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CriterionOnline.com October 30, 2020 Vol. LXI, No. 5 75¢ Senate confirms ‘God, send Amy Coney me a good Barrett to the Supreme Court Catholic girl’ WASHINGTON (CNS)—A divided Senate, in a 52-48 vote, confirmed Amy Coney Barrett as a justice for the Supreme Court on the evening of Oct. 26, and soon afterward she was sworn in by Justice Clarence Thomas at a White House ceremony. “The oath that I’ve solemnly taken tonight means at its core that I will do my Justice Amy Coney job without any fear or Barrett favor, and that I will Renae and Jon do so independently of Schoening are the both the political branches and of my own first recipients of the preferences. I love the Constitution and the archdiocese’s Water democratic republic that it establishes, and I into Wine Award. will devote myself to preserving it,” Barrett Named in honor of said after the outdoor ceremony. Jesus’ first public The 48-year old, who has been on the miracle at the wedding Chicago-based U.S. Court of Appeals for feast of Cana, the the 7th Circuit since 2017, said it was award recognizes a privilege to be asked to serve on the extraordinary efforts Supreme Court. She said she was “truly for marriage and family honored and humbled” to be stepping into ministry. (Submitted photo) this role, which is a lifetime appointment. Barrett is now the 115th justice for the court, replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died on Sept. 18. She is the Chance meeting at a game leads to love sixth Catholic justice on the current bench. Thomas administered the constitutional oath to Barrett, who was scheduled to take and a pitch for marriage and family the judicial oath in a private ceremony at the Supreme Court on Oct. 27. By John Shaughnessy Let’s start with the fun story of the way they first met. Reaction to the confirmation was swift— “We met playing softball in 1996,” Renae begins. “We and just as divided as it has been since she It’s hard to decide which of the two stories is more had a co-ed work league, and we needed a sub for the last was first announced as President Donald wonderful about the love that Jon and Renae Schoening game of the season. And so a friend on our team called Jon J. Trump’s nominee just weeks before have shared through the years. and asked if he would play with us that night. the presidential election. Congressional Is it the story of how they first met and We ended up in the outfield next to each other.” Democrats took to Twitter to criticize the became attracted to each other? See more ‘Co-workers Jon continues the story, “As we were Senate for acting so swiftly on this vote but in the Vineyard’ Or is it the story of the special commitment honorees, page 8A. running in from the outfield, from the grace of not passing a COVID-19 relief package. they have made during their 23 years of God I said, ‘So, when are we going out?’ She The Associated Press reported that no marriage, a commitment that has led them to be said, ‘Whenever you want to.’ ” other Supreme Court justice has been honored as the first recipients of the archdiocese’s Water Renae adds, “After the game, we stayed and talked for confirmed on a recorded vote with no into Wine Award, which recognizes extraordinary efforts three hours at the field. We talked about our faith that night.” support from the minority party in at for marriage and family ministry? See COUPLE, page 7A least 150 years, according to information provided by the Senate Historical Office. See BARRET, page 9A Blessed Mother’s love for all is celebrated during archdiocesan event

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The atmosphere of St. Jude Church in Indianapolis changed throughout the morning of Oct. 10. At times, the approximately 100 people present from parishes around the archdiocese sang, prayed the rosary, clapped, listened and laughed—all in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. They were there for the archdiocese’s fifth annual “Morning with Mary” event, held Participants in the archdiocesan each year in October as the Church “Morning with Mary” event at St. Jude celebrates the Month of the Rosary. Church in Indianapolis on Oct. 10 “When you feel a sense of present their rosaries for a blessing unity—and I present a lot—you’re by Archbishop Charles C. Thompson. grateful for that,” Carlos Roberto (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) See MARY, page 7A Page 2A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020

Cardinal-designate Wilton D. Gregory, Public Schedule of the archbishop Archbishop Charles C. Thompson of Washington, ______celebrates Mass on Oct. 25 at November 1–5, 2020 Holy Angels Church in Avenue, Md. Four November 1 – 10:30 a.m. CST November 3 – 7 p.m. hours earlier, he Confirmation Mass for youths of Confirmation Mass for youths of learned Pope Francis St. Meinrad Parish in St. Meinrad St. Lawrence and St. Matthew the named him a and St. Boniface Parish in Fulda, at Apostle parishes in Indianapolis, at cardinal, so it was St. Meinrad Church St. Lawrence Church his first Mass as a November 1 – 3 p.m. CST November 4 – 12:30 p.m. cardinal-designate. Confirmation Mass for youths of Women’s Care Center Board of (CNS photo/Andrew St. Isidore the Farmer and St. Mark Directors luncheon, at Women’s Care Biraj, Catholic Standard) parishes in Perry County, St. Michael Center, Indianapolis Parish in Cannelton, St. Augustine November 4 – 7 p.m. Parish in Leopold and St. Paul Parish in Tell City, at St. Paul Church Confirmation Mass for youths of Pope announces new cardinals, St. Martin of Tours Parish in Martinsville, November 2 – 6 p.m. at St. Martin of Tours Church Our Lady of Fatima annual fundraiser including U.S. Archbishop Gregory November 5 – 10 a.m. dinner, at Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Leadership Team meeting at House, Indianapolis VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Francis of Saints in late September, is 72 but Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara announced he will create 13 new cardinals renounced the rights of a cardinal, November 3 – 11 a.m. Catholic Center on Nov. 28, including Archbishop Wilton including the right to enter a conclave to College of Deans meeting at November 5 – 3:30 p.m. D. Gregory of Washington. elect a new pope. Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Catholic Community Foundation The pope made the announcement at Italians will continue to have an Catholic Center, Indianapolis the end of his Angelus address on outsized portion of the electors, rising to Executive Committee meeting at Oct. 25, telling the crowd in St. Peter’s 22 of the 128; the United States will stay Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara Square the names of the nine cardinals at nine voters with Cardinal-designate Catholic Center under the age of 80, who will be eligible Gregory taking Cardinal Wuerl’s place. to vote in a conclave, and the names of The Vatican press office said specifics four elderly Churchmen whose red hats, will be announced later about how the called zucchettos, are a sign of esteem consistory and the usual related activities and honor. will unfold given COVID-19 restrictions Share the blessings and moments In addition to Cardinal-designate Gregory, on travel and gatherings. According to who will be the first African American canon law, cardinals are created by the from your life this year for which cardinal from the United States, the pope pope’s decree, which is “published in the chose as cardinal electors two officials of presence of the College of Cardinals.” you are especially grateful the Roman Curia and bishops from Italy, Church law does not specify how many Rwanda, the Philippines, Chile and Brunei. members of the college must be present This year, the United States has often Please consider sharing a blessing, Speaking soon after the announcement nor does it insist that the new cardinal been a nation divided, struggling with the an encounter, a story, a moment of with the Catholic Standard, be present, although traditionally the issues of race, politics and a deadly virus hope, joy, compassion or love from Washington’s archdiocesan newspaper, consistory includes a public profession of that has killed nearly 230,000 Americans. your life this year for which you Cardinal‑designate Gregory said he was faith by the new cardinals. In such a time, it can be hard to focus are especially grateful. Whether it’s “deeply humbled” and he knows that Here is the full list of the new on the blessings in our lives. Still, there a simple reason to be thankful or a “I am reaping a harvest that millions of cardinals, in the order named by the pope: are many for most of us. And while life‑changing one, we look forward to African American Catholics and people of • Maltese Bishop Mario Grech, 63, acknowledging how challenging and all the responses we receive. color have planted. I am deeply grateful secretary-general of the Synod of even devastating this year has been, The Send your submissions to for the faith that they have lived so Bishops. Criterion is inviting our readers to share John Shaughnessy by e-mail at generously, so zealously and with such • Italian Bishop Marcello Semeraro, 72, what they are thankful for as another [email protected] or by great devotion.” prefect of the Congregation for the Thanksgiving approaches. mail in care of The Criterion, 1400 Another U.S. citizen is among the new Causes of Saints. We hope to publish a list of our N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, IN cardinals; retired Italian Archbishop Silvano • Archbishop Antoine Kambanda of readers’ blessings in the Nov. 20 issue 46202. Please include your parish and a M. Tomasi, 80, a former nuncio and a Kigali, Rwanda, who will turn 62 on of the paper leading up to Thanksgiving daytime phone number where you can member of the Scalabrinian missionaries, Nov. 10. Day on Nov. 26 this year. be reached. † holds dual citizenship. He completed his • Archbishop Gregory, 72. studies for the priesthood in the U.S., • Archbishop Jose F. Advincula of Capiz, where he taught for many years. He also Philippines, 68. was director of pastoral care for the U.S. • Archbishop Celestino Aos Braco of Pope Francis’ prayer intention for November bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services Santiago, Chile, 75. from 1983 to 1987, when he was named • Bishop Cornelius Sim, apostolic vicar of secretary of the Pontifical Council for Brunei, 69. • Artificial Intelligence—We pray that the progress of Migrants and Travelers. • Italian Archbishop Paolo Lojudice of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve Once the consistory is held in late Siena, 56. humankind. November, there will be 128 cardinals • Franciscan Father Mauro Gambetti, younger than 80 and eligible to vote in a custos of the Sacred Convent of Assisi conclave. Pope Francis will have created in Assisi, celebrated his 55th birthday on (To see Pope Francis’ monthly intentions, go to www.archindy.org/popesintentions.) † more than 57% of them. Sixteen of the Oct. 27. cardinals created by St. John Paul II will still • Retired Bishop Felipe Arizmendi be younger than 80, as will 39 of the cardinals Esquivel of San Cristobal de las Casas, created by Pope Benedict XVI; Pope Francis Mexico, 80. Television Masses will have created 73 of the electors. • Retired Italian Archbishop Silvano The following channels and times show when Sunday Masses may be viewed U.S. Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl, retired M. Tomasi, a former nuncio, 80. over-the-air in different areas of the archdiocese: archbishop of Washington, will celebrate • Italian Capuchin Father Raniero his 80th birthday on Nov. 12, before Cantalamessa, preacher of the papal Indianapolis: WHMB, 40.1, 9:30 a.m. Cincinnati: EKRC, 12.2, 8:30 a.m. the consistory. Italian Cardinal Angelo household, 86. Indianapolis: WNDY, 23, 6:30 a.m. Evansville: WEVV, 44.2, 6 a.m. Becciu, whom the pope dismissed as • Italian Father Enrico Feroci, 80, former Terre Haute: WTHI, 10.3, 10 a.m. Louisville: WBNA, 21, 7 a.m. prefect of the Congregation for Causes director of Rome’s Caritas. †

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Transcript shows pope’s distinction between gay marriage, civil unions VATICAN CITY (CNS)—When Pope put together quotes from three separate Francis said gay people have a right moments of the Televisa interview, to be in a family and that gay couples so the pope appears to say: “They are needed some form of civil law to protect children of God and have a right to a their rights, he was not saying that gay family. Nobody should be thrown out couples should have a right to adopt or be made miserable over it. What we children. have to create is a civil union law. That In his documentary Francesco, way they are legally covered.” director Evgeny Afineevsky presented At one point in the interview—in the the statements as if Pope Francis had piece aired on Televisa and included in said them one right after the other; the the transcript the Vatican originally put director used the quotes immediately online—Alazraki and the pope spoke following a story about a gay couple about the “journey” of discernment with children. and conversion he called for in his Released on Oct. 21, the film gave exhortation on the family, “Amoris some people the erroneous impression Laetitia,” and about the habit of referring that Pope Francis approved civil union to certain people as being in “irregular” laws that would equate gay couples situations. to married couples. Pope Francis “If we were convinced that they are Pope Francis speaks with Valentina Alazraki of the Mexican television station Televisa during consistently has said that gay people children of God, things would change an interview that aired in May 2019. Clips, apparently cut from the interview and showing deserve love, respect and the protection quite a bit,” the pope says. Pope Francis talking about “civil unions,” are used in the documentary Francesco by Evgeny of the law; however, he has insisted Then he brings up his response in Afineevsky. (CNS screenshot/Noticieros Televisa via YouTube) marriage can be only between a man and August 2018 to a journalist who had a woman. asked what he would say to a father Pope Francis paraphrased his earlier discussion about the media taking words Afineevsky, who a Vatican official whose son or daughter tells him he or responses, saying, “Homosexual out of context, and then Alazraki told the said was never granted an on-camera she is gay. persons have a right to be in the pope that people say he was a doctrinal interview with the pope, pulled the On the plane returning from Ireland, family, and the parents have a right conservative when he was in Argentina. quotes about families and the quote he had responded: “I would tell him to recognize this son as homosexual, “I am a conservative,” he responded. about civil unions from a 2019 interview first of all to pray. Pray. Don’t condemn, this daughter as homosexual. Nobody Alazraki pointed out that as by Valentina Alazraki, correspondent for [but] dialogue, understand, make room should be thrown out or be made archbishop of Buenos Aires, he opposed the Mexican television station Televisa. for his son or daughter.” miserable over it.” gay marriage. When the Vatican, which filmed the The parent should respond, “You The pope explained to Alazraki “I’ve always defended doctrine. interview, gave Televisa the footage, the are my son; you are my daughter, how upset he was that a newspaper, And it is curious about the law quotation about civil unions had been just as you are. I am your father or reporting on his comments on the flight on homosexual marriage—it is a cut. your mother, let’s talk about this,” from Ireland, ran a headline saying contradiction to speak of homosexual Catholic News Service obtained he had said. “And if you, as a father that the pope said homosexuals should marriage. But what we have to create the complete transcript of the uncut or mother, can’t deal with this on see a psychiatrist when he clearly is a civil union law, that way they are interview, including the comment your own, ask for help, but always in meant that if parents see their son or legally covered. I defended that,” he about civil unions. The pope, speaking dialogue, always in dialogue. Because daughter struggling with their sexuality, said, referring to his efforts to support in Spanish, referred to “una ley de that son and daughter has a right to professional help might be a good idea. an alternative to legalizing gay marriage convivencia civil,” literally a “law of family, and their family is this family, “And I repeated it: ‘They are children that would still protect the rights of gay civil cohabitation,” but commonly called just as it is. Do not throw them out of of God and have a right to a family,’ and couples when it came to matters like a civil union. the family.” so on,” he told Alazraki. inheritance, health care decisions and The clips used in Afineevsky’s film In the interview with Alazraki, The interview went on with a visitation when one is ill. † Cardinal Turkson: Human dignity is not at the center of current global economy VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The rise of they undermine human dignity in all popular movements around the world is structures of our countries, [and] we must Every Gift Gives proof that today’s profit-driven economic repair them,” the cardinal said. system fails to place human dignity at Cardinal Turkson also highlighted Pope its center, said Cardinal Peter Turkson, Francis’ recent encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti, prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting on Fraternity and Social Friendship,” Integral Human Development. which he called an “appropriate and Hope Addressing the World Meeting of apt” response to the “inequalities and for tomorrow Popular Movements, which was held online the deficits in dignity in which we find on Oct. 24, Cardinal Turkson said there are ourselves today.” “inequalities, lack of access to health care, The annual meeting brought cruel economic systems and that is why together participants from a variety of the [coronavirus] exposes us to many other grassroots organizations of the poor, the 2020 UNITED CATHOLIC APPEAL GOAL: $6.3 MILLION pandemics that must be addressed. underemployed, indigenous communities “They all have one thing in common: and farmworkers. † HELPS THOSE WHO LACK THE BASIC NECESSITIES FOR LIFE 16% • You serve warm meals to those who are hungry. • You offer a safe place to rest for those who are homeless. • You help people overcome drug addiction. • You teach life skills to help people stay out of poverty. • You keep Indianapolis center-city schools open for families who cannot afford tuition but who wish for their children to receive a Catholic education. 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Be Our Guest/Daniel Elsener New engineering school at Marian to help expand university’s vision Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus Rooted in the charism given to us by the technical side of the practice, but also the Sisters of St. Francis in Oldenburg, be able to communicate, problem solve, Marian University in Indianapolis will collaborate and serve others. never relent in its Additionally, in the Witchger family Editorial quest to increase we found the ideal partners with the its impact on our work ethic, dedication to excellence and community and be a their faith, and a strong commitment to positive force in the innovation. world of Catholic As with other university programs, a higher education. top priority of our engineering school will To these ends, we be to attract a diverse student population have taken Marian in who graduate and serve as leaders in directions that both the engineering field. Our Indianapolis broaden our scope location provides students with exceptional of offerings to students and reinforce our opportunities to participate in internships standing as one of America’s premiere and experiential learning opportunities Catholic universities. Our willingness while receiving high-quality instruction. to also consider new and innovative A top priority for the E.S. Witchger approaches is why Marian recently was School of Engineering is to offer ranked as the third most innovative competitive scholarships to attract the university in the Midwest by U.S. News & diverse population needed for future World Report. engineers, and graduate these students A few weeks ago, we announced the into high-need positions. Marian has creation of the E. S. Witchger School of experienced a 40% growth during the past Engineering. Marian was able to make four years in STEHM programs—Biology, this watershed announcement in part Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer because we secured $25 million in startup Science, Exercise and Sports Science— donations. In the current economy, this while doubling the growth in our Dual- A man in Orlando, Fla., casts his mail-in ballot on Oct. 19, as early voting begins ahead of the amount stands as a significant vote of Degree Engineering program with Purdue November election. (CNS photo/Octavio Jones, Reuters) confidence in our university. University. Through these generous contributions, Pending approval from the Higher Marian University will expand in its vision Learning Commission, the degree as a Catholic, Franciscan university to offerings will concentrate in electrical Take faith with you offer engineering degrees that are rooted and computer engineering, mechanical in the liberal arts tradition with the goal of engineering and chemical engineering. graduating a diverse pipeline of talented Marian University will continue to recruit into the ballot box leaders in service to the world. students into the dual-degree program with The Marian University community sees Purdue University for the fall of 2021. The economy, the COVID-19 and compassion in their families, the creation of an innovative engineering The inaugural class for the E.S. Witchger pandemic, health care, the Supreme communities and parishes, and to school as essential to our unflagging School of Engineering will enter Marian Court and life issues, including abortion. call on others to do so as well while commitment to building a great Catholic in the fall of 2022. Students interested Racism, religious liberty, climate change preparing for the election. Several of university in this great American city, in enrolling in the E. S. Witchger and immigration. The list of 2020 those columns explored the teaching important to the future of Indianapolis, the Engineering School at Marian University hot‑button election topics could go on document from the USCCB called Church, and critical to the dedication we may apply at marian.edu. and on. And, like many of you, we, too, “Forming Consciences for Faithful have to our students’ best interests. In the ever-changing world of higher felt overwhelmed at times as candidates Citizenship,” which is highlighted every The E.S. Witchger School of education, Marian will continue to be a and their spokespeople crisscrossed the four years leading up to a presidential Engineering will address the need for place for innovation while remaining a country during these last several weeks election to provide “guidance for all more engineering leaders who possess bedrock Catholic, Franciscan, liberal arts repeating and even tweaking messages, who seek to exercise their rights and strong liberal arts competencies and a university. looking to gain political support duties as citizens.” deep faith commitment. To meet the wherever possible. The Indiana Catholic Conference changing needs of the economy, leaders (Daniel Elsener is the president of Marian We’re down to the final days of (ICC), the public policy voice for in the engineering field must understand University in Indianapolis.) † this year’s presidential election, and the bishops in Indiana, hosted three although more than an estimated webinars in October to offers voters The Theology of Technology/Brett Robinson 60 million people have already voted, another resource before they cast their there are millions of others still waiting ballots. It too focused on “Forming to cast their ballots in local, state and Consciences for Faithful Citizenship” The Church’s dilemma with national races that many feel could and how the bishops’ document could impact our country for years to come. serve as an excellent resource for social media platforms The Criterion helps carry out the individuals to review before voting. mission of the Church in central and There were also Catholic News A recent Netflix documentary about the However, to see the social media southern Indiana, which, in part, is to Service stories that focused on social media industry called The Social problem as one of addiction or promote Gospel-based moral principles election‑related issues that we hope Dilemma has raised some important self-control reduces it to a modern view that can and should be applied to offered more insight for people of questions for the that sees man as just another machine to political issues. That, though, is the faith. Church in the digital be programmed. Engineers who view the task of individual Catholics, not of The moral and ethical issues we age. The movie looks human brain in this mechanistic way have the Church as a whole. That is why face as a nation are real, and a properly at the psychological an impoverished view of the human person The Criterion and Church leaders focus formed conscience can help us use the techniques used and psyche, the Greek word for “soul.” A on moral principles and election-related fullness of God’s truth as we cast our by companies like true “psyche-ology” studies the soul and issues, and do not endorse political ballots. Facebook, Twitter all of its powers and faculties. parties or candidates. We must also remember that no and Instagram The contrite social media engineers and But we can share resources to political party fully espouses our to encourage the designers in The Social Dilemma seem to offer insight to Catholics and all our Christian ideals and beliefs. And even addictive use of social have made the movie so that they could subscribers about how faith should more important, the Catholic Church is media. come clean. But why would a bunch of play an integral role when they step not partisan, it is Christian. The designers who are interviewed successful social media professionals into the ballot box. It is our hope that Although some politicians and others in the film talk openly about how they decide to do a mea culpa movie that the information provided will help in a growing secularist society tell us we programmed social media platforms to trashes their own industry? individuals form their consciences must leave our faith in church buildings hack the human nervous system, exploiting It seems that the movie is yet another through prayer and study and assist and cannot bring it to the public weaknesses in the brain’s attention and “hack” to generate some audience arousal. them in living a moral life. square, we strongly disagree with that reward centers. It turns out that most of the personalities Thanks to the archdiocesan Office of sentiment. We understand elections are Scrolling through social media feeds featured in the film, including Tristan Human Life and Dignity and Catholic a time for us to demonstrate how faith appeals to the same internal mechanisms Harris (formerly of Google), are behind Charities-Social Concerns Ministry, guides us in all we do. that lead gamblers to sit in front of slot a new initiative called the Center for since September our newspaper has Angela Espada, the executive director machines for hours by increasing the flow Humane Technology. The center wants been able to offer seven weeks of prayer, of the ICC, may have said it best during of dopamine, a pleasure hormone triggered social media users to become more civil, study and action as the nation prepared a webinar on Oct. 7: “We cannot put our by things like food, gambling, sex and focused and compassionate. How do they for the upcoming election on Nov. 3. politics before God.” drugs. Or so the story goes. do that? The effort, based on the May we all use properly formed The Church is paying close attention to By downloading apps promoted by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ consciences and represent God’s truths these developments, in part, because the Center for Humane Technology, of course! (USSCB) effort known as “Civilize It: as we cast our ballots. “addiction” narrative is only half the story. Apparently, the prescription for our digital Dignity Beyond the Debate,” asked Addiction is never healthy, even addiction addiction is “more cowbell.” It’s social Catholics to pledge civility, clarity —Mike Krokos to good things. Living virtuously means engineering with a fresh coat of paint. practicing restraint and moderation. See SOCIAL MEDIA, page 10A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Page 5A ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Mary is the queen of everyday saints “Mary crowned with living light, Temple throughout the world in rededicating In the early seventh century, Pope Mary is, of course, the most revered of the Lord, Place of peace and holiness, ourselves to Mary under the title, Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon “everyday saint.” Although she is Shelter of the Word. Mystery of sinless “Mother of the Church.” in Rome, formerly a temple to all the rightly given the most exalted titles, life In our fallen race, Free from shadow, By this gesture of reverence and gods, as a church dedicated to Saint such as Theotókos (Mother of God), you reflect plenitude of grace. Virgin filial love, we affirmed what Christians Mary and the Martyrs, and ordered that Regina Coeli (Queen of the Universe), Mother of our God, Lift us when we fall, have believed since the earliest days that date, May 13, should be celebrated and Stella Maris (Star of the Sea), Who were named upon the Cross of our faith—that Mary is uniquely every year. This became All Saints’ Mary’s humility and her courage in Mother of us all. Father, Son and Holy positioned to intercede for us, her Day, a day to honor all the saints, and the face of great sorrow and injustice Ghost, Heaven sings your praise; Mary children, in times of serious need, later, a day specially to honor those is what endears her to us in an magnifies your name through eternal including plagues, famine and war. saints who didn’t have a festival day of extraordinary way. Mary of Nazareth days.” (Hymn, Stanbrook Abbey, UK) We turn to Mary confident that she their own. In the eighth century, Pope was truly a “next door saint,” and all will show us the way to her divine Son Gregory IV made the festival universal, generations call her blessed because of Tomorrow, Oct. 31, is the last and his healing power. On the last day and Nov. 1 was designated All Saints’ her simple but unshakable faith in the Saturday in this month dedicated to of October, we once again implore our Day for the Western Church. providence of God. the Blessed Virgin Mary. It is also All Blessed Mother to protect and care for Pope Francis has called this popular Let’s turn to Mary, and all the saints, Hallows’ Eve (Halloween), which has us—now and at the hour of our death. feast the day when we recognize “next to guide and sustain us as we grapple become a secular holiday much affected The last day of October is popularly door saints.” These are the women and with the devastating effects of this by the economic and cultural results of known as Halloween, the day before men whose humility and virtue are often pandemic and with the racial injustice the COVID-19 pandemic. The next day, All Saints Day. The original name hidden from public view, but whose lives and social unrest that troubles us so Sunday, Nov. 1, is the Solemnity of All “All Hallows’ Eve” derives from the give powerful witness to the joy of the greatly today. Saints, one of the holiest days in the Old English “hallowed,” meaning Gospel. During this time of worldwide May we grow in our love and Church’s year of grace. holy or sanctified, and is now usually crisis, many of these everyday saints appreciation for the everyday saints we What can these two days teach us contracted to the more familiar word have emerged from the shadows and live with, and may their example inspire about living in these challenging times? Hallowe’en. shown themselves to be caregivers, first us to be holy men and women who All month long, the Church has The Church traditionally held a vigil responders, family members, friends and strive to imitate Jesus in everything we asked us to meditate on the mysteries of on All Hallows’ Eve when worshippers neighbors who have risked their own say and do. the holy rosary in honor of our Blessed would prepare themselves with prayers health and safety to serve those who are “Blessed are you, daughter, by the Mother Mary. and fasting prior to the feast day. Later, most in need of our help. This Sunday, Lord God Most High, above all women Earlier this year, during the height this penitential practice was replaced we honor these folks—and many others on the Earth ... for he has so exalted your of the pandemic, our archdiocese by the entirely secular holiday we’re like them, both living and deceased—who name that your praise shall be undying joined Pope Francis and other dioceses familiar with today. are the all-hallowed saints of our time. on our lips” (cf. Jdt 13:18–19). †

María es la reina de los santos de la vida cotidiana “María, coronada con luz viva, Templo Arquidiócesis se unió al papa Francisco secular que conocemos hoy. vivos como fallecidos, que son los del Señor, remanso de paz y santidad, y a otras diócesis del mundo para A principios del siglo VII el papa santos todopoderosos de nuestros Refugio de la Palabra. Misterio de la encomendarnos nuevamente a María Bonifacio IV consagró el Panteón tiempos. vida sin pecado, en nuestra raza caída, bajo el título de “Madre de la Iglesia.” de Roma, antes templo de todos los María es, por supuesto, la más libre de la sombra, reflejas la plenitud Con este gesto de reverencia y amor dioses, como iglesia dedicada a Santa venerada “santa de la vida cotidiana.” de la gracia. Virgen Madre de nuestro filial afirmamos lo que los cristianos María y los Mártires, y ordenó que Aunque con razón se le conceden los Dios, levántanos cuando caigamos, han creído desde los primeros días esa fecha, el 13 de mayo, se celebrara títulos más exaltados, como Theotókos fuiste nombrada en la cruz Madre de de nuestra fe: que María está en una todos los años. Esta celebración se (Madre de Dios), Regina Coeli (Reina todos nosotros. Padre, Hijo y Espíritu posición única para interceder por convirtió en el Día de Todos los Santos, del Universo) y Stella Maris (Estrella Santo, el Cielo canta tus alabanzas; nosotros, sus hijos, en tiempos de un día para honrar a todos los santos, del Mar), la humildad de María y su María engrandece tu nombre en los grave necesidad, incluyendo plagas, y más adelante, un día para honrar coraje ante el gran dolor y la injusticia días eternos.” (Himno, Abadía de hambruna y guerra. especialmente a aquellos santos que no nos lleva a quererla de una manera Stanbrook, Reino Unido) Acudimos a María confiados en que tenían un día propio en el calendario. extraordinaria. María de Nazaret fue nos mostrará el camino hacia su divino En el siglo VIII, el papa Gregorio IV realmente una “santa de a pie,” y todas Mañana, 31 de octubre, es el último Hijo y su poder de curación. El último hizo proclamó universal esta festividad, las generaciones la llaman bendita por sábado de este mes dedicado a la día de octubre imploramos una vez más y el 1 de noviembre fue designado Día su fe sencilla pero inquebrantable en la Santísima Virgen María. También es la a nuestra Madre Santísima para que nos de Todos los Santos para la Iglesia providencia de Dios. víspera de Todos los Santos (llamado proteja y cuide, ahora y en la hora de Occidental. Recurramos a María y a todos los en inglés Hallows Eve de donde nuestra muerte. El papa Francisco ha llamado a santos para que nos guíen y sostengan proviene la palabra Halloween), que se El último día de octubre se conoce esta celebración popular el día en el mientras luchamos contra los efectos ha convertido en una fiesta secular muy popularmente como Halloween, el día que reconocemos a “los santos de a devastadores de esta pandemia y contra afectada por los resultados económicos anterior al Día de Todos los Santos. El pie.” Estos son los hombres y mujeres la injusticia racial y el malestar social y culturales de la pandemia de COVID- nombre original en inglés All Hallows’ cuya humildad y virtud a menudo que nos preocupan tanto hoy en día. 19. Al día siguiente, el domingo 1 Eve (víspera de Todos los Santos) se escapan de la vista del público, Que crezcamos en nuestro amor de noviembre, es la Solemnidad de deriva del inglés antiguo hallowed que pero cuyas vidas dan un poderoso y aprecio por los santos de todos los Todos los Santos, uno de los días más significa “santo” o “santificado,” y testimonio de la alegría del Evangelio. días con los que vivimos, y que su sagrados del año de gracia de la Iglesia. con el paso del tiempo se ha acortado Durante esta época de crisis mundial ejemplo nos inspire a ser hombres y ¿Qué pueden enseñarnos estos dos a la palabra que ahora nos resulta más muchos de estos santos de la vida mujeres santos que se esfuerzan por días sobre la vida en estos tiempos conocida: Hallowe’en. cotidiana han salido de las sombras imitar a Jesús en todo lo que decimos y difíciles? La Iglesia tradicionalmente y han demostrado ser cuidadores, hacemos. Durante todo el mes, la Iglesia nos celebraba una vigilia en la víspera socorristas, familiares, amigos y “Bendita seas, oh hija, por el Señor ha pedido que meditemos sobre los de Todos los Santos cuando los vecinos que han arriesgado su propia Dios Altísimo, por encima de todas misterios del santo rosario en honor de adoradores se preparaban con oraciones salud y seguridad para servir a los las mujeres de la tierra ... porque nuestra Santísima Madre María. y ayunos antes de la gran festividad. más necesitados de nuestra ayuda. él ha exaltado tanto tu nombre que A principios de este año, durante Posteriormente, esta práctica penitencial Este domingo honramos a esta gente tu alabanza será eterna en nuestros el pico de la pandemia, nuestra fue reemplazada por la fiesta totalmente y a muchos otros como ellos, tanto labios” (cf. Jdt 13:18-19). † Page 6A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020

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November 2 regular Friday night dinner November 7 Information: 812-576-4302 or drive-thru only, sponsored 11 a.m.-7 p.m., with Mass at Our Lady of Peace Cemetery events. Information: 317- St. Michael Church, 145 [email protected]. by Decatur County Right to 5:45 p.m. and Mausoleum, 9001 796-8605 or 317-243-0777. St. Michael Blvd., Brookville. Life, proceeds benefit Safe Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. First Saturday Marian November 10 Haven baby box for Decatur Our Lady of Peace Cemetery All Souls Day Mass, noon. November 6 Devotional Prayer Group, Sisters of Providence virtual County, includes grilled and Mausoleum, 9001 Information: 317-574-8898 or Women’s Care Center, 4901 devotional prayers, Rosary, “Act justly, Love tenderly, pork chop or grilled chicken Haverstick Road, Indianapolis. www.catholiccemeteries.cc. W. 86th St., Indianapolis. First 8 a.m. Information: Walk humbly” Monthly breast, macaroni and cheese, Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Friday Mass, 5 p.m., 765-647-5462. Taizé Prayer Service, 7-8 p.m., green beans and roll, $10. 317-574-8898 or www. Calvary Mausoleum Msgr. Joseph F. Schaedel silent and spoken prayers, Information 812-6142528 or catholiccemeteries.cc. Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., presiding, optional tour of St. John Paul II Parish, simple music, silence. Link: [email protected]. Indianapolis. All Souls Day center to follow. Information: St. Paul Chapel, 216 cutt.ly/Taize. Information: 812- November 21 Mass, noon. Information: 317-829-6800, Schellers Ave., Sellersburg. 535-2952, [email protected]. November 18 Annual Corrections 317-784-4439 or www. www.womenscarecenter.org. First Saturday Marian Calvary Mausoleum Ministry Virtual Conference, catholiccemeteries.cc. Devotion, 8 a.m. rosary, November 12 Chapel, 435 W. Troy Ave., “Forgiving with Grace,” Our Lady of the Greenwood meditation, prayer; 8:30 a.m. St. Elizabeth/Coleman Indianapolis. Monthly sponsored by archdiocesan November 4 Church, 335 S. Meridian St., Mass with confessions prior. Pregnancy & Adoption Mass, 2 p.m. Information: Corrections Ministry, 8:30 a.m.- MCL Cafeteria, 5520 Greenwood. First Friday Information: 812-246-3522. Services “Giving Birth to 317-784-4439 or www. 12:30 p.m., author of Grace Castleton Corner Lane, bilingual celebration of the Hope” virtual fundraiser, catholiccemeteries.cc. from the Rubble and Change Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, November 8 5:30 p.m., free. Registration: of Heart Jeanne Bishop 5 p.m., Catholic, educational, Mass, 5:45 p.m., exposition of All Saints Parish, St. John cutt.ly/GivingBirthToHope. November 19 speaking, time for questions, charitable and social the Blessed Sacrament, following the Baptist Campus, 25743 Information: 317-787-3412. St. Joseph Church, 1401 pre-recorded panel discussion singles—separated, widowed Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament State Route 1, Guilford. Fall S. Mickley Ave., Indianapolis. of incarcerated offenders, or divorced—age 50 of reconciliation available. Chicken Dinner, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Knights of St. Johns Hall, Third Thursday Adoration, free, registration required. and older, new members Information: 317-750-7309, adult dinner $12, child dinner 12 W. Wilder St., Greensburg. interceding for women Registration and information: welcome, also call about [email protected]. $6, mega split-the-pot raffle. Bob Rust Memorial Dinner, experiencing crisis pregnancy, archindy.org/corrections. †

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November 14-15 Indianapolis. Day of Silence, 1402 Southern Ave., Worldwide Marriage 8 a.m.–4 p.m., self-directed Beech Grove. Personal Encounter virtual retreat, retreat, includes a room to Day of Retreat, 9 a.m.- Sat. 8 a.m.-9 p.m., Sun. 8 a.m.- use for the day, continental 4 p.m., includes private 3 p.m., $75 application fee. breakfast, Mass, lunch and the room for the day and lunch, Information call: 260-422- use of the common areas and $40, spiritual direction for ANNIVERSARIES 0803. Register online at: grounds, $35. Information and additional fee of $30 (must edding wwme.org/apply. registration: Jennifer Burger, be scheduled in advance). W 317-545-7681, jburger@ Registration: www. November 21 archindy.org, www.archindy. benedictinn.org/retreats- Mother of the Redeemer org/fatima. programs. Information: Herman and Agnes (Schoettmer) Wagner, Retreat Center, 8220 [email protected], Years members of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg, West State Road 48, December 1 317-788-7581 celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Oct. 26. Bloomington. Pre-Cana Benedict Inn Retreat and 65 The couple was married in Immaculate Conception Marriage Preparation Conference Center, 1402 December 12 Church in Millhousen on Oct. 26, 1955. Retreat, 8:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m., Southern Ave., Beech Grove. Benedict Inn Retreat and They have four children: Susan Geis, Lisa Huff, social distanced, masks Waiting in Joyful Hope, Conference Center, Dennis and Michael Wagner. required, includes materials, 6-8:30 p.m., presented by 1402 Southern Ave., The couple also has eight grandchildren and nine morning coffee and a boxed Benedictine Sister Jennifer Beech Grove. Sunday great-grandchildren. † lunch, $135 per couple plus Mechtild Horner, includes Advent Scripture Readings: $7 online processing fee. dinner, $45. Registration: How They Speak to Us, Registration and information: www.benedictinn.org/retreats- 9-11:30 a.m., presented archindy.org/precana, programs. Information: by Father Jeff Godecker, [email protected] or [email protected], $35. Registration: www. 317-592-4007 317-788-7581. benedictinn.org/retreats- programs. Information: John and Marcia (Stilger) Engleman, November 23 December 8 [email protected], Years members of St. Joseph Parish in Corydon, will Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Benedict Inn Retreat and 317-788-7581. † celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov. 7. House, 5353 E. 56th St., Conference Center, The couple was married in St. Mary Church in 50 Lanesville on Nov. 7, 1970. They have two children: Dana Kean and Sean College seminary offers ‘Storm the Castle’ Engleman. The couple also has two grandchildren and six virtual event for high school males on Nov. 11 great-grandchildren. † Bishop Simon Bruté College while also attending classes at nearby Seminary in Indianapolis will offer Marian University in Indianapolis. Herb and Sandy (Bogard) Gordon, members a “Storm the Castle” virtual event The event is free, but registration is of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in New Albany, for high school males throughout the required. will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on Nov. 7. archdiocese from 5-7 p.m. on Nov. 11. For more information or to register, The couple was married in St. Michael Church in The event provides an opportunity contact Maggie Hagenauer, events Charlestown on Nov. 7, 1970. for young men at the high school level coordinator for the archdiocesan They have four children: April Holder, Missy to pray and talk with men attending the Office of Priestly and Religious Kapfhammer, Ben and Hadley Gordon. college seminary, where they discern a Vocations, at mhagenauer@archindy. The couple also has nine grandchildren and three call to the priesthood through formation org or 317-236-1490. † great-grandchildren. †

Rachel’s Vineyard post-abortive healing Announcements for couples celebrating 50, 55, 60, 65, 70 or more years of retreat to be offered on Nov. 13-15 marriage are accepted. Go to bit.ly/2M4MQms or call 317-236-1585. A Rachel’s Vineyard post-abortion to women and men who experience healing retreat will take place in the the tragedy of abortion. By offering Kokomo area on Nov. 13-15. a safe place for those suffering to be COVID-19 stress management The retreat, a ministry of Project reconciled with God and his Church, Rachel, is open to anyone who has had Project Rachel helps those suffering an abortion, helped someone get an after abortion to experience mercy, webinar to be offered on Nov. 11 abortion or who has suffered because forgiveness and peace. The archdiocesan Catholic Charities- stress and provide practical tools to of an abortion by a spouse, friend or Registration is required by Nov. 9. Social Concerns Ministry will host a cope with the anxiety and depression family member. To register or for more information, webinar on “Stress Management and that can surface during the current Project Rachel, a compassionate and contact Jennie at 765-404-9583 or Dave Coping in a COVID World” from coronavirus pandemic. confidential ministry, extends God’s at 765-860-6006. Visit rachelsvineyard. 10-11 a.m. on Nov. 11. The webinar is free, but registration unconditional love and forgiveness org for testimonies and retreat locations. † Craig Fall, senior associate director is required. of Catholic Charities Indianapolis, and For more information, contact O’Connell Case, clinical director of Theresa Chamblee at tchamblee@ Events and retreats can be submitted to The Criterion by logging on to Catholic Charities Bloomington, will archindy.org or 317-236-1404. Register www.archindy.org/events/submission, or by mailing us at 1400 N. Meridian St., discuss the symptoms and causes of online at: cutt.ly/COVIDcoping. † Indianapolis, IN 46202, ATTN: Ann Lewis, or by fax at 317-236-1593. The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Page 7A

his talk, noting his love for music MARY came from his mother, who was also a continued from page 1A Catholic singer and songwriter. “The Sunday before she died, I went Ramirez commented to the crowd about to the foot of her bed in prayer, crying,” their oneness in worship. he said. His mom woke up and asked Ramirez, a bilingual singer, musician why he was crying. and speaker from the Diocese of Laredo, “I said, ‘I’m scared for you, for Texas, led the event, along with his your life.’ She told me, ‘Be not afraid. father Carlos Ramirez. I love you. I’m here.’ That is most Before their witness talks, Archbishop likely what Mary said to Jesus at the Charles C. Thompson welcomed those foot of the cross: ‘I love you. I’m present. Asking them to hold their here.’ rosaries high, he called for God’s grace “That morning I felt my mom’s upon them then walked through the comfort, and my Mother’s comfort.” church blessing the beads with holy Roberto spoke of adoption as children water. of heaven, not only through Christ but The senior Carlos offered the first also through Mary. talk, primarily in Spanish, in part sharing “The Sacred Heart of Jesus and the about his wife Raquel, who died of Immaculate Heart of Mary are one,” he cancer on March 28, 2019. said. “You can’t separate them.” He ended his talk by teaching Roberto reflected on the role of Mary the congregation a song with hand as Christ’s mother and the many times motions—resulting in as much laughter she was there for him. as singing as they tried to keep up with “Who was at the center of his first the gestures. miracle?” he asked. “Jesus depended on Carlos Roberto presented next, Mary as a baby and throughout his life. Women of the Walking with Mary devotional group from St. Bartholomew Parish in Columbus explaining he goes by “Roberto” because When we’re faced with challenges, we gather in prayer around a statue of Our Lady of Fatima after the archdiocesan “Morning with Mary” “all of my brothers have Carlos as their need to pray, ‘Mary, be a mom to me event at St. Jude Church in Indianapolis on Oct. 10. (Photos by Natalie Hoefer) first name.” now.’ ” He said he heard about the annual Roberto encouraged those present to Morning with Mary event from “let yourselves be loved by Mary. Don’t archdiocesan director of catechesis Ken be afraid to ask for her help. Ask her Ogorek two years ago when the two to run with you to Jesus. Run to Jesus attended the same retreat in Ohio. holding her hand.” “I think that’s so beautiful for an Before he closed his talk and invited archdiocese to come together and the congregation to pray the rosary, praise Mary,” Roberto told those Roberto offered a comment for all gathered. members of the Church in central and He interspersed songs throughout southern Indiana about the annual event honoring the Blessed Mother. “It’s a beautiful thing your archdiocese has,” he said. “Never miss Participants in the archdiocesan “Morning with a ‘Morning with Mary” event on Oct. 10 make hand movements Mary.’ ” † while singing a song.

Joe, left, and Lauren Sheehan join their daughter Addie in hand movements while singing a song at the archdiocesan Carlos Ramirez, left, records a video of his son, Carlos Roberto Emily Lopez, center, holds her rosary with Fatima, left, and Lourdes “Morning with Mary” event at St. Jude Ramirez of Laredo, Texas, right, as Roberto sings a song during Soberones during the archdiocesan “Morning with Mary” event at St. Jude Church in Indianapolis on Oct. 10. The family the archdiocesan “Morning with Mary” event at St. Jude Church in Church in Indianapolis on Oct. 10. The girls are members of St. Patrick are members of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis on Oct. 10. Parish in Indianapolis. Indianapolis.

weekend once a month, for about 10 months each year, to that we’re not preaching to them. We try to witness to the COUPLE share their experiences and the Church’s teachings about blessing that the Church has been in our marriage.” continued from page 1A sexuality in marriage and natural family planning. Jon adds, “Every time we get ready to give our talk, That dedication has led to them being honored during we go to the chapel and pray, ‘Lord, can you let us reach Jon finishes the story, “Two weeks before, I had ended the archdiocese’s “Co-workers in the Vineyard” virtual at least one couple now?’ ” a relationship and asked God, ‘If you could, send me a awards ceremony on Sept. 29, a ceremony that celebrated For the Schoenings, that prayer reflects their good Catholic girl.’ Two weeks later, I met Renae. After the contributions of people who work in the areas of fundamental approach to marriage. the third or fourth night together, I knew she was the one. Catholic education, catechesis, youth ministry, and “There are three in our marriage,” Renae says. “We And lo and behold, 23 years later, here we are.” marriage and family ministry. truly try to have God be a part of it, to be at the center.” They were married on Jan. 11, 1997—a union that “We both grew up Catholic, but without a full They encourage other married couples to join the Pre has produced six children ranging in ages from 23 to understanding of the Theology of the Body and what the Cana ministry, which needs more leaders. 5, and “four in heaven,” says Renae, referring to three Church teaches about marriage,” Renae says. “And so as “For us, it all starts with what Christ did for us— miscarriages and the death of another child just hours we learned more about that in our engagement and our sacrifice,” Jon says. “It’s a good sacrifice. It’s our way of after birth. first year of marriage, we were really blown away by giving back to the community.” Considering their busy family life and work what we learned. It so shocked us that we felt compelled Renae says, “I certainly understand that everyone is schedules—Jon works 60 hours a week in two jobs and to help other people learn about it. busy, but it’s just three or four hours once a month to help Renae works from 12-20 hours a week outside their home “We feel the information has been so valuable to other couples start their marriage on the right foundation. while also homeschooling their four youngest children— our marriage that we want to be part of helping couples The witness of couples giving information is so impactful it would seem the couple from Holy Name of Jesus understand the beautiful understanding that the Church to other couples starting their life together.” Parish in Beech Grove would have time for nothing else. gives about sexuality.” And that leads to the second telling story about them. Knowing that their topic is such a sensitive one, Jon (Married couples interested in becoming involved in For the past 21 years, they have been involved in the and Renae use touches of humor in their talks with the Pre Cana ministry should contact Gabriela Ross, archdiocesan Pre Cana ministry, helping engaged couples engaged couples. who directs the marriage and family life ministry of the prepare for the sacrament of marriage. “We try to keep it fun,” Renae says. “I think it helps archdiocese. She can be reached at [email protected] Each year, they have set aside three to four hours on a to make them more receptive to what we have to say, or at 317-592-4007.) † Page 8A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Principal’s focus on growth is rooted in the Catholic faith By John Shaughnessy All these avenues of growth, faith supportive and success led Heckman to be honored of their Helen Heckman has a special earlier this year with a 2020 “Lead, Learn, families,” she appreciation for the Resurrection Gardens Proclaim Award” from the National says. that students create in the outdoor Catholic Educational Association for her Everything learning lab at St. Bartholomew School in dedication and commitment to excellence she does is Columbus. in Catholic education. She was chosen rooted in The combination of faith and growth from more than 150,000 Catholic teachers her Catholic reflects the approach that Heckman has and administrators across the nation. faith and her had for St. Bartholomew School since She also received recognition for desire to keep she became its principal in 2013. Since that honor during the archdiocese’s growing in then, the school’s enrollment has grown “Co-workers in the Vineyard” virtual her faith. from 341 students to more than 400. awards ceremony on Sept. 29, a ceremony “As a And the number of Hispanic students has that celebrated the contributions of principal, I’ve increased from 11% to about 40%. people who work in the areas of Catholic tried to focus Still, for Heckman, the most important education, catechesis, youth ministry, and more on my growth has been in the school’s marriage and family ministry. Catholic ever-increasing commitment to have With students from Asia, Europe faith, and students learn and live the Catholic faith. and several Spanish-speaking countries be an “We want them to grow in mind, body attending the school due to local example for and spirit,” she says. “We want them to industry, Heckman has strived to create my staff— Members of the horticulture club at St. Bartholomew School in Columbus pose for grow in their faith and their relationship a welcoming atmosphere that supports reading a photo with principal Helen Heckman in the school’s greenhouse-outdoor learning with people.” such diversity. She has hired numerous Scripture lab in March. (File photo by John Shaughnessy) At the same time, St. Bartholomew bilingual staff members and stressed daily, praying has been consistently recognized as an professional development for teachers in together with school and parish staff, “It’s just trying to make sure the school “Indiana 4-Star School” by the state’s the area of cultural awareness. and getting more involved with service community knows we are a Catholic Department of Education. “It’s to better serve them, to be more projects. school—and that it’s important to us.” † Parade and award let ‘giver’ know the difference she has made

By John Shaughnessy seniors in last year’s youth group were children whom As someone who has always dedicated her life Schnarr had in child care to helping others and bringing them closer to God, years ago. Patty Schnarr has never sought recognition or “It was amazing to affirmation. Still, she was overwhelmed emotionally remember them as little by the scene that unfolded in front of her home kids and see the people earlier this year. they have grown into. Schnarr had just returned from a week in the hospital It was really cool. Then after receiving a special chemotherapy treatment when I got sick, to see the for cancer—a treatment that didn’t work—when the outpouring of care and longtime youth minister at Our Lady of the Greenwood concern from them and all Parish in Greenwood was alerted to a celebration for her the others was special.” on that Sunday afternoon. That outpouring is “The youth group came and did a parade for a reflection of the care me,” she recalls. “I was surprised by the number and concern that the of people who came. It was very moving for me. 64-year-old Schnarr has Sometimes, you don’t know who you touch and how had for young people, you touch them.” leading them in their The mother of three and grandmother of six was parish meetings and their similarly surprised when she received the Youth faith journeys to the Minister of the Year Award during the archdiocese’s annual March for Life “Co-workers in the Vineyard” virtual awards in Washington and the ceremony on Sept. 29, a ceremony that celebrated National Catholic Youth During her 12 years as the youth minister of Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in Greenwood, the contributions of people who work in the areas of Conference. Patty Schnarr helped teenagers in their faith journeys. Here, she posed with youth members of the Catholic education, catechesis, youth ministry, and Now, she continues parish during the 2017 National Catholic Youth Conference in Indianapolis. (Submitted photo) marriage and family ministry. to set the example for “I’ve never thought about youth ministry for myself,” the youths by the faith she has shown since she was “I’ve gotten a lot of support from the youths, my she says. “It was for them. It’s always been my passion diagnosed with cancer in October of 2019. family, the staff at Our Lady, the parents of the youth, to be there for young people.” “I have bad days and good days,” she says. “I believe Father Todd [Goodson, the pastor] and the whole parish. Before serving as the youth minister at Our Lady of that God’s will will be done. I’ve kept my faith in God, I didn’t realize I’ve impacted more than the youth. the Greenwood for 12 years, Schnarr provided child and that’s what has helped me through all this.” “I’ve always been the giver. I like to do for other care in her home for 22 years. Two of the high school So has the support she has received. people.” † Surprises touch woman who views her work as a gift to God By John Shaughnessy of the archdiocese’s Excellence in my parents and my little boy,” the faith communities of St. Joseph Church Catechesis Award that has been re-named she says. and St. Paul Church into the merged parish The initial touching surprise for in honor of the late Archbishop Daniel M. That moment occurred on Sept. 29, of St. John Paul II in Sellersburg. Kristina Seipel came when it was Buechlein. shortly after the archdiocese’s In nominating her for the award, announced that she was the first recipient “He confirmed me when I was in “Co-workers in the Vineyard” virtual parishioner Lynell Chamberlain praised high school,” awards ceremony, a ceremony that Seipel for “blending two programs says the 31-year- celebrated the contributions of people into one, welcoming and encouraging old Seipel who who work in the areas of Catholic teachers and participants from two received that education, catechesis, youth ministry, and separate religious education programs, sacrament in 2005. marriage and family ministry. two Rite of Christian Initiation of “To receive this Faith and family have always been Adults programs, and two vacation award named after connected in Seipel’s life, and she shares Bible study programs to cooperate and someone who was the importance of both as the director of create programs that far exceeded their part of my faith evangelization for St. John Paul II Parish predecessors.” journey is really in Sellersburg. Chamberlain also noted Seipel’s efforts cool.” “I went into Church ministry to share to help women deepen their faith, to guide The second the love of Jesus that I had experienced high school students to become leaders in touching surprise with others,” she says. “As director of the parish, and help families grow in their came after evangelization, I get to do that, and I love of God. the award’s get to work with all the different age Seipel views all her efforts as a way of announcement, groups. I like the variety of working giving back. when Seipel’s with people in different stages of their “I grew up in St. Joe Hill. It’s where parents came faith journey.” I came to know Jesus myself,” she through the door Her own faith journey includes being says. “It’s really cool to be able to give with her 2-year- married to her husband David in 2017, in back to the community that gave me so old son Michael, the church where she grew up—St. Joseph much.” Kristina Seipel gets a hug and a balloon from her 2-year-old son Michael who was carrying Church in St. Joseph Hill, which is now Most of all, she views her work as a after she received the archdiocese’s Excellence in Catechesis Award which balloons for her. part of Sellersburg. gift of gratitude to God. has been re-named in honor of the late Archbishop Daniel M. Buechlein. “I started Another distinctive part of her faith “Without Jesus and my faith, I’d be (Submitted photo) crying when I saw journey has been helping to bring together quite lost. God loves us so much.” † Priests 2020  Women Religious Vocations Men Religious Awareness Permanent Deacons  Supplement Seminarians

Where there is love, sacrifice is easy By Father Michael Keucher Likewise, people who have truly fallen in love A native of Milan, Italy, Carlo died of leukemia at with God will do anything for him and will love him the age of 15 in 2006. He loved soccer and computer King Solomon wrote in the Old Testament book to the end. No matter what call they might receive, programming. He used his gifts to create a website the Song of Songs that “many waters cannot quench or what call within a call they might hear, they that profiled all the known eucharistic miracles in the love, neither can floods drown it” (Sg 8:7). There will always enthusiastically say, “Yes.” Their love world. So great was his love for God that he once said, is something about love that prompts this response in them. “To be always close to Jesus, that is my life plan.” overtakes a person. Taken over by Where there is love, sacrifice is easy. Carlo’s story and example reminds us that people love, or having fallen in love, a Naturally, this does not mean that the living out of of all ages, including the young millennials of our person will do anything. our sacrifices is always easy. No vocation is without own day, have the capacity to love Jesus and Mary Consider, for example, a man difficulty, without the cross. A mother of five may deeply. Though they are young, they still have the who has fallen in love with a sometimes have a headache, but her decision to take grace-driven ability—which the rest of the Church is woman he hopes will one day care of her children and love them is easy. called to encourage and foster—to consecrate their be his bride. He would move a It is similar with the martyrs. No doubt it was hard lives to God’s service. mountain for her, shovel load for them to pay the ultimate price, but the decision to In this year’s Religious Vocations Awareness by shovel load. It’s the same do it was easy, for it was prompted by love. Supplement in The Criterion, you will come to meet Fr. Michael Keucher principle at work for a new Think of the lives of all the saints. They did great some folks who have fallen deeply in love with Jesus. mother whose child is her life. things for God. They sacrificed much—their whole Out of this love, they are laying their lives down for Her daily sacrifices for her child prove easy, so much lives! And why? Because they loved God. They had our blessed Lord in beautiful ways, ways that God has she fallen in love with her child. fallen in love with him. And they had vowed their has prepared for them. Let us pray for them. Let us be If this is true in our human relationships, what lives to his service, no matter the call. inspired by their love and each of us grow our own. about our life with God? I often think that one of our biggest priorities as First, let us remember that God loved us first. Each Church must be to help our youth love Jesus and (Father Michael Keucher is vocations director of the of us is “fearfully and wonderfully made” (Ps 139:14) Mary—I mean truly love them. That would solve the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. He can be e-mailed at We were each chosen “before the foundation of the “vocations crisis” we hear people talking about. Great [email protected]. He also serves as pastor of world” (Eph 1:4). Jesus took us in his heart when love for God brings about many vocations. St. Joseph Parish in Shelbyville and sacramental he went to the cross. In other words, God loved us Blessed Carlo Acutis is a timely example of a minister of St. Vincent de Paul Parish in Shelby first—and he loved us to the end. youth who fell madly in love with Our Blessed Lord. County.) †

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By Sean Gallagher words. That’s when he was diagnosed as having speech and learning disabilities. If you spend a little bit of time with Constant support from his family and seminarian Liam Hosty, you’ll soon the faculty and staff at St. Barnabas and see that he is a cheerful, often Roncalli helped Hosty cope with his happy-go-lucky young man with a learning challenges that came with his winning smile who has an attractive condition. love for Christ and the Church. “He and I have a special bond,” said You might not know, though, at first his mom. She adds with a laugh, “I’m glance, that he’s experienced many sure every time he studies for a test, he challenges in his life. When Hosty was has my voice in his ear, ‘OK. You have 4, he was diagnosed with speech and to be organized.’ ” learning disabilities and had struggles Seeing her son succeed academically in school. More recently, his last two as a college seminarian at Bishop Simon years of college seminary were marked Bruté College Seminary and Marian by the turmoil of the renewed clergy University, both in Indianapolis, gave sexual-abuse crisis in the Church and her great satisfaction. the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s part miracle, part hard work on So does Hosty have such a sunny Liam’s part,” she said. “When he was outlook on life and his possible future as little, I shed a lot of tears. Now I have an archdiocesan priest in spite of these tears of joy. It’s amazing.” challenges, or because of them? Hosty thinks it’s the latter. ‘It kind of came full circle’ “My life has just been marked by a The miracle part may have come strong sense of divine providence,” he about through Hosty’s devotion to said. “God has been there every step of St. John Vianney, to whom he began to the way in my journey.” pray while he was in middle school. Hosty is also convinced that At the time, he had learned that the the challenges he’s faced so far in 19th-century French priest was a patron life will help him share the mercy saint for students with learning challenges and compassion of God with the because he experienced great difficulties parishioners he would minister to if he’s with his coursework in seminary. ordained a priest. As Hosty discerned a possible call to “My life has been marked by people the priesthood while in high school, his walking with me on [my] journey,” he appreciation of St. John Vianney grew said. “I may not necessarily have the as he learned that the priest is also the solutions to everyone’s problems. But patron saint of all priests, but especially I can sit with them and walk with them of parish priests. through their journeys, in whatever The preserved heart of St. John challenges they face.” Vianney was displayed for veneration in January 2019 in SS. Peter and Paul ‘Part miracle, part hard work’ Cathedral in Indianapolis. Hosty took Seminarian Liam Hosty smiles during an Oct. 9 pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Monte Hosty, 23, grew up the fourth of the time to pray before the sacred relic of Cassino near St. Meinrad made by seminarians at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of five children of Tom and Julie Hosty. the saint who played such an important Theology in St. Meinrad. The shrine is on a hill just outside the southern Indiana town. The The family moved to Indianapolis role in his discernment. seminarians prayed for an end to the coronavirus pandemic and for those whose lives have been in 1999 when Liam was 2, and soon “It kind of came full circle in a way affected by it. (Photo courtesy of Saint Meinrad Archabbey) became active members of St. Barnabas for me,” he said. “Seeing the heart of a Parish on the city’s south side. priest who loved God and loved people, seminary. Many of them already knew. place for their son, thinking that it might be He said that his faith was nurtured who sacrificed so much for them, was a “The support from my peers, as well as better for him to continue his discernment at St. Barnabas School and, later, at powerful encounter.” my teachers, was absolutely incredible.” as an ordinary college student. Roncalli High School in Indianapolis. In addition to the prayers of St. John But his quick adjustment to life at the It was the role of faith in his family Vianney, Hosty was also supported ‘God’s guiding hand’ seminary and the happiness he found that made a lasting impression on him. in high school by his peers as he Support from his peers continued there convinced them he had made the “Every night before bed, without fail, considered God’s vocation for him. when Hosty joined the formation right choice. my parents would pray the ‘Angel of God’ At a baccalaureate Mass prior to his community of more than 40 seminarians “It was very much hand-in-glove,” prayer together with us,” Hosty recalled. graduation from Roncalli, Hosty was at Bishop Bruté. said his dad. “You could see that it was “My dad would come to our rooms and awarded a scholarship. When he was “I was struck by the fact that it a perfect formation process for Liam. say the prayer. If my dad was out of town, introduced, all at the Mass were told wasn’t a monastery,” he said. “I lived He thrived within that process. It helped my mom would do that. It’s been deeply that he was going to be an archdiocesan with some 40 guys between 18 and 22. his discernment. Any doubt I had was imprinted in my memory of faith.” seminarian in the fall at Bishop Bruté. We played video games. We played erased as I watched him go through his While he was growing up at home as “Pretty much all of my classmates, soccer and frisbee. We went out to eat. four years at Marian and at Bruté.” a young child, Hosty’s parents noticed more than 300 people, gave me a We joked around. We watched football. That tight-knit community among his him having difficulty speaking. By age standing ovation,” Hosty recalled. “They “Formation isn’t just prayer and study. fellow seminarians and the priests on the 4, he could speak only a handful of were overjoyed that I was going to It formed me to be the man that God formation staff proved to be invaluable for wants me to be. It brought forth the gifts Hosty in his junior year at Bishop Bruté that God gave me in my human nature.” when the clergy sexual-abuse crisis flared Hosty’s parents weren’t sure at first, up again at the same time that Jesuit Father though, if college seminary was the right See SEMINARIAN, page 12B Vocations Awareness Supplement highlights the priesthood, diaconate and consecrated life This issue of The Criterion features which God calls people. The Criterion our annual supplement that highlights publishes two marriage supplements vocations in the Church to the annually, usually in February and July. priesthood, diaconate and consecrated In addition, the Archdiocese of life. Indianapolis has three offices which It is ordinarily published during promote vocations. For information the U.S. bishops’ annual Vocations on the Office of Marriage and Awareness Week, which this year is Family Life, visit www.archindy.org/ on Nov. 1-7. It has been renamed the marriageandfamily. For information on “Vocations Awareness Supplement.” the diaconate, go to www.archindy.org/ From the beginning, the Church deacon. For information Seminarian Liam Hosty joins other seminarians in praying Morning Prayer on has recognized that marriage is also on the priesthood and Oct. 5 at the St. Theodore Guérin Chapel at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of a vocation, a pathway to holiness, to consecrated life, visit Theology in St. Meinrad. (Photo courtesy of www.archindy.org/ Saint Meinrad Archabbey) vocations. † The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 2B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Carmelite nuns pray for suffering world ‘from the heart of the Church’ By Sr. Clare Joseph Daniels, O.C.D. Special to The Criterion

Stay safe; unusual and troubling times; masks, social distancing, quarantine, lockdown. These are all new catch-words introduced into our everyday vocabulary since the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Uncertainty in a world that was once predictable. The world as we knew it has drastically changed since the earlier part of this year. We have all been inundated with news of COVID-19—what it is and how it spreads. We have been instructed in how to self-protect and move about safely within society, being given new mandates and restrictions. So, what does any of this have to do with the life of cloistered, contemplative nuns? Nuns who, by vows, are socially distanced from the world anyway? How have our lives changed? Have our lives changed? And, if so, in what way can those changes begin to compare with the changes those who live in society have had to make? These are fair questions. It is true that we are enclosed religious Members of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute pray in May around a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Christ sisters where we are accustomed to Child on the grounds of their monastery during a May crowning ceremony. The sisters have prayed daily to the Blessed Virgin Mary for an end to the praying, working, socializing and coronavirus pandemic. (Submitted photos) otherwise engaging ourselves within a restricted environment, within The Carmelite vocation is unique in available, however, for discernment without me you can do nothing” the home of our monastery. Our that we live cloistered—enclosed—lives. with young women via e-mail, phone or (Jn. 15:5). Remaining ever vigilant, we engagement with those in society is As a small group of women, we live in Skype until it is safe to receive in-person provide a beacon of hope to all who limited. community and through the profession visits. The changes introduced into our struggle to carry their burdens. of vows, we each world came upon us as though overnight While the future may be responded to the call this year of 2020. And, unlike 20/20 unpredictable, our trust that God is from God to give our vision, we cannot, at this time, see or near and in our world is unwavering. whole lives to prayer, predict what the future holds for any of In good or in troubling times, his for his people and for us. Spirit is ever-present to guide, support our world. Certainly, since the beginning of and sustain us. When human ingenuity Since the the pandemic, the changes to our way falls short or fails altogether, we are beginning of the of life and the sacrifices we have had confident in God’s great love and pandemic, we have to make cannot begin to compare with mercy for all of humanity. Although had to suspend public the changes and sacrifices of those we cannot see the road ahead, we Mass here at the who have not chosen to live enclosed believe that he will respond to our monastery, cancel lives. We are acutely conscious of this, needs as a people. our annual public especially as sacrifice is woven into the In closing, I would like to recall for novena to Our Lady fabric of lives of prayer. all of us the words of the risen Lord in of Mount Carmel Our Holy Mother, St. Teresa of St. Matthew’s Gospel. “And behold, I and our Monastic Avila, taught us to nurture an intimate am with you always, until the end of the Experience Weekend, relationship with Christ because it is this age” (Mt 28:20). and forbid visitors, relationship that sustains and strengthens including our families our lives of prayer. Here in Carmel, (Discalced Carmelite Sister Clare who visit only once which is what we call our monastic Joseph Daniels is the vocations director a year. And so, our communities, we pray from the heart of the Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph lives, too, have of the Church. We take the needs of all in Terre Haute. To learn more about the changed. people into our hearts and intercede to community, visit heartsawake.org.) † With members of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph We at the God in unceasing prayer, as a lamp that in Terre Haute facing him, Benedictine Father Mark O’Keefe holds a Carmelite Monastery shines in darkness. paschal candle during a celebration of the Easter Vigil on April 11 in of St. Joseph in Our lives of prayer are grounded the monastery chapel. Terre Haute remain in the reality of our humanity, and we e r ta inly s ince encounter Christ in his humanity. We ‘C , recall the words from St. John’s Gospel: t he b e g inning of “And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us” (Jn 1:14). t he pa nde m ic , t he God threw in his lot with all of humanity by becoming flesh. As cha ng e s to our contemplatives, we also have thrown in our lot with the people of our world. It way of lif e a nd is through our close communion with Christ that we unite in a solidarity that t he s acr if ice s transcends what the human mind can w e hav e ha d to grasp. We pray for the concrete needs that people have—the daily bread that ma k e c a nnot sustains life and well-being—as well as for the spiritual and psychological needs b e g in to c om pa r e that people have, most especially during these very tough times. w it h t he cha ng e s In The Way of Perfection, St. Teresa of Avila assures us that God “never fails a nd s acr if ice s to help anyone who is determined to of t hos e w ho give up everything for him.” And so, like her, we confidently trust that God hears hav e not chos e n our prayers and that he will respond to them in his own time and in his own to liv e e nclos e d way. We pray continuously because we liv e s .’ know that human effort alone is not enough. “Whoever remains in me and S r. C lare Members of the Discalced Carmelite Monastery of St. Joseph in Terre Haute I in him will bear much fruit, because pose for a photo in February in their Joseph Daniels, monastery. The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 3B OC.D.. 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement From missionary call to death threats, Father Kalapurackal embraces priesthood By Natalie Hoefer

When thinking about his native country of India, there are certain aspects Father Francis Joseph Kalapurackal misses. Death threats are not among them. Nor is having his church targeted by gunfire, nor working to buy back parishioners’ farmland usurped by tribal lords, nor avoiding extortion by insurgents. Such challenges are nonexistent here, where Father Kalapurackal serves as pastor of St. Thomas More Parish in Mooresville and St. Ann Parish in Indianapolis. “God has blessed me abundantly,” he acknowledges. But he applies that statement to the entirety of his priesthood—from choosing to stay in seminary, to walking as much as 14 hours between small churches of a large parish, to taking a nursing school project from concept to extraordinary success, to encouraging vocations in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis. “I could always feel God walking me through all those journeys,” he says. Those journeys began in India at age 15, when he met with the head of an archdiocese 2,000 miles away from his home.

‘That week lasted 12-and-a-half years’ That meeting took place in Kerala State at the southwestern tip of India. Father Kalapurackal grew up in a village there, baptized and raised Catholic at St. Ann Parish. It was in that church Father Francis Joseph Kalapurackal celebrates Mass in person and via livestream at St. Thomas More Church in Mooresville. (Submitted photo) where, at the age of 12, he participated in his cousin’s ordination. notice for interviews with an archbishop homesick I wanted to leave.” When he left in 2011, much had “My inspiration to become a priest for a spot at St. Thomas Seminary 2,000 But a mentor suggested he try the changed. started with [that] ordination,” he says. miles away in Manipur State, he went. seminary for just one week. “When I started, we had 48 staff Having an archbishop-led ordination The meeting went well, and he was “That week lasted for 12-and-a-half [members],” he says. “I had the joy in his home parish “allowed more immediately accepted. years,” says Father Kalapurackal. He of seeing the institution grow into a [people] to attend and more young Father Kalapurackal began his was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese full-fledged hospital. When I left, we people to participate. It allowed young priestly trek quite literally, traveling five of Imphal, Manipur, in 1997. had over 200 staff with a multi-facility men to see how beautiful [the ceremony] days by train from the southwestern to hospital and a college of nursing school is and the grace of the sacrament the northeastern tip of India. ‘I had to walk sometimes 12-14 hours’ being built.” celebrated right before their eyes.” From the start, the young teen was He spent his first two years as a priest The nursing school was a project dear From that point, Father Kalapurackal miserable. at St. Thomas Seminary serving as dean to Father Kalapurackal’s heart. “liked the idea” of becoming a priest. “It was a different culture,” he of students. “The situation was one nurse for “But I didn’t feel I was worthy, how recalls of Manipur State—and the In 1999, Father Kalapurackal was 10,000 people” when he started, he says. holy that position is.” seminary. “I didn’t like the food. I assigned as pastor of St. Mary Parish “I felt there was a huge need to train His mother encouraged him, though. never lived away from home. The in Kholian in Manipur, not far from the more nurses. Three years later, when he saw a seminary schedule was hard. I was so Myanmar border. The faith community “I’m told that today it’s a flourishing was large—and not just in terms of its institution, probably the best in the state, 2,000-family membership. … with 150 total studying there every “It had 28 small village churches year.” and one large church,” he describes. “I He gives God credit for the school’s had to walk to the villages—sometimes success. 12-14 hours. There was no electricity, no “When I started the college, we had paved roads. It was a very poor parish in no land, no money,” he recalls. “But a poor setting.” wherever I knocked on a door, the Lord In the village of Gelngai, a tribal opened more doors. People were so lord had taken ownership of all the land generous. I praise God for [the school] and banished the village’s chief and 32 See PRIEST, page 12B families. They were reduced to living in a single hut on one acre of land. “My heart broke the first time I went to Gelngai,” says Father Kalapurackal. “I got funding and bought back the land. ‘E v e r y a s pe c t of I brought the families back to the village t he pr ie s t hood and brought a stream in to help with agriculture.” is im p or ta nt— He says his archbishop “had a plan for me that I should have a missionary of f e r ing t he experience there,” he says. “It was a great missionary experience.” s acr a m e nt s ,

‘Wherever I knocked, the Lord t e aching, opened more doors’ Father Kalapurackal’s archbishop also a dm inis t e r ing. had a specific purpose for the priest’s I lov e e v e r y next assignment in 2001 as director of the archdiocese’s 150-bed Catholic pa r t of m y medical center in Imphal, the capital of Manipur. pr ie s t hood.’ “He wanted me to grow it into a better Father Francis Joseph Kalapurackal poses with catechist Kim Carlisle, left, Kayla organization,” he says. “It wasn’t in good Carlisle, Sadie Bond, Kendall Swinney and catechist Dottie O’ Connor in May 2019 shape [and] had a lot of financial issues.” F r. F rancis in St. Thomas More Church in Mooresville. K alapurackal (Submitted photo) The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 4B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Benedictine sisters stay connected in prayer to broader world during pandemic By Katie Rutter Special to The Criterion

When the monastery stopped receiving visitors in March, the sisters felt the void. As a community built on the Rule of St. Benedict, hospitality is engrained into the mission of Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. “St. Benedict says that guests are to be received as Christ and that there will always be guests in the monastery,” explained Benedictine Sister Mary Luke Jones, the monastery’s director of development. The spread of COVID-19 was too great a risk in a place where all the sisters live in community, share meals and bathrooms. There are 43 Benedictine sisters at Our Lady of Grace; the oldest is 97. Several of the sisters also serve in their on-campus retirement and nursing facility, St. Paul Hermitage, which houses about 100 elderly residents. But it will take more than a pandemic to prevent the Benedictines from living their vocation. The sisters are finding ways to live out their call to hospitality, prayer and social justice even while the monastery is closed to visitors. First, they began to digitally host guests by livestreaming their regular communal prayer. Those broadcasts have continued to grace Facebook daily since March 21, the day on which they and other Benedictines celebrate the feast of St. Benedict. “We’re all connected to one another Benedictine sisters process in prayer on Aug. 25, the date of a federal execution, outside Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech Grove. The monastery through the Holy Spirit. We hope is closed to visitors due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the sisters are finding ways to continue the work of prayer and social justice. (Submitted photo) that the positive nature of our coming together will go beyond our walls Hoosier lost. For Sister Marie Therese, a phrase holy hour held to remember all those and that our prayer goes beyond our As she listens to the haunting toll, found in Psalms 75:5 and 89:47 are who have died. Everyone is invited to walls,” explained Benedictine Sister Sister Mary Luke prays at each chime, especially relevant in light of all these virtually join the sisters, and donations Marie Therese Racine, the community’s “May you rest in peace.” sufferings: “How long, Lord?” The can be made to memorialize a deceased director of liturgy. “I sit with my palms open, and as the sisters pray psalms during each prayer loved one. As their prayers go beyond the walls, last bell tolls I close my fists and I say, service, and Sister Marie Therese uses All submitted names will be projected the sisters have also discovered ways to ‘and may God embrace your families,’ ” the biblical words to bring the world on the wall of the sisters’ chapel during bring the sufferings of the world back she recounted, speaking on Sept. 30 to into her prayer. the holy hour and held by the sisters in into their prayer. The Criterion in an interview via Zoom. “I ask God to show me, ‘Whose prayer. Deeply concerned by the disease’s Evening prayer on Oct. 20 marked words are these today?’ and then pray “This is our way of supporting deadly spread, Sister Mary Luke looks the highest number of Hoosiers lost to in their voice,” she explained on Oct. 8 [others]. What we do as Benedictines is up the number of Indiana residents who, that date. The bell tolled 48 times. via Zoom. “So, we pray for the world, pray,” summarized Sister Marie Therese. during the previous day, passed away “Our hearts cry for them and their but ‘for’ can be understood in a different “It’s the best thing that we do,” from COVID-19. She posts that number families,” the sisters posted on their way. Pray for, as intercession, but we concluded Sister Mary Luke. “It’s our at the entrance to the sisters’ chapel. Facebook livestream. “Let us remember pray for, in their place.” first and primary work, the work of God, At the end of each evening prayer, one all those who have died and who Even more petitions are uttered by the Opus Dei.” of the sisters tolls a hand bell for each continue to suffer during this pandemic.” these Benedictines as they pray to God for the end of racism, the protection of (Katie Rutter is a member of St. Charles refugees and that the recently restarted Borromeo Parish in Bloomington. More federal executions will be halted. information about the service, called the Special prayer services, in addition to Celebration of Light, and a link to the their daily prayer, have been held for sisters’ Facebook page can be found on each of these intentions. their website, benedictine.com.) † “Now we are educating ourselves on racism, seeing what steps we need to take as a community,” explained Benedictine Sister Julie Sewell, ‘W e’re all vocations director at Our Lady of Grace. “I would call this part of a cycle for connected to us—prayer, study, more prayer, action.” one another Small actions were possible even in the most restrictive lockdown: cleaning through the Holy the windows of St. Paul Hermitage to allow for window visits with friends and S pirit. W e hope loved ones, processing in prayer through the gardens, contacting those who live that the positive alone to offer digital company and holding up signs to encourage the health nature of our care workers. Now the sisters have cautiously coming toge ther opened their doors to allow private w ill go be yond individuals to spend time at their retreat center, the Benedict Inn, though our walls and communal spaces are still closed to guests. that our prayer Yet the prayers and the hospitality continue. goes be yond our The sisters invite Catholics across central and southern Indiana to walls.’ Sister Jeanne Voges, left, Sister Alice Marie Gronotte, Sister Mary Carol Messmer and participate in a special upcoming service Sister Lucia Betz, all members of the Benedictine Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Beech related to All Souls Day. On Nov. 14, S r. Marie Grove, pray the rosary at the monastery. It is closed to visitors due to the coronavirus the Benedictines will livestream a herese acine pandemic, but the sisters are holding the T R , O.S.B. world’s intentions in prayer. (Submitted photo) The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 5B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement

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Sr. Maria Nguyen Sr. Marie Therese Miciano Sr. Arianne Sr. Joni Luna, SP Sr. Anna Fan, SP Sr. Tracey Horan, SP Sr. Emily Marie Tekolste Jessica Vitente of the Holy Family, OCD of the Sacred Heart of Whittaker, SP Sisters of Providence Sisters of Providence Sisters of Providence Sisters of Providence Sisters of Providence Our Lady of Mount Jesus, OCD Sisters of Providence Saint Mary of the Woods Saint Mary of the Woods Saint Mary of the Woods Saint Mary of the Woods Saint Mary of the Woods Carmel, Terre Haute, IN Our Lady of Mount Saint Mary of the Woods Temporary Professed Temporary Professed St. Jude, Indianapolis St. Anthony, Indianapolis Mission Novice Temporary Professed Carmel, Terre Haute, IN Temporary Professed Temporary Professed Mission Novice Temporary Professed

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Sr. Teresa Kang Sr. Ashley Barnett, SOLT Sr. Mary Lily among Sr. Evelyn Lobo, SSpS Sr. M. Evangeline Sr. Mary Peter Sr. Mary Amata Sr. Lucia Christi Sisters of Providence Society of Our Lady of the Thorns McCann, SSVM Holy Spirit Missionary Rutherford, OSF Ruschke, OSF Naville, OSF Zetzel, SV Saint Mary of the Woods Most Holy Trinity Servants of the Lord and Sisters Sisters of St. Francis Sisters of St. Francis Sisters of St. Francis Sisters of Life Temporary Professed St. Charles Borromeo the Virgin of Matara St. Monica of Perpetual Adoration of Perpetual Adoration of Perpetual Adoration St. Gabriel Bloomington All Saints, Dearborn County Indianapolis St. John the Evangelist Batesville St. Mary, Navilleton Indianapolis Novice Temporary Professed Temporary Professed Indianapolis Temporary Professed Temporary Professed Temporary Professed Temporary Professed James Huber III Nick Rivelli I Theology I Theology St. Gabriel St. Joan of Arc Connersville Indianapolis

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The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Pages 6B-7B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Deacon and his wife mentor couples in deacon formation program By Victoria Arthur at Methodist, IU and Special to The Criterion Riley hospitals, all in the capital city. Growing up in northwest Indiana in It was his hospital a devout Catholic family, Patrick Bower ministry that opened and his five siblings sometimes pretended his eyes to the spiritual to celebrate Mass during playtime, needs of people from complete with vestments from assorted all walks of life and articles of clothing they had on hand. often facing dire Aside from those childhood circumstances—and moments, the thought of pursuing a opened his heart to the vocation to ordained ministry never possibility of doing crossed Bower’s mind—until a series more for the Church. of articles in The Criterion changed “There are so many everything. of what I would call Bower was an insurance salesman Holy Spirit moments,” with two grown children when his said Deacon Bower. wife, Lynn, brought the articles to his “You realize that you attention in 2003. The Archdiocese of may be the last person Indianapolis was exploring the idea of to talk to someone starting a deacon formation program, about Christ. You and she immediately thought that her encounter people who husband would be perfect for the role. have been away from Bower was skeptical, but thanks to the Church or families his wife’s persuasion and the almost who just want someone ceaseless prompting of others, in to pray with them. June 2008 he was among the first Mostly, you are there to group of men to be ordained as listen and meet people permanent deacons in the history of the where they are.” Deacon Patrick Bower, center, elevates a chalice during the eucharistic prayer of the June 24, 2017, Mass at archdiocese. Those qualities SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis in which 21 men were ordained as permanent deacons for the “I put everything in the Holy Spirit’s and strengths—the archdiocese. Then-Archbishop-designate Charles C. Thompson elevates a host at right and Father Joseph Feltz hands,” Deacon Bower said, speaking ability to listen and to concelebrates at left. (File photo by Sean Gallagher) not only of his years of formation but accompany people on every day since his ordination. “I have their individual faith journeys—have per month of college-level theology become a complete believer in the Holy been equally valuable in one of Deacon classes and other training. Spirit to help me carry out what I need Bower’s most important roles since “Despite both of us growing up to do in every situation.” ordination. It is a role that he shares Catholic, we learned so much through He is grateful for that divine with Lynn, his wife of 52 years, who this program,” said Lynn, a graduate of guidance, because a deacon’s work is continues to walk with her husband the former Chartrand High School in never done. every step of the way. Terre Haute and a longtime preschool Permanent deacons are distinguished For the past 12 years, the Bowers teacher and spiritual director. “We from transitional deacons, who are men have served as the mentor couple to both grew tremendously. This entire in the final stage of formation for the other men in the deacon formation experience is beyond anything we could priesthood. Most permanent deacons are program and their wives. They know have imagined for our lives.” married when they are ordained, with the long, sometimes arduous road to the Deacon Bower, a graduate of Father families and full-time careers. permanent diaconate and its effect on Thomas Scecina Memorial High School In their ministry, they assist priests the family. in Indianapolis, says that, from the and serve their parishes in myriad That process begins with a year of beginning, he could not envision the ways. They proclaim the Gospel and inquiry, in which men considering the formation process without his wife at preach homilies at Mass, officiate at permanent diaconate attend monthly his side. weddings and funeral services that do information sessions held across central “It is such a commitment and so life- not involve the Eucharist, and celebrate and southern Indiana. Spouses are not changing that I believe it was essential the sacrament of baptism. They also only welcome but encouraged to join for us to experience it together,” Deacon dedicate themselves to the service of them. Bower said. charity in the broader community. The Bowers were longtime members In their capacity as a mentor couple, Deacon Bower was no stranger of St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis they are completely dedicated to the to service when he embarked on his when this journey began, and Lynn says spiritual and practical needs of men in journey to the permanent diaconate. that their intense discussions during the deacon formation program and their Deacon Patrick Bower is pictured in He had begun bringing the Eucharist countless long car rides to and from the wives, particularly during the monthly early 2020 prior to the emergence of to patients at Methodist Hospital inquiry sessions solidified their resolve weekend formation sessions held at the coronavirus pandemic at Methodist in Indianapolis in 1999. Today, he to move forward. They then embarked various locations around the archdiocese. Hospital in Indianapolis. As part of his continues to oversee all extraordinary on four years of formation, which There are currently 21 men in ministry of charity as a deacon, he oversees ministers of holy Communion ministers involved a commitment of one weekend formation for the diaconate, but the extraordinary ministers of holy Communion Bowers have journeyed alongside nearly at Methodist, IU and Riley hospitals, all in 40 others since 2008. Indianapolis. (Submitted photo) “I don’t think I could pull off a formation weekend without them,” Deacon Bower said. “And I am so said Deacon Kerry Blandford, grateful that my wife and my entire director of deacon formation for the family have been part of this journey.” archdiocese and another member of the first class of permanent deacons (Victoria Arthur is a freelance writer ordained in 2008. “Pat and Lynn are and member of St. Malachy Parish in so dependable, and more importantly, Brownsburg.) † they are so approachable for the candidates and their wives. They’re always there to listen, and even after ordination, the deacons often go to Pat he r e a r e s o for advice. ‘T “Theirs is a ministry of presence.” ma ny b le s s ing s . Deacon Bower recently began ministry at St. Rose of Lima Parish in Franklin. He A nd I a m s o also serves the spiritual needs of inmates at the nearby Johnson County Jail. g r at e f ul t hat There, and everywhere he goes, Deacon Bower says he will always m y w if e a nd m y place his trust in the Holy Spirit. And he looks forward to continuing to e nt ir e fa m ily accompany others on their own paths hav e b e e n pa r t to the permanent diaconate—a vocation that is strictly voluntary, with no of t his jour ne y.’ Then-deacon candidate Patrick Bower and his wife Lynn process on monetary compensation but nevertheless June 28, 2008, into SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis at the start immeasurable rewards. of the Mass in which he and 24 other men were ordained as the first class of “There are so many blessings,” eacon atrick permanent deacons in the history of the D P B ower archdiocese. (File photo by Mary Ann Wyand) The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 8B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Sister gives up her fight with God and finds the joy of seeking ‘the more’ in life By John Shaughnessy the next two decades, from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. Just 5 years old at the time, Kathleen “I had an awesome-paying job Branham was hemorrhaging so badly as an operations manager in the that a doctor told her parents to call a transportation industry,” she says. “I priest because she wouldn’t survive. filled my life with material possessions. Yet as the priest anointed her I had a five-bedroom home, just for me. forehead, the little girl had a comforting I had a sports car—a Mustang—and a feeling deep in her heart. place on the lake. And a boat.” “I knew—I knew—I would be OK,” Yet in the midst of this time, even she says now, 59 years later. “Whether it when she felt she was fighting God, was the Holy Spirit, I’m not sure. I just she still believed he was talking to her. knew I would be OK.” Finally, she listened. She was also convinced about another “God said, ‘I have better plans for future prospect for her life during that you.’ I knew something was missing. I time in 1961 when she was rushed to a was in my ‘30s when my parents died. hospital to take out her spleen, which I knew I didn’t want to miss out on the had become enlarged because of a blood ‘What if?’ in life. I went back to church. disorder. That’s when I realized I was filling my The religious sisters who helped her life with material possessions instead of during her stay in the hospital stood out filling my life with God. to her, partly because they had an air of “God was the big part missing in my mystery around them in their habits and life. I felt God was saying, ‘It’s time to mostly because “they were so happy and come home.’ ” joyful.” They left such an impression that ‘Seeking the more in life’ she decided then she would become a When she thinks of “home,” Sister religious sister one day. And that belief Kathleen remembers her days in Catholic intensified during the 12 years of her grade schools and high schools when Catholic education in Indianapolis under students boarded a bus for Oldenburg for the guidance of the Franciscan sisters of the funeral of a Franciscan sister who had Oldenburg. been their teacher. “When I was in the first grade, I told “Oldenburg has always felt like my family I was going to be a sister,” home,” she says. she says. “But life got in the way.” She entered the Franciscan As the vocation director of the Franciscan Sisters of Oldenburg, Franciscan Sister Kathleen In fact, nearly 40 years passed before community there in 2000 at the age of Branham, left, works to draw women to the wonderful life she has known as a religious sister. she finally embraced that childhood call 43, believing it’s where God wanted her Here, she poses for a picture with Franciscan Sister Olga Wittekind and Franciscan Brother to vocation. And the reality of Sister to be, knowing it’s where she wanted Joseph Bach during a Vocation Fair in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Submitted photo) Kathleen’s later-in-life commitment and needed to be, remembering it’s reflects the choice made by several where a 5-year-old girl once dreamed ‘When we laugh, we laugh hard’ During her time in the Franciscan women who are now members of the she would eventually be. As vocations director, Sister Kathleen community, Sister Kathleen has served Oldenburg Franciscan community. “The moment I drove through the makes sure that women get the “behind- as a social worker, working with “I did not want to fight God gates of Oldenburg, I just felt like [I the-scenes” look at the Franciscan children in the foster care system and anymore,” she says. was] home. I’ve been here 20 years now, community when they come to with children who have been abused and and I’m not going anywhere. Oldenburg to discern a possible calling neglected. ‘It’s time to come home’ “I’m the vocations director now. to religious life. Other sisters in the community have Her fight with God began shortly Our last six women who entered our “I want them to see 100 percent of us,” traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border to after she graduated from Father community were older—anywhere she says. She also shares her experience. serve people hoping to start a new life in Thomas Scecina Memorial High between 40 and 50 when they “The call to serve God is not always America. School in Indianapolis in 1974, after entered. They’re very gifted women. an easy one, but it is a joyful one,” Franciscan sisters impact lives, she spending the first three years of her A lot of them felt the same thing I she says. “These women are the most says. Sister Kathleen knows the impact secondary education at the former did. They were seeking the more in caring, most supporting group of women they have on her life. St. Mary’s Academy. also located in life.” I’ve ever been around in my life. “I feel like I‘ve grown up in the the city. At the same time, she’s looking “Like anything, there are times community here, even coming in “When I got to be 19, 20, I put God forward to the arrival of a young woman that can be challenging. Our vows of at 43. We’re individual, but we’re on the back burner to figure out who in her 20s who is expected to enter the poverty, chastity and obedience call us interconnected. I’ve never felt so much I was. I moved to Evansville because community next spring. to go outside of ourselves for what’s love, strength and support. That brings I wanted my independence. Then I “More and more young women are in the best interests of the community. us closer to God.” thought, ‘Maybe I should get married seeking religious life once again,” she When we pray, we pray hard. When and have children.’ I was in and out says. “We welcome them with open we laugh, we laugh hard. When we’re (For more information about the of relationships, but I never made the arms. In the past year, I responded to challenged, we’re there for each other. Congregation of the Sisters of the Third commitment.” over 30 requests regarding religious life Being Franciscan, we’re also the voice Order of St. Francis in Oldenburg, visit She did make a lot of money during and 90% were in their 20s.” for a lot of voiceless people out there.” www.oldenburgfranciscans.org.) † Three Saint Meinrad monks celebrate anniversaries Criterion staff report prefect in the monastery. He also served ordained a priest on Sept. 5, 1965. Peru, and served as an associate pastor at Saint Meinrad’s former monastic Father Colman earned a licentiate in at San Juan Lurigancho Parish in Lima. The Benedictine monks of Saint foundation in Peru from 1965-67. sacred theology from the Collegio He also helped Meinrad Archabbey in St. Meinrad Brother Rabin has worked as a di Sant’Anselmo in Rome in 1969. develop a Quchua- celebrated the jubilees of three of their locksmith at Saint Meinrad since 1984. He then served on the faculty of the Spanish dictionary confreres on July 26. In 1996, he became the first brother in seminary from 1967-94. and a nine-volume Honored were Brother Rabin Bivins the monastic community to be named For many years, he served as the manuscript of the and Father Colman Grabert on their 60th subprior (third in leadership), serving in monastery’s principal organist, as New Testament in anniversary of profession of vows, and that position until 2007. secretary to the archabbot, house Quechua, which is Father Germain Swisshelm on the 60th He currently serves in the monastery prefect, gardener and in the mail service. a pre-Columbian anniversary of his ordination as a priest. infirmary and is the monastery’s He currently ministers as director for language still Brother Rabin, a almoner and director of community guided retreats and offers preached spoken by the native of Owensboro, outreach. retreats at the Saint Meinrad Guest Fr. Germain natives of the Ky., professed vows Father Colman, House and Retreat Center. Swisshelm, O.S.B. mountain regions of as a monk of Saint a native of Father Germain, a native of Peru. Meinrad on May 7, Evansville, Ind., Orrville, Ohio, professed vows on For about 40 years, Father Germain 1960. He came to the professed vows on Aug. 15, 1957, and was ordained a has celebrated the weekly Saturday monastery in 1957 Aug. 15, 1960. He priest on Sept. 25, 1969. He later did morning Mass at Saint Meinrad’s Shrine to attend school at received priestly graduate studies at Indiana University, of Our Lady of Monte Cassino. Since its former St. Placid formation in Saint the University of Oklahoma and San 1996, he has overseen the preparing of Hall. Meinrad’s high Marcos University in Lima, Peru. readings for the Liturgy of the Hours in Br. Raban Bivins, In the early school and college He taught at St. Placid Hall from the Archabbey Church of Our Lady of O.S.B. 1960s, Brother (both now closed), 1962-67. In 1962, he was a founding Einseideln. Rabin worked Fr. Colman Grabert, and at Saint Meinrad member of Saint Meinrad’s monastic in various assignments, O.S.B. Seminary and School foundation in Peru. He taught at a (For more information about including in the monastery’s of Theology. He was seminary and high school in Huaraz, Saint Meinrad Archabbey shoe shop, as a volunteer in St. Meinrad, visit www. fire fighter and as a house saintmeinrad.org.) † The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 9B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Conventual Franciscan vocations director journeys in faith with young adults By Sean Gallagher

St. Francis of Assisi has become a beloved saint through the centuries. Although he lived 800 years ago halfway around the world in central Italy, thousands of men and women around the globe continue to embody his love for Christ, the Gospel, all people and all creation. Conventual Franciscan Father Mario Serrano is one of them. A member of his order’s Our Lady of Consolation Province, based in Mount St. Francis in the New Albany Deanery, Father Mario currently serves in El Paso, Texas, in campus ministry, in addition to being his community’s vocations director. For him, campus ministry and promoting vocations dovetail well. He enjoys seeing many of the young adults he ministers to at El Paso Community College and at the University of Texas in El Paso deepen their faith through their college years. “Their faith is part of their identity,” Father Mario said. “So, when they go off into the world, they seek out a place where they can work and talk about their faith. They look for a place where they can live out their vocation in regard to their gifts.” Before serving in campus ministry in El Paso, Father Mario ministered to Catholic college students in Terre Haute at Indiana State University and Rose Hulman Institute of Technology, and at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Conventual Franciscan Father Mario Serrano, vocations director for his order’s Our Lady of Consolation Province, which is based in Mount St. Francis in St. Mary-of-the-Woods. the New Albany Deanery, preaches during a March 8 Mass on the campus of the University of Texas El Paso in El Paso. (Submitted photo) Bobbie Jo Monahan, an education professor at Indiana State, collaborated El Paso, agrees. letter “Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity and retreats that take place virtually. with Father Mario at St. Joseph “He is selfless and puts students and Social Friendship.” “We’re calling in friars to be present University Parish in Terre Haute, which their needs first,” Anderson said. “He “Human belonging is something I with us for those who aren’t ready to serves as a campus ministry hub for the takes the time to sit and attentively listen promote within campus ministry,” Father travel, but are discerning,” Father Mario western Indiana city. to the students, something that many Mario said. “We belong to each other. said. “Some are coming here [to “He had the ability to individualize students need. One can truly see that this There is a sense of relationship that we El Paso] from Michigan and Florida. what each student needed,” she said. is his calling. Everything he does comes need to become aware of. I long for But we’ll plug in others who will join us “Sometimes a student needed a shoulder from the heart, with such humbleness brotherhood beyond borders.” through Zoom.” and a hug, and sometimes a student and compassion for others.” Anderson has seen this Franciscan No matter the varying ways he needed a bit of reality. This openness to and valuing of the quality of Father Mario on display. journeys with young adults in college or “He had a knack for getting to needs and gifts of each individual person “Friar Mario is open to all, treating those discerning their vocation, Father know students and taking students to that so helps him in campus ministry, every student and community member Mario said prayer is at the heart of his that next level of responsible religion. Father Mario said, is part of his identity the same regardless of their social ministry. He promotes not only self-awareness as a follower of St. Francis. status, race, and even religion,” she “We friars pray for vocations daily,” for students, but a global lens through Pope Francis recently highlighted said. “He journeys with all regardless he said. “We pray daily for those who religious responsibility.” how the saint was open to relationships of their situation. As St. Francis did, are discerning and are being called to Sandra Anderson, who ministers with with others, including those at the Friar Mario reaches out to those who are our way of life. Prayer is powerful.” Father Mario in campus ministry in margins of society, in his new encyclical marginalized in our society. Those who are seen as the least, he treats as equals.” (For more information about the Building relationships far and wide Conventual Franciscans’ Our Lady of with people from diverse backgrounds is Consolation Province, based in Mount a big part of Father Mario’s ministry in St. Francis, visit franciscansusa.org.) † promoting vocations for his community. He makes connections with men across the U.S. who are discerning possible vocations as Conventual Franciscans. ‘H uma n Such communication means that he has often lived out of his suitcase b e long ing is as he traveled to Michigan, Louisiana, s om e t hing Florida and elsewhere to meet with men I interested in learning more about the pr om ot e w it hin Franciscan vocation. The coronavirus pandemic has made c a m p us m inis t r y. such travel more difficult, although Father Mario said he is exploring ways W e b e long to to make that possible now. However, the pandemic has not kept e ach ot he r. him from promoting vocations. “I can’t simply wait this out,” Father T he r e is a s e ns e Mario said. “There are people who are of r e l at ions hip discerning and want to meet. How do we go about that?” t hat w e ne e d to It still happens in one-on-one meetings when possible. He also shares b e c om e awa r e information about his province through videos posted online. of . I long f or “We were already starting to do that prior to COVID,” Father Mario said. b r ot he r hood “We’ve put together videos of who we b e yond b or de r s are as Franciscans, where we minister .’ and what the hopes are for the young friars.” F r. Mario Conventual Franciscan Father Mario Serrano poses with college students after He’s also organizing vocations errano a Nov. 2, 2019, Mass at the U.S.-Mexican S , O.F.M. C onv. border in El Paso, Texas. (Submitted photo) The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 10B 2020 Vocations Awareness Supplement Providence sister brings faith to medical ministry during pandemic By Jason Moon plan to become a sister at the time, but Special to The Criterion I never realized how big of a change coming to the Woods would make in my Born in 1986 in Indianapolis, life.” Providence Sister Arrianne Whittaker’s In 2012, Sister Arrianne entered the life journey took her and her family congregation and later followed her to many different areas in the United parent’s footsteps by entering medical States. By the time she was 5, the school. Her father is a medical doctor, family settled in and her mother is a nurse. Germantown, Wis., In 2019, she achieved her lifelong where she graduated dream by graduating from medical from high school in school at Marian University in 2005. Indianapolis. Since graduating, she has “I tell people ministered as a resident physician at I am a Hoosier St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis. by birth, but a Then earlier this year, the coronavirus ‘Cheesehead’ by reared its ugly head. To date, more than choice,” Sister 40 million people have been infected Sr. Arrianne Arrianne said. with the virus worldwide, including Whittaker, S.P. After receiving more than 8 million Americans. In her bachelor’s Indiana, more than 160,000 people have degree in biomedical sciences from tested positive for the virus. And in Marquette University in Milwaukee, she Marion County, where Indianapolis is learned about the Sisters of Providence located, more than 26,000 people have of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods’ volunteer tested positive, with almost 800 deaths. ministry and elected to take a year Sister Arrianne said she never Providence Sister Arrianne Whittaker, center, second row, celebrates with fellow members of off from school to volunteer for the thought her early experiences in the her religious community after graduating in 2019 from medical school at Marian University in congregation. medical field would include dealing Indianapolis. (Submitted photo) “I literally learned about Providence with a pandemic and with patients who Volunteer Ministries on a whim, through were infected with COVID-19. It is in years as a physician, and I imagine that are “healers” and how that correlates a volunteer fair that was at Marquette,” this reality that she continues to live what I have seen and experienced in the directly with the Sisters of Providence’s Sister Arrianne said. “I attended the out the congregation’s core mission of last six months will mold me for years core mission. fair at the last minute as I didn’t have a collaborating with others to create a to come as I learn who my identity as a “It is one thing to take care of a plan for my next year and thought doing more just and hope-filled world through doctor really is.” patient from a medical perspective, but a year of volunteer service might be prayer, education, service and advocacy. Despite the pressures of ministering often in these times, I’ve been called to an interesting way to discern my next “It’s a privilege and an honor to in the medical field during a pandemic, be a companion through the anxiety and steps.” serve in this way during the pandemic,” Sister Arrianne said she believes fear that this disease evokes,” she said. Sister Arrianne also said she wanted Sister Arrianne said. “But it is an providence has “called me and my “I am also very aware of how important to make sure she still wanted to be extremely difficult time for medical care colleagues to be present in this way at our role is in communicating with a doctor during the year away from professionals. I fear for my colleagues this time for a reason.” patients’ families. Oftentimes, we are school. As she continued volunteering who are high risk, and I’m frustrated “I’m trusting that as we continue to the only connection they have to their with the congregation, she knew she with the stubbornness of this virus. walk the unknown of this path, we will loved one.” wanted to minister as a doctor, and “However, working with COVID-19 be given strength, resilience, courage, become a woman religious with the patients has been life-giving because trust and knowledge needed to overcome (Jason Moon is the media relations Sisters of Providence. it feels like I really am making a any challenges this disease presents,” manager for the Sisters of Providence “I really count providence as a huge difference. But it is a very difficult Sister Arrianne continued. of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods. For part of the reason I came to Providence disease to watch people suffer through. Through her initial experiences with more information about the Sisters of Volunteer Ministries,” Sister Arrianne I never would have guessed that this her ministry, Sister Arrianne said she has Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, said. “I absolutely did not have any pandemic would coincide with my initial a greater appreciation of how doctors visit spsmw.org.) †

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Thomas Widner, the seminary’s beloved director of spiritual formation, died. “That was a really challenging time,” Hosty said. “A lot of guys, myself included, had to realize that we’re really not in it for the glamour. There’s no glory in [the priesthood] for us in the way the world defines it. I realized, too, that while this old wound in the Church was being re-opened, we can be instruments to kind of heal it.” Challenging times at Bishop Bruté continued when his senior year was abruptly cut short in March at the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Marian halted in-person classes and the seminarians returned to their home dioceses. Hosty said he went through some mourning of what he and his classmates had lost. “But the Lord was at work in a mysterious way because of it,” he said. “I was able to have more time to spend in prayer and really looked at myself and my relationship with God. In some ways, I’m immensely grateful for God’s guiding hand during all of that.” Seminarian Liam Hosty proclaims a reading during an Aug. 3 Mass at the chapel of Our Lady of Fatima Retreat House in Indianapolis. The liturgy was In the late spring, Hosty lived for part of the annual convocation of archdiocesan seminarians. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) about two months at the rectory of St. Barnabas Parish with its pastor, Father he is where God wants him to be, Daniel Mahan, much like the seminarian convinced that his struggles with speech had done previously during breaks in and learning disabilities since he was a M or e a b out L ia m H os t y... school. young child prepared him for ordained “Liam is a self-starter,” said Father ministry. A ge: 23 Mahan. “He doesn’t have to wait for “I really had to focus on mitigating someone to give him instructions. challenges presented to me on writing, P arent s : Tom and Julie Hosty During his school breaks, he took it speaking and interpersonal relationships, Home P aris h: St. Barnabas Parish in Indianapolis upon himself to visit classrooms at which is pretty much my entire vocation St. Barnabas and Roncalli to talk about now,” Hosty said. “By focusing on that E ducation: St. Barnabas School, Roncalli High School, vocations to the priesthood and religious so much, I’ve really honed those skills life. Nobody asked him to do that. His to a T.” Marian University and Bishop Simon Bruté College talks were very well received.” He encourages other young men who Seminary, all in Indianapolis; Saint Meinrad Seminary and think that God might be calling them to School of Theology in St. Meinrad ‘Pull the trigger’ the priesthood to give the seminary a try, Now a seminarian in I Theology at even if they have experienced challenges F avorite S cripture pas s age: Matthew 5:3-12 (the Beatitudes) Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of in their lives. Theology in St. Meinrad, Hosty is still “If you’re a young guy discerning, F avorite s aint: S t. Joseph affected by the pandemic. just do it. Pull the trigger,” Hosty said. Although in-person classes “You’re not wasting your life by going F avorite pr ayer or de votion: St. Thomas Aquinas’ “Prayer resumed at Saint Meinrad this fall, the to seminary. You’re gaining an entirely before Communion” seminarians wear masks and practice beautiful life. I have no regrets and social distancing. Trips off campus are would do it all over again.” F avorite book : Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis rare, and pastoral ministry in parishes, hospitals and nursing homes has been (For more information on a F avorite movie: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King suspended. vocation to the priesthood in the Still, despite the continued challenges Archdiocese of Indianapolis, visit Hob b ies : Reading, running and hiking of priestly formation, Hosty knows www.HearGodsCall.com.) †

the priest in a vulnerable position. By 2011 there were from stone. God will do that for us. We only have to PRIEST death threats on his life, and his archbishop ordered him to allow ourselves to be chiseled by him.” continued from page 4B return to his family’s village for safety. He also has advice for members of a Church “That’s how I left the archdiocese [of Imphal] and desperately in need of more priests: “Pray for vocations.” and for the opportunity for nurses to be trained to help was looking for an opportunity to serve in different “Unless every family and every parish is praying the sick and suffering.” countries, including the U.S.,” says Father Kalapurackal. for more laborers, we won’t have more vocations,” His friend and former fellow priest of the Imphal he cautions. “It needs to start in the family—families ‘They would just shoot and kill you’ Archdiocese, Father Varghese Maliakkal, had praying the rosary to Blessed Mother Mary, and families But all was not smooth progress during those emigrated to the U.S. a few years prior and had served having a special love and devotion to the sacraments.” years at the hospital. Father Kalapurackal calls those in central and southern Indiana since 2006. Father Father Kalapurackal practices what he preaches. years “unstable” as insurgents sought Manipur State’s Maliakkal recommended him to then-Auxiliary Bishop Almost every Mass in his parishes, he says, includes a independence from India. Christopher J. Coyne. petition for an increase in religious and priestly vocations. “There were attacks on the Church, especially “I arrived here in the archdiocese on Aug. 23, 2013,” Those who pray in St. Thomas More’s perpetual adoration for clergy and people from outside the state”—two Father Kalapurackal precisely remembers. chapel are asked to pray for the same intention. categories that applied to him, the priest says. He served at Our Lady of the Greenwood Parish in To both support the archdiocese’s seminarians and At one point an insurgent group built a camp near Greenwood until 2015 and has led St. Thomas More possible future vocations, St. Thomas More parish hosts his church in Imphal. There were times he couldn’t ever since. He was incardinated into the archdiocese in an annual dinner for the archdiocese’s seminarians, celebrate Mass and had to lock the church due to 2019, when he also became pastor at St. Ann. inviting “as many young people and parishioners as gunfire and bombings. possible to come.” One of his most frightening encounters with ‘I love every part of my priesthood’ Father Kalapurackal’s love for his vocation is strong. insurgents occurred one year on Aug. 15, the feast Reflecting on his journey as a priest, Father Kalapurackal “Every aspect of the priesthood is important— of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary—and goes back to that meeting with the archbishop of Imphal offering the sacraments, teaching, administering. I love India’s Independence Day, a day the secessionist that led to his acceptance into the seminary. every part of my priesthood.” insurgents refused to acknowledge. “Twelve-and-a-half years is a long journey,” he Whether serving among tribes in India or the people of “They thought I was celebrating Independence admits. “But I didn’t find happiness in anything else. … central and southern Indiana, he sees his call—and the call Day,” Father Kalapurackal recalls. “I told them I was I never felt I’m worthy, but through God’s mercy and of all priests—as the same: to be a missionary for Christ. celebrating Mass for the Assumption. They started love I am found worthy through Jesus, who calls me to “Priesthood is missionary by its very nature,” he firing on the church. It really shook me up.” share in his priesthood.” says. “No matter where you are, you’re a missionary—I So did another of the insurgents’ actions—extortion, To those discerning a call to the priesthood or strongly believe that.” demanding payment of “taxes” to the group. religious life, Father Kalapurackal advises patience. “Anyone who held responsibility in “It’s not always easy,” he says. “But God will make (For more information about a vocation any position had to abide by them or they it clear just like a sculptor brings out a beautiful statue to the priesthood in the Archdiocese would just shoot and kill you,” he says. of Indianapolis, visit His role as hospital director placed www.HearGodsCall.com.) † The Criterion | Friday, October 30, 2020 | Page 12B The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Page 9A

If I’m confirmed to the Supreme Court, I on our nation’s BARRETT will do that.” highest court.” continued from page 1A Barrett is now the first graduate of During the Notre Dame Law School in northern Senate Judiciary However, Trump’s first two nominees Indiana on the Supreme Court, and the hearing, an open to the Supreme Court, justices Neil only sitting justice with a law degree letter to Barrett Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, were only not from Harvard or Yale. She graduated signed by 100 supported by a combined three votes from summa cum laude in 1997 and also met Notre Dame Democrat senators. her husband, Jesse, there. The Barrett professors—none During her nomination hearings before family lives in Indiana. of them from its the Senate Judiciary Committee, Barrett The oldest child of the couple’s law school—was did not give direct answers on how she seven children is a current student at the published online would vote on top issues, following University of Notre Dame. Amy Coney urging her to a practice begun by Ginsburg at her Barrett began working at the law school put a “halt” to nomination hearing in 1993. Barrett in 2002 as a law professor focused on the nomination assured the senators that she would follow federal courts, constitutional law and process until after the rule of the law. statutory interpretation. election. The “My policy preferences are irrelevant,” “On behalf of the University of Notre letter emphasized she said on Oct. 13 when asked if she had Dame, I congratulate Amy Coney Barrett this would allow Judge Amy Coney Barrett holds her hand on a Bible as she is sworn in as intended to dismantle the Affordable Care on her confirmation today by the United “voters to have an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court by Supreme Court Justice Act, and she reiterated this same view States Senate as a justice of the United a choice” in the Clarence Thomas at the White House in Washington on Oct. 26. (CNS photo/Tom when asked about abortion and same-sex States Supreme Court,” said Holy Cross next judge on Brenner, Reuters) marriage. Father John Jenkins, university president, the nation’s high On the opening day of the hearings, in an Oct. 26 statement. court. Roosevelt that has recently been touted Republican senators adamantly G. Marcus Cole, the Joseph After the Senate vote, some Catholic by progressive Democrats to increase the emphasized that Barrett’s Catholic A. Matson dean at Notre Dame Law bishops congratulated Barrett on Twitter. number of justices on the court. faith should not be a factor in School, said the school is “immensely Bishop J. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory questioning. And although it did not proud of our alumna, colleague and said in an Oct. 26 tweet: “Thanks be M. Aymond issued a more personal become a topic of questioning, it was friend,” adding that for more than two to God that Amy Coney Barrett was statement, pointing out that Barrett is mentioned even in opening remarks decades the school has experienced approved as our newest Supreme Court from Metairie, La., and that her parents, by Senate Judiciary Committee Barrett’s “brilliant scholarship, her Justice. Let us pray that she serves always Deacon Michael Coney and his wife Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-South devoted teaching and her thoughtful, guided by the truth God has revealed Linda, are members of St. Catherine of Carolina. open-minded approach to legal to his people. Immaculate Virgin Mary Siena Parish in Metairie. He asked if Barrett would be able to questions.” intercede for her.” “One of our own, Judge Amy Coney set aside her religious beliefs to fairly He also praised Barrett’s “exemplary Similarly, Bishop Richard F. Stika Barrett, has been confirmed by the decide legal cases, which she said she kindness and generosity toward everyone of Knoxville, Tenn., tweeted his U.S. Senate as an associate justice of could. she encounters,” and said that while congratulations and added: “Note to the the Supreme Court,” he said. “We pray “I can. I have done that in my time on the school community would miss her Democrats. Justice Ginsburg was against that the Holy Spirit will continue to lead the 7th Circuit,” she said. “If I stay on presence they would “look forward to packing the SC!” He was referring her and guide her in her service to our the 7th Circuit, I’ll continue to do that. witnessing these qualities as she serves to a plan by President Franklin D. country.” † Braxton: Church doesn’t need to say more about racism, it needs to do more LOUISVILLE, Ky. (CNS)—When it Bishop Braxton spoke on the final And it continues to the present day • How many people of color are comes to matters of racial justice, there’s day of “A Cry From the Mountain: A with the deaths of Black men and women working in the diocesan chancery or not a need for the Church to say more, but Pilgrimage for Racial Justice,” which took during altercations with members of law educational offices? a need for the Church place on Oct. 15-17. enforcement, said Bishop Braxton. • Are bishops and pastors making sure to do more, retired Following the deaths of Taylor and This divide is evident in systems that the companies they hire have truly diverse Bishop Edward later George Floyd—a Black man who leave Blacks at a disadvantage, making it work forces? K. Braxton of died during an arrest by Minneapolis difficult for them to obtain a good education, Bishop John E. Stowe of Lexington, Belleville, Ill., told police in May—the use of the term meaningful employment, decent housing and Ky., gave a talk on Pope Francis’ new pilgrims gathered “racism” has become more common, good health care, he told the pilgrims. encyclical “Fratelli Tutti: On Fraternity at the Catholic Bishop Braxton said, but he has found While all those are examples of racism, and Social Friendship,” at a day of Enrichment Center in it more helpful to speak of the “racial the bishop noted that doesn’t mean all reflection during the pilgrimage. Bishop Louisville. divide” instead. Americans or Catholics are racist. Stowe also celebrated a closing Mass on He told the “It’s a broader expression of which “It’s possible for people to live with Oct. 17 at St. Martin de Porres Church. Bishop Edward group of about 30 racism is the most egregious example,” unconscious, or barely conscious biases, The pilgrimage—which was originally K. Braxton individuals that he said. prejudices and stereotypes that influence planned to start with a two-day walk to he was aware “the The racial divide started when the “first their attitude toward people of different the Abbey of Gethsemani—was organized backdrop for this gathering today is the free men and women were brought from races. This is racial prejudice, but not by the Archdiocese of Louisville’s sad and tragic story of the death” of West Africa in chains to the U.S. in 1619 necessarily racism,” he said. Office of Multicultural Ministry and Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed to provide free laborers to maintain this Bishop Braxton said the Catholic Church the Office of Youth and Young Adults during a police raid at her home in March. country’s economy by working as beasts was on the “wrong side of history from in collaboration with Modern Catholic While his presentation would not solve of burden in sugar, tobacco and cotton the very beginning of the racial divide.” Pilgrim, a nonprofit based in California. that “urgent local crisis,” he said, he plantations,” said the bishop. This has led to churches and schools still The pilgrimage to the abbey was hoped it would contribute to conversations The divide continued with events such being racially segregated. However, there canceled due to health and safety concerns with neighbors, friends and fellow as the Civil War; the Dred Scott Supreme are a growing number of individuals in the brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. parishioners. Court decision, which ruled that people Church—both members of the faithful and About 70 individuals during the course “The racial divide will not be bridged of African descent, free or enslaved, were the clergy—who are aware of the racial crisis of the three days, starting on Oct. 15 unless people of goodwill speak person not United States citizens and therefore and have a desire to change things, he said. with a Pilgrims’ Blessing Prayer Service to person and heart to heart about what had no right to sue in federal court; the “They believe their responsibility is to celebrated by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz is probably the greatest crisis facing the Jim Crow laws; and the assassination of work to remove prejudice and even racism of Louisville at the Cathedral of the United States,” he said. the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., he said. from their hearts and their Christian Assumption. community,” he said. “They know that as On Oct. 16, a group of about 15 members of the body of Jesus Christ all people, including members of Catholics are called to learn their faith, St. Margaret Mary Parish, St. William love their faith and live their faith, and Parish and the Cathedral of the when they consume the body and blood Assumption, gathered for a community of Jesus Christ at Mass they must truly prayer service at the Maloney Center believe they become what they eat. and walked to a nearby park to pray and “This is critical. ... He [Christ] needs reflect. your eyes to continue to see, he needs During his homily at the Pilgrims’ your hands to continue to serve and he Blessing Prayer Service, Archbishop Kurtz needs your heart to continue to love.” said the Church often talks about the “sin Bishop Braxton said he is often asked of commission and sin of omission.” if the Church should be saying more and “It’s easy to see sins of commission ... speaking more about racial prejudice and when someone acts out of hatred toward racism. another human being and robs that person It’s always important for the Church of dignity and robs the hater also of to “raise its voice in the name of justice,” dignity,” the archbishop said. the bishop said. Pope Francis does, retired “But it’s sometimes harder to see Pope Benedict XVI and St. John Paul II sins of omission,” he said, “where we’ve did, but the urgency now is not for the missed the opportunity to give someone Church to say more, but for the Church to that chance that every human being do more, he said. deserves ... the chance of equal footing ... “They must translate their words into the chance of being honored with dignity.” specific actions,” the bishop said. He told the congregation a pilgrimage Members of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth, Ky., listen during a Pilgrims’ Prayer Blessing service Some questions the Church should is not for spectators. “It’s for people who celebrated by Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Ky., at the Cathedral of the Assumption in ask when thinking of promoting racial say, ‘In my heart I want to change, but downtown Louisville on Oct. 15. The service was the first event in the “Cry from the Mountain: A justice are: I can’t do it by myself. I need to be part Pilgrimage for Racial Justice,” which took place on Oct. 15-17. (CNS photo/Clinton Bennett Photography and • How many people of color are on the of something greater. I need to walk with Video Services, courtesy The Record) staff of a parish school or parish office? others.’ ” † Page 10A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Catholic Charities of Baltimore ends international adoption program

BALTIMORE (CNS)—After more than 75 years fashion, “they can’t guarantee the authenticity or the helping form families through international adoption, veracity of the documents.” Catholic Charities of Baltimore has closed its As a result of the increased bureaucratic demands, international adoption program. many of the clients Catholic Charities and other adoption The agency cited changing circumstances within other agencies brought into their system have found themselves countries and a “negative stance” toward international stymied when they reach the embassy stage of the adoption from the U.S. government. adoption process. Ellen Warnock, who has worked in the international There are currently dozens of children in Africa adoption program for 36 years, called the Sept. 30 matched with families in the United States through decision “heartbreaking” but necessary due to a dramatic Catholic Charities who cannot enter the country. decline in the number of children annually entering the “There are a lot of kids in Nigeria and Cameroon and United States for adoption. other places that will never get here, even though they’re In the early 2000s, more than 23,000 children came legally their adoptive parents’ children,” Warnock said. into the country each year for adoption. In 2019, that Kristi and Geoff Okwuonu, a Texas couple who number declined to just 2,900. adopted two children in Nigeria through Catholic “Some of the countries are either unwilling to send Charities of Baltimore, are among those directly affected children overseas because it’s a national pride issue, by the changes. The Okwuonus have been with their or because the infrastructure that they have is such children, Grace and Kaleb, since Thanksgiving 2018 in that it cannot meet the documentation standards of our Africa. Their children’s visas were denied in August 2019 government’s immigration process,” said Warnock, because they didn’t meet the definition of orphans under associate administrator at Catholic Charities’ Center for U.S. law, Kristi Okwuonu said. Family Services. Unless their legal appeals have positive results in the Many of the countries Catholic Charities dealt United States, the couple is now planning to move to with, especially in Africa, have poorly designed and Canada or Japan with their children, who will both turn Geoff and Kristi Okwuonu, shown with their children, Kaleb and under‑resourced child welfare systems, Warnock 3 in December. Grace, are living in Nigeria while fighting a legal battle to bring their explained. They are struggling just to get food, shelter, “I told investigators this is so simple: You let us go children adopted through Catholic Charities of Baltimore to the clothing and medicine to their orphanages and do back to the United States and go home with our children, United States. (CNS photo/courtesy Kristi Okwuonu via Catholic Review) not have resources to provide the increased level of or we go live in another country,” Kristi Okwuonu said. documentation sought by the American government. Okwuonu expressed frustration that Catholic Charities last two years, according to the U.S. State Department “Our government has cracked down on the scrutiny is no longer able to carry on its international adoption website. with which it looks at the documents from those work. She and her husband selected the agency on the Warnock believes U.S. embassies are raising concerns countries,” Warnock told the Catholic Review, the news advice of their lawyer, based on its history and reputation. about human trafficking via adoption where there is no outlet of the Baltimore Archdiocese. She said her family and Catholic Charities have “done strong evidence of that. Her agency does not have the financial resources to everything by the book.” “There have been rare instances of that,” she said, “but provide independent investigation of documents, she “It’s terrible and it’s sad,” said Okwuonu, speaking it is not a global phenomenon in the adoption field. I noted. “We can’t put people on the ground in Nigeria via videoconference from Africa. “What did Catholic think that is the suspicion that the embassies bring to the or Cameroon or any of those countries. We have to rely Charities do wrong? I don’t think there’s anything. It table.” on what the government, courts and ministries in those leaves so many people hanging. It’s a real shame.” In recent years, Catholic Charities’ international countries send us.” Many adoption service providers have lost their adoption work has been mostly in Nigeria, Cameroon, Warnock added that staff members at the embassies accreditation, have had it suspended or have given up Ghana, Zambia and Gambia. It also worked in the are saying that when reports aren’t written in a timely their accreditation for international adoption during the Philippines and Colombia to a lesser extent. †

and corporations were both keenly media platforms as divinely ordained Temperance, true friendship and an SOCIAL MEDIA interested in the tools of mass persuasion technologies that can be engineered for ordered view of reality that comes from continued from page 4A to further their aims. Initially referred the salvation of souls. In his most recent a well-formed memory and imagination to as “psychological warfare,” the field encyclical, “Fratelli Tutti: on Fraternity are faculties and powers of the soul that Social engineering did not start with later adopted the friendlier term, “mass and Social Friendship,” Pope Francis says, require cultivation and practice. social media. It emerged more than a communication.” “Digital media can ... expose people to the It seems like it’s high time for a century ago when the nascent professions The Church, unlike Big Tech, is not risk of addiction, isolation and a gradual renewed pastoral emphasis on what it of public relations and advertising were in the business of social engineering. It loss of contact with concrete reality, really means to have a soul amid all the looking for ways to convince large was established to save souls. Through blocking the development of authentic secular efforts to predict and control numbers of people in this country to the divine liturgy and the sacraments, interpersonal relationships” (#43). human behavior. support U.S. involvement in World War I. the Church provides the “platforms” This is not a wholesale rejection Media research labs that focused on necessary to grow closer to God in of new technologies, rather, it is an (Brett Robinson is director of human behavior sprung up at places like holiness so that the soul can be at peace. admission that these new technologies communications and Catholic media Stanford and Princeton, funded by places Therefore, Church leaders should have the potential to lead to certain studies at the University of Notre Dame like the Ford Foundation. Government resist the temptation to view social disorders in the soul. McGrath Institute for Church Life.) †

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A supplement to Catholic newspapers published by Catholic News Service, 3211 Fourth Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20017-1100. All contents are copyrighted © 2020 by FaithAlive! Catholic News Service. All Saints’ Day is deeply rooted in history of the Church By Paul Senz

The author of the Letter to the Hebrews wrote, “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us rid ourselves of every burden and sin that clings to us and persevere in running the race that lies before us while keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the leader and perfecter of faith” (Heb 12:1-2). This passage is a beautiful description of the communion of saints, something so fundamental to the Christian faith that Christians express their belief in it when reciting the Apostles’ Creed. A saint is someone who is in heaven—it is as simple as that. While “saint” as a title is reserved to those whose lives the Church has thoroughly investigated (typically through whose intercession two miracles can be demonstrated to have occurred), the term applies to anyone in heaven. Everyone from your saintly grandmother to the martyrs facing death for Christ: They are all part of the communion of saints. The Church commemorates all these saints on All Saints’ Day. The history of the feast reveals a great deal about the Church’s understanding of the communion of saints. The communion of saints is the Church, both the living and dead. All Saints’ Day was not always a solemnity observed by the universal First-grader Angelina Wuerz, dressed as St. Angela, giggles as she and her classmates at St. Patrick School in Smithtown, N.Y., process from the school Church, and is not celebrated everywhere to an All Saints’ Day Mass in the parish church on Nov. 1, 2019. There are many ways children can celebrate All Saints’ Day, from dressing up as a saint, to on Nov. 1. The feast originated in the watching a movie about a saint or reading a book or comic book about the lives of the saints. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz) earliest centuries of the Church, when Christians commemorated the many Saints’ Day. Many of the Eastern Catholic This practice spread throughout of All Saints’ (“All Hallows’ Eve” or martyrs who died at the hands of their Churches still commemorate All Saints’ the Mediterranean and beyond, with “Hallow E’en”), but All Saints’ Day itself Roman persecutors. Day in the spring. commemorations of all saints showing up has become a bit of an afterthought. Because there were so many martyrs, After Christianity was legalized in Antioch, Rome, England, Salzburg and It shouldn’t be this way! The saints are they could not each have their own feast throughout the Roman Empire in 313 elsewhere. our friends, our intercessors, our brothers day, but they were seen as such important and the violent and bloody persecutions In the early seventh century, Pope and sisters in Christ. They care deeply for witnesses that the Christians did not want came to an end, it was common to Boniface IV dedicated the Roman us, and their lives are recognized by the to leave any of them out. commemorate the martyrs in various areas Pantheon—formerly a shrine to all Church as exemplary, as models to follow. As a result, a single commemoration around the empire. the gods of Roman mythology—as a So how can we celebrate this for “all the martyrs” was observed each We even see this referred to in the Christian church of the Blessed Virgin and wonderful feast of All Saints’ Day? spring, which celebrated those who did writings of the saints, with St. Ephrem all the martyrs. Whether you are commemorating not have their own unique feast. (d. 373) and St. John Chrysostom (d. 407) Pope Gregory III consecrated a chapel individually or in a group or a family, This is the earliest observance we making reference to a commemoration of at St. Peter’s Basilica to all the saints as there are many ways to observe this know about of something similar to All all saints. well, with an anniversary date of Nov. 1. solemnity. The most obvious is this: Go Rome adopted to Mass! It is a holy day of obligation, Nov. 1 as the and there is no more appropriate way date of the feast to commemorate the saintly lives of of All Saints those who have gone before us than the in the eighth eucharistic sacrifice. century, and in It is also good to do other liturgical or the ninth century prayerful things to mark the day: Pray the Pope Gregory Liturgy of the Hours for All Saints’ Day; IV extended that read the lives of the saints; watch a movie observance to about a saint; pray the litany of saints; the whole of the think back to your confirmation saint and Latin Church. study that saint’s life. Now, centuries Similarly, if any of your children later, All Saints’ share the name of a saint, learn about Day is a holy day that saint together: Read about the saint of obligation and and pray together, asking for the saint’s recognized as intercession. one of the most There are also a number of creative important feasts and fun games that can be played to help on the liturgical celebrate All Saints’ Day. Try putting calendar. on a play of the life of a saint (many However, in Halloween costumes can be repurposed to American culture be saints costumes). There are books for the celebration all ages, coloring books and even comic of Halloween books featuring the saints. typically All Saints’ Day is the perfect time to overshadows the pray to all these holy men and women, commemoration asking for their intercession for the of All Saints’ conversion of sinners, so that we might all Day. become saints. Most of us The Pantheon is pictured during the evening in Rome on Feb. 29. In the seventh century, Pope Boniface IV dedicated the Roman realize that (Paul Senz works for Ignatius Press and is Pantheon—formerly a shrine to the Roman gods—as a Christian church of the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. Halloween is in a freelance writer who lives with his wife (CNS photo/Paul Haring) reality the vigil and four children in Oregon.) † Page 12A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Perspectives Living Well/Maureen Pratt Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher Career as a medical ethicist is worth considering The communion of The ongoing pandemic has exposed This sharp decline in the number of first careers, but experts advise that the saints is our great significant disparities in the availability medical ethicists will have significant growing ethical complexities in health care and quality of health care and, on a impacts on many areas where modern and society at large make specific training family of faith personal level, has medicine and Christian living intersect. and study a must. highlighted the Medical ethicists work in a variety of A master’s degree or doctorate in My youngest son Colin was only 2 often-tough decisions places, including hospitals, hospital systems, theology with a focus in ethics is a helpful when my mom Debbi Gallagher passed people face about their research and public policy development. course to take, particularly if it offers away five years ago. I have poignant or their loved ones’ They might assist patients, their families clinical experience. memories of my wife care, especially with and physicians in individual cases, such as With a first doctorate in genetics, Cindy carrying him regard to end-of-life with advanced care planning, or work at Paul Scherz, associate professor of moral into her hospital room considerations. the organizational level of Catholic health theology at The Catholic University of when my family and I In the midst of care institutions, where mission (how the America, is an example of someone who came to visit her just these very real-world institution reflects its Catholic values in the chose medical ethics as a second career. days before she died. challenges are important ethical and moral work it does) is critical. “There were all kinds of ethical It was the last time considerations, and it is into this milieu Genetics counseling, end-of-life issues debates in the first [area],” he said. “I that Colin got to see that the Catholic medical ethicist seeks to and development and testing of new wanted to bring the theological end into her and she him. bring moral understanding and clarity. drugs are some of the areas in the field of these problems, and use my expertise to As he grows up, But, at a time when the need for ethics health care that are rapidly growing, and engage in the debates.” he likely won’t have to inform health care has never been often have serious moral implications that The field of Catholic medical ethics memories of her. But he’ll hopefully greater, some statistics reveal a stark can benefit from the input of a trained is not easy, said Scherz. “Moral theology know about her well enough that he’ll reality: The number of trained Catholic Christian medical ethicist. questions are tough questions.” feel like she was an important part of his medical ethicists is decreasing. “We are trying to promote the values But the ability to combine ethics, life, which she truly was and continues Nathaniel Blanton Hibner, director of that we see inherent within faith-based faith and a heart for health care can be to be. ethics for the Catholic Health Association health care,” said Hibner. “We’re helping powerful. A way that Cindy, his brothers and (CHA), said, “The most recent survey to navigate those difficult decisions in “Catholic health care is a ministry, too,” I will make this happen for Colin is to data from two years ago found that light of the values that we hold.” said Scherz. “It’s not just a delivery of tell him stories about her—many stories, there are about 80-90 ethicists across In the past, most medical ethicists have medical services.” funny stories, touching stories, stories the United States, mostly employed by a come from a variety of backgrounds, such Information about programs and careers from across her life. health care facility or organization. The as law, medicine, philosophy or theology, in Catholic health care ethics is available While my older boys all have survey also showed that, among these, but there have been few formal training at www.chausa.org/ethics/overview. memories of my mom, they never knew one-third plan to retire in the next five programs. my grandparents and Cindy’s, all of years, and another third plans to retire in Today, people entering the field (Maureen Pratt’s website is www. whom either died before Cindy and I six to 10 years.” may still have had entirely different maureenpratt.com.) † were even married or when our oldest boys were very young. Making A Difference/Tony Magliano But, as with telling Colin stories about my mom, I’ve told them many Encyclical offers a roadmap to live as one human family stories about my grandparents, Victor and Opal Gallagher and Richard and Louise With so much of humanity sickened revive among all a worldwide aspiration to Reflecting on the enormous Phillips. They like to hear them, even in soul and body by greed, self-centered fraternity.” destructive power of modern though I’ve told them the stories so many indifference to suffering, inequality, But the pope emphasizes that weaponry—especially upon innocent times they know them by heart. polarization and tremendous obstacles stand in the way of civilians—Pope Francis declared: “We Sharing stories in this way is an violence, Pope Francis establishing universal brotherhood, and can no longer think of war as a solution, important way that we make connections has wonderfully that we must have the faith and courage to because its risks will probably always in families across many generations— seized the moment by overcome them. be greater than its supposed benefits. In connections that, with the help of God’s giving to our wounded He laments that “instances of a myopic, view of this, it is very difficult nowadays grace, won’t simply last for a lifetime, but world the balm of extremist, resentful and aggressive to invoke the rational criteria elaborated for all eternity. his new inspiring and nationalism are on the rise.” in earlier centuries to speak of the This is how the communion of the challenging social The Holy Father warns against the possibility of a ‘just war.’ Never again saints is manifested in our lives of faith, encyclical letter titled widespread narrow-minded, unchristian war!” too. Our family of faith spans 2,000 years “Fratelli Tutti: On notion that the territory beyond our village This authoritative papal teaching is and comes from all parts of the world. Fraternity and Social Friendship.” or country belongs to the “barbarian,” and a significant step in moving the Church Yet we can make the saints a real and Pope Francis warns that humanity is that whoever “comes from there cannot be away from the just-war theory and back effective part of our lives when we learn largely going down the wrong road, and trusted,” and that new walls—including to its original Gospel-centered, Christ-like their stories and how they passed on the needs a radical transformative change “walls in the heart”—must be erected for teaching of total nonviolence. faith that is the heart of who we are here of direction. He writes, “Just as I was self-preservation against “them.” Pope Francis prophetically urges us not and now. writing this letter, the COVID-19 pandemic He adds, “People are no longer felt as a to slip back into the old significantly sick That is what we will celebrate on All unexpectedly broke in and exposed our primary value to be respected and protected, “normal,” but instead to have the faith and Saints Day this Sunday. All celebrations false securities. … If anyone thinks it especially if they are poor or disabled, if courage to build a better world saying: of the Eucharist are moments when our was just about making what we were they are not needed yet—like the unborn— “The pain, uncertainty and fear, and the family of faith, both on Earth and in already doing work better, or that the or no longer needed—like the elderly.” realization of our own limitations, brought heaven, come together to give praise and only message is that we need to improve The pontiff notes a global “moral on by the pandemic have only made it all thanks to God, the Father of our great and existing systems and rules, they are deterioration” and a “weakening of spiritual the more urgent that we rethink our styles wondrous family. denying reality.” values and responsibility.” As an example, the of life, our relationships, the organization But the Solemnity of All Saints Instead, the Holy Father is urging us to pope points to the unacceptable silence on the of our societies and, above all, the brings this reality into a special focus. build a Gospel-centered fraternal global international level toward countless children meaning of our existence.” The first reading for Mass on All Saints alternative that replaces our “throwaway “emaciated from poverty and hunger. … Only Day gives us a glimpse of the fullness culture” with the “culture of encounter.” when our economic and social system no (Tony Magliano is an internationally of this celebration of our family of faith He writes, “I very much desire that, in this longer produces even a single victim, a single syndicated Catholic social justice and in heaven when “a great multitude” of time that we are given to live, recognizing person cast aside, will we be able to celebrate peace columnist. He can be reached people “from every nation, race, people the dignity of every human person, we can the feast of universal fraternity.” at [email protected].) † and tongue” stand before God’s throne and cry out, “ ‘Salvation comes from our The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick God, who is seated on the throne, and from the Lamb’ ” (Rv 7:9-10). In this time of the coronavirus A look at new millennium leadership to address our fears pandemic, when we are saddened Fear is mounting that the Arctic will They will be leaders who sense danger maintaining personal dignity. because our family of faith on Earth is reach historic levels of ice melt, and there and fear but do not succumb to fear, As our technological age progresses more separated than we would like it will be absurdly high temperatures and because they have familiarized themselves rapidly, this modern leadership will to be, call to your mind and heart this consuming wildfires with it when growing up. possess a knowledgeable relationship with great vision of the celebration to which in an area meant to be They will not treat danger as a mere it and respect for it. God invites all of us. At this blessed the definition of cold. adventure, but will react to it with a They will know that when things are wedding feast of the Lamb, our Lord There are also global perspective and view it as their left to themselves, they retrogress. They will “wipe away every tear from [our] fears that COVID-19 responsibility for the entire world. will acknowledge that the world is in the eyes, and there shall be no more death will continue far into These new leaders will possess a hands of freedom and hence will feel or mourning, wailing or pain, for the old 2021, climate change sense of heartfelt love, love of the responsibility for the kinds of freedom that order has passed away” (Rv 21:4). will increase wildfires, world deepened by the precariousness, will exist. As we prepare for and await the day devastating flooding vulnerability and helplessness of their When America faced grave fears when our heavenly Father welcomes us to and bizarre weather beloved. in the last century, President Franklin this feast, it is also good and comforting patterns. There are also fears that anxiety They will have the zest to look danger D. Roosevelt stated, “The only thing we for us to learn about the saints, our will dramatically increase psychological in the eye and be straightforward with it. have to fear is fear itself.” brothers and sisters in faith who will join and physical sicknesses. A third world war Political possibilities will play into the Horrific fears exist that can unnerve us in that great celebration. to end all wars is a growing possibility. equation of dealing with fear, but will be our very bones. Coping with them When we hear these stories again and Present leaders are unprepared for these based primarily on the common good. The will be leaders who possess backbone again, God will weave them into our overwhelming challenges confronting the cry of the people will be heard, and more strengthened by a loving heart, devotion to hearts and make them part of our own world. important, the cry for righteousness and chivalry and wisdom. story, just as Cindy and I have, with Undoubtedly, these fears are calling justice. God’s help, made the stories of my mom for a brand of modern leaders unlike any These leaders will practice discipline (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for and our grandparents a part of the lives of before. How might they look and act? aimed at adhering to their conscience and Catholic News Service.) † our sons. † The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Page 13A

Solemnity of All Saints/Msgr. Owen F. Campion Daily Readings The Sunday Readings Monday, November 2 Thursday, November 5 Sunday, November 1, 2020 The Commemoration of All the Philippians 3:3-8a Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Psalm 105:2-7 • Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 Day) Luke 15:1-10 • 1 John 3:1-3 Wisdom 3:1-9 • Matthew 5:1-12 Psalm 23:1-6 Friday, November 6 Romans 5:5-11 Philippians 3:17-4:1 Today, the Church celebrates the is open to anyone, regardless of nation, John 6:37-40 Psalm 122:1-5 Solemnity of All Saints, liturgically race or gender. Salvation comes to people Luke 16:1-8 replacing the observance of the through Jesus, the innocent lamb of Thirty‑first Sunday in sacrifice on Calvary, gloriously risen, Tuesday, November 3 Ordinary Time. reigning forever, surrounded by the angels. St. Martin de Porres, religious Saturday, November 7 Setting aside a The next reading is from the First Philippians 2:5-11 Philippians 4:10-19 Sunday in Ordinary Epistle of St. John. This reading also Psalm 22:26b-32 Psalm 112:1b-2, 5-6, 8a, 9 Time for a feast day insists that salvation is available to all Luke 14:15-24 Luke 16:9-15 signals that the Church and that Jesus is the Savior. Through regards the feast to be Jesus, the eternal Son of God taking on highly significant, in human flesh in the Incarnation, we are the Wednesday, November 4 Sunday, November 8 great measure because Lord’s adopted brothers and sisters, heirs St. Charles Borromeo, bishop Thirty-second Sunday in of the lesson the feast therefore of eternal life. Following Jesus Philippians 2:12-18 Ordinary Time teaches. with the help of God’s grace is the key to Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14 Wisdom 6:12-16 This is the case for today’s celebration realizing this wondrous status. Luke 14:25-33 Psalm 63:2-8 of All Saints. The feast is ancient in St. Matthew’s Gospel is the source Catholic history. Traces of it appeared as of the final reading. The two preceding 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 early as the seventh century. It became readings told us that reflecting Jesus, or 1 Thessalonians 4:13-14 popular among believers and since 1484 uncompromisingly, in our own lives Matthew 25:1-13 it has been a major solemnity, now connects us with the Lord and brings us the observed as a holy day of obligation. divine promise for our eternal salvation. It honors the many men and women In this Gospel passage, we find the Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle from all walks of life throughout the actual blueprint for attaining this goal of centuries whose reputation for sanctity, salvation in Jesus. We must be merciful, often gained at a great cost, earned humble, righteous, thirsty for justice and Catholics may, under certain conditions, them the Church’s formal recognition in clean of heart, and we must make peace canonization. The feast also reminds us with others. These beatitudes, called by licitly accept abortion-related vaccinations that many other saints, unremembered some the “Ten Commandments of the but numerous, add luster to Christian New Testament,” precisely and clearly I have been reading about vaccines I am 69 years old and a new Catholic. tradition. Although not canonized, they define Christian life. Qbeing developed that use cell lines QMy wife and I would like to restate achieved eternal life. The lesson is that from aborted fetuses. Can you explain to our vows in a Catholic Mass. However, I a reward awaits us if, with the help of Reflection me the Catholic teaching with regard to was previously married 40 years ago for a God’s grace, we persevere in faithfulness. All Saints Day offers a powerful lesson. using these cell lines? short time. My first wife has passed away, The Book of Revelation provides the On this great feast day, the Church places (New York) but she had married again and I don’t even first reading. Probably no other volume in before us that great multitude of the holy know her marriage name. the New Testament has suffered as much whose very lives testify to the fact that Currently, the Our local deacon has told me that from inexact and even hysterical attempts total devotion to Christ is possible with Aonly vaccines since she has died, there is no need for an at analysis. About two centuries ago, for God’s help. Such devotion characterized readily available in annulment, but that I have to prove she instance, an American Protestant preacher Peter, Paul, Mary Magdalen, Francis of the United States for is dead either by a death certificate or an proclaimed far and wide that Revelation Assisi, Theresa of Avila, Junipero Serra, rubella, chickenpox obituary. But since it was so long ago, I can predicted the steam engine, and it would Maximilian Kolbe and Katherine Drexel. and Hepatitis A have find neither one. I feel like I’m in a Catch-22 be an instrument of the devil. The day is much, much more been manufactured position. What can I do? (Louisiana) Actually, the book is a marvelous than a memorial. It is a call and an using fetal tissue from testimony to the faith of its author, encouragement. Granted, great pressures procured abortions. Your question is a Not to worry. Fortunately, the traditionally believed to be St. John. may confront us, some peculiar to our good one: What should a Catholic do if AChurch’s Code of Canon Law has In vivid, enthusiastic and compelling own circumstances, others from whatever faced with this dilemma? already envisioned a situation such as you language, quite evident in this reading, is around us in the culture and the In 2005, the Pontifical Academy for describe. Canon 1707 provides that the Revelation looks to that blessed day, conventions of our time. Life spoke directly to this question, diocesan bishop can issue a declaration perhaps heavenly but maybe on Earth, As did human beings everywhere and and the answer was that Catholics may of presumed death, which would then when Christ will reign supreme. always, we face temptations from the make a choice. In cases where no other free you and your new wife to repeat your Goodness and righteousness will triumph. world, the flesh and the devil. Often, they alternative is available, Catholics may marriage vows in the presence of a priest Today’s reading affirms several beliefs are strong, but temptations can be resisted licitly accept vaccination for themselves and at a Catholic Mass. always cherished by Christians. God is with the help of grace. Faith and hope will and their children; or they may choose The bishop, however, could do so supreme. Jesus is the Son of God. Earthly sustain us, as faith sustained the martyrs. to refuse it “if it can be done without only after having done “appropriate death is not the end. For the holy, life Revelation and First John insist that causing children, and indirectly the investigations” and having reached “moral continues in God’s presence. Salvation following Christ is worth any price. † population as a whole, to undergo certitude” of the death of your first wife. significant risks to their health.” That investigation would include gathering The abortions happened 50 or 60 years testimony from witnesses (#1707.2). My Journey to God ago, and the present user of the vaccine So, think back to how you learned about played no role in that immoral decision. the death of your first wife—who told you In April 2020, John Di Camillo, about it, where did you read it, how many an ethicist with the National Catholic people knew about it? And then try to National Tears Bioethics Center in Philadelphia, offered contact witnesses—I would think at least in an interview that same option. He two, other than yourself—who would be By Terry McDermott noted that there is an obligation for willing to speak to the bishop and attest to researchers to avoid the use of biological your first wife’s passing. Sixty-plus million will never soar, material secured immorally, but he Killed in the current civil war. explained that, when a vaccine using fetal (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth Americans killing Americans cell lines is the only one available, “one Doyle at [email protected] and Like never before, is allowed to make use of it where there’s 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York As abortion cuts to the core. a serious threat to the health or life of the 12203.) † individual, or of the greater population.” Tiny coffins in a row, There is an obligation for Catholic leaders Readers may submit prose From Annapolis to Sacramento. to voice strong concern that vaccines be or poetry for faith column From east to west, harvested without threatening human life. We may have killed America’s best. In April 2020, Archbishop Joseph The Criterion invites readers to submit F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., original prose or poetry relating to faith or God rides the wings of prayer, chairman of the U.S. Conference of experiences of prayer for possible publication in the “My Journey to God” column. A tear in His eye, He does care. Catholic Bishops Committee on Pro‑Life Seasonal reflections also are appreciated. Indifference is the evil we see, Activities, along with several other “Poems should be no longer than We can never, ever let it be. bishops, wrote to the commissioner of 25 lines (including lines between stanzas the Federal Drug Administration, urging if applicable) of either 44 characters Filled with holy discontent, him to ensure that any vaccines developed (including spaces) to allow room for a Stand for life, never relent. for the coronavirus “are free of any staff‑selected photo, or 79 characters Far from the end of the story, connection to abortion.” (including spaces) if no photo is desired.” God will triumph in glory. There is some encouraging news in Please include name, address, parish and that direction. Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s telephone number with submissions. largest biotech company devoted entirely Send material for consideration to “My (Terry McDermott lives in Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif. Crosses representing Journey to God,” The Criterion, 1400 N. aborted babies stand in contrast to a backdrop of fall colors near Jesus the Divine to vaccines, announced recently that it is Meridian­ St., Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367 Word Church in Huntingtown, Md., Oct. 29.) (CNS photo/Bob Roller) no longer using an aborted fetal cell line or e-mail to [email protected]. † to produce its polio vaccine. Page 14A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020

Father of Ern and Eric Elder. O’BRIEN, Charles C., 85, Brother of Allyson Cravens and Our Lady of the Greenwood, Joey Elder. Greenwood, Oct. 3. Husband FOGARTY, Ann M. (Barry), of Rosemary O’Brien. Rest in 79, Prince of Peace, Madison, Father of Kelly O’Brien Oct. 14. Mother of Maureen Gartenhaus and John O’Brien. peace Banning, Margaret Daly, Stepfather of Kim Lain Kathleen Paz and John Fogarty. Cramer, Doug and Michael Sister of Peggy Catanzaro. Lain. Brother of Denise Please submit in writing Grandmother of eight. to our office by 10 a.m. Fruchtnicht, Monica O’Brien Thursday before the week of GERBERICK, Alma P., 95, and Linda Ricke. Grandfather publication; be sure to state St. Jude, Indianapolis, of five. Step‑grandfather date of death. Obituaries of Oct. 7. Mother of Sandy of six. archdiocesan priests serving Jackson, Phyllis Lance, Donna our archdiocese are listed Schultz, Randall and Steven PENNINGTON, Robert elsewhere in The Criterion. Ritter. Sister of Ed Maxwell. D., 67, St. Mary, North Order priests and religious Grandmother of seven. Great- Vernon, Oct. 16. Husband sisters and brothers are grandmother of eight. Great- of Carol Pennington. Father included here, unless they are great-grandmother of two. of Brandy Rodriguez and natives of the archdiocese or HESS, Frances, 100, St. Mary, John Pennington. Brother have other connections­ to it; of Hope Deppe and Jerry those are separate obituaries Lanesville, Oct. 4. Mother Pennington. Grandfather of on this page. of Marilyn Fuhrman, Shirley Jones, Larry, Robert and two. Tony Hess. Grandmother of PETRONIE, Angeline, 75, BANET, Robert, Jr., 71, 19. Great-grandmother of 42. St. Jude, Indianapolis, St. Mary, Lanesville, Sept. 3. Great-great-grandmother of Oct. 8. Wife of Edward Husband of Tere Banet. Father two. of Bethany Banet. Brother Petronie. Mother of Sara Keen, of Sheree Banet, Debby JOHNSON, Julia M. (Eck), Jennifer Sheard and Michael McDaniel and Vickie Meredith. 48, Our Lady of the Petronie. Grandmother of three. Grandfather of two. Greenwood, Greenwood, Oct. 18. Wife of Don Johnson. PURDY, Sr., Robert D., 86, DICKEY, Gerald, 83, Mother of Caitlin, Jacob and St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, St. Roch, Indianapolis, Oct. 4. Nate Johnson. Daughter of Oct. 13. Father of Tina Dixon, Husband of MaryAnn Dickey. Richard and Patricia Eck. Father of Lisa Babb, John and Sherri Hoggatt, Suzanne and Sister of Dan, Kevin and Randy Thomas Dickey. Brother of Robert Purdy, Jr. Brother of Eck. George Ashworth. Grandfather Vivian McKee and William of eight. (correction) JOHNSON, Kenneth L., 66, Purdy. Grandfather of eight. St. Augustine, Jeffersonville, DONLAN, Mary Lou, 89, Great-grandfather of 15. Oct. 15. Brother of Dorothy Holy Spirit, Indianapolis, RAY, Charles W., 95, Kelly, Donald Johnson and Oct. 8. Mother of Carol Hill, St. Vincent de Paul, Bedford, Kathy Means, Jim, John and Mike Lomangino. Uncle of Autumn in Indy several. Oct. 15. Father of Charla, T.C. Donlan. Grandmother of Elizabeth and Charles A statue of an angel marks a tombstone at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis on 18. Great-grandmother of 16. MCGILL, Mary K., 82, Ray. Grandfather of five. Oct. 14 amid the beauty of autumn leaves. (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) St. Thomas More, Mooresville, ECKSTEIN, Carol J., Great‑grandfather of five. 91, St. Nicholas, Ripley Sept. 30. Mother of Janet County, Oct. 8. Mother Weeks and Paula Wilson. WILHELM, Earl L., 77, of Kathy Johnson, Anita Sister of Gloria Gramme. All Saints, Dearborn County, Providence Sister Dorothy Drobis Wallace, Darrell, Greg, Mark, Grandmother of three. Oct. 9. Husband of Roberta served in Catholic schools for 40 years Rodney and Steve Eckstein. Great‑grandmother of two. Wilhelm. Father of Kelly Providence Sister Dorothy Drobis (formerly During her 68 years as a member of Sister of Laurene Britton, MCGUINNESS, Nicholas, Baker, Victoria, Earl and Jacob Shirley Campbell and Daren 40, St. Pius X, Indianapolis, Wilhelm. Brother of Judy Sister Irene Therese) died on Oct. 15 at Mother the Sisters of Providence, Sister Dorothy Theodore Hall at the motherhouse of the spent 40 years as an educator in schools Lattire. Grandmother of 20. Oct. 6. Son of Bernie and Kraus, Bob and John Wilhelm. Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the- in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina and Great‑grandmother of 30. Michele McGuinness. Grandfather of four. Great-great-grandmother of 13. Brother of Courtney Cooper, Woods in St. Mary-of-the-Woods. She was 88. Oklahoma. In the archdiocese, she served YOUNG, Patricia, 76, EFINGER, Joyce, 83, St. Paul, Shannon Kennedy and Bernie Because of the coronavirus pandemic, at St. Joan of Arc School in Indianapolis Tell City, Oct. 16. Wife of McGuinness, III. Uncle of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, a virtual funeral service was held. Burial from 1956-58. After returning to live at the James Efinger. Mother of several. Richmond, Oct. 17. Mother followed at the sisters’ cemetery. motherhouse, Sister Dorothy ministered as of Wendy Bane, Beth Carter, Jane Efinger-Hayden and MEINERS, Joseph, 93, Sister Dorothy was born on Feb. 20, coordinator of health care transportation Barbara Walling. Sister of Janet Most Sacred Heart of Cynthia Ropp, Drew, John and 1932, in Chicago. She entered the Sisters from 2000-06. In 2016, she committed Tillman. Grandmother of two. Jesus, Jeffersonville, Oct. 2. Mark Duncan. Stepmother of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods herself entirely to prayer. Great‑grandmother of five. Father of Catherine Bremmer, of Christina Embry. Sister on Feb. 2, 1952, and professed final vows Memorial gifts may be sent to the Sisters ELDER, Barry L., 64, Lee Phelps. Teresa Weber, of Mary Barth and Nancy on Aug. 15, 1959. Sister Dorothy earned a of Providence, 1 Sisters of Providence Road, St. Paul, Tell City, Oct. 20. Charles and William Meiners. Manning. Grandmother of 18. bachelor’s and a master’s degree at Northern Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of-the- Husband of Mary Elder. Grandfather of 10. Great‑grandmother of nine. † Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill. Woods, IN 47876. † Vatican extends provisional agreement with China on naming bishops VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Vatican and the Chinese “The Holy See considers the initial application Chinese government to the promotion of a more fruitful government will extend an agreement signed in 2018 of the agreement—which is of great ecclesial and exercise of religious freedom,” it said. regarding the appointment of bishops. pastoral value—to have been positive, thanks to good “The journey is still long and not without difficulty,” it As the initial agreement expired on Oct. 22, the communication and cooperation between the parties on added. two sides “have agreed to extend the experimental the matters agreed upon, and intends to pursue an open While some political leaders have scrutinized the pact implementation phase of the provisional agreement for and constructive dialogue for the benefit of the life of the through a merely geopolitical lens, it said, for the Holy another two years,” the Vatican said in a communique the Catholic Church and the good of Chinese people,” it said. See, the agreement centered on conforming with the same day. The agreement was first signed in Beijing on Sept. 22, two principles: “Where Peter is, there is the Church,” in 2018, and took effect one month later. reference to the primacy of the pope as bishop of Rome; The provisional agreement, the text of which has and “Where there is the bishop, there is the Church.” never been made public, outlines procedures for ensuring The special role of the pontiff in the naming of bishops Online Lay Ministry Formation Catholic bishops are elected by the Catholic community and among the community of bishops is what “inspired The Archdiocese of Indianapolis has partnered with the in China and approved by the pope before their the talks and was the reference point in drawing up the University of Notre Dame and Catholic Distance University (CDU) to offer not-for-credit online theology classes: ordinations and installations, according to news reports at text’s agreement,” the article said. “That will assure, the time. bit by bit along the way, both the unity in faith and • Earn certificate in Lay Ministry • Complete 12 courses online with ND STEP program Vatican officials always had said that giving up full communion among the bishops, and full service fostering • CDU offers classes on Catechism of the Catholic Church control over the choice of bishops would not be what the the Catholic community in China.” • 20% discount for all employees, volunteers, and parishioners Vatican hoped for, but that it could be a good first step The agreement has meant that, for the first time in toward ensuring greater freedom and security for the decades, all of the Catholic bishops in China are in full For more information, please log on to Catholic community in China. communion with the pope and there will no longer be www.archindy.org/layministry Pope Francis told reporters in September 2018 illegitimate ordinations, that is, bishops ordained with that the agreement envisions “a dialogue about government approval, but not the Vatican’s consent. potential candidates. The matter is carried out through In the two years since the agreement was first signed, dialogue. But the appointment is made by Rome; the two bishops acceptable both to the Vatican and to Beijing REPORT SEXUAL MISCONDUCT NOW appointment is by the pope. This is clear. And we pray have been named and a number of other appointments are If you are a victim of sexual misconduct by a person ministering on for the suffering of some who do not understand or at various stages, the article said. behalf of the Church, or if you know of anyone who has been a victim who have many years of clandestine existence behind While that does not seem to be a big number, it said, of such misconduct, please contact the archdiocesan victim assistance them.” it still marks a very good beginning in the hopes of coordinator. There are two ways to make a report: The Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano continued positive results. Ethics Point published an article on Oct. 22 explaining the motivations The main objective, it said, is to “support and 1 Confidential, Online Reporting www.archdioceseofindianapolis.ethicspoint.com or 888-393-6810 for and objectives of the provisional agreement. promote the proclamation of the Gospel in these lands, Carla Hill, Archdiocese of Indianapolis, Victim Assistance Coordinator But the article also said it is important to recognize reinvigorating the full and visible unity of the Church.” 2 P.O. Box 1410, Indianapolis, IN 46206-1410 many situations of “great suffering” still exist for the As top Vatican officials have already underlined, the 317-236-1548 or 800-382-9836, ext. 1548 faithful in China. article said the agreement focused only on the nomination [email protected] “The Holy See is deeply aware, is taking this well of bishops, not the many other issues and situations that into account and does not fail to draw the attention of the remain and “still cause concern for the Church.” † The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 Page 15A

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Sleeps 16 – 18 Serving people with Autism & Formation, and collaborate with other Vicariate and Chancery staff in managing Developmental Disabilities Wheelchair Accessible the daily work of the office. Responsibilities include providing receptionist ∙ Medicaid Waiver ( CIH & FSW) services, processing incoming mail, acting as the primary public relations contact Only One Hour South of Indianapolis ∙ Residential, Community, Respite 500 feet from Brown County and PAC Services for the office, responding to requests for information, scheduling appointments, ∙ Staff screened and trained maintaining files, updating databases, preparing appointment letters, developing Phone – (317) 739-7900 Kathy and Terry Huser a monthly newsletter, and facilitating preparations for meetings. (317) 255-5700 www.HuserSpecialCare.com Career Opportunities Available The position requires the ability to communicate orally and in writing with sensitivity, accuracy and discretion, excellent organizational skills, ability to take initiative and work collaboratively with others, proficiency with Microsoft Employment Office software, and knowledge of Catholic organizations and their operations. A bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field is preferred. At least three years of administrative or general office experience is required, and Director of Evangelization, Family Life, experience in vocational and/or personnel fields is preferred. To apply, please e-mail a cover letter, resume, and list of references, in and Pastoral Ministries confidence, to: St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church, in the Diocese of Lafayette, Ind., is currently accepting applications for the position of Director of Evangelization, Family Ed Isakson Life, and Pastoral Ministries. The position will assist the Missionary Pastor with Director, Human Resources the pastoral care of the Seton Pastorate. This will require, above all, a personal Archdiocese of Indianapolis authenticity of Catholic life. Before programs, before numbers, before finances, 1400 N. Meridian St. the focus of evangelization is Jesus Christ. A personal knowledge and relationship Indianapolis, IN 46202 with Christ will be essential to the success of this ministry. E-mail: [email protected]

This role includes a team approach to creative pastoral planning along with the Equal Opportunity Employer supervision of directors and/or coordinators of the following ministry areas: Catholic formation, liturgy and music, pastoral and community care, and other parish ministries and outreach. The Director will support, accompany, and equip leaders in these ministerial areas to focus their efforts on both Seton parishioners and the community at large as they strive to facilitate and enable disciples of Archives Assistant Jesus Christ. Our objective is to build a vibrant fellowship of inspiring men and women to be witnesses of Christ to the city of Carmel and to the world. The Archdiocese of Indianapolis is seeking a temporary archives assistant to work 15 hours per week through June 30, 2021. The Office of the Archives collects and Essential Duties: preserves documents, photographs, records, and other materials that pertain • Collaborate closely with the Missionary Pastor and the Director of Operations to the origin, history, and administration of the archdiocese. The staff of the to discern the needs of the parish to plan accordingly for the future of the archives provides assistance and support to archdiocesan offices and agencies, community. parishes, and individual researchers. • Lead and manage those performing pastoral ministries in the parish to strategically accomplish parish mission, build a culture of teamwork, and Responsibilities include: assisting patrons with reference requests, including for provide coherency across varied programs. parish histories, archdiocesan departmental records, sacramental records, and • Collaborate with the office of the diocesan Director of Evangelization, Family genealogical research; processing collections and creating collection guides; Life, and Pastoral Ministries and their counterparts in other pastorates. special projects including the creation of digital collections, website updates, • Establish, facilitate, and coordinate customary management activities and social media posts; as well as completing other related tasks and projects as for those engaged in pastoral ministry, including recruitment, retention, directed and assigned by the archivist. formation, and performance management. • Utilize effective experience in Catholic theology and pastoral practice to Candidates must have strong written and verbal communication skills, inform decision making. organizational and planning skills, and basic computing skills, including Excel. • Develop, in collaboration with the Director of Operations, an annual budget Frequent lifting is required, and the assistant archivist must be able to lift up to for ministries within the parish. 30 pounds. • Foster an environment of inclusion with multi-cultural and multi-ethnic communities, persons with disabilities, and other groups within the Seton Please e-mail cover letter, resume, and list of references, in confidence, to: Pastorate and community. Ed Isakson Education/Experience: Director, Human Resources Applicants must be practicing Catholics with full personal commitment to the Archdiocese of Indianapolis teaching of the Catholic Church. Preferred candidates will have three or more 1400 N. Meridian St. years of experience in parish ministry and/or management of a not-for- profit Indianapolis, IN 46202 organization, bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university with E-mail: [email protected] study in Theology, Divinity, Pastoral Studies, or the equivalent. Additionally, applicants need strong ability to communicate effectively, able to honor and Equal Opportunity Employer maintain confidentiality, capable to pass, observe, and maintain diocesan child safety protocols for self and others.

Qualified candidate should email a current resume and cover letter to: [email protected] Call 317-236-1585 St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Church 10655 Haverstick Road TO ADVERTISE IN The Criterion Carmel, IN 46033 Page 16A The Criterion Friday, October 30, 2020 St. Mary Parish food pantry wins prestigious award By Leslie Lynch While Lanesville’s Harrison County Special to The Criterion has not experienced a similar tragedy, many in the mostly rural county lack for LANESVILLE—No one enters a food. “You wouldn’t know how many ministry of service with an eye fixed on people are hungry,” said Cooper, “until receiving accolades. When Diane Cooper you spend time at the pantry.” established Breaking Bread food pantry Cooper faced her own challenges at St. Mary Parish in Lanesville, all she as Breaking Bread grew, even as wanted was to feed the hungry. After all, then-St. Mary pastor Father Harold those people were hungry year-round, Ripperger, always a fan of the Society not just during parish food drives at of St. Vincent de Paul, encouraged her Thanksgiving and Christmas. fledgling ministry. Yet 11 years later, Dare to Care, At first, she maintained the pantry in a Kentuckiana food bank serving 13 her business space in nearby Corydon. counties surrounding Louisville, recently Aiming for the ability to distribute more presented the 2020 Bobby Ellison Award food, she attempted to partner with of Excellence to Breaking Bread. Dare to Care. Citing too many pantries The merit-based award, named in Corydon, Dare to Care rejected her for a 9-year-old child who died of application. starvation in Louisville the day before Disappointed but undaunted, Cooper Thanksgiving in 1969, can be given to moved the pantry to Lanesville. It as many as five of the more than 200 eventually landed in its present location partner agencies of Dare to Care. in the lower level of a house acquired by Laura Frankrone, left, a Dare to Care representative, presents a 2020 Bobby Ellison Award of Some years, the award is not the parish. Excellence to Breaking Bread volunteers. Pictured to her left are Nancy Rochner, Jackson Rochner presented, and rarely is it given to Dare to Care approved partnership in (child), Mark Rochner, Dolores Dotson, Diane Cooper (with plaque and check), Mike Seng, Dennis five recipients. This year, St. Mary’s 2012, and the number of families served Maschino and Jim Newman. (Submitted photo) Breaking Bread shared the honor doubled immediately, in part because of with Lincoln Hills United Methodist the changed demographic, and because so many people in this area be able to compassion,” said Deacon Cooper. “They Church in English, Ind.; and Bellarmine of Dare to Care’s listing of Breaking access more food, and not have to drive are what make Breaking Bread work.” University Knight’s Pantry, Life Bread as a partner on its website. all the way into Corydon. This was The addition of commodities is a Church’s The Dream Center, and the From a humble beginning, serving a huge program expansion, and they rich resource stream for low-income Lowe-Bowen Family Resource Center, 34 families with 10 volunteers in 2008, handled it the best I’ve ever seen.” families in these uncertain times. And all in Louisville. more than 300 unduplicated families Dare to Care also cited St. Mary’s food donations from parishioners, the Dare to Care was created by a have received food from Breaking Bread Helping Hand Clothes Closet, located backbone of the pantry, now go further shocked Louisville community 51 years annually for the past six years. Between in the upper level of the home, and in serving the general public. ago. “How can a child starve to death 1,000 and 1,200 children receive food the coordination of hours between the Although Father Ripperger did not here? Never again,” they vowed. each year, as do more than 500 seniors two ministries as factors influencing live to see it, St. Mary has become a and nearly 100 veterans. their choice to grant the award to hub of service for the poor in southern Dare to Care’s Laura Frankrone Breaking Bread. Indiana, like the Society of St. Vincent presented the 2020 Bobby Ellison “People can meet both needs without de Paul. And though Diane Cooper did Award of Excellence plaque and a extra trips,” said Frankrone. not set out to win an award, she and her check for $500 to Cooper, saying, “Last Breaking Bread not only trained team are delighted at their hard-earned year, Breaking Bread was asked to go its volunteers in the distribution of recognition. beyond their comfort level to serve the commodities, but increased its volunteer From the flicker of an idea—what needs of the community by adding the pool by 25%, now boasting a team if?—to an award winning ministry, distribution of USDA commodities. We of 62. Mary Eisert has been with the Breaking Bread food pantry has become were impressed with the way Diane pantry from its inception, and Linda and a light on a hill, feeding the hungry, as and her team went about this mindfully. Walter West were active in the ministry Jesus asked. They carefully considered the additional for many years as well. Deacon Rick As to the $500? “I have heavy duty administrative load, prayed about it and Cooper, Diane’s husband, has provided shelving for the pantry picked out,” said Shown is the 2020 Bobby Ellison Award of discerned that this was something they logistical support. Cooper. “We need it!” Excellence plaque presented to Breaking could do.” “Our volunteers are generous, Bread, the food pantry located at St. Mary Frankrone added, “The power of wonderful people, unending in (Leslie Lynch is a member of St. Mary Parish in Lanesville. (Submitted photo) [Breaking Bread’s] ‘yes’ has helped their donations of love, energy, and Parish in Lanesville.) †

Week 7: Pray, Learn, Act as Faithful Citizens The archdiocesan Office of Human Jesus Christ and through the power of the Life and Dignity and Catholic Charities- Holy Spirit. Social Concerns, with the approval of Amen. the Indiana Catholic Conference, have (This prayer from the USCCB is available collaborated to offer the final of seven at cutt.ly/USCCBElectionPrayer.) articles on prayer, study and action as we prepare for upcoming elections. Learn This week, we will spend intentional What does it mean to form my time in prayer, discerning our vote. conscience? To view the previous articles in Catholics have a long tradition English and Spanish, go to cutt.ly/ of engagement in the public square. ArchIndyCivilizeIt. Sometimes that engagement requires making difficult moral decisions that impact Pray our own lives and those of others. Our Prayer Before an Election: conscience can help guide the decisions we be discerning in where you gather teachings in our civic life. “Conscience Lord God, as the election approaches, make. The Second Vatican Council guides information. is not something that allows us to justify we seek to better understand the issues us: “Always summoning [one] to love good • Prayerfully reflect to discern the doing whatever we want, nor is it a mere and concerns that confront our city, state and avoid evil, the voice of conscience can will of God (“Forming Consciences for ‘feeling’ about what we should or should and country, and how the Gospel compels when necessary speak to [one’s] heart more Faithful Citizenship,” #18). not do. Rather, conscience is the voice us to respond as faithful citizens in our specifically: do this, shun that” (“Gaudium Additionally, it is important to of God resounding in the human heart, community. et Spes,” #16). However, our conscience remember our community of faith can revealing the truth to us and calling us to We ask for eyes that are free from doesn’t just come to us when we are born. help us form good consciences through do what is good while shunning what is blindness so that we might see each other We must work throughout our lives to form some of these steps: evil” (“Forming Consciences for Faithful as brothers and sisters, one and equal in it through prayer, learning and conversation. • Seek the prudent advice and good Citizenship,” #17). dignity, especially those who are victims How do I form my conscience? example of trusted leaders and others to Here are some questions for further of abuse and violence, deceit and poverty. It takes time to form our consciences support and enlighten your conscience. reflection: We ask for ears that will hear the cries so that we can make well-reasoned • Learn about the authoritative teaching • When has my conscience guided me of children unborn and those abandoned, judgments about particular, real-life of the Church. to “do good and avoid evil?” men and women oppressed because of situations. The Church teaches that it • Pray for the gifts of the Holy Spirit to • What are some key resources I can race or creed, religion or gender. is important to work continually on help develop your conscience. use to form my conscience? We ask for minds and hearts that are conscience formation so we can be • Regularly do an examination of • Forming conscience is a lifelong open to hearing the voice of leaders who prepared to make decisions whenever the conscience to hear God’s voice in your life. task. What do I do to regularly form my will bring us closer to your kingdom. opportunity arises. Some specific ideas to Doing the work of forming our conscience? What more should I do? We pray for discernment so that we form your conscience are: consciences can seem daunting. may choose leaders who hear your word, • Begin by being open to the truth and Fortunately, we have many Church Act live your love, and keep in the ways of what is right. teachings that can help us in this important You’ve completed seven weeks of your truth as they follow in the steps of • Study sacred Scripture and the task. “Forming Consciences for Faithful prayer, study and action to prepare for this Jesus and his Apostles and guide us to teachings of the Church. Citizenship” is an important resource election. Make a plan to vote on or before your kingdom of justice and peace. • Examine the facts and background for U.S. Catholics. It helps in prayerful election day on Nov. 3. May the peace of We ask this in the name of your Son information about various choices and reflection on how to apply Church Christ be with you. †