Inside Archbishop Buechlein

Inside Archbishop Buechlein . 5 Editorial . 4 Question Corner . 9 The Sunday and Daily Readings . 9 Serving the CChurchCriterion in Centralr andi Southert n Indianae Since 1960rion www.archindy.org August 22, 2003 Vol. XXXXII, No. 45 75¢ Archbishop tells Living History pro-life supporters turning to Mary will help create a Photo by Brandon A. Brandon Photo by Evans culture of life By Mary Ann Wyand Cars and trucks sped by a busy section of West 16th Street in Indianapolis on Aug. 16 as Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and several dozen pro-life supporters prayed the sorrowful mysteries of the rosary outside the Clinic for Women. Their prayers were directed to God and Mary on behalf of the unborn babies that die in the abortion clinic, formerly located on East 38th Street in Indianapolis. Voices raised in prayer, the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants continued their pro-life petitions led by the archbishop as a young couple climbed out of a car in the parking lot and approached the clinic door. Pro-life sidewalk counselors Patty Yeadon, a member of St. Joan of Arc Parish in Indianapolis, and Delores Tucker of Columbus offered pro-life literature to the young woman, but she declined the medical information about fetal develop- ment and went into the clinic. This grim scene outside the abortion clinic, which is located near a strip club, The seminarians of the archdiocese attend a Mass celebrated by Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein and Father Joseph Moriarty, vocations director, in gun shop and liquor store, illustrated the the Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Vincennes, which is the Old Cathedral of the archdiocese when it was the Diocese of Vincennes. The group was pervasive effects of the culture of death in in Vincennes for a seminarian pilgrimage on Aug. 13. American society. Yeadon, who volunteers as a pro-life sidewalk counselor outside the Clinic for Seminarians get a clearer sense of where God is Women every Saturday from 7 a.m. until about 1:30 p.m., said 15 to 20 women leading them by exploring archdiocese’s roots entered the clinic that morning. “Some of the women said they were By Brandon A. Evans missionary territory into the current arch- On Aug. 13, the archbishop, along just going into the clinic for birth control,” diocese and the 10 surrounding dioceses with 14 seminarians and Father Joseph Yeadon said. “One woman was here to get First of two parts in Indiana and Illinois. Moriarty, the vocations director, made RU-486 [the abortion pill] and the rest It is this story—this living story that a pilgrimage for vocations to the were scheduled for abortions.” VINCENNES, Ind.—The begin- continues today—that Archbishop Daniel Basilica of St. Francis Xavier, which It’s not easy to stand outside an abor- nings of the Archdiocese of M. Buechlein wanted to teach the archdio- is the Old Cathedral now located tion clinic trying to save the lives of Indianapolis reveal a combination of cese’s seminarians about. within the Diocese of Evansville, and babies, she said, but the prayers offered by humility and virtue that gave life to So he took them, on the last day of to the tomb of the first four bishops the priest and the Helpers of God’s the fledgling Church in America. their annual three-day seminarian convo- that are underneath it. Precious Infants outside the clinic on the What began as the Diocese of cation at Fatima Retreat House in On the way, in two vans, the group third Saturday of every month help renew Vincennes in 1834 transformed from Indianapolis, to the former See of the prayed the special “priestly mysteries” her strength and her hope that babies’ one bishop and a few priests in Church in central and southern Indiana. See SEMINARIANS, page 10 lives will be saved that day. “When we see the rosary group com- ing, it’s an encouragement to us because we lose that feeling of being on our own,” Cardinal says Church crisis is a crisis of parish life Yeadon said. “It’s a spiritual boost. We See LIFE, page 12 BOSTON (CNS)—The clergy sexual meeting ought to address the issue of The catechumenate includes a stage abuse crisis has highlighted the longstand- whether faith is compatible with contempo- called mystagogia—postbaptismal cate- ing need to renew parish life, said rary culture. chesis in which newly baptized U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, president “Many of the problems that we are expe- Catholics are given additional instruc- of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, dur- riencing in the priesthood, especially the tion in the mysteries of Christ and the ing a visit to Boston. sexual abuse, are due to a crisis, not just an Church. In an interview with The Pilot, Boston acute crisis, but a long-term crisis in the Those postbaptismal instructions archdiocesan parish,” the cardinal said. “deepen the understanding of the bap- newspaper, “Part of it is rooted in the fact that peo- tized in the mysteries of the faith, call Cardinal Stafford ple do not really experience love within the them into a deeper sense of community praised ecclesial parish, but it is a place in which they do not in the parish and call them to a faithful renewal move- trust one another enough to be able to expe- witness to Christ in the marketplace,” ments, such as rience the forgiving love of Jesus as that is Cardinal Stafford said. Focolare and the mediated by the community,” he said. “All of the baptized” should receive Neocatechume- Cardinal Stafford, one of the highest- such additional catechesis, he added. znal Way, as an ranking Americans in the Vatican, called for Among new movements the cardinal answer to the the renewal of parish life following the spir- cited were Communion and Liberation, crisis. ituality of the new movements and ecclesial the Focolare movement, the Referring to a communities, and through the renewal of Sant’Egidio Community and the proposal among the postbaptismal catechesis within the Neocatechumenal Way. the U.S. bishops parish community. On Pentecost 1998, the Pontifical to convene a ple- “The renewal of the catechumenate is Council for the Laity organized a gath- Cardinal J. Francis Stafford nary council to one of the greatest gifts the Spirit has given ering of these new movements in Rome face deeper to us through the Second Vatican Council,” during which Pope John Paul II called issues behind the crisis, he said any such he said. See CRISIS, page 7 Page 2 The Criterion Friday, August 22, 2003 St. Vincent Health purchases Women’s Hospital By Mary Ann Wyand W. 86th St. Daughter of Charity “Women will benefit from the combi- Sharon Richardt Physicians deliver more babies at nation of Women’s Hospital’s first-rate and Vincent C. St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital every customer satisfaction experience and Caponi, chief exec- year than at any other hospital in Indiana. St. Vincent’s experience in delivering Ann Wyand Photo by Mary utive officer of But not all the patient rooms are pri- more babies than any other single facility St. Vincent Health, vate in the hospital’s Family Life Center, in the state,” he said. “By joining opera- tour the new addi- said Vincent C. Caponi, chief executive tions, St. Vincent Women’s Hospital will tion in the officer of St. Vincent Health. have a strengthened dedication and focus Women’s Hospital Caponi said the Daughters of Charity to caring for women and infants.” of Indianapolis on hospital system will purchase the nearby Caponi said St. Vincent Health’s recent Aug. 7 after a press Women’s Hospital of Indianapolis, sale of several medical office buildings conference to located at 8111 Township Line Road, enabled the not-for-profit corporation to announce the pur- effective Sept. 1, to create a larger state- purchase and renovate Women’s Hospital. chase of the hospi- of-the-art medical center for mothers and He said St. Vincent Health plans to tal, which will be babies that offers private rooms, special- invest $42 million to acquire, expand and called St. Vincent ized neonatal care and many of the renovate the smaller for-profit hospital. Women’s Hospital. amenities of a hotel stay. By next fall, Caponi said, the new “St. Vincent will create a women’s St. Vincent Women’s Hospital will offer hospital with all private rooms and an all private rooms for women in a expanded Newborn Intensive Care Unit 217,000-square-foot facility that will by renovating and enlarging the existing enable doctors to deliver more than 5,500 Women’s Hospital of Indianapolis,” babies a year. Caponi said. “The new St. Vincent With this acquisition, St. Vincent Women’s Hospital will be the premier Health now operates 16 health care facili- provider of women’s services in central ties, he said, which are part of Ascension one is sharing the new vision and is ready a group of Indianapolis area obstetricians Indiana offering a multidisciplinary team Health, the largest Catholic not-for-profit to move forward,” Sandefur said. “My and gynecologists, described the merger approach.” health care organization in the nation. role is not to come in and change every- as “a chance of a lifetime” to expand St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital is All services at the new hospital will thing. It’s really to absorb the culture and health care services to women and known for its “unmatched experience comply with the Catholic Church’s ethical to determine … how we meld the two infants. with high risk and multiple births,” he and religious directives, Daughter of [hospitals] together to make them even “It’s not like anything is broken and said, and that level of expertise will con- Charity Sister Sharon Richardt said, as better.

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