, there are useful We have all met folks we admire who • Assess the situation honestly—We stand before God and be at peace with our processes to follow in forming conscience inspire us in some way, and we look at must always ask, “What is going on?” choice? and making moral decisions, but we them and think, “I’d like to be like them.” A person must seek to understand the Have we asked God for strength to do cannot expect that like some computer We find ourselves using such people as elements of the situation in which he or she the right thing? Have we prayed that we program all we need to do is hit the right role models, and we try to act as we think is deciding to take action. may love only the good and not allow keys and the correct answer will pop up they would when making decisions. What are the values at stake in this ourselves to develop a passion for some on the screen. We live our lives over the long haul, and decision? Who is affected by it? Why am I lesser value? There is no guarantee that after having we struggle to do the right thing in many going to do what I do? What are my • Seek confirmation of our decision— tried to inform our conscience the proper little moments and occasional major events. motives? Given my decision, what are the More often than not, others are affected answer always will appear to us in clarity. There are opportunities in life—every likely consequences? Are there alternatives by what we do. It may be that a morally responsible day actually—in which one chooses to to the choice I am considering? Why do I Switch roles with one of those people decision must be made with the become this kind of person and not that prefer this option to others? then imagine yourself in their position awareness that we are not absolutely sure kind of individual. Each day is an exercise Trying our best to answer these and that person in yours. Would you want what to do about the situation. in shaping our character through personal questions will lead us to clarify our values, them to make the same decision you are Nonetheless, we act in good faith choice. understand our motivations and weigh the about to make? Would you be willing to knowing that we have done what we That leads to the second kind of best means of achieving the good we seek allow another person to do what you are could to inform our conscience. decision making—choosing what to do as in life. about to do? Thus, we can stand before God trusting well as who to be. • Check the sources of wisdom Another exercise is to consider the in his mercy because we have tried to do This is the realm of moral decision available—Consult with people we trust. possibility that you will be asked to defend the right thing in life. making that we call discernment. It is the Do not restrict ourselves to those who your decision in public before strangers. ability to see rightly, understand what is at usually agree with us. Search out the Could you give reasons that would be (Franciscan Father Kenneth R. Himes is stake and know which choice best reflects person who will ask hard questions and not persuasive to them? Are you comfortable chairman of the theology department at our commitments and values. simply tell us what we want to hear. See if that if your decision were widely Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Mass.) † Discussion Point Helping the poor is a moral issue This Week’s Question “They say teen pregnancy is going down, and people see that as a good thing, which it is. But I hope it doesn’t What current social issue has moral dimensions that you mean that abortion is going up. It disturbs me that those feel are often overlooked? figures might give us a false sense of security. When I talk with teens, I find they often don’t have a good sense “People die every day, and so little would be needed to of right or wrong. They may be engaging in other change the lives of the poor. I heard a preacher on the inappropriate behavior.” (Penny Giunta, Plainfield, Ill.) radio asking for donations to combat information in The Da Vinci Code that might threaten Christian beliefs. Lend Us Your Voice Think [about the cost] of donating for that as opposed to helping children dying of starvation.” (Deacon Paul Lippard, Warren, Mich.) An upcoming edition asks: What is your parish doing for Lent in terms of liturgies, devotions, seminars and “We have a big Hispanic/Latino population here, and a service projects? lot of people only see their [own] view. ... They see [them] and immigration only from their side instead of To respond for possible publication, send an e-mail to seeing the other side’s perspective.” (Kara Hueftle, [email protected] or write to Faith Alive! at Lexington, Neb.) 3211 Fourth St. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. † CNS photo/Reuters Page 14 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Go and Make Disciples/ John Valenti Does kneeling during prayers really matter? Memorials (Thirteenth in a series) kneeling body and a mind half asleep.” In his Introduction to a Devout Life, I don’t think that kneeling does matter, St. Francis de Sales told Philothea that it is celebrate vision I consider this column the least but I agree that other things matter more neither necessary nor expedient to perform important in this series on prayer. and that a concentrated mind is more all her devotions on her knees. He told her of reconciliation I wouldn’t have important. I don’t think we should quibble she could do it while walking outside or written it except that about bodily postures during prayers. even in bed. The Herron-Morton Historic District, posture while praying Apparently, some people concentrate On a related topic, it’s interesting the formerly known as “Camp Morton,” is an seems to be important better while kneeling. The late Pope John way the practice of holding hands during area that was used as a to some people. Paul II knelt while praying with tremendous the Our Father at Mass has become prisoner of war camp Whether the congre- concentration. Many of the mystic saints common. With no directives from liturgists, for Confederate gation should kneel or knelt and were sometimes elevated from the the practice has become widespread. People soldiers during the stand during the ground while they were praying. recognize the practice as a symbol of unity Civil War. Eucharistic Prayer That’s great. But I refuse to think that while praying the prayer Jesus taught to us. Most of the during Mass seems to one must kneel in order to pray devoutly. If The official Church has never approved or captured and wounded really bother some you’re going to concentrate your mind on disapproved the practice, but I can’t Confederate soldiers people. Apparently, some people have the prayer, I think that you have to be in a imagine why it would disapprove. were from idea that kneeling is the “approved” comfortable position. When I’m Some of those not holding hands with Mississippi, and position for praying. uncomfortable, I think too much about my their neighbors prefer the orante fought in the Battles Even C. S. Lewis favored kneeling. In discomfort, and I get uncomfortable after position. This is the classical attitude of of Shiloh and Vicksburg. Letters to Malcolm, he wrote: “The body kneeling for any length of time. prayer, standing with one’s hands lifted Not far from this site is the Kennedy- ought to pray as well as the soul. Body and Particularly when I’m meditating, I sit up, with palms facing outward. This King Memorial Park. It was April 4, 1968, soul are both the better for it.” Then he went with my eyes closed. Admittedly, that can posture is meant to convey the idea that, and news of the assassination of Martin off into a digression before picking up his be carried to extreme if you get so just as the hands are raised, so is the Luther King Jr. in Memphis had not yet thought again: “The relevant point is that comfortable with your eyes closed that you orante’s mind and heart raised to God. reached the public. kneeling does matter, but other things fall asleep, but normally I can concentrate I’ve adopted that position during the Presidential hopeful Sen. Robert F. matter even more. A concentrated mind and my mind better when I’m sitting than I can Our Father at Mass unless a neighbor Kennedy was scheduled to deliver a a sitting body make for better prayer than a when I’m kneeling. offers his or her hand. † campaign speech in this neglected neighborhood of the black community. Cornucopia/Cynthia Dewes Kennedy’s advisers urged him to cancel his speech because everyone was afraid of how people would react to the news of Learning from the wisdom of the young(er) King’s assassination. Climbing up onto the back of a flatbed It seems I’ve reached a stage in life in family, you all get along.” Or else. Of demands. But nowadays, it seems necessary truck, Kennedy delivered a powerful and which I’m learning a lot from my children. course, he is correct. He learned that our to teach the idea to those who expect heartfelt impromptu speech to the inner- Of course, we idea of raising a family was to promote success without preparation. city crowd gathered that evening. He spoke always learn from our tactful honesty without guile or ulterior My favorite among Will’s nuggets of about healing the hearts and souls of a kids, but I’m speaking motives in dealing with each other, or wisdom is the one that says, “Women show nation, and called for reconciliation about wisdom, a indeed with anyone. their love by feeding people.” This may not between races. quality we usually This does not mean that everyone in the be true for younger feminists, but it Meanwhile, in other parts of the country, discover in the older family is/was forever cheerful, upbeat, certainly describes me and my friends fires and riots broke out and thousands of folks in our lives. obedient to all rules and generally perfect. accurately. After all, stereotypical Jewish people were injured. Indianapolis, however, Perhaps it’s because This would be hypocrisy, another familial mothers are not the only ones who urge a remained quiet that night, in part due to he’s had a lot of time no-no. But it did mean that we go/went second helping, another choice piece of Kennedy’s compassionate plea for peace and to mull things over through sometimes painful confrontations in chicken or an extra dollop of whipped understanding. Later that year, Kennedy while serving on order to get past the hard things in a cream on the plates of members of their would fall victim to an assassin’s bullet. lengthy U.S. Navy deployments in the constructive way. In this solitary case, the family, or whoever else is at the table. One hundred years earlier, in the same Pacific Ocean, but our oldest son, Will, end justified the means. This is not to say that men don’t show neighborhood, Camp Morton commandant constantly surprises me with this very Will loves to proclaim, “Nobody love, they just don’t do it with food as often Col. Richard Owen showed a similar wisdom. He’s given to mouthing maxims, promised that life would be fair,” a as the ladies, except for a romantic dinner compassion toward captured Confederate observations and pithy sayings that sum up sentiment his children hate to hear. I for two here and there. This may be a soldiers. He spoke “of the sick prisoners at reality or instruct his listeners. wonder where he got that idea, wink, wink. different kind of love, but it’s still valid. the military prison, many under 18 years of Now, his dad and I are also given to Adding to the maturing experience of his Will’s sharing of wisdom is a form of age. All receive the best medical treatment pontification, so it’s no wonder Will’s own kids, plus the hundreds of young love as well. It follows the natural urge to possible, but the best of attention cannot inherited the trait. But in him, as with his people he’s mentored in the Navy, he offers help others by telling them what’s worked save some from the grasp of death.” Those dad, I find his philosophizing endearing, this bit of wisdom truthfully because he well for us. who did survive went home to tell the probably because I usually agree with him. knows that, “Whining will get you Much of it is common sense proven story of how well they were treated. I’m not sure that his wife and kids would nowhere, so get over it.” successful over time, as in “the wisdom of In 1911, Sumner Archibald think so, since a prophet is not always The corollary to this idea is another of the ages.” Surely it comes from God. Cunningham, the editor of Confederate appreciated in his native land, but maybe Will’s and our favorites: “Nor did anyone Veteran Magazine, received permission to they think it’s cute. Let’s hope. promise that life would be easy.” People (Cynthia Dewes, a member of St. Paul the place a bronze memorial tablet in honor of One maxim my son dropped was the used to learn this early on, when Mom and Apostle Parish in Greencastle, is a regular the very well-liked Camp Morton fact that he knew early on that, “In this Dad routinely thwarted some of their columnist for The Criterion.) † commandant. Contributions were so great that a Faithful Lines/Shirley Vogler Meister bronze bust of Colonel Owen was substituted for the tablet and placed in the Indiana State House. The bust was Healthy advice from a hospital calendar dedicated in 1913 in the presence of many veterans from both the North and South. With 2007 so young, I hereby share mind while you exercise, you can get a matter how big or small, impacts our There is also a monument on that spot words of wisdom from a calendar that my whole host of psychological benefits fairly inner energy reserves.” (Doc Childre) where Kennedy shared the spirit and sister, Beverley quickly.” (Dr. James Rippe) October: “For a community to be message of Martin Luther King. Artist Thurman, gave me March: “Time and health are two whole and healthy, it must be based on Daniel Edwards created a statue from when visiting our precious assets we don’t recognize and people’s love and concern for each other.” metal that came from handguns that were Belleville, Ill., appreciate until they have been depleted.” (Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for gathered at a police buy-back program and hometown during the (Denis Waitley) Humanity) melted down to create material for this holidays. April: “A wise man should consider that November: “It is unwise to be too sure sculpture. The life-size figure of Martin The calendar comes health is the greatest of human blessings of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be Luther King seems to emerge from one from Belleville’s and learn how by his own thought to derive reminded that the strongest might weaken wall and is reaching out. On the opposite Memorial Hospital, benefit from his illnesses.” (Hippocrates) and wisest might err.” (Mahatma Gandhi) wall is the figure of Robert Kennedy. He, which holds a special May: “True friendship is like sound December: “Nothing’s better than the too, is reaching out. place in my heart. health; the value of it is seldom known until wind to your back, the sun in front of you, Both historic landmarks are powerful Nearly 20 years ago, Memorial’s doctors it is lost.” (Charles Caleb Colton) and your friends behind you.” (Aaron monuments that symbolize “love of and staff saved my life. My sister, an June: “A man too busy to take care of his Douglas Trimble) enemy” and a vision of reconciliation; a Intensive Care Unit secretary, and her health is like a mechanic too busy to take More spiritually pertinent are words vision that hopefully can spread in every daughter, JoAnne Sehr, an R.N. in Nursing care of his tools.” (Spanish Proverb) from my parish’s Madonna Memo neighborhood and change the heart of our Education, were my special support. July: “Walking is the best possible Calendar from Feeney-Hornak country and the world. The calendar features beautiful exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very Mortuaries: “In each day expect great Robert Kennedy said, “We can make an photographs captured by hospital staff far.” (Thomas Jefferson) things from God. Attempt great things effort, as Martin Luther King did, to members plus appropriate quotations. August: “When health is absent, from God. Let silence surround you and understand and to comprehend, and to An excerpt for January is: “The best day wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot you will hear the guiding whisper of replace that violence, that stain of of your life is the one on which you decide manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth God.” bloodshed that has spread across our land, your life is your own. No apologies or becomes useless, and intelligence cannot Healthcare professionals especially with an effort to understand with excuses. … The gift of life is yours; it is an be applied.” (Herophilus) need such guidance. compassion and love.” amazing journey. …” (Dan Zadra) September: “Our mental and emotional February: “Exercise alone provides diets determine our overall energy levels, (Shirley Vogler Meister, a member of (John Valenti is the associate director of psychological and physical benefits. … If health and well-being more than we Christ the King Parish in Indianapolis, is Evangelization and Faith Formation for the you also adopt a strategy that engages your realize. Every thought and feeling, no a regular columnist for The Criterion.) † Archdiocese of Indianapolis.) † The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Page 15

Third Sunday in Ordinary Time/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings Monday, Jan. 22 Friday, Jan. 26 The Sunday Readings Vincent, deacon and martyr Timothy, bishop Hebrews 9:15, 24-28 Titus, bishop Sunday, Jan. 21, 2007 Psalm 98:1-6 2 Timothy 1:1-8 Mark 3:22-30 or Titus 1:1-5 • Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 Church. They quarreled with each other. • 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 They schemed against each other. They Psalm 96:1-3, 7-8a, 10 • Luke 1:1-14, 4:14-21 gossiped about each other. Tuesday, Jan. 23 Mark 4:26-34 In this reading, Paul insists that all the Hebrews 10:1-10 baptized are in the Body of Christ. Psalm 40:2, 4, 7-8, 10-11 Saturday, Jan. 27 The Book of Nehemiah furnishes the However, the Body of Christ has many Mark 3:31-35 Angela Merici, virgin first reading for this weekend. members. Each has a vocation. There is At one time, in no place for competition. Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 Hebrew editions of St. Luke’s Gospel supplies the last Wednesday, Jan. 24 (Response) Luke 1:69-75 the Bible, this book reading. Francis de Sales, bishop and Mark 4:35-41 and the Book of Ezra Midway in this reading, the Gospel doctor of the Church formed one volume. directly addresses Theophilus using the Hebrews 10:11-18 Sunday, Jan. 28 In time, they were honorary title “Your Excellency.” Luke’s Psalm 110:1-4 Fourth Sunday in Ordinary separated, and today Gospel seemingly was written for one in English versions person and to one person. Mark 4:1-20 Time they remain Scholars debate whether this person Jeremiah 1:4-5, 17-19 separated. was named Theophilus or if it was the Thursday, Jan. 25 Psalm 71:1-6, 15-17 As is the case in title of the Gospel since “Theophilus” in The Conversion of Paul, 1 Corinthians 12:31-13:13 all the Old Testament books, this book Greek means “friend of God.” In any Apostle or 1 Corinthians 13:4-13 has as its chief concern the case, the person apparently enjoyed reinforcement of the people’s fidelity to some prestige, hence the use of the Acts 22:3-16 Luke 4:21-30 God. words “Your Excellency.” or Acts 9:1-22 In this reading, Ezra, who was a In this reading, Jesus appears in the Psalm 117:1-2 priest, called together men, women and synagogue of Nazareth to explain the Mark 16:15-18 children old enough to comprehend. He mission of salvation. admonished this gathering to listen Salvation, unfolding in Jesus, was the carefully to the Scriptures. gift of God’s love, the final chapter in After hearing the reading of the the long record of the merciful deeds of Question Corner/Fr. John Dietzen Scriptures, the people in this audience God among God’s people. affirmed their faith. Ezra continued by interpreting what he had read. Reflection Isaiah and Paul wrote about Finally, Ezra and Nehemiah called the The Church has celebrated Christmas, people to rejoice. God had spoken to the feast of the birth of Jesus, as well as them. God was guiding them. the feasts of the Epiphany of the Lord seven gifts of the Holy Spirit St. Paul’s First Epistle to the and the Baptism of the Lord. Corinthians provides the next reading. In the lessons of these great liturgical Someone recently asked me about We find the other listing of gifts in Always, in reading the epistles to the events, the Church has introduced us to Qthe gifts of the Holy Spirit. In my several places in the letters of St. Paul. Corinthians, it is important to consider Jesus. It has identified Jesus. He is the 15 years as a Catholic, I don’t remember In his letter to the Romans, Paul the atmosphere in which the Christians son of Mary, so Jesus was a human. He hearing of them. repeats one of his favorite themes: “We, of Corinth lived. Corinth was an was the Son of God. He was the What are they, and though many, are one body in Christ, important commercial center and Redeemer. where could one find and individually parts of one another.” meeting point, and as a result was a very Now the Church begins to tell us information about Paul then identifies gifts we are to large city. about salvation. It tells us how we them? Are they in the exercise for one another, which here also Even in the empire, in which vice and personally should respond to salvation. Bible? (Alberta, happen to number seven: prophecy, greed reigned supreme, the inhabitants of First Corinthians sets the stage. If we Canada) ministering or serving, teaching, Corinth had a reputation for being have accepted Christ into our hearts, we encouraging, contributing to others’ exceedingly licentious. This was the belong to God. Each of us has a personal In Catholic needs, leadership and showing mercy atmosphere. In many respects, the evils vocation, although we may consider this Aspiritual tradition, (Rom 12:5-8). in this atmosphere were contagious, term too lofty or too suggestive of a the gifts of the Holy Paul repeats this theme at length and in drawing many Christians to sin. Paul religious life. Rather, each person has a Spirit—usually numbered as seven—are more detail in the famous “body of Christ” mentions this fact in these two epistles. vocation to follow Christ. given by God to help sustain and increase section of First Corinthians in Chapter 12, Paul constantly had to call the God provides for us in this effort. As the holiness of our lives and our where he describes how the faithful Corinthian Christians away from the in centuries long past, God speaks to us relationship with the heavenly Father. exercise of each of our individual roles in temptations that the pagan environment through the Scriptures. God speaks to us We receive these gifts radically at the Church is essential for the health of the surrounding them pressed upon them. through the Apostles, just as God spoke baptism, but their influence increases whole body (1 Cor 12:12-31). He also had to contend with the to the Corinthians through Paul. with prayer and other good habits of The foot, Paul writes, cannot say to competitiveness among the Christians. We find God in Jesus. He is the mirror Christian spirituality, symbolized the hand, “I do not need you,” nor can They vied with each other, even in the of God in our lives. † especially in the sacrament of the ear say to the eye, “I do not need confirmation. you.” If they were all one part, where The prayers and hymns of our liturgy would the body be? God has placed each My Journey to God refer often to these gifts as powerful of these gifts, these parts, in the body as forces in Christian life. he intended. St. Thomas Aquinas identifies them as Obviously, the significant difference permanent characteristics disposing us to between the gifts in Isaiah and Paul is Messenger of God follow eagerly the invitations and their overall orientation. The first movements of the Holy Spirit in our lives. emphasize more our individual Oh gracious day! The Scriptures actually contain two relationship with God—our personal Oh joyful day! dissimilar groupings or lists of gifts of spirituality. The promise of life the Holy Spirit. The gifts Paul describes, however, Makes a new way! The one most commonly referred to in speak more directly and emphatically tradition is found in the book of the prophet about how the body of Christ on earth, Messenger of God, Isaiah. The writer foretells one who will the community of Christian believers, Springing forth from the womb, come later from the tribe of Jesse, one who must live together in supportive Shoves aside with a nod will bring justice and peace, the one whom harmony. Our trudge to the tomb. Christians later will understand as referring In both instances, the underlying to Jesus Christ. message is the same. The wind, or Such innocent life! The spirit of the Lord will come upon Spirit, of God which hovered over the Bright sparkling eyes! this man, writes Isaiah, a spirit of initial chaos of creation (Gn 1:2, 8:1) Sweet, full lips wisdom and understanding, of counsel still hovers over the world to help it Mouthing “Goo goo, gaw gaw!” and strength, knowledge and piety become what the Creator and our Savior (faithful, loving obedience to God, intended it to be. Whenever we doubt parents and others), and fear, or If you wish further information, a Our Maker’s saving grace, reverence, of the Lord (Is 11:2-3). Google search of “gifts of the holy spirit” We have but to gaze It can be a bit confusing because will tell you more than you want to know. At a babe’s smiling face. these gifts are not worded the same in all Bibles and ancient manuscripts. But (A free brochure in English or Spanish

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[email protected].) † Page 16 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Catholic Charities aims to cut poverty in half by 2020 WASHINGTON (CNS)—Catholic District of Columbia Catholic Conference Stephanie Charities USA on Jan. 10 launched an and a veteran lobbyist, attested to the role of Baldwin, a 23-year- ambitious campaign to cut poverty in government in combating poverty. old single mother, America in half by 2020. He said one-third of the children in the speaks Jan. 10 CNS photo/Paul Haring CNS photo/Paul “The poor do belong to us. ... They are District of Columbia live in poverty, and last at a Catholic our brothers and sisters,” Father Larry year alone the city lost about 12,000 units of Charities USA Snyder, Catholic Charities USA president, affordable housing. If the nation is going to press conference told an overflow crowd at a Capitol Hill commit itself to reversing poverty, “it would on Capitol Hill in briefing announcing the Campaign to be a good idea to start right in the nation’s Washington, Reduce Poverty in America. capital,” he said. where the agency Noting that 37 million Americans— Janet Valente Pape, chairwoman of the unveiled its plan 12.6 percent of the population—currently Catholic Charities USA board and executive to cut poverty in live below the poverty line, he said Catholic director of Catholic Charities of the Diocese America in half by Charities USA and its affiliates, working in of Wichita, Kan., said the new campaign is 2020. Father Larry partnership with government, the private meant to challenge not just the Church and Snyder, president sector and other nonprofits, will launch the government, but everyone. of Catholic “a concentrated, systematic effort to cut “We absolutely need to reverse the trend Charities USA, poverty in half by 2020.” of the increasing number of poor in this watches Baldwin The briefing introducing the campaign country,” she said. speak. was attended by media, legislators, She called for a combination of “moral legislative aides and leaders of other outrage and political will” to create a Catholic organizations engaged in social turning point and bring the nation “to service and advocacy for the poor. engage in a long-overdue debate about the Participants received the newly released plight of the poor.” Catholic Charities USA policy paper, In the Wichita Diocese, where Catholic Christina M. Phillips “Poverty in America: A Threat to the Charities served “well over 20,000” clients Common Good.” It sets the moral and last year, she said, “78 percent of our clients Cathedral High School analytic framework for the campaign and live below the federal poverty guidelines.” Class of 1993 spells out specific policy proposals for a “More than 50 percent of those served in sustained drive to reverse the growth of our shelters are children,” she added. Ball State University poverty in the United States. She said a Catholic Charities clinic in The briefing was held as the U.S. House Wichita that serves people without health Class of 1997 was debating a bill to change the minimum insurance used to find that most of the wage from the current $5.15 an hour—a rate uninsured were elderly or unemployed. Cardiovascular Risk Specialist unchanged since 1997—to $7.25 an hour by Today, “60 percent are employed and it’s 2009. going up,” she said. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Maureen Murphy, an associate division Catholic social teaching does not call for manager of Catholic Charities of Chicago, complete equality of income, but it does said that with housing prices in condemn “extreme inequalities of income Lake County, Ill., someone has to earn and consumption,” she said. $17 an hour at a full-time job to afford a Stephanie Baldwin, a single mother who two-bedroom apartment. For someone received help from Catholic Charities of Imagine, it’s the RCA Dome, the year is 1992 the Cathedral Irish just won the earning the current minimum wage, that Trenton, N.J., and now has a secretarial job State Football Championship, after being defeated the previous year. Through means working 133 hours a week, she said. with that agency, described how Catholic the tears of a Senior Varsity Cheerleader, this was one of only handfuls of Saying that a society is judged by how it Charities helped her when she and her treats its poor, Father Snyder described the young son were homeless, providing transi- memorable high school experiences that she will cherish the rest of her life. current situation in America as a “moral tional housing and other assistance to help The scene would not be complete without the repetition of the school song in crisis.” her get out of a cycle of welfare and get the background and friends in the forefront celebrating the victory! He said the number of people seeking part-time work. assistance from Catholic Charities agencies “I love my work at Catholic Charities,” “Dear Old Cathedral, here’s to you, here’s to your colors, Gold and across the country is rising faster than the she said. She added that the salary she is Blue”……If I sang the school song once, I sang it in my sleep! Who would amount of resources available to assist them. paid is fair for a secretary in a nonprofit have thought that I could quote the entire song over 13 years later? However, Since 2002, the number of people organization, but after insurance, taxes and it is not the school song that inspires me, but what the song truly means and seeking emergency assistance has increased other deductions, her net pay of $1,320 a 14 percent, he said, and the total number month makes it a struggle every month to how “Dear, Old Cathedral” is to me and has been in my life. I was not your served by Catholic Charities nationwide has meet the bills for rent, food, health care and typical Cathedral freshman. I came from another local grade school that had risen to nearly 8 million a year. day care for her son. a feeder high school, but had decided not to attend. The irony was I did not “As a society, we cannot continue to When a new landlord came in last year come from a Catholic grade school, moreover, I was NOT Catholic, but now abandon” those who are poor and in need of and raised the $900 monthly rent for her attending a Catholic High School. I came to Cathedral in the need of change assistance, he said. two-bedroom apartment, she said, she and from where I had been with the same friends from Pre-Kindergarten to the 8th Citing the importance of a higher her son were forced to move to a grade. I was the only student from my middle school to go to Cathedral in minimum wage, he said, “Today too many one-bedroom apartment in a more Americans are working hard without being dangerous neighborhood. my Freshman Class. able to make ends meet.” “The cost of living is out of reach for Ron Jackson, executive director of the more and more people like me,” she said. † Through my years at Cathedral, you might have thought I came from any of the typical Catholic schools. I made friendships with everyone from all the different grade schools. The involvement that I participated in at Cathedral varied from Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Cheerleading, National Honor Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House Society, Gospel Choir, etc….. The desire Cathedral instills in you to be as diverse and involved in the community will stay with me forever. The most benefi cial assets gained from my Cathedral experience are the lifelong “Together Forever” friendships. A Day of Reflection with Fr. Jonathan Meyer I was accepted for what I thought were my differences. Cathedral taught me February 6, 2007 • 8:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m. the willingness to be an involved individual, a team player and a true giver! I was so nervous walking in the fi rst day, but I was even more nervous leaving Marriage is an image of our relationship with God. my comfort zone and walking out 4 years later. Cathedral had prepared me How can we as Catholics more fully live our faith and I had grown, both academically and spiritually and Cathedral will always at Mass, in daily prayer, through service and with be HOME. our family? Fr. Meyer explores these questions with a new look at our spiritual lives. Greater Knowledge. Cost is just $50 per couple. If one spouse is unable to attend, the other is welcome to attend at a cost of $25 Higher Purpose. (317) 542-1481 Registration forms on-line or call Kathy at (317) 545-7681 Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL 5353 E. 56th Street www.cathedral-irish.org Indianapolis, IN 46226 (317) 545-7681 www.archindy.org/fatima Advertise in TThhee CCrriitteerriioonn! Indiana’s Largest Weekly Newspaper The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007 Page 17

Dec. 21. Mother of Mauara, Vaught. Son of Margaret Great-grandmother of 11. Leroy Ends. Grandmother of Morgan. Brother of Rita Maureen, Sharon and Philip STEMLE, Donald Gene, 50, two. Great-grandmother of two. Kahn Jr. Sister of Lou Costello, Burger, Richard and Roger Our Lady of Perpetual Help, VERPLANK, Gerald, 73, Kay Isleib, Margaret Reese, Reeves. Grandfather of three. New Albany, Dec. 25. Son of St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Eileen, Ed and Kevin O’Neill. Rest in peace RESSLER, Charles F., 89, Otto and Betty Stemle Sr. Dec. 14. Husband of Linnea Grandmother of four. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Brother of Otto Jr. and Rick (Hoover) Verplank. Father of Please submit in writing to Ongkiko Sr. Grandmother of LANG, Seivren Anthony, 28, Indianapolis, Jan. 2. Brother of Stemle. Theresa Begert, Catherine our office by 10 a.m. three. Step-grandmother of one. Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Dorothy Ingels and Betty Campbell, James and Robert New Albany, Nov. 23. Son of Kulczak. STILL, Winifred V., 47, Thursday before the week of EXMEYER, Marjorie, 86, Hoover. Grandfather of eight. Leland and Jeanine Lang. Nativity of Our Lord Jesus publication; be sure to state St. Christopher, Indianapolis, RIDER, Daniel Lee, 65, Christ, Indianapolis, Dec. 19. WASHINGTON, William date of death. Obituaries of Brother of Tyler Lang. Dec. 17. Wife of Leland St. Mary of the Immaculate Wife of Robert Still. Mother of Ray, 55, Holy Angels, archdiocesan priests serving Exmeyer Jr. Mother of Susan LEMING, Louise (O’Brien), Conception, Aurora, Dec. 13. Jason and Mitch Still. Sister of Indianapolis, Nov. 25. Husband our archdiocese are listed Kormann and R. Clark 88, St. Christopher, Indian- Husband of Eileen (Etter) Thelma Marsh, Carrie, Donald of Marita Washington. Father of elsewhere in The Criterion. Exmeyer. Grandmother of two. apolis, Dec. 15. Mother of Rider. Stepfather of Suzie Blair, and John McClarnan. Grand- William Washington. Brother of Order priests and religious John, Richard and Tom Leming. Beth, David and Rick Cameron. FRY, Wayne E., 57, mother of one. Maria Adams, Cecelia and sisters and brothers are Sister of Richard O’Brien. Brother of Mona McAdams, Immaculate Conception, Randy Washington. included here, unless they are Grandmother of two. Great- David and Leo Rider. Grand- SUDING, Leona C., 91, Millhousen, Jan. 4. Husband of natives of the archdiocese or grandmother of three. father of three. St. Louis, Batesville, Dec. 18. WEATHERS, Melissa Lynn, have other connections to it; Mary Ann Fry. Father of Jenny Mother of Virginia Mellene- 38, Our Lady of Perpetual LORBER, Dr. James M., 67, RISSELMAN, Hazel A., 92, those are separate obituaries Ruble, Darin and Daryl Fry. Steward. Grandmother of four. Help, New Albany, Nov. 20. St. Joseph, Shelbyville, St. Gabriel, Connersville, on this page. Son of Velma Fry. Brother of Great-grandmother of seven. Wife of Thomas Weathers. Donald and Kenneth Fry. Dec. 12. Husband of Jerry Dec. 17. Sister of Mary Mabel Mother of Abby and Drew ANNEE, Carl, 98, St. Mark Marie Lorber. Father of Paula Jones, Charles and Kenneth TEPE, Carol, 69, St. Pius X, FROGGE, Mary A., 94, Weathers. Daughter of Cletus the Evangelist, Indianapolis, Chapla, Diann, Jon, Michael Risselman. Indianapolis, Jan. 4. Mother of St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby Day and Nancy Foster. Dec. 22. Father of Emilie and Patrick Lorber. Brother of Janice Williams. Grandmother County, Jan. 2. Mother of Mary ROBINSON, Margaret A., 96, Dillingham, Virginia Orr, John Lorber. Grandfather of of four. WEINTRAUT, Elvin, 93, Cline, Kathy Shaw, John, St. Paul, Tell City, Dec. 19. Phyllis Wecker, Carl, John and four. St. Vincent de Paul, Shelby Maurice and Sam Frogge. THOMPSON, Karen, 50, Mark Annee. Brother of Louis RODGERS, Rita J., 71, Prince County, Dec. 17. Grandmother of eight. Great- MALANDER, David M., 47, Sacred Heart, Jeffersonville, Annee Sr. Grandfather of 11. of Peace, Madison, Dec. 10. grandmother of 12. Great-great- Our Lady of Lourdes, Dec. 19. Wife of Robert WETHERALD-GISLER, Great-grandfather of five. Mother of Bernice Craig, Trina S., 45, Holy Spirit, grandmother of two. Indianapolis, Jan. 2. Husband Winifred Inskeep, Mary Pike Thompson. Mother of Eric and of Lori Ann (Hofmeister) Indianapolis, Dec. 18. Wife of ANTE, Martha L., 82, GALLAGHER, James Daniel, and Deborah Rodgers. Sister of Jason Thompson. Daughter of Malander. Father of Annie, Matthew Gisler Jr.. Mother of St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 18. 67, St. Matthew, Indianapolis, Beatrice Smith, Patricia Mary Weyer. Sister of Cheryl Katie and Michael Malander. Sierra Wetherald. Daughter of Wife of Louis E. Ante. Mother Dec. 24. Husband of Karen Thomason, Carl and Rudy Herrington and Kathy Smith. of Carol Ann Hagerty, Mary Son of Rosemary and Terry Dorothy (Monroe) Muffley. Gallagher. Father of Julie Forman. Grandmother of nine. THRASH, Gary, 55, Johnson, Joseph and Louis Malander. Brother of Kimberly Sister of Linda Smith. Grand- Hatfield, Jean Havlin, Susan Great-grandmother of 12. St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Ante. Sister of Richard and Steven Malander. mother of one. Tyler, Katie, Sara, Joe and ROEDER, Cecelia, 100, Nov. 15. Son of Helen Thrash. Thompson. Grandmother of WICKER, Byron A., 92, Steve Gallagher. Brother of MARTEL, Camilla A., 90, Sacred Heart of Jesus, Brother of Debbie Poole and five. Great-grandmother of four. Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Irene Woolen, Dick and Joe Holy Family, New Albany, Indianapolis, Dec. 29. Mother Judy Yast. ARMBRUSTER, Celia, 77, Gallagher. Grandfather of 11. Dec. 29. Mother of Linda Christ, Indianapolis, Dec. 18. of Charles, Donald and Norbert TOSCHLOG, Charles, 79, St. Lawrence, Lawrenceburg, Swibold and J. Richard Martel. Husband of Frances Wicker. GOLDMAN, Charlotte Roeder. Grandmother of 10. St. Andrew, Richmond, Dec. 9. Dec. 17. Wife of Melvin Grandmother of two. Great- Father of Carol Deckard and (Nagy), 81, Sacred Heart, Great-grandmother of 14. Father of Connie Lee Keith and Armbruster. Sister of Betty grandmother of one. Great-great-grandmother of Jeanne Robinson. Brother of Clinton, Dec. 30. Wife of Norm Charles Toschlog. Stepfather of Kathryn Sebastion and James Mulroy. Grandmother of two. MARTIN, Maryellen one. Goldman. Mother of Denise Connie Voiles and Cindy Wicker. Grandfather of six. (Gartland), 89, St. Luke, BRAWNER, Mildred, 92, Casper, Rosemary Iacoli, Peggy SCHNELL, Ollie V., Jr., 74, Tucker. Brother of Betty Hart. Great-grandfather of 17. Prince of Peace, Madison, May, Susan Pugh, Liz Indianapolis, Dec. 20. Mother St. Paul, Sellersburg, Nov. 27. Grandfather of several. Great- WOHLHIETER, James Dec. 30. Mother of Carolyn and Robinson, Janice Thompson, of Margo Bodansky, Mary Husband of Sue Schnell. Father grandfather of several. Larry Brawner. Sister of Norma Jim Goldman and Martin Nagy. Ellen Inglis, Mary Nye, of Dianna Moore and Donna Michael, 40, Sacred Heart of Sommer. Grandmother of six. Grandmother of 16. Great- Maureen, M. Peter, Michael Schnell. Son of Barbara TRAGESSER, Marian L., 88, Jesus, Indianapolis, Dec. 10. Great-grandmother of eight. grandmother of 12. and Richard Martin. Sister of Schnell. Brother of Monica St. Joseph, Shelbyville, Son of James and Pamela Kathryn Finneran and Elizabeth Dec. 14. Mother of Bill, Don Wohlhieter. Brother of Anne BRIDGEWATER, Genoveva, HAMMETT, Juanita, 87, Morris, Mary Jo Sheely, Gerald Grimes. and Robert Schnell. Grand- and Jim Tragesser. Sister of Branham. † 72, St. Barnabas, Indianapolis, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, father of one. Dec. 25. Mother of Linda New Albany, Nov. 4. Mother of MATTINGLY, Harold J., 89, Providence Sister Dorothy Souligny Winzenread, Michael and Patricia Mader. Grandmother of Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, SCHUTZ, Mary Ursula, 88, Steven Bridgewater. Grand- three. Great-grandmother of Dec. 12. Father of Danny, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, ministered in U.S. and Taiwan three. James and John Mattingly. mother of eight. New Albany, Dec. 19. Wife of Providence Sister Dorothy Indianapolis from 1965-69. Brother of Pauline Mershon, John Schutz Jr. Mother of CAREY, Mary Patricia, 81, HAPAK, Dr. Francis M., 81, Souligny, also known as Sister She also ministered at Veronica Zervas, Kenneth and Jeanne Brashear, Ivar Zzyznius, St. Luke, Indianapolis, Jan. 5. St. Luke, Indianapolis, Jan. 4. Marie Christopher, died on Providence Self-Sufficiency Ralph Mattingly. Grandfather of Sara and David Schutz. Mother of Mary Carey. Sister of Husband of Charlotte Hapak. Dec. 12 at Mother Theodore Hall Ministry in New Albany from Father of Holly Betz, Madeline several. Great-grandfather of Rosemarie DaPuzzo, John and several. SEDAM, Ernest, 76, at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. She 1996-2001 and at the mother- Michael Haney. Osborne, Tracy Schick, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, was 72. house from 2001-04. Charlotte Shaut, Susan, Haydon McLAUGHLIN, Vincent J., Dec. 17. Husband of Clara The Mass of Christian Burial From 1970-77 and 1984-88, CLEMENTS, Jenette, 76, and Mark Hapak. Brother of 87, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, Sedam. Father of Lori Riley, was celebrated on Dec. 15 at the St. Anthony of Padua, Sister Dorothy taught at Violet Pykosz. Dec. 12. Father of Helen Renita Seldowitz, Marjorie, Church of the Immaculate Providence College in Taiwan. Clarksville, Dec. 27. Mother of Hinshaw, James, Robert, HAYDEN, Mattie C., 93, Daniel and Thomas Sedam. Conception at the motherhouse. She served as the congregation’s Maria Matthews and James Thomas, Vincent and William St. Joseph, Corydon, Nov. 16. Brother of Ralph Sedam. Burial followed at the sisters’ regional superior there from Totten II. McLaughlin. Grandfather of 16. Mother of Delbert, James and Grandfather of six. cemetery. 1979-83. The former Dorothy May CONNOR, Norma Jean, 73, Larry Hayden. Grandmother of MILEATO, Anna Marie, 84, SEIFRIED, William H., 92, Also in Taiwan, she minis- Souligny was born on Feb. 23, Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, nine. Great-grandmother of 14. St. Simon the Apostle, Indiana- Sacred Heart, Jeffersonville, tered at the Maryknoll Clinic 1934, in Hammond, Ind. Jan. 2. Wife of Robert Connor. polis, Dec. 20. Mother of Dec. 28. Husband of Catherine from 1983-84 and St. Theresa HOLMAN, David C., 63, She entered the congrega- Mother of Cheryl Connor- Rosanne Merz. Grandmother of Seifried. Father of Cathy Opportunity Center from St. Mary, Greensburg, Jan. 4. tion of the Sisters of Shelton, Daniel, Gary, Richard, one. O’Bryan and Bill Seifried. Husband of Donnalene Providence on July 22, 1956, 1989-94. Robert, Thomas and Timothy Grandfather of nine. Great- Holman. Father of Sheila Allen, MILLER, Ruby G., 71, professed first vows on Sister Dorothy began her Connor. Sister of Ann Deever. grandfather of eight. Kristina Bowling, Michelle St. Luke, Indianapolis, Dec. 20. Jan. 23, 1959, and professed prayer ministry with the senior Grandmother of 23. Great- Doll, Cher Meehan, Rhonda Mother of Beverly Farra and sisters at the motherhouse in grandmother of 10. SELLMER, Winthrope C., final vows on Aug. 15, 1964. and John Holman. Brother of Sylvia Miller. 88, St. Christopher, Indian- During 50 years as a Sister of 2004. COSTANTINO, David M., 66, Patricia Ann Fife. Grandfather MUÑOZ, Eric Isaias Vargas apolis, Dec. 8. Father of Jeanne Providence, she ministered as a Surviving are a brother, Our Lady of the Greenwood, of nine. Valero, 27, Christ the King, Johns, Jim and Joe Sellmer. teacher and college professor in Donald Souligny of Meridian, Greenwood, Dec. 31. Father of HOOD, Robert E., 57, Indianapolis, Jan. 1. Father of Grandfather of four. five dioceses in Indiana, Illinois Miss., and several nieces and Angela Costantino-Hardrick St. Mark the Evangelist, Antonio Muñoz. Stepfather of SHIRLEY, Eleanore A., 79, and abroad in Taiwan. nephews. and Tony Costantino. Son of Indianapolis, Dec. 23. Stepson A’Sean Street. Son of Kim St. Luke, Indianapolis, Dec. 20. In the archdiocese, Sister Memorial gifts may be sent Margherita (Pizzo) Costantino. of Chuck and Olive Crawford. Maria Vargas. Brother of Mother of Karen Shirley. Sister Dorothy taught at Sacred Heart to the Sisters of Providence, Brother of Angela Keith. Half-brother of Mary Houston Amanda MacDonald and of Ronald Nemec. School in Terre Haute from Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Grandfather of two. and Linda Ragan. Daniel Melton. Grandson of 1959-60 and the former St. Mary-of-the-Woods, IN SLATTERY, John R., 87, COYLE, George, 86, St. Paul, Shirley Vargas. Ladywood Academy in 47876. † HUBBS, Martina M., 49, St. Christopher, Indianapolis, Tell City, Dec. 27. Father of St. Paul, Tell City, Dec. 24. PAPPIN, Phillip J., 82, Dec. 3. Husband of Elizabeth Patricia Ann Vaal, Bob and Sister of Linda Anderson, Meg Holy Family, Richmond, Slattery. Father of Linda Hagen Holy Cross Brother Keric Dever David Coyle. Grandfather of Boswell, Kitty Farquhar, Annie Dec. 2. Father of Lisa Johnting and Jackie Hokanson. Brother served in the U.S. and Brazil eight. Great-grandfather of 10. Fowler, Sue Masterson, Jane and Vincent Pappin. Brother of of Donald Slattery. Grandfather DEERY, Paul C., 86, Meek, Vicky Smith, Bea Ann Helen Smarrelli. Grandfather of of four. Great-grandfather of Holy Cross Brother Keric He made his first profession Our Lady of Lourdes, Spahn, Emily Weddle, Bill, five. four. Dever, a native of Indianapolis, of vows on Feb. 2, 1944, and his Charlie and Mark Hubbs. died on Nov. 23 in Austin, Texas. Indianapolis, Jan. 2. Father of PIOTROWSKI, John, 25, SLEVIN, John F., 72, final profession of vows on Janet Wolfe, Joanne, Jerome HUNTEMAN, Martha E., 87, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, St. Roch, Indianapolis, Dec. 3. He was 82 and had been a mem- Aug. 16, 1947. ber of the Congregation of Holy and Terry Deery. Grandfather of St. Louis, Batesville, Dec. 30. New Albany, Dec. 26. Son of Father of Debbie Armbruster, For 33 years, Brother Keric 10. Great-grandfather of one. Cross for 62 years. Mother of Jo Ann Toepter and John Piotrowski and Rachel Kay Inman, John and Patty served as an educator or admin- Robert Hunteman. Grand- The Mass of Christian Burial DeLAURO, Mary, 88, Carlock. Brother of Cassie Slevin. Brother of Catherine istrator at seven schools operated mother of five. Great-grand- Piotrowski. Grandson of Jack was celebrated on Nov. 26 at the St. Mary, Richmond, Dec. 27. Drown. Grandfather of 10. by the Congregation of Holy mother of three. and Joan Carlock, Charles chapel at St. Joseph Hall at Mother of Sue Bockhofer and SNEDIGAR, William, 79, St. Edward’s University in Austin. Cross. Jerry DeLauro. Sister of Erma Piotrowski and Casimer JONES, Cecilia R., 82, St. Anne, New Castle, Dec. 25. Burial followed at Assumption Brother Keric also volun- Butler, Elise Duke and Jerry St. Joseph, Corydon, Dec. 2. Rompala. Husband of Mary H. Snedigar. Cemetery on the university teered for the foreign missions, DeLauro. Grandmother of Wife of Kenneth Jones. Mother PROCTOR, Dorothy C., 91, Father of Melanie, David and grounds. and served in Brazil from eight. Great-grandmother of six. of Martha Blaney, Joyce Korte, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Michael Snedigar. Brother of The former Jerome Patrick 1974-85. From 1983-85, he was DIERKES, Carmen, 67, Doris, Daniel, Gregory and New Albany, Dec. 18. Mother Clara Dean Neal. Grandfather Dever was born on Nov. 4, 1924, district superior of the Prince of Peace, Madison, Timothy Jones. Sister of of Walter Proctor Jr. Grand- of five. in Indianapolis. He graduated Barbara Beard and Clara Pruitt. mother of two. Great-grand- Holy Cross brothers in Brazil. Dec. 11. Wife of Larry Dierkes. SPRIGLER, Viola C., 88, from Cathedral High School in Mother of Francisco Ongkiko. Grandmother of 11. Great- mother of two. 1942. From 1988-94, he was assis- grandmother of one. Holy Family, New Albany, Stepmother of Paula Powell and REEVES, Ronald D., 58, Dec. 20. Mother of Sherry On Jan. 15, 1943, he entered tant provincial and steward of Todd Dierkes. Sister of KAHN, Sharon (O’Neill), 69, St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Geary, Melvin and Richard the congregation’s St. Joseph the congregation’s Southwest Florence Abad and Francisco Prince of Peace, Madison, Oct. 25. Father of Andrea Sprigler. Grandmother of eight. Novitiate at Rolling Prairie, Ind. Province. † Page 18 The Criterion Friday, January 19, 2007

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WASHINGTON (CNS)—A Catholic Army chaplain who was stationed in Iraq and a Christian Iraqi-American military adviser said they stand behind U.S. President George W. Bush’s most recent plan to send more troops to Iraq. But three international policy experts contacted by Reed, Reuters CNS photo/Jason Catholic News Service sharply criticized the plan and questioned whether it can succeed. “If this is what the leaders are asking for, then that’s what they need,” said Father Brian Kane, who served as an Army chaplain for the 67th Area Support Group at Al Asad Airfield, in the Iraqi Al Anbar region. Father Kane said the White House’s goals for the Iraqi government to ease sectarian violence and stabilize the country are “a positive step” and a “healthy direction.” The Iraqi government “needs to show the world that they are capable of taking care of their own country,” he said. Using such goals, about which Bush did not elaborate, will enable Americans to evaluate the Iraqi government’s progress, and they also act as “a reassurance to the U.S. people that we are preparing to turn things over to the Iraqis,” he told CNS in telephone and e-mail interviews on Jan. 10 and 11 from Wahoo, Neb., where he has been a teacher at St. John Neumann High School since he returned from Iraq in September. Father Kane said he believes “when a nation is at war it should not be divided in its resolve to support the troops who are in harm’s way.” In his address to the nation on Jan. 10, Bush made no specific mention of penalties for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki for promises not kept. Bush said he plans to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq, but he set no time limit for the deployment or for when he plans to totally withdraw troops. Pauline Jasim, a military bilingual and bicultural adviser in Baghdad, Iraq, said it was “about time Washington President George W. Bush shakes hands with a U.S. soldier before departing from Fort Benning, Ga., on Jan. 11. Bush’s visit came one realized the [number of] troops were never enough, and day after he announced that the U.S. would put an additional 21,500 troops in Iraq. more troops are needed in Baghdad.” The Iraqis, particularly in Baghdad, “were ecstatic when diplomatic negotiations. one—a united, stable, nonsectarian government.” more troops were transferred to Baghdad last August; they Maryann Cusimano Love, a professor of politics at But he said the “modest increase in troops” announced by had hoped Baghdad would be cleaned up,” she told CNS in The Catholic University of America in Washington, and an Bush is another case of “willing the ends but not the means.” an e-mail on Jan. 10. expert on terrorism, said on Jan. 11, “This is primarily a “We’re in a real hole” because the United States does not However, Jasim said Iraq has “lost all hope in its political battle about winning hearts and have the troops needed to establish government, coalition forces and the world.” minds. And the military measures that he security for civilians in Iraq, he said. “The secular and the educated population has fled. ... presented last night don’t do anything to ‘I think [Bush] “It would only be feasible if the They have become the most hopeless people in the world, address the underlying problems in Iraq recognizes now that United States were able to convince other stranded in the neighboring countries,” she said. and, I’m afraid, are unlikely to succeed.” there should have been nations, get the international community Jesuit Father Drew Christiansen, editor of the national She called it a belated response to the more troops at the involved in a serious way. And it’s Catholic magazine America and director of the problem that not enough troops were probably too late for that,” he said. U.S. bishops’ Office of International Justice and Peace from committed in 2003. get-go, but that doesn’t Powers said the United States incurred 1991-98, said the plan “seems to me too light on the troops” “It’s four years too late,” she said. “I mean that more troops “serious obligations to the Iraqi people” to achieve the goal of sufficient security for a transition to think he recognizes now that there are the answer now.’ when it invaded and occupied their Iraqi control. should have been more troops at the country, and he does not see that issue More importantly, “it ignores the diplomatic elements get-go, but that doesn’t mean that more given sufficient emphasis in the current altogether,” he said. troops are the answer now.” — Maryann Cusimano U.S. debate over the course of American He said in Bosnia-Herzegovina the allied forces sent in She said Bush’s claim that an Love, professor of politics action. one soldier for every 50 civilians to establish security. additional 21,500 troops will provide at The Catholic University The discussion should focus on Increasing U.S. forces in Iraq from about 130,000 to enough force to hold neighborhoods of America “what is our obligation to the Iraqi 150,000 does not come close to the ratio needed, he said, once they are cleared “is simply factually people, not just what is our security noting some have estimated it would take about 350,000 to incorrect. When you look at the size of the Iraqi population interest,” he said. 400,000 for an effective occupying force. and the size of the insurgency versus the size of U.S. troops, Jasim told CNS: “The havoc we see is partly the result The expansion will come by extending current troops’ this just doesn’t add up. We had a much more intensive of the mistake upon mistake that has been done since the stays and sending others back into Iraq early, he said, and commitment in Kosovo, and that was a long, hard row.” days of the CPA [Coalition Provisional Authority, or the “the military is being stretched extraordinarily thin.” Gerard F. Powers, director of policy studies at the transitional government in Iraq]. The tragedy is that Iraqi- He said the Bush plan ignores the Iraq Study Group’s call University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for Peace and Americans were here [in Iraq] to advise the coalition, but to look at the situation in Iraq as a regional problem, and the head of the bishops’ Office of International Justice and their advice was not heeded. administration continues to try to isolate Iran and Syria, two Peace from 1998 to 2004, said there “are some positive “Even now, the Iraqi-Americans struggle to make their major actors in the region, instead of drawing them into proposals” in the Bush plan and “the stated goal is the right voices heard by the decision-makers,” she said. †

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