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CriterionOnline.com September 29, 2017 Vol. LVII, No. 50 75¢ First U.S. martyr is beatified, ‘always served A path to success those most in need’ OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS)—Wearing a red and black traditional Guatemalan shirt that had belonged to martyred U.S. priest Father Stanley Rother, Ronald Arteaga traveled from his village of Santiago Atitlan to witness the Sept. 23 beatification of the pastor he knew as “Padre Aplas.” Even though Arteaga was only 10 when now-Blessed Rother was martyred Fr. Stanley Rother in 1981, he remembers “he was always with the people of Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala, and more than that, he identified with our indigenous population.” The sleeves on Arteaga’s shirt had to be rolled up because, as he recalled, Blessed Rother was a tall man. “He learned to speak Tz’utujil, the language of my See related people, and he always editorial, page 4. served the people most in need,” Arteaga said. Second-grade student Makenzie Yates enjoys using an adaptive computer program at Holy Angels School in Indianapolis, a program that identifies When Blessed the academic level of each student and uses fun concepts to help them progress individually and as a group. It’s part of the school’s comprehensive Rother was killed, Arteaga recalled, it “blended-learning” program that has become a model in the archdiocese. (Photo by John Shaughnessy) “broke the hearts of the entire village,” but “we had hope that he would receive this honor, and thanks be to God that this day has arrived!” High-fives and academic growth increase at An estimated 20,000 people packed the Cox Convention Center from across Holy Angels School with ‘blended learning’ the country and throughout the world to witness the beatification of the native By John Shaughnessy from smiling students who want to share beyond that standard in language arts Oklahoman who is the first U.S.-born their latest success. during the 2016-17 school year and martyr. Ordained for the Archdiocese of As a parent, Ashley Asante-Doyle All these reactions reflect the 28 percent beyond that standard in math. Oklahoma City in 1963, Blessed Rother loves the joy on her daughter’s face when transformation that is taking shape at Enrollment from last year to this went to the archdiocesan mission in she talks about what she has learned in Holy Angels School in Indianapolis, one year has also increased from 93 to Santiago Atitlan. He was gunned down school. of the Notre Dame Alliance for Catholic 127 students at Holy Angels, a school in his rectory by three masked men in See related story, As a teacher, Education (ACE) Academies that has for students from kindergarten through 1981. page 2. Mary Kate Veselik become the model for a comprehensive sixth grade. Pope Francis recognized the priest’s feels “awesome” “blended-learning” program in the Goddard credits that enrollment martyrdom last December, a recognition knowing she has a way to increase the archdiocese. increase to three reasons: parents sharing that cleared the way for his beatification. confidence and academic growth of all Academic performance at a school is the positive experience their children “May his heroic example help us be her students. supposed to grow 100 percent during a are having, the values that are being courageous witnesses of the Gospel, As a principal, Matt Goddard never school year, according to Goddard. At taught at the school, and the success of dedicating ourselves in supporting human tires of the high-fives and hugs he gets Holy Angels, the growth was 11 percent See LEARNING, page 8 See ROTHER, page 9 Jesuit priest in Puerto Rico says devastation from deadly Hurricane Maria is ‘apocalyptic’ WASHINGTON (CNS)—It took a couple of days for Jesuit Father Flavio Bravo to venture out and survey the devastation of Hurricane Maria, with its torrential rain and winds of 155 miles per hour, inflicted for hours on the island of Puerto Rico. “We were trapped,” because of debris, said Father Bravo, the superior of the Society of Jesus’ Puerto Rico community, recounting the initial aftermath of the hurricane on the island. When Father Bravo finally managed to get outside, the scene was nothing short of “apocalyptic,” he said during a Sept. 22 telephone interview with Catholic News Service (CNS). As of Sept. 25, at least 16 people were killed in Puerto Rico, and 27 deaths were reported on the island nation of Dominica. Two others were killed in the French territory of Guadeloupe and one on the U.S. Virgin Islands. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston‑Houston, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, urged Catholics to respond with prayer and other help “in this time of great need for our brothers and sisters in harm’s way—many of whom have been hit repeatedly by the successive hurricanes.” A woman carries bottles of water and food during a distribution of relief items on See HURRICANE, page 9 Sept. 24 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, days after Hurricane Maria. (CNS photo/Alvin Baez, Reuters) Page 2 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Grants aim to assist lay leaders serving local Church By John Shaughnessy commitment to helping and keeping goes away,” Hayes its talented lay leaders in parishes and says. “We want this to Hoping to ease financial concerns and schools across central and southern be lasting.” ‘There’s a recognition that pastoral leaders stresses for lay leaders throughout the Indiana, according to Matt Hayes, the The archdiocese’s leave the ministry because they don’t have Church in central and southern Indiana, manager of an archdiocesan project Office of Stewardship enough economic support. We want our the archdiocese and Lilly Endowment, called Empowering Pastoral Leaders and Development pastoral leaders to stay. We don’t want Inc. have teamed up to create the for Excellence in Parish Leadership and is committed to an undue financial burden to cause Ministerial Excellence Fund. Management. achieving both The archdiocese’s fund focuses The Ministerial Excellence Fund is goals: maximizing them to leave.’ on providing grants—up to $5,000 part of that overall project, which is being the matching funds — Matt Hayes, Empowering Pastoral each—to youth ministers, business funded by a three-year grant from Lilly offered by Lilly Leaders for Excellence in Parish managers, pastoral associates, parish life Endowment. Endowment in 2017 Leadership and Management coordinators, parish catechetical leaders, “There’s a recognition that pastoral and 2018, and helping project manager principals and assistant principals who are leaders leave the ministry because they create an archdiocesan burdened with individual student debt or don’t have enough economic support,” endowment that will family-related medical expenses. Hayes says. “We want our pastoral continue beyond those Applications for the grants will be leaders to stay. We don’t want an years. accepted soon. Contributions to the undue financial burden to cause them As of Sept. 26, fund are already being accepted. The to leave.” $22,000 has been archdiocese has to raise $100,000 in both With that goal in mind, the raised through 2017 and 2018—funds that will then be archdiocese’s Ministerial Excellence archdiocesan efforts, matched by Lilly Endowment. Fund will specifically assist pastoral according to Jolinda Moore, executive the Church, or getting a job in the private The fund reflects the archdiocese’s leaders who experience financial stress director of the archdiocesan Office of sector that lets them pay off their debt, because of individual student Stewardship and Development. she says. debt or family‑related medical “With the Lilly match, we’re already “And these grants are not just for expenses. positioned to give away $44,000,” Moore the young either. It could be for older ‘... these grants are not just A person receiving a grant could says. “We know we can already impact people in ministry who have been in for the young either. It could be have a year’s worth of student the lives of eight different families who unfortunate health situations, and they for older people in ministry who debt or medical debt paid—up to are committed to the ministries of the have medical debt they can’t afford,” $5,000. Church. And every day we’re meeting Moore says. have been in unfortunate health As part of the grant, recipients with more donors to secure more “We’re committed to this initiative situations, and they have medical will also be required to participate funding.” because we know the real impact it will debt they can’t afford. We’re in financial education sessions, Moore says the Ministerial have in the field.” committed to this initiative which are free. Excellence Fund will have a positive “We don’t want people to just effect on young people who want to (For more information about the because we know the real impact use the money to help with their work for the Church, and older people Ministerial Excellence Fund and it will have in the field.’ debt,” Hayes says. “We also want who have dedicated their lives to how to apply for a grant, contact the them to think about how they’re ministries in the Church. archdiocese’s Human Resources Office — Jolinda Moore, managing their finances over the “We have so many young people at 317-236-1594 or humanresources@ executive director long term.” who want to work in ministry, but the archindy.org. For more information of the archdiocesan All the money in the fund will reality of their financial situation once about how to contribute financially to Office of Stewardship be distributed by the end of 2018, they leave college often prohibits them the Ministerial Excellence Fund, call and Development Hayes says, but the archdiocese from working in the field,” Moore notes. the archdiocese’s Office of Stewardship hopes to continue the program “Their college debt is so great that and Development at 317-236-1415 or long term by establishing an they’re stuck.” 1-800-382-9836, ext. 1415. Interested endowment. Burdened with educational debt, donors can also contact Jolinda Moore at “The archdiocese doesn’t want these young people often have to choose [email protected] or Ron Greulich at this to go away when the grant between following their desire to work for [email protected].) † Archdiocese, ACE Academies to celebrate Xtravaganza on Oct. 25 The archdiocese and the Notre Dame that are part of the University of became ACE Academies for the 2016- $1,000, which includes sponsor name Alliance for Catholic Education Notre Dame’s ACE national network: 17 school year. The schools recognition in the celebration’s (ACE) Academies will celebrate their Central Catholic, Holy Angels, “provide a challenging, program. Individual tickets collaboration during the Xtravaganza Holy Cross Central, St. Anthony and faith-filled, educational are $125. 2017 event in Indianapolis on Oct. 25. St. Philip Neri. experience” for their For reservations, contact Rose The second annual celebration will The relationship between the students. Springman at 317-236-7324 or raise funds and awareness for the archdiocese and Notre Dame deepened The Xtravaganza will begin [email protected]. five Catholic schools in Indianapolis when the five center-city schools at 6 p.m. at the Crane Bay For event or sponsorship Event Center, located at 511 W. information, contact Merrill St., in Indianapolis. Kim Pohovey at 317-236-1568 How has the rosary affected your life of faith? 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By Sean Gallagher pair worked tirelessly and in diverse ways its founding until she retired and moved She earned a bachelor’s degree in to promote racial justice. to St. Louis in 2012. history and social studies at Fontbonne St. Joseph of Carondelet Sister Jane Father Boniface died in 2012. Father Taylor said she and University in St. Louis in 1961 and a Edward Schilling, who spent decades in Father Taylor said they “got their Father Boniface worked well together to master’s degree in ancient history at Indianapolis working for racial justice, feet wet” in this work when they advance the mission of their ministry. Loyola University in Chicago in 1966. died on Sept. 13 led protests against the building of “She had the ability to take his great From 1951-64, Sister Jane served in at Nazareth Living Interstate 65 through a neighborhood ideas and make them happen,” Father two parish grade schools in St. Louis. Center in St. Louis. near Holy Angels largely populated by Taylor said. “She was the one who put Beginning in 1964, she began ministry She was 86. African-Americans. things into motion.” in Indianapolis and would remain in the Because she asked “They got negative reaction and Father Taylor said that while the city until her retirement in 2012 to the that her body be threats, the kind of things that went along university may be the most visible legacy Nazareth Living Center in St. Louis. donated to scientific with other civil rights movements,” Father of Sister Jane’s decades of ministry in From 1964-70, she ministered at research, a memorial Taylor said. “They had to endure that as Indianapolis, it ultimately stands as a Holy Angels School in Indianapolis. Her Mass was celebrated well. But they kept moving forward.” testament to her faith and passion for ministry at the Martin Center, which she on Sept. 20 in In the early 1970s, Sister Jane racial justice. co-founded, took place from 1970-89. She Sr. Jane Edward the chapel of the and Father Boniface co-founded the “She was always willing to step out in co-founded Martin College, which later Schilling, C.S.J. Nazareth Living Martin Center in Indianapolis, which faith and let the creativity of the Spirit take became Martin University, in 1977 and Center, a retirement initially provided anti-racism training. over,” Father Taylor said. “Great things served in different periods as its associate home of her community. It later expanded into doing research resulted from that. Her total commitment director, executive director, academic Father Kenneth Taylor, pastor of in and advocacy for sickle cell to racial justice was long running. dean, vice president and historian. Holy Angels and St. Rita parishes, both in disease, which largely affects “She would do whatever she could so Sister Jane is survived by sisters Indianapolis, was the principal celebrant African‑Americans, and adult education. that people, no matter what odds were Jan Jelinski of Bozeman, Mont.; Sister and homilist at the Mass. This latter effort eventually led to against them, no matter what opposition Mary Mark Schilling of Milwaukee, a Father Taylor was a student of the founding in 1977 of what became may be put in the way, would be able to member of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Sister Jane for a year in the mid-1960s Martin University. reach their full God-given potential.” Mother; Fern Winger of Hazelhurst, when she came to teach at Holy Angels While it serves students from Nancy Mary Schilling was born Wis.; and brother Edward Schilling of School. all backgrounds, Martin University on Oct. 8, 1930, in Minocqua, Wis. Fond du Lac, Wis. During that time, Sister Jane formed a has historically helped low-income She entered the Sisters of St. Joseph Memorial contributions may be made long-lasting relationship with Benedictine African‑Americans in particular. of Carondelet on Sept. 15, 1948, and to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Father Boniface Hardin of Saint Meinrad Sister Jane served in various professed final vows in the community on St. Louis Province, 6400 Minnesota Ave., Archabbey in St. Meinrad in which the administrative roles at the university from Aug. 15, 1956. St. Louis, MO 63111-2899. † ‘Be Not Afraid’ is theme for Respect Life Sunday; Mass, Life Chain begin observance WASHINGTON (CNS)—Respect Life become engaged with supporting the at 10:30 a.m. on Oct. 1. The Archbishop the dignity and sanctity of human life in Month is observed every October by the God‑given dignity of every person. 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Opinion Reflection/Hosffman Ospino Speaking about race

Rev. Msgr. Raymond T. Bosler, Founding Editor, 1915 - 1994 with Hispanic children Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, Publisher Greg A. Otolski, Associate Publisher My 6-year-old son came home after Hispanics are caught up in a Mike Krokos, Editor John F. Fink, Editor Emeritus school and unexpectedly asked my wife conundrum of racial categories that and me: “What am I?” The question caught often lead to misunderstandings about us off guard. “What do you mean?” we identity and sometimes to exclusion replied. He said, “Am and prejudice—even in our own I Mexican? Are people faith communities. This goes without Editorial who speak Spanish mentioning language and culture. Mexican?” This is too much for a 6-year-old. We explained that Frankly, it is too much for anyone, he and his sister are young or adult. Yet this is the context “estadounidenses,” where young Catholics are growing the word in Spanish up. Remember that about 60 percent of for people born in Catholics younger than 18 are Hispanic. the United States. My children attend one of the best In other words, they Catholic schools in Boston, a place that are American. We also explained that intentionally strives to welcome a diverse people with Mexican roots who live in the student body and thrives in cultivating United States are also known as Latinos or an environment of inclusion and respect. Hispanics. Still, the conversation about race that our Likewise, people born or with roots son brought home is a reminder that we in other parts of Latin America and the cannot be naive. Spanish-speaking Caribbean, like in my Children are profoundly influenced by case, born in Colombia, and my wife, their surroundings and by what they hear born in Guatemala, are Hispanic. We have from adults on matters related to race. lived most of our lives in this country. They watch television and social media. We are committed to its best values, and They see how our national leaders behave, contribute with the best of who we are. what they say and what they fail to say. A reliquary holding a relic of Blessed Stanley Rother is seen during his beatification We are also “estadounidenses.” My wife and I are not the only Mass on Sept. 23 at Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. Blessed Rother, a priest Staring as if something was still Hispanic parents having these of the Oklahoma City Archdiocese, was murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village bothering him, he asked, “Why are conversations at home. We may have where he ministered. (CNS photo/Steve Sisney, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City) Mexicans taking over the country?” Then he access to some tools to address issues added, “Are we taking over the country?” of race with our children, but many I asked, “Where did you hear that”? Hispanic Catholic parents do not. Father Stanley Rother: He said, “My friends say that Mexicans Many are afraid and confused. Many are taking over the country. They said that fear for their most precious treasures, First U.S.-born citizen to be America is for white people. They heard their children. They need guidance and it on television.” Then he concluded, “My accompaniment. declared a martyr arms are white. Are we white?” This is a time for all Catholics in Our hearts sank. A deep sense of sadness the country, starting with our bishops, This could become a Catholic trivia that language and even translated the engulfed me. Should not these 6-year-olds universities, elementary and secondary question some day: Who was the first New Testament into it. be engaged in play and imagining amazing schools, dioceses, parishes, catechetical U.S.-born citizen to be declared a martyr? He also put the skills he learned on worlds full of hope? Should they wrestle programs and ministerial organizations, The answer: Father Stanley Rother, from the farm of his boyhood to work. On one with these questions at such a tender age? among others, to step up to the plate Oklahoma, who was killed in Guatemala occasion, he operated a bulldozer from If you are Hispanic in the United States, firmly and lead frank conversations about on July 28, 1981. Pope Francis declared 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to clear land on local the conversation about race and ethnicity race and racism. We must do this for the him a martyr last December, and he was farms, stopping only to celebrate Mass. is personal, complex and rather confusing. sake of a healthy society, the vibrancy of beatified on Sept. 23 during a ceremony in He won the respect of the people by Talk about race in our society is frequently our faith communities and our children. Oklahoma City presided over by Cardinal working closely with them. He went on framed within a “white-black” paradigm. Angelo Amato, prefect of the Vatican’s to found a farmers’ co-op, then a school, Yet Hispanics know that it is more than that. (Hosffman Ospino is professor of theology Congregation for Saints’ Causes. a small hospital and a radio station. “Hispanic” is not a race, but an and religious education at Boston College. Stanley Rother was born in 1935. But these were the days of violent ethnicity. There are Hispanics who are He is a member of the leadership team for His parents were farmers, so he grew up conflicts in Guatemala that raged white, black and indigenous. Many the Fifth National Encuentro of Hispanic/ learning the many tasks required on a farm. from 1960 to 1996. They were fought embody a mix of these. Latino Ministry.) † He was also active in the Future Farmers of between the autocratic government and America, now known simply as FFA. rebel forces supported by the Mayan Upon graduation from high school, indigenous people whom Father Rother he followed a vocation to the priesthood. was serving. Before the conflicts were Letter to the Editor It’s said that his father was pleased with over, more than 200,000 people were that decision, but said to him, “Why killed. ‘Surprise’ appearance by Archbishop Thompson didn’t you take Latin instead of working Father Rother’s parishioners began so hard as a Future Farmer of America?” to disappear and later were found dead, made parish anniversary celebration more special Indeed, Stanley found Latin difficult their bodies showing signs of torture. We would like to thank Archbishop special day. Thank you for taking the time in the seminary and, after six years of Eleven members of his community were Charles C. Thompson for coming to out of your busy schedule to be with us. study, the staff at Assumption Seminary kidnapped and killed. His radio station St. John the Baptist Church’s 150th We will never forget it. in San Antonio advised him to withdraw. was destroyed, and its director murdered. anniversary celebration in Osgood on We would also like to thank everyone However, after consultation with Eventually, he was told that his name Sept. 10. who came to celebrate with us. his bishop, he was sent to Mount Saint was on a death list and he was warned We had been told he would not be able Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, to leave Guatemala. He did, in January to attend due to prior commitments. One Rose Calhoun Md., and was ordained for the Diocese of 1981. But in April he asked his hour before the Mass started, he walked Jill Jansing of Oklahoma City-Tulsa (now the archbishop for permission to return. “A through the church doors, making our Jessica Gorman Archdiocese of Oklahoma City) in 1963. shepherd cannot run at the first sign of celebration even more special. Ted Wissel The diocese had a mission to the Tzutujil danger,” he wrote in a letter. What a thrill and honor it was for us to St. John the Baptist Parish’s Mayan people in Guatemala. In 1968, On July 28, three men broke into the have his excellency here with us on our 150th Celebration Committee Father Rother volunteered to serve there. parish rectory and shot Father Rother This was not the only diocese that in the head. He was 46. His body was had missions in Guatemala. When I flown back to Oklahoma, but his heart traveled there, I also visited a parish at was buried under the altar of the church Lake Atitlan sponsored by the Diocese of where he served. Letters Policy New Ulm, Minn. Msgr. Gregory Schaffer The best book about Father Rother is Letters from readers are published in space limitations, pastoral sensitivity and had been there 30 years, and Father John Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda’s The Shepherd The Criterion as part of the newspaper’s content (including spelling and grammar). Goggin had been there for 25; both Who Didn’t Run: Fr. Stanley Rother, commitment to “the responsible exchange of In order to encourage opinions from a were diocesan priests from New Ulm. Martyr from Oklahoma, published by freely-held and expressed opinion among the variety of readers, frequent writers will San Lucas had 30,000 parishioners Our Sunday Visitor. People of God” (Communio et Progressio, 116). ordinarily be limited to one letter every being served by the two priests and As Cardinal Amato said during the Letters from readers are welcome and three months. Concise letters (usually 140 catechists in 22 chapels that the beatification ceremony, “His saintly every effort will be made to include letters less than 300 words) are more likely to be priests had built. life has become well known beyond from as many people and representing as printed. Father Rother was in Santiago Atitlan boundaries of Oklahoma and Guatemala, many viewpoints as possible. Letters should Letters must be signed, but, for serious be informed, relevant, well-expressed and reasons, names may be withheld. for 13 years. Among other things, he and the faith of those familiar with his temperate in tone. They must reflect a basic Send letters to “Letters to the Editor,” learned Tz’utujil, an unwritten and life has been greatly strengthened. How sense of courtesy and respect. The Criterion, 1400 N. Meridian Street, indigenous language. In a letter he wrote grateful we are to almighty God for the The editors reserve the right to select Indianapolis, IN 46202-2367. Readers in 1973, he said, “I am now preaching beatification of Father Rother.” the letters that will be published and to edit with access to e-mail may send letters to in Tz’utujil.” He celebrated Mass in —John F. Fink letters from readers as necessary based on [email protected]. † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Page 5 ARCHBISHOP/ARZOBISPO CHARLES C. THOMPSON

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Angels glorify God and serve as messengers “Exult with him, you heavens; glorify care,” the catechism teaches. “Beside each In the New Testament, only the recognize their presence. In moments of him, all you angels of God” (Dt 32:43). believer stands an angel as protector and archangels Gabriel and Michael are fear or temptation, but also when we rejoice shepherd leading him to life” (#336). mentioned by name, but a verse added in the goodness of God in the liturgy, the The publication date for this column The book of Revelation tells us that to St. John’s Gospel (Jn 5:1–4) in the spiritual companionship of angels can make is on Sept. 29, 2017, the Feast of Saints at the dawn of time “war broke out in second century A.D. refers to the pool a significant difference in our daily lives. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, archangels. heaven,” and that the Archangel Michael of Bethesda, where the multitude of Especially when we need help battling evil These are three angels who are mentioned and his angels battled against “the the infirm lay awaiting the moving of and injustice; when we need healing for by name in the Bible, so I thought this huge dragon, the ancient serpent, who the water by an angel of the Lord who ourselves or others; and when we need the might be a good time to reflect on the is called the Devil and Satan, and who descended at certain times into the spiritual companionship of guiding and mission and ministry of God’s holy angels. deceived the whole world” (Rev 12:7, 9). pond and stirred the water. It was said protecting angels, the Church tells us that The Catechism of the Catholic Satan was defeated and was cast down to that whoever entered the pond after “from infancy to death” we are surrounded Church (#328-336) tells us what the Earth along with his evil followers. the stirring of the water was healed of by their watchful care. Church teaches about angels. First of Satan and his devils exist among us all infirmities. Because of the healing It would be easy to dismiss all this all, they exist. Not in the romanticized today, but we believe that they were role assigned to Raphael, whose name talk of angels as wishful thinking or the images we’re used to seeing, because defeated ultimately by the death and means “God’s healing,” this particular stuff of childhood, but the Scriptures they are, after all, “non-corporeal” resurrection of Jesus. The angels give messenger of mercy is generally and Church teaching are quite serious beings and therefore generally invisible, witness to Christ’s victory over evil, associated with the Archangel Raphael. about both the existence and the but angels really do exist as servants and and they continually praise God for his The Archangel Gabriel is familiar to ministry of Saints Michael, Gabriel and messengers of God. goodness and mercy! This gives us hope us because of his role in the Nativity Raphael and all the holy angels of God. As purely spiritual creatures, the and encouragement as we struggle to narrative in the Gospel of Luke. It is And so, we pray in the collect for catechism tells us, angels have intelligence remain faithful to God’s will for each of us. Gabriel who announces the births of today’s Mass: “O God, who disposes in and will: they are personal and immortal The Archangel Raphael appears John the Baptist to Zechariah and of our marvelous order ministries both angelic creatures “surpassing in perfection all in the Old Testament’s Book of Tobit Savior to Mary. Christian art throughout and human, graciously grant that our visible creatures, as the splendor of their where he reveals that he was sent to the past 2,000 years has depicted Gabriel life on Earth may be defended by those glory bears witness” (#330). heal Tobit’s blindness and deliver Sarah, in a variety of images, but none of these who watch over us as they minister Secondly, these spiritual beings interact the future wife of Tobiah, Tobit’s son, can quite capture this amazing figure perpetually to you in heaven.” with us as God’s messengers and as from the demon Asmodeus “who kills who proclaimed the birth of the Savior Saints Michael, Gabriel and Raphael, guardians or protectors of those who seek every man she marries on their wedding and his precursor, John the Baptist. pray for us. Now and in life’s most to do God’s will. “From infancy to death, night before the marriage can be We don’t usually see the angels of challenging moments, be our protectors human life is surrounded by their watchful consummated” (Tb 3:8). God, but if we pay close attention we can and our guides! †

Los ángeles glorifican a Dios y actúan como mensajeros “¡Cielos, exultad con él, y adórenle los guardianes o protectores de quienes después de otro, antes de que tuvieran suficiente atención, podemos hijos de Dios!¡Aclamadlo, naciones procuran cumplir con la voluntad relaciones con ella” (Tb 3:8). reconocer su presencia. En momentos con su pueblo y todos los mensajeros de divina. “Desde su comienzo hasta la En el Nuevo Testamento solamente de temor o de tentación, pero también Dios!” (Dt 32:43). muerte, la vida humana está rodeada aparecen mencionados por nombre cuando nos regocijamos en la bondad de su custodia,” asegura el Catecismo. los arcángeles Gabriel y Miguel, pero de Dios en la liturgia, la compañía La fecha de publicación de esta “Cada fiel tiene a su lado un ángel como un versículo añadido al Evangelio espiritual de los ángeles puede marcar columna es el 29 de septiembre de protector y pastor para conducir su según San Juan (Jn 5:1-4) durante una diferencia importante en nuestras 2017, las festividades de los arcángeles vida” (# 336). el siglo II D.C., hace referencia a la vidas diarias. En especial, cuando san Miguel, san Gabriel y san El Libro de Revelaciones relata piscina de Betsata, donde yacía una necesitamos ayuda para combatir el Rafael. Estos tres ángeles aparecen que al comienzo de los tiempos multitud de enfermos que esperaban mal y la injusticia, cuando necesitamos mencionados por nombre en la Biblia, “hubo guerra en el cielo” y que la agitación del agua, porque cada sanación para nosotros o para los de modo que me pareció oportuna la el arcángel Miguel y sus ángeles tanto un ángel del Señor descendía demás y cuando necesitamos la ocasión para reflexionar acerca de la libraron una batalla contra el y movía el agua. Se decía que quien compañía espiritual de los ángeles misión y el ministerio de los ángeles “gran dragón, la serpiente antigua entrara en la piscina después de que protectores que nos guían, la Iglesia de Dios. que se llama el diablo y Satanás, el agua se agitara quedaba curado de nos dice que desde el “comienzo hasta El Catecismo de la Iglesia Católica el cual engaña al mundo entero” cualquier enfermedad. Dada la función la muerte” estamos rodeados de su (cf. #328-336) nos habla acerca de las (Rev 12:7,9). Satanás fue derrotado de sanación que se asigna a Rafael, custodia. enseñanzas de la Iglesia con respecto y expulsado a la Tierra, junto con sus cuyo nombre significa “curación de Sería muy fácil desechar la idea de a los ángeles. Primero que nada, sí pérfidos seguidores. Dios” a este mensajero de misericordia los ángeles como ilusiones o cuentos existen. No con la imagen romántica Satanás y sus demonios existen entre específicamente se lo asocia por lo de la infancia, pero las Escrituras y las que solemos verlos ilustrados, nosotros hoy en día, pero creemos que general al arcángel Rafael. enseñanzas de la Iglesia son bastante puesto que, en definitiva, son “seres en definitiva fueron vencidos por la Estamos familiarizados con el serias en cuanto a la existencia y al no corpóreos” y, por consiguiente, muerte y resurrección de Jesús. Los arcángel Gabriel por el papel que ministerio de los santos Miguel, Gabriel generalmente invisibles, pero los ángeles dan testimonio de la victoria desempeña en la narrativa de la y Rafael y de todos los santos ángeles ángeles verdaderamente existen como de Jesucristo sobre el mal y continúan Natividad, en el Evangelio según de Dios. servidores y mensajeros de Dios. alabando a Dios por Su bondad y Su San Lucas. Es Gabriel quien anuncia Así pues, en la oración colecta de la Como criaturas puramente misericordia. Esto nos brinda esperanza el nacimiento de Juan el Bautista a Misa de hoy, rezamos: “Oh Dios, que espirituales, el Catecismo nos dice que y aliento para mantenernos fieles a la Zacarías y el de nuestro Salvador a con admirable sabiduría distribuyes los ángeles están dotados de inteligencia voluntad de lo que Dios desea para cada María. El arte cristiano de los últimos los ministerios de los ángeles y los y voluntad: son seres personales e uno de nosotros. 2,000 años ha representado Gabriel con hombres, te pedimos que nuestra vida inmortales que “superan en perfección El arcángel Rafael aparece en el distintas imágenes, pero ninguna de esté siempre protegida en la tierra por a todas las criaturas visibles. El Libro de Tobías del Antiguo Testamento ellas puede captar en todo su esplendor aquellos que te asisten continuamente resplandor de su gloria da testimonio de donde revela que fue enviado para la maravillosa figura del que proclamó en el cielo.” ello” (#330). curar la ceguera de Tobías y para librar el nacimiento del Salvador y de su Arcángeles san Miguel, san Gabriel En segundo lugar, estos seres a Sara, futura esposa de Tobíah, hijo precursor, Juan el Bautista. y san Rafael, recen por nosotros. Sean espirituales interactúan con nosotros en de Tobías, del demonio Asmodeo que Por lo general no podemos ver a nuestros protectores y guías ahora y en calidad de mensajeros de Dios y como “había matado a sus maridos, uno los ángeles de Dios, pero si prestamos los momentos más difíciles de la vida. † Page 6 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017

For a list of events for the next four weeks as reported to Events Calendar The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/events.

October 3 6:30 a.m. Mass, Immaculate Heart of Mary 317-439-3432, servantsofgod@ Terre Haute Helpers of 202 E. Washington St., Mission 27 Resale, 7:15-8:30 a.m. breakfast Parish, 5692 Central Ave., etczone.com. God’s Precious Infants, Greencastle. Octoberfest, 132 Leota St., Indianapolis. at Lincoln Square Pancake Indianapolis. “A Comedy 7:30 a.m. Mass at the sponsored by the Knights of Senior Discount Day, every House, 2330 N. Meridian, Writer Finds God,” featuring Immaculate Heart of Mary Carmelite Monastery, Columbus, 4-11 p.m., indoor Tuesday, seniors get Indianapolis. Information: comedian Tom Leopold, Church, 5692 Central Ave., 59 Allendale, Terre Haute; and outdoor activities, food, 30 percent off clothing, 317-435-3447 or lumen.dei@ 7 p.m. cocktails and Indianapolis. Mass in Slow 8:45 a.m. car pool from beer and wine, bingo, poker 9 a.m.-6 p.m., ministry comcast.net. appetizers, 8 p.m., show, Motion, a step-by-step St. Patrick Parish, booth, raffle for Notre Dame/ supports Indianapolis $20 per person or reserved explanation and perspective of 1807 Poplar St., Terre Haute, IU/Purdue/Colts tickets and St. Vincent de Paul Society Most Holy Name of Jesus seating for tables of eight. the words and actions of the to Bloomington Planned cash, kids games 4-8 p.m., Food Pantry and Changing Church, 89 N. 17th Ave., Reservations: www.services. Mass, 11:15 a.m. Information: Parenthood, 421 S. College Ave., live music by MacDaddys and Lives Forever program. Beech Grove. First Friday ihmindy.org. Information: 317-257-2266. arriving 10:15 a.m.; return to the DePauw German Brass Information: 317-687-8260. devotion, exposition of the 317-257-2266. St. Patrick Parish around noon. Quintet. Information: Blessed Sacrament, 5:30 p.m.; St. Anthony Parish, Information: Tom McBroom, 765-653-5678. October 4 reconciliation, 5:45-6:45 p.m.; Oldenburg Franciscan Center, 337 N. Warman, Indianapolis. 812-841-0060, mcbroom.tom@ Archbishop Edward Mass, 7 p.m.; Litany of the 22143 Main St., Oldenburg. 10th Annual Saints in the gmail.com. October 8 T. O’Meara Catholic Center, Sacred Heart and prayers for Pottery and Beyond, Streets Neighborhood St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 1400 N. Meridian St., the Holy Father, 7:30 p.m. Franciscan Sister Ann Vonder Clean-Up, in cooperation with St. Mary Parish, serving 4625 N. Kenwood Ave., Indianapolis. Solo Seniors, Information: 317-784-5454. Meulen presenting, St. Barnabas Parish, Indianapolis, American and Mexican Indianapolis. Mass in French, Catholic, educational, 1:30-4:30 p.m. or 6-9 p.m., 8 a.m.-noon, volunteers receive food during the Harvest 12:30 p.m. Information: charitable and social singles, Our Lady of the Greenwood 12-hour course, week one a T-shirt and free lunch. Homecoming Parade, corner 317-627-7729 or acfadi2014@ 50 and over, single, separated, Church, 335 S. Meridian St., of four (Oct. 13, 20, 27), Register: bit.ly/2uZSCbH. of Spring and Eighth streets, gmail.com. widowed or divorced. New Greenwood. First Friday $150 includes materials. Information: 317-292-8964, New Albany. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. members welcome. 6 p.m. celebration of the Most Registration: 812-933-6437 or [email protected]. Information: 812-944-0417. St. Therese of the Infant Jesus Information: 317-243-0777. Sacred Heart of Jesus, Mass, oldenburgfranciscancenter.org. (Little Flower) Church, 5:45 p.m., exposition of the Holy Name of Jesus Parish, White Violet Center for 4720 E. 13th St., Indianapolis. October 6 Blessed Sacrament, following October 7 89 N. 17th St., Beech Grove. Eco-Justice, 1 Sisters of Class of ’63 monthly Women’s Care Center, Mass until 9 p.m., sacrament St. Nicholas Parish, Fall Rummage Sale, Providence, Saint Mary- gathering, 6 p.m. Mass, 4901 W. 86th St., Indianapolis. of reconciliation available. 6461 E. St. Nicholas Dr., 8 a.m-3 p.m., clothes, jewelry, of-the-Woods, St. Mary- optional dinner afterward. First Friday Mass, 5 p.m., Information: 317-888-2861 or Sunman. Prayer, Family electronics, dishes and more. of-the-Woods. Harvest Information: 317-408-6396. Father Anthony Rowland [email protected]. and Relationship with God Information: 317-784-6860, Hootenanny, music, BBQ, presiding, optional tour of Conference, John Beaulieu [email protected]. locally grown foods, cash bar, October 9 center to follow. Information: St. Lawrence Church, of Franciscan University of 4-9 p.m., $25 for music and St. Susanna Church, 317-829-6800, www. 6944 E. 46th St., Indianapolis. Steubenville presenting, St. Michael Church, food, reservations preferred. 1210 E. Main St., Plainfield. womenscarecenter.org. First Friday Charismatic for teens and adults, 145 St. Michael Blvd., Information: 812-535-2931, Living Rosary, 7-8 p.m., Renewal Praise and Mass, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., bring Brookville. First Saturday [email protected], or www. light refreshments to follow. SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral praise and worship 7 p.m., lunch and dinner (or order Marian Devotional Prayer spsmw.org/providence-center/ Information: Bridget chapel, 1347 N. Meridian Mass 7:30 p.m. Information: pizza through parish), drinks Group, Mass, prayers, rosary, events. Schlebecker, 317-838-7722. St., Indianapolis. Lumen Dei 317-546-7328, mkeyes@ and snacks provided, freewill confession, meditation, 8 a.m. bschlebecker@ Catholic Business Group, indy.rr.com. offering. Information: Information: 765-647-5462. St. Paul the Apostle Parish, saintsusanna.com †

For a complete list of retreats as reported to Retreats and Programs The Criterion, log on to www.archindy.org/retreats. Events on Oct. 13 and Oct. 14 mark 100th anniversary of final Fatima apparition October 13-14 October 13-15 Conference Center, 1 Sisters Our Lady of Fatima Retreat Saint Meinrad Archabbey of Providence, Saint Mary- Oct. 13 marks the 100th anniversary 1347 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis. House, 5353 E. 56th St., Guest House and Retreat of-the-Woods, St. Mary-of- of the final Marian apparition in Archdiocesan Celebration: “Morning Indianapolis. Pre-Cana Center, 200 Hill Drive, the-Woods. Contemplating Fatima, Portugal, to three shepherd with Mary,” nationally acclaimed Preparation Conference, St. Meinrad. Reading the Gentleness, Providence Sister children. Events around central and speaker Heather Renshaw and $255 with overnight Scriptures, Benedictine Father Connie Kramer presenting, southern Indiana will commemorate the Benedictine Sister Mary Nicolette accommodations (two Harry Hagan presenting, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., $45 includes occasion. Below are events that were Etienne presenting, 9 a.m.-noon, rooms), $185 for commuters, $255 single, $425 double. lunch. Registration deadline reported to The Criterion. doors open at 8 a.m. with light includes meals, snacks and Information: 812-357-6585 or Oct. 9. Information and refreshments and religious items materials. Information, [email protected]. registration: 812-535-2952, Oct. 13: for sale in the assembly hall of the registration: www.archindy. [email protected] or www. • Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish, Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara org/plfl/marriage- October 14 spsmw.org/providence-center/ 5692 Central Ave., Indianapolis. Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian precana.html. Providence Spirituality & events. † Recitation of the Rosary (outdoor St. Registration is required. Parking Fatima shrine, corner of E. 57th St. and and registration information: Washington Blvd.), 6 p.m. Information: www.archindy.org/morningwithmary. Sisters to celebrate Feast of St. Mother [email protected]. • Sacred Heart Parish Hall, • St. John Paul II Parish, 1125 S. Meridian St., Indianapolis. Theodore Guérin with Mass on Oct. 3 St. Joseph Chapel, 2605 St. Joe Rd. W., Public Square Rosary, sponsored Sellersburg. 100th Anniversary of by America Needs Fatima, noon. The Sisters of Providence of Saint The foundress of the Sisters of Fatima, 6 p.m. Information: Phyllis Information: Mary Ann Evans, Mary-of-the-Woods and Providence Providence of Saint Mary-of-the- Burkholder, 812-246-2252. 317-985-1950. Associates invite all to join them for Woods and of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods • St. Luke the Evangelist Church • St. Joseph Parish, 1401 S. Mickley Mass in celebration of the feast day of College was born on Oct. 2, 1798, in Chapel, 7575 Holliday Dr., E., Ave., Indianapolis. Miracle of the Sun St. Mother Theodore Guérin at the Church Brittany, France. She was canonized on Indianapolis. Holy Hour with prayer Public Rosary Rally, procession begins of the Immaculate Conception, 1 Sisters of Oct. 15, 2006, as Indiana’s first saint and rosary after 5:30 p.m. Mass. at 11:30 a.m. from the parish to corner Providence Way, at 11 a.m. on Oct. 3. and the nation’s eighth saint. † Information: 317-259-4373. of W. Washington St. and S. Waldemere Ave, parking available two blocks off Oct. 14: Waldemere. Information: 317-271-5234, • SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, [email protected]. † All Souls’ Day pilgrimage offers history, indulgence—register by Oct. 10 ‘Corrections: A Ministry of Hope and Salvation’ Registration is now open for an at Mass and prayers for the deceased archdiocesan All Souls Day pilgrimage being offered at the gravesites, the conference set for Oct. 28 in Columbus on Nov. 2. pilgrimage carries with it a potential This pilgrimage, led by Father Eric indulgence for participants, as long as “Corrections: A Ministry of with members of successful programs Augenstein, archdiocesan vocations they meet the other requirements for an Hope and Salvation,” a conference and ministries will be available, director, and archdiocesan archivist indulgence (lack of attachment to sin, for those currently involved and/or including Getting Ahead While Getting Julie Motyka will visit the graves of prayers for the intentions of the Holy interested in prison/jail and Out, Bridges to Life, Trusted Mentors, archdiocesan priests, including Father Father, and reception of the sacrament re-entry ministry, will be held at and Churches Embracing Offenders. Simon Lalumiere, the first resident of reconciliation eight days before or St. Bartholomew Parish, 1306 27th St., Complimentary lunch and door priest in Indiana, and several former after the pilgrimage). in Columbus, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. on prizes will also be offered. bishops and archbishops. Pilgrims will board the bus at Oct. 28, with registration beginning There is no fee for the conference, The trip will also include Mass the Archbishop Edward T. O’Meara at 8:30 a.m. but a freewill offering will be at St. Joseph University Church in Catholic Center, 1400 N. Meridian St., The day will begin with welcome accepted. Terre Haute, a visit to the St. Mother in Indianapolis, at 7:45 a.m. and return and a reflection, followed by Mass. Register online by Oct. 15 at Theodore Shrine at Saint Mary-of- at 5:30 p.m. The cost of the pilgrimage Father Ron Cloutier, director www.archindy.org/prison. the-Woods as well as the cemetery is $69 and includes a bag breakfast, of Corrections Ministries for the For more information, contact Lynne there, and a stop at the priest’s circle lunch and bus transportation. Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, Weisenbach, archdiocesan Corrections at Calvary Cemetery in Indianapolis, Register by Oct. 10 online at will speak on successful re-entry Ministry coordinator, at 317-592-1402 where several former bishops and www.archindy.org/pilgrimage or by ministries. or [email protected], or visit archbishops are buried. calling Carolyn Noone at 317-236-1428 Presentations on and networking www.archindy.org/prison. † With the reception of Communion or 800-382-9836, ext. 1428. † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Page 7 Faith leaders honored for their commitment to young people By John Shaughnessy here at St. Mary’s and Jesus.” Thoughts of Jesus are always close to She was a high school freshman then, Navarra’s heart and efforts. a teenager struggling with being taunted “My Catholic education has helped me and bullied. want to serve others and stay connected People made fun of Ashley Barnett to Jesus in my life,” she says. “We can because of her small stature, the result provide all the educational programs, but of her being born with the most common the main focus is on Jesus—and how we cause of dwarfism. can live out that Gospel message. “I had a difficult time reconciling why “That’s what we’re all looking for. God would make me like this if he knew That’s what we’re all called to be— it would be so painful,” Barnett recalls. disciples of Jesus.” So when a high school senior at her parish invited her to join a faith-related Embracing the beauty and wonder of youth group, Barnett was hesitant before life she cautiously accepted. As the recipient of the archdiocese’s “I didn’t want to be made fun of 2017 Saint Theodora Excellence in again, but people were kind and friendly. Education Award, Leah Massingale has I kept going back. I didn’t realize how two main goals in teaching science to her much I was being saturated in God’s middle-school students at St. Michael love. By the end of high school, my heart School in Greenfield. changed. I really became in love with One is to introduce them to the beauty him.” and wonder of the world that God has Now 28, Barnett strives to help create created. The other is to reinforce for her a deep relationship with God for young students that God sees beauty and wonder people—in her role as youth minister in them. of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in “It’s important that my children see Bloomington. Her efforts led her to be that God has made them in his image, Ashley Barnett of St. Charles Borromeo Parish in Bloomington receives the archdiocese’s 2017 Youth recently honored with the archdiocese’s that they are special to him,” she says. Ministry Servant of the Year Award during a Mass on Sept. 5 at SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral in 2017 Youth Ministry Servant of the Year “Every day, I look around the classroom Indianapolis. She poses for a photo with Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and Scott Williams, the Award. and see the wonder in their faces, and archdiocese’s director of youth ministry. (Photos by John Shaughnessy) Barnett received the honor during a the joy that comes when they understand Mass on Sept. 5 in SS. Peter and Paul something.” Cathedral in Indianapolis. Anita Navarra St. Michael’s principal Patty Mauer of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg and says Massingale is motivated by “the Leah Massingale of St. Michael Parish possibility of writing a success story with in Greenfield were also honored during each child that enters her doorway.” the Mass, which celebrated leaders who “She welcomes all with open arms, serve in Catholic school, catechetical but she definitely has a soft spot for and pastoral ministries across the those who have yet to see God’s gift archdiocese. in themselves,” Mauer notes. “Middle The award is a thrill for Barnett, but schoolers so eagerly want to fit into the the joy of working with the parish’s mold of peer expectations, but often youths matters most to her. One of the measure themselves short for one reason teens, Jenna Dedek, views Barnett as or another. She works hard for them to “an extraordinary light of Christ in this see the positive.” world. She not only shows young people Massingale longs to show her students who Jesus is, she exudes happiness which the difference they can make in the spreads to those around her. She is the world. perfect example of what it means to “I try to serve as a good role model, walk with another person on their faith demonstrating patience, fortitude, journey.” self-control and gentleness in my dealings Sometimes that shared faith journey with them,” she says. “When I fail, I ask includes taking a group of highschool for their forgiveness. When they fail, I youths to the March for Life in remind them of the beauty of grace.” Washington or the National Catholic Most of all, she hopes the example of Youth Conference. On Friday mornings, her life will draw them closer to Christ. it also means she cooks breakfast and “I hope they look at me and see the Anita Navarra of St. Mary Parish in Greensburg was honored with the archdiocese’s 2017 Excellence leads a Gospel discussion for about love that Jesus has for them.” in Catechesis Award on Sept. 5. She received the award from Archbishop Charles C. Thompson and 40-50 middle-school students before That approach was the focus of a Ken Ogorek, the archdiocese’s director of catechesis. they head to classes at the parish school. homily shared by Archbishop Charles Always, she wants to lead them to a C. Thompson during the “Mass for closer relationship with Christ. Co-Workers in the Vineyard”—the title “My greatest joy is seeing my kids of the Sept. 5 liturgy that celebrated truly happy, and seeing them sink their pastors, principals, school presidents, teeth into the truth of who Jesus is. youth ministers, religious education It’s just awesome to see the Lord who directors and other leaders across the changed my life is now changing their archdiocese. lives. I just want to do for them what somebody had done for me.” Changing hearts and lives “Our authority is linked back to Keeping Christ close to the heart something greater than ourselves,” the Twenty-eight years have passed, but archbishop noted. “Jesus is the second Anita Navarra still remembers the phone person of the Holy Trinity, and there’s call that changed her life. nothing greater than the Holy Trinity. “I was in high school,” says Navarra, We rely on that connection with Jesus remembering the call she received from to carry out the mission that has been Franciscan Sister Marie Schroeder, who entrusted to us. That’s why I like that was the director of religious education at word ‘co-workers.’ St. Mary Parish in Greensburg at the time. “All of us have been given the gift, “All I remember is her saying, ‘I need the privilege, the honor, to be a part your help. I think you would be good of this authority of Christ to teach, to sharing your faith about Jesus.’ ” proclaim the Good News. It’s an unusual Navarra laughs and adds, “I couldn’t authority we’re given. In the secular say no. Besides, I enjoyed the children world, authority is power, it’s prestige, and their excitement, and they haven’t and it’s our glory. In the Church, gotten rid of me since.” authority is responsibility. The power is Now, Navarra is the director of not through prestige, but where we’re Leah Massingale of St. Michael School in Greenfield poses with Archbishop Charles C. Thompson religious education at St. Mary, the parish most effective is through the power of and Gina Fleming, the archdiocese’s superintendent of Catholic schools, after being honored with the where she has received the sacraments of mercy.” 2017 Saint Theodora Excellence in Education Award, the archdiocese’s highest honor for an educator. baptism, reconciliation, holy Communion, The archbishop encouraged the leaders confirmation and marriage. to focus on the power of mercy to change us. May we always have the confidence, shares with them. She is also the recipient of the hearts and lives. the courage to take with us that power “We’re truly co-workers in the archdiocese’s 2017 Excellence in “Pray for the grace each day that each to our ministries, to our services, to the vineyard, never losing sight that it’s not Catechesis Award. time we hear the word of God, that we people touched in the name of Jesus about us as it is about glorifying God, “The award is very humbling,” she celebrate the sacraments, that we lead Christ.” leading others in and to us, to Jesus says. “I’m sitting in the chair of the those people there toward Jesus,” he said. On a day of celebration, the Christ. When we do that, when we have director, but it really is our parishioners “We’ll be astounded time and time again, archbishop ended his homily by been faithful to the Gospel, in carrying and their families who are doing this. I amazed at the power and the grace of celebrating the connection he has with out the mission entrusted to us, the world could not do this without them, our team Jesus’ words and his work in and among the leaders, and the great opportunity he is a better place.” † Page 8 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 LEARNING continued from page 1 the “blended-learning” program that was launched last year. “We’re the first one to do it in the archdiocese, and the first Notre Dame ACE Academy to do it,” Goddard says. This year, some classes at Central Catholic School and St. Philip Neri School, two other Notre Dame ACE Academies in Indianapolis, are also using the promising educational model.

‘It’s so worth it Matt Goddard when you see it’ The Notre Dame Alliance for Catholic Education touts that blended learning combines the benefits of individualized instruction through an adaptive computer program with a more traditional approach: guidance from a teacher for small groups of students. As the second-grade teacher at Holy Angels, Veselik shares how the approach works—and her excitement for the difference she’s seen it make to High-fives and hugs are part of the celebrations when students improve their academic performance at Holy Angels School in Indianapolis. Here, the celebration is more traditional as Makiyah Montgomery and teacher Mary Kate Veselik pose for a picture on Makiyah’s 7th birthday on Sept. 14. students and teachers. (Photos by John Shaughnessy) Veselik notes that in many traditional classroom settings, teachers teach to group of students at the same academic family setting there. And the average student—which can lead a level. I love that she takes time lesser-performing student to struggle “The students like working with me in to teach the other students. to keep up and a higher-performing small groups because they get a lot of my It shows the love that’s student to potentially get bored. But attention,” Veselik says. “They’re able to there at Holy Angels. I feel blended learning focuses on identifying be engaged right there.” everybody there is really the academic level of each student, and She says it’s a “ton of work for the patient. They take the time helping them grow from there. teachers, at least initially,” but she “loves to know the student and the “It’s so worth it when you see it,” she it” because of the students’ excitement parents.” says. “I had a student who couldn’t count about their successes. Her praise matches to 20, and I had a student who already As a parent, Asante-Doyle is also much of the feedback knew how to multiply. It’s awesome to thrilled by the program—and the other that the school’s principal see them working on the right amount of qualities she sees for her daughter at has heard from parents challenge. It’s also awesome to see my Holy Angels. who have helped increase students’ excitement about how much Holy Angels’ enrollment The goals of going to college and heaven are part of a paragraph they’re growing.” ‘It shows the love that’s there’ this year. that details the approach of Holy Angels School in Indianapolis, a She explains that students take a test “I really enjoy hearing her talk paragraph on display in the second-grade classroom. at the beginning of the year that identifies about what she’s learned at school,” A child’s excitement their strengths and weaknesses in math Asante‑Doyle says about her daughter, “In asking people why they chose high‑five because they got 100 percent, and language arts, the two subject areas Makenzie Yates, a second-grader. Holy Angels, they’ve said, ‘Word on the or they’ve improved that much,” Goddard that are taught in the blended‑learning “A lot of the learning modules are set street,’ and ‘I heard good things about says. “To see a child get excited about approach. Based upon the test results, up as a game, so it’s fun for her, but she’s Holy Angels,’ and ‘friends and co-workers their academic work lets you know you’re adaptive software is used to create learning. If she masters something, she said how positive the experience is,’ ” getting them on the path to success.” personalized learning activities that focus moves on to the next level. I know my Goddard says, listing some of the reasons. He also measures success in a Friday on the gaps in the students’ learning. child isn’t sitting in the classroom bored. At the same time, Goddard tradition at Holy Angels—when students “Everything they’re doing on the She’s being challenged. And she comes acknowledges that just as there are give fellow students “shout-outs” of praise computer is at their level,” Veselik home with challenging work. I love it.” triumphs and tough times at all schools, for living the values that the school is says. “So if they’re behind, it fills in So does Makenzie. the same is true for Holy Angels. highlighting each month. the gaps. And if they’re ahead and “Reading and math are fun,” the “When you’re here every day, you “Hearing students noticing that in other they’re passing their lessons, they can 7-year-old says with a smile. “When we see the hard times, and you see the students is just great.” go into third- and fourth-grade work. pass a lesson, that’s the fun part.” celebrations,” he says. It’s all part of the two main goals that It creates a plan for them to maximize Asante-Doyle is also impressed by the The constants are the staff’s Holy Angels shares with all Catholic academic growth.” other qualities that she and her daughter commitment to help the students succeed schools. The program also lets the teacher see have experienced at Holy Angels. in the blended-learning program, and the “As a staff, we’re giving a child a what students have mastered and what “I really appreciate the values that students’ excitement about their successes. chance to be successful,” he says. “We’re they haven’t grasped yet—knowledge the Holy Angels pushes in all the students,” “I go down the hallway and see giving them the footsteps to get to college teacher can use right away to help a small Asante-Doyle says. “Makenzie enjoys the kids who want to give me a hug and a and heaven.” † ‘Share the Journey’ campaign aims to share migrants’ stories VATICAN CITY (CNS)—No matter the them listen to the stories of people migration, he said, it is necessary to The “Share the Journey” campaign will position one takes on national migration in their host communities—mean the make the fear subside by helping folks run at least until 2019. The U.S. bishops’ policy, Pope Francis, Caritas Internationalis walls people have erected in their minds get to know the real people who have Catholic Relief Services and Catholic and national Catholic charities across the and hearts should begin to fall, said left all behind because of persecution, Charities USA, as well as more than globe want Catholics Michel Roy, secretary general of Caritas violence or extreme poverty. 160 other Caritas members around the to meet a migrant or Internationalis. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle of world, will sponsor national and local events refugee and listen to “You may be afraid of migrants as Manila, Philippines, president of to provide opportunities for migrants and his or her story. a large group of people coming in, but Caritas Internationalis, wrote a letter members of host communities to meet and On Sept. 27, when you meet a migrant, then you have in late June asking members of the share their stories. Pope Francis launched a different vision,” he said. Listening to Caritas federation to participate in Through his words and, especially, the “Share the their stories makes it clear that “they are the campaign. He said, “One of the his gestures, Pope Francis “is inviting Journey” campaign, a human beings, they are human beings most important questions we can ask everyone on Earth to be welcoming,” two-year program of who have suffered much; they’ve left ourselves as individuals, communities and to protect migrants and help them Caritas Internationalis a situation where they could not live and countries at this time of mass integrate into the society of their to promote encounters anymore because of violence, conflict or movements of people and global doubt new countries, Roy said. As a central Michael Roy between people on just because of misery. is ‘Do I allow fear to prevail in my institution of the Church, he added, the move and people living in the countries “Once you understand the story of the heart, or do I allow hope to reign?’ Caritas Internationalis promotes what they are leaving, passing through or person, then you will have a different “Through ‘Share the Journey,’ we hope Pope Francis is asking all Catholics to do. arriving in. attitude,” Roy continued. to dispel fear and understand why so “Catholics are not all convinced that In collaboration with the annual Most people who vote for political many people are leaving their homes at we have to welcome migrants,” the celebration of Respect Life Month in parties espousing anti-immigrant this time in history,” the cardinal wrote. secretary general acknowledged, “so October, the bishops in the U.S. are also sentiments, Roy believes, “have never “We also want to inspire communities I think we have work to do within the asking Catholics around the country to met a migrant,” which makes it easy for to build relationships with refugees and Church itself.” help kick off the campaign by taking politicians to convince them that they migrants. We want to shine a light and But, he said, the pope is asking part in a week of prayer and action for have something to fear. lead the way. Migration is a very old “everyone to make a step,” and Caritas migrants and refugees from Oct. 7-13. Even if people do not change their story, but our campaign aims to help hopes that will begin with every Catholic Meeting migrants and refugees and minds about the most appropriate communities see it with new eyes and an being willing to meet a migrant or listening to their stories—and having political policies for regulating open heart.” refugee. † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Page 9

our eyes unwaveringly to the kingdom of ROTHER God,” Father Wolf said. continued from page 1 It was for Father Wolf’s ordination in May 1981 that Blessed Rother made dignity,” Pope Francis said in Rome on his last visit to the United States, which Sept. 24. Father Wolf said is a distinction that links In the beatification Mass in Oklahoma his priesthood to his cousin’s. City on Sept. 23, Cardinal Angelo Amato “At ordination, they invoke the saints ... described Blessed Rother as a missionary at my ordination we had one,” Father Wolf who “will always be remembered as the said. “It’s an enormous inspiration and an glorious epic of a martyr of Christ, an enormous challenge—the kind of service authentic lighted torch of hope for the his priesthood embodied is the kind of Church and the world.” service that I strive to.” The cardinal, who is the prefect of Francisco “Chico” Chavajay, program the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ coordinator for Unbound Project in Causes, was the principal celebrant of Guatemala, was only one when Blessed the beatification Mass. He was joined Rother was killed, but grew up in San by Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Pedro, which is near Santiago Atitlan, Oklahoma City and his predecessor, knowing who “Padre Alpas” was and the retired Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran, impact he had on the community. who formally opened Father Rother’s “My family benefited from the hospital sainthood cause 10 years ago. he founded because one of my sisters Before Cardinal Amato read the went to the hospital when I was 8 years apostolic letter declaring Father Rother old, and we didn’t have access to a closer “Blessed,” Archbishop Beltran shared hospital,” Chavajay recalled. “If it wasn’t some remarks, saying that little did for his work, it would probably have been Father Rother know that his growing-up a different story for my sister.” years on his family’s farm near Okarche Chavajay now works for Unbound, People hold placards with an image of Blessed Stanley Rother ahead of his Sept. 23 beatification “would mold him into the kind of man a U.S.-based organization founded in Mass outside Oklahoma City’s Cox Convention Center. Blessed Rother, a priest of the Oklahoma City who would make great strides when he 1981 by five lay Catholics, including one Archdiocese, was murdered in 1981 in the Guatemalan village where he ministered. (CNS photo/Steve Sisney, Archdiocese of Oklahoma City) volunteered to go to Guatemala.” who had worked with Blessed Rother in In his comments, Archbishop Coakley Guatemala. Unbound works with children “His ordinary ‘yeses’ came with a was impressed at Blessed Rother’s said that on behalf of the local Church in and the elderly in poor and marginalized great faith that at the end allowed him to “ordinariness.” The future martyr was Oklahoma “and in communion with my communities throughout the world. In receive a martyr’s crown,” Wetzel said. raised on his family’s farm about three brother bishops in the United States and Guatemala, Chavajay is responsible for Seminarians from Phoenix typically miles from Okarche. Guatemala,” he felt “profound gratitude” serving more than 60,000 families. complete a Spanish immersion program “The thing is he was so ordinary, but for the opportunity to help celebrate the “For us, he’s like an angel we have in in Antigua, Guatemala, which is near the he had great gifts. In Guatemala, he’d be beatification of a native son. heaven to support this cause,” Chavajay Santiago Atitlan mission. Wintering hopes working the farm,” said Father Trevino, “We are grateful said. “We feel that to visit Blessed Rother’s shrine when he finding inspiration in his example. In [Pope Francis] for Padre Aplas’ hand and studies there next summer. He said he particular, he pointed to a line the late your recognition of the prayers in heaven are pulls inspiration from the slain priest’s priest uttered that illustrates the devotion heroic witness of this “At ordination, they helping guide us in “humility and simplicity.” he had to his flock: “The shepherd cannot good shepherd [who] invoke the saints ... at my this life to continue “I know how broken I am, and how run.” “Can I do this?” Father Trevino has remained with his ordination we had one. It’s bringing the Gospel humble he was,” Wintering reflected. asked himself. people,” the archbishop an enormous inspiration and salvation to our “I seek his intercession because being Dolores Mendoza Cervantes knew said. “He gave his life in and an enormous brothers and sisters in a ‘nobody’ priest, he rose to glory by Padre Aplas in Santiago Atitlan. Her solidarity with so many need.” following God’s will, and I hope to do father, Juan Mendoza Lacan, helped him suffering individuals challenge—the kind of Seminarians that in my own nothingness.” to translate the Bible into Tz’utujil, and and family who endured service his priesthood Estevan Wetzel Sister Gabina Colo, local superior of was himself killed less than a year later persecution for the sake embodied is the kind of and Ian Wintering the Missionary Sisters of the Eucharist in on June 22, 1982. She pointed out that of the Gospel.” service that I strive to.’ from the Diocese Houston, brought her community to the as a result of their efforts, “all the newer Father Don Wolf, of Phoenix traveled beatification. generations can read the language.” a cousin of Blessed —Father Don Wolf, to the ordination “He was a missionary in Guatemala. Dolores came to the U.S. at 16 because Rother, made an appeal a cousin of with a group of He gave his whole life to the people of she had threats on her own life. She Blessed Stanley for continued support of Rother fellow seminarians Guatemala,” Sister Gabina said. “Since now lives in Danube, Calif., with her the missions the martyr attending St. John we’re from Guatemala, it encourages us to husband, Robert Cervantes. They said served in Santiago Vianney Seminary be missionaries here in the United States, the government at the time considered Atitlan and Cerro de Oro. in Denver. They so we can follow his example.” teaching the Tz’utujil to read a threat. “For the people of were introduced to Father Guillermo Trevino traveled from “Father Stanley and my father-in-law were his parish in Santiago Blessed Rother’s the Diocese of Davenport, Iowa, for the brave enough to stand up to them,” Robert Atitlan and Cerro de Oro story through their beatification. Serving in an area that relies said. “They knew they were going to be and all of us here in Oklahoma, he has led Oklahoma seminarian brothers. heavily on agriculture, Father Trevino killed someday, but that didn’t stop them.” †

and resilience of those whose lives have was bent into a 45-degree angle by the already was weak, people were leaving HURRICANE been uprooted by these disasters. May he hurricane’s forceful winds, and now looks the island behind and with it, family, continued from page 1 extend the might of his right hand and bid almost like a sword planted on the cement because of the financial problems. And the sea be ‘quiet’ and ‘still’ [Mk 4:39].” post. now those who had little, have nothing, In a Sept. 22 statement, he noted In what was once a lush forest, the “It was a sight that touched me. Father Bravo said. the catastrophic effects of Hurricane palm trees that are still standing look But that cross invites me to think: “It’s an avalanche of disasters, one Maria were visited on Puerto Rico and more like telephone poles because they What have I done for Christ? What disaster after another disaster,” he said. elsewhere in the Caribbean “just as we have no leaves on them. Before Maria, it am I doing for Christ? What ought One of Father Bravo’s tasks is to begin to assess the material and emotional was hard to see anything past the dense I do for Christ?” Father Bravo said, repair the damage done to the Jesuit damage of hurricanes Harvey and Irma.” tropical foliage, and now “you can see citing part of St. Ignatius of Loyola’s school, which educates more than Cardinal DiNardo added: “Casting all along.” Seeing the fallen trees, “it is Spiritual Exercises. “It was a message of 600 in San Juan, and which already had aside any temptation to despair, and full brutal,” Father Bravo said. destruction, but also of reconstruction.” suffered damage from Hurricane Irma. of hope in the loving providence of God, But what was most shocking, said the Puerto Rico, as well as other places There is a lot of broken glass, damages we pray that our Father may receive priest, was the sight of the cross at the affected by September’s back-to-back to buildings, and debris to clear. unto his loving presence those who entrance of Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola, hurricanes, first Irma and now Maria, And yet, he said, the feeling he hangs have lost their lives, may he comfort the the secondary school the Jesuits operate has a long way to go before life returns onto is of gratitude to God, gratitude to grieving, and may he fortify the courage on the island: The 6-foot-5-inch cross to normal. Authorities say it may take those who are thinking about those who months for electricity to fully return to are suffering on the island and other the island. places, gratitude for those who have been Father Bravo said the aftermath has left moved with compassion, gratitude for a pile of emotions and thoughts almost as those who have helped and want to help, high as the debris: sadness, desperation and gratitude for those “who have not from lack of communication, the poor allowed us to feel the emptiness,” he said. who already were suffering will now Even in the midst of tragedy, “we are suffer more, the desire to help but not seeking the greater glory of God,” said knowing where to begin. It feels daunting, Father Bravo. The Society of Jesus in he said. Puerto Rico wants to offer its thanks for Those who have been able to free the help and support it will take to raise, themselves from damaged buildings and in the middle of an aftermath, a path of homes are out looking for neighbors and hope to face the future ahead. family, making sure everyone is OK. “There isn’t a sense of panic, but (The website for the Jesuit’s [rather] sadness. ... You don’t know how province lists a link for donations at to console, or be consoled” because there jesuitscentralsouthern.org to help with is so much destruction all around, he said. recovery efforts. To donate to other Puerto Rico, which already was hurricane relief efforts to assist in Puerto experiencing economic problems because Rico, go to Catholic Charities USA’s of huge debt due to mismanagement, had website at catholiccharitiesusa.org/donate- A man looks at the damage to a marina in Salinas, Puerto Rico, on Sept. 21, after the area was hit by an infrastructure with massive problems to-disaster-relief; or to Catholic Relief Hurricane Maria. (CNS photo/Carlos Garcia Rawlins, Reuters) before the hurricanes arrived. Its economy Services’ website at www.crs.org.) † Page 10 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Terre Haute author’s ‘inspirational mystery’ promotes acts of kindness

By Natalie Hoefer And so Kelly started his recently outcomes and struck by how the ripple published book, The Beauty Beneath, effect of acts of kindness keep traveling Daniel Welch Kelly was sitting in which he calls an “inspirational mystery outward. the presence of the Blessed Sacrament or an inspirational thriller.” But the book is not a tale that simply in a perpetual adoration chapel about “I wrote it back then [after the idea follows Father Kearns from one good 15 years ago at his came to him], 15-16 years ago,” he says. deed to another. parish, St. Patrick “But life happened, and it got put on the “It’s sort of [John] Grisham with soul,” in Terre Haute, back burner. Then months turned to years, says Kelly with a laugh. with recent events and years turned to over a decade.” The story involves crime, punishment, weighing on his The “life” that happened included justice, redemption—and an unsolved mind. raising his and his wife’s six children mystery about the priest’s past that “I felt bad with (now ages 15-32) and his two leaves the reader guessing until the very the whole priest step‑children, spending time with his end. sex-abuse scandal seven (soon to be eight) grandchildren, “It’s harder for stories with a spiritual over several years,” and serving the local community in his message not to get relegated to the Daniel Welch Kelly he says. “I know work as a lawyer. In 2010 Kelly, now 56, religion section,” Kelly says. “No [the negative media was chosen as the juvenile court judge one would have read [Victor Hugo’s] attention] wasn’t undeserved, but it felt for Vigo County. For many years prior Le Miserables if he’d said, ‘Hey, I’ve got like all priests got tarred in the process.” to serving in that role, he worked both in this really good religious story for you.’ ” Kelly says he’d always had an interest private practice and part time as a deputy He notes how the generosity of the in writing. There in the adoration chapel prosecutor. bishop in Le Miserables toward the thief he was “wondering how I might use any His law background came in handy Jean Valjean “blew Jean Valjean away. Daniel Kelly, a member of St. Patrick Parish in gifts God had given to me to help spread in writing the book, with a few of the Even though it’s fiction, I like the way the Terre Haute and a juvenile court judge of Vigo his message,” when an idea came to him subplots dealing with prison and court. kindness in the story turns [Valjean] from County, hopes his book The Beauty Beneath “in a flash.” But the main story and character— a bad circumstance to one of the most inspires readers to treat others with “unsolicited It was a story—a plot from beginning Father Peter Kearns—come from heroic figures in literature.” kindness.” (Photo by Natalie Hoefer) to end. the inspiration Kelly received during Such is the goal of Kelly in writing “It came in fairly good detail,” he adoration and from the many priests he The Beauty Beneath—not just to highlight (The Beauty Beneath, Westbow Press, recalls. “I don’t know if it was me or the has known throughout his life. the benevolence of the vast majority of 2017, by Daniel Kelly of St. Patrick Holy Spirit for that main story to come to “[Father Kearns] was a compilation priests, but also to help readers understand Parish in Terre Haute, can be purchased me in a flash.” of the selfless, quiet quality of a lot that “any of us can do whatever we’re from several online sellers, including The main plot involves a priest of priests,” he says. “We’ve all known doing in our daily lives with unsolicited Amazon.com, Barnes and Noble online whose face had been scarred by positive, quiet priests leading their lives kindness,” the author says. and Books-a-Million online. The softcover an unknown incident in his past. and doing good. They don’t get any “I want [readers] to be entertained, but price is $15, and the hardcover price is Despite his off-putting visage, he was notice, but they make a difference in also to be inspired to realize it doesn’t $35. Those not comfortable with online well‑known and loved for his tireless people’s lives.” take any huge acts for each of us just purchases can order the book directly efforts in reaching out to others, In The Beauty Beneath, the priest living our daily lives to make a difference from Kelly by calling 812-239-1088 or practicing kindness, listening. It didn’t touches and even helps turn around the in others’ [lives]. e-mailing him at [email protected]. take much time for even the stodgiest lives of people in the hospital and in “That’s the message I got in the Parishes wishing to have Kelly sell his of characters to see in the priest the his parish. The reader gets caught up perpetual adoration chapel. 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By David Gibson there are divisions among you, and to a degree I believe it,” Paul wrote (1 Cor 11:18). Do you know any wife and husband But all were “baptized into one body, who hold identical views on every whether Jews, Greeks, slaves or free practical concern in their lives together? persons,” Paul said. Their community Typically, spouses differ to some degree indeed had “many parts,” but was “one about the best ways of spending their body,” he stressed (1 Cor 12:13; 20). free time, or raising and disciplining In Paul’s letter, “we read about a children, or planning for the future. small Church in a busy city, made up Pope Francis believes something good of folks living less than a generation can come of this. after Christ. It is a community torn “Keep an open mind,” he exhorted apart by its differences,” according to couples and families in “The Joy of Edward P. Hahnenberg, a theologian Love,” his 2016 apostolic exhortation at John Carroll University in on marriage and family life. “Don’t University Heights, Ohio. get bogged down in your own limited He noted in a 2009 speech that the ideas and opinions, but be prepared to Corinthian Christians were “bickering change or expand them,” he advised over their interpretations of the Gospel, (#139). their differing moral codes, their rival Even in marriage, he suggested, the leaders.” When they gathered to celebrate unity “we seek is not uniformity, but the Lord’s Supper, “deep-seated biases a ‘unity in diversity’ or ‘reconciled based on class and social status [were] on diversity.’ ” Combining two “ways of ugly display,” Hahnenberg said. thinking can lead to a synthesis that Paul approached this community with a Michael Redell and Rachel Roa pray during a commissioning Mass for Franciscan lay missioner enriches” each spouse. “We need to free message in First Corinthians’ often‑quoted Susan Slavin at the Franciscan Mission Service house in Washington. Each baptized person is ourselves from feeling that we all have to Chapter 12:1-31. He spoke not only needed to do the work of Christ’s body in the world. “God placed the parts, each one of them, in the be alike,” he said (#139). of the importance, but the necessity of body as he intended,” St. Paul explained in the First Letter to the Corinthians (1 Cor 12:18). Yet, as is well-known, creating unity affirming each member’s value in the (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec) in diversity can pose real challenges, body of Christ. There are different gifts, whether in a marriage, a parish, a city, a but the same God “produces all of them in is honored, all the parts share its joy” But there are two temptations to nation or in the international arena. everyone,” Paul clarified. (1 Cor 12:26). contend with in all of this, he pointed Most people know this challenge from Noting that a single body is made up Today, when members of a parish out on Pentecost this year. “The first experience, perhaps the of many parts, Paul put community bring Communion after a temptation,” is to seek “diversity without experience of seeing that things this way: Sunday Mass to the sick at home, or when unity,” while the second temptation seeks their finest, best-honed “If an ear should say, its youths labor during a summer work “unity without diversity.” talents or insights were ‘ … creating unity ‘Because I am not an camp to aid struggling people, they are In the first case people “take sides.” overlooked in certain eye I do not belong to putting into practice Paul’s teaching in Becoming “locked into [their] own ideas situations where gifts in diversity the body,’ it does not First Corinthians about the body of Christ. and ways of doing things,” they “choose and insights of another constitutes a for this reason belong Think, perhaps, of these Sunday the part over the whole,” he said. In sort were sought and necessary any less to the body. If extraordinary ministers of holy Communion the second case, “unity ends up being celebrated. Christian challenge the whole body were an as the body’s “ear,” and the work camp homogeneity and no longer freedom.” This is an age-old eye, where would the youths as its “hand” or “feet.” The point So, creating unity in diversity issue for Christians, today … ’ hearing be?” is that each is needed to do the work of constitutes a necessary Christian familiar to them from (1 Cor 12:16). Christ’s body in the world. “God placed the challenge today, as was true in Corinth so their faith’s earliest days. Continuing this parts, each one of them, in the body as he long ago. It is a challenge, Pope Francis St. Paul addressed the imagery, Paul cautioned intended,” Paul explained (1 Cor 12:18). remarked during a 2015 visit to the problem in his first letter to the Christian that “the eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I do His teaching makes room for diverse Central African Republic, that “demands community in the Greek city of Corinth. not need you,’ nor again the head to the talents, interests, insights and gifts within creativity, generosity, self-sacrifice and The diverse Corinthian Christians, it feet, ‘I do not need you’ ” (1 Cor 12:21). a Church community to come to the respect for others.” seems, were not getting along particularly When one part of Christ’s body fore. Thus, as Pope Francis suggested, well. “I hear that when you meet as a Church suffers, moreover, “all the parts suffer in diverse ways the members of a faith (David Gibson served on Catholic News with it,” he emphasized. “If one part community can enrich each other. Service’s editorial staff for 37 years.) † The laity are called to bring Gospel’s message into the secular world

By Daniel S. Mulhall sanctify the world through the witness given by their lives (#31). The Second Vatican Council, in The laity share in the saving mission of “Lumen Gentium” (“Light of the the Church with a special vocation to “make Nations”), its “Dogmatic Constitution the Church present and operative” in the on the Church,” promulgated by places where only they can reach people: in Blessed Paul VI on Nov. 21, 1964, the home, at work, in their clubs and groups, presents succinctly the Church’s at sporting events and the like (#33). teaching on the role of the laity in the Members of the laity also may work in Church and in the world. This teaching formal Church ministries, such as serving can be found in Chapter 4, “The Laity,” as catechists, extraordinary ministers of #30-38. holy Communion and pastoral associates, A year later, the council expanded among many others. on this teaching in its “Decree on the Christ himself strengthens the laity so Apostolate of the Laity,” promulgated by they can fulfill their role in the Church’s Blessed Paul VI on Nov. 18, 1965. Here, mission, sharing with them his priestly office we will look at the teaching found in so that they may offer worship directly “Lumen Gentium.” to God the Father through their prayer, “First, “Lumen Gentium” defines works and ordinary life, and in so doing, Dennis Bauer shows Estefania Rivera how to check for moisture, rake and bale hay to feed cattle the laity as the faithful who have been “consecrate the world itself to God” (#34). in Spalding, Neb. The Second Vatican Council taught that the lay faithful spread God’s kingdom by baptized who aren’t clergy or consecrated Through their relationship with doing well whatever work is theirs in the secular world. (CNS photo/courtesy Linda Bauer) religious. As members of the people Christ, the laity share in Christ’s of God, they are “made one body with prophetic mission by continually being Finally, the laity share in Christ’s conditions of the world” that are sinful. Christ” and share in his office of priest, formed in the faith and in their lives of kingly office through their secular Through the efforts of the laity in prophet and king. discipleship. This, then, empowers them activity as they promote justice, love opposing injustice, virtue is promoted, They are, to the best of their ability, to be witnesses of the Gospel in the and peace. Doing our daily work well, impregnating “culture and human activity to carry on the Church’s mission to secular world where clergy and religious whatever it is, helps to promote the with genuine moral values” (#36). proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ ordinarily do not minister. Creator’s plan and bring the light of An important role, wouldn’t you say? to the world by “engaging in temporal In this way the laity are “powerful Christ to the world. affairs, and by ordering them according proclaimers” of the faith, states But that isn’t all: The laity are also (Daniel S. Mulhall is a catechist who to the plan of God,” and in so doing, “Lumen Gentium” (#35). called to “remedy the customs and lives in Louisville, Ky.) † Page 12 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Perspectives From the Editor Emeritus/John F. Fink Faith and Family/Sean Gallagher The Catholic Church in America between 1928 and 1960 God gives us I ended last week’s column by Charles Coughlin. He became the first universities. freedom to become saying that a lot changed between 1928, Catholic to successfully use radio as an By 1956, some 2.2 million veterans when Catholic presidential candidate evangelizing tool. Unfortunately, his chief used the G.I. Bill to attend college, and his adopted children Alfred E. Smith was topics were politics and economics rather many of them were Catholics. In most Thousands of years ago, the inspired overwhelmingly than religion. I can recall my grandfather cases, it was the first time a member of author of the Psalms said that God found defeated because of listening intently to Father Coughlin’s their family could do so. They graduated praise to foil his enemy “on the lips of anti-Catholicism, and talks, one of 30 million listeners. But he and were able to enter the professions for children and of babes” (Ps 8:3). 1960, when Catholic became anti-Semitic and was forced off the first time, enabling them to enter the In my 15 years as presidential candidate the air in 1939. middle class. a parent of five boys, John F. Kennedy America didn’t get out of the Much of the anti-Catholicism that I’ve found these holy won. What happened Depression until World War II, during existed in the early part of the 20th words confirmed during those 32 which Catholics fought with great century dissipated as non-Catholics got many times, often years? distinction, as they had done in all of to know more Catholics by working with humorously, as when The two major America’s previous wars. The five them. my 4-year-old son events were the Great Depression and Sullivan brothers of Waterloo, Iowa By the 1950s, Catholicism was Colin recently said, “I World War II. The Depression began after (George, Frank, Joe, Matt and Al) were all flourishing. The churches were full, there was a baby, but now the stock market crash in October of 1929. killed in action while serving together on was an abundance of priests and sisters, I’m Colin.” It affected both Catholics and the USS Juneau, which was sunk on Nov. and the laity were involved in various After chuckling, I non-Catholics, obviously, but in some 13, 1942. They had enlisted together on societies. asked him, “Was I a baby?” His answer? ways Catholics suffered more because Jan. 2 of that year, less than a month after Then a religious show became “You were a baby, but now you’re they had larger families and were already the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Their popular on television. Bishop Fulton J. Daddy.” More laughs. at the bottom of the economic ladder. story was told in the movie The Fighting Sheen’s “Life Is Worth Living” was on The amusement later turned It’s no surprise that Catholics Sullivans in 1944. the air from 1951 to 1957, attracting contemplative. There’s some deep wholeheartedly supported Franklin The end of World War II triggered 30 million viewers even though it paradoxical meaning in what Colin said, D. Roosevelt in the election of 1932. After the most important event for Catholics’ was opposite shows by Milton Berle even if he doesn’t know it at this point. all, most of them were already Democrats economic progress in the history of our and Frank Sinatra. Bishop Sheen won On the one hand, our own unique who voted for Smith. They continued country: President Roosevelt signed the an Emmy, but, more important, his identities have existed in the mind of God to support him during his four terms of G.I. Bill on June 22, 1944. It provided a evangelization efforts led to thousands from all eternity. So Colin was Colin even office. range of benefits for returning World War of converts to Catholicism. when he was a baby, and he’ll remain so In the 1930s, though, an unlikely II veterans, but mainly cash payments It was a much different Church and throughout his life. Catholic priest became popular: Father of tuition and living expenses to attend country as the 1960s arrived. † At the same time, God gave us freedom in making us in his image and likeness. We use this freedom to shape Emmaus Walk/Debra Tomaselli our identities in the choices we make each day. Colin was onto something Oh the places you’ll go! Oh, the things you’ll learn there in your life! when he said he was a baby, but now is Colin. During a dreaded hospital stay, I found Ali’s father was combative and bitterness and hate for my father,” she On this side of eternity, we cannot myself watching news about a boisterous violent to her. He was insulting, said. “But I’m not. I ask them to come to explain with complete satisfaction how mom driving drunk with a helpless unpredictable and cruel. Worlds apart church. I want them to know Jesus. I tell to reconcile the infinite power and toddler in the car. I cringed, wondering from her mother, Ali often cried herself them there is a better way, but they won’t knowledge of God in creating each of us how a child raised in to sleep. listen.” existing alongside the freedom he’s given a faithless, unloving “As a teen, I got involved in an abusive I nodded, smiled, and wiped away us to shape ourselves through our choices. environment could relationship,” Ali said. “Then I had a tears. Contemplating God’s providence succeed. How would dream. I saw my grandmother. She didn’t Oh, the places God will take us. Oh, can help us at least to begin to wrap they find a better life? talk. She didn’t say a word. She stared at the things he wants to show us there. I’m our limited minds around this divine How would they find me. It was so real. I knew she was saying, not the same person I was when I entered mystery. God? ‘Don’t do this.’ “ that hospital. The healing that took place Although each of us has a unique Later that night, The vision shook Ali. She ended the was beyond physical. identity created by God, we’re bound Ali, a thin, destructive relationship. God is so big. God is so awesome. together by the common vocation he’s dark-skinned nurse At the time, Ali was working at an God is all-knowing and all-powerful. He created for all humanity: to become his with a gentle electronics store. “Some people kept showed me how he could reach into the adopted children in Christ Jesus and to be disposition, responded to the incessant inviting me to go to church with them,” heart of a helpless child, speak to her one with him forever in heaven. beeping of my monitor. Soft light she said. through a vision, lead her to himself with This happens ultimately through spilled from the hallway into my Finally, she did … and she kept going. the invitation of others, and set her on a choosing to accept God’s free gift of room, making her gentle presence a A gentle smile spread across her face. path for holiness. salvation, a choice we are to renew and mere silhouette. I asked how she got “It changed my life,” she said. “I came Amazing, isn’t it? Here she was, the deepen throughout our lives. into nursing, and her story kept me to know Jesus Christ.” one caring for me. Other choices we make in this life can spellbound. Unbeknownst to her, it Goose bumps ran through me. Surely, there’s hope for that toddler in bring us closer to or take us farther away addressed my unspoken concerns. Ali began working at the hospital the car. from this blessed calling that each of us Ali was born in the islands, but her delivering meals to patients. She Keep the fire burning. Keep praying. desires deep inside, even if we can’t say father brought her and two brothers to worked her way through nursing Keep inviting. so in so many words. the U.S. when she was 10 years old, school, and became a registered God uses us. God saves us. God speaks But even when we make choices that abandoning her mother and two other nurse. Now in her 30s, she’s married to us. take us down paths far away from God, children. to a faith-filled man and they have His work isn’t done. he’s always there in his providence to “My grandmother didn’t want him to two young sons. She aspires to be open up paths for us to return to him. take me,” Ali said. “She tried to get him a neonatal intensive care unit nurse (Debra Tomaselli writes from Altamonte If through his merciful grace we are to leave me and just take the boys, but he someday. Springs, Florida. She can be reached at able through a series of choices to return refused.” “My brothers are still filled with [email protected].) † to a close relationship with God, all the choices that took us away from him will still be part of our identity. The Human Side/Fr. Eugene Hemrick We parents and grandparents work with the grace God gives us in the sacrament Kingdom of heaven, sainthood challenge what we treasure most of marriage to help our children and grandchildren to form their identities While convalescing from battle kingdom of heaven and sainthood. Both the golden chain by which society is well through the choices they make in the wounds, St. Ignatius of Loyola happened challenge us to ask what we treasure bound.” And we can add that it is a often confusing time of childhood and upon a book on saints. He soon realized most in life. golden treasure. adolescence. their stories gave him Among life’s envisioned treasures are I also cherish the memory of revered Most, if not all, of my days as a parent more joy than stories good education leading to prosperity, a friends who personified truthfulness. see my boys making choices that make of worldly glamour. loving spouse and children, prominence The renowned theologian Father me cringe, angry, sad and sometimes This first conversion and accomplishing great feats. No doubt, Romano Guardini wrote, “Truth gives tearful. Blessed—and rare—is the parent experience led him to trophies and academic degrees adorning a man firmness and stability.” Not who is free from such days. sainthood. our offices and homes are cherished only did my friends image character, But our trust in God and the In St. Matthew’s treasures, as are hard-earned titles but they motivated me to follow in working of his providence can console Gospel, we hear: “The reflecting that we are moving up in the their footsteps; an inspiration worth its us as we witness our children making kingdom of heaven is world. weight in gold. these choices that we know are going like a treasure buried When what we treasure comes and When we think of treasures, we often to bring them—and often us—a little in a field, which a then fades away, what treasures, if any, think of things like pearls and other hardship. person finds and hides again, and out possess lasting value? What are the most articles of worth. In using the example In between those worrisome moments, of joy goes and sells all that he has and important? of fine pearls, Christ is not pointing us to we try to instill in our young ones through buys that field. Again, the kingdom of In my life, the most precious memories material things; rather, he is using the idea word and example Gospel principles, heaven is like a merchant searching for are people who personified kindness. It of preciousness to reflect the pricelessness trusting that they’ll guide them well as fine pearls. When he finds a pearl of great took on many forms: a friend promoting of those who create the kingdom of they go from being babies to becoming price, he goes and sells all that he has and my well-being, standing at my side when heaven on Earth by imitating the life of fully the children of God that he created buys it” (Mt 13:44-46). I was in dire need of support, or just there Christ. them to be. One way to see St. Ignatius’ listening to me. And in helping them along the way to conversion and Christ’s parable is in As Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Father Eugene Hemrick writes for heaven, God will draw us closer to him at light of two heavenly treasures: the best summarized it, “Kindness is Catholic News Service.) † the same time. † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Page 13

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The Sunday Readings Monday, October 2 Friday, October 6 Sunday, October 1, 2017 The Holy Guardian Angels St. Bruno, priest Zechariah 8:1-8 Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, • Ezekiel 18:25-28 Psalm 102:2, 16-23 virgin • Philippians 2:1-11 Matthew 18:1-5, 10 Baruch 1:15-22 • Matthew 21:28-32 Psalm 79:1-5, 8-9 Tuesday, October 3 Luke 10:13-16 The Book of Ezekiel provides the Considering that Christians were in Zechariah 8:20-23 first reading for Masses on this weekend. the minority, Paul had to reinforce their Psalm 87:1-7 Saturday, October 7 Pivotal in Jewish history was the time commitment to the Lord and challenge spent by Hebrew them to withstand paganism. Luke 9:51-56 Our Lady of the Rosary captives and their The Apostle thus magnificently Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 descendants in proclaims Christ, the Lord, the Savior. Wednesday, October 4 Psalm 69:33-37 Babylon, the capital Scholars think that this passage actually St. Francis of Assisi Luke 10:17-24 of the then powerful was an ancient hymn, sung by early Nehemiah 2:1-8 Babylonian Empire. Christians when they met for worship. Psalm 137:1-6 Sunday, October 8 This empire had St. Matthew’s Gospel furnishes the militarily overtaken third reading. It recalls an encounter Luke 9:57-62 Twenty-seventh Sunday in the Promised Land, between Jesus and priests and elders. Ordinary Time forever ending the two Since religion was a favorite topic for Thursday, October 5 Isaiah 5:1-7 Hebrew independent everyone at the time, even priests and Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Psalm 80:9, 12-16, 19-20 kingdoms. Many survivors were taken to persons learned in Judaism would have priest Philippians 4:6-9 Babylon. been interested in what Jesus said. Occurring in the sixth century B.C., God is the father in the parable. The Nehemiah 8:1-4a, 5-6, 7b-12 Matthew 21:33-43 it is called the Exile. For the Hebrew vineyard represents the people of Israel, Psalm 19:8-11 people, the Exile was a heartbreaking God’s own, God’s chosen, borrowing a Luke 10:1-12 time. They were so far from their well-known image from the prophets. homeland. The Exile seemed as if it Scholars suggest several possibilities would last forever. Indeed, it lasted for regarding the sons, but one suggestion four generations. Quite likely, many Jews is that the first son represents Israel, the fell away from the traditional religion of other son represents gentiles and sinners. Question Corner/Fr. Kenneth Doyle their ancestors. The second son, not the heir, is true to These people were like people in any God. Gentiles and sinners, represented by While the Church prefers singing at other time. Religion seemed for many to the second son, can hope for salvation. No have failed. God had failed them. one is beyond God’s love. Every sinner Sunday Mass, it isn’t absolutely required Ezekiel wrote during this time. He can repent. responded to the fury and despair of the Will we ever get the low Mass but I did not get a Church annulment. people by turning the tables. Ezekiel Reflection Qback? I miss its reverence and Later, I married a different man (not a confronts the people with their own The readings this weekend are in simplicity, when I could actually Catholic) and divorced him as well. My sinfulness. Where is their devotion to the stream of readings heard during follow along with question is: What do I need to do now in God? How faithful have they been in the weekends of late summer and now the priest instead order to go to confession and receive the being God’s people? No one realistically early fall. The Church is calling us to of singing. I would Eucharist? could have argued that there had been no discipleship. especially appreciate I spoke with two priests and sin. Who deserted whom? We all hear this call realizing that a period of quiet after received two different answers. One St. Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians is we are sinners. Our sin shames us, Communion—instead the source of the second reading. convincing us that we are strangers in of quickly hearing, said that I cannot go to confession and Many early Christians were Jews, God’s kingdom. “Please turn to page receive the Eucharist right away, but at least by birth. Many of these Jews, We feel overwhelmed, trapped by xxx.” that I would first need to get a Church such as Paul himself, had been pious in our weakness in a state of sin and I know that you annulment (which I have started to their religious practice, well-versed in estrangement from God. will tell me to go do). The other priest, though, said Judaism. Other early Christians were from Still, we can repent. We first must to a weekday Mass, but if you work or that since I am no longer married, I pagan backgrounds. In many Christian recognize that our voluntary sinfulness baby-sit, you often can’t. It would be can go to confession and Communion communities, persons of both these has crippled us, maybe set us on a course nice to have a choice on the weekends. immediately, without waiting for an backgrounds lived side by side. toward ruin. (Pennsylvania) annulment. Such was the case in Philippi. Jewish Then, humbly we can turn to God. We Please clarify this for me. I am symbols and references appear in the must ask forgiveness. God will help us. Whether singing is required at trying hard to follow the Lord, and epistle, but the city in no sense was If we are as contrite as the second son Aevery parish Mass on a Sunday don’t want to do anything that would Jewish. Jews were there, but Philippi was in Matthew’s story, as wholehearted in our is not a simple question. Even the endanger my relationship with him. thoroughly pagan, an important military love for Jesus as is shown in the hymn in “General Instruction of the Roman (Virginia) base in the Roman Empire, situated in Philippians, then God will forgive us and Missal” (which lays out the Church’s what now is Greece. welcome us to everlasting life. † norms on the celebration of the Eucharist) seems to offer two different I agree with the second priest. You answers. Amay, and should, return to full My Journey to God At one point, it says that “every care participation in the sacraments by going should be taken” that singing should “not to confession and holy Communion right be absent” during Sunday celebrations away. (#40). Later, it notes that, while singing Many Catholics are under the on Sundays is especially appropriate “in misimpression that a divorce alone Morning Mist so far as possible,” such a Mass “may, renders them ineligible for the however, take place even without singing” sacraments, but that is not so. It By Michael Edwards (#115). is the second marriage—outside My conclusion is that, while singing is the Church—that, according to the clearly the preferred choice of the Church teaching of the Church, would do that, The morning mist for a Sunday Mass, the directive is not but you are no longer living in that rises toward the sun absolute. second marriage. as though drawn I know, in fact, of Catholic parishes by the hand of God. that celebrate one “quiet” Mass early on I am assuming—since you make no How I pray that Sunday mornings, particularly for people mention of it—that you are not planning one day my soul who might be on their way to or from on remarriage. If you were, you would will enjoy that moment. work. first need to go through the Church’s You might look for such a Mass in annulment process with regard to your your area. first marriage, since that one is still And with regard to “a period of considered a valid marriage in the eyes of quiet after Communion,” you are right the Church if the spouse from your first on target. The “General Instruction marriage is still alive. of the Roman Missal” instructs that And while you were at it, you “sacred silence” is to be observed at would also take another step—this designated periods throughout the one, simpler and shorter—to have your liturgy, and it mentions in particular second marriage declared null because “after Communion,” when people “praise God in their hearts and pray to that marriage was done without Church him” (#45). approval.

I had been away from the Church (Questions may be sent to Father Kenneth (Michael Edwards is a member of St. Boniface Parish in Fulda. Morning mist is seen Qfor a very long time, but I recently Doyle at [email protected] and over the Cropston Reservoir in England on Oct. 3, 2016.) (CNS photo/Darren Staples, Reuters) returned and I have a question. I was 30 Columbia Circle Dr., Albany, New York married in the Church and got a divorce, 12203.) † Page 14 The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017

Rest in peace Please submit in writing to our office by 10 a.m. Thursday before the week of publication; be sure to state date of death. Obituaries of archdiocesan priests serving our archdiocese are listed elsewhere in The Criterion. Order priests and religious sisters and brothers are included here, unless they are natives of the archdiocese or have other connections to it; those are separate obituaries on this page. BAILEY, Harry J., 74, St. Joan Coulter. Sister of Bernice of Arc, Indianapolis, Sept. 11. Drake, Janice Smith, Cindy Husband of Karen Bailey. Wessels, Gary, Jeff and Kevin Father of Kristen Bhalla, Paul Zweydorff. Grandmother of 12. and Todd Bailey. Brother of Great-grandmother of nine. Kenneth and Donald Bailey. GOBLE, Daniel C., Jr., 86, Grandfather of three. St. Paul, Tell City, Aug. 14. BROKER, Phyllis E., 89, Husband of Dorothy Goble. St. Malachy, Brownsburg, Father of Brenda Clayton, Sept. 20. Mother of Jenni Kathy Smith, Daniel and Patrick Aquilar, Pam Childers, Debbie Goble. Grandfather of eight. Curts, Susan Morton, Robert HOWELL, Joy A., 79, St. Paul, and Scott Brocker. Sister of Tell City, Sept. 10. Mother of Helen Barr, Elizabeth Bockheim Marilyn Alvey, Libby Baur, and Charlene McKinnon. Dennis and Randy Howell. Grandmother of eight. Sister of Carol Kleaving, Great-grandmother of 20. Patty Shelton, Bill, Denny and BURTON, Robert, 78, Richard James. Grandmother of Sacred Heart, Clinton, Aug. 27. eight. Great-grandmother of 17. Husband of Rosangela Great-great-grandmother of one. Burton. Mother of Michael HOWLETT, Merlin J., 51, Burton. Grandfather of four. St. John Paul II, Clark County, Great-grandfather of several. Aug. 11. Husband of Mary COPLER, Doris E., 93, Ann Howlett. Stepfather of St. John Paul II, Clark Laurie Bergum, Christopher Fall colors County, Sept. 17. Mother and Patrick Goetsch. Brother The crosses atop St. Mary-St. Katharine Drexel Church in Kaukauna, Wis., are framed with vibrant autumn colors on Sept. 16. The of Janice Jackson, Judith of Calvin and Wayne Howlett. autumnal equinox or September equinox falls on Sept. 22. (CNS photo/Brad Birkholz, The Compass) Ann Kenrick, James and Jeff Grandfather of six. Copler. Grandmother of eight. KIRSCHNER, Edwin V., 78, MANN, Calvin E., 66. SELLERS, Grace J., 80, Great-grandmother of two. Great-grandmother of three. Great-grandmother of two. Holy Family, Oldenburg, COULTER, Earleen F., Sept. 15. Husband of Joyce St. Mary, Greensburg, Sept. 13. St. John Paul II, Clark County, SPRAGG, Mary D., 91, Christ STUCZYNSKI, Theresa, 71, 67, St. Anthony of Padua, Kirschner. Father of Karen Husband of Donna Mann. Sept. 11. Mother of Judy the King, Indianapolis, Aug. 21. Sacred Heart, Clinton, Sept. 7. Clarksville, Sept. 15. Wife of Glum, Jennifer Ruwe, Jeff and Father of Jonathan Mann. Fromme and Dr. Vernon Mother of Stacia Spragg Braude, Mother of John and Paul Charles J. Coulter. Mother of Kurt Kirschner. Brother of Brother of Camilla Oathout and Sellers. Sister of Winona Hand, Cecilia Spragg Perry and Vincent Meneghini. Sister of Martha Tammy Goodman, Martha Fie and Tom Kirschner. Lillian Ryle. Grandfather of Louise Roberts and Cristie Spragg. Sister of Dorothea Jean Johnson and Mary Jo Charles II, Timothy and Trevor Grandfather of nine. three. Ware. Grandmother of eight. Ahlers. Grandmother of three. Smith. Grandmother of four. † Catholics need ‘profound renewal’ of catechesis, archbishop tells sisters CHICAGO (CNS)—The head of the Archbishop Fisichella said Catholics could it’s because the teachers are themselves young people getting caught up in the Pontifical Council for Promoting the learn this with the help of catechists who are witnesses of the faith. proliferation of technology. New Evangelization said Catholics “need “witnesses,” and said that “witness is the sign “The world of today needs witnesses,” “When the archbishop was talking a profound renewal of our catechesis.” of a genuine work of evangelization.” he said. “And we have got to be there. But about the digital age and the vocabulary Archbishop Rino Fisichella told dozens Referring to Blessed Paul VI’s 1975 don’t misunderstand the word ‘witness.’ It that we use, it seems like we have to give of religious sisters, mostly teachers of apostolic exhortation on evangelization, is true that witness, it makes, first of all, a space to the young people, of silence. the faith, gathered in northwest Chicago “Evangelii Nuntiandi”(“Evangelization our life. But to be a witness, it means also So that they can hear the word of God and on Sept. 17 that there is wrong thinking in the Modern World”), the prelate to be a preacher of the it can take root,” said Sister JoseMaria. among the faithful that once they receive emphasized what he called a “very word of the Lord.” She also said she loved the idea of the sacraments, they no longer have to important” section of the document that Archbishop teaching as a witness. learn their catechism. said people nowadays are more apt to Fisichella pointed out “I found that very helpful to know that He said, “By its nature, catechesis is to listen to someone who lives out the faith that being a witness our duty as a catechist is to speak about support believers to understand every day and speaks of it than to teachers of it, means using one’s Christ,” she said. more the mystery of faith.” and that if they do listen to teachers, mouth to tell others Sister JoseMaria added, “How do you about one’s encounter be a preacher without being preachy? with Jesus Christ and I think you have to be rooted in Christ, — U.S. POSTAL SERVICE — share what Jesus told and do you actually love Christ? 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(b2) Paid In-County subscriptions (include advertiser’s we have, for instance the digital culture. Archbishop Fisichella also told the proof and exchange copies): 0 (0). (b3) Sales through dealers and carriers, street vendors and The Internet is creating a new language, sisters one of the problems of “our big counter sales, and Other Non-USPS paid distribution: 0 (0). (b4) Other classes mailed through a new way of thinking. It has created new crisis of faith of today” is that people do the USPS: 0 (0). (c) Total paid and/or requested circulation: 64,954 (63,945). (d) Free distribution by mail; (d1) Outside-County as state on form 3541: 1313 (0). (d2) In-County as state on form behaviors and, paradoxically speaking, not have an answer when they are asked 3541: 0 (0). (d3) Other classes mailed through the USPS: 479 (472). (d4) Free distribution is creating new pathologies. And so we why they are “believers.” outside the mail: 500 (500). (e) Total free distribution: 979 (972). (f) Total distribution: 65,933 need to understand all of that and the “We cannot be afraid in our catechesis (64,917). (g) Copies not distributed: 92 (93). (h) Total: 66,025 (65,010). (i) Percent paid and/or new culture, how to support believers and to say the choice of faith makes you requested circulation: 98% (98%). how to announce and to challenge people free because it allows you to enter in without God to think about him.” the deepest [parts] of your life,” he said. I certify that the statements made by me above Dominican Sister JoseMaria Pence “Open your mind. Open your heart and are correct and complete. teaches ninth- and 12th-graders in you become able to love. You become Signed: Mike Krokos, Editor Carmel, Ind., in the Diocese of Lafayette. able to understand your life and future, She told CNS she was concerned about where you are going.” † The Criterion Friday, September 29, 2017 Page 15

St. Ambrose school days The students, teachers and staff of St. Ambrose School in Seymour began the school year on Patricia Landa, Gianina Arrieta, Giselle Guzman and Joel Pintor. Above, right, on Aug. 23, Aug. 11 with a Mass celebrated by Father Daniel Staublin—a Mass during which the pastor was St. Ambrose principal Michelle Neibert-Levine greets students, a ritual she does every school introduced to the new students in first through eighth grades. Above, left, Father Staublin poses morning. The principal welcomes kindergarten student Lillian Holman, left, first-grader Brianna for a picture with the new students. In the front row are Natalie Chavez, left, Jose Garcia, Jean Bustos and third‑grader Corrina Corcoran. Davila and Ivan Guzman. In the second row are Rene Arrietta, left, Havele Tonga, Autumn Pintor, (Submitted photos) All in good time: Liturgy document unlikely to bring quick changes VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The shouts of joy and cries Catholics hear at Mass. The German bishops shelved their He, like Msgr. Graulich, cited the example of bishops of despair that greeted Pope Francis’ recent changes translation in 2013; they will discuss the new document at in Africa who said that having the people respond to to canon law regarding liturgical texts appear to be their general assembly in late September. A new French the priest, “And with your spirit,” creates difficulties exaggerated. translation of the Mass already was under discussion by in societies still influenced by animism or belief in The changes can be read as part of Pope Francis’ the Vatican and French-speaking bishops’ conferences, witchcraft. efforts to promote a “healthy decentralization” of Church but it has not yet been approved by the conferences and “The door is slightly ajar now for some variety,” structures, said Indian Cardinal formally submitted to the Vatican. Cardinal Gracias said. Oswald Gracias of Mumbai. “It The new document “gives a little endorsement The idea, though, that any English-speaking bishop makes clear the responsibility of the now to [bishops’] conferences and, in that sense, it’s would propose starting the English translation over again [bishops’] conferences” in preparing certainly in the direction of what the Holy Father wants: is “absolutely ridiculous,” he said. The current Missal faithful translations. “But this is, that conferences take more responsibility and healthy is “a great improvement” over what existed before, and more or less, the procedure we have decentralization,” Cardinal Gracias told Catholic News “nobody has an appetite for big changes now.” been following.” Service (CNS) on Sept. 19. From a canon law point of view, the document “does “Just a few words have been “The word ‘fidelity’ added [to canon law] is from not really strengthen episcopal conferences, but it tries to changed” in canon law, so “we ‘Liturgiam Authenticam,’ ” he said, referring to the 2001 put on a better base the collaboration between the Holy will have to see how it goes in the instruction on translations, which was issued by the See and the bishops’ conferences, because there have Cardinal Oswald concrete,” said the cardinal, who is a worship congregation.The pope’s changes to canon law been some problems in the last few years,” Gracias member of the international Council of confirm its teaching, although “minor modifications” are Msgr. Graulich said. “It’s a question whether the Holy Cardinals advising the pope on Church possible now. See can really evaluate, as bishops’ conferences can do, governance and is a former member of Vox Clara, the “I have a feeling this will open the door” to small what is a proper translation.” committee that advises the Congregation for Divine Worship national or regional changes, for example in the English But, inserting the Latin word “fideliter” into canon law and the Sacraments on liturgical translations in English. text in Africa versus India or North America, the means the translation has to be done in accordance with The document, “Magnum Principium” (“The Great cardinal said. “My personal opinion is that it is very “Liturgiam Authenticam,” he said. “You are not free to Principle”), was released by the Vatican on Sept. 9. It convenient to have one translation for the whole world, make a translation that ‘more or less’ reports the text, but changes two clauses in canon 838 of the Code of Canon but if there are such serious difficulties, I don’t think you have to do a translation that is as true as possible to Law: from “reviewing” translations, the Holy See now we should force them” to accept a unified translation. the Latin original.” † is asked to “recognize adaptations approved by the episcopal conference”; and bishops’ conferences, rather than being called “to prepare and publish” translations, are now called to prepare them “faithfully” and then to For information about rates for classified advertising, call (317) 236-1454. approve and publish them “after the confirmation of the Classified Directory Apostolic See.” Vacation Rental Health Care Employment In a note published with the text, Archbishop Arthur Roche, secretary of the worship congregation, said under BEACHFRONT CONDO, Maderia Beach, Florida, 2BR/2BA, pool & the new rules, the Vatican’s “confirmatio” of a translation 25ft balcony overlooking the Gulf DIRECTOR OF MUSIC is “ordinarily granted based on trust and confidence,” of Mexico. 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It is a sickness,” he told his advisory commission on child protection during an audience at the Vatican on Sept. 21. Members of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, including its president—Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston—were meeting in Rome on Sept. 21-23 for their plenary assembly. Setting aside his prepared text, the pope said he wanted to speak more informally to the members, who include lay and religious experts in the fields of psychology, sociology, theology and law in relation to abuse and protection. The Catholic Church has been “late” in facing and, therefore, properly addressing the sin of sexual abuse by its members, the pope said, and the commission, which he established in 2014, has had to “swim against the tide” because of a lack of awareness or understanding of the seriousness of the problem. “When consciousness comes late, the means for resolving the problem comes late,” he said. “I am aware of this difficulty. But it is the reality: We have arrived late.” “Perhaps,” he said, “the old practice of moving people” from one place to another and not fully facing the problem “lulled consciences to sleep.” But, he said, “prophets in the Church,” including Cardinal O’Malley, have, with the help of God, come forward to shine light on the problem of abuse and to urge the Church to face it. Typically, when the Church has had to deal with new or newly emerging problems, it has turned to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to address the issue, he said. And Holy rollers at Holy Trinity then, only when the problem has been dealt with adequately This photo was taken at the former Holy Trinity Church in Indianapolis in the 1950s. The priest in the center is does the process for dealing with future cases get handed over Msgr. Edward Bockhold, who was the parish’s pastor from 1938 to 1969. The parish social hall, originally con- to another dicastery, he added. structed as the school in 1926, was later renamed after Msgr. Bockhold. This photo shows the ribbon-cutting for the Because the problem of cases and allegations of abuse new roller rink in the social hall. If any readers know the names of the gentlemen in the photo, or the year that it are “grave,” it is important the doctrinal congregation was taken, please let us know! continue to handle the cases, rather than turning them over directly to Vatican tribunals, as some have suggested. † Lutheran bishop delivers lecture at Marian on Reformation anniversary By Sean Gallagher including Archbishop Charles especially “the rediscovery that we are all “Ecumenical and interfaith C. Thompson. saved by grace.” relationships are key first planks being A Lutheran bishop giving a lecture In his lecture, Bishop Gafkjen spoke At the same time, he acknowledged laid for this new reformation bridge titled “The Meaning and Enduring about the ecumenical efforts over the past that the Reformation had its negative side. toward God’s beloved and loving Significance of the Reformation” on a half century among Lutherans, Catholics “We might have blown the dust community,” he said. “It’s a bridge girded Catholic university campus. and other Christians that have helped off some crucial truths about who by grace and suspended in the fresh and Such a scenario would have been them all come to realize and emphasize we are before God and one another,” life-giving air of repentance, confession, unthinkable for most of the 500 years since the many fundamental beliefs they hold in Bishop Gafkjen said, “but along the way, forgiveness, and reconciliation in Christ.” the Protestant Reformation was launched common. we have also torn the body of Christ and Bishop Gafkjen said that such on Oct. 31, 1517, when Martin Luther He illustrated this by describing a harmed the world God loves.” initiatives, though, should not ignore famously nailed his “95 Theses” to the Lutheran worship service in Namibia In light of this more complete enduring differences among Christians door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany. in southern Africa he attended earlier understanding of the Reformation, he said and other faith traditions. But it is what happened on Sept. 17 this year in which he was joined by that Christians in the 21st century need “Our differences matter,” he said. at Marian University in Indianapolis some 10,000 other worshippers. It was to realize that they are not “to compete “They are important. We ought not when such a lecture was delivered by part of a meeting of the World Lutheran with and conquer one another,” but simply slide over them. And our common Bishop William O. Gafkjen, the shepherd Federation. instead focus on how God calls them “to standing before God matters more. of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the When it was time in the service for a cooperate and commune for the sake of “This is what can give us what we need Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, profession of faith, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the world.” to do the hard work of working through which is made up of 185 congregations president of the Pontifical Council for Bishop Gafkjen said this change the differences, to welcome and honor the and other ministries across the two Promoting Christian Unity, led the in trajectory is all the more important best of them and to be about the really states. congregation and the many Lutheran 500 years after the Reformation because important work of serving and healing the Sponsored by Marian’s theology leaders in professing the Apostles Creed. change is happening in the world today world together.” and philosophy department, the lecture “As I sat in the Namibian heat, I quickly and broadly like it was in the In an interview with The Criterion was attended by more than 100 people, wished those 16th-century European early 16th century. after the lecture, Bishop Gafkjen said that reformers could “The time is ripe for another some of the most important ecumenical have been sitting reformation,” he said. “And the Spirit work happens not in international right there next is looking for folks ready to fulfill their dialogues among experts, but at the local to me,” said historical responsibility.” level, such as when Lutherans in his Bishop Gafkjen. “I Bishop Gafkjen said this new synod collaborate with other Christians, would guess that reformation needs to be a “relational” including Catholics, to serve people in they would have one, “characterized by reconciliation,” need. had no idea that especially because society today, so “When they do that, then it’s amazing 500 years hence, marked by “deep divides, intolerance, how it changes the relationships,” he said. 10,000 Lutherans accusation and tribal warfare,” seeks “a Archbishop Thompson joined would be gathered beloved and loving community.” Bishop Gafjken in expressing a desire for in Namibia being “Recent events around race and greater unity among all Christians at this led in confessing suspicion of religious traditions other time of the 500th anniversary of the start the faith by a than our own, and the knee-jerk tendency of the Reformation. Roman Catholic toward rejection and persecution of those “It’s important for us to remember,” cardinal.” we consider ‘other,’ ” he said, “put a he said. “We learn from our mistakes. We In reflecting magnifying lens to it: How can we find— learn from our past. That learning helps on the events at or be found by—a beloved and loving us to move forward toward a more full the start of the community?” reconciliation and communion. Archbishop Charles C. Thompson, right, speaks with Lutheran Bishop Reformation The effort to reforge Christian unity “The reason that we move forward William O. Gafkjen on Sept. 17 at Marian University prior to a lecture that Bishop Gafjken gave on the 500th anniversary of the start of the Protestant 500 years ago, over the past half century and of people toward that fuller communion is that Reformation. Bishop Gafkjen is the shepherd of the Indiana-Kentucky Synod Bishop Gafkjen of various faith traditions coming together we’re called to serve the world,” of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Father Rick Ginther, left, recognized the to increase mutual understanding are Archbishop Thompson said. “We do that director of the archdiocesan Office of Ecumenism and pastor of Our Lady of good that came important means to furthering this new better when we’re united, not when we’re Lourdes Parish in Indianapolis, looks on. (Photo by Sean Gallagher) out of it, most reformation, suggested Bishop Gafjken. divided.” †